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The Truth
Chapter 14 – So I Thought Part
Five minutes later we are all sitting in the living room.
I'm glad that Carlisle and Esme are not around.
After twenty minutes of explaining, all of them knew all about Edward and I.
Alice and Jasper had a little fight, because she knew that Jasper knows about us.
"This is just so wrong, you know you are siblings. How can you do this? Did you ever think of your parents' feelings about this?" Alice insisted.
The tears that I've been holding earlier finally fell.
"But the feelings just came. We can't do anything about it. The both of us...we tried to stop it...but we are both hurting. Neither of us can still take it," I said before I finally broke into sobs. Edward held me and started rubbing my shoulder soothingly.
"But we are not blood related," Edward said determinedly.
I saw Emmett nodded. "He has a point guys."
They all left us for awhile. They said that they just need to talk about it intently.
An hour and a half later, they returned.
I'm afraid that they'll hate us. They will hate Edward because of me. I can't even imagine that. Ugh! This is all my stupid heart's fault.
They returned to their previous seats and they looked at us. I can't read emotions, but there is one thing in common about their eyes, tenderness and understanding. I just hope that I saw the right thing; if not…then I don't know what to do.
"It's fine with us. We can't do anything about it anymore. Just like you said, it just came. It's unexpected so there is no one to blame. We love you guys," Rose said.
I'm so shock and so glad with what she said so, I stood up, and I hugged her tightly.
I looked at Alice, she smiled at me, and soon she joined us in our hug.
Then Emmett joined, then Jasper…
"Ed, what are you waiting for?" Emmett said good-humoredly.
I heard Edward chuckle and soon he is huddled up with us.
"I love you guys! I'm so glad that I have friends like you," I said happily.
Emmett tightened the hug.
"Ow!" We all shouted at him.
...
The activities for the night continued.
We separate ways before ten more minutes of talking.
Edward kissed my forehead before letting me go with the girls.
"Night," I managed to say before Alice dragged me into her room.
...
8:30 pm, just three hours and a half before midnight. They wanted to be bed at eleven so we only have two hours and a half.
Rose picked the movie. She picked, The Notebook.
Alice said that she didn't want it because she was so sick of it. But in the end, Rose still won.
So we are now watching it while stuffing pop corn and french fries into our pretty little mouths.
Me, myself, I have also watched the movie numerous times. But like Rose, I never got tired of it.
The movie makes me wonder if I'll ever find true love, just like Noah and Allie. It also made me want to have a large family. It made me want to grow old and gray with the person that I love the most.
But somehow, it seems impossible. With the complicated life I have, I don't even know if we can survive. I don't doubt my feelings for Edward and his to mine, but we are really kind of struggling. Sometimes I want to hug him, or hold his hand, but I can't. People will easily judge us. They will be thinking that it is incest.
INCEST, I hate the sound of that word.
I know that when the time comes; we want to get settled, for example. Our parents need to know. I know more hurdles will come on our way. I just hope we can jump on it together, and if there will be an instance that we fall or trip, I hope that we will stand hand in hand and will continue until we reach the last.
At the end of the movie, we are all a crying mess.
"Alice, I thought you hate the movie, why are you crying?" Rose said angrily.
Rose has been really moody lately. Maybe, she's just PMS-ing.
"Who wouldn't cry with that? They are so sweet. Dying in the arms of your true love...oh my gosh," she said giddily.
I chuckled at them. They keep on arguing, but still they are close friends.
"I want to have what Allie and Noah had," I said without realizing that I really said it. The girls looked at me.
"Hmm, you already have that, dear. Guess you have wish for another thing," Rose said in a melodramatic way.
I smiled confusedly at her.
"You have Edward, idiot," Alice blurted.
"You think he's my true love?" I asked immediately.
They both laughed at me.
"Yes," they said in harmony.
"Oh." I raised an eyebrow at them.
...
The next morning we woke up a bit late. We just can't sleep last night. We keep on talking and talking and talking. But when sleep slowly came to me and Rose, Alice started to get more hyper.
She started babbling about shirts, dresses and shoes.
It took an hour before Rosalie knocked her up. Rose gave her a soda with a sleeping pill. I'm very glad that she did that.
At 2 am we finally slept.
9:30 am, we went to Starbucks for brunch. After that we went into another massive and crazy shopping trip.
I'm really glad that I have understanding friends like them.
Things are going pretty well. I'm afraid though.
Gran once said, "After the good, comes the bad."
I wonder what's going to happen next.
…
"It's midnight, Merry Christmas everyone!" Alice squealed happily.
We decided that we will all spend the Christmas at the Cullen household.
Aunt Liza said that it will be more fun if we will celebrate it as a big family. And it truly does.
You can really feel the spirit of love and giving.
Yesterday we decorated the whole house. And it was really fun. I have done that before, but it is different now. I'm with my friends and with the people that I love.
I'm nervous about the gifts. Sometimes I'm thinking that it is not expensive enough for people like them...or it is not enough for their taste.
"Let's eat, and then open the gifts?" Esme suggested.
"Sure," Dad answered.
So with that, we all stood up from our seats in the living and then we headed into the dining room.
There were so many foods on the table. But I'm sure; it is Emmett who will consume the most of it.
"Come on! Let's eat," Emmett said impatiently which caused all of us to laugh.
We all devoured the food that Esme made. There is just one word to describe it, and it is: DELICIOUS.
After eating we went back to the living room to open our gifts.
All of them received nine gifts, except from me. I received eight gifts, it is the largest number of gifts that I have received for Christmas so far.
I'm sure that if Dad didn't marry Aunt Liza yet, we are spending Christmas at La Push with Billy, Jake and his sisters. Since Mom died, we never celebrated Christmas at home, doing that will just make us miss her even more.
I gave Edward new music sheets, because he loves to write music.
I opened the first present that I received. It was from Aunt Liza. It was in a small thing rectangular box. I pulled the ribbon, and I opened the box.
It contains several gift cards for the newly opened spa in town. I also saw the same gifts for the girls.
"Maybe we could all go to the Spa together," Rose suggested.
Suddenly, I saw Alice's eyes lit up. "Dad, you bought me a Porsche?
Carlisle nodded. Alice rushed to him and hugged him.
The rest of the night flowed seamlessly. I have received only eight gifts.
Edward hasn't given me his gift yet. What if he didn't buy any for me?
I don't like gifts, but when I thought of that, Edward not buying me a gift, I kinda feel disappointed. I prepared something for him, but he didn't even made an effort for me.
When they all retreated to their rooms, I volunteered myself to clean the pile of gift wrappers on the floor.
"I'll help her," Edward offered.
"Make it fast kids, you need to sleep too," Dad said after a yawn.
Aunt Liza wrapped her arm on Dad's waist, and they went upstairs.
I made sure that there is nobody to witness us, before I hugged Edward.
"Merry Christmas," I whispered to his ear before kissing it.
I felt his arms wrapped around me and he nuzzled his face on my hair.
"What's your gift for me?"He asked.
"Why? Didn't you open it yet? What's your gift for me?" I returned his questions.
He pulled away from me and handed me a cd case, with of course, a cd inside.
I opened the case and I saw the words printed on the cd.
"Canzoni perla mia Bella"
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-Ishi