Ch. 2

Meet The Family

I must have again zoned out, because before I knew it we were turning into a not so narrow gravel driveway. Among the edges were tall maple trees with red leaves. After what seemed to be a couple of miles we stopped. I finally looked out the window to see my new home, and when I saw it I was like Wow, this is where I'm going to live. It was an old two-story, Victorian mansion. I didn't know they even had these kinds of houses in Forks. From the looks of it, it must've been here since the 19th century, but it had to have needed some modifications if it was still standing. Either way the house was beautiful, my new home.

I walked around the car to retrieve my bags, but Carlisle had already gotten to them.

"Thanks, I could've gotten them myself." There were only two of them besides my messenger bag that I was already carrying.

They then told me how they wanted to show that I was welcome here. Honestly I didn't see how helping with my bags was going to make me feel any more welcome, but I didn't argue. We started heading up the front walkway to the front door. I opened the door to find a very spacious living room, a white leather, L-shaped, couch in front of what looked like a 50 inch, flat screen TV. I could tell that these people were very wealthy; I mean the dad's a doctor and the wife is an interior designer. What else can explain it?

It was by far the nicest house I had ever seen. I had been to quite a few homes, but none as big as this house. I mean these people were living luxury and they had decided they would foster a teenage girl with psychological problems, they must either be a caring, affectionate family, or they were bored and wanted a challenge. Either way I was living under their roof and in their care.

I walked in through the doors till I was about a foot from the end of the stair case. I don't think no matter how long I lived here, I would ever get used to how grand the house is. Hopefully the kids were as thoughtful as their parents or if they were rich and spoiled, I mean most kids would be if they were living in a house like this.

"I think it's time we introduced Bella to the rest of the family," Carlisle whispered to Esme, thinking I couldn't hear him.

He then called out 'Were home!'

And then in that minute two girls came pretty much skipping down the staircase. One was short, thin, with brown hair in an almost pixie style, short and spiky. The other one was taller and had long, blonde hair, she looked like she could be one of those teen models on those fashion magazines.

"Hi, I'm Alice Cullen," she introduced herself with a very high girly voice, but not the annoyingly girly kind of voice.

"Hi," I greeted back not too sure what else to say. But I had a feeling that me and Alice would be getting along quite well.

"Hello, I'm Rosalie," the blonde girl introduced herself with not so high of a voice. I'm not sure if she's that happy to have another girl living in the house.

Then I remembered Esme saying that there were three other boys they had. So the question is where are they?

"The boys should be down here in a minute. They were upstairs playing their new Black Opps game when you arrived."

"You should have reloaded when you had the chance!"

The sound of that nearly made me jump out of my skin as a tall, broad, muscular guy came stomping down the stairs. He looked like he could be about a head taller than me.

"I couldn't! Those gunmen were everywhere!"

Then a tall, not as tall as the other guy, also came stomping down. He had longer blonde hair opposed to the other guys' short brown hair. He was muscular but not as broad as the other one.

"Both of you just shut up!"

Now that really made me jump out of my skin. Another boy came down, but he was calmer than his other supposedly obnoxious brothers. He had very nice bronze colored hair that stood on its ends, making it look messy. He was thinner than his other brothers but you could tell he still had a bit of muscle on his bones. To me he was the most gorgeous out of all of them.

"Boys, will you all settle down? Bella's here." She nodded her head towards me.

"Well if she's going to be living here she was going to hear how loud we can get anyway." The big broad one stated.

Esme sighed.

"Just introduce yourselves." She sounded like she was really tired of their arguments over the littlest things.

"Hey I'm Emmett." The broad one introduced himself. I'm guessing he must be the oldest.

"Hey, nice meeting you I'm Jasper." The blonde one stuck his hand out for me to shake it. I accepted it.

"Hello, my name is Edward." He had a very nice way of speaking. Like one of those old, black and white movies.

"Well, Bella, since you've now met the whole family, how about we take your things and I'll show you to your room we had prepared for you?" said Esme.

"That would be good, thank you." I wasn't sure how to reply to them they were all kind to me, and I felt bad that couldn't show some back.

After all the introductions being said and done, Esme led to my room where I was to start settling in.