Chapter 21. Can we keep her?

Taylor's POV

"Journey? What little girl Elaina?" Carlisle asked confused. Elaina's thoughts were flying by so fast, even I couldn't understand them. Alice stood up and walked over to Elaina and smiled a sad smile at her. "That's a great idea Elaina, but you wont like what you find."

"I need to find her Alice. I don't understand why, it's just, I need to know she is okay." Alice nodded her head. "I know." Alice smiled a happy smile. Then Demetri spoke up. "Um, well, Elaina since I have not met her before I need to get a taste of her from your mind. So you're going to need to concentrate on her very much. How she looks, what she said. Everything." Elaina nodded. "Wait, I don't understand. Where did you meet this girl Elaina?" I asked.

"I'll think about everything that happened while I was out, okay? That way Demetri can know, and you can too." Elaina smiled. I nodded. Elaina closed her eyes and began remembering what she had just gone through.

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Emmett's POV

This is freaky. Elaina is doing some sort of mind thing with the Volturi dude, and Taylor and Eddy are telling everyone else what she is thinking. Alice didn't seem like she was paying any attention at all. She sat on the floor with her legs crossed, wide eyed, looking into the future I'm guessing.

As soon as everyone was done, Alice jumped up. "Okay we have to hurry. Demetri, where is she?" Alice asked. The Volturi dude closed his eyes before saying, "She's-she's here. In Forks." "What? Where at?" Elaina asked. Whoa. Talk about freaky.

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Elaina's POV

It was all to weird. I knew everyone was looking at me like I was crazy. All except Alice. I have to find this girl. Alice, Taylor, and I went to where Demetri said she was. In no time we were standing in front of a small house. We went and knocked on the door.

A man opened the door. He looked like he just woke up; his hair was messy, he smelled like alcohol, and he was grumpy. "What?" He said answering the door. "My name Elaina, I was wondering if a little girl by the name of Journey lives here?" I asked nicely.

The man sighed. "Yeah what do you want with the brat?" He asked upset now. Taylor grabbed my hand. Elaina, this is bad. He's a drunk, he hits her. Taylor thought to me. "I just need to ask her some questions. I work with the school here in Forks and we are looking into enrolling her." I said. In side, my heart was breaking. "She ain't goin' to any school."

"We just want to ask some questions sir." I said with a smile. Every inch of me wanted to sink my teeth into this man. "Sure. She's in the back room." He said letting us in. We walked through the house. We got to a small door and opened it. Inside, was a beautiful, little girl whimpering.

"Journey?" I asked walking closer. She looked up at me and a smile broke across her face. "Elle!" she said running to me. I hugged her and picked her up. The poor little thing was covered in bruises from head to toe.

She was crying as she looked up at me. "You have to go. Daddy is going to be mad if I don't clean." "What? You can't be more than five years old. Why would you be cleaning?" I asked. "Elaina, hurry. We have three minutes and 42 seconds before he comes in here." Alice said.

"Journey does your father hurt you?" I asked. A single tear fell from her face as she nodded. I looked at Taylor. I silently asked him if it was okay. He nodded. I looked at Journey and asked, "How would you like to live with me? Where you would never get hurt?"

A huge smile came across her face as she nodded. I held her close and turned to walk out the door. "Where are you going with her?" The man asked. Alice walked up close to him and held out a badge. "Mr. Forest, I am with Child Services and I am taking your daughter. She has just confirmed that you beat her. Now we will take her and not notify the police department as long as you sign these papers here claiming you give all rights of Journey Lorain Forest over to us." Alice said in a very lawyer-type voice. The man was taken aback.

He huffed. "Fine." He said taking the pen fro Alice and signing the papers. We left on that note. Journey fell asleep in my lap on the way home. "Alice, what do you know?" I asked as we pulled in. We all went into the living room as Alice told us of what she had found out.

"Journey Lorain Forest lost both her parents in a forest fire when she was two. The house caught on fire and her parents tried to get out. Her mother got caught in the house but the dad managed to get out with the baby. The dad died two days later due to a lung condition.

"So they sent Journey to live with the fathers brother, the only family either of them had, and didn't bother to do a check up. If they had they would have seen that he was a drunk. Journey is four and a half years old." I looked down at the small child in my arms. I looked up at them all. "Can we keep her?"

A/N Hey! Did you like it? This story should be no longer than 25 chapters. So it is coming to an end. Please, please, please review!

-Esmefan1-Elissa.