Changing For The Better

Frightening Little Monster

4/19/09

Rated T

BPOV

After all of the Cullen's had decided that changing was the best route to choose, we sat in the living room waiting for Carlisle and Esme to return from the office.

They had gone up there to decide in private the best way to help the family change and get better. We waited for about an hour before they finally came down.

I sensed Edward tense beside me, already knowing the plan as soon as he heard Carlisle's thoughts.

Alice let out a small whimper of agony and Jaspers face went blank, feeling the tension in the room.

Rosalie seemed to be at ease, just sitting on the love seat with Emmett, filing her nails and pretending that nothing important was going on.

"Your father and I have decided the best solution to our problems. It does include Bella. She will have to take part in the process if we truly want to get better." Esme's voice rang loud and confident.

I looked around with confusion clear on my face. What did she mean I had to take part!?

Rosalie looked over at me and flashed a nasty smirk in my direction. She was enjoying my pain and confusion.

"Um, what?" I managed to choke out in fear.

"It's alright. It's not a death march darling. Don't worry, you'll be right with Edward through the whole thing." Esme tried to sooth me.

I hid my face in Edward's chest. Trying to bury my it until the raging blush in my cheeks faded.

After about a minute of this, Carlisle cleared his throat trying to gain our attention back.

I looked up to see that Carlisle was standing in front of the group with a serious look on his face.

I quickly straitened up into a more ladylike position and gave my full attention to Carlisle. I could sense the fear in the air. Every one was on the edge of their seat ready to hear what Esme and Carlisle were about to tell us.

"We have decided to send you all on a road trip. You are not to come home until you have solved the problems you seem to always have with each other. You need to learn respect for one another and Esme and I are confident that this is an effective way to teach you." Carlisle said.

EPOV

I sat in my chair stiff with shock. I had already known that Carlisle and Esme had been planning this but, the reactions from my siblings was strange.

Alice just simply got up from her seat and started to rearranging the flower vases in the dinning room.

Jasper jumped from his chair and went to pace in front of the windows.

Rosalie pulled out a hair brush from her purse and was combing her hair. Even though she looked calm, her thoughts gave her away. In her mind, she was cringing at the idea of having to spend time with the family, especially Bella.

Emmett sighed a heavily and sat back to lounge on the couch. And Bella sat beside me with a racing heart beat that worried me. She had tiny beads of perspiration on her brow. I took my finger and wiped the sweat away. She looked up at me and gave a weak smile.

"That's the worst you can do Pops?" Emmett teased Carlisle.

Carlisle gave Emmett a stiff glare which caused the smile to be whipped off his face.

"Then it's decided. Now go pack!" Esme said.

"Esme?" Alice called sweetly from the dinning room.

"Yes?" Esme called back.

"You never did say where we are going, so I don't have a clue what to pack." Alice stated.

"I never told you where you are going because the truth is I don't know. That's for you and your siblings to decide. Oh, by the way Bella. I cleared things with Charlie."

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Three hours later we were all back in the living room waiting to leave with the exception of Alice and Bella. They had gone to Charlie's to pack Bella's things. We had packed almost every piece of clothing we owned since we didn't know exactly what to take.

When the girls were back we turned to say our goodbyes to our loving parents who were sending us on this wild trip in hopes that we would come back better people and a stronger family.

"I love you mom." I whispered into Esme's ear.

"See ya Gramps!" Emmett yelled, punching Carlisle playfully in the shoulder.

"What car are we taking? I don't think we have a large enough car to fit all our luggage and us in." Rosalie asked.

"Come and see for yourself." Carlisle answered.

We walked out onto the front porch and we were greeted by a giant, shiny black Escalade SUV.

"Nice! Wooo, lets go!" Emmett boomed.

We loaded our luggage into the car and then climbed in ourselves. I was driving and Emmett was in the passenger seat. The girls shared the middle set of seats and Jasper was stuck in the back seat, crammed with all the luggage.

We had no idea where we were going, we just rounded the bend onto the highway and let the miles fly under the tires. We were going to change. We were going to stay a strong family.

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