New Arrival

Thank you so much for all the postive feedback that everyone posted on Monday. I was so overwhelmed with the amount of emails i had in my inbox from everyone reviewing, favouriting etc. I've made this chapter slightly longer and edited a number of times so it was perfect :)

Also, i would've posted this up last night but fanfic went down so i couldn't log in :( but now i can (obviously)

Forks - 2007

The sound of the shrill doorbell reverberated off the walls of the Cullen mansion, but everyone already knew to be expecting a visitor. Alice had foreseen this visit last week, and Carlisle and Esme had been preparing ever since. They'd kept the news a secret from Edward (which was harder than it sounded) as they wanted him to enjoy the visit the most. Luckily for them, he was around Bella's as usual so they had time to let Evie settle in before he was reunited with her.

Esme quickly opened the door and pulled Evie into the tightest hug imaginable.

"Oh Evie, why has it taken you so long to visit?" she asked as she took a step back and surveyed the second of her vampire 'children'. She still looked the way she did on the day they'd parted ways, the exception being a change of clothes.

"Perfection isn't easy." Evie smiled, "and I wanted to reach Edwards level as I knew he'd probably be pro by now." She hesitated before looking over at Carlisle "but I could never beat you. The master of self control."

"It's nice to have you home Evelyn." He greeted before hugging her also. He turned to the stairway to introduce the rest of his family. "This is Emmett." He said pointing over to his curly haired son who gave an over exaggerated wave, "Rosalie" she just nodded her head as she eyed the newcomer curiously, "Alice" she was the only sibling who walked over and gave Evie a hug before returning to her spot. "...And Jasper." He gave a warm smile and nodded at her also.

"Wow, the family's grown in size." Evie smiled as she felt automatic acceptance. "I hope this doesn't put you out, but...I was kinda hoping I could hang round for a bit."

"It doesn't put us out Evie. You can stay as long as you like." Carlisle answered nonchalantly "You can share a room with Edward."

Alice widened her eyes at Carlisle as if to be warning him of something.

"What is it Alice?" he asked her.

"It's just...I think Bella would object to Edward sharing his room with a girl. Especially one she's never met."

"Can she share with you then?" he enquired.

Alice's eyes lit up, it looked like she had a new person to dress up like a Barbie. Bella was never any fun when it came to stuff like that. "Of course she can."

"Ok, you can share with Alice then." He said looking back to Evie.

"Thank you." She grinned but she just had to ask..."Who's Bella? Is she another vampire?"

"I hoped Edward would talk to you about her later." Carlisle sighed awkwardly, "But seeing as Bella has been mentioned..."

"Bella is Edward's human girlfriend." Esme answered for him. She could tell it was going to be a touchy subject for Evie.

"Human?" Evie asked now confused. "The hunter is dating the...hunted?"

"Something like that." Esme replied with an air of amusement.

Someone appeared at the top of the stairway looking almost as angel-like as the day she'd met him.

"Now why didn't anyone inform me that this toe rag was coming back?" he asked loudly as he ran full speed down the stairs and caught Evie up in his arms.

His other siblings gave each other looks of confusion, there was an obvious unspoken bond between the two and nothing good was to come from it they suspected. They walked away to Rosalie's room to discuss the situation that was presenting itself before them in the hallway.

"Edward! You're squashing me!" she giggled hysterically.

"I'll leave you two to get reacquainted." Esme smiled as she left the now empty hallway with Carlisle.

"Your accent's changed." He pointed out; it seemed to disappoint him that she'd lost her common English accent.

"Seventy years in the States is sure to change it a little." She reminded him grinning at the fact he still hadn't put her down yet. "Anywho, I hear that you're dating a human.", that's when he put her back on the ground.

His eyes lit up as he replied, "Oh yes, Bella. She's amazing Evie, you have to meet her. I only left her quickly so I could change for tomorrow."

"You stay with her?" she paused before continuing "All night?" she sounded revolted. The thought of spending so much time with a human seemed so unnatural.

"Yes I do. Where's the problem in that?"

"No problem." She replied quickly, "but wow, your self control is way better than mine. I can only stand roughly nine hours around a human before it starts to make me feel hungry."

"I've had longer to perfect it." He grinned.

"Always the show-off." Evie sighed as she rolled her eyes dramatically.

"Want to come with me and unofficially meet Bella? You don't have to stay long. It'd just be nice to have some company whilst she's asleep."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Evie cringed, she wasn't sure if her self control was ready for a whiff of human right now, especially if the human was someone her friend cared so much about.

"Unless you just want to meet her at school tomorrow." His grin had flopped as his topaz coloured eyes seemed to lose their spark.

"Don't pull that face Eddie; you know I give into anything when you pull that face."

"That's why I pulled it." He smiled again as Evie's heart melted. "Come on." He said taking her hand and pulling her along to the front door.

"What about my bags?" Evie questioned as they broke into a sprint as soon they reached the forest. They ran along hand in hand with Edward leading the way.

"Someone will take care of them." He told her as the wind whipped through his bronze coloured hair.

He came to a stop outside a house that just came off the forest, there was a police cruiser and an old red truck parked in the driveway and the top window on the left side of the house was open.

"Doesn't she get cold with that window open?" Evie asked him curiously.

"It means she wants me to come in." He explained as he took a crouching jump and landed effortlessly through the open window. "Come on." He hissed.

Evie rolled her eyes and copied him. As she sailed through the window the smell of Bella's blood hit her like she'd just walked into a brick wall. She sharply took an intake of breath to steady her breathing and the urge to kill.

"Evie?" Edward whispered worriedly, he was starting to have second thoughts about introducing his girlfriend to his friend.

"I'm fine." She whispered back as she shook her head to try and come to her senses. Unconsciously she'd balled up her fists to retain control, but she was now releasing them as the smell became easier to bare.

Evie then focused her attention on the brunette on the bed sleeping softly.

"What do you think?" he asked as he slid into the bed next to Bella. Even in her sleep she turned to curl into his side and without thinking he started to draw circles on her bare shoulder with his finger.

"She's beautiful Edward. And she smells good too." She joked.

"Teeth off. She's mine." He joked back.

"I'm glad you found happiness Edward. Your letters seemed...unfulfilled before." She walked over from the window to the rocking chair and slid her skinny frame into it "I just thought it was because you missed me." She slipped in slyly with a smile to match.

"I did miss you Eve." He replied looking over to her amber coloured eyes. "But I couldn't mope around without you forever. It's taken you seventy years to come back in the first place."

She sat in silence wishing she'd learned perfection quicker, then she and Edward might've had a chance of getting together. There was no chance now; he was in love with the human.

"After you went to live in Denali, Carlisle felt sorry for me and a couple of years later we found Rosalie. He changed her so I could have a companion. But, it didn't work out the way they wanted it to, so when I informed them I had no attachment except for brotherly love for her they decided to leave me be. Rosalie found Emmett and later on Alice and Jasper showed up. I was happy yet unaware of what I was missing in life. Then I met Bella and everything changed. I started feeling human emotions that I thought I'd already understood. In reality I hadn't understood yet alone experienced them properly until I was around Bella."

"You're in love with her aren't you?"

"Yes," he smiled contentedly as he looked at Bella's sleeping figure "and it's the most powerful emotion I've ever felt."

Bella started to stir in her sleep. She tossed and turned a few times before reaching out to him.

"Edward!" she shouted out as she sprung from the mattress with her eyes wide open and her breathing ragged.

"I'm here." He told her in a soothing voice as he pressed a kiss to her temple. "What were you dreaming of?"

"The Volturi." She whispered as she sobbed into his cold shoulder. He patted her hair comfortingly and breathed in her delicious scent.

"They're not here. You're safe. There's nothing to worry about."

Bella nodded and looked around her room just in case he'd overlooked something that could be lurking in the shadows. As she looked over to her rocking chair she stiffened. "Who's that?" she panicked as she clutched at his shirt.

"This is my friend Evie. She won't hurt you. She's come to visit from Denali."

"Denali? Isn't that Tanya's coven?"

"Yes, Carlisle changed her back in 1930, he sent her to live with Tanya to learn self control and now she's come back to live with us."

Bella nodded yet her eyebrows furrowed in worry.

"She's worried that I came onto you whilst you came to visit in Denali." Evie interjected looking over at Bella's expression.

Edward's head whirled round to look into Evie's eyes. "You can hear what she's thinking?" he asked.

"Yeah, sure. Why? Can't you?" she asked simply.

Bella just sat frozen in Edward's arms unsure as to how this female vampire could hear her thoughts.

"What's your power?" Bella asked hesitantly trying to make sense of it all.

"Distraction." Evie replied with a note of pride in her voice. "I just distracted your mind into thinking that it wasn't being entered. Edward can't hear my thoughts either, but that's because I can distract him with another person's thoughts. I could make you avert your eyes from me so that it looks like I'm not here. I could make it so you don't see or hear me at all, make it look like I'm invisible. When really, I'm standing right next to you." She paused to let the notion settle in. "Comes in handy when someone's coming after me, shame I didn't have this power when I was human." She added.

"You had the power of distraction when you were human, it just wasn't this powerful." Edward commented. "That's why you were a good thief."

"Not good enough." Evie pointed out.

"Does it work for other people?" Bella interrupted now interested, she still felt a small threat from this vampire but she was starting to loosen up as Evie was being so open and honest.

"You mean could I hide you from someone? Sure, so long as I was holding on to you and concentrating real hard. It's more complicated when you're trying to hide another person."

Edward sat in thought for a second before speaking, "Yes, your right." he looked gleeful and smug at the same time, it was as if he'd just figured out the meaning of life. "Now you don't need to run away to hide from the Volturi Bella, Evie can hide you from them."

"No Edward." Bella answered in a harsh tone. "You're changing me. Your family voted on it."

"Wait a minute. You want to be a vampire? And how comes I didn't get a vote?" Evie interrupted.

"Yes I want to become a vampire. But what's more interesting is that apparently you're part of his family." Bella questioned as she was puzzled by this new fact.

"I'm the second Cullen child to be precise." She replied smugly. "Had Eddie not told you about me?"

"I didn't tell anyone about you Eve." He told her with a guilty look in his eye. "Remember Carlisle introduced you to the rest of the family."

"I can't believe this..." Evie gasped "We used to be as thick as thieves, and since I left, you acted like I was never part of the family." She paused whilst looking straight into his eyes "You disgust me Edward Cullen."

Evie made it look like she'd stormed out the window in revulsion, but she'd really used her power of distraction to stay in her seat and eavesdrop on Edward's excuses.

"Why didn't you tell anyone about her Edward?" Bella asked suspicious.

"I don't know. It hurt to think of her." He replied quietly.

"Why did it hurt to think of her? Why's she so special to you?"

"Because I saved her and allowed Carlisle to change her into a vampire so she could live." he explained. "We became very close in the three months she spent with us, and then she was sent away from me."

"You what?" Bella said with anger rising in her whispers, an onset of tears were starting to expel from her eyes. "You changed someone you barely knew into a vampire and yet you won't change me. You're so hypocritical Edward."

"Evie was beaten within an inch of her life. What was I supposed to do? Let her die in the street?"

"I don't know Edward, I just don't know. But I don't like the feeling she gives out, I feel like she's silently threatening me, like I'm a rival or something."

"Don't be silly. Evie's not like that. She knows that I love you."

"She can read my mind and she used it against me to get on your good side! You don't think that's threatening?"

"She didn't know that I couldn't read your mind. We used to read everyone's minds and talk about it when I was teaching her. It's an old habit, it's not her fault she didn't know about the barrier between me and you."

"Fine she's forgiven for that." Bella informed him before changing the subject "So am I right to assume that will she be enrolling tomorrow?"

"Yes, she will be. It turns out she's planning on staying for the year. I heard Carlisle deciding to send her there when I got home."

"Great." she replied sarcastically.

"What is wrong with you Bella? Evie is my closest friend and you're acting like she's the villain. She didn't do anything wrong."

"How is she your closest friend if you haven't even mentioned her in seventy years? And I have a right to feel like she's the villain. It's not your mind she's rummaging around in is it?" she grumbled as she turned over to go back to sleep.

"If you left Jacob for seventy years, do you think you'd find it easy to talk about him even though you missed him every single day?" Edward asked as he argued his innocence.

He was only answered with silence.

Bella silently agreed with him, but she didn't want it to show. He didn't need to know that he was right all the time.

Whilst lying there she knew that there was something about Evie she didn't like, she knew that this dislike was far from being resolved and she knew this situation wasn't going to get better. As Bella fell back into the ease of sleep, she felt Edward's cold body press against hers. So long as he was with her she had nothing to worry about.

At the end of their arguement Evie had left the bedroom silently and returned back to the Cullen mansion to acquaint herself with the other siblings. She wanted to get to know everyone better so that her stay would be a nice one. However, she didn't mind annoying Bella though. She was a human.

Both women knew that school tomorrow was going to be...difficult to say the least.

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