Disclaimer: I do not own the lovely and incomparable Twilight, New Moon, or Eclipse books. The wonderfully and amazingly talented Stephanie Meyer does. Sometimes this world is just unfair. I'm only borrowing her characters for the time being (though I wouldn't mind borrowing Edward for an eternity). I also don't own the songs that go with the chapters.

Send Me An Angel

Meeting the Cullens- Chapter 11

Song –See you again by Miley Cyrus

BPOV

The drive down to Dr. Cullen's house was a quite one. He knew that I was nervous about meeting his family, even though I won't meet most of them today, so I'll have to go through this again tomorrow. Dr. Cullen was humming along with the song on the radio which was kind of funny, now don't get me wrong he has a nice voice it was just funny because it reminded me of my dad, and when he use to sing along with the radio, but he didn't have as nice of a voice as Dr. Cullen.

I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't even know that the car has stopped. I stepped out of the car and was blown away. I don't know what I had expected, but it definitely wasn't this. The house was timeless, graceful, and probably a hundred years old. It was painted a soft, faded white, three stories tall, rectangular and well proportioned. The windows and doors were either part of the original structure or a perfect restoration. I could hear a river close by, hidden in the obscurity of the forest.

We walked up to the porch. Dr. Cullen opened the door for me. I took a deep breath and walked though the opened door.

The inside was even more surprising, less predictable, than the exterior. It was very bright, very open, and very large. This must have originally been several rooms, but the walls had been removed from most of the first floor to create one wide space. The back, south-facing wall had been entirely replaced with glass, and, beyond the shade of the cedars, the lawn stretched bare to the wide river, a massive curving staircase dominated the west side of the room. The walls, the high-beamed ceiling, the wooden floors, and the thick carpets were all varying shades of white.

Waiting to greet us, standing just to the left of the door, on a raised portion of the floor by a spectacular grand piano, was Mrs. Cullen.

"It's very nice to know you, I'm Esme Cullen" Mrs. Cullen said sincerely. I took out the whiteboard and wrote, It's nice to meet you too. I'm Bella Swan. Thank you, for letting me stay with you and your family for a couple of days.

"It's my pleasure dear. Now let's get you settled into your room ok?" Mrs. Cullen said. I nodded my head yes. We started walked upstairs to where my room is going to be.

"I'm sorry, but we don't have any open room on the second floor, so your room is going to be on the third floor." Mrs. Cullen said. I nodded my head as to say that I understand. It took me a while to get up the stairs, because of my cast, but I made it without tripping. My room was the second to the last room on the third floor. I wonder who the last room belongs to? Mrs. Cullen opened the door to my room and I stepped in to the room.

The room was beautiful. The walls are a soft blue. There is a huge bed in the middle that looks so inviting. The whole room was breathtaking.

"You like it?" Mrs. Cullen asked. I nodded my head.

"Good, while I'll let you get settled in, if you need any help getting settled just let one of us know. Dinner will be done shortly. So just come down when you're ready." Mrs. Cullen said as her and Mr. Cullen were leaving the room.

Once they left I let out a breath that I didn't even know I was holding. I explored the rest of the room. There was a closest bigger than my old room, and there was a bathroom connected to my room. I walked in to the bathroom and noticed that there was another door leading somewhere else. I was curious as to where it leads, so I opened the door and I found that I was in another room.

This room was breathtaking. The wall opposite of me was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs. The room was better stocked than a music store. In the corner was a sophisticated-looking sound system, the kind I was afraid to touch because I'd be sure to break something. The floor was covered with a thick golden carpet, and the walls were hung with heavy fabric in a slightly darker shade. There was a black leather sofa on the corner of the room and the bed was just as big as the one in my room. I looked closer at the CDs but I couldn't figure out how they were organized.

I walked back to my room and I laid down on the bed, and boy was the bed comfortable. After a while my stomach started to growl so I started to walk down the stairs. I made it down the stairs without falling and I was happy about that.

I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Cullen were on the couch reading the newspaper. Mrs. Cullen looked up from her newspaper and smiled when she saw me. I couldn't help but smile back.

"Are you hungry?" Mrs. Cullen asked and I just nodded my head

"Well let's eat then, you can wait in to the dining rooms for the food." Mrs. Cullen said as she head in to the kitchen to get the food. Mr. Cullen and I went in to the dining room to wait for dinner.

"So do you like it here?" Mr. Cullen asked and I nodded my head. Just then Mrs. Cullen entered the room with the food. She set the food down in front of me and it looked and smelled good. I tried some and it was amazing.

"So what where you guys talking about while I was gone" Mrs. Cullen asked

"So I was asking Bella if she liked it here and she said she did." Mr. Cullen said

"You're going to tell her now?" Mrs. Cullen said. Now I was getting confused about what they were talking about.

"There's nothing like the present" Mr. Cullen said and Mrs. Cullen said ok and grabbed Mr. Cullen's hand and they both turned toward me.

"So Bella, how would you feel about living here with our family and maybe becoming a member of our family even?" Mr. Cullen asked.

I was shocked, I smile, nodded my head and then I got up from my seat and went to Mr. and Mrs. Cullen and gave them a hug.

"We're taking that as a yes." Mrs. Cullen said with a little laugh. I grabbed my whiteboard and wrote, Take that as a YES, thank you so much, you don't know how much this means to me.

"Well that's good because we're already your foster parents; we had the paperwork done yesterday." Mr. Cullen said.

"You're welcome dear. Now all we need to do is tell our kids." Mrs. Cullen said, but the last part was towards Mr. Cullen

You haven't told you children that I'm going to be living here? I wrote

"Not yet, we're going to tell them tomorrow, when they come home from Alaska but don't worry there love you." Mr. Cullen said. I just nodded my head, but I was still nervous.

After dinner I went in to the living room and watched some TV. After a while I was getting tired and I went upstairs to go to bed. Once I got upstairs I went straight to bed and fell asleep fast.

I woke up, rolled over to my side, looked at the clock next to me and saw that it was almost noon. I jumped out of the bed and fell to the floor. I got up and headed to the bathroom. I turned on the shower, stripped my clothes and entered the hot shower. The water felt good coming down my body, the hot water untangled my muscles. After a while I stepped out of the shower and noticed that there were some clothes on the counter. I put the clothes on and they fit me perfect. After I went down stairs so do get something to eat.

"Good afternoon dear, Hungry?" Mrs. Cullen asked and I just nodded my head. I grabbed my whiteboard and wrote Where you the one that put the clothes in the bathroom for me?

"Yes, I did. I noticed that you didn't have any bags with you when you came so, I went out to the store and got you something that you might need, is that ok?"

Thank You, All my stuff is at my old foster parent's house I wrote

"You're welcome, if you don't mind me asking but what did your old foster parents do to you?" Mrs. Cullen asked

No, it's fine. They took the money that my parent left me before they both died, but when I wouldn't give it to them the tied me up and abused me, but I got away I wrote

"Oh you poor dear, is that why you were running in the woods?" she asked and just nodded my head. She handed me my food and then she sat across from me.

Can I ask you a question? I wrote.

"Of course you can, you can ask me anything" Mrs. Cullen said

Well I was wondering if you could tell me some stuff about you and your family I asked.

"Well Carlisle and I have been married for 19 years, but we have known each other since we were little kids. We got married when we were 18 and a year later we had Emmett, who's 18, and then a year after that we had Edward and Alice who are 17. Then about 8 or 9 years later we adopted Jasper and Rose, when their parents died in a car crash, you know we were their Godparent before their parents died. We couldn't let them go through foster care, so we adopted them. Emmett and Alice took a special liking to them right away. Then a couple of years later Emmett and Rose came to me and Carlisle and asked if they could date and we said sure, then Jasper and Alice came to us and asked us the same questions and we said it was fine. And now were here where you're going to be a member of our family." Mrs. Cullen said.

You and Mr. Cullen have been together forever. Can you tell me about your children likes and dislikes? I asked

"Sure, Well Emmett likes to work out and is very protective about things he loves, but he's a goofball most of the time. He likes to play pranks on people, so watch out for him. Rose is very…..opinionated, but once she gets to know you she will stand by you know matter what. She love to work on cars, she's the mechanic of the house. Jasper is the quiet one in the house, but to really get him to talk debate him on history or military stuff. He always knows how to cheer someone up when there sad. It's like he can feel what you're feeling and just change it.

Alice is very energetic; she has a lot of energy I don't know where she gets it from. Alice loves to shop and do makeovers on people, so watch out for that, she'll try to guilt you in to doing it too. She also has this confidence about the future, like she knows what is going to happen, and she is mostly right. And then there's Edward, he likes to keep to himself sometime, but that's just him. He likes his privacy, especially in this house there aren't that many secrets hidden. Edward he loves music and he can play the piano. He is amazing at it. He likes to write his own songs; that is one way he express himself. He is also very in to running; he is the fastest out of all of his siblings. That pretty much it and don't worry dear they'll love you" Mrs. Cullen said smiling.

I smiled back. "Well you tell be some stuff about you?" Mrs. Cullen asked I nodded my head and started to write Well my mom died when I was born, so growing up it was just me and my dad, but when he died I was put in to foster care and I went from foster house to foster house, nobody wanting me, but when I entered in to my freshman year of high school I got moved here with Victoria and Laurent and I have been living with them since now. I wrote.

"Well you're here now, and that's all that matters" Mrs. Cullen said with a smile

When are your children coming home? I asked

"Um sometime around 4 in the afternoon, you know you can start calling them your siblings, because they are once we adopt you." Mrs. Cullen said

I nodded my head then wrote When they come home to you want to tell them that I'm going to be living with you in private or do you want me there? I asked.

"It doesn't matter; it's up to you...whatever makes you feel comfortable." Mrs. Cullen said. I nodded my head. I looked up at the clock and it was 2 O'clock in the afternoon, so I had about two hours left before they come home.

The remaining two hour went by slowly. I was nervous about meeting the rest of the Cullens. I was nervous about what their reaction will be toward me and most importantly is the reaction Edward will give me. I wonder how they're going to react to the fact that I don't talk. But who I'm I kidding they're not going to be interested in me, nobody is, nobody wants to be my friend, I'm invisible to the world.

I was in the living room with Mrs. Cullen waiting for the rest of the family to come home. It was already four and I was getting more nervous by the minute. Finally we heard the cars pulling up in to the driveway, doors slamming and then I heard a cars driving away.

Mrs. Cullen got up from her seat next to me and went to go stand next to the front door. When the front door opened her children came through, each one of them hugging her and giving her a kiss on the cheek. So far nobody noticed me, which didn't surprise me.

"Where's Edward?" Mrs. Cullen asked

"Oh he went to the hospital, to see that girl." Emmett said

"Well he's not going to find her there." Mrs. Cullen said

"Why not? Did something happen to her? Did she die or something?" Alice asked

"No, she's right here." Mrs. Cullen said as she pointed to me. I started too plush as everybody was looking at me.

"Look Jasper it her, it her!" Alice said bouncing up and down

"Everybody this is Bella Swan and she is going to be living with us. Go say hi." Mrs. Cullen said; the last part she said quietly to them.

Alice came up to me bouncing "Hi I'm Alice, were going to be great friends." Alice said then she kissed me on the cheek, I was a little shocked, but it went away fast.

"Hi, I'm Emmett." Emmett said picking me up and giving me bear tight hug. I couldn't breathe that well.

"Emmett let her go, she can't breathe" Jasper said

"Sorry about that" Emmett said smiling a very wide smile.

"Hi I'm Jasper Hale; it's nice to see you again." Jasper said. I smiled and nodded my head

"I'm Rosalie Hale, but call me Rose." Rose said. I nodded my head as to say ok.

"Have you guys already eaten?" Mrs. Cullen asked. They all nodded their head

"Well I'll let you guys get to know each other better." Mrs. Cullen said as she left the room. I was quite for a while, nobody knowing what to say or do.

"So Bella tell us about yourself." Alice said breaking the tension.

I grabbed the whiteboard and they all looked at me funny. I quickly wrote I don't talk, but it's nice to meet you all. I showed them the whiteboard.

"What you can't talk or you don't like to talk?" Rose asked

I wrote I can talk but I kind of lost my voice for the past 10 years.

"Why did you stop talking?" Emmett asked.

I stopped talking the day my dad died. I wrote

"What are parents died, but we didn't stop talking because of it" Rose said

Yeah, but you got adopted by the Cullens; you didn't go through foster care, having nobody want you, going from place to place, wishing that you won't wake up in the morning. You have no idea what I've been through, what I've seen. And I wouldn't want you to go through that, nobody should go through that. I wrote.

As they were reading the whiteboard, I snuck upstairs to my room. I laid down on my bed and I just started to cry. I just kept thinking about everything that has happened to me and all the times where I couldn't cry. It seemed like once I started to cry I couldn't stop.

After a while I stopped crying and I heard a knock on the door. I went to go open the door and standing there was Rose.

"Bella I am sorry. I didn't mean to talk to you like that; it was really rude of me. Forgive me?" Rose said. I nodded my head.

"Well were going to be watching a movie downstairs if you like to join us." Rose said. I nodded my head, and held up one finger as to say I'll be down in one minute.

"Ok, we'll see you down there." Rose said smiling

I nodded my head and closed the door. I walked in to the bathroom to splash some water on my face. After I was done with that I started to walk down stairs. At first I was walking down carefully, but then I got some confidence so I started to walk a little faster, and that is a huge mistake. I tripped down on the stairs and started to fall I closed my eyes for impact of the floor meeting my face, but it never came.

I opened my eyes to meet a pair of green eyes. I've seen those eyes before, but where. We stared at each other for a while, him still holding me. After a while I heard some coughing and I broke our eye contact to look at all of the family looking at us. I blushed at all the small smile that the rest of the families were giving us and I tried to get out of his arms, but he was too strong for me. Finally after a while he let go of me and set me on my feet.

"Bella this is our brother Edward." Alice said smiling.

"Hi, you're the girl from the grocery store right? And the girl that I hit right?" Edward asked. I nodded my head yes. We were quite for a while, just looking at each other.

"You two can look in to each other eyes some other time I really want to watch the movie now" Emmett wined. Alice grabbed my hand and led me to the living room. Alice and Jasper were sitting on the love seat, while Emmett and Rose were sitting on the couch next to each other. So that left me and Edward on the couch next to each other.

Emmett started the movie, but I wasn't paying attention to it, the only thing that I was aware of was Edward sitting next to me. Before I knew it the movie was over and I was grateful. I stood up and stretch.

"That movie was awesome! Did you see the graphics they were amazing!" Emmett said. I yawned and started to head up the stairs.

"Going to bed Bella?" Jasper asked. I nodded my head and went straight to bed. I fell asleep thinking of Edward.

I got my sights set on you and I'm ready to aim
I have a heart that will never be tamed
I knew you were something special
When you spoke my name
Now I can't wait to see you again

Cause I felt this deep connection when you looked in my eyes
Now I can't wait to see you again

See You again by Miley Cyrus

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