There is no excuse for how long I have been writing this chapter, but I'm back and am here to stay. Now, during my break Breaking Dawn came out and screwed up my time line, well this is pre-breaking dawn and I will try to follow that story line as much as possible but no promises. So read and REVIEW!!!!! I don't really know what will happen next so 'm open to your comments. – Flustered-Chan
Disclaimer- I don't own Twilight, if I did this would be in print, but I don't and it's not, which makes me sad
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller
The Open Door
Leaving the door open he walked out of the attic and started down the stairs, he almost felt like going back but he could see at the bottom of the stairs the door to his room. It was closed, but he could see a tiny ray of light under the door. Once there, he paused, gripped the handle hard. He turned it slowly and walked inside.
Alice bit her lip and closed her door; it was starting up again, Emmet and Rose's nightly fight. Something was going to happen she knew it, even if she couldn't see into the future she could have seen it. But she could, and she did. Something was going to happen.
Right then the shouts stopped and a door crashed open, the sounds of someone running down the stairs and the door slamming made Alice suspect Rose was taking off again. But she heard the sound of Emmett's jeep roar roaring out of the garage, Emmett never left Rose, she thought. She had to peek out of her bedroom; Rosalie was leaning against the stairs railing looking down at the front door. Her face was blank and expressionless, but a small tear ran down it.
Emmett hadn't return by the morning and the whole house was silent when the twins woke up. Juliet stirred first, blinking wildly in the light, was it sunny? She hadn't seen the sunlight in days since they had entered this part of the country. She raised her hand to shield her eyes, and smiled at the slight glimmer that sprinkled her skin, they didn't shimmer like other vampire, it was more like they were dusted with a bit of glitter all over.
Rolling over Juliet poked her sister in the rib. Giggling at her twin's failed attempts to swap her away
"Ah ah ah! It's time to wake up Addie." She cooed, taking the covers from over her sister's face and hopping out of bed herself. "Come on! It's a beautiful day!"
"Grrrhff." Adeline murmured, grumbled, and cursed in a few different languages, but got up regardless.
Juliet was restless, jittery even. She wanted to get out see things, explore the Cullen house, get to know them better, talk to them. TO do something, the air around her felt to tight and uncomfortable, it made her want to dance or shout, something to shake it off.
Adeline was up and shuffling around by then, ruffling her hair and blinking at the bright sunlight.
"The sun didn't die?" She asked in a groggy voice.
"Nope. Can you believe it?" Juliet replied in a voice making her sound like she about ten, she was always like this in the morning; it made Adeline think of Juliet when she was young and thought that if she was sweet enough everyone would be happy.
"I think we should go down and see the Cullens." Adeline said, feeling awake and taking charge, if she didn't Juliet would sit there all day and stare out the window.
"I don't know…" Juliet bit her lip, still looking out of the window.
"Why not?" Addie asked, sitting next to her. Juliet sighed heavily.
"I just feel so at home here, Addie, so many doors have closed for us before. I don't want this to be another." Addie shook her head.
"Even if it does, we'll still have each other. And I feel good about this one. Plus sitting here won't make them keep us. Let's go downstairs."
Juliet smiled, nodded, and ran to the door and down the stairs, Adeline in hot pursuit. It had just dawned on the two of them that Carlisle and Esme had been discussing the possibility of the two of them staying last night and would probably have their answer.
When the two walked into the kitchen the strong smell of something burnt hit them hard, Alice, Edward, Jasper, and Bella were all in the kitchen and turned to hide something behind their backs when they entered.
"What's up?" Juliet asked suspiciously, sitting on the counter slowly.
"Well," jasper started.
"Yeah, well." Alice tried to say.
"What?" Adeline asked suspiciously, crossing her arms.
"Well, Bella was trying to help us make pancakes." Edward finally said, they all looked guilty.
"Well, bring it on!" Juliet challenged, excited, and not wanting to hurt the Cullens' feelings.
"Are you sure?" Bella inquired, holding out a pan with some kind of round charred black disk in it.
"Um… sure." Juliet hesitated, but nodded. "Why not? It's not like it's going to kill me." They all chuckled darkly.
"Yeah! Let's do it!" Adeline added, seeing Bella beam.
"Are you sure about this?" Julietdemanded in Addie's mind.
"I was about to asked you the same thing." Adeline gulped when the disks were served on a plate and pushed towards them. The two craned their necks to asses the situation.
Luckily they were saved by Carlisle and Esme coming into the kitchen to make on announcement.
"Okay," Carlisle started, seeming not to notice the pancake-things being thrown out of the nearest window. "We have to have a discussion." He looked grave and worried, but he smiled warmly as he directed everyone to the living room to have a discussion
"Is everyone here?" Esme, dressed in a smart lavender sweater with khaki trouser, very… motherly fashionable.
"Um…" Jasper muttered from his spot against the wall who was the only one not sitting. Alice sat between the twin on a white loveseat, Bella and Edward sat on the piano bench, And Esme and Carlisle sat on the long sofa by themselves.
"Where's Emmet?" Juliet asked innocently.
"He and Rose are out." Carlisle lied; they all knew what had happened but wanted to keep the unpleasantness away from the twins for the moment. He and Esme truly adored the girls and wanted them to be part of the family. They had discussed it all night and though the threat of the Volturi finding out was high and would result in… unpleasantness to say the least. But with the family relocating soon they would have less of a chance of being found and they would be able to adjust to the family life with all of them adjusting to new surroundings.
"Oh." Juliet muttered.
"Anyway," Esme smiled and moved on. "We wanted to discuss with all of you the option of the twins coming to live with us. Alice smiled and hugged Juliet.
"YES! I told you! They would be perfect!"
"That would be great, other people who eat." Bella smiled.
"I don't have any problems with them." Jasper murmured from the corner.
"We would love for you to stay with us as long as you want." Carlisle said to Adeline. This was when it truly hit her.
"Um… we would love to, but…" She trailed off.
"What is it?" Esme asked, leaning over and resting her hand on Addie's knee.
"I think what my sister wants to say is, it's a big decision and we really like you guys but we need to think… maybe we could have a test run? We really don't know what it's really like here." Juliet explained, her serious side coming out again.
"Of course." Carlisle said, let today be your test run, and with that it was official, they were part of the family, kind of.
"I have to get to work," Carlisle said, sanding and kissing Esme goodbye. "try not to set the house on fire." This was directed towards Edward and Jasper
"Is that a challenge?" Jasper asked, a wicked smile spreading across his face.
"No, it's a warning." The door closed and he was gone.
"I wonder…" Jasper trailed off, looking into the distance.
"No, Jasper." Alice sang, hopping up and pulling the girls up with her.
Come on! Let's go shopping!"
"Oh, no Alice. Not yet, don't subject- I mean they probably want to stay here for a while." Bella said getting up as well.
"Oh, okay." Alice's face fell. "Hey! Let's go up to my room you guys can help me plan the wedding!"
"Wedding?" Juliet asked, as Alice grabbed her hand they started to skip upstairs. Addie and Bella shared exasperated expression and followed, not skipping.
Juliet and Alice lay on Alice's plush white carpet, laptop in front of them surfing the web and chatting as Bella and Adeline tried to play Jasper's Guitar Hero.
"Oh! I love that song!" Juliet cried as Alice's i-home started to play "Fly" by Sugar Ray.
"Really?" Alice squealed.
"Juliet LOVES Sugar Ray." Adeline teased, yanking up her guitar. "Stupid star power." She muttered darkly as Bella chuckled. The door swung open and Jasper walked in, Emmet following, but the usual smile in his face had departed.
"Who said you could touch my game?!" Jasper asked.
"Alice." Bella and Addie said simultaneously, not looking away from the game.
"Alice!" Jasper pretended to be angry but sat down next her.
"Hey let me play!" Emmet cried, faking a smile. Carlisle had called him and told him to come home and talk to Rose, or at least to him. He had come back, but just wasn't ready to face either of them. Plus, though he would never admit it, he wanted to talk to Juliet for a while, Addie relinquished the controller.
"Anyway," Addie said giving Juliet a devilish look as she sat on the floor next her and the Lap top. "Ask Juliet why she loves Sugar Ray so much."
"Juliet?" Alice asked, looking at her with a quizzical look.
"You just had bring that up didn't you?" Juliet muttered. "Well, Mark and I got close when Addie and I were living in L.A. in the 90s." She mumbled.
"What?!?!?!" Alice and Emmet both exploded. Bella and Jasper just raised their eyebrows.
"Who?" Both boys asked.
"Mark McGrath!" Alice cried, grabbing the computer and typing furiously. "This guy! For a human he was quite attractive." she said squealed, turning the computer around to show a picture of him.
"Whoa." Bella said, finally looking away from the television as Emmet furiously clicked and punched the buttons.
"I win." He growled, plopping down on the floor, and trying to hide the broken controller. He prickled slightly at the small smile creeping onto Jaspers face.
"You know Emmett when you're angry you can be quite the klutz." The girls were to busy bombarding Juliet with questions to notice Jasper's comment or the Emmett when he completely decked him.
"How long did it last?" Alice's eyes were eider than usual if that was possible.
"Not to long..." Juliet hedged, but Addie was not having it.
"They saw each other for about a year.
"Nobody knew?" Bella was aw struck. Juliet was mortified.
"It doesn't matter, it didn't work out!"
"It rarely does." Emmett said, he sat cross legged next to with the game controller across his lap, Jasper periodically handing him duct tape.
"I don't know," Alice chided. "Just look at Edward and Bella."
"Freak accident." Emmett agued. "No offense Bells."
"I have to disagree with you Emmett." Addie said shaking her head, "I knew one of our kind who had a romantic affair with a woman from his village back in England for over twenty years."
"Yeah?" Jasper asked, raising an eyebrow.
"We also knew a musician in Seattle who had a romance going on with one of his band members." Juliet added, sitting on the window sill.
"I remember him, they were so in love." The rest of the afternoon and most of the evening was spent swapping stories of romantic encounters they had either been a part of or heard about.
Throughout the course of the evening the space between Juliet and Emmett grew smaller. Eventually Emmet was on the other side of the room sitting against the wall, Juliet's back against his shoulder.
The two laughed and smiled more than the other's mostly at the other's jokes and stories. Everyone saw it, the two glowed together. Alice grinned triumphantly at Jasper, ending a small argument and a large bet the two of them had made the day before. Even Edward, who had joined them, nudged Bella and gave her a look. Eventually the night winded down and finally ended with two people falling asleep. Bella snoozed softly in Edward's lap, his finger running through her hair.
"I think I should take her to bed." He announced, gathering her up in his arms and lifting her gently. "Goodnight everyone. It was certainly interesting."
"I think we should go to bed as well." Adeline said, pointing at her sleeping sister, still leaning against Emmett who had not moved a muscle since she had shut her eyes.
"I can take her." He clamored, scooping Juliet up into his arms in one fluid movement.
"Um, Okay." Addie said, taken aback. Emmett walked out of the room without another word, leaving Jasper smirking and Alice giggling.
"When did that happen?" Addie asked.
"When none of us were looking." Alice giggled.
"What should we do?" Jasper inquired, looking down at Alice.
"Nothing, everything will work out fine." Alice insisted, looking up at him.
"Do you already know?"
"Sort of…" She trailed off, as if nothing was clear even in her own mind.
Emmett walked up the stairs leading to the guest room, which he guessed would be the girls room now, he could help Juliet move furniture and decorate. Adeline to, if she wanted it. Juliet was the same as she had been the other night, slipping in and out of sleep halfway to her room; she stirred enough to talk to him.
"Where are we?" She cooed, rubbing her eyes.
"We're going to bed." Emmett said softly, to his surprise, he slapped him softly.
"What kind of girl do you think I am?" He looked down at he and smiled, trying to fight back a laugh.
"A pretty cool one." He finally replied. She smiled back and closed her eyes again. He cradled her in one arm and opened the door to the attic and placed her softly on the bed as he had the night before. Just like the night before he had to wrench himself away, closing the door softly. This night, he didn't bother going to he didn't bother opening the closed door that lead to Rosalie. Instead he walked to the nearest window, jumped out, and ran straight into the forest.