Emily P.O.V.
Jasper wasn't ready to let me go. So, I decided to stay with the Cullens for a few days. I finally learned that the Cullens have gold eyes because they hunt animals, not humans. I happily adapted to their way of life. I had never liked hunting humans, especially since they had never done anything to me. During the day, we spent time reliving the old days.
The Cullens, including Jacob and Nessie, listened to the stories of our youth. Like the time Jasper punched another boy who tried to look up my skirt.
Alice and I were on good terms, but when I wasn't with Jasper, I was talking with Rosalie while she tinkered with her car or while she was babysitting Nessie. Maybe we spent so much time together because we both had had promising futures as humans. She was to become the wife of a banker's son during the Great Depression. Until her fiancée and company beat her in the streets and left her to die. Carlisle found her in the streets, bleeding, on the brink of death.
We had both wanted the same thing. To have a good, caring husband, a family, and to be happy. She got the husband, the family, and the happiness. Some girls have all the luck.
Don't get me wrong. I would have to be blind not to see the adoration between Alice and Jasper. But lately, I've been wishing that it was me in Alice's place. I'm sure Jazz has noticed my jealousy, and I know that Edward knows.
Even if I couldn't have Jasper, I could have a family. Obviously, not a family with a husband and children, but the family of a mother, father, brothers, sisters, even a niece. Carlisle and Esme were clearly the parental figures of this coven, though we were all well over fifty years old. I now thought of Jasper as a brother, not lover, because I can see his dedication to Alice, and I will not ruin their happiness. Rosalie was the big sister I never had. I could tell her anything and everything about my life, and she would understand. I told her the full story of my human years, because the version I had told the rest of the family had been drastically edited.
Along with Carlisle, Esme, Jazz, and Rose, my family consisted of Alice, Emmett, Edward, Bella, Nessie, and her Jacob. Jacob is well over six feet tall. He's about half of a foot taller than Emmett, and that is saying something because Emmett is a beast. Like Edward had said at first, Jacob was a shapeshifter. In wolf-form, he was very large and had smooth, russet-colored fur. He was also part of the Quileute Indian tribe and the pack. Bella had said that the original pack is abnormally large, with fifteen to sixteen members. The recent visit from the Volturi had created a spike in the shapeshifter gene, which resulted in many young teenagers on the reservation to phase for the first time. Jacob said this happened because the tribe needed protecting. Aro had come for Alice and Edward, just like he had come for me.
The original pack includes Sam, Jared, Embry, Quil, Paul, Colin, Brady, and a few other young boys who are barely teenagers. Then, there is what I call the "sub-pack". It is a pack of three: Jacob, Leah, and Leah's younger brother. I suppose that her brother would be around the age of the other young boys.
It's all been kind of overwhelming. I mean, getting a new family and all that. It's like I've been a dormant volcano for all these years, and now I get swarms of emotions that I never knew I had. Like jealousy, compassion, and most of all, joy. I've never been this happy in my second life. It feels good. Like I belong.
Yay! Two chapters in three hours! I know this chapter was short but I wanted to give Emily's thoughts on her new life and how she's adjusting.
So, life is slowing down for me and Spring Break is coming up so there will be a lot of time for writing! :) I'm going to start on Chapter 5 just as soon as I load this up so you might have another chapter by the end of the night!