Edward and I weren't in the best of moods at the moment, due to Emmett being in the pool area with Chrissy here. God only knows what he'll try to do, and Edward knows too, of course. Chrissy was the only one in the room that wasn't in on the Cullen's secret, and we all intended on it staying that way as long as possible. 'Oh, hey Chrissy? My fiance and his family are vampires. Would you have ever guessed that?' Ha! No, that would not go well and I didn't want to EVER have that conversation with Chrissy.
Edward and I told Chrissy to go ahead and get in the pool and wait for us, we would be there in few minutes. I was thinking that Edward wanted to talk to Alice, so he could see what Chrissy's reaction would be to us telling her that the Cullen's were vampires.
Edward turned to me so that it looked like we were talking to each other, we were holding each other's hands and looking in to one another's eyes. It would look less suspicious to other people and in this case that would be Chrissy.
"Alice, Rose, Emmett, Jasper. Come over here." Edward said, facing me like he was saying something to me.
They were all beside us in less than a minute, not using their vampire speed, thankfully. We all made a small circle and Edward started talking to the rest of the family that was in the pool area.
"Okay, first, Emmett. Don't do anything to Chrissy or Bella that could either exposed us, or put either one of them in the hospital. Got it?" Edward asked Emmett, he nodded is head towards Edward.
"Okay, now what are we going to do about Chrissy? She has a violin, she also wants to play in the band. We need another violinist, so we do have a place for her, but we won't be able to keep the secret from her for long. She'll start to wonder why she and Bella are the only ones eating and sleeping. We don't want that, and we can't really pretend to eat all of the time, we can't pull out the eating charade." Edward cringed at the thought of eating human food, as did the rest of the Cullen's.
He was right we couldn't keep the secret from her for very long, and we did need another violinist, Alice, Rose, and Esme just weren't enough. Chrissy was the best next to the three female vampires in the band. We could really use her at times, and she could play guitar too. But the secret would be really hard to keep from her. We all turned to Alice after Edward had finished talking for the moment, all of us guessing what he was going to say next.
"Alice, look into the future, find out what her reaction will be. We'll need to know."
Alice closed her eyes, concentrating. All of a sudden her eyes snapped open.
"She'll take the news about the same way that Bella did. Just sit her down when we get back to Forks and tell her that we want her in the band. Then, tell her that with being in the band comes with a secret that she must never mention to anyone but Bella or one of us. Bella, Edward, you will bring her to our house and Carlisle will talk to her. We may need the whole family there when we tell her. Jasper, you will need to be there, she'll need calming down, and Bella you will need to reassure her. She'll look for your reassurance." Alice said all of this in a very urgent tone, while her eyes were still glazed over from her latest vision.
"Carlisle will agree that it would be best to tell her and will sit down in his office and explain it to her."
I looked over at Chrissy, she was looking at us unusually, so I decided to speak up. I knew exactly how she was feeling right now.
"She's getting nervous, she looks like she's thinking that we're ganging up on her. I know how that feels." I said, glaring at Emmett and Jasper.
"Well you know we can't help it, it's funny when we throw you in the pool and stuff." Said Emmett and Jasper at the same time, looking at me with wide eyes and a puppy dog pout that could put Alice to shame, I had to laugh at the look on their faces.
"Well let's get over there before she comes over here." Rose said, walking back to the next to empty pool with Emmett.
Edward and I followed suit after Alice and Jasper had jumped in the pool together.
"What were you guys talking about?" Chrissy asked me.
"Oh, we were just talking to Emmett. He likes to dunk people in the pool and that's usually me. So we thought that since your here we should talk to him, we all knew that he was thinking about dunking us both. Trust me you wouldn't like it, and you wouldn't see it coming even if I had warned you."
"Oh, okay. Your right I wouldn't have liked that at all. Thanks Belly-poo." She said, giggling at the last part. She had used the nickname she heard Emmett call me when we got back to the hotel. He had said, 'See you later Belly-poo.' Before he had walked down the hallway, after we had gotten back from the CD signing. I hated it when he used that name. I had yelled back to him, 'Okay, see you later Lemmy-Emmy.' I had laughed when I saw him cringe and sprint faster down the hallway. We would always call each other that and then get teased by the others once they heard us. What can I say, Emmett was the big brother I never had, but always wanted. He was the fun-loving, over protective, muscule-man dork, he was the funny, loser that everyone picked on, you can't help but love him.
"Hey, Chrissy?" I asked as she turned to me, "Don't call me Belly-poo!" I yelled, playfully splashing her with water.
"Oh no you didn't!" She yelled, splashing me back.
We continued our playful banter until we heard laughter coming from the rest of the family.
I stuck my tongue out at them, as did Chrissy, which only made them laugh harder. Chrissy and I soon started laughing, thanks to Jasper's power, which made everyone lose interest because we were now laughing at ourselves. The guys all went back to their Marco-polo game, while the girls came over to Chrissy and I.
"Hey guys, I have an idea." Rose and Alice said, blocking their minds I suppose, so Edward wouldn't know what they were planning. Chrissy and I soon caught on to what they were doing and started walking in the water with them until we were right behind the boys.
"Hey, guys!" We all yelled together, causing them to turn around and come face to face with a wave of water. Alice turned us around just in time so we wouldn't get splashed in the face. We all started a little water war together and soon it was around 11:00pm and we had to get out. We were leaving early in the morning to go to the airport, so we could finally go back home and stop risking my soon-to-be family getting exposed.
We all split up when we reached the top floor. Chrissy went to her room, Alice and Jasper went to theirs, Emmett and Rose went to theirs at the end of the hall, and Edward and I went straight to ours, after saying goodnight to each other.
I got dressed for bed and laid down with Edward holding me. He started humming my lullaby and I was soon fast asleep, enjoying the dream I was having about Edward and I in our meadow, him sparkling before my eyes. I always loved that day the most, it was one of my favorite days that I had had with Edward. I would have to ask him if we could go back to our meadow soon after we get home, I miss the sight of him sparkling. I hadn't seen him in the meadow, while it was sunny, since the first time he had taken me there with him.
Edward's POV
After we had finished with our little water war we all headed off to our own rooms. Bella got dressed for bed and I held her and hummed her lullaby. She fell asleep mumbling something about our meadow, and that we would have to go there soon.
We were up at about 7:00am and were headed to the airport, we were finally going back home, I just wasn't too sure about telling Chrissy our secret, oh well it was something that had to be done. Just something that I was dreading.
When we got on the plane Bella rested her head on my shoulder and I started humming her lullaby. She fell asleep on my shoulder and I woke her up when we got back to Seattle. We headed back to Forks, with Bella asleep in the front seat of my Volvo. I loved her so much.