43. Surprise Gift

Rosalie's POV

I groaned out of distaste as I swivelled on the white couch.

School.

"Ugh! I hate this stupid life!" I growled under my breath. Of course everyone heard it, loud and clear.

"Rosalie? Are you alright?" Carlisle asked, walking into the lounge room, with an expression of worry.

"Um.. Yes, I'm fine. I think." I answered him. He sat down next to me, and looked at my face. I didn't want to look at him. His eyes would just make me feel pity towards him.

I looked down, and stared at a bit of cloth on the bushy white rug on the floor.

We sat in silence for what seemed like hours, but was clearly shorter. I think he was letting me get my thoughts together.

"Why do you hate this life, Rose?" he asked, and I'm pretty sure he already guessed the answer. The fire raged within me, and I suddenly felt angry.

"All the repeats! Everything! I've graduated so many times, it's ludicrous! I can't have a family for my own, I have this stupid thirst that never quits.." I hissed. Carlisle sat at ease next to me, letting me get it all off my chest. He nodded now and again, or hushed me soothingly whenever my temper nearly took over me.

"You know I'll never, ever be able to be sorry enough, for changing you. I just couldn't let you die. You looked so broken, so hurt, lying there after what those monsters did to you.." He began to growl too, at the remembrance of my horrid past. He hated those men as much as I did.

"It's not your fault, Carlisle," I whispered. "You just did what you thought was right, and I'm grateful for all of you. Alice, Esme, Jasper, Bella, Edward, and now Emmett.. I couldn't ever repay you for being the best family ever. Thankyou."

"But, that doesn't make things better for you."

I nodded, and then forced a smile. "I've lasted all these years, haven't I?"

He laughed. "Yes, you have. And now you have Emmett, to spend eternity with us."

I nodded. "I do. That doesn't change how I feel about my immortality. Sure, the beauty is great. But.. Something's missing. Like a missing puzzle piece. I feel like I've lost the piece."

"Or it just won't fit in the puzzle at all."

I nodded at my analogy, and sighed loudly. "What can I do Carlisle?"

He looked me in the eye, and put a hand on my shoulder. "Enjoy life. Enjoy the benefits of what we are. Do you think any of us like what we are? We have no control. We can't reverse time," He stopped, and then looked at his hand on my shoulder. "We all love you, and care for you. Especially Emmett. Everything will work out. I know you hate going to school, but.. There's nothing we can do about it, like I said. I'm so sorry, again."

He kissed my forehead, and stood up. In a matter of a second, he was gone. I thought about what he had said..

Or it just won't fit in the puzzle at all.

I'm not supposed to fit into the puzzle? None of us are. Vampires aren't supposed to exist. We are like.. Triangle pieces, trying to fit into circular holes. It just doesn't work. Carlisle was spot on.

I sighed, and stood up. I'd better go just in case my thoughts take over me. I walked upstairs, to find the others.

Edward, Bella and Alice were playing juniors, which is rather ridiculous. They could play 20 year olds if they wanted to.

Jasper and I play seniors, which is a drag. I hate it. I have already done this 60, 000, 000 times. And don't want to do it again. And again. And again.

I grabbed my small backpack, and marched down the stairs. Esme, Edward, Bella, Jasper, Alice and Emmett were all gathered around the door, getting ready to go. Esme was saying her goodbyes, kissing and hugging. Carlisle had just left for the hospital a moment ago.

"Bye Esme." I grumbled, and kissed her cheek. I headed out the door, but Esme grabbed my arm.

"Rosalie?"

I turned around, and saw her caring, worried face looking into my eyes. "Are you okay?"

I nodded fast, and turned for the door. I heard her sigh, but I continued down the steps. Everyone was squashed in the car, and Edward honked the horn as if to say 'Hurry up'. I rolled my eyes impatiently, and ducked into the car.

Everybody looked at me, with sympathetic eyes. I looked out the window, ignoring them.

I don't know why I was so agitated today. I just was not in the mood for anything really.

It had been a couple of weeks since Emmett's party, and it seemed like Em was still recovering. I laughed at the thought.

"EEK!" Alice squealed, and Emmett covered his ears.

"Oh god Alice what?" He groaned impatiently.

She began bouncing in her seat next to me, and I looked at her expectantly.

"I'm not gonna tell you!" She said, and let out a hysterical laugh. "Go Carlisle and Esme! Great idea!"

Edward grinned from the front seat, and I knew he was in on it.

Everyone else was confused, whispering to each other.

I grabbed Alice's arm softly, so I could speak to her without her bouncing insanely.

"Alice, what is it?"

She smiled at me. "You can't tell him!"

"I won't,"

"EsmeandcarlislearegoingbuyEmmettajeepthenteachhimtodrive!" She whispered so fast. I caught it. Just. (Translation: Esme and Carlisle are going to by Emmett a jeep then teach him to drive!)

I grinned. "That's so cool!"

Alice nodded, and began jumping again. "He can drive us to the mall!"

I laughed, and looked at Emmett. Emmett? Driving? Ha.

He looked so confused sitting on my other side. He started pouting a little bit, and looked at me. "Huh?"

"You'll see."

He groaned, as Edward pulled up into our usual car spot in the lot.

People stared at us, as usual. Emmett wrapped his arm around my waist, as we climbed out of the car together. He had become weirdly territorial lately. Did he really think I was going leave him, for another guy? Seriously.

But I suppose, Edward and Jasper do the same things. Men..

I sighed.

We walked through the front doors, and stopped along the sides. We all lent against the lockers, and said our goodbyes.

"Ewwwwwww, Government.." Emmett groaned. "At least I'm with Ali eh?"

"Yay!" Alice squealed.

"Then it's biology with Bella and Edward, then Spanish and English alone. Trig with Bells then Gym with Eddie." He grinned.

"I have.. Biology, then Gym, then Geometry, lunch, then Government, and lastly.. free period." I groaned.

"At least we have one thing together." Emmett murmured.

"What?" I asked hopefully.

"Lunch."

"Ha, ha."

"It's something."

I nodded, and kissed him lightly. "See ya."

He smiled, and kissed me again. "Be happy."

I nodded, just as Alice dragged him away towards Government building.

Bella had gym first, which made me laugh. She hated gym. Jasper and I walked with Bella towards the gym, and dropped her off there. Biology was near the gym, so we always walk her there.

"See ya Bell." I said, and waved her off.

"Bye."

Jasper waved, then we walked to biology. He was sensing my feelings, I could tell.

"Are you okay?" He asked. I nearly growled in annoyance. This is the 3rd time someone's asked me that!

I huffed. "Yes. I'm fine." I said through my teeth.

"Annoyance, anger, guilt.. It's not normal for you." He said. I looked at him, and narrowed my eyes.

"Guilt?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"I don't know. Why are you guilty?"

"I don't know that's why I'm asking you!"

He laughed. We walked into the familiar classroom, and took our seats at the back. The guys around smiled at me, but I ignored them.

Mr Lawry entered the class, and began his lecture. I sighed, and waited miserably for this day to end.

Alice had said there's an abnormal sun shower for the next 3 days, so no school. I smiled at the thought.

Bella's POV

I sighed, and buried my head into Edward's shoulder.

Spanish.

"Buenas tardes, class!" The teacher chanted excitedly, as she entered the classroom. I sighed.

Edward laughed, and I noticed him scribble something on a small piece of paper. He passed it to me. It read:

What's wrong, Love?

It was in perfect hand writing, in his beautiful calligraphy. I wrote under his message:

Just sick of school. And to think, I've only graduated 4 times! You've graduated.. 85 times?

I passed it to him, and laughed. I saw him shake with laughter, then write something else. He passed it to me:

90, but that's beside the point. Ha. So Carlisle asked me to teach Em to drive..

I nodded, and wrote my message in my ugly hand – writing:

Yes, you should. You're a great driver. Probably too fast for any human, but you'll do. ;). Ms will catch us if we write anymore.

I passed it to him, and laughed again. He wrote yet another thing, and passed it.

I'll show her my notes, smile, and we'll be off the hook.

I giggled, probably a little to loud.

Good point. Um.. Rosalie is having some problems lately. I really feel for her.

I passed it to him. He nodded.

And she really was. She seemed really down this morning. Poor thing. Esme thinks it's because she has to change Emmett. When she asked me, I nearly died. Well I'm already dead but..

Didn't we decide Carlisle was going to do it? I don't know. She's smart, she'll figure it out.

He tapped my arm, as if to pass me another note.

Yes. She's troubled. Just worried about Emmett. I feel for her too. I mean, they would like to develop their physical relationship, but can't, It's a little like we used to be like, when you were still human. He's afraid of hurting him, as you can imagine.

I nodded.

"Mr Cullen, Ms Hale, is there something you'd like to share with the class?"

I had adopted the name Hale, after Jasper and Rosalie. If Edward and I both had the same last name, people would get suspicious. So now, the story is, I am the long lost sister of Jasper and Rosalie.

"No, Ms. Unless you'd like to see my notes.." Edward said, and flashed his smile. I smiled as well, just because he was smiling. It's contagious I swear.

"N – no. It's okay, Mr Cullen, I believe you." She said, and returned to the front of the class.

"Nice work." I whispered, to quiet for anyone to possibly hear. He smiled at me, and winked.

Rosalie's POV

"Finally! Lunch!" I said, as Jasper and I darted out of the classroom.

"Yeah." He laughed. "I'm just as sick of school as you are, Rose."

I smiled at him, as we walked through the red door towards the cafeteria. We pushed through the doors rather viciously actually, and walked to our table.

Alice and Emmett were already there, grinning when they saw us. I smiled in happiness.

I left lunch today, and went straight to our table. Em stood up to greet me, and Alice did the same. I kissed him quickly, and he grinned goofily.

"Hello gorgeous." He laughed, and pulled the chair out from next to him. I thanked him, and sat down. He wrapped his arm around me, and pulled the chair closer to him. It screeched against the linoleum loudly. "Do you know where Bella and Edward are?"

I shrugged. "Um.. I'm not sure. Should we look for them?"

"I'll go. You guys stay here. I think I know where they are." Alice said, and grinned. "Actually, now that I think of it, let's all go!"

I looked around at Jasper, and Emmett, and they looked just as confused. We all stood up, walked out of the cafeteria, ignoring the staring eyes.

"I feel so out of place next to you guys." He said, once we were outside.

"How so?"

"You guys are beautiful, and I'm.. Emmett. Everybody looks at you, they just shrug at me."

I rubbed his shoulder. "Doesn't that make you special?"

He looked at me confused.

"Well, your normal. We're weird." I said, and smiled.

He laughed, as Alice stopped in front of a janitors closet. We all came to a sudden halt, and Alice giggled.

"Behold.. Bella, and Edward!"

She whipped the door open, to reveal Bella and Edward, making out in the closet. Bella's legs were wrapped around Edward waist, and we all burst out into a fit of laughs. Emmett's booming laugh sounded over the top of all of ours. Bella and Edward stopped immediately, and glared at us. They both straightened out their clothes and hair, and stalked out of the closet.

I was still laughing as we walked back to the cafeteria, as was everyone else. Or, Alice, Jasper and Emmett were.

We still had half an hour of lunch yet, which I was grateful. We took our seats, and all 'shared' Jasper's fries. I pretended to chew, as Emmet grabbed my hand under the table, and squeezed it tight. I squeezed back, and squeezed the tomato sauce all over the fries.

"So, Bella.. Edward.." Jasper said, raising his eye – brows. "What brought you to that decision?"

"What decision might that be Jasper?" Edward asked, glaring daggers in his direction.

"You know.. Your little closet 'field trip'."

Emmett, Alice and I burst out laughing, as Bella lowered herself further and further down under the table.

"Well.. I..we.." Edward was speechless. He sighed in annoyance. "Alice? What do you see in him?"

Jasper stopped laughing, at looked at Alice, with pleading eyes.

"He's cute!" She giggled. "Dah!"

"I don't see it." Edward muttered. By now, Bella was nowhere to be seen. She had slid underneath the table, out of our watching eyes.

"Love?" Edward laughed, looking under the table. "Come back up, it's over."

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings!" Jasper laughed. That set Emmett off. His laugh boomed around the small, warm room, and people looked.

"Nora! Come and sit next to me!" I heard from across the room. We all looked up, except for Emmett.

I growled when I couldn't smell anything but our kind of this girl. Everybody gasped, and locked eyes with me.

I tiered my eyes away, to look at this 'Nora'. She has chest nut brown, wavy hair, that went down to her mid – back. Her eyes were a blood red. Her skin was ivory colour, just like ours. She was slender, just like me. I growled again, and ripped my phone out of my pocket. I dialled Carlisle's number, put the phone to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Carlisle! It's Rosalie!"

"Oh, hello Rose. How are you?

"Good, good. Look, there's a new girl at school, and she's one of us, I know it. Everyone agrees. Red eyes, beauty.. The works."

"Oh yes, the Gibbs family. Esme and I met them yesterday. You and everyone else were in the pool."

"Oh great. Hmph. Okay. Well.. I'll see you later. Bye."

"Goodbye Rosalie."

I hung up the phone, and stuffed it in my bag. Everyone looked at me, confused. Emmett squeezed my hand gently.

"Carlisle and Esme already met them.. The 'Gibbs' family." I said. Everybody loosened up slightly.

"But are they.. like us?" Edward asked.

"No, they're not." I said. "The complete opposite. Great. Now Emmett's in danger."

I sighed. "Hmph."

"Don't worry about me." Emmett whispered into my ear. "I'll be fine."

"No, you won't."

"They're not going to eat there friends son are they?" He laughed.

"Like that'll stop them. Can we just go home?" I asked.

Everyone nodded. "Or we could just ditch."

We all nodded again, and stood up. I pushed my chair in, and we all exited the cafeteria.

Emmett's POV

Great. Now Rosie is all tense because the stupid 'Gibbs' family.

We all sat in Edward's Volvo, listening to some of his CDs. Clair De Lune played, and I felt Rose calm down in my arms. The whole car was in silence, from the last shock moment.

I heard the bell sound loudly from outside, making the car shake. Edward gunned the engine, and backed out of our car spot. I was so glad to get home. Apparently, there was a surprise waiting for me.

I smiled at the idea.

We sped down the high way, towards our house. I could never see the beginning of the drive way, but everyone else could.

We pulled into the winding driveway, juts like the one in Forks.

I watched as the trees sped past us, at a rate of knots. Probably going to fast, we pulled into the garage, and Edward turned off the engine. My eyes widened as I saw the huge white sheet in the corner.

I wasn't what was under it, but I could guess..

I grinned widely, as Carlisle and Esme walked out of the connecting door fro the house, to the garage. They smiled at me.

"Hello, Em. How was your day sweet heart?" Esme said, and pulled me into a hug.

I shrugged. "Boring as hell."

Esme laughed, and passed me to Carlisle.

"So Dad.. What's under the sheet?" I asked, and raised my eye – brows.

"A little present."

I followed the rest of the family to the other side of the garage, and I stood there, eyeing the sheet.

Jasper walked to one of the side, and yanked the sheet off.

I gasped, when it revealed my new car.

"NO WAY!" I boomed, and walked around to touch my car.

My car!

It was a white Jeep, with its hood down. It was possibly the coolest thing EVER!

I touched the cold jeep, and I sprinted to Esme. "Thankyou! Thankyou!"

Esme laughed, and hugged me back. "It's okay Honey."

I ran to Carlisle, and hugged him too. "Thankyou!"

He hugged me back. "No worries, son."

I felt like jumping, just like Alice. I held myself down, and ran to Rosie. I picked her up, and lifted her into the air. She rested her hands on my shoulders, as I spun her around.

"This.. is.. so.. cool!" I managed to choke out, and put Rose down. I ran back to the Jeep, and hugged it.

"I love you.." I murmured to the Jeep. Emmett, your insane. I said to myself. Jesus Christ I'm talking to myself now.

"Dang! I have to get a license.." I said, suddenly feeling down.

"Already taken care of!" Jasper said, and handed me a small, piece of laminated paper. It read:

Emmett McCarty Cullen

Age: 16

Sex: Male

Date of Birth: 25 August, 1993

To the right, was a big picture of me. I gasped. "Oh. My. God."

Everyone around me laughed, and I kissed the license. Numerous times.

"I've got my license! Can you believe it!" I whooped. "Now I just need to learn to drive! Thanks Belly – Bear!"

"Good old Jay.." Bella said, and looked into space.

"What?"

"Nothing."

I ignored that comment, for I was too excited to think..

"Edward! Are you going to teach me to drive?!" I yelled, and ran to Edward.

He shrugged. "Sure!"

I cheered, and ran back to my Jeep. I opened the door, and sat inside. I inhaled deeply. Mmm.. The new car smell.

"Hey Edward?" I asked.

"Yes?"

"Can we go now?"

"I'm not su—"

We were interrupted by a loud knock at the door.

Rosalie's POV

We all heard the loud knock, even Em. Carlisle walked swiftly to the door, and we all looked around.

"Who are we expecting?" I asked, turning to Esme.

"Ugh.. No one."

I shrugged.

"Hello!" I heard a bubbly voice squeal from the door. "I'm Nora."

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