Chapter 28

I arrived at the Cullen house around seven o'clock that night. I had went to my apartment to pick up some clothes and feed my cat. Dr. Cullen had followed me there...and the worried look on his face still had not left.

When I walked into the living room all six children were sitting there, and all six of them jumped up to greet me at once. I received hugs from Alice, Bella, Emmett, and Edward, while Jasper shook my hand. Although Rosalie had joined her siblings in their parade toward the door, she did not rush to make contact with me.

The news was on TV, and once all of them took their respective seats I noticed they all seemed very intrigued in what was on the screen. They were watching the news, and it was broadcasting the latest news on the Seattle killings.

Dr. Cullen left the room soon after our arrival. He said he had to go to his office to look over a few things. I was still worried about him because he just wasn't acting right.

"So Brooke?" Alice asked me, bouncing in her seat. "Are you hungry?"

"Actually yes." I said, looking around the room at the six pairs of topaz eyes.

"Come on Brooke...I'll find you something to eat." Rosalie said, offering me a smile.

I was beyond shocked. There really had to be something wrong if Rosalie was talking to me...and offering me help. Maybe she wanted to posin my food.

"Ok...thanks Rose." I said, following her into the kitchen. Emmett jumped up and followed behind us.

"We don't have much." Rose said, motioning toward the kitchen cabinets. "We don't really like to keep too much food in the house at once."

Emmett opened a cupboard, which was empty, and proceeded to model it.

I laughed.

Rosalie walked over to the fridge and opened one of the doors. "Um...we have one of these frozen pizza things." She said. "Do you like those?"

"Yeah Rose, that's fine." I said, as she closed the freezer door.

"Em how do you make these?" She asked him, flipping the pizza over to look at the back.

"Gosh babe...you don't know how to make a frozen pizza?" He asked, taking the pizza from her hands and pointing to the back of it. "The instructions are right here."

"Oh...ok." She said, walking in the direction of the oven. She hit a few buttons to make it start pre-heating.

"Rose is normally a good cook." Emmett said, with a grin. "But yet she doesn't ever know how to make anything simple."

"Like what?" Rose asked, with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Like toast for example." He said.

"Toast? I made toast for Bella that one time."

"Yes and babe...what happened to the toast?"

"It burnt." She muttered under her breath.

"She probably can't even pour a bowl of cereal." He said.

"I don't like cereal." She said plainly, as she ripped the plastic wrap off of the pizza.

"I"m not going to be able to eat all of that." I said. "You guys can have some if you want."

They both laughed.

"Thanks for the offer Brooke, but we're not hungry." Emmett said.

"Why not?"

"We just ate." Rosalie replied. "About an hour before you came."

"Oh." I said.

I heard a noise out in the living room that sounded like a cell phone ringing.

"Hey Jake." I heard Bella say, so I assumed the sound belonged to her phone.

Emmett grinned. "Yo Bella! Are you going all Team Jacob on me?" He called.

There was laughter from the living room.

"You know she's Team Switzerland dude!" Jasper called back.

"Yeah...which is beyond stupid!" Emmett yelled.

"Emmett shut up!" Bella responded.

He laughed.

"Em..dear...can you please stop being such an idiot?" Rose asked.

"Sure thing babe...whatever you say." He winked at her and wiggled his eyebrows up and down.

"Ugh! Fine...I'll freaking play Monopoly with you!" She said.

"Huh?" I asked.

"You playing?" Emmett said, ignoring my question as he pointed at me.

"Um...sure...I guess." I said in response.

"Sweet!" Emmett declared, before leaving the room.

"He's...odd." I said to Rosalie.

She laughed. "Yes...he is."

I still wondered why Rosalie was willing to talk to me, but whatever the reason...I didn't really care.

"Hey Rose?" I asked.

"Yes?"

"What has been wrong with your father recently?"

She smiled. "He's been worried about a lot of things here for the past few weeks. The recent news from Seattle has just made it worse."

"Why?"

"He's worried about you." She said, looking at the pizza in the oven to make sure it wasn't burnt. "You mean a lot to him...to all of us."

"Even you?" I asked.

She sighed. "Brooke...I know I haven't exactly been very friendly to you...it's not you personally...it's..." She shook her head. "Stuff I can't explain."

She didn't say another word to me for the rest of the night after that. However she would occasionally look over at me and smile. I didn't know if that meant we had made peace with one another or what.

Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, Bella, and I played Monopoly. Emmett forbid Edward and Alice from playing because he claimed it wouldn't be fair that way. When I asked him why...he said it was because Edward and Alice were ace at Monopoly. I didn't bother asking further questions.

Jasper ended up winning, which Emmett was completely enraged about. He claimed that he won because Alice was helping him. I wasn't sure how that made any sense, because Alice and Edward had been sitting clear across the room watching TV, and neither one of them said a word to any of us the whole time we were playing the game.

"Another round...right now!" Emmett declared, clearing the game board and redistributing money. I really didn't feel like another game, since the first one had lasted over four hours, and it was going on midnight.

"I'm out for this one guys." I said, turning in my game piece. "Unlike all of you...I have to work in the morning."

"When do you leave?" Bella asked me.

"Around nine or so...I'm going to leave a little later than Dr. Cullen so that way it doesn't look suspicious."

Bella nodded.

"Do you want one of us to wake you up in the morning?" Jasper offered.

I thought about that for a moment, since I didn't have an alarm clock in my "room." Really it was the Cullen's old guest room that they turned into a place for me to stay.

"Yeah that would be good." I said. "Do you guys get up pretty early?"

They all laughed.

"Yes we do." Jasper replied.

"Seven o'clock is fine." I said. "You can send anyone in I guess."

As soon as I said that, Emmett grinned.

"Except Emmett." I said, which caused him to frown.

"Would you like me to come upstairs with you and sing you a lullaby?" Alice asked me.

I laughed. "No thank you Alice."

"Alright." She chimed, smiling at Edward, who was sitting beside her.

"Ok then. Now you six don't stay up too late...you hear me?" I said, walking toward the staircase.

Edward laughed. "Brooke...may I ask what that was about?"

I laughed as well. "I dunno..I guess I'm trying to practice my motherly duties for future experiences...it isn't working so hot."

"Why not?" Jasper asked, a smile spreading across his face.

I shook my head. "It's...weird. Some of you are older than me." I shivered. "This will take getting used to."

They laughed.

"Goodnight you guys!" I called as I walked up the stairs.

As I was walking into my room, I noticed the light was still on in Dr. Cullen's office. I went into my room first, and changed into my pajamas...which consisted of an aqua-blue tank top and white shorts. I pulled my hair into a sideways ponytail and took out my contacts. I tried walking around without my glasses, but that proved to be dangerous...so I put on my black-rimmed glasses so that I could see.

I walked back out into the hall and over to the door of his office. I knocked gently on it, hoping he would let me in.

"Come in dear." He said, and I wondered how he knew it was me.

I walked into his office, where he was sitting behind his desk, with all sorts of books surrounding him.

"Hey there." I said, standing in front of the desk.

He offered me a smile. "Hello."

"You okay?" I asked, jumping up so that I could sit on the desk.

He turned his chair around so he could look at me better. "Ah..yes. I'm just worried, and nervous..that's all."

"Do you have a big day ahead of you at work tomorrow?" I asked him.

He laughed. "I guess you could say that."

I yawned in response.

"I have something very important I have to do tomorrow."

"Oh?" I said, yawning again.

"Monopoly tournament knock all of the steam out of you?" He asked.

"Yeah." I replied.

"Apparently Jasper won."

"Gee..how would you have ever guessed that?"

"I'm not sure." He said, smiling. "It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Emmett was screaming. "You freaking constipated looking moron!" at the top of his lungs."

I laughed. "He does look kind of constipated..or like he's in pain...or something."

He laughed as well.

"It was funny to hear you say moron...you don't say stuff like that very often."

"Yes? And that is funny why?"

"I don't know." I said, yawning again. "Just like when you swear...that's incrediably funny."

"I guess I don't swear very often..do I?"

"No..the only time I hear you swear is when you are quoting Emmett or when Vivivene makes an unexpected visit."

"Well that is a fairly good reason to curse." He said.

"True, true." I yawned once more.

"Brooke love...you need to go to sleep."

"I know."

"Well go ahead. I'll still be up for a while."

I turned around and dangled my legs off of the back side of the desk, so that way I didn't have to turn my head to look at him.

"I'm worried about you." I said.

"Worried about me?"

"Yes...you're acting all odd. You have been for the past few weeks now."

"Tomorrow is a very big day, I'm nervous about it." He said. "The thing in Seattle isn't helping much either."

"Yeah." I said, as I jumped down off of the desk. "Thank you for letting me stay here."

"You are very welcome. However you do know that you had no choice whether you were going to stay here or not?"

"What do you mean?"

"Even if you didn't want to stay...I would have forced you to." He said, placing both his hands on my cheeks and gently kissing me. I merely smiled in response.

"Get some sleep my dear." He said.

"Alright." I said, yawning as if to prove his point. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." He said, kissing me twice more before I departed for the door.

I was just getting ready to walk out in the hall before I stopped.

"I love you." I said, smiling at him.

He smiled as well. "I love you too Brooke."

I closed the door to his office and quietly walked to my room, just in case any of the children did decide to go to bed. I could tell Emmett hadn't...since I could hear him yelling downstairs.

I walked into my room and shut the door in hopes of drowning out Emmett's voice. It helped some, but not completly. I yawned again as I wrapped myself up tightly in the blankets.

Despite Emmett's loud yelling, I fell asleep almost instantly. Much to my dismay however, my sleep was not dreamless.

This time it was obvious it was my vampire dream I was dreaming. It was the same way it always was...me in a red dress, laying on a couch, watching the fire burn as a thunderstorm raged outside.

But instead of my dream ending in its usual manner...which was when the unidentifed vampire would attack me, it was different.

"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked the unknown vampire. I could not see his or her face, but I knew they were there.

The vampire merely laughed in response, and leaned over me, as if he or she was going to kiss my neck.

"Who are you?" I asked them.

More laughter came from the vampire. "Don't worry Brooke...you will find out soon enough." The voice said, and it was very obvious it was a male voice.

No surprise to me, I woke up screaming. I sat up instantly, and looked over at the clock. It was a little after four in the morning.

Nearly seconds after I woke up, all seven Cullens burst into my room.

"Brooke are you alright?" Edward, who was in front of everyone else, asked. None of them were wearing pajamas.

"Yes..I'm fine...it was just my dream again..that's all." I said.

I noticed Dr. Cullen usher his children outside of the room, and the rest of them left without saying a word.

"Are you sure you're alright?" He asked me.

"Yes." I said, noticing he was still wearing the same clothes that he had been wearing early that evening. "Have any of you went to bed yet?"

"What?" He asked, looking down at his outfit. "Oh...I don't know about the children...but I haven't yet."

I frowned. "Go to bed." I instructed.

He smiled slightly and walked over to me. I didn't even speak, I yanked him to me, kissing him passionately. He laughed after a few minutes.

"Brooke dear, I cannot go to bed after you do something like that to me."

I blushed. "Sorry...I couldn't resist myself."

He laughed. "You have a thing with making out with me on beds..don't you?"

"It's only happened twice." I pointed out.

"Yes...it has." He said, gently kissing me again. "Go back to sleep."

I nodded, and yawned as if to assure him that wouldn't be a problem. "You go to sleep too."

"That might be a hard thing for me to do." He said.

"Try." I said simply.

He laughed. "Alright."

He walked over to the door, preparing to leave, before he stopped. "Brooke..which dream was it that you had tonight?"

"The vampire one." I said, and it appeared as though he stiffened. "But it was different this time."

"Different? How so?"

"He talked to me."

"He?"

"Yes."

"What did he say?"

"I asked him why he was doing that to me, and he didn't respond. Then I asked him who he was and he told me I'd know soon enough."

He frowned. "Goodnight Brooke...I love you."

"I love you too." I said, and he quickly left.

I took a deep breath and sighed before I laid back down and fell asleep once again.

Dr. Cullen was even more odd acting the next day at work. He tried to remain away from me by giving me little odd jobs that kept me running all around the hospital. He was also trying to avoid conversation, and when he did talk to me he seemed as though he was in a rush to get away.

I was now becoming worried myself, because I thought maybe he was acting this way because he wanted to break up with me. However after panicking about this for a few hours, I realized that didn't make much sense.

He wanted to stay at work a little later than his usual hours, so I stayed as well just in case he needed my help. I still didn't see what it was that he had been so worked up about the night before, since we hadn't had any major surgeries or anything that day.

We were just finishing up things around the hospital at six thirty that afternoon. The plans for the rest of the evening were for me to once again stop at my apartment to pick up some things, and then for me to stay at the Cullen's that night.

I was in Dr. Cullen's private office before he was, so I was gathering my stuff around in order to prepare to leave. I checked my phone, and noticed I had a missed message from my grandfather, so I called him.

"Hey grandfather." I said, turning off Dr. Cullen's computer. "You need something?"

"No Brooke, I'm fine...I was just wondering if you were still staying with your boyfriend tonight."

"I am." I replied, filing a stray paper that had been thrown on the desk. "Why?"

"Ah I just wanted to know where you were going to be at tonight. And Sandra's coming over later for pizza. She thinks she's going to stay the night."

"Well you guys have fun." I said, setting down in one of the chairs.

"Ok Brooke...we will." He said, laughing.

"I probably should be going." I said, hearing Dr. Cullen's voice out in the lobby.

"Alright Brooke...you be careful ok? I love you."

"I will be grandfather...I love you too." I said, and the two of us ended our conversation just as Dr. Cullen entered the office.

He immediately closed the door, like he always did when we got around to leave at the end of the day. He sighed a few times, and nervously moved some things around, before he finally turned to me.

"Brooke...I need to talk to you."

My heart instantly sank, and my mind flooded with all sorts of things that he could have to tell me.

"Brooke dear." He said, sighing as he placed his hands in his pockets. "I've put off telling you something for a very long time."

I simply starred at him, waiting for him to continue.

"There's something about me that I haven't been one hundred percent truthful about."

"What?" I asked, wondering if he was going to tell me something along the lines of the fact that he did still want Viviene.

"You are not going to believe me, and you are going to think I'm crazy...but I have to tell you."

"Ok...tell me...what is it?" I demanded, wanting to relieve the tension.

He sighed, and looked away from me for what seemed like hours, but was really only seconds. When he turned his gaze back to me...the sight of his brilliant topaz eyes was completely overwhelming.

"Brooke...I'm a vampire."

Finally! The long awaited vampire confession! Lol. Sorry for ending it at a cliffy, but it makes it a bit more dramatic. I'll update soon so that way you guys aren't left hanging for too long!

Thanks for reading...please shoot me a review with what you think so far!

~Hazl~