Hey guys, school is crazy right now but I wanted to get this out to you. It isn't the longest and I'm sorry about that. Finally you get to know what Edward thinks when he meets Bella. I hope that you guys like it. Let me know what you think. Thanks for those that have sent reviews, you guys are the best!! Also thanks for those of you that are still reading you guys are also great!
I do not own Twilight.
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EPOV
"Food. Food. Food," Emmet couldn't stop bouncing in the passenger seat. He tapped his hands against the dashboard in time with the little song he was sings. "I can't wait to get food from the store. When I go home I'll be a cooking dude. Once it is gone I'll get some more. Oh I love food. Food. Food."
"Emmet," Jasper sighed from the backseat, "could you please shut up. You haven't stopped your little song since with left home. The grocery store is only five minutes away," I couldn't help but feel the same way. I loved Emmet like a brother but when the guy didn't get food right away he turned a little crazy. Then again it was always easier to laugh at Emmet then stay mad at him.
"Sorry guys," he stopped the bouncing looked over at me then back at Jasper. "Guess I'm a little hungry and excited to finally be back at school. Things are getting back to normal, I've missed this over the summer. Just hanging out with you guys doing normal things like grocery shopping."
I couldn't help but feel a little bad for him. Summers were always the longest for Emmet and he was always ready to be back at school. I told him he could come over to my place anytime he wanted to during the summer but he always said no. I think he might have been nervous to feel like an outsider around my family. We are all so close and both Jasper and Emmet knew that but I like to think we would never make anyone feel unwelcome.
"Grocery store," he pointed and yelled out the window like a little kid as soon and the store came into view. Both Jasper and I started to laugh, as much as he might annoy us at times we still loved the guy.
The three of us started to make our way into our favorite grocery store. It was close to our house and the prices weren't that bad. Emmet of course ran ahead of us to get the cart. We walked through the doors and it was nice to be back in the swing of things, it felt like old times.
"Alright men," Emmet looked over at Jasper and me, "we need food." All three of us started to laugh.
"Yeah Emmet, that is why we came to the grocery store and not the pet shop," Jasper rolled his eyes.
"Ha ha ha, good one Jasper," Emmet hit his shoulder while I laughed at me two friends.
"Edward."
It wasn't the voice of the guys standing next to me that called out my name but instead my little sister. I looked away from the guys towards where the voice came from and saw her. It wasn't Alice that caught my attention, my eyes instantly focused on the girl standing next to her. She had beautiful brown hair that was pulled back into a ponytail which allowed me to take in her full face. Even from a few feet away her eyes held my attention in a way no eyes had ever done before. I only looked at her for a second but it took everything I had not to look back. I was afraid that if I looked again I may never want to take my eyes off of her.
"Hey Alice, miss me already," I joked with my sister even though I could feel the beautiful girl's eyes on me. I had to do something to keep me from turning and looking at her so I messed up Alice's hair, something I knew she hated but did it anyway.
"You wish," she pushed me away. Right then the only wish I had was to be alone with a girl I didn't even know. I wanted to be able to talk to her for hours learn everything about her and then when we had nothing left to know about each other I wanted to learn it all again. If I could have any wish granted to me it would be that.
Just then another girl came over to Alice and put something into the cart next to them. She said something but I was to busy trying to look at the other girl out of the corners of my eyes. Finally I was pulled out of my head when Jasper started to talk.
"Shopping with my roommates." How did Jasper know these girls and which girl did he know? Damn it Edward, pay attention to what is going on around you. "What are you doing," he looked in the shopping cart next to Alice, "buying all the junk-food you can find?" Just then I got a look in the shopping cart and saw that it really was full of all types of junk-food. Alice, I knew that whatever was going on she had to be behind it.
"Is someone going to do introductions," Emmet looked at Jasper and me with a smile.
"This is my little sister Alice," I put my arm around her and quickly looked at everyone saving the brunette girl for last. It had only been a minute since the last time I looked at her but I still got lost in her beauty.
"And this is my brother Edward," she reached her small hand up and messed up my hair.
"This is my sister Rosalie," Jasper pulled the blond girl to his side. It was nice to finally met one of Jasper's family members. I had heard a lot about here and it was nice to know a little bit about one of Alice's roommates. I was fairly sure that Alice wouldn't have problems living with her. And even though I've only looked at the other girl two times something inside of me told me that she too would be a great roommate for Alice.
"I don't have a sister," Emmet looked down at the beauty the stood next to him again one of my roommates had to bring me out of my head. Thank goodness they were with me or I would have been completely lost and probable would have ended up looking like a crazy person.
"I don't have a brother," it was the first time I heard her voice and it was worth the wait. The way it sounded brought a smile to my face, I had never heard anything so sweet. The wish that I wanted earlier was now stronger then ever, I wanted to hear that voice again and again. I wanted to get lost in her eyes and voice for days. Creepy, now I'm thinking like a creepy person. Pull it together Cullen.
"Would you like to be my little sister," only Emmet would ask someone he just met this. The girl did not look scared of him at all and I couldn't wait to hear her answer. To my disappointment she only nodded her head. All of a sudden Emmet pulled her into a big hug, my first instinct was to pull him off of her and make sure she was okay. The hug only lasted for a second and I was able to act normal. Which is a good thing because I'm not sure what the others would have done if I would have if I would have freaked out over one hug.
"This is my little sister," Emmet looked down at the girl with pleading eyes. Her name, I was going to get to know her name. I felt like a kid getting to open the biggest present on Christmas morning. Just then Emmet leaned down and the girl reached up to whisper in his ear. I have never been a jealous guy before but in that second I was jealous that Emmet got to hear her voice again and be so close to her. "This is my little sister Bella," he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into his body. Bella, the name fit her perfectly. Bella, beautiful Bella.
"And this is my big brother," her voice hit me again and caused me to smile. Emmet leaned down to whisper in her ear, "Emmet." The others started to laugh at the two, and I couldn't help but join in.
"Little sister what are you doing with all this junk-food? Don't you know it is bad for you?" I started to chuckle to myself, Emmet had always wanted brothers and sisters and now that he had one I'm sure he would take the job very seriously.
"Sorry brother bear," the nickname she gave him was perfect and Emmet looked like a kid who just got a new puppy. "We are having a junk-food girly-movie night, I promise this is not how I eat all the time."
Junk-food girly-movie night had Alice written all over it. I started to laugh, my sister had gotten her roommates to go along with one of her crazy ideas and she had only known them for a few hours. "You got them to agree to a movie night with you already?" I looked from Alice to Rosalie, and finally to Bella. Our eyes never locked and I was a little disappointed by that. "Did she give you one of her pouts?"
Alice's small hands pushed me away, "I will have you know that they both wanted to do this and thought it was a great idea." She quickly looked over at Bella then back at me with soft eyes, "Well I guess I did have to give Bella a small pout." I started to laugh and then I heard Bella's laughter. I don't know which I liked more the sound of Bella talking or her musical laugher. I couldn't help but look at her and finally our eyes connected. She had chocolate brown eyes and I found myself getting lost in them. Before that moment I had always thought brown eyes were boring and plain. There was nothing boring or plain about Bella and her eyes were included in that. They were full of live and sparkled as she laughed.
I finally pulled my eyes away from Bella when Rosalie said that the girls should get going. I gave Alice a quick hug and saw the other sets of siblings exchange hugs as well.
As Emmet set Bella back down he looked her in the eyes, "Make sure you eat something healthy tomorrow little sister. That is if you're not dead from junk-food overload." She pushed him away and rolled her eyes.
I couldn't help but look at her one more time before walking away. Again our eyes locked and I felt the same connection as before. I gave her a quick crooked smile getting a small smile in return. Her smile was perfect on her face and lit up her eyes. I was able to pull my eyes away from her and turned the corner out of sight. Once there I was finally able to breath easy and clear my head. I ran a hand through my hair.
"You okay there man," Jasper looked over at me with concern.
"Yeah I'm fine," I ran my other hand through my hair and looked at my friends. They were both looking at me, "What?"
"Dude are you sure," Emmet stopped pushing the cart to look at me closer.
"Yes," I tried my best to give them a normal look and it must have worked because they started to walk again.
"It is nice that our sisters live together," Jasper said after a few minutes of silent shopping. "I've heard you talk about Alice before and I know that Rose will have a great time with her."
"Yeah I'm happy that Alice's roommates aren't crazy, and I'm sure she is freaking out about it right now," I started to laugh to myself. I'm sure Alice was having fun with this and I knew it was only a mater of time before she wanted to get the six of us together for some sibling bonding. That would be fine with me as long as I got to see Bella again.
"Same here, I'm happy that Bella will be living with such good people," Emmet spoke up causing Jasper and I to start laughing.
"You are truly one of a kind Emmet," I slapped him on the back.
Finally when the cart was overflowing with food Jasper convinced Emmet it was time to leave the store. The ride home was oddly quiet, normally Emmet would be talking about all the food in the trunk he couldn't wait to eat and Jasper would be telling him to calm down. I looked in the rearview mirror at Jasper and he gave me the same confused look. Normally Emmet would run into the house with his bag, grab the first thing he saw and start eating it. But today when we reached the house he slowly walked in and set the bags down on the table before he headed back out to get another load. Once the bags were all unloaded the three of us started to put the food away. The whole time not a single world was said and it was starting to make me feel uncomfortable. The three of us made our way to the living room and I couldn't handle the silence anymore, I had to know what was going on.
"Em, is everything okay?" He looked at me and I could see that he was thinking hard about something.
"How do you be a good brother?" He looked at me with sad eyes and I knew that he was being completely honest. In that moment he wasn't being my goofy roommate he was a confused and scared guy. "It's just that I've always wanted to have brothers and sisters and now that I kind of have one I don't want to mess it up. I know that sounds crazy and maybe I am crazy but I really want to be a good brother to Bella," he rushed to get it all out before taking a big breath. Then he looked between Jasper and me before he fell down onto the couch.
"Is that what you have been worried about," Jasper sat down in the chair and I sat on the other side of the couch.
"Yeah," he looked at us, "I've heard the way you two talk about Alice and Rosalie and I saw the way you were with them today. I just want to make sure I'm like that with Bella. I want to be able to protect her from things that are going to hurt her. To make sure that she is having fun while still staying safe. I just don't know how to do all that while not coming off as a creepy stalker. I mean I just met the girl." He threw his hands in the air and let them fall back down next to him.
"Emmet, everything you just said is the same way I feel about Alice, well except for the creepy stalker part," that got him to smile. "I've been her older brother for almost nineteen years and I still have a hard time making sure she is happy and safe. I'm sure that Jasper feels the same way about Rosalie," I looked over at Jasper and he nodded his head.
"Yeah man. I'm constantly worried that I'm not going to be there for Rose for one minute and she is going to get hurt. It bugs the hell out of her the way I'm constantly checking up, but I have to do it in order to prove to myself that I'm doing a good job as a brother. It used to be a lot worse the first year I came to school, I called home five times a day to make sure that everything was okay with her. Ask Rose, she'll tell you that I became a crazy person. That year, when I went home for Christmas, Rose and I had a long talk about me trying to be her dad and not her brother. It helped a lot to be able to talk to her about it all. I wasn't as crazy after that, only calling once a week to check in. So you've got to find a balance in protecting Bella. There is a difference in making sure that she is safe and stopping her from living her life. We've all just met her but she seems like a great girl so I'm sure you won't have to worry too much about her." Jasper was always good at giving advice, I found myself going to him a lot over the past years.
"Thanks guys, I know it is crazy for me to act this way. There is just something about her that makes me want to be there for her," he gave us a small smile.
"No need to apologize," I gave him a reassuring smile.
"Oh God," Emmet's head fell back and it sounded like he was in pain.
"What," Jasper looked around the room.
"Boys." I looked over at Jasper not sure what Emmet meant by the word. "Stupid freshmen boys are going to be all over her. She is hot," I raised my eyebrow at him, "what she isn't my real sister so I can say that. And you know it is true. Bella is hot and all those stupid freshmen boys are going to want to get with her," his let out a loud sigh. My heart started to beat faster, I didn't like the idea of any other guy touching Bella, let alone thinking of her that way. I knew what went on inside the mind of one of those freshmen boys, hell I had been one of those boys. Then I thought about how those stupid boys would be looking and thinking about my baby sister the same way.
I let out a painful groan the same time Jasper did. "Boys," the two of us said together. "Stupid freshmen boys," this time it was the three of use that said the words together with disgust.
