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EPOV

"Where are you taking us Edward?" Renee was looking around her at the forest which was the only thing she could see except for the road.

"This is where we live."

"So far out of town? What if there is an emergency? Do you expect Bella to live here with you?"

Renee was getting inquisitive now. The initial shock of seeing me was wearing off. I guess I should dazzle her again. I gave her my most dazzling smile. She blinked at me and her thoughts were a bit cloudy.

"If Bella wishes to live in town I can get a house there." Renee was trying to gather her thoughts futilely. She couldn't remember the question she asked me. So this is what happens when I dazzle Bella. I smiled to myself and looked in the rear view mirror at my little angel who was giving her mother a puzzled look and then when she met my eyes in the mirror I winked at her. She smiled back. Renee had just remembered what she asked me when I stopped in our drive way. This time it was the house that dazzled her. She barely acknowledged me when I opened the door for her.

"My god what a beautiful house! It looks so natural with the forest around it. You could barely see it there." She spoke what she thought of as usual.

"My mother designed it. Esme is an architect." I barely said her name when Esme appeared on the door step with Carlisle. I lead Renee forward towards our house. Bella followed giving me curious glances. I gave her a reassuring smile.

"Renee this is my father Carlisle and my mother Esme."

"My god you both are so young and beautiful…you could barely have kids." Renee took one look at them and blurted out without pausing to think.

"Oh I forgot you adopted Edward."

"Yes. We are very pleased to finally meet you. We have heard so much about you from Bella." Esme moved forward and offered her hand to Renee she took it.

"You have an amazing house." She then turned to Carlisle.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Drawyer." Carlisle shook Renee's hand. Renee's mouth gaped open again when she took a good look at Carlisle.

"My god all the stories I heard about him are true. He looks so handsome. But still his son is handsomer than him." She thought while giving me a surreptitious look. But it was what she said next that took all three of us by surprise and we all froze.

"Nice to meet you Dr. Cullen. My your hands are so cold just like your wife's and Edwards." Oh god. What do we say now? Since she spoke without thinking about it first I had no idea she'd even noticed we had cold hands. She's very observant just like Bella. I met Carlisle's eye and he was thinking the same thing remembering how Bella had guessed what we were.

"They all have a circulatory abnormality mom. Carlisle is trying to find a cure for it with a special research programme. That's why he adopted kids with the same condition as he and Esme."

For a split second we all gazed in amazement at Bella. She was so quick to think of an excuse for us. She shrugged. Renee was still admiring Carlisle and didn't really seem to think much about Bella's comment at all. She was more busy comparing supermodels with Carlisle.

"Edward, did I tell you Bella is amazing. She'll make an even better vampire than any of us." Carlisle thought at me. I smiled. My Bella truly was a treasure.

"Yes Mrs. Drawyer. I have still not found a cure for it." Carlisle smiled at her and she barely seemed to notice that he had even talked to her. Well it looks like Carlisle is good at dazzling people too.

"Oh no need to call me Mrs. Drawyer. Please call me Renee." Renee finally seemed to realise we were all standing outside and turned towards Esme.

"Please call me Esme and my husband Carlisle. Would you like to meet the rest of the family. They've been very impatient to meet you."

I focused on my siblings who were impatiently waiting upstairs. They had not wanted to overwhelm Renee. But they were all very curious. Except for Alice she was cowering in a corner worrying about whether Renee would like her.

"Sure. Wow you really have a lovely house. I love the glass walls. You have done an excellent design job." She walked directly to look at the view facing the river.

"Thank you." Esme was all smiles. "Edward I like her. She speaks her mind and I am honoured that she likes my work"

"So where are the rest of your kids?" Renee remembered them and was more curious to meet them now that she was told about the circulatory disease.

Renee's words were the only thing that Emmett needed to come bounding down the stairs.

"Hi there little sister!" Emmett went straight for Bella lifting her up in his famous bear hug and twirling her around as if he did it every day. Bella hugged him back.

"My you look like a giant. Well I mean a handsome giant." Renee gave Emmett an admiring look from the top of his head to his shoes.

"Well er…" For once Emmett looked bewildered. He really didn't know what to make of Renee. This was interesting. I was finally going to have something to tease Emmett about.

Then once again Renee did something totally unexpected. She moved forward and tried to squeeze Emmett's bicep.

"My god you feel like you are made out of stone."

Once again we all froze. Renee didn't seem to have a normal human reaction to us at all. Humans normally kept their distance from us. They were weary of touching us. Well then again I shouldn't be surprised. She was Bella's mother and Bella had not had any qualms about touching me.

"He's an exercise freak and he loves to wrestle" Bella to the rescue again. Renee didn't even seem to notice our reaction to her words she looked transfixed at the top of the staircase where Rosalie was standing. I knew Rosalie wanted to make an entrance. She knew that humans loved her beauty.

"Hi Renee. I'm Rosalie." She glided down the stairs smiling at Renee. But Renee still kept very still then she looked at me and once again at Rosalie.

"You are very beautiful… golden eyes… amazing…" then she looked at me again.

"But your brother is still more beautiful. He looks like a living breathing Greek god." Now every body was staring at me. This was very embarrassing. I never thought she'd say it aloud. Rosalie looked at me with envious eyes. Oh great! I really didn't want her animosity.

"Mom" Bella was blushing.

"Well it's the truth nothing to be ashamed of. You all look lovely. I think the circulatory problem is doing something to enhance your beauty. There is something magical about it. Something out of this world."

"Mom, you've been reading too many science fiction novels." Bella once again tried to change Renee's thinking pattern. Renee was going to be a big problem for us if she kept noticing unique things about us.

"Hello, Madam I'm Jasper." Jasper's Southern drawl took her attention away from us.

"Nice to meet you Jasper" Renee turned to him and Jasper took Renee's hand in his bowing to kiss it.

"It's my pleasure."

"Well you and Edward sure know how to woo a lady. You both sound like something out of a late 19th century romance novel." She was thinking of classics she had read and the way the gentleman in historical novels seemed to act. We were messing up big time. We were from that era and of course we behaved like them! Carlisle and Jasper both gave me warning glances. If we were not careful Renee was going to figure out more things about us.

"Charming aren't they? That is how Carlisle got me to marry him. And of course the kids have picked up one or two things from him." Esme smiled. I could tell she was very tensed inside even though she didn't show her anxiety.

"Well I wish Phil would pick up a few things from them when he visits."

"Please take a seat Renee. You must be still tired after your trip." Esme wanted to distract Renee.

"Thanks." Renee took the sofa and Bella sat next to her.

"So where is Alice? I have heard so much about her from Bella."

"I'm here." A tiny voice called from the top of the stairs. I could barely see Alice because she was holding a pile of files and albums in her arms and they were heaped up covering her face.

Renee looked up and gasped.

"Oh Alice what are you doing? You can't carry all that by yourself. Edward, Emmett help her." Bella got up and rushed up the stairs.

"Oh I'm sorry I forgot." A small voice whispered. We really were screwing things up. Even Alice who was normally very controlled with her visions had forgotten that she was too small to be able to carry such a lot of books at once. It felt weird pretending to help Alice by taking most of the load off her.

"It's nice to finally meet you Alice. What's all this?" Renee looked at all the albums and files Alice had brought down with her.

"It's the plans for Bella's wedding." And she launched on to all the details and started showing Renee the albums. I could tell Renee had not expected anything this detailed. Specially from a teenager.

"My I'm impressed." Renee managed to mutter words of praise now and then. She was totally overwhelmed by how thorough Alice was.

"Alice would you come with me to the kitchen. I need your help to serve tea". Esme finally took pity on both Bella and Renee and called Alice away.

"Renee Edward is a good piano player you should ask him to play for you." Alice suggested as she left.

"Oh that's great. Can you play for me?" Renee was very impressed that I could play. I started out with Bella's lullaby and then went on to play some more classic numbers. Renee seemed to enjoy my playing a lot. I saw Carlisle, Jasper and Emmett disappear up stairs.

"I can't imagine such a gorgeous guy remaining single all this time. He must have had loads of girl friends before you." Renee whispered to Bella.

"No mom. I'm his first."

"Then he must be having problems. Is he gay?"

"No mom. I'm hundred percent sure he's not gay."

I heard hoots of laughter from upstairs. Even Carlisle was holding his hand over his mouth pretending to cover a cough trying not to laugh. He apologised to me in his mind. "I'm so sorry Edward. We had in fact thought you were gay at one time when you didn't show any interest in any of the females."

"It's ok dad. I know." I responded in vampire pitch while still playing the piano.

Renee continued with her talk with Bella.

"Mom can we talk about something else. Someone might hear us."

"Oh come on Bella Edward's in the other side of the room playing the piano and the others are in the kitchen or upstairs. No one's going to hear us."

"Oh you'd be surprised at what they hear mom. What do you think of Esme's décor? Renee completely ignored Bella's question. Bella's efforts to shut her up was clearly not working. I couldn't get up from the piano since I was in the middle of a melody.

"What if he has a physical defect? Have you even seen him naked? It could be why he never had a girl friend before."

I could tell Bella was getting impatient now. And I was growing increasingly uncomfortable.

"Yes I have seen him naked mom. And no he doesn't have a physical defect." Bella sounded annoyed. Another round of laughter from my siblings followed this comment. I was feeling very embarrassed now.

"I mean does he respond to you? Have you seen him having an erection? How big is he? May be he's small and he looked for a girl who wouldn't know much about size."

Holy shit! Do mother's and daughters talk about these things? I couldn't believe what I was hearing. And I couldn't believe what my family was hearing. Although everyone else knew about everyone else's business they didn't go around discussing things. They did make jokes from time to time but this was very different. I guess we were outdated in our thinking and times had changed.

"Oh for heaven's sake mom! He's huge and I frankly don't know how he's going to fit inside me."

Just then I saw Bella cover her mouth with her hand in mortification blushing a deep hue of red. I heard roaring laugher from upstairs from Emmett.

"So little brother, this is what you have been hiding from us ha? I knew something was off when you never went skinny dipping with us." Jasper joined him in his laugher and both were making jokes at my expense. I was beyond embarrassed. I didn't have words to describe how I was feeling. I even missed a key and I had never ever made a mistake with my music since I became a vampire. Alice was giggling. Rosalie was frozen in place. I completely blocked her out. I really didn't want to know what she was thinking. "Shut up Emmett." "Alice stop giggling." I muttered in vampire pitch. "Or I'll throw all of you in the river".

Esme looked embarrassed but as always she took control over the situation and scolded the others for teasing me. She silently spoke to me in her thoughts. "Edward don't worry. You are meant to be together. Everything will work out. If you are worried you can speak to Carlisle or even me. And tell Bella I'm there for her as well". How I loved my mother. I knew she was also embarrassed by what was happening but she put it aside to comfort me. "Thank you mom" I whispered.

"Edward" I was surprised to hear Carlisle address me in his mind in the middle of all the teasing laughter from my siblings. "Yes" I answered back dreading what he was going to say.

"Please tell Bella there won't be any issues of size. Human females adjust in size and if you plan to be with her before you change her everything should be ok. I don't think you are overly well-endowed for a normal relationship." His mind held a picture of me in my swimming trunks the day I went swimming with Bella. Oh shit! I had been very aroused that whole day so everyone must have seen me like that. But I also felt relieved. I had actually planned on asking this question from him. As always Carlisle has been discreet and had not spoken out aloud. I was grateful to him.

"I thought you had already been with her from what I saw that day." He remembered the time everyone had barged in on us when Rosalie came to spy on us.

"We are waiting for marriage"

"That is good."

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