Chapter 11: It Can't Be

Carly's POV

Time didn't slow down at all for me. Life didn't slow down at all for me. We visitied my great grandfather in Columbus, Ohio. It was a really nice trip, although it was sad for me to see my great grandfather dying. But I knew that it made him happy to see me. He loved me and I loved him. Esme seemed to be strangely attached to him for some reason. I didn't understand it, but I could tell just in that one visit that she cared about my great grandfather just as much as I did. It made her sad to know that he was dying. It seemed to affect her a lot. Much more then it should have. But I've started to get used to the strangeness that is the Cullens. I had this strange feeling that they were all keeping something from me, a secret that I didn't even have a clue about. If I am right and they are keeping something from me, I hope that they trust me enough to tell me what it is soon. Maybe they're just looking for the right time to tell me their secret. Or maybe I'm dead wrong and I'm just imagining things that are not there.

It wasn't long after that visit that my great grandfather passed away. It was a really hard time for me. He was one of the decent members of my family that I knew and loved. First Tyler and now him. Why did I have to lose the people that I loved and cared about so much? Why does losing someone that you love so much have to be so excruciatingly painful?

But no matter what life throws at you, you have to move on. In the few months that I have lived with the Cullens I'v been much happier then I ever was with my real family. Carlisle and Esme were the father and mother that I never had. Everybody else were the siblings that I never had either. My biological mother and my biological father never cared about me. I went through year after year of physical and emotional hell with them. I believed all of the horrible and nasty things that they said about me. I believed that I deserved the abuse that they threw my way. They made me believe that I was undeserving of love. Sometimes I still feel that I don't deserve all of the love, kindness and care that the Cullens have shown me no matter how many times that they've told me that I'm wrong.

I have also gone out with Anthony a couple of more times. After our, ahem, incident the last time that we went out Carlisle and Esme have been callin to check up on us during our dates. It could get a bit irritating, but at the same time, we did get arrested the first time we went out alone. So I can understand why they may have some trust issues when we were alone on our dates.

Anthony, he was an amazing, yet mysterious boy. I was starting to fall in love with him. It kind of scared me to fall in love with someone else. I still felt like I was betraying Tyler somehow. But that's crazy right? I had to move on eventually didn't I? I didn't know what to do, what to think, or even what to feel. All I know is that I have been through a lot in the last few months, much more then I could have possibly imagined.

I sighed as I attempted to put a dress on. I was getting ready for yet another date. I was six and a half months pregnant and I definitely had the stomach to show for it. Inside was my baby girl. She loved to kick the life out of me. Not even born yet and already she is a restless little one.

Once I finally got my dress onI went downstairs where Anthony was waiting for me. He smiled at me and I smiled back at him.

"Are you ready to go?" he asked me.

"Sure am" I replied with a smile. I was always surprised by how eager he was to go out with me. Or even just hang out with me period. He didn't care that I was pregnant. He still liked me, and that made me happy.

"Well let's go" he said.

"Yes, let's go" I said.

"Be careful you two" Carlisle said, being the overprotective father that he is.

"We will" I said. "We always are"

"I'm just making sure" he said.

We walked out before anyone could say another word.

"So where are we going?" I asked. We hadn't exactly come up with a plan of what we should do this time.

"I don't know" he said. "How about we just go down to the beach and just stay there for a while. Then we go out to dinner someplace nice?" he suggested.

"Sounds good to me" I said. As long as our plans did not involve a lot of walking I was okay with it.

"Alright" he said.

Everything went smoothly after that. There was no hint that anything odd or out of the ordinary was about to happen. That was until I saw him. No, no, no! This could not be! I had to be imagining things! Right?! But this boy resembled him to much for it to be just a pure coincidence. Then he turned around and looked straight at me. He froze in shock as he stared at me. His eyes landed on my stomach and he seemed to go into more shock if that was possible. A range of emotions crossed his face.

He had changed a lot. He now had extremely pale skin, and his eyes were red now. But I had no doubt that this was Tyler. The boy who I had never stopped loving. The boy who was supposed to be dead.

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