This is the second update for today. I had a very bad end to my week, and it's still going, so I thought I'd post again tonight in the hopes that I might be able to brighten someone's night.

I love you guys!

-A xx

Carlisle

The day went by quickly; the night, not so quickly. Violetta had another nightmare. She claimed that they weren't even nightmares anymore, just plain dreams. She had grown so accustomed to them now; it broke my heart, and Esme's.

Esme had gone to get Violetta some hot tea. It had always calmed her down. She was back now.

"So, was it the same Volturi nightmare?"

"Dream." Violetta corrected. "And yes, it was."

She was lying. I saw it in her eyes. I looked over to Edward who shook his head. I decided not to bring it up right now. She clearly doesn't want Esme to know.

My phone vibrated in my pocket. I took it out and opened the message.

"All of us leaving her. She's had it before at home."

I looked at Edward and nodded as a thank you. I smiled at Esme as she glanced at me.

"Who was that?"

"Jasper. He was asking how she's doing." I lied. I hated keeping things from Esme, but I also hated hurting her, and this seemed better.

"You didn't reply to him…"

"I will later, once Violetta feels okay."

"I feel fine." She rolled her eyes.

A quiet knock interrupted before I could reply to her. A nurse opened the door and peeked in. "Everything okay in here?"

"Yes, thank you. She had a nightmare." I smiled.

The nurse nodded, took one sympathetic glance at Violetta and one glare at Esme before walking back out.

"Sure, let's keep hating on the doctors wife while her daughter is sick in the hospital." Esme muttered.

"Alright Esme, calm down." Edward said quietly. Bella was reading at his side. It was book I lent her the day before I brought Violetta here.

"I'm surprised you haven't finished that yet…" I said to Bella.

She looked up at me, "I've been a little preoccupied."

"Whenever she isn't here, she's researching like a mad woman." Edward said.

Violetta groaned, "Please tell me we can go home today and you can all stop worrying."

I wanted so desperately to let her go home, but I didn't want her to fall sick again. I wasn't sure if she really felt as fine as she claimed, or if she was lying for the sake of her family.

Edward cleared his throat quietly, I looked over at him. He held his thumb and index finger in a circle as if to say she actually did feel fine.

"We'll see how the morning goes. But it's late, and you're tired, so go back to sleep."

She nodded and laid her head back on the pillow. I could tell she was starting to get very irritated. She just wanted to lie in her own bed with Mason at her side and listen to the conversations carrying out downstairs by the non-sleepers. She wanted everything to go back to how it previously was. The Denali's were still at our house, and Tanya was coming in with Kate and Garrett in the morning to see her. Carmen and Eleazar had made another appearance yesterday, but they went back home after about an hour after a call from Tanya.

Esme rested her head on my shoulder. I took her hand in mine and rested them on her knee. I kissed her head.

Esme finally went home in the late hours of the morning. Kate, Garrett and Tanya came for a few hours with Mason, making Violetta laugh and telling her a lot of amusing things about themselves that she hadn't known. They also explained Jasper and Emmett's bickering banter all night long, and how Alice asked them if it was acceptable to come into the hospital and pamper her.

Esme said she would return with Carmen and Eleazar soon, she just really needed to hunt. She felt bad for leaving, but I assured her that it was okay and that I was very happy that she was finally taking care of herself as well.

She came with Carmen and Eleazar a little over 2 hours later.

"Anything worrying happen while I was gone?" She asked me quietly.

I shook my head, "She's been just fine. She seems as strong as she was 2 weeks ago."

Esme smiled and kissed me once before walking over to Bella and Edward. "Alice told me to tell you that you cannot escape her when you get home and she's going to do your nails." She said to Bella.

"Great." Bella rolled her eyes. "She seems like she's in a much better mood though."

"She is." Esme smiled with a nod. "Jasper was sitting in the living room where I got there, too."

Bella smiled, "Good."

"Now we just have to get Emmett to make his inappropriate jokes again and we need Bella to stop with her anxious research." Edward said.

"Oh shut up, you were reading just as much as I was."

"Bella, I read through 2 books in 2 hours. You went through 5…"

"I was on a roll." She defended.

"You were too anxious to relax…"

"Stop." She said to him, returning her attention back to her book.

He rolled his eyes and looked over to Eleazar and Carmen, "How are you?"

"We're okay." Carmen smiled.

"Carmen actually sat down this morning…" Eleazar said.

Edward raised his eyebrows, "Is it just me, or do women always tend to worry more than what is considered mentally healthy?"

"Hey, we're allowed to worry a little bit." Esme defended.

"Esme, you almost cried when you left here so you could hunt." I said.

"You're all irrational." Violetta said quietly.

"Why are you trying to avoid my question!?" Mason exclaimed.

"I'm not!"

"I am going to ask you again. Did anything negative happen last night?"

She stared at him before turning her gaze to the wall, "No."

"You're a terrible liar. What was it?"

She rolled her eyes and groaned, "Don't worry about it Mason."

He moved his gaze to me, "What happened?"

"She had another nightmare." I had asked her about it when Esme was out, but she refused to speak further about it except to confirm that it was what Edward had told me. She claimed that it was nothing and that she was done with the conversation.

"Dad!" She scolded loudly.

"What?"

She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, "It's fine. Everything's fine." She whispered to herself.

I glanced at Esme. She looked shocked at Violetta's sudden anger. What was so bad about Mason knowing about her nightmare?

"I think she's just sick of the hospital." I said to Esme. She nodded.

"I know the feeling." Mason said.

Renesmee and Jacob walked through the door then. "They're going to make you go." Jacob said to her.

"They're not going to make me go." She stopped and looked at Edward, "Dad—"

"You're going." He cut her off.

"You're not going!"

"We can't go, we've already gone. We have to wait for everyone here to pass before we can go again."

"School?" Bella asked.

Edward nodded.

"Oh yeah, you're going." Bela agreed

"Violetta doesn't have to go…" Renesmee said quietly.

"Violetta has a reason to not go." Bella said.

"And Carlisle and Esme are pushovers." Edward added.

"No we're not." Esme said. I couldn't tell whether she was joking or actually offended.

"Yes you are." He and Bella said at the same time."

"Yep…" Violetta agreed quietly with a small smirk.

"Lucky." Renesmee said to her. "But still, I know all the things they'll be teaching again."

"Renesmee, we went a million times. I know." Edward said.

"Mum didn't go a million times…"

"That's because we're still in Forks. Just wait until we move, we'll all be going again." Bella said.

"Wait, we're leaving?" She asked. "I'm not going."

"Oops…" Bella whispered. "Sorry."

"We have to leave, Ness. People are noticing our unchanging appearances."

Esme was staring at me again. She shook her head. We hadn't talked about this again.

"We're not doing this again." I shook my head.

"What do you expect Mason, Jake, Seth and Leah do? Or Ness and Vi? Or me?"

I looked at her sympathetically, I hated the idea of her losing 4 of her children, "Esme—"

"You knew our routine was going to change the moment Jacob imprinted. The moment Seth and Leah joined us, the moment Mason imprinted. We can't leave them, and we can't leave Ness and Vi here. That'll kill you."

"We don't have any options." I said.

"We could stay here."

"Esme, I'm meant to be 23 years older than I look. It's not going unnoticed."

"You just have really good genes, and a really good skin care program."

"The whole pack could go…" Renesmee said.

"And leave their non-shape shifting families?" Bella asked.

Jacob was thinking about leaving Billy behind, "It would really be much different. I mean, the elders are gone, I don't see Billy very often anymore, and Seth and Leah don't see Sue very often anymore. We could still visit on occasion. No one else really has family that doesn't shift and isn't an imprintee."

"Claire does." Mason said quietly.

"Claire's parents are never even on the res anymore. She pretty much lives between Emily and Quil. She can always hang with you or Leah and Seth as well. You're all related anyway."

"Grandma and Rose would love to have her around." Renesmee said.

Esme shook her head, "No. I'm not letting you leave your families."

"Esme, you guys are our family." Jacob said.

"Could that even work? You wouldn't be on the reservation anymore to protect it…" Bella said.

"It's happened before. With the pack I used to be in. We moved around several times. We just find a new place to call our own. Of course, in this case, not the whole reservation would be coming, so it could pose a threat to them." Mason said.

"And Forks." Violetta added quietly.

"I think this is a conversation for at home when everyone is present." Edward said.

"Mason, remember what Sam was saying a few weeks ago? You weren't with us yet but you were still in the loop."

"Sam talks a lot…" Mason said.

"He said he was thinking about moving the pack, if everyone was on board. I declined, so we didn't go. He wants to open up our space more for some reason."

"Well what places are close to here that we can go to? Everywhere is too sunny." Renesmee said.

"Minnesota. Cold Bay was an option, but it's just about 4 days by car. Denali too." Edward said.

"But, a conversation for home." I reminded.

"Yeah, you guys go have fun with that, as it seems I am never leaving this room." Violetta said.

I smirked, "Edward is she in any pain at all?"

"Nope." He shook his head.

"Then you can come home today." I said to her. I was little bit hesitant, as for all I knew, Edward wasn't around during her pain, but she had to go home sometime.

She smiled, "Thank you." She said, relief in her voice. "Can we go, like now? Because I'm really hungry."

"I offered to bring you something." Esme said.

"I know, but I didn't want you to have to do that."

Esme rolled her eyes and looked at me.

"I have to sign a few things first." I said. I walked towards the door and was met with Rosalie. "Whoa." I moved as she ran in.

"Bella Bella Bella!"

"Yes?" Bella asked.

A very shallow growl escaped Edward.

"Hey everyone." Rosalie greeted, "But Bella! Guess who showed up at our door and was looking for you?"

Bella stared at her, "Who?"

Rosalie laughed and had troubled saying the name. "Mike Newton…" She said between laughs. "Oh my god, he looked so sad when Alice said you weren't home. I almost feel sorry for the boy. He aged really well, though…"

"Is he hot?"

Rosalie nodded with a massive smile. "Like, I would date him."

"Rose…" Edward shook his head.

"I'm not like you; I don't deny that it isn't all about personality. By the way, his personality is so much more boring than it was in school."

"You had a conversation with him?" Bella asked.

"Well, I wasn't at the door, but Alice wanted me to see how hot he was, so she invited him in. He hesitated, but he didn't want to seem rude so he came inside for a little while. He broke up with Jessica, and he is currently very successful in his business he's running. He lives in Seattle now."

Bella started laughing hysterically. It was a few minutes before she calmed down, "He lied to you."

"What? About his job?"

Bella nodded, still laughing, "He was probably trying to impress you or something, but I ran into his parents the other day. He's still living with them and working full time at their store."

"Oh my god!" Rosalie was laughing with her now. Edward laughed a little bit too, but tried to tone it down a bit.

"Don't be so mean, the poor boy just wanted to look important." Esme said. "And probably get laid." She laughed with them.

"Esme." I scolded lightly.

"No Carlisle, you never had a conversation with him." Rosalie said.

"Or have him follow you around like a puppy for a year." Bella rolled her eyes.

Edward laughed, "And then I came and scared him away." Bella nodded and laughed too.

I shook my head in disapproval and exited the room. The paperwork was nothing compared to my usual stack I had to fill out. Esme needed to sign it too, so I took it back to her with a pen.