Violetta

I walked into the living room for the first time in what seemed like forever. I spread myself over it and closed my eyes, "I missed you." I whispered to the house.

Jasper, Emmett, Garrett and Eleazar laughed at me. Rosalie, Alice, Kate and Tanya were walking down the staircase. Carlisle, Esme, Bella, Edward and Carmen were behind me, just entering.

Mason had to go to the reservation to get the pack to come over. Jacob, Seth and Leah went with him, so Renesmee did too.

"Hey, I got you something Vi!" Alice said excitedly.

I stared at her, "No you didn't."

"Yes I did."

"Please tell me it isn't more clothes."

"Well, yes it is, but that's not even what I was talking about. Come on!" Alice skipped over to me and pulled me up.

"What is it?" Carlisle asked when we were upstairs.

"She got her a fish. In a fish bowl." Jasper said.

A few minutes passed before we came back down the staircase. "I don't know." Alice said quietly. "It's underwater, so I can't really tell."

"Hey, dad, do fish have blood?"

"Please do not drain your fish." He said.

"I'm not going to, but I mean, an animal, in a house full of vampires that aren't always well-fed."

"Well, yes. Fish have blood. No one drink Vi's fish." I said.

"I don't think it would be very satisfying…" Emmett said. "It's so small."

"Is that was Rose says to you?" I asked quietly. I put my hand over my mouth, "I did not mean to say that out loud…" Edward was already laughing.

Everyone in the room was in hysterics. Carlisle and Esme looked shocked. Edward was almost on the ground in laughter. Rosalie looked embarrassed, and Emmett looks really angry.

"For your information, Vi—"

"I don't want to know." I cut him off.

Emmett went to speak again, but Rosalie appeared behind him and out her hand over his mouth to stop him. She was still sort of laughing, but trying to supress it. He pulled her hand away and flipped her over the back on the couch; she landed on her back, her head in his lap. She sat up.

Edward started laughing again, looking at Emmett.

"Do you say that to Mason?"

I raised my eyebrows, "This is getting very uncomfortable."

"I second that." Carlisle said quietly, slightly irritated after remembering that I wasn't as...well behaved as he would have liked.

"Actually, I'd imagine he would be…satisfying. Like, he's a wolf. Are they all like, the same size?" Emmett asked me.

"Do I look like a slut?"

"Well…" Emmett smirked.

My eyes narrowed. Rosalie hit his arm. "Emmett." Esme scolded lightly.

"This keeps getting better…" Kate said quietly to Garrett. She was sitting beside him now.

Tanya was standing behind Carmen and Eleazar, looking in between Emmett and I.

"Emmett, I challenge you to an arm wrestling match." I said in my head.

"Oh my god, do it." Edward said to me.

Alice was staring at the ground for a few seconds before she looked up at me with a smirk, "Do it." She nodded as if to confirm that I would win.

"What?" Emmett asked. I was still not sure if I should.

"Vi is going to challenge you to an arm wrestling match." Edward said.

"No, she's not. You literally just got out of hospital." Carlisle said.

I ignored him as I smirked at Emmett. He smirked back, "You're on."

"Before or after the pack?" I asked.

"During. I want them all to see you get taken down."

"Oh, we'll see."

"Sure, let's ignore the doctor." Carlisle mumbled to himself.

Esme nuzzled him and kissed him once.

"Gross." I breathed as I turned back around to the staircase.

"Hold up, where are you going? Steroids are against the rules." Emmett said.

"I'm going to shower. Emmett, trust me, I don't need steroids." I winked and walked away with a smirk. "Oh, wait." I turned back, "Is that why your dick is so small? You're on steroids?"

The room erupted in laughter again. Rosalie was laughing more this time. Emmett smiled but he wasn't impressed.

"I'm pretty sure that's just a myth, Letty…" Carlisle said.

"Did you have to study that when you were in college? Have you had anyone ask you that at the hospital?" I asked.

He stared at me with a look that questioned my sanity. I laughed and walked up the stairs.

So instead of jumping straight into the conversation of moving with everyone, the Denali's included, as they were a big part of our lives, Emmett brought up the arm wrestle.

We all made our way out into a clearing of trees not far out from the house. Emmett scavenged for a big rock that we would use as our surface.

"This reminds me of my newborn days…" Bella said as Emmett walked back with a very large rock.

"That was so good…" Esme said quietly. Carlisle had his arms around her waist. I was standing beside them, and Mason had one arm around my waist.

"Watch your thoughts there, Mason…" Edward warned.

I glanced at Mason and then to Carlisle and Esme. Carlisle was glaring at him, Esme looked uncomfortable.

Mason tensed up beside me.

Edward started laughing, "No, Carlisle, I'm joking. He wasn't thinking of anything, I promise."

Mason shook his head at Edward, "He doesn't like me enough. I don't think you need to throw anything else into the fire."

Jacob laughed as Carlisle looked back towards Emmett. He wasn't going to deny his disliking of Mason, at least not Mason with me. He didn't mind him on his own. "You get used to it." Jacob said to Mason. "You're just lucky Esme is her mother and not one of the others. Bella was throwing me around when she found out that I imprinted."

"She was baby, and you nicknamed her after the freaking loch ness monster." Bella defended herself.

"It doesn't necessarily mean that we have to date, and you gave her a name that couldn't be shortened easily."

"You still could have found something better."

"What did you want? Esme 1 and Esme 2?" He asked. Renesmee and Esme looked each other before laughing.

"I wasn't going to call her Renee."

"What's wrong with Renee?" Bella asked accusingly.

"I've met your mother."

"I haven't even met her mother…" Renesmee said quietly.

Bella looked upset now. I saw Jasper look at her in confusion, and it raised my suspicions.

Edward looked at me and Jasper before looking at Bella, "Bella?"

"What?"

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine…" She looked at him as if his question was ridiculous.

"You're upset." Jasper said quietly.

"No I'm not." She tried to force a smile, but it failed.

My mind went straight to death. Had her mother died? When? Did the others know if it was recently?

Edward stared at me and shook his head. "That's a logical assumption, but she would have told me."

I nodded in response.

"Now you feel guilty too." Jasper said. "And grief."

"Can you stop, please?" She snapped ay him quietly.

"Bella?" Esme asked quietly. "Is there something going on?"

"No." She denied, but she was definitely lying.

"You're a terrible liar." Emmett said to her.

Edward grabbed her hand and pulled her away. I presumed he'd get the answers he wanted. He motioned for Esme to come with him. She walked from Carlisle's side and followed the away.

"Well…" Leah said quietly, "That took a dark turn."

"Should we wait for them before we do this?" Emmett asked, motioning to me and the rock.

"They'll probably be a while." Jasper said.

"Alright, let's go then. You can't back out now." Emmett smirked at me.

"But I'm distracted now…" I said quietly, regretting this challenge. Emmett had enhanced strength, what was Alice talking about? He was 100 per cent vampire with extra strength. I was half vampire, half human, already weaker.

"Nope, come on. And none of your painful gifts."

I sighed and slid my jacket off my shoulders and walked towards the rock. Mason folded my jacket and held it for me.

"Oh, he can fold." Kate said with a smirk.

"That's not all." He smirked. This reminded me off our conversation earlier, and I glanced at all the wolves. Emmett was thinking about it too, and we both started laughing.

"You're thinking about the wolves and if it's the same."

"Shut up." I said quietly. The family laughed, and the Quileute's looked confused.

"You don't want to know." Rosalie said to them. "But Em, Leah is a female."

"She's an exception…" He said as he put his left arm behind his back.

I did the same and took his right hand.

"On 3. 1, 2, 3." Mason said.

I struggled, but I eventually pushed Emmett's arm down into the rock. I stood up straight and took a breath. "That's not right. Did you let me win?"

"Honestly, no. And I'm really confused."

"But, you're full vampire, you have enhanced strength. I'm only half vampire; I should be much weaker…"

"I know!" He stared at me, "You're strange."

"Says the vampire…" Paul muttered.

I turned at looked at Carlisle.

"I'm so confused…" He admitted.

"That makes two of us…" I said quietly as I took my jacket from Mason and put it back on.

We talked for a while around everyone before we walked back to the house. Alice and I swung through the trees as the others walked.

I swung off the last branch and landed gracefully. Alice did the exact same thing at the exact same time. We laughed as we walked ahead of the others.

We entered the house and found Bella sitting in Esme's arms in the living room. Edward was sitting to the side of her, rubbing her back soothingly.

"Who won?" Bella asked, her voice uneven.

"I did." I said.

"What? That doesn't make sense." Esme said.

"Underestimating me, mother?" I asked. She reacted to the 'mother'. I had never called her anything like mum or mother before. Occasionally I would say 'my parents' to others, but never actually addressed her as one. I wasn't sure if it was positive or negative, so I decided I'd just refrain from addressing her as either mother or Esme from now on. I didn't want to remind her of her boy she lost, and I didn't want her to think I didn't consider her as my mother if she wanted to be.

Edward heard me thinking and smiled. What did that mean? That not addressing her was good? Or she didn't mind me calling her that? Or maybe he understood and was trying to tell me that it was good for me not to call her my mother at all because it was a negative reaction.

Now I was confused, I didn't know what to do. Alice and I sat down quietly and waited for the others to get back, to which they did seconds later.

Bella was still in Esme's arms, and instead of pulling away when her daughter entered, she buried her face further into Esme, which showed me that something was very wrong. She always acted as strong as she could for Renesmee.

Edward looked at me and nodded, "You were right after all." He whispered.

A huge amount of sympathy filled me. I looked at Jasper. He was concentrating, as if he were transferring my sympathy to Bella.

Renesmee looked scared, like she had no idea what to do. She stayed by Jacob in awkward silence.

Edward looked up at her, "Renee passed on at the start of the week."

This filled me with guilt. The only reason she hadn't told anyone was because of me. Because no one would fall for my 'I'm fine' gag. Because everyone was so worried about me, they had no time to listen to Bella.

I felt the guilt ease, and I glared at Jasper, fighting his manipulation. I should be feeling this. It was nice, kind of, to feel something. To not feel constantly numb.

Edward heard me thinking about it and stared at me blankly for a few seconds.

"Support Bella. Don't worry about me." I said to him. He nodded once and returned to rubbing her back.

The next few minutes were filled with silence, and my thoughts overcame me. It was terrible, like hospital had actually taken all the pain away. How much morphine did Carlisle have me on? Did he sneak anti-depressants in and now I was off them again?

"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again." I sung to myself. The old 'Sound of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkel. A classic and it was so…relatable. Edward looked at me again, and Jasper was staring too. I shook my head at both of them.

"I'm so sorry, I can't control it."

"I know. It's okay." He said quietly to me. Carlisle looked at me curiously.

Jasper was still looking at me. "Carlisle." He said quietly. He motioned for him to follow him out of the room. I saw them both leave, and this angered me. We all needed to be here for Bella, and here they were worrying about me and something that happened all the time. It didn't matter.

"Stop or I have to say something." Edward said to me.

"I think Jasper already is." I said snidely.

"It's important, Vi."

"No, Bella is important." My voice became more aggressive with every word.

"Stop. Both of you." Esme said quietly.

Silence fell again.

"This is really awkward. I think you guys should like, talk or something. Make some sound." Bella said.

Edward looked at me and went to speak again, but I spoke before he could. "Don't. Drop it."

Carlisle and Jasper walked back in, both looking at me, and then to Edward.

I avoided both of their eyes and kept my glare on Edward.

"What's going on?" Mason asked me quietly.

"Nothing." I shook my head, "They're just being stupid."

"Except that it's a serious matter." Carlisle said quietly. I stood up and stormed out of the room.

"I'm so sorry Bella." I said quietly as I passed her.

She was sitting up now. She moved to Edward's arms to stop him from following me. Carlisle stood up but Esme caught his arm. "Leave her."