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I divided the chapter I wrote last night into two pieces so here we go on :-))))
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Meanwhile the girls were having a great time. Alice had some popcorn made and after a great dance, Ellen was sitting on the sofa watching them having fun and dancing only with Patty. She enjoyed the view a lot. Patricia seemed to be happy and it was the most important for Ellen.
After the dancing Alice suggested a movie. Ellen had no idea but winked a bit when she saw Alice´s choice: „ A Titanic?"
Rose smiled: „ I love the movie…you don´t ?"
Ellen protested: „ No, I love it….I just….it´s been a long time since…" She reminded her first date with Derek and he chose this film. He didn´t like it much but she wished to see it and he fulfilled her wish.
Alice brought a big box of tissues and therefore Ellen didn´t have to finish her reply. It was a long film and Patty fell asleep in the middle. As the sad end of the movie was coming closer, they all began sobbing loudly. They couldn´t cry but their sobbing was so loud to be believable.
Alice commented: „ I love the film…it makes me sad everytime….."
Ellen asked: „ Then why did you choose it?"
She smiled: „ Well, everyone needs to get the stress out somehow…don´t you think?"
Ellen hesitated: „ Actually, you´re right….it helps just to forget troubles for some time."
Alice raised her thumb: „ Exactly…"
At the end of the film Bella helped to get Patricia to bed.
Then they went to change the dresses in pajamas and then with Bella´s help Ellen managed to jump back downstairs.
Before they came back, Alice was already with another movie and another bowl of popcorn and chips and they all began talking again.
She decided to play the questionnaires. The person who was in the middle had to reply all questions otherwise she had to give forfeit.
Ellen laughed, she hasn´t played this for years. They were having so much fun, of course the girls had to kind of modify their answers not to reveal anything but still they enjoyed it.
Bella began, followed by Rosalie and then it was Ellen´s turn.
Ellen sat to the particular place and the began asking questions.
The first ones were the easiest.
A: " your name..?"
E:"Ellen Margareth Williams..."
R: "Birthday...?"
E: "10 th May..."
A: "fave color..?"
E: "Pastel ones..." Rosalie smiled: " Same as me..."
B: "fave school subjects?"
E: "languages, history, geography"
B: "least favorite sport?"
E: "running, athletics"
A: "fave actor?"
E: "Tom Cruise"
R: "fave song?"
E: "My heart will go on..."
B: "first date?"
E: "my ex husband"
R: "Do you have butterflies in your belly?"
Ellen blushed again: "yes.. every time...when I am with Carlisle..."
Then it was Alice´s turn: "Where would you like to go for honeymoon...?"
Ellen smiled: " Well, with Derek we went to Seattle for a week..."
Alice grinned: " The question was meant into future..."
Ellen blushed: " Alice, how can you be so sure I will marry again?...I don´t believe two people have to be married to be together..."
"You never know..."
Bella and Rosalie watched Alice with expectations. She definitely knew more than they did.
Ellen didn´t respond and Alice questioned again: " Elly...either say it or give in something...5 seconds..."
Ellen swallowed: " Paris..."
Alice grinned: " You see...it wasn´t even painful..."
Bella added: " that´s good to know..."
Alice was serious again: " Well...now the harder ones...What is your bad habit ?"
E: "being a sleepy head in the last months, you spoiled me..."
B: " Are you addicted to something?"
Ellen laughed: "definitely...coffee.. and...dr. Cullen" The girls grinned when they heard her reply.
Rosalie decided to ask more private questions: " Where do you like to be kissed?"
Ellen blushed completely. What kind of question is that? She winked and remained silent.
Alice said: " Elly...you I am sorry but you have to reply or give in something..."
She gave away the necklace that she had with the photo of her family and handed it to Alice.
She smirked: " You will have to try hard to get it back..."
Bella giggled because she wasn´t the only one who had to give in something.
It was her turn to ask a question: "what are your bad characteristics?"
"Overreacting..."
They all laughed and Rose commented: " I think you fit perfect in this family...all of us overreact sometimes..."
Alice continued: " Favorite brand?..."
Elly replied: " Nike or Reebok..."
She rolled her eyes: " Why was I hoping you would mention some high fashion names? Or at least Gucci..."
She pretended being disappointed with her reply.
Ellen touched her shoulder: " Allie, you know I don´t wear that..."
She clasped: " Time to begin,..."
Rose had the next question: " What do you fear of?"
Ellen knew the reply immediately: " Spiders, snakes and fantasy characters..."
Nobody commented and Bella continued: " Do you like horror movies?"
Ellen giggled: " Not in the middle of the night...but no, not realy... not my preference..."
Rose became interested: " What particularly don´t you like about them? The fear?..."
All of them impatiently expected her answer:
" I hate films including blood massacres and yes, also vampire films...I hate seeing a lot of blood. I even faint ... at doctor´s check ups when they do the blood tests..."
She grinned: " Well...sounds stupid when I realise I am dating the doctor..."
Bella tried to show an understanding smile but she was the only one.
She noticed how stuck Alice and mostly Rosalie looked like when they heard her replies.
Ellen could see the awkward looks and asked: " Are you afraid to watch such movies too?..."
Bella was the first one to react: " Well, yeah...kk...kind of... we do not watch them very often..."
Ellen waited for any other questions but the girls seemed to be so distracted and had no will to go on.
Rosalie left the room to the bathroom and Alice stood up: " I got an incredible taste for a true mojito, are you with me?"
Ellen agreed: " I haven´t had it for months..."
Alice immediately followed Rose out of the room. Bella moved to sit behind Ellen and asked: "Can I make you a haircut?"
Ellen nodded and Bella took out a comb and few necessities out of her purse and began combing her blond hair: " You have a lovely hair..."
"Thanks..."
"Have you always had a pony tail?"
"Yeah...I liked it...since high school I always had long hair..."
Bella dreamed:
"I love when Edward touches my hair...in the beginning of our relationship he couldn´t stop his hands from touching me...at one moment I thought about cutting them..."
Both girls laughed and Ellen smiled: " Carlisle hasn´t expressed a thing about my hair..."
"He will, believe me...you´re so short together and he is very caring..."
"Yes, he is..."
"You fit together so much... both blond hair ones..."
Ellen just smiled and could see Alice bringing four glasses with the liquid.
Rose handed her one and Ellen tasted it: " Amazing...I haven´t had this for years..."
Bella kept on playing with Ellen´s hair and Alice turned on another movie.
Ellen sipped slowly the drink and when she finished it, she felt incresingly tired.
She laid on the pillow that was next to Bella and in few minutes she closed her eyes.
When she was really deep asleep, Rose asked: " What are we gonna do?"
Alice decided: " We cannot do anything..."
Bella agreed: " I also think so..."
Rose commented: " But she will hate us, are you aware of that?"
Alice shrugged: " We are not the ones to deal with this...dad has to decide..."
Bella asked: " Alice, can you see something?"
She refused: " no, actually no...I see various scenes, just pieces, but they don´t make sense...one of the reasons might be that dad hasn´t decided when he tells her...it´s complicated..."
Rose seemed visibly upset and Bella understood her and tried to calm her: " Rose, don´t worry, I am sure it´s gonna be fine...Ellen is a reasonable person..."
"I know...but... I like her...I regard her as a good friend and I don´t want this family to lose her... she fits here perfectly... and she makes dad so happy...I haven´t seen him like that..."
Alice watched what Rose said and felt completely the same.
Ellen´s and Patty´s presence brought more sunshine in this family.
Ellen was so caring and nice to everyone, loved the head of the family and Patty was sweetheart that needed to be treasured and spoiled. They all liked Ellen a lot. Nobody wished her to disappear out of their lives.
She grew in their hearts so easily. It just seemed so natural.
And Alice seemed surprised because of this fact.
Yes, Rose definitely relied on Ellen too. Looking back, Rosalie was the one who had problems with Bella in the beginning. It was good that she accepted Elly so easily. It was visible that she really liked Elly and Patty. The more she liked them, the more she was worried of losing them.
Bella watched her sisters with worries. Truly, she wasn´t very sure about the outcome of this all.
Perhaps they all silently hoped that Elly would accept their vampire origin as easily as Bella did.
They were both humans when they joined the family. But Bella was so different from her.
Ellen wasn´t that investigative type of person.
Despite living with them for some time, she didn´t notice anything awkward about them.
She accepted their explanations about cold hands so easily, she didn´t even question them. Bella was too suspicious about everything untypical and did her own research. She thrilled to find out more, to reveal the secrets about the Cullens.
On the other hand, Bella believed that Ellen loves the family and Carlisle even more and that she will finally accept them and become one of them.
She has to...or Carlisle will have nothing to live for... She is his everything.
She didn´t want him to have to go through a another painful loss. Carlisle would be devastated.
He once was when he let his ex leave the family. Nobody wished him to go through anything like this again.
And if it was true and Ellen was his true mate, the consequences would be devastating for him and the whole family.
She decided that in case Ellen will be negative to their vampire origin, she has to try and stand with her side as much as possible.
Somehow she knew that this won´t be too easy.
She looked up and noticed Alice´s serious look. She was silently watching her thinking and then added: "You will have to help her Bella...she will need you"
Then she heard the noise outside and said firm: " No word to anyone...alright...? Nobody may know..."
They all swore and welcome their men happily.
The guys entered the room and Carlisle was surprised when he saw Ellen sleeping on the ground.
Alice said silently: „ We didn´t want to wake her, if we carried her to the bedroom, it would be awkward…"
He nodded: „ Don´t worry Alice, I will carry her….."
He picked Ellen gently in his arms and carried her upstairs. On the stairs she woke up lightly and smiled: „ Carlisle? You´re already back?..."
He nodded: „ Yep, we have just arrived…I will just have shower and be back with you in a minute…."
She nodded and when he returned, he just saw Ellen deep in her sleep again.
He had to smile, she was really so cute when sleeping. He couldn´t move his eyes away from her. He missed her a lot during the evening.
He was watching her for the rest of the night and in the morning she seemed again so pale. He couldn´t understand that but he hoped that Monday´s appoitnment with her doctor will say what´s wrong with her.
It´s been for almost two weeks since this began. He was so worried about her. She was always so tired, vomitting, feeling uncomfortable...
He didn´t want to come up with any diagnosis without checking her properly.
Indeed, he hoped that her doctor will do all the examinations including the blood tests or he will do them himself.
He was impatient to know what is wrong with his Elly.
Thinking about her health, he decided to leave her home on Friday. He will surely manage it all by himself. Fridays are usually much calmer days than other ones. People come usually just for check ups.
There won´t be many new cases, he hoped. Ellen certainly needs some sleep and she can enjoy it to the full extent. He was sure that his kids won´t wake her up. He kissed her on the forehead and decided to start the day.
He got up before seven and headed downstairs. Bella and Edward were sitting there and reading together a magazine. He greeted them and noticed Patty standing on the stairs: „ Sweetie, good morning, are you hungry?"
She nodded yawning and he went to prepare her the breakfast. Then she changed the clothes and he drove her to school.
She asked before going to the car: „ What about mum?"
He caressed her hair: „ Your mum is tired today, Patty, she will stay at home….do you mind if I drive you?"
She shook the head: „ No, dad…I like going with you in your car…"
He smiled and parked the car at the school parking place and accompanied Patty in her class.
Then he drove back to his work.
Ellen woke up at 9.30 and stared at the alarm clock. How is it possible that nobody woke her up. It was so late and she didn´t even remember moving to her bed. She fell asleep in the living room. She turned around to grab her mobile phone and before she could do that, she saw a small teddy on her night table.
She smiled, it was so nice of him. She then reminded the time and didn´t understand this at all. It was already so late. Why didn´t he wake her up?
She didn´t like this. She hoped he would take her with him but he didn´t….She had no idea why he did that. Was it because of yesterday´s failure?
She felt sad for a moment. She looked at her cell phone and could see only an apology for yesterday bad words when Rose appeared.
Nothing from today… no excuse or apology or explanation.
She was pretty sad from this and decided to go ask him didn´t like this attitude.
She got dressed and jumped out of the room.
She managed to get downstairs alone.
Then Edward appeared in the door coming from outside: „ Ellie….you should have shouted…."
Ellen waved the hand: „ No problem….thanks…I managed it alone..."
Bella followed him: „ No, Ellie…..really…it´s no problem for us..you know you can tell us whenever…..we are glad to help you..."
Ellen smiled: „ I know…..I just don´t want to bother you constantly…"
„ You are not…..bothering…not at all…..you´re a family….remember?"
Ellen blushed: „Thanks….."
„Shall I make you some coffee?"
Ellen refused: „ No, thanks... I am not in the mood for it today..."
Then she watched them: " Speaking of help...…Can I ask you for something?"
Edward added: „ Sure...Tell us…."
„Would you drive me to Carlisle….?"
He nodded: „ of course…..Sit down to my car, I will drive you there…I need to take some documents in the town….I just need to bring them, please take a seat in my car...…here are the keys..."
He handed her the keys to open the car and disappeared upstairs.
Bella knew why Carlisle left alone at home and asked with worries: " Elly, are you alright?"
Ellen watched her: " Yes, why?..."
" I think that Carlisle won´t be too happy when you appear there..."
"Why not?" "Well, he wanted you to have some rest..."
"Bella, I am fine...really...do I look like a sick person?"
She shrugged: " Elly, I am not a doctor..."
" No, but you are a human...you can see it..."
Bella felt uncertain suddenly: " I really can´t say...to me you look fine..."
Ellen smiled: " Finally a reasonable word...I also feel fine... and I am going...I don´t like this...overprotection..."
Bella waved to her and Ellen jumped to the garage. Edward came down in a minute and she asked: " Shall I text to Carlisle that you´re...?"
Edward kissed her: " No, love, it´s not our business...we shouldn´t ... Carlisle made it clear last night..."
"Alright...can´t wait when you´re back..." He kissed her passionately: " Me too...I will try to be back ASAP"
With those words he left immediately.
Before getting to the garage door he was stopped by Emmett
„ Ed, where are you going?"
„I am taking Elly to dad….."
Emmett smiled: „ Wow, knight in the shining armour Edward…."
Edward didn´t react and Emmett teased him again: „ Well is it better a puppett Eddie?..."
Edward stopped his steps and wanted to hit his brother.
Emmett suddenly laughed and Bella joined: „ Edward just offered to help…..Elly asked him...…"
Emmett giggled:" I know….I just felt I had to tease my perfect brother….."
Edward almost punched him but then he changed his mind and disappeared in the door.
Rosalie turned to Emmett: „ It wasn´t fair to him…you shouldn´t have…he just offered help...there is nothing wrong with that...…"
Emmett defended: „ I know, baby… I just wanted to tease him a bit…I realise it was a mistake….a big mistake….."