Disclaimer: I would love to own the characters, but I've been told that I'm not a loud, oh well!

Esme's POV

My arrival in New York was uneventful. We had arrived at a plain two story house. The garden was a mess, and didn't look like it had been tended too in years. After my little walk around the house I was extremely disappointed, none of the rooms had any character.

When I had read the manual from the women who lived here I got the impression that she is very strict. It seems that she makes her children do all of the chores and cooking.

When I finally heard a car pull up I felt very tense. A tall bronze haired man walked through the door, followed by three others who I assumed were his children.

"Hello I'm Jerry Thompson." He introduced. "Introduce your-self please children."

"I'm Luke and I'm thirteen." The only boy said.

"I'm Leila; I'm Luke's twin sister, so I'm 13 as well."

"I'm Lola, I'm 8."

"Well it's really nice to meet you all, I'm Esme Cullen."

"Nice to meet you Esme." Gerry said. "Tell us about your family.

"Well I have 8 adopted children..."

Everyone gasped

"4 of them are 17, 3 of them are 18 and we have one who is 20."

They all stared at me with there mouths hanging open.

Great.

10 minutes, that's how long they stared at me for. Lola was the quickest to recover, she stared at me for only about 2 minutes, and whilst the others were still recovering she asked me some questions.

"What are they like? Your children I mean."

"Well they're very protective of one another; I always say to people, 'if you annoy one of them, you've annoyed all of them'." I told her with a little laugh.

"Luke is very protective of Leila and me, he always walks me to school, sometimes straight into my classroom, he always asks me how my day was."

"That's what my lot do as well, but sometimes they can be quite loud, since they're all very talkative."

"8 adopted teenagers, how do you manage that?" Jerry finally said.

"Don't about that, they look out after one another, we have always worked like a team to get things organized." I replied cheerily.

"Would you like some help with taking your bags to your room?" Jerry asked.

"No Thank You, I can manage, what time should I start making dinner?"

"6 O'clock."

And with that I headed straight up to my room.

Lola's POV

Esme seems like a very nice person, I felt so stupid for staring at her like I did, but I did wonder how she could cope with 8 teenagers. Mum and Dad struggle with 2 teenagers, so I didn't see how she could make it work.

Whilst the rest of my family where still staring at Esme, like the idiots that they are, I decided to ask Esme my questions.

"What are they like?" this was the first thing that came to my mind. "Your children I mean."

She told me that her children stuck together, she even told me that if one of them got annoyed, they all did. I like the sound of her family, it sounded a bit like Luke when he is looking out for me.

I told Esme about Luke, and she said that it reminded her of how her children were with one another, I really like Esme.

My Dad finally snapped out of his state and basically asked Esme the same questions that I had asked her. If it were Mum, she would have said 'well you should have been listening', but Esme told my Dad the same thing, even with a smile on her face.

Luke POV

Esme seems really nice, when Dad asked her if she needed help with taking her bags up to her room, I was set on offering her some help, but she just smiled at my Dad, and said "No Thank You." Then she asked him when she should start making Dinner.

My sisters and I watched Esme carry three, big and heavy looking, bags up the stairs. She also carried another two bags up with her, smiled at us and told us that her daughter Alice had begged her to be able to pack her bags that was why she had so much stuff.

Lola and Leila asked her if they could come sit in her room to talk to her for a while, and she said yes. I followed the girls upstairs and sat in Esme's room also. Its not that I don't trust her, its just I am very protective of my sisters, I am always with them where-ever I go.

I need some ideas of games the the Cullens would play, any ideas would be great :D