I hope you all enjoyed my last chapter; this is day three for both Sarah and Esme. On the Cullen's side I will be letting things die down a little bit, that way I don't run out of ideas to use in the second week.
Disclaimer: Cullen's, Denali's and Wife Swap= Not mine, will never be mine, and has never been mine *exhales deeply*
Sarah's POV
Day three. Why, why, why did it have to be just day three. Why couldn't it be day six, actually why was these days going so slow? For this, I had no answers.
I didn't want to wake up today, I just wanted to sleep off the pain that was in my head, I couldn't deal with this lot any more. Why did I have to spend two weeks of my life with this family? Why did I choose to come on this bloody show?
I literally dreaded getting up this morning, fortunately when I got up I realized that it was 11 O'clock, jeez I had over slept. When I looked over at my alarm clock I saw that my alarm had been turned off, I wondered how that happened. I rushed around my room dressing quickly before running down the stairs.
"Dad? Later on us and the others are going to go out shopping for a few hours, is that ok?" One of the Denali girls was asking.
"Of course you can, as long as you're back by 9 at the latest." Eleazar responded.
How could they shop so much, well I had already witnessed 2 shopping trips by the Cullen kids, I didn't expect the Denali's to be 'exactly' like them.
"Of course we will,"
I decided to enter the room at that point; a thought had just popped into my mind.
"Hello," I said
"Moring Sarah, how did you sleep?" Carmen asked me.
I was shocked, but I responded politely as I could.
"I... had a nice sleep; may I ask why your children aren't at school like the other?"
Garrett was the one who answered my question. "We go to a different school from our cousins, we didn't realize, or remember for a fact, that they would break up a day later than us, normally our schools break up on the same time."
I didn't know how to respond, I went off into the kitchen to start cleaning up, like I was meant too.
"Oh Sarah, we've already cleaned up, the children cleaned the downstairs of the house, we went out to get groceries, we didn't realize that was what you were to do, I hope you don't mind." Carmen said.
Well this day was going... good so far, I was pretty sure that I was dreaming at this point, no-one had offered to clean up or get the groceries so far, so this seemed too good to be true.
When the Cullen children arrived home that night, I was sure that they were going to play up somehow, but they didn't.
They came inside, I went up stairs without a word, and their cousins followed them up as well. They were upstairs for about 30 minutes before they finally came down.
"So we have to be back by 9 at the latest?" Alice was asking, "I say we meet back up at 8.15 so we have plenty of time to get back."
"I'd suggest that we go around together as a whole, it will be more fun that way guys." Emmett said
"Are you sure you boys want to come into an underwear store with us girls, I don't think that would be very comfortable for you." Tanya said jokingly.
"Like we haven't had to go in one of those stores before," Was Jasper's reply
And with that they all left for the night, whilst they were out of the house I had a nice chat with Eleazar and Carmen, but yet I still felt uncomfortable. I didn't quite understand why that was.
"Are the children usually like this?" I asked.
"Well, they can be a lot worse you know, but I don't think we really notice it anymore, I guess we're used to it." Carmen said
"I guess it doesn't really matter to us how they act, we love them and we respect them for who they are, once you get to know them, like we do, you'll love them too." Eleazar told me.
Yeah like that was going to happen.
By 8.53pm all of the children had returned home, they came inside, this time they didn't come in with as many bags as they had previously, they came inside of the living room and handed Carmen and Eleazar a gift.
"We hope you like it." They all said.
Renesmee came over to me and handed me a gift as well. It had been beautifully wrapped up.
"What's this?" I asked wearily.
"A gift, what else." Jacob said
I opened it up, inside it was a bracelet, well I guess it was a charm bracelet. It had heart shaped charms of in, at a closer look the hearts had been engraved with the names of my family, my husband and three children, I didn't remember telling this lot about my family, let alone mention their names.
The gesture was wonderful, I put the bracelet on immediately, it felt like I had a piece of my family with me, and it made me feel so much better than I had been.
"Thank you," I told them
"Your welcome," Alice replied to me "We all hoped you would like it."
The children stayed down stairs and chatted with Carmen and Eleazar for a while before heading upstairs.
Today had been so more relaxed than any of the others days, as I lay my head onto the pillow, I hoped that every other day would be exactly like this.
Esme's POV
The third day was much more bearable than the days before. Jerry seemed to be warming to me, just a little. He was nicer to me to day, but that was only because I wasn't following the rules that I should have been doing.
After last night, seeing the children have just a little bit of fun it made today more enjoyable.
My day went exactly like it had before. Though today I was to drop the children off at their respectable clubs, I was to go to three different places. Luke had a rugby club that he was at until 6pm.
Lola had to go to a tennis club for an hour and a half, which meant I would be picking her up first. Leila was going to a Ballet class which would then be followed by her gymnastics class, to me it seemed like she was doing to much on a school night, but like her brother she would finish by 6pm.
I spent most of my day at the local supermarket, by the groceries that Jerry had wrote on a list for me. Back home if I went out to by groceries, so that Jacob and Nessie would have something to eat, as well as a few members of Jacob's pack who visited us from time to time, normally Edward and Bella would assist me.
"Who's that?" I heard a guy whisper to someone.
"Don't know, never seen her before." The other guy responded.
I kept my head down and tried my hardest to ignore all of the stare and glances people were throwing at me. It was almost as hard to ignore ever whispered conversation I heard.
"I hear that she's participating for that show, what's it called? Wife Swap?" Some woman said
"Yeah that's true, she's staying with the Thompson family, she's filling in Sarah's place at the library." Her friend whispered back.
If I had been human, I would definitely been blushing for sure. Whilst I finished of my shopping I distracted my self by thinking of the things that were happening back at home.
According to Alice the Denali's had shown up out of the blue, since my dear children and grand-daughter where playing a game, Bella had her shield up blocking everyone's thoughts from Edward, and Alice couldn't see anything when Jacob was near.
Jasper said that our cousins had attacked them, he said that he, Emmett, Edward, Jacob and Nessie had been tied up on the ground, in which Sarah managed to untie, and that my three daughters had been, well basically, kidnapped and separated.
Since Sarah doesn't know who they are, my children told me that they were introducing Eleazar as my 'older' brother, that would mean Carmen would be my sister-in-law and the three others would be classed as my nephew and nieces.
Just thinking about this made the shopping trip speed up a little, I was still mulling over this as I made my way to the car, I drove back to the house to unpack the groceries before I headed to the library, where I would be spending the afternoon sorting out the books, again.
I realized that during the conversations I had with my family, I had never once encountered Carlisle's voice. My children must not want to cause either of us anymore pain necessary.
"Esme," I voice called out, breaking my thoughts "Can you take these books to the history section please, just sort out the I 1-10 and J 6-9, then you are done."
As I sorted out those God damn books I thought about what my children had last said to me,
"So we're going to cool down just a little, for a couple of days." Jasper told me.
"All she wants, right now, is for the pain in her head to go away. Apparently the craziness of the Cullen's is driving her insane, she thinks she will be seeing a counselor after this has finished." Edward said.
"You better be nice to her," I said "Are you sure the best way is to annoy her so much that she can't sense reality from non-reality?"
"Esme it's not that, she doesn't think highly of us. Not once has she asked any of us if we're okay, or how our day has been, we're just playing up like we are because she's not being the mother that she's meant to be." Rose said
"Guys," Alice mumbled "Cool it a bit will you, your upsetting Esme."
"I'm fine," I told them "Just don't push her too far."
"We won't." They all said
Talking to my family every day helped me a lot. I missed them, as much as I disliked what they had done, I knew deep down that I still loved them and I really missed them. Maybe this experience is what we needed for the entire family.
I realized, with despair, that I had finished the task set before me, according to the big clock in the library, I had been occupied for just over 2 hours, it was longer than I thought.
Still it was only a few hours before I had to pick up the children from their clubs, so as I got back to the house I decided to prepare the dinner, that way when the children got back they wouldn't have to wait too long to have something to eat, if Jerry complained I was more than happy to have that argument with him.
I picked Lola up at 5 o'clock and whilst we travelled to where I would be picking up both Leila and Luke we talked about our days. I could hear the despair in Lola's voice as she talked about her tennis club, she didn't like it. She did, however, like to hear about my day and what it was like at the library, even though their mother worked their, it seemed that she never took the children their.
At 6pm both Lola and Luke rushed outside, as soon as they spotted the car the quickly hurried to get inside. Like Lola, the both had a look of despair on their faces; I could tell that they didn't really enjoy their clubs.
After the children had their dinner, they cleaned up. Tonight they didn't have any homework seeing as it was the half-term holidays.
As their bedtimes approached all of the children went upstairs to wash and dress for bed. They came downstairs to talk to me for a while, as soon as their bedtime approach they went upstairs.
Jerry came home, yet again, at 10 O'clock. He heated up leftovers from what was dinner, before heading off to bed.
"We have a schedule for the holidays as well, I'll explain it in the morning, we generally sleep in till nine, I'll guess I'll see you in the morning." Jerry said to me without even looking in my direction.
Just when I thought he was warming up to me. I dreaded to see what my schedule was, so as I headed upstairs, instead of dwelling on what tomorrow may bring, I waited until the moment that I would get to hear from my family again.
I know that day three with the Cullen's is a little bit boring, but just so that everyone knows day four is going to be a bit boring as well, but don't worry because when day five comes, so will all of the drama.
Now that everyone is off on holiday, let's see how this is going to play out. Ideas would be fantastic, please review!
