So this is the last day, Sarah is finally going to go back to what she deemed as her sane lives, but after this week... well time for a few things to come out first. Don't you think?
So for this very much dramatic chapter I'm doing this as a third POV so it's basically what someone who's watching would see, but I may add a few thoughts and sayings in on behalf of the others. This is definitely going to be a long chapter... just saying.
Okay this is going to be the final talk with the kids talking with Sarah and the adults, essentially Sarah is going to be giving some feedback, as she is sooo entitled to speak her mind, and then she'll will question the guys, well adults first, then we will see just what our favourite gang has been up to.
Are you guys ready?
I certainly am.
Let's get down with this already then, right focus Rhoda.
Disclaimer: As Sad as I'll be when I finally finish off my story, this Character will never belong to me, one can hope and dream...
? POV
Last day up in Alaska with the Cullen's. Who'd have thought that this is what we would have been brought too. This episode of Wife Swap has got to be the most interesting one to date, I mean their is chaos, drama, spoilt brats, stressed adults, illnesses, fights, major shopping... God the list is endless.
Everyone got a simple order today, they were to remain in the house, and by 4.30pm they had to be sat in the living area, as it was feedback time, God I always hated recording this part of the show, it was the second time that we have camera-men directly in the faces of the participants, but at the same time I loved it.
"Dad's just on the phone at the moment," Alice told Sarah, who was glaring at the young pixie-like girl "You know with the hospital, the place that he wasn't allowed to go during this time, he does have patients you know,"
"Ali, don't bother," her brother Emmett called out "Come join us in this epic game we're playing, I'm winning, hey you can be on my team,"
Alice levelled a glare at Sarah, who shrank back in her seat, and then skipped over, and gracefully dropped herself into a sitting position on her brothers knees, Emmett chuckled at his sister, and ruffled her hair, to which Alice responded by pushing him over.
"No sis don't play that card," Jasper was whispering quite loudly at his twin sister "You need to do that one... no, for the love of God Rosie, fine play it I don't care,"
"Um guys where's Jake?" the brunette girl Bella asked.
"Didn't think you'd realise I was missing Bells," Jake said walking through from the kitchen "Awwh my sister loves me enough to care about me," he teased
"Nah its just I was wondering if I'd get a chance to murder you, cant do that if someone beats me too it, can I?" Bella retorted sweetly.
"Cant we just get on with this?" Sarah complained
"Sorry that ain't possible at the moment," one of the cameramen told her "Not till everyone is here, we have plenty of time to see this through, wont hurry up the time ya know,"
God that woman gets on my nerves.
"Sorry about that, where do you want me?" Carlisle asked breezing into the room "Never mind I can guess..."
"How's the hospital?" all of Carlisle's kids asked him
Carlisle shakes his head, and tried to hide his smile, but tells them that all is going well down there and that he can't wait to get back there, to which Emmett jokes around saying that of course his teenaged kids can't keep the boredom from him, which resulted in everyone but Sarah laughing. Sorry has she even been a part of this week?
"Camera rolling in two minutes, everyone get ready to film,"
The two minutes flies by pretty quickly and soon enough Sarah has the green light to do what she has too do, great. She stands up and actually exits the room only to appear about 5 minutes late with some notebook, seriously?
"Right before I begin, I would like to know how much these past few weeks have had an impact of the children," Sarah says
"Excuse me?" Garrett says
"I would like to know how the past two weeks were for you guys," she says as calmly as she can.
"Is she for real?" I hear the young girl Nessie say.
"Yes I am, look it's simply did you or did you not have some sort of impactual effect from the past 2 weeks, I mean I'm a stranger in your house,"
The kids, and I do mean all of the kids, turned to look at one another, whilst the adults did the exact same thing, what on Earth was Sarah playing at here. The kids seemed to go off in some discussion, or debate depends on which way you looked at it.
"Fine I'll go first," Jacob said "You Sarah are no fun, you ruined basically everything, and have tried to turn us into your family, trying to mold us into being best behaved, and whilst we have been good, its not us, you wouldn't voluntarily join in games with us, or laugh at our jokes, hell you even made us make a mess, honestly,"
"You took away everything that defined us as us, you stopped our discussions, because for you that's not what teenagers should be doing, you've tried to get us into academic studies during our holidays... did you know that we all are the smartest students in our school, that we are on the honour role, simple because we excel in our school work... no you didn't because you didn't try to get to know us," Emmett threw in next
"You've been inconsiderate of our feeling, tried to demean us, and quite frankly your antiques have managed to get us all to fall out with one another, and too fight, we are a strong team together and we don't do well with not, you ruined that for us, because of you we have had way too many moments like this, and yet you didn't nothing to help us out," Rose spat out
"You haven't payed any attention to anything that we like, or the things we do, like Esme has probably definitely done with your children, you've treat us as we are nothing but the dirt beneath your feet, or that we are little children throwing tantrums about, you've tried to force our dad to 'punish' us, when our father is the most kind hearted sole you would ever meet," Alice pointed out
"Not to mention that when our friends and family have come here, you didn't even greet them, instead to ignored them, and acted as though they were a nuisance, did you not think we didn't know that you hated anyone that came to see us, yeah we might be ignorant at time, but we do see things you know, and we do actually have feelings... like a normal human being," Edward commented
"You didn't work alongside of us, showing comradeship; instead we were your little slaves, doing cooking and cleaning? What did you do? Nothing, when we were ill did you do anything, no, she stayed well clear of us all, when a parent would go running to their child if they are in pain, even if it was to speak words of comfort, don't you realise that all you've shown us is that you don't care about anyone but yourself," Nessie said
"Look I speak on behalf of my sister and brother here, no we didn't expect you to welcome us with open arms, or expect you to be happy with us, instead you would rather that we went away, and you have been, as far as your concerned we weren't good enough to be in your presence," Tanya sighed
"You didn't let us embrace ourselves Sarah instead you made us feel like we were nothing, and I know everyone here agrees with me, out of everything we thought you could have been, this wasn't what we expected," Jasper said
"Look we aren't trying to be horrible here to you, but you've got to understand the only time we ever saw you smile was briefly on rule change day, then you expected, after reading you rules, for us to act up about it, that we would scream and shout, and not even bother following your stupid rules, and at the end of the day, we are us, you cant change that, we know who we are, and the person we want to be, but you had a different idea for us, instead of helping us... you hurt us... a lot," Bella finished
"I agree with my cousins, we came up with stupid ideas just so that we could have fun, and hope that you would just for a few days join in with us, but you never let us in, you never gave us a chance," Garrett spoke up.
"I'm with them on this, I'm sorry Sarah, but these past few weeks have not been fun, at all," Kate finally said.
The silence that filled the room was deafening, Wow these kids certainly have a way with words, never would have guessed this looking at them.
"That's how you've been feeling?" Carmen asked in shock
All the kids turned to her, and tried to smile, but it seemed as though they just couldn't, and cue wiping away annoying tears from face, it was Nessie who nodded and answered a timid 'Yeah' to her.
"ARE YOU FOR REAL!?" Sarah screeched "I hurt you, that's a load of bull, I made you feel down about yourself, spin me another sob story, I didn't join in? You never gave me a chance, you humiliated me, scared me, made me feel weak, you ignored me, and made me extremely confused as hell, I blacked out because I couldn't deal with your shit..." Sarah brought her hand up to cover her mouth at the shock of letting that slip.
"What did you just say about my kids?" Carlisle said standing up and facing her "Are you out of your mind, we welcomed you into our home, we offered to let you join in with games, told you exactly what we were doing, followed your rules this past week, and had to put up with you being like this to us, and your complaining?"
Carlisle turned to face his children, looking at each one of them, before turning around to face Sarah.
"You didn't help out, you didn't offer to do anything, you never said please, you never said thank you, you weren't even worried when half of this lot were on the verge of collapsing in pain, you didn't converse with any of us unless there was no way of you getting out of it, you looked at us like you were thinking that we thought we were better than you, DO NOT blame my kids for the things that fell down to you, you caused yourself to black out, I would know I'm a doctor, on top of that my kids were NO where near you, so you can leave that one out Sarah,"
"Daddy?" Alice said shyly behind him
Carlisle turned to face his daughter, and at the last second caught her as she threw herself into his arms, he wrapped her up, and placed his head on her shoulder, the rest of the Cullen girls joined them. Sarah stared on in shock at them; guess the good ol' doc wasn't someone she thought could lose his temper.
Tanya turned to face us and gave us a sheepish smile, and turned to look at her family before talking to us.
"Sorry, difficult week for us all, you know,"
"Okay now we've got the truth out in the open lets let Sarah carry on shall we?" Eleazar said with a tight smile "After all it is the last night, don't want any things to linger around, Sarah?"
"Fine, I didn't know that you all felt like that," Sarah said
"You DON'T say," the kids muttered sardonically
Eleazar coughed gaining everyone attention, and levelled a glare at them, that shut them all up, then made a gesture that suggested to Sarah that she should proceed.
"Okay first of I want to say that these past two weeks have been something that had been well out of my comfort zone, I'm not used to being surround by this many people in one household, and some of the things that you did, well I thought that they were dangerous but you know I got ignored," Sarah sighed
"When we told you that we had done them a million times before?" Edward asked confused
"AS I was saying... that first week you guys threw me to the wolves, straight into the deep end without any warning, I went from my comfortable lifestyle to what was to me an accident waiting to happen, you didn't help out around the house, you just... urrgh all I wanted for you to look at what you were doing, and then this week..."
"Again, not our fault Sarah," Emmett commented
"You were all so well behaved, doing what I told you to do, going off to a club like I said, behaving, and then you started to distance yourself from one another, which brings us to yesterday, you were screaming, swearing and saying horrible things about one another," Sarah stressed.
Oh... yeah...
"But I wanted to ask you all how you enjoyed the club that you went too?" Sarah finished more calmly
"Actually so would I the people who ran the club said you guys wanted to share your experiences when I asked," Carmen said
"Oh that, right yeah..." Garrett started to splutter
"What? Didn't you enjoy it?" Sarah asked "I mean I was told that you all were well behaved, and that you had fun, and that..."
"CULLEN!" a shout from outside came
All the Cullen's turned to face one another, and we, namely the crew, noticed the slight panic look upon their faces, well this should be good. Jacob was the member of the group who jumped up and ran right out of the door, slamming it on the way... okay?
"You were saying Sarah?" Nessie said sweetly
"ROSALIE!" another voice shouted from outside
"Shit," Rose hissed, before jumping up.
We were sure she was gonna run outside, but instead she ran right up the stairs, with everyone but Edward and Nessie looking worried, Rose came running down the stairs holding a bag in her hand, and ran out side, again like her brother slamming the door behind her.
"Guys what's going on?" Sarah asked
"Nothing," came their instant response
"Garrett," came Roses hesitant voice from the front door "Kind of need your help out here, if you could, you know... car wise,"
Garrett stiffened up in that instant, the adults were looking on in confusion, and the kids were looking at anywhere but Rosalie and Garret.
"Um *cough* car... wise *cough*," Garrett stuttered
"Yeah," Rosalie drawled "Just a bit of... engine... work, a bit of... grease, and windows of course, you know, just wondering... help or not,"
"Sure... um sure, I... I would love to help you... Rosie," Garrett said a little awkwardly "Need me to bring anything with me, like... I don't know... some kit?"
Rose frantically shook her head, seemingly trying to stay calm, a yelp could be heard from outside, Rose looked briefly behind her, before stepping inside, and closing the door, but not moving away from it.
"No, no, no, no, no, no... Um no, I just need some help, please?" she was begging but with a slight bit of tears mixed in
Garrett gulped.
"Like... NOW!" Rose stressed
Garrett slowly got up, and walked over to her, Rose opened the door, forced out a laugh, and Garrett left, she closed the door behind her. She looked at everyone in the room warily, but did not move from where she was stood.
"Rose? I thought you needed Garrett to help you, why aren't you going out there?" Eleazar asked with his arms crossed.
"Actually I was just... going, I needed to tell... um Bella and Emmett something?" she said, but sounded more like she questioned "Baileys wondering how you guys were feeling after you fall on Wednesday, she said it was a top priority of hers to come and check up on you guys," she stuttered
We all watched as Bella and Emmett turned to stare at each other, seemingly silently communicating with one another, about what I don't know.
"I'm great; you can tell her that Rose, Sarah you were saying?" Emmett said
"I'll phone... her later Rose," Bella said urgently "Yeah Sarah what were you saying, you never did finish that sentence, you know how impatient we are,"
"Boom goes the dynamite," Rose said "Tick of the clock, counting down from five, your both finished now, say good bye my dear,"
"Crash goes the thunder, lightening and the rain, the fire is dancing upon... oh shit," Bella muttered "I forgot the rest of that,"
"Dancing upon the store, like a bonfire, smoking the s'mores, flickers of flames glaze through the... crap," Emmett muttered
"Guys why are you quoting you English assessment?" Carlisle asked
"No reason," Rose, Emmett and Bella said
"Now that you've mentioned that, I'm just gonna go and grab that paper, Emmett can help with lifting me up since it's up high, Em," Bella said, taking hold of Emmett's hand and the both of them running into the kitchen.
"Okay what the hell is going on, Rosalie?" Carmen said sternly
"Nothing, oh would you look at the time, Garrett will be wondering where I am, gotta go... car... fix... save... blah,"
With that Rose dashed outside.
The house phone started to ring, but no one decided to make a move to answer it until the distinct voice of Emmett yelled out to Alice to get that, like NOW. Which Alice did, she didn't even hesitate.
"Cullen Household, Alice speaking, how may I... oh hey... actually no he's not here at the moment... no he wont be here for a while... do you want me to give him a message... do you want me to get him to call you back... are you sure... NO... I mean no don't do that, don't go through the trouble... please don't, he's not here... for the last time Carlisle ain't here, now bye," with that she slammed down the phone
"Actually I think you'll find out he is here Mary-Alice, who was on the phone?" Carlisle asked
"It was Julie asking for Edward, she wanted to talk to you about confirmation of Edwards whereabouts, seeing as we are busy I told her a little white lie, no harm no foul," she said smiling sweetly.
"NO!" everyone heard Rosalie scream outside
"I so should not have change that oil, Rose is so going to kill me," Emmett said coming back into the living area with Bella "Think she'll be mad for long?"
"Well considering I just heard her scream, I'm going to say yeah," Bella replied nervously
Jacob came charging through the door, panting. When we all turned to face him, he held up one finger.
"Right what the Hell is going on?" Sarah asked
"Just a few complications," Jacob gasped "Man am I so out of shape, never should have ran like that, few,"
A pounding on the front door started.
"JACOB OPEN THIS DOOR NOW," a voice yelled "Open up open up open up,"
Jacob opened the door, to reveal a boy that I had never seen before, but he looked mad, he was shaking so bad.
"Hey Will, how's everything..." he didn't get far as this boy Will punch him.
Jacob staggered back from the force of the punch, as Will stepped into the house, looking around, suddenly finding Nessie and Edward, who were trying to hide away from him.
"What got nothing to say guys, not even a 'Hiya Will, how's it going?' No I don't deserve that, wow, have we lost our manners, oh no wait we lost that days ago right,"
Nessie and Edward jumped up, and between them managed to drag that boy Will out of the house, with Jacob following rather slowly behind them. The door didn't stay closed very long, as both Rosalie and Garrett came back through looking a little... well I don't know.
"Who was that?" Sarah asked
"Oh that's Will, long distance cousin or something or Jacobs, I don't really know, anyway anyone up for a cup of tea?" Rose said darting into the kitchen, Garrett following closely behind her.
The house phone again started to ring, but this time Carlisle beat his kids to it.
"Cullen Household, Carlisle speaking... oh hey... really? I wouldn't have said so no... no they've been busy... well that's not possible... because I can vouch for where they were... well I took them there myself... are you sure... when was this... are you sure... huh, guess I'm going to be having a chat with them soon... no, no, I'll talk to them... I'll phone you right back up... bye for now,"
"Don't let dad answer the... oh shit," Edward and Jacob said running through the front door
"Sit you assess down now," Carlisle said "ROSALIE, GARRETT get in here NOW, I think you kids have some explaining to do.
Everyone was soon sat down, looking a little... shifty? Carlisle calmly sat down and stared at the kids impassively, waiting. Out of everyone I thought would crack first...
"RIGHT what the hell is going on?" Sarah yelled
"That is something I would love to hear, seeing as I just had a lovely conversation with Chief Stevens, claiming that yesterday somethings occurred that have all of you tied to it, and I don't know how that would happen seeing as you were all at that lovely club we set you up with, only there is photo and video evidence, not to mention the fact that you weren't registered in the club register," Carlisle said "I mean how does that happen, no one can be in two places at once now can they?"
"You can tell them it was your idea," Garrett muttered to Edward
"My idea, I think you'll find that half of that shit was Rosalie's doing, and most of the rest was Emmett's, I wasn't even with you guys," Edward hissed
"I told you to keep you hood up, but no there wouldn't be any cameras there now would there, you stupid people," Emmett muttered
"Are you kidding me, you were the only one with you hood down," Alice half yelled.
"Carlisle what are they talking about?" Carmen asked
"That's what I, trying to find out,"
"Fine," Tanya spoke up "I'll tell you it, Sarah we haven't followed your rules One. Single. Bit. Nah instead we've been of being us,"
The jaws of the adults dropped in shock as they looked at Tanya who was smiling smugly, whilst the rest of the kids were looking as though they were debating with going along with it, or shutting her up.
"What? Did you really think that dropping us down there would ensure that we would go there, I don't think so, whilst you think we've been... exerting our energy, we've been off doing what we are really good at,"
"And what's that?" Eleazar asked hesitantly
"Causing mischief of course, and it was all going so well until we all fucked up yesterday, it was the only day that we stuck together seeing as it was a half day, and I'll tell you we all got a little pissy at one another, but oh well,"
"You call setting Mrs. Gilberts orchard on fire a little mischief, or throwing a brick and accidentally breaking a window on not only of a car but a house a little mischief," Carlisle snarled
"The fire thing was not supposed to happen at all, Emmett accidentally through a cigarette against it, and it caught fire," Edward said shrugging his shoulders "And the brick thing only occurred because we were having a contest between the girls and boys,"
"YOU DIDNT FOLLOW MY RULES?" Sarah screeched
"That's not what is important right now," Eleazar said shooting her down with a glare "And why... WHY weren't you doing what we told you, you were supposed to do, we trusted you to do as we asked,"
"Would really want to go and mingle about on some course that only has 13 year olds on it, or teenaged boys who just want to stare at my boobs and ass all day," Rose asked "And come on did you really think that we'd go there because you asked us nicely, you didn't force us to the entrance, you left, we walked off,"
"Quite frankly yes, you said being walked in by an adult was so and I quote 'uncool for that to happen'" Carlisle said
"Oh Dad when your credit card bill comes through don't even bother looking at the girls for the cause, that was all the boys," Alice says
"Okay I'm getting a little confused here, how has this got anything to do with before?" Sarah says
"Lets just say you don't want to know okay," Jasper says to her "Lets keep that between me and my siblings and cousins, you adults wont have to be subjected to that,"
"If you really want to know the short version, we were trying to keep our misadventures from you guys and we failed," Kate smiled "Some would even say that we are in a little trouble right now,"
"Fine whatever, what I want to know is what the Hell you have been on with when you should have been following through with my rule... I knew it was too good to be true,"
"Sarah no offence, but we did keep to your insane cooking and cleaning duties, went to bed on time, regardless if we went to sleep then or not, and we got up when you told us we had too, the only thing we didn't do was go to some lame assed club, cause that not what we do," Jacob said
"Apart from what I already know, what else have you done, I'm almost too afraid to ask," Carlisle muttered.
"Well like we mentioned the boys went on a shopping spree with your credit card, we may have left big messes in some shops, pissed of some people, got into some fights, plan and carry out attacks on certain people... you know just saying," Nessie said casually "Pulled a few pranks, put up some slightly disturbing posters, damaged a few places by accident, and overall... yeah we pissed off a lot of people,"
"But when we picked you up..." Carmen trailed off
"Well we did set out to aim to look as though we had been doing what we were supposed to do, which is why we were a little dirtier, than what would be the norm of course, do you really think I'd let Bella walk around with leaves and twigs in her hair?" Alice asked
"No," all the adults minus Sarah (of course) replied.
"This remind me, I have to fix John and Marys cars next weekend," Rosalie muttered "And I have to fix Reverend Walters garden,"
"I think we all have things we need too do sis," Jasper smirked
The adults of the room just stared open mouthed at these kids, some pretty shocking information needs to be digested, boy this is confusing. And then to top it all off...
"Well if that's everything," Edward said "We're gonna go off upstairs, allow you adults to think about how stupid you all really are, let Sarah yell at you guys for a little bit, and if you need us we will be up in our rooms, obviously grounded indefinitely, okay Bye then guys,"
And with that they all walked off upstairs.
"Did that just really happen?" Carmen asked
With that Sarah turned around to the other three adults in the room and started to yell at them, all in all it was a very interesting recording that we got to take, I really hope we can use this in the episode when it views... ooh look at her face, cue the laughter.
Meanwhile Upstairs (not in ?POV)
"Well that went better than I expected," Alice giggled
"Its kind of cute that Will wanted to be a part of this," Bella sighed "Do you really think he's gonna tell his Gramps about this?"
"No doubt, Sam will definitely get a kick out of this, anyway the kid asked, I said yes, what's the harm," Jacob snorted
"Well he served his purpose well, who was it again that phone Carlisle up, I was busy mock fighting with Garrett at that point," Rose said
"Funnily enough it was Embry, then Leah, then Seth, Carlisle almost struggled to keep up with what they were saying,"
"Ah well that was fun, can't believe she actually believed we did all of that," Edward mused "And yet all she was bothered about was us not following her rules, any one else not miss that she didn't mention the smoking thing?"
"What was going through her mind when we first started out, I bet it was funny as fun can be," Garrett chuckled
"She was confused for the most part, wary for the next and scared for the final part, then she was just plain angry, Jeez humans have such complex emotions it was hard to keep up with hers," Jasper said stroking his chin
Everyone chuckled at that.
"Quick thinking with the poem thing Rose, I kind of like how it was like one person says a bit, trails off, the other takes it up- oh shit, final person takes it up- oh shit," Emmett laughed
"When you guys started to do that her mind kind of went blank, all she knew was that something was going on with Rose, Garrett was involved, and she needed his help, but then she stayed behind to 'read' some poetry," Edward said.
"Just think guys a few more hours and Esme will be right back were she belongs," Alice sighed "It's been weird her not being here, or not being able to talk to her,"
"Wonder how she faired on," Tanya mused
"Probably far better than Sarah certainly has," Kate chimed in.
Everyone had to laugh at that, there was no doubt about it, Esme certainly would have made her final week fun for the children she was in charge with, her first week however... well that's still up for debate, and hopefully she will divulge that information when she gets here.
"Alright I have to ask this, in these past two weeks has anyone felt a change in them, like they've had to give up something, but they got so much more in return, like... like everything is coming together, that we actually might have made a difference," Bella asked somewhat shyly
There were mumbled responses of 'Yeah' and 'I think so', just what they all had to give up, was for them too know, but what they gained, well that just constitutes to a better life for them.
See they may not have realised it, but in these past two weeks they have grown closer together, done things in different ways to how they may have done them, had to redefine their relationships with both their mates and with their family, they had to learn what the sacred value of family all comes down too, what the value of love is worth.
For whilst this may have been fun and games for the most part, deep down inside of each of the individuals who were part of the show, they came to a realisation of something, nothing would ever be the same, and yes that even includes Sarah, she isn't all talk and no play.
Just imagine, your family signs you up for this crazy show, you get to not only experience how another family is different to yours, but you get to show that family the way in which you live, so whilst Sarah was still yelling at the parents, upstairs on the third floor, conveyed in Edwards room, sat a group of young individuals, who not only showed a way of life, but helped to improve that of another.
"Okay so now that they are all distracted, and yes please keep you voice down quiet, how are we actually going to show and tell what we were really up to?" Alice asked
Oh boy.
A/N~ How's that? Not bad for a Chapter constructed in less that 7 hours after a long hard day at college during some introductions since I'm starting an apprenticeship. I really enjoyed typing this out especially the last little bit, kind of makes you wonder.
Okay so I will be working on one final Chapter, the very last one (holds back a sob) and then my story is complete, it has taken me over a year, and countless hours of trying to make it work, and making sure that I had all of the right information in my Chapters, including having to double read my work, but I've enjoyed this.