Everyone is sitting around a table outside telling Melody about what caused them to become a part of this world. She sat for a minute, letting it all sink in.
"Well I guess you all want to know why I tried to take my own life." She said.
I felt Esme tense at the words and squeezed my arm around her even tighter. No one said anything; we all just looked at her.
"You don't have to tell us if you don't feel comfortable with it." I assured.
"No it's okay; I'm sort of over it." She replied with a smile.
I nodded and everyone sat completely still, eyes still on her.
"Well I was born in Australia but my biological parents didn't want me so they sent me to an orphanage. From there I bounced around to several different foster homes, often being abused in different ways. Finally, I was adopted by a nice couple when I was 12, only it turned out that they weren't nice at all, the adopted me so that they could get that little extra money each month and treated me just as bad as the foster homes. I started to get bullied at school and had no friends, so on my 15th birthday, I collected as much money as I could find and went to the airport. I flew over to Washington. I didn't know what I was planning to do here; I had no shelter, little food and a small amount of clothes. I decided that I had enough of trying to survive, so I tried to...end it. It didn't work the first time, but apparently it did the second and that's how I ended up here." She explained clearly, although she paused between some of the words when she didn't know how to say it, or had to take a second to keep her emotions under control.
There was silence until Rosalie broke it. "I'm so sorry Melody." Was all she could say.
She shrugged her shoulders, "It's in the past."
Esme gave her a hug then pulled me up. "I need to hunt. Anyone else want to join?"
Rosalie agreed, as did Melody. I still needed to keep Melody as far from the trials as possible because it hadn't been long enough for her to have herself under control.
Esme and Rosalie went to hunt down their own prey while I followed Melody, hoping no human was stupid enough to leave the trails. After she fed, she sat down on a large rock.
"How long will it take me before I can go near humans?"
"Well, that depends on your level of self-control. It's different for everyone."
She nodded in response.
I sat down next to her and kissed the side of her head.
"You'll get there." I said.
She laid her head against my shoulder, "Thank you for welcoming me into your family, dad." she whispered.
A large smile spread across my face, "No problem."
"Are we ready to head back?" Esme asked with Rosalie following behind.
Melody nodded and got up.
We walked back at a normal pace. Esme squeezed my hand, "What's with the ever so happy grin?" She asked me.
"Nothing, I am just very grateful for this family." I said before I kissed her cheek.
As we walked inside, we heard something shatter and I felt Esme tense.
"What was that?" Esme asked before walking fast into the living room. I followed, hoping it wasn't something too important that would upset Esme.
It was a vase, along with a picture frame with a photo of Esme and Carlisle inside. Next to the shattered pieces on the ground was Jasper and Emmett.
"Whoops…sorry." Emmett said and I heard Esme take a large breath, trying to calm herself.
"It's Emmett's fault, he tackled me." Jasper defended himself.
"Dude, you really don't want to start playing the blame game." Emmett said.
"Emmett, get up." Rosalie ordered, shaking her head.
Jasper and Emmett stood at the same time.
"Emmett will replace them." Jasper said.
Emmett pushed him hard against the wall and another picture frame fell.
"Emmett!" Esme yelled.
"Sorry again." Emmett said quietly.
"Esme, maybe you should go upstairs. They'll clean it up." Edward suggested.
She nodded and disappeared.
"Dude, she was about to rip your head off." Edward laughed at Emmett.
"Edward." I warned
He raised his hands in surrender. "I don't anything else to get broken either."
"Emmett, Jasper, clean this up, now. You get to take Esme shopping tomorrow to replace them." I smiled.
Edward broke into a laugh, "Oh that should be good…"