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Chapter 3: The House, Among Other Events

Our new house was absolutely stunning. Esme had known exactly what we would love. Why she had been nervous that we wouldn't like the house was beyond me.

Each of us had a section (consisting of 2 rooms each) of the house to ourselves, as well as an additional room in which we and our lover could share. The sections were divided by thick walls that would absorb much of the sound so that we wouldn't hear most of the others' activities, and they wouldn't hear ours.

I had not realized exactly how much money that Carlisle had earned over the course of the last 400 years. It looked like Bill Gates had nothing on him.

My section of the house was wonderful. In the 'living' room, it had a selection of books that would rival any library, as well as a laptop computer with high-speed internet on a robin's-egg blue coloured desk, a 40-inch LCD TV, and a cushy armchair. In my bedroom, there was an extremely soft-looking humongous bed, even though we didn't need to sleep, and a sofa.

Edward had a music room and his bedroom. In his bedroom, there was another bed, though it didn't look quite as soft as mine, and another sofa. Strangely, he also had 2 plush beanbag chairs. In Edward's music room there was the same gold carpet hung on the wall that was there when I had first met the rest of the Cullens, 20 years ago. There was an updated sound system, with at least 500 CD's, an iPod nano on a deck of speakers on the windowsill, and of course, his piano. There was also a guitar with complicated-looking sheet music.

The room that we were going to share was amazing. The entire southern wall was made out of glass, just like it had been in Edward's old room in Forks. We had a bed at least twice the size of a normal king-sized bed, a loveseat, and two desks side-by-side.

Rosalie's section was all grandeur. It even had a five-storey tower made entirely out of glass. Each floor had a comfortable-looking chair facing the creek and forest behind our house.

Emmet's section had a very complex-looking entertainment system, with at least 3 different computers, speakers that were taller than I was, a huge projector and screen, and one 60-inch hi-def TV. There was enough room in it to fit all 8 of us in it to watch whatever we pleased, and had a DVD library that seemed to consist of every good movie ever made from 1950 on. (A/N Remember, it's 2025 now, so that's a lot of movies!)

Alice's section, predictably, consisted of her 40-metre by 50-metre closet. The rest of her things were put into a room that was bigger than the ground floor of most houses.

Jasper's section was plastered with Civil War paraphernalia. Even though none of us really liked the slavery policies of the Confederacy, we went along with it just for Jasper's sake.

Esme's section looked like it had everything a housewife would do and more. There were knitting needles (Esme could knit any of us a sweater in half an hour) placed on a coffee table beside a large armchair, huge lumps of yarn, laundry machines, and more. It looked like all of our chores would be done from Esme's section.

Carlisle's section was dedicated to his medical studies. There was even an x-ray machine and an MRI, even though we wouldn't need those. I briefly wondered if Carlisle was planning on bringing patients home instead of going to a hospital.

There was also a 'normal' living room with 5 sofas and an armchair that was presumably for Carlisle. There was a kitchen stocked with non-perishable food so that if any humans came to visit, they wouldn't be confused by the lack of food. Lastly, there was a dining room that could fit all of us and at least 10 other guests.

When I saw Esme after Edward's and my tour of the house, I threw my arms around her and said, "It's beautiful, Esme. How long did it take to make?"

"Oh, it only took a month or so!" said Esme, looking affectionately at Carlisle, Jasper, Emmett and Edward, who had all gathered in our living room. Oh, so that was where they had gone for the prolonged periods of time. I was such an idiot for not seeing it.

"So, Bella," said Edward. "Now that we're done our tour of the house, let's go buy you a new car!"

"Aw, no Edward, don't do this to me!"

"Bella, you need your own car. What happens all of our other cars are unavailable? It could happen."

"Fine." I groaned. "Let's go buy me a stinking new car."

We browsed the local car dealership for an hour. It had every type of car in existence, from Audi to Range Rover. Edward and I finally decided on a golden-toned Jaguar. I signed the papers and soon I was driving alongside Edward back to our house.

After a night of different random activities, Alice forced me to put on an outfit we had brought from the mall. The occasion? First day of school. We would be going to Segoe High, which had a total of 1829 students, now including the six Cullen kids. Rosalie and Jasper would again be posing as twins, with me as their sister who was one year younger. Our names would be Rosalie, Jasper and Bella Whitlock. Alice and Edward would be the fraternal Brandon twins with Emmett Brandon as their one-year-older brother. Alice, Edward and I would be sophomores, and Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett would be juniors.

Also, we couldn't present ourselves as couples until at least one week into school. Carlisle and Esme said that it would seem weird if the siblings, albeit adopted ones, were dating each other.

Anyways, back to the outfit: Alice jammed on me a long aqua-coloured tank top with a mid-length sleeved dark purple sweater that stopped around my belly button. On my bottom half, I was wearing the dark wash jeans that I had bought from Juicy Couture and 2-inch high golden sparkly pumps. Edward was looking dazzling in a white t-shirt with gold trim that matched the colour of his eyes today, and black track pants that only he could pull off.

Today was a cloudy day. Alice predicted that there would be no sunny days until the middle of October, in which there would be 2, and after that, no sunny days until January. It was the perfect place for vampires to reside.

We piled into Edward's Volvo and passed various stores, restaurants and gas stations on the way to Segoe High. It was a beige monstrosity that loomed three stories over us. There were the two permanent buildings, the faculty/cafeteria/gym building and the building with the main classes, and there were 5 portables as well.

We marched into the faculty building and watched one of the secretaries' eyes widen as she saw us approaching her. I saw the faint tingle of a blush on her cheeks, and noted her shallower breathing and elevated heart rate.

"What can I do for you?" she asked breathlessly, never taking her eyes off of Emmett, Jasper and Edward.

I opened my mind up to Edward and thought, 'She's at least 40 years old and she's crushing on you, Emmett and Jasper like the teenage girls here undoubtedly will!' I heard Edward muffle a snicker, and saw the rest of us shoot quizzical looks at him.

"Bella predicted, probably accurately, that the teenage girls here will start lusting after us the moment they laid eyes on us." Edward explained, too low for a human to hear.

"Bella's right," Alice murmured back. "Also, the guys are going to be all over us, or rather, they'll try to be!" She grinned and raised her eyebrow at me, and I winked back. Not only could I send people flying 20 feet away from me, I could also, if I could control it, give people a nudge away from me. However, that still wouldn't be fitting, as the humans would be trying to walk towards me and find themselves somehow walking in the opposite direction, so I wouldn't be able to use it at school.

"Alright, your files seem to be in order. Rosalie Whitlock?" said the secretary. Rosalie stepped forward and took her schedule. "That's me."

"Jasper Whitlock?"

"Mine." answered Jasper.

"Bella Whitlock?"

"Me!" I sang.

"Edward Brandon?"

"Thank you." said Edward.

"Alice Brandon?"

Alice bounced forwards and chirped, "Thanks!"

"And lastly, Emmett Brandon?"

"Me." Emmett boomed.

We walked out of the faculty building and towards the main building. I had Geography, Math, Music, and History with Edward, and Geo, Math and History with Alice. (A/N Here in Canada, we only have 4 courses a semester, in case some of the readers are wondering.)

As we passed the various humans scattered around campus, we noted that we were the subjects of many whisperings, including:

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. They are so beautiful!"

"Why did they have to move here? I had the biggest muscles before they came. Hey, I wonder if that blonde would go out with me?"

"Do you think that guy with the blond hair would go out with me? Or do you think someone that good-looking is already taken?"

"Have you seen those new kids? They're gorgeous! I call that one with the bronze-coloured hair. He is so handsome. We'll be the perfect couple!"

I smothered a hiss that was bubbling up my throat. I couldn't stand the thought of my Edward with one of those shallow, ditzy girls.

"Don't worry, Bella." Edward soothed me. "You're the only one for me. Besides, I wouldn't want to go out with any of them anyway! All of those girls, including those teachers who are happily married, are undressing me, Jasper, and Emmett in their heads right now. I wouldn't want to kiss someone who was imagining me naked."

Now a little calmer, I headed to my first class, Geography, with Edward and Alice. Alice said, "Bella, since you're my sister, you deserve a little note of caution. Half the guys did think like Tolby, and decided that they're going after you. Also, Tolby and a couple of other devoted guys are going to act like Mike Newton did. Also, you're going to encounter replicas of Jessica and Lauren."

"Great," I groaned. "Another healthy dose of Mike, Jessica and Lauren."

"Don't worry, Bella. Mike wasn't that bad, was he?"

"Uh, Alice, yes, he was. Wouldn't you call messing up his hair so that it would look like Edward's so I would go out with him a little too obsessed?"

"True, true. Anyways, little sister, watch out!"

"Little, Alice? You can hardly call me little. You're four foot ten!"

And with that comment, we headed to first-period geography with Mr. Kiviero. I didn't like the way that he looked at me and Alice. It was like he wanted to date us, or something…I shuddered at the thought.

As Edward, Alice and I sat down in the back, Tolby and a gang of his friends came up to us. "Heyy‌," he said, probably trying to sound cool, but sounding like a drowned turkey. "Do you want to sit with me and my buddies?"

I gazed at him coolly. "No thanks," I said. "I'd much, much rather sit with Edward and Alice." I put my arms around them.

Tolby looked stricken. "Are you sure?" he asked. "It's an instant ticket to popularity."

"No, don't want to sit with you and I wouldn't want to if my life depended on it! Now go away!"

He turned to Alice. "How about you?" he said. I groaned softly. "Do you want an instant ticket to popularity?"

Alice glared at him. "No, I don't want an instant ticket to popularity. In fact, I'd rather sit beside a mutant three-eyed porcupine! Now STOP harassing me and my sister!"

Tolby looked away, looking extremely surprised. "Nobody's ever refused to sit beside me before…" he said under his breath.

Alice, Edward and I spent the rest of the lesson passing notes around. However, about fifty minutes into class, after he had written the notes down on the board, we saw Mr. Kiviero heading our way. He didn't look too happy with us.

"Quick," I hissed under my breath. "Copy the note!"

Edward, Alice, and I used our vampire speed to write down the note in about 5 seconds. It was a wonder we didn't break our pencils.

"Well," said the teacher. "Would you like to share with us what you have been doing for the last fifty minutes?" Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Tolby looking delighted that we were getting into trouble.

"Yes, sir," I said. "We've been doing our notes for the last fifty minutes." I held up my paper for him to see. He looked absolutely befuddled, and Tolby looked taken aback. Mr. Kiviero walked away with a frown on his face.

"He's trying to figure out how we could have written our notes in record time, even though he saw us passing notes to each other." murmured Edward. "He's considering the whole superhero theory."

I muffled a laugh. "Wasn't that what I thought you were after you rescued me from Tyler's van?"

"It certainly was." chuckled Edward.

And with that, the bell rang, and we headed off to our next class..

End of Chapter.

Whew! That was my longest chapter yet! Sorry this one took so long, guys! I've been pretty busy.