BPOV

"Carlisle?" I called from his office door jamb. He had arrived home from work right on time and the four of us were outside playing soccer all afternoon. Edward and Jasper were currently making a mess of my dinner.

"Yes?" He opened his arms for me to come to him. I did, standing next to him and leaning my head against his shoulder. I stayed quiet, hoping he would sit me in his lap but not prepared to ask for it.

"What is it, Bella?" He asked ever so gently. I couldn't answer. I didn't know why I was acting so needy.

He grasped my upper arms and held me away from him so that he could look at my face. I almost whimpered at the loss of contact. Couldn't he just let me be with him?

"Come on, Bella, you can tell me." He prodded.

"Can't you just…?" I cut myself off, still too afraid of asking him to hold me. Edward was the only one I would do that to.

"Can we call Esme?" I decided to say suddenly.

He leaned back in his chair smiling.

"I think she would like that."

He pulled me into his lap.

Victory! I thought to myself. He dialed the number and handed me the phone.

"Hello?" I head Esme ask.

"Hi Esme, this is Bella."

"Hello dear, how was your day?"

I talked to Esme on the phone for a long time. I had missed having her around today. Besides Edward, she was the most constant person in my life.

Once I hung up the phone, I wrapped my arms around Carlisle's neck, so he wouldn't be tempted to set me back down.

He sighed deeply and held me close to him.

"Are you sad?" I asked him.

"Not exactly." He answered petting my hair. "I was just thinking about when you will be too big to sit in my lap." He tightened his grip even more. "Don't grow." He ordered.

"Okay." I closed my eyes.

"Bella!" Jasper called, ruining the moment. "How would you like to go out to eat?" Carlisle gave me a look that said 'lord help us' and I giggled.

2 weeks later

EPOV

"Is all your music packed?" Esme asked.

"Yes, mom." I raised my eyebrow at her. I was over a hundred years old, and yet, she still mothered me more than any of us, besides Bella.

"Good," she reached up and patted my cheek affectionately. "Would you distract Bella for awhile? She is terribly upset about all this." She shook her head sadly. When Bella found out we were moving so she could go to a private school on the East Coast, she cried for hours. No one could understand why she was so upset, she refused to speak to any of us about it.

"Sure, Esme," I kissed her forehead and headed upstairs.

Bella was sitting with her head pressed up against the window, watching the raindrops slide down blurring the outside world. I picked her up and sat her in my lap, allowing the rubber band in my chest to ease. She buried her face in my neck and sniffled.

"Bella? Why won't you tell anyone what is wrong?"

"I don't wanna move. I don't want it to change." Her words were jumbled and barely audible against my cool neck.

"Nothing is going to change Bella," I said softly. "You'll see."

Unknown POV

The crazed man now knew, and he rocked back in forth on his heels in delirious excitement. The Cullens had taken the girl and he knew how to get revenge. He may have been crazed, but he had not lost all sanity. He could not take on the coven himself, but there was one power that could.

BPOV

I had been in this somewhat small city for a month. I had begged my parents to home school me, but they had refused. Apparently I needed to meet kids my own age. No one at school talks to me, anyway. All of them had grown up together. I was shy, a loner, and one hundred percent fine with that.

Despite my protests in the beginning, I actually do love school. I enjoy sitting in the very back of a classroom and just sitting and absorbing information. Jasper asks me everyday what I learned in school, I do my best to keep the commentary long and detailed. Mrs. Higgins is my favorite teacher. She is very kind and always picks out the best library books for me. She teaches English.

Although I love learning, I almost never willingly participate in class. Most of my teachers had noted that on my last report card, much to the disapproval of mom and dad. I don't try to participate more, though. It may be childish but I did say I didn't want to go to this school.

Alice absolutely despises the uniforms enforced by the small private school. I thought she was going to cry the first morning she laid it out for me. To make it up to her, I let her redress me when I get home.

I miss when I used to spend all my time with the family, but I know they make an effort to make all of our time together special. We always do something fun on the weekends.

Life was good, as far as I was concerned.

A/N As you can probably see, this is most certainly a transitioning chapter. This story is actually about half-way done. I'm super sorry for the long stall between the last two updates and I'm even sorrier to tell you that the next update won't be up for awhile. I've just graduated high school and there is a lot going on. I'm trying to spend lots of time with my family and friends before I have to leave them in the fall. You can thank .323 for this chapter, I sort of got my butt virtually kicked, haha.