Bella's POV

The thought of staying away from my family to be while they welcomed their newest sister was somewhat devastating. I knew that I would miss them too much if I had to stay away too long. Edward and I had already told Alice that she could have almost free reign over the wedding and had also told my parents. My mother was in full wedding planning, my father was moping around about her being a traitor and Jacob was gone.

I did not have to worry long about missing my family. After only a week, Edward informed me that Bree had approached him with an idea. She said the emotional climate of my absence and by proxy Edward's was not very comfortable for her. Edward had told me all about her abilities that I had not seen in the clearing. Bree suggested that she would just stay upstairs in her room like Rosalie did or just plan hunting/ training trips with Jasper and Emmet around my visits. This worked out for all of us. If I didn't know that it was to protect me that she had suggested it I do admit it would have been a disconcerting plan. As it was I felt like I was locking this young girl in her room but from what the Cullens said Bree enjoyed her new life for the most part. It was a hopeful story seeing as I was going to be a newborn vampire very soon.

The first few times that I went to the Cullen house Bree left. I was learning about being a newborn vampire and these were things that I thought Bree should hear too. Edward invited her to stay in her room where she could hear the vampire lessons Carlisle was giving me.