Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Twilight. They belong to Stephenie Meyer.
PART I
THE END
Hate is a strong word,
but I really, really, really don't like you.
Now that it's over
I don't even know what I liked about you.
Brought you around,
and you just brought me down.
Hate is a strong word,
but I really, really, really, really, really, don't like you.
- Plain White T's
The last box hit the floor with a low thud, muffled by the carpet.
Isabella Cullen tucked a stray piece of brown hair behind her ear. She then walked out of her room and into the foyer of the Victorian mansion she now called home.
She had lived in all kinds of homes from the palaces of Versailles to the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The large white house paled in comparison to some of the grander places she has lived in.
It was mostly wood and glass, with marble only in the kitchen and bathrooms.
But, it sat in an isolated area surrounded by the forest, practically invisible to their new home of Forks, WA.
"Well, I think that's the last of my stuff," Isabella said as she approached her youngest sister and brother Alice and Jasper. "Are all the cars parked?" she asked.
"Yeah, Rose is out in the garage with them right now," Alice said with somber eyes.
Their sister Rosalie was having a somewhat…difficult time adjusting to their new surroundings.
In other words she was being a major bitch (her specialty) and constantly sulking.
In reality, Rosalie was the only one, well, rude enough to say what she was feeling. Because nobody had wanted to move, but they to, it was necessary because of…
" I don't think all the speakers to my stereo are together. I only see three," informed a voice from the bottom of the stairs.
Edward Cullen.
The bronzed-haired, Adonis-like member of the family. The three other members standing in the foyer looked up at he sound of their brother's voice.
Huh, now he's my brother, Isabella thought to herself."Of course the first thing he does is unpack his stereo," Alice said with a laugh. "But that was after he made sure his car was safely delivered." At that everyone had a quiet laugh.
Except Edward. "Did you ever think maybe I wanted to listen to music while I unpacked?"
"No, I'm sure it never occurred to her, considering she's probably too busy trying to figure out where to put all the clothes that didn't fit in her closet," Isabella jabbed at her sister.
It wasn't that she wanted to help out Edward, but she never missed an opportunity to make fun of any member of her family.
Alice shot her an evil look, or it should have been, but Alice was too sweet to pull off evil. Isabella just smiled back. Edward of course laughed and even Jasper looked amused.
"I think I saw them out on the porch," Jasper said in Edward's direction, referring to his missing speakers.
"Thank you," Edward said on his way out the door.
Alice and Jasper walked on upstairs to finish unpacking their room, while Isabella went into the kitchen where she found her mother Esme.
The kitchen wasn't a place the Cullens usually frequented considering they didn't actually eat food, being vampires and all. But, they did have some silverware and china that needed to be unpacked.
"I can see why you chose to unpack this room, there's really not much to it," Isabella said by way of greeting.
Esme just softly smiled at her, "I just though I'd get it out of the way, then I'm headed upstairs to help Carlisle with his study."
Together they had the whole kitchen unpacked within a minute.
Later that evening all of the Cullen siblings sat at the dining room table in a family meeting. Esme was busy unpacking and Carlisle was at the hospital on his first shift in their new home.
"Bella!" Emmet said rather loudly grabbing his sister's attention.
"Sorry, what?" she said snapping out of the daze she had been in. They had all gathered to discuss enrollment in the local high school, which they would start in two days. To be honest Bella had barely been paying attention.
It was probably the millionth time they'd done this, and she had lost all interest at the thousandth.
"You want to keep your last name, right?" Jasper asked her from her left, where he was seated with Alice. Rosalie and Emmet sat across from them, with Edward and Bella sitting at the ends of the table. As far away from each other as possible.
"Yeah, of course. I'm definitely a Cullen," Bella said rejoining the conversation.
Alice took charge then, "Well Ok then you be mine and Emmett's sister, Rosalie and Jasper will be twins, as always, and Edward—"
"I'm a Cullen," Edward cut in.
Bella looked at him for the first time that night, "But you never are."
"Well I am know,"
"But Edward can't you keep your last name like you always do," Alice pleaded her dreams being dashed before her very eyes.
The three couples always had different last names; so that where ever they were they could be together without people thinking them at all incestuous.
Not that it really mattered, but by taking his adoptive name, the same as Bella's, then he was officially declaring them as over. Not that it hadn't been pretty damn clear before.
But Alice, ever the optimist, had of course hoped that when they moved things would change. Things had changed, but Isabella and Edward Cullen were no more.
The whole family was still adjusting to being together, without all of them actually being together.
"Fine. Be that way. But I don't know why you can't keep your own damn last name, why you have to take mine," Bella said still looking right at Edward. He was looking at her too. From the outside it might look like they were having a very intense staring contest.
Edward didn't reply, he just got up and walked out, as though he couldn't tolerate being talked to that way.
Bella found that absolutely disgusting and storm out right after him, just as pissed.
After that the rest of the family dispersed and went to their respective rooms. That night when the whole family was home they all spent the night keeping busy, as not to parish from boredom, in their bedrooms together.
Edward and Bella had their whole rooms unpacked by dawn.
They were the only ones who spent the whole night alone.
This is just a rough start to the story, i might not even continue. I don't know. But if you like it please review and if i get enough I'll add another chapter.
BlueEyes