A/N: Sorry it's taken sooooo long to update that I've worried you that I might never update again. I've just been stuck and busy. Nor is it anywhere as long as the last but hopefully you'll like it or parts of it.

"Bella, have you seen my CD's?" Serenity called from upstairs. Her loud footsteps, pounding on the floor above, as she rushed from one end of the room to the other searching.

"No, where's the last place you had them?" I asked automatically while I continued to cook.

"In my stereo, but they're not there anymore…They just disappeared," she yelled back with frustration. I could already imagine her tearing the house apart looking for the CDs that might not even be here.

"Relax Seren, they couldn't have gone far. It's not like they have legs and can walk away, at least not yet anyway." With today's science you never know what the next major step is.

I continued stirring the pasta while Katie silently flipped through her book. "Bella?" she asked, looking up from her book.

"Yes," I replied.

Her face narrowed in thought just as Serenity came down the stairs.

"Never mind," she said shaking her head and heading for the living room. Just in time for Serenity to walk straight into the kitchen.

"Are you sure you haven't seen my CDs?" She starred at me with raised eyebrows.

"I didn't take them if that's what you're getting out," I replied as Serenity shrugged.

"I wasn't accusing you; it was just a question for reassurance on my behalf. But you know what they say…the guilty always jump to conclusions."

Just what I needed, an accusing sister who was trying not to be accusing in the most unsubtle way. This might already be a sign of how tonight's dinner will go.

"Serenity," I said, shaking my head. "All I'm going to say is, did you by chance take them out of your stereo before for whatever reason?"

She scrunched her nose and shook her head. "Of course not, I would have remembered that. And even so I would've found them by now since I searched my room ups…oh, wait." Her eyes grew wider as she smacked her hand against her forehand. "I loaned them to Noah right before he went back to Phoenix."

Setting down the stirring spoon I turned and looked at her as she gave a short, slightly embarrassed laugh.

"Don't look at me like that. He was the one who was supposed to give them back, not take them with him. I think I'll make a quick call to make sure he hasn't damaged them." She left the room with most of her pride still intact as I rolled my eyes and went back to making dinner.

This was going to be a long night.

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"Alice, you're here," Serenity said excitedly from the doorway.

"Of course, I'm here," I heard Alice reply in her chirpy voice. "I said I was coming, didn't I. My family will be here in just a minute as well. They're having some arguments out by the car, sibling issues."

"I know what you mean." Serenity gave a quick laugh. "Anyway, I know you were coming but Bella had her doubts, and…well it just got me wondering."

"Well now you don't have to wonder anymore. Oh and I forgot to tell you Serenity, but my family and I are vegetarians."

I almost thought she was going to say vampires for a second, but vegetarians. That is certainly an interesting way in getting out of a meal. Too bad it won't work in this case.

"Oh that's fine. Bella's making salad for a dish and pasta will be the main course. Your family can have that."

"Great," Alice chirped with a little too much enthusiasm I noted.

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"Dinner is served," I called from the dining room. Shuffling came from the living room along with some giggles, Alice and Serenity no doubt.

Katie came in first and looked over the food, appreciatively. "It looks good, Bella."

"Well it should. I've been slaving over it for hours. You know how Mom would have had a fit if I didn't serve something nice for the guests." Katie smiled, taking her seat in the process.

Serenity came in next and looked at the food on the table. "You sure didn't cook like this when our cousins came over."

"Yes because Aunt Kendall came with them."

Serenity chuckled taking her seat beside me, across from Katie. "You sure didn't like her."

"No, I just throw food in everybody's face," I replied rolling my eyes at the memory. There was no other person who got under my skin more than her. Not even John.

The rest of the Cullens soon walked in.

"You threw food at your aunt," Katie exclaimed, shocked.

I almost kept forgetting how knew she was to this lifestyle, this family. After all she was still trying to grasp our whole dysfunctional, family dynamic but still would become shocked when she heard something she hadn't heard of before. It would probably last that way for quite a while longer, since there was so much she missed out on in our lives that she needed to catch up on.

"No, she poured food on her. You really should have seen our aunts face through, she was so stunned, but she never got mad like always. She certainly can be strange like that," Serenity added for me. I took my seat down next to her with Alice flanking her other side.

"She deserved it to," I grumbled.

The rest of the Cullens took their seats. Edward next, on my other side as Rosalie glaringly took her seat across from me next to Katie. Emmett sat beside her across from Edward as Jasper sat next to Katie across from Alice. Carlisle and Esme took their seats at the head of the table, Esme closest to me.

As dinner started and we had set our plates with food I took notice that the Cullens were taking small amounts of the lettuce and pasta. Rosalie and Jasper took the least. Serenity, on the other hand, didn't seem to notice as she was too busy chatting with Alice and Katie seemed to just shrug it off, unconcerned. Probably for the best.

"So dear, we've heard that your family has moved around quite a bit, is that true?" Esme asked me. I nodded my head.

"Yes, ma'm," I replied.

She chuckled. "Call me Esme. Ma'm makes me sound so old."

I smiled in response. "Okay, Esme."

"Does either of you two remember your first moves, Serenity, Bella?" she asked as both.

Serenity responded first, "No, I was too young, both of us really. However, Paris was the most memorable for me. It was beautiful there especially at night time, but it'll probably be awhile before we go back. Dad's not a big fan of the French and eating snails, he prefers the United States."

Esme nodded and looked over to me as did the rest. "Serenity's right I was too young to remember my first move and…well none have been that memorable."

For the rest of the night the conversation went on like this with facts, however meaningless, about our lives. I thought about asking them something personal in exchange but decided against it for now it wasn't like we were going to be near them for long. What was the point in getting close to them?

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By the end of the night most of the Cullens had left the only ones left were Edward and Alice. Edward and I were standing by the door while Serenity and Alice were still in the dining room making plans. Katie was in the kitchen cleaning plates.

"Vegetarians, huh, when did you decide that?" I asked noting the way he shifted his feet.

"A while ago," he replied.

I frowned at the vague answer. "Ever going to be more specific."

He flashed a smile with perfectly white teeth. "Probably not."

Serenity and Alice rounded the corner, laughing and smiling. Edward straightened while Alice came up and gave me a quick hug. "Thanks for the dinner Bella," she said while pulling away. "I think we're all going to be great friends." She started walking out the door followed by Edward before turning and saying, "Oh and Bella we have to go shopping some time with Serenity, Katie, and Esme."

She left while I inwardly grimaced. Shopping trips with Serenity along with two vampires weren't exactly what I call fun.

Edward looked at me as if sensing my discomfort. "Shopping trip with my sister sounds like fun." His tone was playful.

I rolled my eyes. "Goodnight Edward," I said shutting the door in his chuckling face.

That vampire boy was really starting to get to me.

Serenity and I started walking over to the kitchen and Serenity was barely able to keep from soaring off the ground and her words were coming a hundred miles an hour. "Wasn't that fun? We should invite them over to dinner more often or maybe more shopping trips or something. Although they didn't seem to enjoy the food, must be on some kind of vegetarian menu diet." Serenity was still beaming from excitement, unknowing of the truth.

"Is there even such a thing?" Katie asked with furrowed eyebrows when we reached the kitchen.

Serenity titled her head before responding. "I don't know. I've never been a vegetarian."

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(Noah's POV)

"What's going on?" I asked carrying my suitcases under each arm. We were leaving early and I didn't understand why.

Mom was holding Robert and whispering something in his ear.

Dad looked at me and said, "We have to make a stop somewhere else right before we go home."

"A stop where?"

Dad stood up and folded up his newspaper. "Well, son you're going to meet the Blacks." Then looking me straight in the eye he said, "Werewolves."

"Where…Wolfs….Where…Wolfs…" Robert kept repeating excitedly while I completely tuned out.

A/N: Thanks for everyone whose stayed and waited for the story I appreciate your patience a lot.