CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX:
I'M SORRY

EMMA WALKED BACK FROM helping the family with Bella and Edward's home. Rosalie and Bella had decided to stay at the house and as they entered, Jacob was startled awake from his spot on the couch.

"My turn." Rosalie said with a smile as she walked up to Bella. Bella handed Renesmee over to the blonde goddess.

"Where does she sleep?" Bella quizzed.

"In my arms, or Edward's, or Esme's, sometimes Amelia's." Rosalie answered the brunette. Rosalie walks away as Alice walks up to Bella.

"Happy birthday!" Alice cheers with her usual bubbly smile.

"I stopped aging three days ago." Bella said with furrowed eyebrows.

"Well, we're celebrating anyway. So suck it up." Alice says before holding out a key. Bella looks at the pixie vampire before taking the key and walking out of the house with Edward and Alice. Everyone left the room to do their own thing whilst Emma stayed in her spot. Her arms were crossed over her chest and her bottom lip was pulled between her teeth as she stared out the glass wall. Soon, Alice entered the home and glanced at Emma before deciding that the girl needed some alone time. Alice skipped out of the room in search for Jasper.

"Do you want to hold her?"

Emma blinked in surprise at the sound of Rosalie's voice. Emma turned her head to glance at Rosalie before looking back out the window. She didn't respond as Rosalie bit her lip with a slight frown. She took a careful step closer, but made sure to keep her distance. Rosalie's eyes looked down at Renesmee's sleeping form before she sighed and looked back up at Emma.

"Is there something you want?" Emma finally spoke. Her voice barely above a whisper. Her voice sounded so vulnerable, almost as if Emma was trying to keep it from breaking between her words. She was tired, mentally. If she could, she was positive she would be sleeping at the moment. She didn't have the effort to argue, so she didn't. She didn't want to argue. But she was going to stand by her words. She was stubborn like that.

"No." Rosalie finally answered after a moment of silence. "I guess I just wanted to hear your voice." Emma hummed in response. There was another silence before a soft sigh left Rosalie's lips and she turned and walked away. She stopped in the doorway, turning her head to look at Emma. "I'm sorry." With that, she walked out of the room.

Emma's eyes didn't leave the glass, but a small frown fell on her face before she whispered, "I know."

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Emma leaned her head on Carlisle's shoulder as he did work for the hospital. Carlisle had an arm wrapped around his daughter as he worked on his work with one hand. Esme was usually the one Emma went to for comfort, but today she wanted to watch her father work and in doing so he also brought her comfort. Emmett was sitting in the room reading a newspaper, Amelia sitting beside him with her body leaning into his side as she read the newspaper as well. Jacob was looking out the window, watching as Rosalie interacted with Renesmee outside on the forest floor.

The group of five all looked up when footsteps grew closer to the room. Edward and Bella entered with small smiles on both of their faces.

"Wow, done already?" Emmett asked with a smirk, earning a slap from Amelia and the roll of the eyes from Emma.

"Where's Renesmee?" Bella asked, ignoring Emmett's comment.

"Guess." Emma muttered.

"Blondie stole her." Jacob answered, nodding his head towards the window.

"Break a lot of stuff?" Emmett continued. Amelia sat up and gave him a 'will you shut the hell up?' look.

"Emmett, no." Bella said with the slight shake of the head. Emmett lets out an amused laugh as Amelia just rolls her eyes and shakes her head at her husband. The amusement quickly fades from the room as the house phone rings. They all look at that phone as tension grows in the air.

"Is that Charlie?" Bella asked, looking up at the others.

"He's been calling twice a day." Edward answered her.

"He's in pretty rough shape." Jacob continued.

"Eventually we'll have to tell him you didn't make it." Carlisle speaks up, looking at the brunette.

"He needs to mourn, Bella."

Jacob nods his head in agreement. Bella looks between him and Edward before nodding her head. "Okay, we'll do it tomorrow."

"I'm gonna miss this place." Emmett says with a sigh before standing up.

"We'll come back. We always do." Carlisle assured. Amelia stood up as well, grabbing Emmett's hand and interlacing their fingers as they started to leave the room only to be stopped by Jacob's voice.

"Wait, nobody said anything about leaving."

"Once people believe that Bella's dead we can't risk anyone seeing her." Carlisle informed the wolf as Emma removed her head from his shoulder.

"So you just. . . disappear?" Jacob asked with disbelief.

"Jacob, we don't have choice." Edward calmly told the boy. Jacob scoffed in disbelief before walking out of the room. Emma rolled her eyes at the boys dramatics before letting out a sigh and standing up herself.

"If anyone needs me, I'll be in the woods killing animals." Emma stated before moving past Edward and Bella before leaving the residence.

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Emma laid on the couch with her ankles crossed. The family all stood in the room, trying to help Bella learn how to act around humans. Charlie was coming over because of Jacob who exposed the fact that he was a werewolf. Emma had a tennis ball in her hand that she had found randomly lying around the house and was tossing it up in the air and catching it―︎basically she wasn't being helpful whatsoever and found the entire situation amusing.

"These will irritate your eyes at first." Alice stated as she placed brown contacts over Bella's blood red eyes.

"The main thing is not to move too fast." Carlisle told the newborn.

"Try taking a seat, crossing your legs." Esme suggested. Bella did as told only instead of going a human speed, she used her vampire speed. This resorted in Emma letting out an amused snort. Jasper, who had been standing behind the couch, looked down at his sister and raised an amused eyebrow.

"Maybe a tad slower." Esme spoke, Carlisle pinching his fingers together for more effect.

"And blink at least three times a minute." Alice told her. Bella did as told, blinking several more times then asked. "Good."

"For a cartoon character." Both Jacob and Emma spoke, giving each other amused looks.

"Hold your breath, it'll help with the thirst." Carlisle informed.

"Just don't forget to move your shoulders, so it looks like you're breathing." Edward told his wife.

"And don't sit so straight," Rosalie's delicate voice spoke, "humans don't do that."

Bella slouches before quickly standing and stuttering out her next words. "Okay, I got it. Move around, blink, slouch." The vampires all perk up when the sound of a car pulls up.

"Good luck." Esme says with a soft smile before everyone started to leave the room. Jasper pulled Emma up off the couch, knowing she wouldn't have moved had he not done so. He left her side and quickly joined Alice upstairs. Emma went up the steps with a sigh and entered her room. She laid on her bed and closed her eyes as she took the moment of peace and quiet, and relished in it.

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