Bella's meeting the family today. It's been a little over a week since the human learned about vampires and she's officially Edward's girlfriend. Esme amd Novalee are cooking Italian food.

"Is she even Italian?" Rosalie asks sarcastically, she is happy about Bella's knowing.

"Her name is Bella," Emmett comments.

"Here comes the human!" Novalee songs as she smells her blood.

"Bella," Esme coos as Edward leads the human into the kitchen, "we're making italiano for you."

"Bella, this is Esme," Edward introduces. "My mother for all intents amd purposes."

'You've given ya a reason to use the kitchen for the very first time," Carlisle muses from where he's cutting veggies near Novalee.

"I hope you're hungry," Novalee coos as she cooks some chicken.

"Yeah, absolutely," Bella says quickly, unsure of what else to say - she's in a house full of vampires.

"She's already ate," Edward says, ruining the mood.

A bowl shatters and glass crumbles onto the floor. "Perfect," Rosalie hisses.

"It's just..." Bella stutters. "I just know you guys don't eat..."

"That's very considerate of you," Carlisle replies.

"Just ignore Rosalie," Edward coos to his girlfriend. "I do."

"Yeah, let's keep pretending this isn't dangerous to all of us," Rosalie says rudely.

"I would never tell anybody!" Bella argues.

"She knows that," Carlisle replies to the human.

"Yeah, well, the problem is that you two have become public now," Emmett comments.

"Emmett..." Novalee says in warning.

"No, Nova, she should know," Rosalie says and turns to Bella. "The entire family will be implicated if this ends badly."

"As in..." bella gulps down the lump in her throat.

Her heart rate picks up amd her blood pumps quicker, Novalee tenses.

"Novalee, go and hunt," Carlisle instructs as Edward shows Bella the rest House. "Emmett, go with her please."

"Come on, my favorite little newborn," Emmett says as they go out into the woods.

Emmett flashes around excitedly, he hasn't had a chance to hunt with Novalee yet. The girl has only bonded with Carlisle, Jasper,

and Rosalie.

"So, what do you want to eat?" Emmett asks, he is like an excited toddler. "Bear? Deer? Turkeys? I want a bear. It's my favorite. Did you know a bear killed me? Rosalie..."

"Emmett!" Novalee says loudly. "Shut up."

Emmett smiles like a fat kid eating chocolate cake. Novalee smirks before she flashes off. Emmett laughs before he chases behind her. They eat a bear, one each. Since mating was over, and the females are pregnant, Emmett and Novalee eat males.

"You got hungry when Bella got scared, didn't you?" Emmett asks when they sit by a pond in Forks.

"Yeah," Novalee replies with a sigh. "Her heart rate picked up, her blood was pumping faster. I had to get out of there."

"I saw how your eyes turned black when you tensed up back there," Emmett says as he throws his hand into the pond, pulling out a catfish. "Want fish blood?"

"Ech," she gags, giggling. "Put it back in the pond."

Emmett smirks as he puts the fish back. The paid walk the treaty line, Emmett is listening to Novalee tell him her death story, about what happened to her. Jared's patrolling, and he listens to the story as he lays down - resting from running all morning.

When they arrive home, Carlisle says they're playing baseball the next day because there's a thunderstorm coming. Novalee is excited. She's very competitive, which is one of the reasons Emmett likes her so much.

"Is Bella going to be there?" Novalee asks, excited, and Esme nods. "Yay! I'll see you guys then." She smilesbat her coven and goes upstairs.