Chapter 4 An Open Box

I carefully opened the lip. There were some old pictures of Edward’s family some of Alice, some of him and Carlise together before anyone else joined the family, some of Carlise and Esme together. I turned the picture over, in Edward’s calligraphy ‘my new mother and father’. I kept looking through the little box and found a tattered, old picture of a women I didn’t know holding a baby.
“Jasper, do you know who this is?”
“No, I don’t think I’ve ever seen her before”
I turned the picture around, ‘mom and me at three months old’
“She’s his mom. I can’t believe he kept this picture all this time”
“I can, he’s a huge packrat, and actually I think we all are”
I kept digging through the box. I couldn’t believe he had this many pictures of both oh his families.
I even found a picture of him as a little boy with his father. He even had the exact same crooked smile on his face. He even had some letters that he had written while he was away from Carlise. All of them in his own personal calligraphy.

I had lost all track of time, so when Jasper said something I almost jumped, “Isn’t this the same charm he gave you?” he pointed at the picture of him as a baby.
“Yeah, why?”
“His mother looks a little bit like you, the way she smiles”
“She does, doesn’t she?”
I closed the box and got off the bed and went into the closet to find something else. I looked around his entire closet and all I found was an old teddy bear, he was missing an eye, and looked like he had been sewn up a couple of times. I hugged it and realized it smelled like him. I heard a slight creak and the door to the room close.

“His name is Mason” I heard my angel say behind me. I didn’t want to turn around. I felt him wrap his stone arms around me. “I’ve had him since I was three years old”
“Where’s Jasper?”
“He ran off as soon as he felt how angry I was that he was in my room”
“Sorry, but I needed an accomplice”
“I see, but why are you digging around in my room”
“I don’t want to tell you” I said stubbornly.
“Why?”
“I don’t want you to be angry at me for being in your room”
“I don’t mind if you’re in my room, I won’t be angry I promise”
“You’ll laugh at why I’m in your room then”
“I promise not to laugh”
“You’ll laugh”
“Bella, love, I’d never laugh at you”
“Fine, I was slightly annoyed at the fact that you always find something about me I wouldn’t want you to know”
“Like what?”
“What I say in my dreams”
“Fine, I won’t watch you sleep anymore”
“NO!!!”I said too quickly “I want you there”
“Alright, then what?”
“I don’t know I just felt like I don’t know enough about you, its not like you talk in your dreams” he laughed at my explanation.
“You just laughed at me”
“Not you, what you said, silly Bella. So you conspired with Jasper and Alice just so can dig through my room, to get to know more about me. Am I right?”
“Yes”
“What did you find?”
“Your little box of pictures, I can’t believe you kept all of those all this time”
“I couldn’t get rid of them”
“I saw the one of you mother, Jasper says I look like her when I smile. Do I?”
“In a way”
“That’s a bit scary”
“Why?”
“I mean, I look like you mother, they say that’s what most men look for, a women like their mom”
“Probably, but my mother was much less stubborn”
“Are you calling me stubborn?”
“Yes”
“I’m not the one who still holds his teddy bear, he smells like you so don’t you dare tell me who don’t still hug him”
“Yes, I do, whenever I miss my parents, I hold Mason. You know if you wanted to know something strange about me you could’ve just asked instead of having me taken hostage by my sister”
“That was a bonus, now you know how I feel”
“I’m never having Alice kidnap you again, if that’s what it’s like”
“That’s all I ask”
“So the next time I want to know something about you, all I have to do is ask”
“I’m an open box”