Chapter 20: Charlie's Visitation
Vampires don't have the habit of eating three meals a day. In Fox Villa, the cutlery and food that was originally prepared for Nahi have been moved to their new home. Hungry, Nahi had to go to Charlie's house nearby to forage for food.
At the dinner table, Nahi whispered to Charlie about the thoughts of the Cullen family.
Carlisle later suggested that Nahi was his newly adopted daughter, Edward's titular sister. After all, with her current appearance, no one would believe that she was Bella's daughter. At home, she rarely calls them mom and dad, but directly by name. Fortunately, in the United States, it is not rude or strange to call an elder by name, but in China, this kind of relationship is really difficult.
Charlie shrugged, "I said this can't be done a long time ago, I mentioned it to him before you came back, you looked eight or nine years old in the photo at that time, and Bella is like sisters, where did you take the picture?" I remember that the background seems to be cold and snowy", he got up and took out a photo album from the chest of drawers beside him, flipped through two pages, found the one he had in mind, turned it upside down and put it on the table, and nodded with his fingers.
Su probe on the side glanced at it and smiled, "You have been talking about it many times since Russia filmed it." β
Nahi also recognized the photo, which was in the ice fields of Siberia, where she and Bella were both wearing plush fur hats, their heads together, and smiling brightly. Except for one with a ruddy complexion and the other with a fair complexion, there is no difference between the two, and there is no difference between the two of them, the exquisite bone appearance, the eyebrows, eyes, the bridge of the nose, and even the curvature of the corners of the mouth are so similar.
On the other side is her solo photo, also in Russia, where she is learning the pose in the ballet poster behind her, slim and fluttering. Flipping further forward, it is a selfie of their family of three, their faces are too big to see in the background, as if they are by a certain lake. There are also those in Disneyland, on the streets, at concerts, and in the wilderness, these are the travel photos that Bella sent to her family through her email. Unexpectedly, Charlie washed them all out, arranged them one by one, arranged them according to time, and posted them neatly into the album, and wrote notes on the side.
"I didn't grow up with Bella properly, I thought I could make up for this regret in you, but I didn't expect-" Charlie leaned back on the dining table with his waist crossed, and looked at the girl in front of him who became a big girl in the blink of an eye, "-You are more excessive than her." β
Nashimo clutched the old photo album, his eyes gradually reddening, "I'm sorry, I-"
Charlie looked at Naihi's intimate and anxious little appearance, and his heart was softened, and he grabbed her and kissed the top of her hair, and said comfortingly: "I'm not blaming you, Naihi, I'm blaming myself." "He's not a good father, he's never been able to take good care of Bella, let alone little Naihi, and now that he's old and finds that he has less memories, how can he blame the children.
"Anyway, I finally don't have to be such a young and handsome grandfather."
Nahi burst into tears and laughed, and pulled out two pear vortices.
afternoon
Charlie sends Nahi back to his old villa, and along the way, he performs his duties as a police officer and meets the new residents of the town, the Tiou family.
As soon as she got out of the car, Nahi felt the gaze of a short distance from the side, and she flinched a little, and her steps paused slightly.
Even if he knew that he was no longer the Volturi pioneer he knew in his previous life, he was a little stunned in his heart. And his eyes were deep and dark, she couldn't see it, but she instinctively felt dangerous, did he want to drink his own blood?
"Poof!" Edward laughed directly when he heard Naihi's heart, it seems that his friend still has a long way to go.
Dmitry couldn't take his eyes off Nahi as soon as he appeared, and a barrage flashed in his head with rows of "She's glowing!" "It's so beautiful!" "It's an angel!"
Edward couldn't bear it anymore and bumped him with his elbow, "Okay, you, she's still a child." β
Dmitry looked down and smiled. Hearing his heart, Edward's face turned slightly pale, yes, their wishes are the same, they both hope and will do whatever it takes to protect Nahi's eternal happiness and happiness.
Charlie closed the door and walked around the front of the car to several people.
Edward hurriedly introduced the two, "Charlie, this is Dmitry, my distant cousin in England. Dmitry, this is Bella's father, Officer Charlie. β
Dmitry put his left hand on his sleeve and stretched out his hand, "It's an honor to meet you, sir." β
"Hello, lad!" Charlie was warmly frozen by Dmitry's hand, "Come into the house, see your hands are frozen." β
Walking into the house, I saw that the usually empty and spacious living room seemed a little crowded at this time, and more than a dozen people were standing or sitting, all of them handsome, like a Hollywood star party.
Charlie is a little upset, the Cullen family is not enough, the newcomers are also so good-looking, and the town is about to boil for a while.
"Sabins Theo, just call me old Theo, this is my wife Jacquila."
"My name is Charlie, and I welcome you to Fox, and thanks to your joining, the permanent population of this place can finally recover to 1,600 people. The last time it broke 1600 was when the Cullens moved in. β
Everyone laughed. Bella stepped forward and hugged Charlie, then took Nahi and stepped aside, an occasion that is always the home of the elders.
Until she sat down, Bella Naihi's hand did not let go, and she had already heard from Roslie that Nehi was a Dmitry singer. During Nahi's absence, she has been bombarded with anger, anxiety, fear, and reluctance, and her whole person is in a trance.
On the other side, after listening to Mr. Tiou's introduction of a few juniors, Charlie focused on Remio: "I take the liberty of asking, is this child going to school here?" If I wanted, I had to prepare a police car to open the road in advance, otherwise the school gate would be crowded with onlookers. β
In fact, he is not exaggerating at all, Fox is sparsely populated, and they are all native-born local residents, it is rare to see a few outsiders, and even young people who go out to school and work will be surrounded and asked non-stop when they return to their hometowns, not to mention completely unfamiliar faces, or unfamiliar faces with such high appearance. I think that when the Cullen family came, that scene, tsk, it was unbearable to look back, and there were several more car accidents on the way they had to go to and from school.
Mr. Theo and Carlisle looked at each other, they had already talked about Remio just now, and since they were about to change, they would definitely not be able to go to school or work anytime soon.
"Remio has graduated from high school, but he is not in good health, he has not applied to college for the time being, and he came here to find Carlisle to help him recuperate."
"That's rightβ" Charlie looked at the tall young man on the side, and couldn't see where he was in bad health, and his brother looked paler than him. His brother... Hey! Where do these boy's eyes look!
Seeing that even Charlie had noticed Dmitry's unbridled gaze, Edward coughed twice and glared at him fiercely.
Dmitry withdrew his gaze, not because of Edward's reminder or Charlie's attention, but because he found that Nahi was a little afraid of him and was restless by his staring. It seems that to find a better way to get close to her, it is not enough to be a relative.
Charlie sat for a while, then politely took his leave. The Cullens also got up in time, saying that they wanted to give them some time to pack their bags.
"Come back to your senses, come back to your senses, the car has long been gone~" Remio was carrying things back and forth, passing by Dmitry, who was still standing in front of the house looking at the intersection, his tone was full of ridicule.
The old Tio and his wife in the house laughed, and when Dmitry turned his head, he immediately pretended to be very busy, and buried himself in sorting out the boxes at hand. Selena walked downstairs with her arms crossed, still with an expressionless and cold appearance, but the corners of her mouth and eyebrows were slightly raised, obviously teasing.
Shaking his head with a smile, Dmitry turned around and went into the house and began to help clean up his new home. The progress of one more laborer is naturally much faster, and before it gets dark, the things have basically been placed in everyone's room.
"It's wonderful, I was most worried about Dmitry." Lady Theo sat on the freshly made bed and lamented with relief that not all vampires were lucky enough to find their singers, but it was rare for an old bachelor like Dmitry to live for more than seven hundred years.
"Yes," said old Theo, standing in front of the window, sighing in a tone that was not entirely reassured. Dmitry was older than them, and he didn't know what he had experienced before, and although he was handsome and easy-going on the outside, there was an inexplicable depression and gloom in his temperament, like the low-pressure weather of a thunderstorm in summer, and there was always a faint danger of storms in the calm. I hope the appearance of the singer will be the sun that blows away the dark clouds.
The moonlight struggled to find a crack in the layers of forest leaves, and sprinkled three or two beams of light, which were scattered by the white snow, and fell into the eyes of the people by the windows upstairs, and melted into sweet sugar.
Dmitry is immersed in every moment of his memories of meeting Nahi today, recalling it over and over again.
It's good that Nahi is still the same Nahi that she used to be, and she hasn't disappeared or changed from this life because of the butterfly effect as he had feared; Nahi is a new Nahi again, and the eyes in her eyes are no longer confused and disgusted, but pure curiosity.
Several times he could barely resist the clamor of longing and greed, and wanted to rub her into his arms and lock her by his side at once. Clenching his fists behind his back, desperately silently reciting the precepts he had set, he barely managed to hold down his hand that was about to move.
His Nahi, his baby, is so beautiful, whether it is a smile or a haircut, whether it is a breath or a heartbeat, it is just right to poke his death hole, and even thinking about it for a moment will make his heart soft.
Realizing that he couldn't hold back his crazy lust, he quickly turned off the video that was playing on a loop in his mind, and once again silently remembered the determination he had made at the beginning of his rebirth:
Absolutely, the mistakes of the previous life must not be repeated.
Hide your true self and become what she likes.
Don't scare her away anymore, lure her to the side, and hold on tightly.
The moonlight seemed to be obscured by the occasional passing clouds, and the mountains and forests, which were still bright just now, fell into darkness at this moment, just like the eyes of the man in front of the window, because of the complex and depressed mood, became obscure.