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Twilight: The new friend.	By : Solaris Category: Twilight Series > AU/AR > Het > Het Views: 2814 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Two.

Once back at home, she backed her truck up to the barn’s door, a glance up towards the house made her look again as she saw a young woman standing on the porch. She wondered why she didn’t see her there before. She got out and walked towards her. “Can I help you?”
“I heard rumors that the house was bought and I came to introduce myself to you. I’m Alice Cullen, your new neighbor.” Alice said, as she held out her hand.
“Tamia Sanders,” Tamia stated, as she shook her hand. She looked at Alice’s hand. “Guess we got something in common.”
“What’s that?” Alice asked. She knew something was off as Tamia’s hand should have been warm.
“We both have cold fingers. It’s something that I had since I could remember.” Tamia stated. She glanced around. “Will I be meeting the others?”
“The rest of my family?”
“Yes,”
“Possibly later tonight or tomorrow evening. My brothers, husband-to-be and sister is off doing other things and they don’t know that this place has been sold.” Alice stated, as she looked towards the barn. “Horses or cattle?”
“Horses. You ride?” asked Tamia, as she looked at her.
“Not often enough, horses tend not to like being around me very often.”
“Oh, my two just loves being around people. One would think that they were once human before being reborn as a horse.” Tamia replied with a smile on her face.
Alice chuckled at that. “So when will they be here?”
“In couple of days . . . I hope, but they could also be here tomorrow afternoon.” Tamia said.
“Oh, so you are getting everything ready for them?”
“Yes, I . . .” Tamia paused long enough to pull out her cell and looked at the screen. “Hold on. Tamia Sanders speaking? Yes. You’ll be what! Uh no, nothings wrong. I just now have to push everything up a few hours. Okay, bye.” She closed her cell phone and then swore under her breath. She glanced over at Alice who had just closed her own cell phone. “I’m sorry but I have to get back to work on getting my stalls finished and the panels put up before night falls. The trailer that’s hauling my horses here will be here tomorrow morning. A good ten hours sooner than I had expected.”
“Well, I called my brothers, sister and my husband and I told them what’s going on, I figured it had to be something like that. They will be here shortly to give you a helping hand with the panels.” Alice replied. “So have you figured out how they’re going to be?”
“Well, since the fence is not ready to have horses in them since there are some work that needs to be done.”
“Well, my family will be here soon. I’ll help what I can,” Alice suggested.
“Well, I have to figure out where to place the panels at since they are needed to be up now instead of tomorrow.”
“Well, why don’t we go over and figure it out?”
Tamia nodded as they walked over and sized how many steps it would be for each panel. Ten minutes later, they both figured out where the panels would go and how large the paddock would be. They headed into the barn and started to work on hauling the bags of sawdust off the truck when couple honks were heard.
Alice looked up and smiled. “My brothers, husband and sister are here.”
Tamia followed Alice out of the barn to see three extremely handsome men walking towards them and a lovely woman. Alice turned to look at her. “Tamia, my brother Edward, my husband-to-be Jasper and my other brother Emmett and my sister Rosalie. Guys, this is our new neighbor Tamia. Mom and dad will be here later on.”
Emmett looked around the land and smiled. “So, sis told us that you are on a tight schedule with your stuff not being ready for your horses.”
“Yeah, but I could handle it myself really, Mr. Cullen . . .” Tamia stated.
“Please,” Emmett interrupted her. “call me Emmett.”
“Oh, my apologies . . . Emmett.” Tamia replied, blushing with embarrassment of calling him Mr. Cullen. “I can basically handle it on my own . . . since my folks and older brother tend not to help out in moving the panels before.”
“Self reliant, I like that.” Edward stated as he looked towards the panels and started to walk towards the panels, he glanced over at her. “So where do you want them?”
Tamia turned to look at the handsome young man as he was striding towards the panels. “Uh, you don’t have to do that. I can handle it all myself.”
Alice looked at her and smiled. “But when you have this many people who want to help, it is good to take them up on it.”
“Even if I try to prevent you from helping me . . . you’ll do it any way right?” Alice nodded as did her siblings and future husband. “Very well, since I can’t win. One of the panels can go by the first closed stall door, I’ll have to figure out how to secure it there before we get moving on the rest.” She headed over towards the panels with the others following her.
After lifting it up and holding it to the wall of the barn, Tamia marked it with a marker and headed into the barn to bring out a chisel and a hammer, to which she started to chisel away the wood. As soon as it was done, she pushed the metal band through the hole to the other side to which she placed the bar in place. “Okay, give a gentle push to see if it moves.”
Emmett pushed against it and it held. “It’s holding firm, Tamia.”
Tamia came from the barn. “Good that will secure it all the way around.”
Rosalie looked at the panels. “They seem easy for the horses to knock over.”
“My horses don’t seem to push it back home. They don’t go against it, the wire fence that I have, yeah, they’ll push against that.” Tamia replied, as she lifted one end up and started to drag it when she felt it become lighter on her back. She glanced behind to see Jasper holding the other end up with both hands. He smiled at her as she returned his smile with one of her own.
It didn’t take them too long before the twenty-three panels were moved into place and secured by the hooks or by wire. Tamia walked it at least couple times before she was satisfied with it. She glanced at her watch to see that it was only five in the afternoon and she was thirsty. She was about to turn on the hose to get some water when she realized that she had company and she was being a bad hostess. She held the hose up and looked at them. “If anyone’s thirsty I can turn the hose on?”
“We’re fine, Tamia, but thanks for offering.” Edward replied, holding up a metal bottle and taking a sip from it.
“Okay,” Tamia turned the hose on and coated her face in the spray while drinking from the stream.
Rosalie looked at the bags in the walkway. “The boys can handle the bags of sawdust while we can break into them to get them spread out in the stalls.”
The three men nodded as they were able to haul the bags into the stalls faster and have the girls break into them to get the sawdust into the stalls and spread out. It took the men only five minutes to haul the sawdust into the stalls and they started to help spread them about.
Emmett being the tallest of them didn’t see that Tamia was behind him till he took a step back and accidentally knocked her down hard. He turned and saw her flat on her back in the sawdust with her eyes closed. “Tamia! You okay?”
Tamia opened her eyes and sneezed. “Yes, I think.”
Emmett reached down and helped her up to her feet while Rosalie glared at him before she started to brush off the sawdust that was on Tamia’s pants. “I’m sorry, I didn’t see you standing there. I usually am aware of my surroundings.”
“Don’t worry about it, Emmett. I’m not injured. I can handle a fall like that.” Tamia replied, as she looked at him.
Edward and Jasper along with Alice glanced at each other before they walked over towards her, Alice had her phone out and was typing something into it. Rosalie looked at her. “Calling dad to come out here?”
“Yes, to have him examine Tamia. That was a pretty hard hit she took and I’m not taking no chances.” Alice replied, closing the text part of her cell phone.
“I’m fine, I don’t need a doctor, Alice.” Tamia snapped.
“Tamia, your eyes?” Alice stated, pointing to them.
Tamia rushed to her truck’s mirror and noticed that she had a problem. ‘Shit!’ She opened her truck door and climbed in reaching for her purse to get her red drops to stain the whites of her eyes. Once she managed to do that, she stepped from her cab rubbing her eyes. She looked over at them and smiled. “Well, hopefully he can handle bloody eyes. My eyes just decided to pop some vessels.”
Alice knew what she saw was not a bloody vessel but something else. She looked at her curiously wondering why was she covering up the look of a concussion with a blood vessel pop. She decided to watch her for any serious signs of trouble.
Jasper looked at the stalls and then to Tamia. “Stalls are all done. Need any help in the house?”
“I can handle that at a later date, Jasper. The barn is . . . well, was the most urgent thing needed done.” Tamia replied, as they walked towards the house.
“Well, you do have three strong men who can lift sofas and chairs about along with tables.” Emmett said. “And you could use the help as that way, you get everything done much faster.”
Rosalie and Alice walked behind them as they headed towards the house was whispering to her. Both girls knew something was odd about their new neighbor and had to wait till dad came from the hospital to examine her and that would be a bit since he had to talk his way out if there is people in the waiting room which there shouldn’t be.
Jasper walked next to Tamia. “So why did you move out there all alone?”
Tamia glanced over at him. “Pup, it is my business as to why I moved here to be alone.”
Rosalie chuckled and said, “The pup is right, you could get yourself injured out there and with no one around,”
Emmett added, “You could call us if you did and we would be here as quick as possible.”
“Good thinking, Emmett,” Edward said, as he turned to look at her. “You do . . . of course have a cell phone right?”
“Yes,” Tamia reached for her cell and held it up. “Hey! Give that back!”
Edward snatched it fast, turned it on and started to pull up the contact lists. He started to add the numbers to her contact list. “Emmett’s phone . . . got it, Alice’s cell . . . got it. Rosalie’s . . . mom’s cell . . . dad’s cell . . . Jasper’s and of course my cell.” He held the phone back to her when he snatched it away and dialed the numbers for a group call. Everyone’s phone rang as they snatched it as Edward hung it up. “There now . . . everyone has your cell phone number on their cells’.”
“Great!” Tamia moaned as she looked at them. “When you leave . . . I’ll be deleting them.”
“Don’t.” Edward growled. His voice sounded harsh as he glared at her. “It may be the best thing I did for you.”
“Edward!” Alice snapped at him before turning to look at Tamia. “He’s right, you don’t have anyone here and if there’s an accident . . . no one will know till its too late.”
“I doubt that, I’m in contact with a lot of people during the day and night till I head off to bed.” Tamia stated, as they walked onto the porch and went inside.
They stood in the living room and noticed that the van’s movers didn’t put the couches or the seats anywhere. Rosalie looked at her. “I guess they just came dropped them off and fled by the look of things.”
“Yeah, they did as if they didn’t like the house very much.”
“Or more like where it is located at.” Whispered Alice.
Tamia looked over at her before she looked at the couch that Emmett and Edward was looking at. “So I guess I best start moving it about.”
“Just tell us and we’ll move it for you.” Emmett replied, as he looked at her.
“And while you are doing that, we’ll put your kitchen items up.” Alice and Rosalie said, as they headed off to the kitchen.
Jasper looked at Tamia as she tried to go towards the kitchen. “Um, Tamia, where do you want the couch at?”
Tamia turned and looked, she sighed and soon she started to direct them where to put the couch and soon she was busy telling them where to put things as she was unpacking things from the boxes that stated living room. Soon they were in the dining room unpacking that before Edward, Jasper and Emmett headed upstairs to do the six bedrooms that needed to be done. But they noticed that there was only one bed set up for one of the rooms. Emmett went to the top of the stairs and looked down. “Tamia, a word with you. Upstairs in the hallway, please?”
Tamia got up to the hallway. “Yes?”
“So where are the other beds for these two rooms?” Emmett asked, pointing to the rooms.
“Oh, I only had one bed to move so I didn’t get anymore for the other two rooms. Though realistically, I should just incase my family decide to visit me, just to see how I am doing here.”
Edward looked over at her, trying to figure her out, as she didn’t look really concerned about getting more beds. “Well, you know your folks could come and visit. Then, what?”
“Then, I’ll have to rush and get two beds.” Tamia replied.
“Maybe you should go and get them now?” Jasper suggested.
“Well, it would make my account a bit tight.” Tamia whispered to herself as she looked at the empty rooms.
“If you need some help purchasing them, I’m sure that our dad won’t mind us using our money?” Edward offered.
“Oh, I couldn’t take a loan from you, it would be a while before I could repay you.” Tamia exclaimed.
“Not a loan, Tamia, you could say a house warming gift,” Jasper said.
“Well, that would be a very large house warming gift, Jasper.” She glanced over at him. He tilted his head to one side and then to another as he looked at her. “Anything wrong?”
“You wobbled on your feet. Are you sure you’re okay?” He asked. “Alice did say you do have a possible concussion from the hit you took.”
Tamia made a noise and turned away from them. “I’m fine,” and she started to take a step when she felt a strong arm wrap about her waist and the next thing she felt was the ice cold body that was holding her as she was carried bridal style down the stairs. Jasper walking fast down the stairs yelling for Alice to get dad there now.
It was no more than ten minutes later, there was a sound of a car skidding to a stop there. Soon, the door opened and a 6ft 2 blond hair, slender male walked into the living room carrying a small medical bag.
“Great,” moaned Tamia, as she looked away.
Jasper spoke, looking at Tamia as he did so. “Tamia Sanders, this is our father Carlisle Cullen, he’s the doctor at the local hospital. Dad, she hit her head on the floor in the barn after being knocked down by Emmett . . . accidentally.”
Carlisle looked at him and Emmett. “And you two didn’t think about bringing her into the hospital? For shame, children, for shame.”
“It’s not their fault, Dr. Cullen, it is mine. I do not take too well to hospitals.” Tamia informed him. “I will only go there if I am seriously injured like a broken bone or dying.”
“Ah. Please call me Carlisle, Tamia.” Carlisle stated, as he started to examine her eyes. He glanced over at Edward and then back to shining the light once again in her eyes. After an exam of the back of her head, he leaned back. “You have a mild concussion, Tamia. I am going to have to recommend you going to the hospital for an overnight stay.”
“No way, I’ll run away before I step in there.” Tamia snapped.
Carlisle was just about to make a comment about that when Alice stepped up. “Would a friend be better to stay with you?”
Carlisle nodded. “One of my children will stay with you, then.”
Tamia sighed, for she knew that if she said no, they would insist on it and push and if push came to shove she could possibly do something that she’ll regret. “I don’t really need anyone to watch out for me. Edward did put your phone numbers in my cell and if I do feel like I need help, I’ll ring.”
“Not good enough,” Carlisle stated. “It is either you stay here or . . . you come home with us.”
“No, I will not go anywhere.” Tamia growled off.
Jasper looked down at her. He had a feeling she was pissed off about the suggestions. “Why don’t you let Alice stay the night till tomorrow morning when dad can look you over again?” Alice nodded her head hoping that Tamia would let her stay. “That way, you can still stay here and be watched at the same time.”
“Well, okay, as long as it is okay with Alice,” Tamia replied, resigning herself to be watched for that night.
“Good, have you had anything to eat yet?” Carlisle asked, as he looked at her. Tamia shook her head and then replied that she ate about three hours ago. Carlisle turned to glance at Emmett who was standing watch over Tamia. “Is there any food in the house?”
“No, haven’t really had the chance to go shopping yet.” Tamia replied, as she sat up on the couch.
“Very well, I’ll go to the store and get you some food to tide you over for a few days.” Alice stated, as she pulled out a pen and some paper. “What food do you like?”
“A lot of food, Alice.” Tamia smiled, as she told her what she liked to eat. “I probably need spices and herbs too in my cabinets since I didn’t bring any from home.”
Alice looked at Emmett and grabbed his arm. “Come on, brother, you’re going to help me with this shopping expedition.”
Emmett looked shocked but then the glance over at Carlisle, who nodded before he glanced away. “Okay, I’m coming.”
Tamia started to rise up from the couch. “I’ll come with you both.”
Carlisle looked at her and spoke, voice very calm. “I would not recommend it. You need to rest and my children can handle it, Tamia.” He gently pushed her back down to the couch.
Tamia growled. “Fine. I hate being treated like a child, Dr. Cullen.”
“I’m sorry, but as your doctor . . . your health is my concern.” Carlisle replied, as he turned his head to look out the window to see Alice’s car speeding down the road. He sat down in the chair and pulled out some paperwork. “Now for the paperwork that needs to be done.”
“Just bloody lovely.” Tamia moaned, as she rolled her eyes.
Carlisle went through all the needed paperwork smoothly and without much effort on either part. Carlisle did let her get up and moved about the house only to the kitchen where she was intent on making sure that everything was put away. Edward and Jasper were close by as well as Carlisle in case she got wobbly again.
Tamia noticed the first thing was that the boxes were no longer on the floor and everything looked neatly put away. “Wow, you two are fast in unpacking.” As she looked at Rosalie.
“Well, Alice did most of the unpacking. I hope we put everything in the right place.” Rosalie stated, letting Tamia opening the drawers and the cabinets to be sure.
“Everything is where I would have probably placed them at.” Tamia replied, looking at them as they stood around the island. She shook her head.
“Are you okay?” asked Edward. He started to move towards her.
“Yeah, I am but I’m being such a bad hostess again. I don’t often entertain guests as a soloist.” Tamia replied. “Can I get you some water . . . since that’s all I have?”
Jasper smiled. “Tamia, we’re fine. Don’t worry about us.”
“You sure?”
“Yes, get yourself some water. You need to keep yourself hydrated.” Jasper replied, glancing over to his dad. “Right dad?”
“Yes, drink plenty of water. It will help with the lightheadedness.” Carlisle said, glancing at his watch. “Esme should be home by now from her trip to town. I better ring her up and let her know where you kids are at, before she rips me a new one.”
Jasper and Edward glanced at him. “That’s a new quote you picked up on, dad.”
“Yeah, the nurses at the hospital like using that when they’re talking about their husbands,” Carlisle said, as he flipped open his phone and dialed a number. He strode out of the kitchen to the back porch where he talked for several minutes before walking back in. “She’ll drop in shortly. She just came home.”
“Ah,” Tamia whispered to herself. She tried to make herself busy in the kitchen double checking everything as she walked about.
Edward sat on the counter top by the sink. “So you don’t entertain very often as a soloist?”
Tamia nodded her head. “I’m usually helping my mom host the clan’s gatherings. I never did host alone and without anyone else to fall back on.”
“Clan’s . . . gatherings?” asked Rosalie, as she glanced over at the others before looking at her.
“Well, that’s what we call them clan’s gathering when all of my family gets together for a pool party at the house. My dad is notorious about his grilling and having a lively party.” Tamia stated. Not knowing that there was another meaning to her words for the Cullen’s.
“So this would be . . .?” asked Rosalie.
“My first time hosting anyone and in my very own home and I’m doing everything on my own and it is a bit scary.”
“Well, you’re not doing that badly,” Jasper replied.
She looked over at him and smiled. “For my first time, I’m quite nervous and on top of that I have a mild concussion.”
Rosalie smiled as she walked over to her, wrapping her arm around her and gently nudging her towards the chair that Edward had pulled from the table. “Now, just sit down and when my sister and hubby returns with your groceries, we’ll put them away for you, Tamia.”
“No, this is something that I should do myself, Rosalie.” Tamia replied. She started to get a bit agitated by their care. She liked doing things on her own and not depend on others.
Jasper got up from his spot and tugged at his dad’s coat. “Dad, a word is needed with you.”
Carlisle nodded as they stepped from the room. He gave one glance back towards Tamia to see her face looking upset.
Tamia looked at them as the room went unerringly silent as she glanced towards the clock, which was still on Central Time zone. She stood up and walked over to the clock as she grabbed a chair to climb up to it. She felt icy hands on her calves, looked down to see golden eyes looking up at her. She nearly leapt off the chair when she saw his eyes. “Contacts?”
Edward quickly smiled and nodded. “Yes, contacts. I have green eyes naturally.”
Tamia smiled. “And you don’t like green eyes?”
“I do, I just like to spook the kids at school with my eyes.” Edward replied, with a smirk on his lips.
Tamia laughed out loud. “I bet that makes the girls go gaga over you.” As she turned back to the clock to change the time. But then, she stopped. “Edward, do you know the time? I’m at least two hours and who knows how many minutes ahead right now.”
“It’s 4:35PM,” Another voice was heard. Tamia and Edward turned to see Carlisle standing there with his pocket watch out looking at it.
“Thank you, Dr. Cullen.” Tamia replied, smiling towards him before she turned back to the clock and changed the time.
“You didn’t change it when you took it down from your wall?” asked Edward, assisting her down from the chair.
“No, all I did was remove the battery.” Tamia replied, as she looked at him.
Edward smiled as he shook head. “The girls probably didn’t even think about changing it to the proper time here.”
“Probably.” Carlisle replied. “They should be back soon.”
They sat there just making some small talk when Tamia got off the stool and headed for the kitchen door to step out as they noticed that there was no car pulling up but then a few seconds later, a silver Volvo pulled into view.
Jasper asked, a bit shocked. “How did you hear them coming?”
Tamia ignored the comment as she walked towards the car. “Sweet! Who’s car is this?” As she gazed at it.
“It’s mine, Tamia. It was my 16th birthday present from dad.” Edward said, as he walked over and looked at Alice who stepped from the driver’s seat. “You were careful with my car, sis?”
“Of course, I was. I kept it in the speed limit.” Alice glanced at Edward as she headed for the trunk to get the bags. “I got everything that Tamia could use and more.”
Emmett started to pull out the plastic bags filled with food from the trunk as Edward, Jasper and Tamia started to take the bags into the kitchen. Once there, Carlisle told Tamia to start unpacking the bags, they’ll bring them in. Tamia got to unpacking the groceries, she noticed that Alice had bought carrots. She smiled as she knew who they were for – the horses. She placed them by the door as she started to unpack everything. She smiled at the sight of the hamburger. “Now that I can enjoy in the state it is in right now. Now, for one other ingredient required for it.” Tamia started to search for the salt container. “Well, that will hold off till I get some.”
“Get some of what?” asked Emmett, as he brought in another three bags.
“Kosher salt. I don’t have any here.” Tamia replied, as she looked at the containers, which should have had her spices in it to find nothing within them. She picked up the hamburger meat and placed it in the fridge.
Alice pulled out all the herbs and spices that they had bought much to Tamia’s joy. As she started to put them away in the spice cabinet and got everything in it’s place.
Carlisle looked at his watch and then to the boys. “Children, I think it is best to head home and get your homework done for the night.”
“But dad!” Jasper whined.
“Jasper,” Carlisle eyed him strongly. “School work before visiting here again, I’m sure that Alice and Tamia can handle the rest of the groceries themselves.”
“Very well,” Jasper replied, as Edward and Emmett nudged their brother out of the kitchen and towards Edward’s car. They pulled out Alice’s school bag and gave it to her. They promised to be there tomorrow morning to pick her up for school. With a wave, they left and a few minutes later, Carlisle left as well, leaving Alice and Tamia standing on the porch watching them leave.
“School?” asked Tamia.
“College actually for three of us . . . last year of high school for two of them.” Alice replied.

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