Make That 58
Disclaimer: Don't own um. Just love um.
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I sat at the dining room table in the Cullen house thinking.
Something I had endless time to do these days.
I was practicing my human day-dream look. As I let my mind slowly wander my eyes rested on a bowl of fruit set in the middle of the giant table. I smirked.
Fake of course.
Infact, I noted, so was the point of this whole dining room arrangment. Us all being vampires there was no need to eat. Unless Esme was going to throw down a large grizzly and tell us to tuck in our napkins this table was just for show. Occassionally it was used for family meetings, which weren't often.
I frowned.
Why DID Esme keep this table here?
Couldn't we meet in other places that didn't need a whole room dedicated to it? Why am I the only one to have noticed this? Me being only a newborn and the memories of eating still fresh, the idea of having a dining room table wasn't all that strange. So I shouldn't have been the first to take notice.
Why hasn't anyone said anything?
Surely someone as old a Carlisle or Edward would mentioned the irony in it. Them having no need to eat for centuries. An indulgence perhaps? For Esme?
I stared at the wood grain of the table with my new vampire sight, still awesome, memorizing the colors and patterns of the shiny expensive wood. Puzzeled, I ran my fingers along the glossy table and bent over to look underneath observing the table more closely.
Maybe the year it was made had a special meaning for Carlisle or Esme.
I gasped. There underneath the table all along the egde were finger marks and nail scratches. I stared in amazement.
Wow, apparently these family meeting got pretty heated. Enough that people grip the table in barely concealed fury.
I continued to stare at the marks my frown reappearing slowly. These marks loooked wrong for some reason. I sat there concentrating on the obviously female nail cresents and scratches and the obviously male finger outlines and knuckle imprints. Thanks to my new vampire mind it clicked in 2 seconds flat.
Still kinda slow for a newborn I think...
The marks were backwards! I felt smug for having solved it and continued to look at the marks.
They were positioned to look as if the person who made them had been perched on top of the table and had been gripping it tightly. Again my mouth fell open in a gasp.
Now I knew why no one had mentioned getting rid of the table before! It wsa being used in WAY MORE entertaining things than just family meetings!
I peered closely at the marks REALLY studying them this time. Finally i was able to distinguish Alice's dainty fingernails cresents, Rose's long femine scratches, Emmett's obvious large knuckle imprints to Jasper's more slender finger outlines.
And was that...was that a chip of the red nailpolish I let Esme borrow a week ago emmbedded into a deep gouge in the table?!?!
OK now I was just imagining things! Carlisle and Esme would never be so risky and wild as to do that sort of thing in such a public place, where the chances of someone walking in were so high...I felt a warmth spreading in my lower abdomen. Something so risky would surely be a major turn on to both partners. I shook my head.
Doing a quick count of all the marks I counted up 57.
57 signs of 100% pure vampire lust.
I shivered.
Of course none of them were mine and Edward's. He would never suggest such a thing out loud. He was the perfect gentlemen when it came to all things pyhsical. Our love life, although very satisfying, was VERY proper. Everything was done in the descreetness of night.
Although what good that did when everyone was up anyway.
Even if we accidentally broke or ripped something it was profusely apologized for and then quietly replaced. I was always quick to blame my newborn strength so he wouldn't be embarrassed. But lately i've been wondering what that unapologetic, ruff-and-tumble, animal like side of Edawrd would be like in bed.
I bet it would be so DAMN HOT.
I've heard what Emmett and Rosalie have done before, and now according to the table even Alice and Jasper and maybe even Carlisle and Esme but, what if it was me and Edward? I shook my head again. I was being silly. Edward would never agree. But still, I glanced at the table again and sighed.
Hearing someone approach form down the hall I sat up and adjusted myself back into my day-dream like state.
I loved my new vampire hearing, it was so hard to be snuck up on now.
I smiled listening to the sound of a cartwheel being executed. Alice. I looked up at her smiling face when she walked in and opened my mouth to say hello but her song like voice beat me to it.
"Don't worry I've already got everything planned out. You just have to be responsible for Edward coming out of his shell. But i'm positive you can do it."
She beamed at me.
I glanced at the table she was openly staring at and blinked, not understanding. Finally it clicked again after 2 seconds, man i'm slow today, if I could've still blushed I would have.
Of course Alice would've seen my decision before I had even made it. Duh.
Instead I just closed my eyes and took a unnecessary breath and nodded.
"Thanks Alice." I mumbled pathetically, my eyes still closed.
"No problem. It's what I do. ANYTHING to help spice up your love life and don't worry this is going to be fun. NOW UP! We have so much to do befor emy darling brother gets home."
I had no idea what i'd gotten myself into.
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A/N: haha! this is fun. PLEASE RXR!
