Name: A Semi-Normal Life
Disclamer: I do not own Twilight.
Summary: Alice didn't know why she hadn't noticed it before. It must have been obviouse. Carlisle and Esme weren't married.
Notes: None
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Alice didn't know why she hadn't noticed it before. It must have been obviouse. Carlisle and Esme weren't married.
Esme and Carlisle loved each other and everyone knew that. They had their souls bonded together for the rest of eternity. But in the eyes of the rest of the world, Esme and Carlisle were still single.
Alice knew she should leave it alone. But that wasn't something she was good at. At this moment everyone was in the family room. Rosalie was fussing over her nails, Jasper was reading, Emmett and Edward were watching TV, and Carlisle and Esme were talking quietly on the couch. Alice was sitting cross legged on the floor. She was trying to consentrate on the television but she kept glancing back at Carlisle and Esme. Damn, Esme wasn't even wearing a ring. How was it that no one had noticed this before?
Finally, Esme caught Alice looking at them.
"Something wrong" she asked?
Alice shook her head.
"Are you sure" Esme asked?
Alice sighed and looked at the ground before looking back up at Esme and Carlisle.
"Why aren't you and Carlisle married?"
Everyone's eyes switched over to the uncomfortable couple sitting on the couch.
"Well, it's complicated" Carlisle said.
"Explain it to us" Rosalie said.
Carlisle glanced over at Esme.
"We just never got around to it" Esme said.
Everyone was silent.
"Never got around to it" Jasper asked?
"Yeah. I said it was complicated" Carlisle defended.
"We're not saying anything bad. It's just a little odd" Emmett said.
"Do you two want to get married" Edward asked?
Esme and Carlisle once again glanced at each other before both of them responded.
"Yes" they said.
"Then, why don't you" Rosalie asked?
Carlisle and Esme shrugged.
"Maybe we should" Esme said.
"Yeah. It would be nice. Being married. Having a ceremony" Carlisle said.
Jasper, Emmett, and Edward exchanged a horrible look. They were up to trouble.
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The fact that vampires didn't sleep ment absolutely nothing to everyone except for Edward. Usually. Sometimes, when there was nothing to do, he would sleep. He didn't enjoy it but sometimes it was all there was to do.
As for everyone else, they all slept. Usually, it went like this. Alice and Jasper went to bed first. Then, Rosalie and Emmett. And last was Esme and Carlisle.
But tonight, Edward, Emmett, and Jasper stayed up. Just the three of them. Jasper was the first to break the silence.
"We need to get Carlisle to purpose" he said.
"Exactly" Emmett agreed.
"Why exactly are we doing this" Edward asked?
"Because if we don't it'll be all Rosalie and Alice will talk about and I don't think Jasper and I will be able to remain saine through all of that wedding talk" Emmett explained.
"If they're engaged then it will be Esme, Alice, and Rosalie talking about wedding stuff and every time they ask us for help we'll be able to say that we were the ones that got Esme and Carlisle engaged" Jasper said.
Edward nodded.
"And how will we get Carlisle to purpose" Edward asked?
"We're going to wake him up early and take him to Port Angeles and make him buy a ring. After that Jasper is going to use his power to get Carlisle to feel all lovey and lusty....." Emmett was cut off.
"Wait. I'm going to make him feel what"Jasper asked?
"Lovey and lusty" Emmett said.
"I'm going to make the man who is pretty much our adoptive father fall deeply in love with our adoptive mother and then I'm going to make them.......do it?"
Emmett laughed quietly.
"No. You're going to make Carlisle want to, as you so elegantly put it, do it. You're going to make Esme jittery and stand-offish so she will react in a completely different way. Then they'll go out to dinner....." Emmett was once again cut off.
"How are we gonna do that" Edward asked?
"Jasper is going to make Carlisle feel all lovey. And you've seen Carlisle when he's lovey. They always go out to dinner" Emmett reminded.
"I never agreed to using my power" Jasper said.
"Just think about what will happen if you don't. Alice will be following you around and saying things like 'When will they get married?' or 'Wouldn't it be nice if we got to go to their wedding?'. Do you want to sit through that?"
"No" Jasper said.
"O.k. So, they'll go to dinner. Carlisle will still be all lovey and he'll have the ring with him. Some time during the night he'll pop the question and with Esme, being the woman she is, will say yes and we'll be off the hook."
Edward and Jasper looked at Emmett.
"Emmett" Edward asked?
"Yes?"
"That is the best idea you're ever come up with."
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TBC......