Surprises
Summary: Esme gets a few surprises on her birthday including her own private island. Has a little lemon. All reviews are appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything. :( These are all Stephanie Meyer's characters.
This story is based somewhere around 1990s way before Bella was even thought of. This is my first fanfic so please read and review.
Chapter 1 Happy Birthday My Love
Esme's POV
1993
I was sitting at my desk in my architecture office in Juneau, Alaska. The office had been a gift from Carlisle for my birthday last year. I love my office, don't get me wrong but that man… he just spoils me. I couldn't begin to fathom what he could possibly be getting me this year.
Carlisle told me I could decorate the office any way I wanted to so I went with a simple yet amazing look. The walls are a light green color. On the wall looking over the mountains I have a big bay window overlooking the forest below. Which is where my desk sits with a little flower bed all along the window sill. And I have some modern looking chairs and a coffee table out in the front so people have a place to sit if they have to wait. And believe it or not in the past year I've been pretty busy. I guess this is just one of the most popular places to live or something.
I decided to close up for the day and go home, since it was what everyone who lived here considers a nice day to be, I wanted to be home with my husband and my children. Alice probably had a party of some sorts planned but today I don't really care.
I told the two people that work for me, there's no way I could manage all of this by myself, to go home. Most of the time I had Alice here to help with the interior designing part since that's her specialty but I had Malory and Amy here to help with paper work and talk to some of my clients if the y show up and I'm not here.
As I was rolling up the blueprints I was working I heard someone come in the front door. I thought maybe Malory or Amy forgot something and were coming back to get it. But then I felt a man's arms around me. I spun around so I could face him and before I could say anything his lips were on mine. I melted instantly. I broke our passionate kiss so I could look at Carlisle. His eyes were that honey gold color I loved so much. He looked sexy in his casual outfit.
"Did you get off work early today?", I asked with my arms still wrapped around his neck.
"There was an overabundance of doctors and nurses there today, there was really nothing for me to do.", he replied leaving a feather light trail of kisses down my neck.
"Happy birthday, my love.", he said with a blinding smile on his face.
"I didn't know vampires celebrated birthdays." I said looking up at him.
"Well yours is definitely something to celebrate, sweetheart. And you know Alice and Tanya will use any reason to throw a party.", he said, his arms still wrapped around me. I stretched up on my tiptoes and kissed him. He leant down a little bit and deepened our kiss.
"Mm… I love you, Carlisle.", I murmured against his lips.
"I love you too, my darling. Are you ready to go?" He said with the most loving look on his face.
"Ya, I just have to get my coat."
When we were about half way home I realized something.
"Oh my god.", I said staring off into space.
"What is it?", Carlisle asked reaching for my hand with a worried expression on his face.
"I'm 95 years old if you count my human years…"
Carlisle chuckled lightly.
"What is so funny?" I asked trying to keep a serious look on my face.
"Well I was just thinking if you feel old how old you must think I am." I suddenly remembered how old Carlisle was. I looked at him apologetically. He chuckled again.
"It's quiet alright, dear it just made me remember that I'm 350 years old." He said still smiling. Is that all this man ever does?
"But you don't look a day over 23" I said leaning over to kiss him since we had stopped at a red light.
"Hey, if you wanna be technical about it I am older than you."
"Yes my love, but I think either way you think about it I would be older than you." He leant over and kissed me again.
As we pulled into the garage of our mansion I noticed luggage sitting over by the steps going into the house.
"Are we going somewhere?" I said with an excited look on my face. Carlisle always planned the best trips. Or should I say Alice always plans the best trips since she sees them then tells us about them and says it was Carlisle's idea even though she does all the planning and packs for everyone making sure we all have appropriate clothing.
"Yes we are", he said with a big smile on his face like he was trying to hide something, "Just me and you."
"Really?", I said, "Where? We haven't been on a vacation, just me and you in forever!" I was really excited now.
"I know. I think you'll really love where we're going this time." He said. He had one of those smiles on his face like he's proud of himself. That made me wonder what in the world he did….
"Well aren't you going to ask where we are going?" he asked taking my hand as he opened the car door for me.
The garage led into the kitchen which we never use except to store blood in the fridge for special occasions. Even though we never used it the kitchen was all stainless steel and had the newest technology available. I suggested not having a kitchen but that would seem odd to the humans we try to sell the house to when we move.
"I was getting to it…", I said gently pushing him against the wall, "Now where are we going?"
"You'll see when we get there.", He said with smug smile on his face. He does a lot of smirking…
"Why?"
"Because it's a surprise.", He said simply. I wrapped my arms around him, laid my head against his chest, and looked up at him with puppy dog eyes.
"Tell me?"
"Nope"
"Fine.", I said walking off. I might be compassionate, calm, and collected all of the time but not knowing where he was taking me was just killing me.
"I'll give you a hint", he said walking up behind me and cupping my face in his hands, "Why have to fly on a plane to get there."
"Thanks", I said sarcastically. Carlisle chuckled and kissed my forehead before heading upstairs.
"When are we leaving?" I called after him.
"In 20 minutes" he said looking back at me, "Don't worry everything is already packed. Even your carryon bag with your camera and a sketch pad."
"Ok" I walked into the living room. Well This was a bit of a surprise… no party. Not that I minded.
"Hey Mom!" Alice said. Where did she come from? She just pops up out of nowhere sometimes.
"Hi Honey. What have you been up to all day?"
"Oh not much. And no."
I sighed impatiently.
"You'll be there soon enough and plus he gave all of us each $100 bucks to not tell you." She said.
"Everyone knows except for me?"
"Yep pretty much" Tanya said coming in from just getting out of the pool. It's a good thing we have trees surrounding our house and no neighbors for about 15 miles because the kids haven been very careful about not going outside on sunny days around the hosue. And plus it would look sort of suspicious if someone saw them swimming when it was 40 degrees outside.
"Oh" was allI could think to say.
"But hey!", Alice said, "We have presents!"
"Oh I told you guys you didn't have to get me anything."
"Well we didn't listen.", Emmett said walking into the living room holding a bright pink, sparkly box. "Here you are, madam." He said in one of his accents. "Rose picked it out. I'm not sure where she's at.."
I opened the box to find more pink tissue paper. Then I found a white bikini with blue polka dots. I loved it. Light blue was one of my favorite colors.
"Thanks", I said, "I love it!" This made me even more excited to know where we were going. Were we going somewhere that we could go out in the sun and no one would see us? I was about to asked where we were going again but Alice interrupted me.
"You will be there soon enough! And he said the only hint I can give you, and I know this is true, is that you will love it." I sighed impatiently again. What was he doing up there? I'm ready to go!
Then Carlisle came back down the stairs holding what looked like out plane tickets in his hand.
"Ready to go?", He asked.
"I have been for 20 minutes." I said smiling up at him.
Right before we left I said "When I get back everything better be in one piece!"
"Don't worry, mom. I won't let them tear the house down", Edward assured me. He had only come down from playing the piano to say goodbye. He liked to keep to himself a lot.
When we finally got on the plane I pretended to fall asleep on Carlisle's chest in the wide first class seat. It would've been just a little suspicious if I hadn't slept for at least a little while on a 26 hour plane ride.
"Are we almost there?" I mumbled against his chest. Right when I said that the flight attendants voice came over the loud speaker.
"Flight 247 to Rio will land in 2 hours." It said.
"Rio?", I asked.
"Just be patient, my love." He said with a laugh and kissed my forehead. I looked out the window and saw a baby blue sky with bright white clouds. Iloved flying and looking out the window it was such a beautiful sight.
Mk so the first chaper is up! let me know what you think! Probably will be some fluff later im not sure. I havent even started on the second chapter yet. but I will let you know now I am not one of those authors that demans reviews in exchange for more chapters! Reviews are love. And I greatly appriciate them! They help me better my story or give me more confidence and inspiration to keep writing!
