A/N Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight! All of the characters and settings are property of the wonderful Stephanie Meyer.
Mother's Day at the Cullen's House.
Bella's POV
Today was a very quiet day. Esme and Carlisle were out hunting until tomorrow, and the rest of us were off doing our own things. Emmett was watching a game on the television while Rosalie was fixing Nessie's hair. Alice and Jasper were upstairs and I was content just sitting here next to Edward.
"What are you thinking about?" Edward asked me as he stroked my hair. "Oh nothing, just how nice it is right now…just sitting." I replied. He smiled.
Then, out of nowhere, Alice came flying down the stairs, closely followed by Jasper. Her face was full of terror. Everyone jumped up. "What wrong!" Rosalie demanded. "I don't know. She had a vision and…." Jasper said, his eyes alert, probably looking for whatever danger Alice had foreseen. "Do you know what day is tomorrow?" Alice asked, her tawny eyes growing larger with each word. "Uhhhh…Friday?" Emmett suggested. Edward gasped next to me. "Mother's Day…" He said horrified. "Yes!" Alice practically screeched. "And we forgot!"
We stood completely still for a few seconds. "We forgot to get Esme a gift…" Rosalie said in shock. "We need to get to the mall!" I said. This seemed to 'awake' Alice and she immediately took charge.
She assembled her troops and began barking order. "Rose and I will head to the mall. Jazz, Emmett and Edward, you clean the house." "Sir yes, Sir!" Emmett shouted as he gave her an army salute, while Edward and Jasper snickered. Alice gave him a fleeting glare before returning to giving out orders. "Bella and Nessie, find wrapping paper and decorate the house! Now move out!"
We rushed around trying to complete our tasks, considering it around five o'clock now and Esme and Carlisle were returning at seven the next morning. Leaving us with less than nineteen hours to prepare. "Okay Nessie, you find the wrapping paper while I go find the decorations." I said as I ran into the garage. I ran past Edward's Volvo and Alice's Porsche. Rosalie's BMW was gone though. I found the boxes in the far corner of the room full of Alice's decorations. As I pulled out strand after strand of twinkling light and bows, something fell out of the box, bounced of my leg and skidded to a halt under the Porsche. Bending down I retrieved small silver digital camera. Whose is this? I wondered. So I grabbed it and ran upstairs the decorations momentarily forgotten.
I ran right into the middle of Jasper lifting up the couch while Edward was dusting underneath it, and Emmett was running around in circles with a mop. I did a mental eye roll before running up to Edward. "Do you know whose camera this is?" I asked him. "No why?" He said as Jasper picked up the love seat next. "I found it packed in the boxes with all the decorations." "It's probably Alice's then." He said. "No." Jasper said while returning the love seat to its proper place. "Alice's is pink." "Oh…" Edward said. He set the duster down and grabbed the camera. He flipped it on and began scrolling through the pictures. Jasper and I gathered around him trying to see. The first ones were of Carlisle, him reading in his study and one of him standing in the sun. The next one was of Jasper and Alice when she had jumped on his back. Then there were ones of Edward and me when I was human and I was listening to him play piano.
"They're all candids." Jasper observed as Emmett and Nessie came over to look. Edward kept scrolling, past ones of Emmett and Rosalie and ones of Jacob and Nessie. There had to be over three hundred pictures. There were ones of the entire family, except one person was missing…As if she read my thought, Nessie jumped up into my arms and put her hand to my face. Showing me Esme's face. "Where's Esme?" Her clear voice asked me. "Exactly." Edward said. "This must be Esme's camera." "These are beautiful." I said. They were all very artistically shot. "She's a very good photographer." Jasper mused.
A car door slammed outside. "Oh no…" Jasper said. Alice stomped through the front door. "Have you done anything?" She said glaring at each of us in turn. Rosalie came up behind her holding some shopping bags. "I leave you to simply clean and decorate!" She yelled. When Alice gets mad, she's even scarier than Emmett. A wave of calm entered the room, but it seemed like Alice was immune. "Oh no! Don't you try and calm me down!" She said turning on Jasper. I had never seen her angry at her mate before. "Alice." Edward said. She turned to him, her eyes blazing. "I know you're mad." Emmett laughed then tried to badly cover it up as a cough at that. "But I think I found something that would be the perfect gift for Esme." This stopped Alice dead in her tracks, her eyes glazed over for a second and she smiled. "It's perfect!" She squealed, grabbing the camera out of Edward's hand. "Okay." She said. "First of all. Lets take a group shot of all of us." Alice said. "Then we'll need lots of frames and print all of these out…"
A/N Thank you so much for reading! I'll probably post the second part within the next week. And if you have a moment, please review. I might consider doing other holidays like Halloween or something like that. If you have any suggestions or ideas let me know.