A Cullen Family Holiday - Chapter 1

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Chapter One: The Decision

It was time for us to get away for a while. We all needed it. Renesmee had just finished another Doctorate this time in cardiovascular surgery which was the highlight of Edward's existence. She had now decided to start working. Carlisle had been able to arrange for her to join him in Glasgow Royal Infirmary, a hospital in a rainy miserable city in Scotland.

"I feel like a holiday before I start working" Renesmee's lilt filled the room.

We had moved to Scotland a few years ago as it was another of those places we could go out most of the time without worry of exposure. We had been able to buy a few properties out with the city centre so some privacy and Esme loved all the Victorian and Georgian design of Glasgow's old buildings and of course the Rennie Mackintosh buildings in particular.

"So can we go Grandpa Carlisle? Will the hospital wait on me?"

"Of course sweetie; you have got the best marks in the history of the assessment being run and you don't care that you could get paid more. They would wait on you for years if they had to."

"Well then I want to go to Isle Esme and I want everyone to come. Ppppurrrllllleeeessssss!!!!"

My beautiful daughter gave her father and uncles one of those looks that meant that we were all going. She had then wrapped round her little finger ever since the day she was born. She didn't even need to pull that with Carlisle he just gave in anyway. It was a bad thing at times though because Alice, Rose, Esme and I were always the ones to have to tell her no.

"OK, when are we leaving then?" Emmett smirked as he gave in first.

We decided after thrashing out all the plans that we would leave in 2 days time, plenty of time for Alice to prepare our cases as she put it. Then out came the big question;

"Dad, its ok if Jacob comes isn't it?"

"Of course, but you have to remind his that I can hear what he thinks and you cannot set out to make him think the things I do not want to hear missy" he added with a smirk knowing full well that it was his daughter that was the bad one there.

"Dad. I have been married for 15 years now! Really! "

"So like your mother both before and after. Always letting hormones control you. You could at least attempt to keep your thoughts clean when I'm around. I am your father for goodness sake! Even Jake does better than you." Edward laughed at how much Renesmee's view of Jake was so much like my view of him.

"He is worried for his life Dad! That normally gives you some incentive to try harder. I mean you have threatened to tear him limb from limb a few times for little thoughts that I happen to like."

"Enough!" Edward growled through extremely clenched teeth. Renesmee was terrible at winding her Dad up. She knew that he had threatened Jacob's life several times over thoughts he had of Renesmee, his little girl, his baby. That her Dad would forever see her this way, she hated to admit though that she did sometimes like that about her Dad.

So after lots of talking, ribbing's about all of our sex lives and Emmett making a checklist of all the pranks that he and Renesmee could pull on the rest of us we were packed and ready to go.

A few days later we were flying out to Rio with lots of luggage all packed by Alice, of course, who had been a whirlwind of shopping and packing activity since she foresaw us going. She hadn't said anything before since there was a chance that Renesmee might change her mind.

We got to Rio in what seemed to me like half the time it had taken the last time I was here. I could now see the difference in a human's view of time and a vampire's very clearly. The boys were sorting out the boat that we had at the harbour to take us to Isle Esme and us girls were recalling the day that Esme got this beautiful surprise.

"Well Carlisle had been working all day at the hospital which annoyed me since it was our anniversary but you know how he is over his work. I had decided that for out anniversary that I was going to take Carlisle out to this little lake that we both found just before the Canadian border. It was always so peaceful and I was going to take him for some moonlit swimming and something slightly more special for dinner" Esme was swooning over this story but was still aware enough of the humans at shore to pick her words about food carefully.

"Carlisle had come home and told me to go fetch my passport that we were going away. He told me that where we were going was a surprise but that when we got there we would have 4 weeks of just us that he was now officially on a 4 week holiday from work. This surprised me no end as you know how much your father hates taking time off work! So off we went. We flew to Italy first and he took me to visit all the beautiful buildings and art Italy has to offer, then we flew to Rio and then he brought me here to this harbour where we got aboard a boat and set sail. After about 30 minutes he pointed out a small island with a wonderful white house, golden sand, crystal clear water and a little forest of local wildlife on it and nothing else. It was the most amazing sight I had ever seen next to Carlisle himself" Renesmee went to made a fake vomiting noise but Alice soooshes her before she could do it "I gasped at the sight and asked where we were and his reply was one I will remember for the rest of my days."

"We are at the SECOND most beautiful thing in the world, Isle Esme; only made better by THE most beautiful thing in the world visiting it, Esme Cullen. " Carlisle called over to us in a smooth, silky seductive voice.

Esme shivered at the sound as the rest of us ooohhhhed and aaaahhhhed.

"Thanks Carlisle, Now we are all going to get in the ear tonight about being more romantic. Thanks" groaned Jacob.

"Yeah Dad, were all screwed now, or not depending how we answer the questions we get fired at us!" Emmett grumbled before getting the usual swat across the back of the head from Rose as we all took our places on the boat before setting off to a round of giggling from us all.

Edward didn't say anything. We both knew that he was just as romantic as that but I would kill him if he ever bought me anything that extravagant. I would hate the thought of that amount of money being spent on me.