Renesme was sitting on my lap on the sofa in the living room. She pulled a curl of my hair and giggled as it sprang back into place.
I smiled at my niece's antics, glad that Edward had asked me to babysit today while he and Bella went hunting.
Careful not to disrupt Renesme's hair pulling game I turned my head slightly as Rosalie came down the stairs.
She pulled on her military style jacket and fastened the buttons deftly with her long pale fingers. I remembered that I had a child on my lap and that Edward and Bella trusted me not to mess up their child before I started to think about what else those fingers could do…
Rosalie called up the stairs when she was done with her jacket; 'Hurry up Alice! I don't want a repeat of the last shopping expedition we had when I had to wrestle that crazy chick for the last Marc Jacobs bag'. Rose shuddered at the memory whilst I could hear Alice laughing upstairs.
I grinned at my wife 'Now I would have paid to see that. Rosalie Hale wrestles a woman to the floor in the handbag isle. Priceless.'
Rosalie moved so she was standing behind the sofa looking down at me. She was trying – but failing miserably- to wear a disapproving frown on her beautiful face.
I cocked an eyebrow and said 'I trust you whooped her ass?'
She leant down so that she was eye level with me 'You know it baby' she said and smiled a slow and devastatingly sexy smile at me.
My own lips stretched into a smile that I knew displayed my dimples. Rose's eyes dropped from my own to look at the dimples that she loved so much.
As she bit on her bottom plump pink lip I knew I would have to ruin the moment so as not to give my niece a nasty shock. And to spare Bella from having to give The Talk with her so soon.
'You know I can see directly down your top from this angle.' I said and moved my eyes downwards obviously. 'When you go shopping are you gonna get a new bra? Because it looks like you're bustin' out of that one' I grinned knowing that only I could get away with that comment.
Rosalie stood up swiftly just as Alice pranced down the stairs. 'Sorry, I couldn't choose between two pairs of shoes'. Alice hooked her bag over her shoulder and smiled at Nessie and me 'Well have fun you two, and we'll see you both later'
Whilst Alice got the keys to her Porshe Rose kissed Nessie on the crown of her head and said 'You make sure your Uncle doesn't do anything stupid'. Nessie giggled up at her.
'Hey!' I protested but Rose silenced me by pressing her lips to mine.
'Bye baby' she said and followed Alice out the door.
I turned my head back around to face Nessie who had watched the whole scene in silence. 'Well kiddo it's just you and me now' I said.
Her small face was scrunched up in thought, making her look remarkably like her mother.
'What's up?' I asked
She was still for a moment trying to put her thoughts into words 'You and Auntie Rose…' she started.
'How did you know!' I joked
Nessie rolled her eyes, used by now to my comic wit. 'You kiss her all the time. More than Mummy and Daddy do' I was quiet now letting her continue. 'I was just wondering what your first ever kiss with each other was like.'
My eyes widened in surprise, no one had ever actually asked me that before.
'You really want to know the story?' I asked. She nodded earnestly the curls in her hair bouncing along with her head.
'Ok then.' I answered and Nessie beamed and clambered off my lap to get more comfortable on the sofa next to me.
'Well, I was no longer a newborn at the time but I was still adjusting to the vampire way of life…