A/N: I'm gonna keep this short but sweet:

Here's chapter two! Enjoy!

Carlisle POV

Where were they? Esme and I have been standing outside this ridiculous coffee shop for the past half hour and they still haven't shown up. It's not like Alice to be late for things... What if something's happened to them? Maybe I should go look for them...

"Darling, don't worry, they'll be here any minute. You know what Alice is like, she probably just got distracted by a handbag or something!" laughed Esme.

"You're right. I'm overreacting, I know. I can't help it; I love them like my own."

"Me too. But I'm sure they can take care of themselves, Carlisle. Okay, maybe not Emmett so much, but the rest of them seem sensible enough not to go looking for trouble."

Just then I saw Jasper in the distance. I breathed a sigh of relief which quickly turned into a gasp of horror as I saw what he was carrying. Alice's tiny limp body; white and fragile. I ran to them.

"Jasper! What happened?"

"Well, I'm not positive, but I think she fainted." Jasper's face was even whiter than usual.

"Lay her down on the bench." Luckily, I had my emergency first aid kit with me. It was an item I never left home without. I carefully examined Alice's body.

"Well, she breathing and her pupils aren't dilated so it looks like she just fainted. Do you know what caused this?" I turned to Rosalie.

"She was about to buy her shoes, but it turns out our bank accounts have been emptied. We have no money. We're poor!"

"Are you sure?" asked Esme.

"That's not possible. There was over $4,000,000 in all our combined bank accounts," I said.

"Well, apparently not anymore. They've been totally emptied out."

This made no sense. The bank accounts were the probably the securest bank accounts in the whole of the United States and Europe.

Jasper looked thoughtful. "Well, the only people who knew the pin codes were us. Who would steal the money?"

Bingo. We've found the culprit.

"Emmett," I sighed.

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"Sit down Emmett."

"Um... can I ask what this is about?"

"No."

"Because if it's about the public indecency thing, I swear to god I did not know that the beach wasn't a nudist colony."

"Emmett, be quiet!"

"Sorry Daddy."

"Now would you please like to tell me what you've done with all our money?" I asked him, circling the chair he was sitting on.

"What money? I don't know anything about any money. What are you talking about? I don't even have any money."

Convincing, really convincing. Looks like the good cop routine isn't working. Time to try the bad cop.

"Now, I really didn't want to do this, but I'm afraid that since you won't tell me what you've done with the money, I'm going to have to punish Mr Snuffles instead!"

"NO! Please don't! Anything but Mr Snuffles!"

"Um, Carlisle, you do know I could just tell you what he's done with the money?"

"Edward, go! I want a confession from him!"

"Okay, just trying to save you the trouble..."

"NOW!"

"Jeez, jeez, I'm gone."

"Where were we? Ah yes, I think I remember. Mr Snuffles..." I said, holding Emmett's beloved teddy bear above the candle.

"FINE! I'LL TELL YOU! JUST DON'T HURT HIM!"

"Thank you Emmett." I handed Mr Snuffles back to him.

"Okay well, when Rose and I went on honeymoon to Italy a couple of months back, I may have stumbled across Caius in a bar one night."

Dear god. "Yes..."

"And well, um I may have gone to a casino with him and..."

"Yes Emmett?"

"Well, I'm sorry Carlisle, but I used all of our money playing poker and blackjack with him and Marcus."

Great. Bloody fantastic.

"You spent $4,000,000 on poker games?"

"Well, not just that. I think that by the time we were done, I owed the Volturi a private jet, a Lamborghini and a packet of gum."

"Emmett! How could you? What are we supposed to do now? We have no money! And it's not like we can just go to Italy and ask the Volturi for the money back!" The very idea of asking the Volturi for anything made me laugh.

"Well, you have a job. Just earn the money back. Duh."

An idea struck me.

"Emmett, call a family meeting in the dining room in fifteen minutes! I'll be right back!"

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I looked around at my family. I didn't really want to do this to them, but it was important that they learnt the value of money.

"So, as you all know, Emmett spent all of our money gambling with the Volturi ."

"EMMETT!"

Whoops. My bad.

"Anyway, I have come up with an amazing idea to get the money back!"

"Let's hear it then!" Alice was fine now and was her normal, enthusiastic self again.

"I've just been to the job centre and signed you all up. In these envelopes are your job placements where you will be working for the next three weeks. Enjoy!"

"Hey, where are you and Esme going?" Rosalie asked.

"Oh didn't I tell you? We're going on a vacation to Esme's Island. See you in three weeks!"

A/N: Ooooo, the Cullens have jobs, fun fun fun! Please review because 4 reviews is a really pathetic amount AND I updated the next day AND I might not have the incentive to write any more if no one reviews!

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