Author's Note: I do not own Twilight or Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
"Welcome everyone to the first annual Cullen Christmas Concert!!!" Alice shouted. She was standing on a raised platform that she and Jasper had painted black and furnished with red curtains to make it look like a stage. The Cullens were sitting in comfy white chairs placed around their living room.
"Our first performer," Alice continued, "is our very own Nessie Cullen!! Accompanying her will be Mr. Edward Cullen!" She applauded her brother and niece as they stepped proudly onstage.
Bella smiled, seeing her husband and daughter onstage. They'd told her it was a surprise.
"And….we have a special surprise for you guys. Please welcome………., EMMETT!!"
Rosalie stood and whistled, but sat down when she saw that she was the only one clapping. Bella wondered what they were going to do. She suspected it had something to do with a piano, since Alice insisted on dragging it onto their stage, but she couldn't guess why Emmett was there.
"Hey Rose," Bella whispered when Rosalie sat down. "Emmett doesn't play piano, does he?"
"Em? No, of course not. Look, he's going backstage right now. Maybe he was just there for decoration or something." Rosalie shrugged.
Bella did too, and settled into her chair, waiting for the performance to begin.
Nessie sat on one end of the piano bench, and Edward sat on the other side of her. Slowly, professionally, Renesmee began playing a light, mysterious tune that Bella recognized as the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Edward was playing a quiet accompaniment in the background, so it was all Renesmee.
Bella was thrilled. She knew that Renesmee was obviously very advanced for her age, but playing a Tchaikowsky piece was amazing. She listened attentively as Renesmee's fingers danced on the keys, hitting them lightly to produce a delightful sound. Bella was so amazed at her daughter's and husband's performance that she nearly forgot about Emmett, until he suddenly reappeared on the stage.
When Emmett had first come out with Edward and Renesmee, he was wearing his normal, everyday clothes. But when he jumped out onstage a second time, he was wearing a ballerina costume, complete with a frilly pink tutu, and pranced and twirled around the stage as if it were something he was born to do.
Bella was horrified, Rosalie had to stifle a laugh, and Alice looked pleased with her handiwork. Obviously, she had tried to make Emmett a dancing sugar plum fairy, while Nessie played the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies. And that is exactly what Emmett did. He frolicked around the stage, twirling his plastic plum-topped wand (yes, with an actual plum) and shaking it at his stunned audience.
Every time there was a pause in the song, Emmett filled it with his shouts of, "Boop!" or "Bing!" clearly trying to recreate a "magical" –sounding effect. Needless to say, the scene of a huge, bulky man prancing around a stage wearing a frilly pink tutu while his brother and niece played a Christmas tune was not a very magical event.
But it was funny.
Concluding chapter coming next!! Read and review please :]
