Title: The First Gift
Rosalie was in her room listening to the talk radio show and thinking of everything that had happened within the past few months. Emmett had been 'courting' her for two months as of today…at least that was according to him but normally when a man would court a woman; he would at least try to buy or make her something which he hadn't done yet. Granted Emmett couldn't go out of the house but she was confused as to whether or not he was still courting her.
She lowered her radio when she heard someone jumping up and down right outside her door. She quirked an eyebrow as she opened the door to find Emmett with a smile on his face while balancing on his heels, "I have something to show you." He said excitedly.
"What's that?" Rosalie said, trying to figure out what he was doing.
"Come on down here. It's so cool! I have heard about these only in circus acts." he pulled her down the stairs, acting as if he were a young child. "I think you will like it!"
"Emmett, what are you going to show me?" Rosalie asked.
"I got you something. It has only been out for a few years now." He ran outside as they stopped in front of a big rectangular frame with a black lining over it.
Rosalie touched it with one finger then looked at Emmett, "What is this?" she asked.
"A trampoline. I heard about them for so long but never thought I could have the money to buy one! I have always dreamed of getting one."
"Why did you buy it now? How did you buy it?" She asked looking around it.
"Well for the past few months I have been saving the allowance that Carlisle was giving to each of us plus Eddy gave me some extra money. Then I had Edward go out and make the purchase seeing as you guys don't trust me out there and well, I was able to talk him into getting me one with the money I saved. I just finished putting it together!"
"What is the occasion?" she asked walking around it.
"All everyone here does is read, hunt and the occasional few that go to work. Now we can bounce on a trampoline! It will give you a break from the monotony of reading." he said gliding his hand across the metal as if he were trying to sell it to her.
Rosalie nodded, "So you bounce on it?" she asked, not knowing what to think of it.
"Don't tell me you don't know about trampolines, they have been out for a few years at least. My brothers and sisters and I would always talk about wanting one after our family treated us to a circus act almost five or six years ago. So have you heard of them?"
"Can't say I have."
"Let me show you." Emmett said as he jumped on it and then proceeded to bounce up and down, going much higher than any average human could on the trampoline.
"What's the point of it?" Rosalie asked laughing at Emmett's jumping style.
"To have fun and to be able to bounce the highest." He said as he kept bouncing higher and higher.
"You realize that vampires can jump high anyways right?" she said louder than needed as she laughed at him.
"Yeah, but you can jump higher on this without any effort." He jumped off of it and landed next to her, "Give it a try."
Rosalie slid on as she started to bounce on it. "This is fun." She laughed as she started to do flips in the air.
Emmett jumped on to be with her. They both jumped up and down. "Wait I have a great idea! One of use will stay still in the middle of it and the other will bounce the person."
"Sounds easy."
"Alright, you sit in the middle."
Rosalie smiled as she sat in the middle of it and Emmett bounced around her making her bounce. Just then she bounced right off of the trampoline. Rosalie was about to easily land on her feet when Emmett caught her in the air, making the both of them flop to the ground.
The two rolled a few feet as they both laughed. Edward just got home as he walked past them, he was about to open his mouth then shook his head, "I don't want to know." He whispered as he walked into the house.
"Come on, give it a try." Emmett yelled when the door closed.
"No thanks." Edward said back.
"Party pooper." Rosalie yelled getting Edward to look out the window at the two with a confused look on his face and Emmett to stare at her, neither expecting her to say that.
Then Emmett smiled, score one for Emmett on the courting scale. He thought as he sat there smiling.
Edward sighed, "I'm not trying." He whispered as he shook his head and flipped the blinds down.
"Want to go on the trampoline again?" Emmett asked Rosalie.
"Definitely."
Two hours later and four games later, Rosalie was on one side of the trampoline and Emmett on the other. Rosalie was holding twenty tennis balls in a basket while Emmett had an empty basket. "Ready…go!" Emmett yelled.
Rosalie started throwing the balls as high as she could make them go as high as possible, even throwing some on the trampoline to make them go higher.
Emmett jumped up and started to catch each one as he bounced in the air, trying to get them all before they hit the ground. He stopped as he laughed, "I got them all this time!" he said excitedly.
Rosalie looked inside of it, "Actually there is only nineteen balls. We are missing one." She told him.
"Where did it go?" He asked looking around.
The two were looking around from the trampoline for the last one when Carlisle and Esme drove up from their day out on the town.
"Hey Carlisle and Esme." Rosalie said from the trampoline, "Did you see what Emmett bought?"
Emmett was too busy looking around for the last ball to talk to the two.
"Why did he buy a trampoline?" Carlisle asked grabbing some shopping bags out of the back with Esme.
"To have fun." Rosalie told him as Esme and Carlisle came up to it.
"What are you two doing?" Esme asked. "Aren't you suppose to bounce on them?"
"We have been making games out of this trampoline, now it is catching the ball into a basket." She said. Of course she was acting like a little kid but she was having fun.
"Are those my laundry baskets?"
Rosalie looked at the basket she set down and the basket in Emmett's hands, "Maybe."
Esme was about to yell at them but she figured she would let them have their fun. She was surprised to see Rosalie's hair a mess; she had never seen this girl's hair without being exact to the smallest strand. Perhaps Emmett was a better thing to happen to her than everyone once thought.
"Oh there is the ball." Emmett smiled as he pointed into the sky.
As they all turned to look where he was pointing, the ball went straight through Carlisle's windshield and smashed through the bottom of the car.
Emmett ran over and grabbed it from under the car, "Good thing no one got hurt." He said smiling as he tossed the ball in the air and caught it.
Carlisle was starting to seethe.
"I promise I will fix it." Rosalie said noticing Carlisle's anger.
"You guys will not play that game ever again and Rosalie I have to go to work in two days, you will fix it by then." He said as Esme put an arm around him.
"Calm down." Esme said to him.
"That was a brand new windshield. It is barely four months old." Carlisle whined.
"What happened to the last one?" Emmett asked as he played with the ball in his hands.
Rosalie thought back on how she had accidentally landed on it when she was racing Edward to see who could get back to the house the fastest when the sun was coming out unexpectedly. She may have knocked Edward down by tackling him, which in return made him decide to trip her and made her land on the windshield. "That doesn't matter as long as I fixed it." She said to him.
"Just fix it." Carlisle said, he didn't want to get angry right now as he walked inside with Esme following, still trying to calm him down with words.
"I have to go get the phone and make a call to the glass store." Rosalie said running inside. She quickly grabbed the phone and called the number, "Hello, this is Rosalie Cullen. Yes, it is I again. No it isn't the front window this time, it's the windshield. Yeah, to the same car. I know I just replaced it."
Emmett waited outside for her to finish her call. It didn't take long due to the man on the other line knowing exactly what she needed. Apparently she called quite often for different parts.
When Rosalie was done, she quickly looked into the mirror. She couldn't believe how her hair looked, it was very spastic and everywhere. "Wow." She whispered as she played with it. She was about to tell Emmett that she wouldn't be using the trampoline again but when she went outside to tell him, she saw him with his back to the door as he looked up at the tree, at a bird overhead of them.
Rosalie was about to speak when Emmett turned around, "You are back! And you are looking more beautiful than ever." He said to her.
She was about to object but couldn't when he smiled at her. She let out a huge smile; no one was going to see her here anytime soon anyways. They went back to making up games for their new trampoline.
History Lesson- The first trampoline was built in 1934 for circus acts. It wasn't until 1942 that the trampoline was made commercially. Even then, I am sure they were expensive. I assumed that Rosalie may not know about it yet because she and Esme both probably stay inside a lot of the time much like most woman did back in the 1930's and 1940's. Seeing as how they don't have to farm and want to keep as little attention to themselves as possible, I would assume they don't get out too often. I would believe that Esme and Rosalie wouldn't have much to do every day but clean and the occasional shopping for a new dress or whatever is in style. I am not being sexist (I am a female) but woman didn't get any rights until the 60's or 70's. It's crazy to think that just sixty years ago, females had no rights…
And everyone has made up games for a trampoline, right? Everyone knows the game Popcorn! I was debating on whether or not to have them play it but I figured that we have all played it. I really hope they aren't out of character but I figured Emmett should buy her something since he is supposed to be courting her and what not. Then I got to thinking, what would be an Emmett thing to buy? I went through, video games? Not out yet made, Flowers? It's cute but doesn't sound like Emmett plus I have something with flowers in a later chapter, and then I figured a trampoline sounds like something he would buy! Thus this chapter was made.
I will have two chapters up next week as a Christmas Special! One will be a song fic and the other will be an actual story! PLEASE REVIEW! And let me know what you thought of this! I wont hold chapters above your heads to make you review but it is always nice to hear from you guys, *wink wink*
