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Why are these lights so bright?
Oh did we get hitched last night?
Dressed up like Elvis,
And why, why am I wearing your class ring?
Don't call your mother;
Cause now we're partners in crime.
-Katy Perry
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Chapter 9: What happens in Vegas doesn't stay there?
Rosalie Hale:
I have to admit; I did a good job at picking the perfect hotel for our short stay in Vegas. Bella didn't know that we were only here for a night; we would be leaving tomorrow around noon. I knew that deep down she wanted to spend some time with Carly.
Watching Bella with Carly was amazing; it surprised me how much she changed the second she was handed Carly. She instantly became more mature and she had this fierceness in her eyes whenever Carly was hurt.
Bella and Jacob went up to their room—again another pat on my back for setting that up, and Emmett grabbed our bags and we went to ours.
The second we stepped into our hotel room I was slammed against a wall and Emmett's lips attacked mine.
"I'm so excited for tonight baby." His smile was so wide and his dimples were showing, it reminded me why I had a crush on him as a kid. I smiled as I thought about tonight—what would happen.
"I know baby, me too." His light blue eyes held such adoration for me and I didn't know why. How someone so calm and gentle chose me.
He pulled me to him and wrapped an arm around my waist leading me towards the living room, he sat down on the leather couch and he pulled me into his lap, "Let's watch a movie and wait for B to get settled in, okay?" I nodded and passed him the remote.
Eventually, he fell asleep with his head on my lap as I lightly scratched his scalp. I heard the door click open and I saw Bella walk through the door, her eyes looked at Emmett, then at me and starred at us lovingly. Sometimes it was hard to be around her; I knew how much she missed Edward and I felt like Em and I were flaunting our relationship with her—I didn't want to see her hurt.
She sat down on the couch beside me and bit her lip, "Hey." She whispered, obviously trying not to wake Em up, but honestly the world could collapse and he wouldn't even flinch in his sleep.
I looked back down at him, his face was relaxed and he had a slight smile on his face. "Hi."
Bella started to fidget in her seat—a sign that she was nervous. "Should I leave? I can come back later?" She pointed at Em sleeping and I shook my head.
"No, it's okay, he needs to get ready anyway; we have a lot to do." I kissed his cheek a couple of times and his eyes fluttered open and he sat up.
I told him we had to get ready for tonight and his eyes twinkled and he ran to the room and grabbed his clothes and some beer. I knew that he would be slightly buzzed by the time we were ready.
The second I heard the door slam I pulled Bella into our room, "What's the rush?" She whined as I pushed her into the chair.
She didn't know tonight's plans, only Em and I knew what was really happening tonight. It was important that we all followed the schedule. "We have an hour to get ready and hit the club." I told her as I pushed her into the shower.
As Bella showered I took a quick shower in the other bathroom, when I stepped out she was still showering so I opened my suitcase that was full of makeup and laid everything out onto the bed. I plugged the hair straightener into the outlet and as I waited for it to heat up I put on my makeup, my dress was almost the same style as Bella's but it was a light green dress. I put on eyeliner and some eye shadow. The hair straightener was hot enough so I straightened my hair quickly and made lose curls with the curling iron.
I was putting the finishing touches on my hair when Bella stepped out of the bathroom wearing one of the hotel's complementary bathrobes. She narrowed her eyes at the two shot's that were on the bedside table, she arched an eyebrow at me and I rolled my eyes, "Bella, it's just a shot, you need a little liquid courage right now, I can tell your scared."
I handed her the shot glass and she sniffed it and made a face, then she looked up at me and took the shot, I raised the glass to my mouth and I felt the slight burn the tequila made, I set the glasses down and smiled at her, "That's my girl."
I didn't want her to be scared, I wanted her birthday to be amazing. Call me selfish but I wanted to have a nice night out with my best friend. Watching her go throughout her pregnancy was hard, she had so many people tearing her down and I could tell Edward's lack of phone calls was killing her inside. Bella didn't know how many fights I got into senior year because I heard girls speaking badly about her. I just wanted her to have a happy memory when I knew she was having a hard time dealing with Edward's disappearance. Honestly, I could care less about what happened to him; he deserved whatever hit him because I knew whatever he was going through now isn't half as bad as what Bella had to go through everyday.
Bella and I chatted about everything and nothing while I got her ready, I missed us being like this; talking about stupid things and giving each other makeovers, just being best friends.
I didn't even try to hold back the smile I had when Bella finally looked at herself in the mirror, she was beautiful—she always was but tonight she looked genuinely happy and I actually saw her smile a real smile—she only smiled like that when someone brought up Carly.
She always thought she wasn't beautiful, but boys were always obsessed with her; she never realized in because she only had eyes for Edward but the looks she received from the boys at school were full of longing and desire.
We texted the boys telling them to meet up with us at the elevators and I laughed at Jacob already slurring his words.
The second we stepped into the elevator Emmett pulled me to his side, "You look so beautiful tonight baby." He wrapped his arms around my waist and I shivered at the feel of his lips on my neck.
We got a cab and as the driver drove us to the club Emmett couldn't keep his hands off me, "I want you forever." He murmured as he kissed my temple. My heart raced at his words and I looked over at Bella who seemed to have found a new fascination with Jacob's face and I leaned over and kissed him quickly.
When we arrived at the club I took a look at the line and rolled my eyes; there was no way in hell I was waiting, I looked at Emmett and rose my eyebrow at him, silently asking if it was okay, hit bit his lip and shrugged his shoulder, telling me to do whatever I wanted.
I grabbed Bella and quickly made my way to the bouncers. His eyes greedily took me in and I had to hold back the eye roll.
He licked his lips as his eyes zeroed in on my cleavage—pig. "What can I do for you ladies?" It sounded like he was trying to be sexy but it sounded like he had something stuck in his throat.
I stepped forward and placed my hand onto his chest, and I put on my best porn star voice, "Well, it's my best friends birthday, and we want to have a good time, but the line is too long, do you think you could let us in?" I purred.
He swallowed and then his face turned up into a smirk, "It'll cost you."
I looked back at Em, trying to plead with my eyes that he wouldn't make a big deal of this, he wouldn't meet my eyes and I could tell by the way that he stood that he was pissed. I sighed internally; I didn't want our night to end like this.
I smirked up at the bouncer and grabbed the side of my dress and I watched as his eyes zeroed in on my hand, I pulled my dress back flashing him quickly and I watched his eyes go wide.
His hands immediately shot out to the velvet rope and he unhooked it and let us through, "Have a nice night miss, if you need anything, feel free to look for me, my shift is over in an hour." I rolled my eyes and walked into the club.
I immediately went over to Emmett and placed my hand on his chest, "Hey." I whispered. He kept looking at everywhere but my eyes.
He gently pulled my hand away from his chest, "Don't Rosie."
"Are you seriously mad?"
He let out a huff and his eyes met mine and I was overwhelmed with the anger they held, "You know what's sad Rose, the fact that you have to ask if you flashing a guy to get into a club makes me mad." He rolled his eyes and walked away as I starred at his retreating back in shock.
I just wanted to get us in the club, I wanted us all to have a good time, and the night was already ruined.
I made my way to the bar and downed a couple of shots, my eyes searched the crowded club and I found Jacob talking with Bella and I ordered a drink for her and made my way over to them, I grabbed her arm and passed the drink to her, "Hey drink this."
She sniffed the drink and looked back up at me, "What is it?"
"Long Island Iced Tea, shit makes you drunk real fast." I let out a giggle and continued to people watch.
I spotted Em sitting at one of the couches by the DJ booth and I made my way over to apologize to him, however I stopped when I saw he had a lady friend.
"Excuse me." I cleared my throat; the bottle head blonde looked up at me and rolled her eyes.
"Yes, excuse you, were in the middle of a conversation here aren't we Emmie." She slurred and I swear all I saw was red.
No one but me called him Emmie.
I took a step closer to her and grabbed her arm that was lying on his chest and pulled her off the couch, "Um, excuse me? Maybe you didn't hear me correctly, 'excuse me' means get your dirty little hands off my man before I do it for you."
"Sweetie, you're a little drunk, maybe your boyfriend is somewhere else in the club, now run along." She waved her fingers at me and I swear it took everything I had in me not to punch her in the face.
"Um no Sweetie, get your fucking paws off of my man before my fist comes into contact with your pretty little nose, I bet your daddy would refuse to pay for another plastic surgery. Looks like you've been under the knife quite a few times." I sneered.
She opened her mouth to speak but Emmett cut her off, "Crystal, I think you should leave." She pouted at him and when he didn't tell her to stay she huffed and stormed off.
I sat down on the couch next to him and turned my glare to him, "Are you kidding me?"
"She just sat down next to me Ro, don't make a big deal over nothing."
Now normally, I would leave it at that but the alcohol in my system was making me do otherwise, "No! Fuck you! You got mad that I showed someone my boob and you have some bitch over here wanting to ride your junk? Fuck you Em."
Emmett sighed, as I continued, "I just came over here to apologize to you and you already made a move on someone else? Is that why you won't marry me? Because you don't even want me?"
"Rosalie Lily Hale, shut the fuck up." He growled and grabbed me and pulled me onto his lap, I tried to struggle free but no one was stronger than Emmett.
He grabbed my face in his hands and spoke calmly, "I love you Rosie, I do want you; all the time, that girl saw me sitting and came over to speak to me, no big deal." He paused and looked at my cleavage before continuing, "But you flashing someone is a big deal, you can't just do that and not expect me to get mad, your body is something that you should only show to someone you care about; we could've waited in line—the wait would've been 20 minutes. You need to respect that I love you and I don't want you showing your body to other people."
His words hit me hard and I instantly felt the tears wanting to come out of my eyes, sometimes I forgot that Emmett was sensitive, he was usually just a big goofball, but whenever the situation dealt with me he was always one hundred percent serious. I felt a slight pang in my heart when I realized my actions hurt him, I always acted before I spoke and sometimes that led to serious drama; it was a miracle he still wanted me, I bit back the tears and pulled him closer, "Oh Em, I'm sorry, so sorry." I whispered as I kissed every inch of his face.
"Just don't do it again okay?" He murmured.
"I promise babe, don't talk to ugly skanks named Crystal anymore okay?" The jealousy in my voice was obvious.
Emmett wrapped his arms around my waist and I wrapped mine around his neck, he nuzzled his face into my neck and let out a sigh, "You Rosalie Hale, have got to be the most jealous girl I know. Baby, you have to know by now that I'll never leave you. I'm not like him, I won't do that to you."
I knew he wasn't like him, I just couldn't help but feel anxious when he talked to other girls, it always reminded me of my father, and what he did to us. I shook my head; trying to get those thoughts out of my head, tonight was about Bella.
"I know you're not like him. Just don't talk to pretty girls okay?" The desperation in my voice was evident.
I was never insecure around anyone but Emmett, I knew other boys found me to be beautiful, but their opinion didn't matter, only Em's did. I wanted him to think I was beautiful.
His grip on me tightened and he kissed my forehead softly, "Ro, when I look at other girls I don't see their faces. You're the only one that matters." His words always lifted me higher and I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this man.
Emmett was such a kind, caring soul, people always grew intimidated my his size but he was the softest gentlest person I knew, he would protect the ones he loved with everything he had in him. And the way he spoke was beautiful.
I loved this man with everything I had in me, and if he didn't purpose soon I knew I would.
After sneaking some kisses and a few make out sessions Em pulled me up towards the dance floor, "Come on baby, let's dance." He wrapped his arms around me and I felt protected, like how he always made me feel.
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Once we hit the dance floor the music took over us and we danced, occasionally someone would ask to cut in but we turned him or her down. The whole time we danced we never took our eyes off of the other and you could feel the amount of love we had for each other; it was like an energy bubble around us.
My back hit the wall of the nightclub and I let out a low moan as I felt Emmett's lips moving down my neck. I fisted my hands into his hair and pulled his face up, our lips were like magnets instantly hitting each other.
Emmett pulled away and I let out a low groan, "Marry me."
I shook my head and tried to process his words, "What?"
"You heard me, marry me." He set me down and placed his hand in his pocket and pulled out a small box, he opened it and got down on one knee.
"Rosalie Lily Hale, I love you more than everything in this world, I'm sorry for the location of my proposal but I can't wait any longer, I've had this ring with me for quite some time, waiting for the perfect moment to propose, but every moment is perfect with you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?"
I pulled him up and smashed my lips onto his, "Yes Em, yes I'll marry you." He placed the huge diamond ring onto my ring finger and pulled me into a deep kiss.
"I can't believe you said yes." He exclaimed.
"I can't believe you thought I would say no." I told him and rolled my eyes, he was honestly crazy if he thought I wouldn't want to marry him.
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Em and I sat back down on the couch and watched Bella dance with a guy, Emmett grew a bit protective about that but I held him back, she looked like she was having a good time.
I curled into Em's side and played with my ring. "You know I love you right?" I asked, because I certainly didn't tell him enough.
But I did love him, he was there for me when I lost my first tooth and I was freaking out and spitting out blood because Jessica Stanley pushed me into the door, and he was there when I lost the spelling bee and he comforted me and told me the words were stupid to begin with, and he was there whenever I was getting picked on.
He was always there. He held me when I cried when my father announced he was leaving my family for another woman, that really shook me, my parents were always so happy. I started to question my relationship with Em, if my parents who loved each other so much got a divorce, how could we ever last? But he was there, fighting with me when I told him we needed to breakup, he fought against it and never left my side.
He took me home every single day after that because my mom forgot to pick me up from school because she grew attached to her new best friend—tequila. He held me when I cried about receiving photos from my dad with his new wife.
He was there for me when Jessica Stanley started rumors that I had an eating disorder.
He was always there;
And in my heart I knew he would always be there for me;
for better and for worse.
And suddenly, I knew what I wanted.
"Let's get married right now." He looked over at me in shock.
"Rosie, didn't you want to have a big wedding with all that fancy shit?" I let out a laugh and shook my head, "No, all I need is you. If you're there waiting for me at the alter, then it'll be the perfect wedding."
"Okay, let's get married."
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Trying to pull Bella away from her friend was a bitch; she didn't want to leave. "Rosie no! I don't want to go, that's Alec; he has a horse." She slurred and I laughed.
"B, we gotta go." Jacob said as he pulled her arm.
"Let me say bye." She pushed Jacob off of her and walked over to Alec and to my surprise she pressed her lips against his, apparently a drunk Bella was a confident one.
"Alright let's go!" She yelled—poor kid was going to have a hell of a hangover when she woke up.
Em was already waiting outside with a taxi and we all settled in, "To the little white chapel please." Emmett called out to the driver.
"Oh my god! You guys are getting married, that's so beautiful, isn't it beautiful Jake?" Bella's voice filled the cab and I never heard her this loud before.
"Yes Bella, it's beautiful." Jacob sighed and Em barked out a laugh.
Oh, this definitely was a night to remember.
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"You know, if you don't want to do this now, I get it; we can wait until we go home." Emmett told me softly as we walked towards the door of the chapel.
"No Em, I want to be your wife. But if you're having second thoughts…" I paused, "NO!" He called out. "I just, I know we're going to remember this forever baby, and I want you to have your dream wedding."
"You are my dream Emmett."
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The wedding march started and I watched from the door as Bella stumbled her way down the isle—we probably should've waited for her to be sober to see this, but we had photographers and we paid to get the DVD, so she wouldn't feel too left out.
Both doors swung open and I took that as my signal, it was my turn to walk down the isle. I started with slow even steps but once my eyes met Em's all I wanted to do was be near him, to finally be his wife, to have him forever.
The Justice of Peace started with the opening prayers and I got lost in Emmett's eyes. I couldn't hear a word the Justice was saying, all I could see was Emmett, and suddenly he started opening his mouth to say his vows—he wouldn't let me near him when he was writing them so I was instantly intrigued.
"I, Emmett McCarty, take you, Rosalie Lily Hale, as the love of my life. I vow to be patient with you and the circumstances in our lives. I vow to be kind to all people we come across. I vow not to be boastful of our love our about our accomplishments. I promise to be proud of you, but not proud in love for though I will strive for perfection, I know I can never reach it. I promise not to be quick to anger, but to think before I speak and act. I vow not to keep record of wrongs; but to always keep the happy memories alive. Through God, our love will never fail." Emmett slid the wedding band onto my finger and tenderly wiped the fallen tears off of my cheeks.
I grabbed the ring from Jacob and took Emmett's hand in mine and began to say my vows, "I, Rosalie Lily Hale, take you Emmett McCarty, to be my husband; my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. I will trust you and honor you; I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love you faithfully, through the best and the worst, through the difficult and the easy. What may come I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep."
I slid the ring onto his finger and brought his hands up to my face and quickly kissed his palm.
The Justice of Peace cleared his throat, "Do you Rosalie Lily Hale, take Emmett McCarty to be your lawfully wedded husband, and do you promise before these witnesses, to love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, in sickness and in health; for as long as you both shall live?"
I looked up at Em and smiled, "I do."
The Justice pointed towards Emmett, "Do you Emmett McCarty, take Rosalie Lily Hale to be your lawfully wedded wife, and do you promise before these witnesses, to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, in sickness and in health; for as long as you both shall live?"
Emmett cleared his throat and gazed down at me, "I do."
"I know pronounce you husband and wife, you may now kiss the bride." Before the Justice finished his words Em already had his lips on mine and my tears were flowing freely.
"You're my wife now." I nodded my head, "You're my husband." His smile was so wide I thought his face was going to split in two.
He grabbed my hand and kissed the two rings that would rest on my ring finger forever. "When we get home I'll buy you a better one." He promised.
I shook my head at him, "No, I want this one, it's perfect."
I heard someone sniffling and turned and saw Bella with makeup running down her cheeks—oh Bella.
"B, what's wrong?" Em asked as he pulled her into a hug.
"You guys are married now, and you won't be around anymore." She wailed; Em looked at me in shock.
"B, we'll be around forever." Emmett reassured her but her cries continued to increase.
"What do I do?" Emmett whined and I rolled my eyes and made my way over to the cash register.
"Hi, can I buy an extra wedding band please?"
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The next morning.
I rolled over onto my side and I felt Emmett tighten his hold on me.
"Mornin' baby." He kissed my temple.
"Mmm, good morning." I snuggled onto his chest.
He stretched and let out a loud yawn, "I feel like I'm on top of the world."
I sat up and placed my left hand over his heart, when I felt his steady heartbeat I smiled, "Yeah, me too."
We laid in comfortable silence, just enjoying the feel of the other each other, "I want to have a baby soon." I looked at him and bit my lip hoping he would agree.
"Yeah?" He asked.
I nodded, "Mhm, I want to have a little blonde haired boy with his daddy's dimples running around the backyard." I told him, picturing the scene in my head.
"I want that too."
I sat up quickly the blankets falling off of me and exposing my naked chest, "Seriously?"
Emmett's eyes zeroed in on my chest and he reached out to touch me but I smacked his hand away, "Of course Ro, I want to have a little girl that looks just like you."
"So, we can start working on having a baby soon?" I was excited at the idea of having what Bella had, the bond she had with Carly was simply one of a kind and I yearned to have that.
"Whatever you want baby."
I laid back down next to him and smiled at the thought of us having a little boy.
Loud, obnoxious knocking disturbed me from my thoughts and I groaned and pulled my robe on and threw Em his boxers. I went to the door and found a disheveled looking Bella biting her lip.
"B? Come in." I motioned for her to walk in and I went to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of water and some Tylenol because I knew she had a raging headache. I handed the bottle and pills to her and she mumbled a 'thank you' and took it.
"What's wrong Bella?" Her body language screamed panicked.
"Ro, I think I got married last night." She whispered with wide eyes. I looked down at her ring and burst out laughing.
"What the fuck?" She yelled and threw a pillow at me.
"I'm sorry… it's just that… you.. married…" I paused and took a deep breath hoping that my laughter would subside. "Bella, I can assure you, you didn't get married last night."
She got up and started pacing the room, "Explain this then!" She yelled and showed me the wedding band and I rolled my eyes at her.
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Bella Swan:
"And that's what happened." Rosalie finished telling me the details of last night.
"So, you bought me a ring because I started crying about you leaving me?" I asked.
Rosalie let out a giggle and nodded her head. "Yup."
"And me waking up naked?"
"Skinny dipping." She answered.
"No way!" There was no way in hell I got naked around Em and Jake.
"Yes Bella. I believe alcohol is not your friend, you do some crazy shit when you're drunk." I shot her a glare.
"Congrats on marrying Em by the way. Wish I could remember." I mumbled.
"Oh don't worry, we have it all on tape. Including your cries about being alone forever and having twenty-seven cats." She smirked and I punched her.
"Shut up!" I whined. Emmett walked into the room and smiled at me.
"Hey wife number two; looks like we're together forever." He sang as he showed me his wedding band. I groaned and flipped him the bird.
I had a feeling they would never let me live this down.
My phone rang on the table beside me and I grabbed it, "What?" I barked into the phone.
"Bella?"
I froze and my mouth dropped open in shock, Rosalie looked at me in alarm.
"Bella, what is it?" She asked.
"Bella?" The voice on the phone called out again. I covered the receiver and looked over at Rose.
"Rose, its Edward."
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