I sat on the sofa, watching as Emmett and Rosalie came downstairs carrying large boxes. Each box was filled with little ornaments and trinkets.
Emmett looked like he was thrilled. He set his box next to the tree and Rosalie did the same thing. He came over to me and said in a sing song voice, "Bella, are you ready?"
I shrugged and tried to figure out what I was ready for. I watched as Rosalie at vampire speed placed strings with little tiny light bulbs around the tree. The lights were different colors. They looked so cool.
"Am I ready for what? Are we going hunting?" I asked, smiling. Because whatever it was, he was extremely excited. I smiled, his excitement was contagious.
"We are going to decorate the Christmas tree!" he said, his voice happy. He picked me up and twirled me around. I giggled as he set me down.
I frowned, I never heard of decorating a tree. But, until recently, I'd never heard tell of Christmas or trees in a house. This was all so new to me, so I was just going along with it.
"Okay," I said, standing up and walking over to where Emmett was standing.
He began to open the boxes, there were balls in different colors and shapes. They all had hooks on them. I laughed at the little tiny figurines.
"What do we do with these?" I asked, picking up a little rounds bulb. I looked at it and watched as Emmett put his on a branch.
"You put them on the tree, in different spots. You need to use all of them, and spread them evenly. I will take the high branches and you take the short branches. I smiled as I began to take little orniments from the box and place them on the tree.
"That's great, Bell," he said, stepped back to admire the work that we had down.
He smiled and began bouncing on the spot.
"Now, comes the best part!" he said picking up a box filled with silver strings, they looked like noodles and I could smell that they we silver.
"What's that?" I asked, picking up the little strings in my fingers. It felt for weird.
"This is tinsel and it's going to go on the tree, everywhere," Emmett said, smiling and took a handful.
I was about to put some on the tree but he stopped me. I looked at him confused. Was their some sort of ritual?
"You don't place them on, you gently throw them on," he said, throwing a handful at the tree and some of it went onto the branches and some landed on the ground, he picked it up and threw more.
I smiled and started throwing the tinsel at the tree. It was so much fun. I threw a little bit at Emmett's head and laughed as it looked like long, sliver hairs on his head.
We threw the tinsel at the tree and at each other. Emmett now had a red piece of cloth. He wrapped it around the bottom of the tree and stood up and smiled.
We both took a step back and admired our work. I didn't know what a Christmas tree was supposed to look like, but ours looked completely beautiful. I was so happy with it. I felt butterflies of happiness and pride forming when I saw what I had helped do.
"Is that it?" I asked, my eyes shining. He shook his head, his eyes were now shining brighter then they had all day.
He opened an old box. He look out a beautiful silver, gold and red star. There were three lights placed (red, white and gold) at the five points of the star and six red, gold and white lights in the middle. It was beautiful. It looked older then me but it was still stunning and beautiful.
"This goes at the very top of the tree. The star is always the last piece to go on the top of the tree," he said smiling fondly.
"Would you like to put the tree at the top?" he said, putting the star in my hand. I frowned. The tree was way too tall for me to reach.
Emmett picked me up and put me up so that I was standing on his shoulders. I placed the star at the top. There was a bright flash and I looked to the stairs to see Alice holding a camera and smiling.
"This one is for the books," she said, her voice mock stunned.
"Emmett never lets anyone help him with the tree, Bella, you are the first person Emmett has ever let help him.
I smiled; I felt really special. I jumped down from Emmett's shoulders and landed easily on my feet.
"Everyone, get down here and pose by the tree," Alice said, her voice excited.
Everyone came down and stood in front of the tree. Alice set the camera on auto flash. Carlisle scooped me into his arms and stood beside Esme in the back. We all smiled and then came the flash.