A/N: Wow. Less than two weeks. I know. How unexpected? I'll leave the rest and the ranting and the raving for the end notes. Now, on with the show.
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BPOV
"Me and Rosie went up to Vegas to party. And we got married..."
"You what??" I shouted at Emmett. I turned away from the door and started pacing back and forth, both my hands tugging at my hair. "How much more of your people's antics will I have to deal with today? Does anyone have any more surprises for me?" Everyone was now in the hallway watching me silently. I knew I was being unreasonable, but there were only so many things a pregnant woman, make that pregnant horny woman, could deal with at once.
Alice and Jasper were going at it like rabbits in public. Emmett and Rosalie screwing each other all the way to the altar, apparently. And I was horny and frustrated and alone. All right, so I had been sleeping with Edward for the past week, but that was just scratching the itch. It wasn't like he was mine or anything. I stopped my pacing and looked at everyone. "Has everyone lost their minds? Or is it just me? Am I loosing it?" No one said anything. "Fine. So we're all loosing our minds. Em, you might as well call Rose and tell her to drag her ass over here. We gotta deal with the two of you as well." I took one last look at them and walked away. "I'll be in my room until Rose shows up," I said over my shoulder and closed the door to my room.
I threw myself on the bed and grumbled about the mess. Alice and Jasper I could handle. They'd had the hots for each other for ages. But Emmett and Rosalie? Really? Emmett was like family. And Rosalie hated my guts. How was that ever going to work out? Even more frustrated I turned over to my side and grabbed one of the pillows to hug it. Would Rosalie be civil towards me? Or would I end up losing Emmett? I couldn't have him disappear out of my life, I would have to make nice with Rose. Unless they got the marriage annulled.
I sat up in my bed, an idea taking form in my head. Before I had any more time to think about it, the door to my room opened up and Edward's deliciously long legs appeared first, then his coppery red hair and the rest of him. Just the thought of his amazing legs made me want to rub my legs together for some friction. Damn, I'm horny!
"You all right, love?" he asked and sat down on my bed. I just shrugged. I didn't want to say anything until everyone was here. I hated repeating myself, and this especially I didn't want to talk about over and over again. "Oh Bella," he sighed and wrapped his arms around me. Why did I suddenly feel like crying? I nuzzled into his chest and breathed in Edward's scent. He smelled safe to me. He had quickly become my home. Edward and his smell made me feel whole. I pushed back the tears and just enjoyed the warm arms around me.
There was a timid knock on my door. "Bella?" It was Emmett.
"Come in, Em. I promise not to chew your head off," I said loud enough for him to hear me over the closed door. Em just opened the door a little and poked his head through, probably checking to see if it was safe to come in.
"Rosalie is here, you guys gonna come out?"
I glanced quickly at Edward before looking at Emmett, "Already? That was quick."
Edward cleared his voice, "Rosalie lives in this building, Bella."
"Oh..." I couldn't think of anything else to say. This was certainly news to me. How come Edward hadn't said anything about it before? I pulled out from his arms and looked at him. It hit me that there were still a lot of things I didn't know about this man. A little at loss for words I walked out of my bedroom, leaving both men in there. I'd talk to Edward about that little tidbit later. Right now I had bigger fish to fry.
EPOV
Shit! I knew not telling Bella about Rosalie living just a few floors below us would come back to bite me in the ass. From the look Bella had been shooting my way, I knew she would want to talk about it when the others left. I got up from the bed and walked over to Emmett. I patted his back for good luck as we walked out of Bella's bedroom together. We were both in trouble with the same woman, but for different reasons. We found the girls and Jasper all sitting quietly, just looking at each other in the living room. Bella was sitting alone on the big sofa. Alice and Jasper were sharing one love seat, and Rosalie was occupying the other one. I watched as Emmett sat next to Rosalie and took hold of her hand. Looking over at Bella, I saw that she was watching them. She looked kind of crestfallen for a second before she put on her poker face. It made me wonder what her explosion earlier really had been about.
Sitting down on the sofa next to Bella, I took hold of her hand. She didn't pull away, so I took that as a good sign.
Holding on tightly to my hand, she turned towards Alice and Jasper. "We've already talked some, so we'll figure out what to do with the two of you later. But you two," she said turning towards Emmett and Rosalie, "where the hell did you two hooking up come from?"
Emmett was rubbing his neck, looking anywhere but at Bella. Rosalie actually looked a little afraid of Bella. That was a first. Looking back and forth between them, I could see that neither was willing to say anything first. Guess it was up to me to get them talking and find out what they had been thinking when Emmett and Rose decided to get married out of the blue.
"One of you better start talking. I don't want the tabloids all over this like a bad habit the way they're all over these two," I said pointing to the rabbits. Yeah, after that very public display, I called them rabbits in my head.
Rosalie looked at Emmett through the corner of her eyes, "You tell them, Em. After all, it was your brilliant idea that got us into this."
I felt Bella stiffen beside me. Trying to calm her down, I rubbed her palm with my thumb. We all waited for Emmett to start talking.
He stopped rubbing his neck and looked at me. "With you two shacked up in here, and Jasper and Alice going at it all over town, me and Rosie were bored. So we went to Vegas for a bit of fun."
"You were bored?" Bella asked quietly.
"Yeah. I mean..." But she cut him off before he could say anything else.
"Emmett! You don't get married because you're bored! You get married because you're in love!" she yelled.
"What the hell would you know about love and marriage anyway?" he yelled back. "You fucked a stranger and got knocked up!"
Suddenly everyone erupted into one big fight. Words and insults were thrown all over the place. I turned to Bella. "What the fuck Bella? Where the hell did you dig out these morons? In the span of 48 hours they've been caught by the paps fucking in public, and they have gotten married in Vegas!"
"Oh shut the fuck up Edward, Rosalie is your friend, and she is the idiot that married this moron," Bella huffed, pointing at Emmett.
"Enough!" Jasper yelled at the top of his lungs. "So we fucked up. All of us! No one is a fucking saint here, so shut it and lets deal with this." The voice of reason, Jasper had managed to calm down the fight. Everyone sat back down and we just looked at each other for a few minutes.
Bella took a deep breath and looked at Emmett and Rosalie. "You can always have the marriage annulled and blame it on the vodka."
Rosalie looked sad and Emmett looked like he'd been eating a lemon. "Bella. Me and Rosie already talked about it." He put his arm around Rosalie's shoulders. "We're going to give it a shot. See how being married is going to work out for us."
Bella looked like she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Are you serious? You're serious, aren't you? Fuck!" She rubbed her face with her hands. "Why?" she asked and looked at them both. When neither of them answered, Bella sighed and looked at them with determination. "I hope you realize what being married means. If you're gonna take a shot at this, it means you have to take a real shot. You can't regret this one week from now. Not even a month from now. You are committing for real here. The media will eat you alive!"
Bella grabbed onto my hand and looked at me for a second before turning back to the newly married couple. "We can't let the vultures know this is a drunken marriage. We have to make them believe that this was planned, that the two of you simply eloped. Are you all right with that explanation? Because that will mean that other than the six of us, no one is to know that what we tell them isn't the truth."
After Bella's little speech, I figured it was time for me to pipe in. "I agree with Bella, guys. If you are going to give this marriage a shot, you need to be sure you're willing to stick this one out more than just a few months. As your agent, Em, I will be getting a lot of questions about this when talking to people on your behalf. This will reflect on character and your ability to work. If you can't commit to marriage, how will people trust you to commit to working on their movies?"
I could see the wheels working behind Emmett's eyes as he realized there was a lot more at stake here than he had initially thought. Looking at Rose I could see her worry-lines come out around her mouth and eyes. She was afraid that Emmett would bail before they even had a shot at trying their hand at marriage. Not wanting to rush Emmett into the wrong decision, I turned to the other duo in trouble.
"What about you guys? Going to Vegas to get hitched too?" I quipped, not able to stop myself. I laughed at Alice's face. "Don't worry, I'm not telling you to get married. Yet. But the cat is out of the bag, loud and clear, so we have no other choice but to fess up." I had noticed Jasper's eyes lit up when I mentioned marriage, which gave me an idea.
I glanced at Bella and prayed she wouldn't kill me for what I was about to propose. She had been against the marriage, so I didn't think she would react any better to this. I rubbed my eyes with my fingers before looking at Alice and Jasper. "I think you guys should get engaged. That way the whole sex in public thing won't seem so casual." I held my breath, waiting for the explosion.
BPOV
Engagement? I looked at Edward, wondering if he had lost it completely. Did he just ask Alice and Jasper to get engaged? I was sure my ears were playing a trick on me so I looked over at Jasper. He didn't look like he was against the idea. Sighing I looked at Alice. It didn't exactly look like she was in love with the idea.
"What the hell are you talking about, Edward?" This whole thing was starting to give me a headache, and I rubbed my temples to try to stop the throbbing before it got too bad.
Edward motioned for me to turn my back to him and started to massage my shoulders. It felt heavenly, only downside to having my back to him was that I would not be able to see or read him. I could feel him hesitate behind me.
"I'm not saying they have to stay engaged, or get married at any point. But they did have sex in public, and having them engaged will make this whole thing appear as two crazy lovers not being able to hold their hands off of each other." Edward paused when he hit a very sore spot that made me tense up for a second, before he continued to explain, "If this appears to be casual sex, the media will kill them. Public sex between casual friends just cheapens their relationship."
I knew Edward was right. It still felt wrong to rush Alice and Jasper into something that even wasn't on the agenda yet. I knew Jasper loved the idea, he was always a few steps ahead on the emotional plane. Just as I knew that Alice was nowhere near having thoughts about being engaged to anyone. I knew her spiel about how she just knew Jasper was the one, but she wasn't ready to settle down just yet.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I hated doing this to Alice, but unless someone came up with a better solution, we would have to go with Edward's suggestion. I moved away from Edward's warm hands and leaned towards Alice to grab her hand. "I don't want you to hate us, but I guess Edward is right. Unless we do this, your reputation will be tarnished, and you know how this town is. It is never old news the next day. The idiots in this town will remember this forever."
Alice wiped away a stray tear and looked at Jasper. "I guess we're engaged then," she sighed.
A/N: I never knew how useful a word challenge could be. I managed 1500 words in a little more than one hour. Which blew me away. Sure, I went a little comma crazy since I was writing so fast, and thank goodness for my beta who was here to weed those suckers out. *laughs*
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