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'One down, one to go' he thought to himself as he rang his wife, so his final munchkin could be dealt with.
Tj, solemnly trudged along beside her mother. With her thoughts overloading her already complicated mind, Tj found questions bubbling at a rate of knots.
"Hey mum do you reckon dad will take me ice skatin'?" Tj asked hopefully.
Her dad had been badgering her for a while to think of an activity they could do together. Swimming was out of the question, as they had a pool at the house, so the novelty had worn off and Bowling or the cinema was done so often, Tj could predict the times of each showing. No ice skating certainly was a strong contender. After all, Tj couldn't imagine the well respected Dr Carlisle Cullen to go skateboarding.
Esme shot her wayward daughter a sparing glance. She couldn't quite believe that she was hearing things. At this rate Tj would be lucky if she saw the outside world at all for the next month.
Before a respected answer could be given to her daughter, Esme's phone rang. As she answered she saw Tj gulp. She knew what that phone call meant. Her father had finished with Josh and now it was her turn.
Stepping away from Tjs hearing range, but still being able to keep an eye on her daughter, Esme listened to her husband. She could detect the strain in his voice, at having to punish his children, let alone his precious Tj. Though she had to admit, Josh was quickly nestling his way into her heart strings.
"Is he okay?" Esme fretted over her new son. Carlisle chuckled softly as his wife bypassed the pleasantries and got down to business. 'Never cross a mother bear with her cubs in tow', he thought.
"He's fine angel, he is sleeping on his bed, tucked up in his blankets. Though I'm sure some motherly love would not go amiss. Is Tj okay?"
"She's fine. Beginning to get nervous, but she still managed to enquire about you taking her ice skating. Honestly Carlisle, I do wonder about your child sometimes!"
Carlisle's boisterous laughter filled the phone. "Oh I see, when they misbehave they're my children, but any other time they're yours. After all, they are all precious angels" Carlisle teased his wife gently. 'Trust Tj to think of something like that when she's well aware she's been grounded' he thought.
Esme giggled softly, which caused Tjs head to turn sharply. She didn't hear that sound very often.
"Of course darling, we all know that. My children wouldn't put a foot wrong. Yours on the other hand….." Esme trailed off playfully.
Carlisle's soft laughter filled the phone before turning serious. "Can you bring Tj home please? The sooner its done the better." Carlisle knew he could only avoid it for so long, and making his daughter wait much longer was unfair.
"Of course, see you soon". Esme replied lovingly, before walking over and stroking her daughter's hair softly.
"Come on, daddy's waiting for us. Lets get it over with hmm?" Esme spoke softly to the nervous little girl who stood before her.
And so, 10 minutes later, Carlisle heard a soft knock on his office door. Putting aside the novel by Charles Dickens, he bade them enter. In the soft light stood his outstanding wife, who he could quite happily….
"Really dad! I'm scarred!" Edwards pained voice came from the forest.
'Sorry son' Carlisle chuckled as his other children went deeper into the forest, to allow them some alone time.
Rising slowly to greet his wife, before she took off to see her youngest son, Carlisle could see the fear in his daughters eyes. It had been a long time since she had received a punishment like this, and she never coped well with them when she had experienced them before.
Taking his little girl by the hand, Carlisle lead her over to the sofa, where he pulled her onto his knee. Tj tensed at the contact, before settling into the security that her dad's arms brought.
"You need to calm down angel" Carlisle spoke softly, whilst rubbing her back. "its going to be over soon, don't let your imagination run away with you"
Tj shuddered as she nestled into Carlisle's side. She positively hated being in this position, hated it with a passion, not that anyone liked it, but Tj's hate was double everyone else's. In her eyes anyway.
Taking deep breaths to steel himself, Carlisle stood his daughter before him realising that her nerves would increase as time went on. Seeing his daughter hesitate by the edge of chair, caused Carlisle to make an executive decision and just bring the punishment forward. The lecture could happen whilst the spanking did. After all, men could multi-task, despite women's contrary thoughts on the matter.
When the first smack, landed against her exposed bottom, Tj cried out and began the frantic wiggling that came with a burning posterior. As Carlisle tightened his grip, and his aim became more and more accurate, Tj quickly lost hope of escaping.
"Tell me why, your in this position Tory" Carlisle spoke firmly, accentuating each word with an accompanying smack.
"B..B..Because I brok..e the rules a…nd was rude to adults" Tj stammered out, crying as her father continued his marching parade on her backside.
"And.." Carlisle hedged, with a swift smack to her sensitive under curve.
"I…I..didn't do my work and broke the family rules" Tj howled as her father continued to pepper her under curve, where thigh met bottom.
All too soon, Tj found herself standing vertical, alternating between rubbing her burning bottom and wiping the venom tears that were sliding down her face.
Carlisle gently took hold of her arms and looked her straight in the eye. "Enough of this nonsense Tory, if I have to do this again, I will not hesitate, am I clear?" Unused to the stern tone from her father brought a new wave of tears to Tory's eyes.
Franticly nodding, Tj danced in place to try to ease the burn. Soon the comforting, loving face of her father emerged and she found herself wrapped in his arms where she sobbed herself out. A small yelp was heard as Carlisle slid her underwear back up, discarding the jeans that had been stained with mud.
Rolling his eyes at his daughter's ability to find dirt, Carlisle took Tj through to her room and settled down on her bed, wrapping her in her comforter.
"You know the stipulations of your grounding?" Carlisle gently questioned his youngest.
Tj not willing to lose her precious place of nestling into her father's nook of his arms, merely nodded and burrowed deeper. Soon Carlisle noticed the tell-tale deep breathing that came with the catatonic vampire-like 'sleep', and he slipped out and went to join his wife.
A few hours later, saw the return of the other Cullen siblings. Carlisle and Esme who had been settled together on the cough, looked up as their oldest children came in through the front door.
Emmett's boisterous laughter could be heard as he clomped into the living room and planted himself a seat on top of the sofa.
"Emmett dear, shoes off and sit on the sofa properly please" Esme, gently scolded her energetic son.
"Sure mama" Emmett grinned as he kicked his shoes off and flicked them into the hallway, managing to clobber both Edward and Jasper at the same time, who both growled in return.
Esme merely shook her head as she went to fetch a cold pack for Bella, who in the word's of Emmett had "tried to walk and chew gum again".
Bella's tell-tale blush lit her face upon the reminder, and graciously accepted the cool pack and Carlisle's examination.
With Bella been treated, more serious matters were returned to, about the prospect of the looming confrontation, which it appeared had become inevitable. The army of newborns had moved too close the Olympic coven to be ignored. Carlisle wasn't one for confrontation, but he would protect his family when needed.
The next day was April Fools, the children's favourite day of the year. Quickly, they immersed together to go and plan their tricks on their long suffering parents. As Carlisle once remarked, a "silent house, isn't a good thing in his family".
The odd snicker was heard as the night progressed, when Carlisle and Esme disappeared to their rooms. Every creak of the floorboard had them on edge. It was hard work to play a trick on a vampire, because of their high senses, but in previous years, the children had managed to do quite well.
Next morning, saw Carlisle enjoying a rare day off from the hospital, and sat outside in the sun, where he could be at peace…or so he thought. Take a step onto the porch, Carlisle hesitated as he thought he saw a glimmer of water fall to the ground.
Taking it for condensation, Carlisle, did not expect to be met with a bucket of ice cubes on his head. At his gasp of surprise, another volley of tricks came upon his head, resulting in him resembling more of a alien than a vampire. As he picked a piece of vegetable that looked like cabbage off of his shoulder, Carlisle turned to find the guilty part, sat sniggering in the living room. Camera in hand. 'Great another one for the family archive' he thought morosely.
As he started to step into the kitchen, his ever loving wife promptly closed the door on him and told him to rinse off with the garden hose, before he even thought about entertaining the idea of going inside.
Complaining two second later, that he couldn't turn get it to work, Esme stepped outside to assist, just at the right moment that Edward and JJ released the water valve, causing a surge of water to soak both Esme and Carlisle.
The kids, not realising how lucky they had been, fell about laughing as they saw their drenched parents. It quickly however transposed into shrieks as they were chased by their parents , through the grounds, where a full on water fight broke out.
Two hours later, at 12pm on the dot, peace was declared, and the whole household was set to task, cleaning the mansion, top to toe. But as every member of the family shook with laughter, all remarked it would be an April Fools to remember.
A.N/
First of all, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I tried to give it a bit of light hearted humour. I am writing this, having made a final presentation of my project for a module in university today, so my brain is at burn out stage!
However,, I do want to have a little bit of a moan. Before I posted the last chapter, I received quite a few private messages and comments that were asking me to update. I did so, as quickly as my hectic lifestyle would allow me. And I received just one review, but had high hits of you guys reading the story.
Now, I am not one of these authors that refuses to update until I have a certain number of views, but please guys can you review! If you don't, how am I supposed to know if im going right or wrong with this story.
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Thanks for reading. Please read and review! And Thank you to Wandamarie for reviewing =)
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