Those Were the Days – Girl Talk
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Stephenie owns the few brain cells I have left after chugging grande starbucks coffee to combat the drowzies from my allergy meds, and sitting next to an awful smelling pothead on the train this morning lol.
TOMORROW IS BREAKING DAWN DAY! WHOOO!! (this was put up at 1am Friday morning, sorry I missed the Thursday deadline ;)
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Edward was trying very hard to be angry, but Jasper wouldn't let him. The five of us had convened in the driveway of Esme's house to stare at Edward's belongings. Carlisle had gone inside to avoid the fallout. "You, you're the reason I can't seem to wrap my hands around her throat." Edward groaned as Jasper walked toward him slowly. "All I keep hearing from you is calm down, calm down. I don't want to calm down! Stop doing that!" He was staring at Alice with his lips pressed together tight and looking very frustrated. It was about time someone could get under his skin this way. I smirked at Emmett who also looked slightly smug about all of this. "And what do you mean you can see the future? Nobody can do that." He answered her silent thoughts.
"She can, Edward. She saw all of this yesterday and she knew you wouldn't be mad at her. Not mad enough to send her away or anything." I answered. "Look, predict something Alice."
"It doesn't usually work that way. Um…" She paused for a minute and stared off into space while we all watched her with curious eyes. "You're waiting on a replacement for a broken television, Emmett. It's waiting for you at a Sears and Roebuck store in town. The salesman is going to call in a few minutes to tell you to come and get it."
"The television is broken, but you could have found that out at any time in the last few days. The only place to get one out here is Sears, so that's not a hard guess, either." Edward shot back at her.
I turned when I heard my front screen door swing shut from across the road. Esme smiled at all of us as she crossed the gravel path. "Oh, it's so nice to see you've all met. Welcome home boys." She kissed Edward and Emmett each on the cheek. "I've missed you both. Oh, Emmett? A Mr. Sanders at Sears just called your house while I was straightening up over there. You're television is ready. Rosalie will drive you when she finds the time. Is Carlisle inside? Play nice kids." She smiled sweetly and vanished into the house to welcome her husband home.
Alice smiled up at Edward with her arms folded. "Told you." He stomped off into the house behind Esme, mumbling something bout 'strange little freak.' "He's taking it very well, I think."
"Don't worry about him. Its high time somebody out-weirded him in the mental department. I'm Emmett, by the way." Emmett put out his gigantic hand to shake with Jasper. "Welcome to the family. I guess I'm not the baby anymore?"
"Emmett was the last to join us and that was what, fifteen years ago?" I smiled up at him.
"Sixteen, Angel. Girls are always trying to take years off their age." He laughed. "Well, if you'll excuse me, I want to get home and get myself a shower. Nice meeting you both. Come over anytime." He turned to leave and took my hand with a devious smile. He missed me when he was gone, I could tell.
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"Alice? Come with me? Esme wants us to have a girl's night." I smiled and pulled her along. "She's so happy to have another girl around, really. I am too. With three men around all the time, I'm actually starting to like wearing pants. That's so lazy of me!" I giggled. I took her across the road with me toward my own house and showed her to my bedroom. Not the one I shared with Emmett, my own room.
"You have two bedrooms?" she laughed. "Why do you need two? Do you and Emmett have problems getting along or something? Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely room. I love all the pink and the lace, but really?"
Esme was seated on the twin bed against one wall in an adorable blue dress with a pair of my fluffy high-heeled slippers on her feet. Pinky was curled up beside her in a cute white doggy sweater I had knitted her. "The big bedroom is for both Emmett and I. He understands I like my personal space, so he let's me have this one and I have my own bathroom, as well. He has his own connected to the big room. Make yourself at home, Alice." I smiled up at her from the bed.
"Alice, Rosalie and I have a surprise for you. I wanted to have this night with just the girls, Pinky included, to welcome you to the family. It's been the two of us against the boys for so long. We both feel fortunate to have you here with us. Neither of us has ability close to yours, while the boys all have something special against us. Edward's mind reading, being the most obvious along side Emmett's brute strength and Carlisle's resistance."
"And I fully encourage you to use your visions to put Edward in his place as often as possible." I smiled warmly. "He's been using his power to his advantage far too often."
Alice smiled and took a seat with us on the small bed. "I like it here. I feel…comfortable. Maybe that's just Jasper making me feel that way, but if he's comfortable, then I'm comfortable. He has that effect on me." She giggled. "You said you had a surprise for me, Esme?"
"Don't act like you didn't know." I smiled and nudged her playfully. "Don't take this the wrong way, but your clothes are…not good? Do you only have this one outfit?" I was trying my best to be polite and not seem rude. She nodded in response.
"I don't have much time or money to shop for myself. I have to keep an eye on Jasper. If we come across a second hand store, like the one in your town, we go in and find something fast to get out without any trouble. They're usually pretty empty of customers and very well organized. We haven't got much money, either. I feel a little guilty about that. All the cash we have, we stole from Jasper's victims." She sighed.
"I can understand how that would be a problem." Esme agreed. "That's why Rose and I put together this little gift for you. Rose? Could you bring it in?" I ran down the hall to the big bedroom and grabbed a box big enough for our television. I brought it back to the smaller room and sat it on the floor in front of Alice. "Ta-daa! This is for you." I smiled and sat on the bed. She already knew what was in it, thanks to her visions, but she was sweet enough to play along and act completely surprised.
"Oh! You got me a present! That was so nice of you." She opened the box and began pulling out the items inside. "Wow, is all this new? It's all for me?" She held a dark blue dress up to her body to picture herself wearing it. I could tell she would look lovely.
"Yes, it's all new. There are shoes at the bottom and makeup and things. A few hats and purses, all kinds of goodies." I smiled. "Have you ever had a makeover before?"
"What's a makeover?" she asked then paused for a moment. I guessed she was seeing something in her mind about it. She instantly became excited and began bouncing around on the floor. "Oh! I love it! I can't wait to try all these things on!" To my own shock, she jumped up and began undressing right there.
"Alice! Alice, wait. Use the powder room." I pointed to the door in the corner. "Then come out and show us." Esme smiled sweetly and nodded in her own supportive fashion. It took Alice two hours to go through all of the outfits for us. When she was done, I asked her to pick her favorite and wear that while I did her hair and makeup.
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"So Jasper, tell us, what's going on with you and Alice? Do you love her? Are you going to marry her or anything?" I had to know. It's been so long since I met anyone new I could be close to, I wanted to ask Jasper anything that popped into my head. Edward didn't like that idea, but I asked anyway. I can't read minds, so Jasper would just have to spill his guts out loud to us.
"I would like to marry her one day. I have a ring from when I was a newborn I intended to give to someone else, but things didn't go as planned. I want to do it right and surprise her, but that will never happen, for obvious reasons."
"Oh, she's a hard girl to surprise, I guess. How did you meet her? Stop looking at me like that, Edward. I have a right to ask and if he doesn't want to answer, then that's fine, too." Sometimes he was just too proper.
"I'll answer, it's fine." Jasper spoke up. "I was in Philadelphia about a year ago just wandering around. There was a museum with an exhibit on the Liberty Bell I was interested in. I was caught in a downpour out side of a place called the Mayfair Diner, so I ducked inside to dry off a little. There she was, sitting there waiting for me, just as she had predicted. I knew it the instant I saw her that she was there for me. I love that little girl with all my heart. She gives me hope, which is more than I could ever ask for." I suddenly felt kind of optimistic and a little fuzzy inside.
"Wow, that sounds cool. She saw you in a vision and found you that way? Wow." I couldn't stop saying that word, 'Wow.' Edward laughed at me then gave me a hug. Jasper was a talented guy.
"Where are you from? Or…when are you from?" Edward asked.
"Texas, in the 1850's. I was a Major in the Confederate Army at nineteen years of age." He answered proudly. "I was turned when I was twenty, spent several long decades participating in vampire armies fighting for control of Mexican and Texan cities. Then I gave that up to move north and find a better way of living, but I've had control issues, as you know."
"We're going to help you with that. Starting today. Then maybe we can work on a plan for you to propose to your girl?" I offered. I had managed to score myself three accepted marriage proposals to date, all of which Rosalie loved.
"Well, I have a deal with myself first." Jasper answered. "If I can be responsible for two months and not harm any humans, then I will ask her. But I've been on the wagon for two weeks at the most thus far. Two months is a rather large feat." He let out a long sigh and looked at the ground.
"You can do it. Rose has never once touched a human. I've only hurt one. You can do this. We'll help you. You're our brother now. Don't' worry." I slugged him good and hard across his back and gave him a welcoming smile.
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"Uh oh, Pinky's got to go, Rosalie. I'll take her out." Esme smiled and walked out with the dog tailing behind her. I decided to use this opportunity to get to know Alice on a slightly deeper level. I sat her in a chair to put rollers in her hair before asking her some interesting questions I had come up with since she arrived.
"So Alice, tell me about Jasper? Do you plan to marry him? What kind of a relationship do you have?" I watched her face in the wall mirror while I combed her short hair and put the rollers in it one by one.
"Well, I just adore him. I knew the moment I saw him in my head he was the one. I'd love to marry him someday, but he just won't ask me. I keep waiting for the vision, but it's not happening. We're crazy for each other, if you can't tell." She giggled and folded her legs underneath herself.
"Is he very old fashioned? Are you umm…are you waiting for marriage, or has that ship already sailed?" I wasn't sure how to ask that question without sounding rude, but it needed to be asked. I had my suspicions that with Jasper's emotional talents, things between them were not only passionate, but slightly different from the norm.
"He is old fashioned. He wants to wait until we're married, but I don't see the point to it. He can very persuasive when he wants to be alone with me." She giggled. "See, with us, we don't need to…you know?"
"No?" I shook my head in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"See, if I'm feeling...frisky and I go to him, he can feel that and he just knows. If he's feeling that way and he comes to me, I know what he wants too. Follow me, Rosalie? Well if we're both feeling that way and we're alone, it just goes back and forth and builds and builds until POW! It's crazy, but so incredible."
"You don't…you don't wrestle around or play games or wreck the bed? You just stare at each other and it happens?" How could that possibly be! The world was so unfair!
"We don't stare at each other like zombies, Rosalie. We hold each other and say sweet things and just enjoy the company. It's fantastic!" She clapped her hands and smiled up at me in the reflection, but I had dropped the comb and the curler I was holding. "Rosalie? Have I upset you somehow? You look…in shock." She turned around to see my face.
"What? No I'm not upset. I'm just…I'm insanely jealous of you!" I nearly yelled picking up the dropped items.
"Jealous? Why on earth? Aren't you and Emmett happy with each other?"
"Of course we are, there's nothing wrong there. It's just…you have it so easy!" I sighed and went back to fixing her hair. "There's so much effort into being with Emmett, sometimes it doesn't seem worth it! I have to put on the sexy, uncomfortable clothes, then let him rip them off, do my hair nice for him, then let him mess it all up and pull it out. I make the bed, then we wreck the sheets again and I have to start over. Then sometimes he breaks the bed frame all together and I have to get out the toolbox and repair it!"
"That is a lot of effort. I don't think if I married Jasper it would be so difficult. He doesn't mind if my hair is messy or the bed isn't made. We never had a bed to mess up in the first place!" She smiled. "Can you imagine, though? If Jasper and I are this wild now, what will it be like if we do things your way? Holy cow! We're going to blow the door off the hinges!" She and I both laughed wildly at the prospect of that actually happening.
"Hello girls! Pinky is fresh as a daisy. What were you laughing about up here?" she smiled and resumed her position on the small bed.
"Nothing, just how Jasper and Alice met. It's a really sweet story." I didn't want Esme to know exactly what we were talking about while she was gone. It was better she didn't know just yet. I still considered her a mother figure and that would be awkward. I finished Alice's hair and got on to painting her finger and toenails.
"What is this supposed to do, Rosalie? I don't understand." She asked then held up her hands to admire the new pink color. "Wow! Now I do! I love this. We should do this all the time. I want to learn everything you know!" She jumped out of the chair and hugged me suddenly. "OH! I'm so glad to have a sister like you!"
"Me too, Alice. Welcome home."
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The end!
Sorry this was a day late, but I left the disk at work and I had to retype half of it. Special thanks to the Mayfair Diner in Philly for feeding me and putting up with my drunken antics at 3am all the time lol. Those old ladies love me! I hope you all enjoyed it! Please reviews?? More will come next Thursday, YAY FOR SATURDAY WHOOO!!