Those Were the Days – Love Stings
T- to be safe (theres some stuff in this chap that's a little racy, so be warned!)
Steph owns everything, including the kitchen sink and Jesus's very own sandals at this point, im pretty sure lol.
((there are NO spoilers to BD in my stories! Just so everyone is clear on that! Any reference I make to future events comes from Books 1, 2, and 3 ONLY! If I change my plans and do include something, there will be a note at the top of the chapter!!))
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"What's that sound Emmett?" My darling husband and I had just come back from a vacation to Niagara Falls, when we walked into our house and heard an odd buzzing coming from our bedroom. It was a low hum of a buzz, nothing alarming, but nothing I had ever heard before. We made our way up the stairs slowly; the sound growing louder as we stood outside the closed bedroom door. "What do you think it could be?" I whispered.
"Maybe we left the radio on and it's just on a bad station? I don't know what it could be. Ok, you open the door and I'm going to run in there and pummel whatever it is. Ready?" He stood in a mild attack pose facing the door while my hand was on the knob. "Open it!" I swung the door open just before Emmett charged into the room and screamed bloody murder. "AHHH! BEES!" I walked in after him out of curiosity. If I were a cat, I would have lost all my lives at once.
"What? Bees? BEES!" I screamed wildly as what seemed like a million bees swarmed around both Emmett and myself. I had never been so terrified of anything in my life. I knew they couldn't hurt me, but that many bees in one small space can feel quite overwhelming. I continued screaming and swatting at the tiny monsters in a fit of panic along side Emmett who was doing the same for a moment. He managed to get a grip on himself and push me out of the room, slamming the door behind us. "GETTHEMOFFME! GETTHEMOFFME! OHGODEMMETT! EW EW EW EWW!" I continued my mental breakdown in the hallway, still feeling the few bees that had escaped crawling on my skin and tangled in my hair and clothes.
"Hold still! I have to smack them off of you!" Once Emmett had saved me and destroyed all the evil bees outside the bedroom, I tried to calm down and regain my composure. "I'm sorry, it was my fault." He mumbled staring at the closed door.
"Your fault? How is it your fault?" I whispered, still feeling unsettled. I was visibly shaking and if I could, I would have been in tears.
"I left the window open while we were in Niagara Falls all week. I had opened it to toss out a spider I found on the desk and forgot to shut it before we left. I'm sorry. I'll call an exterminator first thing in the morning." He pulled me into a hug and I could tell he really did feel badly about this. "I'll put our things in the smaller bedroom."
"No!" I shrieked.
"No? What should I do, then?" He asked.
"I'm not staying in this house another minute! Get the suitcases, we're going to mom's!" I knew I was upset when I called her Mom this way. I wanted Esme. I needed a hug from a parent. Emmett could tell I was not well, as he didn't argue at all. He went straight downstairs and took all five pieces of our luggage over to Esme and Carlisle's house.
"What's the matter, dear?" Esme asked. I buried my face into her shoulder and sobbed softly. "Did you run into trouble out there in New York?"
"BEES! Bees, lots and lots of bees. In my room, Mom! Everywhere!" I could feel her picking a few of them from my clothes while she tried to console me. "Can we stay here until their gone?"
"Of course, dear. Carlisle and I were just playing cards in the kitchen with Jasper. Would you like to join us?" She was just what I needed. I felt better the instant I saw her smile.
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"Yeah, Rose and I are going to be in the spare room with Pinky for a night or two until we can get rid of them. How have you been Edward?"
"He's not allowed to talk. Neither is Alice." Jasper answered in the midst of an intense hand of poker with Carlisle. "They wanted to watch, so neither of them is allowed to speak."
"I see." I nodded. "Are you betting?"
"Yes, just chips. No real money." Carlisle had three of a kind, from what I could see. He never bet with real money, but I had a feeling Jasper would if he had the chance. I walked around the table and saw Jasper holding three of a kind as well, but different values. Alice was over Jasper's shoulder admiring his hand while Edward was beside Carlisle on the opposite end of the table. I was beginning to think they would never call the hand. The pot in the center of the table was enormous. "I'm all in." Carlisle pushed the remainder of his chips to the center of the table.
"Yes sir. All in." Jasper did the same. "You first, sir?"
Carlisle paused a moment then laid his cards on the table. "Three Jacks."
Jasper hesitated and looked up at Alice's face before lying his own out. "Three queens. Thank you, sir. It's been a pleasure." He shook Carlisle's hand before raking all of the chips to his own side of the table.
"How long was that game going on, Edward?" I asked.
"Since 8pm, last night." He laughed and took Carlisle's seat. It was after midnight, but I wouldn't be surprised if he meant 8pm the day before. It was known to happen in our house. We once played a game of Monopoly for four straight days and nights until I gave in and bankrupted myself on purpose to let Edward win.
"Have the two of you decided what you're going to do for money?" Jasper had voiced some concerns to Edward and I about their financial state before Rose and I left for vacation. I took another empty chair and sat on it backwards facing the group.
"We're going to take over the stock market!" Alice giggled wildly.
"I have about forty dollars and Alice has nearly twenty. We've decided to go with the stock market plan she suggested last week." Jasper smiled up at Alice who looked rather excited.
"It shouldn't be too difficult if I pay close attention to my visions. Now that Carlisle has given us identification and legal papers saying who we are, we can do almost anything! Could you get us started, Edward? You're an expert at these things. I could help you with your investments, too. I know you're like a go-zillionaire already, but a little more never hurt, right?" She looked devious and sneaky and I think Jasper liked it. He whispered something in her ear, which made her giggle and the pair of them were upstairs in her room in an instant.
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The only clothes I had with me were the ones I had brought on vacation. A few pretty dresses, some plain dresses for the drive to and from Niagara Falls, and one pair of pants incase I felt like hunting. Aside from that, I had about twenty nightgowns, corsets, slips, garters, and other slinky items that took up one entire suitcase by themselves. Nobody really went to Niagara Falls to experience the outdoors anyway, especially Emmett and I.
The dresses needed to be hung up so they could let the wrinkles out from being packed, so I had nailed a clothes line from one side of the room to the other. I hung up all of the dresses and things in a neat row and lay on the spare bed to relax. Someone had left a magazine on the nightstand, so I lay on my stomach in a bra and matching panties to flip through the pages. I could hear a poker game going on downstairs for a while, then everything went kind of quiet and I heard two pairs of feet tiptoe down the hall into the back bedroom, Alice's room. Carlisle was being much too easy on them when it came to rules about dating.
I was in the middle of a good article about stopping frizzy hair when I suddenly felt very…antsy. I wondered where Emmett had gone, but he walked into the room just as I was sitting up. He had a determined look on his face, almost threatening and he aimed it at me. "Emmett? Do you feel that?" I wasn't sure if he knew the extent of Jasper's talents. I was on my knees on the bed now and the sight of him walking in looking so fierce made me lick my lips suddenly. I noticed my posture in the dressing mirror on the wall and smiled at myself. I looked good enough to eat! So did he!
"I feel something, I dunno why, but it's pretty nice. You can feel that?" He looped one gigantic arm around my waist and pulled me roughly to his chest. His free hand moved from my ankle, past my knee, my thigh, hip and stomach to tangle in my hair. He crashed his lips into mine and let out a long deep moan. It gave me a shiver I felt from my toes up to my scalp.
"Uh huh. I'll explain later. For now, just don't stop." I purred in his ear while I tore the buttons off his shirt and ripped his belt from his jeans. Out of courtesy to our neighbors at the hotel, we had kept the noise and roughness to a minimum while we were away. At this moment, Emmett was threatening to break the bed to pieces and I was more than willing to let him.
A few minutes later, a thumping sound came through the wall between our current room and Esme and Carlisle's room. I couldn't be sure, but I imagined Esme and Carlisle were feeling the same thing as Emmett and I, and Jasper and Alice down the hall. I paused for a moment to listen, but Emmett had thrown his clothes into a heap in the corner and was wrestling me to the mattress. "What's going on, Rose?" he panted through a smirk on his lips while he kissed trails all over my now naked body. "Is this…from him?"
I nodded wordlessly and smirked back at him before he smashed his lips into mine once more and wrapped my legs around his hips. I had the suspicion that exterminator wasn't going to be visiting our house for several more days.
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"Come on a hunt with me, Edward? I feel like going for a good run. Maybe find some elk or moose!" I smiled and jogged in place out in the yard. I was ready to go and thirstier than I had been in ages.
"Leave me alone, Emmett. I don't want to. Go on without me." Edward grumbled over the pages of his catalog. "I have things to do here."
"What's that you're reading? Cornell University Course Selection Guide, Fall 1951. Cornell? You're going back to school? Again? You just got out of school, Edward." I asked trying to read the back cover. Nobody loved school like he did, that's for sure.
"Yes, I want to get a master's degree. I'm thinking psychology or philosophy, but I can't decide."
"How long have you been considering this? You never mentioned anything before." I was surprised how interested he was in going away for another few years. I couldn't imagine what had brought this on. I stood behind him to read the catalog and see what was so great about some snooty Ivy League college in Ithaca, New York.
"It was a recent decision. Things are getting crowded around here and I need to find some space of my own."
"Hey, their mascot is a bear named Touchdown! Crowded? We're only staying for a few more days, Edward. Then you'll have loads more space. Is this about Alice taking your room the way she did?"
"No, it has nothing to do with Alice. I just need some space. If going across the road to live with a beehive would give me some space, I'd take that, too. I've always admired Cornell's masters programs. They're among the top in the country. There's no reason for me not to go." He stood up after his rant and rushed inside with a loud huff. I didn't want him to go, but nothing could stop him if he wanted to leave.
"Bye, Edward."
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The end!
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