The Best Birthday Gift Ever
Jacob POV
It all belongs to SM.
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"Did you know she's a Scorpio?" Embry excitedly asked as I drove us to the garage.
"No I didn't know that Embry. Why don't you tell me more about how wonderful Andrea is." I sighed sarcastically but he didn't seem to get the tone of my voice.
He continued to talk about Andrea who was now his girlfriend. Don't get me wrong, she was an amazing girl, but I don't think I could listen to one more sentence pour from his mouth. They had been going out for one week and I think that they were already in love. I had never seen Embry so happy and I laughed the first couple of days when he was giddy but now, it was just annoying. I hoped that wasn't what Nessie and I looked like because I felt sorry for whoever had to be around us.
"She has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen." Embry rambled on as we walked into the hanger.
I can't believe he is still talking about her. What made it worse was that Andrea was always at the house. Her and Nessie were about the same age and since spending time outside of the garage, had taken an extreme liking to each other. Andrea was an amazing girl and Nessie liked her a lot, which I was fine with but when Embry started getting all goggly eyed on me, I had to draw a line. Embry wanted to tell her about our supernatural lifestyle but I put a quick halt to that. She couldn't know just yet. I told him to wait for a couple of months before he freaked her out too much. It wasn't that I didn't trust her but I wanted to make sure that the fewer humans who knew our secret, the better. Nessie was asking Edward if it was ok to tell Alexia and he had the same worries that I did. Andrea knew that Nessie was Bella and Edward's child, but she thought she was adopted. We deiced to keep the story simple and told part of the truth.
"I cant' wait until she gets here." He sighed as he sat on the sofa and I went to sit in my giant chair.
"What do you think about her?" Embry asked.
"I think she's great and everyone at home seems to really like her, especially Nessie." I smiled.
"What about Carlisle and Esme?" He said worriedly.
"I don't think you have anything to worry about."
It was amazing to see Embry interact with the family because everyone loved him, even Rosalie. The family was extremely generous with him and I could tell that everyone was happy to have him around. He had become like a bigger brother to Nessie and I also enjoyed his company especially at work. He was like another son to Carlisle and Esme and he thought of himself as their child. It took me awhile to feel like that but I could tell that he didn't feel weird about it at all. He valued their opinion and was genuinely worried about what they thought of Andrea.
"I want to invite her back for dinner. That was the best time I think I've ever had." He said happily and leaned back in the sofa, "Oh and Happy Birthday by the way." He smiled at me.
"Thanks. Don't tell anyone else. I don't want a party or anything." I said sternly and he nodded his head, but I could see the gears in his head working.
Today was December 9th and my twenty-fifth birthday although to all the humans I knew I was only twenty. I still couldn't believe that I was so old and yet still didn't look any older than twenty. I was getting married in the summer, had a successful business and was about to graduate from Dartmouth. Damn. I still couldn't believe I had done it all.
I let my thoughts drift out to what had happened over the past couple of weeks. After the family got back from Thanksgiving, things went back to normal. Nessie hadn't had any more attacks lately and that made me feel slightly better, but I knew one was coming because we usually couldn't go a couple weeks without one. As previously stated, Embry and Andrea were the perfect couple and spent almost every moment together. She lived in town but Carlisle and Esme let her spend the night most nights. I don't think she and Embry did anything nasty because it was much too early in their relationship for that and I couldn't hear any sounds coming from his room, so I guess they talked until they fell asleep. She and Nessie would raid all the closets for hours looking for new outfits and I liked that Nessie had another girl she could hang out with. Andrea was even helping Nessie find an outfit for the Rose Cotillion, which I was ecstatic about but I still couldn't get the thought of Nessie on some other man's arm out of my head. When she told me that I couldn't take her, I was trying to keep up a happy face for her because she was so excited to be nominated again, but Edward knew my pain since he was in my head. He was just as mad about me not being able to take her as I was and wouldn't even entertain the idea of someone else escorting her. Bella had to calm him down and he relented but I knew he would start up again when the courting began. I didn't know how I was going to get over that because it killed me when Nessie and I weren't together but now that we were, the thought of guys trying to get with her made me sick.
I had to stop thinking about the Rose Cotillion because I might start growling and that was something no one wanted to hear. I thought about Christmas, which was coming up and I had no idea what the family was going to do. Since we spent our Thanksgiving in Forks, we would probably take a trip somewhere like we normally did, but I didn't know whose turn it was to pick the location. I prayed that it wasn't Jasper because the last time he picked a place for our vacation, we ended up staying in Virginia for two weeks visiting Civil War battlefields. I didn't know if I could stand another one of those trips.
The day went just as normal as usual. Embry and CJ worked furiously around the clock to make sure that every single one of the cars we had were done on time and correctly. The garage was coming along great and had become a really thriving business. I didn't know how much money I was making because I let the accounts handle that, but I knew it was a substantial amount. Johnny Bananas broke another engine and actually cried this time because he thought I was going to fire him but I didn't of course. Embry yelled at him a half an hour before I thought the poor guy had enough and told everyone to take an extra hour off for lunch. Embry took Andrea out to a nice restaurant and everyone else stayed in the break room.
I usually just stayed in my office for lunch because I had so much work to do and couldn't take off. Although everyone worked really hard at the garage, I probably worked ten times harder, but I loved it and I never complained. I was on my third slice of pizza when I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. Finally.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALPHA!!!!-N
Got enough exclamation points on that last message?-J
Just trying to give you well wishes-N
Well thank you. What do you I get for my gift?-J
"Me." I heard and angelic voice from the door and looked up to see my beautiful Nessie on the other side of my desk, "Hi." She smiled sweetly. How could I have not smelled her coming down the hall? Oh well, she's here now.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school?" I asked without moving.
"Great welcome." She said sarcastically and went to the cabinet that held all the liquor the family had bought me. I usually only had one glass of something a day, more if its been stressful, but Nessie liked to sample things once and awhile.
I could smell the Jack Daniels as she poured it into a glass. I walked up behind her and snaked my arms around her tiny waist, "You know I love having you here." I whispered and placed light kisses under her earlobe. She took a sip of her drink and turned in my arms.
"I know. I just wanted you to make you feel bad for a while." She smiled and pulled my face down for a sweet kiss.
"Not that I'm complaining, but why exactly are you here? I'm pretty sure school doesn't end for another three hours."
"Alexia's covering for me. I wanted to give you your gift." She said and pulled me to the leather sofa.
She pushed me down and straddled my waist, "Wow. I like forceful Nessie." I said breathlessly, "So what do I get for a gift?" I asked.
"Why don't you open my coat and find out." She smiled sweetly but I knew the devil was inside.
She took my hands and put them on the belt of her pea coat that was tied around her waist.
"You get to open it all by yourself." She smiled and I began untying the belt.
I opened the coat and couldn't breathe as I took in her stunning body. She was in a black, sexy as hell, lace lingerie set with white ribbons and nothing else. The bottom half were boy shorts and hugged her each and every curve in all the right places. The bra cupped her perfectly and I couldn't wait to take it off to see what was underneath. I let my eyes sweep over her perfect body and couldn't believe that she was mine.
I could tell that my mouth was hanging open but I couldn't do anything about it. My breathing came more harshly as she got off of my waist and pulled the coat off completely. Her legs looked long and rested in a pair of black, satin pumps. Her hair was flowing down her back and I could tell that she spent time on my "gift".
"Happy Birthday Jacob." She said and I let my eyes drink up everything she was giving me.
"Wow." I whispered and she came back to straddle me, "Do you think we have time for this?" Please say yes. Please say yes.
"If we skip the foreplay." She smiled and bent down to take my lips in hers for a hot kiss that made me forget my name.
That's all it took. In the next two minutes, we had shed all of our clothes and I repositioned Nessie so that we fit together perfectly as I slid into her wet core. I couldn't hold back the growls the entire time we moved as one and felt my body get closer to its release with each thrust of my hips. I didn't know how long normal couples had sex but with me and Nessie, it was amazing and could take anywhere from ten minutes to a couple of hours. My mind always blanked out whenever we were together so I had to trust the clocks with the time. As the seconds ticked on, I could feel both of our bodies start to climax and within the next minute and one last hard thrust, I emptied myself and I felt her muscles tightly clench my shaft. She let out a loud moan and I knew she had finished just around the time I had. The whole thing was extremely animalistic and primal, which was something I had never really experienced with Nessie before. I liked it.
We were both panting and she rested her head on my shoulder as she tried to calm her breathing, "Happy Birthday."
"That was amazing." I leaned back against the sofa, "Thank You."
We stayed connected for the next ten minutes without talking until she climbed off of me and pulled her coat back.
"You don't have any clothes?" I smirked.
"They're in the car. I have to change before I go back to school."
"How the hell did you manage to ditch?" I asked while pulling my pants back up.
"I told the nurse I was sick and asked to go to the hospital to see Grandpa."
She went to my desk and pulled out a piece of paper. I watched in awe as she wrote a note saying that she had indeed been to the hospital to see Carlisle and she was doing a lot better. She signed the note in the exact same way that Doc would and I was kind of scared at how identical the signature was.
"You are amazing." I pulled her into a sweet kiss and tasted her on my lips.
We pulled away before anything got too heated, but I would have loved to go another round.
"I have to go back to school." Nessie giggled and hit my chest.
"Are you sure?" I teased and began kissing her neck.
"Yes Jacob and you have work to do."
"I can close early. That's the advantage of being the boss."
"No sir. I don't want to take you away from your important work." She maneuvered out of my grasp and head to the door, "I expect you to be home at seven so I can give you the rest of your gift."
"There's more?" I asked as I sat back in my chair.
"Of course. Just a little appreciation gift from the family. We had to tie Alice down so she wouldn't plan a party." She laughed.
"I bet you did. That woman will be the death of me." I sighed.
"Don't worry. You'll love it." She came back over to give me a chaste kiss and then sprinted out of the door.
After my "lunch", the rest of the day went by in a much happier manner than the first part. Everyone could tell that I was in a better mode but no one had seen Nessie so they didn't know why. Of course Embry could smell what we had been doing as soon as he walked into my office after lunch and he took every opportunity to bring it up when we were alone.
"So you fucked her right there in your office?" He asked as we were closing up.
"No I did not fuck her Embry." I snarled. I hated when he said it like that because it sounded like I was just using Nessie or trying to mark my territory, which wasn't what I was doing.
"Oh forgive me. Did you make passionate love and then caress her on a bed of roses." He snickered and I threw a wrench that hit him dead in the temple. He fell on the ground and I went back to closing up shop. After a minute of silence, he popped back up like nothing had happened. Damn werewolf genes.
"What'd I miss?" He asked.
"Nothing. Let's head out." I said and locked in the key code for the hanger before climbing into my Hummer.
"Is Andrea coming over today?" I asked as we headed back home.
"No. I begged her to, but she wanted us to have family time for your birthday." He sighed.
"You sound sad." I chuckled.
"Don't get me wrong, you're great and my best friend but you're no Andrea. She's amazing." He said in a breathless tone and I knew I was losing him to his fantasies.
"Thanks for that."
We pulled into the driveway ten minutes later and I smiled when I saw Nessie standing on the front steeps in jeans and a tight sweater; not what I would have liked but I guess it was ok.
"Hey girl." Embry said and picked her up in a bear hug.
I had to hold back my growl because I knew they were nothing more than friends, but it still made the wolf in me go territorial whenever another guy touched her. I still didn't know how I was going to get through the months of courting that would have to happen in order for her to go through the Rose Cotillion process. I shook my head so I could bring myself back to reality.
"How was your day?" She asked Embry when he set her back down.
"Good. I got all my work done so I could come home to your great baking."
"There are cookies in the oven." She smiled.
"Sweeeeeeet." He gave an enthusiastic first pump and ran inside.
I went up to Nessie who was still standing on the step but stopped when I was almost there and raised my eyebrow. She pouted her lips and it took all I had to keep up my game.
"No kiss?" She asked innocently.
"I remember you telling me one time that you couldn't go all the way. I had to meet you." I smirked.
"That was different circumstances." She said and began walking slowly towards me with her hands on her hips. She looked so sexy but I promised myself to control my hormones.
"Its still my birthday." I argued.
"I know and that's why I'm indulging you, but tomorrow, there will be no more games. Is that clear Jacob Black?" She said sternly when she reached me and nipped my chin lightly with her teeth.
"Yes mam." I replied with a smirk and took her lips in mine for a beautiful kiss that started off slow but suddenly grew more passionate. She hopped on my waist and wrapped her legs around my body. I drew my tongue across her bottom lip and she whimpered into my mouth, which made me go even crazier. I walked forwards until I felt the cold stone of the house and pushed her lightly against it so we were stabilized. She threw her head back to breathe and I moved my lips to her neck. I began sucking lightly on her collarbone and she moaned my name as she rested her head against the house. I continued to lay my kisses all over the front of her neck and was about to move lower until I heard a snicker from behind me.
"You two better stop. The family is coming around the corner." Alice whispered and I dropped Nessie so that her feet touched the ground.
We were both panting and I couldn't take my eyes off of Nessie's swollen lips. She was trying to fix the front of her sweater when the rest of the family came around to the side of the house with smiles. Embry was munching on one of the four cookies in his hand and they smelled like heaven.
"I see you're having a very happy birthday." Emmett chuckled.
"Shut up." I snapped.
"Happy Birthday Jacob." Carlisle said.
"Thank you." I replied with a nod and gripped Nessie by her waist. I needed to touch her," So what are we doing? I hoped it's not a party." I sighed.
"They wouldn't let me." Alice pouted.
"Good. We have the Christmas party coming up and one in December is good enough." Edward laughed.
Alice immediately perked back up and I groaned because I knew she was going crazy thinking about the Christmas party that Carlisle was hosting for the hospital.
Esme grabbed my hand before leading me to the front of the house.
"You never want to ever do anything for your birthday so we decided to save up our gifts and get you a big one." She said sweetly and I looked behind me to see everyone following except Nessie and Embry. I was going to say something about their absence but couldn't before Emmett punched me in the face. I blacked out for one second and then opened my eyes. Everything was tilted and I felt cold stone on the left side of my face. I sat up and felt my swollen cheek.
"What the fuck." I slurred as I got up from the stone driveway.
"Birthday wacks. You get twenty four more." He snickered.
"You just wait until after we give him his gifts. You're in trouble." Esme scolded and Emmett shrunk to the back off the group.
I repositioned my jaw and knew it would be swollen for a while but at least it wasn't broken. I was busy brushing the dust off of my clothes when I heard the sound of tires making their way up the driveway. I turned around and saw a huge black SUV pull up right in front of me. Embry jumped out of the driver's seat.
"Happy Birthday boss." He held his arms out to put the car on display.
My mouth continued to hang open as I walked closer to the car and ran my hand against the smooth, cold paint finish of the new black Escalade. The windows were tined black and I opened the passenger's side door to get a look at the interior. It was decked out in every piece of technology imaginable and the seats smelled of fresh leather. The cream colored inside was a stark contrast to the dark outside but I loved it.
"I…I….don't know what to say." I whispered quietly.
"You don't have to say anything. It's a gift and a thank you present." Edward said from behind me.
"For what?" I asked and turned around.
"For taking such good care of Nessie and being such an asset to this family." He smiled genuinely and I could feel the moisture start to build up in my eyes but I knew I wasn't going to cry.
"Thank you for everything." I said quietly and felt the cold arms of Esme wrap around me. I lifted her up off the ground and she giggled as I spun her around. I put her down after another minute and went around to give my thanks to the rest of the family. I knew they had something to do with all of this.
"What am I going to do with the Hummer?" I asked as I continued to inspect my new car.
"I'm going to give it to one of the nurses at the hospital. She's been having a real tough time lately and doesn't have a very reliable car to pick her kids up in." Doc said.
It still amazed me at how generous he was even after all these years.
"I'm going to miss Bertha. We've had some good times." I sighed.
"Well now you get to name this big behemoth." Jasper said.
"I can't wait."
I heard another set of wheels coming down the street, which was really strange because our location was pretty secluded. It was probably just some kid going for a joy ride so I didn't pay much attention to it.
"I think your other gift is coming now." Alice bounced.
I lifted my head from my inspection and saw a sleek, dark red Blancpain Super Trofeo Lamborghini coming up the driveway.
I couldn't breathe. This couldn't be happening to me. I knew I wasn't getting a Lamborghini for my birthday. I couldn't be. That was too much. I watched as the car smoothly pulled up in front of me and Nessie climbed out after letting the butterfly door swing up vertically.
"Happy Birthday Alpha." She smiled and kissed the corner of my mouth, which was still open.
"This can't be mine." I shook my head.
"Take it and be happy." I heard Bella whisper in my ear.
Nessie pulled me to the driver's seat and pushed me in. I was surprised at how much room it had, especially for me. I ran my hands along the black leather on the steering wheel and felt the tears roll down my cheeks. I didn't even know why I was crying; No, I did now why. I was now the proud owner of one of the most expensive and rare Lamborghinis in the world. If I recalled my facts correctly, there were only about fifty still left.
"Forty five." Edward chuckled.
I was still in a daze but smelt Nessie as she situated herself into the seat next to me and closed her door. I closed mine and just sat there. What else was I supposed to do?
"So, are we going to take a drive?" Nessie giggled.
"I don't want to ruin it." I sighed.
"Stop being stupid. Let's get a move on." She turned the key in the ignition and I felt the rumble of the engine. If I didn't have werewolf hearing, I wouldn't have been able to hear the purr of the engine as I lightly pressed my foot on the pedal and eased out of the driveway. I tuned the corner onto the highway and hit 200 mph in less than seven seconds.
I couldn't believe it and spent over an hour on the roads as I race through Newport in my new car. I didn't think I was ever so happy, unless it had something to do with Nessie. This was probably the closet I had ever come to heaven and held Nessie's hand the entire time I weaved through traffic on our way to Boston. We made it in half an hour and came back in just the same amount of time.
We got out of the car when we pulled into the driveway and I was still on a high.
"Did you know this thing has an engine withV10 5.2 litre IDS with 570 hp?" I asked excitedly as I ran my hand along the top of the car.
"I didn't know that." She smiled and I knew I was boring her but I couldn't stop myself.
"Its usually a racing car. That's why it has a six-speed robotized gearbox."
She took my hand and linked our fingers as she pulled me towards the door. I couldn't take my eyes off of the car and kept looking back as she led me inside.
"I'm happy for you Jacob. I really am. But if you start having sex with that car, I'll blow the thing up. I'm serious." She said sternly.
I shut the door behind us and pushed her lightly up against it. I bent my head down to lighlty suck on her earlobe, "You're the only one. I promise." I whsipered.
"Good." She kissed my lips, "Happy Birthday."
I was about to take her upstairs to give her a proper 'thank you', but Doc called.
"Kids." He said quietly from the dining room and I head the air shift as we all made our way in. I sat in my normal seat and pulled Nessie into my lap. I put my face into her neck and began bitting lightly while she giggled. We waited for the rest of the family to come in and when they took their seats, Caralise stood to address us.
"You all know that we'll be spending Chrstmas somewhere else this time since we went back to Forks for Thanksgiving. We need to find a location. Normally, it would be Emmett's turn to pick…" We all groaned because the last time Emmett chose somwhere, we spent our vacation hunting polar bears in Icleand, "….but your mother and I think that since its his first Christmas with us, Embry should chose the location." He smiled.
"Are you serious?" Emmett said and stood, "I don't think that's fair. I had the perfect place this year."
"Really? Where?" Nessie asked.
"The Sahara. I want a camel." He smirked.
"Absolutley not. How are we going to go out in the sun?" Bella said.
"We'll just have to stay in until nightfall." He shrugged.
"So, spend half of our vacation inside?"Jasper asked, "Great idea."
"Well I think it's a nice location." Emmett argued.
"You always pick the worst places. Do you remember that summer we spent in Guam? There was a goddamn flood and we were trapped there three weeks. Not fun Emmett." Alice said in a icy tone.
"At least we could go out in the day. The clouds covered the sky for days."
"We would have been walking underwater stupid." Alice said fiercly and I was beginging to get scared of her.
"Fine. I guess the golden child can pick his place." Emmett sighed and sat back in his seat. Rosalie began rubbing the back of his head and he immediatley softened. Emse giggled and tried to hold back her laughter but she wasn't doing a very good job.
"So Embry, where do you want to go?" Carlsise asked and we all turned in his direction.
"Anywhere?" He said quietly.
"Anywhere." Doc replied.
Embry thought for a minute and Edward whispered into Bella's ear quietly enough so that no one would hear. She smiled and nodded her head.
"Well…I've always wanted to ski." He said.
"Ok, so somewhere around here?" Carlisie asked.
"No…I was thinking more of Colorodo."
Alice gasped, "Aspen. We could go to Aspen. It would be perfect. Oh please please please please please…."
"I think that would be lovely. Are there any objections?" Esme asked and no one voiced any issues.
"Would it be ok if I invited Andrea? She said she always wanted to go to skiing."
"That would be perfect. If she doesn't have any plans already." Esme said and Emrby nodded.
"I don't think she does but I'll make sure."
We all turned to Alice whose face suddenly went blank. She was checking the weather for us to make sure we could all stay out at all hours of the day. She came back to life and we expected her to say something but she ran out of the room without a word. Edward just chuckled and stood up bringing Bella with him, "She went to go order ski suits for everyone. Aspen will be fine."
The next week went by as normal as ever and there weren't many problems. I had to limit Andrea and Embry's PDA while in the work place because people were starting to complain. It wasn't that they were doing anything inappropriate, but all their excessive touching and giggling was driving everyone crazy. I hoped it would die down by the time we went on vacation.
We wanted to invite everyone from back in Forks on the trip, but that would have been to many people. My father, Charlie and Sue were spending the holidays in Alaska on a fishing trip. Paul and Rachel were staying home with Sarah and Rebecca was going to Seattle to stay with a friend; not that I cared. All the other wolves were busy with their families except Seth so he was the only one who would be joining us in Aspen.
He didn't have anything better to do so he flew out to Vermont in the beginning of the week so that we could all go together. He was working at the garage and keeping Nessie company. The holdidays were kicking up and people brought there cars in less and less as the days grew closer to vacation. I closed the garage early and it wouldn't open back up until after the New Year so I could spend all my time with the family and not have to worry about work. I was really excited to spend our time in Aspen because I had never really skied before and I knew it would be a hell of a lot of fun. We were staying in a ski lodge right in the heart of the city and there was so much to do. We had already mapped out our itenerary but I don't know why because we never stick to it. There were thirteen of us, including the normal family plus Seth and Andrea. We were staying in suites at the lodge and apparently, we would be joined by another doctor and his family that Carlilse knew from New York. We would meet them out there and Doc said that they would be a great addition to our group. The doc from New York and his wife had three kids who were right around Nessie's age and we were supposed to be nice to them, but I didn't really want to keep up the human façade. All of the family shipped our gifts out to the lodge in Aspen where we would be staying so that we didn't have to bring too many things on the plane with us.
Before we could even begin to think about the luxury of two weeks in Aspen, we had to get though Alice hell with this Christmas party. Andrea was staying at our house for the night and joing us at the Christmas party so that we wouldn't have to pick her up early in the morning. We would be leaving at some god awful time tommorow morning, but tonight was the big Chrsitmas party that Carlisle was hosting and it was a formal event, which meant that Alice was going into hyper devil mode. We all had to be dressed in tuxes and nice attire, which I didn't feel like wearing but I wasn't going to fight Alice. The house was decorated like it came out of a magazine and every corner was filled with garland, bows, lights, wreths and other Christmas items. There was a huge tree in the family room with fake presents underneath and the enitre thing was covered in bright lights that shinned. I still laughed when I thought about Emmett going out to get the thing from the woods. Esme made him go back three times to get a bigger one until she just went at got it herself. If was strange to see such a small lady carrying a massive tree but she didn't even struggle with it as she set up the mostrosity with ease. There was going to be a dinner tonight so Emse was busy cooking in the kitchen and the entrie house smelled like cinnimon, and turkey. I could already fell my stomach rumbling in anticipation.
Seth, Embry, and I were in my room putting on our clothes. I could hear Andrea and Nessie laughing from down the hall in her room and was tempted to go see what they were doing but decided against that because Alice would kill me if I disrtaced them from getting prettyed up.
"I still don't know why we have to wear these stupid things." Seth huffed as he tried to tie the bowtie to his tux.
"What Alice wants, Alice gets." Embry said.
"Tonight should be fun. It'll be nice to take a break after all the work we've been doing." I said and I slipped on my shoe.
"I still can't wait to take Andrea on the slopes. She says she wants to snowboard too. Could I have a beter girlfriend?" Embry asked.
Seth huffed again and I smiled at his reaction. His face always fell when Embry or I talked about our respective girls because he didn't have anyone. I didn't know if he ever would but he seemed to be getting more and more dpressed about it as the years went on. He never said anything but I could tell that he wanted someone special. Poor Seth.
"Hey maybe you'll find someone tonight." I said in his direction to cheer him up.
"Are there going to girls our age at this thing?" He asked excidetly.
"Yeah, I think Doc said something about some of the doctors bringing their children. Some of them go to school with Nessie." I replied.
"Good."
"I hope Nessie baked some cookies for this party." Embry said.
"Yeah, I think she made some this morning. Don't you worry." I laughed.
We were finshed dressing in the next five minutes and as we looked at ourselves in the mirror, I couldn't get over how much we all looked a like. We actaully resembled brothers and I was beginging to wonder if Billy had been keeping secrets from me. That would have been funny if I didn't know the stories floating around LaPush. Apperantly, my father was something of a ladie's man back in his hay day and people always wondered if he ever had more children than he let on. I knew none of that was true, but as Carlisle always says, rumors don't just start for no reason.
I had to shake my head to clear my mind and made sure my short hair fell in the right places. I checked to make sure my face was clean shaven and free of any crud. Our tuxes fit our bodies perfectly and our shoes shined as they hit the lit. It never ceased to amaze me how Alice could find clothes to fit us but she's being doing it for four years so I never questioned anything.
"Not too shabby." Seth whislted as he checked himself out in the mirror.
"I don't know about you but Jake and I look good." Embry laguhed.
"Shut up." Seth smaked the back of his head and headed out the door.
I followed and we made our way down the stairs into the fmaily room wherer all the other men were waiting. Esme and Rose were in the kitchen but I could still hear Nessie, Bella, and Andrea upstairs. I guessed Alice was off doing decorations.
"Finally. I've been waiting to paly the Wii until you guys got here." Emmett jumped off the couch and turned it on.
Embry and I grabbed a controler and stoood in front of the TV. I don't even know why we still play this thing because Emmett beats everyone, no matter what game it is. He was a beast and took his Wii system very seriously. He didn't even try to spare his mother's feelings when they played together and I was beginging to think that he had a serious pyschological issue. Blondie said it was the only thing he was good at, besides sex, so we had to let him have his fun. We played the racing game for the next half hour and everyone took a turn but no one could defeat "The Master."
"I don't like this thing. Its obviosly broken." Edward huffed as he sat back on the couch after another loss.
"Even the mind reader can't beat me. I am…." He held his hand up to cup his ear like he was Hulk Hogan waiting for our response.
"The Master." Everyone said in an anoyed tone.
"That's right." He smiled and sat in a seat.
"When are the people getting here? I'm bored." Jasper sighed.
"They should be arriving within the next half hour." Doc replied, "I'm going to go see if your mother needs any help in the kitchen." He got off the couch and walked away.
"So, you excited to hit the slopes?" Emmett asked me.
"Of course. I don't think I've ever skied before." I replied.
"Well after you get on your feet, I want a race." He laguhed.
"No way. You'll proabably win anyways." I sighed.
"He used to train the Olympic ski team in the seventies." Jasper chuckled.
"I knew it was something like that." I said.
Emmett was about to say something but there was a loud commotion in the corner and we all turned to see Embry on the floor.
"What the fuck happened to you?" Seth asked.
Embry got off the floor and I noticed he was blushing furiously. He was staring in the opposite direction and I followed his eyeline. I got off the couch slowly and stood as I watched my angel coming down the stairs with Andrea and Bella. They were all dressed beautifully, but Nessie was of course my main focus. She was in a midnight blue gown made of some kind of flowng fabric that draped down to the floor. It had a rounded neckline that covered up her breasts and only showed a minumal amount of cleavage; damn. The sleeves were short and the bodice of the dress tightly wrapped around her tiny waist and the fabirc was bunched in some places around her chest and back. Her hair was left natural and flowed down her back but her bangs were held by a jewled beret that was situated on the side of her head. She only had a thin sheen of lip gloss on and her face was perfect. The christmas lights sined on her ring and braclet and I didn't think I had ever seen anyone look so beautiful.
"Wow. I don't even know why I try to compete with you." I wrapped my arms around her waist and hugged her carfully so I didn't tear anything.
"You try your hardest, but you can't beat perfection." She giggled.
"I know." I whisered into her hair and kissed the top of her head.
"Who made this dess?" I asked.
"Uh….Tadashi. Why?"
"I want to send them a thank you note." I smiled.
"Could you get anymore cheesier?" Emmett snickered from the corner and I shot him a glare.
"I thought it was sweet. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jake knows how to whoo his woman." Alice giggled.
"Thank you pixie." I smiled.
Nessie took my hand and lead me into the kitchen. I looked over my shoulder as we went and saw Andrea and Embry laughing to each other. He had his arm around her and she looked very pretty but nothing compared to Nessie. Those two were something else. I followed the smells of the wonderul food and two seconds later, we walked into the kitchen where I saw a spread that would give Martha Stewart a run for her money.
"Wow grandma. How long did it take you to do all this?" Nessie asked as we stared wide eyed at all the food.
"Not too long. I still have a couple more things to do." She replied with a smile.
She was dressed in a dark purple dress that was just as formal as Nessie's and didn't even have an appron on. There wasn't a piece of food on her and it looked like she just stepped off a runway. Jasper barged into the kitchen with a camcorder and was followed by everyone else.
"Ok Nessie, why don't you tell us what we have on the menu?" He said.
Nessie went around and pointed to each and every food like she was on a game show displaying the prizes, "For the meats we have beef tenderloin, chicken, a turkey that uncle Emmett caught this morning, game hen, and a ham. Yum. For vegtables, we have garden salad, cesar salad, three different types of potateos, green beens, and some kind of rice dish that I'm still not to sure about, but Alice assures me its worth it."
"We have Seth and Emmett as our bartenders." Jasper swept the camera in the opposite direction and captured them both waving furiously, "I don't think that's a good idea but that's the job they were given so if the wine runs out early, you know who to blame." He chuckled.
"Turn to me." Alice bounced and Jasper took the camera over to a table by the window where the deserets were located.
"Here were have cheesecake, milk chocaltate and white chocaolate cake that I made myself, cookies that Nessi baked, brownies, and other assorted deserets." She smiled for the camera.
"And how much of it did Jake make?" Jasper asked and turned to me.
"I was banned from the kitchen so luckily, no one will go home sick."
"Yay." Everyone shouted and I glared around the room.
Ten minutes later, the first of our guests arrived and we ushered them into the house. Within the next thirty minutes, the house was filled with about one hundred doctors, nurses, and secrtataries from the hospital along with some of their familes. Everyone mingled amongst themselves and I noticed that the humans seemed oddly calm for a bunch of people unknowlinlgy in a house filled with the things of their nightmares. I stayed with Nessie the entire time and we made the rounds introducing ourselves to Doc's collegues. I was surprised at how many people knew me from my garage or Carlisle talking about me. It seemed that he was geniouley proud of my succes and sppread the word throughout the hospital. No one from Doc's work had ever met the family so everyone was really excited to be introcued to the Cullen kids and see how beatutiful they were. Nessie talked to the kids that she knew from her school and even though she was nice, I don't think they really liked her. They would always look at her with an air of arrogence that made me want to slap them, but I kept my cool because no one was down right rude to her. Why is it that no one ever likes Nessie? Maybe its jelousy? Probably.
I leaned agsinst the bar with my drink in my hand while watching Nessie from across the room. People were just drawn to her and she excuded more confidence than I had evern seen in one person. It was obvious that she was definatley in her element.
"You know, this is fun. I might actually take this up as a career when I get back to Forks." Seth laughed from behing the bar.
"I don't think so Seth. You're kind of clumzy."
"I haven't spilled anything all night. How dare you." He feigned shock.
"Yeah well you're lucky people are just ordering simple drinks." I said but didn't take my eyes off of Nessie.
"Whatever. You never give me my just due." He laughed.
She saw me watching her and excused herself from the group she was talking to. She walked over to me and put her head on my chest.
"You look good out there." I kissed the top of her head.
"You left me." She lifted her head up and smiled.
"I just needed something to drink. You want anything?"
"Vodka and cranberry please."
"Got it." Seth siad and immediatley began pouring things into the shaker.
"I think he's had a little to many shooters." I chuckled and lightly kissed her lips.
"He deserves it. This is vacation." She giggled.
I took my head away from Nessie and looked up to see a group of girls glaring at us from across the room. They were the ones from Nessie's school and I could tell that they were just being nice to her on the outside. I couldn't hear what they were saying but I knew it wasn't anything pleasant.
"Hey Ness?"
"Yeah." She said and took her drink from Seth.
"Who are those girls by the fireplace?" I asked.
She quickly looked and then turned back to me, "The tall blonde one is Joanna. Seth used to have a crush on her the last time he was here but I convinced him to cancel the date they had because she's makes her rounds if you know what I mean. Who knows what she could give that poor boy. She used to be really nice to me but now I guess she hates me." Her face fell and I kissed her pout away.
"And the other girls?"
"They used to be nice to me too, but when this year started, they gave me the cold shoulder. I was still going to invite them to the wedidng but I don't think I will anymore. I don't want anyone to ruin my day." She smiled.
"Oh god. I forgot about our wedding. How many are on the list now?"
"Well, there are going to be about six hundred at the ceremony but half of that for the recption. I can't fit everyone." She giggled.
"Have you even looked for places to hold everyone?" I asked.
"Alice has a wedidng planner in Paris and they're doing everything over the phone."
"I still can't believe we're finally getting married." I wraped my arms around her and rested my chin on her head.
"We still have six months so don't get too happy, but I know what you mean. Did you ever think we'd make it?" She sighed.
"Yes. Through all the bullshit and people trying to tear us apart, I knew we'd be planning our wedding." I smiled.
She lifted her head and stared into my eyes, "I still can't believe it." She whispered and I saw some moisture begin to pool in her eyes.
"Don't cry. You're going to ruin your make up and then Alice will kill me." I chuckled.
The rest of the night went smoothly and I suprisingly had a great time. Nessie was the life of the party and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. We all ate the wonderful feast that Esme preapred and it was funny to watch the vamps the house eat. Of course Jasper and Emmett turned it into a game and tried to see who could last longer. Emmett didn't make it past the third course before he had to excuse himself to go throw up in the backyard. To those of us in the know, we silentley laughed at how childish they were being but it wouldn't be a christmas without one of their games. Andrea and Embry stayed in a bubble of love for the entrie night and I know that sounds really girly, but there isnt any other way to say it. Nessie was the only one who could pull Andrea away from Embry and they stayed close to each other while they made the rounds. Everyone loved Seth at the bartender station and he told jokes soaking up all the female attention. Everyone loved Esme's cooking and she beamed the whole night while people told her how amazing she was for rasing such wonderful children. Carililse talked doctor talk with his colllegues and I was very impressed with how knowledgable he was. He knew everything about every subject and who have made a great college professor.
As the night came to a close, I could tell that Nessie was getting sleepy but she kept talking with the guests and didn't falter. Everyone started to leave and I went into the kitchen to see if Esme needed any help cleaning up but when I walked in, it was spotless; not one dity pot or pan. All the food was already packaged up in the refidgerator and the counters were whipped clean. I couldn't find one crumb and was amazed at how shinny everything looked. I went back to the party and saw the Cullens chatting with the remaining members of the party. Nessie was on the sofa with Andrea and looked exhusted. I went and took a seat next to her before pulling her into my lap.
"Did you have a good time?" I asked.
"That was a good party. Alice sure can bring the hollidays to life." She smiled.
"Are you sleepy?"
She shook her head no but I knew she was just trying to stay up as late as I was.
"How much did you drink" I asked.
"A couple glasses. Nothing too much."
She was a little buzzed but not outright drunk, which was very hard for her to get. Her body burned the alchola too fast for her blood stream to accept it so she would have to down massive amounts of alchoal for her to get drunk, which only happened once and I had to admit, it was pretty funny.
She rested her head on my shoulder and I could hear her heartbeat slow as her eyes closed. She drifted into a deep sleep ten minutes later.
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