WHOOPS I LIED.
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WE'RE IN DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS, THE FIRST IS 1991-1992 THEN A SKIP AND THEN 1996.
(This is more for me looking over past chapters than for you guys.)
"Oh it was fine past the whole Alice almost killing us thing. Lots of bonding." I replied pleasantly as I watched Esme pace in her hobby room, searching for special pair of scissors. I think she'd been getting restless in Alaska. Wanted to move again soon. Or at least I figured that was why she was remodeling the house in Forks and being so snippy lately.
"Well she can't really help that, Catharin." She glared at me as I pursed my lips awkwardly and nodded. Snippy.
"Right. Well. I'm going to go find Jasper." I nodded again, quickly exiting the room to find him in the living room downstairs. He didn't say anything, still reading, as he raised his arm off the couch. I took it as my queue to slide in next to him.
So I did and folded my feet under my thighs, making sure to bump into Emmett's shoulders to mess with him. He retaliated by flicking me. I flicked him back and initiated a war of sorts apparently. He flicked back, harder. I did the same, flicking his ear this time. He turned, glaring.
"What?" I raised a brow, trying to look innocent. Dukes of Hazard reruns were on. I knew it was his favourite. He waited a second before full out punching my exposed shin. I yelped at the sudden pain. He looked smug at my reaction for a second before Jasper kicked him in the shoulder.
"Hey! She started it." He exclaimed, rubbing his shoulder and motioning to me with a jerk of his head.
"And I just ended it." Jasper shrugged as he leaned closer and kissed my exposed neck.
"Then why didn't she get kicked?" He pointed towards me as I shrugged.
"She got stuck with me for an eternity." Jasper replied casually with a hint of pride as he flipped a page of his book.
"Well thats definitely punishment. Wicked sex for the rest of her life. What a shame." Emmett rolled his eyes as he huffed and let go of his shoulder. I snorted as I laid my head on Jasper's chest and watched the TV from under his arm. Sometimes it was a total win to have a scary, over-protective guy as your husband.
"OH." I jumped up after a few hours of the show to remember why I was coming to find him in the first place. Jasper raised a brow at my sudden motions while Emmett watched me suspiciously.
"You had a surprise to show me." I explained with a smile. Jasper started to grin as he nodded.
"Oh dude, you haven't shown her already?" Emmett's suspicion turned to amusement as I started to feel a little miffed.
"Nah. I wanted to finish her all up before I showed her." Jasper motioned with his book towards me on the second her. I narrowed my eyes at the first her, however.
"Her?" I raised both brows as I crossed my arms over my chest. Emmett started snickering as he stood and started going towards the side door to the garage. Jasper just put his hands over my eyes as he guided me towards the same way. Or at least I think it was the same way.
"Okay, now look." Jasper's twang came out. He was grinning, I could hear it in his voice as I opened my eyes to take in a...silver motorcycle. Actually it was barely a motorcycle, it was a sport's bike. Rose stopped her work, coming over to wrap an arm around Emmett's as she took it in. Jasper was still holding the blanket as he grinned, ear to ear.
"What...what is that?" I pointed a finger at it as I took a few steps closer.
"Its my Ducati, babe." He stated like it was obvious. I raised a brow.
"That is barely a bike, Jasper." Rose commented from the side as I nodded slowly.
"Can it even go past 50 miles per hour?" I asked warily. The black pick up truck was gone at least, I kinda hated the thing. Always so big and clunky.
"Of course it can. Em and I have been messing around, took off the lock." Jasper scoffed, putting his hands on his hips like he was flabbergasted I'd ever question his actions.
"Then it's great, Jazzy." I nodded slowly and wrapped my hands around his waist, kissing him on the nose. He rolled his eyes at my actions but reciprocated by wrapping his arms around my back, nonetheless.
"Suck up." Rose snorted as she took in our stance. I stuck my tongue out at her, rolling my eyes, Jasper sighed as he kissed my forehead and pulled away to slide the blanket back over the bike.
"You'll appreciate the bike more when it becomes a classic." He shook his head, almost stroking the machine. I shrugged.
"Oh trust me, I appreciate it now. Hell, I'm just happy the truck is gone." I crossed my arms over my chest as I leaned on the other side of Emmett.
"Oh yeah. That hunk of junk, went down the road groaning and crying out to be shot." I looked around Emmett at Rose as she shook her head at the memory.
"What?" I asked when I looked back as Jasper's mouth hung open in disbelief.
"We got that truck when we got married, it was a living memory!" Jasper exclaimed as he stood up. I shook my head, no.
"Nuh-uh. You had the truck before we got married." I corrected.
"Same difference." He rolled his eyes and took my hand, pulling me over towards it.
"I already saw the shiny new toy, babe." I smiled as Rose and Emmett disappeared up to their bedroom.
"Yeah but you haven't ridden it." He grinned as he swung his leg over it and back it out of the open garage door. I followed slowly, inspecting the distance. I wonder if I'd have to jump or get a running start for this.
"Cat. Just put your foot there and swing your leg over." He commented and pointed to a flat piece of metal that stuck out of the side. Oh. He already thought of this. I nodded as I did just that and swung my jean covered leg over the back and wrapped my arms around his waist.
"Ready?" He sounded giddy as he asked. I nodded into his back as he chuckled darkly and took his foot off the ground, gunning it.
"EVERYONE. I have an announcement." Esme practically skipped into the living room, pulling my attention from the violin I'd been plucking at.
Since piano seemed to be off the table, I went down to the library and music stores and got a violin. So far I'd just accomplished pissing everyone off with terrible screechy noises but Edward had started talking a little more...kinda. It was really just to tell me to shut up and that I was pulling at the wrong string. He'd move my fingers around and disappear into his void again.
"Ready?" She grinned, clapping her hands together. This was the happiest I'd seen Esme since she found out that Alice had found her mate, 4 years ago in '92. We all nodded, even Emmett had taken his attention away from the television.
"We're...MOVING! TO WISCONSIN!" She screamed with joy. We all stared at her for a few seconds before slowly nodding and clapping. It was probably about time. We'd lived here since the 70s and it was '96 now. Carlisle stopped working at the local hospital due to his lack of aging a few years ago and it seemed we were all steadily growing more and more restless in Alaska.
"No I mean right now. Go pack your crap." She pointed to the stairs with a grin larger than I'd seen in a while. I stood slowly, Jasper's arm wrapped around my waist as we trailed behind Alice, going up the stairs. I'd gotten a little closer to Alice as she got more and more excited about her mate slowly growing up. Rose was iffy about the whole human thing and the child thing.
We got up to our room and slowly milled around. Jasper pointed at the old purple couch and I nodded. We were taking that. He sighed slowly, nodding back. He knew we'd have to take it. He went to the wall of pictures over the windows and pulled a few off, then going to the bookshelves, pulling books off of there. I laid back on the bed and stared up at the ceiling when the door busted open and Alice plopped down on the bed next to me, grinning.
"...Yes?" I raised my brows as I waited for her to tell me what happened with her mate now. She only grinned like this if A.) Irenta did something or B.) A new amazing clothing line came out.
"She's starting school tomorrow! Ira's growing up!" She shrieked with excitement like it was her own child going off to school as she shook my arm with excitement. I just smiled.
"Thats great, Alice." I nodded to her with small smile as Jasper nudged me over with a suitcase. She grinned and nodded, getting up and catapulting herself off the bed to go pack her clothes. I rolled over and stood, Jasper was already finished packing as I picked up my herbs and spice's in their little ceramic pots and carried them downstairs. Emmett passed by me on the stairs, probably to go take the couch apart with Jasper.
The trip down to Wisconsin was odd for all of us. Emmett's jeep had most of the actual objects we took but everyone else went in separate cars, some racing each other. I rode with Rose while Esme rode with Alice just in case she had another vision moment right in the middle of a turn or something. Rose of course wanted to race Alice after the comment about her car from the last road trip we all together in 1991.
After two days of just stopping for gas, we finally arrived in Ashland Wisconsin. Apparently this was where Carlisle and Esme had met in the 20s. I tried to remember what I was even doing in the 20s. I think I was in Oregon making home deliveries to patients out there, huh. Who knew that a few states over, I'd find my family. Oh wow. I was older than Esme. WHY WAS I SO OLD?
"Calm down. The Denali's are 9 times as old as you, Catharin." Edward commented as he went past me and up the front stairs.
"Yeah well I'm still older than you, string bean." I called out. I was sitting in the front yard, messing with flower patterns for Esme. I watched him pause for a second, turning around then shook his head and continued upstairs to his room. Damn. Almost got him to talk to me. A second later and I could hear Jazz droning out of his window.
"Can I help?" Alice came out of the corn fields near the house as I glared at the sunny patches of brown dirt.
"Sure. I'm probably going to do pink, white, pink, red, pink, white." I counted down the line of the plant's I had out in a line.
"Someone's on a pink kick." Jasper commented. Jazzy was sitting on the porch swing, glancing from page to page of some civil war journal.
"Suck it." I muttered glaring at him.
"I'd love too." He started to grin at the page he was on.
"Eugh." I rolled my eyes and ignored the comment as Alice let out a sound of disgust. We'd start school next week, they'd chosen Wisconsin specifically for a smaller town for a smaller school for us. We'd been out of contact of the world for a while now. Carlisle talked about me starting in a hospital at some point again but decided it might be best for me to test out the school setting first.
"Uh. What am I supposed to do with the plate of food now?" I asked, confused as Jasper sat back, snickering. We'd gotten through most of the first day with Jasper telling me how things worked as we went but I didn't understand the reason for the food. It looked incredibly unappetizing.
"Nothing, Catharin. Just push it around." Edward commented, looking back to me for a second before looking away again. We were still waiting on Alice, Rose, and Emmett.
"But why do we get it then?" I asked looking towards Edward.
"Because we need to blend in. We've already attracted attention by just existing in the school." Edward said with a snapish tone.
"You don't have to be so mean about it." I pursed my lips as I frowned down at the plate of cooked meat and other items.
"I'll see you in chemistry." I heard him sigh as he stood and dumped his tray of food on his way out literally right as the rest of our family came in.
"What'd you do this time, Cat?" Emmett asked with a grin as he sat down a plate of green leaves. I shrugged.
"She tried getting him to talk to her." Jasper spoke up as Alice sat down.
"Well there was your first mistake, trying to get the moodie Eddie to talk to you." Emmett commented. I frowned as I looked behind me for Rose and saw her talking to a boy around Edward's size.
"Oooh. Em. It looks like you've got some competition." I grinned as I heard him stand with a loud screeching noise from the chair. The table went silent as we watched him come around and take Rose's tray for her, putting an arm around her shoulders. He stood there for a second as the boy started to sweat and walked away quickly. Emmett ended up trailing behind Rose as she rolled her eyes and came over, Em looked victorious.
"Good grief." Alice commented offhandedly as I turned back around to see her shaking her head. She didn't really approve of the whole posturing thing that Emmett did. It was really just his competitive nature, Rose had the same issue at times.
"At least he doesn't just stand over her shoulder and glare at people like some people." I reminded as I motioned to Jasper with my head.
"That's true." Rose added as she sat down. I felt him lazily flick the back of my arm from the chair and grinned.
"I hope I don't smother Ira." Alice frowned as she poked at an apple slice on her plate. I shrugged.
"You probably won't. Its not really in your nature...sorta." I added on as the thought of Alice hissing in San Francisco popped into my head. The bell rang right as Emmett sat back down, I guess Rose was little late. Jasper walked me to the chemistry room as I grinned and practically skipped inside to plop down next to Edward.
"Hi!" I greeted happily. He grunted. This pattern continued for English, then the music class we apparently shared. Him grunting continued on for around a semester before he started to say hello back.
"Hi." I mumbled, under the weather today. Alice kept coming around every time Ira learned a letter or a number or how to spell her name.
"Hey." He greeted, looking out the window still. Did I just get a hey? From the Edward?
"Don't push your luck." He glanced at me from the corner of his eye as he smiled the slightest bit. I smiled to myself as I faced the board and rested my head on my hand. Stuff was kinda changing. Slowly.