After dropping the key off at the historical society, we drove home. I watched as my mother went into the house. The others weren't home yet, thank goodness, I needed all the time I could get, no matter how minuet. For the first time in my vampire life, Esme drove like Edward and we made it home in less than 20 minutes.
Somehow I needed to avoid my sisters until 4:30 when Carlisle, Esme, and I would head to my school. My room wouldn't work, that be the first place they'd look, neither would the garage I was too exposed out here and my room held all my clothes that they could coordinate and match to perfect an outfit for me.
I glanced at my watch again, 3:10 on the dot, they'd be heading to the car soon and if I know my sister like I do, I know Rosalie would have a herd of guys huddled around her car admiring it, that would affect how long it took them to not only get into the car, but out of the parking lot. So I had less than fifteen minutes give or take to come up with something.
I glanced at my ATV and dirt bike, noisy yes, but if I wheeled them out of the garage I could slip away undetected, or better yet, I could go for a run, yes…that excuse has been working for Edward, why shouldn't it work for me as well. But the consequences of such an act wouldn't be worth it.
Quietly I slipped into the house and looked for Esme. She wasn't in the family room, nor was she in her office…weird.
I went upstairs to the second floor, still no sign of my mother. I was about to check her and Carlisle's room which is on the third floor, when I heard the sound of floorboards above me creaking in my room. My eyes went wide, aw man Esme was in on it and she was already upstairs!
Against better judgment I went up to my room. Charlie and Chaplin were at the top of their cage watching intently and curious as my mother's shadow was cast on the wall opposite my closet.
On my window seat, laid out neatly was about six or seven pairs of my jeans, ranging from cheap Levis that I picked out to keep my sisters at bay, to designer jeans by Ralph Lauren that start at about $250 bucks.
Uh oh.
Esme turned when she heard me come in to my room and looked at me expectantly. I heard the garage door open and knew the others were home.
"Hi mum," I said, giving her a half grin, trying not to wince as she found what she was looking for, shirts to go with the jeans. I heard the door from the garage in the kitchen open and shut, but I didn't allow myself to glance that way, glancing that way might make Esme call the gir-
"Rosalie Alice come up to Christian's room when you have a moment." Have a moment? If I know my sisters they'll be more than happy to come up.
So I wasn't surprised in the least when both my sisters walked into my room, both matching Esme's smug look.
"You know, you guys don't have to do this, I turned 79 in December I think I'm old enough to be perfectly capable of picking out my own clothes."
My sisters and mother exchanged a look and the trio began examining the clothes Esme had pulled out. I backpedaled from my window seat and tried to go all the way out of my room, but Rosalie's death glare was enough to completely stop me in my tracks.
I glanced at my watch again, 3:29, a little more than an hour before we would have to leave for the school. I couldn't believe I was giving into this insanity.
I heard Emmett come up the stairs and suddenly had the urge to hide under my desk. If Emmett found out about this I would never hear the end of it.
"Do we know what kind of movie their going to?" Rosalie asked Esme, catching my attention.
"No, he wont tell me." Esme replied, giving me a accusing look, before turning back to my sister.
"Oh, he'll tell us, by the time you guys leave for the school Chris WILL tell us what movie he's going to see." Rosalie ordered and I shrugged, wasn't my fault Marie was refusing to tell me.
Inconspicuously, I gently kicked my door shut, but not before Emmett managed to reach into my room and ruffle my hair
"Awwww, Dr. Doolittle has a date!" he cooed in a squeaky voice, with a huge grin on his face.
"Emmett you leave him be!" Esme, Rosalie, and Alice scolded angrily "out!" they finished. Rosalie stormed over to my door and gently shoved Emmett from the doorframe and shut my door, locking me in my own room.
I winced and banged on the door,
"Wait…Em…help me…save me! Get me out of here! Their gonna dress me up! You're my big brother you have an obligation to protect me!" I cried, but all I got in response was his laughter as he abandoned his little brother for an afternoon of TV without my interference, all the baseball and hockey he could watch without me complaining that there was a cricket match on somewhere in the world or the UK was hosting some kind of football matchup.
I heard someone clear their throat and turned to face my sisters and mother who stood near my closet expectantly.
Alice held out one outfit and without a word handed them to me and pointed to my bathroom. I gathered up the clothes and walked towards my bathroom, grumbling under my breath the entire way.
Fifteen minutes and I lost count of the number of clothing combinations later, my outfit for the night had been unanimously agreed up on by my sisters and my mother. However, they were far from done with me.
I could profile it on all three of them, they were beyond excited about this, the fact that I was going out on a date made the three very happy. Alice and Rosalie were excited not just for the same reason Esme was (she was overjoyed that I was interacting on some level with my peers.) But my sisters were overjoyed at the chance to not only dress me up, but prepare me how they felt Marie would expect me.
They were gonna give me a guy's equivalent to a makeover, since Emmett and Jasper refuse to let the girls do this to them, I was the best thing.
Emmett would pay for not saving me from his wife, our sister, and our mother, he would pay dearly too, strike that, his jeep would pay, I would never permanently hurt the monstrosity that takes up most of our garage, because I helped build it and it's one of my favorite vehicles we own, but I would make it tough for him to enjoy it for a while.
Rosalie and Alice each took one of my hands and dragged me down the hall and down the stairs to Alice's bathroom a room I try to avoid at all costs, just for the reason I fear what's inside.
Everyone has a room in their house that they fear to tread, it's perfectly normal, you know basements, attics, rooms like that; my nightmare room is Alice's bathroom.
They sat me down in the pink chair, the counter was lined with girl products, but amongst the group was hair gel, scissors, combs, and brushes, even hair spray.
"What do you think?" Alice asked Rosalie as she wrapped a towel around my shoulders, I eyed the scissors wearily, if either one of my sisters came near my hair with those I was outta here.
"First things first, we get his bangs out of his eyes, no covering those up tonight. We could style them to the side." Rosalie said tapping her finger to her cheek, obviously thinking and working the details out. "I'm so glad you went hunting Chris, your eyes are so perfect right now."
I groaned loudly in protest and Rosalie actually flicked my ear hard, warning me against retaliation.
"Ow!" I complained wincing, I reached up to rub my stinging ear, this was unbelievable. I couldn't believe they were actually going to get away with this madness. I had cooperated with the bloody clothes, what more did they want from me.
Not to mention, they were using corporal punishment to get me to cooperate, there had to be some kind of rule against this brutality, some kind of law. Where was Carlisle when you needed him?
"Be good." Alice warned as she began combing my bangs to the side of my face. "we are only doing this because we love you."
"Love me!" I hissed. "if you really love me you'll leave my hair alone!"
"Do you think Esme would object to us cutting his bangs? Think about it, he won't be able to hide behind them ever again." Rosalie asked thoughtfully. "I know Tanya, Irina, and Kate would be so happy!"
"Forget Esme and forget the Denali girls…I object!" I exclaimed, "you guys are not cutting any bit of my hair! You leave my hair alone!" I repeated hoping to have a threatening affect, yeah right.
"It's just a little trim Chris, it isn't like we are shaving your head, a little snip here and there" was Rosalie's answer.
I growled my response to that and Rosalie flicked my ear again, I hoped THAT wasn't going to become a regular occurrence.
"Chris you haven't had your hair cut since what? The Great Depression?" Alice mused, "a little trim won't kill you."
"It just might, have you ever thought about that? You come near me with those scissors I might just drop dead as a result. I might be allergic to the scissors…" I paused "and for your information, I was three years old when the stock market crashed here so I'll go with I got my hair trimmed last in 1939 so there."
As usual, the pair pretended they hadn't heard a word I had just said. Ignoring my protests over such things as this and the whole overpriced clothing deals has become an art form with my sisters.
I wasn't about to let my sisters cut my hair, least not without a fight. What they cut will be permanent.
Once the change into a vampire is complete everything pretty much freezes, literally, and that includes hair growth. It's bad enough that I am permanently stuck at just over five feet tall…
"I think we need Esme's opinion on this one." Alice finished as she pulled my bangs up to see how it would look short. I personally was not impressed.
I mean my bangs aren't so long that they completely cover my face, instead when completely flattened they just hit my eyes, enough so that I can cover my eyes with my hair.
My human mother use to insist on me combing my bangs back if I insisted on keeping them slightly long, actually ironically or just conveniently, my final human day was to be the day mum planned on giving me a good haircut, so I mean it's been about 60 years since anyone has cut my hair.
Rosalie nodded and darted out of the bathroom to find our mother, who was either going to flat out agree with my sisters, or was going to defend my hair and my dignity.
Luckily, the minute Esme found out what Alice and Rosalie wanted to do, she stepped in and did defend me against my sisters. Reminding them that making permanent alterations to myself was my decision and that included my hair.
So in the end, a bit of hair spray and all three of them playing with my hair did what scissors might have.
All this done with 10 minutes to spare as Carlisle came up to find out what all the noise was and why Emmett had burst out in hysterical fits of laughter when our father had asked where I was.
It always makes him nervous when he asks Emmett a question and the first thing my brother does is laugh. Actually it makes the whole family nervous when he does that, especially when the question is about me.
"DAD! Help me, I've been captured!" I exclaimed from the pink chair. He covered his mouth hiding a chuckle, but I knew he would save me.
"All right girls leave the boy alone I think you've tortured him enough for a while." He paused "Chris if you can, I have some things to discuss with you about tonight."
Quickly I hopped out of the seat and darted for the door; I stopped on my way to Carlisle and turned to my sisters and mother.
"Thanks you guys." I said softly, I heard them giggling and cooing, before I darted down the hall following Carlisle to his office. Once inside I took the seat in front of my father's desk while he sat down in his leather office chair. "what's up?"
"You mentioned the other day that Marie's grandmother plans to take you both to dinner, and you were worried about it."
"Yeah. Did you figure out a way to get me out of that?" I asked eagerly
"Out of the dinner, no,"
"That I figured. My concern was for the actual food, I don't mind going to dinner with Marie and her grandmother, but I'm really not to crazy 'bout choking down some food, especially an entire meal."
"At the restaurant I want you to order just whatever soup they have on special." He paused "eat only a little bit of it." I nodded "tonight when we meet the Burkes, I'll remind Mrs. Burke that you are still getting over the flu and to take it easy tonight and that you should only have something light at the restaurant."
I nodded I could handle that.
"Thanks Carlisle."
He smiled
"Of course. I promised you I would take care of it."
"I know you did." I paused "did you check the memoir?"
Carlisle nodded
"Yes, it sounded very plausible. I never once doubted your imagination Chris."
"I just mean that Mrs. Brown will probably mention it, since we read them in class this morning."
"I would expect nothing less of her. She is very curious about you." Carlisle replied, his smile getting wider.
"She finds it so hard to believe that I don't remember taking rides on the London Eye, or going to the children's museum or anything of that sort."
Carlisle nodded
"Yes. I know, the last parent meeting she grilled us for information. Which is why we wanted you to let at least one of us read your memoir before handing it in."
"Luckily we only had to have a bit in, the final project isn't due until the last day of school. Plenty of time to make up the rest of my childhood with you and Esme" I answered and we exchanged a grin.
A knock at the door caught our attention and when we turned, there was Esme standing in the doorway.
"Are you two ready? We will be late if we don't get going."
"Being late is impossible." I reminded my mother with a grin. Carlisle and I exchanged a look and chuckled as Esme rolled her eyes at us.
We went downstairs, both my brothers were glued to the TV, but when they heard us coming down the steps; they turned to see the spectacle that their wives had done to me.
I crossed my arms on my chest and gave them a look that I hope said, 'look what they did to me!'
Of course, it had the opposite effect; the two of them began chuckling, but stopped when Esme gave them a warning look.
I reached the bottom of the steps and reached to the table for my black University of Cornell hat with the bear mascot on it and my grey hoodie.
"Don't even think about it!" My sisters both called from the top of the landing, everyone looked up at them. They both had stern looks on their faces "put that hat and that sweatshirt down this instant."
I blinked and looked at my parents who shrugged. Esme reached to the coat-rack and pulled down my blue and grey ski jacket it's a thick down jacket it's a style that most people use for going skiing.
Grumbling at my sisters, I slipped it on over the black button up shirt Rosalie and Alice had forced me in to and gazed longingly at my sweatshirt. I like having my hoodie and I couldn't believe they were denying me it.
"Chris, don't forget your wallet!" Alice called, the stern look fading from her face, she tossed it down and I caught it, slipping it into my back pocket.
"Have fun" Rosalie said a knowing smile on her face as one appeared on Alice's as well. "Be a gentleman!"
I rolled my eyes at my sisters as Esme put an arm around my shoulder and we followed Carlisle towards the kitchen,
"We'll be home about seven." Carlisle said. That reminded me, Charlie had to have his medicine at 5:30, I wouldn't be home and there's was only one person that would be home that could give it to him.
"Hey Alice?" I called looking up at her
"I'll give him his medicine,"
I grinned
"Thanks Alice,"
She gave me a grin and waved as I followed my parents out to the garage. I actually welcomed my brother's laughter, because deep down, I was experiencing a mix of nerves and even a bit of excitement. I was actually looking forward to going out with Marie tonight.
A/N: ok, I just wanted to give you guys a heads up. I know its been a while since I updated Carlisle's version of When the Blitz came as well as the Home Coming chapter and I apoloogize. Those unlike this fic, were not complete when I started uploading. I had only gotten as far as the last chapters I had uploaded for both, I hadnt expected them to take off like they did so I am feverouly working on the new chapters to get them posted which as long as writers block stays away, they will be finished and uploaded by Sunday night. Both only have a few chapters remaining so expect them to be complete soon. Speaking of which, Home Coming has a few chapters coming that deal with different parts of Chris's first year with the Cullens, there is no real rhyme or reason to each of the different chapters because they are dealing with different months/events. There are three of them, the final one will be the last chapter of Home Coming, but there will be another Prequel fic uploaded directly after it. That one is complete and ready to be posted, it is one I am very proud of since it deals with characters both in the sense that they have a major role in the series, and then the other characters really don't have much page time until Breaking Dawn. (Did that even make sense?) Anyways, hope you all enjoyed this update of The Sun Never Sets, next chapter will be up tomorrow and the other two updates will be Sunday night I hope.