Ch 29-A Gift

EPOV

I've wanted to get pierced and maybe a tat, I didn't know he had thought about it. I want to get my nipples pierced, just not sure about tats. We'll talk about it later since Em's with us.

"Babe, what are you thinking about?" Jazz asks looking at me.

"Tats and piercings," I say shrugging.

"What about them?"

"We'll talk later. Let's take care of them first," I point towards Emmett.

He looks at Em, who got on the phone with Rose I assume, and then back to me.

"Talk to me, he's busy."

"I thought about nipple piercings," I whisper leaning closer to him.

"You want your nipples pierced?" he says quietly. I just nod. "You afraid I'd discourage you?" I shrug. "Babe, if you want them than get them. I heard they enhance pleasure."

"You don't think it's a stupid idea?" I glance at him.

"No. What about a tat?" he asks whispering in my ear.

"Haven't decided, yet. I heard a tongue ring does amazing things to a cock when it's being sucked," I whisper.

"Hell, don't talk like that. We'll discuss this in private." I nod agreeing.

"Hey Ed, where are we going anyway; I thought we were staying in Forks to shop?" Em says looking over at me.

"Stevens."

"I can't afford that place," he starts to protest.

"We can and we want the best for you guys," Jazz says elbowing him and rubbing his fingertips on my thigh.

"I don't know guys," he starts, but I put a stop to it.

"We are going to Stevens and you will get something, no buts. If you don't I'll tell Rose the truth about her car."

"Fine, are you ever going to forget that?" Emmett grumbles.

"No, best blackmail I have. I still can't believe you hit her car at school. Who did you blame it on anyway?" I laugh remembering the dent in the back of her car.

"Mike Newton, he was being an ass, so I let her think it was him. He hid from her for three weeks. She glared at him and kept saying just wait every time she saw him. He was scared shitless," Em laughs.

"So that's what his problem was last year. I thought he was afraid of you," Jazz chuckles causing us all to laugh.

"He is afraid of me, but terrified of her more."

"Love, get my phone, it's buzzing in my pocket," I say raising my right hip up.

He slides his fingers to pull it out of my back pocket opening it. "It's a message from Ali."

"She said 'don't let him get anything stupid. She likes yellow gold or platinum and one to two carats is good'," he says reading it.

"Ask her what cut," I say pulling up to Stevens.

He types back as we get out heading into the store. My phone buzzes before we get across the lot and I open to her message, 'Princess, what else ;) Ali-cat'

I text back, 'ok, I'll let ya know b4 we buy :P E&J'

"Ok, Alice knows Em if you hadn't figured it out. She is going to help us."

My phone buzzes again with 'honeymoon in Bahamas, them not you, she's always wanted to go ;) Ali-cat'

"Emmett she's always wanted to go to the Bahamas, how about that for your honeymoon?" I ask as we walk in, Jason comes up to us.

"Welcome to Stevens, is everything ok sirs?" he asks looking back and forth between me and Jazz then looks at Em taking a step back.

"Yes, we're fine Jason. We are here to get him rings now," Jazz says pointing to Em.

Jason looks surprised, must be thinking 'someone Em's size gay?'

"He is going to propose to his girlfriend. We need help picking out something," I say walking to the case we went to a few days before.

"Oh, very well. Any ideas?" he asks pulling out trays.

"Um, I don't know," Em says looking at all the rings.

"One to two carat, princess cut, yellow gold or platinum," I tell them referring to Alice's texts.

"Good choice," he says pulling rings out that fit the description.

We look at them all. Jazz picks up a two carat and Em shakes his head no. I pick up one that is around a carat and half in platinum. He looks over at me eyeing the ring.

"You like this one?" I ask.

"Sort of."

"Let's send Ali a picture and get her opinion; unless you see something else."

"Not really, what about bands?" he asks looking in the next case.

"Oh, these, they look perfect," Jazz said pointing to platinum bands with engraving on the outside.

Jason pulls them out and we tell Em to try it on. It looks good on him.

"We can engrave anything on the outside as well as inside," Jason says turning the band around. "These are just displays."

The band had 'name & name' on the outside with the inside blank.

"I like these. Is this going to be too much?" Em asks looking at us.

"No, Em, just pick what you like. We are fine cost doesn't matter," I say patting his shoulder.

"Then see what Alice thinks," he says holding his hand out.

I snap a picture of the princess cut and bands. I send them to her and within minutes get back, 'PERFECT! good job Em (and boys) :D Ali-cat'.

"Al says perfect," I say showing them my phone.

"What size and what would you like on these?" Jason asks getting an envelope out for the engraving.

A text comes in then, 'size 7 and he'll know :P Ali-cat'.

"She is a size 7, but he will have to be checked," I say looking at Jason.

"The diamond I want 'all my love' inside. The bands 'Rosalie & Emmett' outside, inside 'true love always'," Em says looking at us.

We just smile and nod. Jason writes everything down.

"How will you be paying?" he asks looking at all three of us.

"We're paying," I say pulling Jazz to me as I pull out my wallet.

"Thank you Mr. Masen." He takes my card and turns to ring it up. He looks at me when he picks up the phone, "Yes, this is Stevens' store, and I was in fact the one waiting on him yesterday."

"Yes, ma'am," he said turning to bring me the phone.

"Sorry sir," he said handing it over.

"This is Edward."

"This is Carol at the bank, just verifying the purchase."

"That's fine; my birthday is August 27, 1988. Passcode is," they all step away. I look at Jazz raising a brow, he just shrugs, "J K Whitlock."

"Thank you Mr. Masen."

"Thanks," I hand the phone back to Jason as he nods and talks to Carol.

I walk up behind my boy wrapping him in my arms to speak in his ear, "You already know."

"I know, just thought I would stand with Em is all. Nothing's wrong, promise," he turns enough to kiss me then.

"Your total is $6387.52." I sign the receipt giving it back to Jason.

"How long for the engraving?" I ask putting my card away.

"We could have it tomorrow morning," Jason says as Mr. Stevens walks up.

"No, with these gentlemen it will be rushed to this evening. How are you doing Mr. Masen and Mr. Whitlock?"

"Good, thank you for rushing it," Jazz says shaking hands with him after I do.

"Who might this be?" he asks pointing to Em.

"That would be the groom-to-be, Emmett McCarty. We are here helping him get rings for him and his girlfriend," I say sliding my hand around Jazz.

"Nice to meet you Mr. McCarty; I hope everything was satisfactory," he says looking at Jason.

"Yes, he was very helpful today, no issues," I assure shaking Jason's hand. He smiles and nods sealing the envelope of rings.

"Good, good. Well you gentlemen have a nice day and come again." He walks off going to another customer.

"These will be ready by 6p. Anything else I can help with?"

"No, that will be all; we'll be back for those."

"Very well. Have a great afternoon," he says then walks to the back of the store.

We walk out heading to the truck.

JPOV

I never thought about piercings, just tats. We will be discussing both tonight. Getting rings for them was fun. I love our friends and want to see them happy.

"So, now what do we do?" Em asks us.

"We go eat, then whatever," Ed says opening the truck.

We climb in as Em says, "Finally, I'm starved."

We just laugh at him as we head to eat.

"How about the little restaurant from the other night?" Ed asks.

"Oh, that sounds good, you'll love it Em," I say kissing Ed's cheek. "They have really good food."

We go to the restaurant, it's named Little Vienna. It is small, but nice. It has a variety of foods we all enjoy. We talk while we eat.

"So, what about the Bahamas for your honeymoon?" Ed asks.

"Sounds nice, not sure what all there is to do there," Em says eating.

"Dad will help, mom too, that way we can help you plan it out, if that's ok?" Ed asks.

"Yeah, they are going to help us plan ours; though we haven't talked about where to go," I say taking a drink.

"Have you two thought about where you want to go?" Em asks.

"I want to go somewhere warm, quiet, no hustle and bustle," Ed says looking at me.

"I want warm too, beaches and privacy also. I want to be alone as much as possible to get to really know each other," I say keeping eye contact with him.

"What about Hawaii? I don't think tourist season will be much longer there," Em says not looking at us.

I look at my boy and he looks at me with a smile and nod. "You want to go there, instead of somewhere fancier?" I ask.

"Yeah, I want to be alone, totally alone. We can leave the country and go somewhere else."

"No, just us; a house and warm beach is fine. I want to be able to buy things if we need to and still be isolated, you know?" I say leaning over to kiss him.

"Yeah, I know," he says kissing me back.

"Ok, so enough about you; how can I meet with your mom and dad with Rose not finding out?" Emmett asks.

"We will talk with them to make your arrangements, if we need to we will text you for information," my boy offers with a smile.

"When do you want to get married Em?" I ask finishing my dinner.

"I want to ask her as soon as possible, but not sure when we can get married."

"If you want to do it then her parents have to sign because she's not 18. You don't need yours to sign since you turned 18 a few weeks ago."

"I don't know if her parents will approve of us getting married," he says with a sigh.

"When she says yes than get married after her birthday, they can't stop you then," Ed says finishing his drink.

Em nods and finishes his food downing his drink. We get up to leave and Ed has the check looking at me and I nod. I'll let him pay no problems. We walk out to the truck getting in, my baby notices the time.

"We have time to get with the girls to shop for wedding clothes if you two are up for it."

"Sure, you Em?" I ask looking at him.

"Why not, get it over with now since we are in town anyways."

We drive to the mall and I call Alice. "Hey Ali, we're here at the mall to shop for wedding clothes are you girls done or available?"

"Yes, I knew you were coming, so meet us in Belk's in the men's clothes."

"Ok see ya soon," I say hanging up. "We are to go to Belk's and they will meet us there."

I slide my arm around Ed and he does the same. We walk into the store and the girls are already looking at clothes.

"Hey, Em, we forgot to ask; will you be my best man? Jazz is going to ask Peter to be his," Ed says then kisses my neck.

"Hell yeah! What am I supposed to do anyway?" Em asks as we walk up to the girls.

"Technically you are supposed to give him or them a bachelor party, but we all are doing that and make sure he doesn't forget the ring, stand up with him during the wedding and sign the license witnessing their marriage ceremony," Ali says looking at shirts.

"Oh, well half is already done, so we're good," Em says grabbing Rose for a kiss. "Hey, babe, love you."

"Love you too," she giggles.

"Ok, down to business. I found these shirts and think they look good. They are in blue and green and we can get the same in white for Em and Peter. What do you think?" Ali says holding up a shirt still looking at clothes.

I like the shade and style, I look at Ed and he was tilting his head to the side. "What about long sleeves?" he asks looking at me. I nod. I would have worn short sleeves, but he knew I would be slightly uncomfortable.

"They have it long sleeve also," Alice says pointing to a different rack for Bella to pick up the shirt.

"Those look good, we can get those. What about pants?" I ask looking around.

"Two racks over, black with cuffed hem," she says pointing behind Rose as she picks out the long sleeve shirts.

Rose goes to grab a pair until Alice stops her, "No, on around." Alice doesn't even look where Rose is standing.

"Here are your shirts, whose buying Em and Peter's?" Alice asks finally looking at us with four shirts in her hand.

"We will and the pants too," Ed says looking at me and I agree. She walks over to Rose and pulls off four pairs of pants heading to the register.

"I already know all the sizes, come on we still have to shop for us," Alice says walking away from us.

"Damn pixie," Ed laughs and I snicker following him as he pulls me by the hand.

We pay for everything and head back to the truck. The girls go back to shopping with Bella slightly pouting. We just laugh and she sticks her tongue out at us. We walk to the truck heading to the jewelry store to pick up the rings.

"Hey, can we stop by this place I know after we pick up the rings?" Em asks looking at us.

I look at Ed and he shrugs, so I say "Sure."

"Ok, I think you might be interested in it," Em says looking at a message on his phone.

We drive to the jewelry store and all of us go in.

"Welcome back gentlemen, right this way," Jason says as we follow him to the counter.

"Here are the rings, let me know if anything needs changed," he says pouring the rings in Em's hand.

"These are beautiful. Rose is gonna love these. Thank you both so much, I love you guys," Em says hugging us.

"You're welcome Em, we love you too," I say as we hug him back.

We leave the jeweler's and head to where Em was directing us. Wonder what he is up to. Knowing Emmett it could be anything from food to music to who knows what.