SM owns it all … I just like to play with her toys …
Balti K ... My beta! She is wonderful, and I love her story! Jasper is placing the lights on my tree, NAKED right now, but I guess, I can send him over to work on your TREE **wink** next! LOL Hugs~Izzy
The last time … We ended with …
I closed my eyes. I listened the radio that was playing softly in my ears, the car tires as they made contact with the pavement, and I heard Peter talking on his phone to Emmett, with my elfin hearing, saying how they needed to get together, and make me pay. I fell to sleep with a wicked smile on my face knowing that I'd always be one step ahead of them, if I had a certain mind reader and an empath in my corner….
Chapter 35
(JPOV)
I couldn't believe that my girl had pulled the wool over my eyes like that. I'm an empathic vampire, for fuck's sake. She really had Peter, Char, and me going there for a few minutes, and I was starting to really wonder what in the hell teachers were doing with this new generation.
I was thinking back to Bella's lunch. When she'd said that she'd had no clue about the 'Where's the Beef' thing, it drilled home how much older than her I truly am. I mean, I've seen things with my own eyes that that she probably hasn't even read about in those history books from school. And even if she'd read about some of them, the books usually had 'em all wrong anyways.
As I was thinking about all of this, my cell phone went off, and I had another incoming text from Peter. The gas station was just a few miles down the road, and we needed to pull in there, so I sent a hefty dose of sleepiness to my mate as we pulled off the interstate and into a mom and pop gas station. I looked to the back seat one last time before getting outta the car to pump some gas.
Peter and Char were arguing over some of the things that had happened today, while I was trying like hell not to laugh out loud. Bella had gotten under Peter's skin many a time today, and I knew from past experience that Peter doesn't get mad, he gets even.
He was pumping gas into the truck on the other side of the same pump I was, when he darted off into the woods. I watched as he bent over and tried uselessly to hack up the last of the wedding cake and fillings that Bella had tricked him into eating. Yes, we've all had to eat human food from time to time. It was part of keeping up the human façade, but that didn't mean that we enjoyed it going down our throats. And we all sure as shit hated bringing back up again, damn it!
If Emmett thought that Bella got him good with the cottage cheese on that first night, he was dead wrong. She'd done nothing to him like she's now done to the man bent over in the woods trying to puke up peanut butter cake filling. Even from this distance I could detect Peter's hatred aimed at the sleep beauty in the back seat of my car, and I wasn't gonna stand for that shit.
When Peter had run off, Char had taken over pumping their gas. Her head would pop out the side of the pump every few seconds to watch as her mate heaved, to no avail, then simply go back to pumping gas. Yes, her emotions were tainted with worry and remorse, but I still felt a hell of a lot of humor coming from her about the whole fucked up situation.
Rose, Alice, and Char had helped Bella with her evil plan to make my brother eat, but they had had years of knowing Peter and his never back down attitude. My girl had no idea who the hell she'd started an all out prank war with. I was hoping that the three other women would get Bella's back, just like I would, when the time for paybacks comes. Lord knows, it ain't if he'll get her back, it's when he'll get her back.
So I whispered, "Char, you and the other girls are gonna have Bella's back when he has his revenge right?" I had to know the answer.
"Fuck ya, Major, that girl is covered like the hash browns at your neighborhood Waffle house!" Char laughed out quietly. Neither one of us wanted the Captain to know that he was up Shit Creek without a fucking paddle when paybacks were ready to commence.
I knew that these women had a mean a streak a mile wide in 'em, but who knew that they could coerce an innocent eighteen-year-old girl into their diabolical plans so easily? I loved knowing that my girl had many a female waiting to give her their lifelong secrets of the trade, but I also hated that the girls were kind of using her to get around certain vampire superpowers as only she could.
Take Edward for instance, that boy is pissed that he can't read Bella's mind. I mean, he has had the inside track on everybody's, and I do mean everybody's, thoughts for over a hundred years. Then without warning, a small human girl walks into our lives and turns his gift, or talent, or hell even sometimes a curse, off. That had to stick a needle into the balloon of his oversized ego.
Alice could sometimes see our future, but it was always blurry and parts within those visions were never as clear as she'd hoped they would be. I think that's why Bella and Alice were constantly getting on each other's nerves. It ain't that they ain't friends. It's just that Alice seems to rub my girl the wrong way sometimes. Alice was always so happy to share her visions of Bella and I before my girl walked into my life. But now, well, Alice is a bit edgy.
Demetri can't track her. Aro can't read her mind. Jane, oh God, lil Janie, can't hurt her, Thank Bob!
I was pulled outta these thoughts as the fucker that I call my brother made his way back to the cars, shaking with his fury and disgust. I was trying like hell not to laugh and set the fucker off, but hell, I ain't that strong a man.
Char and I looked into each other's eyes and we instantly cracked up laughing. Peter looked like road kill. He had a couple of loose leaves in his hair, and was sporting a couple of grass stains on the knees of his jeans. But it was the look on his face that was sending me into a fit of giggles, yep, giggles like a thirteen year old meeting Lady Ga-Ga. Damn empath thing.
Peter and Char were now eyeing each other in a way that I thought was way too cautious for two war hardened soldiers to do, but fuck it. It was Char's emotions that had sent me over the edge, and they both fucking knew it too. When they started laughing in my direction, I just bobbed my head and thought, Fuck my life, as we got back into our assigned cars.
We were supposed to stop along the way in a hotel for the night, but after the day we'd had, I texted Peter and told him that we were just gonna drive straight through. No need stopping this monkey train if we didn't have ta. Bella seemed to be comfortable in the backseat and I knew from the GPS that we were only a few more hours away from our destination.
I mean, even with the stops that we have to make with Bella's bathroom needs and food, seven hundred and some odd miles at close to a hundred ta a hundred and twenty miles per hour and we should there in just a handful of more hours.
We'd gotten a later start then the others had, but I was hoping to be there before dawn anyway. With my girl going to bed so much earlier than usual, maybe we could catch the first sunrise together at the new house. I was getting anxious to get there already, and looking ahead on the GPS was sounding more and more like a good thing. Just then a ding alerted me to a new text. Damn cell phone, I thought.
I reached into the console and pulled my phone out again, and read the incoming message from Alice.
Don't even think about it!-A
Fuck my life, I though as I texted her back.
Why, not? Bella's asleep, and we're only a few hours away. What would it hurt ta look ahead?-J
I was watching the road while I was texting, but I guess I missed the cop car on the side of road.
"OH, FUCK NO!" I yelled once the light started flashing, waking up Bella in the processes.
"What? Do we have a flat or something," she asked looking around herself quickly.
"I'm gettin' pulled over, goddamn!"
Bella looked towards the back window of the car, and looked back towards me with a huge ass grin on her face.
"How fast were you going?" she asked quizzically.
"About a hundred and twelve, why?"
"I say we have some fun with this guy. From what I can see he makes Barney Fife look like John Wayne," she said with a small giggle.
I slowed the car down, and hit the emergency lane on the right side of the highway. The tell tale vrymp … vrymp … vrymp of the rumble strips sounding as I came to a complete stop. Bella was sitting up in the back seat of the car, and her hair looked like we'd been having some very wild sex, though Lord knows that ain't the case. I had blue balls and I hadn't been outta her for more than sixteen hours. Fuck my life, I thought again as Barney came around the passenger side of the car with his wide brimmed hat in hand.
I saw and heard Peter and Charlotte passing us as I pulled off the side of the road. Both were laughing their asses off at the situation I'd gotten myself into. Sure, I've been pulled over before, but it was usually me and Emmett fucking around doing something stupid, not me getting lost in my own fucking thoughts. God damn Resolute connection making me lose my focus again.
"License and registration, please," Barney asked after I rolled the window down.
"Here ya go, Officer," I said as I handed the dickweed my information. "Can I ask while I'm being pulled over, sir?"
The cop looked at me like I had three heads on my shoulders before answering with, "You were doing a hundred and ten miles per hour, in a seventy-five zone. Plus you were texting while you were driving. That is against the law here in Montana, son."
I watched Bella in the rearview mirror. Her face looked like she was constipated, but I knew that wasn't the case. Her emotions were telling me that she was concentrating very hard on something though. I let it go, and tried like hell to focus on Barney right now.
"One hundred and ten miles per hour? Are you sure about the officer?" my girl asked him from the backseat.
After shining his fucking flashlight into my pregnant fiancée's eyes, all the while eye fucking her, he said, "Yes, miss," with a cocky ass grin on his face.
I'll kill the mother fucker, and hide his body where no one will be able to find.
Jas, ask him to see the speed gun. Go ahead, ask him, she thought at me while smiling sweetly at the no-nuts cop in the window.
"Excuse me, sir, but I believe that you've misread your radar gun. Could I please see that number for myself?"
The cop, whose nametag read Wilson, was about to get cocky with me, when I shot the fucker with giddiness. He readily agreed to let me walk to his squad car to read the radar gun for myself. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the gun reading seventy-three miles per hour, and when Wilson saw it, I thought that his heart was gonna beat right outta his chest.
"See, that's just what I thought, your radar gun is reading seventy-three mph, so I guess you must've read it wrong officer."
His mouth was hanging open and when he'd finally caught his breath he said, "I don't know what kind of fuckery is going on here, but I can most assuredly tell you that it was reading one-ten when I stepped out of the cruiser, son. I think I need to call a senior officer in to look into this further. Go and take a seat in your vehicle, and I'll get to the bottom of this shortly."
As I was walking back to the car, I could see the taillights from my truck stopped about a mile up the road. I knew that Peter and Charlotte were making their way here, in case I needed them, but I guess my girl somehow got me outta this shithole.
I sat back in my seat, and closed my door. I watched in the rearview again, as Bella started getting up and put her shoes on. The cop hadn't even noticed that she wasn't buckled, but that was beyond the point right now.
What did you do?
"I just zapped the gun until I thought it read what I wanted it to, did it work?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow at me.
"Sure as hell did," Peter said from close to the window that was still down. He was smiling like that porn star, Anita Dick, had just walked up to him.
Anita Dick? She asked laughing like a loon.
Yep, that's the best I could up with on such short notice.
I got another incoming text from Alice.
You should be golden now. You own Bella for that one! What were you thinking? Carlisle is going to have you head on a platter when you get home!-A
"Fuck my life," I said for what felt like the thousandth time today.
"What's up?" Peter asked, as he made sure Char was still hidden under the cover of some nearby trees.
"Alice. She says that Carlisle's gonna lay into my ass when we get there."
Bella and Peter both looked a lil frightened about that statement, and I knew that I deserved whatever he was gonna do. That fact still didn't make me feel any better at the moment.
"The cop's buddy is here, and they can't figure out what in the hell happened. You're still fucked with the texting while driving though," Peter pointed out.
"Nah-huh," Bella said.
"How are you going to get me outta that one?"
"Well, he'll have to look at your log. So make it look like there hasn't been any new texts showing since this morning incoming and outgoing," she stated with a huge grin on her face.
Peter hightailed it outta there as Hopey and Dopey made their way to the car.
"Excuse me sir, can I ask what's going on?" I questioned.
"It seems as if tonight is your lucky night, son. Though we are going to give you a ticket for texting and driving," Hopey said while looking rather smug.
"Sir, I wasn't texting. I was talking to my sister via louder speaker," I said as innocently as possible.
The elder officer took my cell phone and after searching the text found nothing, incoming or out going. So they had n.o.t.h.i.n.g. on me.
"You're free to go, son. Just be safe." The older officer was giving the younger one the what-for as we pulled away from them. Going at a stupidly slow speed while looking into the rearview mirror, I saw my girl's shit-eating grin turn to an expression of worry.
What do you think Carlisle is going to do you?
I laughed that that was what she was worrying about.
Nothing that I can't handle, Sug. I'll probably just get the same lecture I do every time I get pulled over. Emmett and I usually get thrown into jail together about once every ten years or so, for doing something stupid in a car. I shrugged my shoulders when she looked at me like she'd never seen me before.
I hated driving slow, but I knew that Carlisle would be asking the pixie what speed I was doing every few minutes or so. I didn't want to have ta make her lie, so I was only doing ninety now. I knew that Carlisle wouldn't be mad about me being pulled over, he was gonna be upset that I'd been doing one-ten with his future grandbaby on board. I gotta find one of those signs, I thought.
Bella had pulled her shoes off again, was getting under the blankets. I knew that she was hungry, I could hear her belly grumbling, and it made me feel horrible that I hadn't stopped and found a late night joint where her and my son could get something decent to eat. As I was thinking it, she opened her backpack. Esme had packed her a thermos with her Marva in it, plus a light brown bag dinner for her. Yeah, it was only a sandwich, an apple, and carrot sticks but at least someone thought ahead to pack her something.
I bet that the Pixie, as you called her, had something to do with this being in here, my girl said in between bites of her apple. I watched mesmerized as the juice rolled from her mouth, down her chin, and along her neck before she wiped it with the back of her shirtsleeve. God, what I wouldn't give to lick that juice droplet off of my beauty's neck. My eyes are up here, Mr. Whitlock, she said as I eyed her boobs from the rearview mirror. She was shaking her head at me, and we both started laughing at the same time.
"Alright, enough of this. Tell me how much further is that we have to go?" she asked trying to change the subject off sex.
"A couple of hours, now that you've eaten somethin' why don't ya try to get a few more hours of sleep. I've had to slow my speed down so it's more like three hours instead of two to two and a half. We should be there before dawn, would ya like to go and watch the sun rise with me in the morning?"
"Yeah …" she yawned so hard I thought her jaw might crack, I winced as she continued. "I'd love to watch the first sunrise from our new home. I wonder what I'll be like?" she questioned. She was hunkering down in the blankets again, and I listened as her breathing slowed and her heart rate did the same.
My son's heart rate was higher than normal, but I knew that that meant he was aware. I loved knowing these lil things about him already. I know that Bella's worried about how he is going to be during the nights. Whether he'll keep us all up or he'll be able to sleep through the night, it won't matter. I'm a vamp, I don't sleep, and neither does anyone in my vampire family. She won't have ta do anything more than feed him during the nights. I can already tell that Carlisle, Esme, and Rose are never gonna let this lil guy set one of his lil toes in a crib alone. Nope. He's gonna be held so much we've gonna have ta take numbers on who gets to hold him next.
"Yeah, Peanut. How ya doin' tonight? Your momma felt ya kick her today, did you do that on purpose, like your uncle Peter is hoping or was it the sugar your momma ate?" I asked knowing all too well that he wouldn't be answering me back. It just gave me something to do while I was driving.
I enjoyed our lil chats at night when Bella was off in the land of nod. She always wears the most serene expression on her face when she's sleeping. I wonder what it's like to sleep and dream. I don't remember it from my human life. I wished that I could but I can't.
"Aren't you gonna answer your ol' man?" I laughed out, as my cell phone went off again.
Quit talkin' to yourself, Major, you sound like a fuckin' wuss! –P
Fucker, listen here. I'm talkin' with my son, so go and fuck yourself. –J
Tough words, brother, can you follow through with 'em anymore? Or are you gettin' soft, Major?-P
I inhaled deeply, trying to keep my composure. I knew that the fucker was just riding me to give himself something to do, but damn, if he wasn't riding me like a fucking horse over bullshit, no less. Fucker.
"Exit on the right side of the road, in five miles," the GPS said.
I'd been lost in my own thoughts again, until Peter the fucking know it all pulled me outta my fuckery and woke me up. I was driving on auto pilot and with my pregnant fiancée on board I should have been paying closer attention to where ever in the fuck we were at.
"Two miles til your exit," the computerized voice announced. That thing had a nasally voice, it kind of sounded like Bella's momma Renee.
You know what that's what I'm gonna name my GPS, Renee. It always tells ya what the fuck ya have ta do, now doesn't that sound just like her?
"One mile."
Damn it's an exit, not a nuclear count down, bitch! I thought.
After getting off the interstate, I followed the directions perfectly. We'd been led through a nice lil town, and I knew that from Esme and Carlisle's conversation this was the town where Carlisle was gonna be starting up his own lil practice.
The welcome sign read, "Welcome to Chico Hot Springs, Montana." About fifteen minutes outta town I turned onto a dirt and gravel road that was cut off by two huge gates. They each had a huge 'B' on 'em, and I knew that we were now living on a ranch.
"You have reached your destination. Good-Bye," damn GPS says.
"Fucking love this!" I yelled, waking my girl up in the process.
"Where are we?" she asked, as she used the heel of her hand to rub the last of the sleep outta her beautiful blue eyes.
"Esme, bought us a fuckin' ranch, baby! A fuckin' ranch, just like I used to live on as a boy."
"Really, like cows and shit? Or just a showy ranch?" She asked.
I could smell the cattle not far from where we were driving, so I knew instantly that this was a real working ranch. There were rolls upon rolls of hay out in the fields, and the mountains were just on the other side of the valley that this property was sitting on.
"From what I can tell, you might've needed to take those ridin' lessons that Peter and Char had given ya for your birthday before we left. Cause I can see the hay, and smell the cattle out there in that pasture," I said as I pointed west of where the road was taking us.
"So you and Peter get to play real cowboys again, huh? God, what has Esme done? I won't ever see you anymore," my girl pouted as we drove in front of a huge log cabin home. It was brand spanking new; I could still smell the sawdust, and the fresh paint on the walls.
Everyone knew that we'd finally made it to our new home. They were all outside waiting for us, and even before I put the car in park, Carlisle was at the backdoor of the Audi, looking to see how Bella was doing.
"Welcome to Diamond B ranch, Whitlocks. Now, let's get you out of this cramped backseat and into the house," Carlisle beamed at Bella as she threw the covers off and grabbed her shoes.
After getting her shoes on I watched as Bella just stared at our new home. This house made our old house in Washington look like a shack. This was a mansion, a true outta-this-fucking-world mansion. It stood two stories tall on the front of the house, and I just knew that it was bigger than anything we'd even lived in before. Each log was a honey gold color. It had a green slate roof, with dormer windows sticking outta of it. A five car attached garage and a huge front porch complete with a couple of swings and of course Esme's prized rocking chairs. No shutters, but it was breath taking from the outside, and I would bet the inside was just as spectacular.
"Bella, welcome to your new home," Esme greeted her as we made our way up the front porch steps. "Now, let me tell you a little bit about it, dear. There are seven bedrooms here at the main house. Three bedrooms on the main floor and four bedrooms upstairs, and we also have nine bathrooms. Yours and Jasper's bedroom is downstairs, and the baby's room is right off of your room over there to your left. Your room is the left door, and the baby's is on the right. Charlie and Kate's room is right above yours."
I watched as Emmett and Edward started a glaring contest. I didn't know what that was all about, but thought I could let it go for now, as I took in my new surroundings.
Bella was staring awestruck at the house as we passed the foyer and into a huge great room that held the kitchen, dining room, and a sunken living room. The outside walls were of course the huge logs that made up the structure of the house, but the inside walls were in a soft light yellow. As we walked into the kitchen Bella stopped and pointed to a door on the side of the kitchen.
"What's that room?"
"Oh, that would be Carlisle's new office and library, and on the other side of there is one set of stairs that lead to the other bedrooms, and the game room above."
"Game room? Then what is that room used for?" Bella asked pointing to the great room. Everyone laughed, as Bella looked rather confused.
The great room held five different couches, and a huge river stone fireplace. Emmett's prized flat screen TV was already above the mantel, and there were family pictures sitting around the room as well. The floors throughout the house were light oak hardwood floors, well, except the kitchen. The kitchen floors were in light colored granite.
Esme had out done herself again, and she was feeling extremely proud of herself, as she should. As we walked into the great room we passed a round stair case that yet again led to the upstairs of the home. I could clearly see the doors to both the nursery and our room behind them and I loved that they were located to a north-facing wall. That meant that we had a wonderful view of the mountains to the north of the house, and it would be wonderful to see my girl waking up to that every morning, until her turning.
"Oh, Bella! Wait til you see Edwards and my room. It's perfect!" Alice squealed as we stared all around us at our new home.
When Bella tilted her head up, it just kept going. I was afraid that her neck would snap if she didn't stop looking up soon, so my eyes followed hers and I saw all the way up to the roof where the peaks of each log met and were notched to fit into one another. I'm talking about a forty foot high ceiling here, people. Fuck, I thought.
"Tell me about it!" Bella said, I whipped my head back down and Bella's smirk turned to a full-blown smile. I loved it when she looked at me that way.
"No, Alice, she will see the upstairs later today. Right now I bet we could all use a little down time, so let's go sit in the great room and watch the sunrise," Esme announced.
Edward and Emmett were bumping into each other as they walked and I couldn't stand not knowing anymore.
"Ok, you assholes, what's going on?" I asked, pointing my finger between the both of them.
"Well, Eddieboy here," Em stopped talking and thumbed his hand in Edwards direction. "Isn't that happy with me, man."
"What happened?" Damn these two. They were like old women bickering over nothing.
"My team won the World Series, and since Eddieboy hates them, he thinks he has the right to wear that fucking jersey around now!"Em whined.
I looked over at Edward and he was wearing a Chicago Cubs jersey. In that instant I knew what was wrong with Edward. The Chicago White Sox had won the last game of the series, and he was now pissed as hell over it.
"What? Didn't those west side snobs win again this year, Eddie?" I asked.
"Hey, now! I happen to love the Cubs."
"Yep, you always have picked the losers there, Eddie. I mean you got saddled with Alice as you mate," Peter joked, but Alice was now getting mad herself. Peter and Alice's gifts are too close to each other's and they just couldn't be in the same place for too long with each other. Oil and Water, I thought.
They kept on sniping at one another, but the view behind them took my unneeded breath away. There were windows at the far end of the room that pointed towards the Northwest, and they, just like the ceilings, were forty foot tall. I was amazed that Esme had found this place and I wanted to know more about it.
"So, Esme, why don't ya tell us about this place," Bella asked for me.
"Well, we own a little over 3,800 acres of land. Some of Yellowstone River runs about a mile back from here, we have four large stocked trout ponds. I loved those for you, Charlie." Esme beamed at him when his mouth hit the floor.
"The Yellowstone River is the best known river for fly fishing in the United States," Charlie said, looking rather impressed and impatient at the same time.
"Yes, that was what the realtor told me as well. 2500 plus acres are bordering Forest Service land, and a national forest so it won't ever be sold. The Northern Rockies are the mountains that are beyond the river, and they are known for holding more moose, bears, and deer than they know what to do with. That's the added bonus for us vampires, Bella." Esme joked, bringing the conversation back to my girl.
"I'm not meaning to be rude, but where are Aaron and Ashling at? I haven't seen them since we came in," Bella asked as she looked around rather worriedly for her Grandfather and assistant.
"Well, there are two other homes here on the property as. One is about a two-minute car or four-wheeler ride down the main road, and the other is located on the other side of the river, upstream about a mile. Aaron and Ashling are staying in the house down the road. I like to think of it as a guest house, if you will." Esme shyly said. I knew that if she could have been blushing she would've been.
Bella was nodding her head, when suddenly stopped and sniffed the air.
"What is that smell? It smells like Clorox!" With her nose scrunched up, she looked as cute as ever.
"Oh, that is a present to you, Bella. Why don't we go down there before the sun rises and show you," Esme beamed.
She led the way through the basement door and down to the bottom floor of the house, and my mouth hit the floor. I was literally standing there catching flies with how wide my mouth as hanging open.
"Holy Shit! You have got to be kidding me?" Bella all but screamed.
"Nope, I knew how much you were enjoying your classes in Port Angeles, and I thought that you might enjoy an indoor pool of your own. Ashling and Carlisle really want you to focus on your health right now, and a pool seems to be the exercise that they believe will work best for both you and the baby. So what do you think?"
Bella couldn't find her own voice at the moment and neither could I. Esme was starting to worry, when Bella finally threw herself into my mother's arms and started hugging and kissing all over her face. Esme's emotions went from worry to pride in one of Bella's heartbeats.
"Esme, this is beautiful. An indoor lap sized pool, hot tub, and is that a sauna?" Bella asked wide eyed and completely taken aback.
"Yes, dear, it is, but Carlisle has already given strict orders that you, my dear, are to go nowhere near it until after my grandson is born," Esme stated while given Bella the stink eye for even looking at the cedar door.
"I won't go in there until after the baby is born, but this is un-fucking-believable!"
"Bella, language dear," Esme half reprimanded, half laughed at her reactions.
Bella, Esme, and I were laughing when I smelt and heard my brother whiz past me, grab my girl, and unceremoniously throw not only her, but himself into the pool fully clothed.
"Captain, what the in the name of fuck do you think you are doing?" The Major asked as he watched his mate spit and sputter out an unknown amount of pool water from her mouth.
"Major, it's called payback! Your mate has given me nothing but pure hell since we left that Forks house and I thought a nice dip in a cold pool might teach her a lil more respect for your brother, sir," Peter finished as he watched me get madder and madder.
"She gave you shit, because you deserve it, you jackass," Rose said as she and Em jumped into the pool fully clothed as well. Edward, Alice, and Charlotte followed them within a few seconds.
Carlisle reached out for Esme's hand and said, "When in Rome," as they too were now splashing in the water. Which left me the odd man out. I couldn't believe that Peter had taken my mate into the pool with him, but then to have my family do the same as well. That was just beyond belief.
"Major, please?" My soaking wet mate asked me while batting her eyes, from all the water that was being thrown her way in the impromptu water fights.
I took off my boots and threw them to the side of the lounge chairs that surrounded the pool, and jumped in the water right on top of Peter's shoulders. It caused him to lose the fight, but I felt better after half drowning the fucker.
Seeing my mate splash and have a great time was refreshing. And as we all watched the sun come up from our perches by the side of the pool, I knew that this house was quickly becoming our home. For the first time ever I felt like I was surrounded by true hearts and I was truly home…
A/N: I was dared by a reader and I had to throw the Emmett and Edward part in there. Ok, so you guys out there that like things to be by the book, of all things true in 2004, I fudged a lil on the time and instead of the real winners of the 2004 World Series. I moved it up one year, to put my favorite home team into the story! Sorry, but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. So, I put the 2005 winners in as the 2004. BITE ME, if you don't like it! LOL
Balti K, pointed out that y'all might like to see what a 23,500,000 property purchase might look like. Well, I will post the address to the Property on my homepage! 23,500,000 for the property, and an additional 4,100,000 for the new home! Trust me I looked everything up before I posted it!
Hugs~Izzy