Russell's POV:

Emmett and I had flown halfway across the country and gotten married using fake IDs and no one except for our three younger siblings knew. And we had even almost gotten away with it without getting caught; we would have made it back home with no one the wiser if it had not been for Jasper. But our selfish actions had resulted in my baby brother having a miscarriage and so Emmett and I felt horrible.

To think that my wedding had resulted in the death of my niece made me feel incredibly guilty and I was not the only one. Emmett, Edward, and I had to spend a lot of time stuck in that hotel room while Jasper and Alice were in the hospital. The whole thing had been Alice's idea, but still, we were the older, wiser, and more mature siblings who had gone along with it. And we were the ones who had had a good time, while they were the ones suffering.

Emmett and I felt guilty because we had gone along with the Vegas trip to get married, while Edward felt guilty because he had gone along with it to have a good time. Edward had been the one who went out all night. He had gambled, gone to a strip club, picked up a cute boy, gone to a night club, and even gotten lucky. It seemed that Edward had been the one to have the typical Vegas experience.

And while Emmett, Edward, and I had all gotten something we wanted out of this trip, Jasper had been the one to suffer. He had not even wanted to do anything in Vegas: he was just going along with Alice. Alice wanted to gamble and have sex in a fancy hotel room. She had planned the whole thing and now Jasper was the one paying the price. And so we all felt just a little bit mad at her even though she too had lost a baby.

So when Dad came back to the hotel room Wednesday night and announced that Jasper was finally well enough to go home, we were all relieved that this whole awful trip would finally be behind us. Maybe back in Forks, when we had our little brother home with us, we would come to feel a little better about what had happened. Maybe our family dynamics would return to normal and we would someday no longer look to Alice to blame for this fiasco. Maybe Jasper would be okay.

The seven of us flew home from Vegas on Thursday, grateful that Jasper was now recovered enough to endure the flight. But we were all grounded, so Mom and Dad put Emmett, Edward, Alice, and me back in coach, while Jasper got to ride up in first class with them. For some reason having a miscarriage got him out of any culpability associated with our road trip and even got Alice demoted from evil mastermind of the trip to the grieving father who was only in slightly more trouble than the rest of us.

"Get ready for school tomorrow: Edward, Emmett, and Russell, you're going," Mom said sternly as we arrived back home.

"Alice can stay home with Jasper the entire time, because the townsfolk are going to think she was the one who had the miscarriage," Carlisle added, pulling luggage out of the car.

"That's so not fair that Alice is getting off unpunished," I grumbled to Emmett as we each grabbed our luggage and took it upstairs.

"She's grounded for life and she lost a baby too," he reminded me with a kiss. "Meet me in my room when you finish unpacking?"

"Sure, and I know you're right, but it just seems like you and I got all of the blame while it was all Alice's idea," I replied setting my luggage just inside my bedroom door.

"She's regretting it now," Edward said coming up the stairs behind us with his own luggage. "If she hadn't suggested the road trip, they'd still have that baby right now. Dad said that Jasper's period was late and that if it hadn't come by this week, he was going to give him a pregnancy test even though they were still virgins. So if we had gone only a week later, they would have already known about the baby."

"I still have trouble imaging how they got pregnant before having sex," I said as Emmett put his luggage inside his room before coming back to where Edward and I were talking.

"It's the hypospadias," Edward replied taking his luggage inside his room and Emmett and I followed. "Dad showed me some pictures of the different types. Alice has the most severe type, which is why she pees sitting down and her sperm doesn't even come out of her penis. I don't think that there's any way to put a condom over it, so it probably goes everywhere. I bet one of them got it on their hands during foreplay and then touched Jasper without washing."

"Wow, you sound just like Dad," Emmett replied.

"Yeah, I could've sworn that was one of Dad's safe sex talks," I teased.

"Yeah, well I get a lot of them and I listen because I want to be a doctor too. I've had the most sexual partners, so that means more sex talks," Edward said.

"Wait, technically you only went all the way with Jacob, while I now have two notches on my belt," I replied but regretted it when I saw the hurt look on Emmett's face. Was he upset that I had slept with Bella or that I was objectifying him? "You know I love you Em, right?"

"Come here," he replied taking me into his arms and kissing me, so I figured whatever the issue was, it was not a big deal.

"Ew! No heterosexual kissing allowed in this room. Please take it back to your own rooms," Edward said ushering us from his room.

"Since when are we heterosexuals?" I retorted, resisting being thrown from his room.

"Since you had heterosexual sex last weekend. Yuck!" Edward replied cringing.

I could tell he wanted to mention our heterosexual marriage that we had also had last weekend, but kept quiet for fear of being overheard by our parents, although they probably were still downstairs with Jasper and Alice. Because of Jasper's condition, he was trading rooms with Alice so that he could be on the ground floor and not have to walk upstairs. My parents would probably let Alice stay down there with him through the night, just because sex was not an option for them at the moment.

After being kicked out of Edward's room, Emmett and I put our stuff away before going to his room to make-out. But the next day Edward, Emmett, and I found ourselves back in school trying to explain where we had been all week. Mr. Banner in first period was the first to ask.

"We went to La Vegas without our parents' permission and got thrown in jail when we got caught," Edward answered.

That short answer was enough information for everyone to realize that we had had quite the adventure, so although Mr. Banner quickly changed the subject, the other kids continue to ask for details all day. This was not the first time that our family was the center of attention, so we stuck together and tried to doge all questions until lunch, when we would have Emmett with us. That way, the whole school could hear and we could get it over with all at once.

We were ready when Henry came over to our lunch table and asked, "Hey where's Jasper? Did he go to La Vegas and get thrown in jail too?"

We had all been hoping the subject of Jasper and Alice would not come up, because no one wanted to be the one to say it. But Henry was Jasper's best friend, so I spoke up and replied, "Yes, Jasper and Alice went to Vegas with us. And they were the reason we got caught: Alice was pregnant and had a miscarriage so we had to take her to the hospital. They never got taken to the police station; it was just the three of us."

"They were pregnant?" Henry asked still in shock from the news. "I'm so sorry…Can I come over and see them tonight?"

"I don't know; you'll have to ask Dad. They barely just checked out of the hospital yesterday, which is why we were unable to fly back until then when we left on Friday and were arrested Saturday," I answered.

"Give him Jazz's new cell phone number," Emmett suggested pulling out a piece of paper and a pencil from his backpack. "Jasper was going to get a cell for his birthday in January anyway, but our parents caved and got him the phone early, because during the emergency he had to borrow Russell's phone to call for help on."

"Did they get Alice one too?" Henry asked taking the proffered piece of paper from Emmett.

"No, Alice planned the whole trip, so she's in trouble despite the miscarriage. Mom and Dad didn't want to reward her with a cell when they're trying to be strict with her," I answered.

"Yeah, but it's really hard to be strict with someone who just lost a baby," Edward added.

"Tell them that I'm so sorry for their loss and I'm gonna call later," Henry said before going to sit with his girlfriend at a nearby table.

Everyone overheard our conversation and had gathered around to listen by the time Henry walked away. "Alice really had a miscarriage?" Lauren asked for clarification.

"Yep," I replied.

"That's so sad," Bella replied from Tyler's side and everyone else murmured their ascent.

"What were you all doing in Vegas?" Mike asked taking a seat at our table.

"Russell and I lost our virginities on Friday after the dance and Alice suggested a road trip to celebrate, gamble, and made love in fancy hotel rooms," Emmett answered.

"And Edward even found some local tail while we were there," I added, making my brother blush.

"Hey, how did Alice and Jasper get pregnant?" Bobby asked butting into our conversation. Like I said, the entire school was listening. "I thought that they were virgins and your parents are big on the condoms."

"They were virgins, until recently," Edward admitted, but left out the part about how they had gotten pregnant before losing their virginities; no one here, not even Bella, knew about Alice's hypospadias or that she had a dick, plus the real answer was just to complex. "And they had an accident."

"And they hadn't even realized that they were pregnant until they were in the hospital having the miscarriage, otherwise we never would've gone," Emmett added.

"Way to go Jasper! Alice's hot!" a kid named Tom exclaimed and his sentiment was accompanied by a round of hoots from the rest of the guys.

"Wait, how did you all get all the way to Nevada so quickly without your parents noticing?" Eric asked changing the subject to a less demeaning one.

"Alice had Fake IDs for all of us and a credit card. Like I said, she had it all planned," I answered.

"Did you guys get to drink and gamble while you were there?" Jessica asked.

I was so grateful for the subject change that I jumped at it, hoping to get more people to ask questions based on our own adventures, not on the tragedy that had befallen our family. "None of us had IDs saying that we were twenty-one, so we couldn't drink. And we were going to gamble Sunday morning before catching a plane back, but instead the police held us until our parents came and after that we had no fake IDs and had to stay in the hotel room or at the hospital the rest of the time," I answered. "Edward, what did you do Saturday night before you got caught?"

"Well, I wasn't with everyone else when the miscarriage happened and these losers didn't have the decency to call me and tell me. So first I went to a strip club and watched an early show. Then I took a break to play some video games at the arcade and ran into this boy my age named Eric, no relation to our Eric here," Edward said looking up at the boy at our school also named Eric.

"Then what happened?" Mike asked, eager for more details, despite the fact that he was straight and this story was bound to be a gay love-fest.

"Well Eric and I played a few video games, but he couldn't gamble because he didn't have a fake ID. So I took him over to a few slot machines and let him pull the lever for me: we lost five dollars. Then I took him to a gay night club across the street and we danced together for a couple of hours, before going back to his hotel room. His parents were still out gambling and he didn't expect them back until well after midnight, when it was only eight," Edward said pausing at the juicy bit.

"And?" Tyler asked, urging him for more.

"We exchanged blowjobs, but Alice had said to be back at our hotel room by ten, so that we could go over our planned phone call to our parents explaining why we were not coming home Saturday night. When I got off the elevator on my floor, the hallway was full of casino security and even a few actual cops. As I walked down the hall, one of the cops stopped and asked me my name.

"As soon as I confirmed that I was the missing Cullen kid, they took me into custody. Not only had these two knuckleheads not called me, but they had refused to tell the cops where I would be. The cops said they had been looking for me for hours and that my little brother and sister were in the hospital, so I went with them to the station, where I found Emmett behind bars and Russell lying on a couch.

"Apparently, since Alice was unavailable to take the fall, Emmett was getting all of the blame as the oldest. The cops were really pissed at me because I had been off having a good time with a fake ID while they had been wasting their time searching for me, so they put me in an interrogation room. But after telling the cops that I had no idea what happened and that all I had done was go to the exact places on Alice's list and play video games with another boy, the cops were forced to admit that the fourteen year-old in the hospital really was the mastermind behind it all. After that, they let me share Russell's couch for the night, but they watched us like a hawk," Edward finished.

"What about Emmett? Did you have to spend the entire night behind bars?" Bella asked.

"Sure did. But there was a cot in the cell for me and Larry, my cell mate, didn't smell too bad," Emmett replied shrugging.

"Emmett's seventeen, while Edward and I are only sixteen. Alice said that Emmett was going down no matter what, but if we all blamed her and him, Edward and I would get slightly better treatment. So Emmett was our hero and spent the night behind bars for us," I replied. "But I was so scared that that big man in his cell was gonna hurt him or something."

"Larry was cool," Emmett replied. "He asked me what I was in for and when I said I was seventeen and used a fake ID to take all of my underage siblings gambling for the weekend, he said that was 'righteous," of me. Then he spent the rest of the time talking about how he had been busted for being drunk on the streets and that they were gonna let him out in the morning."

"Still, none of us has ever spent the night behind bars," Mike replied. "That's pretty bad-ass."

"Totally," Tyler agreed and then the guys all gave Emmett a round of fist bumps.

"Did you guys get to do any shopping or see any shows while you were there?" Jessica asked.

"Russell and I bought promise rings," Emmett said holding up our entwined hands to show my wedding ring and kissing it, while holding his out to show the others. "Jasper and Alice got some just like these too."

"Congratulations!" Bella exclaimed. She was the first to respond.

"So what, Russell wouldn't sleep with you until you promised to marry him?" Bobby asked scathing mad at this new development. Obviously he had figured out that Emmett and I were back together, but he must not have noticed the rings. He probably would be much more upset if he knew about our marriage.

"Thanks Bella," I replied.

"Sorry for using you like that Bobby," Emmett said shrugging. "I honestly didn't know it was gonna turn out like that."

As soon as the words were out of Emmett's mouth, there was a round of gasps from most of the students. There seemed to be only a dozen or so kids that already new Bobby was gay. "What? Didn't you see Bobby making out with my boyfriend at the dance?" I asked incredulously, not in the least bit concerned about outing the prick that had tried to still my man.

A few of the people who had not gasped nodded that they had seen it, but pretty much everyone else shook their heads and broke out into conversations about what they had missed. "We were probably making out when that happened," I heard Jessica say to Mike.

The bell rang before the cafeteria quieted back down again, so we were saved from answering more questions by the bell. Edward and I did our best to avoid additional questions for the rest of the day, and we ran straight to the car after school ended. Luckily, Emmett had the same idea, and was already waiting for us, so we took off before anyone could get any more questions in.