ESPOV

"WE WON! WE WON!" my son is yelling while running around the field.

I'm laying on top of Carlisle with my head on his bare stomach, giggling. When I tackled him, I lowered my shoulder and took him around the waist, so this is how we ended up. I know none of the others expected me to do that, but that's what made it fun.

"Are you okay, Carlie?" I ask him while smiling up at him.

He smirks at me and leans up on his elbows.

"You're asking if I'm okay after you tried to kill me?" he asks me.

"I didn't try to kill you" I huff at him "I just didn't want you to catch the ball."

"Hmmm well that's not what it seemed like to me." He says "It seemed like you were trying to take me out. That was a game winning pass you know."

"Yeah but we both know you wouldn't have caught it anyway." I tell him with a smirk.

"Oh is that so?"

Before I know it, I'm on my back with him over me tickling my sides. As a vampire, all of our senses are heightened including touch, so it is particularly easy to tickle us. Carlisle knows my body better than I do, so of course he knows right where to get me.

"Okay okay I give." I pant out.

"Are you sure, Ez?" he asks me. "You were pretty confident earlier."

"I'm sure. You are the best football player in the family. There is no doubt that you would have caught that ball…if you hadn't been taken out by your wife who's half your size."

"That's it" he says lifting my shirt a little to blow raspberries on my stomach.

"Carlie….stop" I pant out between my laughs.

His eyes turn serious as he lays his chin on my bare belly and looks up at me.

"I love you, Ez" he says quietly.

Using my fingers, I comb his hair back off of his forehead and then cup his cheek.

"I love you too sweetheart."

We rarely get to be like this, like kids. In actuality we are only in our twenties, but we have been alive so long that we tend to take on older roles. Plus we have six children that need looked after. It's nice to let loose and be ourselves.

Running my fingers through Carlisle's hair, I'm momentarily distracted by his bare skin. He really has the most beautiful body. Lightly I run my fingertips across his bare shoulders and back. His eyes close and he purrs at the contact. The touch of his face on my belly makes my breath hitch and my eyes close. Even after all these years, our mates' touch is incomparable to anything else.

"Get a room" Emmett yells out and Carlisle's eyes shoot open.

He smiles and stands pulling me with him. It's so easy to get caught up in our own little world and forget that others are even here. Maybe if we had Edward's gift it would be more difficult to lose ourselves, but maybe not. I don't think anything could ever distract me from my mate. He is my reason for living. He is my other half. He saved me when I needed him the most. He pulled me out of the darkness and breathed life into me. He taught me what a husband should be, what a lover could be. He has given me everything that I didn't even know I wanted. At first the amount of love I have for him was overwhelming and sometimes it still is, but mostly it just feels…right. I was born to love him.

Laying my head on his chest and looking at our children, my heart clenches a little. Three couples. Three pairs of mates. I'm so thankful that they have all found each other. Our family is complete.