Chapter 8 – Too Much Money
POV: Emmett
I woke up to an empty bed the morning after our amazing day. My phone started to play the Unholy Confessions ringtone, so with my face still in the pillow I found it on the nightstand beside the bed.
"Hello?" I was not moving from this spot and who is calling me right now?
"Emmett?"
"Yes Alice. What is it?"
"Is Rose around?"
I sat up and looked towards the bathroom. I knew she wasn't in the bed with me, she had to be somewhere around the house.
"No. What's up?" I said while leaning against the headboard.
"We've got to figure out this stuff for her party."
"What stuff? You're already going to have the Halloween party here at the house and it's going to be her birthday party too."
"Yeah. But I don't know what kind of cake to get. Or where we are going to put her presents."
"She likes Gir from Invader Zim. Why don't you get a cake with him?"
"That'll work. But where are we going to put the presents and stuff?"
"I guess since I've got two garages we could set one up for it. Use the single. I'll have someone at the underpass to take the cars and park them. They could go in that side door to the garage and put them in there. We would just have to keep her out."
"That shouldn't be a problem. Do you want me to buy the stuff or are you going to help out?"
"Come by the house after school and I'll give you the credit card. Just don't go overboard with it please?"
"Fine. Do I need to bring anything with me?"
"Rose must have forgotten about Ali. Bring her and anything else that she left over at the house please."
"Will do. Can we still go get the decorations for the party today?"
"Yeah. We'll take the Hummer. If you want we could start decorating today. That would give us something to do."
"Kay. You want me to bring the guys with me?"
"They can come over later today when we start to decorate."
"Iite. Are you still in the bed?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Cause it's one in the afternoon."
"Jeeze. Alright I'm up." I said throwing the covers off me.
"Kay. I'll be over around two thirty."
"Alright. Bye Alice."
"Bye."
I hung the phone up and grabbed a pair of boxers and set of sweat pants out of the dresser. I went on a search of the house for Rose. She wasn't in the kitchen or living room. I made my way upstairs but stopped half way up on the stair case. I heard Rose yelling at something but wasn't sure what.
"Where the hell did that come from?! Ah. There you are, you bastard. Take that."
I couldn't help but laugh. I knew she had to be playing one of the many games that I had. I took the last few steps up until I was in the game room. I was right. She was sitting on one of the gaming chairs that I had bought, controller in her hands in front of the flat screen TV. She was too wrapped up in the game to notice that I had come in. With lightening speed I was behind her.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
With a scream she jumped and the controller went flying in the air. I grabbed it before it landed on her head.
"What the fuck babe?"
I took the seat beside her and kept on playing the game. Resident Evil 6 Anthology was one of my favorites even though I hadn't had it very long. It came out early this month. "I couldn't help it babe."
"It's about time you got up. I've been up since ten thirty."
"You could have woke me up you know."
"But you looked so cute sleeping."
"Aww. You do too. Alice is coming over in a little bit." I said not taking my eyes off the game.
"What is she coming over for?"
"Is there something you forgot at her house?"
"I don't think so."
"Ali?"
"OH SHIT! Emmett how could you have let me forget my dog?"
"She's your dog babe."
"Ours now."
"True. I'm sure Alice and them have taken care of her though."
"I know they would have. She's like their baby too. Is that the only reason she's coming over?"
"No we're going out."
"Where?"
"Shopping."
"You're taking us shopping? That's a bad idea babe."
"Why?"
"Cause when you get me and Alice together, we don't leave for hours. Plus we spend too much."
"We've got to get stuff for the Halloween party."
"Oh! We'll in that case you might want to really bring some cash. She'll spend thousands."
"Not worried about that." My phone started to ring again so I paused the game. After looking at the caller id I knew who it was so I answered it immediately. "What's up Samson?"
Samson was co-owner with me on one of the many businesses we had. He was also a vampire, as was most of our staff. Even though there were some humans that were employed by us. The main house was down in San Francisco while we had another up in New York as well as one in Canada. We started the business many, many years ago when I had met him and found out he was a vampire.
"Emmett we got a problem."
"What's wrong."
"Lyona's back."
"What happened this time?"
"She's transferring the money from the company to over shore accounts."
"Well get Thomas on it. He's the best we got."
"Already got him on it. What should we do with her though?"
"I don't care. Kill her for all I care." I looked over at Rose. God I shouldn't have said that.
"Are you sure? I mean I know some people that would love to get their hands on her."
"Samson I could care less what you do with the bitch. I know you don't like her after what she did to you."
"You got that right. But I've got someone else to take care of."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"I found someone."
"Who?"
"She's a mortal…"
"Can't say anything there man. I got the same situation."
"You too huh?"
"Yeah."
"Blood-Bond?"
"Not yet. But probably. You?"
"Same. She's a tough one."
"Got the same problem, even though she said yes." I looked at Rose and gave her a smile.
"Does she know you're a vampire?"
"Yeah."
"And that doesn't matter?"
"Nope."
"Well good luck. I'll keep you posted on what's up."
"Thanks man."
"No problem."
I hung the phone up and looked at Rose. I mean really looked at her. She had on a pair of white pants; they were more like sweat pants. The black 'This Is My Zombie Killing Shirt' was three times too big for her. She had no shoes on, but a pair of pink and white stripped Gir socks.
"What was all of that about?" I knew she was going to ask that question.
"Work."
"Work?"
"Yeah. I got a few businesses with this guy."
"Samson?"
"Yeah. We met a long time ago and we started some businesses together."
"Oh…what was you talking about killing someone?"
"Not someone, a vampire."
"Why?"
"She was taking the money from the business and transferring it into over shore accounts. Samson didn't know what to do with her."
"Okay. What were you talking about when you said 'not yet. But probably.'?"
"You heard that huh?"
"Yeah. What was that about?"
"Umm….there's this thing called a blood-bond."
"Blood-bond?"
"Yeah. When a vampire male meets their soul mate you could say, and they know it's them, most of the time they do a blood-bond. It's like a marriage for vampires."
"What is that suppose to mean?"
I let out a sigh. This was going to be hard to convince her to do. "It's kinda hard to explain."
She got up and walked over to me and sat in my lap. "Will you try to explain so I can understand?"
"Alright. Remember when I said that I knew we were supposed to be together?"
"Yeah. I said the same thing pretty much."
"Okay. It's not the same as what you feel. I mean it is but it's different. When we know we are supposed to be with someone, we get this intense feeling for it. The guys get very defensive over the female. They don't want any other guys to put a hand on her or look at her. The blood-bond binds the two together. There is no divorce with a blood-bond. It literally means what is mine is yours…all of it. You would get full rights to everything. Does that make sense?"
"I guess. I mean it's your version of our marriage ceremony."
"Yeah. The really cool part is that, even though you are a mortal…" She looked at me weird, "…a human, with a blood-bond you would get some of my powers, you could say."
"What do you mean?"
"You would still be human, but you would be like me too. Umm…." I had to think of some of the things. "…you would get the speed and strength that I have. You wouldn't age, and it would be hard for you to die. You can sense where I am, and the same goes to me for you. So in other words, you would be the same way you are right now, for eternity."
She just looked at me. "So what you're saying is that I could really be with you for eternity, and never age?"
"Pretty much."
"What do you mean you would be able to sense me?"
"Your blood would run through me. So, I would know where you are without even being with you. I would also know what you are feeling. You wouldn't be able to hide anything from me."
"When can we do this?"
What the hell? Did she really just ask me that? "Do what?"
"When can we do it?"
"Are you seriously asking me that?"
"Yes."
"So you would seriously bond with me and be with me for eternity? Are you sure?"
"Emmett, I'm not leaving you. If I do this then I know I could be with you. That was something I was worried about but didn't say anything. I didn't know how it would work if we got married and I started to age. I would die and then it really wouldn't be for eternity. So yes. I want to blood-bond with you. Just as long as we still get a regular wedding."
"Just like I said before, you get anything and everything you want. No matter what it is."
"Sweet. So when can we do this?"
"Don't you think you should wait? I mean let your dad know we are dating…later let him know we're getting married?"
"No. He will get over it. I've already said yes to both. You're not getting rid of me, so he will have to deal with you."
"I've got to warn you though."
"Warn me of what?"
"Right now I can't get you pregnant…after the blood-bond…."
"I can?"
"Yeah." I looked at her for her reaction.
"You don't want me pregnant while we are in school?"
"I could care less if you were or not. I don't want other people thinking stuff."
"If it makes you happy…I guess I can wait a while."
"I mean if you want to that's fine. I just don't know if I could deal with everyone talking."
"You dealt with them talking when we first got together. What's the difference?"
"True. If you want we could do it tonight….I just don't want you pregnant yet."
"Well…we could just not have sex."
We looked at each other for a second. "Na." we said in unison then laughed.
"I don't think you could go a day without having sex with me." Was she seriously trying to make me crazy right now?
"I think I could but I don't want to."
"Alright. We can wait on the blood-bond."
"Thank you." I gave her a kiss. "Even though I want nothing more than to do it right at this moment."
"How do you do a blood-bond anyways?"
"Oh, that you will have to wait and find out."
"Will it hurt?"
"No. It's more pleasure than pain."
"Okay. If you say so."
"So what do you want to do until Alice gets here?"
"Not sure."
"Sex?" I said with an eyebrow raised.
"As much as I would like to, I'm hurting a little from yesterday."
"Oh that's another thing."
"What is?"
"When we do blood-bond, there's no limit on sex. I could go as hard as I want with you…and you wouldn't hurt afterwards."
"Hmmmm. Sounds like I'm going to enjoy this blood-bond."
"Oh. You will."
"I'm still waiting."
"Fine with me."
"Alright play your game I'm going to get something to eat. What do you want?"
"Not sure. I'm not even sure of what we have in here."
"I'll check. You play."
"What if I don't want to play?"
"Then what do you want to do?"
"Be with you."
"Awww….you can't get enough of me can you?"
"Nope." I said while I pulled her in for a kiss.
"I've got a question."
"You're full of those this morning. What is it?"
"When I get all my clothes and stuff over here….where is it all going to go?"
"We can always remodel. Make the closet a little bigger if you want?"
"Could. Another question."
"Shoot."
"If…when we do have kids, where is their bedroom going to be?"
"How about we think about that when the time comes? If we have to we can add onto the house, or just build another one."
"I like this house, so I think we should build on."
"That's fine with me. Now can we get something to eat?"
"Yeah."
She got up off my lap and started down the stairs, I followed suit with her. Once in the kitchen I looked at the clock on the stove and noticed it was already two fifteen.
"Alice is going to be here at two thirty. So we got fifteen minutes." I said looking at her.
"Well…we could just get something while we're out." She said while walking over to the fridge and opening the door.
"How about pizza? The guys are coming over to help decorate when we get done buying stuff."
"That works." She shut the door with her butt and bit into an apple while walking over to me and jumping up on the counter. I couldn't help looking at her. "What?" she asked biting into the apple again. Juice dripped down her bottom lip and onto her chin.
Without warning to her, I licked the line from her chin up to her lips and gave her a kiss. When I broke the kiss she bit her bottom lip.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing. Are you trying to seduce me?"
"No. That would be your job."
"Uh huh. If you say so."
She finished up the apple while we talked. I turned my head towards the road when I heard a car pull up into the driveway from the main road.
"Alice is here."
"How do you know?"
"Vampire hearing babe. You may or may not get that when we bond."
"Cool. I've got to get ready."
I picked her up and ran to the closet. Clothes were flying as we were trying to get ready before Alice rang the bell….or just walked in.
"Emmett! Rose!"
I looked back at Rose as I got to the closet door. She was pulling her pants on.
"Finish up babe. Come to the kitchen when you're done."
"Kay."
I walked out and found Alice walking towards the bedroom door.
"There you are. Where's Rose?"
"Finishing up getting ready." Ali ran over and started clawing at my leg, so I picked her up. "Hey cutie." I looked back at Alice. "Did she have any food?"
"Yeah it's in the kitchen. You'll have to get some more for her though."
I started walking towards the kitchen. "I'll have to get more than that I think."
Once in the kitchen I sat Ali down and got two small bowls out of the kitchen cabinet. One was for food and the other for water. After I had them filled up, I sat them on the floor against the counter. I leaned against the counter and looked at Alice with my arms crossed at my chest.
"She said yes."
"I know she said yes. Are you going to let me do the wedding?" She said while a huge smile came across her face.
"Not the wedding Alice. Blood-bond. She said yes."
"Does she even know what it is?"
"Yeah. I told her."
"And she wants to do it?"
"Yeah. I just mentioned it cause I was talking to Samson earlier and she overheard me. I had to explain what it was, but it was her idea to do it."
"Well good luck. Jasper and I haven't done it yet….it's been centuries, but we like things the way they are right now."
"Yeah. But, you are both vampires. Rose doesn't want to age. She wants to be with me, and I think this will do it."
"Like I said, good luck. Does she know how we do it though?"
"No. I was going to surprise her."
"When were you planning on doing it?"
"She said she would wait. I don't think she wants kids right now. But, I know she wants them."
"More power to ya."
Rose walked in at that moment. "Yall ready to go?"
She dulled it down a little bit this time. No overdoing it with jewelry or anything like that. I guess she was bumming it today. She wore just a pair of dark washed distressed jeans, red camisole, and her black Ed Hardy jacket with skulls on the front and back. The necklace I gave her, her engagement ring, the ring her dad gave her, black and red pyramid belt and chunky heel black shoes were it.
"Cute. Bumming it today?" Alice asked.
"Yeah. Didn't want to really dress up." Ali ran over to Rose's leg. "Hey baby girl." Rose said while picking her up. Ali started to lick her face, which got her to laugh. "Yeah I missed you too."
She walked off somewhere into the living room and sat Ali down. Two minutes later she was back in the kitchen and ready to go. While grabbing the keys to the Hummer Alice and Rose walked out to the single car garage and jumped in. Rose got up front beside me and Alice was in the back. The thirty minute drive to Spirit Halloween felt shorter than what it really was.
Rose was right though. I really shouldn't have brought them both shopping. We already had two buggies full of stuff. There were maybe twenty bags of fake spider webs, an animated body wrapped up in a cocoon of spider webs. Every so often it would start to shake like the person was still alive and trying to get free. We got a six foot wide grim reaper holding a banner that said 'BEWARE! ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!' written in blood. I guess that was going to go out at the road, which would be pretty cool. Alice threw in four things of this Mist Maker. Apparently you put this thing is anything from a bowl to a cauldron, add water to it and it makes this funky mist fog stuff. I had to grab another buggy when we got to one of the isles with all robe lights and crap.
"Alice what else do you plan on getting?" I said pushing the buggy up towards her.
"All of these," she said throwing every single orange rope light they had on the shelf into the buggy, "and some other stuff. We're almost done here."
Next were a few boxes of witch's potion bottles. Literally twenty boxes of glow sticks, six boxes of purple string lights, about four bags of fake black spiders, and a few fake black cats were next.
"Why do we need twenty boxes of glow sticks?" I asked leaning onto the buggy as I pushed it and it got fuller by the second.
"Some are going into the pumpkins, some are getting broke onto your steps…"
"Do what? You're not breaking those things on my steps."
"The ones outside duffus."
"As long as it aint the ones inside…"
"No I got something else for that. I know you don't want anyone going upstairs so I got you covered."
"Thank you."
"Welcome."
I had to get two more buggies for the rest of it. Three fifty inch spiders were next. Along with nineteen latex skeletons, a fifty-seven inch coffin with holes in it, a vampire alter, slap stickers with different names of poisons, a life size coffin with black finish and red velvet on the inside. Fake chains were the last of it.
"What's the coffin for?" Rose asked.
"Candy!" she said jumping up and down.
"Yeah I think you've had too much already." I stated just looking at her.
Her hands were on her hips within seconds. "I haven't had any…..yet." The smile creeping up on her face.
"Is this the last of it?" I asked.
"Yes…for this place."
"Come on."
We made it up to the counter with all five buggies as the cashier just glared at us.
"Did you find everything ok?" The short, long brown headed girl asked.
"Uhh..yeah I think. Thanks."
She started to ring the first buggy up. "You must have a huge place to decorate or you are really going out."
"Both." Alice said walking up next in line. "Hey don't you go to Forks High?"
"Yeah."
"We do too. Lisa right?"
"Yeah. I thought you looked familiar. You're in my chemistry class."
"Yup."
"Alice right?"
"Yeah."
"So you're the one I've been hearing about. Party I mean. It's supposed to be this huge over the top thing."
"Always is with my parties. You can come if you want."
"Sure."
"Sweet. I'll give you an invite tomorrow after I get them printed out today."
"Kay."
The rest of the stuff was rung up. "Alright. Your total is $3,965.23"
"Holly shit!" We all looked at Rose. "I told you not to take us shopping babe."
"Yeah. Next time I'll listen." Alice glared at me with hands on her hips. "What?"
"You said to do it. And that you would pay."
"Uh no no. I said I would pay some. Cough up the rest missy."
"I'll get the next batch. You get this one."
"Fine."
I handed Lisa my credit card and signed for it. After handing me my copy she looked kind of puzzled at us.
"If you want you can leave them in here and pull around. I'll have Tex help load them up."
"That would be wonderful thank you." Alice said then walked off pushing her buggy towards the door.
Rose and I followed suit with her. Next thing I knew we were in the Hummer pulling it around to be loaded up. After all five buggies were in the Hummer, we loaded up and was off.
"Where to next pixie?" I asked looking at her in the rear view mirror.
"Hobby Lobby, then Wally World and the thrift store."
"Why Hobby Lobby?" Rose asked while taking my hand.
"Cause I want black roses."
"Thrift store?"
"Old glass containers and old books. We need some magazines and old news paper too."
"What are you doing now?" I asked.
"I found this really cool looking vine thing on the internet. It's got Jack-O-Lanterns all over it. It's like something that came out of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', it's really sweet."
"Oh. We need to pick some stuff up for Ali while we're at Wal-mart babe." Rose said squeezing my hand.
"That's fine. Hopefully we will have room for it."
"I'll call Jasper and have him bring the truck and meet us. We might need it."
"You got that right. And you can ride back with him."
"Trying to get rid of me so quickly Emmett?"
"Yes. Loud mouth."
"I repent that."
"Whatever."
Rose shook our clasped hands, "Be nice babe."
"I'll try. Not promising anything though."
When all our trips were over, Alice and Jasper rode back to my house while Rose and I stopped to get pizza. We pulled up and were surprised to see that everything was off the back of Jasper's truck. Even all the tubs that Alice had brought from her house were set out. I cut the engine and helped Rose grab the pizzas out of the back seat. When we walked in all we heard was Alice giving orders to everyone. Rose and I couldn't help but laugh as we set the pizza boxes on the island in the kitchen.
"Should we let her do our wedding?" I asked Rose while leaning against the counter top.
"She's a good boss."
"Got that right."
"I think she would do a good job. But I want to pick everything."
"Fine with me."
I pulled her towards me by her hips and planted a kiss on her lips, then turned towards the living room.
"FOODS HERE!"
Jacob was the first one in, even though if they wanted Jasper and the rest would be there first.
"Sweet! What we got?" He asked eyeing the boxes.
"Pepperoni, cheese, supreme and stuff crust pep, pineapple and bacon. The stuff crust is mine and Rose's."
"So don't mess with it." She said not moving from me.
"Wanna bet?"
I grabbed the box before he could get to it. "Listen to the woman of the house."
"Man you're whipped."
"Dude you get like that when you get a woman."
"Then I don't want one." Pizza to the face.
Once everyone was done eating the first thing to do was clear out a lot for all the cars to park, which we guys did. The girls stayed inside and worked on Alice's creations that she wanted to do. While walking back towards the house, I noticed the single garage door was up and the girls were out there. So, I walked over to them.
"Hey what yall do…ing?" I stuttered as I came to a halt. There was a massive thing sitting in the middle of my garage. "Ummm….Alice?"
"Yeah." She said looking back at me.
"What is that thing?" I couldn't help pointing at it.
"It's the vine and Jack-O-Lanterns I was telling you about. Looks pretty cool don't it?"
"Yeah I'd say."
It stood over seven and a half feet in height, and had to be at least six feet wide. The vine twirled around and up to make a tree shape while Jack-O-Lanterns with different faces went all the way up it.
"Is all of that paper mache?"
"Yeah. We'll have to paint it tomorrow. Along with the grim reaper, cauldron, skeleton pumpkin thing and pillars."
I looked around the rest of my garage and sure enough there were all types of things that needed to be painted. But did they look cool? Yes they did. I glanced at my watch to check the time and it was going on ten.
"Alright time to wrap it up. We'll start again tomorrow after school. Then we got all weekend."
"Yeah. I'm getting tired. Where's Jasper?" Alice asked standing up and stretching.
"Coming around the corner." I looked over my shoulder and there walked Jasper, Edward and Jacob. I looked back at Alice, "Where is all the stuff we just bought?"
"In the great room. It's out of the way."
"Thanks." I turned to Jasper and the others, "We're going to bed. Call before you come over?"
"Sure." Jasper answered while walking over to Alice. "Ready babe?"
"Yeah. Don't stay up too late." She said pointing that French tipped finger at me.
"Yes mother." I looked at Rose who was walking towards me. "Ready for bed?"
"Almost. I've got to set Ali's stuff up real quick."
"I'll help then its bed." I pulled her to me by her hips until she crashed against my chest.
"No funny business. Bed mister."
"Alice go home. We'll see you tomorrow."
"Fine. Love ya'll too."
"Love you too babes." Rose said looking over at the rest of the gang. "Night."
We waited while they all loaded up and started down the driveway towards the road. Once back inside the house I locked up and looked at Rose.
"What all do you have to do?"
"Set up her bed."
"Why don't you let her sleep with us? It's big enough."
"You don't care?"
"Not really. That's probably where she's going to end up sleeping anyways."
"Alright. I'm taking a shower though." She turned and walked towards the bedroom.
The first things to come off were her shoes and socks which she left in the kitchen. The jacket got left on the stool at the island. As she walked off towards the bedroom the camisole came off. I couldn't take my eyes off of her for some reason. When she looked at me from over her shoulder her hands crept around to unhook her bra which slid down her arms.
"Are you trying to kill me babe?"
"No. Tease maybe. But not kill."
She threw the bra behind her as she walked towards the bedroom again. I slowly followed her watching as the pants came off right at the bedroom door. I couldn't take it anymore. I was already hard as a rock from her little strip tease. With lightening speed my clothes were off then ran and picked her up carrying her to the bathroom bridal style.
"Emmett! Put me down."
"No."
"Yes!"
I sat her down on the edge of the tub, "Fine."
I walked into the shower and shut the door, cutting the water on when I got to the other side.
"What are you doing?"
"Taking a shower."
I moved under the hot spraying water running my hands through my hair. I heard the door open and close but didn't turn around. If she wanted to play hard to get I was going to do the same. I felt her hands first move around my stomach before I felt her body push against my back.
"What are you doing babe?" I couldn't help but ask.
"I was going to take a shower with you….but looks like you don't want any company."
The closeness of her body left, then her hand started to move over my abs like she was leaving. With lightening reflexes, I grabbed her wrist and turned to face her.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"You don't want company so I'm leaving."
I pulled her to me crashing our wet bodies together. "No you're not."
"Are you sure you don't want to be alone?"
"That I'm sure of. You're not getting out of this shower until I do."
"Fine."
Her hands moved around my neck and slowly pulled me down to meet her lips.
An hour later I was crawling into bed. Needless to say, we had some more fun in the shower that night. I don't think I will ever get enough of her. She will really be the death of me one day. A very long time from now.
I know a bunch of you are reading this. So please leave me some reviews. And I know I've changed a bunch of stuff in this but…it's a fan fic so yeah it's my own version. Love ya'll!
