Disclaimer: twilight nor its characters, as you know, is not mine.
Chapter IV
Emmett's Point of View
"So, you got married? And studying at the same time? And working? You are kind of busy, aren't you?" I said to my brother, who was sitting 2 or 3 meters away. One of my conditions to talk to him. I still was feeling the excruciating thirst, the need of human blood was huge; I didn't remember how strong it was. Anyways I was trying to concentrate myself in our conversation as much as possible, trying to forget the quiet sound of the blood running through veins, after being purified with O2… these were the things I didn't care about human body when I was studying, what an irony.
"Yeah, what do you expect? A baby is on the way. The old-man got very upset when we told him we were marrying as soon as possible (her parents never suspected of anything, she would had died!), he, dad, knew right there what we have done, I received a good punch in my face, thanks to our little guy," he was laughing at this, "I mean, we screw it up a little. He is a little old y'know but she, Ashley and I, we knew we would get married anyways. We just ate the dessert before dinner, that's all." Now we were both laughing, as loud as usual. Since I can barely remember, he used to annoy Ashley all the time when we were infants, chasing her, scaring her, making bad jokes to her and most of the time screaming to each other, this all ended with an angry boy and a crying girl. Who would say that the little nice next-door-girl will marry with the most annoying boy in a radio of 8km.? What a crazy world!
"That's un-usual. y'know, having a baby before getting married. You must be the only ones. What about the girls, Charles? How are Pauline and Lucille?"
"Ah, they are great, growing really fast y'know. They are in their 15-years-old, so they are very beautiful, and boys note that," he said this with a grimace, my complete face changed, "hey!!!! Look at your face man! I'm behind them, I'm taking care of them, believe me, I am. Now tell me about you, no offence but, what are you? An angel? Like the blonde one said?" After my attack, he was sure as hell that I wasn't an angel, I knew this. My brother was stupid, but not that much.
"mmm. Well, I guess," I said not very convinced. He was looking at me very carefully. I saw in his face that my answer was not enough, and that he was going to ask over and over again, "Look, I'm not pretty sure, ok? I can't tell you anything, I'm not suppose to… Its secrecy. So don't ask anything about what I am, please." His face was a little upset, but fully understood that I wasn't going to say anything. That was one of Charles's qualities, if you don't really want to talk about something, he wont make you say it.
"Fine then, I understand. But you can tell me who that gorgeous lady is, right?" He said looking at Rosalie, who was looking at us from the other corner, near the waterfall, "A guide angel? She is so splendorous. Maybe a girlfriend?" he made a wink and I smiled, actually wondering if we were boyfriend and girlfriend.
"I hope so, in the future."
"I can give you some advices, if you want to go on with her," I was going to stop him, I knew Rosalie was listening, even when my brother lowed his voice, "You just have to take her out, buy some presents to her and say how pretty she is and stuff like that. And don't get in your I'm-so-funny-mode, ok?, lots of good girls ran away from you, because you were, at their words, "like a big brother" remember? And you keep getting the easiest in the bussiness" I saw Rosalie since the corner of my eye; she was half-laughing, enjoying my brother's words, at least she was laughing. He was not going to end his sermon now; this was going to be long, long, long.
Rosalie's Point of View
They looked fantastic talking to each other; I could see some brother's commandership between them, product of being together for 20 years and having almost the same age… I noted Charles was nervous at first, but quickly that changed. On the contrary, Emmett was still tense; he didn't moved an inch closer to his brother, not even when they were talking about their sick mother nor new marriages, nor their sisters growing. Not even congrats gestures for Charles's upcoming baby. They were pretty much alike, so I imagined Charles's son and he had Emmett's face. Emmett's son would be beautiful: dimple cheeks, blonde curls. Wait, blonde curls? I smiled and throw out that thought.
I heard them; they were talking about Emmett's love life. What a wonder! His love life was as big and busy as I had expected, being Emmett, I was hoping a long list of childish little girls, waiting for an opportunity to make God knows what. And, of course, I was right. He was an easy girl's magnet after all.
"…that girl wanted you, the one you almost got married with, remember? But then you disappeared and, apparently, the rest is history," he paused and looked at his brother hesitantly" Will you visit mom, dad and the girls? Why don't you go one of these days to mom and dad's house?" Now I had to intervene, that was not a good idea at all. Not caring about Charles, I ran at vampire lace straight to where they were. Emmett didn't even blink when I got there. His brother was another story, his eyes were wide open and his mouth was a little "o", "Damn it!"
"Got scared man? See what I have to live with?," Emmett teased me and joked with him. "I can't go, I wish I could, but right here where you see me, I'm having a hard work to contain myself to not jump over you and kill you." Their faces were a little disturbed thanks to Emmett's last confession. Charles's expression also showed a little disappointment to this, all his family missed Emmett so much, that I could see.
"Pauline and Lucille still cry some nights, mom had told me. You could go and tell them you are ok. They were the most hurt after your disappearance; they just couldn't say good-bye properly. I know what you are thinking, but it's not the same, they will not believe me if I tell them you are fine… it won't last too long. You really should go."
The moment he said this, the anger went to my head and I just wanted to rip Charles apart for disturbing my Emmett, who was now with his hands in his curls and looking to the quiet and loud waterfall. I looked Charles, rage in my eyes. How could he put this load over Emmett's shoulders, he didn't know anything about us, he didn't know how close to death he had been and of course, he didn't know how dangerous would be to put Emmett and his sisters in contact. Besides I didn't want him close to his old family, what if he decides to leave me…us…and try to become some perverted kind of human? There was no way this would happen. He was mine now. No matter how selfish it sounds. I've always been like that and I was not going to change now.
"It is not as easy as you imagine. It would be excessively dangerous and for…" I started, but Emmett interrupted me saying something I wasn't expecting at all.
"I'll go."
"Excuse me?! You cannot go! Do you want to put in danger their lives? What the f…"
"Rose, I'm not saying I'll go now. Soon. I don't know when, but I have to tell them I'm fine. You haven't moved to some other house, have you?"
"No, we haven't. Even Ashley and I are living pretty close, remember the Watson's house? It's ours now, since they went back to their land. We bought it to them, and we are living like 3 houses away from the big McCarthy's farm," He said, with a smile in his face, anxiously waiting his brother's come back, "Well it's almost dawn again, I have to go or I'll lost myself in the forest again. Ashley must be worry, probably thinking I lost myself in a big, foreign forest. We are on vacations now. Honey moon we call it." I was still sit in the grass swallowing the fact that Emmett was going after his sisters to talk to them. I was expecting some reconsideration about this stupid plan, some correction, or anything, but nothing happened. They said good-bye, a sad but full of hope good-bye. They didn't touch, everything was just a gesture.
"Mmm, Rose? Can we go home? Or do you want some hunting trip?" He was standing behind me while I was standing up to look full in his eyes.
"Yes, we can go. But I would like to visit my brothers too, Emmett. It would be SO fun! Stay with them, so all the people who suppose I'm death would discover I'm not! Do you know what would be fun too? Visit them and be present until the day they die! Don't you think it will be fun?" I said this bringing the whole package of sarcasm I had. Emmett rolled his eyes at what I said.
"Sorry, ok? It's just that I want to tranquilise them, a little bit at the very least. And I'm not going soon, maybe in some years. Besides, don't be jealous angel, I'm all yours." Before I reacted to his stupid joke, he did something unexpected that nobody had done to me before. He grabbed me, putting me in his shoulder and as he entered us into the water, he threw me inside the waterfall, making me all wet. When I came out of the waterfall, Emmett was laughing some meters away, still inside the lake.
"Oh God, look at you woman! You look pretty wet and even if you don't believe me, Rosalie Hale looks… dishevelled! What an outrageous and tragic event!" he mocked me, using a strange little voice.
I touched my hair; my carefully done soft-curls had become in my natural straight hair, my work of hours had been damaged by this big idiot. I saw down to my dress. My beautiful, short white dress was ruined and stick to my whole body. He was going to be killed; he was SO going to die.
"Oooooh, you are going down Emmett, look what you have done! Ahhh! You silly, childish idiot!" I ran towards him and he made a scare mock, as he started to run in some kind of slow-motion.
We fought for a while in the water, we laughed; we were playing as little children did. We were having the time of our lives, well, at least I was. We played and threw water to each other for almost two hours more, in one moment he suddenly disappeared.
"Emmett? Where are you? Come, come, come; no matter how much you run, I will find you," I saw down and he was going to grab my ankle, but in that exact moment I moved my feet, straight to his face, kicking him. I ran towards the lake's side looking over my shoulder, smirking at his face. I mocked him with my tongue out, and start laughing. He looked at me with a malicious smile on his face, hunting me.
As soon as I turned back to get out of the little lake, he came running at vampire speed, this made me almost impossible to scream in surprise. The next moment I knew, he was on top of me, both laughing hard during some minutes. He sat by my side and moved his head as a dog, just to get me even wetter, if that was possible. "Stop it! You cannot get me anymore wet, even if you try to."
"You can always try, girl. That's what my momma always said." He said laying back on the grass, near me.
"I wish I had had an older brother like you, would you like to be kind of my brother? So we can play like this alw…" I said just to tease him, and it worked.
"HELL NO! I don't want to be your brother, are you insane?" I laughed at this; his expression was a mix of upset-ness, confusion and scare. I laid back in the grass too, next to him, still not touching him but noting that I wanted it badly. We stood some minutes looking at the late clouds and early stars, saying nothing, just being there. I turned my head and his eyes were on me, apparently I was the one looking at the sky, "What?" I asked; he had a serious look, trying to see inside my eyes; I noted I was half-smiling in a shy way. This was completely out of the normality: he was serious and I was smiling. I passed my hand through his face; feeling every eyelash, every eyebrow, every form of this beautiful face in front of me, his eyes closed now. No need to talk. How could this be wrong? How could I have the most minimal doubt about this? This has to be perfection. Light and dark. Yes, I know I have an estrange definition of perfection… good and bad, God and Devil, black and white, positive and negative, it's the same concept no matter the metaphors, well, that's what Emmett and I are.
He opened his eyes and looked me again, still serious. He kissed my forehead, and then suddenly his serious face changed and he was sticking his tongue out at me, making me laugh now. I wrapped my arms around his big chest and abdomen fast; he putted his arm down my back and we stood like this for the next hours, I didn't count. I just knew the moment was perfect.
For my few readers, excuse me again for such a delay!! but I've had some serious family problems. Anyways, I thank you took time to read again, but I wanted to ask for 2 tiny things: Does anyone of you knows about a good Beta? I really need one as you probably can tell hahaha, and second: REVIEWS!!! =)
Thanks and chapter V will be longer (as well as most of the other chapters =)
