The Man Who Is Carlisle Cullen:

a page from his journal

Monday-June 15

3:15pm-Working double shifts at the hospital today. Why not use the time I've been given helping people, rather than putzing around the house. I'd start to feel like an old man.

5:00pm-Slow going at the hospital(which is a good thing), so I left earlier than I had planned.

5:20pm-Esme is gone with the girls, shopping no doubt. What in the world is there left to buy? Money is not an issue, but after all the time they've spent shopping throughout the years, it's a wonder the stores have any inventory left.

5:30pm-Edward, Emmett, Jasper and I are heading out this weekend for a hunt(camping trip,ha!). I have been mapping out an area we haven't scouted in a while. There should be lots of "veggies" to be had. Must remember to ask Alice if she sees us pleasantly full in the future. I've been doing this for so long, that I've usually finished and had my fill before any of the others. Then I get to sit back(not literally) and watch the boys do their thing.

Edward is so fast that he doesn't even let his prey see him coming. I think his conscious bites back even for killing an animal. When he's upset-more often than not it involves Jacob Black-he toys with them first, cornering them and teasing them to see how hard they'll fight back.

Watching Emmett is like watching a wrestling match. He is very particular about the creature he chooses to make his meal of. He always manages to hunt down the biggest, brawniest bears I've ever seen;possibly man eaters in the making. Anyone else might think it's his version of revenge, I think he did the same thing when he was human. No one will ever convince me that he didn't pick the fight with the bear that almost did him in.

Jasper is the most interesting, though. He stalks his prey and works strategically to gather more than one of them in the same place. I've never seen anything like it. He maneuvers and shifts himself around the woods guerrilla style herding a buffet into one gathering. Then he finishes the whole bunch in seconds. It takes more to satiate Jasper than the rest of us put together. (I saw him wipe out three elk, a cougar, and a small pack of feral dogs once, and that was only his appetizer!)

6:05pm-Bored. Haven't heard from Esme, yet. I don't want to call and sound like the worry wart husband that I try so hard not to be.

8:00pm-Logged onto the net for a couple hours. Found a medical research conference scheduled for next month..."Blood Born Viruses and Immunology: New Techniques and Older Therapies". Sounds interesting. You never know what you might be ingesting..Ha ha! Rosalie would probably go on a hunger strike if she was on a "normal diet" and sat through the first five minutes of that. I'll have to take notes to torment her with later!

8:03pm-Speaking of Rose, I wonder where the girls have gotten to. I would have thought that they would be back by now, parading their new fashions for us. Hope Esme got something see-through...ur, I mean sea green...'cause...um..that's my favorite color.

9:00pm-The boys and I played a few hands of poker, in which time Emmett once again lost a small fortune to Jasper. I think I saw him wipe a tear from his eye that last time. For a big guy he is such a baby!

9:14pm-Esme still isn't back, so I broke down and called her cell to make sure they were all okay. Alice answered and said she had been expecting to hear from me. Well, yeah of course! She should have seen that they were making me nervous and called me before now.

9:30pm-Have decided to get the girls back for being so inconsiderate.

9:35pm-Esme called back. Alice told her what I was planning for the three of them when they got home. Dang! Just once in a blue moon I wish Alice would blind fold those visions of hers.

9:45pm-Change of plans. I was going to change the locks on all the doors. I was more careful this time. We could confuse Alice, so that she wouldn't know what to expect. I gathered the guys in the living room and sending instructions to them via Edward's ability and lots of code words,I set my plan to surprise our unsuspecting naughty girls in motion.

10:00pm-Alice pulled up to the house and she, Esme and Rose began unloading their new found treasures. Emmett and I were upstairs waiting for the door to open. He was giggling like a little girl and I had to threaten to tell Rosalie about the earlier poker "incident" to get him to shut up. Jasper and Edward were in the kitchen waiting for my signal.

11:00pm-Plan did not go as well as I had hoped. Okay, I'll admit it, it sucked.

Note to self: Dressing up in the girls' clothes and prancing femininely around complimenting each other is not as funny to them as it is to us. Hunting trip may be pushed up a day... or four.