CHAPTER 8
"Next thing I knew, shards of metal are flying everywhere!" Charlie gestured the explosion with his hands. Charlie had never been the best cook in the world but I thought from the last time he tried to make spaghetti Bolognese he would have learnt of the complications of microwaves; evidently not.
"So let's get this straight" Emmett grinned at him (since Nessie had been born, Charlie and Emmett have been the unlikeliest best of friends and often went on fishing trips together, personally, I found it quite amusing that my dad was all pally with my vampire brother in law, my huge vampire brother in law to be exact)
"You were trying to make pasta and sauce for you and Sue, yeah?" Emmett continued, still grinning. Charlie grunted what Emmett took as a yes and Em continued.
"But when you cooked the sauce, you just put the jar in the microwave with the lid still on?" Charlie had definitely not learnt from last time
"Dad, I told you, metal's bad for microwaves" I sighed "And why exactly did Sue let you in the kitchen to cook unattended?"
Charlie was about to answer when the culprit herself waded in and placed her hands on Charlie's broad shoulders
"I didn't, I had gone to the store, I came home to what looked like a bombsite" Sue narrowed her eyes at my dad and then laughed "I never thought Dolmio was so complicated and dangerous to cook"
My dad smiled his crinkly-eyed smile that made him look about half his age, mischievous but adoring. Sue was making my dad happy, and I appreciated that. Renee had Phil and now Charlie had Sue.
Charlie huffed and grinned then laughed "Well you have to admit the pizza we called for was good"
Renesmee had crawled up onto Charlie's lap and was now giggling
"Grandpa Charlie makes me laugh mummy" She grinned up at me with her warm chocolate eyes with almost enough force to make me pass out from forgetting to breathe, not an easy feat if I do say so myself. Sue ruffled Ness's hair and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead
"He makes me laugh too, that's why I love him" Nessie grinned up at Sue and her eyes sparkled, next minute she was chanting her favourite rhyme
"Sue and Charlie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G" Everyone had shushed her before she had managed to continue to get to the next verse, though she was in peals of laughter at herself.
"Let's not embarrass them anymore Renesmee" Edward cautioned with a crooked smile
"And I think you and I will have to take a trip out to buy a new microwave for your Grandpa and Sue"
Renesmee's eyes sparkled again as she realised this meant shops, Alice was really rubbing off on her, suddenly she was trilling a sentence in her sweet voice
"Can we go now Daddy? Please? Pretty please? Where will we go?" Everyone laughed at Renesmee's innocence when she suddenly stopped talking and glared at my father
"But listen Grandpa, if you even go anywhere near this new microwave you will be sorry"
Nessie couldn't understand why everyone laughed so much at her small threat, Emmett had laughed so loud and deep that he had gotten into trouble with Esme; he had managed to knock her ornaments off of the mantel piece and they had shattered into a thousand tiny pieces, if Charlie wasn't here they could have been saved but I think if we had all ran to rescue them we may have given my father a heart attack. Again.