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Chapter 4: Houses

"Not tonight," said Carlisle.

"Why not?" Rosalie pleaded.

"We're not ready. We need to do some more research into it."

After making our way back to the house, Rosalie had walked straight up to Carlisle and ordered him to change her.

"All our research is theory only. We're not even sure it could work, let alone will."

Rosalie tried to make an argument against Carlisle but he looked at her sternly and she realised that she wouldn't be changed any faster if she argued.

"Come on Emmett. Let's go to bed." The whole house knew this didn't really mean go to sleep but we all seemed to be oblivious to each other's night time activities. I went quickly through Rosalie's list of angry activities and Edward cringed.

I followed her up the stairs and to our room.

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"Uncle Emmie?"

"Yes Nessie?" I answered. I was doing a 5000 piece puzzle with her on the floor in the dining room.

"Why is Rosie upset?"

"She might stop being a vampire soon," There was not point trying to hide the truth from her – she was much to smart for that.

"Is that making her sad?"

"Uh…no. She's upset because it can't happen as soon as she'd like."

"Does she want to leave us."

"No. She just… well… it's too hard for you to understand." I could tell she didn't like me saying that the minute I did.

"Fine!" She snapped, suddenly furious with me. She hated not being told things, just like her mother and father. "If you can't tell me, Daddy will. He knows everything!" I laughed. She had gotten an image of Edward being an all-knowing vampire. She thought similar of Alice.

I watched Nessie stalk off to find Edward. I could have answered her question except it brought up a question in me I didn't want to answer. Would Rosalie leave us?

She might stay here, but that would completely oppose the reason she became human – to be normal. If she left, she'd be leaving me and my – our family behind. That was if she survived the transformation of course. I sort of wished Rosalie would go out again so I could watch – the square root of pi is 1.772453850905516027298167483314. Edward looked away.

Rosalie walked up to me. "She won't tell me," she said with a sigh. Rose had gone to talk to Alice and see if she could tell her when she'd be able to be changed. I knew Alice wouldn't tell her because I'd heard Edward asking her not too. Rosalie knew this, but insisted on asking anyway. She sighed again. "Wanna make a house of cards?" she asked. We usually made a house of cards when we were bored or needed distracting. We followed the World Series together and laughed at the simple designs that won. We made designs so much better than that. We could easily win. But Carlisle said no publicity. "We're noticed enough without throwing ourselves out there." he'd said. That, and I think he was afraid to do anything to provoke the Volturi. Again. Thankfully, with Bella on our side, we might never have to face them again. As long as we didn't do anything that was definitely, point blank, illegal.

I cleared the puzzle away and set up a base for our house of cards. Rose grabbed a sketchpad off the coffee table and started sketching out blueprints. I looked over her shoulder; it was a relatively simple design, something that should only take a couple of hours. The longest time it'd ever taken us to build a house of cards was two-weeks, without any breaks. We'd hunted before and after so we didn't get hungry. Then, just as we placed the last card in place, that stupid mutt had bounded around, chasing his tail for Nessie's entertainment and knocked the entire thing over!

He woke up the next morning at the top of a mountain in Canada.

"What do you think of that?" Rose asked me, handing over the sketchpad.

"Yeah, looks good."

We started building the base. Our vampire hands a thousand times steadier than the steadiest human hand.

It was just getting light when Carlisle came out.

"Rose?" He said, "We're ready."

I froze.

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