A/N: I don't own Twilight; just use the characters for my own whims and fancies. I had originally planned on Changing POV's during this story between four characters: Emmett, Rosalie, Edward and Bella. But I have decided to just stick to Emmett and Rosalie. I find that the story is flowing in these two POV's and I don't want to stop the momentum of the story. I will however post some outtakes of future chapters in Edward and Bella's POV's, I might even throw in baby Luke's POV. Bear with me as my personal laptop crashed and I have temporarily lost my outline for this story, I will hopefully have it back in working order within the next two weeks so I don't have to do another chapter on a whim like this one.

Chapter title clipping refers to an illegal block in which the victim is blocked from the back and at or below the waist; the penalty is 15 yards. Originally, clipping was defined as any block from the back, but is now restricted to blocks at or below the waist. Other blocks from the back are now punished with 10 yard penalties.

On with the story…

Rosalie POV

Emmett had left for his flight to San Diego Thursday night. He would be playing his first away game with the Bears this weekend and I had been extremely nervous for him. The night before he left I was so overwhelmed with emotions I kept tossing and turning. I thought Emmett was asleep, because once he was asleep he was dead to the world. Apparently his emotions were as all over the place as mine because he was just as restless and startled me out of my fussing.

"You know you'd think you were the one playing in the game this weekend not me with the way you're fretting over there."

"Don't tease me. You know I'm just as nervous about your first game as you are. But I know you'll do great though." I said with a smile into the darkness.

"But, I like teasing you Rosie. It's the best way to keep my mind busy." Emmett laughed as he rolled on his side to wrap me in a huge embrace.

"I wish I could keep my mind busy when you're gone. We just started this whole 'being a couple' thing and I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself when you're off having fun in the sun hanging at the beaches in San Diego."

"I can assure you I will be thinking about you the whole time I'm gone. Missing you, wanting to talk to you every waking minute. And I damn well will not be having fun in the sun at the beach. I will be in pregame meetings and studying my playbooks until game time. So you don't have to worry about me having fun without you. Okay?"

"Okay." I snuggled into his chest and let his breath wash over me and lull me into sleep.

When the doorbell rang a little before 8 am Saturday morning I rolled out of bed still in my pajamas, sulking from lack of sleep and I would stay that way until either the game started or Emmett called, whichever came first. I threw on my robe that was hanging on the back of the bedroom door and shuffled my way to the front door.

I wasn't expecting anyone to be showing up this morning and I was a tiny bit bitchy because of my lack of sleep, I never would've thought I would have been one of those people that couldn't sleep without their significant other, but that is exactly what I've become.

I threw the door open.

"What do you want, ringing the damn bell at 8 am on a Satur …" I couldn't even finish my sentence.

When I finally took in who was at the door I immediately started to cry.

"Luke." I choked out

"Nice to see you too sis."

My son was reaching out to me so I snatched him from my sister's arms and wrapped him into a hug and was pelting the poor child's face with kisses.

He just giggled and squeezed my neck.

"So you gonna invite me in or are we just gonna stand in the doorway all day?"

"Shi… shoot," I was glad to catch myself and stop from swearing in front of my child for the second time in one morning. "what are you doing here, Bella? I mean not that I'm not really glad you're here with Luke but a little warning might have been nice."

"Oh right, uhmmmm SURPRISE!" she shouted. "So can we finish the Spanish Inquisition after I've had some coffee?"

"Yeah get your crazy butt in here." I ushered my sister in to my apartment and helped by grabbing one of the three bags she had with her. "How'd you get here with all three bags and Luke not in a stroller?" I asked quite curious.

We sat her bags down in the hall on the way to the kitchen.

"Oh you wouldn't believe how chivalrous guys can be when they see a poor helpless woman with a baby and a ton of bags." She said with a faked pout and a wink.

"Ah yes. How could I forget the damsel in distress act?"

We sat down at the breakfast bar with two cups of coffee and one sippy cup of juice that I managed to pour without having to put Luke down. I swear I was never going to let this kid go again. I don't think I will be anywhere without him attached to my hip for a very long time.

Bella and I sat drinking coffee, Luke with his cup of juice, and we talked for nearly an hour, she was telling me how she was able to get all of her business contacts in order so she could leave sooner and how she left the rest of the move up to her old assistant in Seattle. We talked about Mom and Dad and how they were planning on coming to Chicago for Christmas.

Since Bella was feeling cruddy from being on an airplane she decided to shower and we'd just hang out around the apartment for the day.

While Bella showered I showed Luke to his new room. He was really excited about all of his new toys. Emmett went overboard with the room, although I had to put my foot down on a few items like the life size Emmett McCarty Fathead* he wanted to put on the wall, but I knew from the look on Luke's face when he saw the room he was really happy with it. We played for a bit before Bella came in holding a bag.

"Hey sis, I brought you something." She said with a grin on her face.

"You brought me my son, that's all I needed."

"Oh don't be a sap and just look in the bag."

She tossed it next to me where I was sitting on the floor playing with a pillow football with Luke. He crawled over to the bag, I snatched it up and Luke started fussing so I rolled the football back to him where he started to chew on the side of it. When I opened the bag I pulled out two blue, orange and white Bears jerseys with McCarty #54 on them. It was clear they were for me and Luke.

"Oh Bella they're great!" I squealed and jumped up to give her a hug.

"You're welcome. Now go take a shower and I will get little monkey man here into his jersey and we can start getting dinner ready for the game."

"Uh Bells you know it's still like 9 am and the game isn't until 8 pm?"

"I know but we gotta get the take out menus and decide what we want to order, you know we can never agree on what to get, duh."

"Shut it, don't be an... ass!" I hissed under my breath so Luke wouldn't hear.

"Oh go take a shower."

So I did. I jumped in and tried to take a quick shower so I wouldn't be away from Luke too long. When I got out I quickly dried my hair and threw on a pair of jeans, a white v-neck t-shirt, and my McCarty jersey.

Bella, Luke and I were just hanging around after she got her things unpacked when Luke needed to be changed. I took him into his room changed his diaper and as I was walking out of the room I could hear Bella talking to someone, when I got in the room she had my phone and was looking at me with a smirk plastered on her face.

"Oooooooh Emmett."

"Give me the phone Bella!" I stalked towards her and Luke started to cry.

She was still looking at me with my hand stretched out in the 'gimmie' signal. She rolled her eyes and huffed "Fine here she is." and handed me the phone with that smug smirk still firmly placed on her face.

Emmett and I talked for a few minutes about Bella and Luke, his game and how much we missed each other. I could tell he was upset that he wasn't here for Luke's arrival but I knew he was happy that Luke would be here when he got back from the game in San Diego. Just so he wouldn't feel too left out I had Bella take a picture of me and Luke in our jerseys so I could send it to Emmett.

After getting off the phone with Emmett I was really bummed he wasn't here so Bella decided we needed a distraction. She turned on the radio and we jumped and danced around with Luke, something we used to do to cheer ourselves up when we were younger, for awhile before he started getting really crabby.

I put Luke down for a nap, even though Bella said he slept through the whole plane ride and all the way to the apartment this morning, I wanted him to be awake for at least some of the game tonight.

At 6 I called and ordered a pizza and wings for dinner. Bella wanted to do a whole 'first game end all be all blow out bash' but I reined her in and made her understand it was just the three of us and Luke wouldn't even make it through the first quarter.

My sister made sure to not be left out in the whole 'we are now Bears fans and therefore need to support the team and Emmett by wearing jerseys' thing and got herself a Cullen jersey because as she put it "That Edward Cullen is THE hottest guy in the NFL I swear it."

I made sure to sneak a picture to send to our Dad. My Dad and Bella are two of the biggest Seahawks fans out there so I know she'd die if he saw her wearing Bears blue and orange.

We were watching the pre-game show before kick-off and they were showing an interview of Emmett from this summer's training camp. Luke crawled up to the TV and put his hand on Emmett's face and turned and smiled at me. I snatched my camera up off the table and snapped a picture before Luke removed his hand. I know Emmett will freak when he sees this picture.

The game itself kept me on the edge of my seat. I had a hard time keeping quite once I set Luke down for the night. Every time Emmett would sack the Chargers quarterback I would jump out of my seat and yell "You get him baby!"

My boisterous shouting could have been coming from the four beers that my sister talked me into drinking with her. She believes that you cannot do a sporting event justice without beer.

Cullen and the other new guy Whitlock that Emmett kept talking about were amazing on the field together and I couldn't wait until I could see them all play together in person at home. The Bears brought home their first victory of the pre-season with a 17-9 defeat of the Chargers.

I couldn't wait for Emmett to get home so I could tell him how proud of him I was and how amazing he did in his first game with the Bears.

*Fatheads are wall clings of sports players that are quite lifelike. You can check out the Emmett inspired Brian Urlacher Fathead here [oh don' forget to replace (.) with a period] http:/www(.)fathead(.)com/nfl/chicago-bears/brian-urlacher-series-2/

I have a friend that put one up in her son's room and he absolutely loves it but she said sometimes it still startles her when walking past the room lol. Call me crazy but I'd totally love one in my room.

And here are the jerseys that Bella gave Rosalie and Luke only imagine them both in blue (with the name McCarty on the back) and Luke's would be much much smaller. http:/www(.)nflshop(.)com/product/index(.)jsp?productId=11043931

http:/www(.)nflshop(.)?productId=1777733

A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. Next up is Emmett coming home. Please click the little button and review. I would really appreciate the feedback.