CHAPTER 1

"Brianna Marie you are going to be late for school!" Esme Cullen hollered up the stairs.

"I'm coming Momma!" I yelled back as I smiled at him since he had snuck into my room to hang out before we had to leave for school. To my parents this was normal. He was my best friend but lately we had become something more. But I was only 16 (today was my birthday)and he was my sisters husband so anyone ever finding out about this or it ever going any further then it was at this point…well in a nutshell, it was going nowhere.

I pulled on my black skirt. It was a little on the longer side but very comfortable and looked great with my "hooker boots". I slipped the knee high boots on and zipped them. I put my half sleeve black cardigan over my corset top and I turned around to see him grinning at me stupidly.

"what?" I asked him.

"you look gorgeous" he grinned

"Brianna!" I heard my mother yell again

"I have to go." I smiled and kissed him on the cheek as I grabbed my satchel out of my closet.

"Today…during our study period" he grinned at me and leaned down to kiss me gently,

"maybe…" I answered him. As much as I wanted to do this, part of me said go for it and part of me, well it reminded me just how much it would break my sisters heart once she found out. I mean, honestly, I'm sure she knows already…shes able to see the future, but if I can try to avoid it ever even happening then I was going to do my best to do it.

I left my room with him in tow and we made our way down the stairs. Just as I was about to be face to face with my parents he grabbed my butt and I just turned around and looked at him and smacked him. He just chuckled behind me as I looked at my parents.

"Happy birthday sweetheart" my mother said to me.

"thanks momma" I smiled as I kissed her cheek.

"do you want your gift now?" my father asked me.

"Yes please" I answered.

Carlisle Cullen handed me a set of keys. "go to school. If I find out you skipped I will take it away. You know the rules" he told me.

I smiled and kissed my father before heading out to the garage to see a 2012 candy apple red chevy cruze sitting in the garage just waiting for me. I looked at my brothers and sisters who had followed after me to get into their own cars.

"aww Brianna got a family car" Emmett teased as he climbed into his jeep.

"its what I wanted Emmett shut up. I really liked the color."

"its cute sissy happy birthday" my sister Rosalie said as she hugged me.

"It is a beautiful color" My sister Alice said as she climbed into her Porsche that our brother Edward had bought her.

"I'm going to drive with her Alice" Jasper teased "make sure she doesn't get lost or hit any walls"

"Good idea, see you guys at school" My brother Edward said as he and his bride Bella climbed into his Volvo and made their way to the school.

Everyone climbed into their cars and made their way out of the garage. I went last so I could get used to pulling out of the garage (hey, I'd never done it before)

Before I started backing out, Jasper leaned over and kissed me sweetly. I kissed back until I heard someone clearing their throat. I looked up to see Momma staring us down holding my bagged lunch in her hands. I blushed a deep crimson and rolled the window all the way down to get my lunch as she said to me,

"I'd better not see that again." She told both of us pointing a small growl at Jasper.

I looked at the floor and sighed "yes momma"

"not a word will be said this time but if I see it again…theres going to be a talk princess" Momma told me.

I just nodded and set my lunch in the back seat and then peeled out of the garage perfectly.

He sent calming thoughts my way as he normally did but I stopped about a mile from school and looked at him.

"How could I be so stupid to let you do that when we were still at the house and not behind closed doors." I sighed as I leaned my head on the steering wheel.

"First off, I did it to you. Second, its not your fault, its mine." He told me as he kissed me again.

"I love you and nothing is going to change that." He told me with a smile as he kissed me again.

"I love you too" I told him and we made our way to school.

~*~*~*~*~*~MEANWHILE~*~*~*~*~*~

Carlisle looked at Esme. "who peeled out of the garage?" he asked as he looked up from the paperwork he was working on at his desk.

"Our daughter…she was angry with me" Esme said as she went to sit on his lap.

"about?" Carlisle asked her.

"Just something between her and I sweetheart, not a big deal" Esme told him.

"Well tell her if she peels out again and ruins those tires before they are supposed to be changed that she will be paying for new ones. I don't mind paying for maintence like I do for the other kids but Emmetts had to pay for his before because of all of the crashing around in the mud in the forest and being rough on the jeep" Carlisle reminded her.

"I remember and I will"

"so what is on your mind?" Carlisle asked her.

"I caught Brianna and Jasper kissing…" Esme said quietly.

"what?" Carlisle said with a growl.

" Cool your jets honey I told her I'd better not see it again" Esme told him

"it doesn't mean they won't still be doing it behind closed doors" Carlisle growled.

"we just keep an eye on them, that's all." Esme told him.

"I still don't like it" Carlisle told her.

"we have to trust her at some point in her life Carlisle. Shes grown up much faster then we think she has due to her circumstances."

Carlisle nodded and kissed her even though he was still angry about the situation.

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