Chapter 4:
Esme POV
"Alright, Rosalie. We're finished for today," I told my daughter, as we walked out of the shopping plaza in Port Angeles.
She sighed, "Thank you! This whole running around for Alice has been annoying. How did she not know that she was going to run out of the things she did?"
I laughed, and Rosalie smiled. Alice, my other daughter, was a physic, but I had a feeling that she wanted us to do these little errands for her.
We found Rose's red BMW, and we loaded our bags in the trunk. Then, I went to the driver's side and got in. Once we were on the highway back to our house, I asked lightly, "Rose, are you warming up to the wedding yet?" Rosalie was having trouble coping with the wedding of her brother, Edward, to a human, Bella Swan.
Rosalie shrugged, "I guess so. I mean, I am still a little…uncomfortable with the whole Bella thing, but, I am happy to see Edward happy."
I smiled and patted her hand. That was a nice thing for Rosalie to say. She was angry and a little jealous that Bella was still human, and she was going to give up her human life to join us as vampires. The thing that Rosalie wanted most was to be human again. But that was one thing Rosalie just couldn't have.
But, I, like she, wanted Edward to be happy. He became a vampire before I did, in 1918, and he was the first to join Carlisle. He and my husband had a bond that no other had with Carlisle, but he wanted Edward to have a mate. So, that was what Rosalie was intended for. However, Edward didn't like Rose in that way, so they never became more than siblings. Eventually, I came for Carlisle, Emmett came for Rosalie, and Jasper and Alice came together. And Edward was left out.
He never really led on that it bothered him, but we all knew that it did. The problem wasn't that girls didn't like Edward; they did, and he is very attractive, but Edward didn't like any of the girls back. Until he met Bella. Once he met her, Edward started smiling a lot more, and he seemed…completed, in a sense. Personally, Edward could marry a werewolf, and as long as he was happy, I would be fine with it.
Going the speed that we vampires go, we made it back to our house in Forks in no time. Edward's Volvo was out front, so I knew Bella and Alice must be in there. I knew Emmett, Edward, Jasper, and Carlisle were there, too, because they stayed home to endure 'male bonding' today. I knew that was a bad idea from the start, because the house would probably look like, well, a pack of wild vampires ran through it.
When we got inside, I was surprised to see that it was not that unkempt. Edward was sitting on the couch, and Bella was under his arm. Jasper and Alice were standing in the back, holding one another's hand, and Rosalie walked over and sat on Emmett's lap. I looked for Carlisle, and found him standing in a corner. I walked over to him and smiled. He pecked me lightly on the cheek.
"How was your day?" he asked me quietly.
I nodded, "Good. We had to run some errands for Alice, and it was sort of fun."
Carlisle glanced across the room, "How was Rosalie?"
I smiled, "She is doing a lot better."
He smiled, too, "I knew she would come around." We embraced each other in a quick hug.
"So, how was 'male bonding' time?" I asked causally.
Carlisle laughed, "Interesting, to say the least. Jasper got creative with our moods, and Edward was reading Emmett's mind, and he was making things up about Emmett being a 'bad boy'. It was very entertaining."
I turned around to look at Edward, who was grinning. I shook my head at him in mock disappointment, "Were you listening?"
He smiled widely, showing me his teeth, "A little."
I couldn't be angry at him, so I just smiled. "And, yes, the day was very entertaining," Edward said, loud enough for everyone to hear."
They became engrossed in talk about what they did today, and I turned to talk to Carlisle, "In a little while, our Edward will be happy with the love of his life."
Carlisle smiled, and he turned to look at our son, who was still holding Bella. "Yes," he said, "I am quite happy that Edward has found someone he could live with for eternity."
I nodded, still looking at Edward, "Yes, but you know he does not want to change Bella."
Carlisle shrugged, "I trust his judgment. Edward is a smart man; things will turn out for the best."
He bent down to kiss me again, and I smiled. I knew how Edward felt to find someone you loved enough to spend eternity with.