A/N: Okay, I don't have time for a real author's note.

You know the deal. Madi edited, I don't own Twilight. Got it? Good.

Here it is!!! :D
BPOV

Chapter 16

"Alice!" I squealed. "Do you remember making this?"

I held up the bulb that she had painted. It started out all different colors when she painted it, but in the end it had all mooshed into a big blob, pooling at the bottom. It turned a nasty brown color. She had wanted to throw it away, but I wouldn't let her.

She smiled sheepishly. "Nonsense. I wouldn't make such a thing," she laughed.

This was before Emmett had moved in. Alice and I were living in an apartment together. Emmett moved in sometime later. I'd known him since we were little. He was like my brother. Our parents were close friends. When he transferred to our college and needed a place to stay, of course I offered for him to join us. We later decided the apartment was much too cramped, and found our house. We were completely moved in by winter of sophomore year.

"Sure you wouldn't," Edward said.

She feigned shock. "Never."

Jasper laughed. He and Rosalie were putting up lights on the tree. Edward was looking through the boxes of decorations that go around the house. He pulled out the stockings.

"I'm assuming you put these over the fireplace," he said.

"Nope!" Emmett told him. "Why would we put them there?" he said, looking at Edward as if he was insane.

Edward chuckled. "Just a hunch."

"Shut up, Emmett. That is to where we put them," Alice said.

I nodded. "The hooks are in that box, too."

Edward held up a little box, and shook it. "These them?" he asked.

"Yes sir!" I said. He raised one eyebrow.

"Sir? I'm not that old." I giggled. "Oh, really?"

"Really," Alice said. "Now, I have something much more serious to ask of you three," she said, looking at Jasper, Rosalie, and Edward.

"Alright, shoot," Jasper said.

"We need to have Christmas together," she said.

I smiled. "Alice, that isn't exactly a question. Questions usually allow the answerer to have an opinion. That's more of a request."

She laughed. "But I already know their answer!"

"Oh?" Rosalie said, smirking. "And how exactly do you know that?"

"You didn't know I could see the future?" she answered, half-joking. She was partly serious.

Sometimes it did seem like she could see the future. She always knew what to do. It was sort of creepy at times.

Jasper went behind Alice and snaked his arms around her waist. "Did you see this coming?" he asked before placing kisses along the nape of her neck.

She giggled and nodded. "Of course."

I cleared my throat. "Anyways, she's right. We have to have Christmas together."

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Edward said.

Emmett sat on the couch, pulling Rosalie in his lap.

"You three should spend the night, too."

"You want Edward to sleep over?" I asked, raising my eyebrows. "Do I even want to know?" I asked, jokingly.

"Yes, Bella, I definitely want to spend the night with Edward. You know, I would totally pass up an opportunity to sleep with my beautiful girlfriend to sleep with Edward," he said.

"Speak for yourself," Edward mumbled.

"Actually, I only said that because I know that you and Alice want them here," Emmett said.

"Sure Em, sure," I said. "Alright then. So, what do you say?"

"But what about our families?" Rosalie asked.

"It doesn't have to be on Christmas day. We could always do it before then. Or after. Whatever works," Alice informed them.

"Sounds great," Jasper said.

"It does," Edward agreed.

Rosalie added, "I'm in."

"Yay!" Alice said, rather excited. Edward, Emmett, and Jasper went outside to put lights up while Alice, Rose, and I finished up the tree.

Once we were done, the tree's lights sparkled off the ornaments, and it looked amazing. Each ornament had a meaning or a memory behind it.

"Oh!" Alice exclaimed.

"What?" Rosalie asked.

"There's an ornament we didn't put on the tree!" she said.

"Which one?" I asked, looking at the tree to see what was missing. I realized what it was right before she said so.

"The fairy!"

"The what?" Rosalie asked, confused.

"Alice's fairy ornament. I got it for her last year because she's like a pixie. Plus it was rather chipper-looking, and I couldn't pass it up; it was too much like Alice," I explained.

Alice reached in the box and pulled it out. She held it up for Rosalie to see.

"I see what you mean, Bella. It does look like Alice," Rosalie said.

"I love it," Alice said. The guys walked back in then.

"Done!" Emmett sang.

"Fall off the roof this time?" Rosalie said, smirking.

He immediately turned to Alice. "You told her?" His eyes were wide.

Alice burst out laughing, nodding her head. "It's...possible," she said between laughs.

He glared at her.

"Hey, it wasn't all me!" Alice exclaimed.

"Thanks, Alice. Throw me under the bus, why don't you?" I said. I was only kidding though.

"Do you want to come see the lights?" Edward asked. Rosalie and I nodded.

Alice was being chased around the couch in circles. They could be so childish sometimes. I rolled my eyes at them. Jasper grabbed Alice on her next lap, pulling her out of her loop.

"Alright, let's go," he said. Alice was giggling as Emmett put his arm around Rosalie's waist. Edward intertwined his fingers with mine, and the six of us walked outside into the cold.

"It's so pretty," Rosalie said.

I just stared at it. Winter made everything about our house look good. The lights twinkled all around the roof, and the two poles supporting the ceiling of the porch were also wrapped in lights. It was snowing, too, so everything together looked beautiful.

"You guys did a good job," I said.

"Not just good. This looks amazing," Alice told them.

"Okay, well you've seen it. We should get back inside. You three didn't put coats on, and its cold out," Jasper said.

**

Edward and I were on the love seat, as usual, while Jasper and Alice cuddled one end of the couch, and Rosalie sat on Emmett's lap on the other. We were watching whatever was on the TV. Emmett was whispering something to Rosalie, and she was smiling. He pulled his head back to look at her, and she nodded.

"What are you two love birds talking about?" Alice asked.

Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed. Edward and Jasper turned to look at Emmett and Rosalie.

"Food," was his response.

"Oh, I'm sure. When are you not?" I asked, laughing.

"There are plenty of times. Usually it's when I'm in bed, and-"

We all cut him off, including Rosalie, who was turning red. I could tell even in the dark.

"Actually," Rosalie said. "He asked if I wanted to go out tomorrow."

"Oh! Oh!" Alice said, excitedly. "Can I get you ready for it?"

Of course Alice would take any excuse for shopping and make-overs.

"Sure," Rosalie said.

"Alright, it's a date," Alice told her.

Emmett pretended to pout. "You now have a date before our date!"

I smiled. "Looks like it, Em."

**

EmPOV

I walked up to the apartment building, hands in my pockets. I could see each deep breath I exhaled. It didn't make sense for me to be nervous about taking Rose to dinner, but I was. This was our first date where the others weren't involved. Dinner and a movie. Super simple, so why was I unsure about this?

I knocked on the door to their room.

"Its open," Rosalie's voice sounded distant.

Jasper and Edward weren't home, so she was probably in her bedroom or something. I walked in, not surprised to see she wasn't in the family room. I took one last deep breath before going into her room.

Rosalie was sitting on her bed, her face buried in her hands. Beside her was an open envelope, the single sheet of white paper that probably came in it was on top.

"Rose...? What's the matter, babe?" I sat down next to her and wrapped my arms around her.

She looked up at me. Her face was streaked with tears, and her freshly applied eyeliner and mascara running down where the tears were.

She pointed to the letter, then whispered, "We- we've been evicted."

A/N: Don't shoot me! The cliffy had to happen.

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