Summer With the Cullens
By Holly-Batali
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize, I don't own it. I'm just borrowing without permission...as usual.
A/N: Okay, just thought I'd say this: I'm not quite sure if I'll do the other Cullen seasons stories; I read Breaking Dawn and it kind of ruined it for me. So if I don't finish the series, blame SM, not me. Good.
Chapter 3: Road Trip
"You're touching me again," mumbled Rosalie angrily.
"Sorry Miss Priss," mumbled Alice, rather nastily, I might add.
"Both of you can it!" Well, at least Emmett is good for shutting people up.
"She started it!" both girls hissed venomously (and yes, I do mean that quite literally).
Scratch the 'shutting people up' part.
Rosalie squealed. "Esme! Jasper's on my side!"
"ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" Roared Esme from the passenger seat, clutching the road map so tightly that it was ripping. Now there is a woman who can shut people up.
"Sorry Mom," everyone muttered. Even Carlisle looked a little cowed, even though he wasn't doing anything. Slouching down in the driver's seat, he tried to look as inconspicuous as possible.
"Good," said Esme in a deceptively sweet voice, turning back to her map. "Take a right on Exit 227," she muttered to Carlisle.
"Yes dear," he said wisely, still slumped in the drivers seat.
"Turn here," she said, pointing to Carlisle's left..
He obligingly turned, following all the directions she gave, which were rapid fire. I gave up trying to keep up with them and concentrated on the whispered drama going on in the backseats.
"You're still on my side," hissed Rosalie venomously to her 'twin'.
"Am not," Jasper taunted her, pushing a finger just over the line in the seat. "Oh, look at that, I am. Whoops." He pulled it back as Rosalie made a snatch for it. He repeated this several times, and Emmett and Edward held back helpless laughter as Rosalie fell for the bait time and again.
I had to look out the window to keep from getting caught laughing; Rosalie would not take kindly to it, and I wasn't immortal, so I'd rather not take the chance of getting my arm ripped off. Just a weird personal preference.
"Rose, relax," Emmett snorted. "Just ignore him."
"No!" she squealed quietly. "He's on my side. You think I'm gonna let him get away with it? Uh-uh, think again--stop that!" she smacked Jasper's hand as he began pushing the property lines again.
"Make me," he quipped, sticking his tongue out at her.
"Don't make me rip that outta your mouth," she threatened, pointing a finger at him and narrowing her eyes.
"Bite me," he retaliated.
"THAT'S IT!" Roared Rosalie, diving at Jasper in a snarling heap of blondness.
Edward and Alice reached back from the middle seats to try and help Emmett pull the two vampires apart. They were fighting so hard that the car was starting to rock back and forth, upsetting traffic. Horns blared and Carlisle had to pull over.
"HEY!" roared Esme from the front seat, whipping around so fast that her seat belt snapped. "DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE YOU TWO!" Emmett and Edward succeeded in pulling apart their two bickering siblings, and were currently restraining them.
"Alice," said Carlisle hesitantly, not wanting Esme to turn her wrath in his direction. "I want you to switch seats with Jasper. And Rosalie...you...be good, young lady. Your mother and I are very disappointed." He looked in Esme's direction; she nodded. "That's right," Carlisle finished, waiting for a moment for the seat changes before pulling back into traffic.
I sighed and leaned back into my seat, staring at the ceiling of the car as I contemplated why I agreed to come along in the first place.
When Edward had told me of Esme's idea to go for a road trip, it had sounded like a good idea. 'Fun' even.
Oh, but hindsight is a beautiful thing.
Alice had easily convinced Charlie to let me come, and then we were off to see the great US, with a side trip into Alaska for a picnic or two with the Denali coven. We were going to the cities where each Cullen had lived (excepting Carlisle, of course), which included New York, Chicago, Knoxville, Biloxi, and some town in Texas I'd never heard of. Oh boy.
This was 'family bonding' and 'human culture' that would be useful to each of the Cullen kids (and to me, I was assured). It would give us time to 'bond together as a family'.
Oh yes. This was going to be lots of fun.
A/N: Short, yes, but it's what I've got right now. I'm sorry for slacking so much, but I'll finish it now, I promise! I just got a little sidetracked with NaNoWriMo and all. Review please! Especially since it's my one-year anniversary for writing/posting fanfic today (will that get you to review?)
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