Sorry for taking so long to update but i haven't gotten around to the story in a while with all the holiday rush but the 3rd chapter is here and the 4th will be up before the 2nd of January, I promise! I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah or whatever you celebrate during the holiday season!
Disclaimer: The characters still aren't mine unfortunately, they are 100% Stephanie Meyer's
Emmett's POV
I got up early the next morning to go see Rosalie. I met Alice downstairs and we headed out the door, to my jeep. We picked up Jasper at his house and stopped by the local bakery to grab something to eat. Then we headed off towards the hospital.
When we got there we headed straight for Rosalie's room on the 3rd floor. She was awake and, by the looks of it, waiting for us.
"Morning!" Alice said when we walked in, "Hungry?"
"Starving, hand it over," Rosalie said, laughing. Alice handed her the box full of pastries and bagels. When Rosalie was done Alice took the box back and set it on the table next to Jasper's chair. She sat on the armrest of his chair and zoned out, staring into his eyes. I laughed to myself as I sat down at the foot of Rosalie's bed.
"So how long 'til we can spring you from this place?" I asked.
"Carlisle said I could leave at noon," She said, she turned to Jasper "Where's mom and dad?"
"At home. They're coming up later mom's set on cleaning the entire house before you come home so dad's kinda trapped," Jasper explained. We all laughed at Jasper's explanation. I stared at Rosalie for a while and she blushed away from it. Alice saw this and stood up.
"We're gonna go get something to drink," She said pulling Jasper towards the door. Jasper shot us a confused look and then disappeared out the door behind Alice. Rosalie laughed.
"That was… subtle," she said, laughing still.
"That's Alice for you!" I joked. "So how's your leg?" I asked after a few quiet seconds.
"Fine, hurts a little though," she said. We sat there staring into each other's eyes until the sweet, almost romantic silence became a sour, awkward one. Alice, with her amazing timing, walked in after only a few awkward seconds.
"We bought you both hot chocolate," she said handing me 2 cups of hot chocolate. I handed one cup to Rosalie and took a sip of my own. Alice's phone began buzzing and she answered it.
"Hello?" she said into the phone, "Oh, hey Edward… Yea we're all here… She's fine… Room 368… Okay, see you soon!" she hung up the phone, "Edward's on his way over, his mom just told him,"
"Great! I'm way too tired to deal with a hysterical Edward," Jasper said jokingly.
"Right with you there buddy!" I said. Rosalie and Alice laughed.
We talked quietly until Edward walked in.
"Rosalie! Are you okay, what happened?" he asked.
"Edward, she's fine!" I said, "Relax dude," he nodded and sat down in a chair.
"So what's the damage?" he asked, trying to calm himself, he was so over dramatic sometimes.
"I've got a broken leg, and I had some cuts and glass in my arm but it's all out so it's just a little sore now," she said reaching for my hand. I grabbed it, knowing how much she hated reliving the whole thing in her head even though she was fine now.
"Dang, so what time are you getting out?" he asked.
"Noon-ish," she said.
"Worry wart" Jasper said under his breath, we all laughed.
"I've got good reason to!" Edward fake yelled. I rolled my eyes and laughed with everyone else.
Rosalie's POV
We sat through the rest of the morning talking and joking around. It was about 10:30 when my parents came up but they were whisked away quickly to do some paper work for my stay at the hospital. By noon everyone couldn't wait to get home. Carlisle gave me a pair of crutches and let me test the out before I left; I wasn't very good at maneuvering them. I hobbled unevenly out of the hospital followed by my brother and parents. Emmett and Alice left a few minutes before because Esme need them at home. Jasper helped me into my parent's car and slid in on the other side of me.
"Sooo.... what's up with you and Alice?" I asked.
"Shhh…" he said just before my parents slid into the car. That was funny, we never kept anything away from my parents, we told them everything, and there were no secrets in our family. He was obviously avoiding my question. Despite my curiosity I kept my mouth shut and decided to wait until we got home to ask him. The ride home from then on basically consisted of my mother and me singing to our favorite songs on the radio. When we got home my mom told Jasper to help my up the stairs, so I cornered him then.
"So what is up with you and Alice?" I asked him again.
"Nothing," he said quickly.
"It's not nothing! I saw the way you act around her!" I said.
"Fine! I like her, but don't you go telling her!" she said.
"Fine, but you should ask her out, she so likes you!" I said trying to convince him that it was true.
"Whatever!" he said, trying to sound indifferent. Just then my mom popped her head in the door.
"The Cullen's are coming over for dinner tonight at 6:30," she said. Jasper nodded and dashed out of the room. Before he disappeared behind the doorframe I saw a smile light his face. I checked my clock on my bedside table, it said 5:13. I stood unevenly and walked towards my closet. I picked out a pair of dark jeans, a white cami, and my bluegrass boatneck shirt. I put my hair into a ponytail and looked in the mirror. I was very glad my pants flared enough to disguise part of my cast. I slipped on one of my flats and hobbled down the stairs. I headed straight for the kitchen and found my mother cooking and baking hastily.
"What do you need mom, I'm here to help!" I said, smiling.
"No, No, Rosie. You just go sit down! You need to relax! I'll get Jasper to help me!" she said. I laughed and walked back out to the living room. I sat down on the piano bench and began playing a new song I had been working on learning. Jasper walked down the stair after I had been playing for a few minutes. He was dressed in his nice kakis and his blue striped dress shirt.
"Well, don't we look handsome? What's the occasion, not for someone special I presume?" I teased. He rolled his eyes and walked out of the room. As he walked out of the room I heard him mumble, "Knew I shouldn't've told her!" I laughed and continued my song.
For about an hour I watched as my mother ordered Jasper around the house. By 6:25 the entire house was cleaned and all the food was ready. After a few minutes the doorbell rang and I went to answer it. Carlisle and Esme stood in the doorway, Emmett and Alice behind them.
"Hello Dr. Carlisle, Esme!" I said, "Hi Alice, Emmett,"
"Hello, Rosalie!" Carlisle and Esme said and walked in towards the kitchen. Alice and I kissed each other on the cheek and walked over to Jasper. Emmett said hello and helped me walk back to the living room. We sat on the coach and started talking.
"So how was your day?" I asked.
"Horrible!" he said, jokingly, "All I could think about was a poor, pretty girl, who was hurt a few days ago, and wonder if she was okay!"
I blushed and said, "Is that so?"
"Yep," he replied. I giggled.
"What happened to the pretty girl?" I asked, going along with the scenario.
"Some idiot hit her with a car!" he said, slightly angry. We continued this banter for a while. When we were done, I offered him a drink. He followed me into the kitchen and sat down on a stool by the island in the middle of the room. I poured us both some water and handed one cup to him.
"So have you noticed Alice and Jasper?" Emmett asked.
"Oh yea! They are so cute together! I wish Jasper would ask her to homecoming!" I said.
"Hmm… Homecoming, haven't put much thought into that. Have you?" he asked.
"No, not really" Just that I wanna go with you! I thought
"All I know is that I wanna go… with a date, of course," he said, "Who do you think I should ask?"
ME! "I don't know," I said.
"Have you thought of asking anyone yet?" he asked. Maybe I should just tell him, it wouldn't be that bad.
"Just one person," I said
Emmett's POV
Just one person? Who could it be? Who could Rosalie want to go to Homecoming with? She hasn't flirted with anyone recently. I've seen her talk to Felix occasionally, but not flirting!
"Who?" I asked. I tried to make it sound like I didn't matter but at the same time like it did.
"Well… I kinda want to ask…-" she stared.
"Kids!" Mrs. Hale shouted, "Time for dinner!" Rosalie rushed, as fast as she could with her cast on, out of the room. We walked into the Hale's almost estate-sized dinning room. The entire table was filled with food, mashed potatoes, chicken, turkey, fish, all sorts of fruits and veggies, and in the middle of it all was a large cake.
"Wow!" Alice said, "This looks amazing, Mrs. Hale!"
"It sure does, Elizabeth." Esme said.
"Thank you! Please dig in!" she said. Jasper and I immediately obeyed and started piling food onto our plate. Rosalie and Alice laughed at us and then took their own food. We all ate until we had only enough room left in our stomachs for the cake. When we finished that, our parents moved themselves into the kitchen and us kids moved ourselves into the living room.
Rosalie sat at her piano while Jasper and Alice sat on the couch. Rosalie started playing a song and after a few notes she began singing in what sounded like French.
"Caresse sur l'ocean, am I right?" Alice asked.
"Oui," Rosalie replied, "J'adore Jean Babtiste et Les Choistes!"
"Moi aussi!" Alice said.
"This is the only song I can sing entirely in French, I can play a few others," Rose said.
"Rose loves Les Choistes, we own the movie," Jasper said.
"What is it?" I asked feeling a little left out.
"It's a French movie," Rosalie said, "We can watch it some time."
I nodded and Rosalie picked up where she left off on her song. Alice and Jasper returned to their hushed conversation. I turned towards Rose and sat on the piano bench.
"How do you know so much French?" I asked, "You are only in your first year."
"Oh, well languages come pretty easily to me," she said, blushing, "Jasper and I have an aunt who is German that we used to spend a lot of time with. So she taught us to speak German fluently,"
"Say something in German," I said curiously.
"Hallo, mein Name ist Rosalie" she said.
"Cool!" I said.
"So once I started taking French I read through and memorized most of the book before school even started, I probably know almost as much as Alice," she said.
"Then why haven't you switched classes?" I asked, confused.
"Well…I like that class, I don't want to change," she said quietly.
The last weeks of August zoomed by and so did the first couple weeks of September. Next thing we knew, Homecoming was a week away.
Edward and I finally convinced Jasper to ask Alice to Homecoming, Edward was asking the new girl in school, Bella, who moved from Phoenix over the summer who he had been crushing on all year. I had finally decided to ask Rosalie.
I told everyone I was going to ask her during lunch, alone, one week before the Homecoming football game.
Edward and Jasper knew the plan and helped keep everyone away from our usual table. When Rosalie walked in she looked at our table, seeing only me, and scanned the lunchroom for our friends. When she saw everyone else at one table she shot me a confused look, but walked towards me anyway.
"Are you in a fight with someone?" she asked, "Why is everyone sitting over there?"
"No we're not in a fight," I said, "Their actually helping me, I wanted to ask you something… alone."
"Okay, what do you need to ask?" she said nervously, but obviously trying to hide that.
"Will you…" I started, "go to Homecoming with me?"
She looked at me, stunned, for a minute, frozen by my question. When she came back to her senses she ran her fingers through her hair and leaned forward.
"Really?" she asked. I nodded. She paused and then said, "Of course I'll go to Homecoming with you!" I stood up and, in only a few strides, I was on the other side of the table. I pulled Rosalie in to a huge hug. She threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tighter. I could hear the guys and girls from our table walking over, clapping and cheering.
"Way to go Em!" I heard Edward say, clapping me on the back.
"Congrats!" Jasper said. Everyone made their way back to our table and we all finished our lunches there, happily. I heard Alice, Bella, and Rose all making plans for Saturday to go dress shopping. All the guys began talking about the Homecoming football game, next Friday.
When lunch was over Rosalie and I stood up and walked to our class. After Rosalie's accident some how my schedule got changed. Now I was in all my classes with Rosalie. We took our usual seats in the back of the class. We talked until the bell rang and our teacher came in and started up her usual lecture.
Rosalie's POV
(1 week later, the Homecoming Football game)
Alice, Bella, and I were all sitting in the first row of bleachers watching Emmett, Edward, Jasper and the rest of the football team kick the other team's butt.
"Woo! Go Jasper!" Alice cheered as he grabbed the ball off the ground when the other team dropped it. He threw it to Edward who caught it perfectly and then ran towards the end zone while Emmett sacked any one who tried to get near Edward. Edward ran into the end zone and scored another point for our team. We all stood up and cheered for them. I checked the scoreboard. The score was now 24 us, 18 them.
"Way to go Edward!" Bella shouted, clapping. The horn that signaled the end of the quarters sounded, the game was over. The three of us stood up and walked over towards the team. We congratulated all the guys on their win then we found our guys. I ran up to Emmett and hugged him.
"Great game" I whispered in his ear.
"Thanks!" he whispered back. We walked over to where Edward, Bella, Alice and Jasper all stood hugging each other.
"I'm starving, lets go get something to eat," Emmett said.
"You're always starving!" I said, jokingly.
"Well, I'm hungry too, let get to the diner before all the booths are gone," Edward said. We nodded and headed for our cars. I watched as Alice hopped into Jasper's car as I slid into Emmett's Jeep. We pulled out of our parking spot and drove out of the lot, followed by Edward's Volvo and Jasper's BMW. I turned to the radio and began flipping through the stations until I found a song I liked.
"Paramore?" he asked. I nodded.
"I love them! That's What You Get is my favorite," I said, "but I listen to a lot of other stuff too."
"That's my favorite too," he said. We pulled into the diner's parking lot and took a spot by the door. As usual the whole team was there, celebrating their most recent win. Emmett and I grabbed a large booth in the corner of the room and we waited for everyone to get here.
"So… are you ready for tomorrow?" he asked.
"Completely," I said without hesitation, "I can't wait!"
A/N: Thanks for reading again and please review!!!!
and for those of you who don't know, Jean Babtiste is a French Singer (an amazing one might i add!). He stars in the movie Les Choistes which i highly recomend watching becuase it is AMAZING! (and Pépinot is the cutest little boy!)
This Chapter is named for Taylor Swift's song, You Belong With Me (which i got for christmas!!!!)
French words:
J'adore Jean Babtiste et Les Choistes!- I adore Jean Babtiste and Les Choistes
Moi Aussi- Me too