My longest chapter yet! Phew!

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patz13: There were actually no spankings planned for the next few chapters while Esme and Carlisle aren't home. Sooo ... I just added a flashback. Like it?

The next days went by in a blur. Maddie sulked another day or two, but eventually realised that it would get her nowhere.

On Friday evening, Carlisle and Esme got ready to leave for the airport. Carlisle carried their two suitcases down the stairs, which Esme had packed while he was at work, and put them next to the door that led to the garage. Their children were standing at the counter, waiting.

Well, Maddie was more or less waiting, too ... she was watching the Disney Channel and couldn't care less what was happening around her.

Because she did not know at what time her parents would leave the house for their one week vacation, she got herself detention at school in hopes her parents were already gone when she would come home later. No such luck. They still hadn't left yet and she was grounded for the rest of the day.

Rose walked into the living room, her heels clicking on the expensive parquet floor. She took the remote from the armrest of the couch and switched the TV off.

Maddie gave her an annoyed-as-hell look.

"Come now, we'll see Esme and Carlisle off."

"But I was watching that!" she pointed at the TV and looked back at Rose.

"You are coming with me," Rosalie replied, grabbed Maddie by the arm and pulled her into the kitchen.

"Be nice," Rose whispered in her ear and gently pushed her in front of herself when Esme entered the kitchen.

"So," Esme sighed. "I think I packed everything."

"And we need to be leaving soon, otherwise we won't be able to catch our plane," Carlisle stated after taking a look at his watch.

"All right, darling."

She then retrieved a piece of paper from the drawer of the sideboard and handed it to Jasper. "Here is a list of all the important phone numbers, emergency -"

"Esme." Jasper smiled and tried not to chuckle. "you worry too much. We'll be fine."

"I know you will. I trust you," she said, then walked over to Maddie and patted her on the head. "And take good care of my little Maddie."

"Mom please, I can take care of myself," the girl whined.

"Yes I know, sweetie," Esme said and hugged her youngest close.

"You know you can call us anytime you wish." Ugh, parents, seriously.

"Yep, you told me, like, a million times already," Maddie replied, rolling her eyes.

Esme wasn't too impressed with that, so Maddie quickly added, "And I'll keep it in mind, of course." Just to make sure she wouldn't get into any more trouble during the last few minutes her parents were still home.

Standing around in the kitchen was starting to bore her, even though it hadn't been more than maybe a minute. "Oh Mom! You need to hurry, your plane!" she quickly exclaimed and hugged her Mom close, then went to give her Dad a kiss on the cheek and asked, "Can I go watch TV now?"

"Sure ... have fun, sweetie," Carlisle replied, watching her with a skeptical look in his eyes. He knew she was still upset about not being able to visit Tanya, but it was nothing he could change. "And remember what I told you."

Yes. What he told her ... last night, Carlisle called her to his office again and let her know that he wanted her to be on her best behaviour for the week and if she got in any trouble while he and Esme were away, he would address it as soon as he came home.

Isn't that sweet?

So Maddie planted her butt back on the couch in the living room while her siblings said their good-byes to Carlisle and Esme and wished them a safe and happy trip.

"All right, I'll just put your laundry in the dryer, then we can do something fun," Rose said while looking at Maddie, then stalked towards the laundry room.

Jasper was on his way to his and Alice's room but stopped right in the middle of the staircase, turned around and asked, "Wait a minute ... you are doing Madeline's laundry?"

"Sure." Rosalie shrugged her shoulders. "Esme usually takes care of it, but she didn't have enough time today."

Jasper turned to Maddie and questioned, "And why don't you do your laundry yourself now, Madeline?"

"She won't let me do it!" she called over her shoulder while zapping through the channels.

"And why is that?"

"Well, Rose thinks I can't be trusted to be alone in the laundry room."

"She broke the washing machine two months ago so we had to get a new one," Rose explained, because she remembered that Jasper and Alice were not home during that specific week and therefore did not know what had happened at home. Well Alice probably knew, but whatever.

"How did you do that?" he questioned.

She sat up on the couch and said with innocent eyes, "I wanted to clean my bowling ball."

"That was the lie you told Esme, and she did not believe you for a second," Rose remarked.

"Yeah, unfortunately that wasn't properly thought through ...," Maddie pondered.

"And pops gave you a good whoopin'," Emmett said with a goofy grin on his face.

"Meh." was all Maddie said.

Two months ago ...

Maddie hated wearing a school uniform. But she hated the school her parents made her go to even more. It was a freakin' private school - for girls only.

Esme and Carlisle had a sick sense of humor, obviously.

Okay, maybe it was a tad bit her own fault since she managed to get herself kicked out of Forks Junior High, but come on!, that? ! A bit too harsh if you asked her.

Maddie had managed to ruin her uniforms several times already. She ripped two, 'lost' one and stained three, but unfortunately Esme had purchased several sets for her, that's why she was still wearing the damn clothes.

But now she finally made it: there were no more sets hanging in her closet. She only had the one left she was currently wearing.

In order to ruin it, she went hunting while wearing it. No need to say that it was covered in mud and blood by the time she was full and went home. Esme had a fit and then told her she would wash the uniform as soon as she came back from the home-improvement market. Damn, Maddie had hoped it was ruined beyond remedy.

So, while Esme was gone, and everybody else except for Edward as well, she decided to keep her Mom from saving the stupid uniform. As long as she had no uniform, she couldn't go to school, right? But she couldn't be too obvious about it, it needed to look accidental.

Edward was upstairs in his room, listening to music. That was good, because he usually did not read minds when he was preoccupied with his favourite bands.

Maddie grabbed her bowling ball from the closet in her room, then made her way downstairs to the laundry room. Opening the lit of the washing machine, she carefully put the heavy ball into it, closed the lit again and started the machine.

Then she plunged herself down on the couch and watched the music channel.

No need to say that after a minute Edward stormed down the stairs and yelled, "What is that noise?" Maddie shrugged her shoulders and just continued to watch TV, which was actually next to impossible - the washing machine was beyond loud.

"What did you do? !" he asked his sister, almost growling the words.

"Nothing!" she quickly said and then chanted 'nothing nothing nothing' over and over in her head, to keep herself from thinking about what she did mere minutes ago.

The noise died down completely after a loud 'Bang!' could be heard.

With his enhanced hearing, Edward had already located the source of the noise. He disappeared for a moment, then came back, looking furious.

"Are you insane? !" he questioned Maddie, his eyes glaring daggers at her.

"I wanted to wash it," she said meekly.

"Keep your lies to yourself. You will explain this to Esme when she comes back. I'm staying out of this."

Well, he said he would stay out of it, but still got punished by Carlisle later on for not keeping an eye on his sister, haha.

And Maddie ... she had to endure an half hour lecture from Esme, then was sent to her room with the words "Just wait until your father gets home!".

Awesome.

So she waited in nervous anticipation for one hour until she heard her Dad's Mercedes coming towards the house. Esme was probably briefing him about what his daughter had done this time, because it took him a couple of minutes until he appeared in her doorway.

"Again, Madeline?" he asked, clearly annoyed with her.

"What, Daddy?" she asked, eyes big and innocent.

"Do not pretend you don't know what I am talking about. You have ruined a total of six uniforms and now that? ! You break the washing machine so the seventh one is ruined, too!"

"I didn't know it would break the machine, Dad!"

"Don't even go there, Madeline! You knew we would notice if you just broke the machine by hand, so you put your bowling ball in it! I cannot believe you!" he ranted, raking his fingers through his hair - it was a reaction to stress.

"Honestly, it was an accident!" she whined, hoping she could somehow make him believe her lie.

"You lied to your mother downstairs and now you have the gall to lie to my face as well. Tell me, what did I tell you would happen if you lie again?" Carlisle asked, index finger pointing at her.

Oh, hell no.

"Please, Dad! I didn't mean to -," she tried, but got interrupted immediately.

"You didn't mean to lie? But I think you did. Now tell me, what happens to someone who lies in this house?"

"They get spanked," Maddie murmured while looking at the floor.

"Exactly, they get spanked. And what did I tell you would happen if you destroyed one more of your school clothings?"

"Another smacking," she whispered.

"Yes. Another one, because you already received a spanking the last time you did it."

She said the only thing that seemed fitting at that moment. "I'm sorry."

"Are you now?"

"Please Daddy, ... I only did it because the other girls at school keep on bullying me! I don't wanna go back there, everybody hates me!" She started dry-sobbing and looked so pitiful, that Carlisle was next to her in a flash and hugged her close.

"I had no idea ... why did you never tell us, sweetheart? We would have -" He was frantic with concern for his youngest daughter.

"She's lying!" came from the other room.

Goddammit. So not only did Esme tell Carlisle what happened, but Edward did as well. And Edward got obviously punished by Carlisle for not keeping an eye on her, so he used this moment for payback.

Carlisle froze when he heard what Edward just said. So his daughter had lied again.

He loosened the embrace, grabbed Maddie's upper arms and pushed her slightly away from himself in order to look her in the eyes. Maddie preferred to look away; Carlisle's face was the last thing she wanted to look at right now ... she was so screwed.

"You will look me in the eye right now and tell me again that you are on the receiving end of bullying at school."

She slowly looked up, guilt written all over her face, but she did not dare to utter a single word.

Carlisle was angry. He pushed his tongue against the inside of his cheek, until he said, "I want you to stay in this room. I am not capable of dealing with you right now." And then, he left.

She felt horrible. Well, the broken washer she did not give a damn about, but the lie about bullying and Carlisle's look of sheer despair as a reaction to it was something she regretted deeply. It would have been easier to have used her talent on him, to force him to believe her story instead of seeing his true concern about her well-being.

It took Carlisle a full hour until he came back upstairs.

The moment Maddie saw him, she sobbed; this time it wasn't an act, she truly felt awful.

Carlisle sensed his daughter's distress and sat down on the bed next to her, hugging her close and soothing her.

"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry," Maddie managed to say between sobs.

"Calm yourself, Madeline. Let us talk about it."

"No, it's all right, I'll go," she said and made to stand up, but Carlisle held her back.

"You'll go? What are you talking about? You'll go where?" Confusing.

"Away."

"Why would you go away?" What was his daughter talking about? Did she want to leave her family?

But she did not answer.

"Neither I nor your mother nor your siblings want you to leave," he clarified for her.

"Why?" She royally screwed up, why would they keep her?

"Sweetheart, you misbehaved and broke the rules, but that doesn't change that fact that you are our daughter. We love you no matter what."

"Really?" she asked in a strained voice, looking even younger that she actually was.

"Yes, really. Now calm yourself, sweetheart."

After a couple of minutes, Carlisle pulled away to look at his daughter and ask, "All better now?"

She nodded. "All better."

"Good. Then shall we proceed?"

She sighed and nodded again.

"Madeline, I don't want you to lie to us. It is disrespectful and a very bad habit. We need to be able to trust each other. But repeated lying breaks this trust. Do you understand that?"

"Yes."

"Do you understand why I am going to punish you?" he asked again.

"Yes."

"Tell me why."

"Because I lied about breaking the washer and I lied about being bullied."

"What else did you do, Madeline?"

"I stained my uniform on purpose and wanted to keep Mom from fixing it," Maddie explained.

"And you have been punished for that before, but decided to do it again. I cannot let it slide."

"I'm sorry," Maddie whispered, because she really was.

"I believe you. Now come," he said, and waited for her to stand up so he could pull her across his lap. Her grey sweats were quickly pulled down and then the spanking started.

Carlisle did not hold back as he let his hand crack down on her upturned behind, over and over again in a steady rhythm.

Maddie tried not to make a sound; it was an embarrassing punishment after all.

But when the pain in her backside got too intense, she couldn't hold back anymore and cried. She started squirming and kicking her legs as well, so Carlisle stopped for a short moment, pinned her kicking legs with his right one, and Smack! Smack! Smack! kept on peppering up her backside. The last four slaps out of the two dozen in total were aimed at her sensitive sit spots; the girl was supposed to feel the punishment for a while, so she could think about her mistakes and learn from them. It would prevent her from having a smarting behind in the future.

The comforting hand on her back made Maddie realise that her punishment was over. She stirred, and her father pulled her sweatpants back up and helped her stand. She immediately hugged him and let her head rest against his chest. Carlisle hugged his daughter back, needing the comfort just as much as she did.

"I am sorry I had to do this, princess, but you left me no choice."

"I forgive you," she replied cheekily and giggled. She was still in pain, of course, but the sobs and sniffles had subsided.

"Still as bold as brass, my little one." He chuckled and ruffled her dark brown hair. His youngest daughter always knew the right moment to lift the mood.

Maddie was, in addition to the spanking, grounded for a week by her mother as punishment for the broken washer. And to Maddie's horror, Esme had kept a brand-new school uniform hidden in her own closet - for Maddie to wear to school the next day.

"Exactly, and the last time you used the washing machine the room was overflowing with foam! Esme was beside herself," Rose went on.

"Haha, yeah, the look on her face was priceless," Emmett added dreamily.

"Besides, Esme said Maddie tends to ruin her clothing, so I will not allow her to do the laundry."

"What did you destroy?" Jasper asked, a frown creasing his forehead.

"Well, that ugly pink dress Esme got me and the yellow sweater. And my uniform ... a couple of times," Maddie listed.

Rose jaw dropped. "That dress was gorgeous! Why did you ruin it?"

"It was pink and there were flowers all over it! Flowers! Ugh." Maddie started zapping through the channels again, the chat was starting to bore her.

"And what was wrong with the yellow sweater, huh?" Rose demanded.

It was yellow maybe? "Duh. Ugly colour, go figure."

"Okay ... so you ripped it?" Rose obviously wanted to get the whole story.

"Nope, I washed it," she said with a devilish smile.

"Unbelievable," Jasper said and continued his way up the stairs and into his and Alice's room, while Rose went to do the laundry.

"So, what shall we do? ... Emmett?" Maddie said and looked at him expectantly.

"Hm, I don't know. Let's break something," he suggested playfully.

Maddie's eyes lit up at the idea.

"Joking, Tiny. There is nothing to break around here."

"Is too! I have some boo-," Maddie started to say.

"You are not seriously suggesting that right now, now are you Madeline?" Rosalie called from the laundry room. Shit, they talked a little too loud and she overheard.

Maddie hastily replied, "Joking, Rose!"

"Hilarious." came as a reply.

Rose finished up with the laundry and joined Emmett and Maddie in the living room.

"I am finished. What shall we do now?"

"Bowling?" Maddie suggested.

Rosalie shook her head no. "I don't think so, you are grounded."

"Come on! Carlisle and Esme aren't here anymore! We can do whatever the fuck we want!"

"Don't use that word in my presence. Better yet, don't use it at all. And you are still grounded for being held back after school." Ugh, Rose was being difficult again.

Maddie shrugged, completely ignoring the reprimand about using the f-word. "What they don't now, won't hurt 'em."

"We stay home tonight."

"Come on, Rosie, don't be like that," Emmett tried.

"No." She did not budge.

Emmett held his hands up in defeat; his little sister would not get her wish tonight.

"Fine," Maddie grumbled.

They ended up watching some game show and Em and Maddie started making bets.

"No! The blond one, for sure!" she said indignantly.

"Never ever! The guy with the tattoo is so going to win."

"The blond one!" she shouted, both sitting on the floor and inching closer to the screen.

"Which one do you mean anyways?" Emmett asked, nudging her in the side with his elbow.

"The sexy one, of course," she replied.

Emmett immediately sat up, a serious look on his face. "Okay, I don't want you to say that word ever again."

"Huh? Which one?" What's wrong with Emmett?

"Sexy." Emmett spit it out as if it was vile and nasty.

"Why?"

"Because if you know what it means, then it means you are interested in boys and that is not going to happen," he stated authoritatively.

She started to laugh so hard, she would have suffocated if she were still human.

Rose came in from the dining room where she was going through a magazine; game shows were nothing worth watching, she said.

She looked confused, and Maddie was still laughing like a maniac. "You are hilarious, Em!"

"What did you say, Emmett?" Rose asked, suddenly curious.

But his face was blank. What was so funny about what he said? He really did not want her to date anyone!

"Hahaha, he said he doesn't want me to be interested in boys!"

"Oh Emmett." Rosalie smirked. Her big bear of a husband was really protective.

"What? I will not let any of these pubescent dick-driven teenagers anywhere near my innocent little baby sister!" he shouted insistently.

Maddie let herself fall over onto her side and put a hand over her mouth to stifle the giggles that still escaped her mouth.

"Emmett, you cannot keep this up forever," Rose said, obviously amused.

"You'll see. And what are you laughing at?" he questioned his sister and slapped her on the ass in order to make her stop making fun of him. He was dead serious after all.

"Oww! Sorry Em," she said while sitting up again and rubbing at her bottom, still giggling. "You're just so funny, you know. I'm seventeen!"

Yeah, she still did not get the concept of being a vampire: There is your physical age, and there is your vampire age. So actually ... she was barely three.

"I am still older than you, so you do as I say," he clarified, not even a hint of a smile on his face.

"Phh, Em, come on, you know I could always make you do as I say." She blinked her eyes a couple of times; all the laughing had made her eyes fill up with venom and so her vision became a bit blurry.

Rose was leaning with her hip against the backrest of the couch, arms folded and clearly enjoying the show that was taking place right in front of her.

"But ... you are not allowed to use your ability on any of us!" he said in order to remind her, but at the same time seemed a little stupid.

"Oh!" Maddie hit her forehead with her open hand as if she remembered something, eyes wide in shock. "Dammit! You are right!"

"See." Emmett grinned and nodded his head.

He so did not realise that his little sister was shitting him. Poor baby.

TBC...

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