Woah, I just surprised myself ... this chapter was so easy to write! Hopefully it's easy to read as well ... sometimes I just don't know about my syntax. Oh well, skill comes with practice, right? Hahaha, so I have to torture you some more with even more chapters!
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Emmett was tense. He had started to tap his foot on the floor out of sheer nervousness after Maddie's spanking had ended. He had heard everything, of course. Rock-hard hand crashing down on rock-hard butt makes really loud noises! Can't fail to hear that.
And now it was only a matter of minutes until his father would enter this room, determined to inform him of his punishment.
After talking to Carlisle earlier, Emmett agreed that Maddie should be first. He didn't want his baby sister to wait in anticipation. And he hoped she would leave the house for a hunt to regain her strength and to heal faster.
But Carlisle was the only one who came down the stairs according to the footsteps Emmett heard.
So his sister was resting after getting a sound hiding. Emmett had flinched at every single smacking sound, all the while feeling pity for the little one when she cried out.
He was older than her - he shouldn't have agreed to play. Now his sister had gotten her bottom smacked and he would get away with a mere grounding; he felt guilty.
Carlisle stopped in front of Emmett's room and knocked once. "Emmett, follow me to my office, please."
Emmett was glad that the waiting was over and he could finally leave his room, but going to his father's office was not exactly what he had expected.
That room meant business.
He opened the door carefully, stepped outside and joined his father on his way to the office on the same floor.
They entered in silence. Carlisle seated himself behind his desk, then motioned for Emmett to take a seat on the wooden chair standing in front of it.
"We talked already, so I trust you know what your offences are."
"Yes, sir," Emmett replied.
"Tell me."
"Maddie and I defied your instructions."
Carlisle nodded his head, indicating he should continue.
"We carelessly broke items in this house."
"Go on."
Emmett looked utterly confused. That was all, wasn't it?
"What else did you do, Emmett?" Carlisle queried, stricter now.
"I don't remember anything else."
Carlisle raised one eyebrow. "You told your sister to manipulate Esme and me."
Oh.
He got scolded by Carlisle in the living room and assumed the issue was over with just then. Well, that obviously had been the wrong assumption.
Emmett sank down in his chair; he just wanted to shrivel up when Carlisle spoke again - his voice showed that he was clearly upset.
"I am glad that she did not try to follow through with your request, but that does not change the fact that you spurred her on. You must not suggest that she use her ability on any member of the family, ever. It is disrespectful and dishonest, dangerous even. I want you to be more careful with what you say in the future, you know she listens to you."
"I wasn't thinking, Carlisle. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that to her."
"Indeed. Think twice before you speak, Emmett, I told you countless times already."
"I'm sorry, Sir." Emmett couldn't look his father in the eye right then, he felt too ashamed.
"Good, then let us proceed." Carlisle stood up from his chair and walked around the desk to stop right next to his son. "Stand up and unfasten your trousers, son. Then I want you to lean over the desk."
Emmett gulped. It had been a while since the last time he ended up in this position, almost three years to be precise.
He slowly stood up, unbuttoned his jeans with trembling fingers and pulled them down to his knees. Then he leaned over the big desk and gripped the opposite edge of it. Letting out shaky breaths, he braced himself for the horrible spanking that was about to come.
Emmett heard that Carlisle moved the chair that he had been occupying mere seconds ago to the side and then positioned himself closer to him, putting a hand on his lower back to calm him as well as hold him in place.
Then Carlisle raised his hand high in the air, only to let it crack down forcefully onto his son's backside a second later.
"Ah!" Emmett knew it was a spanking and that it would hurt, but he wasn't prepared for this much pain. The first smack was a real eye-opener.
Too bad his father was a vampire and did not tire, otherwise Emmett might have had a chance of getting off lightly.
He had successfully banned the memories of the pain and embarrassment a spanking brought from his head, but it all came rushing back now. How could he be so stupid and risk getting a thrashing again? At that moment he swore to himself, like he did every time he got walloped, that he would never let it get that far again, while Carlisle kept up a steady rhythm in covering his upturned behind with sharp blows.
Then Carlisle started to lecture.
"When I forbid you from doing something, you will listen to me!" His words were accompanied by a whole series of smacks.
"The last time you disobeyed me I thought a stern rebuke would be enough, but you just proved me wrong!" More smacks.
"Think. before. you. act!" and with that said, Carlisle finished up the spanking.
When he stopped, Emmett was openly crying. He had tried to stay stoic throughout the whole ordeal, hadn't even begged, but with Carlisle's hand made out of iron it was next to impossible to not give in and cry.
"Shhh, it is over, Emmett. You're forgiven." Calisle gently rubbed his son's shoulders in a comforting manner.
"I'm sorry, so sorry," Emmett managed to say in between sobs and carefully pulled his jeans back up.
"All is forgiven, son," Carlisle assured him and hugged his son close. "Calm yourself, it's over."
A couple of minutes later and Emmett was back to his goofy self - but with a smarting backside.
"Woah, Pops, that'll hurt for weeks! Remind me to not get on your bad side again," he said, all the while trying to rub the sting away.
"I hope I left a lasting impression, so a repeat will not be necessary."
Emmett nodded his head furiously. He didn't want a repeat either. "Uhm, Dad ... would it be okay with you if I lie down for a moment?"
"Well, of course! Come," Carlisle walked his son to his room, hugged him tightly and released him again.
"I'll inform you when it's time for you and your sister to clean up."
Emmett gave him a sheepish smile, then walked into his room to rest.
"Mom?" Maddie asked nervously when she peeked into the living room, looking for Esme.
"I'm here! Come sit with me, Maddie," her mother replied from her seat on the couch.
So Maddie scurried over to her, but remained standing when she reached the couch.
"What's wrong, sweetie?" Esme looked at her daughter and frowned.
"I'm really sorry, Mommy, we didn't mean to break your things," Maddie apologised with her head bowed.
"Oh, darling, come here," Esme pulled her daughter onto her lap and hugged her close with both arms.
"I really appreciate you apologising to me."
Maddie nodded and then leaned her head against her Mom's shoulder, breathing in her calming scent.
Then she started talking again. "You know, we hadn't even realised that we broke something. Now I am sad that it happened, because we didn't want to hurt your feelings, but we did," she said and played with the hem of her shirt. Apologising always made her nervous, because she never knew if she did it right.
"I was disappointed in you, yes," Esme confirmed - she wouldn't lie to her daughter and tell her it didn't matter - that way she wouldn't learn.
"Don't be mad at me anymore, Mommy, please don't," Maddie begged with wide eyes that held a visible layer of venom in them.
"It is forgiven now, don't worry about it."
"But I still feel bad," she mumbled and looked into her mother's eyes.
"Hm." Esme thought about that, then lifted her hand and gave her youngest a firm tap on the bum. "Better?" she asked with a smirk.
Maddie was startled by the smack, especially because her butt was still a bit sore. But then she smiled and buried her face in the crook of her Mom's neck. Esme hugged Maddie closer and placed a loving kiss on top of her head, savouring the moment.
"Sweetie, how about you help me pick out new picture frames? Would you like that?" Esme suddenly offered; she knew it would help her daughter feel better.
Maddie beamed up at her Mom. She was glad to have her back and that she could make up for the broken things by helping to get new ones. Maddie visibly relaxed at that moment.
"Look, Alice curled my hair." Maddie held up a strand of her hair. She held it next to one of her mother's locks. "It looks like yours now, just darker."
Esme couldn't help but smile when she noticed her daughter changing from being devastated to being carefree in mere seconds.
She leaned back further on the couch to get a more comfortable sitting position with Maddie on her lap, when she suddenly felt something bulky press against her lower back.
"What is .. that?" Esme wondered and reached behind the pillow she was leaning against; Maddie turned her head and saw a streamer spray can in her mother's hand.
"Uh, that's mine!" her eyes lit up and she wanted to take it from Esme, who just held the can further away, out of Maddie's reach.
"Madeline!" A stern voice called from the staircase, "Didn't you learn anything today?"
Carlisle strode up to his wife and daughter, then accepted the can Esme handed him. So his dear little daughter felt bad for breaking something of her mother's, accepted punishment for defying her father, but would obviously play the game, which got her in trouble in the first place, again without batting an eyelash.
"Sorry. You can keep it if you want," Maddie offered with a sheepish look on her face.
"Mad, you're maddish." Emmett laughed and walked over to them.
"Emmy!" Maddie squealed and jumped up, then asked carefully, "Are you all right?"
Maddie had left her room as soon as Emmett's spanking was over. Woah, it had been so much worse than her own! She had pressed a pillow over her ears, but unfortunately it had done nothing to block out the loud slapping sounds coming from her Dad's office.
"Sure, how about you?" He smirked and tried to make light of the fact that his baby sister had overheard him getting his rear end roasted.
"I'm good!" she replied with a smile.
"All right, you two, I want you to clean up now. At a human pace, if you would," Carlisle requested and seated himself next to his wife, putting an arm around her delicate shoulders.
Emmett and Maddie groaned, but complied. Picking up streamers wasn't too bad since streamers didn't leave stains or anything.
Their parents chided them from time to time for playing around instead of cleaning, but they managed to clear the house of all traces. It was back to its normal state when they were done.
It was already late evening when Rose, Edward, Alice and Jasper came home. They had followed through with the hunting trip, just without their siblings and changing the destination; Alice had obviously warned them about what was taking place at home, so they left directly after school without coming home first.
Maddie and Emmett had secluded themselves in Maddie's room a while ago, busy with fooling around and laughing.
Suddenly Rosalie marched in, hands on her hips and tongue poking against the inside of her cheek. "You two are so incredibly stupid," she said.
Emmett and Maddie high fived and laughed; they had thought about making a bet about what Rose would say to them, but both were of the same opinion: Rose would tell them that they're stupid.
Rosalie huffed.
"How was school, babe?" Emmett asked his wife with a goofy grin and earned himself a blow on the head.
"Ha, you owe me twenty bucks, Em!" Yes, Maddie had bet that he would get hit by his wife.
He grumbled but handed her the money, then rubbed the spot where the blow had landed.
"That's enough. Emmett, come with me, we need to talk," Rosalie stalked out of the room, followed by Emmett.
Maddie waved them goodbye and propped herself up on her bed to read a book, finally having some time to herself.
However, twenty short minutes later she got disrupted by a very loud, very angry shout from her father. "MADELINE! Come down here THIS INSTANT!"
Oh dear ... why is Maddie in trouble?
Well, I know why :-P
Maybe you do too ...
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