"Fine, Earlier when Edward and I went for a walk after Jake and Nessie came back, we walked to the end of the boat and them two staff members were talking about Jake and Nessie. One of them was obviously the one Jake was talking about. Anyway the man said to the other that he thought Jake was mine or Edward's brother and when he went onto the deck earlier and saw Jake and Nessie in the pool laughing, he was really confused. He said he just watched after that and saw you both get out of the pool, go over to the dolphins who jumped out the pool and hit Jake's hand one by one. This is the best bit, he said he was actually scared for Nessie." I explained as everyone listened very carefully.
"After he said that we both burst into fits of laughter. They heard us and we to run to the other end of the boat so they didn't see who it was that is why we both got off the boat really quickly to avoid them saying something."
Jake, Nessie, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Edward and I were laughing. Carlisle and Esme however didn't look to happy.
"Oh, Come on guys....that was funny,.... why are you both......not laughing?" Emmett asked in between laughs.
"Yea it was only a bit of fun," Edward inserted.
"Having fun and making fun of someone are two completely different things, Children and I don't agree with it at all. Those staff members were very nice to us and you go about making fun of them," Carlisle said disappointed as he took Esme's hand and walked towards the hotel.
"Having fun and making fun of someone are two completely different things, blah blah," Emmett mimicked behind Carlisle's back.
I knew it was wrong especially after everything Carlisle said but I couldn't help but laugh at Emmett's stupidity. We ran in the same direction as Carlisle and Esme towards the hotel. Nessie was in Jake's arms with her head on his shoulder. It was a long walk and the place was massive. Both Jake and Nessie laughed as we past the dolphins and headed for the entrance of the hotel. Two security men were there opening the doors for us and welcoming us into the hotel. They too were vampires as their skin was pale white. Esme and the Captain Tyler were right, the place was empty. We walked through another set of doors into the main hallway which was double the size of the baseball pitch back home at Forks. The receptionist came from behind the desk and hugged Esme and Carlisle. Her face was not familiar and from Edward's face he didn't know her either.
"Esme, Carlisle, I'm glad you came, It's lovely to see you again, It's been so long." She said.
"It's lovely to see you too, Claudia, we'll have to catch up sometime before we leave" Esme suggested.
"Of course, come I'll show you to your suite, and there is no need to worry, all the vampire's here are 'vegetarians' but won't hurt the wolf," Claudia explained turning to look at Jake.
"Of course they won't," Jake replied sarcastically which she didn't seem to like to much as her eyes glared up at him without saying a word. Jake towered over her and glared down at her not breaking the gaze. She was first to break it and looked back to Carlisle and Esme and showed us our room. I had only known this woman for 5 minutes and already I wasn't warming to her.
"Here you go," She said opening the door to our suite. "If you need anything you know where I am,"
"Ok, Claudia, Thank you," Esme said appreciatively closing the door behind her.
The suite was also huge and was very spacious. There were 5 bedrooms, a balcony, two walk in closets in each bedroom, luxurious master bath, luxurious shower, 3 three seater recliners, 1 two seater recliner, a kitchen and a 50" plasma screen tv in the living area.
"Bella and I claim this bedroom," Edward yelled from one of the bedrooms.
"Not fair," Alice moaned.
I walked into the bedroom Edward picked for us and It was the largest bedroom out of all them.
"Then Jasper and I pick this one," Alice yelled.
"Nessie and I this one," Jake yelled.
"Bingo, Rosalie and I get this one," Emmett yelled. It probably had the biggest bed in it.
"I guess that leaves us with this one," Carlisle said to Esme wrapping his arms around her waist as they walked into their room.
Alice and Jasper and Emmett and Rosalie's bedroom's were around the same size but like I thought Emmett and Rosalie's bed was bigger. Nessie and Jake's room was next door to us but there was a walk in door anyway leading from our room into their room. Carlisle and Esme's room was the smallest but still huge. We all walked into the living room and got each of our suitcases.
"Who was that woman Claudia, Mum?" Emmett asked the question we were all thinking.
"She went to my high school. She was in the class below your father and I. We don't really know one another that well, I don't know how or when she became a vampire but if she is friendly to me then I can only be friendly back," Esme told us as Edward and I were walking back into our bedroom with our cases.
"Are we going for a swim first or unpacking our suitcases first?" Edward asked me quietly.
"Swim," I smiled looking at him.
"Ok," He accepted.
Edward walked over to the far end of the room and opened the door leading into Nessie and Jake's room. I opened my case and poked through it for my bikini.
"Bella and I are going for a swim, do you want to come?" Edward asked them.
"I do, I do," I heard Nessie's answer in excitement.
I hadn't managed to get my bikini yet, I was still looking for it.
"I'll be down soon, I want to phone Billy first and let him know we all landed safely, overprotective father, you know how it is," I heard Jacob say.
"Sure, Jacob, well meet us down there when your ready," Edward replied understandably.
"Got it," I whispered to myself, well I thought I did.
"Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, Momma," Nessie laughed. She was in Edward's arms and had her pink swimsuit in her hand and her armband's in the other. Nessie had always wanted to learn how to swim and Edward, Jacob and I volunteered to help teach her. She was so excited.
Edward smiled, "Nessie, your Mum is used to talking to herself now, she used to talk to herself in her sleep, I think she is well past the first sign of madness by now, Sweetie."
"Actually, Edward for your information I only started talking in my sleep after the first day I saw you so that's when my first sign of madness started," I lied unconvincingly as Renee always used to tell me I talked in my sleep about all sorts of things but Edward didn't know that and didn't need to. I turned my back to him and fixed my clothes back into place so I could the case.
"You are such a terrible liar, you can see straight through you," Edward discovered. "I don't need to read your mind, I already can," He joked.
"I'm not lying," I carried on with my story, hoping he would let me win this one.
"Nessie, watch this," Edward said talking to Nessie, "Ok, look me in the eyes and tell me your not lying,"
I closed my eyes in disappointment, I knew I wouldn't be able to do it and as far as I knew, he knew I wouldn't be able to do it. I may as well try, I thought. I turned to face him and looked into his topaz eyes. Darn it, I thought.
"You win," I caved in.
Edward smirked and Nessie said, "Momma, I never knew you used talk in your sleep,"
"Every night" Edward smiled looking into my eyes.
"Daddy, What were you doing in Momma's bedroom anyway when she was sleeping?" Nessie asked looking up at his face curiously.
Edward looked at me with the expression on his face that said, 'Help'. I laughed a little loud.
"I'll tell you when your older," was all Edward could say for the moment. All Edward did was watch me sleep but Nessie would start asking questions like, "what is so good about watching someone sleep?" but in actual fact it was relaxing and kinda interesting as I had watched Nessie sleep many times before.
"No, I wanna know now," Nessie demanded.
"Edward, have you got your swimming shorts?" I asked changing the subject.
"No, take Nessie and I'll get them out of my case." Edward said giving Nessie to me.
"Why, Momma?" She asked in my arms.
"I don't know, Sweetie, your Dad is the only one that can tell you that answer" I lied again because of course I knew the reason why.
"Your doing it again," Edward smirked looking at me while taking his shorts from his case.
"Doing what, again? I'm confused," Nessie moaned.
Edward and I laughed quietly, I didn't want to make Nessie paranoid.
"Like I said, I don't need to read your mind," He said coming over to me and whispering in my ear.
Jake opened the door of our room.
"Ohh, I thought you would have gone already," Jake announced.
"Jake, did you know Dadda used to sit in Momma's bedroom while she slept?" Nessie announced to him. Jake's expression didn't looked to surprised but he put on a fake surprised expression for Nessie's sake.
"Really, I'm sure Grandpa Charlie would be interested in hearing that," Jake teased as Nessie jumped into his arms.
"You dare Jake and I swear, I'll not be responsible for my actions and Seth won't get in the way this time," I threatened reminding him of the time I found out Jake imprinted on Nessie and that he nick-named her after the Loch Ness Monster which I had to get used to because everyone started calling her it.
"I'd listen to her if I were you Jake," Edward smirked standing up for me.
"Your only saying that because Charlie would kill you," He replied but obviously he wouldn't.
"Yea, Bella would kill you," Edward hit back.
"Sure, Sure," was all he said.
"WE'RE ALL GOING FOR A SWIM GUYS," Emmett called from outside our bedroom.
"Well Nessie and I are going too," Jake said looking at Edward and me.
Jake walked out of our bedroom with Nessie in his arms.
"But wait Jake, I wanna know why?" I heard Nessie from outside the bedroom.
I didn't heard Jake's reply.
"I don't think she's gonna let it go," Edward laughed.
"Me neither." I agreed, "but you brought it up,"
"You can't pin it all on me, Ok, I accept I brought it up but you kept going on," He said.
"Ok, then I accept I kept going on," I accepted trying to end the conversation after I started it.
"Ok, so are we going for a swim?" He asked.
"Yes," I smiled. "I'm glad that conversation's over,"
"Me too," He said kissing my neck.
We closed the bedroom door, walked over to the table, lifted the key for the suite and walked out of the hotel suite locking the door behind us. We passed 2 vampires, a man and a woman on the way down the stairs. We got to the reception desk and Claudia was there, she never said anything to us, she just smiled.
"Ladies first," Edward said opening the front door for me.
"Thank you," I replied walking out into the sunshine.
It was 6.00pm so we could have a quick swim, get Nessie's hair dried and get her to bed for 8.00pm. Everyone was already in the water splashing about in the pool. Instead of Nessie learning how to swim she was on Jake's back while he swam.
"Weeeeee," she echoed excitedly.
"Someone's enjoying herself," Edward said to me.
"Yea," I laughed. He held his hand out to me.
"Coming?" He asked and I took his hand without thinking.
"INCOMING," He yelled as we ran and took a big jump into the pool.