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AN: thanks so much you guys for the great reviews on the lemon last chapter. they were really encouraging! here's another chapter for you guys. this one is dedicated to all you lovely readers that gave katie m cullen & i such RAVE reviews about our lemon. hope you enjoy, this ones for you guys!

RPOV:

"What you got there Em?" I questioned, walking over to him. He was sitting at his dining room table going through mail. He smiled and handed me the cream colored envelope.

I carefully pulled the card out of the envelope.

Marriage is like a garden...
with love and tender attention
it will flourish with abundant beauty…
To celebrate our 30 years of marriage
and the love that has continued to blossom
We invite you to join us for
Cocktails, Dinner and Dancing
on Saturday, December 12th at 6 P.M.
at the Harbor Club
Seattle, Washington
Regrets only 206.123.4567

Carlisle & Esme Cullen

"I'm gonna' need to go shopping," I said with a smirk. Emmett groaned.

"Can I ask you a question, Rose?" he asked.

"What's on your mind?" I replied plopping myself down on his lap.

"Are we going together?" he questioned. He had a look of confusion in his eyes. We were supposed to be a secret, but there wasn't anyone else I would rather go with. If we went together people would start to talk, and if we went alone it would be unlike Emmett to not bring a date. To be honest I'm not sure that I'm strong enough for that.

"Um, I'm not sure that would be wise," I sighed.

"Oh…" he whispered and turned away from me. I placed my hand on his check and pulled his face back towards mine.

"Emmett, do you want to go with me?" I asked.

"Rosie, there's no one I would rather go with. I was thinking. Maybe we should tell everyone, let people-"

I cut him off before he could continue. "No! We can't do that, Em. I love you, I really do. I'm not sure that I'm ready for everyone to know. I can't explain it, but I just can't. Not now at least,"

"So what are we just going to go our entire lives living in a secret, a lie?" he boomed. "I don't know how long I'm going to be able to do this, Rosalie. Edward's starting to question me on why I'm not out late anymore or why I'm not coming home in the wee hours of the morning hung over. It kills me to lie to my best friend!"

"How do you think I feel, Emmett? Every time I have lunch with Alice or Bella and you text me I get that stupid grin on my face. They know there's someone, I can't deny that. Apparently I've changed the way I act, the way I carry myself. They're bugging me for answers, they want to meet this amazing guy that I've kept under wraps. I'm just not ready for that. And there's no way I'm ready for Alice's exclamation of 'I knew it!'. She wants us all to have our happy endings. I'm not sure if it's meant for me. Just try to understand please, Emmett," I pleaded.

He was silent. I knew I had hurt him. I knew that all he wants to do is shout from the roof tops that he loves me. He wants to be able to take me out and not have to worry about who we might bump into. He wanted to be able to call me his, publicly.

"I have to go to the office. You can stay here. Edward's working tonight," he said as he carefully picked me up off his lap, getting up and setting me back on the chair.

"Emmett…" I uttered.

He placed a chaste kiss on my cheek and left.

"Dammit!" I yelled, stomping my stiletto heel, as my voice echoed through the house.

BPOV:

"Mommy, mommy, mommy! You have a letter!" Leilah exclaimed as she came running towards me with an envelope in her hand. I smiled as she jumped into my lap and handed me the envelope. I carefully opened it.

"What's it say?" she asked, her brown eyes brewing with curiosity.

I read it over and smiled. Carlisle and Esme were celebrating their thirtieth wedding anniversary. I couldn't believe they'd only been married thirty years. I knew they got married when they were both twenty-two and had Edward and Alice when they were twenty-five. It was amazing to see two people who loved each other as much as they did.

"You know your Grandpa Carlisle and Grandma Esme?" I questioned.

She nodded encouraging me to go on. "Well they're having a party. They have been married for a really long time and they want to celebrate it with their loved ones."

"Can I go mommy, please?" she pleaded.

"I don't know Lei. We'll see okay? If anything maybe you can stay with Grandpa Charlie." I promised her.

"Okay!" she squealed with delight. The phone rang and she jumped off my lap to answer it. She got such a kick out of answering the phone.

"Helllllooooo. This is Leilah, who is this? Auntie Rosie! Uh huh, hold on." She smiled at me and handed the phone off to me.

"Rosalie?" I asked.

"Hey Bells, are you busy?" she asked. I couldn't help but notice she had a hurt tone in her voice.

"Not really. Is everything okay Rose? You sound upset." I assumed.

"Um, I'm fine. Can I come by?"

"Of course," I said. Just then the doorbell rang.

"Open you door," she said before hanging up. I looked down at Leilah.

"Honey why don't you go play in your room," I said bending down to Leilah's eye level.

"Okay, mommy," she said as she skipped into her room. I stood up and walked over to the door and opened it. There stood Rosalie, she looked lost. Then it hit me.

Wait, isn't today Thursday? Shouldn't she be at work?

I motioned for her to come in.

"Rose, I don't mean to be rude but shouldn't you be working? You're always working."

She chuckled. "Well, I took the day off. I need some…" she paused. "me time."

We walked into the kitchen and she took a seat at the table. I walked over to the fridge to grab something to drink. I pulled the bottle of wine Edward and I opened a couple nights ago, out and grabbed two glasses.

"Wine?" I smirked.

"Yes please."

"So what's eating you?" I asked as sat down pouring her a glass in the process.

"Wait, Bella, this bottle of wine is halfway gone. You're not a big wine drinker, when did you start drinking wine? You know it's bad for you to drink by yourself," she said. She had a curious look on her face.

Shit, what was I supposed to tell her? Oh Rosalie, silly goose Edward and I have been secretly dating each other and we opened this bottle of wine drinking it together.

"Um, it's just something I've had open for awhile now. It's a good year," I explained. I'm a horrible liar! That was the worst excuse ever!

I heard Rosalie mutter something like "whatever" under her breath.

"So again I ask, what's eating you?" I said in triumph.

"Can I talk to you Bella? With total faith you won't say anything to anyone."

Total faith? This has to be serious.

"Of course, you always know you can," I said as I placed my hand on her shoulder.

She took a deep breath.

"IneedtotellsomeonethatI'mdatingEmmettandhereallyisan amazingpersonandIlovehimbutI thinkIhurthisfeelings..." she declared.

"Whoa, Rosalie, take a deep breath. I didn't understand a word you said." I watched as she took another deep breath.

"I'm in love with Emmett," she admitted.

I nodded in understanding. Wait! What? Did she just say she's in love with Emmett?

"Wait. Run that by me again…" I ordered.

"Emmett and I are sort of, well, seeing each other. I love him Bells. He's amazing. When I'm with him it's unlike anything I've ever experienced. He's opened my eyes to love. Everything he does, he has my feelings in mind. He's made me whole, Bella. It drives me crazy when I'm not with him..." she explained.

Rosalie and Emmett, wow. I guess I'm not the only one with a secret.

"Wow, um, I don't know what to tell you, Rose. I'm happy for you. If your recent mood change is because of Em, then I'm more than happy for you. I'm ecstatic. It brings the best out in you. How long as this been going on for?" I asked, my mind reeling through questions.

"Don't kill me, but about six or seven months. It started off as a scratch-the-itch type of relationship and it blossomed into this beautiful thing. I didn't want anyone to know, I was afraid that it was too good to be true. I was afraid that if I told you guys the entire thing would just wash away with the rain. It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. I wasn't supposed to love him Bella! It's Emmett for Christ's sake! He's one of the only guys in my life that really knows me for who I am. He held my hair back and rubbed my back, as I threw up the morning after my twenty-first." she paused a chuckle escaped her lips. She was probably remembering that morning. "He's my best friend and I don't want to lose that. I think I ruined it with my selfishness."

I looked at my best friend sitting in front of me. She looked so hurt, so confused. This was really something serious, the relationship she had with Emmett was serious.

"Rose, what happened?" I asked her, knowing immediately something was wrong.

"Well, did you get Carlisle and Esme's anniversary party invite?" she asked and I nodded in reply. "Well, I was at Emmett's this morning when he opened it. He asked if we were going together, but that would mean telling everyone about us. And before you say we wouldn't have to, we would. People talk, Bella, you have no idea how hard it's been for us the past couple months to control our touches at breakfast with you guys. Well he wants to let everyone know, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that. He left claiming he had to go into the office. That's a bunch of crap! We took the day off to be together and he suddenly has to go to the office! I screwed up, Bella," Rosalie sobbed.

Her tears were flowing freely, Rosalie barely ever cried. She was always the selfless, no strings attached, nothing-can-bring-her-down type of girl. Seeing her upset, it tore me up a bit. Emmett and Rosalie's relationship must be really special to her. Even for her to let a guy into her life after all she's witnessed. It made me feel like this would work for them.

"Rosalie, it's not your fault. You're scared, if I were you, I would be too. I mean you deal with people whose relationships don't work out. You were smack dab in the middle of your parent's divorce, you saw how it hurt me when Jacob died and…" I paused for a second. Not because of Jacob, but because I was about to admit Edward was still married, he was separated, but still married. "…Edward's going through a divorce as we speak. It happens, but you can stop it from happening to you. If I know Emmett he's just frustrated if anything. It sounds like he cares about you, like really cares about you. He just wants to be able show the world that." I explained.

"I was stupid," she wailed.

"You were just being you, Rose. Talk to him, do what you have to do. My advice, go with him to the party. Play it off as if you're going to be bringing this mystery guy that has you blushing like a school girl. When you show up with Emmett on your arm the world will be amazed," I said.

"You're right, Bella," she admitted.

"Of course I'm right." I boasted.

so rosalie cracked under pressure..there's a little trouble in paradise. i'm sorry..everything happens for a reason. :D

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Quick after the fact author's note here...I've taken the author's note that comes after this chapter down. So...in lieu of the "fake out a/n chap". Go read the Nine Months In The Making: Holiday Edition. It has all sorts of crazy holiday happenings with our favorite sextuplets. :D