I felt slightly guilty about having Carlisle spend his money on me, and I wanted to pay him back somehow. Memories of our night came back to me, and I got an idea. Carlisle had mentioned something about getting married to me, sometime during the night. If I were to organize it, then it would save him the trouble. To the outside world, I would be a stay at home mom. Carlisle and I would get married, and to the humans, we wouldn't be as different. A family –the Cullen family- with an adopted child was normal. It made sense.
I started planning Carlisle's and my own wedding, mostly when neither Carlisle nor Edward was home. It took up all of the leftover time between when Edward left for school and when Carlisle came home from work. Carlisle had rearranged his work schedule so that he left early, at about five in the morning, and came home earlier, at about two in the afternoon. Edward left for school, which begun at eight thirty, only a few minutes before his first class, and I could understand why he was never late. Edward didn't come back until about three thirty or four in the after noon, which left Carlisle and I about two to three hours to ourselves without being worried about disturbing him. Whatever we were doing that day, we never stopped when Edward arrived, only got less loud in our activities. When Edward came home, as far as I knew, he did his homework (which he finished instantly, due to his having completed the courses before, and also due to his faster fingers) and then studied more languages. Sometimes, he went downstairs to play the piano, and I would persuade Carlisle to come and listen with me to whatever Edward was playing. I chose a pretty song to be my favorite, and Carlisle agreed with me, at least that it was pretty. Carlisle never mentioned what his favorite was, and nor did Edward. Edward merely played what it was that was on his mind, or my favorite when he caught me thinking about it.
Life basically went on as normal, in the same daily pattern with occasional hunting trips, until Carlisle brought home a surprise.
