Everyday Moments Of Perfection

A/N: Hey everyone! Happy New Year to everyone out there, even though it's not for a few days, I just wanted to get this drabble out there.

This, as you may have guessed, is New Year at the Cullens. :)

Alice was jumping up and down with excitement.

Jasper looked over at his wife from the leather couch in the Cullens' living room; amusement etched into his angular features.

"Honey?" he questioned. "We've still got another hour."

Alice looked over and rolled her eyes, bouncing over to Jasper and flopping down beside him, her head on his stomach and her legs dangling off the end of the couch, kicking the air animatedly.

"I know, but still. I just can't sit still, especially not right now. You know me, Jazz."

Jasper absently stroked Alice's hair while grinning. "I know, Alice. Did you decide on your New Year's resolution?"

Alice looked up at Jasper, catching his hand and stroking the tips of his fingers with her own. "Yep. Do you want to hear it?"

Jasper nodded, taking Alice's hand in his and running his hand over hers. Alice giggled, snuggling into Jasper's stomach and wrapping her other arm around him. "Um…try not to make Emmett cry by beating him at Halo?"

Jasper rolled his eyes. "That's not a proper one."

Alice poked Jasper in the stomach playfully. "Well, what's yours then, Mr. I-Am-The-King-Of-Proper-Resolutions?"

Jasper smirked, before his expression became soft and he leant down to whisper into Alice's ear, "I resolve to show you just how much I love you every single day."

If Alice's heart could beat, it would have just skipped one. She hooked her arm around Jasper's neck and kissed his cheek softly, punctuating each of her words with a single kiss on the cheek. "You. Are. The. Most. Wonderful. Man. In. The. World."

Jasper laughed, kissing Alice's nose. "As well as all the other stuff. You know, try not to kill anyone, resist the urge to make Emmett perpetually turned-off, that kind of thing."

Alice giggled, nodding. "Just little things."

Jasper made a motion with his thumb and his index finger. "Tiny."

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The clock in the Cullens' house was old-fashioned. It was large, with a huge brass pendulum that swung from right to left. The ornately carved brass hands had reached the twelve on the clock, and the deep bass bell sound was intoning each step to the new year.

Twelve.

Jasper and Alice stood, hand-in-hand, listening to the bells, while also concentrating on the television, which was showing Big Ben in London, and all the people chanting the numbers as they counted down to the new year. They showed people getting the fireworks ready to light.

Eleven.

The Cullens' were all congregated in the living room, which Alice had decorated with streamers and balloons that had writing in silver print on them saying, "Happy New Year". Rosalie and Emmett were watching the television, Edward and Bella were already kissing by the coffee table, and Carlisle and Esme were standing by the window as the bells continued to ring out.

Ten.

Alice turned around until she was in Jasper's arms, and she bounced up and down, unable to keep still. "Hey, Jazz." Alice whispered.

"Yeah?" Jasper asked, leaning down to kiss Alice's neck.

"This has been the best year yet."

Jasper smiled, whispering in Alice's ear, "Next one will be better."

Alice snorted, "Oh, totally."

Nine.

Jasper chortled at that, and Alice giggled, turning around in his arms. "Where do you want to go next year?" Jasper asked.

"I was thinking Venice," Alice said. "We haven't been there in fifty years at least, by my count, and it was nice."

Jasper nodded, though he knew that if Alice had suggested they spend the New Year's holiday in a garbage bin, he would have happily agreed.

Eight.

Alice laughed, chanting the bells along with Jasper as they waited for the new year to come.

Seven.

By now, all the Cullens stood together in the living room, each holding hands with their partners, watching the television as Big Ben continued to ring. Emmett and Rosalie were sharing lustful looks, and Alice saw Edward and Jasper both roll their eyes, looking slightly disgusted, their powers giving them the full show.

Six.

Bella was laughing as Edward whispered something in her ear, and she nodded. Alice turned around, catching Bella's eye and raised an eyebrow, smirking with a wry expression on her face. Jasper's hand was entwined in hers and she leaned forward to turn the volume up on the television, drowning out a conversation it was clear Alice didn't want to hear.

Five.

It was nearly time. Alice looked at the clock, thinking that this would be the last ever midnight of this year. This year would never come again. But then again, Alice had always lived in the future, even when she tried not to. There was no point to living in the past. As she held Jasper's hand, she knew that in only four tolls of the bell, this year would be the past.

Four.

Jasper looked at Alice's pensive expression. He knew she was excited, also happy and extremely content. That made him happy. He looked at the screen; saw the blurry crowd of people all waiting, waiting for the moment they could cry out, "Happy New Year!"

Jasper was waiting for it too.

Three.

Jasper took Alice's hands and he held her, resting his head against hers as all the Cullens, as one, shouted out –

Two.

Goodbye, last year, Alice thought. Intense excitement crept up inside her as the final stroke of the bell rang.

One.

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

The simultaneous roar was almost deafening, emitting from both the television, and the Cullens' living room.

At the precise second of the bell ringing, Jasper had twirled Alice around and kissed her, squarely on the lips. Their kiss was languid, but also infused with all the passion from last year, and the spark that was the promise of more passion for the next year. The kiss was a promise, a seal, a symbol. It was also a tradition, but Alice and Jasper's kiss was electric. They were wrapped in each other's arms and when their lips parted, still they held each other. Alice could see the fireworks reflecting from the television in Jasper's eyes. It was beautiful.

She touched his lips with a finger and whispered, "Happy New Year."

Jasper smiled, and kissed her once more.

I'm so happy now because I've finished this drabble and also another chapter of my Alice past fic, In The Search For Absolution, so now I just really want New Year's to come! Hehe. If y'all have time, check out the Alice fic and tell me what you think about it.

Love, and a Cullens-watching-New-Year-television-while-Jasper-tries-to-strangle-Emmett-for-feeling-lusty cookie to everyone who reviews! And trust me, that is a cookie you won't find anywhere else. That is one freaky cookie. :)

Raven. x