It's Christmas Eve. I'm in my room, looking out the window. It'll be a picture perfect Christmas this year. Snow is falling, adding onto the already high pile that has accumulated over the past two weeks. I close my eyes and rest my head against the window. The glass is cool, it relaxes me.
After tomorrow I'm going to leave. I've tracked down Royce with the help of Edward, Jasper and Carlisle. I want to do this alone. I'm going to try to leave while they're all occupied with each other. Slowly I open my eyes, outside I see Rosalie. She's playing in the snow with Jasper and Alice. Edward and Bella are on the porch, bundled up tight. I look at Bella, then Rose. The two most important women in my life.
Soon I look at the clock. It's noon time and I've been staring out this window for an hour. I can't really help it. All I can think of is going after Royce. My goal is to find him before New Year's Eve. I want to spend New Year's with Rose. I don't want her to be alone. So I have to get rid of that little pest.
I found Rose is my room at four o'clock. She was standing at the foot of my bed. She looked beautiful. Now, she still looks beautiful and it's been half an hour of us just sitting together at the foot of my bed. I look at her and she reminds me of when I first went to her loft. Her hair is styled in the same manner and she has the same expression on her face. Worried, doubtful, scared, yet happy mixed all together in some crazy type of concoction.
I stand up and return once more to my spot at the window. After a while of staring down at the now fading snow angels made by Rose and Alice, I hear foots steps. Soon arms are wrapping around me. I close my eyes and let myself mold into her. Slowly I pull her around and hug her as well. Some how she has a way of knowing what I'm thinking of. Not the way Edward does, but in her own way. She's Rose and amazingly, she loves me.
Rose and I went down stairs at five. Esme cooked a marvelous dinner. She is always such an amazing cook. After eating we all went into the music room where we laughed and had fun listening to Edward play the piano. Eventually Rosalie pushed him aside and we listened to her play as well. Edward was better when it came to classical pieces. But Rose's original songs with the lyrics that we all knew by heart provided much more fun.
I looked around. Every one was dressed in a way that I feel represented who they were. Alice, had on a black dress with a pink flower on the shoulder. It was elegant but in a way, surprising. Bella had on a simple sweater, jeans and her favorite brown boots that I actually got her two Christmases ago. Edward and Jasper were both wearing white pants but their shirts were different, just like them. even though the two of them are very similar, they're also very different. What Carlisle and Esme wore is indescribable. They were both so beautiful together, just like their personalities.
Now, I wore all white. Plain, like myself… even though others would probably argue that statement. Rose on the other hand, wore a very simple, yet not plain at all outfit. Her black dress is lacy at the bottom. The shoes have little bows on them and they're bright red. Her hair is its natural curliness. All in all she's beautiful.
Present time. This is when I get hyper. Out of the corner of my eye I see Bella smirk. She's probably happy to see some of the old me. it's the old me that she rarely has seen since I got into the whole assassin business. I think she only sees him on birthdays and Christmas. Oh and Thanksgiving… who wouldn't be super happy about all that food?
"Emmett, stop bouncing," Esme scolds. "I would like for my couch to stay in tact."
Every one laughs at this. Leave it to Esme to scold and remind me of the last time I broke her furniture. I glance at Rose and she isn't laughing. Actually she looks rather confused.
"Hey, Rose hasn't heard the story," I say. Every one looks at her and she shrugs. She still has no idea what we're all talking about.
"It was when we were still in high school," says Edward.
"Naturally Bella and Emmett were here for Christmas… their parents were also," Carlisle says.
"So Emmett was really excited. He had to wait 'forever'," Alice says. she uses air quotes around the word 'forever' and I smirk.
"So I announced it was present time and Emmett went running," said Esme.
"I barely saw him, he took off so fast," added Bella.
"So Emmett ran into the living room," said Jasper.
"You were there?" Rose asks.
"No, but I've heard this story so much, Alice has told me it every Christmas since I've known her… besides I met her that New Year's Eve at a party so…" Jasper says and Alice interrupts him.
"Stop rambling Jazzy! Emmett you finish," Alice says.
"So," I say, "I ran into the living room, where the tree was set up with all the gifts underneath it. I had just learned a new karate move, so I decided to be cool and use part of it. Basically, I jumped over the back of the couch and landed on the cushions and jumped onto the floor."
"Yea, like a ninja," Alice says.
"But sadly, unlike a ninja, Emmett isn't very light on his feet. He broke the couch when he landed on the cushions," Bella says.
"It made a loud crack and every thing," I proudly say. Rosalie laughs and every one smiles, it's a good thing… seeing her laugh.
It's close to midnight and every one has gone up to bed. Tomorrow is Christmas Day; every one seems excited. Not just for presents, but for the big meals Esme cooks. First she cooks a brunch and then an early dinner. Only two meals, but man are they delicious. Also, they're big meals, very filling.
I walk up to my room and kick off my shoes. Slowly I undress. I hate getting undressed. It just takes too much work. If it was up to me I'd never change. However there is that whole thing about getting smelly and having to go out in public. So I suppose that would be a problem. I pull on my dark black pajama pants and belly flop onto my bed.
"Emmett," I hear. It reminds that I left the door open. I flip over and Rosalie is standing in the door way. I smile at her and she smiles back. I sit up and pat the bed next to me. she sits down and is quiet for awhile.
"Something wrong Rose?" I ask her.
"Well… I uh, was wondering… if I could stay in here tonight… with you," she says, looking at her hands.
"Why?" I ask. Ever since the night at the Red Castle when we almost slept together we hadn't spent much time in a bed together. There was the time when we watched Te Three Stooges. However that was different. You can't have sex during a Stooges marathon… can you? But maybe she doesn't want to have sex. Maybe there are other reasons. I should stop being such a man and not jump to sex as the reason for everything.
"Well... I'm lonely in my room. also, tomorrow is going to be our first Christmas as a couple and I thought waking up to each other would be a nice thing," Rosalie says and I smile. I kiss her on the cheek and she smiles.
"Of course you can Rose," I say. She gets up and kisses me.
"I'll be right back," she says. Then she leaves the room. Okay, so I'm going to do what I've just told myself that I always do. Jump to the whole sex conclusion. Quickly I get up and look in the shoe box that's under my bed. Riffling through the contents of rubber bands, birthday cards, buttons and movie tickets, I find a condom. However, it's expired. Now that puts a damper on things.
"It's good, now you can just bond with her," I say quietly. "You were jumping to conclusions like always."
"Emmett, you sleep with your door shut right?" I hear Rose ask. I don't look up but I hastily shut the shoe box.
"Yep," I say. I slide it back under my bed and then stand up. I see Rose shutting the door.
"Good, I do too," she says and she turns around. I try not to stare but I can't help myself. There she stands, all in white, her hair wavy and not as curly as it was earlier. Still she's beautiful.
"Emmett?" I hear her ask my name. "Emmett!" I shake my head and turn on the TV. I swear I hear her chuckle. We sit down on the bed together and watch Harry Potter meet Serious Black. I'm very aware of her knee touching mine.
"Uh, Rose," I say. "Those are nice pajamas."
"Yeah, they're my favorite. I have others, but I like these. They're nice and simple in my opinion," she says.
"They're nice…. Victoria's Secret?" I say and she laughs.
"Yes Emmett," she says and out of the corner of my eye I see her shaking her head and smiling. I can't look her full on though; if I do I might jump her bones.
Throughout the entire movie I fidget. It was on ABC Family and we turned on the movie towards the end. However the commercials made it longer. I suppose that's a good thing. It kept my mind on something other than Rose. During one commercial Rose got up to go to the bathroom and I almost lost it. But I just thought about something else.
Now the movie is over. Rose leans over me and steels the remote. I let her and I think she's surprised that I didn't fight her for it. I can't fight her… I can't even touch her. She turns off the TV. Then she gets up and walks over to the light switch. But before she does I get up and lose all my self control. I wrap in my arms and kiss her until I can't breathe. When I pull away I notice she's smiling. That's when I realize what her plan was all along. I sit down on my bed with my head in my hands and she laughs.
"Damn Rose," I say, "you know what I almost did to you!"
"Well I wish I could've found out what you were going to do," I swear I hear her grumble. I look up and she smiles.
"I'm being serious," I say.
"Me too," she states and she plops down on the bed next to me.
"Rose…" I begin.
"Emmett," she interrupts, "before you tell me why we shouldn't. Let me tell you why we should."
"Fine," I say.
"First," Rose begins, "we were going to before, we simply got interrupted." She smiles and slides closer to me.
"Second," she continues, "we're meant to be together… heck we're engaged." She's on my lap now wagging her left hand in my face. Her ring glints in the light.
"Last," she says, "I know you want to… and so do I." Rose smiles and kisses my neck.
Dear God, I think as Rose continues seducing me (succeeding nicely might I add).
"We wouldn't be protected Rose," I say. She looks me in the eye, very seriously she takes my head in her hands.
"I know," she says.
"How?" I ask her. It's surprising that she knows… how could she know?
"If we would be we would've done it already," she states. Oh, so she thinks the reason I hadn't given in was because I didn't have a useful condom? Hm… smart girl.
"Yeah… so we're not gonna," I say. She purses her lips and stares at me.
"We are," she says. That's when I break. That's when I can't stand it any longer. I pull her legs around me and she knows she's won. After a long time of intense kissing the lights some how get turned off. Then we end up on the bed, our clothes off. It's like it all happened suddenly and neither of us realized we were making those certain things happen at all.
"Emmett," Rose says between breaths. We've momentarily stopped kissing each other… probably because neither of us could breathe.
"Uh huh?" I ask, distracted by how beautiful she is.
"I'm… a virgin…" she says. I look at her and she actually looks kind of worried. I stroke her face and she closes her eyes.
"I won't hurt you," I say and she nods.
"We'll be okay then," she says.
"You sure?" I ask her. She nods and I kiss her again. Best Christmas Eve I've ever had.
Oh lala. Haha, anyways… so yeah I decided it was about time they did it. Oh but there's gonna be a twist… maybe, maybe not. so, please review and I'll try to write more faster. Remember to vote for how Royce is gonna die. Also, the outfits will be posted in my blog. If you go to my profile then the link for my homepage, that'll take you to my blog. Then you click the outfits page. Please review and remember I don't own Twilight.
~EM~