Chapter 12 – RPOV
I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while, but my computer committed suicide (literally – I turned it on to do some homework and it never turned on again) then my dad gave me his old one and I haven't had time until now! Sorry again!
We were taking the girls out to dinner tonight, to celebrate the return of Savannah, but we had also promised we'd visit the new restaurant that had opened ten minutes away from us a few weeks back. After I had found Savannah Karlie in that dress I realised how much she looked like me, and how easily she could be a model. She had that graceful walk, swaying from side to side; the height which made her even more elegant and of course her natural beauty. Neither of the twins seemed to have inherited either mine or Emmett's height, though both our mothers were and are respectively pretty small. However, only time would tell.
Twenty minutes later we were all sat in the car waiting to go. I was wearing a Temperley London dress with a pair of black Christian Louboutins; Savannah was in a baby blue dress with little white pumps on her feet; Alice (ever the fashionista) was wearing a pink strappy dress with a pair of white legging and Jessica (who bless her never inherited my fashion sense) was wearing the yellow sundress I had picked out for her.
"How lucky am I to have four beautiful girls in my life?" Em asked as he got into the driver's seat of my black Range Rover Vogue (I know nothing about cars but I thought it sounded like Vogue magazine!).
We were taking my car as his wouldn't fit everyone in it.
"Is everyone buckled in?" I asked turning my head to see the girls.
"Mummy my seatbelt won't go in the hole," Alice said as I saw her pulling the black belt out as far as it would go in an attempt to fasten it.
"Savannah darling, could you put it in please?" I said to my eldest who was squashed between the two booster seats in the back.
Ten minutes later we were at the restaurant after having an entire journey of Disney songs which had been requested by Alice and Jess.
"Bet you're so disappointed you didn't get to hear the end of Ariel's song!" Emmett said to Savannah, nudging her in a playful manner.
"Totally," she replied smiling, "I mean it's not like I've heard it pretty much every day of my life."
"You have?" Emmett asked her, taken aback.
"Yes, on the journey to school the radio wouldn't work in the minivan, so we put a CD in and it got stuck, but best of all was that it was the Disney Princesses soundtrack," she told him.
"Don't say that too loudly or the girls will feel we've deprived them," he replied.
"Mama, that man is waving to you," Jess said tugging on my hand and pointing: pulling me out of my eavesdropping.
I looked over and sighed. We could never go anywhere without meeting someone either Emmett or I knew, and today it just had to be the most annoying newspaper reporter ever; who had once written a column about stalking me. Talk about weird: here it was personified.
"Mike," I said in an overly happy voice as he bounded over to me like a puppy.
"Oh Rosalie you're looking stunning tonight. How fortunate of me to bump into you here of all places!" he said excitedly.
"Utterly fabulous," I replied.
"These must be our twins Jessica and Alice, then your husband Emmett and..." he said ruffling the girls hair which led to Alice narrowing her eyes at him as he messed up her perfect plaits.
"Yes, and that's our eldest Savannah," I told him as she looked at me in annoyance, "But, if you don't mind I am here to have a meal with my family as I'm sure you are too so if you'll excuse us please."
"Of course, I just couldn't believe you would be in here. I better be getting back to Gail as well; I'll see you later," he replied planting a slobbery kiss on my cheek before bouncing back to a particularly ugly woman in the corner of the room.
"Is he the one who wrote that article about stalking you?" Emmett asked as I got a tissue out of my bag with which to wipe my cheek.
"Yes, sadly he is and I've had to have him forcefully removed from the company numerous times due to persistent harassment," I told him as a waiter led us over to our table.
"He's a weirdo," Savannah said from the other side of Emmett.
It was the first thing she'd said to me that wasn't in a voice that suggested disgust or pure annoyance, and it stopped me in my tracks for a moment.
"Yes, yes, an absolute nutcase," I agreed after I'd recovered myself.
"Mama, Mama, can I sit next to you?" Jessie asked me as the waiter pulled out my chair.
"Yes angel, of course you can."
Emmett sat at the head of the table with me on his right (with my back to Mike) and Savannah on his left. Next to her was Alice who was opposite her twin. I smiled at my eldest as she sat down opposite me and in return I got a faint glimmer of a smile before she turned away to talk to Alice.
"Now girls, no kicking each other under the table," Emmett told the girls, "And that includes you too Karlie or else your mother won't be too happy."
He squeezed my hand affectionately as we all ordered our drinks and food. As we waited for it to come we decided to play a game which the twins had come up with. Each person had to ask another a question, but they had to ask every person before they could ask the first one again. Knowing the twins it could be disastrous, but it would give me the chance to find out more about Savannah.
"Mummy, I ask you first then you ask Daddy, who asks Savannah Karlie, who then asks Alice and then she asks me and I ask Daddy, and you ask..."
"Okay sweetie we get it," I told Jess before we all got bored.
"Right, so Mummy: what animal would you be if you weren't a human?"
"Well, I think I would want to be a turtle because they get to live in the Caribbean and live a long time," I said before turning to Emmett, "So honey, where would you most like to go on holiday?"
"Morocco or Australia," he replied winking at me, because we were going to both next year but the twins didn't know yet.
"Karlie, what's your favourite film?"
"Hey, you asked me that earlier!" she said indignantly.
"Yes but you didn't reply!"
She stuck her tongue out at him before thinking:
"Probably, at the moment Whip It."
"I met Drew Barrymore at the premiere of that – she's said she'll do an interview for us with Ellen Page soon," I said hoping to ignite her curiosity but she ignored me.
"Ali, who's your favourite singer?"
"Ummmmmmmm, Cheryl Cole. I love her and Mummy said I could meet her soon as her and Mummy are pretty much best friends," she exclaimed clapping her hands.
"Really?" Savannah asked dubiously.
"Well not best friends, but I've interviewed her loads and I know her stylist as she's always coming in to see the new designs and she'll always wear my creations, which is good marketing. But we are theoretically good friends and she said she'd love to meet the girls," I told her and she actually looked impressed.
"So, you're not just a designer?"
"No, my company is primarily fashion but I started off as a fashion journalist, so we have a magazine out – though not many people know it's mine, as we thought it would be best if we didn't put my name on the interviews if that makes sense."
She nodded before Alice told us it was her turn.
"Jessie, what's your favourite name?"
"Angelina like the ballerina!" Jess replied before turning to her Daddy.
"Dada, what did you want to be when you were older when you were my and Alice's age?"
"Defiantly a knight so I could rescue beautiful princesses likes your Mummy and you girls."
Then it was my turn to ask Savannah. Come on Rose, don't mess this up – it could be your one chance.
"Savannah, do you – do you like fashion?"
Well done Rosalie Lillian Hale McCarty – just ask he most boring question and make an utter fool of yourself.
"Actually, I do love it; Bella and I would always buy every magazine that we could and cut out all the outfits and models: putting together our own like mini company. It's sad really but I love it," she said and actually gave me the most genuine smile I'd seen from her so far.
At that moment our food came and we stopped the game but Emmett decided to help the situation.
"Well Karlie, would you like to go and see how a real fashion label happens?" he asked.
"That would be amazing!" she said wistfully.
"Well, that's sorted then. On Wednesday you can go with Rosie to her company and as I have the day off I'll take the girls to the zoo," he said nudging my knee.
"Yay the zoo!" both girls squealed and Savannah nodded her head in obvious delight.
At times like this it is hard for me to love Emmett any more than I did. He was the most amazing man in the world.
Thank-you for reading, and I apologise once again for it taking so long and I will try to update next week for you. But if anyone knows what the inside of a fashion company is actually like I would love to know! I'm sure I can improvise but it would be great to know if anyone does! Rosalie's outfit is on my profile if you want to see it. XxX