So, you know, this story is in the future, and I can´t predict what is gonna be fashion- and- not- fashion in the future, so whatever people are wearing, I´ll just make them go with the storylines.
"So, where should we go?" Officer Mason asked me. I shrugged.
"I don´t know," I said. "What do you wanna get for her?"
"I don´t know that´s why I asked you for help. But I´m flying to Los Angeles tonight, so I have only got today left."
"Wow… That´s where she lives?"
"Yes, Her name is Nikki by the way."
"What does she like doing then?"
"She likes dancing… and kind of anything that involves playing music so loud I can´t hear my own thoughts." I smiled.
"Well… why not just buy her some outfit?" I asked. Officer Mason looked confused.
"Some what?"
"Outfit, an outfit is what you´re wearing. Your outfit today for example, is your outfit today, baggy- jeans, black shoes, and a dark- green jacket. Get it?"
"I think so, so you could say that your outfit today…" he looked at my clothes. "Black sweat pants, trainers and a jacket that looks way too cold to wear in December." I chuckled.
"Okay, you´ve got it." I said. "Well, how does an outfit sound then?"
"Well, why not?"
After a while, Officer Mason had bought a light- purple baggy linen, with the text "keep calm and dance on" and a pair of short jeans- shorts, Officer Mason had shook his head when I suggested it, asking me if people really wore that short pants. I had face- palmed, and told him that he was a bit after those times, but he had decided to buy it. He had also walked into build- a- bear, and bought a bear dressed as a ballet- dancer. I had dissuaded him to do it, but he didn´t want to listen, and even I had to admit that the teddy was quite cute.
"So, that´s it then, goodbye Jamie." He said before he walked to the parking- garage, and I was about to walk towards the road home.
"Bye officer Mason. I hope Nikki likes the gifts." I turned around, and faced the walk home. Well, I had to walk, I had no money for the bus, and no bus card. But I realized that with walking, it would probably take me at least two hours.
It was almost dark outside, and I was worried about all the cars, but I didn´t really have a choice but walking. Until I saw that someone slowed down. When it got closer I recognized Carlisle´s black Mercedes. He rolled down the window on his side, and shouted over the traffic.
"Jamie, what you´re doing? Come on, get in the car, it´s dangerous on the road." I looked around.
"I´m not as fast as you are." I joked, "I can´t run across the road without getting killed."
"Just, just stay there, I´ll see if I can turn the car." He rolled up the window and drove away. I stood still, and a couple of minutes later I saw Carlisle´s car again. He stopped and as fast as I could. I stepped into the car next to him. I put my rucksack between my feet on the floor, before I reached for the seatbelt.
"Have you been shopping for Christmas gifts?" he asked.
"Yeah. I… I…" I tried to come up with an excuse for why I had been walking home. But couldn´t come up with anything but the truth.
"…I have no money left, so I walked because I couldn´t pay for the bus."
"You´ve got the school card haven´t you? For the bus I mean!"
"I don´t know if I can even ride with that card this time a day… I didn´t try, thought I had had enough fiascos for one day."
"Why what happened?" I sighed, and told Carlisle the whole story, about Leigh, Oliver and officer Mason. He chuckled at the story.
"You kind of remind me of the human Bella, she sure did have a talent of getting into trouble when we least expected it." I smiled, and hummed on "I knew you were trouble" by Taylor Swift, Carlisle chuckled again. And drove up onto the driveway in front of the Cullen´s manor.
When I came downstairs to the cellar, Jasper, Edward and Emmett sat in the sofa, playing some racing video- game. They were shouting at each other, competing of course. Or, actually, most of the shouts came from Emmett. I smiled, turned around and walked over to my room. I put the papers with the poem to Esme in the frame, and wrapped it. I wanted to ask Esme about the other Christmas presents so I put the photo to Carlisle in its frame too, and then I hid everything in my backpack again, and then walked around the house, trying to find Esme.
First I walked to the kitchen, no Esme there. She wasn´t in the kitchen either, and Carlisle´s study was empty. Now my only option was if she and Carlisle were in their bedroom, and I didn´t wanna interrupt them, so I walked first to the kitchen, and got a cola, and then went back downstairs where Emmett had just lost the game against Jasper and Edward. The girls also sat in another sofa in the living room now, except for Nessie, who was spending the night at Jacob´s. I sat down on the edge of one of the sofas and looked to Bella.
"Bella!" I began. "Carlisle said that when you were human, you seemed to have a talent to get into trouble… what did you do?" Emmett snorted with laughter, and Edward chuckled.
"At first… well… I fell in love with a vampire… who fell in love with me. That´s bad enough, a while later, I had the vampire, a werewolf and a human guy fighting over me." I smiled. "Then… well, it would take a year to tell you all of it, but I was almost killed by different vampires three times, then I broke my hand by punching the werewolf in the face. And at last, I got pregnant… with a vampire father, and almost got killed both during the pregnancy and the birth. And that´s to make a long story short."
"The birth then… how did it go… for the baby I mean?"
"It´s Nessie," Edward said, I had just taken a big sip from my coke, and at Edward´s answer, I choked, which got me spitting it all out at once, and Rosalie happened to be the closest, so she got it all over her.
"I´m… sorry… Ros… alie" I said between the coughs. All the others were biting their lips, trying to suppress laughter. Even though Emmett now laughed so hard he had laid down on the floor, shaking of laughter. Rosalie snorted, and left to get the coke off her clothes and hair. And I… well, I was still coughing so hard I felt like I was gonna choke. Should have understood Carlisle and Esme would soon be here too, and if I had guessed that, I would have been right.
"Jamie are you all right?" Esme asked. I nodded and showed her thumbs up.
"What´s so funny?" Carlisle looked to the others, while I tried to stop coughing.
"Jamie sprayed coke all over Rose." Alice answered, Carlisle looked to me, and raised an eyebrow.
"I didn´t do it on purpose." I defended myself. "Esme, I was looking for you earlier." I stood up, and told her to come with me, then I walked before her to my room. Esme closed the door behind us, and I pulled out the Christmas gifts from my rucksack, and laid them on the desktop, then I pointed to them one at the time.
"Carlisle, Jasper, Bella, Edward, Emmett, Alice, Rosalie." I put my hands in my pockets. "So, do you think they´ll like their gifts?"
"Yes, it looks really good." I nodded.
"Good." I answered her. "I´ve got one for you too, but I´ve already wrapped it and of course I couldn´t let you see it… Esme?"
"Yes dear."
"Now I know, I know Bella´s story of how she became a vampire, and Nessie´s but what´s yours? And the others?" Esme smiled slightly.
"Well… I think most of the others just left to go to Bella´s and Edward´s house. Carlisle´s still at home, we can tell you ours, but Emmett, Rose, Alice, Jasper and Edward, they should probably tell you their story themselves. Decide for themselves how much they want you to know." I nodded.
"I´m just gonna wrap those gifts." I said and started it, then I walked out to the living room again, where Carlisle and Esme already were. I jumped over the back of the sofa, a bit of a fun way to sit down in it, and leaned against the high elbow rests. While I pulled my knees up to my chin, while I started listening to Carlisle´s story.
So, I´m gonna stop right there.
I´ve read through Esme´s part in this, official guide to the twilight saga, and I´ve realized that Esme´s son hasn´t really got a name. So, I´m gonna just give him one, and it´s gonna be either David or Kevin, why? David means beloved, Kevin handsome beloved. So… please help me choose.