Carlisle

Eleazar sat at our table with Seth, who we had managed to get inside with us, and they had a few drinks as we collected numbers. I won the challenge, reaching 3 numbers, followed by Jasper and Garrett.

"Neither of you were even in the top 3!" Seth laughed at Jacob and Emmett.

"I forgot to take my ring off…" Emmett said, looking at his wedding band.

"I still have mine on." I smirked.

Emmett stared at me in awe. "Teach me your ways."

I took a mouthful of my drink and turned to Eleazar and Seth. "Having fun?"

"I'm currently downloading Picolo." Eleazar said.

"Isn't that an instrument?" Jacob asked.

"It's a drinking game." Seth explained. "We played it at the bon fire that Carlisle and Esme didn't come to, remember? Violetta kept—"

He stopped mid-sentence and looked at me.

"Violetta what?"

"Tonight isn't about Violetta!" Emmett said. "Let's get this game going." He sat down beside Garrett.

We circled around the table and waited for Eleazar to fill our names in on his phone.

"So how do you play?" Garrett asked.

Seth started explaining it.

"Does anyone else find it weird that the 16 year old knows how to play the drinking game but we don't?" Jasper asked.

"I'm just cooler than you." Seth smiled

"I don't see you getting laid tonight…" Jasper smirked.

We all laughed at their argument and started playing this drinking game. I had way too much, and by the time we finished, I was too drunk to even walk straight, and it takes a lot longer for vampires to get this drunk than humans. I never did this, and I knew I should have stopped, but Emmett was very persuasive.

Eleazar drove my car home, being a lot more sober than me. He assisted my inside, making sure I didn't fall over. Emmett wasn't far behind me. Jacob had passed out in the car and Edward was carrying him in.

"Fun night?" Alice asked when we walked in.

"It fun was." I said, not making any sense.

"What?" Violetta laughed.

"I think you should go lay down Carlisle…" Carmen tried to keep her laugh back.

Esme walked in from the kitchen and stared at me. I small bit of fear flashed through her eyes, "What happened?"

"It may not have been our best idea to play drinking games…" Seth said. "The game definitely did not go his way."

"Let's get you upstairs." Eleazar smiled and laughed.

"Esme?" I asked.

"Oh no, I'm not coming up there with you."

"Why?" I whined like a small child.

She stared at me for a few seconds.

"Take him up Eleazar." Edward said, staring at Esme.

Eleazar took me up the staircase. I couldn't even think about anything straight, everything was jumbled.

Esme

"I'm sorry Esme, I didn't even think about that. I would have waited for him to sober up a bit first if I remembered."

"It's okay." I forced a smile. The last time I had seen my husband this drunk, it was Charles, not Carlisle. It was never followed by anything good at all. Abuse, abuse and more abuse.

Carlisle never got this drunk ever, because he knew that. He should be allowed to let loose sometimes, but I would have much rather he stayed at hotel or something tonight, especially since Violetta had experienced this with her foster parents in the past, too.

Of course, I knew Carlisle would never hurt me, sober or not sober, but the fear was still there. It always would be.

I looked over at Violetta to see her reaction. She laughed before when his words made no sense, but looking at her now, I saw she was afraid too.

Rosalie wasn't really affected by it anymore, Emmett wasn't one to slow his drinking, but she looked shocked tonight, like she'd never seen Carlisle like that. She hadn't. None of us have, not us girls anyway. I don't know how bad he got when he went away with the guys for days at a time.

"No, he's never really been like this." Edward said quietly.

I pulled myself from my thoughts and sat down beside Alice. Eleazar walked down the staircase and sat beside Carmen.

"You had a bit too, didn't you?" She asked.

He nodded and looked guilty.

"Good. You never have fun anymore."

"Yes I do."

Mason looked exhausted. He slumped beside Violetta. She brushed his hair from his face and kissed his forehead. "How did you go with numbers?"

"Carlisle won, actually. Before he was that drunk." Garrett said. His words slurred a little.

"He even kept his wedding ring on and still won." Emmett complained, looking almost as drunk as Carlisle. He could speak though.

I heard a loud thud upstairs, followed by Carlisle cursing.

I flinched and sunk a little.

"I am so sorry." Edward apologised again.

"Why?" Renesmee asked. "I think it's pretty funny."

"You were never abused by a drunken husband or father…" Bella whispered.

"Oh…sorry." She said quieter.

Violetta cleared her throat and downed the rest of her glass of wine.

"Whoa, slow down. You'll catch up to us soon." Mason said.

She poured more into her glass and drank half of it.

I took the rest of the bottle and moved it away from her.

"I think you should go to bed soon…" Rosalie said.

"I would rather not go upstairs right now."

Jasper appeared down the staircase, I hadn't even notice him leave. Alice looked at him curiously. "He's okay. He tripped."

I looked back to Violetta. "You look exhausted."

"I'm fine." She tried, but her eyes were heavy, as were Mason's. He would be asleep soon.

"Why don't I take you two our place?" Bella offered.

"I didn't know you had your own place." Mason said.

"Yeah, it was wedding gift, and sort of a "welcome to the vampire world, please don't be at home with Edward" gift."" She smirked.

Mason laughed and Violetta was leaning on me. "Would you like to go rest at Bella and Edward's place?" I asked her.

She stared at me for a second.

"I think you do." I nodded and stood up. "Come on I'll walk with you."

She stood up and pulled Mason with her.

"You, go lay down." Rosalie said to Emmett.

"And you." Alice said to Jasper.

They rolled their eyes and walked upstairs, laughing and pushing each other.

"You 3, bed. Now." Edward said to Renesmee, Leah and Seth.

"Are you just going to leave Jacob here?" Renesmee asked.

"I'll move him. Garrett, you can lay in my bed if you want."

"Go." Kate pushed him.

Bella and I walked Violetta and Mason to her little cabin hidden away in the trees.

"I miss this place." She said as we sat down in the small den.

Rosalie, Alice, Kate, Tanya and Carmen all showed up to the cabin too. They sat with us and we talked for hours.

Eleazar and Edward were back at the house, keeping an eye on the others.

Before we knew it, it was morning, and Violetta was waking up with a massive headache.