"Mum, is okay if Seth comes over?" Melody asked.
"Yeah, he's welcome at any time, sweetheart."
"Okay, thanks. Do we have anything in the house that I can make something out of?"
"What?" I asked.
"Food. Sorry, I forgot to clarify that." She smiled.
"There should be some stuff in there." Esme answered.
"Okay… how do you cook?" she asked.
I laughed. "Why ask if there is food if you can't cook it?"
She glared at me.
"I'll cook it for you." Esme rolled her eyes.
"We're watching a movie Esme…" I said.
"A movie that we have seen a hundred times, and it's not even that good." She replied as she stood up.
I followed her into the kitchen.
"You don't think any movies are good." I said after sitting at the dining table to accompany her while she cooked.
"I do so."
"Okay, name 5 movies right now that you like."
She thought for a moment, and named 6.
"Okay fine, I lose."
"Apologise…" Jasper said while reading a book. I don't think he even registered what he had said.
"Sorry, dear." I said and rolled my eyes playfully.
She laughed. "What are you reading Jasper?"
"Hmm?" he wasn't listening.
"I said, what are you reading…"
"Yeah, it's pretty good." He replied.
"What?" she laughed and I laughed with her.
"So Jasper, we're going to Volterra next week if it's okay with you." I lied.
"Sure, sure." He never lifted his eyes off the page. I laughed again.
"Alice is coming with us, she wants to join the Volturi, you know? Take them up on their offer." I continued.
"Sounds like fun." He replied and I laughed even harder.
Alice walked in the room before I could keep going and Jasper instantly snapped the book shut.
"My darling." He acknowledged.
"Come hunt with me, I'm bored." She said.
He nodded and they left.
"What just happened?" I laughed.
"It's so weird, he doesn't register a single word, and he can't take his head of that book until Alice walks in the room. Then he has full awareness of everything going on." Esme said.
"Yes, it's rather odd." I agreed.
Esme cooked and I continued to stay seated and talk with her about nothing important for about half an hour before she finished cooking.
She sat opposite me and we continued our playful arguments over strange topics.
"Carlisle?"
"Yes?"
"So I've been thinking about it and I don't think we can move to Cold Bay anymore. We can't leave Melody, and I don't want Seth to leave his family or pack, plus I feel really bad about Edward and Bella not being able to see Renesmee."
"That's what I had been saying from the beginning. And I agree, we can't leave Melody."
Rosalie walked in moment later, "Sorry, I heard your conversation and thought I would tell you that Alice already saw that you would decide not to leave and called Emmett and I went to look at it…"
"Thanks Rose." I smiled.
She walked back out. "So, where do you suspect I work, Esme?" I teased.
Her eyes narrowed. "You can work back at the hospital, but I'm calling in an anonymous complain about that nurse and I will get her fired."
I laughed, deciding I definitely didn't want to argue about this with my wife.
"I'll go in and talk to Dr. Snow about cancelling my request to leave tomorrow. I can tell him however, that I can't come back for another 3 weeks." I said.
"2 weeks on Isle Esme sounds absolutely perfect right now. Too bad the tickets had to be delayed."
"Yes, well in a week, we will be on our way." I said.
"Is Seth coming now too?"
"I forgot to ask him. I will when he gets here."
"I'm excited. We haven't been there in a long time."
"Bella and Edward were the last to go there. Did I ever get around to calling to…clean up the place?" I asked.
"I think you did. It was years ago."
I nodded. I stood and pulled Esme up next. I led her by the hand to our room and put her one of the movies she mentioned earlier that she liked.
Melody came in within the last 5 minutes of the movie.
"Hey guys, could Seth stay here tonight? It's getting late and I don't want him walking home."
"We're in Forks…and he's a wolf…" I said.
Esme pinched me and glared. "Sure he can honey. Just don't get too…carried away."
"Oh my god mum, no. And thanks." She said before walking out.
"Smooth." I said in a sarcastic tone.
"Her father is in the room, I'm not going to get to into it."
I nodded with a mocking smile.
"They're not married anyway."
"Esme, she didn't grow up in the same times as us. Things are a lot different now."
"She's still too young."
"She's going to be the same age for the rest of her life, and I had a young girl in the hospital a couple of weeks ago with problems after sex. She was 16."
Esme looked very unhappy with this.
She dropped the subject and lay down against my chest. We stayed like that for a long time but didn't notice the amount of time passing. If I could fall asleep, I would have happily. Before we knew it, it was morning.
"I have to go down to the hospital…" I whispered in her eye before kissing the side of her head.
She didn't move.
"Esme?"
She made a very frustrated noise and rolled over so I could get up.
"Thank you." I kissed her once on the lips. "Sorry." I smiled.