I couldn't completely recall last night. I know it continued in the living room and we somehow ended back up in our bed.
We got up when the sun had long since risen and walked down to the living room. I looked at the TV and remembered the night before fully.
"Oh, right…" Esme had forgotten too.
The children were spread across the couches.
"What the hell happened here Carlisle?" Emmett asked.
It had taken them forever to agree on a TV when we finally got that one, now we had to get another.
I looked over at Esme slowly. She broke out into a laugh and looked down.
"Looks like you had fun…" Edward laughed.
"You told us too!" Esme accused.
Everyone was laughing except Emmett.
"Guys, I'm serious. What am I meant to do during the boring hours in my life now?" He whined.
"Spend time with me!" Rosalie hit his arm. "Plus, there is another one upstairs."
"I don't want to be up there when these two wild animals are!" Emmett was laughing too now."
Renesmee and Jacob walked through the front door and into the living room.
"Whoa…" Jacob started laughing with the others.
"What— never mind, I don't want to know." Renesmee smiled at Esme and I.
"Why do you assume it was us?" Esme acted offended.
"I'm not assuming, I know. I was here yesterday afternoon, too…" Renesmee laughed.
"Right…" Esme said quietly.
"By the way, I'm almost certain that Melody is scarred for life…" Jacob said.
"Oh god…" Esme turned and buried her face in my chest out of embarrassment.
I laughed and put my arms around her. "She'll get over it."
"I'm still trying…" Renesmee said, making Emmett and Jasper laugh harder.
"You two need to go get us a new TV…" Edward said.
"You all have to come, do you remember last time? We are not making that decision for you just to go get a different one." I said.
"That was a nightmare…" Bella said.
"Okay, well I'm going up to my office." I said. Esme flicked her head up and looked at me. "Would you like to come?" I asked her.
"Not again…" Emmett joked.
I laughed. "No, something different. I'm sure Edward will fill you in."
Esme and I made our way up to the office as Edward started telling them our plans.
"Berlin?" Esme asked, hopeful.
"Of course, my darling. We can go anywhere."
"And Dresden? It's beautiful in photos." She leant back in the armchair in the corner beside the wall length window.
"Anywhere else?"
She shook her head.
"Okay. What if we leave next week as sort of an anniversary thing? We spend a week in Berlin and a week in Dresden?" I proposed.
"That sounds perfect." She smiled.
Today was Tuesday, our anniversary was Friday, and we would leave on Sunday. I booked tickets and we started looking at the most expensive and nicest places to stay. Esme was fluent in German. I knew some, but was not as skilled as her.
After about an hour, we booked our rooms. I sat back in my desk chair and stared at my beautiful wife.
"What?" she asked.
"You are so perfect." I smiled.
She appeared in front of me, leaning down and planting a soft kiss on my lips.
A knock on the door interrupted her.
"Yes?" I called.
Alice looked downwards at the ground. "We are all ready to go get a TV when you two are…" she said.
"Alice, we are fully clothed…" Esme laughed.
"Oh." She looked up at us. "I was just taking precaution."
"We're ready now." I shook my head and chuckled at her.
"Emmett, you liar!" Alice called as we walked behind her down the stairs.
"What?" Esme asked.
"He said that he walked past and you were at it again. Offered me 20 dollars to come tell you that we were ready." She explained, holder her hand out to Emmett so that he would give her the money.
"I thought they were, Esme laughed. My bad."
"Emmett, just because I laughed does not mean we were having sex." Esme said.
"Okay, let's go." I interrupted before Emmett had the chance to make anyone uncomfortable; I pushed Esme towards the door.
"My jeep and your Mercedes." Emmett said, grabbing his keys.
I took mine off the hook as well and we got in the car. Alice and Jasper came with us. Renesmee and Jacob had gone back to the reservation again after grabbing what they needed.
I followed Emmett out.
"Hey guys, what are you planning to do for your anniversary?" Jasper asked.
I looked over at Carlisle. "We hadn't really thought about it. We have been planning Germany for afterwards." She said.
"Yeah, Alice and I were going to go to London while you were there."
"Not anymore." Alice sat back.
"Why not?"
"Jasper doesn't want to travel at the moment." She glared at him.
"Fine, we can go." He said, irritated.
"No. You don't want to."
I looked at them through the rear view mirror. Alice had her arms crossed and stared out the window and Jasper was looking at her.
"What's going on here?" I asked them.
"We just told you." Alice said with a hint of attitude.
"That's not everything."
Jasper sighed. "It's been cloudy over in Mississippi lately and Alice wanted to go over there to see her gravestone. Which I think is a very stupid idea because it'll just bring back bad memories from her past."
"It's not stupid." She snapped.
I pulled over and Emmett pulled over up the road, wondering why I had stopped.
"Alice, Jasper is right. If we keep going back to our human lives, then the pain will never subside."
"It won't subside either way, use Esme as an example!"
Esme stepped out of the car immediately after Alice's comment. She was met by the others after walking a few metres up the road. I watched as Rosalie took her into a hug. Edward started towards the car before Emmett pulled him back and held him there.
"Alice, you do what you want, but if it turns out badly, just remember that we told you so." I spoke coldly, but tried to show kindness at the same time.
I got out of the car and walked over to Esme.
Esme moved from Rosalie to me and buried her face into my chest. She tried not to let them, but a few dry sobs had left her mouth.
Alice and Jasper got out of the car and walked over. It looked like Jasper had yelled at her by the way that they were walking apart.
"Esme, I'm sorry." Alice said. "I shouldn't have said that and I knew it straight away.
A low growl escaped Edward's mouth before Esme had a chance to reply. Bella pulled him backwards and scolded him.
"I'm leaving." Alice said flatly before disappearing into the trees that lined the road.
Esme pulled away from me. "We should go." She said quietly and made her way back to the car.
Jasper ran after her. "I really am sorry for that."
"It wasn't you, sweetheart. Alice didn't mean it. I'm not mad or anything."
"You're upset."
"No, I just reacted badly. I'll be fine. I promise." Esme said.
"Okay…" Jasper didn't sound all that convinced, but he didn't sense any added guilt after she said it.
Emmett and I decided not to continue to Seattle today and to just go home.