"What are we doing today?" Esme asked me as I returned to our bedroom after my shower.
"Well, I was thinking that first we go to the Brandenburg Gate and then to Gendarmenmarkt. The Christmas market is on, we could go tonight?"
"That sounds great." She smiled. I walked over and planted a kiss on her lips.
"When are we leaving?" She asked with her hands at the back of my neck.
"Whenever you would like." I replied, my hands on her hips.
"Good…" she whispered before placing a lustful kiss on my lips.
I kissed down her neck and she dropped her head backwards. I would let her have complete control, but I knew she didn't like it.
Her phone rang, but we didn't answer. Then mine rang, still didn't answer. Hers rang again and we decided we should probably get it.
"Hey Alice." Esme said with an annoyed voice.
"Um, Esme, the boys sort of did something, and we don't know what to do…"
"What happened?" he voice turned to anger.
"Well, we challenged that they wouldn't be able to lure deer into the yard…but they did, it's just, well…the deer didn't stay in the yard…"
"Alice, are you telling me that the deer went through our house?"
"Yeah…"
Esme sighed, trying to control herself from yelling.
"So the house is a total mess. Everything on the bottom floor is broken. Emmett is devastated about the new TV, and how do you get blood out of carpet?"
"There is blood in my carpet!?"
"Jasper and Emmett were really hungry…and they went into full hunting mode."
"Shit, Alice, I thought I told you all not to do anything stupid."
"We didn't think they would be successful in their luring."
I could hear the whole conversation while I sat close to my wife.
"Here's Bella." Alice said, followed by a short moment of "No, I don't want it." And "Just take it!"
Bella voice came through as Esme put it on speaker.
"I am so sorry Esme, but I'm going to fix it." She said.
"How?" Esme was very upset, and looked like she could cry.
"We'll go on a huge shopping day and replace everything!"
"And the carpet?"
"What's wrong with the carpet? Alice, what's wrong with the carpet?"
We heard silence, which we assumed was Alice talking to Bella.
"Holy shit." We heard Bella say.
"Bella? How long ago did this happen?" I asked.
"About 5 minutes before we called…"
Before anyone could say anything else we heard a "Watch out!" being called to Bella.
"Oh no…" she said, the phone still at her face.
"Edward! Catch it!" she yelled.
"Bella what is happening?" Esme was freaking out. That house out of all the ones we own across the world was her all-time favourite.
"A wolf followed the deer. And like a real wolf, not a shape shifter." She explained.
"Oh god…" Was all I could say.
"Oh, it's okay, he caught it. Nothing new is broken."
"What a relief…" Esme said sarcastically.
"We're sorry."
"Okay, we have to go now. Please clean that entire place up by the time we get back, and please be responsible." I said.
"Have fun!" she called before I ended the call.
"We have to go back."
"No, we don't. Now where were we?" I threw her phone onto the night stand and pushed her backwards onto the bed.
"Right about here…" she laughed.
We had made our way down to the Brandenburg Gate and spent some time there. We sat down on a bench and talked for about an hour, laughing and making jokes, having stupid little pointless arguments. By the time we left, it was around 3 in the afternoon.
We slowly made our way to Gendarmenmarkt and I followed Esme as she walked quickly from place to place, looking at all the new stuff she had never seen before.
She dragged me into a Victoria's Secret store despite my protests and complaints.
"Come on, no one will know." She tried.
"Esme, that's so embarrassing."
"No it's not. Not if you're holding my hand. If you were following behind me then yes, it would be because you would look like a stalker..." she laughed. "Please!"
"Please don't make me do this."
She gave me puppy dog eyes and I gave in. I always gave in eventually. "Fine, but not too long, please."
She smiled and grabbed my hand, pulling me into the lingerie store.
She walked around for a while looking at all the simple, not too confronting underwear.
"Kann ich Dir helfen?" A woman asked politely.
("Can I help you?")
"Nein, danke." Esme replied in a sweet voice.
("No, thank you.")
"You know, if you took her help, we could be almost out of here by now…" I said once the woman walked away.
"We're just looking."
"You're just looking. I'm just walking with you."
"Look!" she changed the subject and held up a nice two piece, coloured light purple and black.
I laughed at her excitement.
"What? This particular colour is very hard to find. Of course you're attracted to the rare colour. Why couldn't it be red? That's very common." She laughed.
"I'm attracted to anything as long as you're in it."
She laughed again and kissed me.
"Yes or no?" she held it up again.
"Whatever you want."
"Yes or no?" she repeated.
"Yes." I answered, wanting to end this conversation as I saw another man walk in with his other half. I wanted to leave now and hoped that's Esme had enough of the shop.
She picked her size and she kept walking along the isle, still pulling me along with her.
A few more minutes walking the store and she noticed how impatient I was getting, so we went to the checkout.
I received a text from Garrett:
"What size couches do you want? The same?"
I replied with a yes, and put my phone back in my pocket.
"Who was that?" Esme asked as we left the store.
"Garrett, he wanted to know if we wanted the same size couches."
"I swear to god if Alice completely changes that house…"
"Calm down. We'll worry about it when we get home."
She sighed and we continued to walk up the street.