Esme leaned into Carlisle as they sat side by side on the couch watching a cheesy Halloween movie with the lights low and the fire crackling.

"This is probably the best Halloween I've ever had," she confessed.

"Me too." He turned to her and Esme kissed him. She was sure he had a collection of questions but was too polite to ask.

"Do you want to ask me anything? Say anything?"

"Esme.. I'm here to listen. I'm not going to ask or judge or anything. What you want to tell me is up to you."

"How did I get lucky enough to meet a man like you Carlisle? I mean it. Most people would have went running by now."

"I'm not most people."

"I know." She moved her position so she straddled him on the couch and kissed him deeply, feeling Carlisle's hands drop to her hips. "I haven't told anyone what I told you for a long time."

"Well I'm glad you were able to get it off your chest." Carlisle looked up at her and closed his eyes when she kissed him harder. He kissed her back and then snaked a hand up the back of her shirt to feel her skin against his palm.

Esme got up for a moment, leaving him with a decompressing sigh in his newly aroused state. Carlisle watched as a Esme pulled all the shades and blinds closed before rejoining him on the couch.

"Take my mind off of it," she whispered against his lips.

"Okay," he whispered back and kissed her with more enthusiasm as she guided him on top of her.

..x

Soft music played on a radio and Edward and Bella at across from Rosalie and Emmett with their arms around each other.

"Truth or dare," Rosalie asked, staring at Emmett.

"Dare." He smiled wide and sipped his beer.

"I dare you.. to kiss me."

They all chuckled and Edward whistled when his friend kissed his girlfriend, purposely letting it linger until the two of them were giggling against one another.

"Bella!" Emmett wiggled his eyebrows at her friend. "Truth or dare?"

Edward stared at her and Bella laughed. "Truth."

"What's the freakiest thing that's happened to you lately?"

"Freakiest?" She laughed and then relived the hair raising moment in English class earlier in the day. "I guess when I saw someone in a creepy mask on campus today."

"Bullshit," Emmett said with a smile.

"Yeah you would've told me that," Rosalie added.

"I saw.. something." Bella admitted. "It gave me the chills."

"When?" Edward asked.

"English."

"Edward.. truth or dare?" Emmett asked, moving on.

"Truth."

"How far have you gone with Bella?"

Edward and Bella exchanged a glance and she giggled, answering for him. "He pleads the fifth."

"Emmett," Rosalie swatted him. "You're embarrassing the newlyweds." She glanced at the bottle of wine that had yet to be opened on the table in center of the candlelit room. "Did anyone remember a cork screw?"

The four of them exchanged glances and Emmett rose to his feet. "I'll go grab one from the kitchen upstairs."

"There's definitely one in the drawer under the big sink," Bella informed him, noting in her mind she had washed it from time to time as part of her part time job.

"I'll be right back," Emmett said.

"Bring back some food too babe," Rosalie said to him. "I'm starving."

"Anyone else want something?" He asked, "Tea and crumpets maybe?" Emmett laughed at his own joke and repeated the phrase. "I'll be right back."

He wandered up a dark stare well, emerging into the kitchen where one light provided just a small illumination for him to get around. Emmett knee he couldn't turn on a second in case someone saw the light go on from somewhere else on campus. It would give them away.

He spotted the big sink and hurried to the drawer that Bella had mention, whipping it open and shuffling through utensils before he found the corkscrew.

Emmett smiled, holding it under the faucet to rinse it off and felt it slip through his hands and fall into the garbage disposal in the center or the sink.

"Shit." He struggled to get his meaty hand down the small space and anxiously eyed a switch on the wall that he knew was used to turn it on to mangle food.

Emmett refocused on the task at hand, reaching with his first two fingers. "Come on!" He grunted through gritted teeth, glancing at the switch again on the wall. "Come on.." he repeated the phrase and linked his middle finger through the top of it, yanking the corkscrew out of he garbage disposal successfully.

Emmett huffed a little laugh and smiled. When he turned around to go he immediately flinched, coming face to face with a man of his height in white Halloween mask.

For a moment they just stare at one another, and Emmett smirked at first, suspecting Edward or someone else was pranking him. His smile quickly faded when he stared into the black pits where his eyes loomed behind beneath the white rubber and he swallowed hard.

All Emmett could say was, "Hi."