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Lost and Found	By : Valleygoat Category: Twilight Series > General Views: 5558 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 15 Camping Weekend Part 1
As promised, an hour before dawn Esme came in and woke me up. I got dressed and had a quick breakfast of Honey Nut Cheerios while the others finished packing the vehicles. Carlisle, Esme, and Rosalie were taking his vehicle, Emmett and Jasper were taking the jeep, and Edward, Alice and I were in Edward's Volvo. I was sitting in the back seat, behind Edward, with Alice instead of up front as usual.
"Why don't you try to get more sleep, Carrie; it's going to be a few hours until we get there," Alice said her bell like voice soothing. All of them have soothing voices but her smooth soft tone has a dream like quality to it that was more relaxing than the others. Edwards' voice though can be almost as relaxing as hers if not more at times.
I turned to look at her, taking my eyes off of the faint predawn light that I could see through the window despite the over cast. "That might be kind of difficult. Usually once I'm up, I'm up and I have a hard time going back to sleep," I told her before I yawned. I was so excited the night before that I had trouble falling asleep but eventually my exhaustion and the medicine that Carlisle had me finish taking due to my injuries pulled me into the sweet darkness.
"I'll make sure to help you go to sleep," she said confidently. She gently grasped my shoulders and pulled me toward her where I had no choice but to lie on my side with my head in her lap. Once I was settled she began to run fingers through my hair in a soothing way that she had often seen Esme do as she sat with me after I was injured. I heard barely hear her humming a soft tune. I just laid there enjoying her ministrations, and slowly without realizing it, I fell asleep, feeling like I was being comforted by an older sister.
I woke up a couple of hours later to someone lightly shaking my shoulder. "Rise and shine, princess," I heard a female voice call softly as the shaking continued. I looked up and after I managed to clear my vision and I saw Alice's face smiling down at my own.
"Now you're calling me princess. I thought that only Emmett called me that." I said sitting back up, straightening out my clothes and hair and rubbing the last bit of sleep from my eyes. I peered at the dashboard clock and noted that it was about eight o'clock in the morning.
"We'll be there in around fifteen minutes, half an hour if we go closer to the speed limit," Edward said looking at me through the rear view mirror. I looked out at the scenery and was shocked; it was absolutely stunning. It was like the clearing that Edward took me to, but on a much larger scale. It was tree filled and heavy with mist like town just missing the civilization; it was a wild beauty not a tame one.
"Wow, it's so beautiful," I said in a breathless voice as I continued to gaze out the window with my face as close to the glass as it could be without touching it. Despite the fast speed we were going the beauty of it was not lost on me. I took in as much as I could with wide eyes.
"Wait until you see the cabin. Apparently it has its own indoor pool and twelve person hot tub. It's on top or near the top of a mountain the overlooks a valley," Edward said. I could tell by his tone that he was somewhat amused at my reaction to what I was seeing.
"It sounds like home; too bad I don't have a swim suit, the hot tub sounds relaxing," I said still soaking in the scenery. It truly was beautiful.
"Who said you needed a swim suit," Edward asked with a wide smile on his face as he looked at me in the rear view mirror.
"You're not suggesting that I go naked," I questioned indignantly, my brow slightly quivering and the beginning of a blush dusting across my nose as I looked into the eyes of his reflection. I heard Alice let out a laugh at my reaction.
"And here I was hoping that we would match," Edward said with a slight whine/ pout in his voice.
A smirk appeared on my face. If it is innuendos he wants then innuendos he gets. I leaned forward so I could put my arms over the seat, around him with my head close to his, "Is that a promise," I asked softly and mischievously; my lips slightly brushing against the shell of his ear. He took an involuntary breath in and his whole form seemed to stiffen and I heard the steering wheel creak from his tightened grip. Alice burst out laughing and I joined her after placing a kiss on Edward's cheek and I sat back in my seat. 'Take that," I thought with glee over my small victory. It's not very often that I can get a reaction from him or a noticeable one at least.
A short time later, as Edward had said, we pulled onto a tree lined path passing under an intricate arch and through an equally ornate gate. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that we were heading to Cullen Manor. The drive seemed a bit longer then the drive at the manor, and finally, as a tad more light streamed through the windows as we came out of the darkened drive. After my eyes adjusted I looked upon the cabin, if you could call it that, it was huge; it was even larger than the manor, probably at least twice its size. It resembled a log cabin, but was practically a mansion. There were lush gardens with statues, and I even spotted a couple of fountains.
We came to a stop in front of the building and got out. "Nice place isn't it," Carlisle said as we all got out of our respective vehicles. I could only nod my agreement for I was still in shock at the sight. The others didn't seem to give it a second look; they are probably use to grand settings such as this. I'm not considering I've been next to homeless my entire life. "Well what are you waiting for go explore and choose what rooms you want, then come and unpack," he continued with amusement clear in his voice. The others took off in a blur and I was left standing there still slightly in shock as I took in my surroundings.
"You better get going before they take the good rooms," Esme said as she came up beside me. She had a wide smile on her face and happiness could clearly be seen sparkling in her eyes as she looked at me.
"I doubt it, this place is large and grand, all of the rooms are probably good," I told her as I tuned my attention from the environment to her. I gave her a hug after she gave me some more encouragement to get going and took my time walking up the steps into the house. I took my time walking through the house, taking in the décor with a slack jaw. I could occasionally hear the others goofing around, but I was just wandering around letting my feet be my guide.
I was walking through a quite wing of the building, when I had feeling that I should open the door to my right. I hesitantly walked to the door and grabbed hold of the handles to open the doors. When I did I gasped, the room was decorated like a garden. The walls were painted in a forest mural. There were flowers everywhere and a couple of potted trees. The bed blended in with everything and had a dark green canopy with flower stitching. The dark stained wood furniture stood out yet blended in nicely with the theme. There were two doors in the room; one was a walk in closet, the other led to a bathroom. The bathroom had a water theme. It contained a shower that mimicked a water fall, a whirlpool tub that had a glass ceiling above it, and my favorite - a hot tub. The hot tub already had water bubbling in it, and it looked like a hot spring. It was covered in rocks and flowers and had four 'stone' seats, one in each corner. I checked the temp of the water… nice and hot.
"So this is where you have disappeared to." I heard come from behind me. I turned around and saw Edward leaning against the door frame. He had his hands stuffed into the pockets of his dark jeans and the sleeves of his black shirt pushed back to his elbows. "I take it this is your room?" He had that crooked smile that I have come to adore on his face.
"Yeah, isn't it cool? It's so realistic and the fragrance of the flowers is so calming," I said the awe clear in my voice and a soft smile on my face as I took another deep breath, taking in the fragrance as I walked to stand in front of him.
"Well come on, we still have to unpack," Edward said as he grabbed my hand and we walked out of the room. I reached over with my right and gently grasped his arm and I leaned my head against his upper arm, since I only came up to about his shoulder. He placed his left hand on top of my right and leaned down to place a kiss on the crown of my head.
(He is like 6'2" at most and I'm only like 5'4" I am almost the shortest of the bunch. Only Alice is shorter then I am. She stands at no more than 4 feet 9 inches.)
We met up with the rest of the family in the atrium and we went out and brought the things in to be sorted. The bags were separated by who they belonged to and what was for camping. I grabbed my bags and carried them up to my room. It appeared that I was the only one who chose a room in this part of the house. At this thought I couldn't prevent the chill of loneliness that traveled down my spine. I quickly shook off the feeling knowing that it was irrational, placed my bags on the bed and started to unpack.
I was hanging up the last of my stuff in the closet when I turned around…and came face to face with a smiling Alice. I took a quick step back at her sudden appearance. "Gees Alice I swear that you try to make my heart leap out of my chest. I'm I going to have to go back on guard if this keeps up." I said as I lifted my hand to my franticly beating heart.
"You should always be on your guard, but it's so fun to scare you," Alice said in a sing song way and a small wink. (She is a tricky pixie that she is.)
"Okay you came here for a reason. What is it," I asked still a bit aggravated at her scaring me. She held a small bag toward me. I looked at it, then her and slowly grabbed the bag from her. I opened it and inside was a bathing suit. It was a one piece that had a skirt/dress part that covered it and came down to just past my wrists. It was black in color with a white orchid pattern. The straps were double spaghetti strap.
"Go on and try it on," Alice said as she pushed me toward the bathroom. I went into the bathroom to do as I was told. I came out a short time later and I had my arms covering myself because I felt uncomfortable with what I was wearing and how much of me that could be seen.
"What do you think?" she asks eagerly. She no doubt was the one who picked it out.
"It's cute, but I feel naked, and I really don't like showing this much skin especially my legs mainly because of how they look. That's were a lot of the discolored scars are," I said looking self consciously down at my legs wishing that I could hide them.
"I figured that you might be a little uncomfortable about that so I got you these," Alice said. She handed me another, smaller bag; in it were a pair of black women swim shorts. I went back to the bathroom to put them on.
"I feel more comfortable now, thanks Alice," I said the gratefulness and relief clear in my voice and face. They came down closer to my knees covering my upper legs.
"Great, come on," she said as she grabbed my hand and dragged me out of my room. It was then that I noticed what she was wearing. She was wearing a dark purple bikini with a black wrap tied around her waist. She dragged me into the kitchen where everyone else was gathered. They too were wearing swim wear. Carlisle had blue swim trunks with a white pull over shirt that was unbuttoned. Esme was wearing a red one piece with a matching wrap. Jasper had on green trunks with a black muscle tee. This is the first time that I have ever gotten a look at his numerous scars from back when he trained newborns. They sort of fascinated me but I made sure to not stare at them and make him uncomfortable like he and the others do with me and my scars. Rosalie was wearing a pale gold bikini with a white wrap. Edward was wearing black Hawaiian print shorts, no shirt. Emmett wasn't present in the room at the moment.
"You could have at least waited until I grabbed some cover," I said to Alice embarrassed as I saw how perfect their bodies looked in comparison to mine. Of course they would look perfect they are always perfect.
"Here Carrie, I got you a swim robe," Rosalie said with a small smile, handing me said article and I put it on giving her a relieved look as I took it from her. It was cream colored, light weight, slightly see through. It had long sleeves, a hood and it came down almost to my knees and buttoned down the front; I did up the middle three buttons.
Emmett came in then; he was wearing white trunks, but black underneath so they wouldn't be seen through that sat low on his hips. "Ok everything is all set and good to go," he said. I could tell that he was excited as well if the grin on his face, which enhanced his dimples, and the way he shifted his weight back and forth on the balls of his feet were anything to go by.
"Alright, that's our cue to begin our relaxation," Carlisle said as he escorted Esme out of the room, his right arm draped across her shoulders. Jasper and Alice walked out after them hand in hand, with Emmett and Rosalie right after them, their arms around each other.
"Looks like my lady is in need of another escort," Edward said to me, again bowing and offering his hand to me. I sent him a wide smile and took the offered hand and we followed after the others our arms linked at the elbows; his other land lying gently on top of mine. I sent him a smile while giving his arm a light squeeze as we went on our way following the others.
We walked through the halls and we came to a sun filled room. The Cullen's were sparkling like diamonds and I took in the room that we were in; it was apparently the pool room. The far wall was nothing but glass which looked out into a garden, which wasn't as lush as it used to be considering the time of year but still beautiful, and an outdoor pool. There was a high ceiling, which was also glass. In the room there was a large pool in the center. On one end there was a small water fall, next to it was a larger, higher one that looked like it might be a slide. On the other side there were other slides that came down from different levels. I traced their paths that were up above casting shadows on the ground below. There were a couple of diving boards also along one side.
"Last one in is a rotten egg," Emmett shouted. He and the others quickly headed toward the pool shedding any extra clothes along the way. I took off my cover in my own time, but instead of heading into the pool I headed into the stairs for the slides.
Edward's POV
So far Carrie seems to be taking everything in stride. That's what I like about her; she doesn't over react to anything. It also felt nice to not have to hide what I am, what we are. Before I thought that I was falling in love with her, but now I'm sure. She's not my special brand of heroine, but she still completes me, and I don't have to worry about hurting her. Besides, I don't think that I could hurt her as much as her own blood family has.
It's kind of strange how I have never once felt like I did not deserve her. That was a major strain on my past relationship with Bella. She had a good family that loved her and a bright future ahead of her. I hated the idea of taking her away from them, but with Carrie I liked the idea of taking her away from hers. I would like to do nothing better in fact. Her family miss treated so much that she was better off having a bunch of vampires as family.
I watched her reaction as she took in the pool area. Sunlight was streaming in so we were all sparkling. She seemed to look at us in wonder, but her surroundings once again grabbed her attention. I still find it a bit weird how when she notices something about us, takes note of it then moves on; she doesn't linger.
"Last one in is a rotten egg," Emmett shouted. We all eagerly hopped into the pool, even Carlisle and Esme jumped in. I can't remember the last time that we went swimming. We were all goofing off, having water fights. It felt nice to be in a pool again. The water moved along my marble skin, caressing it like a long lost lover.
Speaking of water fights I was reminded of the one that Carrie and I had the other day in the kitchen. That was also the first time that she instigated a kiss like the one that we had. I looked around for Carrie in the pool, thinking of splashing her, but I didn't see her.
"Where's Carrie," I asked.
The others stopped what they were doing and looked around. "Carrie," I called out a couple of times along with the others. I could hear the others start to worry at not seeing her. I tried to listen for her but I got a block. I heard a cheer come from above us and I saw something moving above us, and the sound was coming closer. I finally spotted her twelve feet above us.
"Look out below," she called out. She came off of the ledge that the water fall was coming off of. The way that the ledge was curved up, she was tossed into the air and flipped backwards, the dress/skirt of her swimsuit flying up revealing the white under suit. She continued the flip the whole way and tucked her limbs into a ball. "Cannon ball," she yelled. We moved so that she wouldn't land on top of any of us, and she landed with a slash that hit all of us.
She came up a short time later, slightly sputtering and coughing. She turned toward all of us and said with a wide smile on her face, "That was fun; you guys ought to try it." We all looked at her then each other, and then were scrambling to get out of the pool, to try out the slides. I made sure to grab Carrie so that she wouldn't be left behind. I ran up the stairs with her on my back.
"Which one did you do," I asked her looking around the platform area at the different options. Each slide was a different color; red, blue, green, yellow, light blue, purple, and each was set up in a different ways. The yellow ones for example were set up so that four people could go down like a race.
"The baby blue colored one," she replied. I walked over to that one, sat her down in the 'waiting area', and sat down behind her.
"Ready," I asked her and she nodded. I wrapped my arms around her and put my legs on both sides of hers. I let go briefly so that I could grasp the bars on either side of us so that I could push us off. When we were going over the edge I wrapped my arms around her again and leaned back so that I was lying down with her slightly on top of me.
I could hear and feel her laughter as we went down the slide; she let out a light cheer after a sharp turn. I watched carefully as we approached the end of the slide. When we got to the end and were thrown up into the air, I let go of Carrie and slightly tossed her some more into the air. She let out a small scream as I did so not expecting it. I landed feet first into the pool before she did. I came up and looked around for Carrie, I didn't see her and I started to get worried.
I was about to call out to her, when I felt a pair of hands on my head push me down in the water. I came up and faced my 'attacker' to see Carrie with a smile on her face. As retaliation I splashed her with water, which she sent right back at me. Thus began our second water fight. We were interrupted when some of the others splashed into the pool from the other slides. (The slides were set up so that they didn't all land on each other). We all went down the slides a few times. Carrie took turns coming down with each of us. We were just lounging around in the pool when Emmett got out and stepped up onto the low diving board.
"Attention one and all," he called out, "you are about to watch one of the most spectacular shows on Earth. You will see me perform death defying feats and you will be in awe of my skill." He struck a pose as he said the last part. His feet shoulder width apart, his right arm flexed with his fist by the back of his head which was facing his extended left arm that was pointing out and up, his palm flat and fingers out.
He was about to go on but Carrie interrupted him. "Just get on with it and stop stoking your ego," she said. Emmett pouted in her direction, but she just tried to splash from where she was at in the pool. Emmett moved so that the water wouldn't touch him. Carrie had a grin in her face when Emmett moved and I soon saw why. With Emmett moving he doesn't notice that the board moving as Alice crept up on him. As Emmett took his position to make his 'performance' and began to get the board to bounce, Alice pushed him off just as he was about to jump off. He landed in an undignified way in the water with a big splash.
Emmett came out sputtering to get the water out of his mouth. He glared toward us who were laughing at what happened. He looked up at Alice who was on the diving board. She just sent him a smirk as she did a slight bounce on the board. When she jumped off she did a double front flip and dove into the pool. We all took turns going off of the board. Carrie didn't jump off too many times for she said that she was slightly scared to do any tricks.
"Carrie, sweetie, it's time for lunch," Esme called out from next to the pool. I was having so much fun playing along and watching Carrie that I never noticed that she and Carlisle had left.
"Okay Esme," she called out as she swam to the ladder. She then got out the pool and dried off with a towel that Esme handed her. After she dried off, she put her robe on and walked with Esme to the dining room.
"Hey guys, look what I found," Emmett called out. We all got out of the pool to follow Emmett. He led us to a closet that had supplies in it, along what looked like pool gear. Floating things, fins, goggles, snorkels, and pool toys were in the small room. "Here's a net and beach balls. How about we set up the net and when Carrie gets back we can play a game" he suggested. We all agreed.
It took us a while but we were eventually able to get the net out, untangle it and set it up. We got finished just as Carrie, Esme and Carlisle came back into the room. "Looks like all of you were busy during lunch," Esme said.
"Yeah, Emmett found a bunch of pool things in a closet and this was in it. We set it up thinking that we could play a game," Jasper said.
"That sounds like a good idea, but we have to wait an hour, Remember, humans aren't supposed to swim at least an hour after eating to prevent cramps," Carlisle said in a slightly teasing, fatherly way. We looked away in embarrassment since we all kind of forgot about that.
I watched as Carrie walked over to one of the pool lounge chairs, take off her pool robe and lay down on it. She was laying there in the sun light as it washed over her, warming her body. I went over and lay down on the chair next to her; the others lay down in chairs also, enjoying the sun, not having to worry about how she would react to the sparkling. I watched as Carrie lightly dosed in her chair, a look of peace on her face. I watched as she lies there on her back, then as she turned to lie on her stomach. She turned her face so that she could look at me. She sent me a smile and held her right hand out toward me. I reached out with my left and took her hand into my own. She looked down at our connected hands and ran her thumb across my skin. She turned my hand this way and that as if she was studying the way my skin shimmered in the sunlight. I also find it amazing that I never once think myself to be a monster like I had when I was with Bella.
"What are you thinking about," I asked her in a quite tone. There was a sense of peacefulness in the air that I didn't want to break so I spoke softly.
She seemed to think about her answer before responding. "I'm just thinking about how my life as changed since I met you and your family. About how much happier I am and how the sun seems to sun more brightly now. I never dreamed that any of this would happen to me; I always thought that happiness was a fairy tale. I'm thinking about how I never want this to end and I'm wondering how long it will last, for nothing seems to last forever, especially in my life. I wonder if it will be here today and gone tomorrow. I keep asking myself if this is all a dream and if it is how I never want to wake up."
I turned so that I could face her and she did the same. I looked her in the eye and said with all honesty, "As long as I am here, I will make sure that there is always a smile on your face, I'll make sure that your days are filled with happiness and love. I will make sure that you have the fairytale happy ending and that the sun is always shinning for you. This I promise you." I sealed my promise with a kiss. I pulled her closer to me as I kissed her and had her right next to me as it continued. She finally pulled away so she could take a breath, and she looked at me with a smile on her face and stars in her eyes. She gave me another small peck on the lips before she moved so that she could lay her head on my chest and closed her eyes. I lay there and watched her as I slowly ran my hand across her arm. I watched in slight fascination as goose bumps appeared if caressed her skin a certain way. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warmth that I felt from her body and the sun.
I hear a click so I opened my eyes to see Alice standing across from us with a camera once again in her hands. I sent her a small glare but she just smile and took another picture before she left to go back to Jasper. I watched her for a little bit and listened to her thoughts. When I was sure that she wouldn't be moving anymore I lay my head back against the chair and settled down to wait for Carrie to wake.
After about an hour and a half Carrie started to stir from her nap. She brought her hand up while she lifted her head, rubbed the sleep from her eyes and took in her surroundings with blurry eyes. "Have a nice nap," I asked quietly so I wouldn't startle her.
She looked up at me and smiled. "With you here, of course." she said as she placed a small kiss under my chin. She looked around at the other family members. They were all lying in the beach chairs in the sunlight as if they were tanning.
'Edward I have an idea,' I heard in my mind after a short while. Both Carrie and I have been practicing on lifting the veil from her mind; so far we have discovered that she can communicate to me with her thoughts, sort of like the rest of my family, but she can still block me when she wanted to.
I sent her a questioning look as to question her for she can't hear my thoughts and I didn't want to tip off the rest of the family that something was up. She just got up from our seat and motioned for me to follow her, and I did. I followed her to the atrium that still held the camping gear. She went over to her pack and dug around in it. She eventually pulled out a bag that held…balloons?
Seeing my confused look Carrie just smirked in my direction before heading toward the kitchen. She grabbed an empty garbage can from under the sink and placed it next to her. Carrie then opened the package, turned on the sink and placed the nozzle of the balloon under the flow of water. I had to let out a small chuckle at that, water balloons, I think I know what she has planned.
I decided to help her out. When the balloons were a decent size I took it from her, tied it and then gently placed them in the garbage bin. The entire time I 'kept an eye' on the others. After we filled two bins full of balloons we slowly snuck into the pool room again. So far, so good, everyone was as we left them, still sort of bunched together but separated into the respective couples.
Carrie grabbed a couple of balloons and moved so that she had a better shot of Emmett and Rosalie, I moved to I could get Alice and Jasper. We looked at each other when we were in position and nodded. Carrie mouthed the count, one…two… three. After three we tossed our ammo. We watched as the balloons came closer to their targets.
Most of them hit. Emmett got his in the face, Rosalie and Jasper in the chest and Alice moved at the last moment. She must have seen it coming. They all jumped up in their seats when they were hit and Rosalie made a sound of indignation. Carrie hid behind a pile of chairs after she pulled the bin after her and grabbed more ammo. I did something similar; I grabbed the bin and moved to higher ground.
The others were looking around to see where the first balloons were coming from. Carlisle and Esme sat up in their seats to watch our battle. Carrie threw another balloon at Emmett when his back was to her and it hit him in the back, right between the shoulders. He turned around and spotted her behind the chairs. He grinned toward her and said, "Oh princess" teasingly.
Carrie had a look on her face like she was slightly worried but she still had a smile on her face. (^_^'). He quickly made his way toward Carrie, but again made sure that he moved at a humans pace to be fair. Carrie took the other balloon she had and threw it at him; only for Emmett to catch it. However, when he went to throw it back, it burst in his hands, just getting him wet.
As the others watched the interaction between Emmett and Carrie, I took advantage of the distraction to throw water balloons at them. I managed to hit Alice and Jasper, but Rosalie moved at the last minute to avoid it. That balloon hit Carlisle right in the chest. We all kind of stopped what we were doing to see what would happen.
Carlisle looked down at his wet chest and looked around at us where we had frozen. He then looked over at Esme. After sharing a look they both then disappeared. I looked around to see where they would reappear. They were thinking of something else so I didn't know what they were up to. I could neither hear them nor see through their eyes. I felt a pair of hands on my back as they shoved me into the pool below. I came up just to see Carlisle standing where I was just a moment ago with a water balloon in each hand and a smile on his face.
I hear a squeak and turn to see Carrie hunched and head wet. Esme was standing behind her looking as if she just dropped something on Carrie's head. Carrie looked peeved for a moment before she took the balloon that she was holding in her hands and chucked it behind her, hitting Esme in the leg.
That started the chaotic, everyone for themselves water fight between us. We were all throwing balloons at each other and some of us got pushed into the pool. It eventually ended when all of us ended up in the pool. "All that we were missing we the water guns," Carrie said, "but it would be best if we did that at another time."
"How about we play some volleyball now," Emmett said. "We've got the net all set up and I found some beach balls." We decided that that sounded like a good idea. The first game was guys against girls; we won by one point. Then the next game was Carlisle, Esme, Rose and Emmett against Alice, Jasper, Carrie and me; we won that one. The last game was girls against girls. In this game however, the girls sat on our shoulders. Carrie was on mine, and on our team was Rosalie on Emmett's shoulders. The other team was Alice on Jaspers and Esme sitting on Carlisle's shoulders. We lost that one, because Emmett would constantly trip me causing Carrie to fall into the water. She got back at him by trying to dunk him; it was difficult to do with Rosalie on his shoulders so it mainly became water fights.
After the game we slide down the slides as Esme and Carlisle left to fix Carrie some dinner. During our dinner we discussed our plans for the weekend. We decided to go out in the woods to camp Friday and Saturday night, come back to sleep in the cabin Sunday night and leave Monday before noon. We also decided to 'hunt' tomorrow night and to fish the next day; with hiking here and there. After dinner we lounged around the pool then Carrie got up and went into the large twelve person hot tub. We all decided to follow her example and got in and relaxed and talked. We were all enjoying the warmth of the water. We enjoyed it because we enjoyed the feel of warmth against our granite skin. I watched as Carrie's skin flushed from the heat of the pool. I eventually bought her over to me so that she wouldn't get too warm and she got sick. Even with the heat my body was still cool. (Hmm vampires in a hot tub hmm.)
As Carrie sat there in my lap and gave her shoulders, back and arms a message. I would have rubbed her legs but she stopped me with a slap to the hand and an "I don't think so." The others had a small chuckle at that. We just sat there relaxing in the hot water for a while. Someone would bring up something and that would start a small conversation. After a couple of hours Esme got out and retrieved a large fluffy towel and brought it back over. "Come on Carrie, you don't want to stay in there for too long, you might cook," she said jokingly. Carrie let out a small whine and an 'I don't want to', but she got out. Esme wrapped her up in the towel, so that she wouldn't get a chill.
We all got out also and went to our rooms to shower and change. I went into Carrie's room and found her sitting on her bed combing out her hair. She had a pout on her face and complained about how badly her hair was knotted. I just gave a small chuckle, took the comb from her hands, sat behind her and combed her hair out for her. Afterwards we were just lying on her bed talking when Carlisle came in and told Carrie to get some sleep. We got out off the bed, and I pulled the blankets down for her. She crawled in and I tucked her in. After giving her a goodnight kiss I turned her lights out, closed the door slightly and left.
I went in a few times during the night to check on her and to watch her sleep. Her curtains were open and her sleeping form was bathed in moonlight. I thought that she looked divine as she lay there with her hair fanned out around her on the pillow. She looked so peaceful.
Unwillingly I wonder how she could look so peaceful with the life she has lived. She has never known the love a parent, the kindness or gentleness of a touch. She has experienced pain that I have never felt in my hundred years. She probably has experienced pain that could rival the pain of my transformation. I think about how I want her to stay with me and my family so that she can never be hurt again. I also I feel respect for her on account that she hasn't run away from the pain, that she has stayed with Thom and Liz with the sense of loyalty that she feels to her 'family'. I leave before my thoughts get too dark and I lose my control and do something that I might regret.
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