Rose and Esme were waiting by a red convertible, Jasper, Emmett and Edward were wrestling in the yard that was closer to the size of a small field, teasing Alice I wailed to Rose and Esme "Quick get in the car before Alice can torture me anymore" Esme laughed, I waved to the boys as the car pulled out on to the drive, my phone beeped with a new txt message, it was Julian he owns a salsa club called Delilah in Seattle I worked there over the holidays when I needed extra money, it was a promotional message, two free drinks per customer tonight only, an idea sparked in my mind, I'm getting Jasper and everything I want from him before the night is out.
"Alice, were going to Seattle to go shopping then coming back to Forks, right?" Alice nodded "Where are we going tonight then?" Alice shrugged "A club in Port Oran" I put my innocent face on "Why don't we just stay in Seattle for the night? I know a great salsa club up there, we can get a couple of rooms at The Ridges Hotel and the boys can drive up to meet us, it'll be really fun" Alice got more and more excited as I went on, she was bouncing in her seat (again) by the time I'd finished "Yes! Yes! That's perfect! Oh, Esme, Rose what do you think?" Rose was already nodding "Sound's like fun! Esme?" Esme turned in the passenger seat so she could look at Alice and I in the back seat "It sounds wonderful girls, Carlisle and I haven't been out dancing in so long" she had a dreamy look on her face, "Alright then, Esme if you call Carlisle at the hospital, Alice can you call the boys, don't tell them where were going tonight and I'll call Julian, he'll make sure we have a table . . . oh my god! I forgot to call my mom yesterday!" Panicking I pulled out my phone to call her, Esme put her hand on top of mine before I could dial "It's alright Emma, she phoned the house yesterday when you were in the shower, sorry I didn't tell you" I sighed in relief, my Ma is pretty lenient but she worries about my safety "You should call to tell her where spending the night in Seattle though" I nodded, Esme was right, I called Julian first, he answered immediately "Talk to me darlingggg" I laughed at him "Hello to you to Julian, how are things?" "Oh wonderful as always, now are you calling to chat me up or are you quitting school and coming to work for me full-time?" he asked in a flippant tone, I played along continuing in a forlorn tone "Neither unfortunately, I'm coming in tonight with some friends, I need a table for eight, a good one too please" I could hear him writing it down "I can do that for you Emma, on one condition. . ." I cut him off, already knowing the condition "No Julian" my voice was firm "C'mon Emma, you'd look so good together, just one dance, one little dance, for me?" I could practically hear him pouting, I sighed, Julian hired professional dancers for the club, basically they were there to demonstrate dance steps, get the crowd going and coax people onto the dance floor, one of the men Julian had hired was one of the best dancer's I had ever seen and a complete asshole, Roman, like that was even his real name, he's from Brooklyn and his Spanish accent was so fake, thought that all women should worship him as a god and didn't understand why I didn't agree, he tried to sleaze onto me almost every time I was there "Julian do you remember what happened last time he got to close to me?" Julian sighed "You kicked him in the balls, you know he didn't work for three days after that" "Yes well, the next time it wont be his balls, it'll be his toes and then he wont be working for three weeks rather then days" Julian was silent in the face of my threat, I sighed "He's a creep Jules, besides with the friends I'm bringing nobody will even notice Roman" still silence, I threw in my last bargaining chip "And I'll save a dance for you" "Done" he said quickly "Ha, I knew you'd feel all guilty if I stayed silent" I grinned into the phone "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll see you tonight, we'll be there around 9.30" "Very well my turtle dove, I shall see you this evening" he made kissing noises into the phone before hanging up "Turtledove?" Alice managed to get out, before she cracked up laughing.
I phoned my Ma after my giggles subsided telling her that we were spending the night in Seattle and would be back late tomorrow, she said that was fine and that she was sorry but she was going up to Phoenix for a week and wouldn't be home until next weekend and did I want my father to come home for the week? I said I was fine and I'd probably stay at the Cullen's for most of the week, lie, lie, lie, if I had the house to myself I was totally putting it to good use with Jasper! She said she loved me and to call if I needed her, I returned the sentiment and hung up. We spent the rest of the ride to Seattle singing along to Rosalie's best of the 90's playlist, the only interruption to our sing-along was when Rose said "So Emma, aren't you going to ask us?" totally confused I said "Ask you what?" she snickered "If Edward will be able to hear you scream from our house" catching on immediately I shrieked "Rose!" absolutely mortified that Esme had to hear that "I'm so sorry Esme, you really shouldn't have to hear about Jasper and I. . .well you know" I trailed off weakly, Esme was giggling along with Rose and Alice "It's alright Emma, it's nice to have some girl time and you and Jasper are both adults, you can't get pregnant or get diseases so I don't see the problem" it shocked me a little, I guess I'd put Esme into a very motherly box when she had a whole other side.
We pulled into The Ridges Hotel a little after 11, Alice had said that we were safe as it was going to be cloudy for the next three days, we made out way through the foyer to the front counter to book our rooms, the front counter was manned by two men who stared at the four beautiful women standing before them, Alice took charge "Hello, we would like five deluxe rooms for the night please" the younger man snapped out of his stupor, "I'm very sorry Miss but the deluxe rooms are a minimum two night stay" he was very nervous, I could smell the sweat rolling off him, I turned to the girls and shrugged "it's not going to kill us to miss classes tomorrow, does Carlisle have to work Esme?" She shook her head "He took someone's Saturday shift and they're taking his Monday" Alice grinned "Two night's is fine, three of the room's can be close together but can we have the other two on another floor?" the boy nodded and typed a few things into his computer, booking the three rooms on the 9th floor under Alice Cullen, Rosalie Hale and Emma Jackoby and the two rooms on the 11th floor under Carlisle Cullen and Edward Cullen. I tried to pay for my room myself but Alice held my hands behind my back while Esme handed over her American Express to pay for all of the rooms. I felt extremely guilty until we were back in the car and they explained to me that they had bank accounts all over the world with millions of dollars in them, they had alot of money in the stock market too, with Alice's talent they did very well, Alice told me to stop whining because she never had any friends to buy anything for and it was selfish really if I didn't let her spend money on me. I stopped whining.
I grabbed another coffee and a bagel to tide me over when we parked the car, Alice was practically vibrating with excitement and off we went. We shopped and shopped and shopped, we brought almost everything we tried on, and had to make a few trips back to the car to free up our hands for more shopping bags, Alice spent hundreds of dollars on make-up, hair products and styling tools which I could only assume were for me. I got really excited in a few stores, one was a shop that stocked Spanish flamenco style clothes, Alice, Rose, Esme and I each got a dress to wear that night, another that I loved sold shoes and coats and the other was Victoria Secret, I love lingerie, I love knowing that I'm wearing beautiful clothes all the way down to my panties even if nobody see them, I went a little crazy knowing that I was going to have Jasper to myself for a week. We stopped so I could get another coffee before our last two stops, one was a jewellery store the other a luggage store, Alice wandered off across the road into an adults only store and came out carrying a large bag, then she ducked into the shoe store and came out carrying another bag, she had a sly grin on her face as she came back across the street, "What'd you get Alice?" Rosalie asked, there was curiosity in her voice, "Nothing important Rose" she answered airily, Rose tried to grab the bags out of her hand but only succeed in getting the shoe bag, Rose pulled out black patent fuck-me pumps with a serious heel, my jaw dropped a little, Rose frowned "You're not a size eight and a half Alice. . ." My eyes narrowed "I'm a size eight and a half, what have you done Alice?" "Nothing!" she insisted, she shook the bag from the Adults store "This is for me" she pointed to the shoes "Those are for you" the angelic face was back, somehow I didn't believe her.
We finally made it back to the hotel, the desk clerk sent out eight assistants to help us carry in all our purchases, everything went straight to Alice's room, we'd work out what was who's once everything was together, the valet smoothly pulled away and we collected our room keys from the front desk, leaving four more for the guys when they arrived. Surprisingly it was only 3pm when we got back to the hotel, Alice sorted everyone's purchases out and I carried mine to my room next door coming back to tell Alice that I was going to sleep for an hour and a half before she could start primping me, I phoned down to room service and ordered a duck salad entree, a steak and roast vegetables main and a bowl of chocolate covered strawberries for dessert to be sent up at five thirty with a bottle of Bollinger champagne, thanks to my fast metabolism it would take at least three bottles to get me tipsy.
I set my alarm and got down to my underwear before slipping into bed, my last thought before sleep took me was hoping that Jasper would be here soon.
