Midnight (Twilight Fan Fic)

Chapter 34

Chapter 34

A few weeks later we were ready to move, all our belongings were packed up in boxes, dust sheets covered the remaining items of furniture that we would be leaving behind. The evening before we left I was helping Esme place the last dust sheet over the empty vanity table. As always, new furniture and fittings had been bought for the new house. Things that we no longer wanted or needed had been donated to charity, including most of our clothes (Apart from the ones we’d hidden from Alice) 

Esme sighed and walked around the table to me, resting her head on my chest with a smile, “I’m going to miss this place,” She murmured, “But I can’t wait to go home.”

I chuckled and lifted her chin up to kiss me, “Me too,” 

She took my hand and pulled me towards the door, “How about one last hunting trip?”

I nodded and turned to slip some shoes on before following her downstairs.

The kids were sat in the lounge, they’d pulled one of the dust sheets off a sofa and were lounging around. All of them laughing and chatting, grins on all their faces.

I took Esme’s hand and looked to them, “We’ll be back before dawn,”

Edward looked around to us and smiled, “Don’t rush, we’re capable.”

Rose scoffed, “Yeah, I mean — how many times are we going to move house!?”

We all laughed before Esme and I left them to their own devices.

We each caught a small deer, not really needing to hunt only wanting the private time to ourselves. I’d planned to ask Esme to join me on a trip out this evening and was surprised that she had asked me first. As I had had it all planned out I had come out earlier and left a blanket spread in our favourite clearing. What I hadn’t left there were the fairy lights that hung from the canopy of trees overhead, I could only assume the kids had been after me.

Esme gasped lightly and turned to me, I smiled and leant down to kiss her gently. The cold breeze not bothering us as we lay down on the blanket and looked to the canopy above us.

I stroked her hair back softly, thinking back to the first time I had gone to Columbus and met her, the young, mischievous girl with a broken leg. At first I had felt confused at my feelings towards her, it was wrong for a doctor to have such feelings towards a patient, let alone such a young girl. I looked down to my beautiful wife and sighed, even now I wished I could have stopped all that pain and despair she had been through. Esme looked up to me and frowned, “What’s wrong?”

I smiled softly to her, “I was thinking about our first meeting.”

Esme smiled and closed her eyes, I knew she was also reliving the pleasant memory. I pulled her on to my chest and murmured, “Tell me again Mrs Cullen,” I rested my hands very low on her back lightly pressing her to me, “What was going through your head that day you broke your leg?”

Esme giggled and folded her hands on my chest to rest her chin against them, her hair flowed freely over one of her shoulders, “Well, there was the most beautiful doctor at the hospital,” She took one finger and trailed it under my eyes, “He had the most marvellous colour gold eyes that I could get lost in forever,” She sighed contently, “His eyes alone showed me so much love and compassion.”  

Her finger trailed along and down to my cheek, “But his skin was so cold and he looked as if he were hiding something from me,” She hesitated and bit her lip, making me want to moan at how sexy she looked like that. Her finger glided over my lips, pausing there, “You have no idea how much I wanted to see what his lips would feel like against mine, I was young and had never been in love,” Her other hand reached up to cup my cheek, “I didn’t know what the spark was that I felt when he felt where I’d hurt my leg,” Her voice dropped a tone as she leant up so her face was level with mine, “But I did know that I would find a man who was as much of a gentleman as that doctor was, who made me feel that same spark that he did, and who was as kind, caring and compassionate as that doctor was.”