"Damn. You caught me."

"Good. You have time to cancel it."

"Not likely. Deal with it." She stuck her tongue out at me and walked to the back door and spoke out it, her soprano voice not much higher than a yell, "Edward! You can bring Nessie! We're done! And so you know, Bella's on to us!"

Us? Great.

Edward and Nessie were there in about two seconds. Edward had a handkerchief tied around her eyes so she couldn't see, so she still swung her head around like she was trying to find something. He leaned in to kiss me, and I leaned away from him, raising my eyebrow at him. All he did was laugh.

"I see you don't like our plans," he said, cocking his own eyebrow at me. He passed Nessie off to Rosalie, not removing the hanky. "Look, we didn't go as far out as we did here. So, please, don't worry too much, okay? It's small. At our place. Okay?"

I sighed. "Fine. It better be small, though. No crazy presents." My mind went to my Ferrari that was sitting in the garage. I dropped my shield for him to see, and he laughed.

"Daddy!" Nessie's voice rang from Rose's arms. He knew what she wanted, but he humored her, anyway. He walked over to her and let her put her small hand on his cheek.

"She wants to take the hanky off," he smiled. "She's confused." He chuckled quietly. "Just a little longer, honey. We're waiting for Auntie Alice to give us permission to take it off."

"Auntie Alice is almost done! Promise" Alice sang out from the other room, setting up the refreshment table for our non-vampire guests on the way. I heard her put out silverware and plates. "Done!"

Edward went to remove the hanky from Nessie's face, and I grabbed his hands. "Let me, please! I've been following Alice around all morning and I've been dying to see Nessie's reaction. Please?" I looked up at Edward, my eyes, with only the slightly hint of red left in them, pleading. I knew he couldn't resist it.

"Go for it," he said, smiling that smile I loved so much. Nessie fidgeted in Rose's arms. "You might want to be quick, though," he said, glancing at our anxious daughter.