Late one evening Maya, Alice, Rosalie, Esme and (much to Rosalie's and Maya's irritation) Bella were hanging out in Alice's room. Alice had asked for some help going through her closet to get rid of things she wouldn't wear anymore and somehow that had morphed into a girl's night. Though she may have secretly been hoping when she invited Bella that she could find something that Bella would take so that Alice could give it to the girl in an attempt to try and get some actual nice outfits into her closet. (She may have gone out and purchased some clothes in the human's size for just such a reason.)
The boys, in fear of what would happen if they stayed, had decided to do as they usually did and spend some time together hunting. Meaning that the girls had the house to themselves. Well, unless you counted the small black kitten that was currently rolling around in and pawing at all the clothes scattered around the room.
They had gone through Alice's closet, hence the mess all over the floor, but now they were scattered around Alice's room painting their nails. Alice was working diligently on making Bella's look nice, filing down the rough edges and shaping them. Esme was waiting for hers to dry, while Maya was working on painting Rosalie's. They weren't doing anything too creative, just painting them fun colours as graduation was soon and they would have to redo them anyways.
They were chatting about all sorts of things like fashion, interior design, cars and any other interests the girls had when Alice shifted the topic to boys. Maya always thought it was funny that although Alice had not met her mate yet and was into girls not boys, she was always the one to bring up the topic. Especially since the only ones she could talk boys with were mates/married to her brothers and father figure.
"Really Alice? One would think that you were trying to live vicariously through us until you actually meet your mate" Maya teased.
Alice stuck her tongue out at her, "Maybe I just want to make sure that the men in my family are treating you all right." Esme smiled at this while Maya laughed outright.
"Right because that is such a concern" Rosalie said with a snort.
"Well you never know," Alice defended with a pout, "Emmet could be so focused on his video games that he forgets all about you."
All of them just laughed outright at that, even Alice, as Bella just watched from her spot on the floor.
"Oh trust me, Emmet pays me ample attention" Rose stated as she calmed down.
"Mm, yeah, especially when you wear one of those little lingerie sets I saw in your closet" Maya teased.
"Oh, like you don't have any" Rose shot back.
"What I want to know is if Esme has any" Alice piped up, interrupting the two girls.
All four glanced over to Esme at that and watched as she sucked on her bottom lip and looked down. If vampires could blush, she definitely would be red as a tomato right now.
"Oh my gosh you do!" Alice squealed. "How come we've never seen them? Have you been holding out on us?"
"I just don't like showing it off" Esme mumbled.
"You mean you don't like showing it off to anyone but Carlisle" Maya teased, before getting more serious. "Which is totally okay, but you do know we won't judge you for it yeah?"
"I know, but I am older than you girls. Which makes it a little weird" Esme said, causing Alice and Rose to hop up to give her hugs.
Maya on the other hand snorted, "it's really not. Believe me, when I lived with the Volturi I got to hear about my two mother's sex lives. I know way more than I ever wanted to about what Aro and Caius are like in the bedroom."
Maya ignored the angry look on Bella's face at the mention of her relationship with the Volturi.
"Yeah, she's right" Alice agreed, "We may look younger physically, but me and Rose are adults, so there's no need for you feel weird about it." Rose nodded along in agreement.
Seeing Esme smiling and looking better, Maya clapped her hands and shot Rose a grin. "Since we're on the topic anyways ... you are totally the dominate one in your relationship right Rose?"
"What?" Bella asked shocked, while Rose just arched her brow and gave her a grin.
"Yeah, my Emmet enjoys when I take control. Although he does also enjoy putting up a fight" Rose laughed.
"Ha! Pay up!" Maya crowed to Alice. Who gave a pout before speeding over to her purse and pulling out a twenty to hand to Maya.
"You bet on their relationship?!" Bella demanded.
"No. We bet on whether Emmet would turn even sex into a competition" Alice explained, causing everyone but Bella to laugh.
"What about Jasper?" Alice asked as she settled back down, "He's definitely not someone to give up control so easily."
"Yeah, definitely not. Even on the few occasions where I manage to gain control, he's still giving orders. I swear he's got some kink for reducing me to a whimpering mess that is too blissed out to even think, let alone take control" Maya groaned.
"Right, because that's totally a bad thing" Rose joked making Alice snort.
Maya just laughed at that and smirked. "Never said it was."
"But he is careful with you right?" Esme asked with a touch of worry. "I mean, not with his control or his strength, but with the Major." Though she trusted and loved her son, she did not know Major well and wanted to be sure that Maya wasn't scared of him or feeling unsafe.
The other girls perked up at that. Rose and Alice were curious as to how she was with him as they had only met him a couple of times themselves. All of the instances being when there was a perceived threat to the family or Jasper/Major was truly angry. They were curious as to how he would act if that wasn't the case.
Bella on the other hand was just plain curious about him. Edward had explained a little bit about him after the whole James fiasco when he had warned her to be careful around Jasper. But he had only told her that the Major was dangerous and that she should try and make sure that she never angered him as he was violent and would attack anyone.
Which just made her wonder how Maya dealt with him. She was also beyond curious about Jasper's past as he was the most closed off and avoided talking about it every time she brought it up. She hoped that learning more about the Major would shed some light for her. After all she was going to be joining there family soon and so she needed to know everything about them.
Maya sent Esme a reassuring smile, picking up Lucky as he passed by to cuddle him in her lap. "You don't have to worry about Major. He's just as protective as Jasper is and can be really sweet."
"Wait, does that mean that you have spent a lot of time with him?" Rosalie questioned, shocked. In the past 60ish years she had known Jasper she had only met the Major six or seven times. Even then, it was only briefly before Jasper once again took control.
"Yep. He's a part of Jasper and thus just as much my mate as Jasper is, so I have spent time getting to know him. It took some work at first to get Jasper to let him out, as he was afraid that Major might scare me but we worked it out."
Maya gave them all a shrug as Esme let out a sigh of relief at knowing that not only was the Major treating her right, but that Jasper had found the perfect girl for him that would love every part of him. Even, apparently, the parts he kept hidden from the family.
"What about you Esme?" Rose teased, switching to a less serious topic, "you know what our men are like in bed, seems only fair you share as well."
Esme focused on her nails as she spoke, avoiding all of their eyes, "Carlisle is ... a very generous lover."
"That's definitely code for fabulous in bed" Alice declared, making Maya and Rose burst out in more laughter.
"Mm, yeah some women get all the luck." Maya growled in fake envy. "I mean he's good looking, smart, successful, sweet, kind, loving, and great in bed? Where is the justice?!"
Rosalie rolled her eyes at Maya's antics, "Right, because its not like you don't also have an amazing guy to call your own right?"
"What on earth are you talking about?" Maya placed her hands over her heart as she dramatically carried on, "I absolutely count myself as part of those women who have all the luck. I am after all dating the youngest Major in American history, and anyone can tell at a glance that he is most definitely a catch." Maya wiggled her eyebrows at her as she smirked, causing Rosalie to laugh and shake her head at the girl's antics.
"So ... what about you Bella?" Alice said, still laughing as she turned to the human in an attempt to be kind and make her feel more included. "How does Edward treat you?"
Bella blushed at that and looked down as she mumbled her response. "He treats me good. Like I'm made of glass and always tries to protect me."
The other girls gave an "aww" in response and Esme mentioned how Edward had always thought it was important to treat girls right. What they didn't notice though was Bella's look of anger and frustration. She wanted to move their relationship further, to have one like what Maya and Rosalie had with their boyfriends, but Edward just kept being stubborn. She was sure once he stopped treating her as if she would break any second that their relationship would become just as easy and effortless as the other girls.
Everyone had told her that they weren't mates and used the awkwardness between the two and Edward's constant struggle to not kill her as proof. But she was sure that if her and Edward went further and became more intimate that all of that would be fixed and then the others would no longer be able to deny that she was Edward's mate and was thus destined to be a vampire.
As Bella continued to sit off to the side, stewing on her thoughts about staying young and beautiful forever, the others moved on with their conversation. Eventually they headed down to the living room to watch movies. They settled down with cheesy rom-coms and spent most of the movies making fun of the characters and chatting until early in the morning, only stopping when the boys came home and Jasper and Edward took Maya and Bella up to their rooms to sleep.