Till Death Do Us Part

Shooting stars

I got out of my car and took a second to look up at the ship before me, it was massive and as Esme had said a beautiful sight. I moved around to the passenger side of the car to open the door for Koti before I took her hand and brought her to her feet. Like always she trembled a bit at my cold touch.

We began heading up to the ship and I stopped when I remembered we had company. I turned around just in time to spot them slowly pulling into the parking spot beside mine and couldn't help but sigh. It was annoying, the slowness that seemed to accompany everything they did. I had to constantly remind myself that they were humans and didn't have the quickened pace of a vampire.

"About time you guys got here, I got tired of waiting." I shouted at them before we resumed our walk up to the ship.

I could hear quickened steps behind us and knew they were following. Sure enough the couple was matching our stride at our sides as we walked up the ramp to the ship.

"This couldn't be yours." Mackenzie said. "This is the most expensive restaurant in the entire state. Hardly anyone ever gets in."

I looked right at her and smiled. "Of couse no one ever gets in my family is very selective on who they allow in. Only the elite." I smirked before I stopped at the door.

"Ah Mr. Cullen it is nice to see you here, is your siblings and parents to be expected as well?" Butler James asked.

I shook my head. "No James it's just me, my girlfriend and a couple friends tonight." I smiled.

I pulled a benjamin from my wallet and placed it in his hand. "For your services" I said before I wrapped my arm around Koti and walked forward.

"Choose any table and your waiter will be with you right away." James called after me.

I nodded my head and walked down the hall to a pair of double doors flanked by two suited men on each side. I nodded my head in their direction as they opened the doors for us. I looked around and smiled, the room was wrapped around the Edwardian era which was when Carlisle turned Esme.

"This is spectacular, I mean its magnificent." Koti said as she looked around.

"I thought you've been here before." Mackenzie said as she eyed her curiously.

Koti shrugged her shoulders. "Of course we have just a different room and there were a few more people then just the four of us so its hard to actually concentrate of the rich designs." She said without missing a beat.

I had to hand it to Koti, she was doing well when it came to keeping up at the game. I was actually starting to believe her a few times before I remembered that I was part of it.

I cleared my throat a bit as I pulled out a chair. "Yes, we were actually in the room on the second floor, its more of a romantic setting which I wouldn't have minded dining tonight but its only for married couples or engaged couples and since you and your date are far from being true to one another I didn't find it appropriate."

"You two aren't engaged, how did you get in then?" Mackenzie asked as I was scooting Koti in.

"My family owns the place." I simply replied before I took my seat across from Koti.

"So when it comes to money how rich is your family exactly, Mark Zuckerberg rich or Bill Gates rich?" Mackenzie asked.

I couldn't help but laugh, this was a very unnecessary and shallow question to ask. "My family is Cullen rich." I looked at her to see if she was satisfied with the answer but I seemed to confuse her. "My family's money is over 375 years old thats alot of generations, meaning its had alot of years to be added to and to accumilate. I'd have to guess around 200 billion give or take a few."

"Woah" Was the only thing Mackenzie replied.

I shrugged. "It comes in handy when you want to go travel the world at spontaneous moments. We have homes in Hawaii, France, Japan, Jamaica and even Italy. We never go to Italy though, atleast anymore."

A waiter came over and offered us wine which I took for my social prop and then watched as everyone else did the same.

"We aren't legal Emmett" Koti whispered from across the table.

"Don't be a child and accept the wine." Mackenzie said.

I held up my finger. "Strike one Mackenzie. Be nice." I leaned across the table and lifted her glass before I handed it back to the waiter. "Can you please take this back and get her your best cider. Thank you." I said as he bowed and walked off.

"Thank you Emmett." Koti said, blushing a bit.

"Anything for you. I just want you to be happy." I said as I reached across the table to touch her hand. For the first time she didn't jerk away but she smiled. She seemed relaxed

From the corner of my eye I saw Mackenzie purposely knock her glass over. Quickly the wine spread across the one of the kind lace cloth of Esme's from her human life. Instantly my eyes flickered to her and a growl began growing deep in my throat before I quickly calmed it.

"Why did you do that." I said as I rose to my feet. "This was my mothers." I snapped.

Mackenzie rose to her feet to avoid getting wine on her dress. "I didn't do it on purpose, anyways with your money she can buy another one."

I slammed my hand on the table causing it to shake angrily. "That's irreplaceable. This belong to my-" Think quick Emmett. "-moms great grandmother, this came from the late 1800's."

Mackenzie's eyes grew wide. "I'm sorry man chill out."

I took several deep breaths, my fists clenched as I tried to manage my anger. Finally after a minute it subsided. "Get out, you and your date leave. I don't want you here ever again." I began carefully moving things off the table cloth to try and get it in some cleaner before it stained permanently.

"Mr. Cullen let me get that for you. The other room is available if you and your company would like to take things upstairs."

I nodded my head. "Thank you but these two-" I said pointing to Mackenzie and her date. "-Are leaving. Also please put them on the banned list as they are no longer welcome here."

I handed the dishes I moved to one of the few butlers who came to clean up and then held out my hand for Koti. She took it without a word and we headed to the door. I took her up two flights of stairs to the top deck that was open to the stars and the smell of the ocean.

"Wow, this is wonderful." she said in a light voice.

"Are you hungry?" I asked her as I pulled out a seat at one of the five tables.

She sat down and I scooted her in for the second time this night and then sat down across from her.

"You can choose whatever you like." I said as I reached under the rim of the table and pressed a button that called a waiter. "Whatever Koti wants Koti gets." I said to him.

The waiter placed a menu on the table and I quickly picked it up and handed it back to him. "Vegetarian menu please she doesn't eat meat." I said as I kept my eyes on her lovely blue ones.

The waiter placed the menu back in a holder and brought back another one before he placed it before her. "Vegetarian menu miss." He said as he bowed gently. "When you are ready I will take your order."

She flipped through the menu for a moment and then looked up. "Can I please have the winter curry with saffron cinnamon rice." she said in a gentle voice.

The waiter nodded his head and took the menu before he walked off towards the kitchen. My throat began burning again and I knew I was pushing my luck. I needed to hunt, or atleast have some blood. Then I remembered the stash of lion and bear blood that Carlisle kept stocked and bottled in the storage room that is locked to anyone but us. I needed some of that and I needed it fast.

I rose to my feet. "I will be right back." I whispered to her before I quickly made my down towards the storage areas.

I typed in the code for the lock and then stood back as it opened. I entered quickly and shut the door behind me before I began popping bottle after bottle of blood. After bottle number 14 I was finally full. I glanced at my reflection quickly and saw my eyes were their usual golden shade that meant I was no longer hungry and then slipped from the room.

I returned to the dining area under the stars and took my seat across from her. Seconds after I sat down the waiter came out with Koti's dinner.

"Anything else for you miss?" He asked. Koti shook her head and then began eating.

"As a matter of fact can you please have the band come up here to play for us please." I asked him.

He nodded. "Right away Mr. Cullen." he said before he bowed and headed off.

I watched in silence for a few moments as Koti was eating. "How is it?" I asked her.

It had been a few hundred years since I have had the pleasure of having actual human food. I spent the majority of my vampire life watching humans eat different colorful dishes that each carried their own unique scent. I always wondered how it would tast if I was a human. To my vampire senses it was disgusting and unappealing. But what was it truly.

"It's nice, I like it." she replied between bites.

I leaned a bit closer to get a sniff. "Paint me a picture with your words. What does it taste like?"

Apparently I caught her off gaurd with the angle of the question. I mean obviously not many people would really ask this question. But me, I was determined to know what it was like to her.

Koti smiled and then slowly took another bite which she chewed slowly. I could tell she was doing her best to try and get a deep connection to all of the different flavors.

"Well, its a bold gentle flavor at first when it touches your tounge. But as you began chewing and you bite into all the different vegetables it grows warm like sun on the skin. Finally when you bite into the different mild peppers it's like fireworks on your tounge. I guess you can say its like the summer time. Walking barefoot on grass, the sun caressing you shoulder, fireworks in the sky causing your skin to tingle every time they burst and lastly the feelings of the waves the rush over your body when you are walking across the shore of the beach." She finished.

I did my best to try and recall any of those feelings that I probably experienced during my human life and I couldn't. Some how this made me feel numb and broken. I wanted to be able to feel like she felt, and taste like she tasted but I was unfortunate. I was a vampire, vampires didn't feel, or atleast they didn't feel much.

"How did I do?" She asked me as she finished the final bite of her food.

I rose to my feet and held out my hand as music behind us began to play. "Will you dance with me." I asked her.

She wiped her mouth with a napkin and then placed her hand into mine. I gently closed my fingers around her hand and pulled her to her feet. In one quick turn we made our way onto the dance floor and began turning elegantly to the music ensemble.

"So are you going to tell me why you are always so cold?" She asked me as she stared off towards the ocean.

I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them she was looking right at me. "Maybe one of these days, its complicated. Ask another question." I smiled as we made our fourth turn on the floor.

We turned another two times before she smiled. "Why me?" she asked.

We spun three more times around the dance floor. Why her? That was a good question that I wasn't sure that even I knew the answer to. What about her drew me in. What about her struck the chords of my soul. I decided the best I could do was be straight forward and tell the truth.

"Honestly I couldn't tell you I just know I like to be around you." I said as I spun her twice. "What about you? Why didn't you just walk away, you could've said no." I told her.

She nodded her head. "I know I could've said no but truth is I didn't want to. The longer I am around you the harder it is to just leave." She whispered.

I could tell by the way her breathing hitched and the rhythm of her heart that she was honest and as well a bit embarassed from what I suspected was how honest she was with me. I saw as she looked up and then followed her eyes to see an airplane going across the sky.

"Sometimes I wish that airplanes in the night sky are shooting stars." She whispered

Suddenly a bigger light in the sky drew our attention about 20 paces to the left. "Looks like your wish came true." I said to her as I pointed at the shooting star that was rocketing across the darkened sky.

She brought her gaze down and looked at me. "Make a wish." She told me before she closed her eyes.

I looked back up at the shooting star and took a deep breath before I closed my eyes. The first thing that came to my mind was Rosalie's face. I saw myself having just woken into my new life as a vampire and she said to me, I just want you to be happy. I knew that no matter what that would stay true, she would want me to try and be happy. So far in this journey the only thing that made me happy was Koti. I smiled and made my wish in my mind before I opened my eyes.

When I looked back down Koti was eyeing me curiously. "What did you wish for?" She asked me.

I silently shook my head with a grin on my face. "I'll tell you sometime." I whispered as we continued dancing.