Those Were the Days Chapter 1, a twilight fanfic

Those Were The Days – Prologue

T to be safe

My brain is total much, but Steph owns that just like everything else

A/N: This is the sequel to "The Adventures of Emmett and Rosalie" I suggest you read that one first cause in my opinion, its way better than this lol. The opening pgh is the theme from "All in the Family" one of the best tv shows EVER! Part one took place in 1935, but this one starts in 1941.

"Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight Gee, our old LaSalle (a car) ran great. Those were the days! And you knew where you were then! Girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days! Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win. Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin (five dollar bill). Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song. I don't know just what went wrong! Those Were the Days!"

Nearly five years had passed since Emmett and I had gotten married, well, the first time anyway. In early 1940 after a horrible argument over something absolutely silly, Emmett decided he wanted us to renew our vows. Why stop there? I suggested we run off to Las Vegas and get hitched in one of their little chapels. That's what all the kids our age were doing these days. We took off in the Phaeton at sunset and arrived there by dawn. We hid out in a cute little motel room beside a pool for the day enjoying each other's company before going after sunset to explore the new casinos that had just been built. Beside one of them was a little white chapel, and as soon as I saw it, I knew that was the one.

We sent post cards to Carlisle and Esme and they about had a fit. Esme was sad she couldn't be there and Carlisle said it was meaningless and a waste of money. Only Edward thought it was a good idea. He always supported our marriage, even when we did things that were a little too impulsive.

In spring of 1941, the fear that the US was going to be involved in the Second World War was growing daily. I enjoyed living with Emmett in our house up in Denali, but I was becoming homesick, in a way. I missed Esme and Carlisle, even Edward. They had only come to visit us once in the five years we had lived there. After one of the fastest weeks of my life, they had to return home so Carlisle could go back to work and Edward could resume school. He was studying at the University of Washington to become a doctor like Carlisle. In May of that year, we packed up all of our things and moved back to Hoquiam to live with Esme and Carlisle at their gigantic house.

It felt so nice to have my family around me once again. Emmett noticed the change in my spirits immediately. We weren't fighting as much, hardly at all, in fact, and I had allowed him to drive my car again. I took the keys from him after an argument over the clothes he was packing for the drive down from Alaska. He insisted on wearing a pair of jeans that was caked in mud, while his clean clothes were packed into a box in the moving truck. I told him he would never drive my car dressed that way, and that was that. I drove my car all the way to Hoquiam while he drove the slow, annoying truck. I got home two whole days before him because of it. I hope that taught him a lesson. Shortly after the two of us came back, so did Edward. He had finished his semester and decided to come back home for the summer to see us.

You'll have to excuse Rosalie. She tends to fabricate things so they sound better to her own ears. We didn't leave Alaska because she was homesick. We left because the other women in the Denali village were being 'too friendly' with me, as she puts it. I can't help that they like my sense of humor. Tanya and Irina were just being polite neighbors. I don't know what got Rose so worked up about them. Maybe it was because Tanya was blonde? Maybe it was because Irina liked to go hunting with me when Rose couldn't go? Either way, Rose didn't like the girls much.

The week that Edward and our parents had come to visit, Tanya had taken quite a liking to Edward. We all thought that finally, after how many years, he had finally found a girl he could spend some time with, but it didn't work out that way. They had gone hunting a few times and played chess and acted like a real couple. I was happy for him, but Edward decided he would rather go back home and get a college degree than stick around a few more days and get to know Tanya any better. He really is an old fuddy-duddy sometimes.

I suggested to Rose one morning that maybe it was time to go visit our parents back home for a few days. It might cheer her up. She did like the thought, but asked instead if we could move back home permanently. Like most discussions we had around this time, it lead to a huge blow up and me sleeping in the spare room for a few nights before I caved and we decided to pack it in and move back to Hoquiam. In the end, it was a good plan and worked out for the best. Rose was happy, we stopped the shouting matches for the most part, and I was allowed to sleep beside her again. She didn't take the car keys from me either; I gave them up so I could drive the truck without her screaming at me the entire way. I knew wearing dirty jeans would make her so mad, she would let me drive the truck.

After a few days of lounging around the house, Esme and Carlisle sat the both of us down to have a talk. Anytime they had told us there was a 'talk' coming, it was usually bad news. One or both of us was in trouble for something and we were going to hear it.

End

Yay for new stuff!! I hope you guys liked this as much as the last one. I know not too much has happened yet, but it will get there! Please review!!