"Merry Christmas!" I woke Embry up, for the first time ever in our relationship.

"Leave me be. I just want five more minutes."

"You're not fun." I stuck out my tongue.

"Put your tongue back into your mouth or I'll find a better use for it." He groaned.

"Where did that come from? We've never even did anything sexual." I laughed.

"I'm sorry. I have terrible morning wood." He woke up completely.

"Go hop in the shower so that we can go to the main house." I nudged him.

"Go without me." He rolled over.

"No. I don't to." I said. He stood up.

"I'm up and moving. I'll be there. Just go without me and I'll meet you there."

"Fine. Party pooper." I walked to the house by myself, Embry just didn't seem to share my excitement of the holidays. He usually pretends to be somewhat happy, but today he is just super grumpy for no reason.

"Trina!" Rose smiled.

"Where's your significant other?" Jasper asked.

"At home, he'll be here soon."

"Good, good. We'll have to add him to our family photo." Esme plopped a Santa hat on my head. We laughed and twenty minutes later, Embry appeared.

"Sorry I'm late." He wrapped his arms around me from behind. I was reminded again how much muscle he's been gaining; out of nowhere he started getting muscles and getting taller.

"Better late than never." I whispered.

"But never late is better." Then he let go of me.

"C'mon guys. Time to open the presents and then we will take a family photo." Carlisle said.

"Why do you take the photo after everyone has opened their gifts?" Embry asked.

"Because. You've been in the photo for three years now. You should know." I laughed. I still culdn't believe we were seniors now. I've literally watced him grow up in front of my eyes.

"I just kind of went with it. I never actually thought about it." He shrugged.

"Here, Em." I handed Emmett his gifts. Rose handed me mine. Carlisle handed her gifts over to her. Jasper to Carlisle. Edward to Alice. Alice to Esme. Esme to Rose. Emmett to Edward. Embry just watched to giant game of Christmas Twister and got his own presents. It was a relatively good year of gift giving, but it is less about the presents and more about the quality time.

"Wait! Don't open that one." I hit it out of Emmy's hand.

"What the hell?" He asked.

"Trust me. Don't do it. Just wait until later." I laughed.

"Nope. Can't do it. I must open it." He ripped the paper off. It was a plain brown box. And he shook it.

"Don't." I warned.

"The suspense is going to kill me." He groaned.

"Rose, Alice, Jazz, and Ed. Don't open yours until later." I said as well.

"Nice." Alice smiled down at her box.

"What?" Edward waited a few more seconds, "Oh yes. This is going to be great." They had awesome smiles.

"No fair, they get to know theirs!" Rose stuck out her tongue.

"It's okay, Dollface."

"Family Photo!" Esme came down the stairs with her camera.

"How many seconds this year?" Emmett asked.

"Five seconds to the first photo. Then one between the next four." She pressed the button and joined our formation on the couch.

"Embry get up." I said.

"I'm tying my shoe." He argued, grumpy as ever. Gosh, this wasn't the time to be such a grumpy puss. He only had two more seconds.

"Cat." I looked down and he was on one knee holding a diamond ring. My face split into a huge grin and I shrieked with joy just as the first photo snapped. I don't remember much else because I was dying with happiness.

"I hope that camera caught every moment of that." Esme said. I had my arms wrapped around Embry so tight that he couldn't move.

"You guys knew?" I suddenly asked.

"Yes." They said in unison. I wonder how long they have been practicing this

"Thank you for not ruining it." I smiled. "Oh my gosh!" I laughed again.

"She's going to do the happy dance." Alice giggled.

"I can't help it." I shrieked and did four back hand springs and a round off, I twirled around the room humming, twerked while standing on the couch before flipping and landing on the floor.

"You're too bright." Rose shielded her eyes.

"Sorry." my pyrokinesis enabled me to turn into a bright light that emitted no heat, "But your girl is engaged!" I threw my hair to the sides and laughed again.

"Can we open these gifts now?" Emmett demanded.

"No later." Alice pet his knee. We sat around the fireplace telling Christmas stories.

"I have to work, sorry. Merry Christmas." Carlisle finished his glass of whiskey, grabbed his coat, and left.

"Let me drive you, I have something that I have to take care of as well. Bye my beautiful children." Esme left with him.

"Where do they go?" Rose asked. They've had this routine for over a hundred years, but we still don't know what they go do.

"To Carlisle's job to drop him off and wherever Esme has to go to take care of business." Edward said. He and Alice exchanges a look before they both busted out in laughter. We'll never get the real story from these two, and when we try to get it on our own, we always fail. One year Emmett and I followed them, but they had evaded us perfectly.

"Can we open these damn gifts now?" Emmett asked.

"Yes." Edward sighed. They all unwrapped them and Emmett seemed to be the most excited.

"Hell yes! It's time to kick ass." Embry and I gifted everyone with paintball guns equipped already with 500 paintballs.

"Oh no. This is going to end badly." Rose sighed.

"Everyone, you have 10 minutes to hide outside. Then the games begin. You can partner up if you like. We play until the 'rents come home. Bounce." Alice announced.

"Temie?" Emmett asked. I looked at Embry.

"Do you mind if we partner up?" I asked.

"Nope. Have fun." He kissed my forehead. I leaped on Emmett's back and ran outside, trudging through the water and wetting my butt, the backs of my calves and thighs, and my shoes.

"You suck!" I yelled.

"Rose likes it." He laughed and ran deeper into the forest. I was assigned the task of holding our guns while he ran.

"You're gross."

"Rose likes it."

"Come up with something original."

"Rose likes it."

"There is no hope for you."

"It's okay, Rose likes me."

"Ready?" I asked, he had stashed us under a boulder.

"Yes. I came to play paintball and fuck bitches. I'm done fucking bitches."

"You're such a dunce."

"Rose likes it."

"Shh. It's time to win." We were victorious by the end of the night. We pretty much had the cleanest shirts, despite some dirt and dried blood from when Emmett decided hunting in the middle of the game was a good idea.