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The Beatles - I wanna hold your hand.
And when I touch you i feel happy, inside
It´s such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
Yeah you, got that something
I think you´ll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
Emmett and I fell asleep together last night watching old cartoons. His ridiculous snoring woke me up. I'd actually thought a bear was in the room and fell off the bed.
I tried my best to get him to wake up, but was not successful. So I just ended up downstairs, making coffee. Alice eventually wandered down.
"What's up? I didn't hear you get in last night."
"That's because I slept at Jasper's, Mom." I stuck my tongue out at her.
"Are you guys getting it on?"
"Ha, not yet. But we are dating."
"That's great! I wonder how Bella and Edward are doing."
"I got a text from her last night. Let's just say she sounded happy."
"He probably copped a feel." Alice giggled and rummaged through the refrigerator.
"What are we doing today?"
"I was thinking we could drive to Port Angeles and go shopping. There's a Greek festival going on there today so we can go to that."
"Sounds fun." I nodded and poured a cup of coffee. "Do you want some?"
She shook her head. "Well I'm going to take your brother some."
"You guys on good terms again?" I smiled and nodded at her.
"Good luck with getting him up. You either have to dangle weed or a whore under his nose to wake him up."
"Thank you for that visual."
"No problem."
I grabbed another cup of coffee and climbed the stairs back towards my bedroom. The outrageous snoring had quieted to heavy breathing and Emmett was tangled in my comforter.
I set the coffee down on my desk and climbed onto the foot of the bed. "Wake up Bitch!" I yelled and started jumping around. I accidentally kicked him and fell down which I found hilarious.
"What the hell was that?!" I was still laughing when he rolled over.
"It was an accident!"
"Bullshit. You know you just wanted to kick me." He smiled and rubbed his eyes.
I handed him the coffee and he chugged it down.
"Ah, sweet caffeine. Thank you."
"No problem. We're going to Port Angeles today, so get up and get dressed!"
"It's too early to be this excited."
"No it's not! There's a Greek festival! Imagine all the amazing food."
With that, he was up and out of bed. "You've got my attention."
"If you're ready in half an hour I'll buy one of those ridiculous belly dancing outfits they sell and model it for you."
He smiled. "You've sealed the deal."
"Thought so." I walked towards him and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"You know I like you right?"
"I had a rough idea." I pressed my lips against his softly and let my body press against his. It was just a chaste kiss, no tongue. It was still perfect.
It ended too soon and both of us were smiling like idiots when we broke apart.
"That was nice."
"Yeah, it was. Now go get dressed big boy."
"I'd rather get naked, then get you naked."
Me two. He had no fucking idea how much I wanted that.
"You can't always get what you want."
"But if you try sometimes..."
I gave him another soft kiss and pushed him out the door. "Bye Emmett."
He mumbled but slowly made his way to the room he was staying in. I pulled on a white dress, it wasn't curve hugging or even really cute in my opinion, but it was comfortable.
I did put on makeup though, I've got to change one step at a time.
When I walked downstairs, Alice was sitting in Jasper's lap and Emmett was sitting on the counter in the kitchen, shoveling food down his throat.
He looked up and smiled when he saw me and it pretty much made me giddy inside.
"Where's Bella and Edward?"
Jasper snickered and kissed Alice. "Bella didn't want to go to Seattle limping and Edward's pretty much pussy whipped." Alice playfully punched him in the chest and glared at him.
"Edward's not hitting that yet."
"God knows Bella wants it."
We all shared a laugh over the teenage angst-y love those two shared.
"Are we ready to go? It's like an hour drive to get there."
"Yeah. Who's driving?"
Jasper raised his hand. "Alice volunteered me. Is it cool if we take your jeep Emmett?"
He shrugged and reached in his pocket to get his keys.
Once we were in the car Alice started scanning through the radio stations and I laid my head on Emmett's shoulder.
I thought about how much we'd changed in the last two days. I had to say the cliched line, my heart was telling me that I really like Emmett and some great shit could come out of the relationship we could have, but my head was telling me to run the fuck away.
What should I do? I was lost in my own world when Emmett started playing with my hair. He was so cuddly and cute and I was hoping that was all to him. I had a feeling he had another side to him.
I made a plan to get some information out of Alice about his ex-girlfriend or any girlfriend for that matter.
It didn't take long to get to Port Angeles and before long, we were climbing out of the jeep.
"What are we going to do first?"
"I want to go shopping!" Of course Alice wanted to go shopping.
"Yeah, I wanted to go to the record store that just opened." Of course Jasper was going to follow Alice.
"Screw shopping, I want to eat."
"Well then let's split up. Jasper and I will go shopping and you two can go to the festival. We can meet up later."
I looked to Emmett to see if he was okay with it and he just gave a weak smile.
"Okay. Just call when you want to meet up."
Emmett and I found the Greek festival almost immediately. I'm pretty sure he sniffed it out, but I didn't make fun of him for it.
"Rose, I wanna hold you hand."
"Then go for it."
His hand was soft and warm. Heavenly. Damn, I'm sprung.
We walked through the crowds with those silly smiles on our faces. We stopped at just about every food place and Emmett made me try some of everything he got.
We were sitting down with a table full of food in front of us when he brought up the fact that I promised to model a belly dancer outfit for him.
"You find the outfit, I'll wear it."
"That I will do. I think it'll be green. I like that color on you."
"Well I won't be wearing it for very long if I have my way."
That huge smile lit up his face.
We eventually found the outfits. I let him pick it out and ended up with a hip scarf that wouldn't cover shit and a bra covered in coins and beads.
"You're gonna be the one wearing that ridiculous thing."
"Don't hate, I'd look great in this."
Alice and Jasper called eventually and told us they were waiting at the jeep.
When we got to them there was barely anyplace to sit because of all the bags.
"Alice, you have a problem."
"It's not a problem, it's just a hobby."
"Well you guys can sit in the back and we'll sit in the front. Hand me the keys."
Jasper threw them at me and I scowled at him
"There's a difference between handing and throwing."
We threw each other a few mean looks then Alice split us up. We climbed back into the jeep and I cranked that baby up. I looked over at Emmett and he was yawning.
"You tired me out."
"Sure I did. Just admit, you can't keep up."
"I sure can't." He reached out and grabbed my hand and encased it in his.
"Let's go."
A/N: So, I was reading On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft by Stephen King and I took what he said to heart. He said plot is the enemy, so when writing this chapter I threw out all of the things I had planned and just ran with the cuteness of Rose and Emmett, I hoped you liked it. The book is really good and I suggest you pick up a copy.
