I'm disappointed in all of you so called Twilight fans. Only one of you caught my feathers reference to Breaking Dawn!! Anywho, I'll probably create scenarios in all of my human stories for quotes like the ones in all four books to appear. If you're dying to see any specific ones, let me know and I'll try to work them in. Oh, and everyone in this story is human, I was just trying to be funny with the whole growling and bite me thing. I'd just like to thank my lovely reviewers, one of whom said this was the best human story they'd ever read. sniff You're gonna make me cry. Thanks so much!! Peace out, cub scouts.
"Crap." I vaguely heard Emmett swear. I was snuggled into my warm comforter, ignoring Rosalie's hair that tickled my neck.
"BBBEEELLLLAAAAA! WAKEY-WAKEY!" I heard a spilt second later. The next thing I knew, someone was sitting on my stomach and cutting off all my air.
"Emm…gasp…ett….can't…..BREATHE…wheeze!" I choked out, regretting it instantly as I soon found that was the last of my air. All of a sudden, I heard Edward curse loudly and heard something hit the wall. A second later, Emmett was on the round and I could breathe again. I gasped the sweet air, ignoring the chaos around me. When I looked around, I saw a broken fly-swatter lying on the ground, a scattered deck of cards, and a very disgruntled looking Emmett. Edward was standing up, pinching the bridge of his nose and glaring at Emmett and Alice, who was hiding behind Jasper's tall form leaning on the wall.
"Explain to me why I was woken up," Edward demanded in an eerily menacing yet quiet voice as he closed his eyes. "For the third time this morning. By my over-sized lump of a brother making a lot of noise while flattening my roommate and my tiny pixie-like sister who was poking me with a flyswatter."
"Lost a bet." Emmett offered simply as Rosalie helped him up.
"What bet?" I asked, slightly scared to find out.
"Poker." Alice said in a bubbly voice as she peeked out from behind Jasper. "And yes, I lost too."
Jasper and Rosalie looked disapprovingly at their significant others, who looked sheepishly in the other direction. Edward still hadn't opened his eyes, and I was sitting up in my giant t-shirt and sweatpants, wondering how much more interesting this year could get.
"Good morning sunshine!" Emmett said brightly as he looked over at me. "What time did you get up?"
"Umm… five minutes ago when you sat on me." I said as I stood up. "You're really big, you know that?"
"Geez, you try to be friendly and make polite conversation and look at where it gets you." He muttered, a fake hurt expression on his face.
I shot a look at Emmett, who turned to look at Rosalie, who was glaring at something Jasper had said, who was staring at Alice, who was trying to suck-up to Edward to gain forgiveness. We were all caught off guard when Edward sighed and opened his eyes.
"Alice and Emmett, you're buying lunch. We'll meet up at the diner on 53rd at noon," Edward declared with a forgiving tone. "Now, if you're not Bella, get out."
"Sheesh, can't even spare some patience for his own flesh and blood." Emmett muttered in mock hurt as he grabbed Rosalie's hand escorted her out.
"We're adopted, dumb-ass." Alice told him darkly as she and Jasper followed. "I'm mad at you. I was saving that money to add to the dress-Bella-up fund!"
"The what?" I asked, my mouth falling open.
"Nothing," Alice said brightly, covering up whatever she didn't mean to tell.
Edward ignored them all and shut the door as soon as they were out. "At least we're not related."
"So you're all adopted?" I asked curiously. It had never come up in our many conversations the night before. There were many things that came up that I wished didn't, though, like past relationships (Emmett 12, Rosalie 13, Jasper 3, Alice 2, Edward 1, and me with none because I didn't count the awful time I had with Jacob Black my senior year) and our top five most embarrassing moments.
"Yeah. Our mom, we all call her Esme, couldn't have kids," he explained, his eyes getting soft at the mention of his family. "When Carlisle, my father, helped with my parents until they died, he met me. For some in-explicable reason, he decided that the best Christmas present for Esme was me, an orphaned toddler. When I was three, the adoption was finalized. By the time I was six, Emmett and Alice had been adopted."
"I'm jealous. I'm an only child." I said wistfully. And it was true. I had always wanted an older brother, or maybe a twin sister. But Charlie and Renee had split up when I was only a few months old, so it was impossible.
"Don't be. Trust me, I wish I was an only child sometimes." He assured me as he went to brush his teeth. "I mean, would you really want Alice and Emmett as your brother and sister?"
I giggled shutting the bathroom door on him as I announced I'd be getting changed. When I was decent in jeans and a t-shirt, I announced that he could come in, and we switched as I walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth and he got dressed. By the time we were ready, it was almost noon, so we made our way down to the lobby. Unfortunately, we didn't quite make it there on time.
"BELLA!" I heard a familiar voice call through the hallways. "It's me, Mike!"
"Newton." Edward groaned in frustration. I could see his good mood floating away as Mike got closer and closer. By the time he got there, Edward was scowling.
"Hey there Bella! Cullen." Mike said as he came over to stand in front of us. He didn't ever take his eyes away from me, which was terribly creepy. Edward seemed to notice this and wrapped his arm around my waist tightly. I couldn't help but notice how good it felt to be in his arms, like it lifted a weight off of my shoulders. I shut that out of my mind quickly though, for how could a guy like Edward be meant for girl like me?
"So Bella," Mike said with a grin on his face. "I was just heading to lunch and I was wondering if you wanted-"
"Newton, I appreciate it if you'd leave my girlfriend alone." Edward said, hugging me closer to his side as his other hand slid itself into mine. I locked my fingers through his and once again ignored the electric sensations. I reminded myself that this was just a game that Edward was playing to tick off Mike and to get him away from me.
"Fine, I'll go. I'll be at the coffee house on sixth if you want to meet me though." He said as he winked at me and walked off.
As soon as he walked out of the door, I heaved a huge sigh of relief. Edward, however, was still tense, and I looked around quickly. I found the reason when I saw a bobbing flash of red making its way towards us in the crowded lobby area.
"Oh my god, Edward!" Meghan squealed as she too made her way over to us. She completely ignored me and fluffed her hair as she batted her eyelashes in a way she thought was seductive. "Eddie, we should TOTALLY hook up tonight. I know this great bar on seventh…"
But somewhere in her babbling, something in me changed, and I got a sudden surge of jealousy. I glanced up at Edward, who was silently pleading me to make her stop. The jealousy seemed to bring about a whole new surge of confidence I'd never had before, and I bravely got on my tiptoes on whispered into Edward's ear. "Just play along, ok?"
He nodded infinitesimally, and I took it as my cue. "Sweetheart, can we go now? I'm just worried we're going to be late…"
I'd always been an awful liar, and I'm pretty sure that if Meghan hadn't been so shocked, she would have seen right through me. I took her open mouth as a cue to go on, and I plastered on a smile.
"It's our two-year anniversary!" I stage-whispered to her. I'm sure Edward caught the shaky tone in my voice, and I could feel his chest shake as he silently laughed. Meghan however, was oblivious.
"Eddie-kinz, won't you go out with me once?" she whined. I hoped she realized how unattractive it was to whine like that, but judging from her behavior earlier, she was too stunned to notice.
"Sorry Meghan, but Bella and I will be busy." He said slyly as he winked at me.
"EEERRRGGGHH!" she huffed angrily as she stormed out of the room. Clearly, Meghan didn't like to be shot down.
I could tell that we weren't going to drop the act till we got into our cars, so I followed when Edward pulled my hand towards the exit. As soon as we neared a silver Volvo, he dropped my hand and told me to get in. I couldn't help but notice how empty my hand felt without his in it.
"Thank you so much." He said sincerely, though I could see the laughter bubbling below the surface. "Meghan wasn't going to leave if she thought you were un-attached…"
"No problem." I said as I buckled my seat-belt and let out a sigh of relief. "You helped me with Mike, so now we're even."
"God, that was funny though, wasn't it?" he chuckled as he remembered.
We laughed the whole way to the diner, and the meal there wasn't much different. I had a feeling that I would have an interesting year… but I really had no idea how interesting.