Chapter Six-Tick Tock, the mouse ran up the clock…so what?
Bella POV
They are so cute together. It's just sad that Alice couldn't see how happy he is now.
Then Diane looked at Bella, her face was hard.
"Bella, you do know I can hear you, right?"
"Huh? I didn't know you were a mind reader." she elbowed Edward in the ribs, giving herself a bruise…again. "How come you didn't tell me?"
"Because she asked me not to. Diane wanted to tell you herself." Then Edward smiled, "Sorry, I thought you only used it to listen to the Wolves."
"Okay, that's really annoying. You are so lucky he's not able you read your mind, Bells."
"It is true, having someone inside your head all the time is a little annoying." Jasper was sitting with Diane across the table while Diane and Bella were playing chess, and so far, Bella was toast…burnt toast.
Jasper seemed totally at ease when Diane was around, which was becoming more and more often. It appeared that he no longer thirsted for human blood, like she was the vampiric antidote. Diane was his balm, the equivalent to Edward for Bella. Or so it seemed.
"Hey, what time is it?" she asked.
"Almost 5:30."
"Oh…crud, I need to get home! Sam told me that I needed to be home by 5:45!"
"Whoa, Diane, it's fine. I'll run you to the border. Ed, if you could call one of the Wolves to pick her up-"
"No, no. I can run from there."
"Alright, come on then."
And they were gone.
Diane POV
I'm late, I am so late. Oh, Sam is gonna be pissed. Diane thought as she raced through the woods toward her home. Even the form of a cheetah wasn't fast enough to get her home before her designated time, and it was already 5:57 before she finally walked through the door.
"Diane! I thought I told you to be home twelve minutes ago! Why weren't you home by the time I set?"
"Sam, honey, calm down. You don't want to kill the furniture again, just sit down and drink your tea." Emily glanced at Diane as she continued to try to calm Sam down.
"No, Diane should have been home already." He was shaking, about to phase, and Emily was standing too close again. Diane pulled her away, just in time. Sam had changed, and he was growling.
"Sam, stop!" she pushed Emily behind her and stood right in front of him, "Bella and I were playing chess, nothing more. If you want me to call her, I'm sure that she's still there."
You should have called us and told us that you were going to be late! Why didn't you let us know?
"Shift back, please."
NO! He snapped his jaws right in front of Diane's face and then threw a chair at the wall in his fury. Why didn't you?
"Because I was already running by the time I even thought to ask them if I could use the phone, I was about half way home already."
Oh…then he shifted back into human form, right in front of her.
"UGH! Sam!" Diane shielded her eyes.
"Whoops," He said.
"Hey guys, what's goin'-?" Jared, Paul, and Embry walked in.
"Sam, what the hell?" Paul pulled Diane away from him, and they all wrapped their arms around her as to keep her from seeing Sam's nudity.
"Sorry 'bout that. I was not counting on that to happen."
"Just go get some pants on. Come on, man, the girl hasn't been tortured enough since she got here?" Jared was trying not to laugh.
"Apparently not." Embry was shaking with suppressed chuckles, too.
"Alright! I'm going, I'm going. Jeez, you'd think they wouldn't have a problem with it." Sam was talking to Emily.
"Yes, but you have to remember how protective you all are of Diane. Even if they were laughing at it, they were still horrified about her having seen you like that. I think they all have a crush on her."
"Emily, we can hear you. You do know that, right?"
"Oh, I totally forgot about werewolf hearing. I hate that."
"Yeah, well, so do we sometimes." Paul yelled back at her. Now it was Diane's turn to start giggling.
