DISCLAIMER: I do not own twilight, or any of its characters. I do not claim any right on them except my idea, which may or may not resemble a few ideas of Twilight saga.
Rose POV
Bella was very happy today. No one knew why. Angela was excited to go to Seattle today too. When I asked her why, she said the new book from her favourite author, Isa Marie, was released today. I think Bella was happy for the same reason. It was a Saturday today, no school, so Bella invited us all to spend the day in her house.
I was aware of the tension between Edward and Bella. Hell, even a blind man can see it. They were so cautious of each other, very careful with what they spoke to the other. And whenever one of us mentioned gym, both made a serious vow to not look at each other.
I knew the reason why. My Emmy told it to me, about what they had audio witnessed in the gym that day. But I think Edward did not tell him the whole story. Something must have happened between them, to make them like this.
Anyway, I know that it will be only a matter of time before they are together. We all were hoping for it. Soon, I thought, and as Em pulled me into another kiss, I forgot all about those.
A flying pillow onto Em's head broke our kiss. "Can you keep away when all are together. We don't need the live visual of everything." Bella spoke up.
"Ohhh… the audio was enough, ha, I knew it." Emmett grinned at her, making Bella blush and throw another pillow. I looked at Edward, he was looking at his game board, too intently, but his were red on the tips. See what I meant.
Just then the phone rang. Bella picked it up, "Hello… Oh Hi Jake, how are you?... You are coming? Sure, why not… Ya, ya, whatever man, just shut up… yes, my friends are here today, like I said they would be… Yes, Jacob" she blushed, "Just come Jake… no one will mind. Yes yes I missed you too, but school… shut up Jake. Just het yourself here. Bye."
And she stomped the phone and huffed. Edward was looking at her curiously. Bella looked at us, "Jacob Black, a friend from La Push, will be coming here now. I hope you don't mind."
"It's okay" Edward said and looked back into his game and sighed. I guess Alice noticed it too because she started jumping in the couch, "Who is Jacob?"
"His father works with my father and have been friends for a long time" Bella replied as she went back to cutting the fruits for the custard.
"So are you like some childhood friends?" Alice pestered.
Bella nodded, "Yes. We used to play in the mud when we were little. Charlie used to have a fit when we came back, all muddy and dirty." She smiled at her memory.
"So you are very close to him?" Alice asked. I did not understand where she was going with this. I could feel Bella getting irritated with the questioning, but she nodded anyway. They would be close if they are childhood friends.
"Why did you say that you missed him just now?" Innocent was forced into her dialogue, but we could all understand when she looked at Edward, who was keeping his head down in the game, but listening all the same.
"Because I did not talk to him for a long time. Look Alice…"
Just then a huge boy, bigger than my Emmett, came running into the house and picked Bella off the couch, twirling her around and laughing. He planted a kiss on her cheek and ruffled her hair, "hey Bells!"
"hey Jakey" she smiled at him and noticed another girl behind him. She pushed him aside and went to hug her, "welcome Nessie. Hope you are doing well."
"Hi Bella, this goof boy was pestering me that he had to meet you, in every single call that we talked, that I could not bear it anymore."
Both the girls laughed when Jacob grumbled, "And when they unite, all boys fall down."
Bella introduced us to them and them to us, "So guys, this is Jacob Black and his girlfriend, Ness."
We all sat down and just chatted. Bella gave fruit custard to all of us. Alice asked all of a sudden, "So Jacob, you both are childhood friends. Did either of you feel anything for each other anytime?"
Jacob was confused, "Of course. Bells is my bestest friend and no one can replace her." He said proudly.
"No, I meant did you feel anything romantically towards her?"
He laughed "naah, she is my protector. You know, she used to beat all the boys whoever made a bad comment about us. She was like a big overprotective sister back then. Now I'm stronger than her." He flexed his muscles.
"Older?" Alice asked.
"ya she is two years older than me" Jake was confused now
"Oh that's why! Or else you could have fallen in love. I know of such a couple." Alice said happily.
"Alice… shut up" Edward warned.
But she did not listen, "Like you don't know Edward. Denalis are our family friends and Tanya was his childhood friend. But as she grew up, she started pestering him for more and he stopped talking to her."
Jacob and Ness shifted uncomfortably as Edward warned again, "Alice…"
But Alice was not listening, "You should see them together. She is always around him and he is always running away. She would do all the indecent exposure and he would look away. She…"
"I told you to shut up Alice. They all need not know about Tanya so much. Enough means enough." And he stormed out of the house into the front yard. Bella patted Jake on his arm and went after him on her crutch. We could see them as they talked. It looked like Edward was bothered about something. He asked Bella something and she blushed and nodded. They then smiled and came back.
"What got that smile on your face?" Alice asked excitedly.
Edward looked at Bella, "Bella has agreed to go to the dance with me."
"Wow... that's good. We can all go for shopping now, yaaaay", Alice jumped on the couch shouting excitedly.
"Wow, Bella, you will shop and dance on the crutches? God save us all!" Angela said dramatically and just like that all the tension melted.
