MEN WILL BE BOYS

Bella's POV

A week after meeting Edward's family I was sitting at my desk and Edward was laying on my bed propped up on his elbow flipping through a magazine at a human pace since my door was open.

I turned in my chair to face him, "You know you could help me with this right?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"Yes I could but that won't teach you anything." He replied giving me a mischievous grin

"Smart ass," I said under my breath he just laughed. I groaned and turned back around. "Why did I have to take Latin? Why couldn't I have chosen an easier foreign language class?"

"Because, love, you like the challenge." He answered nonchalantly

"Oh shut up and go back to fake reading that magazine!" I shot back.

I went back to the assignment I was working on after a while I heard the bed shift and then felt his fingertips trace my jawline. I turned to look at him, "I want to take you to watch my family play baseball."

"Are you kidding me and baseball is an accident waiting to happen." I said looking at him with wide eyes.

"Bella all you're going to be doing is watching, honestly you don't even need to watch you can bring a book. Anyway Alice said it's going to thunder this weekend and it's the only time we can play." He gave me that crooked smile that I couldn't say no to, and I relented.

"Oh alright," I said turning back to my assignment, "But if something goes wrong I get to say I told you so." He placed a kiss on the top of my head then went back to the magazine.

After a while Jen came to my room and stood in the doorway, "Dad wants to know if we want to go out to dinner tonight at the diner."

"Yeah sure." I said as I turned to her. I saw Embry leaning against the wall behind her. As always whenever Edward was here so was Embry and vice versa. I didn't understand why but whatever. It didn't help me any trying to figure the small shit out.

"OK he said to meet him there at 5 he has to work late today so he's going to meet us there on his break." She said before she left she added, "Jake called he wants to know if you wanted to hang out this weekend."

"I can't Edward is taking me to watch his family play baseball." I said

"You and baseball, that's an accident waiting to happen!" she said laughing

"That's what I said." I replied running my hand through my hair, "Anyway he said I could bring a book I don't even need to watch."

"Well whatever floats your boat." She said then went back to her room.

After a while I finished my Latin assignment, "Finally," I said slamming the book shut.

"Good because it's time for you to go meet up with Charlie." He said as he stood up

"Want to come with, you can make up an excuse for not eating, I haven't seen you all week (It had been sunny all week so Edwards family had not been able to go to school) it would be nice to spend time with you even if it is in a human setting." I said standing up and going to my closet to grab my shoes.

"Any excuse to act human," He said with a shrug

"Yeah whatever let's go," I said fake pushing him.

Embry ended up joining us not that I was surprised, like I said if Edward was there so was Embry.

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Jen's POV

There's nothing quite like a testosterone filled dinner to make everything more awkward then they already are.

I knew why Edward and Embry hated each other. I also knew that Bella didn't know and that Edward wasn't going to tell her. Admittedly he wasn't allowed to, but I had tried to get special permission from the tribal leaders so that we could tell Bella but because of her relationship with Edward they had denied the request.

Embry and rode in my car to the diner we left before Edward and Bella she pulled up in her truck about three minutes after we got there. Charlie wasn't there yet so we grabbed a booth and waited for him to arrive.

The four of us sat in silence with Edward and Embry glaring at each other the whole time. They say silence is golden unless you me. Because it the moment all I wanted to do was run through the diner screaming at the top of my lungs. Silence is awkward enough without having a vampire and werewolf having some kind of glare off.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Charlie walk through the door; at least now the guys would fake nice and force conversation in order to keep up appearances. For Charlie's sake I knew they would do it.

"Well hi boys I didn't know the two of you would be joining us tonight." Charlie said as he slid into the booth next to me.

"Yeah the girls invited us, I hope you don't mind." Edward said unlike Embry I actually kind of liked Edward mostly because he was dating my sister but also because I see something in him like I know that he would never lie or try and fake something with me or Charlie to make him like us. But I still had my reservations about him and his family.

"No it's fine," Charlie replied but I could tell it bothered him.

The rest of dinner pasted without incident both Embry and Edward were civil towards one another. When everyone was done I saw Edward take the bill and pay it when Charlie's back was turned. He wasn't doing it to try and get on Charlie's good side he did it because it's just how he was I could tell.

Before we left Bella and Embry went to use the restroom and a second later Charlie followed leaving me and Edward alone at the table. I knew Embry only did it because it was a public place that and because I wanted to talk to Edward. I hadn't had the chance to since he started dating Bella.

"So what do you want to talk to me about?" Edward asked scooting over so he was directly across from me.

"How did you know?" I asked leaning back

"Well I know that Embry would never leave you alone with a vampire unless he had no other choice or unless you asked him to. Also I can read his mind he knew that if he didn't let you talk to me you would make Paul look like an angel."

I laughed it was true nothing could compare to the wrath that I would bring down on him, "I wanted to asked you about when we first moved here. Why did you keep staring at me and Bella and looking like you had a headache?"

"She didn't tell you?" He asked surprised

"Um, tell me what?" I gave him a curious look

"I can't read your mind, I can't read Bella's either." He said looking a little miffed, "I don't know why I can't but I have some theories."

"What are they?" I asked

"The one I keep coming back to is that your brains work differently. It's almost like you're on a different frequency." He said unconvinced almost like he knew it wasn't that but that he still didn't know why.

"So you're saying our brains are Defective?" I said with a small laugh

He smiled, "No actually I was thinking the opposite."

"Okay, I want to ask you one more thing." I said leaning forward

"Go ahead," He said inclining his head

"Do you love my sister?" I asked looking him in the eyes

"With every fiber of my being, I've waited over 100 years to find the person I am meant to be with. I know without a shadow of a doubt that she is who I was meant to be with." He said it with so much conviction that I knew he meant it. Being a vampire he could be lying to me but my gut told me he wasn't.

"I believe you, but if you break her heart nothing could compare to the hell I will bring down on you." I leaned back and looked into his eyes, "I promise you this!"

Bella, Charlie and Embry came back to the table then and we all grabbed our coats and left the diner. Charlie to the Station, Bella and Edward to our house and Embry and I headed to the reservation. Both of our schedules had been conflicting against each other's so we were spending time together tonight just the two of us without him being so tense with Edward around.