A/N: Okay, so I know it's been MONTHS! Since I last updated and all and I'm sorry, but well I had writers block, and I don't update little authors notes, saying basically this. If I have anything that I need to say, then it'll have to wait until I update next…so, here's chapter 10.

Chapter 10:

"When and what are we holding the bonfire for Sam?" I asked him.

"You'll find out soon Bells. Embry," Sam said, turning his attention over for the moment. "You're going to have to tell her before then, or after the stories, and Bella, you need to be welcomed rightfully, back to La Push, same for Melly, even though this is her first time here," Sam continued. "Plus, there's going to be a new story told," he finished.

"Okay, well I'm hungry. How about we all go out to Port Angeles and get something to eat. On me," I said, rubbing my stomach.

"That sounds fine with me. Harry should be getting out of the hospital in half an hour, so say in about an hour we all meet up at the Black-Swan house?" Sue asked.

"That's fine, Embry, Mel, Paul, you guys want to ride with me?" I asked.

"Yeah, will you drop us off at our house on the way to yours?" Embry asked.

"Yeah, Jake you going to come to?" I asked.

"Yeah, give me a minute Bells and I'll be out in a minute," Jake said.

"Kay, see you all in about an hour," I responded in kind, giving hugs to everyone except for Old Quil, Billy, and Sam, and walking out the door with Paul, Embry, and Mel. When we got to the car, Jake was coming out of the hospital and I quickly shoved him in the back of the car with Embry and Paul, so that me and Mel could sit in the front.

"Why are you two in the front?" Jake whined.

"It's my car, and I'm buying dinner, so I get to say who sits where. Plus it's my car," I said, and maturely sticking my tongue out at him through the rear-view window.

"Real mature," Embry snickered.

"Paul, if I asked you to throw him out of the car, would you do it?" I asked.

"Uhm…yes but he'd survive, and it wouldn't have the effect that you would want it to have on him," Paul responded.

"You're right. Just poke him in the eye for me please?" I asked, smirking mirthlessly while Mel gasped and Embry shrieked in pain. "Thanks babe!" I said, smiling.

"Bella, that was very mean," Mel said, suppressing her smile and laughs.

"Yeah, well…he deserved it. You're lucky that Paul talked me out of throwing him out of the window," I said while Embry and Jake both thanked Paul.

"Psh, I didn't do it for you two buffoons. I knew that if I did that then Bella would probably get thrown in jail with me right next to her. Her father arresting us both," Paul responded to them.

"Great, they think alike too," Jake muttered beneath his breath.

"That's the best part Jakey," Paul said. "Now shut up before I poke you in the eye too," he continued, then started mumbling profanities under his breath.

"Embry, we're here now get out of my car," I said.

"Thanks Bells, be at your house later," he said finding a way to get out of my car.

"Yeah, yeah," I said, "Hurry up, I need to get Paul to his house so that Mel and I can go claim all the hot water from Jake," I said, rushing up Embry's awkward bye with Mel.

Jake and Paul started laughing while Mel blushed a light pink. "Was that necessary?" she asked me.

"Absolutely. Now, come on, we have to go get you dolled up once we drop Paul off," I said, smirking at her.

"YAY! MAKE OVERS!" she squealed, causing Jake, Paul, and I to wince at her loud voice. "Sorry, that was loud."

"You're fine sweetie," I said before I pulled up in front of Pauls two story bungalow type house. Paul got out of the car and leaned into my open window.

"I'll be at your house in thirty minutes, babe," he told me, kissing me on the cheek quickly and ran inside before I could say anything. I saw Jake smirking at something before I shrugged it off and sped down the street to the Black Swan house. I saw that Charlie and Billy were already home and just parked on the side street in front of the house. Mel got out of the car at the same time that I did and we both shut the doors and I locked the car, locking Jake in before he had the chance to get out.

We ran inside and I tossed my keys to Charlie. "In ten minutes, let him out of the car please, make sure he doesn't do anything to it either," I said before rushing up the stairs behind Mel. "Hurry up and get a quick shower, and meet me in my room. By the time you're done, I should be done too," I told her before lightly shoving her into her room. I ran into my room and quickly stripped and got in the shower. I didn't bother with waiting for the water to heat up because I knew that it would in a few minutes. I started to wash my hair and when I was rinsing it out, the water was already hot. I quickly put conditioner in my hair, shaved my legs and under arms, and washed my face and body before rinsing out my hair again. I let the water run over my tense body for thirty seconds and shut the water off getting out of the shower and wrapping a towel around my body, and another one around my hair to help dry it. I went into my closet through my room and got a matching panty/bra set and quickly put that on then a fluffy black and silver pinstriped robe over it. When I stepped back into my room, Mel was in there in a matching robe, except it was white with black pinstripes. "Bathroom, now," I said grabbing my hairdryer on the way. I quickly plugged it in, and started blow drying her hair.

"How much longer do we have?" Mel asked.

"Almost done," I said, pulling the straightner through the last bits of Mel's hair. "There, now, go pick an outfit out and put it on and get back in here," I told her, looking for my ipod and docking station. When they were found I quickly put on the Alice in Wonderland Soundtrack and got to work on my hair. I mixed some mouse and gel together and scrunched my hair. I went to my closet and got a pair of vintage skinny jeans, a white cami and a gray low cut sheer lace shirt. I put it on and when I was done, Mel came into my room in the same thing as me, except her jeans were dark washed, her cami was black, and her shirt was kind of western. I took one look at her and went into my closet and got a pair of white cowboy boots that I 'borrowed' from Mel.

"Hey! That's where these went. I was looking for these for a week!" Mel screeched.

"Sorry, let me go get my shoes and we'll do our make up," I said before disappearing back into my closet.

"You mean I'll do our make up," Mel shouted at me.

"Yeah, because we all know that compared to you I suck at putting on make up," I said putting on my gray peep toe, ankle high shoes. When I exited the closet for a third time, I heard Mel in the bathroom, rooting through my extensive make up collection, which is practically hers too. "So, how are you going to do our make up?" I asked as Her Name is Alice by Shinedown came on.

"Well, mines already done," she said, turning around and showing me her natural looking make up.

"Ooh, so pretty. How are you going to do mine?" I asked, not worried about how I would look after because I knew that I'd look good.

"Stand up," she told me, and I quickly followed her directions. "Gray, white, and vintage," she said, muttering and I knew that that was my cue to sit back down again, and I did. I followed her every direction and when she was done, I was practically in love with her.

"If I wasn't straight, I'd so be in love with you right now," I told her, hugging her. I looked in the mirror and fell in love with the sight. A very light gray eye shadow with dark purple, almost black eyeliner and black mascara. Mel knows that I don't need any blush and she just put a clear lip gloss on my lips.

"Yeah, I know, I work wonders with faces, and you work wonders with hair," Mel said, giggling. "Hey, what time is it?" she asked randomly. I glanced at the clock hanging on my wall.

"5:55, we finished with 5 minutes to spare," I said. "Lets go down stairs and wait for the rest," I continued. Mel took one last look in the mirror before walking out of my room. I quickly followed her and together we walked down the stairs giggling like girls when I randomly started humming 'The Poison' by the All American Rejects, and Mel started to sing it.

You were so young,

And I guess I'm old.
Open your eyes,
Ill keep mine closed.
I prefer standing,
And you take your seat.
Ill be wide awake,
And you'll fall asleep.
And you'll fall down a hole.
That's the one place we both know
you take me with you if you could, but I wouldn't go
I guess sometimes we both loose our minds, to find a better road.

I can be pensive,
You can be so sure.
You'll be the poison,
You'll be the cure.
I'm alone on the journey,
I'm alive none the less,
And when you do your very worst,
Mmmmm it feels the best.
And you'll fall down a hole.
That's the one place we both know.
You take me with you if you could, but I wouldn't go.
I guess sometimes we both loose our minds, and find a better road.

And you'll fall down a hole.
That's the one place in this world that we both know.
You take me with you if you could,
But if you could I'd lose everything.

Can't you see the faces melting as the sun rains from their eyes,
Go on and keep your head with the hearts that you left behind.
Look at yourself, look in the mirror, don't you see a lie?
That you tell yourself again a thousand times.
And the truth that makes us laugh will make you cry,
You wanna die? No?

So you fall down a hole,
That's the one place where we both know,
You take me with you if you could but I wouldn't go.
Because sometimes, we both loose our minds to find a better road.

"Bells, where do you two come up with this stuff?" Jake asked me, shocking me and Mel both out of our reverie.

"That would be a song called the Poison by the All American Rejects. It's on the Almost Alice soundtrack. Mel and I just memorized it along with like, every other song on the soundtrack. Some I sing, some she sings, and some we both sing," I said, smiling and blushing.

"You have a beautiful voice," Embry whispered into the silence that was left behind, and this time I got the pleasure of seeing Mel blush a deep red.

"Who has a beautiful voice?" Sam asked as he and Emily walked in the house.

"Melly over here does because no one other than me and now these guys have had the pleasure of hearing her sing," I answered in response to Sam's question. Just as I was walking into the kitchen, my cell rang and I answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hey Bella," Paul said, causing me to smile.

"Hey Paul, what did you need?" I asked.

"My mom's making me babysit my brother, so I can't come," he said, and I heard the sadness and anger in his voice.

"Just bring him with us, I wouldn't mind meeting your brother," I said.

"Really?" he asked, his voice hitting a high note.

"Really, do you want me, Mel, and Embry to come pick you guys up or can you be here in like, 10 minutes?" I asked.

"We'll be there in a few minutes. Let me just go get Will into some clean clothes and we'll be there in about 5 minutes," Paul said. "Bye babe," he said.

"Bye, hurry up too," I said before hanging up. I walked into the living room after slipping my phone into my pocket to see that Jared and Kim had arrived along with Leah, Seth, Sue and Harry.

"Bells! What's taking so long? I'm hungry!" Seth whined.

"We're waiting on Paul and Will," I said, glaring at Seth.

"Will's coming?" Jared asked, smiling brightly. I nodded my head and Jared shouted out a loud 'YES!'

"I take it that you like him?" I asked, smirking some.

"Yeah! I mean, Little Man is awesome. Especially for a four year old," Jared said as the door opened and Paul and the most adorable little boy came in. "LITTLE MAN!" Jared screamed.

"JAWED!" screamed my guess is Will. Jared picked him up and swung him around in circles and was laughing.

"So, that's Will?" I asked Paul as I came to stand next to him.

"Yeah, Jared, put Little Man down for a second so I can introduce him to Bella," Paul said, and Jared put him down. Paul walked forward and grabbed him from around the waist and pulled him over to me. "Little Man, I want you to meet a very important and pretty lady. Bella, this is my brother Will, Will this is Bella," Paul said.

"Hi Will, it's nice to meet you," I said leaning down to his level.

"Hiya Bella!" he said to me, smiling brightly. He turned to Paul and said, "Pauey, you're right. She is a pwetty lady," he said, causing me to blush.

"Yeah, she is," Paul said, he lifted Will off of the floor and put him on his shoulders.

"So, are we ready to go?" I asked the group as a whole, made sure that everyone was there. I got many yes's in response and smiled. "Great, lets go. Paul, Will, Embry, and Melly are riding with me, the rest of you are figuring how you guys are getting there on your own," I said before walking out the door towards my car. I unlocked the car and waited for Mel and Embry to get in the car.

"Hey, Ms. Melissa and Embry?" Paul asked.

"Yeah Paul?" Embry asked.

"Can you guys let Will sit between you?" he asked.

"Of course we can," Melissa said before Embry could say anything.

"Yeah, of course we can," Embry muttered.

"Thank you. Now Little Man, please behave. Only pick on Embry, just like I taught you okay?" Paul asked while I shared a bewildered look with Mel, while Embry just groaned.

"Otay Pauey," Will said in his innocent voice as Paul put him in the back seat and buckled him up. Paul got into the car after he was done and looked tired.

"You look absolutely ravishing Bella," Paul told me sweetly.

"Thanks babe, you look absolutely tired," I said smirking at him.

"I am, who knew that just being with a three year old would be that exhausting in an hour?" he asked me, I took one look in the rear view mirror, and saw that Will was wearing out Embry and Mel both.

"Take a nap, I'll wake you when we're 10 minutes away, I promise," I told him, smiling softly.

"Mm, nap sounds good," Paul said five seconds before he started snoring softly. 10 minutes later Embry and Will just about woke him up, and I knew that that wouldn't have been a pretty sight.

"Embry Call! What are you doing to him back there?" I whisper yelled, furious.

"Nothing Bells, he wouldn't stop pinching me so I lightly tapped his hand after asking him to stop after like, the millionth pinch, honest!" he said, scared. I glanced back at them and saw that Will had tears in his innocent, wide, child like eyes.

"Will, is that true?" I asked him sweetly.

"No pwetty lady, Embry being a big meany. I don't know why Pauey hangs out with him," Will said, causing Mel and I to laugh. "Why you so mean Embry Call?" Will asked, and from the car behind us, I could hear Seth explaining what was being said to Charlie and Billy while Quil was laughing.

"Bells, you gotta believe me, I'm being as nice as I can to the kid, but he's Pauls brother, and a three year old at that, he's the one being mean," Embry whined, but I wasn't listening past the 'but he's Pauls brother' part, and that pissed me off.

"Embry, when Paul wakes up you're apologizing to him, and you're going to apologize to Will as well," I said in a calm voice. I heard a quiet uh oh from Mel, and a soft giggle from Will.

"Or what?" Embry asked, as if he didn't believe that I had anything to threaten him with.

"Or I'll pull this car over, come back there, and beat you. So, right now, you will apologize to Will, and when Paul's awake, you will apologize to him too, right Embry?" I asked.

"Yes… I'm sorry I hit you Will," Embry muttered, while Melly was laughing loudly.

"Mother, what time is dinner?" she asked in a horrible British accent, before laughing again and waking Paul up.

"Wha's goin on?" he slurred, sounding startled for a minute.

"Nothing, but it's a good thing you woke up, we're almost there," I told him, trying to hold in my giggles. "So, what's good to eat around here?" I asked as my phone rang. "Hold that thought," I muttered as I answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"Bells, when you get to Port Angeles, just park on the boardwalk, we'll walk around for a while before we find something to eat," Billy told me.

"Okay, will do," I said and was about to hang up but Billy continued speaking.

"Oh, and nice threat on Embry. You would've done it too wouldn't you?" he asked. Shit.

"What threat on Embry?" Paul asked. Double shit.

"Embry was being mean and hitting me Pauey!" Will whined. Triple Shit.

"Billy, I'm gonna go, and I'll be sure to pull to the boardwalk, bye!" I said.

"Bells, what threat?" Paul asked, I looked at him and sighed.

"Will was pinching Embry, or so he says, and Embry lightly tapped his hand after multiple attempts to ask Will to stop, and then I told Embry that he had to apologize to Will and you because he made a remark about Will being your brother, but a three year old, and I may have said something along the lines of pulling the car over, going back there and beating him," I said sheepishly. "Now, Embry, apologize," I said, glaring at him.

"I'm sorry that I was rude to your inept form Paul," Embry said mockingly to Paul, not meaning it at all.

"Okay…did you apologize and mean it to my brother?" Paul asked Embry, and Mel just laughed out loud again.

"What is it now Mel?" I asked her, wanting to know.

"You and Paul are just like parents already, making the 'kids' apologize and everything. It's hilarious," she said, laughing some more.

I shared a look with Paul and started to laugh with her, because it's true. We were acting like parents, and well, we weren't exactly trying to act it, it was just something that we slipped into easily.

"Oh, I know Seth is going to have a good one with this, especially with him riding with my father, and Billy," I muttered so only the wolves would hear it. "And Quil," I said as an afterthought.

It's only been three days and I've fallen hard for him already. I know what my mom would say, while she'd support me, she'd disapprove of it as well. Charlie and Billy I know would support me 100% because they know the legends, they know that there's nothing that Paul would be able to do that would hurt me other than die. Phil would just want me to be happy, and if Paul makes me happy (which he obviously does) then Phil would be happy with that. But why do I have this feeling of doom that's not going to happen for a while?