A/N:
Thank you to all of you who have reviewed. I am trying with the grammar. I wish I could use the excuse that English was not my first language but then I would be lying.
Stephanie Meyer's owns twilight
Chapter 10
I woke up wrapped in the arms of my love. Only problem is he doesn't know I love him. I'm still deciding how to tell him. I don't know why I am being such a chicken shit about this. I guess for me this makes the whole thing to real, as if by giving into this I am giving up my humanity. Sure, Emmett has said he would never change me against my wishes, but how would a relationship work between us. Twenty years down the road, people will be calling me a cougar. Forty years down the road they will just figure I am rich and he is a gold digger. And what about when I eventually pass away, what happens to him. So much to think about.
"Good morning" Emmett says while moving into kiss me.
I abruptly pull away, and Emmett has a hurt look on his faces so immediately explain myself "Human, morning breath not a pretty combination" I smile at him
"Silly human" Emmett then quickly moves in and claims my lips with his for an intense kiss.
"Good morning:" I say breathlessly.
"Time to get ready for your big day" Emmett says with a pout, obviously still not happy that we have to be apart for any length of time.
I have to admit, the thought of being away from him, is causing me some anxiety as well. Not to mention the 'be afraid, very afraid' vibes everybody is giving off about shopping with Alice.
I quickly shower in in the biggest shower I have ever been in. The shower in itself was an amazing experience it had so many shower heads, It seriously reminded me of a car wash. After my shower I put on my best jeans and a nice blouse and a pair of ballet flats. I headed down the stairs to find Emmett, when Rosalie stopped me.
"Just what do you think you are wearing" She asked
Was I underdressed to go shopping with them, was there something wrong with my blouse "This why?" I asked unsure.
"No not your clothing your footwear. Go up stairs and put on some comfortable sneakers, perhaps running, or cross trainers" She said seriously
Oh my I thought, as I went back up the stairs and changed into my most comfortable sneakers. I then proceeded down the stairs again to find Emmett.
"Emmett, is in the kitchen making you breakfast" Jasper said, making the same whipping sound he had made the night before only louder for Emmett's benefit in the other room.
I just giggled at his silliness
"So you think that is funny Bella, consorting with the enemy are we" Emmett said as he appeared out of nowhere, he picked me up and twirled me around a few times and threw me over his shoulder
"Emmy, put me down" I said while giving him a slap on his stone hard back.
"Not until you say that, you are sorry and that Jasper, is not funny" Emmett said teasingly
"I'll do no such thing, put me down now" I told him in a mock scolding tone.
"Oh well then I guess you will be slung over my shoulder all day" He said while shrugging his shoulder that I was slung over for emphasis.
Alice, ran into the room "Yeah, I've wanted to take Em shopping for such a looong time. So many outfits, I need to try on him, I can see it now" Alice said squealing
Emmett promptly put me down "You win" he said very seriously
I could not help but laugh at the crazy antics of these three. For all intense and purposes I was truly beginning to see them as siblings.
"Well we better not keep Esme, waiting she has made you a wonderful breakfast and she even let me help" He said beaming with pride.
Seeing how proud he was of himself, I knew one thing for sure, no matter what I was going to have to eat this breakfast and like it.
We walked into the kitchen and I could not believe the spread in front of me, was I missing something, do vampires eat breakfast. There were waffles, pancakes, sausage, eggs, muffins, and toast. "Invite the neighbors for breakfast too" I asked hopefully.
"No dear, this is all for you. I forgot to ask what you like to eat, you don't have to eat anything you don't want to" Esme said
"Wow, other than a restaurant I don't think any one has every cooked for me like this before, thank you both so much" I said with true appreciation
"It's been so long since I've cooked for anyone dear, I'm sure it won't compare to your mothers cooking" Esme said concerned
"Renee cook" I snorted, "My mother has never made a meal in her life unless it came from the freezer and went into the microwave. In our house I always cooked all the meals. This is really refreshing thank you" I said hoping my sincerity was being conveyed.
"Your very welcome" Esme said, with a pondering tone.
I decided to try a little of everything, and to my delight, I didn't have to pretend one bit, for individuals that do not eat, they sure as hell can cook. After finishing the food on my plate I got up and went to grab my dishes and they were already gone. Emmett had grabbed them from me and was at the sink washing them. When from the doorway behind me I heard the all to familiar 'whipping sound' I turned around expecting to see Jasper when it was in fact Carlisle this time.
"Carlisle you too, is this joke ever going to get old" Emmett muttered
"Nope, Never!" Edward Bellows from the living room
I just can't stop laughing around these guys they are just to funny. Alice than comes into the kitchen.
"Are we ready to go yet, if we leave right now we will make it there just as the mall opens" She says while practically vibrating with eagerness.
"Alice dear, the Mall will not be sold out if we aren't there just as it opens, let us get ready and we will be there in a short while" Esme says sweetly to Alice
Alice just pouts and leaves the kitchen. Boy she really takes her shopping seriously.
Before we leave for the mall I run upstairs to Emmy's room, or our room as he insists I call it. I go into it and quickly find my purse and turn around to leave and find myself faced with Emmett. He than reaches into his bedside drawer and pulls out a cellular phone and hands it to me "Just in case you get into any trouble" He says
"It's the mall Emmett, I will be with you mother and both of your sisters." I say while knitting my eyebrows together in confusion. Jeesh, their vampires for crying out loud, how much safer could I be.
"I know, it's for my sister. Look if Alice becomes too much for you to handle, and Esme and Rose can't handle her I want you to call me and I'll come rescue you." the serious in his tone sends chills down my spine. I take the phone and go to put in my purse, when I change my mind and put it in my pocket, as it may be my only life line. Really I'm being ridiculous how bad could she be, though I make no move to remove the phone from my pocket.
"I'm going to miss you so much" he says as he captures my mouth with his for another hot as hell kiss.
"I'm going to miss you too" I say breathlessly as I am still recovering from that kiss. All I can say is Wow.
I head down stairs with my hand entwined with Emmy's and he walks me out to the car and I get in back with Rose.
EMPOV:
I stand and watch as my angel drives away with the girls, and I just want to run after the car. How am I going to go a whole day without my Bella. I mean we have had to go without each other for short periods of time such as when in school, but at least I get my Bella fix between classes. I also remember the one time I left her by herself for a day she got injured by that Lauren bitch. I know she couldn't be more protected than with the girls, but I am still anxious. I am praying that Rosalie's plan of taking Esme pays off and she can keep Alice in check.
"Emmett, I now how you feel" Jasper says, pun intended I'm sure.
"I know Jasper, but I feel so anxious, how do you guys do it. She's hasn't been gone but five minutes and I'm reduced to jello. Is this normal?"
"Actually yes it is quite normal. It never fully goes away, but with time you learn to manage it. You also have to remember it is harder for you because your mate is human, and deep down you know that makes her vulnerable. The other problem you face is you haven't yet been able to claim her totally as your mate. Once she is a vampire and your claimed mate it will become easier" clapping his hand on my shoulder.
"I don't know if she will ever want to become a vampire or wish to be claimed by me. Don't get me wrong, we are getting along great, it's just it seems we are stuck." I tell him
"She's completely in love with you the other things will follow" Jasper says reassuringly
"I don't know if she loves me or not" I tell him
"My god bro you are as dense as fuck, everyone in this family can tell that girl is head over heels in love with you. I may not be able to read her emotions, but I suspect that even she knows she loves you, give her time to say it, You'll see. Now stop this mopeing you owe me hours and hours of x-box time." Jasper says giving me a shove back towards the house.
I guess playing x-box can't hurt and it will certainly help keep part of my mind of Bella at least for awhile.
BPOV:
We get to the mall, and Alice already has my door open and is pulling me out of the car. I'm worried she is going to pull my arm out of my socket.
"Alice!, let go over her at once. Do you want to explain to your brother why his mate is in a cast." Esme sternly whisper yells so no other ears can hear.
"Sorry" She says sheepishly. "Oh my god, I just seen it there is a huge sale in one of the shops that is gong under" she says as she takes off with us trying to follow. I was actually surprised this mall was, was for the wealthy to be sure, the usual stores I was used to were nowhere in sight. Every shop we passed was some high end boutique with higher end prices I'm sure.
"Bella, we are going to get you a whole new wardrobe" Alice said excitedly.
"Alice, I don't have this kind of money, just shop for yourself." I tell her
Esme, then stops me and takes me aside. "Bella, I can tell from talking with Emmett, that you don't like to take others money, but listen to me carefully when I tell you this. You are family now. You have brought a side out of Emmett that none of us has ever seen, we are so happy for him and so thankful to you. We have more money than we can spend, and give a great deal to charity. We could buy you every outfit in this mall and it would only be a tiny portion of what we feel we owe you for the joy you have brought our family. Do you understand Bella" she said the last part in her understand or else tone.
"Ok, I don' know what I did though, all I did was walk into a school cafeteria one day" I say
"You did a hell of a lot more than that dear, a whole hell of a lot more" She said warmly
After awhile, I was able to tell which stores, paid the best commission and which stores didn't. Alice seemed well known where ever we went, some stores the associates were battling on who would wait on us in other they were also battling, on would have to wait on us.
We shopped all morning long, I have tried on more clothing than I think most manikins see in their lifetime. Though while shopping I noted a pattern. Around 1pm my stomach started growling.
"Can we take a break?" I asked timidly
"Break, no we have so much more to do and see" Alice said
"Alice, why don't you and Rose continue on and me and Bella will take break to eat and we can meet up again later' Esme said sweetly
"All right you can meet us in 15 minutes in front of …." Alice was saying when she got cut off
"No Alice we will meet you when Bella is rested and has had some nourishment" This time Esme's tone was not sweet at all but demanding.
"Fine" Alice huffed and towed Rose away. I did notice Rose flash a look at Esme which clearly read 'thanks a lot'
Esme took me to a nice restaurant, and I ordered a chicken salad and had a lemonade. "I'm so proud of you dear, not many people can handle Alice's shopping, and my god some of the outfits, she was picking for you were horrendous and so unlike her, I can't for the life of me imagine why." She pondered
"Actually Esme I've noticed the same thing and there is a definite pattern. I need you not to make any plans or respond in away that she could see in a vision. Alice has been trying to manipulate me, she did the same thing on my first date with Emmett, she pulled out a dress that I wouldn't be caught dead in and even had Rosalie looking at her like she was crazy, and then pulled out an alternate beautiful dress. I think she want me to pick out the second outfit she picks for me, but I don't understand why she keeps showing me awful outfits first" I told her
Esme nodded and smiled, showing me she understood and I unveiled my plan.
Following lunch, we regrouped with the girls, and Esme distracted Alice long enough for me to unveil my plan to Rosalie. The way she smiled back, I knew she thought this was going to be fun.
RPOV:
I can't believe I didn't see what Alice was doing, but why in the hell was she doing this. This ought to be hilarious.
We went into another boutique that me and Alice usually frequent. When Alice rounded the corner with two dresses one was stunning and on was possibly the ugliest pattern on a dress I'd ever seen, really Alice.
Alice held up the travesty first "Bella, what do you think of this one." Alice asked
Honestly the color pallet on this dress should be illegal, who in the hell designed this …"Oh my god Alice I love it, it's perfect, does it come with matching shoes." Bella said excitedly.
The look on Alice's face when she said it was perfect was priceless, I thought Alice was going to get physically ill which is impossible. But when Bella asked if their were matching shoes for the monstrosity, it took every thing in me not to bust out laughing. I could see Esme trying to contain herself as well, damn why I didn't bring my video camera I'll never know.
"Rose, what do you think" Alice asked, trying to us me as an out.
"You picked it and Bella loves it grab it." I answered.
Alice looked as if she was going to seriously lose it, but she knew she couldn't' say anything she backed her self into this corner. Alice left the shop with Bella in tow and I grabbed the second dress, she had picked, it was beautiful and I bought it, I could tell Bella really did love the second dress.
We shopped in a few other stores when we decided to go into one of the more trendier stores. Once again Alice came with two outfits, this time however the first outfit was beyond awful it was damn near insulting. I was leather, with a weird webbing, so not much would be left to the imagination.
"Oh my god Alice Emmy will love me in this" she said rushing and grabbing the bizarre top.
Oh my god this is too much, and yes I guarantee Bella Emmy would love you in that, I can only hope there is no more because I don't think I can contain myself much longer.
"Ooh, and we should get one for you for Jasper" She added sweetly
That's it I'm going to get you later for this I think as I bite into my rock hard inner cheek and can taste the venom. Esme doesn't even try she just turns around and walks away no doubt to find somewhere to laugh hysterically at the look Bella just elicited form Alcie's face. Esme turns around and comes right back, I have to give her credit she's holding it together rather well.
"ARE YOU NUTS! THAT IS THE UGLIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN, I WOULD NOT BE CAUGHT DEAD WEARING THAT, AND I WOULD NEVER LET YOU WEAR SOMETHING THAT UGLY!" She ranted
We all lost in and bust out laughing. Bella actually had tears rolling out of her eyes, and if we could produce tears so would we.
Alice obviously figured out what we were up to, she appeared to not only be hurt, but embarrassed as she stalked out of the store.
"I'll go talk to her" Bella said as she followed Alice out of the store.
BPOV:
I followed Alice, as she went out into the courtyard area and sat on the wall of the fountain.
"Alice, I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you angry or embarrass you. When I figured out what you were doing, I just could not understand why in the world you were doing it." I tell her
"Don't you see Bella, I can't see your future. Usually I pick out outfits, that I know will look good on everyone and then my visions will tell me which one's they will like. With you I just figured, I could control the outcome, I'm sorry." Alice says.
"Maybe you not being able to see my future is a good thing" I tell her honestly
"How can you say that?" she asked almost mortified.
"Think about it Alcie, how many friends have you had where you had to do any work at all. Alice I already consider you a close friend, but think about it, with me you are going to have to do what the rest of us do on a daily basis. You are going to have to get to know me, you are going to have to learn my preferences. I think that will make us closer friends, than if you could simply look into my future" I tell her with a smile
"OH, Bella, I never thought of It like that, I think your right." she says back to her bouncy self
"Alright than, next time we go shopping you are simply going to show me, what you think looks great. Besides, out of the outfits you have shown, me other than the awful ones that is, have I given you a hard time?" I ask her
"No you haven't, I promise from now on I'll just ask you?" She says sincerely.
"Ok, guys, we need to be leaving soon. I'm sure Bella could use a little break before we leave so why don't you ladies go finish and I'll sit with Bella" Esme say
Rose and Alice take off and are out of sight. "So Bella, how long have you been in love with Emmy" she says warmly
"umm?" how intelligent am I
Esme giggles at my witty response "Bella, you might be able to full Emmy, maybe even some of the guys, but not the girls and especially not me. I know the look of a woman who is smitten with a man, and yours out shines that, you are full out in love with Emmett."
"Actually yeah, I am. This is going to sound stupid, but I want to tell him, in a way that is special. And I also have to admit, that I'm afraid." I tell her looking down into the fountain.
"Bella, when you are ready you'll tell him. And when you tell him, you will make him the happiest man in existence. Don't fret, you'll know when the time is right. Well here comes Alice and Rose it looks like it's time to go.
We go to the car and Esme pops the truck while we add our last few packages. Rosalie had been bringing our packages out to the car throughout the day, so it was hard to notice how much we bought but looking at this giant trunk filled with our purchases was something to see.
We pulled out of the parking lot, and got on the highway when my pocket started to ring, opened it and said "hello?" not sure who would be calling the cell phone.
"Hey bells it's me, when are you guys coming home already" Emmett huffed
"Actually we decided we are going to stay and shop till the mall closes and then get a hotel room" I said hopefully convincingly.
"What why, nooo" He whined
I then think I hear him whimper "Emmy I'm sorry I was just joking with you we are already on the highway"
"Yeah! and Bells, you are I'm going to get you for that one" he said evily
Oh shit what have I got myself into. The car erupts into laughter most likely because of the look on my face.
"Emmy we will be home in a about an hour, how about I make it up to you" I say hopefully
"Ok, Miss Swan, if you can make it up to me, I'll let it go this time, I'll see you when you get here angel." He says
We hang up and I think oh, shit what the hell am I going to do to make this up to him. Seeing my distress, Rosalie and the girls tell me what would be very nice to do for a vampire, and we hatch a plan.
We pull into the driveway and are approaching the house and I see Emmett practically bouncing on the porch. He come flying down to meet the car, I was a little worried, he wasn't going to wait for the car to stop before he tried to get me out. After the car is stopped he opens the door and yanks me out at vampire speed, thank god I had taken off the seat belt, before the car stopped. He held me up so we were eye level with each other and he gave me another of his trademark kisses. It should be a sin to look as good as he does and kiss like that, if it is a sin, I'm gladly becoming a sinner.
The boys unloaded the car and each of the guys carried their mates packages, as most of the shopping was for me Emmett even, with his size, had to make multiple trips.
We told them all about our shopping adventure, but had already decided, that we did not need to embarrass Alice more than she already was, so we left out that whole ordeal. Edward of course knew, from reading their minds, but kept his mouth shut, my guess is he received a silent warning from Rose.
I got a quick dinner from the kitchen than feigned sleepiness, and as expected Emmett came with me. Rose and Alice had already been in the room and had all the supplies ready.
"What's all this" Emmett asked clearly confused.
"Me making it up to you Emmy, let's get you shirt off" I said
Emmett whipped his shirt off at vampire speed, probably realizing this was going to be something he would enjoy.
"Emmy, lie down on the bed, on your stomach" I instruct
Which he does showing of his perfect muscular back. I grab the hot oil, and straddle him, actually the boy is to big to straddle, I end up sitting on his rock hard ass, no complaint here. I pour some the hot oil on his skin and I hear him draw in a deep breath.
I put down the oil and then start to massage it in. Actually really all I can do is rub the oil in, as I can't really manipulate his flesh. Rubbing the oil over his lower back I then begin to work my way up his spine and to his shoulders. From his shoulders I work my way down his rock solid arms. I've never got appreciate him like this before this was amazing. I continue rubbing oil on him until I feel it start to cool, and I become tired.
I lean forward and whisper into his ear "Emmy, am I forgiven" I ask him
He goes to get up which almost send me flying except he whips around and grabs me and brings his lips down upon mine in the longest kiss yet. "Not only are you forgiven for this time, but the next time as well, and who knows maybe next time I'll need to be forgiven" He said the last part while grinning.
At that moment my traitorous body decides to yawn. "Oh baby, you must be tired. I'm going to go take a shower to get this oil off of me, it might take a while" he says
He then got up to go to the bathroom, for his shower when I see the enormous tent in his pants. Something told me Oil removal was not going to be the cause of the length of his shower. And speaking of length, if that tent was any indication, holly shit, was anything on that man small.
I really wanted to wait up for Emmy, but he was taking entirely to long, and I fell into a deep sleep. I woke up the next morning wrapped in Emmett's huge arms. I gave him a good morning kiss got up and got ready for the day.
I went downstairs for breakfast, and than joined the family in the living room, we were watching television when the door bell rang. Alice went into a vision and started speaking to the family too low for me to hear. Carlisle than brought the guests into the living room
"Hey everyone we have some company" Carlisle stated and in walked three vampires with red eyes and a human girl. Emmet quickly grabbed me from my position on the couch beside him and put me on his lap, he then wrapped his arms around me in what I assumed was a defensive type posture.
A/N
I know where I am going with this story now. Yeah
Anyways, just wanted you all to know, there is going to be some ANGST coming your way.