Embry POV

"So, when are we going to start looking for my parents? And Embry's father?" Bella asked like it was the simplest topic ever.

I've wanted this question answered so many times. I want to know who my father is. I'm excited to know. But I've never had the courage to ask or start looking myself.

"First of all, Bella, have you even asked your parents if they are you real parents?" Sam questioned.

"Well, no..."

"You should do that first than." He told her.

"I'll do that soon. First, Embry would you like to take a walk with me?" Bella asked me.

"Uh...um...ye-yeah of course." I sounded like a total idiot.

"Well come on than." She giggled.

I got up from where I sat and followed her outside. We walked into the forest. We didn't talk, just walked in silence. Bella finally stopped and sat on a fallen tree. She patted the spot next to her, indicating for me to sit next to her. Which I did.

"So, Embry." She said putting her elbow on her knee and resting her head on her hand tilting her head to where she was looking at me. "What's your favorite color?"

"Brown." I answered immanently.

"Why?" She inquired.

"Because it's the color of your eyes." I shyly admitted. I wasn't used to this. Talking to a girl. Yet here I was talking to the most beautiful girl on the planet.

She giggled, "Well thank you."

"Your welcome?" It sounded more like a question than a statement. "What's yours?"

She shrugged, "It varies."

"What is it today?" I wondered.

"Blue."

"Why?"

"Blue is the color of many beautiful things. The ocean, the sky, and many more." She explained.

"Yeah. You're right. Um..What's your favorite food?" I questioned.

"I don't really know." She had a strange look on her face.

"Come on. You have to know your favorite food." I said playfully.

"My favorite food is shark." She answered. I felt my jaw drop.

"Shark?" I asked. I was utterly shocked.

"Yes, you'll have to try it sometime."

"Uh, okay." I really didn't want to eat shark. I wasn't even sure if that was legal. I felt my face pinch up into a disgusted look.

Bella busted out laughing.

"What's so funny?" I questioned confusingly.

She didn't answer though. She continued laughing. God how I loved her laugh. It was the most beautiful sound that there ever was and is.

She started gasping for breath and had tearing slipping down her face.

"Bella? Are you okay?" I asked worriedly. She didn't stop so I place my hand on her back.

"Bella? Please calm down. What's wrong?" She just shook her head at me as her breathing started to even back out. She wiped the tears from her face,

"You okay? Why were you crying?" I was quick to question. I was worried about her.

"I was laughing so hard I cried." She assured me.

"What's was that funny?"

"You actually believe me when I said my favorite food was shark." She let out a small giggle and had a brilliant smile on her lovely face.

"Wait, so you mean you were lying?" Well at least that make more sense than her favorite food being shark.

"Oh lying is a strong word. I was simply joking."

"Joking or not it was still mean." I pouted.

She trailed her finger along my lip that was sticking out. It continued to tingle even as she lifted her hand away.

"We should get back. It's getting late." She stood

I looked up and saw the sky through the branches and leaves on the trees. The little bit of sky could see was orange. Ah, it was getting late. When talking to Bella time seemed to vanish. Like a magic trick. On second it was noon the next it was sundown. I calculated in my head and found that we had to have been out here at least three hours. It didn't seem that long at all.

"Are you coming?" Bella called already thirty or so feet away.

I jumped up and ran to catch up with her. I looked at Bella and saw that the glow of the setting suns light made her face look absolutely gorgeous.

"What are you thinking about?" Bella questioned me catching me staring at her.

"If I was to lie I'd say nothing important really. But to tell the truth I was thinking about how gorgeous you are." I replied. Normally, I'd be way to shy to say this to a lady. But with Bella it seemed natural.

She dunked her head blushing, "Hey hey. Don't hide from me." I said as I lifted her chin up with my hand.

We gazed into each others eyes. I leaned my head down until I was inches away from her lips. I stopped to give her a chance to pull away but when she didn't I bent my head down all the way and our lips met. Sparks flew. That's what it really felt like. It felt like our lips were being shocked, but not in a painful way. Our lips moved in sync. This wasn't my first kiss but it was by far the best. My tongue snook out of my mouth and traced her bottom lip begging to be let it. Her mouth opened automatically. We battled for dominance, both trying to gain control. After a while we pulled apart breathing heavy.

"Wow." Was all I could say.

"Agreed," She replied "Come on. Let's get back."

As we started walking again I felt her hand slip into mine. I smiled to myself. We soon made it back. We walked through the doors and everyone stopped talking and their eyes shot to us, none of them missing how we were holding hands.

"Um, I better go. It's late and Charlie's probably worrying." Bella said, gave me a small hug, then walked out the door. We all heard her noisy truck pull away.

Nobody talked for about five minutes and I stood their awkwardly.

"Tell us all about it!" Quil exclaimed.

"Yeah, did you kiss her?" Paul questioned. I looked down embarrassed.

"You did!" Jared exclaimed.

"Bad Embry, you know you're not supposed to kiss a girl on your first date. Much less before you've had your first date." Seth teasingly chided.

"Embry, sit down and tell us what happened this instant." Quil ordered. Sighing, uncomfortably, I sat down. Jacob looked uncomfortable too. I remember when I told him about Bella and I imprinting on each other.

When I got back from racing Bella to the treaty line everyone was still there.

"Dude, what happened?" Asked Quil.

"Nothing, I just brought her to the treaty line and the Doctor Vampire picked her up."I replied.

"How are you going to tell Jake about this?" Sam inquired.

"I'm just going to go in there and tell him." I said marching inside with confidence. When I got to Jake's door my confidence vanished and was replaced with nervousness. I didn't want to hurt him. Or make him at me. I pushed the door to his bedroom open and walked in.

"Hey man. What's up?" Jake said. He was half sitting up in his bed.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing." I lied.

"Embry, I see that look on your face. I know you're lying. You're about as bad at lying as Bella." He laughed.

"About Bella...we uh well sorta imprinted on each other." I nervously scratched the back of my head waiting for his reaction.

"You what! Embry that's not fair! You can't. You know that I love her." Jacob yelled. For once I was glad he was hurt. That way he couldn't hurt me.

"I know Jake but I can't help it. You know imprinting is not something I could control." I tried to reason with him.

He sighed, "Yeah I know. I just wish it was me instead."

"Sorry man."

"Nah, like you said, it wasn't your fault."

"Well I'm gonna go." I said standing up and leaving.

Looking back on it he actually took it a lot better than I thought he would.

"Uh, well we just walked into the forest, sat down on a fallen tree and talked." I answered.

"Come on, give us more detail than that." Paul whined.

"She told me her favorite food was shark." I really didn't want to tell them what happened but I knew they would find out anyway from either me or Bella when we phased.

"Ew, that's disgusting!" Colin exclaimed.

"That's what I thought. Turns out she was joking."

"So how'd you get to kissing?" Asked Quil anxiously.

"Well we were heading back here because we saw that the sun was setting and while I was lost in my thoughts Bella managed to get a few feet in front of me so I ran to catch up. She was standing in a spot where the sunset shone through the trees and illuminated her face beautifully. I was staring and she caught me and asked why. So I told her. Then it just happened." I told looking down embarrassed the whole way.

"Oooooooooooo." The guys chorused. Even Jacob.

Emily joined in the 'Try to embarrass Embry as much as we can' contest as I like to call it.

"Who kissed who?" She asked excitedly.

"I kissed her."

"Was it open mouth?" Looks like Brady entered the contest too.

"Yes." I mumbled.

"" They sang.

"Embry's got a girlfriend!" Colin, Brady and Seth childishly sang.

"Just you wait until you imprint, then we can see who's laughing." I simply replied.

"Alright, nobody has to patrol tonight because we just got done with the Newborns so this one and only night I'm taking the chance and letting you all go home and get a good night's rest. Meet back here tomorrow at lunch." Sam ordered the alpha command in his voice.

As the pack left and went to their various homes and I went to mine I smiled. Life was, in the moment, great.

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