Her Only Hope
Chapter Ten: Emily
It's been two weeks since I've talked to Paul after our argument. At first I thought it was for the best. He clearly doesn't want me around and I don't need his crap about my relationship. So I avoided him like he was a plague but life had a different idea. Now that I didn't want to see him I did…. EVERYWHERE. When I go to the store or when Seth drags me and Billy to Port Angeles for cheeseburgers and milkshakes- he's always there.
I mean come on, what happened to he "only leaves his house for patrol and pack meeting"? What, now that I don't want to see him, he decides that he wants to be a social butterfly? That's not even the worse part. The worst part is that he acts like I don't exist and it pisses me off but I won't let it show. Which just annoyed me more. Why should I care if Paul ignores me? Besides, I was supposed to be ignoring him too but every time he'd walk past me it kind of hurt.
My "I don't give a crap attitude" only lasted a week, then Emily told me told me she didn't think he was eating regularly so started leave food in front of his house when I knew he wasn't there. I still didn't want him to know that I cared so I would leave a note with Emily's name on it. No need to worry about leaving my scent because the rain washes it away I think as I pull into Sam and Emily's driveway. I get out of the car of the car and walk to the door. Just before I knock on the glass sliding door, I see Sam.
"Hi Bella" he says with a slight smile. "Hey Sam". He moves to the side so I can come in. "Emily should be down in a minute." I nod as I take off my jacket. "Thanks again for watching her for me" he says. Now that Emily's due date is about a month away everyone takes turns watching her to make sure she isn't alone when the babies are born and to make sure she doesn't do anything but mostly because Sam is paranoid. "No need to thank me. Besides, I could use some girl time." "Really Sam I don't need a babysitter."
Emily says as she comes down the stairs. "I don't like inconveniencing everyone- Oh hi Bella". "Hi" I say. Sam pulls Emily into his arms and kisses her quickly on the mouth. He lets her go and walks out before turning back and looking at me, "Bella, thanks for dropping off food for Paul every night." My heart drops because here I was thinking I was being clever… "I really appreciate it and so does Paul but of course he will never admit it." He says. I fight back lying because he looks so happy that I can't.
"You're welcome." I say hanging my head in an attempt to hide my blushing cheeks and he leaves. Emily starts laughing as she walks to the living room and I follow her. "You thought you were slick using my name but forgot about the pack mind." "Dammit I knew I forgot something." I say, which only makes Emily laugh harder. I sit down on the couch next to her wait for her to stop laughing. "Sorry, Bella." she says as she finally stops laughing. "Are you going to tell me why you put my name instead of yours?"
"So, what do you want to do today?" I say ignoring her question. She rolls her eyes and sighs. "I don't know maybe we could-" She trails off with a devilish smile on her face. I'm so screwed I think. "I want to go out for a drive" she says innocently. "Sure, we can drive to Joy's store and pick up some ice cream." "I was thinking more along the lines of lunch in Port Angeles" she said like it was no big deal. "Maybe a little sh- are you crazy?" I say cutting her off. "We would never make it off the reservation and not to mention, Sam would be furious with us." "Don't be a such a chicken, Bella." "No. not going to happen." I say shaking my head. "Come on Bella, it would be so much fun outsmarting them."
"We could go have lunch at a restaurant with cloth napkins and go see a movie where thing don't blow up with no overprotective wolves around." She painted a wonderful picture and it is so tempting. I'm tired of action movies and as much as I love Seth he is really overprotective. If he even thought some guy was going to start flirting with me he'd glare at the guy until he left and when I walked he would hover to make sure I wouldn't fall. Then again, that's a good thing because I would definitely fall. "But Sam would be so mad." I say weakly.
"You know Paul's the second fastest in the pack and since Leah's off today, Sam would have to make Paul follow us. He would be so mad and you could get you revenge for him back for being a jerk to you." And just like that she's convinced me to go. "Go get your jacket" I say smugly. "Can we bring Kim" she asks excitedly. "Why not." I shrug. Emily left the room as fast as she could. "I'm probably going to die anyway." I whispered. What did I get myself into? I thought.
Author's Note: I'm so sorry. You probably won't believe me but the only computer in my house broke. When my mom finally got a new one it somehow got a virus and when my mom got it fixed she wouldn't let anyone touch it. Thank God my parents got me my very own laptop for Christmas so if life will permit I should be updating about once or twice a month.