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"Not a problem." Renee was on the phone when I came down the stairs. "I'm sure Bella won't mind." She paused. "You'll need to buy paper plates and stuff." Another pause. "No, we should have enough beer in the basement." It sounded to me like Phil decided to have a party. "Just buy what you want. Bella and I will eat anything. I love you." She hung up the phone and finally noticed I was standing next to her. "Oh!" I guess I surprised her. "Bella, I hope you don't mind but Phil invited the team over for the barbecue. He thought it would be fun for you to meet everyone."
"Sounds like fun mom. I'd love to meet Phil's team. Maybe they can teach me something about baseball since the Cullen's love to play." What was I suppose to say to her? No mom, I hate being the center of attention. "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Bella, you're a guest in our house. All you have to do is relax and enjoy the party." At this point she was searching the kitchen to get ready. So far she had taken out the tools for the grill and a large metal tray that looked like it was used to carry stuff from the kitchen to the yard.
"Really mom, I don't mind helping. I feel funny just sitting here and doing nothing while you're getting ready for Phil's team to come over." In all honestly I just didn't want her to find a reason to bring the wedding up again.
"If you really want to help," She looked like she was trying to figure out what I could do. "Would you mind straightening up the living room? Just bring Phil's computer up to the office and put any of the papers in the basket behind the couch." Sounds easy enough. I cleared all of the papers off of the table and laid them neatly in the basket that was behind the couch. He seemed to be combing the sports' section of a bunch of newspapers looking for something. I then unplugged his computer and headed upstairs to the home office in the third bedroom.
I had never actually been in their office before. When I walked in I quickly noticed two things. One they had lots of knickknacks from all the places they've traveled for Phil's baseball games. Two, there were a lot of pictures showing the two of them smiling and holding each other while posing. I was glad to know my mom finally found someone that could make her happy. It gave me a strange feeling of closure knowing that she had Phil when I was gone. I put Phil's computer on the desk and I closed the door behind me as I headed back down the stairs.
"What else can I do mom? The living room is clean." She was still scrambling around the kitchen looking for stuff.
"Well, Phil went over to Sam's Club to buy everything we need. If you want, you can start grabbing chairs from the garage and setting them up in the back. Hopefully we have enough." I started heading towards the garage.
"No problem mom." When I walked into the garage it was easy to see that Renee and Phil never bothered to organize it. Everything was just thrown around. I spent a good ten minutes moving stuff out of my way just searching for any sign of chairs. I finally spotted the chairs and started climbing over boxes to reach them. As I started climbing up a pile of boxes to reach the chairs, I suddenly lost my footing and slipped. As I fell, I landed in a pair of cold arms.
"Geez Bella, can't you survive one week on your own?" I looked up to see Emmett's face grinning back at me.
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