Holy Crow

Epilogue

I bit my bottom lip as I stared into the mirror before me, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I had let Alice dress me up earlier in the night, and now I looked like some sort of doll. I guessed I was pretty, but I felt awkward.

It was Prom, and Emmett had surprised me with two tickets. Surprised, more like mortified. I couldn't believe that I'd forgotten about Prom, I should have known that he'd take me to it.

It had been a few months since the attack, and thankfully Emmett and I were doing just fine. Or more than fine really, we spent every waking moment together. He spent nights at my house, holding me while I slept, and was always there in the morning when I woke up.

He's learned to cook for me, not that he's very good at it, but at least he's trying. It's really sweet actually. He'd made me dinner tonight instead of taking me out, something that had made me extremely happy. I would have probably pitched a fit if he'd taken me to some restaurant dressed like this.

My hands ran over my dark blue dress and I sighed, it was a nice dress, a beautiful dress. I just didn't do it justice.

At least the night was coming to an end, Prom was going to be over in almost no time. I'd already had an unexpected (and awkward) dance with Jacob, where he'd warned me against being with Emmett. Not that the warning meant anything in my mind.

Now that I had Emmett nothing in the world was going to make me leave him again. Nothing.

Emmett had danced with me all night long, he'd had to lift me onto his feet, because honestly I can't dance. But he hadn't cared, and though I wouldn't admit it out loud it was cute. I blushed at the thought of our bodies so close, it was one of the only good things about tonight if I were to be totally honest.

There was a knock on the bathroom door and I pulled myself out of my thoughts. It was apparently time to leave again, I knew that it was Alice out there checking on me. She probably wanted to make sure that I wasn't hiding out, she'd warned me that if I locked myself in she'd come after me.

I couldn't help but smile as I opened the door, reassuring her. At her bright smile I couldn't help but be happier. This wasn't my scene, it really wasn't, but I knew that this meant a lot to Alice. My happiness I mean, and so there was no point in being anything but.

She'd done so much for me, all the Cullen's had, so whatever little thing that I could do to make them happy…Well, it would certainly get done, no matter what.

"I'm ready," I said stepping out of the bathroom totally and following her back out to our table. Emmett was sitting with his jacket off, his sleeves rolled up and his tie hanging loosely around his neck. He looked like some sort of model, sitting with other impossibly handsome people.

They were laughing, probably at something Emmett had just said, and there were practically hundreds of sets of eyes on them. Not one person was used to seeing the Cullen's in such a relaxed mood.

"What's so funny?" Alice chirped as she moved to sit down on Jasper's lap, the man's arms immediately went around her waist and pulled her close. The smile that lit my face mirrored only Alice's at the moment.

"Your face," Emmett quipped before standing up quickly, he dodged a table ornament that had been thrown at his head and then moved to stand behind me.

"Save me, Bella," he said in a mock afraid voice as he crouched a little behind me. His arms snaked around my waist and he rested his chin on my shoulder.

"I don't think that I can, Emmett. I'm sorry," I said in a voice filled with fake remorse. He turned me in his arms and pouted down at me. He didn't even have to speak, I was already giving in. I rolled my eyes in a show of my surrender.

"Alice," I said in a voice too deep to be my own. "If I must fight to protect him, I will," my grave voice ended with a nod of my head confirming my words.

Alice gave a nod of her own in a sort of understanding before she reached the table and grabbed at another one of the plastic flowers that decorated it. My hands lifted in some sort of karate looking motion and my eyes narrowed down at her.

"Bring it on, Tinker Bell," I said as my hand turned palm up and then my fingers curled waving her forward.

She lost it before she could even toss the flower. She leaned against Jasper and laughed her high pitched but soft soprano laugh. The rest of the table seemed to follow her, and soon I couldn't help it either. My "defensive stance" dropped and I leaned my back against Emmett's chest as I laughed.

I looked up at him and smiled, he looked so impossibly beautiful tonight. I wasn't sure what it was, maybe it was the soft lights around us, or the tuxedo. He was just handsome. His bright gold eyes turned down to look into my own eyes, he looked happy. My "protecting" of him seemed to have put him in an even better mood.

His arms moved around my waist and he held me close to him, the moment was small but sweet. I was a little embarrassed at all the eyes on us, so I decided to lighten the mood again, before I did something completely mortifying. I grinned and stuck my tongue out at him before moving in his arms and reaching up quickly to kiss him.

I wasn't quiet tall enough and since he wasn't expecting it, I only caught his jaw, but that was fine with me. With a laugh I moved out of his arms and tugged on his tie.

"Prom does funny things to Bella Swan," I turned and stuck my tongue out at Edward, but he shrugged his shoulders and his arm around Rosalie pulled her closer.

"When's this stupid thing over?" Rosalie asked pretending not to enjoy the fact that almost every guy here at Prom was staring at her. But I knew she did, of course she did, I smiled some to myself as I stood next to Emmett.

"Soon?" I asked turning to look over at Emmett with pleading eyes. I knew I was pouting, this wasn't really my scene, but I'd tolerated it for a while now. I thought that I finally deserved a little break, well a big one, but whatever. I was ready to go back to the Cullen's home.

Emmett rolled his eyes, but I knew that he didn't care. He reached his arms out and pulled me to his hard chest, I didn't resist as it was exactly what I'd wanted. "I can't say no to you when you pout like that," he admitted to me as he leaned closer to me.

I shook my head and frowned a little at him, "I know I must have looked terrible just now," my hands on his chest moved into his black vest seeking the cold the motion offered. I was burning up for some reason. It wasn't that hot out, but I guessed it had a little something to do with my embarrassment.

Emmett shook his own head slowly as he looked down at me, "You're so back ass-wards," he said with a grin before reaching down and kissing the top of my head.

"What?" I asked with clear confusion on my face. Back ass-words? What in the world was that? The grin on his face now was clearly amused, he was picking on me. I stuck my tongue out at him for the second time tonight and his grin only seemed to widen.

"If you're not careful I'm gonna catch that tongue," my eyes went even wider as his lips moved quickly into and out of a kissing motion. My hand moved to slap his chest indignantly, though it wasn't a hard hit, and of course it only ended up hurting me. I mentally cursed and settled for glaring at him once again.

"Pervert," I mumbled under my breath though it was clear that he and all his siblings heard me by their laughing.

"Ah, so the real Emmett finally emerges," I heard Jasper say, but I ignored him in favor of staring up at Emmett. I was a little embarrassed at what he'd said but mostly my anger was just an excuse to continue looking up at his beautiful face. Ugh, that sounded dumb, but it was the truth, however pathetic it made me sound.

"But you love me regardless," it wasn't posed as a question, it was mostly just a statement of fact. I knew that, he knew that, and the others around us did. There was no way on earth that some slightly perverted comment would sway me in my opinion of my Emmett. There was nothing in me but love for him, however dumb it sounded.

"You changed the subject you know," I said with that same pout back on my face. If he for whatever reason he liked it then I might as well take full advantage of it.

"Huh?" a slightly confused look came over him and I swear that all my insides flipped around like crazy in me. He was absolutely adorable- a word that if he heard me use to describe him, would make him pout. He surely didn't think of himself as adorable, and he didn't want others to either. Too late.

"Back ass-wards?" that same grin came back and I rolled my eyes, it only made his grin stretch further.

"Ever heard of 'ass backwards'? It just sounds funner my way," he raised his eyebrows at me before letting them drop and biting his entire bottom lip through his wide smile.

"Funner isnot a word," I said as I lifted a finger to poke him in the chest. He simply shrugged his shoulders at me, with a smile. He looked suddenly like he was thinking of something to say, and I let him be. I was sure that this was going to be good.

"You're back ass-wards because every single face you make is amazing. You're beautiful, adorable, cute, sexy, innocent and at the same time, not. You drive me absolutely mad, Isabella Swan," his deep voice was clearly heard over the distant music, and his words made me almost weak in the knees.

I knew it was cheesy to say, but what he'd said was unexpectedly beautiful. And yet very Emmett. He said almost everything that went through his mind. He didn't really have an internal filter for his thoughts, and even if he did have one he'd never turn it on. It was extremely sweet in times like this, and apparently I wasn't the only one who thought so.

"Oh, now that's precious," Alice "whispered" to Rosalie, who only made a gagging noise in the back of her throat.

I didn't know what to say back to him though, there weren't really words that could describe how I felt. And I knew that anything I did try and say would come out jumbled and stuttered. And possibly extremely cheesy.

So instead of replying to him with words, I decided to kiss him. I stood on the tips of my toes, and my hands on his chest fisted lightly in his shirt. I pulled him down towards me, or at least made him aware of the fact that I wanted him closer. When he was close enough to me I smiled, closed my eyes and leaned forward so that our lips could finally touch.

Suddenly there wasn't an entire student body surrounding us, no siblings or DJ's. There was no music, or patio, or building full of chaperons. There was just me and Emmett. And that was all that mattered.

EBEB

A/N: It was short, but that's what Epi's are all about in my book. Haha I have decided that I will do a sequel. I'm not sure how long it will be, but I will write it. I'm really busy this week and next week in school, but I will start writing it I think. I'll keep you guys with updates on my profile. So watch out for em! Love to all! And thank you so much for sticking with me. I wrote this story for me, but I'm writing the sequel just for all of you who stuck with me. You deserve it. LOVE YOU ALL!

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-Marry