Chapter 14 - The Intrusion

Edward's POV

"Well hello there! Mind if we join you?" The loud booming voice brought me back to earth. I heard some giggles accompanying the sound. Oh god no!

"Emmett!" Bella and I looked at each other in horror. I could now make out four heads in the distance. They were all here. I pulled Bella in protectively against my chest and had to take a deep breath to steady myself before I did something I would later regret. Bella was mine and I felt the possessive mating side of me telling me to stake my claim.

"You didn't tell us you were going skinny dipping naughty, naughty…." Alice called out giggling.

"How did you know we were going to be here?" I was confused since Bella had involved Leah in her decision and she's supposed to meet us over here later. Alice usually can't see visions involving werewolves.

"Oh! I couldn't see you, but we could smell you. We followed your trail over here. Sneaking away ha?" Alice was annoyed that Bella and I had managed to evade her vision.

"Well we can't let you have all the fun alone little brother." Emmett continued to make his way towards us. Thankfully they were all underwater as well, but I didn't need my mind-reading ability to figure out that they were naked too.

"Please Emmett…we...I just want to be with Bella alone...don't come near." Thankfully Rosalie pulled Emmett back a little, but she also had a wicked smile on her face. They all knew how embarrassing this was for me. None of them had ever seen me naked. Thanks to my mind reading ability I was able to protect my modesty all through the years. And even evade all of Emmett's pranks. Alice had always managed to warn me in advance as soon as he cooked up something. She was the only one who could have managed to breach my defenses which she never did. But right now she was mad with me.

"You never went skinny dipping with us. And now you go alone with Bella. It's unfair." She pouted.

"Alice, how could you?" Bella looked mortified.

"Please Alice take the others and go away." I pleaded with her. I knew she loved me and wouldn't really want to intentionally hurt me.

"But I wanted to play water volleyball" She sulked. It was then that I noticed that Jasper had a ball with him which he was spinning on one finger.

"No not right now. We can play some other day okay?" I tried to pacify the pixie. Emmett wanted to embarrass us, but I read in Alice's mind that she was just looking to play ball. She loved swimming through the water and playing.

"I would have brought you two swim suits if I had known you'd come here." She was really upset now because for once she'd not known where we were until they followed our scent.

"You know I can't play yet Alice. Once I'm changed, I'll be able to and I promise we'll join you then." Bella added. A vision of all of us playing ball flashed across Alice's mind at that moment. Thankfully, we were all clothed in it. Before I could go deeper into it Alice started humming in mandarin.

"Okay sure. We'll see you later. You have one hour more until Charlie stops by the house to check on Bella." Alice dragged Jasper and moved back through the water. "I'm still annoyed with you Edward. You had better make it up to me. I saw this lovely pair of shoes online…"

I decided I'd buy it for her. Alice smiled at me.

"Come on let's go!" She dragged a now confused Jasper and started moving away.

"It would have been so much fun." Emmett looked upset.

"Well you can't have all the fun alone without me." Bella gave Emmett a puppy dog sad look. I knew Bella didn't like sports that much because of her coordination problems, but as a vampire she would be able to do anything she wanted. Emmett's face lit up.

"Okay then after your change we'll play ball and other stuff too. Give me a hi-five." Emmett started moving towards us again. I pulled Bella closer to me. They couldn't see us clearly through the water at the distance they were at, but if they came any closer they'd be able to see us with their vampire vision.

"Emmett! I'll strangle you if you come any closer." And a growl erupted out of me that I just couldn't contain. She was mine…only mine to look and to feel…I wouldn't share her beauty with anyone else.

"Spoiled sport!" He grumbled, but then Rosalie whispered something in his ear and Emmett nodded his head. I didn't bother to read their minds as I was sure Rosalie and Emmett were going to have one of their wild lovemaking sessions again. That's the only thing that would have persuaded Emmett to leave us in peace. Then he grinned at us before waving and going with Rosalie when she pulled him again.

"Bye, have fun, and oh, don't do anything I wouldn't do." I rolled my eyes at him, but then felt Bella trying to hide her laughter in the water which caused the water to bubble up against me.

She picked her head up and looked at me barely able to contain her laughter, "So, I guess that means the world is our oyster and we're completely at liberty to do everything, and then some."

I gasped, surely she didn't think...possibly...nooo...but before I could answer she continued, "I was thinking that maybe we should just go for it in the backseat of your car, then we can christen the hood," oh dear lord, she's killing me, "then again there's always the tree branch up there." She pointed and laughed. I then knew she was teasing me.

"You little minx, you were teasing?"

"Oh come on, tree branch, seriously?"

"Well, I'd put nothing past Em and Rose?"

"True." We both laughed at that and it was funny. Then I thought about what she said about my car, oh! My! God! Well that was a definite possibility in the future.

Bella and I swam a bit more in the water, and then I put Bella on my back and swam at vampire speed.

"Wow Edward, it feels like I'm on a speedboat!" Best speedboat ride ever, since my naked fiancée was wrapped around me.

"Glad you like it love. We'd better get back. Charlie will be back in half an hour to check on you." I swam towards the bank where we had left our clothes. It was then that I noticed that they were gone. I went closer to the shore until the water came up to my waist.

"Bella…"

I heard Bella gasp as she realized what had happened. I sniffed and smelled Emmett. Shit! That must have been why he gave us that grin. What were we going to do? We couldn't run naked to her house or to my house. I cursed. Alice must've seen this; would she come back for us? She was angry, but she still cared for us. Oh shit. There was nothing to do; I would have to run to Bella's place with her naked.

"Emmett stole our clothes. Bella I could try to run very fast. I don't think any humans will be able to see us."

"I'm scared Edward."

"We have to get back before Charlie comes and it's better to go in the moonlight."

"Okay" I reached behind to pull Bella up on my back when I heard the howl from the river bank.

"Leah." I called out.

"How was your evening? Hope everything went well and you didn't get caught. I smelt your siblings."

"We...ah...we..." I was mortified. I knew the wolves had good eyesight, but luckily it didn't seem that Leah could make out that we were naked underwater. I moved back until the water came up to Bella's neck again pulling her with me.

"We went skinny dipping Leah, and Emmett stole our clothes". Bella told the wolf. Leah cursed.

"You crazy blood suckers! It must be cold for Bella. Well I guess you can have my clothes I don't know whether they will fit, but it's better than nothing." She thought at me.

I looked at her in wonder. Was she real?

"Thank you Leah, thank you very much. But, what are you going to wear when you change back?" I heard a wolfy sigh.

"All the guys have already seen me naked anyway, so there's nothing new for them. I could sneak in through my bedroom window." She carefully undid a bundle of clothes from her foot and left it on the stone slab.

"Thank you very much Leah, this means so much to us." Bella smiled in relief.

"Tell her I'll always have her back. You are lucky to have her Edward. Take good care of her. I don't want your siblings to play tricks like this on her. It's not very nice. I know how painful it is not to have any privacy, and all your secrets including your body laid bare out there for anyone to see." She sighed again thinking of how much it had cost her when she became a wolf and how humiliating she felt when she'd at first had no control and burst out of her clothes in front of the guys. I felt really sorry for Leah. She also seemed to trust me a lot to share all that with me, a vampire no less. I think she understood me better now.

"Well, I'd best be away. Just call out to me if you can't fit into the clothes. I'll get Seth to bring over something for you. I won't be far, but I'll give you some privacy to dress."

With that she turned away and ran into the forest.

"Oh, that was so nice of Leah. She was always very good to me back in the day." Bella had a nostalgic look on her face.

"Yes. She told me I was very lucky to have you and to take good care of you. She's not happy with this prank. She's a nice person. I'm sorry about what happened to her."

"Don't worry about the prank because I have a plan to get even."

"A plan? Wow that sounds great, about time someone gives Emmett some of his own medicine." I couldn't wait.

The clothes fit us, but not very well. At least everything important was covered and that's all that mattered. Although, Edward Junior was complaining about being squashed against fabric that was surely going to chafe him. I ignored his pleas, because I didn't want risk taking too long to dress. After quickly putting on Leah's shorts and dressing Bella in her shirt at vampire speed, I realized she looked a bit dizzy as I picked her up and ran towards her house. Halfway through the forest I heard Alice.

She stopped right in front of us. She held a bundle of clothes in her arms.

"Oh, you're already wearing clothes. Where did you get them?" She looked at me in confusion.

"Leah gave them to us."

"Oh I guess that's why I didn't see. Well do you want to change into these? I got Bella's night clothes since it will be faster for her to go to bed. Charlie has already left the station. You'd better hurry."

"Thanks Alice, we'll change at home." Bella took the bundle from Alice and we continued on our way.

I barely made it through the window when the police cruiser pulled up. I quickly dressed Bella and dressed myself then hid in the closet just as I heard Charlie opening Bella's bedroom door. He looked at Bella and sighed thinking how lonely it would be for him once she left. I felt very sorry for Charlie and once again I decided that I will do everything I can to have him in her future life in some capacity. It was the least I could do for him since he was going to give me her hand in marriage.

"Bella, I'll just go and get these clothes back to Leah. Do you have something of yours that we can give her to wear? These are already soiled." I wanted to make sure that Leah doesn't face anymore embarrassing situations because we'd borrowed her clothes.

"Here, give her these. Alice got them for me and they are still brand new. I'll first wash Leah's stuff because giving them back." Bella handed over an expensive looking carrier bag packed with several tops and bottoms. Alice was not going to be that happy with this. But I was glad that we will be able to repay Leah in some way for her kindness to us.

"That's great." I turned to jump out the window.

"Oh and Edward, can you ask her to come with us tomorrow for the cake tasting? I think she's enjoy it and she'd get to eat all of your pieces as well. It will be nice to get a honest second opinion on the taste. Mom is most likely to have a difficult time deciding on anything."

"I'll ask Seth too. There will be plenty of cake to go around. And the wolves will have a field day." I laughed. They all loved to eat. I had a few precious memories of dinner parties and when I tried to remember what I had eaten to my surprise I had some very clear recollections! I couldn't help the wry smile that crossed my face when I recalled that my plate had always been full. Hmm…guess as a teenager I had eaten a lot too. I had the most absurd nostalgic feeling.

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