Again waaaay too long… sorry :D But it was Christmas and Sylvester so that's an excuse :P Thanks for reviews and alerts and favorites and this time no needless babbling (:

P.S: Alright a little needless babbling: ladyMiraulousNight Happy New Year yay :D and now that I think about it, they totally are like turtles :D Love turtles go :D

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Chapter 14:

The next morning Marlene woke up to feel very hot, in the way of sweating and wanting to jump into a bathtub full of ice and not in the way how Vanessa feels when she walks around school with her too short skirts.

When she turned her head she could see the reason for her sauna of a bed; Paul. And as she watched him snore she thought about the previous evening and tried to blush out of embarrassing, it didn't really work since her face already was flushed due to the temperature.

Damn what's wrong with him? Does he run a fever or something?

As Marlene was occupied with finding reasons for Paul's too high body temperature he slowly began to wake up.

Paul POV:

Paul woke up to feel that his feet for once didn't dangle out of his bed and frowned in confusion. The next thing he noticed that it certainly didn't smell like his room smelled. His house seriously didn't smell like flowers and girl perfume.

After a few seconds of wondering he finally had the genius idea to just open his eyes and see where he actually was.

When he followed this plan he saw a room that was vaguely familiar to his still hazy mind and when he turned his head he understood why all of this seemed so familiar.

There next to him was Marlene and he relaxed now knowing where he was and who was cuddling in his side, only to nearly jump out of the bed a second later realizing that he was lying in his Imprint's bed.

What the…?

"Uh Paul?" Marlene was looking confused "Everything ok?" He lay back down and remembered that Marlene had called him yesterday and then asked him to stay because she was scared. As he watched her he guessed that she was recalling the night too as she looked embarrassed.

Paul pulled her back into his arms barely suppressing a content sigh because of feeling her so near and started to run his fingers slightly through her hair. She on the other side couldn't keep a little sigh in, making his mouth turn into a cocky smile.

"Good morning" Marlene said after a few moments of just lying there in silence. Looking up in his face a little more relaxed and seemingly she got over her embarrassment and was able to enjoy just being together with him.

"Good morning" He smiled back down at her "Can you answer me a question?" After she nodded he continued: "Why did you call me last night and not Seth or Kim or anyone else?"

Now she flushed again: "I honestly don't know… You were just the first person I thought about at that moment." He tried to hide his excitement at this sign that she trusted him so much and felt save with him but couldn't keep the huge grin of his face.

She chuckled a bit at his expression.

Marlene POV:

After they had had breakfast they drove together to Emily's where everyone decided to have lunch together the day before.

When they entered the house everyone turned towards them and most eyebrows hit the ceiling when they saw Paul's hand on Marlene's back and her blushing face. The last weeks both of them had drove the rest crazy with their obviously crush-(or on Paul's side big-love-of-his-live-) behavior and their not noticing of the other ones feelings.

It seemed that everyone they knew was holding their breath when they stood there until Paul took his hand away and they split to tell everyone hello. Collectively they let their breath out and rolled their eyes.

"Man they're annoying. Can't Paul finally grow a pair and tell her what he feels. She has crush written on her forehead!" Embry muttered to Quil who was sitting next to him playing with Claire.

"I totally agree, man. I mean he kissed her when she hated him, now she likes him and he doesn't kiss her. Where's the sense in that?" He muttered back, loud enough for the wolves around them to hear, earning him a death glare from Paul and a few snickers from Jacob and Jared.

It didn't get better the next few days, only Marlene grew more and more frustrated with Paul giving her the impression that he liked her back and the next moment stepping away or changing the subject.

It changed on Marlene's birthday the next Saturday.

She woke up in the morning feeling extremely tired and extremely giddy because she loved her birthday. Not only because of the presents but mostly because everyone thought about her on that day and she had all the people she liked around her.

She jumped out of bed (instead of falling as she did usually) and skipped down to the kitchen grinning like an idiot the whole way, only to find her parents gone and a piece of paper telling her 'Happy birthday' and that they'd be back sometime. Her face fell, normally she had a big breakfast with her parents and they'd give her her presents and spent most of the day with her too.

Yay great

She decided to have ice cream in front of her TV and wait if at least her friends decided to call her. After almost an hour she got SMS from her friends in Germany, a call from her Grandmother and some guy who asked when they should come by to repair their shower and some guy at the door wanted to sell her a garden goblin.

No sign of any of her new friends and her mood disappeared somewhere in her cellar. At noon at least Alice and Emmett had called and squealed her ear of, telling her that they didn't have time but they'd pick her up tomorrow and take her shopping and everything else she wanted to do.

At least they think about me Marlene thought after they finished talking and took another piece of chocolate.

The hours crept by and as she finally had enough and decided to just call her friends because she really didn't want to spend her whole birthday alone nobody picked up and some even had their phones turned off.

When she was about to just go to sleep at 3 o'clock in the afternoon someone rang her doorbell. She was about to scream in their face to go away (she thought it was another guy who wanted to sell her something) when she saw that it was Seth grinning like an idiot.

"What?" She snapped at him, clearly pissed because he too hadn't tried to get in touch with her. His smile didn't falter and he just walked into her living room, plopped down on her couch and told her to go showering and wear something nice.

"You've got to be kidding me Seth, you guys totally forgot my birthday, not even my parents spent the day with me and I sat all day in front of the television eating chocolate and you think you can just walk into my house and tell me to go showering?" She nearly shouted at him but he didn't answer and just continued to grin at her so she groaned and stormed up the stairs to take a shower and get dressed.

When she came back down, still scowling at him he slung his arm around her shoulder and led her out of her house towards his car.

"So tell me Marlene, how was your day?" She shook his arm off her and growled: "I just shouted it into your face dumbass." Seth only chuckled "Where are we going anyway?"

"Surprise" he only told her again wearing this grin that tried to eat his face. Marlene sat in silence the whole way she was suspecting that maybe they did the whole "Surprise-party-thing" but really didn't want to get her hopes up in case Seth just wanted to show her his new Play station game or something.

At last they arrived at Emily's house and Seth opened his door and sprinted into the house, letting her stand there pissed like hell.

"Ugh idiot what am I doing here anyway…" She kept muttering under her breath while walking towards the house.

When she opened the door Quil, Embry and Seth nearly jumped into her face screaming "Happy Birthday" while everyone else decided to stand spread about the place, which was decorated with balloons and many colorful things that she couldn't quite identify.

Marlene looked around the room, seeing almost every face she knew at LaPush, including her parents, Paul, Billy and really everyone she ever met after her move.

"You guys are idiots." She told them but couldn't keep a smile of her face as she hugged the nearest person which was (completely random) Paul. "But thank you" she told everyone in the room with a few tears in her eyes making the women "aw" and the guys look away a bit awkward.

Shortly after she was pulled into the room and everyone started to talk at the same time about how sorry they were that they let her wait and started stuffing food into her hands and hugging her.

After only a few moments she forgot about her start of the day and was touched by their efforts for this party.

A few hours later they decided it was time for her to get her presents making her bounce on her seat on the couch. Paul grinned at her and walked out of the room, to get her present. A few seconds later they heard something sounding like a hiss and then Paul cursing, making everyone laugh but Marlene who didn't understand what was going on.

She did however understand when Paul came back into the room with a box made for pets. Her eyes grew the size of plates when he opened the box and took out a tiny black kitten.

Marlene stared a few seconds before squealing loud enough to make a few of them unable to hear for a moment and nearly tripped over the table while trying to get as fast as she could to Paul.

"Aw you got me a kitten!" She squealed again talking the small cat out of his hands and cuddling it to her chest. "Hey little honey what's your name?"

Now some of the guys wanted to get their opinions in: "He's a guy he needs something manly like… Giovanni or Bruce." Embry put in. "Nah something that matches his fur: Blacky or Ebony" Seth said but Embry looked at him like an idiot: "Ebony sounds SO like a girl's name!"

They continued bickering while Marlene was occupied with petting her little kitten and thinking hard about a name.

"Hugo" She suddenly announced smiling brightly making Embry, Quil and Collin, who had joined in a few minutes ago pout. "May I introduce you to Hugo the cutest kitten in the world" She held Hugo over her head, he was still purring from her earlier petting.

"I don't get how he loves you but bites me all the time" Paul exclaimed looking hurt. Marlene turned around looking at him "That's because I'm way cooler than you" then she handed Hugo to Kim and jumped into Paul's arms. "You bought me a kitten" she shouted again kissing his cheek again and again.

The room held its breath, everyone had their eyes fixed on them the same nearly jumping out of their heads as Marlene turned her head so that their faces were only inches apart with her still held up in Pauls arms.

But instead of finally kissing her Paul just looked away quickly and set her down making several people hit their foreheads or roll their eyes, especially when Paul didn't even recognize the frustrated expression Marlene wore.

The evening continued with the love turtles (AN: ahahah favorite word for today) sitting side by side awkwardly and Marlene unwrapping the rest of her presents.

After the tenth time Paul and Marlene's eyes met and he looked away she walked couldn't take it anymore, it had been so close but he always destroyed their moments.

"Ugh"

As soon as she left the room Paul was hit by several people around him, Emily and Jared even stood and walked over to hit him on the back of his head.
"Paul you seriously have to open your eyes!" Emily told him and dragged him towards the kitchen door where Marlene had disappeared.

Paul found her standing with her back turned and slowly walked towards her. When she noticed him she turned around looking really angry.

"You don't get it do you? I feel like the biggest idiot and you just don't get it. What…" She was cut off; he had covered her mouth with his pulling her body against his. For a second she thought about what a déjà-vu that moment was but forgot about it and concentrated on the feel of his lips moving and his body crushed against hers.

She lifted her hands trying to get him even closer and tugged his head down by his hair making him grin against her lips which made her giggle slightly when they parted and gazed into each other's eyes slightly breathless.

"Do I really have to scream bloody hell every time to make you kiss me?" She asked him making him rub his neck sheepishly.

Yieey they kissed finally (: Paul's such an idiot but I love him :D Next chapter you see the reactions of the pack haha I think that's going to be fun :D I'll try to update sooner this time… siriusly and on that note I'm going to write on my Harry Potter story now :D Wooo I'm motivated (too much coke) :D

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