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It's time for another lovely update on Reality of Our Lives!
And, now it's time for Thanksgiving with the gang – and everyone else! I made it so that all of Bella's friends – the ones she met during high school and during her time through adulthood – will be at the large Thanksgiving party. :D
Well, maybe not everyone – I don't know yet. I just have to wait and see what will happen.
So, I don't have a lot to say here; let's begin with the chapter already!
Chapter Twenty-One (Part ONE)
Bella's POV
(Thanksgiving)
"Bella, my love…" a soothing, velvety and melodious voice whispered into my ear. "Mmm…" I hummed happily, feeling myself smile. "It's time to get up, Bella. It's Thanksgiving day." Edward's voice sounded amused. My eyes snapped open while I groaned in agony.
Planning a huge Thanksgiving dinner party, while having to deal with planning a baby shower and being several months pregnant or so, wasn't something that was all too pleasant. Nearly every day I was so exhausted and tired, yet I kept getting hungry for more new cravings and what not. The oh-so glorious perks of being a pregnant woman; gotta love 'em.
Edward and I got out of our bed, showered and got dressed. Edward wore a grey sweater with dark wash jeans, while I decided to wear a creamy white off-the-shoulder knit sweater with a sheer white shawl over my bare shoulders; I also wore light blue denim shorts and white pom-pom cable legwarmers that came up to my ankles. My makeup was of white eye shadow, black mascara and light pink lip gloss.
We exited our bedroom, with Edward walking behind me while his hands were on my stomach. I giggled while I squealed out in surprise when I was lifted onto Edward's feet. "Honey, I'm going to crush your feet." I whined, pouting. "I have told you time and time again, my love. You weigh nothing and you will not crush any parts of my body with those two babies in your belly." Edward argued, smirking and kissing my cheek sweetly.
"What's all the hub-bub?" a groggy voice asked from our right; I turned to see a sleep-deprived Kitty had been woken up and was stumbling out of the guest room she – along with Marnie, Jodie and Harlie – were sharing. I could see them waking up from behind her, while I saw that Jed had his head poking out from his guest bedroom, with his twin brother behind him.
Kitty and the ol' gang had arrived here in Forks two days earlier. We had a teary and heart filled reunion after we've spent a long five year separation – again. Kitty had told me that she now had a boyfriend who was in the tattoo business, and she loves him to death. He had come along with her to this trip with Harlie's boyfriend, who happened to be Kitty's boyfriend's cousin. Marnie in the end had fallen in love with Griffin, just as I had predicated back in freshman year of high school, while Jodie and Jed were still officially single. However, Kitty's and Harlie's boyfriends had gone off somewhere that required looking for a new tattoo job they could take – why I don't know. I mean, aren't they going back to Arizona? I'll have to ask Kitty and Harlie – the famous rainbow twins as I liked to call them* - about that later on today.
"Oh, nothing, Kitty-Nitty." I told her, as Edward and I waddled by her, me still on top of his feet. "I'll not ask." She mumbled, smirking and scratching her scruffy pink haired head. She then shuffled back into the girls' guest room, closing the door while I heard her shrieking orders for the other girls to get up.
Edward and I laughed from her loud voice. "It's actually nice to have someone else in our house." Edward murmured, smirking still. "It is. Though," I paused, causing him to halt. I turned in his arms and made sure there was no space between us. He moaned while his emerald eyes rolled into the back of his head. "It's also nice to have some privacy every once in awhile." I purred seductively in his ear, before I kissed it and leaned away.
"Bella…" he breathed, opening his eyes and looking extremely frazzled. I giggled and waggled my fingers in his direction before I walked away from him and went downstairs, where I heard Edward following after me. "I wish you wouldn't tease me so badly." Edward grumbled from above me. "But I know you love it." I sang giddily, giggling again.
At around 11 o'clock, Kitty, Harlie, Jodie, Marnie, Jed and Griffin came downstairs to join Edward and me in the living room. Kitty again wore something extremely colorful; a puce, gross looking green top that was half of a halter, but had opened shoulders with little sleeves after her pale shoulders. Along with the top she wore plaid hot pink skinny jeans with some yellow and black strappy high heels. In her now neatly combed, curled jaw length pink hair was a neon greenish colored bow while around her neck was an orange necklace that had "Scene Queen" as the pendant. Her makeup consisted of oddly orange colored eye shadow, with hot pink lips gloss and lime green nail polish painted over her long nails.
That's Kitty for you – always wearing brightly colored clothes where she work them.
Her sister, Harlie, wasn't any different. She wore a hot pink and black striped shoulder type t-shirt with bright orange skinny jeans along with lime green boots/sandals – whatever they may be. She had neon green handcuff earrings, and a white skull necklace that had a little pink bow on it. Her makeup was of neon pink lipstick, bright and shimmery green eye shadow, yellow and black nail polish, and she added neon pink hair extensions to her peroxide blond, blue highlighted hair.
Just like her colorful sister, Harlie can pull off the bright outfit.
Jodie's outfit was less colorful than Harlie's and Kitty's outfits. She wore a grey tube top that had military like straps and buttons on the front of her top, underneath a black "Monster Sleeve" cardigan. She also wore white skinny jeans and grey wool-like fabricated high heels. She had a rhinestone heart shaped brooch that was pinned on her cardigan, while her makeup consisted of shimmery silver eye shadow and vibrant red lip gloss.
Marnie wore an outfit that matched her punk/rocker personality. She had on a black Ed Hardy long sleeved shirt that a lovely design of a panther and some flower petals on the t-shirt. She wore denim skinny jeans with black Ed Hardy high heel shoes/boots – it looked like a mix between both. She also had hot pink lip gloss on her lips and wore spiked earrings. Kitty's talented tattoo artist of a boyfriend had done Marnie's tattoos that she showed to us. On her right shoulder she had a bright, fiery-looking Phoenix bird tattoo while on her left shoulder she had a nice little dove tattoo. And, on her lower back, she had a tattoo that had swirl and flower designs.
Jed and Griffin wore matching red sweaters and black jeans, with some black sneakers. Kitty sat next to me, lifting her knees up to her chest and resting her pink head on top of her knees. Harlie sat down on the carpet by her sister, while Marnie and Griffin shared an armchair together, cuddling together. Jodie and Jed sat down on another arm chair – Jed sat on the armrest.
"So, who else is coming over for the dinner, Bell-Bell?" Kitty asked me. "I think Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Piper, Esme, Carlisle and my mother are coming over. I was going to invite all of my friends from high school, but I knew they would want to spend Thanksgiving dinner with their families." I told her.
"Are your boyfriends coming over for dinner tonight?" Edward asked Kitty and Harlie. "They should be. As soon as they're done looking for that tattoo business they want, they will be over." Harlie explained, smirking. Kitty glared at her for some reason, just as the doorbell rang. I hurriedly got up – struggling slightly – and waddled my way over to the door. "You could've let one of us get the door, Bella." Edward called out, scolding me for getting up when I should be sitting since I am pregnant.
"I don't want to seem like a pregnant woman who needs all the help she can get, Edward. I can do some things on my own." I argued back, rolling my eyes and knowing he probably can't see them. I opened the door and saw that two men were at the door. Both were much taller than me, and both had short and shaggy black hair; they also had matching russet skin and matching dark eyes. The guy on the left wore a deep red sweater underneath a brown parka with dark wash jeans and black combat boots, while the guy on the right wore a black sweater underneath a black parka with black jeans and brown combat boots.
"Um… Hi?" my greeting to the two men sounded like a question. "Hi, our girlfriends told us that this is where they were staying." The guy on the left explained his voice deep. "Oh, are you two the boyfriends of Kitty and Harlie?" I asked them. "Yep." They answered in unison, large smiles plastered on their faces.
I heard two loud squeals behind me before two brightly lit rainbows zoomed past me and collided with the two guys. Kitty went to the guy on the right while Harlie went to the guy on the left. "BumBellina, this is my awesome beau, Seth Clearwater." Kitty introduced me to her boyfriend. "And this is my wonderfully sexy beau, Embry Call*." Harlie introduced me to her boyfriend.
"Hmm…" Seth trailed off; he seemed to be thinking. "What's up, hon?" Kitty asked Seth. "One of my buddies told me he knew a Bella." Seth explained, looking at me with one eyebrow raised. "Who would that be?" I asked him, my eyebrow also rising.
"That may be me, Bells." I gasped and stared at who was at the door now. Long black hair pulled back, deep russet skin, those dark eyes, huge muscles and that boyish, elongated face, I squealed before I waddled hurriedly towards Jacob. "Oh my god, Jacob! I haven't seen you in forever!" I cried, hugging my childhood friend.
"I'm probably missing something here; looks like you've been a bit busy, Bells." Jacob commented teasingly, staring at my baby bump which he was being careful with when he hugged me. "I guess you have." I teased along with him.
"We met our boyfriends through Jacob, Bella. These four were in Phoenix at the time, and we instantly fell in love with Embry and Seth." Harlie explained, pecking Embry's cheek. "Wait, four?" I asked her, my facial expression confused. "Yeah, I should mention something to you, Bells…" Jacob trailed off nervously, scratching his neck with his huge meaty hand.
"Jake honey?" I gasped when I recognized that high pitched voice and slowly backed away. She stepped out from behind Jacob, her bronze, curled hair under a beret while she had on a brown, leathery trench coat over her sweater dress and black leggings with brown boots. "Oh, sorry I left you out there, Nessie." Jacob mumbled sheepishly, pecking her lips.
"E-E-Edward!" I cried out, my voice trembling. Edward immediately rushed in, asking me what was wrong while his voice was panicky. "Bella, what's wrong?" Jacob, Kitty and Harlie asked me in unison, while my breathing was hitching. Edward came up from behind, and I heard him gasp as well. He stepped in front of me, crossing his arms and glaring at Nessie. Jacob noticed this and stepped in front of Nessie too.
"What the hell is going on?" Kitty asked, looking back and forth between Edward and me to Jacob and Nessie, her eyes also showing confusion.
"Wait! I can explain!" Nessie exclaimed from behind Jacob, leaning around him to hold up her hands defensively to Edward and me. "Damn straight there better be an explanation." Edward grumbled. "Can someone please explain to us what the hell is going on?!" Harlie cried out angrily, copying her sister who was looking back and forth between us.
Nessie told Kitty and Harlie all that happened between our friends and us, while Edward wasn't letting up on his murderous glare towards her. "After the wedding, I tried again to break someone in your family up again, but Jacob here realized that I was having problems – mental issues really. He helped me, and got me to see a therapist who made me realize that I should let go of the past and move on. I've changed; I have become a better person. I no longer want to break up two people who are in love, when I'm in love with Jacob. It doesn't seem right. I know that you two probably want to kill me right now, and I'm not looking for a straight-forward acceptance of my apologies to you and your friends and family, but I'm hoping that you can give me another chance, so I can prove to you that I have changed." Nessie explained, looking down at the floor while Jacob had been comforting her by running his hand through her curly hair once her hat was off.
"Well…" I began, causing everyone to look at me. "I'm not fully set on accepting your apology, but I guess I can give you a second chance. I believe that people can change their ways, even when one of them tries to ruin the relationship between two of my best friends." I told her, smirking at the last part. She nodded, a slither of a smile forming on her lips. "You have to prove to us, and our friends and family that you have indeed changed." Edward added. "Though I have no doubt that Alice and Jasper are going to be hard at convincing." He whispered to me, rolling his eyes.
The doorbell rang again. I could see the blurry figures through the glass door that it was the hyperactive pixie herself with her husband by her. "Well, we'll just have see for ourselves." I muttered, getting up again and waddling towards the door, with Edward following right behind me this time.
I opened it up to reveal the bouncing pixie, who was wearing a brown, cozy looking brown tunic sweater that had a black belt around her waist, while she had black skinny jeans underneath with brown boots; a brown cardigan was over her tunic. She had brown, leathery gloves on her hands and she wore brown heart shaped earrings, and on her wrist was a leathery brown watch. Her makeup consisted of brown eye shadow, bright pink lip gloss and black pencil eyeliner. Jasper wore a brown sweater with a black jacket over it, along with black jeans and black dress shoes.
"Hey guys." I greeted them; Alice hugged me while Jasper and Edward did their little "bro hug". I pulled back from my hug with Alice because it felt like her stomach was bumping into mine. I stared down at her stomach and saw that there was a little bump there. "Uh?" I asked her, pointing to her stomach.
"Oh that, um…" she trailed off nervously, while Jasper had begun whistling too casually. Edward was staring between him and his sister, where he also noticed the bump. "Hey, how about we get inside? I'm freezing my ass off out here." Alice suggested offhandedly, laughing shakily. "Jasper!" Rosalie's voice called out from behind them. "Emmett needs help with lifting the table!" Rosalie continued to shout. "I do not!" Emmett's booming voice argued back, but I could hear his grunting, signaling that he indeed needed help.
Jasper chuckled and kissed Alice's lips briefly before he jogged off to go help Emmett. Rosalie came walking up towards the front door, carrying the growing Piper in her arms. Rosalie wore a bright scarlet red coat over her sweater – which I could see from the top of her coat – with dark wash bootcut jeans and had scarlet leather boots on her feet while her hands were covered by matching scarlet red leather gloves. Her makeup was of bright, ruby red lipstick with bloody red nail polish – she told me this – and her eye shadow was of two shades; deep red and mauve like pink.
Piper wore a white, long sleeved shirt underneath a white parka jacket, with denim jeans and white little boots on her feet. Her brown, curly hair was pulled into two cute pigtails, while she snuggled her face into Rosalie's shoulder.
Edward and I greeted Rosalie and Piper, before we let the three move into the house. I could see that Emmett and Jasper were struggling to get a big table out from the Jeep. Suddenly, I heard Alice and Rosalie shriek out; oops. Looks like they saw Nessie is here. Edward and I went into the living room to see that Rosalie was far from Nessie, holding onto Piper tightly while Jodie was holding back Alice from Nessie, snarling out profanities while Rosalie made sure Piper didn't hear any of it.
"Wait, wait, wait! Alice, please I can explain everything to you!" Nessie begged with Alice, clasping her hands together and staring pleadingly at her. "There better be one!" Alice screeched out, still struggling against Jodie's hold on her.
"Coming through!" Edward and I moved out of the way while Jasper and Emmett came walking in, carrying the spare table I asked him to bring. They made their way towards the dining room, just as we heard a thundering loud crash and loud shout of pain. "Emmett!" Jasper's pained cry came out, while I began to hear him yell out a string of profanities like Alice had. Again, Rosalie made sure Piper didn't hear a single word of it.
"Oops, sorry bro." Emmett apologized to Jasper, though I could hear a bit of a chuckle in his voice. Emmett came strolling into the living room – wearing a red sweater with dark jeans and black boots – and went over to Rosalie and Piper. Jasper came hobbling in, wincing each time when he added pressure to his right foot. He glared at Nessie like Alice was still doing, and went over to Alice, placing his arm around her stomach.
Again, the doorbell rang for the third time, while Edward and I went over to answer it. Behind the door were the parents that were joining us for the dinner – Carlisle, Esme and Renee. Esme wore a grey, pleated sweater dress underneath a grey trench coat, along with wearing black jeans and grey peep toe high heels. She wore a silver, shiny bracelet on her wrist, while her makeup consisted of pale pink lipstick and pale blue eye shadow. Carlisle wore a grey sweater underneath a black trench coat, along with black dress pants and black dress shoes. Renee wore a peach-creamy short sleeved shirt that had flowy sleeves, underneath a brown aviator jacket. She also had on suede low boots that matched the color of her shirt along with black trouser pants, and had a golden bracelet on her wrist while she had a large, blue ring on her "ring" finger. (I'll have to remember to ask her about that, too.) Her makeup was of simple black mascara and blossom red lip gloss.
Esme hugged me tightly while Carlisle and Edward shook hands, before I hugged my mother, and we all entered the house again, closing the door behind us. The moved towards the living room; no one has moved from their spots.
"This should be one interesting Thanksgiving." Edward mumbled to me in the awkward silence. I rolled my eyes, but agreed with him on this one.
I'm sure this will be one hell of a Thanksgiving.
Tada! A filler-like chapter! XD
I think this was much of a filler since it basically described all of them wearing their clothes really and just arriving to the mansion. XD
First Star: I may have forgot to mention this, but Harlie and Kitty are indeed twin sisters in this story. They both have at least similar styles of clothing, and both of their hair are awesomely scene – sort of. Kitty's natural hair color was blond, but she dyed it because she wanted to be different from her twin sister.
Second Star: I'm not sure if that's Embry's real last name; I think it may be, but I can't be for sure. I mean, it's been ages since I re-read the Twilight series. I'm too lazy right now to go and look for the book that mentions Embry's last name – well, I don't think there even was a mention of his last name in the first place. XD
So, is anyone wondering if Nessie will be accepted by everyone? We'll just have to wait and see if she is accepted. ;)
Bella's
Alice's
Rosalie's
Piper's
Esme's
Kitty's
Harlie's
Jodie's
Marnie's
And Renee's;
ALL of the girls' outfits – Rosalie's "soon to be mentioned" and Renee's "also soon to be mentioned" engagement rings – are on my website as of now. If you need any visual aid as to what their outfits may look like, go ahead and go look at them!
Please review if you liked this filler chapter at all!
Bye for now,
~*Lady Lily of Darkness*~
NEXT CHAPTER:
"Bombs away!" Emmett's booming voice shouted in the dining room. We stepped out of the kitchen…
Only for me to have mashed potatoes splatter across my face.
Emmett. Is. Going. To. DIE!