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Chapter 21: Problems.

Gabriella's POV

Things had somehow managed to heal up between me and Embry. After that night we had a talk about our feelings and problems, we somehow just buried the hatchet. I was thankful that was one less problem on my list. But as you already know, I don't exactly have the best luck in the world. Because once that problem was gone, another came along. You know Ethan? The guy that hurt me but now we're back to being friends etc. etc. Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news may not be Jasmine getting hit by a bus good but good. Ethan hit it off with almost everybody at Emily's house. You see ALMOST. Because Ethan and Embry... not so much.

Here's the story. When me and Embry went back inside after our talk, I sat down next to him and thought it would be nice to catch up. But apparently, Ethan didn't think like that. Because he kept glaring at Embry and never took his eyes off me. I'm guessing everybody noticed because they all left one by one until it was just the three of us. When it was silent, Embry then decided that he would tell me a joke. Well, one of those lame jokes that I used to tell him.

*Flashback*

I was sitting there, nervous and uncomfortable in the situation I was in when Embry leaned in close to my ear.

"Knock, knock." He whispered gently.

I looked over at him and he had a mischievous smile on his face.

"Who's there?" I asked back.

"Embry."

"Embry who?"

"Embry Call. Bad dumdum shh" he whispered, chuckling gently.

I laughed along and remembered that that was one of the jokes I had told him a long time ago. Well not that long, but still.

And the whole time me and him were laughing, Ethan stared at us with a look I didn't really get. He suddenly stood up and sat between me and Embry. Yup, right in between us. You can guess how pissed Embry got when he did this. They glared at each other and I just stared at both of them, shocked.

"Uh, Ethan... what are you doing?" I asked, awkwardly.

"Well, I'm just here to sit beside you; my best friend. Nothing wrong with that right?" he replied, throwing his arm around my shoulder.

"Well, yeah but you can't just sit between me and Embry like that."

"And why not?"

"Because it's rude and you've been giving Embry dirty looks all night." I replied, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Well..." he trailed off, not finishing his sentence before going back to glaring at Embry who was doing the same."

*End flashback*

You see! I tried the next day to get them to at least be civil to each other but to no avail. I was going to need a miracle. Thankfully, Christmas was approaching; maybe I could get a Christmas miracle to happen.

But I really needed to get my Christmas shopping done. Oh great, just another problem to add to my list. I really needed to get luckier nowadays. I wonder if we were going to spend Christmas in La Push or LA. To be honest, I didn't know if I could choose which place I would pick if I was given a choice.

I lay in bed, fidgeting. I couldn't get to sleep and it was only half six in the morning; way too early to be up on a Saturday if you ask me. I would have to get used to the time zone here in La Push again, I mean, I was starting school on Monday again anyway. I wouldn't exactly be new but not that familiar to anyone either. Hopefully Toby still remembers me. I'm just praying that Jasmine switched classes while I was away; but I doubt it.

After finally giving up on getting some more sleep, I sat up in bed and stared at my surroundings. My room here in La Push was so much different than the room I was staying in LA. For instance, in LA my room was filled with all my hair and beauty products. But here in La Push my half of the room looked bare and was just decorated with some photos and my phone was the only thing on top of my bedside table.

I decided not to bother getting changed and went downstairs wearing my blue monkey pyjamas and a loose t-shirt with the letters 'SWAG' on it. I walked into the living room to find Ethan sprawled out onto our small sofa and sleeping peacefully... for now. I walked up to him and shook him violently in order to wake him up. He opened his eyes lazily at me and stared at me in confusion.

"What?" he asked his voice thick with sleep.

"Wake up! It's too late to be sleeping in."

He spun around and looked at the clock, "It's only seven in the morning!" he protested. "Go back to sleep." He grumbled, pulling a pillow to cover his face.

I glared down at him. I continued to glare at him until he looked up from the pillow. I finally managed to convince him to wake up and he groaned something unintelligible. Typical boy. He went upstairs to use the bathroom and I went to the kitchen to get a bowl of cereal and an apple. I didn't know that Ethan had snuck behind me until he shouted boo and made me drop the apple I was holding. Thankfully I had a good grip on the cereal bowl and only managed to spill a little bit on the floor.

I glared at him. "What was that for?"

He held his hands up in surrender, "Hey, you do it to me all the time."

"Yeah, but not when you're holding food!" I yelled furiously.

"What's the entire racket about? It's too early in the morning to be arguing." My mom scolded entering the kitchen.

"It's Ethan's fault! He snuck up behind me while I was holding a bowl of cereal and an apple." I said.

She rolled her eyes at me, "You do it to everyone all the time Gabriella, stop whining."

"You see." Ethan chimed in, with a smirk on his face.

"You better shut your face before I make you." I threatened.

"Stop it! Now help me cook breakfast for the family." She said, stopping us from any more arguments.

I groaned. "Oh no! I think my ankle is sprained. I should go back to bed." I exclaimed, limping for effect.

"Uh huh. Stop it; we all know you're pretending. Now start chopping those tomatoes." My mom instructed.

I sighed, defeated, "Fine."

The next hour was spent chopping tomatoes, frying sausages, bacon, potato bread and eggs, toasting soda bread and making either coffee or hot chocolate. After, I got out all the plates and cups and set the table. I then took the food and laid them out neatly onto the table. At around half eight, everybody started to come down.

Josh barged in and started to sniff the air. "Mmm, there are sausages for breakfast."

"More importantly, is there any bacon?" Danny asked.

"No forget that! There's potato bread right?" Asia piped in.

"Yes, yes and yes. Now get everyone else or nobody's eating." I warned. I laughed when they all ran upstairs and I heard them yelling at everyone to wake up because they were all hungry.

"They're like pigs." I commented.

"Just like you." Ethan added.

I faked a gasp at him, "How dare you! You're heavier than me!"

"I'm a boy, I'm meant to be. And you know that I was only messing about with you." He replied.

"Still!"

"What are you guys arguing about now?" Andrew asked annoyed, sauntering into the room.

"He just called me a pig!" I yelled.

"Aren't you?" he said, smirking.

I gasped, "At least I'm not a dork like you."

"There's nothing wrong with being smart!" he said, narrowing his eyebrows at me.

"Cut it out and get seated at the table." Dad instructed, coming into the room holding a very sleepy Jasper in his arms.

"But they're all calling me pigs! Meanies." I said sticking my tongue out at them.

"Whatever. There's bacon for breakfast and I want to get my hands on them before Danny hogs it all."

"Hey! Irish is most likely to be eating more than me!" Danny said.

"Yep that's true!" Irish said, running to the table.

"Hey wait up!" Danny yelled, running after her and spinning her around in the air despite her protests for him to put her down.

I smiled. I didn't realize how much I had missed my family until now. Maybe it was a good thing that I came back here.

Everyone else arrived and we all walked to the table, where Danny and Irish were already stacking up the bacon on their plates.

I looked at Andrew who was busy taking some sausages and potato bread, "And I'm the pig?"

He rolled his eyes at me, "Fine, maybe I am too."

We all laughed. Breakfast was spent laughing and catching up with each other about what I had missed. I felt a bit saddened when I heard everyone describe their lives without me. But it was nice to know that they were all happy.

I was sitting beside Jilliane and I took the time to ask her a question, "So how's it going with that guy you met a few months ago."

I got my answer when she smiled brightly at me and held up a bracelet with a heart that said CG loves JR.

After I was finished watching my family eating their fried breakfast while I was eating cereal, my dad left for work in Port Angeles. He was currently working as a solicitor for a family whose grandmother had died unexpectedly and the two brothers were fighting over her fortunes. I wasn't really listening when dad explained the whole thing to me so that was the only thing I knew. It did sound complicated though.

My mom suggested me taking Ethan to First Beach and when his eyes brightened, I asked Asia and Josh to come along. I already knew that he had a thing for me but I wasn't really ready for another relationship right now. I was still patching things up with Embry and I didn't want a relationship to get in the way of that.

I got changed casually into denim shorts, white vest with a loose pink sweater over it and some gladiator sandals. I brushed my teeth and grabbed my sunglasses before the four of us started the short walk to First Beach.

When we all got there, there were a few people on the beach, but not too many that they would disturb us. We all sat down on the sand and sat there looking at each other awkwardly. Time for my jokes to kick in.

"So, what did the chicken say to the owl?" I asked

"I dunno." They all replied.

"Nothing, because chickens can't speak." I answered before bursting out laughing. They all watched me laughing before joining in.

"I don't even know why I'm laughing, that wasn't funny." Asia said, recovering from her laughter.

"Oh please, you know I'm hilarious." I teased.

We suddenly heard other people laughing and we all turned our heads in the direction of the sound. They looked little because they were so far away but when one of the girls started waving, I instantly knew who they were.

"Come on," I said getting up, "They're all over there."

We all walked over and was met halfway with a very happy Kim.

"Hey there." I said, as she threw her arms around me. "Jared, what did you feed her?"

"Nothing! She ate a chocolate bar and drank two cans of coke since we got here."

"Well, that's hardly nothing!" I commented and pried Kim's arms off me. 2No more sugar for you for the rest of the day."

She pouted her lips before skipping off into Jared's open arms.

I noticed Embry standing in the crowd staring at me, so I offered him a smile which he happily returned.

Everybody split up; Paul, Jared, Sam, Josh, Ethan, Quil and Jacob tossed a football around, Emily, Asia, Kim and Rachel sat on the blanket laid on the ground along with Claire who was playing with a Barbie doll. Claire was unbelievably cute; she had already won me over after just three days here in La Push. She always asked me to play with her and her Barbie dolls and I took her out for ice-cream when I was over at Emily's house. All the boys played football... except for Embry.

"Hey." I said walking up to him and giving him a hug.

"Hey Gab." He said, wrapping his own arms around me and pressing his lips to my forehead. I suddenly felt too close to him and pulled away. I looked at his face and he had a confused expression.

"Let's go and eat." I said, grabbing his hand and skipping to where the girls where.

We both sat down on the blanket and everyone exchanged glances and smirks. I then noticed that I was still holding Embry's hand and quickly let it go. He looked hurt but I just gave him a small smile.

Seth walked up and sat down beside me. I suddenly felt uncomfortable.

"Hey." He said quietly at me.

"Hey." I said, glancing at him. He looked somewhat mature; his young boyish looks were gone. But he had a pained expression on his face.

"So do you know when Alex is coming back?" he asked.

I looked at him shocked, "No." I answered before turning my face away and looked at Embry who had a sympathetic smile on his face.

"Are you okay?" he whispered into my ear.

I nodded my head. I don't think I could speak right now. So I was right, he did like Alex.

I tried to push the thought out of my head and thankfully Ethan came just at that moment.

"Gab, you wanna go in the water?" he asked.

"Uh no! It's freezing, are you insane?" I asked.

"No it's not! You're just overreacting."

"Ugh, fine." I said, standing up and glancing at Embry who was staring daggers at Ethan. I'm pretty sure that if looks could kill, Ethan would have dropped dead by now.

I followed Ethan into the water and he put his arms around my waist and threw me in the water. I swallowed a big gulpful and stood up. I coughed and coughed until all the water was gone. Embry was suddenly next to me and was looking at me concerned.

"Are you okay?" he asked worried.

"Yeah I'm fine." I choked out.

"Come on, let's get you dried up. That's enough being in the water for now." He said, and took me back to shore.

"Sorry Gab." Ethan called after me.

"It's ok." I said quietly.

I was kind of shocked at Embry's actions. I mean, I didn't really drown, I just swallowed loads of water but I would've lived. I wish he would stop treating me like I was only five years old; I could take care of myself at eighteen. But why did he care so much about me? Ethan would have taken care of me no problem.

I noticed that Leah was in the crowd when we arrived. I smiled at her. I was okay with her again after she helped me that day I saw Embry and Jasmine kissing.

"Hey."

She smiled back, "Hey Gab. Long time no see."

"Yeah, just back from LA a couple of days ago."

"Gab!" Ethan said from behind.

"What?"

"I'm sorry." He apologized.

"It's ok. I survived." I said, rolling my eyes at him.

Leah looked behind me at who I was talking to and Ethan stared back at her. Suddenly she gasped and looked at Ethan with wide eyes. Oh no, not again. Would this be just like Seth and Alex all over again? Guess I would find out soon enough.

Well that's it! This is dedicated for all my reviewers; I would just like to say thank you again. Sorry it took me ages to update, school's been in the way but it's nearly Easter break so hopefully I'll update more often. Remember to review! Thanks Xx