Chapter Twenty-One
This Is All We've Known Until Now
"I honestly feel horrible about the way I left things," I complained to Embry.
"Well, he did kind of call you a slut," Embry replied.
"Yeah," I sighed. "But, in all fairness, he does have a right to be upset."
"Tay, you know I can't tell you what to do," Embry said. "But if you feel this bad about the whole thing, go apologize to the guy."
"And if he doesn't listen to me?"
"Well, then, at least you can say you tried," he answered.
"Hey Rosalie, is Emmett around?" I asked, meeting Rosalie and Jeremiah in the Cullen's front hall.
Rosalie silently pointed to the living room, and shot me a small smile before heading upstairs with her husband.
"I'm surprised to see you here again."
I turned and saw Emmett leaning up against the doorway of the living room.
"Yeah," I smiled, nervously. "But I ah, I wanted apologize."
"What?" Emmett asked, taken aback.
"I'm sorry Emmett," I replied. "I'm sorry for not telling you about this baby right away. And about Nate, and everything that happened with him. It was just, I lost you," I said, honestly looking into his smouldering eyes. "I lost you, and I was a mess. And Nate helped me get back to who I was. But," I stressed, stepping closer to Emmett. "That didn't mean I still didn't love you."
Emmett took my hand, and pulled me even closer to him.
"I thought you were gone," I whispered, simply. "And as much as it killed me, I realized that I couldn't, and wasn't going to wait for you forever. I didn't have that long."
"I think I finally understand that now," Emmett sighed, resting his forehead against mine. "And I'm sorry, Tay. For everything I said about you. I never meant a word, I was just, upset, I guess."
I smiled and kissed Emmett gently.
Knock, knock, knock.
Emmett and I broke apart at the knock at the door.
"Hold that thought," Emmett smiled.
He quickly smoothed out his hair, and quickly made his way over to the front door, and opened it to reveal a young woman.
She was a little taller then myself [But let's be serious, that doesn't really take much] and she had long curly blonde hair that hung down her back, with big gold eyes that sparkled and lit up the moment she saw Emmett.
It was obvious to tell that she was a vampire.
"Surprise!" she squealed in a unnaturally, yet still enticing, high pitched voice.
Emmett stared at her for a moment, almost as if he was unsure of how to greet her, and her smile faltered for a moment.
"Emmie?" she cooed. "Don't you remember me?"
When Emmie remained silent, she took a step closer to him.
"Well well, Emmett Cullen," she smirked. "After those three amazing weeks in Rome, there's no way you could have possibly forgotten me."
Wait a second.
Three weeks?!
I'm so lost.
"Kristynn?" Emmett managed to whisper.
"I knew you remembered me, hun," Kristynn murmured, moving quite close to Emmett, slipping an arm around his neck and pressing her lips onto his.
As I watched this blonde chick stick her tongue down my boyfriend's throat, I huffed, causing to Emmett to remember my presence.
He pulled away from Kristynn. "What are you doing here, Kristynn?"
"Well, I came to visit you silly," she smiled. "Don't you remember asking me to visit you?"
"Of . . course," Emmett lied. "But see, here's the thing . . ."
"Oh, hello," Kristynn smiled, finally seeing me.
"Hi," I smirked.
"Kristynn," she replied, holding out her hand.
"Taylor."
She seemed to sense an awkwardness between us because she turned to Emmett, who cut in with, "Kristynn, uh, this is Taylor, my girlfriend."
"Taylor," she said slowly. "Huh."
"You said it," I glared.
Kristynn.