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Bella POV

"So," I said, getting into the truck, "that was, um, interesting."

"What is with this place!" Mac seemed to explode. "Everything was OK. I was new here, but it wasn't so bad. Then all of a sudden I find out that my great-uncle who disappeared years ago, is not only living here, but he's a vampire. Then, as if that isn't hard enough to swallow, I find out that Leah, who I actually enjoyed talking to, is a werewolf! And that she imprinted on me! What kind of creepy crap is that?"

"That's kinda how I felt when I found out that the Cullen's had moved here because Alice saw me and Emmett together. Kinda like you have no say in your own life."

"Exactly! I mean, so now am I just supposed to go back and marry her?"

"No. See, Emmett told me that even though Alice had that vision, it was still my choice. I think that Leah will tell you that too. You may be the perfect person for her, her other-half, soul-mate, whatever you want to call it, but I think in the end it's your choice."

"We seem to be taking this pretty well, just finding out that werewolf's exist." Mac said.

I laughed, "I know, but after the vampire thing, I don't think anything will surprise me."

"So. What do we do? Our futures seem to be decided for us. I've got it!" Mac said turning to look at me.

"What?"

"Let's run off together. You and me. No vampires, no werewolfs, no supernatural. We can leave Forks. Pick a state Bella, anywhere you want to go and we can go. There's enough money put up from my Dad that we can do it."

I thought about it. It truly was a very tempting idea. I liked Mac, and he could give me things Emmett couldn't, Emmett himself had said that. Not about Mac specifically, but told me if I found someone he wouldn't stand in my way. And really, what could Leah do? She's already bitter, I doubt she can get much worse. She would just stay the same. I turned and looked at Mac, he was wataching me expectantly.

Before I could answer my cell phone beeped signaling that I had a text. Don't do it. -A.

She must have seen that Mac asked me. "Mac, you know we can't do that. You don't really want to anyway, you'll know that once you think things through. Besides, Alice just texted me, she said not to do it."

"Freaky. I guess you're right though." He said. "You should call her and tell her we're going to do it."

I laughed and picked up my phone. Before I could finish my text my phone beeped again. Not funny. -A. I laughed harder and showed Mac.

"Wow," he said, "guess nothing gets by her."

"Doesn't seem like it."

"So, what would you like to do now?" He asked me. "Our plans were foiled"

"Yeah, how bout we just ride? See where we end up."

Beep. New text. Come to the house. -A.

I glanced at Mac. "Guess we're going to the Cullen's." I said showing him the message.

The house seemed almost deserted when we got there. There were no lights on, not that they need them, and we didn't see anyone anywhere. I had been here enough that I didn't bother knocking on the door, I just opened it and we walked inside. There was no one in the living room. There was however a stack of boxes on the table. Upon closer inspection we saw that they were games. Twister, Candy Land, Monopoly, there were a couple decks of cards. There was also a notebook labeled RULES. I opened it up and laughed. "Mac look," I said showing him the book. They had written their own rules for all the games. Apparently they liked to cheat. Especially Edward and Alice.

"Oh good, you're here." Alice said coming up behind us. We both spun around, stupid vampires, sneaking up on people. She had just come in the front door, the rest of the crowd was filing in behind her.

"Yeah, hey everyone." I said. "So what did you want us to come over for?" I asked.

"Just figured we could play some games."

"No offence," Mac said, "but after the book of rules, I don't know that I would want to play with ya'll. I mean, you cheat. Bad."

Esme laughed, "You have no idea." She turned to Carlise, "come on, I want to go into town, I want to redecorate."

"Don't they need someone here to control them if they start playing games? You know how they can get out of hand."

"I think they'll do OK since we have humans in the house." She looked at her children then, "Behave! If I get back and find that any one of you has done anything I wouldn't approve of, you will regret it."

I looked at them wide-eyed. Surely she wasn't going to try to spank them? She must have understood the look on my face. "You see dear, they all have things they love dearly, that I will take away from them. Alice has her shopping, Jasper his books, Edward his music, Rose her car, and Emmett his games."

"Oh, I understand the last one, he actually bought a TV and Wii to keep in my closet to play at night when I'm asleep." As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I blushed, realizing what I had said. I had just told everyone in this room Emmett spent the night with me. Grant it, we weren't doing anything we shouldn't, and they all knew it anyway I'm sure, but admitting it like that, was just embarassing.

"No need to be embarrassed Bella." Jasper said, "We all know he stays there."

"I know," I said, still blushing, "but that doesn't mean I have to bring it up for conversation in front of the whole family."

"Really, Bella..." Alice began.

I cut her off. "So what do we play first?"

Emmett walked over and whispered in my ear, "Way to change the subject, seriously, no one has a clue that you even did." I turned and glared at him, though about hitting him, but I knew it would only hurt me.

"How 'bout twister?" Mac said.

"You don't want to do that." Esme called from outside.

"Hm, OK. Monopoly?"

That seemed to be OK with everyone, until they pulled the 'bank' out. They had real money in it, and after informing us that any money we had at the end of the game or 4 hours, which ever came first we could keep, I decided not to play. I wasn't keen on taking money from other people, even if they did have an unlimited supply of it.

"Cards?"

We finally decided on old maid. It didn't matter if Edward used his mindreading, he would know who had the Old Maid, but he wouldn't know where, and we were just hoping that Alice wouldn't look and see. After two hours, Jasper finally won. "Now what?" Mac said.

"Let's watch a movie or something, I don't want to play anymore." Emmett said.

"You are only mad because you didn't win, you always get like that." Rose replied.

He stuck his tongue out. "Come on, I want to see Transformers."

"I don't like that movie." I said.

"Who asked you? We are going to watch it, because I want to watch it. One day I'm going to own Bumblebee." He said.

"Forget it Bella," Edward said, "When he gets like this, the only thing you can do it go with it."

"Ugh, fine, I should make him watch Steel Magnolias next." I muttered.

"OOO, I love that movie!" He said, then proceeded to quote, "'You are a pig from Hell.' I love Ouiser!" (A/N for those of you who don't know the movie, Ouiser is pronounced Weeza.)

"You would." I said laughing. "OK, if we have to watch this movie, can we at least have popcorn to go with it?"

"We're vampires Bella, we don't have popcorn." Emmett said.

"Yes we do. See, I knew that Bella and Mac would be spending more time here so me and Esme went to the store and got some food and drinks...I hope you guys like it. It's been a while since either of us had to do that."

"I'm sure it will be fine Alice, thanks." I said. I went to the kitchen, grabbed two soda out of the fridge for me and Mac, and found and popped a bag of popcorn. "Don't wait for me." I called out into the living room.

When the timer went off, I emptied the bag into a bowl and carried it out. Lucky for me the drinks were in bottles with lids on them, I tried to take everything in one trip so I dropped the drinks. Mac and Emmett were both on the couch. It was amazing how much they looked alike.

"So Mac, did you tell everyone about your new girlfriend?" I teased.

"You have a girlfriend?" Emmett asked.

"What? No. She's not my girlfriend." Mac said. "She just, imprinted on me or some kind of crap like that."

"Imprinted?"

"Yeah, it's a werewolf thing, did you know they really exist?"

"Woah, back up, stop." Jasper said. "Did you say werewolf?"

"Yeah." Mac said.

"You can not date a werewolf." Emmett said, emphasizing the word not.

"And just why not?"

"Because the werewolf is the natural enemy to the vampire. They see us they want to kill us, we see them, we want to kill them."

Mac turned to me with a look that said 'happy now, look what you started.'

"Sorry," I mouthed.

"Look, Leah is a great girl. I'm not dating her, not yet anyway, I don't know if I will or not, I haven't had much time to think about it. But I can assure you, enemies or not, if I decide to date her, I will. It's not like I have to bring her here anyway."

"Bella, I would rather you not spend too much time there." Emmett said.

"Emmett, Jacob is my best friend, has been for years, he's practically my brother. I'm not going to stop visiting him just because you guys don't think I should go over there."

"Bella, if there are werewolves there, which apparently there are considering one of them 'imprinted' on my nephew, you don't need to be around them. Young werewolves are very dangerous to those around them."

"And I supposed there is no danger here now with us sitting in a room of VAMPIRES! I know you guys don't eat humans, and we both trust you all, but still this isn't too safe. So, relax, we won't get hurt. Now are we going to spend the rest of the night arguing over it, or watch the movie."

Everyone turned back to the TV screen, though I don't think they were really watching the movie. I know I wasn't, I could only think, if werewolves are the enemy of the vampire, and they want to kill each other, did I just unknowingly cause a war between my best friend and my boyfriend?