Hey there guys! Again, a huge thank you to all of you awesome people who reviewed. I recently made a wonderful discovery, and if you care... read on!

Ok so when I was younger I used to be addicted to these biscuits (lol, you should know I'm British by now) and they were the best thing in my life! Now, years passed and my mother never bought those biscuits again, something about high in sat. fat. Who cares? Anyway, today I found out hat they sell them right near my house in this corner shop! Yey! So of course I immediately grabbed a packet and I'm sharing some vvirtual biscuits with you all!

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Disclaimer; I don't own Twilight, but I do finally own a packet of these unique shortbread cookies! Yum!

Chapter 26

Ring Ring Ring

I groaned.

Ring Ring

I groaned again and pulled the pillow over my head, wondering why the hell my alarm was ringing on a Saturday morning.

Ring Ring

'Wait that's not my alarm' I thought groggily.

I slowly and reluctantly got up and reached for my phone which I'd left to charge overnight. I answered the phone, running a hand through my completely dishevelled hair and groaning inwardly when my fingers were caught in knots.

"Happy birthday love."

I sat up quickly, suddenly very awake as I absorbed the harmonic voice that I'd just heard. It sounded like bells ringing in my ear and I felt my heart accelerate at the resonance. It took me a while to register what the voice had said, but I suddenly realised that today, was in fact my birthday. I furrowed my eyebrows finding hard to believe that a whole day had gone passed and I hadn't even noticed. The previous day seemed to have not even existed, and the events of the day before that were left as a distant memory. But I could still remember the feel of Edward's lips on mine when we first kissed.

I could never forget that.

"Thank you." I murmured tiredly. I raised my eyebrows once I'd glanced over at the time.

6.47 am.

An unholy hour.

"How has your day been so far?" I narrowed my eyes as I could hear the smugness in his tone. The guy had called me at this time on purpose.

"Edward, my day hasn't even started yet." I replied.

"Really? Because my day started almost seven hours ago at midnight. Tell me Leah, how do your days work?"

I rolled my eyes although he couldn't see. "My day starts when I have woken up."

"Ah, so your day has already started."

"Oh wow, I've only been nineteen for two hours and you've already started annoying me."

Edward chuckled, "You were born at four am? That's ironic considering you're clearly not a morning person."

I groaned, "If you know I'm not a morning person then why are you calling me at this time?"

Edward's voice softened, although I questioned whether that was possible.

"I wanted to be the first to wish you a happy birthday."

My mood lightened then and my heart swelled at the sincerity and emotion in his voice. I wanted more than anything for him to be there with me at that moment, and say it to me whilst his gold eyes stared into mine.

"Thank you." I whispered.

There was a short silence that passed, which had me wondering what he was doing, he was after all, utterly immune to any tiredness or desires to slumber. My thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the sound of movement through the phone and Edward's smooth voice grew audibly irritated as the shuffling noises increased.

"No… stop… seriously Emmett…. warning… you! Give… me …phone!"

"I'll only… be a minute….please!"

"No… Emmett… if you don't…. give me… phone I will tell… Rosalie about…. Secret… Christmas… Santa!"

I smirked, curiosity filling my mind as I heard the crackling noises, which seemed to indicate the movement of the phone itself. After numerous uttered curses and a worryingly loud smashing sound there was suddenly a hushed silence and the racket had finally ceased, as expected a voice returned to the receiver, however the voice I now heard on the other end was deeper, cheerful and... not Edward's.

"Hey she-wolf!"

"Er, hi Emmett?" I raised a brow, although it wouldn't be visible to him. I wasn't well acquainted with Edward's siblings, but out of all of them, I was most familiar with Emmett. After all, it had been he who'd hauled me over his shoulder whilst a screamed bloody murder throughout the forest.

Yeah, we had a special connection.

"Hey, I've been meaning to apologize about the whole… you know… kidnapping you thing. I mean, honestly I thought it was funny, but apparently Eddie here tells me that it was somewhat of a… how do you say… 'bad idea'.

I smiled as I pictured him insert some inverted commas within the sentence. Emmett, it turned out, had a big sense of humour. Nice.

Except what he did was so not funny.

"It's cool; I guess you had good intentions. Well, barring your wife who just wants me dead. Say hi to Blondie by the way. Tell her no one can gag someone as well as she can."

There was a deep chuckle at the other end of the line. "Don't I know it. Down here we like to keep things…creative though some would call it…kinky."

I scrunched up my nose at the innuendo, "Ok, well thanks for that mental image."

Emmett laughed, "My birthday gift to you, wolf-girl."

"Mhm… yes… Ok… well, um, goodbye." I quietly sighed with relief as before Emmett could even respond there was another round of shuffling noises and soon Edward had returned.

"Leah, I'm so sorry I've exposed you to Emmett's vulgar nature. And on your birthday too!"

I chuckled as I heard some protest from Emmett's in the background.

"It's alright; I've experienced worse… though not by much."

We spoke for a while longer before our conversation ended and I was left feeling quite empty. It was still early in the morning then, and I was still quite fatigued after having done absolutely nothing the previous day. I decided to sleep for a few more hours, slowly lying back onto my bed and closing my eyes, Edward's voice still ringing in my ear.

I was woken up three hours later by an attack from my brother.

"Lee-Lee, happy birthday!" Seth exclaimed, as happy as ever.

I found it impossible not to admire his energy, although it was not as contagious first thing on a Saturday morning. Especially considering the fact that it was still very early in the morning, and as Edward had pointed out; I was not a morning person.

"Thanks Seth, but why didn't you wait until I woke up?" I asked, rubbing my eyes as I was attacked by the sudden brightness of the room.

"I wanted to be the first to wish you a happy birthday." He said with a grin. I smiled at the familiar words.

"Sorry Seth, Edward beat you to it. He called at six a.m." I said regrettably.

However, Seth did not appear to mind whatsoever, in fact his smile only increased in kilowatts and was practically blinding me from its gleam; I was tempted to shield my eyes from it.

"Edward called?" he asked. I nodded. And Seth's eyes widened with realisation.

"I thought I heard you talking this morning, but I thought it was just a dream because you'd never wake up so early on a Saturday." He said. I laughed.

"Got that right."

The rest of the day passed very quickly, but it was hardly uneventful. Firstly, my phone was bombarded with calls from practically everyone that I'd ever spoken to; even people that I'd only spoken to in class. For example, there was some guy named Tom who I'd sat next to in chemistry and I'd lent my chemistry text book to. He'd lost it the next day and I'd been really pissed off about it because it meant I'd had to buy a new one for twenty dollars. But on that day, there was a knock at the door and I almost jumped when I saw none other than Tom himself with my text book in his hands.

"Happy birthday Leah, sorry I lost it before." He'd said with a sheepish smile.

I'd taken it in my hands; hardly believing that he'd actually bothered to come all the way to my house to return it. I smiled at the bow on top of it, but when I unravelled it, it revealed an envelope. Within the envelope was a gift card to my favourite shoe store.

I raised my eyebrows in surprise at the gift this random guy had given me. I'd immediately regretted cursing him under my breath for all those chemistry lessons.

"Thank you Tom." I'd said giving him a one-armed hug. He'd smiled awkwardly…

and then asked if he could use my text book for his revision classes.

I'd frowned and closed the door in his face. But later on I'd felt bad, and so I called him and told him he could pick it up the next day.

After that ordeal, I'd had yet another pleasant surprise that turned out to be one of the highlights of my day. Ever since my father had died, celebrations for birthdays and holidays had not been the same. Last year my birthday was merely two months after my father's death and therefore I did not have the eighteenth birthday party that I'd hoped for. I had planned a lot of things for my party, and one of them was having my first time with Sam.

I snorted at the idea, at least one good thing came out of that disaster; I'd learned a very valuable lesson about Sam Uley.

That he was a prick.

A dickhead.

A total mother fucker who…

Sorry, got a little carried away there.

Anyway, as a result of last year's occurrences, I had not expected my current birthday to be any different. However I was soon proven wrong when my mother returned home from work at one in the afternoon demanding that I yank on some suitable clothes because she was taking me shopping. I'd been surprised, my mother had been working hard in order to make ends meat and so our budget was slightly stretched and there was a limit to things I could have. I had tried to get a job, but with patrolling and my school work becoming a large priority, my mother had insisted that I focus on that and leave the working to her. She said that I already had a job as an unpaid protector of our land, and she was very proud of that. I couldn't argue with her there.

About the unpaid part of course.

However, that did not mean I was naïve about our situation, I knew my mother was struggling with the bills and that on top of that, my dreams of going to med school made it even harder for us. I felt guilty about that, but whenever I mentioned it she'd always say;

"Aim high darling and soon you'll be paying me back, and then some."

Nevertheless, despite my constant arguments against it, my mother still relentlessly dragged me to the car and took me to the mall. Although I was conscious about the prices of the items I chose to buy, it was still the most fun I'd had in a very long time. We went around the mall with our arms linked, smiling stupidly at whoever dared to give us a weird look.

We strolled around the stores, and we even went into my favourite shoe store, although my mother disapproved of the new baby blue Converse high-tops that I bought with my gift card. She claimed they looked the same as one of the pairs I had at home. I repeatedly clarified that they were not the same because the other pair were navy blue and didn't have punky stars on them. She'd rolled her eyes up to the heavens but merely laughed it off when I gave her my best puppy-dog eyes. And considering I was half wolf, it wasn't long before I was happily strutting out the store with my new Converses. Yeah, it was going to be a pretty good day.

SO, now we've reached Leah's brithday and firstly I would just like to say Yey, because Emmett made a prominent appearnce and I love him! Also, Eddie seemed less stuck up here don't you think? I hope you do becasue I tried hard to make him seem more laid back, the phone call was added yesterday in fact! Anyway, please review and tell me what you think about Tom, the random guy from Leah's chem. class!