Chapter Thirty Five: Trouble
I woke up to my alarm blaring and quickly shut it off before flopping back onto my bed trying to get the will power to get myself up and into the bathroom to get ready for school. It took a minute, but soon I was out of bed and heading towards my closet to pick out clothes that wouldn't be scorned.
"You should wear the red shirt and the khaki skirt you never wear." Came a high pitched voice from my window sill. I spun around to see Alice Cullen perched on the lip of my window with a bright smile. It was way too early to deal with a hyperactive pixie vampire.
"Get the hell out of my room. And I will wear what I please." I said before turning back to my closet.
"I'm just saying that you would look cute in it." She said and lightly flitted off the sill to sit on my bed.
"I said get the hell out of my room or I will call the pack and you will leave in pieces." I threatened without turning to face her. Her tinkling giggled was all I hear before there was a breeze and the outfit that she had mentioned was on my bed. I huffed picked up the items and put them back. I grabbed out my pair of red pants and my white shirt with blue stars on it. I was feeling patriotic today.
"Edward told me that Embry was taking you to a spring dance." Alice said. She was trying to make conversation, but I wasn't in the mood. I would gush about it with Kim and Emily when I went to the res later.
"He did, did he?" I replied as I grabbed my little make up bag and brush and started to do my hair in a simple ponytail.
"Yes and I was thinking we could go shopping." She said brightly like it was the best idea in the world.
"I didn't like you guys before I knew you were walking, talking corpses. What makes you think that I would like you now?" I asked as I pulled out a blue barrette to hold back my bangs. Alice shrugged.
"Your answer is no. I'm going with Tiffany and you're not invited. Now you better be out of my room by the time I'm done in the bathroom or there will be a visit from the pack." I said and closed the door behind me. I walked down the hall toward the bathroom and heard Edward laugh.
'Get your sister out of my room and keep her out. Next time a fire will be lit. This is not a crypt and if she shows up again like this, Uncle Charlie will learn about your nightly visits and I will be living in the wolf den.' I thought to him before I got to the bathroom. The laughing stopped and Bella's door opened and closed before I heard my window closed and then my door close. I smiled to myself as I changed into my outfit.
As promised I gushed about Embry asking me to the dance with Emily and Kim after school. I also talked to Sam about Alice's visit this morning. He was very displeased to hear about it and promised to call the doc up tonight and speak to him about a member of his family harassing a member of the pack. When he said that my hand went to the necklace around my neck. Since Embry had given it to me, I had worn it every day.
After I was done at Sam and Emily's I went down to the Blacks to make dinner. As I cooked I called Tiffany to talk about a shopping trip later this week to find a dress.
"Hello?" Tiffany brightly answered the phone.
"Hey Tiffany, its Anna. Got a question for ya." I said as I stirred the pot containing dinner.
"Oh, hi Anna. What would your question be?" She asked.
"You remember when you said that we should have a day and go to Port Angeles and go to the Greek restaurant that you went to a while back?" I asked.
"Sure do. What you have in mind?" She asked, I could hear the smile.
"Your son asked me to the spring dance. Thought you might want to go dress shopping with me? And we could make it a night." I relayed my thoughts. I could hear her squeal on the other end and moved the phone from my ear.
"He finally did it. I thought he was going to let the opportunity pass by. What theme are we going for?" She asked.
"He told me it was Native themed. That he was going as a warrior and I could go as his princess." I said and I hear her laugh on the other end.
"That sounds great. But short of going to one of the women here on the res, you're not going to find a dress shop with a dress in that theme that isn't a bridal parlor. How about we find you a nice plain dress and I embroider it with Quileute patterns?" She asked.
"You can do that?" I asked excited.
"Yes ma'am. How about we go Thursday. I can pick you up from school and we can go straight to Port Angeles." She said. I nodded, then realized she couldn't see it.
"That sounds great. Talk to you later." I said and she returned it before we hung up. I heard a faint chuckle behind me. I turned and saw Jake and Billy in the doorway, shaking their heads.
"What?" I asked, looking at them curiously.
"Women amaze me." Billy said then rolled himself to the table. I laughed and set the food on the table as Jake took his seat. After dinner I went home, I said good night to Uncle Charlie and told him of my plans with Tiffany for Thursday. I went upstairs and got ready for bed. When I was in the bathroom, I heard my phone go off with a text message. When I got out I checked it. The screen flash saying I had received a text from Embry.
I open the text and saw the message, it read: You told my mother?
I quickly typed back: Told her what?
It was only a minute later that my phone dinged again: About the dance.
Yeah. We're going dress shopping Thursday. I was curious as to why he was asking.
Mom yelled at me for not telling her immediately. I fell asleep after we talked last night and I forgot to tell her this morning. I laughed at the fact that she yelled at Embry. That woman was such a hoot.
Sorry. Love you. Good night. I typed and put my phone on the charger and the phone buzzed with the message: Night. Love you too. I fell asleep with a smile on my face.
Thursday came quickly. Tiffany and I had a great time shopping and thankfully it was vampire free. We had found a brown knee length smock like dress in light brown and it had three quarter sleeves. Tiffany said she would hand embroider it while she was on her lunch break so Embry wouldn't get a chance to see it till the night of the dance. She said she was going to bring it to me when she was done.
We also bought a pair of beaded moccasins and leggings to go with the dress. We decided at dinner that we would French braid my hair into pigtails and I would have a simple beaded head dress with a single feather in the back that would rest in between the pigtails.
As Tiffany pulled back into the school to collect my car, my phone went off with a phone call. I thanked Tiffany and climbed out of the car as I grabbed my phone from my bag and answered it.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Hey babe. When you get home get something to eat,tell Charlie that you're going for a walk. Walk down the path in the woods. I'll meet you out there." Embry said before he hung up. I looked down at my phone. He hung up on me! What the hell is going on? I hopped in the car and drove to Uncle Charlie's I came in and grabbed a pop tart for supper before I fed Uncle Charlie the line that I was going for a walk. He nodded and I walked out the back door and down the path. When I was just out of sight from the house Embry emerged from the trees.
"Hold on we're getting out of hearing range." Embry said before leaning down and scooping me up bridal style. He flat out ran for a couple minutes before he set me down in a clearing deep in the woods.
"Okay. What the hell is going on? You hung up on me after freaking me out and then you pick me up and ran me into the middle of the woods! I can only assume that this is something you don't want the Cullens to know….." He cut off my rant by crashing his lips to mine. He pulled away after I started to return the kiss. I pouted causing him to smirk.
"I'm on patrol with Jake and he's covering so I can talk to you. You know how Emily's niece is staying with her while Emily's brother and sister-in-law are out of town for a couple days?" Embry asked and I nodded. Her niece Claire, I was going down tomorrow after school to meet her.
"Well the guys met her today and Quil imprinted." Embry said looking anxious.
"I wanted you to know before you saw it tomorrow." Embry continued to explain.
"You mean he imprinted on a two year old?" I asked, still trying to catch what he was saying. It wasn't adding up in my head.
"Yeah." Embry said with a slight nod of his head
"Please tell me he doesn't think the same stuff that you and I think about each other." I said starting to feel disgusted by the thought. Embry started to vigorously shake his head.
"No it's nothing like that. Remember a wolf will be anything that the imprint needs, that means brother, friend or lover. Right now all he feels for her is a brotherly love." I nodded and took a deep breath. Thank God.
I took a couple minutes to compose myself and clear my head. After this I gave Embry the okay to take me back to the house. It had been about thirty minutes and I didn't want Uncle Charlie to worry that I had gotten lost in the woods. Embry carried me back to the house and paid me back for freaking me out with an intense make out session that left both of us wanting more but Embry had to get back to patrol. I waited till the blush had faded out of my cheeks before I went back inside.
Oh how I love the crazy people that I now called family, but boy do I hate some of the drama that comes with it.