Unsuspecting

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Alex's POV

"You okay, Lex?" Leah asked me when I packed my stuff up after English the next day.

I forced a smiled up at her and nodded. She sighed disbelievingly. "Emily and Sam's engagement party's tonight." She said tonelessly. I looked up at her as I slung my bag over my shoulder and we walked out. "I'm being made to go. Are you?"

I nodded and she sighed with relief. "Good. I'll have another 'broken girl' to mope with." She joked half-heartedly and I smiled at her. "Things are going to work out." She said and I sighed and shook my head, ending talk on that subject immediately.

"How are you?" I asked and she went on a bitch for the whole of lunch. We sat in the cafeteria, as Leah scoffed down a bunch of food while I ate a smaller amount.

The rest of the pack were starting to sit inside now as it was raining practically every day. It's the La Push winter now. Joy. I didn't realise that it could get any colder- but it had.

Embry sat across the hall, staring at me as I tried to pay attention to what Leah was saying. I was having trouble even listening to other people nowadays. My mind just seemed to drift off…

Matt came and sat down next to me, I looked at him in confusion.

"How are you?" He asked and I frowned at him and he sighed. "I'm sorry we've sort of… ditched you. But Doug's real cut up." He said and I groaned and stood up.

He put his hand on my wrist and tried to pull me back down but I restrained. "He is, Alex. Why can't you see that?" I just shook my head, as he held on to me tighter. "It's because of him isn't it?" He said, motioning his head towards where Embry was sat. "You don't owe him anything. You're allowed to move on."

I groaned and pulled my other hand up to rub at my forehead. "You don't understand, Matt. I can't."

He sighed again. "Why not?"

"Let go of her, jack ass." Leah said before slamming him on the shoulder, sending him flying backwards a few feet. Everyone stood up to try and see what the commotion was about.

I frowned at Leah as her eyes flickered down to my hand. I looked down at it in confusion. I had a little bit of blood trickling out of the nail marks on my wrist. My eyes flickered shut and I smiled a little as the burning sensation pulsed through my wrist.

If it had been my other arm, he probably would have torn the stitches open…

"Alex?" Embry's panicked voice broke my daze and I shook my head, trying to get rid of those thoughts. I opened my eyes to look at the worried faces around me and I paled a little.

"Err, I'll go get a plaster from the nurse." I mumbled before stumbling out of the cafeteria. A few people followed.

"Shit! I'm sorry, Alex. I didn't realise!" Matt called Embry just turned around and punched Matt in the face and turned back around. I burst out laughing.

It looked really fucking hilarious. The way Embry just sighed and hit him so casually. Like it was actually a bother to him to have to do it.

They all stopped walking and laughed with me, well, Matt just whimpered on the floor and Embry just stared at me intensely with a smile on his lips that had me breathless. He was so beautiful…

My eyes widened when Leah cleared her throat next to me and I squeaked and ran off towards the nurse's office. Fuck! Operation Major Ignoration isn't going very well if I can't keep myself from drooling over him!

"Alex! Alex!" Embry called and I could here him running after me as I hurried to the Nurse's office.

I got the plasters and talked to the nurse a little before I walked out, and was met with Embry. He stepped forward so his body was inches from mine.

"How are you? Are you okay?" He asked worriedly and I groaned and pushed him away.

"Stop it! Everyone- you all keep asking me how I am! How the fuck do you think I am?" I growled and pain over washed his perfect features.

"I- I'm sorry, Alex." He said softly and I huffed.

"Shut up." I said and stalked of to my next lesson, drama. And because it was with Embry, he followed close behind.

"You're really hot when you're angry, Alex. And pregnant. You're really sexy pregnant." He blurted out and I turned to him angrily and his eyes widened as he realised what he said. Then, he just smiled goofily at me as I glared at him.

I groaned. "Shut up. And don't say that word!" I moaned as I looked around us as Embry pushed the door open for me.

"Sexy?" He asked in amusement as I walked past him and rolled my eyes. "When are we going to tell everyone?" He asked as I walked to the back of class, following behind me still.

"I'm not going to tell anyone else until absolutely necessary." I said and as he took a seat, I walked across and sat on the stool on the other side of the room.

He groaned and followed me. "Don't walk away from me." He moaned and I glared at him.

"Don't fuck other girls behind my back." I said and he breathed in sharply and took a step backwards, as if I just slapped him.

"Okay, class, we will be doing our first run through of the whole play, today. Everyone, to your places so we can get started straight away." The teacher called and my eyes widened. She has got to be kidding me.

I gaped as I went and stood in my place to Doug. I made eye contact with him and he pursed his lips together and looked away. I winced and turned around to Embry.

Oh god. I hate this fucking play.

We made through most of it quickly. But then it came to the bit I was dreading, scene eleven.

Embry walked towards me slowly, keeping intense eye contact as he spoke. "Ah! My dearest Genevieve. We have returned at long last from the great battle." He said as he came closer to me.

I gulped and unconsciously licked my lips.

He got even closer and gently took my face in his hands. He brushed his lips against mine, and that's all it took.

I practically flung myself onto him, kissing him wish such a passion I hadn't realised I owned. The fireworks that I'd missed set off in my stomach and all rational thinking escaped me.

He moaned into my mouth as he picked me up and his tongue entered my mouth. I wrapped my legs and arms around him securely as we pushed our bodies tightly together. I'd missed the feeling of his lips moving in sync to mine so badly. He squeezed my arse and I moaned as his tongue searched my mouth like it had so many times before. But this, now, it felt so much different. So, so, so different.

We pulled away for breath and stared helplessly into each other's eyes as the teacher started clapping.

"Ah! Bravo! That was magnificent! You captured the raw emotion so well!" She cried as she got everyone to start clapping as well.

I breathed out heavily and shook my head at her in amusement. Embry laughed and then I realised we were still standing – well, Embry was the only one on his feet – with our arms wrapped tightly around each other.

I coughed awkwardly as I saw everyone was still staring at us and I tried to get down, but Embry wouldn't let me at first. Then the bell went, signalling the end of the day and he begrudgingly set me down. We stepped backwards slowly, still staring at each other.

Doug barged past me and I winced. Shit. He turned back to look at me, and guilt consumed me. He looked so hurt. Maybe he wasn't lying…

No, that's absurd. Why would he like me?

I grabbed my bag and tried to exit the school but Embry pushed me gently up against the lockers.

"Do you need a lift to the party tonight?" He asked huskily. I just shook my head and tried to get past him. He groaned and rubbed his jaw. "You can't just pretend that didn't happen, Alex!" He cried and I sighed.

"It was just a kiss we had to do for class. It meant nothing." I whispered, my voice cracked at the end.

He breathed in sharply in outrage and glared at me. "You can't say that! You can't tell me you didn't feel that. I know you still love me! You must!"

I shook my head as I scrunched my face up. I put my thumb on the stitches on my hand, pressing down. Relief flushed over me for a moment as all my worries and stress flooded out.

"Alex!" Embry called out in panic as he pulled my hand away. My eyes widened as I looked at him.

"What are you doing?" He whispered as he stared at me in horror.

I bit my lip and shook my head. "I don't know – I – I – didn't mean to." I whispered back.

"You-," He started but Theo cut him off.

"Come on, Alex. We have to go." He said as he put a hand on my shoulder.

I breathed out in relief and Embry glared at him.

He sighed and turned back to me. "Don't- please- don't do that again." He whispered and I just nodded as Theo directed me outside.

Embry's POV

She stepped through the doors with Leah. The engagement part was at some fancy little restaurant in Seattle and everyone was being made to wear posh clothes. And boy was I fucking glad of that now.

She had a simple muddy green dress that hugged her beautiful body perfectly.

I somehow managed to spill my drink everywhere when she walked through. Jacob laughed and hit me on the shoulder.

I scowled at him quickly before I tried to mop up the water with a napkin while still gaping at her.

When she walked, her curves- oh my god- she was so gorgeous. Her cleavage wasn't sluttish, but because she'd grown because of the pregnancy, there was plenty more there to see.

The colour went perfectly with her beautiful eyes and I could barely even remember to breath as I stared at her. The dress stopped just before her knees, showing her perfectly toned and tanned legs.

"Where are our seats, Em?" Leah asked tonelessly.

"Leah, you're by Quil, and Alex, you're in-between Embry and Kim." She said and Alex winced.

"Isn't there-?"

"Oh!" Emily said as her eyes flickered over to me. "No, sorry, Alex." She said and put a comforting hand on Alex's shoulder before hurrying off.

Alex turned and bit her lip as we made eye contact.

I just stared open mouthed at her as she came over. I stood up and pushed her seat in as she sat. She blushed and mumbled a thank you. I smiled madly. She was so unbelieving stunning and cute.

"You look beautiful." I said breathlessly and she breathed out aggregately.

"No I don't." She said sharply and looked up at me. I smiled down at her.

"You do." I persisted and her nose scrunched up in anger. Oh god!

"No, I don't." She said and Kim who was next to her sighed and turned around to glare at Alex.

Alex raised her eyebrow at her.

"Why are you doing this, Alex?" Kim asked and Alex frowned, clearly confused. "Why do you have to be so difficult?" She asked and Alex let out a shocked breath.

"I'm sorry if I annoy you, Kim." Alex said, sarcastically and bitterly.

Kim rolled her eyes. "Apology accepted." She muttered and I saw Alex tense up but she just took a deep breath and turned back to stare at the glass in front of her.

I put my hand on her arm and rubbed it soothingly, she calmed down. "Ignore her." I whispered in her ear as I scooted my chair a little closer to her.

She just shrugged and took a gulp from her water. I slid my hand down her arm and took her hand in mine. She sighed and I was surprised when she didn't pull away. She just let me hold her hand. I smiled brightly and stared at her. I can't even remember anything that happened until she pulled away to start eating, and I was pulled out of my daze.

I had noticed that Kim kept sliding in insults and little sarcastic comments throughout, though. It was becoming increasingly hard to not rip Kim apart as I could see it was getting to Alex.

I wolfed down – pun fully intended – my food and turned to see the Alex was putting down her utensils too, even though she'd only eaten about three quarters of what was on her plate.

"You should really eat it all." I said to her. She slapped my hand away from her thigh and glared at me. Okay, I so totally didn't realise I'd been stroking her leg.

"I'm stuffed." She said and turned her head away from me.

"Yeah, but you're eating for two, so shouldn't you really-," I said but trailed off when she turned to glare at me.

"Yeah, but if I eat to much in one go, I usually throw up. But you wouldn't know that, because you don't know what I'm going through, okay?" She whispered angrily and I breathed in sharply.

"I – I- But I didn't know that. But I want to." I said pathetically.

She rolled her eyes. "Yes, but you were to busy having sex with my aunt to care before, so I didn't think you'd be that interested now." She got up and walked briskly out of the restaurant.

Oh.

That hurt.

I sat there in silence for a bit until Kim turned to me. "Just forget about her, Embry." She said softly and I snapped my head up to her.

It was probably her constant bitching that put Alex in a mad mood to begin with. She wouldn't have been so uptight and aggravated if not.

I just growled at her before I jogged out of the restaurant after Alex.

I found her walking down the road aimlessly. I went up to her and she turned to me.

"I'm sor–," We both said at the same time and smiles broke out on our faces. She stepped forward and wrapped her arms around my waist.

"I'm sorry." She whispered as I held her tightly.

"Don't be. I'm sorry." I said and she squeezed me before pulling away slightly so there was a distance between us, but we still had our arms around the other.

"Can we stay out here?" She asked softly and I nodded without hesitance. Like I was going to pass up spending alone time with her. Yeah, right. "I can't believe I said that." She moaned and buried her face into my chest again. "Sorry."

I just shook my head. "Like I said; don't be." She pulled back and sighed, but nodded.

I took her hand in mine and we walked further down the road until we stopped by a bench. She shivered as another blast of wind hit against her bare arms and legs.

"Oh shit!" I said as I shrugged of my jacket and put it over her shoulders. She smiled up at me as she clutched it to herself. "You look so ridiculously tiny in that." I said as she took a seat. It absolutely swamped her. She giggled as I sat next to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

I smiled fucking massively. She just laughed! Because of something I said.

She snuggled into me as she absentmindedly fingered my tie and buttons. "I don't think I've ever seen you in a suit before." She said and pulled back to smile brightly at me.

I rolled my eyes and pulled her back to my body. "We're only wearing them because Sam alpha commanded it so we wouldn't upset Emily." I said and Alex laughed loudly.

"Me and Leah only wore dressed because Emily guilt tripped us."

"Remind me to buy Emily a fucking house." I said under by breath and Alex laughed nervously and prodded me in the chest. "You really do look stunning." I said and Alex shook her head and groaned.

She was about to say something, but I put my fingers over her mouth. "Just accept it, Alex. You're absolutely gorgeous." I said and she laughed and buried her face into my side disbelievingly.

We stayed like that all night, just sitting in each other's arms, joking and messing about and it felt like I was on top of the world. For one night only, we forgot about everything that had happened, forgot all the complications, and it felt so amazing.

It eventually got too dark and Alex kept yawning so I brought her back to her house in my car. I walked her to her front door and she turned to me, smiling. It felt so strange- it felt like we were on a first date or something, not having been together for so long.

Well, we were together.

I bent down and kissed her forehead softly. She smiled and rested her hand on my chest. I wrapped my arms around her and squeezed her tightly, bringing her feet off the ground a little bit. She laughed softly as I set her down, smiling brightly.

"Goodnight, Embry." She whispered before she stretched up on her tiptoes and pecked me softly on the lips.

She pulled away and smiled at me. I just stared at her, completely entranced as she waved and slid behind her front door.

So I did the only thing that seemed appropriate- I skipped back to my car.

AN; Did you like it ? Tell me what you think. I've been writing nonstop since I updated after lunch, so I think I deserve a review ;L x