Raena's POV

His mother stepped in and for a good ten seconds or so, she didn't notice us. Embry stiffened beside me and sat up straight, his mom came in and set her keys on the small table and took off her coat. I held my breath, not really knowing what to do, I had been caught in compromising situation before, but this wasn't like that. This was Embry's mom! I think she heard the movie before she realized we were there and looked to the couch. She looked at her son then me, then back to her son, I could see she was not at all happy to see us, well to see me.

"Embry?," her voice was shrill. "What are you doing home?"

Embry cleared his throat," Uhm.. it's spring break."

His mom's eyes darted to me," Oh.. yes. And... who is this?"," she rested her eyes on me and I felt judged, so I straightened my back and sat up.

"This," he gestured to me," is Raena, she's Charlie Swan's niece."

Embry's mom turned to me, she did not look impressed, she almost look like she was scowling at me, as if she did not approve.

"Raena, this is my mom."

"Hi," I gave a small awkward wave to which Ms. Call did nothing. "Nice to meet you" I mumbled while turning back to the movie, trying to ignore her glare.

"Well, Embry... you should have told me you were having company."

"You were at work," Embry defended.

"You manage to always be on that phone, it couldn't have been to hard to let me know or even ask," she was obviously not happy that I was here.

"Sorry mom, I didn't think you'd be so upset."

"Upset? I'm not upset," her tone softened. "Just a little... surprised is all."

"I would have told you but I wasn't expecting you to be home."

"Yes, I can see that."

I did not like this, it was so awkward, I didn't know if I should intervene and tell her we weren't doing anything, we were just watching a movie. I opened my mouth then shut it, it felt wrong, like I wasn't supposed to say anything. It vaguely reminded me of this one time I was caught in my friend's house with Jaxson Park. I always thought he was cute and then the night before at a party, he was all over me so I invited him back to my friends house with us, she was too wasted to even notice and we started to hook up when her mom walked in, I've never seen someone so red. Jaxson got up and ran out and I had to stifle a laugh as her mom screamed and shouted, chasing him out the door. I didn't say anything then, even when she called my mom and demanded that she come and get me, saying I had "low values" or something, I didn't argue with her, I still thought it was funny. But now, I worried, I didn't want to make a bad impression, because I don't even know what all she's heard about or what all this town knows.

She finally gave me a small smile," Hello, Raena, it's a pleasure to meet you," she extended er hand.

"Oh... yeah. Nice to meet you," I shook her hand weakly and then retreated to the warmth of the blanket.

She glanced at her watch," Darn, I have to go, can't be late again. Uhm... Embry, we'll talk about this later," she tried to sound light and unbothered while she put her coat on quickly. "Well, it was nice to meet you, Raena" she flashed smile.

"Love you," Embry told her.

"I love you too," she said as she shut the door and Embry and I were once again left alone.

In that moment I wanted to run, get off the couch and just sprint all the way home. I felt itchy and nervous, like I was getting sick and I couldn't do anything because I was frozen in my spot.

"Well... that was unexpected," Embry sighed.

I silently turned to the TV, its was nearing the end, all the wishes from around the city were charging Santa's sleigh.

"Hey, you okay?"

"You're mom does not like me," I sat up, pulling away from Embry.

"What? No, that's not true. She was just caught off guard."

"She was staring daggers at me!"

"No, she was just surprised, I mean I never really have anyone over."

"Really?"

"Well, I mean sometimes Quil and Jacob, but for the most part no."

"Oh...right... because she," I lowered my voice," because she doesn't know that you're a werewolf."

Embry cracked a grin and whispered," You don't have to whisper, she isn't here."

"I know," I said normally.

"Yeah, she doesn't know."

"Do you think you'll ever tell her."

Embry fidgeted and looked to his lap," I don't know, it's complicated."

"Well of course it's complicated, I mean, you turn into a wolf."

"Yeah, that does tend to make for awkward conversation."

His light touch of humor kind of made it less awkward to talk about, the corners of my mouth perked.

"So is there a reason you've never told her, or is just you're scared of what she'll say."

Embry sighed," I guess I'm waiting for the right moment."

That means he doesn't want to talk about it, I told myself. I glanced back to the screen and the movie was over and the credits were rolling and I didn't really know what do to next. What do we do now? I... I almost kissed him! Oh god... he would freak out if I did that, it's kind of a blessing his mom came in.

"Want to play a game?," Embry asked as if he read my mind.

"A game? Like what?"

Let's just say that a lot of guys had started the night by 'wanting to play a game', so the question held many meanings to me.

"Well, I have Jenga and Monopoly."

A board game? He can't be serious.

"Really?"

He grinned and got up and went to the cabinet underneath the TV and pulled out the games.

"I guess I have scrabble too."

He is serious.

"Uhm... Jenga is good. I'm good at Jenga."

"Challenge accepted," Embry said while stuffing the other games back.

I jumped off the couch and sat across from him on the floor and he pulled the jenga out and dumped out the pieces.

"Challenge?," I scoffed. "You don't stand a chance," I joked

I had only played Jenga once and it had been the community center when I was in 6th grade. I spent a few nights there a week when my mom worked the later shift to pick up extra cash before Christmas. The girl I played with had hair in pigtails, I remember I was jealous of the pink ribbons in her hair. I got so impatient by like the third turn that I grabbed a piece at random and knocked the whole thing over, I got so angry and started screaming that I had to go to the "quiet corner."

Shit... maybe this wasn't a good idea. But I've never played Monopoly... what the fuck is Scrabble? The number game?

"Oh really," Embry cracked an adorable geeky grin. "Want to place a wager?"

"Wager?," I looked up at him.

"A bet," he clarified.

"A bet? Like what?"

"If I win, I get something, if you win, you get something."

I rolled my eyes," I know what a bet is, Embry. I meant what do you want if you win?"

"Oh," he looked down sheepishly. "If I win...you have to tell everyone how terrible you are at Jenga."

I threw my hands up," Woah, there, that's a big bet."

He chuckled," Shut up. I don;t know? What do you want?"

I pretended to think with my chin in my hand," I want... the keys to your car."

"What," Embry asked as if he didn't hear me.

"You heard me."

"You want my car?"

"Yeah," I smiled smugly.

"It's a piece of shit, why would you want it?," he glanced over his shoulder as if the car was going to be right behind him.

I shrugged," Never had a car before."

"Can you even drive?"

"No," I admitted. "But having a car will help me learn."

"How about this," Embry pitched," You win, I'll teach you to drive. I win, you have to watch the rest of Star Wars with me."

I groaned and Embry grinned satisfied.

"Do I have to?," I complained.

"Only if you lose."

Shit I got to win.

"You can have the first move," Embry sat back away from the tower he constructed.

I leaned forward, gotta go slow, I told myself, gently testing each block until one slipped like butter from the stack.

"HA!," I gloated.

Embry went straight in and pulled a piece from the middle with no hesitation and placed it on the top.

God... he must play this game all the time.

I repeated my first move, carefully pulling a piece off and placing on the top. It went like that for a while, I think Embry knew how concentrated I was on the game because we were silent until it was my turn and I pulled a side piece and the tower shifted, I froze.

"Woah there," Embry warned.

I chose a different piece, but the tower was looking janked, piece missing everywhere, the tower was going to fall within the next few rounds.

Embry pulled a piece and put it in the stack, it was like the pieces were whispering to him telling him 'pick me pick me'. Luckily I pulled the mest piece and the tower didn't fall, I took a deep sigh and smiled as I put the piece on the top.

"Say goodbye to your car."

"I'll teach you to drive, but you can;t have my car."

"Well, I'll probably crash it... so either way..."

"You won't crash it," Embry told me while placing his piece on top.

Crap. I thought he would for sure get out.

I took a deep breath and slowly pulled a side piece away, thinking I had been successful again when the tower leaned over and Jenga pieces scattered across the floor.

"NOOOOOO!," I groaned loudly.

"YES!," Embry pumped his fists wildly. "STARRRR WAAAARSSS!," he sang loudly.

My head hung as I looked at the Jenga piece in my hand, Stupid Jenga.

"Awww, don't be a sore loser! and don;t even act like you hate it! I know you love it!," Embry skipped to his room and came back with his laptop. "

I didn't groan, I just hopped back onto the couch, leaving the Jenga on the floor. It wasn't a terrible movie, but I kind of just liked the way he reacted when I pretended to not like it. He would get so hyped about it, talking a mile a minute with large round eyes full of passion and excitement. It was cute, and the only real time I saw that was when I would groan about Star Wars.

He set up the movie and came back sitting right next to me, which made me blush for a second, it was like all his awkwardness and mine was melting away.

""This is Episode II! I think you'll really like it."

"You're the expert."

"But the way, I'm doing you a favor by the way, We watched the original trilogy, so now we'll watch the pre-trilogy."

"Pre-trilogy?"

"Don't worry, you'll see them all," he gave me a goofy grin.

I chuckled in the back of my throat," Whatever you say," I submitted.

That's how we spent the day, I watched Star Wars movies, which were pretty good, but still confusing, I would have to watch them a few times to really grasp what was happening. Relatively early into the first movie, I leaned into Embry again and he wrapped his arm around me, it wasn't so forced and weird like it had been and I was grateful his mom didn't walk in a second 's what we did for the rest of the day, Embry showed me all the movies, now I had finally seen them. I really liked the ones from today, Anakin was a cutie and I thought he and the queen were cute together. I was really not expecting Anakin to be Darth Vader, all these movies kept throwing major plot twists at me.

Embry drove me home afterward, he even made a joke about coming in and talking to Charlie, I told him no. I feel asleep easily that night, life just seemed to pleasant and care free.