"Why are you late?" Rosalie asked Bella as she sat down at their lunch table.
"The principle wanted my opinion on different chairs because he wanted me to be comfortable tomorrow for the talk." Bella explained pulling the lid off of her grilled trout. "As I left I heard him on his cell phone talking to someone about caviar."
Emmett laughed as he slid a tray full of brownies to Bella. "I think you should ask him for something outrageous like imported water from Greenland or something like that."
"The man would probably fly there himself to get some fresh from the spring, if it guaranteed Bella would do this event." Jasper shook his head at the silliness of it all. "Did you see the prices he's charging for different seating?"
"No, I haven't paid attention to any of that." Bella said. Putting down a brownie to eat the salad instead after receiving a look of disappointment from Rosalie at eating the less healthy food first. "It can't be that exciting. I"m the one doing the talk, I mean the mayor is going to be there, but it's happening in a high school gym,is there really any bad seats?"
Alice patted Bella on the arm. "Oh our poor little naive Bella. You have no idea how big of a deal you are do you?"
"What do you mean?" Bella asked finishing the salad and happily grabbing a brownie.
"Sweetheart, I know everything about your family is normal to you, but they literally founded the country and are the only family in history that had three different generations of men serve as president. That's kind of important. I think the fact that they start teaching kids about the Shurlongs when they first start school and continue every year after that adds to the excitement of meeting one in person." Rosalie explained.
Bella finished off the last of the brownies."I haven't done anything to add to that legacy, so why would people be excited to meet me?"
"Because Bella just like Rosalie, you are cool by association."Emmett said. "Not saying you aren't cool, I mean you are the Great White Tiger but humans are obsessed with who you know and where you come from. And you Bella come from legit royalty."
"I mean I saw how people would get excited for my grandfather and when I was with him I was treated well, but he was a trail blazer in his own right. I was just lucky enough to be his grand daughter." Bella said still confused.
Rosalie kissed Bella's cheek. "You are so much more than just his granddaughter. You are just as much a trail blazer as he was, if not more. When you do your talk tomorrow just focus on how proud of your family you are and don't worry about how you measure up, because you have to remember the humans don't know half of who you are and you my dear are magnificent."
"Thank you,Rose." Bella said kissing her softly.
"Awww." Alice gushed. "I seriously have a toothache because how sweet you two are."
"So how much are these tickets and do we need to buy them?" Emmett asked. "I mean I'm going there for work so I don't think I should have to pay."
"It's 1000 to get a seat in the first three rows." Emmett whistled at Jasper's words. " It's 750 for the rest of the floor seating. The four sets of bleachers are priced by where they are located and they go for 500 to the lowest which is 100."
"Jeeze Bella who knew it was so expensive to hear you talk. I think you should start charging these jokers to spend time with you." Emmett said motioning to Alice and Jasper.
"Why would she only charge us and not you?" Alice asked.
Emmett flexed his arm. "Because I'm her hired muscle,Rosalie's personal bodyguard."
"How come you need Emmett as a bodyguard? Jasper would be a great bodyguard." Alice said slightly offended her mate wasn't considered.
Rosalie rolled her eyes."Emmett can pass off his strength as human. I don't honestly think I will need the protection but we want to be extra cautious because Bella has never done any kind of event before and no Emmett you don't have to buy a ticket. Esme bought them for all of us already."
"I mean there are people posting pics of you on social media, but have you gotten any threats?" Alice asked.
Rosalie grabbed Alice's phone. "What pictures?"
"Really? How are you two so blind to the world around you? Even now there are three people with their phones pointed towards this table." Alice said as she grabbed her phone back.
Bella scanned the room and sure enough there were people taking pictures. "That's kind of creepy. Who would even be interested in photos of me eating lunch in the school cafeteria?"
"Many millions of people online that's who." Alice showed Rosalie and Bella her phone. "There is even an unofficial Instagram account for you that posts random pics people tag you in. You are officially linked exclusively to the hashtag American royalty."
Rosalie scrolled through the pictures pausing to show Bella. "Look it's the picture of you and Becky."
"That's a sweet picture. Certainly a lot better than that one." Bella said frowning at a picture taken of her leaving the girl's bathroom.
Emmett laughed. "Hey at least they didn't take one of you while you were in there."
"This is kind of a serious don't you think?" Jasper asked. "Some of these pictures not only have Rosalie in them but us as well. How are you going to explain the fact that you never age?"
"If it gets to the point that people notice we will simply go live away from humans." Rosalie told him. "The main people in Bella's life know about her shifter side and will be able to protect her assets. So we won't have to worry about money or trying to find new identities ever again."
"Whoah so you would just isolate yourselves if you began to garner suspicion?" Alice asked.
Bella put her arm around Rosalie's waist. "I've been isolated half my life and Rosalie doesn't particularly like humans anyway. Before I met Rosalie my plan was to go back to the estate and live my life there away from the world, so it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice"
Emmett frowned. "But we could still come visit you guys right? You aren't going to leave us forever are you?"
"No Emmett, we aren't going to leave you forever." Rosalie promised. "We might not even have to do that. Who knows what the savior of all supernatural races life has in store for her and the people around her."
"It won't happen anytime soon. So don't worry about it right now." Bella said "Alice how are the suits coming for the wolves?"
"Great. They are going to arrive today so I need to set up a time to tailor them on the boys." Alice told her.
"I know they won't be comfortable being left alone in your house without myself or Rosalie there with them."looking to Rosalie Bella asked. "Do you mind going shopping for the kittens by yourself? I would offer to go and have you stay with Alice but I know how much you were looking forward to it."
Rosalie sighed. "I really wanted you to come with me, but I know this is important."
"I can go with you!" Emmett offered.
Rosalie narrowed her eyes at him. "We are only going to the pet store, no where else."
"I'm in." Emmett told her. "I've never been to a pet store before. You want us to get anything for your tiger Bella?"
Bella smiled as Rosalie groaned. "I'm good thank you Emmett."
"This is going to be so great." Emmett said as the bell rang.
Rosalie pulled Bella to her feet and stood on her tip toes to give her a kiss. "I'm going to regret this aren't I?"
"Probably." Bella confirmed laughing at the hard push Rosalie gave her as she headed to class.