Bella was waiting outside when Rosalie and Alice pulled up in the red BMW. She was too excited to continue waiting inside so she had grabbed her bag,sat on the steps and just enjoyed being outside. When she lived with her mother she never got the opportunity. That's one of the things she really liked about Forks. She didn't have to be covered form head to toe just to go outside. She hadn't even had to wear her sunglasses since she got into Charlie's car after arriving at the airport.
She jumped up and made her way to Rosalie's car just in time for Alice to get out of the passenger seat. Bella pulled Alice into a hug that was happily returned, got in the car and gave Rosalie a kiss on the cheek.
"Good morning Bella." Rosalie said with a smile.
"Good morning Rosalie, good morning Alice."Bella replied.
"Good morning Bella. Everyone is excited about you coming over. By now I'm sure Esme has made a huge breakfast for you to eat when you get there. So I hope you're hungry." Alice told her.
"I'm always hungry Alice." Bella said making Alice laugh.
"Esme will like having you around then. She loves to cook but doesn't have anyone to cook for. She bakes for Carlisle's patients and makes the occasional dinner for a pot luck but she would love to have someone to feed. I think it's the mother in her that needs to take care of people." Alice explained.
When they pulled up to the house Rosalie rushed around the car to get Bella's door as was becoming tradition.
"Thank you." Bella said.
"I have to keep up my reputation of being the perfect half gentleman. Getting doors are mandatory." Rosalie said opening the front door for Bella to prove her point.
Bella smiled at her and patted Rosalie's cheek."No need to worry because you good sir do an amazing job as a half gentleman."
Rosalie chuckled and tipped an imaginary hat. "Thank you milady."
"Bella you're here. How wonderful. I have breakfast all ready for you. Come into the kitchen dear." Esme said while ushering her to the kitchen where a feast of pancakes, hash browns, sausage,bacon and eggs was waiting. It was enough to feed half a dozen people.
"This looks great thank you." Bell told her.
"Sit, sit. Let me make you a plate. I wasn't sure exactly what you would like so I went with the basics. You'll have to tell me your favorites for next time." Esme said as Rosalie pulled a chair out for Bella.
"Everything is perfect I promise." Bella assured Esme.
"After you finish I can take you and show you your car if you want." Rosalie offered.
"I probably won't know what you did to it but I wouldn't mind taking a look."Bella replied.
"Hey Bella." Emmett said taking a seat at the counter next to her. " I was wondering if we could arm wrestle. Rosalie told us about you beating the crap out of those guys last night and I want to see if you could beat me in your human form."
Bella thought about it for a minute." That's a weird request but might actually be fun. I've never arm wrestled someone before. It would be cool to be able to actually use my strength and not have to hold back.
"Yes." Emmett said fist bumping the air."See I told you she would be cool Rosalie."
At Bella's confused look Rosalie explained."I mentioned before my family was excited to spend time with you. I simply asked if they would try to not overwhelm you. They can be a little much and I didn't want them to make you uncomfortable."
"Oh well thank you?I mean I get that they're excited. I kind of am to. I never had any siblings or friends so it's cool to not only hang out with new people but it's nice to not have to hide what I am. If it gets overwhelming I'll let you know." Bella said finishing off the last of the pancakes much to Esme's delight.
"Great then after you finish you're on. Then maybe later you can show me some of your Kung fu?" Emmett asked.
"Kung fu?" Bella was once again confused. She had a feeling that confusion was going to be a regular state she found herself in around the Cullens.
"Yeah you know the king fu you used on those guys in the park last night." Emmett explained.
"I hate to disappoint you Emmett but I don't know Kung fu. My grandfather taught me self defense growing up but it's not martial arts. I guess I can show you some of what I know. It's not really that fancy." Bella told him.
"That's still cool." Emmett reassured her.
Bella stood up with her plate after she finished off the rest of the food Esme made. She was comfortably full. When she went to start washing her dishes Esme stopped her.
"Oh no dear you're a guest let me take care of that for you." Esme said taking the plate.
"Are you sure? It's only fair that since you cooked I do the dishes." Bella replied.
"No, that's fine I don't mind." Esme said.
"Ok then well Emmett where do you want to arm wrestle?" Bella asked him.
"Right here is fine."He said sitting down at the dinning room table.
"Emmett I think you should take it outside. Esme is quite fond of that table." Alice said as she and Jasper entered the room.
"That's probably the best idea." Rosalie agreed.
They all followed Emmett to a large flat stone that sat at the edge of their lawn. Emmett kneeled down and got into position.
"You don't have to do this." Rosalie told Bella.
"It'll be fun." Bella promised.
"Don't ruin this Rosalie. We all know you want to see your girlfriend kick Emmett's butt." Alice said causing Jasper to chuckle and Rosalie to glare at her.
"Come on. Times a wasting." Emmett said as Bella knelt down across from him locking hands at the center of the rock.
"On three." Alice said. "One, Two, Three!"
They all watched as Emmett's grunted and flexed his muscle trying to push Bella's arm down. His frustration was mounting as he was getting nowhere. Rosalie turned her attention to Bella. Where as Emmett looked like he was about to strain something Bella had a relaxed looked on her face. Her muscles weren't strained and it looked like it took no effort for her to hold Emmett's arm where it was.
"Why isn't your arm moving?" Emmett screamed in frustration causing them all to laugh. Seconds later Bella had slammed his hand down so hard on the rock that not only did it crack in half but Emmett's hand looked like it splintered.
"Oh my god Emmett I'm so sorry. Is your hand ok?"Bella asked concerned. She hadn't meant to hurt Emmett. She didn't actually know she could.
Emmett just laughed. "Man you got me good. I didn't even have a chance.Look at this thing." He held his hand up showing the damage. "You crushed it with one hand. That's amazing. I wonder what else you could do?"
"Emmett fix your hand please. You're upsetting Bella." Jasper told him.
"What? Oh yeah. It's fine Bella." He licked his hand spreading the venom out over the damaged parts." See it's already healing."
"That's disgusting and cool at the same time." Bella said watching in fascination as Emmett's hand knitted itself back together.
"Do you want to race now?" Emmett asked.
"Emmett." Rosalie growled in warning. This is exactly what she was afraid of. Her family going to far. Bella hadn't even been here an hour yet and Emmett was already acting like a child.
"No it's fine. I actually kind of want to race him. Human or tiger?" Bella asked.
"Once again you don't have to do this." Rosalie told her. She had a feeling she would be repeating the phrase all day.
"I really want to though. I've never really had a chance to use my abilities out in the open and test my limits. Besides it's kind of fun." Bella said.
"Human now tiger next?" Emmett asked her.
"You're on. Alice set it up." Bella told an obviously excited Alice.
"On it. Jasper you can judge the finish line. That way they can't cheat. We go from end to end of the lawn. That's about two miles." Alice explained. "Line up."
Rosalie rolled her eyes as she watched her mate and her brother line up to race across the lawn. She played it off as childish but she was probably more excited then Alice. Seeing her mate being so dominant physically was a very attractive trait. Maybe a little to attractive she thought as she tried to keep her thoughts PG rated. The last thing she wanted to do is embarrass herself by showing just how much Bella's physical prowess affected her.
"Ready, set, GO!!" Rosalie held her breath as she watched Bella and Emmett blur by to fast for the human eye to see. She knew Bella was fast in her tiger form but had doubted she would beat Emmett in her human form. She had been wrong. Bella was incredibly fast. She had made it to Jasper just as Emmett reached the halfway mark. Just like Emmett she found herself wondering just what else her mate was capable of.
"Not even close Emmett!" Jasper told a scowling Emmett.
"I want to say that you cheated but I know you didn't. I didn't know shifters could move that fast. Heck I don't think I know any vampires who move that fast." Emmett said to Bella.
"I've never tried running that fast in my human form." Bella told him.
"Are you that fast in your tiger form?" Alice asked.
"I'm pretty quick. Maybe a bit faster if I really tried." Bella replied.
"She is faster than that in her tiger form. I saw her running when we went hunting. When you went after that bear I was going as fast as I could and you left me in the dust. I don't even have a fraction of your speed." Rosalie admitted.
"Do you think we could try wrestling in your tiger form. I feel like I didn't get a real good chance the first time." Emmett said making Rosalie roll her eyes once again. She thought they might get stuck by the end of the day if things kept going this way. Before she got a chance to scold Emmett Bella replied.
"I would really like that. I used to play with my grandfather when we were in our tiger forms and it was a lot of fun. I miss it. I get to play with the other cats but I have to be careful not to use my full strength on them. Just give me a minute to change." Bella said running off into the woods.
"Emmett you need to calm down. She hasn't been here an hour and you've already challenged her to arm wrestle, a race and a fight against her tiger." Rosalie whispered.
"It's cool. You heard her she wants to wrestle. She used to with her grandfather. She said she missed it. This is a good thing for her." Emmett said defensively.
"At least we now know who her shifter ancestor was." Jasper added.
Alice noticed Rosalie didn't react to that news. "You knew already."
"Yes MY mate and I discussed it. She told me all about her heritage." Rosalie told her.
"Why didn't you tell us? You know we all wanted to know." Alice asked hurt that her sister didn't share the information.
"Once again I will remind you that Bella is MY mate. I don't have to tell you every little thing she tells me. I think you've all gotten a little to used to having Edward around. Just because he told everyone's secrets doesn't mean that we don't have the right to privacy. Bella told me those things. If she wanted you to know she would have told you."
Alice had the decency to feel ashamed at Rosalie's words. "You're right I'm sorry. I didn't even realize that the reason we share so much with each other is because we are forced to. I will try to keep my curiosity to myself."
Rosalie nodded in reply as she watched Bella come out of the woods. The tiger walked right up to her and head butted her shoulder. Rosalie ran her hands through the fur and nuzzled her head into Bella's neck. The soft purr she felt rumble through Bella's body had her purring back in response. She pulled back in surprised. Yes she knew vampires could purr but she had never done it before. Bella just pushed against her again before walking up to Emmett.
"Ok so rules. Please don't rip off any part of my body. It's hurts a lot and is a pain to have wait while things reattach. In return I'll try not to hurt you."Emmett promised.
Bella rolled her glowing mismatched eyes in response.
"I don't think she's worried Emmett." Jasper told him.
"Yeah yeah I get you're an almighty tiger. Come on let's start in the middle of lawn so everyone can see me kick your ass clearly." Emmett said motioning for them to follow him.
"He's not going to hurt her is he?" Alice asked Rosalie."I mean I know she's really strong and tore his leg off before but is she a good fighter?"
"I have no doubt Emmett is about to get his ass handed to him. I saw how easily she took care of him and he had the element of surprise on his side. No I think what you should worry about is Bella hurting Emmett." Rosalie told her.
"I hate that I can't see her future because I can't see how this will play out. It makes me nervous." Alice admitted.
"I know it is hard to do but have some faith. You are so much more than your gift love." Jasper said pulling Alice into a hug.
They watched as Emmett and Bella circled each other Emmett swiping at the tiger every so often. His fighting style was definitely more aggressive than Bella's. She was calm and focused on Emmett not yet making her move. Rosalie watched with curiosity as she tried to figure out what Bella was thinking. She had been the same when she went against the bear. Calm and letting the bear make the moves.
"She's just toying with him. It's like she doesn't want to hurt his feelings. I've seen a dozen ways that she could've ended the fight already but she's letting him get his punches out." Jasper said as he watched once again as Bella side stepped one of Emmett's attacks without easily taking advantage of his unguarded back.
"This is going to take a while isn't it?" Rosalie asked no one in particular. She decided to sit down as it gave her better way to hide just how much she was enjoying watching her mate fight. Keeping her excited penis under control was becoming a full time hobby and she hoped as much as didn't that she wouldn't feel this way after the bond was accepted. But until then she sat crossed legged with her hands covering her lap ignoring the knowing looks from Alice while she watched her mate kick Emmett's ass.