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"You have a snuggle routine. Every night when you're about to go to sleep you do this whole snuggle thing where you either move up my body or down until you find the perfect stop to lay your head and arms before going to bed. Also might I add that your favorite spot is somewhere on or in between my breasts." I look down to see Bella blushing hard.

"Not my fault your boobs are comfy." She shrugs as she lifts her head to gently kiss the valley between my breasts before laying her head back down. I was not ready for that. I stopped breathing the second her lips made contact with my kiss. I could feel my skin practically burning from where she kissed. "Good night."

"Good night angel." Well damn that has never happened before and dear god do I want it to happen again. Deal lord this woman is going to be the death of me, and at this point I'm okay with that.

Bella's P.O.V.

I woke up this morning still lying on top of Tanya and after last night I don't really want to move. She is very comfortable and I really enjoy lying in her arms.

"You know you talk a lot when you're sleeping, and I seem to be your new topic of choice." I hid my face in my very comfy pillow and chose to ignore what she just said.

"Shut up..." I mumble into my pillow starting to blush.

"Might want to be careful with your pillow of choice there angel. I am trying very hard not to moan because it can be quite sensitive." Wait, what? Sensitive? I lift my head up and look at Tanya before I look down and see that my pillow is her breasts...and here I thought I was blushing before. "You're really adorable when you blush."

"You're trying to kill me." I say as I roll over and hide my face in the comforter which is also comfy.

"How am I trying to kill you?" She says as she moves closer to me and gently starts playing with my hair.

"You're enjoying making me blush way too much, and it's killing me!" I don't care if I'm being dramatic right now. It is too early in the morning for me to be this embarrassed.

"I'm sorry," She says not sounding the least bit sorry at all. "I can stop if you really want me too." I really want to say yes, but at the same time I really enjoy it when Tanya teases me. I know she doesn't do it to be mean in any way.

"Feeding time for the human." I say as my stomach growls and also I really needed a topic change because I still don't know how to answer that question.

"Okay then." Tanya says as she rolls her gorgeous eyes. I would question myself on why I thought that, but after last night I am too tired and I'm just going to go with it since she says I'm her mate. I see no point in trying to fight it. "What would the human like to eat for breakfast?" She says as she rolls out of bed.

"Food preferably cooked and not in the red liquid form." I am feeling a bit sarcastic this morning after I got over my earlier embarrassment.

"Smartass," Tanya says as she starts walking out of the room with a smile.

"I am quite smart and I do have an ass. Thank you for noticing both." I shout out the door as I start heading to the bathroom to shower.

"Trust me it's my pleasure angel!" Why does she always have to have the last word?! I slam the bathroom to block out Tanya's laughing. I can't help but smile as I feel a flustering in my heart when I think about Tanya's smile while laughing at me.

I quickly hop out of the shower, and walk into the bedroom to get dressed. This whole time I think about everything Tanya and I talked about last night. I glad we talked, but really a lot of what she said confused me, made me happy, infuriated me, and so many other emotions that I can't even begin to comprehend right now. There are still so many things we need to talk about today.

I finished getting dressed in a simple pair of black sweat pants and a Neon Trees band shirt. I decided to crawl back into bed and just lay there thinking about anything and everything. Most importantly I need to figure out all these feelings I have for Tanya. She told me I was her mate...but Edward said the same thing. How am I supposed to know if she's telling me the truth? What's to stop her from leaving me too? I know I like her, but do I like her like that? So many questions are swirling in my mind and I just don't know how to handle all of them.

"Bella are you okay? I've calling you down for breakfast and you never answered." I look over and see Tanya standing there with my food and a glass of orange juice. I really want to ask her what it really means to be somebody's mate. But that is not what flies out of my mouth.

"Why didn't you tell me about you penis?" That is not what I want to say AT ALL! Why did my mouth how to fail me now?

"Oh..." She says as she places my food down on the nightstand and sits down on the edge of the bed. "I didn't want to freak you out I guess. I don't really know. Back when I was first changed being a girl and having a penis was unheard of. The fact that my parents actually kept me after I was born amazes me. I don't remember them, but they could have killed me. Society back then would have wanted them to and they didn't. Hell even now they still consider my condition weird, and I didn't want you to think that about me. Even though you are my mate I still really wanted to be your friend if that's all I could have." She says all of that while looking at her hands in her lap. I can see this has really been heavy on her heart all of her life and I feel bad for bringing it up, and at the same time I glad we are talking about it.

"Tanya, please look at me." I whisper as I sit up and lie back against the headboard. I watch as she signs deeply and keeps her head down. "Tanya," I tried again. What I have to say requires eye contact. I sigh as she still doesn't look at me. "Tatiana Veronika Denali, look at me. What I have to say will NOT be said to your back so come here." I watch as she reacts instantly. At a pace faster than my eyes could catch she was sitting in front of me with her legs crossed. Her hands were still placed in her lap, but she was finally looking at me. "Thank you." I whisper as I cross my legs also.

"Yeah..." She almost mumbles sounding extremely vulnerable. Well now I really have to be careful of what I say because the last thing I need is for her to be consumed by this.

"You know you're a beautiful person, right? Just because you have a penis doesn't change that especially not in my eyes. Just so you know I've known about your penis since around the second or third day we met. Having me sit on your lap probably wasn't the best idea if you were really trying to hide it from me." I joke trying to get her to laugh even just a little bit.

"I've always hide it from people. Literally the only ones who know are my family. I like most people have a fear of rejection, and well never having putting myself in that situation is one way to avoid it hints why I never told you." I heard everything she said, but there's one thing I'm stuck on.

"Did you just say you've never slept with anybody?" I ask extremely confused.

"Yes, why?" I watch as her body starts to go rigid again.

"Umm...whenever the Cullen's mentioned you Edward made it sound like you slept with anything that could walk. I never believed him, but still I thought it might be more by the way he talked about you and your sisters."

"Kate and Irina were very promiscuous and the Cullen's all just assumed I was too because we're sisters and they think birds of a feather. I knew what they all thought about me, but I just never bothered to correct them. I wish I would have corrected them thinking back on them especially if I would have known about you. The last think I would ever want is for you to think I was a whore or something." She says as she gently grabs my hands from my lap and squeezes.

"Chalk it up to another of Edward's lies. Besides even if you had slept with as many people as the Cullen's think you have that then that doesn't make you a whore. But why did Edward make it sound like every time they would visit you would try and be all over him? I noticed how you said women and not people. Edward clearly isn't a woman." That part really confused me, but it's good to know that what Edward said wasn't true.

"Edward mistakes me trying to be nice to him since he is technically family as me trying to flirt with him because in his mind he honestly believes that he's God's gift to the world." Now that I think about it she's right he does seem very conceited now that I think back on it.

"He a liar, conceited, manipulative, is very good at making people feel less than him, and the list goes on. Boy do I really know how to pick them." I say as I roll my eyes and pull on her hands gently trying to get her to move closer. After today I feel like I need time to just think because I feel like I'm overload.

"You didn't know this before you started dating him. Plus from what I hear he is very good at charming people." Tanya says finally smiling.

"Well I am exhausted, and I have a lot of thinking to do. Is there anything else you would like to tell me? I need to eat, and then you are coming to call your family and tell them to come over. I want to officially meet them." I say not leaving room for argument on the last part. I'll have to wait to ask her about what it really means to be mated later after I've had time to think everything through.

"Well you see there is one more thing I have kind of avoided telling you, but not really because you never asked so technically I wasn't hiding it so you can't hold it against me." I have never seen a vampire ramble on like this well that's not true. Alice used to do that all the time.

"Tanya, just say it please." She seems nervous.

"Laurent is Irina's mate. As in the same Laurent that was traveling with James and Victoria when they tried to kill you, but he feels really bad for what happened. He wishes he could take it back or done more to help you, but when he came back to try and help the Cullen's practically threatened his life if he came near you again." I can't help but smile. She's kinda cute when she starts rambling.

"I don't blame him. I have never. From what I heard he gave the Cullen's very helpful information and I'm pretty sure that's the only reason why I'm still alive so if anything I need to tell him thank you for trying to do the right thing in such a bad situation." I smile as I pull one of my hands out of her and shuffle to the end of the bed. I grab my plate of uneaten food, and pull Tanya behind me as I go downstairs to heat it up real quick.

As we're walking down the stairs I feel Tanya squeeze my hand to get my attention. "So you're not mad that I didn't tell you, or at him?"

"No, I'm not mad at you. I wish you didn't try and hide it from me, but I completely understand why you would when considering how the James situation turned out. I know you didn't want to bring up bad memories for me and I really appreciate that. And I was never mad at Laurent because he had no control over what James or Victoria did. Now you go call them while I heat up my food and eat. Now go go." I say as I let go of her hand and pull her towards the living room as I head into the leaving room.

I smile as I walk into the kitchen. I still feel like I'm on overload, but I'm really happy Tanya and I talked. I don't know how I feel about the whole mate thing, but I don't think being Tanya's mate would be all that bad. A hell of a lot better than be Edward's honestly, but I still need time to figure out how I feel towards her because I would hate to send her mixed signals or anything like that.

I'm glad she and I can talk to her and she actually does worry about hiding information from me. Edward wouldn't have cared how I felt towards him keeping information from me, and honestly in all the time he and I were together we never had a truly honest and heartfelt conversation like Tanya and I just did. I just hope meeting her whole family goes well. From what I hear they are nice, but Kate and Irina have a tendency to go too far. This is going to be interesting.

A/N 2: Woo another chapter is done for all of y'all's pleasure. My best friend goes into surgery on Wednesday, and she and I are both nervous as hell. We're hoping she doesn't have to a hysterectomy.