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I had just found my purse when Jared came out of no where with a pair of one of my shoes. He picked me up bridal style and ran outside much faster than humanly possible.

The next thing I knew I was sitting in the passenger's seat of Jared's car while he was putting the key in the ignition.

"Why'd you do that?" I asked. Under my breath I added, "not that I really minded."

He chuckled after he heard that and than answered my question with a small smirk on his beautiful face. "Well you were taking way too long just to pick out a purse. You weren't even on the shoe stage yet. So I decided to take matters into my own hands."

As I looked to see which of my shoes Jared had brought out for me I unconsciously let out a small gasp that would be inaudible to any normal persons ears.

"Is there something wrong with the shoes?" He said in a worried voice while observing every subtle gesture I made.

"Oh, no. That's not it at all" I said as I realised why he had asked. "I was just a little surprised, that's all"

Confusion dawned his facial features. So I took this as a cue to explain.

"Well these shoes happened to be one of my favorite pairs, not to mention the exact ones that I had planned on wearing today." I said while I looked down at the plain sparkly gold flats sitting in my lap.

I could tell he was pleased with himself because of the grin that was starting to consume his face.

"I suppose it was just a lucky guess." He said as he leaned in to give me a small peck on my lips.

We continued the rest of the car ride sitting in a comfortable silence. Neither one of us felt the need to talk about unimportant or random affairs just to fill the air with noise pollution. So I just stared out the window and watched the blur of green plants zip by.

We were at Sam and Emily's small home in a matter of about ten minutes. Once we were there we just walked right in as if we owned the place. We were there a lot though so it did kind of feel like a second home to us.

Me and Jared were greeted with many comments including "look who decided to finally show up" and "Sleeping Beauty has entered the room, make way people!"

All of them knew how I hated to wake up early in the morning. Hence the nickname of 'sleeping beauty'.

Although we had tried to get there on time some how we were still late.

Jared lightly grabbed my hand as he led me to the kitchen so he could get some food. I saw no surprise there.

As he started to pile his plate with as much food as it could possibly hold without breaking I grabbed a small bowl of pasta salad for myself.

Then we made our way to the living room where everyone else had already settled in.

Quil was in the rocking chair in the corner of the room with a 6 and a half year old Claire on his lap. Believe me, you can't just say that she's six, she always insists that you must add the half. Paul, Embry, and Jacob were all piled on to one of the couches. Not to mention Rachel was sitting on Paul's lap too. I was surprised that the couch hadn't collapsed yet. The other smaller couch was occupied by Sam and Collin. Sam and Emily's 4 year old daughter, Brooke, was sitting on the floor right in front of her dad and leaning onto his massive and muscular legs. Usually Sam would be sitting with Emily too but she was busy making one of the many servings of food that she would have to make today. Seth was sitting on the floor pigging out by the coffee table. Leah was the only one who wasn't there, but I can't say that I was surprised by her absence. Jared went to sit on the remaining lay-z-boy then I just plopped down onto his lap.

Soon enough we were joining into the conversation they were having about dessert. My goodness, these guys rarely ever stopped talking about food. The only time they weren't talking about it was when they were eating it.

"I hope we have a nice lemon meringue pie after lunch!" Jacob hinted loudly towards the kitchen where Emily was currently cooking.

"And ice cream sundaes too!" Seth managed to add between mouthfuls.

Unexpectedly an exasperated Embry said,"Why does everyone else get goddamn laid here besides me?!"

Quil quickly covered Claire's ears while Sam did the same for Brooke. They both shot Embry a death glare causing Embry to put his hands up as if he wer being help at gunpoint.

Everyone else happened to be laughing histerically. Then when Colin shot a bunch of meatballs with tomato sauce at him it made everyone laugh even harder.

I didn't notice that Emily had walked into the room because I was laughing so hard until she said in an accusing tone "what's all this about?"

Since no one spoke up Brooke said, "Uncle Embry's mad that he can't get laid."

This caused even more laughter to errupt. Mostly because Brooke had said this in her cute and innocent four year old voice. Well it was innocent before this happened anyway.

Now it was Emily who shot a look at Embry. This is when she noticed that her meat balls were smothered all over him.

Emily narrowed her eyes and said, "You have to clean this up, and do the dishes!"

"Ugh, fine!" And with that Embry got up and stomped loudly out of the living room to go wash off his shirt and face.

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