Sorry that i havent been able to update sooner! I had exams and so i had to study and everthing so i made an extra long chapter to make up for it. This is just a fun chapter because i needed to write something fun and relax because of exams.
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Chapter 12
BPOV
Olivia and Jacob had just left and it was just me and Edward in the house. I was washing the dishes and Edwards was drying them. We did this in silence; both of us were too wrapped up in our own thoughts to talk. I was thinking about Olivia and Jacob and how great they were together. I was happy for him to finally find someone that he loved besides me. I didn't want to cause him anymore pain. I wasn't jealous of them at all. This is the way that I wanted it to be. I let my thoughts go and then remembered to ask Edward what he and Jacob had talked about.
I looked over at him. He was staring intently at the dish he was drying, but then feeling my glance; he turned his head and smiled his crooked smile that I loved. I smiled back.
"So, what did you and Jacob go off and talk about?" I asked nonchalantly.
"Well we talked about imprinting and Olivia…" he shrugged. There was something else that he wasn't telling me about.
"And…" I said as I turned off the water and dried off my hands.
"We talked about the wedding, and if he was coming or not." I raised my eyebrows and waited for him to continue. "So he's coming and he's bringing Olivia and Billy."
"Ok good. I'm glad they can come. I really like Olivia. Jacob and her are great for each other." I was truly happy for them.
"And I also asked him to be a groomsman." He spit out quickly and searched my face for my reaction. I think that he expected me to be mad or upset at him. My reaction threw him off, though. My face broke out into a huge grin and jumped into him arms, wrapping my arms around his neck.
"You did?" I asked. He just nodded still stunned my reaction. "Thanks Edward! I'm so happy that you two worked things out!" He pulled me off of him and stood me in front of him. He left his hands on my shoulders. "What's wrong?"
"This wasn't exactly the reaction that I expecting, but I'll take it." He smiled. I jumped back into his arms and kissed him passionately. He kissed me back and pulled away too soon. My breathing was ragged and I was sure that my face was flushed.
"So you're not mad?"
"No, silly. This is what I wanted. I wanted you to work things out. I wanted us to be able to be together, all together, without it being uncomfortable." He smiled at this and pulled me into his chest. I don't know how long we stood there but he released me.
"Charlie's coming. I should go. I think that I might get Alice to come over in a few minutes so you can sleep over tonight. It'll be fun. Emmett wants to do a kids night or something. So we'll be watching movies and stuff." He leaned down and kissed me swiftly and ran out the back door. I heard the cruiser door slam and Charlie walking up the steps. He opened the door.
"Bella?" he called. That was one thing that really annoyed me about Charlie. Who else would be here?
I sighed and called back. "Hey dad. I'm in the kitchen."
"Hey Bella." He said as he walked in and sat in a chair. "Did you have breakfast?"
"Yeah, Jacob and Olivia came over and ate with Edward and me."
"Oh yeah. I just met Olivia. She seems like a nice girl. Jacob brought her by the station. I'm glad that he's back and he found someone." I just nodded. I looked out the window and saw Alice's car pull up and her get out. She walked to the door at human speed and rang the door bell. That was fast I thought. Charlie looked up at the sound.
"It's Alice." I said walking to the door and let her in. Charlie was behind me.
"Hey Alice." I said as she hugged me.
"Hello Alice." Charlie said to her.
"Hey Bella and Charlie!" she said smiling.
"Do you want to come in?" Charlie asked gesturing towards the kitchen.
"No thanks, Charlie. I actually came over to see if it was ok if Bella slept over tonight. The boys are going camping tonight and we wanted to have a girl's night. You know, watch movies and stuff." I smiled and looked at Charlie. I knew what his answer was going to be. He could never say 'no' to Alice.
"Sure, honey. You girls have fun." He walked into the TV room and left us alone in the hall.
"You want to go pack?" She said as she grabbed my hand and pulled me up the steps behind her. She pulled out one of my bags and started packing some clothes into it. She grabbed the bag with all my bathroom stuff and stuck it in there, too.
"Ok, I'm done. Ready to go?"
"Sure, let's go. Let me just tell Charlie that I'm leaving."
"All right. I'll be waiting in the car." She skipped out of my room with my bag. I walked downstairs and to Charlie.
"Dad, I'm going to leave now. Ok?"
"It's a bit early for a girl's 'night'? Isn't it?" he put emphasize on the night part. I looked at the clock. It said that it was one in the afternoon.
"Yeah I know. I want to say bye to Edward before he goes. So I want to get there before he leaves." I said inching towards the door.
"Ok Bells. Have fun." He turned back to the TV and I knew that the conversation was over. I quickly walked to the car and got in.
"Took you long enough." Alice said sarcastically as she pulled out onto the road. I rolled my eyes.
"Charlie thought that it was a little early to start our girl's night."
"Yes, I know I could hear." She laughed. Of course. Vampire hearing. She turned up the radio and sang. I knew the song but I didn't want to join in and ruin her singing. Instead I laughed along with her until we got to her house. She pulled into the garage and got my bag out. We walked into the house and were greeted by Edward as soon as we walked in. He pulled me into his arms and kissed the top of my head.
"Hey, love." He said as I pushed my face towards his so that I could kiss him. We kissed until Emmett barreled down the steps and started to make gagging noises behind us. Edward turned around and shot a death glare at him.
Emmett gave the glare back at Edward. "Please don't do that to my sister while I'm around." Emmett said. He was excited by something and I could tell that he was going to tell us soon. Edward had released me and soon his entire family was with us. Carlisle and Esme had their suitcases with them.
"Ok, children," Esme said as she gave a motherly look at all of us. "Your father and I are going our tonight and won't be home until noon tomorrow. Don't do anything bad or disruptive. Do not break anything." She said giving a stern look at Emmett. She turned back to the rest of us. "And be safe. Think before doing something. Please." She said as they walked out the door.
"Bye kids!" Carlisle called before speeding away in their car. As soon as the car was out of site, Emmett turned slowly towards us.
"Ok, so, for tonight, we are going to have some fun. We can watch movies and all kinds of things." He was so excited. I had to hold in my laughter. He looked like a 5 year old in an 18 year old body. Jasper looked like he was having a hard time holding in all of Emmett's emotions and occasionally a wave of excitement would pass through all of us. "First I think that we should get out the ATVs." He said with an evil look before he ran out of the house and towards the garage. Rosalie sighed and rolled her eyes as she ran after him smiling. Alice and Jasper followed leaving Edward and me alone in the hall. I looked up at him curiously.
"You have ATVs?" I didn't think that they had ever mentioned them before. He sighed and smiled wickedly at me.
"No, Emmett bought them all this morning. He was planning this all day. Carlisle and Esme don't know that he got them. He got one for all of us."
"You mean I actually have to try to ride one of those?" I was worried. I tried a motorcycle and ended up getting stitches. I didn't really think that this was the best idea. He noticed my expression and smiled that crooked grin and dazzled me.
"Of course not, silly."' He said brushing a loose strand of hair out f my face. "You'll be riding with me. Emmett got us a special one so we could ride together."
"How thoughtful." I said sarcastically. "If Charlie found out about this… he would probably kill me. He was mad enough about the motorcycle incident." Edward rolled him eyes at me. I heard the roar of a motor and Emmett yelling for us to hurry up.
"I guess we should go out there now." I said annoyed. He smiled and picked me up running to the garage. I was really not looking forward to this. I knew that Edward would never let anything happen to me but motorcycles and I did not mix well. I gasped as we walked into the garage and there were five shiny new ATVs. Each sibling was standing by their own and there was one left with a helmet and a jacket on it. None of the others had one and I assumed that it was for me. Emmett walked over and ruffled my hair.
"That one is yours and Edwards." He followed my gaze at the jacket and helmet and a wide grin spread across his face. "I had to get those to make sure that you were safe. You know, you're accident prone. Plus, Edward, here wouldn't have any fun unless I got them." he smiled wickedly at Edward and then began to rolled out his ATV out of the garage with everyone following him. Edward placed the helmet on my head and helped me into the jacket. He smirked at me as I glared at him.
"Oh come on Bella. Emmett's really excited to do this. He planned this night with you in mind, you know. It's kind of your welcoming into the family party." I changed the smirk on my face to a slight smile.
"All right, let' get this over." I said as I followed him out and into the yard. They were all on the bikes already and had them started. Emmett was practically bouncing off his bike with excitement as he waited for us to get on. Edward climbed on and then pulled my on behind him. I wrapped my arms securely around his waist and he started it, following the others to a huge field that I had never seen before.
We began to drive quickly around the field. Everyone was racing. Edward was laughing and I caught my breath to look at him. He was so beautiful. I looked around at the rest of our family. They were laughing too and having a great time. Riding with Edward wasn't so bad. He could steer with one hand and held onto me with the other. I was holding so tightly to him that if he wasn't a vampire, I might have broken one of his ribs. Soon I joined in with the fun that they were having and let the wind blow away all my worries. Edward looked back at me and noticed me smiling. His smile grew larger and he made the ATV go faster. We raced around for a couple hours having lots of fun. Soon they all
stopped the bikes in the middle of the field. By this time it was getting dark and it didn't look like they had any intentions of leaving yet.
"Ok, Jasper, Rosalie, and I are going to get the fire started and Alice and Edward are going back to the house to get some s'more stuff. I already bought it marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. It's in the kitchen." Emmett directed. Edward frowned slightly.
"And what about Bella?" he demanded.
"Oh, she can stay with us and help with the fire." He noticed Edward's frown deepen. "Chill, Edward. We aren't going to send her off into the woods alone." I shrugged at Edward and smiled encouraging at him. I didn't really like to be away from him but it would be ok for a few minutes. Edward and Alice ran off back into the direction of the house and Jasper and Rosalie ran off into the woods to gather wood. I heard a few large cracks and I looked at Emmett curiously.
"What was that?" I was startled by the loud noise. I moved closer to him.
"It's just Rosalie and Jasper breaking off branches." He said laughing as I moved closer to him.
"What exactly are we doing?" I asked.
"We are going to have a bonfire and then eat s'mores." I giggled.
"You are going to eat s'mores? You don't eat, Emmett."
"I know that." He said matter-of-factly. "But we all have to eat one anyway. We do something like this every once and a while. We dare each other to eat something."
"But what happens when you eat. It can't be good for you."
"Well, it hurts for a bit and then you have to throw it up. But it's fun to win the competitions." He said smiling at me. By this time I noticed that Rosalie and Jasper were back and putting wood into a pile. They had
"And that's fun for you?" I personally didn't find throwing up and being in pain very fun. He just shrugged and walked over to them to start the fire. Jasper put out three large logs around the fire. I guessed that it was one log per couple. I looked back in the direction where Edward and Alice had run off in and I saw two blurs coming back. They slowed to a walk when they got back and I saw that they each had a large bag. I assumed that the s'more things were in there.
Edward walked back over to me and wrapped his arms around me from behind. He rested his chin on the top of my head. Soon there was a huge bonfire and we were all sitting around it. Jasper and Rosalie had gotten some sticks from the woods to roast the marshmallows on.
Emmett, do we really have to make these things?" Alice complained.
"Yeah, no offence, but this is disgusting." Jasper added.
"Of course, you only have to eat one. It won't kill you. And besides what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger."' He said with a smile. "Now make your s'more. I don't want to hear anymore complaining." Emmett said.
They had handed them out and passed the bag of marshmallows around. Everyone stuck a marshmallow on the end and stuck it into the fire. I could tell that the smell of the roasting food was getting to all of them because their noses were wrinkled and they weren't breathing. Once everyone's marshmallow was roasted, the chocolate and the graham crackers were passed around. We all made a s'more and all of the vampires sat staring at it in disgust. I looked over at Edward and giggled. He was squishing the s'more up and down in his fingers.
"How can humans think that this tastes good?" He said to no one in particular. They all looked at me after hearing his comment.
"Do you like s'mores, Bella?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"I guess so. I can only eat one or two because then they make me sick if I eat too many." They seemed satisfied with that answer because Emmett cleared his throat.
"Ok, on the count of three, you must eat it and look like you are enjoying it." I looked around at the disgusted vampires and watched them all sigh at the same time. "One, two, three! Eat it!" Emmett yelled. Alice and Rosalie took a nibble of the graham cracker and forced it down. Edward and Jasper took a bigger bit and at about half of it at once. Emmett shoved the entire thing in his mouth and grimaced as he attempted to swallow it. I ate mine in about three bites, but I didn't really count because I could eat food.
"This is disgusting." I heard Alice and Edward complain but they immediately stopped talking when Rosalie glared at them. She didn't complain because she didn't want to hurt Emmett's feelings. They had all finished and were staring into the fire. Edward wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him on the log. I snuggled into this chest and yawned. I looked around at each couple on the logs and observed their relationships. Alice and Jasper were holding hands and sitting closely. They didn't talk or look at each other, but their moment was so private that I looked away to Emmett and Rosalie. They were a strange couple but they complemented each other well. Emmett was like an excited kid at some points and at others he was the protective older brother. Rosalie was the beautiful, mature one. They balanced each other well. Emmett had his arm around her shoulders and her head was resting on his chest. I looked back up at Edward and he was looking into the fire.
I stared into the fire with him and enjoyed the moment until I heard Emmett get up and stretch. This apparently was the cue to pack everything up. The fire was put out and the logs were thrown back into the woods. I had a feeling that it was around eleven but I wasn't sure. Once everything was packed and cleaned up, they all got on the ATVs. I climbed on the back of Edwards and put the helmet and jacket on, much to their enjoyment. I think that I blushed several shades of red but it was too dark for them to see. I think Edward noticed because he brushed his hand down my cheek and laughed. The silence of the night was broken by roar of the engines turning on and we drove back to the garage.
During the ride back, I realized that this was really the first time that I had spent with them as a family. It was so perfect and I wondered if this was how the rest of eternity would be like once I was changed. My thoughts were interrupted by the bright lights from the garage. Edward helped my off the bike and took the helmet and jacket off of me. He quickly wheeled the ATV in and carried me into the house and up into his room. He laid me down on his bed and I closed my eyes. I was really tired. I opened my eyes when he started to laugh.
"Are you really that tired? We still have to watch a movie." I sighed and pulled a pillow over my head. He began to laugh harder and I pulled it off again and sat up. He took his shirt off and grabbed a tee shirt and sweat pants out of the drawer. He went into his closet and then came back out changed. I was still ogling over his bare chest when he came out. He threw me a pair of matching sweat pants and a long sleeved tee shirt. I went into his bathroom and changed into them. They were the right size but I had never seen them before. I heard a knock on the door.
"Bells, are you almost done?" Edward asked. He seemed anxious. I opened the door and he rushed in towards the toilet. I heard him throw up his s'more and realized what had just happened.
"Edward? Are you ok?" I asked concerned. He came back out and looked much better than when he had rushed in.
"Yeah, I'm better now. Come on. Emmett's getting impatient." He carried me down the stairs and sat me on the sofa next to him. Alice skipped in next followed by Jasper. Rosalie was sitting next to Emmett. Once everyone was seated, Emmett stood up and picked up two movies.
"Ok, here are the two choices." He said holding up two DVD cases. A Walk to Remember was one of them and then another one that I didn't know. A Walk to Remember was one of my favorite movies. "Let's take a vote." He held up the DVD that I wasn't familiar with and all of the boys voted for that. "Ok, so 3 for this one. And I guess that it would make three for the other one too?" He looked at both DVD's and then looked towards me. "Since its Bella's first official Cullen movie night, I think that she should get to choose."
"A Walk to Remember." I said quickly. It was an easy pick.
"All right, this one it is then" he said popping it into the TV. I heard Alice and Rosalie celebrate while the boys groaned. I looked up at Edward and shrugged. He smiled back.
"I like this one too." He assured me. I leaned against him and I felt his cold fingers run through my hair. The whole movie Emmett would comment on everything that would happen. He continued this until Rosalie put one finger to his lips and whispered something in his ear. He immediately stopped talking and watched the movie. Every so often I would feel him glance over at me to see if I was crying. At some points I would cry and they all thought that it was funny. I received a sympathetic glance from Edward and Rosalie once but they all laughed and soon I laughed through my tears. Edward kissed every tear away, sending shivers down my spine. It was around 3 in the morning when the movie was over and I let out a huge yawn.
"Ok, we're going up to bed. Good night." Edward called to everyone.
"G'night." I said through another yawn. Alice skipped over and kissed me on the cheek before walking off with Jasper. Emmett gave me a huge hug.
"Hope you had a good night, Bella." He said while putting me down. I smiled at him and leaned heavily against Edward. I let out a shriek as the floor suddenly disappeared from under my feet. Edward laughed as he ran up the steps carrying me. He laid me down in the bed and pulled the covers over me. He got in on the other side and I turned to face him.
"This was really fun." I told him with my eyelids drooping.
"I know, love. I had more fun than I've ever had. And it's all because of you." He said kissing the tip of my nose and then down to my lips. He kissed me lightly and then pulled away.
"Sleep now, my Bella." He whispered as I closed my eyes. "I love you."
"I love you, too." I mumbled back. As I drifted into the sleep I thought about how this was the perfect end to a perfect day.
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Ok so nothing really big happened. they just had fun. I wanted Bella to be able to feel more connected with the Cullen kids and get to spend more time with them before she gets married and changed. And btw... I dont really know that much about ATVs... so if i said something wrong about them or whatever sorry because i have never actually riden one or anything.
I'm not too sure what the next chapter is going to be about but i'll try really hard to update another time by the end of the weekend but i cant make promises. So i'll try really hard to get the next chapter out soon so keep checking and look.
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