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Eliza Young

These strange people were no longer strange to me. Every single memory I had came flooding back. Everything to the point where I was sitting here in front of… my family. I looked over at each face and smiled brightly. Jacob…and Renesmee… and Bella…And Edward… and Carlisle and Esme… and Emmett and Rosalie…and Alice and Jasper! Oh! I knew them all!

Edward chuckled and I just smiled and threw myself into Bella's arms.

"Thank you…thank you so, so much," I mumbled.

"Don't thank me. Thank Edward and Alice," Bella grinned. Always so modest. I smiled and thanked Edward, and then tried to tackle Alice in a hug. Of course she didn't budge, but if her arms didn't fly around my shoulders I would have ricocheted right back on to the couch.

"Thank you so much," I murmured to all of them. "I love you all so much," I whimpered, still hugging Alice.

"We love you too, Eliza," Alice assured me.

Love… I had a loving family… and Seth! I pulled away from the hug.

"Seth!" I gasped. All heads turned to the front door as Seth came bounding back in. Bella was quick enough to leap from the couch before Seth's arms were around me and he had thrown us on to the wide couch. I think the entire house shook. A few people chuckled at his enthusiasm. I didn't, however. I wrapped my arms around him and welcomed his lips when he offered them.

"I'm so…so…so sorry, Seth! I-I didn't mean to hurt you!" I cried into his shoulder as his lips showered me with kisses.

"I was so scared for a minute, Ellie!" he whimpered. My heart stopped. Ellie?

What? Was this some name-flub or something? Seriously?

Edward chuckled.

"Ellie?" I said aloud.

Seth pulled his lips from my jaw and blushed.

"Not a good nickname?" he asked, always eventually being the gentleman.

I thought it over a moment.

"Nah, I guess it's cool. It's less syllables than 'Eliza' so…cool," I shrugged and his lips found mind again.

"I love you so, so much, Ellie," he whispered into my lips.

"Seth…" Carlisle suddenly interrupted us with his warning tone. Seth pulled away and was blushing beet red, and so was I. But what was so bad that even Carlisle – the always so kind and wonderful Carlisle – was warning us to back off and that P-D-A was not okay…?

"Kid, take it easy, okay?" Jacob murmured. Now I was seriously embarrassed. Edward chuckled as he opened his arms when Renesmee wanted to be held by him again. I got up off the couch, after squirming out from underneath Seth's strong arms, and gave a little kiss on the forehead to Renesmee. She pressed a hand against my cheek while she smiled. I heard my new nickname over and over again. When she pulled her hand away, she was still smiling.

"You like it too? Aw, thanks!" I giggled.

It was surprising. Even after such a long day, with my near death experiences and my memory loss and everything… I was giggling.

There was silence for a moment. Silence that I didn't prefer that much. I blushed when Seth came up from behind and wrapped his shoulders around my shoulders, pinning me back against him.

Alice suddenly gasped, leaping to her feet.

"We should celebrate!" she exclaimed.

"You mean, you saw us celebrating and you want us to get started as soon as possible?" Edward chuckled. Alice looked a little embarrassed when she nodded sheepishly. We all laughed now.

"C'mon, let's have some fun! We kicked some bad vampire butt and we tricked the Volturi!" Emmett exclaimed, seconding Alice's suggestion.

"Don't be so loud, Em," Rosalie hissed at him. Spoil-sport…

"Relax, Rose! So Alice, what d'you see us doing?" Emmett asked after throwing his muscular arm around Rosalie's shoulders.

"Hmm… I see us playing baseball in about twenty minutes! Race ya!" Alice squealed as she took off. Jasper was quick to follow.

Obviously this meant there was a storm coming, since the Cullens only played baseball – or their revised version, which I liked to call "vampire baseball" – during thunderstorms.

A couple people laughed with excitement.

Seth's arms left me and I was a little dismayed. But he was quick to pull Carlisle over to the side from their preparations to go play baseball and whisper very low so that I couldn't hear. I blushed when Seth glanced over and winked at me once, and then looked away again, the frown returning.

Eventually, Carlisle just sighed and nodded his head. I saw him mouth the words, "Be careful," to Seth, but thought nothing of it.

"Eliza! Look at Jake and Nessie!" Seth suddenly exclaimed, and I turned immediately and saw Nessie balancing on her hand…on the top of Jacob's head. I giggled in awe and amusement as Renesmee leapt down into Jacob's open arms. I didn't have the chance to look back to Seth and Carlisle, because soon enough, Seth's arms were wrapping around my waist from behind. His breath tickled my ear and I pleasurably inhaled Seth's familiar musky, intoxicating scent.

His hand slid down to mine and grasped it carefully; taking a step and making me do the same.

The house was suddenly empty except for us.

Seth abruptly threw me on to his back and before I knew it, we were up the stairs and he was closing the door behind us. We were in my makeshift room.

"What's up? Shouldn't we be going? We don't want to miss the celebration," I smiled. Seth didn't return the smile. He had a very intense stare. I frowned suspiciously, folding my arms across my chest. Seth walked up to me - his breathing just slightly heavy - and un-folded my arms. Instead, he wrapped them around his neck and his own clamped around my waist.

Seth's lips nibbled on a tender spot just below my ear, where the skin met the very top of my jaw. I stifled a moan by biting my lower lip. His warm breath against my skin…

"I thought we'd have our own little celebration…if that's alright with you?" he breathed against my neck. I just nodded and he pressed his lips against mine passionately.

I woke up a little later during the night. The television was on downstairs, but it was just high enough so that I could hear the speech. The Cullens were home. Part of me wanted to go downstairs and ask them how the game was, and part of me wanted to wake up Seth so that we could exert ourselves once again. Seth was lying on top of me, but surprisingly his weight had no effect on me. I began rubbing his back, trying to remember the feeling of how it went. It was…to put it simply…wonderful. A little uncomfortable at first, but once we got used to it we were both glad the thunder's volume mastered over ours.

I sighed, and regretted it because Seth began stirring and woke with a little groan, supporting his upper body weight on his forearms, which he propped up on either sides of my waist.

He kissed me softly.

"Wow…we fell asleep?" he chuckled sleepily.

I smiled.

Seth grinned back at me and kissed me again.

"Hey baby," he murmured to me. My eyes had been on the ceiling, but now they were on him. He nuzzled my hair. "What're you thinking about, Ellie?" he sighed into my hair. I continued rubbing his bare back.

I shrugged my shoulders.

"Just…thinkin'," I replied coolly. Seth chuckled, kissing my hair, my shoulder, my neck, and then finally my lips again.

"Really?" he mumbled into my hair. I smiled, nodding.

"Yeah… I was just thinking about how…" I trailed off for a moment, recapping today's events.

"What?"

"I had an interesting day."