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"You should really buckle your seatbelt," Shannon sighed from the passenger side of the car, eyeing her boyfriend with clear dissatisfaction. He snickered and reached over to muss her hair gently.
"Nah, if I get in a car accident it'd be easier for me to dive across the car and save you," he said seriously. Shannon giggled and rolled her eyes. One of her arms was hanging outside the window of the car, feeling the cool breeze of the spring air flowing over her overheated body. She was always hot when around Embry due to his abnormally high body temperature. At first she'd been worried, but he quickly assured her he'd had it his whole life and no harm had ever come with it. Only then did she calm down.
"Oh, what a great way to kick off our anniversary. We die in a car accident," Shannon huffed. She glared angrily at him, though Embry could see the hint of a smile tugging at the corners of her lips.
"Like I said before, I won't let either of us get hurt…one year isn't enough," Embry decided firmly. She chuckled again and straightened in her seat.
"Will you stop all this damn flirting?" Chubby groaned from the backseat, throwing his baseball cap at the couple. Shannon flipped him off offhandedly and Nico snickered from behind her.
"We're not flirting," Embry grunted, "we're bickering. Okay? Bickering." His insistence amused all others in the car, and they snickered.
"Hmm. Just don't bicker so much when we get to Sam and…Sam's house. Don't want the guys to think we've let one of our brother's wimp out," Chubby said stubbornly.
"You aren't even biologically related," Shannon rolled her eyes. Chubby and Nico shared a wicked grin.
"No…but we really know each other well. It's almost as if we can, at times, read each other's minds," the annoying boy continued from behind her. She laughed as a curtain of her dark shimmying down her back. Embry's eyes caught this movement and for a moment he was mesmerized by his girlfriend's utter beauty…then he snapped out of it and reluctantly returned his attention to the road.
Nico elbowed Chubby sharply, and Shannon shot him a curious stare. He had the grace to look abashed, but she just smiled again.
"Well, I'm excited to meet these people all of you talk about. Brady, Collin, Quil, Jacob…too many to count, I think!" she joked. Embry smiled a little.
"Well, you won't be meeting Jake or Brady today. They have…other responsibilities." Embry's eyes met his friends' the mirror and they all held the same disturbed look in them. Shannon didn't notice, thankfully, and was instead looking a bit disappointed.
"Aw, that sucks. So how many will be there?"
"Well, including us four…sixteen." Shannon's mouth popped open at Embry's quiet answer.
"Sixteen? Sixteen people? I thought I wasn't going to meet all of them until later!"
"You aren't going to meet all of them! Remember Jake and Brady won't be there," he defended loosely. Shannon shook her head in disbelief.
"Ugh, just promise you won't leave my side. If Chubby is true in saying that all these guys are as huge, even bigger, than you motherfuckers, I'll be scared out of my mind," she sighed. Embry smirked.
"Okay, Shan. I promise." Chubby moaned dramatically in displeasure, flailing miserably where he sat so he ended up kicking Nico in the face.
"Unh, so fucking dorky!" he complained heavily. Embry snarled and reached back to slap the man on the head.
"Shut up, Chubby!"