Chapter 18

Emmett hung his head in shame, "the bet" he muttered.

Rosalie arched a perfect eyebrow at him and then shook her head, "serves you right for betting against Alice. You would think that you would have learnt your lesson by now, it's only been like fifty years."

"Serves you right for using me as a betting tool" I muttered.

To my response Emmett shrugged and grinned stupidly, "wasn't the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last either." He turned to Rosalie making his face more serious, "Rose, I have learnt my lesson, but she just gets me so worked up sometimes."

Rosalie rubbed her forehead as if she had a headache, "what did you lose this time?" she asked exasperated.

"Nothing." Emmett said taking extreme interest in his shoes.

"I'm taking him shopping." Alice piped up grinning.

Rosalie looked at Emmett, "Well sweetie it could be much worse remember that time you bet Alice that you would beat her at a game of celebrity heads," she paused, "and anyway you need some new clothes…"

Emmett grinned, "That's right, hunting got interesting…"

Edward covered his ears, "Ahh stop thinking about it! Not fair!"

Emmett laughed evilly and screwed up his face in a way to show that he was concentrating on his thoughts very hard. Rosalie rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Alice and began discussing the pros and cons of clothing items that would be appropriate for Emmett.

"She's lying," he cried out as they turned the clothes discussion to pants, "she is going to put me in pink!"

Rosalie rolled her eyes again, "Don't be so melodramatic." Alice chocked back laughter, "and anyway what's wrong with pink?"

"I don't do pink" he growled.

Alice couldn't hold in the laughter anymore and it just burst out. I followed closely behind, my mental image of Emmett in a bright pink tight t-shirt with pink pants was classic! Edward and Jasper joined in. "Ahh." He screamed, "you're all against me!"

"Right," Alice said standing up from the bed, "time to hit the shops." She was grinning like a schoolgirl.

She headed for the door, grabbed the collar of Emmett's shirt and dragged him out of the room. His protests could be heard until the door slammed shut, although I was sure that my super-hearing-vampire family could still hear the protests as the car pulled out of the driveway.

Rosalie turned to leave the room, "This is great timing, with Emmett out the way means I have time to do my nails." She waved goodbye and then as she left the room muttered, "He really must learn" although it was more to herself than Jasper, Edward or me.

Edward held out his hand to me, "Let's go."

I grabbed his hand and nodded, not that I had any idea where we were going.

Our 'trip' didn't take long, it wasn't even at vampire speed. We crossed the hallway and entered Edward's room. I was slightly disappointed.

Upon seeing my face Edward chuckled lightly, "I am taking you somewhere else but I thought you might like to put some clothes on, other than my shirt." He paused, "although I must say it looks much better on you than it does me."

I blushed and dropped my head, "That seems highly doubtful." I muttered.

He pulled open the cupboard door and grabbed out some clothes, "Alice thought it might be a good idea if we had something here for you to wear, just in case…" he broke off.

I stood up on my tippy toes and pressed my lips to his, "Thank you." I murmured against his lips.

I was very happy when Edward deepened the kiss while, as always, he was the one to break it because I always got carried away. He pressed a kiss to my forehead and then left to room so I could get changed.

I pulled on my clothes carefully, attempting to not move my leg too much. As much as I need a shower I opted to forgo having one here because it meant that I would probably just stay here longer and not go home which would most likely result in Charlie sending out the dog-squad in an attempt to bring me back home.

The process of getting dressed that usually only took minutes this time was more like ten. The faster I tried to get dressed the worse it became and the more frustrated I became. Finally, after fifteen long, painful minutes I emerged from Edward's room dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. I now understood why Alice decided to dress me in a dress when she brought me home from the hospital.

"Ready?" he asked me, smiling.

I nodded, "Where to now?"

"Somewhere quite?"

I nodded.

"Meadow?" he questioned.

I nodded again.

That was all the encouragement he needed and he pulled me up on his back and jumped out of the window. I screamed, not expecting that. He chuckled lightly to himself. I responded by hitting him, causing more damage to me, rather than him.

The rest of the journey proceeded without anymore unexpected jumps or bashings.

He placed me down gently on the soft, green grass. The sun was shining and Edward was glistening in the sun. I just stared at him for the longest time. It didn't take him long to get frustrated and throw his hands up in the air.

"What are you thinking?" he practically begged, "Please tell me!"

I ran my hand along his cheek and then through his thick hair, "How beautiful you are."

He rolled his eyes, "Seriously?"

"I am being serious. You are the most beautiful human on this planet."

"I'm not human. I'm a monster. I almost killed you."

I sighed and buried my face in my hands, "Edward. I hate it when you say that. You are not a monster and you will never kill me!"

"Then why do you keep dreaming about it?" he threw back at me.

I sighed, I knew we were going to have to have the conversation about my dreams but I didn't really want to deal with it right now. At the moment I just wanted it to be Me and Edward, Bella and Edward, Edward and I. I wanted nothing else to matter in the world expect the both of us right then and there.

"Can we please talk about that later?" I asked, "I just want to enjoy this moment."

"We need to talk about it Bella." He grabbed my hands, "We have so many unresolved issues that we need to address before it all goes back to the way it was."

"Well can't we just pretend, for today, that you never left and that everything is still the way it was before you left?"

He sighed in defeat. "Ok fine. But for today only. Tomorrow we have big things to talk about."

I smiled and hoped that he didn't realize that tomorrow was in fact Monday and that having school would make it hard to have such a serious talk which meant that we would have all week before we could have the serious talk.

We both laid on the grass watching the clouds roll by and slowly watching the sun set behind the mountains. It was almost dark when Edward helped me up and we returned to the house. Edward promised to take me home as soon as I said goodbye to the others. This was actually just an excuse, I really just wanted to see if Alice had in fact put Emmett in pink clothing.

Edward seemed to work out the real reason that I wanted to go back to his place, but he said nothing. Secretly I knew he wanted to see Emmett in pink as well.

When we got back to the house I didn't have to have super-vampire hearing to hear the wails of protest coming from Emmett. Edward looked strangely excited about the prospect of seeing what was going on inside. Although he did have the advantage of hearing peoples thoughts as well.

"You are going to love this" he whispered into my ear and he lead me through the house and into the lounge room.

There, in the middle of the room was Emmett in a pair of jeans and a pink-button-up shirt. After I got over the shock of it, I bit on my lip in an attempt to not burst out laughing. I wasn't the only one, Jasper was in the corner, looking like he was in pain, only this time I knew that it wasn't because of my blood. Alice looked proudly at her shopping skills and Rosalie was telling Emmett that it really didn't look that bad.

"I must say Emmett," I said choking back on the laughter, "pink really does suit you."

If looks could kill, Emmett would have just murdered me, "It's not pink" he said through gritted teeth, "It's salmon."

A/N: Hey guys. Sorry to leave it there but I always get a kick out of guys who wear pink and call it salmon in an attempt to be more manly! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews. I love you all! Next chapter will be some Charlie and Edward stuff…hopefully…I might get distracted again and go on a tangent about pink clothes again…Update soon.

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