No one moved or spoke for what seemed like a couple of hours. It very well might have been a couple of hours. Emmett's expression was dumbfounded as well as Jasper's. Finally, Carlisle had the guts to clear his throat and say something.
"Rose, do you know what is going to happen next?"
I shook my head. "I don't know. This is too complicated to figure out quickly."
"No it's not." Emmett objected. "Tell Embry that he's a couple decades too late, and that you are already taken by me."
"Emmett," Edward said quietly. "You know it's not that simple. He imprinted on her. That's not something that can just be wished away. Once it happens, it happens. There's no going back. I'm sorry, Emmett, but he loves her just as much as you do now."
"No one loves Rose more than I do!" Emmett snarled.
"I have had personal insight on the werewolves' minds. I have heard it from the few that have imprinted. Their feelings are the most powerful thing in the world. That is the power of imprinting."
"So what does this mean?" Esme asked a little worried.
"It means that Rose has a very difficult choice to make." Alice said softly.
"No, I am not choosing anything!" I shouted.
"Rose," Carlisle said calmly. "This is your life that we're talking about. These two men love you, so this is more about you than anyone. You need to make this decision."
"Look you guys, this isn't easy at all. I know that Emmett loves me more than anything and at the same time Embry now loves me more than anything. How the hell am I supposed to choose.?"
"You choose the guy who had you first." Emmett repeated, pointing to himself.
"But he explained it o me. He told me that the element of a werewolf is the one thing that he cannot live without." I exclaimed. "What would happen to him if I turned him down? Has that actually ever happened?" I asked Edward, knowing that if anyone knew, he did.
He nodded. "It has happened once or twice in their history."
"What happened?" Alice asked the obvious follow up question.
"The girl turned him down for another man. And the werewolf tried to live without her but it hurt too much, he eventually killed himself." Edward hung his head.
I gulped. "So, do you think that Embry will kill himself if I don't choose him?" I asked Edward.
"It's difficult to say, everyone is different. He might, and he might not. But keep in mind that both have promised to cherish you forever and both will be crushed if you choose the other." He replied.
"This is not the conversation to have right now." Esme blurted out. "I don't wish to be present when you discuss whose heart you're going to break."
Carlisle nodded in agreement. "This is something you and Embry and Emmett all need to talk about together. We shouldn't be apart of it." He told me firmly.
"What, so now I can't ask my family for advice on what to do?" I said impatiently.
"Rose," Alice chimed in. "You are asking us to tell you which lover to choose. That's not something that we can help you with. We aren't in the position to tell you who to spend the rest of your life with. Only you can decide that."
"I guess we have to go talk to Embry now." Emmett sighed. I let out a sigh of my own. How the hell was I going to break someone's heart like that? I was still working on a compromise.