Sorry this took so long... anyway... Onward...

Chapter XI

In which wake up calls are made, and a plan is formed.

Embry's POV

I woke up after one of the best sleeps I've had in months. The bed was extremely comfortable, and was filled with a wonderful aroma. It was like apples and cinnamon, it was Harper's sent. I inhaled the sent once more before stretching and getting up.

Just as I walked out of the mini-bedroom, Harper exited the other one. She was wearing a fitted long sleeved shirt, and very short shorts. She looked amazing. She had a confused look on her face, but she smiled when she looked up at me. I melted.

"Good morning." She said.

"Good morning." I repeated.

"Have you seen Mia? She's not in there." Harper asked. "She's never up before me." She mused, mostly to herself.

"No I just got up; you're the first person I've seen today." I said smiling; I liked the idea of Harper being the first one I see every morning from now on. She smiled too.

"Jake! Wake up! Have you seen Mia?" I yelled over my shoulder toward the couch. I definitely owe him for sleeping there and letting me have Harper's bed. He didn't answer me.

"Jake!" I called, walking over to the couch. He wasn't there.

"Ok, looks like Jacob is missing too."

"Maybe they're together." Harper offered, a wicked grin spreading across her face. I grinned back.

"What could they be doing?" I asked in a suggestive tone. Harper giggled.

"I don't know. They could be doing just about anything out here in the woods all alone." She seemed to be working very hard to keep from cracking up.

"Yes. We should probably find them and make sure they aren't doing anything naughty." I said. Harper couldn't restrain any longer and burst out laughing. I laughed with her.

Once we sobered up a little we decided to actually go find them. I opened the door and held it for Harper, who curtsied sarcastically and stepped out. I fallowed after her. Harper had stopped about a foot away from the door, and I stopped next to her.

"What-"

"Shh" she shushed me. "Look." She pointed to the middle of the clearing where Jake and Mia were curled up together asleep. Jake had one arm around her waist, holding her to him. And Mia was using his other arm as a pillow. They looked very comfortable.

I glanced at Harper and she was grinning again. As we made eye contact it became very hard to keep from laughing. She just held up her finger to her lips, indicating me to stay quiet.

I looked back over to where Jake and Mia were curled up on a red blanket. Mia sighed and flipped over, which caused Jake to grunt. I stuffed my fist in my mouth to keep from laughing; Harper had both her hands clamped over her mouth. Mia snuggled up closer to Jacob, until her head was on his chest. His arms tightened around her.

Harper and I walked as quietly as we could over to where they were. Harper once again indicated that I stay quiet, and she knelt down by Mia's feet. She was bare foot, and Harper tickled the bottom her foot causing her to squirm. Jacob made a whiney noise and tightened his hold around Mia. Harper continued to tickle Mia's foot until it cause her to curl up into the fetal position. However this caused her to pull away from Jacob, who even asleep was not happy about that. Harper was on the ground, rolling with silent laughter as Jacob pulled Mia till she was half on top of him, her upper body across his chest. Mia reacted by extending her arm over him and snuggling into him.

By this point I was on the ground with Harper, and we were both having silent hysterics. Harper reached out and tickled Mia's foot one more time.

"Harper, get your own feet, God." Mia whined in her sleep. That was it. We lost it. Harper and I burst out laughing like maniacs.

"Five more minutes, Sam please?" Jacob said, slightly slurred in her unconscious state. I couldn't breathe at this point through my laughter. Harper was clutching her sides. She looked so cute and care free laughing like that. I managed to calm down to watch her.

She was glorious, her laughter was like music. Harper calmed and looked over at me. We just stared into each others eyes for what seemed like an eternity. This Woman was the most, well the most anything. She was my world now. I wanted to tell her so.

"We should wake them up." Harper said, pulling me out of my contemplations.

"I don't know." I said, glancing once more at Jacob and Mia. "They look pretty comfortable." I joked. Mia was still practically lying across Jake. Her face was tucked into the crook of his neck and his was turned toward her, both his arms wrapped securely around her.

Harper laughed too. "Regardless they need to get up. They can't just lay out here on the ground." She scooted over to where Mia's head was.

"Wake UP!!" She yelled. Jake's eyes snapped open, but Mia remained undisturbed by Harper's scream.

"I don't want to get up yet Harper, it's warm and comfortable here." Mia said drowsily.

Jacob looked at her and a huge grin spread across his face. He kept his arms wrapped around her and tilted his head watching her.

"Well you might want to take that up with Jacob since you are using him as a bed." Harper told Mia, trying to keep the laughter out of her voice.

"Harper that is the weirdest thing you have told me to get me up you know that." Mia said, keeping her eyes shut tight. "And that includes the time you told me that there was a bed-bug epidemic throughout the greater Chicago-land area." She said, finally opening her eyes to glare at Harper, who just smirked at her. Mia yawned and closed her eyes again cuddling back into Jacob, who was smiling broadly now.

"I really don't mind. I'm comfortable too, she can use me as a bed if she wants." Jacob said, still half asleep. He closed his eyes and tightened his hold on Mia's waist.

Mia's eyes snapped open and she looked down at Jacob and gasped. Jacob looked at her and smiled again. Her eyes went wide and she tried to get up off of him. Jacob just held onto her tighter not letting her go.

"I thought you said you were comfortable." Jacob said grinning at her.

Mia rolled her eyes still struggling fruitlessly to get free.

Harper and I glanced at each other and burst out laughing again. I heard Mia huff indignantly. Harper looked over at her and her laughter doubled. I turned to see what made her laugh harder, but she jumped up and covered my eyes with her hand.

"No Peeking Embry." Harper said giggling. "Mia dear, you might want to pull your gown down, though I must say those are very cute panties." I heard Mia gasp again and felt Harpers hand shift as the two of us continued our fit of laughter.

"Jacob, if you don't let go right now you are going to regret it severely." Mia said in a deadly tone. I assumed Jacob heeded her warning because she said, "Good choice." Her voice venomous.

I looked up to see Mia, with her face beat red, in a very small night dress, turn and stomp back into the camper. The door slammed shut, then another one slammed from inside, fallowed by a muffled screech.

I glanced at Jacob and he had a startled expression, then to Harper who still looked amused.

"How mad is she?" Jacob asked Harper.

"She's not mad, she mortified. There's a big difference." Harper said calmly. "Trust me if she was mad, you'd be half deaf and quite possibly singing soprano." Harper said. Jacob gulped and I laughed again.

"So what should we do today?" Harper asked, scrunching her eyebrows together.

"Well we should start with breakfast." I said. "I'm starved."

Harper shook her head and laughed. "Well let me go reason with Mia and then we'll decide what to do over breakfast." She said as she turned to go inside.

I turned to look at Jacob with narrowed eyes, he was still lying on the blanket. "So how did Mia and you end up asleep other out here anyway?" I asked.

"We were both having trouble sleeping last night, so we talked, and had some ice cream. Then I said I had to talk to Sam, and she insisted on coming out with me. She said she wanted to star gaze. And we just fell asleep. No big." Jacob said shrugging, but he had a slightly giddy expression on his face.

"Okay then." I said suspiciously. "What did Sam say?"

"I don't know. I talked to Quil and he said he'd deliver the message. And he also realized that we had imprinted so the whole pack will know by now." Jacob said.

"Alright. Well then, now that the pack knows we've imprinted, shouldn't our imprints?"

"I don't know. It would make sense, but I don't want to scare her off."

"You got a point there. Well I think it's best if they know. I'm going to tell Harper. You can do what you think is best with Mia." I told him. "Though girls don't like when you keep things from them, so I'd tell her soon, or you just might get to see her when she's really mad." I said. Jacob nodded looking thoughtful.

"We promised to get to know each other." He said slowly, still thinking about something. "Embry I think we should go on like a date or something with them. One on one. Do you think they'd agree?"

"I like that idea. It's worth a try. But how will we know what to do with them?"

"After breakfast we each get the other girl separate, and ask her what her best friend would like out here in the woods. And get some information about our Imprint from the person who knows them the best." Jacob said, in his 'plan making' voice. I had come to fear this voice, and with good reason. This plan, however, seemed reasonable, so I agreed.

"Good, now let's go get some food." He said. I shook my head and fallowed him into the camper. This should be interesting at least.

AN: Well it's not my best but it's fun. Anyway what did you think? YAY or nay? And If anyone has any requests or suggestions please feel free to let me know!

Much love, Bridget