CHAPTER 19: TELLING BREE

I finished dressing and went downstairs. I smelled brownies and went straight to the kitchen. I found the girls sitting with my parents. I sat down and grabbed a brownie off the plate.

'Wow!' my mom said. My dad just whistled as the girls grinned from ear to ear.

'Thank you.'

'What do you think Embry's reaction will be?' Jess asked.

'It's not going to help him any.' Britt said. We all looked at her questioningly. 'I mean with coherency!' she said.

Weird. I'm pretty sure she's lying. I mean I know her tell. Everybody has a physical gesture they do when their lying or uncomfortable that they don't do when their ok. Embry won't look at me, Damon squints, Amber's left eyebrow twitches almost unnoticeably, and Jess actually moves her ears. Britt bites her upper lip, not her lower like most people. I've always been able to tell a person tells. My brother always joked that I would make a killing playing poker. I always planned on going to Vegas with…

'Hey are you going to answer the door or just sit there with a half eaten brownie in your hand staring at Britt. You know its Embry.' Amber teased. My mom and dad shook their heads at me as they walked out into the living room, telling me to have fun on my date.

'Sorry. In my own world there for a second.' I said to Amber and Jess as I walked towards the front door.

'You kind of do that a lot.' Jess called out after me.

I rolled my eyes at her, but of course she couldn't see. He was leaning on the doorframe looking down when I opened the door. He looked up and smiled. He was in a black top and black jeans. He looked so hot! Black looks so good on him! I realized that I was staring and blushed. He was also staring at me.

'We match! 'I exclaimed.

'You're right. Black on black.'

'I knew liked you for a reason!'

'What, my amazing fashion sense?'

'No, the fact that you're the perfect arm candy.'

His laugh boomed throughout the house. We were walking toward the kitchen so he could say hi to my parents and the girls.

'What's is so hilarious?' Britt asked, raising her eyebrows at Embry.

'Apparently, all I'm good for is arm candy.' Embry said, still laughing.

'What do you expect? The big oaf of a man you are? Though, I was thinking more bodyguard than arm candy. You're not hot enough to be arm candy.' Britt smirked. Jess and I snorted.

'Oh. And what is Damon, per se?' Embry asked.

'Now he's arm candy.' Britt said and I could see Amber nodding in the background.

'Am, you can't honestly believe that Damon is hotter than Embry?' I said, unbelieving.

'Well… neither of them is my favorite flavor of ice cream but…' Amber hates tea, so instead of saying favorite cup of tea, she says ice cream. (I hate tea. It's just weird.) 'I'd have to say Damon comes closer than you, Em. Sorry.'

'Are you insane? I'll admit that neither of them rings my bells either, but Damon is a little… weird. A nice weird but still. Embry leaves him in the dust.'

'I'm not even going to respond to that.' Amber said, rolling her eyes.

'Only because you know I'm right.' Jess said, putting her hands on her hips.

'No. because it's absurd!'

'Are you calling me absurd?'

Britt and I just rolled our eyes and grabbed a brownie each. We had gotten used to Amber and Jess's little mini fights. They did it every now and then over the most stupid things! Like what type of toothpaste was better than the other. They got over them really easy.

'So, you guys don't mind that they are basically fighting over which of you guys has a cuter boyfriend?' Embry whispered, trying not to laugh at the girls fighting and us not caring.

'Well, they're actually arguing over who's hotter, not who's cuter and…'

'We don't really care. We feel how we feel and they feel how they feel. I was just surprised Amber preferred Damon when I asked. Whenever Damon is chilling with us, she always looks really uninterested.' Embry nodded and smiled.

'We better go." I said, looking at the time.

'Sure.'

I was laying down on the big stump next to Embry. He was really quiet and I wasn't pushing it. He seemed super nervous and that was just in the very beginning of our date! Right now he was so nervous his whole body was practically vibrating! I finally couldn't take it anymore.

'What's wrong Embry? You've been acting weird the whole night! Please tell me.' I pleaded. He just shook his head and wouldn't look at me. I was about to insist when he suddenly turned to face me.

'Have I ever told the Legends?' that's how he said it. Legends, like it was capitalized.

'The Quileute legends? No. I've always wanted to hear them though. Will you tell them to me?'

And he did. He told me about Taha Aki and the spirit warriors and about the wolves. The Third Wife. Everything. It was incredible, awe inspiring. I was lost in the world of myth, trying to picture myself in the Third Wife's shoes. Would I be able to make that sacrifice? To give my life, the thing I hold most precious, more than the typical girl, for someone I loved?

'So… what do you think?' He asked me. He still seemed on edge. Even more so than before.

'I think their amazing! I'm so glad you told them to me.' I smiled at him. 'Embry? Why are you so nervous?'

'I have to tell you something and I don't know how you'll take it.'

'Just tell me.' I said, the smile slipping off my face.

'Well, the reason I wanted to tell you the story is… well…' he trailed off at the end.

'Just spit it out, Em.'

'Their true.'

Huh? Oh, the legends. 'I'm sorry, Embry but I'm having trouble believing that.' Wow. I didn't take Embry as a believer.

"I know it's kind of hard to believe werewolves and vampires roam the earth, but I know it's true. And I know it's true because I am one.'

'One what?' I honestly couldn't understand what he was saying, I was too busy trying to wrap my head around him believing, I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have to what he was saying.

'I'm a werewolf, Bree.'

I laughed a long time before I realized that he wasn't laughing with me.

'Wait… you're serious.'

'Unfortunately, yes.'

I was in shock. Did he really expect me to believe him? And yet I did believe him. A really big part of me wanted to laugh it off; I couldn't. I know he's not lying. My heart believed him; and my heart was breaking.

'I believe you.' I said finally, the pain evident in my voice. To me at least.

'That's good.' He said. 'I have so much to tell you and…' he leant his arm forward to touch my face but I turned my face away.

'Could we hold off on that?' I interrupted him. I could see the pain on his face from my rejection but I pressed on. 'I'm still reeling from this whole vampire/werewolf thing. It's a lot to take in. I don't think I could be able to handle anymore.'

'Of course. Do you want to go home?'

'Yes.'

'Then let's go.' He said packing up our stuff and carrying it to his car. It was a long, silent ride home. We didn't say one word to each other the car ride home until he parked outside my house.

'Thanks.' I said quietly as I opened my door to get out. 'I'll talk too you later.'

'Promise?' He asked, his eyes smoldering into mine. I nodded. I could see the anguish my silence and my pulling away from him caused him, but I knew I needed time. It really hurt me to know I'm hurting him but at the same time, I need space. Time to think. I got out of the car and was walking towards the house when I heard a window go down.

'Bree?'

'Yes?' I said turning towards the car again.

'I love you.' Before I could even think of a response, he was gone. At first I was really angry. How dare he spring this on me now? Then I realized I would do the exact same thing. If I thought I was losing him, I would do anything to make him stay as well. I sighed and entered the house.

Dum dum dum! He's finally told her :(. For all of those people who want to kill my cat right now, I will say in my defense, this is not how I originally wrote her reaction. In my original draft, it was kind of funny. He was mumbling so she couldn't hear what he was saying and when she finally understood what was coming from his mouth, all she said was "ok". But my cousin (let's call her Weirdo) Weirdo said that it made my story seem unbelievable because no one in their right mind would react like that. She also pointed out that even Bella took some time to think before she realized that she couldn't live without Edward. So I wrote this version and her and Tasha liked it better, so I guess you're stuck with it.

P.S for those of you who still want to kill my cat, it's only fair to warn you. I don't have a cat. Or dog. Or even a fish. Weirdo's only has guard dogs and Tasha doesn't have pets like me. Sorry.

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