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Chapter 24

Bella's POV

I was sitting at the table with the rest of the guys, picking food off of Seth's plate when I heard my phone start to ring. Standing up and walking over to the counter where I left it, I quickly opened it without checking the display screen.

"Hello?"

"Hey Bella…it's Alice." Everyone in the kitchen got quiet.

"Hey Alice, what's going on, did you see something else?" I rushed out.

"No, I didn't see anything else, but I was wondering if I could speak with Paul for a minute." This caught me a little off guard. Usually all of the conversations involved me , but in any case I turned and started heading for the stairs.

"Is everything okay?" I heard myself saying.

"Yeah, so far everything's fine."

"Okay, hold on a sec and I'll get him for you." I said walking through the bathroom door.

When I made it to the bathroom I opened the door quickly and slid inside, shutting it behind me. Paul turned and I held the phone up to him.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"Its Alice."

"Why does she want to talk to me?" He asked confused, and I was just as confused.

"I don't know, when I answered she asked to speak with you….here." I said passing the phone through the curtain. I turned and closed the lid to the toilet and sat, only catching his half of the conversation.

"Hello?" He asked.

"I'm fine, better than yesterday, and I'm sure better than what I'll be tomorrow. What can I help you with Alice?"

I was getting impatient, and without realizing it my legs were bouncing up and down.

"I don't know why?"

A few second later he snapped the phone shut, and passed it back to me through the curtain. He turned and continued with his shower. I was antsy as hell.

"Paul?" I asked. "Paul, what's going on?"

"Alice wants us to meet her in the clearing in an hour." He said turning to look at me.

Wait…did he just say what I think he said.

"Hold up….rewind. Did you just say that Alice is here… in Washington?" I said.

"Forks, to be a little more specific."

"Do you want me to go down and tell the guys?" I asked turning towards the door.

"Do you want to take a shower?" He replied, wiggling his eyebrows. How could I resist.

Taking my clothes off quickly I jumped into the shower with Paul, and he turned us so that I was standing directly under the water. He reached for the bottle of body wash behind me, and softly kissed my neck as he leaned over. Pouring some of the soap into his hands, he began to wash me. I moaned at the feeling, laying my head back on the wall behind me. A few minutes later I felt the heat of his breath at my neck again. Causing my body to shiver.

"I love you Bella." He whispered in my ear. He started a trail of soft kisses on my neck going lower and lower.

"Oh…..oh fuck…. shit…sorry." We heard come from the bathroom entrance.

"What the fuck, cant anyone fucking knock?…. What the fuck do you want, Sam?" Paul screamed pulling me behind him, to block me from the door.

"Fuck, I'm sorry. But when Bella answered the phone and it was Alice, she came right up here. We wanted to know what was going on." He said, turning his head.

"We'll be out in a minute. Close the door behind you." Paul said. Sam turned and started walking away.

"Oh and Sam?" He yelled.

"Yeah." He replied.

"Tell those fuckers downstairs to start fucking knocking too." And Sam disappeared, closing the door behind him.

Paul quickly turned to me, grabbing my face in his hand.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah…I'm fine, and if it weren't for the whole situation, I might have even laughed at it….Did you see his face?" I said chuckling.

"Sure did…that's why I didn't jump out and beat the shit out of him right then and there." He replied smirking.

"Okay well now that the water is officially cold, maybe we should get going." I said.

"I guess your right, but we will be finishing this later Mrs. Swan." He said leaning over and placing another kiss on my neck.

"I'm looking forward to it." I whispered back in his ear.

We both quickly jumped out of the shower, and dried each other off. When we made it back to his room, I went over to my bag that dad brought over sometime this morning when everyone was still sleeping. I quickly threw on a pair of stone wash jeans and a grey tank. Pulling my grey hooded sweatshirt on, and throwing my hair up in a sloppy bun I was ready to go. Grabbing Paul's hand we headed back downstairs towards the living room where all the noise was coming from.

"Let's go." Paul yelled calling over his shoulder, pulling me towards the front door.

"Where the hell are we going?" Jake asked.

"To the clearing." I replied.

"What the hell is in the clearing?" Quil asked.

"Alice Cullen." Paul said, and everyone stood and followed us out the door.

We made it to the clearing in less than twenty minutes. We were all still a little early, so when we did arrive it didn't surprise me that no one else was there yet. A few minutes later, a few of my brothers froze, and motioned there heads to the tree line on the opposite side of the clearing.

"Their coming." Sam said.

Before I knew what was happening I was standing behind all of the guys, all standing protectively around me.

"Don't you guys think your overdoing this a little." I said stepping on my tip toes to look around Seth who was standing directly in front of me.

"We're just making sure you remain safe". Embry said from beside me.

"Well, were not going to hurt her." I heard Alice say from somewhere in front of me.

"Alice are you really here?" I asked.

"Yeah Bella, we're really here."

"Seth…move." I said at his back. He quickly looked over to Sam who didn't say anything, but nodded.

Seth moved out of my way, and I was met with the sight of my close friends from Boston,

Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Alice, Rose, and Emmitt.

I quickly ran up to Alice and she wrapped her cold arms around me.

"I missed you so much Ali." I cried into her shoulder.

"Me to Bella. Me too."

Turning my attention to the rest of them, I walked up to Jasper and gave him a quick hug and a kiss on his cheek.

"It's nice to see you Jasper."

"Likewise Bella, I just wish they were under somewhat better circumstances."

All to soon I was lifted into a crushing hug, being spun around. I heard some of the guys growling from somewhere.

"Oh shut up, you guys. Its just Emmett." I said still spinning in his arms.

"I missed you big bro. But you really need to stop before I throw up all over you."

"Eww… gross." Was all that he said as he set me back on my feet.

"How are you Emmy. I missed you."

"I missed you to little sis. And I'm doing good."

"That's good….Hey Rose." I said turning my attention to the blonde bombshell standing next to Esme.

"Hey Bella." She said with a small smile.

"Carlisle….Esme…god I've missed you both." I said running up to them both and wrapping them in both in my arms.

"Its good to see you Bella….." Esme started, but Alice quickly jumped in to cut her off.

"So…Bella….which one of these.." she said pointing to the pack.. " is yours?"

I quickly ran over to Paul wrapping him in my embrace. He leaned down and gave me a small kiss, and then we headed to the middle of the clearing.

"Paul this is Alice….Alice this is Paul." I said.

She looked him up and down for a few seconds, and then looked back and forth between me and him. The silence was dragging on. The next comment she made though had the pack chuckling behind us.

"I approve."

"Well I'm glad you do Alice, but even if you didn't I don't think I would've given him up." I said honestly.

"Alright, Alright. Why did you ask for us to meet you here, and why are you here in the first place." Sam said with a little edge in his voice.

"We asked to meet with Paul, Bella and the wolves. So which one of you are the wolves?" Carlisle asked.

I looked at all my brothers a little confused and then realized what he thought.

"Carlisle, they…" I said pointing to my brothers, and sister.. "are the wolves."

"But there are 10 of them." He said, his expression showing a little shock.

"Yeah…wait…where is Edward and Tanya?" I asked, just realizing the two missing.

"They went to Denali to try and talk some since into Irina. I don't see it working, but Tanya insisted that she needed to do this." Alice spoke up.

"Wait, why are you here? I thought you were all on vacation." I asked to no one in particular.

"Alice had a bad feeling." Emmett said stepping forward.

"What do you mean Alice had a bad feeling?" Sam said coming to step on the other side of me.

"I have been looking for James for a long time now, and he has successfully managed to block me from seeing anything. When I got the first vision a few weeks back, it was only a few seconds, which made me believe he slipped up, because shortly after I went blank again. But now I can see everything he's planning. Like he wants me to see him and I'm not entirely sure that he's not planning something else. It just doesn't make any sense. I just needed to be closer, so that if anything does happen, I could help."

"Ah, I see." Sam said nodding in her direction. "Well as long as you are here, the treaty remains the same. Stay off our land, and don't bite a human, and we will leave you in peace."

"Alright." Carlisle replied.

"So are you going to introduce us to everyone?" Emmett asked coming to stand in front of me. Paul pressed me into his side a little more.

"Hun… relax, there not going to hurt me." I said looking up to him.

"I trust you, and if you say that they aren't going to hurt you then I believe you." He said gazing into my yes. Then he turned to Emmett. "Don't give me a reason to hunt you down."

"No problem man, we wouldn't hurt her, she's family to us. Leave it to Bella though to have a werewolf boyfriend and a group of wolf and vampire brothers and sisters." He said laughing.

"Ha Ha laugh it up Emmy. Anyways introductions. Emmett this is Sam, Jared, Embry, Jake, Quil, Seth, Leah, Collin, Brady, and I'm sure you heard this is Paul." I said pointing to they guys, and when I got to Paul I smiled up at him. "Guys this is Carlisle, Esme, Rose, Jasper, Emmett, and I'm sure you guessed the pixie is Alice." I said pointing at my Vamp family.

"How long are you guys staying." I asked after everyone said there hello's.

"Well actually were thinking about sticking around for a while." Carlisle spoke up. And I started jumping up and down from excitement.

"Easy there Alice Jr. we wouldn't want you falling and hurting yourself." Jasper said smirking. Causing me to giggle.

Everyone stood around talking for the next hour, only stopping when Esme cleared her throat.

"I think we should invite everyone over and have a barbeque. It would give everyone the chance to get to know each other a little better, and talk about what will happen tomorrow."

All of the guys started jumping up and down. I don't think they heard Esme say anything about getting to know each other. All they heard was barbeque, which was tightly connected to the word food.

"Esme, it costs a lot to feed these guys…are you sure. Its not like you eat." I said.

"Yeah, I'm sure. We'll send Emmett and Jasper to go get a grill and the girls and I will go to the grocery store. Why don't you guys come up to the Cullen house around 6."

Everyone quickly agreed, and the pack and Cullen's split up, both going separate directions. Paul and I walked hand in hand back towards LaPush. When we made it back to the house, Paul quickly rushed us inside and locked the door before the other guys could make it in. He turned and spun me around pressing me against the wall. He pressed his hard body up against me. Leaning over he whispered in my ear.

"It's later Mrs. Swan."

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