Chapter 3 Please don't let me fall

I was vaguely aware that I was being lifted. However, it felt so natural that I knew it was Embry. "You got some splaining to do-" I tried to joke, but it came out much angrier than intended.

"Lace-"

"No, not now. I am not awake enough for this."

"I'm going to bring you home now. You still look beautiful" I nearly laughed out loud. We passed a mirror on the way to the door. My curls were now frizzy and my mascara had run to give me a close to raccoon look. My lip gloss had stopped being shiny hours ago.

"Yeah, whatever Embry –don't kiss me I have morning breath. What time is it?"

"Five a.m." he said sheepishly. "Our plane leaves in three hours, so we have just enough time to shower and change. You can sleep on the plane." It had been three hours since our wedding had officially ended. My husband was still carrying me to the car. We drove a total of three minutes to our new house. I had started drifting into a daydream when I looked at the house….

Three weeks earlier

"Embry this is the best house I have ever seen!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"So it's okay?"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh- We have a house Embry Call! Our own house." I grabbed the key from his hand and ran to open the door. He grabbed me around the waist.

"Hold on there sparky- let's do it the right way. Practice for our wedding night." He picked me up bridal style. I screamed and giggled. He set me down in the kitchen. The first thing I did was jump to sit on the counter.

"Lacey respect the property please."

"Embry, this is our counter. We can sit on the counter all we want. We can even jump on the bed-hmmm" I went to jump off the counter, but his arms came down on either side of me. He was taller than me, even when I was sitting on the counter. He kissed me.

"Yup and I can do that whenever I want when we are married."

"Does that go both ways?"

"Obviously" I leaned in to kiss him. His lifted me off the counter. We started crazy dancing around the kitchen.

"Embry we are going to get to cook together and do the dishes and…"

My mind was snapped back to the present. Embry had taken me in his arms again.
"I know this is a little late, Lace." We walked into the house. It was decorated with congratulation balloons and welcome home signs. We started laughing. "We are all packed so the only thing to do now is to get you out of the that dress. Then we should probably shower. Now Lacey, we don't have a lot of money so we don't have a lot of hot water. So we might as well-" I silenced him with a kiss. When we got to the bedroom he started to unzip my dress…

We had just gotten through security. Embry held my hand tightly, like he thought I was going to run away. "Embry" I said in a sing song voice "I promise I won't run off" . He looked down at our hands and realized how tight his grip was.

"Sorry, I guess I am just nervous about our first plane ride."

"I'll be right there. Nothing bad is going to happen. But you just keep holding my hand. I actually feel safer that way." We got bagels at a coffee shop and sat waiting at the gate.

"Lacey, I want to explain last night and well, every other time-"

"Embry, we'll talk about it after the honeymoon. I get you all to myself and I refuse to something silly get in the way of that. For now, it's forgotten. We can talk about it when we back to our house. Until then, we are going to concentrate on us." I smiled reassuringly at him. He immediately relaxed and placed his arm around me.

"I love you"

"You do? I was wondering why you married me"

"Geez –"

"I love you too- so much" We got up to board the plane. Take-off went smoothly, however by the look on Embry's face it looked like we had just crashed. "You alright babe?" He nodded at me. "Honey, its okay. I am here I will protect you." I laughed. He leaned in to kiss me. We were headed to Hawaii. It was a gift from everyone. It was going to be just me, Embry and the sun. I was so excited. We chatted about all the things we were going to do.

"We have to go see the dolphins and go scuba diving."

"Whatever you want Lace."

"Parasailing?"

"Fine"

"Hula dancing lessons?"

"Fine"

"Join the mafia?"

"Lacey, I don't think Hawaii has a mafia. Now I know you are excited. But I think your bouncing is annoying the gentlemen in front of you." He whispered. The "gentlemen" in front of me, turned out to be a very manly looking women in an outrageous shirt. She turned around an glared at me. I trying so hard not laugh, I turned my face into Embry's chest. There were tears rolling down his face. "Let's try to sleep shall we?" I wrote a note to Embry on a pad that was in my purse. That was a girl right? He nodded. Nice going slick-

At least I didn't kick her

At least you know she's a her

You couldn't tell either. I underlined the her in either three times. That set a whole other fit of giggles. I rested my head against his shoulder. I slowly felt myself start to drift off. I started dreaming of the first time I met Embry.

I was shopping at the market trying to reach this bag of chips that was on the top shelf. I swear they know that I want something and they stick on the top shelf. I started making exasperated noises and put my hands on my hips. To the chips I said, "Is it really necessary to torture me so?" I mean there was no one around the last I checked so… then I heard a boisterous laugh from down the aisle.

"Do you need help?" I immediately started blushing. I turned around and made a face only to be looking at another freakishly tall guy. The laughing guy walked over and took the bag of chips down for me.

"I don't usually talk to food in a grocery store-I mean not at all but particularly in a store. That just makes you look silly, which I am totally doing right now. Uh- Thank you Have a nice a day" I turned to run away and felt a warm hand touch my shoulder. He was laughing again.

"What is your name?" He was staring at me so intensely.

"Uh- Lacey" He stuck his hand out. I placed mine and his. The heat radiating off it was confusing.

"I am Embry Call. Do you live around here?"

"I just moved here a few months ago. I actually live in Auburn, which is next to La Push but I guess you'd know that since you obviously live here. Um, it was really nice to meet you."

"What are you doing right now?"

"Shopping"

"How about after?"

"Going home to cook dinner"

"How about you go to dinner with me?" I was so shocked that I shook my head.

"Please?"

"I mean-yeah but uh"

"Good, I will meet you back here in two hours" I woke up after that. Embry had fallen asleep and his head was off to the side. I sat there and watched him for a while. I didn't understand what he saw in me. Especially after that meeting. I smiled when I recalled our dinner. We both spilled our drinks at separate times. I tripped on the sidewalk. He caught me. He asked to spend time we me the next day. We were inseparable for a year. Except for the random times that he would randomly need to leave or not be able to come over. I would ask him, but he would just shrug it off with no definite answer. It was okay, though. Embry woke up to see me staring at him. He yawned and smiled.

"How was your nap, Lace?"

"Almost as good as yours" he looked confused.

"I didn't talk outloud in my sleep did i?"

"Oh yea- you said I want to play the tuba with you marble! Are you really a girl? Then you went back to snoring"

"Why didn't you wake me up?" I started laughing. I couldn't keep up my act anymore.

"Kidding Em, you slept peacefully" He gave me a fake angry face then started laughing. Our friend in front of us turned around and glared again. What a great start to our honeymoon. We are always making friends.