Hey guys. I'm sorry that I have been MIA for about a month now. I have been going through some personal issues in my life lately and my schooling has been getting harder and harder. But I promise that I am going to still continue this story, even if that means not as many updates like there used to be. I would like to thank all of my readers out there for being so patient with me, and if you have given up on me then I am really sorry about that. But hopefully I haven't lost that many of my readers. I would also like to thank all my newer readers for sending reviews throughout my disappearance. A few of them really made me smile when I read them. So I would like to just give all of you a HUGE thank you! =D Anyway, enough of the cheesiness. I am just going to warn you that yes, I am a girl but I am not girly at all so I don't know how to describe the more girly clothes that will be in this chapter, so most of you will have to just use your imagination. =] So here's the next chapter for you guys. =] Enjoy.

Hidden Soul

Chapter Eleven

The guests were slowly starting to arrive at the house. We made sure that Destiny was going to be the last to arrive because we wanted the family coming here to be a surprise for her. I decided to wear a slim-fitting black dress that stopped at mid-thigh. It was strapless and it looked very flattering on me. I also decided on a pair of black heels that matches perfectly with my dress. My hair had loose curls that spread throughout my hair. After getting all dressed up and ready for the party, I went downstairs so I could greet Rosalie and her grandmother when they arrived. I greeted some of the guests and went into the living room to talk to Carina. I could tell she was a little worried about something. I walked up to her and laid my hand on her shoulder softly.

"What's wrong Carina? You look worried." I asked while looking at her.

She looked at me and tried to fix her facial expression to try and hide it, but she failed miserably at it. "Worried? I'm not worried. What would I have to be worried about?"

I wanted to laugh when I heard her talk. She is a horrible liar, which scares me sometimes. "Carina…I know you're worried about something. Your forehead is so squished up that I'm almost worried it will freeze permanently like that. So, what has you so worried? You can tell me."

She hesitated for a minute or so before she said softly, "Well…I um…I kind of invited…um…Devin….Now before you get mad at me let me explain!"

"Why in the hell did you invite him for Carina? You do know that the reason why he left in the first place is because of Rosalie right? Rosalie and her grandmother is going to be here any minute!" I all but yelled at her.

She winced at the sound of my voice and she knew she messed up. "I said to let me explain first Bella!"

I pinched the bridge of my nose and sighed. "Then you better get to explaining or I'm going to scream."

She winced again and quickly started to explain. "I figured he should be invited since he is still family towards us. I know he doesn't like the fact that you're with Rosalie, but I don't think he will try to do anything with all these guests here. I thought it was only fair. I'm really sorry Bella. I could always un-invite him really fast if you wanted?"

I was about to say something when I looked up and saw Devin walk in the front door and sighed again. "Well it's too damn late for that now. He just walked in the door."

"I'm so sorry again Bella. I really am." Carina started to say as I walked off.

I walked towards where the front door is to go greet Devin…well it was more like to warn him. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw he wasn't alone. He had another male with him who had dark black hair. It wasn't the fact that he wasn't alone that made me stop walking towards him, it was the color of this man's eyes. They were a piercing green and it was like I have seen them before. I continued my mission and walked towards Devin again. When I finally reached him, he turned around and gave me the fakest smile I have ever seen him give.

"Bella! It's nice to see you again!" Devin said as he was pulling me in for a hug.

I went stiff for a second and then returned the hug while saying in my fakest voice I have, "It's nice to see you too Devin."

He pulled away and smiled again at me. "I would like you to meet one of my friends. Bella, this is Kevin Hanley. Kevin, this is Bella Swan."

The guy that is apparently named Kevin turned to me and gave me a breathtaking smile. His piercing green eyes looked like they were staring straight through me, which actually made me a little nervous. "It's nice to finally meet you Bella. Devin here has told me all about you."

I gave him another fake smile while saying, "Good things I hope." We all three laughed awkwardly.

"Oh they were, I can promise you that."

Okay, I haven't even known this guy for a minute and he is already giving me that creepy vibe. "Um Devin? Could I maybe talk to you somewhere more private please?"

Devin turned to me and said, "Oh I'm sure whatever it is that you have to say can be said here."

I tried not to roll my eyes at him or hit him, but I got very close to it. "No I don't think it can be. So can I please talk to you in a more private room?" I said while gritting my teeth.

He sighed and excused himself as we started to walk upstairs where the guests weren't allowed. When we got in a safer area to talk in, he sighed again.

"Okay what is it that you oh so desperately needed to talk to me about Bella?" Devin said while giving me a little glare.

I rolled my eyes and glared at him back. "Okay, the only reason why you are even here right now is because Carina invited me without my knowledge, so I highly suggest that you are on your best behavior because this is still my house and you know damn well that I can make you leave."

He rolled his eyes at me while saying, "Oh stop with the dramatics Bella. You know that I'm not in your stupid little pack anymore so you can't make me do anything. And I'm only here for Destiny, so I'm not going to do anything stupid."

"That means you can't be a smart ass towards Rosalie and her grandmother. If I even here one asshole comment coming from your mouth, I will kick your pathetic ass out. Do you understand?" I said while trying not to lose my cool with him.

"Yeah, yeah I won't say anything to your pathetic human."

I pushed him up against a wall and snarled at him and giving him my most menacing glare that I could muster while saying, "I said not to make asshole comments! I suggest you watch your mouth or I will rip it off of you so you can't talk."

I could hear him whimper quietly, which made me smirk some. He is just a big giant chicken. "Fine, I won't even be near her."

I loosened my grip on him and got my anger more under control. I still was glaring at him menacingly just to scare him shitless. "That means you better watch your friend Kevin as well. You're lucky I'm even letting you two in this house or even on the property."

He was still cowering against the wall, terrified that I will hurt him. I rolled my eyes at him while saying, "Now get out of my sight you fucking chicken." With that, he bolted down the stairs so fast that I would have sworn I saw his outline where he was standing. I grinned knowing I could scare him like that and started walking downstairs. When I reached the main room where the party was going to be at, I could see that a lot more guests have arrived, including Destiny and Blain's parents. I walked up to them and gave them a big smile.

"Mr. and Mrs. Carmody! It's so nice to see you both again! How was your flight here?" I said while giving them both a hug.

"Bella dear! It's so good to see you again! The flight was okay, it was pretty long though. How have you been? I hope Blain hasn't been giving you too much trouble." Mrs. Carmody said while grinning at me.

I gave her a smile while saying, "No he hasn't been bad…yet. Let's just hope it stays like that." We all laughed and continued to talk for a while. I heard a car pull up in the drive way and I knew that it was Rosalie finally arriving. I excused myself and went towards the door and outside to greet them. When I walked outside, they were almost to the front door. I started to smile a bunch and went to go greet Rosalie's grandmother.

"This is such a pretty home you have dear. I brought you some of my home made steaks that I have prepared already. All you will have to do is just throw them on the grill and cook them." Aigua said while handing me a plate of steaks.

I smiled at her and took them. I don't know why, but Rosalie's grandmother always gives me home made steaks when she sees me. Just because my family and I are Lycans does not mean we always want meat. But I always accept them anyway and thank her. "Thank you Aigua. I love your steaks." I said while giving her a hug, which she returned with a smile. "There are food and drinks in the living room and most of the guests have arrived except for the birthday girl."

Aigua smiled and thanked me and went inside to give Rosalie and I more privacy, which I was very thankful for. When she was gone I turned to Rose and gave her a big smile.

"Well hello beautiful." I said while wrapping my arms around her waist.

I felt her wrap her arms around my shoulders and lay her head on it as well. "Hello gorgeous. How are you?"

"Hmm, I'm better now that you are here." I said while grinning and pulling her closer to me. She snuggled up in my neck and I could feel her place a few kisses there, which gave me major goose bumps. I could almost feel how nervous she was about meeting my parents, which almost made me want to laugh. "Rose, you don't need to be so nervous about tonight."

She pulled away some so she could look at my face. "How did you know I was nervous?"

I laughed and kissed her lightly on the nose once while saying, "You seem to be forgetting that I can sense these things when it comes to you. Also that I can hear your heart beating faster than it normally does when I'm around."

She blushed a bunch when I said that, which made me smile a lot. "I can't help it. I mean, it's your parents Bella. I'm not very good with meeting parents, even if they are just my friends' parents."

I rolled my eyes at her and kissed her cheek softly. "Rosalie, I can promise you that my parents aren't that scary. Well…Charlie will try to be, but don't let him fool you. He is a big softy. Rene will just want to ask you a million questions and try to have girl to girl talks with you." I said while laughing some, which thankfully it made her laugh a little bit as well. "Come on sweetheart, we might as well get the awkward part done and over with. After that, it will be nothing but fun I promise. And you will even be staying the night here tonight." A few days ago Rosalie asked if it would be okay if she spent the night at my house after Destiny's party ended. Of course I told her she could.

She gave me a big smile and pulled away from me slowly. I slowly slid my fingers into hers and we walked inside together. We mingled with a few other guests and now we are talking to Jasper, who I actually haven't gotten to talk to much yet.

"I hope that it was all right that I brought a friend here with me tonight Bella." Jasper said while looking at me.

I gave him a smile while saying, "It's completely fine Jasper. Just as long as your friend doesn't try to trash the place or anything."

I heard a laugh coming from behind Jasper. A few seconds after, a guy with huge muscles came walking up to us. "I'm not into the whole trashing people's houses. But if you're into that sort of thing I could."

I laughed and gave him smile. "Nah, I'm not into that either. I'm Bella Swan, and this is my girlfriend Rosalie, which is Jasper's sister."

He smiled at both of us while saying, "I have already met Rosalie a few days ago. My name is Emmett McCarty. It's nice to meet you Bella." Emmett offered me his hand, which I took it.

"It's nice to meet you as well. I hope you will have fun tonight. Destiny hasn't arrived yet but she should be very soon." After I said that I heard Blain call loudly so I could hear that Destiny just pulled up into the drive way. We turned off the music and I walked Rosalie and I towards the front door, where Blain, Carina, and even Devin were standing. Thankfully, there was no sign of his friend Kevin. Devin didn't even acknowledge the fact that Rosalie was even in the same room. We saw the front door open and when Destiny walked in we all yelled as loud as we could, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" There was a lot of cheering and clapping while Destiny smiled and thanked everyone. We then moved out of the way so her parents could walk over to her. When she saw them, her jaw dropped and she ran over to her mother and father. We all smiled and watched as they gave each other hugs. Destiny then turned to me and gave me a smile.

"How in the hell did you hide this from me Bella?" Destiny asked with shock.

I laughed and said, "Actually it was Carina's idea, but I got everyone to agree. We thought it would be a nice present to invite all of our parents out here for your birthday. So…surprise!"

She laughed and gave me a big hug. "Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this means to me!"

I smiled a bunch and gave her a hug back. The party gradually started back up again and Rosalie and I have danced to some songs. We went to go take a break when I saw my parents talking to Carina's mom and dad. I looked at Rosalie and smiled.

"You ready to go meet my parents?" I asked while looking at her.

I felt her tense around me and I rubbed her back softly. "No, not really."

I laughed and tugged on her hand lightly. "Well, we might as well go do it anyway. Come on sweetheart. I promise they won't hurt you."

She sighed and followed behind me anyway. When we reached my parents, they turned and smiled at us.

"Mom, Dad, I would like you both to officially meet my girlfriend Rosalie. Rosalie, this is my mother and father, the reason why I am here today." I said while smiling at all of them.

My mother was the first to greet her, which she did by giving her a big hug. That is how my mother greets anyone new is by hugging them. "It is very nice to finally meet you Rosalie! Bella hasn't stopped talking about you since the day you two met."

"Mom!" I all but yelled as I started to blush insanely.

"What? It's true!" My mother started to say, but thankfully Charlie stepped in. Remind me to thank him later.

"Now Rene, stop embarrassing our daughter. It's nice to meet you Rosalie." Charlie said while shaking her hand. My dad doesn't like to show too much affection with anyone, even his own wife. It's actually very strange that my parents got together in the first place because they are so different.

"It's nice to meet you both Mr. and Mrs. Swan." Rosalie said while smiling at them both.

"Oh please! Call me Rene and you can call him Charlie. We don't like to feel old! Besides, you're practically family already!" Rene said while smiling a bunch.

I blushed again from that and that was how the next two hours or so went. Charlie would ask her questions while Rene would end up embarrassing me over and over again. By the end of the night, the party slowly came to a close. The only guests that were still left were our parents. Rosalie and I were sitting over on the chair we had placed near the corner of the living room. We had our faces very close to one another while she was sitting in my lap. I had my hands lying on her lower back and I have been tracing random designs along her back for the past hour. Once the party started to slow down, we decided to just go and sit down. We were both very worn out since I had to mingle with all the party guests, minus Devin and his friend. Since I wouldn't let go of her hand the whole time, she was forced to come along with me the whole night. Actually, I would never force her to do anything she didn't want to do. I even offered that she could go talk to other people if she wanted to, but she would always refuse to let go of my hand, which made me very happy.

"So did you have fun tonight sweetheart?" I asked softly while looking up in her eyes.

She gave me a smile and looked back in my eyes as well. "I had a blast. Thank you for inviting me."

"Of course I would invite you silly! I think it would be pretty selfish of me if I didn't." I said while giggling.

She laughed some and kissed my cheek softly, which caused me to blush.

"Will you two lovebirds stop being so cute? You're making me want to go skip in a field of flowers."

I turned to look and see Blain standing there looking at us with his usual goofy smile he has. I rolled my eyes at him and smiled. "Well if you don't like it so much, then you could just leave the room, even though I would love to see you skipping in a field of flowers. Do you think you could wear a girly pink dress as well?"

I heard Blain laugh and then I saw Destiny walk up and sit down on the couch across the room from us. "Oh god no, I don't want to see my brother in a dress! It would be nothing but hair under there."

"Ew why are you talking about his hair for Destiny?" Carina said as she walked into the room as well and sat down in the chair near us.

Destiny rolled her eyes at her while saying in a disgusted tone, "I was talking about his LEG hair Carina. Is your head always in the gutter?"

"It's Carina so what do you think Des?" I said while laughing.

Carina looked over at me and flipped me off and then gave me a smile. "Well I can't help but not think of it differently. When someone says it would be nothing but hair under their, you are going to assume they are talking about their junk or something."

"Ew! I was talking about my brother for God's sake!" Destiny said loudly.

We all cracked up at that and Carina just smiled at her. "I didn't know that! I thought you were talking about some guy you liked or something! I did notice you kept eying that Emmett fellow that came with Jasper all night."

Destiny started blushing and trying to hide her face. "Ooh you were? Do I sense a little crush going on here?" I said while grinning.

"No! He's just really cute that's all!" Destiny said while still blushing.

"Yuck! I don't want to sit around and hear who my sister thinks is cute or not. I'll be outside talking to Charlie if you need me." Blain said as he quickly left the room.

We all laughed and continued to talk about it.

"I met Emmett a few weeks ago when my brother brought him over to the house. He is actually very sweet and is a total gentleman." Rosalie said.

"I think you should give it a try Destiny. It seems like you find him attractive enough. And it also seemed like he couldn't keep his eyes off of you the whole night either." Carina said while looking at her.

"I'm scared though. Bella, what do I do? I mean, I remember you telling us when you first started liking Rosalie. What did you do to even get things moving?" Destiny asked while looking at me.

I felt Rosalie look at me with a smile while saying, "Yeah Bella, what did you do to get us moving?"

I blushed a deep red and looked down for a second or two. "Well…I first tried to talk to her…you know get to be friends with her. Then once that happened I started to get to know her more and then I eventually asked her out on a date."

"It took you long enough too. I mean, I started flirting with you pretty much on the first day." Rosalie said while poking at my side some, which I rolled my eyes at her.

"Thank you Bella. Is it okay if I come to you if I need any advice about it?" Destiny asked.

I smiled at her and said, "Of course you can. All of you know that you can come to me and talk about anything." I heard Rosalie yawn quietly. I could tell she was trying to hide it. I started to smile more and looked at her. "Let's go to bed sleepy head."

"I'm not tired Bella. We can still stay down here if you want to keep talking to everyone."

"Don't be silly. I can tell you're exhausted and even I'm getting exhausted as well. We all had a long and tiring day. So let's go upstairs and go lay down before you pass out in the chair." I said while slowly picking her up bridal style. We told everyone goodnight and I carried her upstairs and into our bedroom. I slowly sat her on my bed and said, "Did you pack a bag for tonight?"

"Actually I completely forgot to pack one. Do you think I could borrow some clothes?" Rosalie asked while blushing a little bit.

I smiled and went over to my dresser that has my sleeping clothes in it and looked around for something she could wear. I grabbed a pair of one of my shorter shorts that I have and an old band t shirt. "Will this work for you? I'm sorry if they don't fit. They are a little bit older clothes that I used to wear all the time."

She got up and took the clothes from my hands and gave me a small kiss. I grinned at her and kissed her again before she pulled away from me with a smile. "Thank you, these will be perfect Bella. Can I change in your bathroom?"

I gave her my pout. "You could always change in here you know? I won't look I promise."

"You promise?" She asked and held her pinky out towards me.

I grinned and wrapped mine around hers. "I promise."

I flopped on my bed so I was lying on my stomach with my face buried in the pillows. Another thing about Rosalie is that she's very shy when it comes to changing in front of me. Me on the other hand, I could care less if I change in front of her. A few minutes later, I felt the bed dip a little bit. Next thing I felt was warm, soft lips gliding across the back of my neck. I felt goose bumps starting to crawl along my skin.

"I'm guessing it's safe to look now, right?" I asked softly while my head was still buried in the pillows.

"Yes, it's safe to look now." Rosalie said while rubbing my back softly.

I slowly turned so I was facing her and I saw that the only thing she is wearing is my band shirt and her underwear, which were the short boy underwear by the way. They were black and gray and looked absolutely adorable on her. "Look who decided to not wear pants to bed." I said while grinning at her and trying my best not to stare at her butt, but sadly I was failing miserably.

She was smiling a bunch when I finally got myself to look up at her face and not her butt. "Look who can't keep her eyes up at the north pole instead of the south pole."

I blushed and got underneath my blankets. She got underneath as well and curled up against me. I wrapped my arms around her tight and rubbed her back softly and slowly. I could tell she was almost asleep. "Goodnight sweetheart. Have sweet dreams and I will be right here when you wake up in the morning." I heard her mumble something quietly and within a few seconds she was sound asleep. Its nights like this that I absolutely love with her. I love just being able to lay here and hold her as she sleeps in my arms. The sound of her slow and even breaths soothes me beyond compare. I know it all may sound sappy or something, but it is completely true. And if being sappy is what I have to do, then so be it. After an hour of just listening to her sleeping, I gradually felt myself fall into a deep sleep as well.

It took about a month for me to finally post something for you guys, but there you go! I really hope you liked it! Once again I would like to apologize greatly for my lack of updating. I promise I will try to update a little bit more. It probably won't be nearly as much as I have been in the beginning because of school and everything, but please don't give up hope on this. Anyway, I would greatly appreciate it if you would please send a review telling me how you felt about this chapter. Seeing your reviews, even if it's something as simple as "great job!" or something like that, greatly helps motivate me a lot. Also I have been sick for the past week so they will help me feel better reading them! =D Thank you to all of my readers who do review or has favorite/followed my story or myself or even both! It is greatly appreciated and if I could, I would hug all of you. =] I'll try not to make you guys wait that long for an update. =]