A/N: Lmao. Jake is in so much trouble. Here is Thanksgiving, as well as some fun stuff for all the characters, including Jake! :D
I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to the wonderful Stephenie Meyer. I also do not own any songs or websites mentioned. They belong to their respective owners.
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Chapter 10: All Together Now
BPOV
When I woke up in the morning, I found myself in Edward's warm embrace. I snuggled into his chest. I felt him stretch beneath me and wrap his arms tightly around me and breath in the smell of my hair.
"Mm, you smell so good in the morning." he breathed into my hair.
"So do you." I said, squeezing my eyes shut tight, while I stretched along his body.
"What do you feel like doing today?" he said softly, when I had settled back into my previous place.
"I think I need to take Jake to a behavior training school." I said, rolling my eyes after thinking about how I had found everyone when we got home.
How something so small and cute could cause such big destruction was beyond me, but I was sure Alice would explain every last detail. That reminded me that everyone was here. I slid out of bed and pulled on some pajama pants since I was only in Edward's t-shirt again.
He got out of bed silently and was behind me before I could even turn back around. He slid his arms around me from behind me.
"You look so cute in my clothes." he purred into my ear, sending shivers down my spine.
I blushed and turned around to peck his lips. I took his hand and we walked into the front room. Alice and Jasper were still passed out on the couch. Emmett and Rosalie must've gotten up and gone to bed at some time.
Jake, however, was jumping around in his cage, yapping once in a while.
"Oh, Jake. What trouble did you cause? I was only gone for a couple hours." I said, taking him out of the cage and looking into his cute, big, brown eyes.
He licked my face, giving my doggy-breath kisses.
"Eww." I said laughing and trying to hold him far enough away so he couldn't get to my face.
"Look at that. The dog gets more action than I do." Edward said, chuckling softly, as he reached over to pet behind Jake's ears.
Jake nipped at him playfully, but settled from smelling Edward's hand. After he assessed that the hand smelled enough like me, he let Edward pet him.
I walked him over to the backyard and let him out, walking out with him, afraid he could find a corner to dig himself out of the yard. Edward walked out with me. I shivered from the slight wind. I looked up at the dark clouds covering the morning sky.
"Ugh. Rain. Gotta love Seattle." I said, with a heavy sigh.
"What's so bad about that? Means we can stay in and watch movies, hang out, maybe...test some boundaries." he said, whispering the last part.
I blushed remembering the conversation we had had at the concert about certain boundaries. I called Jake over and brought him inside just as the first drop of rain fell. We went in and I put him away, despite his whimpers of protest. The whimpers broke Alice and Jasper out of their sleep.
"Hullo? Be-Bella?" Alice spoke groggily from the couch.
She sat up and her little spikes were flying in every possible direction, with one of her eyes hanging lazily more closed than the other. Jasper sat up wide-eyed and crazy hair as well.
"What? What? Where am I? What time is it?" Jasper asked in rapid succession, slightly dazed .
"Shh, shh honey. We're at my house. It's Sunday." Alice said, then yawned as she stretched her tiny arms as far up in the air as she could.
"Good morning, Alice, Jasper." I said, smirking at them.
Alice smiled at us and bounded over Jasper and off the couch to run over to us. She threw her arms around my neck in a vice grip.
"Oh, Bella. Last night was horrible. I was sure I was gonna have to either die, or kill Jake." she said, not letting go.
"Can't...breathe." I said, trying to peel her arms off.
"Oh, sorry. But anyways, I think Jake needs obedience school. He can't even handle a day without you. Think if you ever had to go on a vacation without him. He'd tear the whole house up!" she said, her eyes growing wide, reminding me of how I had found her last night.
"Well let me make some breakfast and you can tell me what happened." I said, patting her back and taking Edward's hand, as I walked into the kitchen.
Alice skipped over to Jasper and sat on his lap, while I started pulling out ingredients for French toast. As soon, as the first piece was grilling, I heard Emmett walking up the hall, following the scent of food with his nose high in the air. It's like he had a sixth sense for food.
Trailing behind him sleepily was Rosalie. Her hair was disheveled in she was only in Emmett's longest shirt, which barely went to mid-thigh on her. They both sat at the stools next to the counter, watching Edward and me work our way through the kitchen.
We finished making breakfast and passed out the plates to everyone. The four of them ate quickly, as if they hadn't eaten in days. What the hell happened last night?
Alice was done first, though it was beside me where she could fit all that food in her tiny frame.
"Okay. So here's what happened." she said clearing her throat and pushing her plate aside.
I nodded for her to continue.
"Jasper and I were minding our own business, watching 27 Dresses after you guys left. Jake was in his cage. He started whining so we let him out." she stopped when we heard thunder overheard.
Was this some kind of sign for the story, or what? Great, a big storm. Just watch, next the power will go out and we won't even have a movie day. I sighed, but waited for her to continue the story.
"Well, we forgot that he wasn't supposed to be out alone, so when I turned to talk to Jasper, he dug a hole and got out. The ground was still wet from the rain the other night, so when we found him, he was caked in mud. He was so cold and scared he ended up peeing on himself." She said, cringing.
"So we brought him in and I gave him a bath, while Alice started making some dinner for us. By the time Jake was out and dry, Rose and Emmett were back from their date. So, Jake, obviously having a fondness for Emmett's socks, walked right up to Emmett, and peed on his shoes." Jasper said, trying to fight a smile.
"Well then, I chased him around the room and he ran yelping under your bed. We couldn't get him out for like twenty minutes, AND I got stuck under your bed trying to crawl under and get him. Everyone had to help lift the bed off me." Emmett said, smiling sheepishly.
"But that wasn't it for the little booger. Oh, no. Then we get him and we put him in his cage and what does he do?" Jasper said.
I hadn't realized my mouth was hanging open with the shock of this story, so I closed it and shrugged.
"He poops on himself. By this time, I've already sent you a billion texts and called your phone, but the calls all went to voicemail, meaning you turned it off." Alice said, glaring at me jokingly.
"So then I gave him another bath, but he decided not to wait to get dry. And that's when you got home. Alice had been blocking the couch, so he couldn't crawl under. I was trying to catch him with the towel. Emmett was holding the cage ready to lock him in. Rosalie was blocking the hallway to keep him from getting into any of your rooms." Jasper let out a deep breath when he finished the story.
I just shook my head back and forth, unable to believe what had happened.
"I am so unbelievably sorry, you guys. If I had known he would get this way. Wow. I'm sorry." I said, still trying to put the pieces together in a way that made sense.
How sad, my dog's in love with me. In a very unhealthy way. I snorted at that thought.
"Maybe we need to find him a girlfriend, so he can be okay without mine." Edward said chuckling.
I had almost forgot he was there during the whole story time.
"More like he needs some obedience school." I said, rolling my eyes as I looked at his smiling puppy face in his cage.
"There's one down the road from here. My parents know the owners. They take my dog there since I couldn't bring her with me to the apartment. They take her just because they're so nice and are really good with the dogs. It's not expensive either." Rosalie said, smiling at me tentatively.
Rosalie still wasn't very comfortable around me, though I had no idea why. I'd have to ask Edward about that later.
I cleared all the plates, while the rest of them, besides Edward, went over their plans for the rainy day. Edward and I did the dishes and hurried back over to see what their ideas were.
"Let's go to the park! The rain isn't that bad. Plus it's fun!" Alice squealed, clapping wildly in her seat.
"Yeah! Remember back in high school when we always used to go to that park near the high school and use the slide as a water slide?" Emmett said, excitedly.
I had to admit, that had been fun, but I didn't know if the others would be up for it.
"Sure, why not?" Rose said smiling at Emmett.
"Anything for you, my little pixie." Jasper said, smirking at Alice.
I smiled. Sounded like we had plans.
"This could be fun. I might not be able to control myself around you though." Edward whispered seductively against my earlobe.
I shivered in response and went to go change into clothes that could get drenched.
I settled on blue underarmour, a cute gray and black baseball style long-sleeve tee, some black thermals, black PINK sweats and my baseball socks with my cute, blue, rain shoes. (pictures in profile of all their shirts and shoes). I was a sight for sore eyes.
I walked out to find that everyone else was ready to go.
Alice was wearing her "Peace, Love, Ballet" shirt with sweats and her pink, spotted, rain shoes. Rosalie had borrowed a red turtleneck from Alice, along with some sweats and zebra rain shoes.
Emmett walked out in his Forks High baseball style tee, sweats, and his waterproof, hiking boots. Jasper had borrowed Emmett's blue shirt with buttons near the top and some sweats along with black rain shoes that had skulls and swirls on them.
I looked at Edward last. He looked hilarious, yet adorable all at the same time. He had borrowed Emmett's gray long sleeve shirt, and it hung loosely around him, due to their differences in muscle size. He also had on normal rain shoes and some sweats.
We grabbed our rain coats and headed to the nearest park. We weren't going to drive all the way to Forks for this.
We found a park only about five or ten minutes from the house that had three slides, six swings, a metal merry go round, and monkey bars. It even had one of those fireman poles. Alice, Emmett, and I squealed with delight.
We ran over to the slides first, decided on couples races. There were three curvy slides near each other so we all positioned ourselves at the top. Alice sat in front of Jasper, with his arms around her tiny waist, Rosalie sat in front of Emmett, and I sat in front of Edward.
"On your mark!" I shouted out.
"Get set!" Alice yelled.
"GO!" Emmett boomed, as we all pushed off and slid down the slick slides.
Alice and Jasper made it to the bottom first, while Emmett and Rosalie landed last.
Alice did a little victory dance, then dragged Jasper over to a pair of swings. Emmett and Rosalie climbed back on to the play structure. Edward guided me over to the merry-go-round.
"This isn't safe." I mumbled, as he pushed me lightly to sit on the circular contraption.
"And why is that, love?" he asked, smirking at me.
"'Cause I have horrible balance as it is. If you spin me around, that's just asking me to fall flat on my face ten times more." I said, blushing.
"It's okay, I'll catch you." he said, as he started to push the thing in a circle.
I quickly grabbed hold of the two nearest metal bars and tried not to slide off. Once we were going fast enough, he jumped onto it easily and slid next to me. I squealed as we spun faster, realizing it was so much more fun with Edward there beside me.
Emmett decided that they wanted to play tag in the rain. Edward slid us off the merry-go-round and ran over to the others, with me in his arms. I didn't want him to put me down, but he just reached back with one of his arms and unhooked my hands from around his neck.
We played tag for a little bit, and by the time we were done, we were soaked. It made Edward look even more delicious. The loose shirt, now clung to his defined muscles underneath his rain coat. I yearned to run my hands up and down his sculpted chest. He had to shake the little rain droplets from his still crazy hair. He looked so sexy. I wanted to tackle right then and there, but decided to wait till we got home.
When we got home, everyone went to take showers. We let our guests shower first. I had Emmett give me some more clean, dry clothes for Edward to wear.
When he came out, he was wearing just a towel, low on his hips. I had to stop myself from drooling. The shocked look on my face must've confused him, because he ran his hands through his wet hair and looked at me apologetically.
I handed him his clothes, never taking my eyes off his half-naked body. Oh boy, there is a God. I thought, giggling to myself.
He leaned down to lightly kiss me before I went to take my own shower. Of course, I couldn't leave it as just that. I twisted my own hands in his wet hair, pulling him close, trying to deepen the kiss. He readily granted access and put one hand behind my neck, the other low on my back.
I felt his towel fall to the ground and we both froze. We both blushed and I tried desperately to keep my eyes at his face, but failed for just a second. I had to get into that bathroom, now.
I slammed the door shut, heat still flooding my face. Wow, he's huge! I thought, smiling to myself. I felt my breath getting uneven, as the image of him flooded my, now dirty, imagination. My cold clothes no longer bothered me and instead of starting a hot shower, I started a cold one.
I yelped when I got in, but it helped clear my mind. Then I flipped it to hot and took my shower.
When I got out, everyone was sitting on the couch, except for Alice. She was in the kitchen watching another bowl of popcorn pop, as she poured the remains of an already done pouch into a large bowl.
"So, what are we watching?" I asked.
"Something scary." Emmett said, grinning like a mad man.
"Ooh, no thanks." I said, moving to go back to my room.
"Come on, I'll protect you." Edward said, waggling his eyebrows suggestively at me.
I sighed and gave up, taking a spot on Edward's lap comfortably.
Alice came over with the huge, overflowing bowl of popcorn and Jasper started the movie. We were watching Arachnophobia. Oh lord. I hate spiders. I thought, shivering at the idea of being surrounded by spiders. Edward just thought I was cold, so he pulled me closer and slid a nearby blanket around us.
I watched the movie through my fingers, screaming often. I was sure to lose my voice.
When the movie was finally over, I sighed in relief. I cuddled into Edward's chest and he carried me to my room. We laid there for a while, discussing our plans for thanksgiving. It was only a month away. I was going to meet his parents in a month.
"Are you sure they won't hate me?" I asked.
"Of course, not. They'll love you. My mom's already excited to meet you because of how much I talk about you." he said, smiling my favorite crooked grin.
I blushed and snuggled into his chest.
"Tomorrow morning..." I paused to yawn, "I need to take Jake to that obedience school."
"If we leave around eight or nine, I can show you where it is." he said, rubbing my back gently.
"Sounds good." I said sleepily.
And then I was out.
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I woke up bright and early to find Edward not there. I pouted a little but got ready for the day.
I found Edward in the living room talking to Jasper. They were talking about where the obedience school was.
I walked over to them and wrapped my arms around Edward's waist.
"Mm, you smell good." I said, breathing in his unique scent.
"Um, thanks?" he said, chuckling.
"I'm ready to go when you are." I said, letting go to grab Jake out of his cage.
"Then let's go." Edward said and led me to his car.
We drove a few blocks at an insane speed and pulled up to what looked like an old Victorian house.
"This is it. Sam's School for Dogs." he announced.
I could now see the large white sign in front of the house and got out of the car with Jake.
We walked in and a tall, tan man with long, black hair, greeted me, with a gorgeous young woman at his arm. She had a huge scar across her cheek.
"Welcome." she said politely, smiling at us with her mangled smile.
"This here is Jake." I said, holding him out to the couple.
"Well, I'm Sam, and this is my lovely wife, Emily." he said, shaking Jake's little paw, then gesturing to the woman that had greeted us.
I smiled. I liked them already.
"Let's give you a tour and some information then, shall we?" Emily said, turning down a long hall.
She led us to the backyard, pointing out the kennels, play areas, food area, and leash wall.
"Now here, we treat the puppies as small children. They are still learning. They just need someone to care for them and teach them, as you would your own child. We also understand that some people don't have the time to do so, which is why we're here." Emily said, beaming proudly.
A cute little black and brown dog walked up behind her and stared up at Jake. It looked like it smiled.
"Oh don't mind Nessie. She's the Hales' dog. She's a regular here." Sam said, reaching down to pick her up.
Jake started yapping, but he sounded excited.
He tried to jump out of my arms to her.
"Seems Jake has got a crush." Edward said chuckling.
"Aww, how sad. He's over me already." I said, snickering.
"Well it seems Jake is already set to be here." Sam said, laughing loudly.
They took Jake from me and put him in the play area with Nessie. We watched them jump around, nipping playfully at each other and tackling each other. Nessie always beat Jake, since she was a slightly bigger puppy. It was cute to watch.
We paid Sam and Emily for them to start the training and then left so that Edward could take me home before he had class.
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The next few weeks passed quickly. Jake was at the obedience school often, but mostly when Nessie was going to be there, as well. We could always tell those days when she wouldn't be there, because Jake would sulk around the house. It was like she told him that she couldn't show up. It was interesting, but nearly broke your heart when you saw how defeated poor Jake looked.
Thanksgiving was coming close and we were heading down to Forks the night before. We would all be staying in the Cullen's huge house.
The drive down there left me shaking with nervousness, sure that they would think I wasn't nearly good enough for their only son. We had brought Jake with us. He was still sulking as he sat on my lap for the car ride.
We pulled up and Alice and Emmett's cars were already there.
I got out of the car and went to grab my bags, but Edward wouldn't let me. He told me my only job was to look pretty and meet his mom. I walked up to the door and rang the doorbell.
A gorgeous woman with chestnut hair and a friendly face, answered the door.
"Hello there! You must be Bella Swan! Oh it's so nice to finally meet you! I'm Esme Cullen." she said pulling me into a warm embrace.
I smiled nervously, making sure Jake didn't get squished in the exchange.
"Oh, and who is this furry little fellow?" she said turning her attention to Jake.
"This is my puppy, Jake." I said smiling at her.
"Oh, well. We have two puppies visiting for the holiday." she said, causing Jake's ears to perk up.
Jake jumped out of my arms and ran into the house. I went to chase after him as Edward walked up the front porch and Esme went to greet him.
Jake skidded to a stop in the huge kitchen I was now standing in as he yapped happily towards the dog sitting on the other side of the room. Nessie was here.
She was in the arms of who I could only assume to be her owner. The woman holding Nessie very nearly made me die of embarrassment from how extraordinarily beautiful she was. This had to be Mrs. Hale. (pic in profile). She had the same platinum blond hair, beautiful features and a tiny waist.
"Oh, why hello there. Who might you be? I'm Lillian Hale." she said extending her free hand towards me.
"Be-Bella Swan." I said nervously shaking her hand.
"Oh! You're who Esme has been gushing about all week." she said smirking at me and putting Nessie on the floor.
Nessie scampered over to Jake and a tall, handsome man walked over to Lillian. He had disheveled brown hair and gorgeous blue eyes. Mr. Hale. Why does this whole family have to be insanely good looking? And Edward's family too! It's not fair. I thought to myself.
Lillian had already informed Mr. Hale who I was. He smiled in my direction and stuck his hand out as he greeted me.
"Matthew Hale. Nice to meet you, Bella." he said.
I did the most strangest thing in response. I curtsied, but caught myself midway. I blushed furiously and stood up straight, quickly. A little too quickly. I stumbled back and two arms caught me.
"Ahh, your reputation precedes you, Miss Bella." A familiar voice said from behind me.
"Mr. Brandon!" I squealed turning around to hug him.
"I already told you to call me Michael. How long have you known me?" he said chuckling.
He still had laugh lines and a slight stubble. His eyes made him look like an old soul, but they held so much joy in them that it made you happy just to look at him.
"Have you seen my kids?" he asked casually.
"No, I just got here." I said, shrugging.
"Okay, well, Samantha's looking for you. She misses ya." he said winking at me, as he walked out into the front room.
I finally got to see how the house looked. It was meticulous and beautiful. It was open and friendly and felt like home. I wandered around aimlessly, forgetting that I was looking for Alice's mom. Luckily, she found me.
She had short, brown, wavy hair and glasses. She was an adorable looking mom, just like my mom. She looked just like an older, taller, version of Alice.
"Bella! Oh I missed you! It's so quiet without you three around!" she said, pulling me into a bear hug, the same kind she had passed on to Emmett.
"I missed you, too! Mr—I mean Michael said you had been looking for me." I said, correcting myself.
"Yes. Alice told me you were going to be here and I was so excited. Her boyfriend is adorable and they have such a lovely family. The family who lives here is quite wonderful, too. I look forward to meeting their son." She said smiling at me.
I blushed. She didn't know Edward was my boyfriend. I was about to tell her when I felt him wrap his arms around me.
"I thought you were thinking about me, so I came over here." he cooed in my ear.
Samantha looked shocked and pleased. She had always worried I'd never find a guy good enough for me.
"Oh, do forgive me. I'm Edward Cullen. I'm Bella's boyfriend." he said politely, shaking her hand.
She smiled at him and introduced herself, but turned back to me.
"You sure know how to hit the jackpot, Isabella. Oh, and your parents are upstairs in the guest room. They wanted to see you." she said winking at me and going towards the kitchen.
I turned around to hug Edward then took his hand and led him upstairs to meet my parents.
My mom was putting her clothes into the dresser of the guest room. My father was laying lazily across the bed.
Reneé Swan was beautiful, with short brown hair is loose curls, brown eyes, and a friendly, welcoming smile. My mom. (picture in profile). Charlie Swan had short brown hairs that still had a slight wave from his curls and a fatherly face, with the same chocolate brown eyes as me. My dad. (picture in profile).
I knocked lightly on the door as we stepped in. My mom immediately turned around and ran over to hug me.
"Oh Bella! I've missed you honey!" she said, putting her arms around me.
"I missed you, too, mom." I said, squeezing her tight and seeing my dad make his way over from the bed.
My dad walked over to come greet us. He gave me a quick hug and smiled at me.
"So, Bella. Care to tell us why we're having Thanksgiving with your doctor?" Mom said, eying Edward with a smirk.
"Oh, yeah." I said, dragging Edward to my side.
"Hello. I'm Carlisle and Esme's son, Edward Cullen. I'm Bella's boyfriend." he said flashing his crooked grin powers on my mom.
She looked slightly dazed for a moment, but quickly regained composure to hug him and let him shake hands with Dad.
"How nice to meet you. Bella is very lucky to have someone like you." Mom said, smiling.
"You pass the test for now." Dad said, winking at me and smiling at Edward.
I blushed and told them that Edward still had to give me a tour of his house. Edward led me out of their room and to a flight of stairs. We went up and down the hall, stopping in front of a door.
"This, is my room." he said, as he opened the door to reveal a very large, neat room.
The entire back wall was a giant window with huge, draping, blood red curtains. There was a large king size bed along the left wall. It had a black comforter with a thick white border. It had black, white, and blood red pillows thrown haphazardly across the top of the bed.
On either side of the bed were two large shelved areas, covered in CDs.
"Wow." I said walking over to inspect his collection.
I ran my fingers across some of the familiar names. Debussy, Linkin Park, Muse, Coldplay. There was an unmarked CD in the mix, as well, that had "My Music" written on the front in beautiful script.
"What's this?" I said, sliding it out of it's spot on the shelf, carefully.
"Oh. That." he blushed, "It's some of my piano pieces that Esme had me record back in middle school."
He shrugged and took it out of my hand. He walked over to the massive stereo system that I now noticed was in the opposite corner of the room. He put the CD in and a fun, bubbly piano melody drifted around the room as if the notes were tangible.
"I wrote this when I was ten, for my biological mother." he explained, as he sat gently on the bed.
I sat next to him and listened carefully., feeling the emotion pour from each note.
The song ended and switched to another beautiful song. By this time, we were both laying back on the bed and I was cuddled into his side.
"This one's Esme's favorite. No idea why." he said chuckling.
"Well it is beautiful. Just like all your music really." I said, leaning up to kiss the corner of his jaw.
We laid there listening to the CD until we heard a tapping on the door.
"Come in." Edward said loudly to the unknown visitor.
"Well, well. Just where I always used to find you." a man's rich voice said as the door swung open.
A tall man, with blond hair and a model-worthy face, walked through the door in blue button up shirt and black slacks. He had amazing golden-hazel eyes and looked like he had just got off the runway. It was Dr. Carlisle Cullen. He was hard to forget.
"Ah, you have a visitor this time. Bella, how nice to see you outside the hospital." he said winking at me.
Is Edward sure they aren't blood-related?
"Nice to see you, too, Dr. Cullen." I said, immediately sitting upright and straightening out my shirt.
"Please. Call me Carlisle. We're practically family with how much I've seen you at the hospital these past several years." he said chuckling a little at the many memories.
I blushed and felt Edward move to sit beside me.
"Dinner will be ready soon. Just wanted to let you kids know." he said smiling and nodding at us, as he turned and left the room.
"And you were afraid they wouldn't like you." Edward whispered in my ear after Carlisle left.
I smirked and we went downstairs for dinner.
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The next morning, the whole house was buzzing with activity. Everyone had some sort of job. Most of the girls were in the kitchen preparing the dinner, except for my mom, since she couldn't cook to save her life. A few of the boys were helping out, too.
The rest were busy setting up the dining room. Emmett and Jasper were watching over the puppies, while they frolicked around the front room playing.
Esme and Lillian were preparing the turkey, while Alice made the stuffing and mashed potatoes. Matthew and Samantha were putting together a green bean casserole. Edward and I were in charge of dicing the fruit and making the sauce for my grandmother's special fruit salad recipe, while Rosalie tossed together an actual salad. The fruit salad was my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner.
Carlisle and Michael were, surprisingly, making the apple pie for dessert. I had always assumed Samantha w\had been behind the amazing pies that Alice and I had raced home from school for.
Dinner was ready by five and we all sat down to eat.
Dinner was delicious. We talked about all the amazing food and brought up old Thanksgiving stories, which were all cute and cuddly, until, that is they started talking about my childhood stories.
"I remember, one year, Bella decided to go vegetarian. By the time Thanksgiving came around, she had begged us to make her a tofu turkey. Mind you, she had only been a vegetarian for two weeks and had never had tofu." My mom started, trying not to laugh too much before she got the story out.
"So anyways, we all passing around our plates and she sticks her nose up in the air whenever a piece of turkey passes her and mutters something about 'animal cruelty'. We give her a piece of the turkey tofu and she's afraid to try it." My dad said calmly, but fighting a smile.
"So we're like 'Bella. You begged us for this. You have to eat it now.' And so, she takes a bite and spits it all over Emmett's face. They were having Thanksgiving with us that year." Samantha said, giggling, while Emmett scowled and I slowly sunk down in my chair.
"She begs us to have real turkey, but since she gave us such a hard time about being a vegetarian we just ate in front of her, but Alice, being the sneaky little best friend of Bella, snuck turkey under the table to her, as if she were her dog." Michael said.
Alice sat up straight at the sound of her name and quickly placed both hands on the table. I saw Jake jumping at the foot of her chair, excitedly.
"To make a long story short, Bella quit being a vegetarian, we didn't let her live it down for two more Thanksgivings, and here we are now." Mom said, summing up the rest of the story.
By this time the whole table was laughing in some way or another, except me, who was blushing deep red. Edward tried to hold back his laughter, making his face turn red from lack of air. I just glared at him and he couldn't hold it in any longer.
The rest of the dinner went like that, telling funny stories and people getting embarrassed. By six-thirty everyone had finished eating. The four who hadn't help make the dinner ended up doing all the dishes, but we still helped clear the table for them.
We all stayed up watching television until ten, when most of the parents started to go to bed, so the couples all split off to their designated sleep arrangements.
The parents mostly trusted the couples to be in the rooms together since we were all adults. I was staying with Edward in his room.
I threw on his shirt that I had grown accustomed to wearing as pajamas and crawled into the comfortable bed. Edward was sleeping in just his nice blue boxers. I felt my breathing get uneven just looking at him. He crawled in beside me cuddling close and taking a deep breath from my hair.
"Mm. You smell delicious. And have I ever told you how adorable you look in my clothes?" he whispered seductively.
"N-no. Yo-You haven't." I said trying to keep my cool.
"Well you do." he said, sliding his hand from my thigh, up my side and under the shirt, holding onto my waist.
My breath hitched and I mentally begged him to touch more of me, but then my conscious kicked in. Stupid Jiminy Cricket.
"Ed-Edward. We need to no-not do this to-tonight." I managed to get out as I felt his hand sliding more higher towards my breasts.
"But, I thought you wanted to test our boundaries." he whispered against my neck, placing sweet kisses all along it.
"Don-Don't get me wrong, I definitely do. B-but, not anywhere n-ear our parents." I managed to get out, finally able to move away from the temptation that was Edward.
"That's fine, love. We can always pick this up at one of our homes when we get back." he said, kissing my cheek and settling into my side.
I sighed contentedly and tried to fall asleep, while images of where that little situation could have led, filled my mind and my dreams. Oh I wonder what I would say in my sleep tonight.
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A/N: Woo! 14 pages! :D I had to give Jake some lovey-dovey time and help calm him down. Yes, I hate the nickname Nessie in Breaking Dawn, but it fits for a dog more than Renesmee does. Hope you enjoyed their rain playtime and the Thanksgiving dinner story. Sorry if it wasn't really funny. I wasn't very creative. :/ Also, hope you enjoy sexually frustrated Edward and Bella. It may pick up next chapter. Not sure yet. Have other stories to work on. Anyways, here's the next chapter. Hope you guys liked it. You know what to do. R&R! :D