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Previously:
"So you didn't...you know...with Edward?" He asked uncertainty showing on his face.
"No! I didn't, he wasn't even there, only Emmet was home. That's why I went in the first place!"
I hesitated. "In fact... I never...you know did what we did back in my room, I mean I've never been that far before, I'm a virgin."
He groaned. "Baby please don't say that...your killing me here."
I laughed softly. I jumped when I heard my phone ring. It was the YMCA ring tone. Ugh Edward. All of a sudden I understood, that that right there my reaction at the supposed love of my life calling me, was all I needed to know. I didn't want to be with Edward anymore, he has become more like a nuisance I have to avoid. But not anymore. With determination I picked up my phone.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Spy's "R" Us
Bella
"Love, where are you?" Edward said the moment I answered the phone.
"Edward, we need to talk."
"Yes, Bella I completely agree we do need to talk. We need to talk about your childish behaviour. How could you behave like this, running from me, coercing my brothers into helping you? Into sending you warnings when I would leave to go talk to you. This behaviour is going to stop right now Bella, you are embarrassing yourself and me by acting like a like a ...teenager."
I snorted."Well newsflash grandpa I am a teenager! And as for coercing my brothers into helping me escape your stalking ways. OOh puuuuhhh...lease give me a fucking break. First off all if I'm really this frail weak, simple human you take me for then tell me please, how did I coerce two vampires into doing my bidding? You know as well as I do, that Emmett and Jasper are doing this because they think your an ass that needs a fucking wake up call.
"Second off all, there is nothing wrong with my fucking behaviour. Since your stalking ass enlisted the help of a fucking fortune telling pixie, I haven't had a moment off peace. I'm constantly being reprimanded for shit I haven't even fucking done yet. The only way I could ever escape your stalking ass was to go to the rez. And then you decide to try and take that away from me too. Well fuck that! I am never giving up my pack!" I yelled.
"They are not your pack Bella, you do not belong there. You are a human that discovered their existence by a fluke. And they only tolerate you so that they can keep an eye on you. When they get tired of you, they will most likely kill you and make it look like an accident," he said with a smooth voice.
I looked at Paul and I can honestly say that I have never seen him that angry before. Seriously, I have seen him angry, most of the time I was the cause of that anger. But this was anger at a whole fucking other level.
I walked over to him and grabbed his hand. I gave him a reassuring smile.
It seemed to be working because the shaking more or less stopped. But his expression was still murderous.
"Edward, I can honestly say that is the biggest lode of crap I have ever heard you utter. And that's saying something because I've heard you say some amazing shit.
"The pack would never ever hurt me. Unlike you they would never abandon me. I have been adopted by them because I am going to start a relationship with one of their members."
I could feel a tremor go through Paul's body. When I looked at him he was looking at me with the most happy smile I have ever seen. I couldn't help but to smile back.
"What! Which one? Tell me Bella!" He said anger clouding his voice.
"Let it go Edward...just let me go. We were not meant to be together. I don't have the same feelings for you I once did. I am so very sorry to have to tell you this over the phone, but I very much doubt that he would have let me talk to you alone. I am really sorry, but you will find the one who you are meant to be with...it's just not me," I said tears clouding my voice.
I may be pissed off at him, and I may not be in love with him anymore, but I do love him. He made me happy for a long time, and if it wasn't for him I would never have met my brothers. I was so grateful to him for that. I couldn't imagine my life without Jasper and Emmett and to be honest I didn't want to.
"Bella, please don't do this to us. I can change; I can be what you want me to be. Please, I'll even let you play with your mutts."
I rolled my eyes at Paul. "No Edward, I'm sorry but I'm happy now. I want to try to be in a relationship with someone else. I owe it to myself to try this. Besides if I really was your soul-mate you shouldn't have to be changing for me. Your soul-mate will love you exactly the way you are."
"Bella, please. Don't leave me, please? Tell me who it is? Which one of the wolves imprinted on you? Are they forcing you? Because whatever they're telling you, it's probably a lie. You don't have to accept the imprint Bella. We could still be together."
"Edward," I sighed. "No one imprinted on me, OK? So don't worry, no one is forcing me to do anything I don't want to do."
"What? No one imprinted on you? Then how are you in a relationship with a wolf?"
"Edward! They are perfectly capable of having feelings for someone without imprinting on them. Besides according to Sam imprinting is very rare, so he might never imprint," I said, uncertainty clouding my voice.
Paul heard it and stepped closer; he put one arm around my waist and held me to him.
Fuck, how could I not have thought about this? Paul was probably gonna imprint on someone and leave me. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!
"Rare? Remind me again how many wolves have imprinted, three I believe it is. That's three out of eight Bella. That doesn't sound so rare to me. He will imprint on someone and he will leave you. And you will be all alone again. Don't do this, Bella. Don't throw us away for that filthy dog."
"Edward, listen to me. Even if I wasn't with Paul I still would have broken up with you. I'm not breaking up with you because I want to be with Paul, I'm breaking up with you because I don't love you anymore. Paul just made me realize it sooner that's all," I said, trying to sound reasonable.
"Paul? Paul? Are you insane Bella he is the worse off all of them. He is constantly angry has no control at all, and he hates you. He will hurt you, Bella. You mark my words he will," He yelled.
Fuck I didn't mean to tell him Paul's name. I realized I needed to end this conversation, because it was literally going nowhere. He obviously wasn't ready to let go. I felt bad for him, but it wasn't my problem anymore.
"Edward, I told you everything I needed to say to you. Again I'm sorry. Goodbye Edward."
I disconnected the call. Paul pulled me closer to him.
"Why the tears, sweetheart?" He asked, wiping away tears from my face I didn't realize were falling.
"I don't know Paul, I think it's because being with Edward automatically meant I had his family too, and I'm afraid now that I broke up with him, I don't know maybe I'll loose them too."
He gave me a gentle kiss on the lips. "Are you afraid of losing your brothers?" He asked gently.
"No! I know that Jasper and Emmet would never leave me! They might not like my relationship with you, but they would never leave me like they did last time. I'm just thinking about Esme and Carlyle, Alice even if she's been a total bitch lately, even Rose. I'm just worried that's all. I'll send them a text first, I want to have a private conversation. And with all the vamps in that house nothing is private.
I quickly send a text to Jasper.
THE CRIMSON KLUTZ REQUESTS COMMUNICATION WITH BROTHER BEAR AND THE EMPATH
FOR YOUR EARS ONLY FIND A SECURE LOCATION
CONCERNING THE PUSSY AND THE DOGS
SEND ME CLEARANCE
WILL MAINTAIN RADIO SILENCE
UNTIL CLEARANCE IS GRANTED
Paul read the text. "Care to elaborate?" He asked.
"I'm just basically telling them I need to talk to them, but the conversation is private. They need to go somewhere where we won't be overheard. The conversation is about Edward and the wolves. And I won't call them until they text me it's safe."
He gave me a smile. "Oh no I got that; I'm talking about the fact that you just called me and my brothers dogs."
I blushed. "Sorry babe but it couldn't be helped."
He looked at me. "Bella be honest, you're really getting into this spy texting shit aren't you?" I blushed some more. "But Paaaaauuuuullll it's fun," I whined.
He shook his head. "Yep its official, you three together are gonna drive me insane!"
My phone beeped.
"That was fast," Paul said.
I looked at him and smiled. "Well they are vampires. What did you expect?"
I opened the text excited to see what they came up with.
CRIMSON KLUTZ YOUR REQUEST IS GRANTED
THE PARENTS, THE WICKED BITCH OF THE EAST
AND THE EVIL PIXIE ARE NO WHERE TO BE FOUND
THE PUSSY IS STILL M.I.A
STANDING READY TO RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSION
I couldn't help it, I laughed.
"Who are all those people what are they talking about?" Paul asked confused.
"They're telling me it's safe to call. The parents are Carlisle and Esme. Rosalie is the wicked bitch of the east. Alice is the evil pixie, and Edward hasn't been home yet. They're waiting for my call."
"Oh, do they always call their wives by those names?" Paul asked amused.
"No," I said laughing. "If I know my brothers they're probably in the doghouse."
"I think I need to call my brothers now, will you stay with me? Will you hold me?" I asked him hesitantly.
He gave me a beautiful smile. "Of course."
He picked me up and walked to the bed; he positioned himself against the headboard and put me between his legs in a spooning position. He wrapped his arms around me. "I'm here; if you need me I'm here," he said softly. I turned my head and gave him a quick chaste kiss to show my appreciation.
I turned my head back to my phone and dialled Jasper's number.
He picked up after the first ring.
"Spy's "R" Us, how may I be of assistance today?"
I immediately started laughing. I could feel the trembling of Paul's chest indicating he was laughing without a sound.
"Which one of you idiots came up with that?" I asked, chocking on my laughter.
"Hey! I resent being called an idiot, and I did if you must know. Why what's wrong with it? Because you should have heard what Emmett came up with," he scoffed. "That retard came up with James Bond Academy," he said laughing.
"What's wrong with that? I like it," I told Jasper. I could hear Emmett in the background saying to Jasper, "Told you, you dumbass!"
"Anyway, are you guys somewhere private?" I asked, just to be sure.
"That's affirmative ma'am!" Jasper answered.
"OK then major empath, could you put the phone on speaker, so I can hear Emmett? I know you guys have super hearing but some of still have to make do with those pesky human ears," I joked.
"Sure thing darlin'," Jasper drawled.
"OK, so I wanted to tell you guys that I spoke to Edward.'
"You did?"Emmett asked. "Are you OK? Do you need our help? Do you need us to come get you?"
"No, no guys please don't worry, we spoke over the phone I'm fine. But I don't think he is. I ... I kinda broke up with him." That got their attention really fast.
"You kind of broke up, or you broke up? Which is it darlin'? There is a difference." Jasper asked.
"Oh well in that case I definitely broke up with him."
"WOOOOHHHH!" I heard suddenly.
Jasper started laughing. "I realise that you can't see it right now but Emmett is very happy. He's doing a victory dance."
I felt Paul smile against the side of my neck.
"Yo, little sis you did good. Are you OK?" Emmett asked. "No regrets right?"
"No Emmett, none what so ever," I said honestly.
"So, what are your plans now? Do you wanna do something? Because in my opinion you should get out of Forks for a while.
"What do you think Jasper? Wanna go somewhere?" Emmett asked excited.
"Ooh yeah lets go on a road-trip to Texas!" Jasper yelled.
Emmett scoffed. "Honestly Jasper, Texas? There is this whole wide world outside of Forks and that is what you come up with?"
"I'll have you know, that there ain't no better place in the whole wide world then Texas!"
Emmett snorted. "Yeah whatever dude! Let's move on.
"How about Africa? I'd love to wrestle some lions!" Emmett offered.
I was really getting into this. "Oh how about Morocco, I've always wanted to go there! How are the hunting facilities?" I asked excited.
Paul decided this would be a good time to interrupt, he gave me a little bump with his shoulder, I turned around and saw his face. "Oh right," I said giving him an apologetic smile.
"Morocco sounds alright with me little sister, if that's what you want that's where will go," Jasper said with an excited voice.
"Ooh ehm Em...Jas... I kind of forgot, but I can't go. I'm gonna stay in La Push for a while."
"Why not?" Emmett asked dejected. "Is sounds like fun! Come on CRIMSON KLUTZ be adventurous, just grab a bag and let's go."
"Are you in La Push now?" Jasper asked.
"Yes I am. I'm at the rez; I'm staying with a friend of mine for a couple of days," I began.
Jasper interrupted me. "Are you staying with the Black's?"
'Uhh no, I'm not I'm staying with another friend." I said, hoping to halt this line of questioning.
"And may we assume this "friend" is another werewolf?
"Yes you would be safe to assume just that," I said.
"And since we all know that you can't get along with the only female werewolf in the pack, can we make the assumption that you are staying with a male unattached werewolf?"
I cleared my throat. "Ehm yes I am."
Emmett started laughing. "Hahaha, good for you little sister, finally getting some huh? Who is it?"
Ok, this is the part I'd been kind of worried about. My brothers knew all about Paul Meraz. Not because they've met him or anything, but because I've been bitching about him for the last couple of weeks.
"Ehm Paul Meraz," I said hesitantly, waiting for their reactions. They did not disappoint me.
"WHAT?" They screamed together.
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