A/N: So I decided to make this chapter narrative.

Chapter 34: Valentine's Day.

Part 1.

The sun shone hot and blazing despite the fact that it was February. The sun light peered through the curtains of the window in the Hilton hotel.

Embry tossed in the bed as he often did when he was about to wake up. His ruffling automatically woke up Laurence. She turned to watch him groan and toss.

She didn't glare at him like she usually did when people interrupted her rest. She loved being the first awake so she could enjoy watching him sleep for a few minutes. His bare back wasn't covered at all. He got too hot at night so he would usually through the comforters off him. She marvelled over his smooth russet skin and watched the muscles in his back flex and loosen as he fidgeted in his sleep.

He was amazing in her eyes.

She reached for his face so she could just touch it without waking him but she was wrapped so tightly in sheets, this seemed impossible. She slithered her bare limbs out of the tangles of sheets then tried reaching for him again.

Her fingers were barely inches from touching his cheek. His face was turned away from her but he appeared to still be sleeping. Her finger barely brushed against the smooth plane of his jaw when she found herself on her back, her hand pinned over her head.

Embry held her down, a sly grin growing on his face.

Her breathing came in short gasp and her heart was pounding at full speed. He had moved her too quickly and she still wasn't used to how fast he could move.

Laurence was startled. She stared at Embry with wide eyes waiting for him to do something or let go, but he didn't, "Let go." She said and struggled against his hold.

Embry positioned himself over her and she was suddenly very aware that they were both naked. "Happy Valentine's Day." He murmured and placed soft kisses on her throat. He loosened his grip on her and let his hand run down her waist.

Laurence sighed in delight, "Oh, so that's what this is." She giggled, running her fingers through his silky hair. He started out gentle then gradually simmered into something more intense—almost beastly.

The beeping of the alarm clock intervened in their tender embrace.

They both groaned in frustration.

"No." Embry moaned and it sounded almost pained.

"Fuck. What's the worst that can happen if I'm a few minutes late?" Laurence pulled Embry's lips to hers and kissed him. Her body instantly wrapped around him. She clutched to his arms and pulled him towards her, trying to close all the distance between them. She could feel Embry's heart beat next to hers.

"You shouldn't miss class." He pulled his lips away from hers.

Laurence trailed kisses up his jaw and sucked his earlobe. She paid no mind to his words. Embry was trying to be responsible. That was all he appeared to do lately. Laurence was also that kind of girl—the one to make all the good choices. But was it so wrong to be bad for once. So what if she missed a class?…or two?

"Laurence…" he groaned again. Their body rolled over so Laurence was straddling. His hands caressed her body but his guilt was evident.

She knew he felt bad for all the things she was giving him and how little he was giving back: the hotel room, helping him find a job, helping him get into school. Laurence didn't see these as favours that needed to be repaid. Embry's presence was all she needed from him. She really didn't mind helping him out. She'd rather spend every penny on him than have him live all the way in Washington.

Laurence sighed in frustration and sat up, "What?" His hesitance was beyond annoying.

"School is important. How else are you going to get a good job and take care of me?" He grinned jokingly, running his hands from her shoulder and down her arm, leaving it burning.

"Oh, so you're going to stay home and raise all the babies I'm supposed to squeeze out?" Laurence raised an eyebrow.

"That's the plan."

Laurence stared at him for a long moment. His grin didn't faze at all, he just stared back. His gaze was a little more focussed and Laurence noticed that this was a childish challenge he had started. They were having a staring contest. Laurence knew she was good at this. Her focus was totally on. The beeping of the alarm clock was getting more irritating with every passing second.

Embry cheated and started tickling her.

She shrieked and tried to restrain him. She often forgot that he wasn't human and she did not have the slightest chance to pin him down. She idly wondered how long it would take for Embry to have normal human strength. She had the rest of their lives to find out.

She gave up on pinning him down and jumped out of the bed, giggling like a little girl. She kept the sheets wrapped around her as she stood by the balcony window watching Embry nervously. She despised tickle fights. She hated being tickled and she watched as Embry stalked towards her—hunter stalking his pray.

When there was only a yard left between them she screamed, "Okay! Okay! I'll go to school." She laughed and clutched at his arms with dear life, "I'll go, I'll learn, I swear."

He grinned, "Good." He kissed her lips, "What's my schedule for the day?" Embry asked. He watched Laurence dig in her night bag and pick out clothes for the day. He turned off the buzzing alarm clock, "Do I go job hunting?

"No." Laurence shook her head, "A job comes second. Now you really have to apply for colleges. You need a job if you're going to support the babies I'm going to have."

"College then. Fun." He said sarcastically and pulled on some boxer shorts.

"College is fun." Laurence agreed, ignoring his sarcasm, "Well…that's what my friends tell me." She said, shrugging. Cosmetic school didn't exactly count as college but she liked it. She knew that was what she wanted to do.

She finished getting dressed and reluctantly walked towards the door. She wanted to spend her Valentine's Day with her Valentine.

He was right behind her. It was hard to sulk when he was standing so close, "Have a good day." He murmured, "I'll see you tonight." He promised.

Laurence's heart fluttered and she nodded, "Happy Valentine's Day." They shared a long passionate kiss before Laurence left a little disoriented.

The Masson sister's got ready for school on the blasted day of Valentine's Day. Silver wore pink to show her enthusiasm for the day but Amber was planning to act as if she wasn't even aware that it was Valentine's Day. She wore dark jeans and a purple shirt. That was enough to make the public think she was cool with today. Purple was red and blue mixed together so it was kind of Valentines-y.

Amber never hated Valentine's Day. She never really cared. Whether she had a boyfriend or not, it was just another day…more or less.

She just didn't want to watch everyone be all lovey dovey. She already had to watch her sister drool over her boyfriend and now she had to deal with the entire school mating like zoo animals. No thank you.

Silver always hated Valentine's day. She never had a Valentine and watching her friends get gifts and flowers from their boyfriends always made her feel bitter and a little jealous. But not this year. This year she had a boyfriend. And the best boyfriend in the world on top of that.

It was easy for Silver to forget all the fights Seth and her had gotten into ever since they first imprinted. Their love had never faded and in the end, that was what counted. She was trying to let everything else go.

Silver and Amber were back to waking up too late to even eat in the morning.

It was not a beautiful day today. It had snowed the day before and now the entire Forks was wetter and colder than usual. The snow was sticky and wet. Even after Silver warning her twice, Amber still managed to almost break her neck by tripping on the third step down the stairs.

They made it to school a few minutes later than usual. They knew because instead of just coming out of their cars, Andy and Seth were already waiting for them near the school engaging in conversation.

Amber wondered what they were talking about but shook it off, she didn't really care. She hurried out of the car, not liking to leave Andy waiting. He was the realest person she knew. It was as if everyone was always pretending and Andy was bluntly honest and true. He never pretended to be something he wasn't.

She moved too quickly through the slushy snow. She felt the moister sink threw her shoes and socks. She was less than a yard from Andy and Seth when the ice was apparently too slippery and she tripped.

Andy caught her before her knees could fall in the wet snow.

Amber's heart was racing from the shock.

"Stop spazzing, Amber." Seth laughed and jogged with ease to Silver. He lifted her and spun her around kissing her softly and wishing her a happy Valentine's Day, "Want to be my Valentine?" he asked with his boyish grin.

Silver smiled in response, "Of course, you big dumby." She squealed.

Amber wasn't paying attention to her sister, "I'm so sorry," she laughed. She clutched to Andy's forest green jacket and tried to balance herself on her feet.

Andy's cheeks engorged with blood at the proximity of Amber. She was so close he wondered if she could hear his heart racing. She would need super hearing to hear that, though. That comforted Andy. He didn't want her to know all the things that happened to him when she was near. She would never go for it. Why would Amber fall for him?

Andy wasn't stupid, he was actually really smart. He knew that Amber was out of his league. It was Steve that insisted on him talking to her even though he knew she had a boyfriend. That had been embarrassing. She had looked at him like he was the biggest freak in the world when he offered her his umbrella. She couldn't have ran faster into the arms of that giant of an ex boyfriend she had.

When Amber was settled on her feet she laughed, "God, I'm a cluts, today."

Andy couldn't disagree with her. His throat was swollen shut. He knew if he spoke his voice would come out high and cracked like a pre-pubescent teenager.

She hooked her arm in his and led them to the building, "How are you?" she asked, looking up at him with those greenigh-gray eyes that always sent his heart on a rampage.

He cleared his throat, "I'm good, you?"

She shrugged, "The day has just started. I'll have to wait and see." She squeezed his arm, "Do you have a Valentine?"

Her question caught him off guard and he tripped over his own feet. He was spazzing out as Seth had put it. "Uh, no. You?"

Amber was giggling from when he'd almost fallen and didn't bother answering his question.

Of course she has one, thought Andy. Her Valentine was probably twice as huge and a million times more handsome than her last boyfriend. He was probably worthy of her.

They entered the school and the bell rang, "Oh! The horror!" Amber gasped.

"What?" Andy looked at her than around the school. He'd expected to see the school overly decorated with frilly V-day décor but it hadn't changed since yesterday. It was still nice and subtle.

"I'm going in science. One of the few classes we don't have together." She jutted out her lower lip.

Andy watched her pink lip and wondered at the back of his head how they felt. He knew that only in his dreams could he feel them against his. Only in his dreams…

He blushed again.

Amber hugged him before going to her science class and he numbly head to his.

He dragged his feet toward his own class. He looked over his shoulder at Amber who was socializing with her other friends. Her cool friends. He couldn't help smiling just a little as he watched her laugh and enjoy herself. He had to admit that she looked better than she had a few weeks ago when her ass hole of a boyfriend broke up with her. He would never be able to understand that dude. Embry, was it?

That guy must have thought he was all that, and then some, to dump a girl like Amber.

As much as he hated seeing Amber in the pain she had been in, he had to admit that, like allot of the boys in the junior and senior classes, he was happy when the word came out that she was single. All the guys pounced on her like she was a piece of meat.

Andy's approach had been more subtle though. He didn't bombard her, he just approached her. That was a step forward. He used to just stare at her from afar and ask his friend about how she was. Even to himself he was kind of creepy.

At lunch time, Andy sat at his table of friends. He sat with the 'jocks' of the school minus the sports. They were just loud, good looking and obnoxious guys that were pretty nice when you got to know them. They all grew up together. Andy knew Steve since he was four. Andy's cousin was best friends with Steve's little sister.

"Hey Jew!" Called Aaron. He was a buff, red headed boy. Despite his red hair, he was very handsome. To Andy, he was just terribly obnoxious. Out of all his friends, Aaron was the one he liked the least.

Andy looked down as if he wasn't addressing him and sat down next to Steve at their round and crowded table. Usually it was just the guys but today, some of his friends' girlfriends were parched on the guys' lap.

"So, Steve, did you buy Amber a rose like a told you to?" Steve asked in a voice entirely too loud to keep it private. He smiled his cocky grin, his blue eyes were shinning with the sign of a challenge. Sometimes Andy thought Steve wanted Amber to be with Amber more than he wanted to be with her, himself. He kept thinking of 'plans' to get them alone.

They had the attention of everyone on their table. It seemed like everyone knew Andy loved Amber except for Amber. That upset Andy. He thought he'd been pretty good at hiding his feelings for her.

"Yeah, I don't see the point ,though." Andy rolled his eyes and started taking down one out of my two sandwiches.

"The point is that you like her." Jason said, laughing at his shocked expression. It was insane how loud they were talking. Over the babble of the other students in the cafeteria, it was as if their table was the loudest. There was a big chance that no one was paying attention to them but Andy was still paranoid. He didn't want Amber to hear. Anyone but her.

"Maybe even love her." Aaron added, laughing arrogantly and biting into a green apple. His skin reddened with his loud laughter and Jason shook his head at him.

"I don't like her!" Andy hissed in a whisper glaring at Jason. "And I most definitely don't love her." He glared at all the sniggering faces at his table. "We're just friends." He added ruefully, wishing it wasn't so. He desperately wished that they weren't just friends. He didn't want to send Amber a rose but Steve had forced him to and now it was too late to take I back. Would she guess his feelings for her? Would that be so bad?

"If you're just friends, then you don't mind me saying how hot she looks today." Aaron said, his grin spreading on his face. Aaron didn't have a girl on his lap so he was free to say what he pleased.

Andy didn't pay attention to him. He knew he was just saying things to bother him. He wasn't so hard headed to be agitated by him.

"It's a good change. I missed it." He continued, "She was so hot in the beginning of the year and then it went down when her Quileute dumped her but now she's back and damn! Can she come back." He and the other guys chuckled like morons—some of them got smacked by their girlfriends for laughing, "Her body is slamming!"

"I heard she was a dancer back in Montreal." Jason said. "She could do the splits and everything."

Jason girlfriend was sitting in the chair next to him and she glared at him.

"Bet you'd like that, Andy. I'm sure you'd love to watch that sexy redhead do all sorts of flexible shit."

Andy blushed at the image Aaron had put in his head but tried to ignore his furry. He hated hearing them speak of her like that. It didn't matter that she was beautiful. She had so much to her than just that.

"Watch how he blushes!" Aaron crowed in victory,

"Blusher! Blusher! Blusher!" The guys started to chant and slam at the table in harmony.

The cafeteria went quiet and everyone was looking at them.

Andy smirked a tiny bit when Steve joined in the chant and shook him out of his bad mood.

"Hey!" A voice shouted. They all stopped and looked at Amber who was standing on her chair with a playfully angry look on her face, "You idiots calm down or else!" she giggled and sat down.

Steve leaned towards Andy, not taking his eyes off Amber and whispered. "That's your future girlfriend."

A/N: The next chapter is also V-Day. I don't like the Holiday but I did like the movie :D