CHAPTER 11

Emmett and I walked back to the house hand in hand. Alice was waiting for us, practically jumping up and down. "Oh Bella! I'm so happy for you! And Emmett!"

"Alice, what…shouldn't you be sorry for me?" Emmett asked pointedly.

She shook her pixie like head, "nope. See, you're not upset that Rosalie left you. You're actually ecstatic, which means I can be too. Oh and guess what, Rose called and told me what happened and said that she and Edward were coming back to talk to you face to face. She thinks you're taking it badly and she feels that it'll be easier if she comes here in person."

Emmett stared at her like he didn't understand, "Rosalie…and Edward…coming here…to talk to me?" he asked.

Alice nodded, "They should be here by the morning, if not sooner. What do you plan on telling them?" she asked, looking pointedly at our still entwined fingers.

"The truth," I replied.

Just then, Jasper arrived and almost immediately he gasped, looking back and forth between Emmett and me.

"What?" Emmett demanded.

"I…I've never felt this feeling so strong from either of you before," he explained.

"What feeling?" I asked.

"Love," Jasper replied simply. "You two…you saturate the air around you with your love for each other. I've only ever felt it that strong for me and Alice and Carlisle and Esme. And I never thought…I didn't think I would ever feel it from you two this soon."

"This soon? But you knew it was coming?" Emmett asked.

Jasper nodded, "not only did Alice see it; I've been able to feel your attraction for each other for months now. I knew it was only a matter of time before you realized it yourselves."

I smiled at him. "Well, as fun as this is, I think I'll go inside and sit down for a bit."

The others followed me inside and Emmett immediately sat down beside me and practically pulled me into his lap.

"So what are you going to do about Edward and Rosalie?" Jasper asked.

Emmett and I looked at each other. "I don't know what Emmett will do, but I'm not going to cause problems with them. At…at one time I wanted nothing more than to get back at Edward for what he did to me, to get revenge, but now that I have Emmett I don't care."

"Wait, what? When did you want revenge?" Alice asked. "You've never said anything about it before."

"That…that's why I was turned. Victoria…she was going to kill me, for Edward killing James. But when I told her that Edward didn't love me, she decided not to. She told me that she would turn me so I could get my revenge on Edward. Now…that doesn't seem so important, though I am grateful to her for turning me so I could spend the rest of eternity with Emmett."

"Oh Bella, you never said anything," Alice said, seeming surprised and sorry for me.

"I didn't think I should involve anyone else in it. Besides, how could I know that you wouldn't try to stop me?"

Jasper was chuckling silently in an armchair.

"What are you laughing about Jazz?" Emmett asked.

"I'm just thinking about how Bella said she didn't want revenge. Well, want it or not, you're going to get it. Do you have any idea how Edward will react when he sees you Bella? He'll realize what he gave up, what he could have had. He'll realize that he was stupid for not turning you, then leaving you. To me, that's the sweetest revenge."

I smiled and nodded, "I see your point Jasper. Um, does Edward even know about…well about me?" I asked.

Alice and Jasper exchanged a look. But the answer I wanted didn't come from them. It came from the stairs. "No, Edward does not know about you," Carlisle said. "At least, no one in this house told him. I can not tell you if Rosalie said anything though. We do not talk to Edward often and when we do it is not about you."

I was more than slightly surprised by the news that I had been a vampire for three months and Edward might not even know about it. "Wow," was all I could say.

"What?" Emmett asked.

"I don't know, it's just strange. I always thought…when I was turned… Edward would be the first to know about it. I always wanted him personally to do it. And now, he's the only one who might not know."

"Will it bother you, him being back?" Emmett whispered close to my ear.

I looked up into his golden eyes and searched for what he was really asking me. I found it not far from the surface.

"Emmett, I love you. No matter what my feels were for Edward, they are gone now and would not matter even if I still had them. You are everything to me. I have no other purpose in life than to be with you. Will it bother me? Will I pin after him now that he's coming back? If you knew how truly happy I am now you would not even need to ask me that."

He smiled.

"She's telling the truth Emmett," Jasper decided to pipe in.

Emmett looked over at him, "thank you, Mr. Emotions. Is there anything else you'd like to add?" he asked.

Jasper raised his eyebrow, "do you really want me to say that out loud?" he asked, as if surprised and shocked.

Emmett growled at him and Jasper laughed, "no, all I can say is that I'm happy for you both and I know that you can both overcome Rosalie and Edward's return. If you weren't together I wouldn't be so sure, but already you are completely devoted to each other. I will be shocked if either of them can do anything to both you now."

I smiled and eased away from Emmett to go give Jasper a big hug. "Thank you Jasper," I whispered before letting him go.

He nodded, still grinning. I hadn't realized while I was human how little he seemed to smile. Now, all he ever seemed to do was laugh and grin.

I went back to Emmett's side and almost gasped when he pulled me around gracefully and kissed me. We continued kissing for several minutes, until someone cleared their throat. I broke away from Emmett and looked accusingly at Alice. She looked back at me innocently.

"Oh come on Bella! You know I couldn't let you two act like that in front of Jasper, he'd pick up your mood and God knows we don't need that!" Alice said playfully.

I actually gasped this time and would have slapped her if Esme hadn't come in at that moment and hugged me. "Oh Bella! I'm so happy!" she said just like a mother.

I smiled and hugged her back tightly, "I'm happy too Esme. I think I'm even more happy than I was with Edward."

"I'm glad. After all that's happened, you deserve to be happy. And Emmett will be good with you, you're so much alike."

I smiled over at Emmett, who was looking at Esme adoringly, just as a son should.

"Okay, um, well I'm going to steal Bella for a while," Alice announced. "Oh don't look like that! It's not like you'll never see each other again!" she reprimanded Emmett and I as we both looked at her with upset expressions on our faces. "I'm just going to pretty her up, give her a new outfit. You'll be fine till then Emmett!"

I sighed heavily as Alice dragged me upstairs. "Honestly Bella! Don't you want to show Edward exactly what he lost?" she asked, sounding exasperated.

I considered, "um, not really Alice. See, now that I have Emmett, I don't really give a damn about impressing Edward."

She gave an inelegant snort, "it's not about impressing him Bella! It's about making him jealous as hell! Come on, just indulge me will you?" she pleaded. "Do you have any idea what I could make you look like now that you're perfect in every way?" she asked.

I frowned, "you know Alice, that's kind of an oxymoron. See, if I'm already perfect, you can't improve me."

Alice smiled, "well I'm glad you didn't miss the oxymoron lesson in English class before you "died". But no matter, you're still getting a makeover so just deal with it."

I rolled by eyes and sat down to be beautified. Within an hour Alice had me done. My hair was freshly curled and pinned, my makeup was done, and she had put me in a very pretty dark emerald green cocktail dress with one strap, almost no frills, and a rather deep neck plunge. As we were getting ready to go back downstairs, I noticed a pretty blue dress in her closet.

"Why didn't you put me in that one?" I asked, indicating the dress. Though I liked the one I was wearing, I thought that that one seemed more…elegant.

She looked at me like I was mental. "Bella, blue is Edward's favorite color on you. If he saw you in a blue dress the night he came home, he'll think you're still waiting for him. Now the green one, I personally think it suits you more, and it just happens to be Emmett's favorite color," she said slyly.