BPOV

We played Call of Duty for two hours straight. It was a lot of fun, much to my surprise. I think Emmett was going easy on me though. We laughed and joked the entire time. Finally at four, we put the controllers down. I hadn't eaten since that morning. So when my stomach growled, Emmett insisted we get some food. We headed downstairs to find Esme making dinner.

"Oh, Bella, would you like to stay for dinner?"

"I couldn't intrude…"

"Nonsense. I insist."

"Um, let me call Charlie."

"Bella!" Alice sang out as she practically danced into the kitchen. I envied her gracefulness.

"Yes?"

"Can't you stay the night? We can have a sleepover. Oh! It'll be so much fun."

I glanced at Emmett. He actually looked kind of hopeful. I looked back at Alice to find her pouting. It wasn't as persuasive as Emmett's, but persuasive enough to get me to say, "Okay, fine, let me just as Charlie."

I opened my cell phone and called Charlie's work number. "Police Chief Swan."

"Hey, Dad."

"Hey, Bells. What's up?"

"I'm over at the Cullen's, and Alice was wondering if I could spend the night." I looked at Alice to find her bouncing up and down.

"Of course! I am so glad you're making friends so easily. And the Cullens are a great family."

"Yeah, they are. Thank you, Dad. Are you going fishing tomorrow?"

"Yes. Billy invited me down to La Push."

"Okay, well, I'll probably end up going to Port Angeles, if that's okay?"

"Go ahead, Kiddo. Have some fun."

"Okay. I'll talk to you tomorrow."

"Alright. Bye."

"Bye." I hung up. "He said yes."

"YES!" She screamed. I couldn't help but laugh. Emmett leaned over to whisper in my ear.

"I told you. Energizer bunny." I laughed harder when he said this and nodded.

"I can see that."

"Dinner's ready!" Esme announce. "Emmett call Jasper and Carlisle down here. Rose and Edward went out to dinner."

Emmett nodded and went to the bottom of the stairs before yelling, "JASPER! CARLISLE"

After a few moments, Jasper and Carlisle appeared. "Yeah?"

"Dinner's ready."

Alice was jumping up and down in her seat by the time Jasper sat down beside her. I sat down next Emmett. They passed the spaghetti around. I quickly began eating since I hadn't eaten all day. When I looked around, I noticed everyone else was moving food around on their plate and taking small bites. They were so peculiar. I mean, of course I noticed their oddities. They were way too beautiful to belong in Forks, Washington. They never ate even though they brought food at lunch. They had inhumanly cold bodies. Even thought they weren't related, their eyes were the same odd color. Their skin was the same shade as one another yet paler than any other person's skin. There's no way there was an entire family of unrelated albinos. There were times I caught Edward and Emmett glaring at one another for no apparent reason. Something was different about this family. Something I wasn't sure of. But a thought I had earlier when I was playing with Emmett's hand crossed my mind again. Everything about them seemed so inhuman. Their skin. Their odd colored identical eyes. Their skin color. Their body temperature. Their lack of food consumption. But that was impossible. If they weren't human, what were they? Maybe this small town isolation was getting to me, and I was slowly going crazy. But at the same time, I had a nagging feeling that there was so much more going on than I knew of. And somehow, that didn't scare me as it probably should. Emmett had spent all day with me and not once tried to hurt me. Quite the opposite. He was caring, supportive, almost loving. Now that's crazy talk. Emmett loving me. Impossible. I'd believe that the Cullens were aliens before I began to believe the idea that someone like Emmett could love someone like me.

"You okay, Bella? You seem distracted." Jasper said.

"Huh? Oh, no, I'm fine." I smiled at them and continued eating the last little bit of spaghetti. "Thank you, Esme. It was very delicious."

"Thank you, and you are very welcome, Bella." Esme said as she stood to clear the table even though everyone else's plates were nearly untouched. I didn't ask for I didn't want there to be awkwardness between this family and I. I tried to push the thoughts away from my mind trying to keep my natural curiosity at bay. I glanced over at Emmett. He must have felt my gaze because he turned to me after a second.

"Want to do something?" He asked.

I shrugged and stood up. "What do you usually do?"

"Watch TV, play more video games, stuff like that."

"Let's watch TV." I didn't feel like doing much else. I had a lot on my mind. Maybe everything was finally catching up with me, and I was losing it.

He nodded and wrapped one of his strong arms around my shoulders leading me into the living room. He grabbed the remote and felt onto the couch pulling me with him. He pulled me close to him without seeming to think about it. I leaned into his cold touch and turned my eyes to the TV. He was flipping through the channels hardly pausing long enough for me to catch what was on. We ended up watching Family Guy for two hours. I didn't realize how tired I was until my eyelids began drooping. Before I could stop it, I was slipping into unconsciousness in Emmett's arms.

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EmPOV

I felt her body go limp against mine. I looked down at her and smiled to find her asleep in my arms. She looked so peaceful unlike when she slept at home. I carefully stood up and picked her up without waking her. She curled up a little in my arms burying her face into my chest. With ease, I carried her up the two flights of stairs to the guest room that was locate across from my room on the third floor. I laid her down in the bed as carefully as possible. She frowned a little about whatever it was that she was dreaming around. I lifted the blankets and laid them over top of her tiny body. She sighed in her sleep and buried her face in the pillow mumbling something about the cold. I stood there for a long while watching her soft peaceful features relax or curl up into a smile every once in awhile. I had never seen her sleep so calming before.

"Emmett." Alice whispered.

"Yeah?" I didn't even bother hiding the fact I was staring at her. They all knew I was in love with her, so why bother hiding it from them?

"She's going to wake up in like three minutes to go to the bathroom. So you might want to…"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming." I wasn't pleased with the fact that I had to leave her side even for a moment. I heard Alice walk away from the door and sighed. I couldn't help but lean over and kiss her forehead. "Goodnight."

With that I turned and left. As Alice said less than three minutes later, I heard footsteps towards the bathroom. I spent the entire night outside her door listening her talk in her sleep. It was rather funny and adorable. She even mumbled my name a few times, which I couldn't help but smile at. When I heard her beginning to wake, I crossed the hall to my room and pretending to just be waking up as well.