It was lucky that I experienced feelings for people, that I cared more about other's than myself unlike some girls in the world. It was lucky that though I'd been given a warning I didn't need it. As soon as I saw Emily I knew I'd love her despite the scarred right side of her face. The scars pulled down the corner of her lips into a twisted grimace that would've frightened small children, the scratches still looked raw in fact when you saw them, but I didn't stare. I glimpsed. And my heart welled up with love for her just because I thought about what people probably did when they saw her. I couldn't not care about this young woman.

If I could love Edward whose mind and heart were so twisted that he believed he was the only one who had answers and without consulting me and working out a problem decided to ditch me I could sure as hell care for her.

"Oh! Whose this?" The pan of food sizzling in her hand went flying and with lightning fast speed Embry caught it saving the food.

"I just saved the world," breathed Embry dramatically looking down at the food like it was manna from Heaven. Though there were two tables, that had been pushed together, loaded with food for a party of 20 so I didn't think there would be such a loss if the food had even hit the ground. Not that the guys wouldn't lick it u.

"Who else could it be Emily? Who does Jake talk bout all the time?"

"Bella," she breathed as if it were a cursed word. Her face wans't at all trusting towards me as she sighed, "Jake found a way around it. Hello vampire girl."

"Hello wolf girl," I said back causing her to smile a bit more warmly though not too much. "I'm not a vampire girl any longer."

"Where's Sam and Paul?"

"Bella met Paul." Emily rolled her eyes at this news like it was something completely normal to happen. She didn't even need an explanation it was like she was psychic or perhaps a mind reader.

Bella there are 2 wolves around you… and that woman has a frying pan. Edward shut up and butt out of the things I'm seeing! The two wolves are friends and what the hell do you mean 'that woman has a frying pan?' I know your clumsy ass. You'll probably try to help her cook, trip over a flea, the pan of food will fly in the air, a million nearby ants will smell the food when it falls on you and attack you before the pan even lands on your head. Edward. you want to protect me and yet you leave me. Didn't you think there was a possibility I would trip one day and break my arm? You're an immortal you had enough time to think of it. But I was hoping I wouldn't have to see when you're in danger. Oh? To save your conscience from feeling guilty about leaving the woman you love to death. How sweet of you Edward. Stop twisting the things I do around so it sounds like I'm cruel. You are cruel. Bella please don't say that… Or you'll what? Run back here and protect me? Hardly. Look get out of my head. I don't… -this is the part where my voice stalled within my head- I don't need you anymore.

And then I went to take the pan to help Emily, the stir fry smelled good and I really wanted to sample it too, and you know to prove Edward wrong. I tripped over a crack in the floor, the food went flying, I fell on the floor, a spider crawled on my arm and bit me, and the food landed on my clothes. Dammit. Told you so… and you do need me, though I wish you didn't.

That's when Jacob and Paul walked in. "Look, the foods on Bella."

"Ha ha Jake, like I didn't expect you to say that," I breathed sitting up and yelping at the spider that had bit me. It wasn't poisonous though from what I saw. Jared stepped on it and killed it.

…… the spider will be remembered in the loss of the spider war…..

I wiped away the food on my shirt into the trashcan. Some was in my hair. Jake reached forward and with the smallest most intimate gestures brushed a piece off popping it in his mouth with a small chuckle, "Delicious," he breathed.

"Yuck. Jake's being too romantic its sickening," moaned Embry. Emily just chuckled and grabbed a towel in a basket of clean laundry, the laundry room being connected to the kitchen, just as Sam walked in.

"Whose being romantic?" Sam grinned as he walked towards Emily grabbed hold of her and pulled her close in a dip kissing her before setting her back on her feet.

"I can't eat anymore," groaned Embry.

"Oh no the apocalypse has truly come! The impossible has been said," cried Jared. Embry whacked him in the head.

"Here Bella, go take a shower or you'll be all sticky," she breathed with a small smile, her face blushing from the roots up because of the look Sam was giving her, like she was the only woman on the earth. I grabbed the towel thankfully. "Bathroom's down the hall, second door on the left," she called out, "I'll find you some clothes to use."

I managed to easily find the bathroom, the bathroom at first appeared scary, there was lots of dirty splattered in the shower but the bathroom looked like a woman had tried to add a feminine touch. The shower curtains were pink, there was a flowery trashcan, female appliances littered the bathroom sink. I laughed to myself at Emily's attempts to make the bathroom prettier in a house that was probably more than often filled with men.

I turned the shower on, stripped off my dirty shirt and shorts. Thankfully my underwear was clean enough I set it to the side of the sink and placed my dirty clothes in a pile next to the door. I threw a towel over the side of the shower and stepped into the warm water welcoming it with every throbbing tired muscle in my body that had been screaming for sleep. If I couldn't give it sleep here was the next best thing.

As I scrubbed my hair clean of rice and mushrooms, eating a mushroom maybe once or twice, I heard down the hall a very loud voice, Embry it sounded like, "I wonder how Bella takes her showers?" Bella I think you should take a step back. Edward I'm fine! I'm taking a shower and they're just perverts that want to know how I take my showers.

I heard a sink turn on and a sudden jet of cold water hit me instead. Had I been blessed with brothers I might've been better prepared. Told you so. I shrieked and jumped back clutching onto the shower curtains as I fell in the tub pulling the frilly pink fabric down with me with a yank. "Ow!"

I heard the pattering of two pairs of footsteps, I saw first Jake's head peeking in through the door, and he stood there for a moment staring. I clutched the flimsy pink material to my chest blushing to my roots like Emily had though mine was deeper because I was so pale since I never tanned and preferred my albino look. Suddenly a flood of horrible warm feelings came through and Jake stared for one moment before my mind finally came back and I screamed, "Out Jake," and threw a lufa at him.

PERVERT! YOU PEEK ON HER ONE MORE TIME… as Edward was yelling this Emmett had been peering at Bella on the internet… Rose came in thinking immediately that it was Emmett up to no good and he was up to no good so she began to strangle him though Edward's words weren't meant for Emmett…

The lufa bounced off his head and Jake immediately slammed the door with a blush on his cheeks that I caught. "I told you not to go in there," hissed Emily opening the door, "Bella hone… oh my." And immediately Emily fell against the door laughing her head off. I stared back her blankly, slightly aggravated that she was laughing at me, until I realized what I looked like right now and started laughing in hysterics with her at the bubbles in my hair.

"Did you have to wreck the bathroom Bella?" I heard Jake call through the door.

"Did you have to stare so long?" I called back as Emily reached over to help me up laughing still.

"He stared at you! Not that I didn't expect him to. He beat me to the door even though I yelled that you were probably naked." Emily was wrapping the towel around me and tossing the curtains in the shower as well as turning off the water. She rubbed me down dry and at this moment I realized that other than my mother this was the only intimate moment I had with a woman, and it didn't feel strange, it felt as if Emily had been a good friend of mine for years as she joked around like an elder sister. "Now I'm going to have to have Sam lecture Jake for going into the bathroom without knocking."

"I thought she hurt herself," Jacob replied from outside the door.

"As I recall coming down the hallway behind you you didn't seem to ask if she was okay but stood there like a statue getting a good look," called Emily. "I'm ashamed you pervert." I couldn't help but smile as I slipped on my underwear and held up my arms as Emily placed a baggy t-shirt over my head and helped me into a baggy pair of pants. "Sorry, I believe I'm better filled out in the bottom," she said with a chuckle as she wrapped a belt around my waist and drew up the 2 inches that had been swallowing me whole.

"You're so lucky Emily," I muttered, "to be blessed so booty-fully." She chuckled back at me.

"You know you aren't half as bad as I thought you'd be."

"Just because I dated a vampires doesn't make me bad. Besides I don't hang with him anymore. It seems his taste changed."

"I'm glad it wasn't just his taste that changed," she replied as she began combing my hair through casting me a wink and my eyes went wide as I immediately looked down sending a curtain of hair cascading around my face. There was silence for a few minutes and then I heard a voice outside.

"Dangit Bella say something."

"Stop eavesdropping," both Emily and I called out casting smiles at each other.

…………….at the moment Edward was pacing back and forth in his room……. His family obviously thought he was stupid if he didn't return to see Bella….. "If you still care so much about her then why don't you go back to her? Don't do something you'll regret for eternity," his father had said………… "Just because I screwed up doesn't mean you should screw your life up," muttered Jasper tasting Edward's emotions on his tongue……. "Bella was such a sweet girl. And it seems she's gotten sweeter being a nurse at the hospital. I know she makes you happy as she must do her patients."….. Esme was still in the dark on that though…. "Make up your friggin mind already! Every time you want to go I get a vision and every time you don't I get a vision. Will you please stop making me see re-runs in my friggin' head and make up your mind," Alice had said stomping off into her room….. "She isn't as pretty as me so I wouldn't mind you getting back together with her though I'd have to beat the hell up out of Emmett."….. "Bring her back. Maybe we can get her, Rose, and Alice to pose in pictures together," he has grinned as Alice and Rose both attacked him and Esme looked on with confusion in her brows before saying, "Yes they would look lovely in pictures together!… I should make a scrapbook!" And Esme had a new hobby………….