OMGOODNESSSS!!!!! I am soooo terribly sorry that I have not updated in like 10 days!!!! I have been so busy! I'm in summer program right now that is literally draining the energy from my body, but I hope to update once more this weekend. Okay boys and girls, this chapter turned out a TON better than I expected, because in all seriousness. . .I didn't really have a plan for this chapter. . . I just need chapters to get to certain places. BUT WOW, my brain like took over and created some insaneness. Anways. Read and Review.
Rosalie Hale was trying not to get excited. She tried to push all the thoughts of doubt out of her mind. She was doing the right thing. I mean, she wasn't going to steal Emmett from her best friend. She was just going to see if he had the right intentions.
"Hey." She had finally reached the poolside where Emmett was doing laps around the pool. "Just tell him, hey."
Emmett was in the middle of his butterfly stroke when he noticed Rosalie Hale on the side of the pool in the a t-shirt and mini-shorts that obviously had her bathing suit underneath. He quickly reached the surface to take a breath. He heard her say, "hi."
Emmett lifted himself to keep his feet flat on the pool bottom. "Hey, Rosalie. Planned to go for a swim."
"Yeah." she looked everywhere all around the pool to ignore the incredibly handsome body in front of her.
Emmett filled the awkward silence that was filling the air. "Well, I'm going to be done in like four seconds, so you can have the pool."
Rosalie snapped out of her daze. Why could she never talk to him? "No, it's fine. I just wanted to talk to you for a bit." She sat down on the edge and dipped her toes into the water.
"Oh man." He put his fingers in his hair; and his immense muscles became more defined as his arms reached the back of his head, and then fell to his side. "Did Bella send you?"
"No. I came by myself." She waded her feet back and forth. "You didn't seem too excited about the interview yesterday."
"I was pumped for the interview. What would make you think I wasn't?" Emmett spread his arms in front of his body in innocence.
"First of all, I've seen you in interviews before. When the camera is on you, you can't shut up." Rosalie wished at this exact moment that she could somehow take back what she had just said; and then she heard a noise, a big hearty laugh.
"Rosalie Hale. The person who just lays it out as it is." He kept laughing.
Rosalie didn't know what to say. Normally she would get all mad and upset that he was laughing about her, but for some reason she felt a giggle come out of her mouth. She quickly tried to cover it up with a cough. But Emmett laughed even more.
"There's my Rosie. Just laugh."
And she did.
The morning after Edward's one-on-one date was excruciatingly hard for Bella to get up. She was not excited for this date at all, but Rosalie insisted that she needed to get these boys in their element to see their true personalities. The only problem was that Bella was about to die.
She knew she was a strong, stubborn person, but she bruised as bad as a rotten apple. But she did want to see all the boys on this date; they pretty much summed up muscular hotness.
After that date, she had a date with her other four guys, Laurent, Dan, Jonathan, and Rupert, to a theater. They would think that they were going to see a show, but the truth was they were putting on a show for her. She couldn't wait to see what would happen.
Tomorrow morning, she would have to go to her double date with Mike and Eric. One of her favorite things to do is fish, and she thought that maybe Mike and Eric would enjoy fishing since they are bit boring themselves. But everyone deserves a chance.
She reached out her hands above her head to lift her out of bed, and got ready for the big day she had planned.
The final date box arrived at the house while Emmett, Jacob, Evan, James and Seth walked out of the house. All of the other men, ran to see what was inside, while the guys walked over to a hummer limo where Bella was leaning against it with all black clothes, pink knee and elbow pads, and French-braided pigtails. She had one arm crossing her waist and the other was holding a paintball gun. Everyone hooted and hollered.
"You boys ready to have some fun!" Again shouts went through the air. "This is about to be the best fun you've had yet. Today, we are going to a paintball park. You are going to be split into teams of three to play against each other. Look at the color of your elbow pads and kneepads and your protective headgear. If you are matching in color with me, welcome to the winning team." More excited cheers resounded in the air as Jacob and Evan looked at their stuff. James was a tad bit upset, because he fought for the blue one when he should have been fighting for the pink. "If you make the most hits today, you will receive un-interrupted one-on-one time with me! Everyone understands? Alright, get in the limo!"
Emmett was beyond pumped; he was about to dominate. His team consisted of James, Seth and himself, almost literally the strongest boys in the house. He knew that he would have to have one on one time with Bella, but he couldn't stand to lose.
Jacob couldn't stop smiling. He kept jumping in his seat while he talked to Bella making her laugh and smile the entire time, but took a break when Evan took over.
Jacob leaned over towards Seth, "So between you and me, who you think is going to get the one-on-one time?"
"I have no idea. I really think whoever is the strongest man. They might even get a kiss. I mean, it can't be the first kiss. Edward already kissed her."
James leaned into the conversation, "How do you know that Edward got the first kiss?"
"James, come on." Seth shook his head. "Do you see the way they look at each other? There is no way they spent four hours together without kissing."
"Alright, well," He paused, "then I'm going to get the second kiss."
Emmett overheard and snorted. "Seth said the strongest man, so it's obviously going to be me."
James chuckled and whispered back, "Yes, but in the game of paintball, it's the swiftest and cunning men who win."
"Boys! I'm feeling left out." Bella shouted.
While the rest of the limo tried to jump into the conversation, Evan sat there nervously twiddling his fingers. He was excited that he was on Bella's team, but he didn't want to embarrass himself. It had been a long time since he played paintball or looked at a gun for that matter.
"Evan!" He lifted his head up into the eyes of the beautiful Bella, "are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm great." He tried to smile.
"Okay, because Team Bella needs to be prepared to win!"
They arrived at the Paintball Park to be bombarded by cameramen and photographers. They each took pictures with Bella, and with their teams. Emmett was a team captain and so was Bella; Emmett flipped a coin to see which side he would get. The teams situated themselves. And the game began.
Bella had no idea how intense this game was going to be. She stayed behind a structure and watched the other boys play. Emmett was showing no mercy by attacking anyone who came out of hiding. Seth was carefully moving forward to one of the closer mats. Bella lifted herself a bit, and shot at Seth. He looked up surprised as the paint hit his side.
"Oh, okay Bella. You want to play like that." She giggled as she went back down. Evan was gone out of the game. She looked over to her team. Jacob was all up in the game trying to aim for both James and Emmett. He didn't take a single break while she was watching him. When she looked away, Evan was nowhere to be found. She ran across the field to go to Jacob's mat.
"Where's Evan?"
Jacob kept firing as he answered, "I don't know. It got pretty quiet up over there once the game started."
"Can you help me get over there?"
"Yep. Take my hand."
She grabbed it as he ran across the field blocking her from bullets. Everyone missed as they arrived to a shocked Evan sitting with his head in between his legs, and his lungs overworking.
"Evan, oh my god, Evan." She put her arms around him. "What's wrong?"
Even though Jacob was wincing inside, he kept shooting at the opponent, at least he got to hold her hand. Bella was trying to help Evan get up, but he just seemed so lifeless.
"Stop the game. Stop it!" Bella started shouting as Jacob dropped his gun to signal a time out. The other team stood up while the cameramen surrounded Bella and Evan. She lifted him up and tried to bring him to a bench, but Emmett came behind and just picked Evan up. He brought him to the bench.
"What happened?" Asked Emmett quietly.
"I don't know. He just froze up." Replied Jacob.
"Okay boys." Rosalie popped out of nowhere. "I'm gonna need all of you to go to the picnic tables on the side. We have food set up. Bella will meet you over there."
"What about Evan?" Emmett asked loudly.
"He's going to be fine. We are going to take care of him."
"We're no more a nuisance than your cameras." Emmett responded indignantly as he walked over to Evan.
Jasper walked in front of him. "Emmett, we got it. Go sit down."
"Dude, I could smash your face with my pinky." He raised his pinky that was the size of Jasper's thumb.
"Why don't you go on and try to hit me?" Emmett made a move to come closer. "I will just have you kicked off the show, and you will see none of us ever again." Jasper looked over to Rosalie and back to Emmett. "You don't want to leave the show, do you?" Emmett scowled.
"Boys! Just go sit now." Rosalie's voice was commanding. Her pose was even more intimidating. Each boy walked over to the picnic table. By the time they had reached the other side, Evan was coming out of his previous state. Bella walked over with a cup of water.
"Hey, are you feeling better?" Bella handed him the water, and sat by his side.
"Yeah, did I get hit or something?"
Bella looked at her lap. "I don't" she stuttered, "I don't think so. You just kind of sat there. We didn't really know what happened to you." Bella looked up at him. "What was going through your mind?" She didn't want to be pushy, but she only had a certain time with each of them.
"Well, I didn't really tell you the truth about my occupation. I am in school to be an environmental lawyer."
"That's fine. I don't really see how you lied."
"Well, I actually just started like two months ago."
"That's fine as well. You just stayed in college longer than most." Bella was really trying to understand what he was trying to say.
"No, I only spent three years in college. I'm twenty-four."
"Then where have you been?" Bella tried not to sound too nosy, but was failing miserably.
"I was actually just sent back from Iraq about eight months ago. I really didn't think that paintball was going to affect me like that. I have some pretty good memories from playing paintball."
Bella was trying to get over the shock of Evan being in the Army, "Really, what sort of memories?"
"Well for starters, in Indiana, paintball was life. We have paintball fields everywhere. My parents raised us on a 600 acre corn farm, where my brothers and sisters, all eight of them, and I would play around. Paintball was our territory." Bella watched as the color came back to his face. "We were constantly playing against other kids or each other. We never lost."
"One time," he laughed, "my brother Timmy climbed up one of the big ol' apple trees on our farm. He was shootin' from the tree, and just once he was caught off guard, and saw something move. He just shot at it thinking it was one of us." Evan looked into Bella's eyes. "It wasn't. " Evan looked down. "It was a rabbit. The impact was so large that the rabbit died almost instantaneously." He smiled, but his eyes were sad. "We had a little funeral for it and everything. Timmy could not stop crying; all he kept saying was 'I killed it. I killed it.' I think that was good preparation for most of us." His voice became more hesitant and quiet. "Molly, Ellen and David joined the Navy. Timmy and I joined the Army. And Sarah joined the National Guard. The other two Pete and Sam became doctors. Nathan just became a musician. " Bella had her hand on Evan's knee. Her body was faced towards him.
"Wow, you have such a brave family." She looked at his face. "Thank you for serving my country and thank you for sharing."
He looked up. "We all tried to help. Even Pete, Sam and Nathan do their part. Pete and Sam work with the soldiers that come back wounded. Nathan sings about the war. Most of his profits go towards supporting the troops." They sat arm in arm for a while. Bella closed her eyes, put her head upon Evan's chest, and sighed. Evan whispered in her ear. "I've wanted to hold you for the longest time."
Bella smiled. To her surprise, she felt so safe in Evan's arms. Even though he couldn't perform well in the paintball date. She still thought of him as such a strong man. He went on this date with no idea what was going to happen to him. Bella pulled away, and kissed Evan on the cheek. "I'll be right back." She ran to the limo, and came back holding a single rose. "Thank you for sharing." She kissed him on the lips.
So the first kiss went to the man who was the strongest.
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