Me: Hello world! I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far.
Emmett: I am! My character got to make out with Rosalie!
Me: Glad to see you like it!
Edward: When do I get my make out session?
Emmett: Didn't you already have one in an earlier chapter?
Edward: Let me rephrase that…When do I get a make out session with Bella? And one that isn't in a dream!
Me:…okay then I do not own anything Twilight, the characters and everything belong to Stephenie Meyer!
Emmett: Oooh Edward got ignored!
Edward: Why are you ignoring me?
Me: you are asking me to give up hints about future chapters, as of the moment right now Emmett is my favorite
Emmett: YES! I RULE! Now on with the story before she changes her mind!
Chapter 11: Happy Birthday to me!
(Bella pov)
Sleep. I love sleep. When you are sleeping you can be in your own little dream world, no one bothering you, no one reminding you of unpleasant things. What kind of unpleasant things? Well there are such things as world hunger, violence, the creepy guy from that yo gabba gabba show…and birthdays. I know I know, what kind of person hates birthdays? Its not that I hate all birthdays, I go crazy when it comes to any of my family's birthdays or my friends, but mine are never that great. I'm not ungrateful or anything, I just hate to be the center of attention and something bad normally happens on my birthday. Seriously, bad stuff does, on my fifth birthday my dad though it would be fun to have one of those bouncy house things….it popped while I was inside it. For my tenth birthday Mama Sue thought I was old enough for a puppy…it ran away after three hours…THREE HOURS! Then on my thirteenth birthday my mom took me away…but I am not going to get into that.
My alarm goes off and I hit the snooze button….again. I know I know, I have to get up sometime, and with my luck dad will send Emmett up to come get me. Seeing how a repeat of the first day of school would only end with Em and I getting grounded for breaking furniture, I wait for my alarm to go off one more time before I grab my clothes and run into the shower. I take my time getting ready (stalling really) and after looking at my watch and seeing that we had to leave in twenty minutes to get to school so Em could have some "Rosie time" (as if he didn't see her almost all day anyway but who am I to say anything, I like the extra time to stare at Edward, I mean talk to Edward too) I decide to head down the stairs and make my way to the kitchen. I hear giggling so I guessed that Seth was up, but I was in for a surprise as I turned the corner to the kitchen.
"Happy Birthday Bella!" Yelled Mama Sue, dad, Em and Seth.
"Took you long enough Bells, where you trying to drown yourself in the shower?" Em laughed as he came over and gave me a hug.
"I take it you all are ignoring my wish for today to be normal?" Seth nodded his head as he ran up to me to give me a hug.
"And laters we are gonna have a family dinner at Leele's and I can see my Cabby!" We don't know where he got the idea from, but since Saturday Seth keeps saying Cabby is his, I think it's cute, as long as Seth knows a baby isn't a toy (we keep a very close eye on Seth when ever he wants to hold the baby).
"Happy birthday sweetie, now I know you said no presents, but we all thought we would pitch in and give you at least one, and it comes with accessories so it technically is only one present." Mama Sue said as she hugged me. It was then that I noticed dad wasn't in the kitchen anymore and I saw him come out of his and Sue's room with a box with holes in the top. I took the box from dad and got nervous when I felt it move. Dad saw the look on my face and he got a wicked look in his eye.
"Seth picked it out, he saw it in the pet shop window and said it screamed Bella." I said a little prayer in my head that it wasn't a lizard, or a spider, or worse a rat. I opened the top and took a tentative look inside.
"Meow" to say I was relived to see a tiny black kitten would be an understatement. It was so cute; it had a little green bow around its neck and it looked up at me with the brightest green eyes that reminded me a lot of Edwards. I placed the box on the table and took out the kitten. Dad walked over and took off the bow and replaced it with blue collar around its tiny little neck.
"After the incident with Puddles seven years ago we went to the vet the other day and got this little guy micro-chipped and we plan on him being an indoor cat anyway what with the wolves and stuff that run around in the area."
"Thanks guys, he is really cute." I bent over and placed the little guy on the floor so he could walk around. He took about three steps before I found out why Seth said that it was made for me, the little guy tripped over his own four paws.
"Well I guess we know what he is going to be named" laughed Emmett.
"Don't make fun of him, its not his fault he is clumsy. And no that is not his name!"
"So what are you going to call him?"
"ummmm, how about Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley?" My family gave me a dumfound look, jaws hanging open.
"What, it's the name of O'Malley from the AristoCats, you know the movie from Disney"
"That name is way to long, why not name him Tramp, like Lady and the Tramp." Em asked.
"Em, that's the dog, I can't name a cat a dog's name!"
"Well we have five minutes before we have to leave so you better come up with a name quick!"
"Simba?" Seth put in.
"That's the Lion King kido. How about Figaro from Pinocchio?" Em told him.
"No, the whale in that movie is scary."
"You know, I am just going to call him Scamp, from Lady and the Tramp two. That way the name Tramp can be used on a dog and we can get going to school." That was the end of the name game. Mama Sue showed me where to put the food and water dish (in my room by my book corner) and where the cat box will be located. I had a minute for another round of hugs before Em grabbed my arm and threw me into the hurricane.
"In a hurry Em?" I smirked at him.
"Maybe, now we have to rush or else we won't have anytime before school to hang with our friends."
"You just want time to suck face with Rose."
"Please you wish you had some one to suck face with!" Then Emmett realized what he just told me. "On second thought, you have no need for anyone to come anywhere near your face. If any guy gets too close you punch them in the stomach and knee them in the balls just like I taught you."
"Em, I'm seventeen now, you don't have to worry about me anymore, if a guy does anything to hurt me you will be the first one I go to." That was so a lie, I would most likely go to Leah first, at least she wouldn't beat the guy to a pulp, she would only scare him.
He didn't say anything else as we drove the rest of the way to school. When we got to the parking lot entrance I turned to Emmett so he remembered the rules for today.
"No one knows its my birthday, correct?"
"Yes Bells, no one knows its your birthday."
"And its going to stay that way, correct?"
"Yes, its going to stay that way."
"Good."
We pulled into our usual spot next to the Cullen car. And as usual Alice dragged me from the safety of the hurricane into a bone crushing hug.
"Bella! What took you guys so long today?"
"Nothing, really just slow this morning." I looked around and saw Em kiss Rose (Eww) but no Edward and no Jasper. I asked Alice about this and she told me that Edward had asked Jasper a question about a song. I didn't think much of it as the bell rang to head into the school. Since Monday Edward had been acting weird, but I didn't want to give it too much thought.
The morning flew by once again, math we had a pop quiz that I, most likely, failed. Angela managed to slip me a birthday card without anyone else noticing so I couldn't be mad at her for not following my anti-birthday rule (plus she was at the birthday party where my bouncy house popped). Spanish had a teacher again and I was doing my happy dance in my head that Alice wasn't going to have another chance to ask me about why Em and I came later this morning.
Lunch itself was another matter.
It started out all fine and dandy, Alice sat between Jasper and I as she chatted about the latest fashion emergency that was my outfit, Rose and Em were looking at a car magazine, and Edward was actually there physically but mentally he was off in his lala land (not that I minded, I was in my own lala land as well) when Alice suddenly shrieked.
"Isabella Marie Swan what is this?" I snapped put of my lala land to look over and see what she was exclaiming over. She was holding the birthday card. Fuck my life.
"It's a card."
"Isabella", I take it Alice was mad because she continued to use my given name, at least she dropped the Marie, "Why do you have a birthday card that is addressed to you for today?"
"Oh ohohohhoh I can answer this one!" Leave it to my brother to be jumping in his seat like a monkey…is there such things as a monkey bear?
"Emmett Jackson Swan you answer her and I will hurt you!" Emmett visibly gulped and stopped bouncing.
"It's Bella's birthday, she turns seventeen." Jasper is no longer my favorite cousin, he has been replaced with Garrett, Sam is more of a brother type.
The table was silent for a moment…then Alice started to cry. Not like little whimpers or anything, I mean full out ugly crying. Her face got all red and she started making wheezing noises. Jasper and I freaked out trying to get her to stop while Rose, Edward and Emmett rolled their eyes.
"wh wh why didn't you tell meeee? I thought we wer wer were friends!"
"Alice I didn't tell anyone, honest I don't like my birthday, nothing good happens on it. I didn't go out of my way to hurt you." o looked around the table in desperate need of some help but the others had just gone back to what they were doing before. Only jasper and I were trying to stop the wailing girl from causing too much of a scene.
"Hey Ali I have a great idea, why don't we all hang out tomorrow to celebrate Bella's birthday, you can plan the whole thing!" After Jasper finished his sentence the others snapped their attention back to Alice.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Edward and Emmett
"You have no idea what you just did!" Rose yelled as she folded her arms on the table and laid her head down with a groan. Alice brightened up immediately.
"Yes! We can drive down to P.A. and we can go eat a nice dinner at Bella Italia then we can go watch a movie at the theater and then and then and then we can have a party on Saturday at my house cause mom wants to have you all over and then and then and then we can have a sleep over and do makeovers!" Alice was bouncy again and I could see why the others had been scarred. Jasper just patted her on the head. What the hell had I gotten myself into?
My day didn't seem to get any better after lunch. Edward was still acting a little weird, he would look like he was going to say something to me then change his mind. I didn't talk much either; I was spending the five minute walk thinking about what Alice had planned for the next two nights…I could the dread wash over me and I had the image of Jasper signing my soul away to the devil. Biology went alright at first, just some simple note taking until the last ten minutes when Mr. Banner decided to throw the class a curve ball.
"Class, I know you are all ready to get going for today but before you all rush out of here I would like to assign you all to groups for your first group projects for the school year. You will get about three weeks to complete the project, three in class work shops and a trip to the library, the rest would have to be completed on your own time. Today will just be groups; topics will be given out next week when we make our trip to the library." Mr. Banner then proceeded to call out names. They were mainly groups of threes but we were a person short so there would have to be a single group of two. I didn't pay too much attention as he was assigning groups till I heard my name and the name of the person I was paired with…
"Isabella Swan and Tanya Woods. Now that's the end of class bell, see you all tomorrow." Oh hell no! The bell rang and everyone ran out of the class room…everyone but me. I was too busy hitting my head against the table. It wasn't long before I felt a hand on my shoulder and judging from the light electric shock that started to run along my skin it was Edward.
"You know if you keep doing that you are going to seriously damage your brain cells."
"I'm hoping that if I hit my head enough times I can put myself into a mini coma for the next couple of weeks." I heard Edward sigh before I felt his hands on either side of my face. He lifted my head up to look at him and I felt my face heat up.
"You never know it may not be that bad. At least you know she is too afraid of Emmett to really try anything and worse case scenario you end up having to do the project on your own, and I'm sure Alice would find a way to help you out. Now lets get going, I don't want to be late for band practice." He gave me his crooked grin and I found myself willing to do anything he told me to do.
"You're right. She would be stupid to try anything." As I stood up and went to grab my books I noticed they were no longer on the desk but in Edward's hands. I went to take them but he moved out of my way.
"Its your birthday, there is no way I am going to let you carry these." With that he walked with me to band.
Band class wasn't too bad and personally that was the class where my day started to get better. Uncle Peter wished me a quick happy birthday when I walked in (with a raised eyebrow at Edward carrying my books, Alice saw and started to jump up and down in her seat) and warm ups went great. He let us split into our playing groups for the remainder of the class hour and Ben found a good piece to practice playing called Pathetique, Adagio Cantabile by Beethoven. When class was almost over and us students had already packed our instruments away, Edward appeared beside me again and dragged me over to the piano. When I asked him what he was doing his reply was
"I want you to listen to something real quick." He looked a little nervous as he sat down to play but once his fingers hit those keys all that nervousness disappeared (A/N its Bella's Lullaby if you ignore the other instrumentation and just listen to the piano playing). The music started off quiet and slow but once he got to the main melody it sped up a little. It was really beautiful and as he played it for me I actually forgot everyone else in the room (what is with me, every time he plays I only focus on him). As he played the last note I couldn't help but notice that he was no longer looking at the piano but was looking at my reactions to the piece.
"That was really beautiful Edward." He smiled but got that nervous look back on his face and ran his hands through his hair.
"I wrote it for you." I must have had a shocked look on my face because he went on "I wrote it for you as a birthday present, umm you said at lunch you didn't like you birthday so I already had this melody swimming around in my head and I figured I could play it for you and give you a happy birthday memory." I couldn't stop myself as I moved over on the bench closer to him and gave him a hug. At first he went still but after a moment I felt his arms wrap around me.
"Thank you, that was really thoughtful of you and you didn't have to do that." I told him as I pulled away (the bell rand and I conveniently remembered that we were in a classroom full with other students).
"It was no problem, I was happy to play it for you."
After band my day seemed to just get better and better. I didn't hurt anyone today in gym class, but that might have been because it was Emmett's turn to be paired with me and I didn't even have to swing my racket. After Em and I picked Seth up from school Seth gave me a hand made card that had a picture of Scamp on it, it was really cute, and when we got home Scamp was still there! At first we couldn't find him but he was curled up under the covers on my bed (yes he lasted more then three hours!) and when I picked him up he started purring. Dinner that night at Leah's went off with out any problems. Aunt Charlotte backed my cake, Mama Sue and Emily made the dinner and everyone else was occupied with Cabby so I wasn't the center of attention (yay!). I actually went to bed on my birthday with a smile on my face. Other then the math quiz and getting paired with Tanya nothing bad really happened.
It really was a happy birthday.
A/N Hello readers! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I have both good news and bad news. The bad news is that I wont be able to update as quickly as I have been because next week my summer classes are starting and between that and work I wont be near my computer as often. The good news is that I can still write the chapters when I have time and I could probably get my lovely sis to type them for me so all I would have to do is post them. I will try my best to update when I can. Hope you all are enjoying the summer!