When the doorbell rang, I quickly jumped out of Sam's lap and ran to the door. I could see Nate doing the same thing to the couch and tried to beat me.
Of course, I won and opened the door to find a golden haired girl standing there smiling.
"Z!" I shouted and hugged her. We both giggled and shrieked at each other. We hugged each other tight while jumping in a circle.
I felt someone tug us apart and looked to find Nate separating us by our shoulders and pushing me back into the house, away from Elizabeth.
"Excuse me. I would like to see my girlfriend." He said pointedly, and wrapped his arms around her and kissed her.
I rolled my eyes and grumbled. "I think you mean fiancée"
He broke away from the kiss and glared at me. It only took a few seconds before he looked away from me and back to snogging Elizabeth's face off.
I sighed and crossed my arms. Nate was now whispering something lightly in her ear and she was giggling.
I started to tap my foot. This time Nate and Elizabeth both looked at me.
"Excuse me." I said with attitude towards Nate. "I would like to see my long lost friend. If you don't mind." I said and then took her hand and brushed past him.
I could see him leaning against the edge of the door rolling his eyes. I heard the door shut and pulled Elizabeth into the living room which was only a few feet away.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet Elizabeth." I said stepping away and showing her off like I was the show and tell person from a game show.
There were a bunch of 'heys' and 'hi's passed around the room which she all responded to. When he eyes met Jakes she pointed to him and smiled.
"So you must be the infamous Jacob Black." She told him smiling.
I blushed and looked away. Jake just looked at me and raised an eyebrow.
"Yea, I am. Sorry I don't know much about you. Bells doesn't really tell us much." He said getting up to shake her hand.
She waved off his comment. "It's no biggy. I understand."
I looked back up to see Sam, Jake, and pretty much the rest of the pack looking at me.
"What?" I asked as clueless as ever.
"Did you tell the whole world about Jake or something?" Paul asked snickering.
I rolled my eyes. "No, its just he was a big part of my life. Geez, lay off." I said plopping down on a seat. I saw Elizabeth sit on Nate's lap, with his chin on her shoulder. I smiled at the cute couple.
After a few moments of silence I looked over to Elizabeth and saw her scanning all of the guys. When she reached Sam she smiled even brighter.
"And you must be Iz's boyfriend." She said pointing to Sam.
Sam at her and nodded. "Yes I am. It's nice to meet you." He said shaking her hand.
"Not as nice as it is to meet you." She said cryptically. Everyone raised an eyebrow and I rolled my eyes.
"How did you know Sam was her boyfriend?" Brady asked.
"Oh, well isn't it obvious?" she said like everyone was supposed to know. I rolled my eyes and blushed a little. I looked over at Sam to see him staring at me with confusion. I smiled and looked away.
Everyone leaned in a little, finding interest in the subject.
"Ok, well as nice as this topic is…" I said trying as hard as I could to change the subject.
"Shh!" Everyone said to me.
"Guyysss." I whined.
"That's like Bella's dream guy." She said pointing towards Sam.
I covered my face with my hands and leaned back into the chair.
"Oh really?" Quil said enjoying my embarrassment.
"Yea! Hello? I mean the muscles and the short hair. Along with being tall and enormously handsome. That girl is a danger magnet and he defiantly can fight off the bad guys. Plus, I bet Sam is the romantic, sweet, nice guy. He doesn't get overly protective, but doesn't let anyone hurt her. Am I right?" she asked.
I peeked through the spaces of my fingers and saw everyone wide mouthed.
Elizabeth smiled. "I thought so." She said victorious
"And what about me?" Nate asked kissing her cheek from behind.
"Ehh, you will do." She said patting his cheek. Everyone laughed at this, including me.
So we ended up talking a while longer before. Nate and I got up and headed to the kitchen to order pizza. I was glad everyone liked Elizabeth. I could tell how much she liked them, so I was glad she approved of everyone.
Nate and I called the pizza guy and ordered our huge order of about 25 pizzas and 32 orders of breadsticks. I think the guy thought we were feeding a small country or something.
He said he would have them there as soon as possible which would probably be a few hours give or take. He nodded, understanding and then hung up.
Nate and I just used the time to ourselves by talking small talk.
"I feel like its old times." I said enjoying the sounds of laughter from the living room. He smiled and put leaned his hands on the edge of counter like me.
"I do too. I miss the old times a lot." He admitted.
I turned to him shocked he said that. "And what happened to the 'you can't look back on your past.' 'What's done is done.' 'If you could ever change the past, you wouldn't be here today.'" I said trying to imitate his voice.
He laughed out loud. "Yea, well easier said than done." He said simply.
I smiled, getting what he meant. - By me being here, it was a lot harder to not dwell on the past. It's about the only thing that really ties to who we are, and what we all wanted to do with our loves when we got older.
I bumped my hip with his and smiled at him, trying to cheer him up.
He smiled that shiny white smile back at me, and bumped his hip back with mine.
We continued back and forth till we began playfully shoving each other till someone would fall to the ground.
We both ended up laughing hysterically. Unfortunately I had to bend down and put my hands on my sides since I was laughing so hard. And Nate used that chance to lightly push me to the ground.
I didn't stop laughing though and either did he. I was still cracking up, while lying on the floor.
After a few more seconds of insanity, my laughter calmed down, and so did his.
I took a few deep breaths before sticking my hand out to him to help me up.
He grabbed it and I smirked. Before he could even think of pulling away, I tugged him to the ground. He ended up practically on top of me, which caused us to laugh harder.
Suddenly there were shoes right near the top of my head. I looked up to see a backwards Sam looking at me funny.
"Hi." I said catching my breath.
"You two ok?" he asked nodding towards Nate who was still on top of me.
I looked over at Nate and he slid off of me, helping me up when I reached for his hand again.
I brushed myself off quickly and looked back at Sam. I blushed slightly as I saw everyone else, including Elizabeth were standing right there, next to and behind Sam.
"Yea, sorry." I mumbled, lowing my head.
I couldn't help but to look over at Nate and flash him a small smile.
"So what were you two doing?" Paul said with a hint of an innuendo.
I rolled my eyes at him. Then suddenly we both shouted out
"Nate started it!"
"Bella started it!"
We looked at each other and then playfully glared.
"It was him! It was him!" I said pointing at him.
"No! It was her! It was her!" he said pointing at me.
We bickered back and forth, shouting at who started it.
I think the whole pack was amused to how kid like and carefree I was being, but at this point I didn't care. Everything felt good. I felt….whole, for the first time in a long time.
Then, before Nate and I could start another battle, the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it!" I announced happily. I pushed my way through the guys, but then quickly turned around. I skipped over to Nate and put my hand in his right pocket.
"Hey!" he shouted jumping away from me.
I heard someone suck in a breath and someone growl, which I guessed was Sam.
I pulled out his wallet and smiled. "Thank you!" I said and turned around to answer the door.
Before I pushed past the pack again, I stopped to Sam. I put my hands on his shoulders, went on my tip toes, and gave him a quick peck on the cheek; then I skipped past everyone and answered the door.
There were two pizza guys holding our pizzas and breadsticks. The one guy had really greasy blond hair and had pimples all over. He was holding all of the breadsticks in plastic grocery bags. The other guy, I couldn't exactly see since he was holding a bunch of pizza boxes in front of him.
"Dude, she is hot." He whispered to the pizza box guy.
I rolled my eyes and ignored his comment.
I quickly grabbed the pizza boxes from the guy and sat them on a stool near the door.
When I looked up back at the pizza boys face he looked like a goldfish. His mouth was wide open and he seemed frozen in place. Unlike the breadstick boy, this kid had black hair, but was still greasy and pimply.
"Umm….are you ok?" I asked trying to be polite.
"I-….Yea. Oh my god." He said. He then leaned over to the breadstick boy and whispered to him.
"She is fricken hot man!"
I felt kind of violated with these two pervy little boys so I quickly grabbed the breadsticks. The greasy blond haired boy put his hand over mine as I took the bags from him and rubbed it. I quickly pulled my hand away, feeling dirty.
"Problem here boys?" Sam asked from behind me. I quickly sighed in relief. I was never so glad in my life to have him behind me at the minute.
They both shook their head no, and the blond passed the breadsticks to me.
"Here you go." He said in a fake deep voice. I could tell he was trying to act all mature and sexy, which was making me want to go gag myself.
I stared at the bags for a second before seeing Sam take them out of his hands. I noticed the boy's face fall.
"$234.86" the black haired boy announced. I observed that he wasn't looking at me, rather the thick brown leather wallet I had in my hand.
I gulped just thinking I had to come close to touching the creepy boy's hand. But before I could even find the correct amount, Sam had his wallet out and pulled out the money.
"Here you go. Keep the change." He said and lightly shut the door, not waiting for their response.
I let out a breath and turned to him, hugging his torso.
"Thank you." I sighed, chills running down my spine.
"No problem baby." He said. "I am your dream guy you know." He said with a smirk on his face. I rolled my eyes and looked up at him.
"Way to spoil the mood, Oh mighty one." I teased, walking away with half of the pizza boxes. I heard Sam laugh behind me, carrying the rest of the stuff. I walked backwards to talk to him.
"And just think. I was going to give you a kiss for saving the damsel in distress." I sighed and walked to the table. I put the pizza on the table and counted in my head.
One. Two. Three.
I was hastily turned around and felt hands grip my lower back. I smiled, looking at Sam. He shoved the pizza and breadsticks onto the table and lowered his head down to my lips before I could say anything. He gave me a mind blowing kiss that I felt needed continuing. I cupped the back of his head and forced him closer to me. His lips were firm against mine as we poured all we had into a single kiss, leaving each other breathless when he pulled away.
I kept my hand behind his head and let my thumb brush through his short thick hair.
We smiled down at each other with love.
"Not to break up with soap opera kind of moment, but we are eating now." Nate said looking between us. Sam and I broke apart and sat down at the table. I looked over to Nate and saw him getting slapped on the back of his head by Elizabeth.
"Let the two have a moment. Geez." She said shaking her head, disapproving of his action.
"Sorry baby." He murmured and kissed her cheek. She turned towards him smiling and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. She then handed him the silverware and napkins and he groaned. A tried to hide my laugh but he heard me and glared. But me being me, I just gave him a smile, which Elizabeth approved of. He rolled his eyes again, and followed her, putting the forks and knives down after she put the placemat and plate down.
I snickered, and just couldn't take it. I had to take the opportunity to tease them.
"So mom, dad. What's for dinner?" I asked smiling.
"Huh?" They both said, stopping what they were doing to look at me.
"You guys act like you are already married." I said laughing at the two.
"Married?" I heard Caitlyn say, and then ran into the room.
"Umm yea?" I said questionably.
"When did this happen?" she shouted at no one in particular.
"Wait Bella. How did you find out?" Elizabeth asked.
"Oh, well…" I started to say, coming up with a story in my head. "When I came here, Nate and I were just goofing off and catching up. And then he kinda slipped by saying he was engaged, and then when I heard that I immediately asked for details. He tried to hide it, but you know me. It went all down hill from there." I said trying to defend and give away Nate at the same time.
"Oh. I see." She said kind of disappointed.
"But hey. At least you kept it away from Caitlyn as long as you did." I said trying to make her happy again.
She smiled at the thought. "I think it's a record." I said teasingly.
I looked over at Caitlyn to see her rolling her eyes. "I'm not that bad." She said defending herself.
The three of us laughed at her. "Righhttt." We said as skeptical as we could sound.
"I'm not! Name like 5." She said putting up her hand. Embry came behind her and put his hands on her upper arms.
"April fools day." I said. She put a finger down, knowing what she did.
"Movie store with Nate." I said again. She sighed and put another finger down.
"That one day in social studies in 7th grade." Nate pointed out. Another finger went down.
"The surprise birthday party for Bella." Elizabeth said. The 2nds to last finger went down.
One more. Nate, Elizabeth and I all looked at each other. "Gossip." We said at the same time.
Caitlyn sighed and looked at her fingers. "poop." She said depressed.
"its ok, I guess it's a good thing. Nothing like the truth." I said perkey.
Nate and Elizabeth smiled at my enthusiasm. "True true." They agreed.
Everyone finished what they were doing and sat down.
"So not that I want to pry, but what did Catie do on those things you named?" Embry asked while eating his pizza.
The four of us, including Catie looked at each other. We snickered and grimaced a little at the same time.
"Well April fools," I started. "I wanted to trick Nate. So I put his alarm clock on full blast and messed up the time. Then I turned off the hot water. So when he was to discover the time and jump in the shower; he would turn on the water, and it would be freezing cold." I said proud of the fool.
"But when his alarm went off, and he went to jump in the shower, Catie quickly barged into the bathroom and told Nate while he was showering." I finished.
"Yea and I was butt naked. I was about to kill her, but then when she told me, I filled up a bucket of cold water and chased B around the house." Nate said.
"Did you throw it on her?" Paul asked.
"Yep. She was right where I planned. She ran into her room and went to go jump over her bed onto the other side to climb out the window, but I caught her in time and dumped the water on her and the bed." Nate said snickering.
I sulked in the memory. "Yeah, nothing like payback."