HEY! TIME FOR ANOTHER CHAPTER! I HOPE YOU LIKE IT
Embry paced the length of his kitchen thinking. He had only met Bella a few hours ago, and he already craved her presence again. He sighed in frustration. He's never had much experience with girls; when he went out with the team he would usually hide out at the bar, or listen to his I-pod for as long as their trips were.
He heard a knock on his door and answered cautiously, with his hood hiding his face like always. A blonde man with a fed-ex uniform looks up and jumps, "Uhh…a-are you Mr. call?" embry opens his door just a little more. "Yes, that's me; how can I help you?" He kept his voice low, to seem threatening. Even though the worst fight he got in was in 5th grade over a chair. The young mans eyes were the size of saucers. "Y-you have a package from New York; if you would put your signature here," embry signed, "And here." He repeated. He was handed a box with the word skype all over it. He read a note that came with it.
No arguing! I want to see your face and say hi, but I live in the big apple! This way we can see each other everyday without even getting out of bed!
Leah: D
He shook his head and read the directions to install the camera and speaker into his laptop. It didn't take too long for him to install it and understand; soon enough he sent a chat request to Leah. Almost instantly a screen popped up with a screaming Leah.
"OH MY GOD, YOU FIGURED IT OUT! JAKE! COME SAY HI TO EMBRY!" Leah was bouncing on what looked like the couch. Embry couldn't help himself; his lips twitched in an attempt for another smile, but one hardly came. He heard a gasp and looks to see Leah awe-struck through his computer screen.
"What?" he asked. That was the worst question. Leah gives a loud scream and is yelling something to Jake; suddenly Jake is sitting with Leah. Embry waved.
"Hey guys." Jake raised an eyebrow.
"okay, something's up; first of all, you aren't hiding in your hood, secondly, Leah screamed about you almost smiling that she probably gave old Mr. peters a heart attack that lives next door." Embry rolled his eyes and groaned.
"Don't worry Jake, I live next door to a guy with an old dog; I'm pretty sure the thing pissed itself when Leah screamed." Jacob was surprised embry was being his sarcastic self; he had become so secluded and serious, sometimes he thought someone kidnapped his old friend. Suddenly something came to mind.
"Okay what's her name?" this caught embry by surprise. "Umm…" was his brilliant answer. He laughed. Embry rolled his eyes at his friends' antics and sighed.
"None of you're business jakey boy; so what's up?" Jacob smiles, knowing someone has brought his friend out of his shell again.
"Well little Leah here, sent you the skype so we could tell you some news. We were planning on coming before thanksgiving, but that turned out not to work. So, we'll be visiting for new years eve!" Embry nodded.
"Cool…what changed the plans?" embry snuck away to get a beer, needing to relax for a minute. Jacob cleared his throat while Leah giggled hysterically, giving embry an idea. He took a gulp of his beer.
"Leah's pregnant, isn't she? Damn Jake you couldn't wait til' the honeymoon? Seth's gonna have you're ass." Embry shook his head; he may be being sarcastic again, but for some reason he couldn't find himself to smile again. Jacob was bright red and Leah was laughing hysterically.
"Damnitt, Embry! Now you have me all scared when we visit! You're right; Seth's a small guy for his age but Jesus! He can kill!" it was true; Seth was currently twenty-two and loved the single life. He was a lean guy but he was still strong as hell, especially when it came to Leah; seriously; it's like they switched who's the little and big sibling. He called embry often to check in, but usually was cut off by his weird roommate named Collin. Embry met him once and thought he was gay…he still believes he is.
"Yeah well that's what you get for not thinking. Seth likes you Jake, but you remember how bad a fit he threw when you said you guys were engaged." Oh yeah…who could forget that!
Flashback I really need to quit doing these…
An eighteen year old Seth sat with an unscarred embry on the Clearwater's porch, talking about Seth's graduation that was soon to come.
"So, where do you wanna go for you're graduation trip? It's all up to you." Embry sipped his lemonade that sue, Harry's wife had made. Seth shrugged.
"I don't know…mom and dad want somewhere educational, but I want some fun before I go to college." He sighed. Embry smirked. (Remember this is a flashback, so he isn't all depressed.)
"we could always just throw a party at my place; me with my junk food and loud music, Jake always brings beer, spend the night so you're parents don't see you hung over and it'll all be dandy!" embry laid back with a huge grin. The teenager groaned.
"Is there ever a time when you don't say stupid things em? I've seen you with the team and you're no worse there." Embry laughed because it was true. He truly was a sarcastic idiot. He shrugged.
"nope." He said, popping the 'p'. Seth chuckled at his friend antics. They heard a car squeal to a stop. Jake and a screaming Leah came out of Jacob's rabbit. She ran into the house yelling for her mother. "What, no hello?" embry calls after her, mock pouting, being his usual self. Jacob looks scared. Embry raised an eyebrow. "Jeez Jake, what'd she do, rape you? I mean, I understand that can be an ago bruiser but…" he stopped talking as Jake threw a water bottle at his head.
He dodged easily. "Damn Jake, I'm not Justin beiber! Next time throw a punch you pansy!" Jake yells out frustrated and wrestles his obnoxious friend to the ground, while Seth just watches with an amused expression. It was a daily thing for the two of them; but it was funnier when Paul was involved; he would jump in and hell was where ever they were fighting.
"HEY, THAT HOLDS ILLEGAL!" embry yells, struggling to get out of his friends grip.
"GAH QUIT SQUIRMING!" Seth laughed and got his phone out to record the little fiasco. He heard a familiar engine cut off and two footsteps. He looked to see Paul with their team captain, Sam, closely behind. Seth rolled his eyes. Paul hated Sam to a point, but he kept it to him self and played good boy until later on. Paul looked to see Jake pushing embry in the water; it had stopped being an argument and now they were probably bored.
"Hey Paul, what's up?" Paul smiled at the young man.
"Ahh…nothin' much. What are those goons up to now?" he saw embry and Jake, now sopping wet, still wresting. "Do they ever stop?" Sam asked. Paul and Seth laughed.
"Nope, not until one of them says uncle or food is mentioned. It's really funny; I have like, ten recordings of them doing this." Seth said as he flipped through his phone. Leah walked out looking flushed and happy. She sat down with a dreamy look. Sue came in with a try of cookies; she shook her head when she saw embry and Jacob.
"Good thing I made these cookies, it'll be impossible to split them up." she sighed and took a seat. She yelled for the two idiots and they came running when she mentioned she made Reeses cookies. When everyone was settled Jacob and Leah shared a look. Jacob cleared his throat. Everyone looked at the happy couple.
"We have something to tell you guys…" embry laughed at how scared Jacob looked. He frowned.
"Shut your mouth for just five minutes embry, this is important!" he sighed and calmed down.
"Jake man, it's ME. Do you really think I can survive that long?" he had a point there. Jacob just sighed and told Leah the spotlight was on her. She had a warm smile on her face.
"Well…I'm just going to be blunt. JAKE PURPOSED!" her mother screamed in glee, embry choked on a bite of cookie, Paul just gaped, Sam didn't know them very well so he just smiled, while Seth, was absolutely vivid. His face was red and his eyes dilated. Jacob paled; though he was lucky Harry wasn't home. THAT was going to be hell. "OH HELL NO!" Seth pounced, but Embry and Paul got a good grip on him.
"Seth, you're sister knows what she's doing! Ugh! Will you stop wiggling?" Paul grunted.
"NO, JAKE I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU MESS UP, I WILL CUT YOUR BALLS OFF, FEED THEM TO DOGS, CUT YOUR DICK OFF AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR-"" SETH, SHUT UP WILL YA? WE GET IT!" embry yelled, interrupting the pissed off teenager. He huffed and gave one more glare before he calmed down enough to be let go.
"Fine…I'm happy for you guys, but if you screw up Jake, I will hunt you down and-""okay Seth, we know all the stuff you would do, but we would rather not hear the details." Embry sighed before he dropped back into his chair. "Are you done, 'cause if you are let's get some food. I'm starved." Just like that the tension was cut. They all gave a laugh at their sarcastically funny friend.
Flashback ended.
Embry snapped out of his daydream hearing his name being called. He then realized he was still talking to Jake. "Wha…oh, Ahh…sorry." he felt the heat rise to his face. His friend smirked.
"Where'd you go embry?" Leah joked.
"Lala land, my friends; it's surprisingly peaceful." The couple laughed.
"Well, we better cut off, I have work and Leah has a doctor appointment. But send a request anytime; Leah spends a lot of time on the computer, so don't worry." Embry nodded.
"Alright…see you guys soon." Embry turned of his laptop and got up to the kitchen to see if he still had some pizza. He searched his kitchen for some decent leftovers. After finding some lasagna he had made from hamburger helper, he decided to call Bella. He had behaved long enough and wanted to talk to her.
He dialed her number and waited.
"Uhh…hello?" a deep voice answered. Embry frowned. What the hell?
"Umm, this is a friend of Bella's…do you know where she is?" he heard some clattering in the background. "w-who is it that I'm talking to?"
"I'm Emmett, her big brother." Oh shit…embry thought. Of all people to answer Bella's phone it had to be the big brother.
"Okay, back to my first question; could you tell me where she is?" the clattering was getting louder.
"Umm…she can't come to the phone she's-""COME BACK HEAR YOU CHICKEN SHIT!"-"Uhh, busy." Embry shifted uncomfortably. He heard screaming and what sounded like glass breaking. He couldn't hold it.
"What the hell is she doing?" He heard more screaming.
"She's in little sister mode…not a very good time to be near her." "I'm going to kill you!" embry bit his lip, contemplating on what to do.
"Well when she's done being in her sister mode, could ask her tog give me a call?" there was a big 'thump' on Emmett's line. What the hell was she doing?
"Sure, but that may be a while so…when she's done I'll tell her to give you a call. See ya, uhh…"
"Em, I Uhh, just go by em." He laid back deeper into his couch.
"Okay, em, I'll just…yeah…bye. *Crash* "damnitt all!" embry hung up, feeling flustered. What was she doing that was making all that noise? He sighed and figured he'd take a nap.
*8*8*8
Bella dragged jasper into the living room, where broken glass and destroyed furniture were spread everywhere, with a bruised Rosalie. She threw them both onto the couch. Emmett stood quietly, slightly proud that Bella was a little less messy this time.
"Now, I'm going to try to be civilized just once. Why did you think you could get away with this? Did you forget Emmett tells me everything? That I don't let people walk over my family? That I'm the MOST HOT TEMPERED, WHEN IT HAS TO DO WITH HIM?"
Rosalie quivered into the loveseat. Jasper looked like he would pee his pants.
"I-I…the way Emmett talked about you, he made it seemed like you were only a little kid." Bella laughed in his face.
"I don't seem like that NOW, now do I?" jasper shook his head. Bella growled before she turned to her brother, her eyes soft.
"Emmett, do you have anything to say to little ol' Rosie?" her voice was sweet and sisterly. He nodded and stepped forward.
"I want a divorce, simple as that. And jasper, you're dead to me. Bells, can we go to my place to pick up my stuff?" she nodded and grabbed her brother's hand, but paused.
"oh and Rosalie, if I hear that you're playing dirty in the divorce trial, I'll be sure to call our father on how you fucked up his only sons life. Tah, Tah!" She pulled her brother into her car and went off to his house to get his most important things; he would be spending some time with her.
*88*88*
Embry was running towards something; trees whipping by him, adrenaline and determination pumping through him in pants while his feet carried him towards the strange shadow that got farther every step. He tried to yell for it to stop but it didn't here him. His legs burned from running, sweat was dripping down his forehead. He jumped over a huge rock and now the figure was still.
Soon, he stood before a man who looked familiar. He had black hair with light sheens of gray; his face held lines from frowning, thin scars across his face that were oh, so familiar. His eyes, one almost black, and the other a pale shade, sparkled from an emotion embry didn't understand.
"Well damn boy, what happened to your face?" the man's voice is husky and deep, full of authority and strength.
"I, err…w-went through an accident." He looked away so the man couldn't see the scars he was so ashamed of. The old man chuckled.
"Turn around boy." Embry cautiously turned and gasped. Him self was standing in front of him, the scars the way they were at the moment, but this embry has a smile on his face. He raised an arm to touch the other embry, and flinched away when it copied his motions. The shadow chuckled chuckled.
"Scary, huh? Rawr!" embry couldn't help it; he flinched away, making the shadow laughed harder.
"w-what is this?" embry backs up, only to bump into something. It was a tree. The shadow was suddenly the old man again and puts a hand on embry's shoulder. "This is a message my boy; you see, in time things will change for you I would tell you what, but what would be the fun in that? Stop putting yourself down; if you let yourself go…well, sunshine with pop up!" the old man chuckles.
"Who are you exactly?" embry shifts uncomfortably; he's not used to people being this close to him he didn't know. The man grabbed his shirt and looks him straight in the eye.
"I'm you, boy." He whispered
Embry's eyes snapped open. He was breathing heavily and heard some kind of noise in the background. He then realized it was his ring tone. He quickly picked up his phone and answered.
"H-hello?" his mind was still jumbled about his random dream.
"Uhh, hi embry." Realization flooded through embry.
"Bella! Hey! Uhh…what's up?" he sat up from his position on the couch and heard a few pops. Damn, now he's gonna be sore.
"Well, my brother said you had called during my little…situation, so I wanted to give you a call." Embry' lips twitched in another attempt for a smile.
"What exactly was going on, if you don't mind me asking…" embry shifted again, feeling awkward. He used to never be uncomfortable; he had a huge ego, but a bigger heart and you could always count on him to cut tension. Bella growled.
"A person thought they could get away with playing games with my brother. Well, they were very wrong and I needed to handle it…why, how much did you hear?" embry smirked, but it disappeared quickly when he realized.
"Uhh…not a lot, just some screaming." He cleared his throat, once again feeling awkward and shy.
"Okay, so, umm…was there something you wanted?" embry felt heat go too his cheeks. It was a moment he wished he was still cocky and obnoxious. But then you don't know if she would like you. A small voice in his head pointed out.
"I-I just…Ahh…thought, maybe w-we could grab lunch again, tomorrow…you showed me your favorite place, s-so I wanna show you mine…Uhh, if that's okay." He heard Bella giggled.
"Sure em, do you want me to head up to your place tomorrow?"
"No, I'll uhh pick you up; it's less of a hassle. Is noon okay?" Embry shifted again. God he needed to quit doing that.
"Yeah, it's just fine. See you then em…EMMETT QUIT LAUGING! UGH! Bye…" she said.
"bye." He rasped. He hung up and started banging his head on the coffee table. Ugh! He was so awkward! But he felt ease knowing he was seeing his new friend again.
TADA! I HOPE THAT'S GOOD! I'M a LITTLE DISTRACTED BECAUSE I STARTED SCHOOL. BUT I PROMISE I'LL BALANCE MYSELF SO I DON'T ABANDON YOU GUYS. FAREWELL FOR NOW!