Bella's POV
It's been a morning of no Lacy you cannot jump off the couch and over the coffee table. Why do we even have a coffee table with this child? No Lacy we cannot go swimming. Why? Because your arm is broken and it can't get wet. Please stop climbing the curtains Lacy. Not sure why we have those either.
"You want to go see daddy? You can pick new flowers." I ask her, anything to get her out of the house.
"Yay! Daddy!"
I tell her to go find some shoes and she's running upstairs when the doorbell rings.
"Hey." Embry tells me quietly.
"Um you shouldn't be here. I'm all alone, not sure I can be trusted not to lure you into bed." I tell him a bit more bitterly than I meant.
"I broke up with her."
"Oh. Well, we're just about to go to the shop so…" I tell him. I'm sorry he broke up with her but he made that not my problem when he picked her over me.
"Because of you."
"What the hell are you talking about Embry?"
"I asked her to marry me and she said yes. And then we were talking about the guest list and she said you couldn't come, we got in a big fight about it and then I broke up with her." He explains.
"What makes you think I would have even wanted to come? I am not a part of your life anymore. You're Quil and Jake's friend now and that's it." I tell him.
"Bella, I thought you understood." He tells me hurt.
"Understanding and being OK with it are two different things. I was pretty OK with it when she didn't want you with me alone, I know not everyone is like me and Quil, but when it started affecting the time I could spend with Quil and Jake that was not OK." I tell him.
"Why didn't you ever say anything to Quil? He would have picked you."
"Then I wouldn't have been any different than her. I have friends that he doesn't so it's not like he can't friends that I don't and I'm not so insecure I need him to spend all his time with me. It just hurts that you picked her over me after I'm the one that talked you into asking her out and got them to leave you alone about it. So go get her back and marry her without me there." I tell him.
"I'd rather have you back."
"It's too late for that, I have to go now, I told Lacy we could go to the shop." I tell him as Lacy comes running to the door with her shoes on.
"Hi Em, we're going to see daddy and pick flowers! See my cast. It's green. I can't climb, or swim. Cos I broke my arm." He pretends to be all interested until I finally get her out the door and in the car. I drive away without saying anything to Embry.
Once we get to the shop Lacy runs in looking for Quil.
"Daddy!" She screams when she sees him. People look at her but luckily she's adorable so they tend to just smile more than being bothered by her being a loud little crazy person.
"Hey baby, what you doing here?" He asks her.
"Getting flowers!" She screams.
He kisses me and then asks what's wrong. I don't want him to worry about it or get mad at Embry or anything so I try to play it off but he knows me too well for that.
"Embry came by right before we left. He asked her to marry him and she said yes but then they broke up over me coming to the wedding or not. I told him he shouldn't have because I'm not important to him anymore. Then I drove off with him standing there. It's been 2 years; he can't just expect me to pretend he didn't choose her over me and pretended I didn't exist for all that time." I tell him trying not to get overly upset about it. I've accepted that he is no longer a part of my life a long time ago.
"Bells, I'm not telling you what to do or anything but I didn't even know about any of that and I don't think Jake did either. So that means he came to you first. Embry never stopped caring about you. Come on let's get Lacy flowers. You know eventually you're going to run out of room for new stuff and you're going to have to find a new way to distract her?" He laughs changing the subject from Embry.
"In 2 years she'll be in school." I tell him. Then I will only have to keep her from destroying the house in the afternoons. Plus normally we go to the beach or the park. Her broken arm is driving me nuts.
Quil helps Lacy pick out flowers she wants and then takes them to my car.
"You wanna go to lunch? Blake can handle everything for a while and I assume Embry is coming in today. He's been bailing on me a lot. At least I know why now. I feel bad that he didn't tell me. I mean I hate Lauren but I never say it to his face." He asks me after he puts everything in my trunk.
"Yeah let's go but no more talking about him please?"
"Sorry Bells, where do you want to go?"
"See Leah!" Lacy demands. Leah works at the diner. The only really options are the diner, a bakery/coffee shop and a donut shop.
"I guess we're going to see Leah." I tell him laughing.
"Hey guys." Leah says as we walk in and sit down. "Hey baby girl, you want chocolate milk?" She asks her and Lacy shakes her head yes almost frantically.
It's slow right now because it's actually past lunch time so Leah sits down and talks to us while we eat out lunch.
Lacy adores Leah; I think she would live with her if given the option.
Quil says something stupid to Leah and she smacks his arm when I notice the ring.
"Holy crap Leah." I squeal as I grab her hand.
"Oh right… we were going to tell everyone this weekend when you all came over the watch the game." She says happily.
We both tell her congratulations.
Quil's phone rings and he looks at it and says he'll be right back.
"I gotta go Bells, Embry was in an accident, he's in the hospital." He tells me when he comes back.
"Oh, oh OK. Keep me updated OK?" He says yeah I will.
"Go Bella, I'll keep Lacy. We're slow, my mom won't care." Leah tells me and I look at Quil and he says yeah let's go.
"Thanks Leah, we'll see you in a little while OK Lacy, be a good girl." I tell her and we hurry off.
Once we get to the hospital and to his room he's asleep but the nurse says he's fine, besides a broken rib and probably some whiplash.
"Are you OK baby? He's fine." I ask Quil.
"It could have been so much worse." Is all he says.
"I know baby, but he's fine." I tell him again.
"You have to forgive him Bells." He tells me.
"No way, he's fine! I am not forgetting he treated me like no one for 2 years because he can't drive!" I yell at him. "I'm going to get Lacy, call me when you're ready for me to pick you up."
"Babe you are way overreacting. What is your problem?" He asks.
"Nothing is wrong with me; I'm just not going to forgive him over some stupid nowhere near death experience." I tell him.
"She doesn't have to forgive me. She's right. I treated her like crap, take her home. I'm fine but I do kind of need you to come pick me and take me home." Embry tells him.
"Seriously Bells?" Quil asks me. I huff and then tell him we can stay and see how long it's going to be.
3 hours later we take Embry to our house because he's not supposed to be alone for the first night. Yay.
Once he's sleeping Quil and I argue over him.
"He could have died Bells; you cannot hate him so much that it means nothing to you." He yells at me.
"A lot of people almost die all the time; I'm not out making friends with all of them." I scream back.
"He was one of your best friends!"
"Until he picked her." I whisper.
"Until he decided to pick you."
"It's too late. I'm sorry he's hurt and he can stay as long as he needs to but that's it. I'm going to bed."
"Can I come with you?" He asks.
"Of course you can." I tell him grabbing his hand and dragging him after me.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you." He tells me.
"I'm sorry too and I'll try to be nice to him."
"I love you Bells and I know you love him."
Yeah we'll see about that.
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