"So you looked a little upset when your dad was dropping you off." Alice spoke softly and Bella lowered her pencil. They were doing quick sketches to warm up the 'inner artist' in Art class, which Bella thought meant the art teacher came to work too late to set up a scene to sketch, so they were using each other.

She started to move her pencil again and sighed. "My dad's best friend has a son that is a little too interested in me." She stared at the wild hair on the page, and tried to flesh it out a bit more with her pencil. "I can't blast him out of the water like I did Mike, because of how close Charlie is to them, and I'm just at a loss as to how to get him to realize it is never going to happen."

"Because you prefer women." Alice leaned in and whispered.

"Well, partly, but also he's just a kid." Bella found herself blushing, because Alice made sure they weren't overheard by whispered into her ear very softly.

"Did your dad have a problem when you came home after we went to the movies?" Alice asked for the first time.

"No," Bella grinned and looked up. "I think he was about to tell me you were a lovely girl, when I told him you already were taken."

Alice smiled, "Well, tell him thank you." She then faded out, her eyes not blinking, and Bella moved her pencil quickly to get her eyes while it was easier. "So have you considered making it very clear that you would not be interested?"

"I can't figure out a 'polite and nice' way to do it." Bella said and just set her pencil down on the table. "That's the problem, I can't just avoid him, he's always going to be there, and I've heard he is a pretty nice guy, but I just foresee so many problems if he thinks there is a chance."

Alice smirked at her, "Psychic now?"

"Some things anyone could see coming." Bella managed, and it was hard not to blush, knowing she wasn't psychic, but she did have some forewarning. It wasn't a conversation she could have with Alice, and one she kind of wished she could.

Alice leaned in to her again and whispered into her ear, "Why don't you just become very, very gay?" She leaned back and raised an eyebrow at Bella. She whispered while right in front of Bella. "Nearly nude pictures on your walls, video games on your tv, and an incriminating photo on your night table of you and someone undeniably female? Stories that make it clear."

"Nice idea," Bella frowned, because it sounded like a horrible idea, "but I don't have any of that and they are coming over tonight."

Alice tugged out her phone and started texting. "It'll work." She told Bella and Bella let out a breath of air and a soft smile. A simple 'it'll work' from Alice held a lot of weight. "Okay, Emmett's going to get you some art for your walls during lunch." Bella blushed, because she was sure he laughed when he got that text and was going to go overboard.

"Tell him Charlie needs to see this room too." Bella warned quickly and glanced around. She was a little grateful that they were a little off on their own in the room and others were focused on their art. Alice kept texting.

"Instead of having lunch in the cafeteria, I'm going to show you the photo lab." Alice didn't even look up from texting. "We'll have a few pictures that make it clear by the end of the day."

Bella was completely lost on what Alice was saying, but if Alice thought this would fix her problem she'd do it. "Okay."

"He'll bring the PS2 over as well. No point in decorating if no one will see it." Alice smirked. "Don't hold back, clobber the kid. Emmett's going to bring the game you beat him on." Well, there was only one game she'd managed that on, Bella started to smirk. She was seeing what Alice had in mind a bit now and it was perfect. It left out any confrontation at all. She was going to be 'one of the guys', and Jacob would never be able to think of her as anything else.

Lunch was directly after Art and Alice tugged her in a new direction after they had their sack lunches. "Jasper, we need these ready by tonight." Alice said as they stepped into the room and Bella found out that Rosalie and Jasper had this class right before lunch, or at least they were both there.

"Let's set up in the corner." He told them and pulled a camera out. Alice tugged Bella over and Bella still felt a bit confused about what they were doing.

"We don't really want your face in this." Alice spoke to Rosalie and then Bella found herself standing in the corner with Rosalie next to her.

"What are we doing?" Bella finally needed some answers.

"Well, Jasper is going to take pictures with you and Rose, and make it look like you're dating. It will be hard to tell who she is, so you can claim she's the one you left behind in Phoenix or something." Alice smirked and then reached out to fix something about Bella's hair.

Bella's eyes widened and Rosalie actually giggled at her. "I'm a little too recognizable, with the fashionable hair and petite size." Alice smirked and Bella couldn't help but blush at the teasing she could see in Alice's eyes.

The photo shoot was fast, and awkward. Bella found herself far closer to the blonde than was proper with her friend's wife and she struggled to not let it affect her, because there was an empath in the room taking their pictures. Rosalie's scent was everywhere, so even when Bella couldn't see her, because she was too damned close, she could smell her.

Rosalie gently touched her, resting hands on shoulders, or on Bella's waist, as they moved around, trying to do what Alice suggested. Hug, lean in, laugh, sex eyes, where the hell did Alice get a command like sex eyes?

"This isn't surgery, stop frowning." Alice would mutter at times, or "Your as stiff as a tree, you're supposed to be having fun." Finally, Alice threw her hands in the air and muttered, "Jasper, do something."

Bella noticed her tension ease after that and wondered if it was Jasper, doing something. He was taking pictures and Rosalie was having fun being the 'mystery woman' as it was mostly her back being shot, but Bella had to give her adoring looks. She started to really feel touched that all these vampires were doing this for her, trying to give her a comfortable way out of an uncomfortable situation and Rosalie didn't even blink at being in these pictures. Bella had just gotten used to Alice's hanging on her arm in the halls, or the new way Emmett would sling her around at times in Seattle, and now Rosalie was caressing her for the camera, her hair, her neck, her waist, and it was odd and her touch was cool, but Bella found her 'sex eyes' look felt a little too real, 'adoring eyes' as well. Alice seemed happier with her performance and Bella started to feel it was getting too real. She really hoped it was Jasper's fault.

"And we're done." He said and grinned at them. "I'll process these and have them to you, complete with fake romantic background in plenty of time." Bella stepped back from Rosalie quickly and gave her a weak thanks and smile. Thankfully lunch was almost over and she could focus on eating quickly. After all that there was just enough time to stuff her face and go with Rosalie to Biology.

Emmett chuckled during class and gave her his teasing sexy looks a few times during class, even after Rosalie hit him in the stomach with her elbow. Bella didn't even call him an ass for it; she was still a little shook up by the whole thing.

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She just stared at the room and took a deep breath. It was horrific, nothing like she wanted her room to be like. There was a new calendar on the wall and the most the women in it wore was a bikini and short shorts, and that was the most. She had framed 'art' of women, one of which was kind of nice, but the others were too trashy. She found a collection of 'magazines' in the bag Emmett had handed over as well and didn't even know what to do with those. They sat on her desk, spread out as if it were on a nicely laid out coffee table.

"Wow Bells." Charlie muttered as he stepped into the room. "This is your plan?"

"It sure as hell isn't my idea of decorating." She blushed and turned to see him studying the calendar. "Did you want that after I'm done with it?" She managed to smirk as she made him as uncomfortable as she was.

"Who's the blonde?" He asked as he noticed the obvious 8x10 picture on the night table. She'd been given a selection and she kind of wanted to keep this one after it was all done. Rose was wrapped around her, a hint of the side of her face was showing, and Bella had sex eyes and confidence. That was photoshop magic as far as she was concerned, because she'd been nowhere near confident during the entire thing. It was weird, when Bella noticed she was starting to think of that face as her own now. In the beginning it was jarring whenever she saw it, but now it felt more like hers. She guessed that was a good thing.

"Emmett's girlfriend, Rosalie." Bella muttered and Charlie gave her a double take. "I might have mentioned I wanted to keep Jacob from getting ideas and suddenly Alice had her boyfriend and Rose doing a photo shoot with me. I'm supposed to claim she's 'the one that got away in Phoenix.' "

"Wow, this is really elaborate Bells." Charlie glanced around the room at the new art again.

"Billy's your friend." Bella turned to look at him. "I know how to crush boys' hopes, but I don't know how to do it nicely. This was the best I could come up with." Or she couldn't do better than Alice's plan, same thing right?

"Well, given your room." Charlie's face and neck went a little red and he rubbed the back of his neck with his hand. "I guess I don't have to worry about you bringing home boys when I'm at work?"

"It's unlikely." Was all she said as she sat back down on her bed. Men were not impossible, just unlikely, but they were talking boys and boys, never.

"Okay then." Was all he said and he gave her a small reassuring smile, before he looked around again. "You don't like this for your room though?"

"No, well, maybe that one." She pointed at the classier piece on her wall. "But everything else is going as soon as it's safe."

"I really appreciate what you're doing here Bells." Charlie spoke quietly. "I think you're a little overboard, but I appreciate it."

"I am taking Jacob up here and I'm going to kick his butt on video games, talk about girls, and hopefully send him out of here thinking I'm just one of the boys. Wish me luck." She smirked.

"You're not 'one of the boys' though, are you Bells?" Charlie asked hesitantly.

"No, not really," Her smile softened as she looked at him. "I like being a girl just fine." She glanced around her room. "I mean, they are much prettier."

"That's true." He nodded, and let out a breath he'd probably been holding. "I'll go order the pizza. Billy and Jacob should be here soon."

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Emmett Pov

"This is priceless." Emmett chuckled as he sat in the tree just outside of Bella's backyard. The woods conveniently went all the way to her backyard and he'd made his way through them to sit here and see how hilarious the night was. He'd rather be able to see, but this was going to have to do. He still didn't want to miss it. Bella bear just had to tell her dad she wasn't a man trapped in a woman's body and he took a little while to stop chuckling after she dealt with that.

"I thought I'd find you here." He heard his wife's voice and looked down to see her staring up at him in the tree, her arms crossed. Her legs bent a little and she leapt up to grab the branch across from his and swung up to stand just on the other side of the large trunk from him.

A beat up old red truck pulled up in front of the house, and from the spot in the trees, Emmett could see it. "So that's the young Casanova?" He smirked as he saw the boy getting out of the driver's side door.

"That man he's helping out of the truck is one of those Quileute elders." Rosalie muttered and he glanced over at her to see she wasn't smiling as she watched those two head up to Bella's front door. "I don't like that she is so close to them."

"They aren't allowed to tell her anything." Emmett reassured Rosalie, but he watched with a little more concern than he'd had earlier as the Quileute's were greeted by Charlie and let into the house.

Rosalie lowered herself to sit on the branch and Emmett followed suit on his side. "Bells, Billy and Jacob are here." They could hear Charlie yell out.

"I saw some of the photos." Emmett spoke quietly while the hellos were being spoken in the house. "Jazz showed me. I think I want to frame some of them and put them in the bedroom. Hot, very hot." He smirked at her.

"She needed a fake girlfriend." Rosalie leaned against the tree trunk. "And are you honestly telling me that you want pictures of your BFF on our walls so you can drool over them?"

Emmett paused and gave her a studying look. "You're in them too dear." He gave her a smirk. "Any pictures with you all over a girl sound like art to me."

"Pig." She shook her head, but he did notice the hint of a smile on her lips. "Alice was mad at her because she wouldn't touch me at first, she just stood there with the cutest deer in headlights expression."

He studied her expression and came to the conclusion Rose had been impressed yet again with Bella. He knew Rose didn't touch humans, didn't flirt with them, and still those that didn't fear her were either painfully jealous or stupidly optimistic about their chances. The fact that Bella was neither was something Rose valued. His voice became more serious. "She likes you." And he meant it in two ways. Jasper had thought to tell him, but Emmett wasn't as stupid as some people tended to think. He knew his Bella Bear was impressed with his wife. He'd also been told that Bella felt painfully guilty about that, and she'd been hard to get to relax for the pictures.

Rose shook her head and grinned. "She also likes Alice and Esme." Rose told him and he raised an eyebrow at the last name. "Or didn't you catch who she'd been looking at when she came to the house that made Jasper report on her lust and guilt?"

Emmett thought about it a moment and did remember some strange looks that Bella gave Esme that night. He chuckled at the thought of telling Esme she was fueling fantasies. "Poor Bella Bear, she really has a thing for the unattainable." He'd only heard of a few vampires that could even have sex with a human, and still Bella fixated on the married ones. Esme wasn't likely to give his BFF a ride, but even if she'd wanted to Esme wasn't likely to be able. She didn't even get as much exposure to humans as Emmett did and he knew he wouldn't be able to. He had a short list of 'accidents' that showed his self control was nowhere near that good, and there was no sex involved in those. He considered that. "I don't even know how Tanya and her sisters manage."

"They don't let themselves get lost in the moment." Rosalie spoke quietly. "I asked once. They make it a bit more about making their human fling of the night let loose, but they don't ever really have a 'great night' themselves, unless they don't mind the man dying." It was no secret that the Denali sisters used to be human drinkers.

"Why bother." Emmett muttered as he considered that.

"They don't have mates of their own Emmett, and let's face it, vampires that don't scoff at our diet are rare. Tanya makes do with what she can." Rosalie defended her friend and Emmett just nodded, but still, he couldn't imagine having sex and trying NOT to have a 'great time'.

"Poor luck that the vampires that ended up with that extra little succubus gene are single." Emmett chuckled, even though it was poor luck it was kind of funny too. The Denali's might be the only succubi in North America.

They'd gotten a little off track and Emmett wanted to talk a bit more about his BFFs taste, as clearly she did have good taste, other than the never could happen aspect, but he paused on that. Anyone else thinking about his wife in a serious way and he'd make a big show of teaching them his Rosie was off limits, but Bella Bear was too cute when she got flustered. He decided that there was no harm in letting his BFF dream about it. If he could sleep, he might dream about it, the idea was hot after all. His Rosie going all tender and careful with the human, and ushering her into womanhood, it was hot. He knew better than to say that though, he'd be cut off for weeks.

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