Chapter 4 : Girls night

After Mike dropped us off at his parents shop Angie and I took my truck and made our way to her place. I had seen her parents at school last year a couple times and they were friendly enough. Her mom gave us the numbers where we could contact them if something happened and after a chat on how our day was they were off. We took our shoes off (house rule) and Angie went to check the kids that were doing their homework while I took the snacks we bought off the bags and placed them on a counter. Angie came back with two little boys in row.

"Bella, these are my brothers, John and Josh (I'm not sure if the books has the names of the twins so I'm using my own) Guys this is my friend Bella"

Due to my babysitting days back in Phoenix I knew how to introduce myself. I squatted to their level and said

"Hi guys, it's nice to meet you. Which is which?"

"I'm John", said the one that had lighter brown hair

"No, I'm John" exclaimed the other boy.

Angela shook her head on the kids while smiling and pointed to the real John who actually was the second one. While almost identical John and Josh had a few differences. They both dark brown almost black hair, but John's were a bit lighter. They had the same eyes as their sister, also dark brown and they were normal height and weight for their age. They had a killer smile and I could tell they were gonna be pretty popular among the girls one day.

"So, what do you want to do guys?" I asked.

"Play!" they scream in perfect sync.

"Sorry, they're calmer usually" Angie said "This is the first time they meet you, they'll cool off"

I just laughed,

"That's ok Angela, I don't mind. What games do you guys like?"

After a long discussion on the pros and cons of video games versus the old nice board games we agreed on a game of monopoly.

We sat down at set up a game of monopoly. The two of them could barely keep their eyes closed an hour later and Angela got up to put them to bed. We were both surprised when little Josh moved to give me a hug. Seeing his brother John got jealous I gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek as well.

Angie went upstairs with the kids and I picked up the living room which had turned to a mess by now. I picked up the pizza plates and juice bottles and took them to the kitchen. Then I browsed through the family's movie collection. There were a few I knew and I saw her mom was a classic's fan. I smiled at that but I knew I wasn't ready to watch one of those without turning to a tear fountain. Angela came back smiling and we decided to have a cup of coffee and see a couple episodes of Blackadder. A British mini series her dad was fond of. Apparently the twins were also quite the pranksters as well since we discovered that our coffee had salt instead of sugar in it. After fixing another cup and placing the sugar back in the right box we sat down to relax. The series was really good and fun and held no reminders of Edward and his family.

"Angela?"

"Yeah?"

"I wanted to say thank you." I hate looking weak but I knew I had to thank her. If it wasn't for Angela I don't know if I'd be remotely well adjusted right now.

"I know I wasn't exactly a good friend last year and these last months... If I were you I'm not so sure I'd do the same thing."

"Bella, it's ok. You just moved here and you didn't have the time to get to know us before meeting him"

"And I got stuck to him and his family without taking the time to make new friends. You know I would change that if I could turn the clock back.

"We all would. You have to consider that the whole family were untouchable before you came along. I think it was only natural that you would drift to them instead of bringing them to you"

I wanted to cry and tell her the truth at that moment.

"Well, Edward definitely didn't like changing his ways. I thought differently in the beginning but at the end it was obvious."

"Huh?"

"Sorry Angela, I'd tell you if I could but it's not my secret to tell. So, enough about me" I smiled "What about you and Ben? You two look cozy"

It was her turn to blush even though I knew she understood my want to simply change the topic and went along. Something I am grateful for.

"Well, we spoke a lot during the summer and decided to start dating. My parents like him more than Eric"

"Oh yeah, what happened with Eric? You were together at prom, I think"

"We were, but just as friends. We work better that way. Speaking of prom who was the guy that crashed it just to dance with you?"

"That was Jacob. His dad is one of my dad's best friends. We know each other since we were kids. He is actually younger than us, he should be 16 now. He lives on the rez"

"Hmm do you think we'll see him on Sunday?"

"I could swear you just told me you and Ben are happy" I teased her a but " but truthfully I don't know. I haven't spoken to him recently. Edward didn't like the beach and took my free time. . . I know I shouldn't have let him do that. I guess I could give him a call and see if he'll join us."

"Speaking on Sunday, Mike also was thrilled 'you're back to the world of the alive ones'" She said quoting one of Mike's comments

"I guess so. I only hope he will not start asking me for a date again. I'm not ready to date anyone, let alone a good friend."

It was 11 o'clock when we decided it was a good time to part and say our goodbyes. I drove home and found Charlie, where else? in front of the TV watching a game with a bag of chips and a beer. I shook my head. "Sometimes Dad I wonder if you take tests on the games at work". He jumped at my voice and then laughed. I could see how much it pleased him when I call him dad instead of Charlie and made a promise to call him dad more often. I stole a few of his chips and joined him for a few minutes while the game went on break. I told him about the groceries I got and my plans to have a cooking marathon tomorrow.

After that I went to get ready for bed and started to write in my new diary. I started writing and kept going until I had written everything that had happened starting with the day I moved here and ending with my girls night today with Angela. I fell asleep quickly and didn't even hear Charlie snoring.