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Bella's POV
Embry and Quil had walked in a half hour ago back from the mall, and the minute they came in, Sam, signaled for them to follow him outside. Telling me he'd be back soon. He left me with Paul, who had smiled at me, and stated that Sam was about to have some fun. I winced at what I could imagine was, Paul's idea of "fun." It wasn't going to be a lot of fun for Embry or Quil. Getting you're butts kicked never was. Sam said they had to learn that they were no longer regular teenagers, that they had a responsibility, and when I was with them they were not to let me out of their sight.
I sat up straight when the door opened, and the three of them came into the house. I winced at the sight of, Embry and Quil. I couldn't help feeling sorry for them, those bruises looked like they hurt a lot. Their poor faces.
"Don't worry Bella, their wolfs they heal fast," Paul said, patting my back. "Now you three turn around and go back outside, you're dripping blood on the carpet. The girls will be out to clean you up in a jiffy."
"I believe I'm alpha not you," Sam said.
"Yes, but I don't want to deal with a pissed off female, so with all do respect all might great, and powerful one, get out," Paul said. I chuckled. Paul shot me a smile, and Sam shot me a look that said traitor. I shrugged. Sam sighed, and led the others out of the house.
"Did they fight in wolf form or human form?" I asked.
"Wolf," Paul said, "there is no way they were able to remain calm enough to fight in human form."
"I suppose we should clean them up," I said.
"Not we, sweetheart, the only other person I will clean up besides my self is, Emily. No you can clean them up. I'll get Emily she'll help you," Paul said.
Paul walked into the kitchen, and came back a few minutes later with, Emily. She had wet towel's, in her hands and she handed some over to me. We continued outside, the guys were in the yard standing around studying the dirt intently. They looked bored, poor guys, but the bruises looked like they had faded a little.
"Who's first?" I asked, and Sam stalked up to me. Emily started on Quil. They could probably do this their selves but they probably liked being taken care of. I worked on whipping blood off of, Sam's, chest first.
"You laughed," he said, causing me to look up into his eyes. I shrugged.
"I found it funny that, Paul, was getting all bossy. I was disappointed that you let him order you around like that I thought you would put him in his place," I said, raising my eyebrows. "you're not afraid of Paul are you?" I was teasing him, it might be wrong but it was so much fun, I have never enjoyed teasing someone so much in my life.
"Afraid? Of that puppy? No way!" he said. I smiled he was so cute all worked up. I went back to concentrating on cleaning him up, and soon enough I was all done.
"Well, you're blood free," I said, looking him over just to make sure I got it all.
"Thanks," he said, then he bent down and kissed me.
"Well, if I get a reward like that, I'm willing to clean you up more often," I said. He smiled.
"My turn," Embry said, coming over and bumping, Sam, out of the way. I chuckled, at Sam's growl. I grabbed a clean towel and started whipping the now dried blood off of, Embry.
"I'm sorry about the whole mall thing," Embry said, "we should not have not paid attention to you like that. I never thought about Vampires being at the mall."
"That was, Alice's, favorite place," I said, before realizing he probably didn't know who Alice was.
"Alice?" Embry asked.
"She was one of the Cullen's," I explained.
"Oh, I see. So vampires like mall's, got it, wont ever make that mistake again. Thought it smelt bad in there, I just assumed it was a new fragrance at the body store, and it sucked," Embry said.
"Could have been both," I said, chuckling.
"I feel bad that we abandoned you, and worst yet that, that vampire chick was there, and you could have gotten hurt, while we were busy acting stupid," Embry said.
"It's ok, I didn't get hurt, and you're young still. We all make mistakes, and we all learn from them," I said continuing my clean up job.
"Yeah," Embry said, on a sigh.
"So, Sam kick both you're guys butt's at the same time?"
"Well actually," Embry said, smiling, "Quil and I got into it, and then Sam, got into it to break us up. that's how he got his bobo's."
"Why where you and Quil fighting?" I asked, shocked.
"You know the whole it was your fault, no it was your fault thing. Basically neither of us wanted to admit fault, and were blaming each other and ended up fighting. It was both of our faults neither of us did our jobs as protectors," Embry said, "and neither of us did a good job as a friend either."
"So Sam didn't hurt you?" I asked.
"Well a few of these bruises maybe due to him, but mostly he lectured us after the fight was over, and we phased back," Embry said, "Needless to say we are not aloud to grace the mall with our presence for 5 months." I heard him sigh. "I guess I can order my clothes online or get them at Wal-Mart." I chuckled.
"Well distance makes the heart grow fonder. You'll appreciate it more when you can go back," I said patting his shoulder.
"Right, that's what they say," Embry said. I handed him the towel to finish the job, there were certain places I wasn't willing to go, friend or not. I walked over to join Sam and the others where they where on the porch. Sam pulled me down on his lap.
"So no mall hugh?" I said, to Quil, "tough break."
"I'll live, Wal-Mart has hot babes to," Quil said, shrugging.
"Yes, and crying children. I swear every time I go to that place there is a screaming child," Paul said, with a sigh, "I rush through my shopping to get the hell out of there as fast as possible."
"Me to, I get in and out of that place as fast as possible," I said, "it would be nice to have inhuman speed to speed up the processes."
"Well now I know who to send to the store for the groceries for tomorrows beach trip," Sam said. Paul and I, looked at each other in terror knowing that we had just been sacrificed to Wal-Mart. "Have fun you two. Emily, you did finish that grocery list right?"
"Yes sir," Emily said, smiling. She pulled the list out of her pocket. Sam took the list from, Emily, and handed it to me.
"Have fun," he laughed at my frown, and kissed it. "Oh come on, its not so bad, plus, Paul should be entertaining." I got up and looked at Paul.
"Well, are you ready to go to hell?" I asked sighing. Please god, let there be no screaming children.
Paul's POV
I fallowed Bella into the store, I so loved to hate this store. We walked in, and what do you know there was a kid crying. He was having a temper tantrum right there in front of God and everyone one. He was screaming over something about a car, I couldn't really understand what he was saying.
"That boy needs a nap," Bella said.
"Or ten," I replied. We made our way through the food isles, getting the things off of Emily's, list. Sometimes we came to a stand still on what to get, did we get the store brand or the name brand? Did we spend more or pay less? If it was up to me I'd choose the pay less, but which way was not going to piss off Emily? God I hated shopping.
"God I hate shopping, why dose there have to be multiple choices for one thing?" Bella said.
"I know, which one do we chose, if we chose the wrong one I know I will never hear the end of it, god I hate this," I said, in a growl.
In the end we decided to go with the cheap rout. We had to buy mass quantities of food so the cheap rout seemed the way to go, I know my bank account would appreciate it.
"There go's another one," Bella said, as another child started crying. I sighed, and started moving a little bit faster trying to get this done sooner.
"Man, this makes me wonder if I was like this when I was a little kid," I said, "If I screamed my head off in the store, and drove the other customers nut's."
"Probably," Bella said.
"How would you know?" I asked.
"Because you still do," she said, "Yell, cry, and drive others nuts that is."
"Whatever, at least I don't go around tripping myself, and falling down stairs," I said.
"Yeah, those are all me," Bella said. "Mega klutz here."
We finished in the food section, and the next thing on the list was a volleyball, thanks to, Jared, who had popped the last one. Great we had to go to the sports section, which was near the toy section. Enemy territory, there would be all kinds of kids over there with parents to tell them, no honey you cant get that, and send the kid into a melt down.
"Ok, we have to get this Volleyball. Now its in enemy territory. Were going in, and were getting the fuck out of there as fast as possible. Got that?" I said, looking at Bella.
"Why don't you just go, and I'll wait up front for you," Bella said. The girl was crazy, I was not going into enemy territory alone, and I wasn't leaving here alone.
"Oh no way, sweetheart, I'm not going into enemy territory alone. If I'm going you're going," I said.
"But you're a wolf you have the whole inhuman speed thing, you can go fast, and be out with in seconds," Bella said. Damn she was being all logical.
"We are going into battle together, Swan, we are Brothers in Arms got it," I said.
"Listen here, Paul, this isn't a fucking video game and I'm not you're brother," Bella said, hands on hips. I had to hold back my smile. She and I were more a like than either of us would like to admit.
"How about we stop the damn arguing, and go get the damn ball already before another kid decides to throw a tantrum," I said.
"To late, you already are," Bella said, with that she turned, and headed off towards the sporting goods section.
"I am not the one throwing a tantrum. You're the one complaining about the whole thing," I said.
"I wasn't complaining, I was simply giving you a hard time. There's a difference," Bella said. Ugh! Girls, why did they have to be to difficult.
The closer to the toy section we got, the louder the screams of children got. Boy what was wrong with these kids. Obviously they were use to someone giving them everything they wanted, and so when they were with someone who says no, they throw fits and scream. My head felt like it was about to explode, ever since becoming a wolf all my sense's have sharpened, my hearing has to so their screaming was killing me.
"Move faster, Paul, I want to get the hell out of here," Bella said. Man for a human she could walk pretty fast, but I was worried that she would trip, and fall hurting herself.
"Be careful, Bella," I said, "I don't want you to get hurt. Slow down." what the hell was wrong with me? I sounded like my mother, but it got me what I wanted. Bella slowed down, and I breathed out a sigh of relief. A few quick minutes later we executed our mission, and made our way to the check out. After the cashier rang us up, and we loaded the groceries into my truck, we headed back to my place where, Emily would inspect our purchases. She would either be happy or I would be getting bitched at. I was praying for the first.
"So if I tell Sam, you made me do things I didn't want to do, do you think he'll kick you're ass for it," Bella asked.
"No, because not making you do those things meant letting you out of my sight, and that's a no, no," I said.
"Darn, that was pure torture, I was hoping to get you back for it," Bella said, with a teasing smile.
"Hey, if anything you should kick Sam's butt, he volunteered you to go with me," I said, "so really its his fault you had to go through all this torture. Its his fault I had to go through this torture as well. Maybe me and you should get him back."
"Maybe, but I'll have to think about it, and it couldn't be anything that would hurt him," Bella said.
"He's a wolf," I said, "It's not easy to hurt us."
"Well I don't know I'll think about it," Bella said. Well at least that wasn't a flat out no, maybe she wasn't as boring as I thought she was. No Bella swan was ok in my book.