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Chapter Twenty-Six
BPOV
Emmett has absolutely no gay-dar.
Poor fool.
It was amazingly funny watching him watch the by-play between Edward and Emmett.
If it wouldn't draw unwanted attention to myself, I would've been on the floor laughing at his slow ass.
The expression on his face was beyond cute.
He started to say something, but was interrupted by a sound I knew all too well.
My girls had arrived.
One minute they were standing on the landing of the steps and then they were there, crushing me to them.
"Need...air," I said squeezing them back.
"Sorry," they giggled in unison.
"Oh wow B," Alice said stepping back and looking at my outfit.
I had to admit, Patricia and Edward had done a really nice job.
"Thanks," I said giving a little twirl. "Come meet Emmett."
When I turned Emmett was still staring at Edward with the most lost look on his face and was mumbling to himself.
"Talking to yourself Em?" I asked jokingly.
"You..." he said then paused when he saw we had company.
"This is Rosalie Hale, one of my closest friends and my boss," I said throwing a wink in Rosalie's direction.
Rosalie stepped forward and shook Emmett's hand, I could swear I saw him wince.
Next was Alice. She was almost hopping up and down.
"This is Alice Brandon, my college room-mate that I can't get rid of," I told him with a smile.
"As if she'd ever want to be rid of all this awesome," Alice chirped shaking Emmett's hands. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you," she said.
"Bella's been hiding you, and I can understand why," she said giving Emmett a wink.
I rolled my eyes, go ahead Alice, blow his head up some more.
"I think I like you," Emmett grinned. "Let's go introduce you ladies."
"Maybe later," Rosalie said stopping Alice and Emmett in their tracks.
Emmett looked at me, I just shrugged and shook my head.
"What's the deal with you and Bella?" Rosalie asked.
"Rose..." I said warningly.
She of course, ignored me. I threw my hands up and just waited it out.
"Um..." Emmett was floundering.
"So you get her pregnant and what next?" Rosalie went on.
Jesus, she was like a barracuda.
"I didn't get her pregnant... well..." Emmett stammered.
"Is she not carrying your baby?" Rosalie asked, a perfectly sculpted brow raised.
"Yes," he replied.
"And what are you going to do about it?" she asked.
"Rose, give Emmett a break already," I said feeling sorry for him. She was just busting his nuts but the poor thing already had too much on his plate.
"Leave him, he just realized Edward's gay...he has a lot going through his head now," I smirked at him.
"We will continue this conversation buddy," Rosalie said nodding at him. "And how the hell did you not know that Eddie's gay?"
"Please, his own best friend is gay and he didn't know," I told her.
Rosalie looked at him and shook her head, "You poor thing, don't worry Rosie will teach you."
Emmett looked stunned and utterly confused, "Um...ok?"
"Where's Jake and Jasper?" I asked the girls.
"More gay friends?" Emmett asked suddenly.
We all turned to look at him incredulously.
"My boyfriend is not gay, Mr. McCarty," Rosalie said from between clenched teeth.
Operation Save Emmett commences now.
"Come Emmett, come get me something to eat. Baby is starving," I said leading him away.
"We'll be right back girls," I waved. "You have a death wish?" I asked him as soon as we were out of earshot.
"What?" he said throwing up his hand, "How was I supposed to know?"
"You ever watch Madagascar?" I asked him.
"Yeah, love that movie," he said, "Why?"
"Just smile and wave boy," I told him with a laugh.
"Rosalie is scary," he said as we reached the table.
"She's a pussy-cat compared to Alice," I told him getting a glass and pouring some water in it.
His eyebrows rose and met his hairline, he turned around and looked towards the girls who were being introduced to James by Edward.
"Alice is a bit hyper, but seems completely harmless," he said. "Rosalie on the other hand is vicious. She made my dick shrivel."
My eyes flew down to his pants, why did he have to mention his that particular part of his anatomy?
I could feel the rush of blood to my face. If my eyes didn't deceive me, I'd say that not much shriveling had gone on.
Boy was well endowed.
Geeze.
I didn't realize that I was still staring until he cleared his throat and my eyes flew up to his smirking face, complete with those damned dimples.
"What?" I snapped.
He chuckled and shook his head. "Nothing. I was asking how is it that Alice is the scary one?"
Oh yeah, that.
"Trust me," I told him, "She is twenty more times scarier than Rosalie.
With Rose, what you see, is what you get, but Ally? She has layers. Lots of them. And do you really believe anyone that hyper could be completely sane?"
Emmett looked back at my friends, weighing what I had told him in his head, "You might have a point."
We shared a laugh, "They're absolutely harmless, just unbelievably loyal."
"I'm glad you have people who look out for you," he said, "God knows you don't do it for yourself."
What?
"Excuse me?" I said.
He looked at me, "Well you know what I mean..."
"No," I said folding my arms over my chest, "I really don't know what you mean. Maybe you can explain it."
He swallowed hard, looking mighty uncomfortable.
Good.
Just when things were going good, he had to go mess it up.
Dumbass.
-TA-
EmPOV
What the fuck is wrong with me?
There I was having a normal conversation, and then my mouth opens and swallows my foot.
Bella was glaring at me. She hadn't done that in a while.
Think idiot!
"Um, I just mean that you're usually concerned about other people you tend to forget yourself," I said.
She glowered at me for a few more moments before relaxing, "Fair enough."
That's all she said. Topic changed.
Relief coursed through me. I really didn't want any confrontations with her. Not at the party at least.
"Let's go introduce you to some of my parent's friends," I said.
She took my offered arm and plastered a smile on her face as we talked to some of the business world's most important players.
"My face hurts," she whispered after the last meet and greet.
I laughed, "Your fake smile is getting a bit brittle."
She punched my arm playfully, "When does the real party begin?"
"As soon as my boys get here," I told her.
"Where are they already?" she asked. "No offense but these old people are killing my spirit. I want to party!"
I grinned down at her, "As soon as we finish up here, which will be in the next half hour or so, the boys are over at my place setting up."
"Seriously?" she asked.
I nodded, I figured that this whole stuffy shin-dig wasn't going to be Bella's scene, so I orchestrated two separate parties. One to appease my mother and one for the younger people in attendance.
"Thank you," she said and threw her arms around me.
We both froze at the contact.
She felt good pressed against me, and she smelt amazing. My arms moved slowly and returned the hug.
"No need to thank me," I said reluctantly letting her go.
"I mean for everything," she said softly. "Letting us live here, the party, my baby."
The baby. She thanked me for the baby. Wow.
"You don't have to thank me for anything Bella," I said softly.
She nodded, "The calvary is coming," she said looking over my shoulder.
"Let's dance," Rosalie said grabbing my hand and pulling me on to the dance floor.
I looked back at Bella, pleading with her to help me, the she-devil just waved at me as she turned to laugh at something Alice said.
I was stuck with Rosalie.
The scary one, no matter what Bella said.
We started dancing, was it the waltz? I had no idea. I was more focused on the woman in my arms who was giving me the death glare.
"Um..." I said.
"Don't speak," she said, "Just listen."
I nodded and waited for her to continue.
"Bella is like my baby sister," she began, "If anything happens to her there will be hell to pay, understand?"
I nodded.
"Good, and now do you want to explain why you're paying her to have your baby?" she asked.
"It wasn't like that," I said not liking the accusatory tone in her voice.
"Yet you were willing to pay someone else to have your baby, isn't that right?"
I frowned, "It wasn't my best idea..."
"It was completely stupid," she interrupted, "Thank goodness someone messed up and you ended up with Bella instead."
I couldn't argue that, she might have a point.
"If you hurt her, I know forty ways to dismember a man," she said glancing down between us.
Cue dick shrivelling take two.
"Without killing him, so he can enjoy every moment of pain," she finished with a brilliant smile.
Needed to get away from her right now.
"Alice, come dance with Emmy," she said sweetly.
She was psychotic, had to be.
Alice replaced Rosalie the Hut quite smoothly, her face shining with a smile.
"Don't let Rosalie scare you," she trilled. "She's got a lot more bark than bite."
"Sure," I said swallowing nervously.
"Trust me," she said doing a perfect spin. "It's me you have to be worried about."
The smile was still in place, totally contradicting the threat in her words.
What the hell?
I'm surrounded by a bunch of crazy people.
"If you hurt my Bella, I will kill you," she said sweetly.
Jesus.
"Other than that, you seem to be doing quite well," she said with a laugh.
My eyes flashed over to Bella who waved at me, a smirk on her face.
"So Emmett," she said drawing my attention back to her.
"Yeah?"
"Did you know that Bella has a gun license?" she asked.
No.
I shook my head.
"Oh," she giggled, "She does. So do I."
"That's nice to know."
"Bella wouldn't use a gun though, she's against violence," she continued.
"She is?" I asked noticing that Bella and James had taken to the dance floor.
"Yup," she said.
O...k.
"How's the living arrangement going?" she said switching subjects.
"I guess it's going fine," I said nervously.
"Is it true that Bella has to live with you for five years?" she went on.
"Um...yeah, I guess," I said with a shrug.
"How cute," she said with a laugh.
James grinned at me as he and Bella passed us.
"Save me," I mouthed to him, the bastard merely waved at me.
Traitor.
"Let's go get something to drink," Alice said. "Rosalie is already waiting."
I really didn't want to be alone with the two of them.
I felt quite emasculated.
"You don't have to be scared of us silly," she said with a loud laugh.
Yeah, tell my dick that.
I led us off the dance floor and Rosalie was waiting with a glass for each of us. I swallowed the liquid in one gulp. Liquid courage, they call it.
"Rose," Alice said. "I believe little Emmett here is scared of us."
"Whatever for?" Rosalie asked, a smile on her face.
"I'm not scared of you," I said trying to save face. "Why would I be?"
Rosalie gave a shrug of her elegant shoulder, "I have no idea. You have no reason to be."
"There, you said it," I told her. "No reason to be scared of you two lovely ladies."
"Your charm won't work on us," Rosalie said, a bored expression gracing her face.
"Nope," Alice chimed in, shaking her head. "Not one bit."
"Has it worked on Bella?" Rosalie asked.
She had a point.
Were they a part of some alien race that got off on taking the shit out of poor unsuspecting men?
Stupid thoughts Emmett, I chastised myself.
There was a few moments of silence before the two burst into gales of laughter.
"You should see your face," Alice snorted.
"Priceless," Rosalie chortled. "Oh Emmett, it's really a pleasure to meet you."
Huh?
"It's nice to meet you too."
"We're just busting your balls a bit buddy," Alice said clapping her hand on my shoulder playfully.
Ohhh.
"You two could be in the Mafia," I said with a wry grin.
"I can't believe you fell for our threats," Rosalie said shaking her head.
"Of course not," I said laughing.
She sobered quickly, "Well maybe you should," she said.
Ok, here I was, lost... again.
Then she winked and smiled, raising the glass to her lips.
Damn crazy women.
The two of them laughed and then started chattering about nurseries and other things that had nothing to do with me. I excused my self and cut in on James and Bella.
"Jesus you're rude," James complained.
"You'll get over it," I told him, taking Bella's hands.
"You could've waited your turn," she said smiling up at me. She really looked beautiful, I was a bit at a loss for words.
She looked down shyly, "What? Do I have something in my teeth?"
I shook my head, opting to just dance.
"Your friends are a riot," I said dryly.
"Alice threatened to shoot you, didn't she?" Bella asked with a smile.
"Or you would," I replied, "Didn't know you had a gun licence."
She raised a brow, "What of it?"
I shook my head, "Nothing at all."
My phone went off and Bella jumped a bit, "Sorry, must be the guys letting me know that everything is ready."
"Oh," she said with a nod.
Sure enough it was, "You wanna go get changed?" I asked.
"No, I like this dress," she said with a shy smile.
Hell, I liked it too.
"Ok, well you can let the crazies know what's going on," I told her. "And don't think I haven't forgotten about the whole Edward being gay thing."
I walked away to the sound of her laughter.
James met up with me, halfway to the door.
"You didn't tell me Bella's Edward was gay," he said.
"Does it make a difference?" I asked.
"Apparently it made a whole lot of difference to you," he said with a snicker.
"Fuck off man," I said.
"We really need to work on your ability to decipher straight men from gay ones," James laughed.
I was going to punch him.
"So you gonna ask him out?" I asked, trying to shift the focus from me.
James wrinkled his nose, "I don't think so," he said, "Something about him screams 'player'."
It did?
Well, I wouldn't know.
"I'll take your word for it," I said.
"He is fucking hot though," he said. "I'm going to cuss Bella out for keeping him hidden."
I laughed, "You go do that," I said, "Going over to the house, you can bring the others in a few minutes ok?"
"Sure thing," he said turning to go find Bella.
The two of them were disturbingly silly with each other.
The night started off well, I met her friends, Edward is not a threat (not that I cared), and now she was going to meet some of my buddies.
Things were going well indeed.
Silly me should've known it wouldn't last.
-TA-
?POV
"Are they here?" I hissed.
"Yeah," my little lackey nodded.
"Good, now can you see if you can control this situation better than with the fire?" I asked.
"That wasn't my fault," the lackey replied. "How was I supposed to know that he would offer a place for them to stay?"
I rolled my eyes, "Just get out of my sight. Remember, we don't know each other ok?"
A nod.
"Good, now run along darling, I have to add my finishing touches."
Emmett McCarty wouldn't know what hit him, and neither would that little mouse Bella.
How dare she come and try to take what's rightfully mine?
Little bitch will know not to cross me ever again.
I looked in the mirror and smacked my lips together, the dark red lipstick looking like blood against my pale skin.
Perfection.
Like I said, he wouldn't know what hit him.
A/N: Muhahahahahaha. Yeah I did it, left you hanging there. Wanna take any guesses who the two people are in the unknown pov? The first person to guess correctly gets a cookie...and a chapter (maybe an outtake) *grins*
KimberleyAnnT: LMAO I hope so too ;)
batchgirl67: I will most definitely do that hun :D
jessa67: Why are you such a cynic? Have faith in my babies lol They'll work it out :)
Madmaxi: Yes, I like to keep you people on your toes, so the blossoming friendship with Bella and Bernard was completely unexpected. I haven't even begun to work on James and Edward *grins* they're gonna be a doozy. :) Alice and Rose aren't going to be too mean to Emmett, I think he needs someone in his corner, since James is obviously Team Bella, as much as he loves Em, lol.
Lalina92: Yeah *snorts* gotta work on that for sure :D
I'm going for icecream with the bestie, hopefully by the time I get back I'll have finished the next chapter in my mind and I can write it for you guys :)
*hugs* Riney