1. I've never written something like what's in this chapter before, so I guess this is like a practice. You will understand which part it is when you get to it. So thoughts on what I could do to improve would be very helpful.
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Cat's POV.
I woke up and looked at the celling. I turned to look at my calendar, I sighed. It had been about a month since Sophie and I had been attacked, nothing else had happened since. Though the boys were with us any chance they got so I guess no one had had the chance to come at us. I looked out my window, the sun was rising, for once there were no clouds, the sky was nice and clear, a dull blue colour, but still blue. I guessed it had rained last night though cause there was water on everything. I stretched, it felt weird being here alone. Jake probably had a morning shift or something. I closed my eyes as listened, I could hear movement down stairs so mum and dad were both awake. I also heard Sophie in her room, she was alone too.
"Good, this is the one morning we don't want them here" I admitted. I looked back at the calendar, it surprised me how quickly time had passed.
"Guess this makes six years now" I muttered to myself. For today was the anniversary Sophie and I had gotten our powers. Yep. Today was our 19th birthday. July 17th. So much had happened that I'd almost forgotten about it. Sophie and I had never made a big deal about it, we liked being celebrated but… . We hadn't gotten around to telling anyone about it, in fact, only our parents knew here in Forks. I found my phone under my pillow and unlocked it. I smiled, there were so many text messages from my old friends. I hadn't spoken to them much, but they'd never failed to remember my birthday. I yawned after reading and replying to them all
"You're awake" Sophie said
"Happy Birthday Sophie" I smiled
"Happy Birthday Cat" she wished back
"Should we get this over and done with and go downstairs?" I asked, I heard her sigh
"Might as well." I got out of bed and opened my door, I walked up to Sophie and gave her a hug. We walked down stairs together. Our parents had gotten into the habit of setting up the living room for us on our birthday, when we were little we shared a bedroom and they'd set it up in there, but they couldn't do that anymore. We entered the living room and found it covered in streamers, balloons and a banner, the coffee table was covered in presents, in fact there were too many for the coffee table. I sighed, I didn't even know what I'd wanted, how did they get all these things?
"They're our parents. They know us best" Sophie answered
"We know us best" I corrected, she grinned at me. We walked around the corner to see our parents standing there smiling
"Happy Birthday my beautiful girls" mum walked up to us and hugged us both, kissing our foreheads
"Thanks mum" I smiled
"Yeah, thanks" Sophie said hugging her back. I walked up to dad and he pulled me into a hug
"Happy Birthday Cat" he said
"Thanks dad" I smiled
"Now, come on you two, time to open your gifts" mum said, I turned to look at them all
"I don't even know what there's left to give us" I admitted
"We always think of things" dad said rubbing my shoulder. I sighed and Sophie and I sat side by side on the couch in front of the gifts. Mum and dad had split them in to two piles for us. They each handed us a gift and we began to unwrap them. I got heaps of jewellery; two new watches, necklaces, bracelets, rings. I got some chocolates, some glass figures, like a swan, a rose, though the one I loved the most was a glass angel, it was really pretty. Sophie got the same one. I also got a lot of perfume, I loved getting perfume. I got a knew pair of shoes, three in fact, some new gadgets for my car. Some moisturising creams, make-up, clothes, there was a package from Sophie but it said to open alone so that one was still wrapped. Sophie got about the same, just different types and colours. I had gotten her a secret parcel too, something she will probably groan and and roll her eyes and maybe even blush at, but I thought she needed it.
"Wow, thanks" Sophie muttered looking at it all
"I swear you guys spoil us to much" I smiled
"Anything for our girls" dad kissed the top of my head. "Plus, you only turn 19 once" he smiled. I grinned
"For some people" Sophie looked at me and smirked.
"We'll help you carry everything up to your rooms?" mum offered
"That's alright, we'll manage" Sophie smiled, she picked up the non-breakables first. I followed her lead and we carried them up to our rooms. Mum and dad went into the kitchen and began cooking some breakfast for us. I gently kicked my bedroom door open and walked in, I found Jake sitting on my bed. He smiled at me and I smiled back but he looked at all the things in my arms in confusion. I placed them down on my desk
"What's all this?" he wondered
"Presents" I shrugged
"Presents? For what?" he asked
"It's not every day I turn nineteen you know" I smiled. He looked at me surprised, he looked me over.
"Wait…" he started, I grinned
"It's Sophie and my birthday today"
"Why didn't you tell me?" he questioned
"I forgot" I sighed "We had so much going on that we forgot to tell everyone"
"So no one knows?" Jake wondered
"Yep" I muttered nodding. He put his hand under my chin and tilted it up so that I look at him
"Happy birthday" he said softly before giving me a sweet kiss
"Thanks" I smiled "Do I get another one for it being the anniversary of getting my powers?" I smiled. He grinned at me and indeed kissed me again, this time with more passion though. It was definitely one of the best kisses ever. I smiled when he released me
"I have to go collect the rest of my presents." I smiled
"You have more?" he asked raising and eyebrow
"My parent's have the money to spoil me" I reminded him "I'll be right back" and I left the room to go back downstairs. I collected up my breakables but I had to make a few trips before I sat on my bed with a sigh.
"So, what are you plans for today?" Jacob asked sitting next to me
"Not sure" I cuddled up to him "How about we just stay here" I said happily
"Girls, breakfast" mum called up
"Maybe later" he smiled at me, kissing me again. I huffed
"Fine" I walked into my closet, shut the door and got dressed in a jiffy before leaving my room and walking into the dinning room. Sophie was already down there, sitting at the dinning table. Mum had topped it with quite a few nice things. We had a really nice conversation. We hardly ever had breakfast together lately.
"Have you told Embry yet?" I asked Sophie later that day
"I haven't seen him yet" Sophie shrugged
"I bet he knows now" I smiled
"How?" she wondered
"I told Jake, he came to see me this morning" I admitted
"When?"
"Just before we had breakfast" I said.
"Was he annoyed you didn't tell him?"
"Not really" I shrugged.
"I guess that means the whole pack knows now" Sophie sighed
"Should go give them a visit?" I suggested
"Yeah, why not?" she smiled.
"Mum, we're going out for a bit, alright?" I said, poking my head into the lounge room
"Alright. Have fun" mum smiled
"And have a good day" dad wished
"We should do" Sophie nodded before we left the house. We took Sophie's car down to the little red house.
Sophie's POV.
We opened the door to the house quietly and then walked down the hallway to the kitchen.
"Hello, anyone home" I grinned as I poked my head around the corner. Emily looked up from the kitchen and beamed, she put down everything and walked around the bench to pull us both into a hug.
"Happy Birthday girls" she said
"Thanks Em" we chorused as she released us
"Wait here" she smiled and disappeared down the hallway and into a room.
"Let me guess…" Cat thought Emily walked out with two parcels in her hand
"Yep" I smiled.
"These are for you" Emily smiled as she handed us one each
"You only found out today, when did you have time to buy these?" I asked
"Was that why you didn't tell us?" she wondered
"We forgot, unlike Bella we don't mind being celebrated" Cat smirked
"Thanks Em" I said sincerely, giving her a hug
"You're very welcome" she said sweetly. We followed her to the living room where Leah and Seth were sitting.
"So what's this? Why are you two getting birthday wishes?" Leah asked
"Maybe because it's our birthday?" Cat shrugged
"Since when?" Leah questioned
"Since we were born" I said
"I didn't know about this" Leah thought
"We never got around to telling anyone" I shrugged "Sorry"
"Happy birthday" Seth grinned standing up and high fiving us
"Thanks Seth" I grinned
"You should have told me, I would have gotten you something" he sighed
"It's alright, we don't mind" Cat shrugged. My pocket began to vibrate and pulled my phone out, answering the call
"Hello?"
"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY?!" I moved the phone away from my ear the second I heard her take a deep breath in
"Hi to you too Alice" Cat shied away as I said her name
"I can't believe you did this to me!" she continued
"Did what?" I questioned
"It doesn't matter, even in this short space of time I'm sure I can whip something together. Though guests will be a problem, late minute plans are never easy" she mumbled to herself
"Wait, hold on, Alice, what are you talking about?"
"The party. I know it's late notice but I'm sure there are some people who'd be alright with it, I mean they are popular…" she continued
"Alice. Stop!" I ordered, she did and waited "You can't plan us a birthday party, everyone is still getting used to the thought of being out of school and graduates. Plus, it'll be difficult to invite all our friends, Werewolves and vampires in the same house? With my clueless parents? No thanks. Plus, you are way to busy planning Bella's wedding, you don't need more responsibilities"
"Please, I can do it" she said as those it was stupid to believe she couldn't.
"Alice, if you want Bella to have the most perfect wedding than all your focus needs to be on that. So no" I said stubbornly, Cat took the phone from me
"Not only that, but we don't know what our parents are planning, they usually do something, whether it's big or small, last year they threw us a huge party" she said
"Come on, it'll just be something little" she pleaded through the receiver
"No" Cat answered
"Please"
"No"
"Please"
"No"
"Please"
"No"
"Please"
"Alice. No" Cat said sternly. I could practically see imagine Alice standing on the other end of the phone, pouting. I took my phone back from Cat
"Look, Alice, we'll come up and visit you sometime today. You can decorate you house, bake a cake, what ever and if it means that much you, we can celebrate, but just you and your family… and Bella if she feels like it" I promised
"Fine" she agreed.
"See you soon Alice" I smiled
"Bye" she managed to say before I hung up. "Oh god" I muttered
"Well done" Cat sighed "Now we have them fretting over us"
"Oh well" I shrugged. The door opened and I immediately felt the usual pair of warm arms wrap around my middle. I grinned before even seeing who it was
"Why didn't you tell me it was your birthday?" he asked
"We didn't tell anyone, we totally forgot. Sorry about that" I turned to look into Embry's face, he smiled at me and leaned down to kiss me.
"Are the birthday girls here?" I heard a call, it was Jared
"Maybe" Cat called back
"Happy Birthday Blaze" Jared grinned picking her up and spinning her around
"Thanks Jared" she laughed, I felt a kiss on the cheek and looked up to see Jacob grinning at me
"Happy Birthday Storm"
"Thanks Jake" I smiled. After that Cat and I were being surrounded in birthday wishes. Emily made us a special lunch, including a cake, which the wolves demolished.
"So what have you two got planned for the rest of the day?" Emily wondered
"Well, we wouldn't let Alice throw us a birthday party, but in return we promised we'd go to her house and celebrate with her family" I explained
"I bet Alice is going to try and guilt trip us" Cat sighed
"We aren't Bella, it's gonna be rather difficult" I reminded her
"True" she smirked
"We'll probably be there this afternoon" I added, turning to Emily
"What about this evening? Got any special dinner plans with your parents?" Kim wondered
"Not that we know of. We had breakfast with them, that was nice. We don't know what the dinner plans are" Cat admitted
"Mum and dad have always spoiled us on our birthdays so we don't make requests or ask them for those things anymore. They've spent why too much money on us in the past. So they always end up surprising us with some celebration" I shrugged
"Like all those gifts this morning" Cat sighed and shook her head
"Well, after winning that lottery I didn't think they'd really worry about that anymore" Kim remembered
"Still" we both muttered.
We drove down towards the Cullens house not an hour later. The pack seemed to accept that they had to share us with them and didn't put up to much of a fight about us ditching them for their mortal enemies.
"They're not that bad toward each other any more" Cat said, listening to my thoughts
"You need to learn to stay out of my head" I scolded
"Then don't let me hear it" Cat shrugged. I rolled my eyes and slammed up my shields, I saw her wince a little at the force. She didn't see me picking through her brain all the time, she didn't really have an excuse as to why she spoke them out loud. We reached the house and walked up to the front door, Carlisle appeared as we reached it and smiled brightly at us.
"Happy birthday girls" he said
"Thanks Carlisle" I said, giving him a hug. I walked in past him as Cat did the same
"Thanks" she grinned.
"So, how bad is it?" I wondered, Carlisle smiled and walked towards the stairs, not saying a word. I glanced at Cat who looked as worried as I felt
"Uh oh" I thought, lowering my shields, she nodded as we followed Carlisle. We walked into the living room, me biting my lip and Cat with her eyes closed. There was a huge banner on the celling. Ok correction, there were two huge banners, one with my name on it, and the other with Cat's name. In the middle of the room was a huge cake, like seven layers or something ridiculous like that. The layers evened through purple and blue, the bottom being blue, than purple, than blue, than purple, and so on. There were iced flowers on every purple layer and snowflakes on every blue layer, both were white. You wouldn't think it would look well together but, of course, Alice was able to pull it off. There were streamers everywhere, the theme was obviously blue and purple everywhere, including helium and non helium balloons covering the celling and floor. There was a table covered in presents and a bottle of champagne. I guess Alice decided it was essential. I was brought out of my thoughts by the sound of a bang, I looked over to see that Emmett, Jasper and Alice had popped some party poppers, not the cute little ones but huge big ones.
"Happy Birthday!" they chorused.
"Woah" I muttered
"Wow" Cat said at the same time
"We said something small, you guys went way over" I admitted
"This was the best I could do in the short time you gave me. And seeing as you didn't forbid me I was allowed to do what I wanted and I want to celebrate properly" Alice said firmly
"Still" I said "Did you need such a big cake? No way are we gonna be able to eat all of that"
"That's alright, you can take some of it for your dogs and we'll keep some for when ever you're here" Rosalie said
"I'm gonna be so fat by the end of this" Cat mumbled
"Don't worry, your fast metabolism will take care of that" Alice said skipping towards us. "Happy birthday" she said to us both and giving us a big hug
"Thanks Alice" I said
"Alright, lets open some presents" she decided
"Wait Alice, you need to let the rest of us congratulate them" Esme said, she gave me a hug and said happy birthday before kissing my forehead.
"Thanks" I grinned. Jasper gave me a hug, Rosalie did too.
"Happy birthday Rouge" Emmett picked both Cat up and spun her around laughing. "And you too Myst" he said doing the same to me.
"You can put me down now Emmett" I laughed. He placed me on my feet and I was smuggled by Bella.
"Happy birthday"
"Thanks Bells" I said before Edward gave me a hug also.
"Happy 19th"
"Thanks Edward"
"Alright, come on. Let's open the gifts" Alice grabbed my wrist, grabbed Cat's wrist and lead us through everyone to the table of presents. She shoved one into both our hands and everyone crowded around.
"Those are from Carlisle and Esme" she said grinning. Cat opened the wrapping paper and looked at the box, she opened that and inside was a silver ring. It had a purple round stone in the middle and the silver band twirled around it. There were silver diamonds on either side of the purple amethyst. Cat beamed and pulled it out, sliding it onto her left middle finger.
"It's so gorgeous" she held it out and turned to Esme "Thanks" she pulled her into a hug and kissed her cheek
"We're glad you like it" she said back, she looked at me and I unwrapped my own. I had the same box and opened to find a similar ring. It was silver too but had three blue sapphires, the middle one bigger than the other two, there were silver diamonds around them, between them and it looked gorgeous.
"Oh god. Thanks" I turned to Esme and basically smothered her before giving Carlisle a hug also
"You're welcome dear" Esme smiled
"Alright. These are from Emmett" Alice said giving us another one. I opened the envelope and raised my eyebrows looking at him.
"I figured you'd need a new pair" he shrugged. It was a voucher for about six new tires for my car, I didn't think I needed them yet but with theses roads, who knew. Cat had a new stereo, which allowed her to plug anything into it and not just her phone or iPod.
"You gonna install it for me?" she asked
"Sure" he smirked
"I wasn't talking to you" she said before turning to Rosalie. She shrugged and grinned
"Don't see why not" Cat put it down
"You don't need to do it now" she assured her
"Wasn't planning on it" she admitted causing Cat to roll her eyes. Jasper gave Cat a new pair of runners, when I opened my present from him I was a little surprised, it was a new bathing suit. I raised my eyebrow at him and he turned to look at me, feeling my emotions. He saw the present in my hands and almost looked embarrassed before he looked and pointed at Alice. I smiled and nodded, realising what he meant. Alice gave both Cat and I a necklace with a matching ring, they matched the ring that Esme and Carlisle had given us. Edward and Bella were next, they had given me three books and Cat got a whole heap of chocolates.
"Thanks guys" Cat smiled
"You spoiled us just as much as our parents" I sighed
"That's what friends are for" Alice grinned "Now, time to cut the cake" she burst. Cat groaned
"Come on, it's not that bad" I said
"I hate the song, we don't need to sing it do we?" Cat asked looking at everyone
"Of course we do. You can't not sing it while you cut the cake together" Alice said stubbornly
"Together?" we chorused
"Of course, it's both of your birthdays" Alice reminded us
"Oh yeah, how could we forget" I muttered sarcastically. They did sing to us, Cat had a glare on her face the whole time, I felt a little awkward, I mean what are you supposed to do while everyone sings the happy birthday song to you? Cat and I both held the knife handle and cut through the entire cake together. We than had some, we cut them layer by layer. Of course know one was tall enough to get to the top layer so I had to cut that for everyone while Cat handed a plate to Bella and herself, also holding mine while I landed back on the floor. I didn't mind though, it was fun, and it was one hell of a cake, it seemed to melt in your mouth, like full on literally, it was beautiful.
"Jeez Alice, you out did yourself" I admitted
"This is amazing" Cat said
"What's in it?" Bella wondered
"Oh, just this and that" Alice shrugged with a grin. We rolled our eyes and finished the pieces of cake, by that time it was late evening. We sat talking for ages, Rosalie ran down to our house to install the new stereo in Cat's car, Emmett going with her. We had to force them to be as silent as a mouse and not to break anything. Of course the silent part would be easy for Rosalie, the non-breaking part might not be so easy for Emmett. I said that to him and, after everyone stopped laughing, he shot a sneaky comment back at me before leaving. At about five Carlisle decided we needed to leave because our parents might want to do something with us. I agreed, just incase they had planned something, Cat sighed.
"It's not like we've had dinner with them on our birthday before" she muttered
"That's not the point" I sighed as we were lead to the door. "Thank you for having us" I said "And for the presents" Cat and I were lugging them to my car, we'd told the Cullens we didn't need their help, which was true. Alice had put the half of the cake that was for the wolves in the car already, she said she didn't want to risk it getting squashed, even after Cat assured her the wolves wouldn't mind it if it was squished or not.
"You're completely welcome girls." Esme said, giving us both yet another hug after we put everything in the car. "We hope you had a good day."
"I don't know any better way to spend it, to be honest" I confessed
"Yeah, I don't think it gets any better" Cat agreed.
"Well, we're glad" Carlisle smiled
"Thanks for putting so much effort in for us too" I said to them all before grinning at Alice
"Well, it would have been better if I'd known sooner" Alice was still complaining about that
"That's probably the exact reason they didn't tell you Alice" Bella jumped in
"Exactly" Cat and I chorused, Alice pouted and we all laughed at her.
"Well you can't escape it next year. I'm going to plan you something big" she threatened
"Than we're gonna go on a holiday for our birthday next year" Cat decided
"Good idea" I nodded. Alice glared at us
"Bye everyone" Cat said quickly and pulled me to the car, I jumped into the drivers seat and turned on the ignition before waving to everyone and driving off. We reached the house and I parked my car, Cat got out and inspected everything, making sure Emmett really hadn't broken anything while I pulled the cover back onto my car. We walked up the stairs and expected to find our parents waiting for us, but they weren't.
"Where do you think they are?" I wondered
"I'm not sure" Cat muttered, the house looked rather dark actually, the front door light was on, the light at the top of the spiral stair case was on, the stove light in the kitchen was on and a lamp in the lounge was on, but that was it. Usually almost every light was on to light up the house, but now it just seemed empty.
"Should we check our rooms?" Cat wondered
"Seems the best option" I nodded and we walked up the staircase. There was a lamp on in my room and I opened the door to see Embry standing in the middle of my room.
"Embry" I said surprised. I was surprised, I hadn't expected him to turn up till later, till after our parents had forced us to some expensive restaurant.
"Hey" he smiled
"What's up?" I wondered walking up to him.
"Well, I was wondering if you'd like to go on a birthday picnic with me" he offered, this was the first time I noticed he was holding a basket in his hands.
"I'd love to, but I don't know what my parents are doing" I confessed
"They're not." he smiled, I looked at him confused, what did he mean they're not? "I asked them permission to take you out tonight" he explained, I gapped at him
"You did that? For me?" I asked
"I had to celebrate your birthday with you somehow" he grinned. I flung my arms around his neck and kissed him. He was amazing, putting this together just for me? And even asking my parents for permission. I couldn't ask for anything better. Cat was wrong, today did get better!
Cat's POV.
I grinned when I entered my room, Jake was sitting on my bed waiting for me.
"Hey" I smiled walking towards him
"How's your day been?" he wondered
"Pretty good" I shrugged, hugging him
"Think you have time to celebrate with me?" he asked
"I'd absolutely love to, but I don't know what my parents are planning" I sighed
"They're not." he grinned, I looked up at him "I asked them if I could spend some time with you" I beamed
"Really?" I wondered
"Yeah. Embry and I didn't get much time with you two today, so we asked your parents if you could each spend the evening with us" he explained. I jumped on him and he spun me around
"Thank you so much" I beamed. "So, what's the plan?" I wondered
"We're going for a walk first" he said to me. I grinned
"Through the forest?"
"I know you love it"
"Sure it's not to dangerous?" I asked him
"I'm going to be with you, you don't need to worry" he said to me smiling
"Oh, cause I was so worried" I rolled my eyes, he smirked at me and lead me back through the house, I guess seeing as he had permission from my parents we didn't need to sneak around. I couldn't believe he actually did this for me, it was great! Just what I needed to make this the perfect birthday. We walked through the trees, my arm hooked through his and my head on his shoulder, it was nice and quiet and peaceful. The sky was still clear, it was such a perfect day for it, and Sophie and I hadn't had a thing to do with that for once. We eventually come to a clearing, there were candles, a picnic rug, a basket and some food. I beamed
"Wow" I couldn't help but breath "This is gorgeous"
"You like it?" he asked
"I love it" I grinned, there was a vase of flowers on the rug, they were a mix of red and purple roses. They bloomed as soon as we entered the clearing, reacting to my emotions. They weren't the only ones, flowers bloomed and blossomed all around us, growing up and glistening in the candle light
"I guess you really love it" Jacob smiled seeing the flowers grow before his eyes.
"Guess I'm so overwhelmed it's seeping out and into the plants" I smiled at him
"That's not all, the air's gotten warmer too" he squeezed my arm and I smiled guiltily. He lead me over to the picnic rug and we sat down next to one another, he had chocolate covered strawberries, along with other fruits, kind of like a chocolate fountain without the fountain. He just had a bowl of melted chocolate, along with pizza.
"Nothing fancy" I grinned, glad
"Did you want fancy?" He wondered
"Definitely not. That's what I was dreading about my parents plans, a fancy expensive restaurant" I confessed "This is so much better. It's just perfect" I leaned forwards and kissed him. He kissed me back but pulled away much too soon.
"We'd better eat it before it get's cold" he said, nodding his head towards everything
"Right cause I totally can't just heat it up" I grinned
"You're not meant to be doing anything but enjoying yourself" he told me
"Well I can't if you pull away" I whined. He grinned and kissed me again but it was only short "Yeah, like that" I grumbled
"After we eat" he grinned. I sighed and rolled my eyes but sat back and did what he said, his winning grin was to contagious that I ended up smiling back at him. We ate the pizza together, not in complete silence but I hadn't noticed how far we had actually walked till just now. We were miles away from everywhere. Jake dipped all the fruits in the chocolate and let me eat most of them. He fed me a few, which was kind of cliche but it was so sweet and really made me feel special. Again I ended up asking myself what I'd done to deserve him? For him to be all mine.
"So, I hope it's not to late but…" he began, he pulled a small wrapped box out of the basket. I smiled
"You didn't have to get me anything, this was totally enough" I said looking around
"Well, it wasn't fair that everyone else was able to get you one and I didn't" he explained. He handed me the gift, I took it and unwrapped it gently. It was one of those jewellery boxes, I looked at Jacob surprised and he nodded his head towards it. I opened it and saw two new charms for the bracelet he gave me, one was a heart and the other an angel.
"A lot of angels" I grinned
"I saw it and it reminded me about how you're my angel" he said, I smiled at him and handed him the box, he looked at me confused, almost like he thought I was rejecting them. I smiled and offered for him to take it, he did but the expression stayed on his face. I turned my wrist with the bracelet on it, I never took it off, Sophie was the same. They were as precious to us as our birth necklaces were.
"Clip them on for me, it's kind of difficult to do it without both hands" I explained, he finally smiled and one by one clipped the two charms to my bracelet. I admired them, they were gorgeous
"I would have gotten you a bit more, but I didn't have much time" he began, I shook my head
"They're perfect. Plus this dinner," I said looking around "It's just…" I didn't know what the word was "I don't know what word to use to describe it" I admitted, he grinned
"As long as it's a good word" he said
"Good can't even describe how amazing the word would be" I crawled over to him and sat on his lap. "Earlier this evening I said the day couldn't get any better. You totally proved me wrong" I grinned
"Well, I'm glad I could make your day" he smiled at me as I leaned my forehead on his.
"Just seeing your face makes my day" I said softly
"Good thing I feel the same way" I smiled, I couldn't help it, his lips were so close to mine and I just needed to feel them on mine. So I didn't answer and just full on kissed him, hard. I almost wondered if it felt desperate, though I guess I kind of felt like that. My kissed me back immediately. There was something different about this kiss, I couldn't place my finger on it but it was different. It wasn't bad, it was amazing, but it still made me wonder. Jake laid back and I lay on top of him, my hands running through his short, spiky hair, the dew on the grass soaking it. I felt his hands on my skin, under my top, his hands were warmer than usual, or maybe it was me? I kissed down to his collar bone, my fingers tracing over his muscles.
"It's dangerous, the hold you have one me" he admitted
"It's dangerous for you to have as much control over someone as powerful as me" I grinned coming back up to his lips and kissing his grin. After a while I realised why the kisses felt different, it was easy to tell that I wanted him, and more than usual. I guessed, by the way he held me so tight to him and how his hands travelled up my back and than back down as though he was overstepping, Jake felt the same. That was all I needed to know, it was all I needed to feel confident. I hadn't ever thought this far before, I guess that was half a good thing, who knows how I'd react if I'd over-thought this, if that had happened, I might have been having a panic attack, but I wasn't. For the first time, this was what I wanted. I actually realised how much I wanted Jake. I couldn't help it, I kissed his pecks and he growled, a low sound, but it wasn't a warning nor was it scary, it think it was his version of a moan, a wolf version. I liked it, so I did some more to make him do it again, he did, so that continued until he pulled me away from his chest and to his lips
"Not fair" he muttered
"How?" I wondered
"I shouldn't be the only one making sounds" he said kissing down my neck, tickling me almost as his breath spread across my throat, his lips so warm against my skin. I let out a happy sigh, it felt so good, so, right. What could be more perfect than him? What could be more perfect than the feel of his skin against mine? What could be more perfect than the way we fix together, moulded together so perfectly? Every inch of us worked together, every part fit together like puzzle pieces, nothing jabbed, no elbows or hip bones or knees. I don't think there had ever been something so perfect together as Jake and I were right now. Jacob suddenly began to chuckle, I opened my eyes and looked at him confused
"What?" I asked
"Look at what we've done" he said looking up, I followed his gaze and noticed we were clouded in steam.
"Good thing we're not in a room" I commented
"Seems you're body's just betraying you" he smirked
"How?"
"You're being desperate"
"I'm wanting. There's a difference" I wasn't letting him get the satisfaction of embarrassing me and he looked at me confused when I answered. I leaned back over to him, tracing his lips "Why so surprised?" I wondered. He didn't answer for a while
"I didn't pick you as the type" he admitted
"What? The sex type?" I grinned, he shrugged
"Well, I only just decided" I confessed "And it is my birthday" I reminded him, I could tell I was being seductive now, there was no doubt about it. I guessed he knew it too, I saw him glance down and than back at my face, I smiled at him and kissed him. At first he was hesitant, not really sure of this idea I had in my head. But that didn't stop me, I kissed him with confidence, didn't do anything else but wrap my arms back around his neck again. Eventually his snaked around my waist and took the ends of my top in his hands, I stopped kissing him for a second and he pulled it over my head. I went back to kiss him again but he seemed distracted. I looked at him before looking down at myself
"What?" I wondered
"You're just…" he breathed
"You're gonna make me feel self conscious in a minute" I said softly, already beginning to feel a tad embarrassed. He looked at my like I was crazy
"Breath taking" he finished, letting out a single breath, like I had indeed taken his break away. I grinned and kissed him again, this time he was more than willing. After that everything escalated and the steam turned into a heavy, warm, fog. He was right, my body did betray me, it so hot I was surprised I didn't burn him, guess I had some control, though he was making it very difficult. All I wanted was him, for the rest of my life.
Sophie's POV.
Embry had taken me to the beach, he was doing an excellent job at making this the best night ever. He pulled out a picnic rug and laid it on the sand. I watched him unpack the basket, he had pasta for us. I sat down and he handed me a bowl
"Did you make this?" I asked, he nodded with a grin, I beamed and ate some, it was amazing. "Dude, you never told me you could cook!" he shrugged
"I have my moments" he grinned
"What did you do?" I wondered, he raised an eyebrow "What did you put in it?" I rephrased
"Pasta, tomato, carrots, pepper, salt, spices, meat" he listed. I giggled as he looked at the pasta in his bowl.
"Impressive" I grinned.
"Ok, so I had Emily help me a little" he confessed
"I don't care, I just can't believe you went to so much trouble, for me" I leaned over and kissed him proudly
"Wow, I should cook more often" he smirked
"Please do" I nodded. We finished the pasta happily before he pulled out a tub of peanut brittle and caramel ice cream
"Did that even last?" I wondered, he opened it, the answer was barely. He sighed
"I was hoping it would" he muttered. I smiled and put my hand on the tub, it froze again perfectly. He looked at it, than at me and grinned
"What would I do without you?" he wondered
"Not sure" I grinned, he smirked and kissed my cheek before pulling out two spoons. We ate the ice cream together, finishing the entire litre tub while talking about everything. Afterwards, we sat on the picnic rug looking at the ocean, the moon was in a crescent shape but shined off the glistening water. I grinned and stood up
"What?" he asked as I looked at him
"Come on, let's go for a swim" I decided
"It's freezing" he reminded me
"So?" I asked. He rolled his eyes and stood up next to me. I grinned and ran at the water. It splashed around me and I turned to see Embry grab me before he lost his balance and we both ended up drenched in water.
"What was that for?" I laughed
"You wanted to be wet" he said
"I could have done that myself"
"Where's the fun in that?" he questioned. I grinned and turned to swim further out. "Where are you going?" he called
"Out? I'm not going to far" I added before turning to him. He looked at me a little worried "Come on, it's my element, it can't hurt me" I reminded him
"But the things in it could" he said swimming over to me
"Not really. Especially seeing as they're my animals too" I grinned
"You're such a weird girl" he said reaching me, placing his arms around my waist
"Hey" I whined, placing my arms around his neck
"It's not bad"
"Good, cause you're a weird boy"
"How?" he questioned
"You're a shapeshifter, what about that isn't weird?" I reminded him. He sighed and shook his head, water splashing off his hair. I grinned and when he looked back at me, I kissed him. "Best birthday ever!"