Chapter 42:

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The ride back to the house was tense and silent. I was mostly knocked out on Irina's shoulder while I was seated on Tanya—who was sandwiched between her two sisters—and Kate held my hand to draw soothing circles on the back with her thumb. Tanya's nose nuzzled my shoulder with low purrs rumbling in her throat. Her mannerisms—mixed with Kate's—were surprisingly soothing and they helped my body relax.

Irina shifted, moving to allow me to lie against her more comfortably while Tanya wrapped her arms around my waist to secure me. The blonde woman behind me gently kissed my shoulder. "You doing alright, love?" she asked lowly.

I shrugged. "Just tired," I replied.

She hummed and nuzzled my shoulder again. "Do you want us to call Charlie? I'm sure he'd be fine with you staying with us if you wanted to?"

I sighed and shook my head. "No, it's okay. I'll be fine when I get home. I just need to get some sleep is all," I mumbled.

"And water," Alice spoke up from the driver's seat. "Don't forget to drink a lot of fluids, Bella. You need to make sure you keep your body hydrated after something like this."

I waved my hand in dull acknowledgement of her statement and shifted between the two vampires holding me to be more comfortable. Tanya loosened her grip and straightened when I began to move downwards. She released me and I spread out across the three Denali sisters' laps. My head landed in Irina's with my feet in Kate's. The women moved their arms to be both my seatbelts and supports.

I closed my eyes and slithered my hands under and over Irina's right thigh to snuggle further into her. Lightly, she drew her hand through the ends of my hair. I took in a deep breath when I felt the hands supporting me also begin to rub soothing patterns in my muscles along my body to help me relax.

I let out the breath and a strand of hair fell into my face. It wasn't there long before a hand pushed it back behind my ear and I opened my eyes. Rosalie was twisted in her seat next to Alice in the front to be facing me. She pushed more strands of hair from my face and studied me. "I'm sorry that this happened today, Bella."

Kate squeezed my ankles in agreement before she went back to her massage. "We all are," she spoke up. "This was supposed to be a good day for you, but…"

I shook my head and sighed. I unwound one of my hands from around Irina's leg and grabbed Rosalie's hand, taking it in mine to squeeze. "Don't be sorry for me," I murmured. I lifted my head off her lap to look at Kate. "I know you planned for this to be a good day for me, a surprise, and you need to believe me when I say it was. It really was, and I'm happy you did it for me."

Irina lowered her head. "But it wasn't," she grumbled. "First you were hit on by that sleaze in the store and verbally assaulted by him. After that you got a massive nosebleed that could've been destructive if—"

"You can't control any of that, Rina," I cut in. "That nosebleed was a side effect, a side effect that happens to everyone eventually. And, I know that to vampires the blood is dangerous to be around, but you handled it just fine. There was no incident, and you don't need to beat yourselves up about what could have happened when it didn't. I'm fine, and so are you. Isn't that all that really matters?"

The blonde bit her lip, but didn't say anything else against it. I must have hit the nail on the head or something, because it seemed all of the vampires had lost their fire of blaming themselves.

Alice was the only one that answered with a nod, "Yes, it's what matters."

I nodded and dropped my head back onto Irina's lap. "I'm going to get some sleep. Just wake me up when we're about to the house," I murmured, dropping Rosalie's hand.

Tanya kissed my forehead. "Of course, Bella, get some rest."

"Belly, you need to wake up." A hand gently shook my shoulder with the voice. I blinked my eyes open with a yawn, looking around to find Kate's face a few inches from mine. She smiled and took my hand. "Come on, Belly." With a gentle tug, she pulled me out of the car that I—apparently—had been moved to sit up in.

I yawned and rubbed my eyes, supporting my weight against Kate while Tanya slid out of the car behind me. A car door slammed shut and I turned my attention to the Pack getting out of their car smiling widely at me.

I smiled back and shook myself awake to support my own weight on my legs while Tanya slid her arm around my waist. Alice and Rosalie were handing the wolves the shopping bags for me from the trunk of the car to take into the house.

A cold finger stroked under my chin and directed my attention to Tanya. She arched an elegant brow. "Are going to be you alright, love?" she questioned.

I nodded and rubbed my eyes. "Yeah," I said. "I'm just waking up is all." I shook my head and looked back to her and smirked. "I've had to deal with Kate for the past few months, so I'll be fine."

"Hey," the pale blonde behind me grumbled.

Tanya chuckled. "I'm sure you'll be." She swept forward and kissed me. I kissed back with my hand reaching up to cup her cheek during the gentle goodbye.

I was sure we would have continued kissing had it not been for Jacob walking by and saying, "Let's go, Bella. We don't all have all day to stand around kissing our girlfriends."

We separated to watch him head for the front door with an armful of shopping bags on each side. Emily followed while rolling her eyes. "You're still training him, I take it?" she asked me.

I frowned. "He's going to boot camp, now."

She giggled and moved towards the door while Tanya sighed and I turned back to her. She reached up and brushed a strand of hair out of my face. "I won't keep you," she said.

"Wish you could," I grumbled.

She smiled. "Me too."

I grinned and leaned up to give her another peck on the lips while wrapping my arms around her neck. She smiled against my mouth and squeezed me with the arms around my waist before we pulled back. "I love you," she murmured.

I smiled. "I love you too." I kissed her again and then slid out of her arms with a grin. I looked to the others. "I'll see you guys tomorrow, alright?"

They nodded and Kate gave me a quick bear hug. "I'll see you tomorrow, Roadrunner," she promised. She pulled back and ruffled my hair. "We'll verse the wolves together in a game of Halo."

I ducked her hand and smoothed out my hair. "Sounds good."

She grinned and jumped into the car as the others followed her example with waves in my direction. "Bye, Bella. We'll see you tomorrow!" Alice called from the front.

I gave a small wave to her and waited for them to drive off before I turned and headed for the front door. The Pack was waiting for me with teasing smirks already plastered on their faces. I moved past them, fishing out my keys, and they remained silent.

When I got to the door I shook my head and inserted the key. "Shut-up."

"We didn't say anything," Paul smiled.

I rolled my eyes and opened the door to let them all in. They poured in behind me while I closed the door. Jake held up his arms. "Where should we put these?" he asked.

I jerked my head up the stairs, moving towards them. "My room," I said. I turned and jogged up the steps with him following along with the rest of the Pack right behind.

When we reached the door, I pushed it open for them to enter. Jacob dramatically stumbled to my bed and collapsed the bags on it. "Oh!" he panted, "I thought I was going to die!"

Paul mimicked him, but added the effect of falling on the bed. "How many stairs was that? Twenty?"

"Fifteen," Seth corrected while he deposited the bags next to the foot of the bed. "I counted."

I rolled my eyes. "You guys are such drama queens," I snorted. I looked around. "And where are Sue and Charlie? I thought you said they were here at the house?"

Leah frowned. "They should be," she said. "She stayed behind with him when we first came here, and the car is in the front." She moved past me through the doorway into the hall.

She looked from side to side until I pushed past her. "Let's just check his room," I said. I headed for the closed door up ahead with Leah following and Seth jogging out to join us. I grabbed the doorknob and pushed the door open. "If his keys are in there, then they are probably just—HOLY HELL!"

"Mom?"

"Dad?"

"Kids!"

"Shit!"

The two naked adults sprung apart, tumbled off the bed, and landed with a hard thud behind it, taking the sheet with them. They popped up a second later with the sheet divided between them to cover themselves and stared at our gawking figures in the doorway. The rest of the Pack crowded behind us to see what the commotion was.

Both blushed several shades of red. Sue ducked her head and ran her hand through her crazy sex-hair. "We-we were just…"

"Don't."

They blushed even more. "We, uh, didn't hear you come in," Charlie said. He cleared his throat and tugged at the sheet. "How about you give us some privacy?"

Seth couldn't grab the door knob fast enough from my petrified hand. "Don't mind if we do," he shouted. He wrapped his arm around my waist and yanked me back as he slammed the door close.

We stared at the door petrified and I blinked in horror. "I just saw my father naked…"

Seth shivered behind me. "I just saw my mother…"

"I just saw your parents doing it."

"Shut-up, Paul!"

The seven of us were seated downstairs watching a movie when Charlie and Sue came down—fully clothed—and joined us. I was sitting on Jacob's lap to indulge in his warmth when they moved to sit in the furniture with us. All of our eyes stayed on the screen.

"Sue," I greeted.

She nodded. "Bella."

"Charlie," Seth and Leah said as one.

"Seth, Leah."

We fell into an awkward silence. The only noise in the room was the TV and you could probably still hear a pen drop. I glanced at my dad and Sue—who was sitting on Charlie's lap—and then back at the TV.

Jacob awkwardly cleared his throat.

Sue shifted on Charlie's lap.

We stared at the TV.

Then, Sue spoke up. "So, Bella, how was your day out shopping?"

"Like yours," I replied nonchalantly. I glanced at her and Charlie. "Filled with…special moments."

Paul and Sam sniggered on the ground as the couple shifted and blushed in embarrassment. Jacob chuckled a little behind me, and Sue nodded with a purse of her lips. "That's nice…"

I nodded. "Yes, it was."

Silence…

Emily coughed.

"So, kids," Charlie spoke up for our attention. We all provided it with expectant eyebrows. "About what just happened upstairs—"

"You mean us walking in on your, uh…special hug?" Leah asked.

He blushed and nodded. "Um, yes, that…" he grumbled. He scratched the back of his head. "…I think it would be best for all of us to forget that it ever happened."

"Which part?" I asked. "When we walked in or saw you naked?"

Both parents flushed immediately and Paul sniggered on the ground again with Sam. "Both," Charlie shuddered, "definitely both."

"Charlie," Leah said, "I think you are a great guy, but trust me when I say this…" She turned to the couple and threw her arms out. "We cannot forget any of it."

"Can you at least try, Lee-Lee?" Sue begged. "That is really not a memory I want any of you to have."

"We don't want it either!" I whined.

"And I don't want you to!" Charlie called. "Let's just never talk about it ever again. From this moment on you walking in—I mean—that never happened. Got it?"

"Yes, sir," we grumbled.

Both parents sighed in relief. "Good," Sue murmured. She nodded to herself. "Good…"

The room fell into another awkward silence. I glanced at Emily on the ground and she glanced at me before we both hurriedly looked away from each other. I looked at the TV, but then looked at the two adults and then looked away when they looked at me.

Look left…Nope.

There's Paul.

How about right?

Nope.

Seth.

What about down?

Nope.

Leah.

What about…?

Well, I wasn't looking at anyone, but I wasn't looking at anything except the small crack in the ceiling either. When did we even get that? It had to have been recently, or before Charlie and I moved in. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened after with Tanya jumping in and out of my room so much in the past month or so. Lord knows what kind of damage that does to the house every time she does it.

Unless, it could have happened when Charlie and Sue were—

Ah, shit.

I looked back down and tried to stare hard at the TV to forget what I had witnessed earlier. That was something no child needed to see—their parent naked. It was a horrid sight to witness.

I shivered at the thought and went back to the completely awkward silence still around the room. If it wasn't for the moving playing, I was pretty sure that we would be able to hear the crickets…in Antarctica.

I bit my lip and blurted, "I had a nosebleed today."

Both adults' heads snapped towards me and their eyes widened. "What?!" they called at once.

"I had a nosebleed," I repeated. "We were at Maria's eating, and well…" I gave a small shrug and glanced at the six Pack members scattered around the room.

Charlie leaned forward in his seat, forcing himself to hold onto Sue so she wouldn't fall out of his lap when he did so. "Are you alright, honey? How bad was it? Did it last very long?"

Sam spoke up. "We were eating with the Denali sisters and two of the Cullens when it started." Sue glanced at the wolves here, but Leah gave her mother a small nod to show nothing bad happened with the vampires. "Paul got the owner for help while Tanya tried to help stop the bleeding. It bled for about fifteen or so minutes before it stopped."

Charlie nodded and his shoulders relaxed slightly. Sue pulled herself out of his arms and moved towards me. She bent down to have her face level with mine, and her hands went on either of my cheeks to look me over carefully. "Has it bled since?" she asked.

I shook my head. "No," I said around the small pudginess in my cheeks. "I just slept in the car on the way here."

"Did it bleed while you were shopping?"

"No, just then." She nodded, but didn't back away to continue looking me over while I took in a small breath. When I did, I almost flinched and I cleared my throat. "Sue?"

"Yes?" she asked, not stopping in her look over.

I swallowed and cleared my throat. "Not to be disrespectful or anything, but…have you washed your hands?"

The woman paused and frowned. She turned her attention away from inspecting me and just to me. "No…" she said curiously.

I flinched and pulled away from her hands. "I can tell…"

She stood there for a second and then blushed deeply with Charlie on the chair. Seth gagged and Leah shot up, throwing her hands in the air. "I'm out!" she called, dashing towards the door.

"Me too," Seth gagged.

I shook my head and jumped out of Jacob's lap to follow them. I grabbed his hand to pull him up with me. "We're with you," I said, moving towards the door.

"Us too!" Paul called, running out with Sam and Emily. They closed the door behind them and we joined Leah who was waiting at the car, gagging over and over again.

We gathered in a small circle next to the Pack's car and looked at each other when we realized we had absolutely nothing to do.

"So…" I drawled, "…lovely weather we're having."

"Shut-up, Bella…"

"Are you sure this will be alright?" Emily asked, leaning against Sam's chest while he leaned against the side of the car.

I shrugged, holding the phone to my ear. "I don't know."

Seth gaped at me. "Then why'd you suggest it?" he shrieked. "I'd rather stayed in that house instead!"

I rolled my eyes and covered the speaker of the phone. "I didn't know if it was alright, I just said we might be able to, but I'd have to call first, and you all jumped on the idea. Not my fault that you all wanted to before I even got the chance to ask first," I snipped.

Jacob snorted. "You still could have found out ahead of time, Bella. That way it wouldn't seem so rude or something," he said. "It'd be a little bit more polite."

I growled. "Yes, yes," I said, "I'm sorry for trying to give us a nice, decent excuse to not head back to that sex filled house, and had my idea jumped on without being able to back it up first. Totally my—"

"Bella?"

I stopped immediately and looked away from the wolves. "Oh, hey, Rose, what's up?" I asked.

Seth poked me in the shoulder. I whacked his hand away without looking. "Um, nothing much, I suppose. We're just staying around the house while Edward, Carlisle and Esme are out hunting."

"Uh-huh." He started to poke me again and I smacked his hand away. I turned to face him and made my eyes to go big while mouthing, "stop". He frowned and began to poke me again.

"Why are you calling?"

I smacked at Seth again with a warning glare. "Well," I said. "I was wondering if I would be fine for—"

Seth poked me again and I whirled around. "Stop poking me!" I screamed. The boy—literally—jumped back in fright with a scream and landed on his ass with a grunt.

The Pack immediately burst into laughter. "That's what you get for messing with Bella, you idiot," Leah said, cuffing her brother on the back of the head as he hyperventilated.

I snorted and turned my attention back to the phone. "So," I continued, "how'd you feel about having the Pack and me over today?"

"Today?" Rosalie asked. "I thought you were all spending time together alone and then coming over tomorrow?"

I scratched the back of my neck. "Well, that was the plan, yeah, and we would have, but…"

"But…?" she drawled. "What could make you change your mind in less than fifteen minutes?"

I growled. "Walking in on our parents having sex, that's what!" I shouted. "We just came right on in, and there they were, plain as day, butt naked having sex. We cannot go back to that sex house, and we refuse to return there until it is guaranteed to be safe!" I ran my hand over my face and then flinched. "And I need to wash my face!"

There was a slight scuffling sound on the other side, and then Emmett spoke through the phone. "Whoa, wait, you walked in on Charlie having sex with someone?" he laughed.

"Hey!" Leah called. "That someone was our mom, thank you very much, and it was not a sight that we enjoyed to see!"

Emmett burst into laughter through the phone, and I was pretty sure I could hear Kate in the background before there was another scuffle and Rosalie spoke through the phone again. "You all can come on over, Bella. We have plenty of room and food."

"FOOD!" Paul called.

I sighed in relief as Emily scolded the man. "Thank you! We'll be there soon." I hung up the phone and turned to the Pack, throwing up my arms like a boxer. "We're in."