Chapter 5

Friday morning in Math Emmett invited me over to his house he said "My mom wants to meet you, she wants to meet the person that made friends with Jasper. He's a bit socially awkward," thinking about it brings a smile to my face. This invitation was extended to me by both Jasper and Alice as well that day.

Today was Saturday the day I was going to be the only human amid seven vampires. My father told me not to worry, that out of all the covens to visit without exposing myself this was the safest.

That Saturday morning when I woke up and got ready I looked in the mirror and realised I was meeting Rosalie's mother figure 'got to dress to impress' I got dressed in black skinny chinos, a white shirt and a black vest, no tie. "beep beep" 'I should have let Jasper pick me up he would come to the door and knock, he's more of a gentleman than Emmett'

Beeeep

"Belly-bear hurry up" Emmett screeched from outside.

I grabbed my phone and ran down the stairs,

"Hey Charlie I'm going to the Cullen's" I shouted when I was at the bottom of the stairs"

"OK be home before dark" Charlie shouted back from somewhere inside the house.

When I walked outside I saw Edwards Volvo, confused but I still got in when I saw Emmett in the driver's seat.

"Hey Emmy-bear why are you using this car?" I asked

"Well, my dear Belly-bear Edward was throwing a tantrum so I decided to steal his car. Strap up Bella we going bundu-bashing," he said this with a very naughty look on his face.

"Bundu-bashing?" I asked still slightly confused but excited 'most of his ideas were usually very exciting and totally worth the trouble we get into after'

"Yes Belly-bear we are going to drive around the forest in his precious soccer mom car"

"Yeah, let's go!" I shouted.

He took off into the woods next to the road driving through bushes around trees and fallen logs. I was being shaken and thrown in every direction and worst of all the ground was damp so we kept fishtailing and sliding all over the place on the trip to his house. When we finally arrived at the Cullen house the windows and windscreen has mud all over. We got off the car laughing like crazy, I turned to look at the car and saw mud and leaves coating the car all over. Scratches from the branches on the car door and the slight tilt of the car told me that we either damaged the axle or one of the wheels was flat.

I looked up to see the kids of the Cullen family outside. Jasper trying to keep his laughter with his hand over his mouth, Alice bouncing around looking super excited that we had arrived, Rosalie looking angry but I see a small smile in the corner of her scowl and the light in her eyes she liked how I dressed today, after all, it is for her'. Edward; eyes black hair mussed, breathing so heavily. Stalked towards us. I turned to Emmett to see he had stopped laughing but was still smiling. Jasper had stopped and moved in behind Edward to stop him if he did anything stupid.

"My car!" he shouted "Emmett how could you, you know how much I love my car."

I swear he was close to tears. He stomped off into the house. Everyone started laughing as soon as he walked into the house. Rosalie turned to me and said

"I expect this behaviour from Emmett but not you" and she walked into the garage leaving me to my own thoughts. 'I had disappointed my mate, the one person who I'm supposed to impress and make happy, not disappointed' my mood dropped and I could tell Jasper, the resident empath, noticed.

"Why don't we go inside darlin', I'm sure Esme can't wait to meet you."

"Yeah lets Jay, I even dressed up"

"And you look mighty fine Bella"

"Thank you, Jay, Emmett didn't even notice."

With that, we all walked into the house.

"Hey, I noticed all right," Emmett pouted

"I'm sure you did," Said Alice "and Bella you clean up nice, if I wasn't with Jasper I would definitely go for you" I laughed and thanked the pixie vampire because I could see they were trying to cheer me up. They took me to the kitchen, I won't lie the first thing I noticed was the food, then Esme. I looked up from the food to see the coven maternal figure, in all her glory the lighting was just perfect her caramel hair seemed to glow and her smile just lit up the whole place. 'She's beautiful' I thought unaware I had said it aloud,

"Thank you, Isabella, I'm Esme. It's a pleasure to meet you," She said in a honeyed voice 'it could never rival Rosalie but it was close' I walked up to her and took her hand, kissing the back with a little bow. Looked up and said.

"It is my pleasure to be in the presence of such a beautiful woman" She laughed a bit and said

"Thank you again but you do know I'm married to Dr Cullen, right?"

"It is a shame but I'm sure that he saw you and was beside himself, a woman as beautiful as you have to be married. It's just my loss."

"Ok Belly bear stop hitting on my mother, eat and let's go play. I plan to kick your ass in COD." While everyone was laughing, I settled in my seat and turned to Emmett and said "You think you can beat me oh please, let me refuel and your ass will be the one getting a kicking"

"Language kids"

"Sorry mom/ma'am" Emmett I and I said together.

"I didn't know what you liked so I made a little of everything. Anything that gets leftover you can take home." Esme said when she saw the look of concentration on my face as I was deciding what to eat.

"That's great, I can't wait to try a bit of everything."

There was a chicken Caesar salad, a plate of bacon, waffles, eggs Benedict and three types of juice. It all looked so good and smelled even better I couldn't wait any longer so I plated a bit of everything onto my plate and chowed down. 'I could tell she was excited to cook for someone because no one in the house actually ate food. They all sat down around the table and started talking among themselves

"Bella I don't think you should eat so fast you might just choke on something" she Alice. I looked up to see that she was truly worried that the 'human' might choke. I finished the food I was chewing

"I can't help that the food is so amazing, seriously Mrs Cullen if you ever want to cook for someone that isn't your kids. My stomach and I will always welcome your food."

As soon as I finished the food on my plate, and a few extra pieces of bacon. I got up walked over to where Esme was sitting and got down on one knee. I took her hand and said, with a serious look on my face

"Esme, if you ever leave Dr Cullen please consider marrying me so that I can eat food like this every day" I finished off with the most blinding smile I could muster.

"I will definitely consider it but I doubt I will ever leave my husband" She looked around and bent down to whisper in my ear

"I am in love with him after all" I turned to the heavens and whisper shouted "NOOOOO!" I got up dusted myself off

"Well let's go Emmy-bear, kicking your ass will put me in a better mood," I said jokingly. Before I left I kissed Esme on the cheek and thanked her for the food.

They walked me to the living room area the walls were painted an off-white colour. There were pictures of them on the wall and a few expensive-looking paintings on them. Black leather couches, a four-seater, a two-seater and a lazy-boi sat in front of a large LCD HD screen TV with almost every gaming system known to man.

"Wow, Emmy-bear nice set-up you got here."

"Thanks, Belly-bear, But I'm still going to beat you."

While we waited for Emmett to set up I challenged Jasper to a game of speed chess, I knew that he had a strategic mind but growing up among the Volturi you learn a few things. Two minutes into the game I had lost most of my pieces but I had a trick up my sleeve. While he was focused on trying to get to my king I already had my pieces in the perfect position, I just had to choose which way to take him down.

"Hey Belly-bear I'm done and you're losing anyway come let's play" he whined.

Jasper had finished his turn and I decided to end the game

"Check-mate Jay," I said with a triumphant smile. He looked down at his side of the chessboard

"You could have finished long ago, you have been playing me this entire time" he said with an incredulous look on his face, shocked at the many ways I could have won the game.

"I lured you into a false sense of victory and you got sloppy Jay." I tsked at him and walked over to Emmett unbuttoning my vest so I could be comfortable.

We played a few rounds of COD both of us winning and losing against each other while Jasper replayed the game of chess he had just lost trying to figure out how he lost and Alice sitting on the couch looking through the latest fashion magazine 'the only fashion magazine I read is GQ so I was not paying attention to it.' We decided to play another game with the same results as the first for another two hours when Rosalie came into the house

"Emmett I think you should take a break so Bella can have lunch," She said I turned to look at her. She was wearing a red bandana to keep her hair out of her face, tied in a messy bun. She was wearing cut off shorts and a large t-shirt. She had car grease on her cheek and on her clothes 'she could not look more beautiful at that moment, destroying stereotypes that beautiful blond women aren't smart. She looked every bit a modern woman not afraid to get her hands dirty and do work that is considered to be for men only. Wow, when I thought she couldn't get any better she surprises me.' I was shaken out of my perusal by Emmett's shout of victory, I had been so focused on her that I totally forgot about the game we had been playing.

"Belly-bear that's not fair you're so focused on Rosalie that you lost a game you would have won"

"Emmy-Bear sometimes you whine more than Eddy boy"

"I do not," he said faking offence.

I got up and walked towards Rosalie as I reached up to her face I could hear her take a sharp breath in. I wiped the grease on her cheek and caressed it

"You had a bit of engine grease on your cheek"

"Thank you, Isabella," she said slightly breathless.

She then realised what had happened and she pushed my hand away and walked upstairs, I assumed she went to her room. I sighed and walked to the kitchen but was stopped when Jasper said

"Bella, she's slowly warming up, just give it time she doesn't trust easily."

When he said that I knew that I had to come clean soon and tell them who I really was but I just didn't know when I would do it. 'I will have to call father when I got back to the house'