Chapter Seventeen: Mom is Coming

"Bells?" Jake calls me while I was lying on the couch with Edward's arms wrapped around me. I was too comfortable to look at him to see his facial expressions. I rested on my head on Edward's chest.

"Mhmm," I answered without thinking.

We are currently at my house; it only has been about two hours since Sam left the house. We wanted to rest here before having to deal with everything. "We" being Seth, Margarita, Jake, Edward, Leah and I. Seth fell asleep on the love seat with Margarita, they are cute together. Margarita got here after Sam left to yell at him. You gotta love her.

Leah was just staring at the ceiling while lying on the floor. Jake was sitting on the only unoccupied couch.

"I know you are happy to have Edward back and all, but could you keep the PDA on a low level?" He asks me. I giggled.

"We're only lying down," I tell him innocently.

"Yeah, but it looks like his hand is about to cup your ass," he counters. I cocked my eyebrow and looked at where Edward's hands were. He moved them on the upper part of my back.

"Sorry," Edward mumbles and I laughed.

Jake narrows his eyes at Edward. "Shouldn't we talk about what we're going to do about being kicked out of Sam's pack?" Seth woke up and stretched as much as he could without disturbing Margarita.

"Why don't we just make our own pack?" Seth suggests with a yawn.

"You're joking right?" Jake snarls at him. I rolled over to look at them. "Bells," Jake whines. I rolled my eyes.

"I agree with Seth," I tell him.

"Oh, yeah let's just make our own pack!" Jake says sarcastically. "How's that going to work without an alpha?" He asks me and looks at Seth.

"We'll choose whoever is oldest," Seth tells him with a shrug.

"Who is that?" Leah asks them. She sits up from where she was lying down.

Seth thinks for a moment, "Bella."

"What?" I sat up on the couch. "Jake should be the alpha, not me!" I pointed at Jake.

"You're older than me, remember?" Jake answers my question. I frowned. He crossed his arms over his chest.

I sighed and lay back down next to Edward. Edward wrapped his arms around me again and kisses my neck.

"Calm down, love. It's not a bad thing," he tells me.

"Yeah, but I don't deserve it . . . ," I tell him. He looks at me confused, "It's also too much responsibility for me, if you think about it . . ."

Edward rolls his eyes, "Bella, you are one of the most responsible people I know. Stop trying to make excuses not to be a leader." I frowned. He was right, but I think Jake deserves it more. "No, he doesn't," Edward whispers in my ear.

"Don't you find it creepy that he can hear everything you think?" Margarita asks me and cocks her eyebrow. I didn't know she was awake and looked at her. I shrugged.

"Never really thought of it as creepy . . .," I answered her honestly.

"Good luck ogling other guys without Edward getting jealous," she scoffs and snuggled in Seth's chest. I blushed.

Edward chuckled, silently. I put my head on his chest again. "Bells, seriously, PDA," Jake reminds me.

"What now?" I ask annoyed. I don't see anything I'm doing that is considered "PDA".

"Look where you hand is," he commented. I widened my eyes and jerked my hand away immediately. I didn't need to look where my hand was before pulling it away. Leah started laughing, along with Margarita and Seth.

"OK, I'm up," I told them and ignored their teasing. I went into the kitchen to eat something. I started searching the cabinets for something.

Edward was leaning against the counter holding cereal in his hands. "This looks good," he commented with a smirk.

"Eat it then," I tell him while still searching for something to eat. He wrinkled his nose before dropping it on the floor. The cereal spilled on the floor. I scowled him. "That wasn't nice," I tell him and grabbed a bowl.

"I'm sorry . . . Jacob, we need you!" Edward calls Jacob. I look at him confused. Jacob walked into the room. "We need a dog to pick this up," Edward joked while pointing at the cereal on the floor.

Jacob growls before leaving the room and I started laughing. "Hey! I'm a dog!" I countered, pretending to be offended.

He chuckled, "Yes, but you're cuter." He winked at me. I giggled and he wrapped his arms around me, giving me a kiss on my lips.

"PDA!" Jake shouts at us. I rolled my eyes, and continued to kiss Edward. "Did you not hear me?"

"It's not PDA if no one is seeing us!" I shouted back. Edward chuckled before giving me a hug.

"Want to race me?" Edward asks me and raises his eyebrow. I ponder it for a moment, not a bad idea.

"Ready, set, go!" I say before running out of his arms and out of the house. Edward started running after me immediately. I ran as fast as I could since there were no humans around.

"That's not fair!" Edward called from behind me. I laughed and continued to run. My phone started ringing, just as Edward grabbed me and took me off the floor. "Got you," he says and kisses my neck. I smiled before looking at the caller ID.

"Hello?" I answered the phone. Sadly, I wasn't looking forward to talking to my mother at the moment.

"Bella, sweetie, how are you?" She squeals in my ear.

"I'm fine . . . mom. Um . . . how are you?" I asked her. Edward put me down on the floor so I could stand.

"I'm well, sweetheart. I just wanted to tell you that I'm coming to visit you soon!" She squeaked in my ear. Edward smiled when he heard my mother is coming here, he knows that I miss her more than I show.

I breathed, "When are you coming?"

"Tomorrow!" That made my day.