Love Bite

Chapter 20

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT

The shit eating grin on Emmett's face when she and Alice walked into the Cullen home hand in hand that Saturday evening was only one of many he would send their way all night.

"Well, well, well," Emmett grinned as he flung the door open and saw them standing there. "The two lovebirds have returned."

"Emmett, what did I tell you?" Alice sighed as Bella grimaced.

Alice had warned her he would probably be insufferable about their coupling. Alice had also told her that initially her family had not been very warm towards their relationship, considering how things had ended with Jasper, but Emmett could never stay mad at her for long. He had been angry with her for hurting Jasper. It had been hard for all of them to see their brother break down like that the day it happened, but Emmett wasn't stupid despite his fronting, and he came around quickly once he saw how much it hurt Alice for him to be upset with her. Plus, he understood her reasoning once they talked it out.

Now he was back to being his usual goofy self, and Alice had told her that he fully supported them.

Especially the physical aspect of it, apparently.

"Hm, let me see if I can remember," Emmett drawled as Alice rolled her eyes at him and pulled Bella behind her into the house. "Something along the lines of you and little B here doing it, wasn't it?"

Bella blushed as Alice snorted and dragged them into the foyer.

"Emmett," Alice said in warning.

"What?" Emmett laughed, following after them with his big thumping footsteps as Bella was torn between embarrassment and amusement. "Hey Bella, I never knew you had it in you girl. Good going," he told her.

Bella flung a look at him over her shoulder as Alice made another noise of protest. When he winked at her, Bella couldn't help but grin.

She'd been mildly anxious after Alice told her that her family wasn't a hundred percent sure about their relationship, but Emmett was assuaging those worries. Obviously he loved Alice, and did not disapprove of them at all. She'd been especially worried about the big guy resenting her for hurting Jasper, because Emmett was like the big brother she never had and she would have hated for their friendship to be lost over this.

But nope.

Emmett was loving them together apparently, if the way he waggled his eyebrows at her playfully was any indication.

As much as his goofing made her blush, it also made a swell of affection fill her for him. Emmett's joking was his way of letting them know he was cool with it, and even though Bella didn't need his approval, it was nice to have it anyway.

"You're a perv," Bella chuckled as Alice pulled her into the living room, choosing to ignore Emmett.

"I'm the perv?" Emmett gawked as Bella turned back around and saw the rest of the Cullens standing around.

Carlisle stood with his hands behind his back and Esme perched on the arm of the brand new couch next to him. Both the Cullen parents, Alice had told her, were okay with the relationship. They were of course extremely concerned over Jasper, but living as long as they had, they knew a little about love and the way it worked.

So thank God Bella didn't have to deal with those two hating her. That would have been unbearable. At least with Esme. Carlisle she could take, but not the sweet Cullen matron, who was quite possibly the only thing that ever kept her from getting heartsick over missing her own mother.

Rosalie, looking beautiful and haughty as ever, was leaned against Edward's new piano, considering Alice and Jasper had smashed the last one. The rest of the room was also fixed up with new furnishings. The mantle had been replaced as well as the front window, and the new glass coffee table was a nice addition to the room.