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It was the next day. The sisters were over at the Cullen's house as it was daytime, and the pack had the night shifts.
Storm hums to herself while grabbing the eggs, flour, pancake mix, and pans from their original places for breakfast. A whooshing sound was heard causing her to turn her head.
"Morning." She greets Rosalie and Alice, the two leaning against the counter smiling at her.
"Making breakfast for you and Bella?" Rosalie asks, Storm nods her head.
"I was going to go get her but Alexander said she was still asleep."
Alice pops up from the counter and walks over to her to inspect the ingredients. "Want us to help? I can go ask Esme if she could pick out a couple of tomatoes from the garden. She's out there right now." Alice offers.
Storm gives her a grateful look. "Please? I was looking for some in the fridge, but the bag was gone."
"That's because you used all ten tomatoes to make spaghetti. We had tomato sauce in the pantry, but you wanted to go out to the extreme and make it from scratch." Rosalie scoffs but a smile was on her face.
"Hey, I just wanted to try something new. I never made anything from scratch and the spaghetti turned out amazing." She sticks her tongue out at the blonde, Rosalie did it back before the three giggled.
Alice claps her hands. "Alright, I will go get the tomatoes for you and you guys start making the pancakes." Storm snaps her fingers and points to the pixie girl.
"Right. Those are gonna take a while and I need that done before Bella wakes up. She goes crazy for my fluffy chocolate chip pancakes- speaking of which. Rosie-" She turns to said girl, Rosalie already knew what she wanted and walks over to the pantry to get the chocolate chips and hands them to her. Storm pecks the vampire's cheek with a bright smile. "You're the best."
Rosalie rolls her eyes, "I know, I am." Storm giggles.
"Are you guys cooking? Hey, short stack." Emmett rubs Storm's hair, messing up the curls she very much struggled taming this morning.
"Emmett." Rosalie scolds her husband.
"Em, seriously?" Storm smacks his hand away from her head causing him to laugh. "I struggled with this mane this morning."
"Just for me to mess it up in seconds." He jokes, Storm huffs and flashed her supernatural eyes at him causing him to mockingly flinch. "Oh, I'm so scared." Storm mimics him and sent him a shocking feeling in the mind but not enough to hurt him. "Ow!" He clenches his head.
Rosalie chuckles at the girl from her using her powers on her husband. "Serves you right."
"I got them~" Alice sang, bouncing back into the kitchen holding ten freshly plucked tomatoes.
"Great. Can you wash those for me? And Rose start making the batter?"
"Of course." "Gotcha." Alice and Rosalie moves to do what she instructed while Storm turned on the stove iron to preheat.
"You guys look so serious, right now." Emmett cackles at his wife and sister who were concentrated.
"That's because they're being useful, unlike you." Storm gives him a look and plops a bowl and the eggs in front of him.
"Here, you're in the kitchen. You're helping. Make yourself useful and crack the eggs in the bowl but don't stir." She went to walk away but stopped and points, "Try not to get the shells in the bowl."
Emmett scoffs, "You think I haven't cracked an egg before?"
"Not as a vampire. Besides, knowing you, Em, you probably forgot that you have a strength of a bear and break the egg completely." Storm admits and walks over to the fridge to grab the milk.
"A bear? Try three full sized elephants." Emmett boasts but listens to the girl and carefully cracks the eggs into the bowl.
"Is there a party going on?" Jasper asks, just making it home. He looks at his wife and siblings.
Storm smiles, "Jazzy! You want to help cook?"
"At this point you're going to have a full chef team, babe." Edward makes himself known, walking into the kitchen with a chuckle.
Storm crosses her arms, "Hey, if it knocks down forty minutes then who am I to complain?" She walks up to him and pats his chest after receiving a kiss, his siblings smiled at the couple. "And just for commenting, you're also helping." She whispers against his lips.
"I'll help you, Storms. What needs to be done?" Jasper asks and walks to the sink to wash his hands.
"Can you grab the onions, peppers- you know what just..." She spots the paper that held the recipe on the counter and grabs it to hand it to the Southern male. "Here, look at the ingredients that I didn't take out yet and grab them. I want you and Ali on Shakshuka duty."
Jasper furrows his brows, "Shakshuka?"
Storm hums and grabs the bowl with batter from Rosalie's hands and walks over to the stove. "It's a new recipe I wanted Bella and I to try. It's an Israeli Breakfast dish that contains tomatoes and eggs." She explains, Jasper nods his head.
"Do we cut the tomatoes or-"
"Peel. They have to be peeled." Storm tells Alice without looking at her as she put the first three pancakes in the pan.
"Rose, grab the skillet from the bottom cabinet so I can help Ali and Jaz when they finish."
"Okay."
"I finished with the eggs. What's next boss?" Emmett asks Storm who tossed a bunch of chocolate chips in her mouth. Edward shakes his head at his fiancé.
Storm hums and looks around the kitchen to see the other vampires doing a task. "When Jaz finish grabbing the other ingredients, you can cut the yellow onions, and bell pepper."
"And me?" Edward pipes up, Storm squints her eyes at him and grabs the garlic and jalapeno chile.
"You get to cut these. I can't."
Edward chuckles, "Cause of last time?" He asks, bringing up the fact when last time she cooked with him she accidently rubbed her eye while cutting a jalapeno and wanted to gauge her eyes out.
Storm gives him a blank stare. "I thought I told you not to bring that up again?" Edward laughs and pecks her forehead as an apology.
"First three are done." Rosalie announces and slides them on a plate.
"Great, I gave you the measurements for four each right?"
Rosalie nods her head, "So, in total eight?" Storm nods her head with a smile.
"Yep."
"What's going on in here?" Storm snaps her head over to the entrance where her tired sister and Alexander stood, the boy looked around the kitchen with amusement at his siblings cooking while Storm bossed them around.
"Bells! Remember that recipe I told you about a few days ago?" Bella yawns and nods her head and leans against her boyfriend. "I'm finally making it!" Storm beams. "And I got all of my lovely besties, to help."
"I wasn't invited." Alexander points to himself.
Storm gives him a blank stare. "I did say besties." Edward, Emmett, and Jasper chokes on their laugh while Alice and Rosalie look at each other and smirk.
Alexander playfully shoots her a glare while she smiles. "I'm kidding...sort of." Bella sends her a look causing her to sigh. "Okay, I don't really have anything else to- wait did you guys get the spinach?"
"It's right here." Jasper nodded his head towards the untouched spinach.
"Never mind, I have a job for you. Stem the spinach and chop them." She tells her sister's boyfriend and grabs Bella to sit down.
Bella rubs her eyes to get rid of the tiredness before eyeing the plate near the stove and Rosalie pouring the last two pancakes in the pan."I knew I smelled your famous chocolate chip pancakes!"
Storm laughs and grabs another plate to fix the four pancakes that was oozing with the chocolate for Bella. "I figured you wanted to eat it before the eggs were done. Here." She hands her the plate and syrup.
"Ugh, I love you so much."
"I know you do." Bella sends her a look causing her to giggle, "I love you, too."
"You guys are gonna eat this and pancakes." Emmett shakes his head as he finished chopping the onion and bell pepper.
"How are you guys fitting that into your tiny bodies?" Storm flips him off.
"Shut up, we're still growing." Bella hums in agreement.
Emmett gives a 'be for real' look. "Bella I can believe but you Storms? I hate to break it to ya, but you're not growing anymore. Haven't gained any height since we first met."
"Okay, you know what?" Storm playfully glares at the bodybuilder and jumps onto his back, the siblings and Bella laughed as Emmett catches her legs and began swaying her petite body as if she was actually attacking him.
"Imma..need..you..to stop..coming..for..my..height!" She slaps his shoulder as if it was hurting him.
Emmett cackles and effortlessly hands her to Edward who finished his task. He grabs her as she playfully tries jumping back onto Emmett. "Baby, calm down." He laughs.
Storm huffs and succumbs into his arms, "You're lucky I'm tired."
Emmett nods his head, "Sure, sure."
Storm rolls her eyes and pats Edward to let go of her. "I'm going to eat my pancakes really quick and then help you guys with the Shakshuka." She tells the rest of the siblings who finished their tasks.
They nodded their heads and let the two girls eat while the eight conversed and laughed.
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"Angela's coming over tonight. Bella and I are helping her with graduation preparations." Storm runs her hand through Edward's hair as she straddles him.
It was the evening, after breakfast the siblings scattered throughout the house once Alice, Bella, and Rosalie finished washing the dishes. Emmett, Edward, Alexander, and Jasper were in the living room watching baseball, while the girls and Esme were in Edward's room planning her and Edward's wedding. She even called her mother and Delilah in a merge call to put their inputs.
Once that was done, Storm begged Alice to call it a day so she could spend the last two hours with her fiancé before they went back home.
Edward hums, rubbing her sides then shifted a little causing her to gasp from the friction. He chuckles. "Sorry, love." Storm rolls her eyes knowing that he did it on purpose, ever since he went down on her he has been teasing her leaving pent up sexual frustration from her end. "We're actually graduating soon. Kind of nervous." He jokes.
Storm rolls her eyes again. "Says the vampire who graduated at least a fifty times times over five decades."
"True," He laughs and sits up with her still perched up on his lap. He leans closer so that their breaths mingled together, staring deeper into her eyes. "But now I'm graduating with my mate and we're getting married after."
Storm glances down at his lips and leans to press hers against them. Edward's hands slips down to her thighs and added slight pressure against them causing her to moan softly. He sucked on her bottom lip as she lightly pulled on the nape of his hair.
After a minute the two separate after Edward gives her one more peck. Storm's eyes fluttered open as she slid her hands on to his shoulders. "I love you." She whispers, her eyes filled with complete infatuation.
Edward pulls her completely against his body by her back, looking up at her. "I love you. Always and forever."
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Storm sat on the floor next to Angela with a massive stack of graduation announcements in the "done" pile and a little stack that still needs to be done.
She looks up at her sister who was standing at the window while Angela talks. "U.W sent me and Eric our dorm assignments yesterday...I'm in the furthest dorm from campus. Eric's in the closes, of course. Has Alaska assigned you guys dorms yet?"
Bella turns around to engage with the conversation. "Not yet." Storm nods her head in agreement, handing another paper to Angela.
Angela hums and looks between the two. "Where are Edward and Alexander tonight anyways?"
"Out looking for trouble." Storm gives her sister a look when she saw Angela's confused face.
"Is something wrong?" She turns to Storm.
Storm shakes her head, "Bella's just worried that Emmett and Jasper would drag our boyfriends into doing something stupid." She rolls her eyes, "Knowing Emmett the four could be doing parkour at an abandoned building out of town." Though it was a lie, there is some truth to it. Emmett -though a vampire- tends to do stupid things and drag his brothers into it.
Angela giggles. "Oh, okay. I just asked since one, Edward and Alexander are always with you. And two, Bella keeps looking out that window like she's hoping Alexander will show up with a mariachi band." Storm snorts at the idea of Alexander confessing his umpteenth apology to Bella with a mariachi band though she forgave him.
Bella bites the corner of her lip, playing with her fingers.
"Angela what if Eric was like secretly a member of this...violent gang, and...your brother was in this other gang, and they wanted to kill each other, and you couldn't tell anybody?"
So that was why her mood switch. Storm thinks as she looks at her sister. Jake and Alexander's feud.
Angela glances at Storm who was staring at her sister before giving Bella a sympathetic look. "It's okay. You guys don't have to talk about it."
"There's nothing to...I mean there is but..." Bella pauses, debating if she should even talk to the girl about it. She then sits up and crosses her legs. "Okay. You remember Jacob Black?"
"Ah. Alexander's jealous." Angela catches on, sitting up as well.
"You say that like it's so obvious."
"It is." Storm joins in setting another paper into the bigger stack. "But it goes both ways." She gives her a sister a look.
Bella shoots a warning look before turning back to Angela.
"Alexander just thinks Jacob's dangerous or something...bad influence on me."
Angela smiles and shakes her head at her, she's glad that Bella was finally comfortable to tell her things since her and the group rarely see Alexander and Bella at school together cause they're always sitting away from the group. Not saying that Edward doesn't do the same thing with Storm, cause he does but the two would still hang with the friend group here and there and Edward would politely indulge with the conversation a few times.
"What?"
"I've seen the way Jacob looks at you. Alexander's seen it too, and he's only human. He's going to react like any other guy."
Storm couldn't help but agree -but not the human part- though she already knew the deeper reason between the feud and Jake's long childhood crush on her sister. She just wishes Bella would listen to her advice and set Jacob straight soon.
Bella shakes her head. "It's more complicated than that."
"Say the words Bella: jell-oh-see." Storm snorts at Angela.
"Ang, my sister is totally in denial when it comes about this situation. Trust me, I already gave her the same advice." Storm says before stretching out of her limbs.
"I've told Jacob how I feel. He accepts it. He'd rather be best friends than nothing." Bella defends herself, but she knew it was convincing since Storm gave her a blank stare.
"Bullshit. I love him but Jake's still maturing and doesn't know how to take a hint. Cause...you know, he's a boy." She jokes at the end, Angela giggles and points at her in agreement.
"Yeah, so the words are dee-nigh-oul." Angela stretches, her and Storm laughs while Bella deadpans them.
"You're both saying I'm an idiot."
Storm's laughter dials down as she crawls over to her sister to hug her and leaves a peck on the side of her head. "Never that, Bells."
"Just a little oblivious." Angela holds her fingers up, leaving a little space in between them.
"Well, I don't know how to fix this. Every move I make hurts someone." Bella pouts, leaning against Storm and places her hand on her head, silently asking her to play with her hair to which Storm granted.
"I'm so glad Edward isn't stupid like his brother." Storm mutters, Angela smiles while Bella pouts even more.
"They're big boys. They make their own choices. Don't worry it will work itself out. It's not life or death or anything." Angela finishes the conversation.
Bella sighs and glances back out the window at her reality while her sister plays with her hair.
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Hailstorm <3 (Camden), Mama Bear (Jai), Wifey (Clara)
See you guys in a little.
Storm sends the text to the group chat with the trio. She sits her phone back on the seat and leans into Edward's side as they drive down the forest heading to the meet up spot with Embry and Jake.
Alexander pulls the car to the side of the road before the four emerge from the car. A few yards down the road, Storm spots two shirtless boys leaning against Jake's red Volkswagen.
"Doesn't he own a shirt?" Alexander couldn't help but start.
"Uh uh, don't start." Storm warns him, Alexander huffs and turns to pull Bella closer to him.
"We're not gonna be gone for long."
Storm shakes her head at his words and looks between the brothers. "Don't rush just to get us away from them. You guys need to hunt. We can handle ourselves."
Bella nods her head in agreement. "Yeah, just be safe." Alexander pulls Bella into a kiss.
Storm hugs Edward not wanting to see her sister get her face sucked off just because of Alexander's pettiness.
Edward pecks the crown of her head then lips and stared down at her. "When we get back, I'll head to your house."
Storm rubs his arms that was on her waist. "I'll leave the window unlock." She jokes with a smile, he chuckles. "I love you."
"I love you." He returns the smile and slowly lets her pull away from him and watches her walk over to the two shapeshifters.
Embry nods his head at Edward who returns the gesture before hugging Storm. "Hey, how've you been?"
"Tired of planning." She whispers, not wanting Jake to know yet.
Embry nods his head in understanding and smiles, he's glad that the both of them found someone they were going to spend the rest of their lives with. It helps that him and Edward are somewhat neutral with each other because for the sake of Storm, he was an okay guy in his eyes and vice versa.
"So, whaddaya wanna do today?" Jake speaks up for the other two to hear. "After picking up the trio. Bike, hike, hang? Your call. But we're going to a party tonight."