Chapter 7 - Meeting THE STICK UP THE ASS!

Of course just the moment Filene is about to sit down and chow down on a hamburger, Bella grabs her and once again drags her into Edward's car and were on their way to the Cullen's house. This time she held tight to the car and put her seat belt on, but since he wasn't pissed off, he wasn't driving as dangerously as he did last time but he was still going pretty fast. Better safe than sorry, she held a tight grip on the door in case she had to tuck and roll out of the car.

This made Edward look at her with raised eyebrows.

"Better safe than never." she had told him.

He nodded while looking away. "I never was able to ask you Filene, but how do you feel of me being a vampire?"

Filene looked at him, then to Bella whom was looking at her with nervous eyes.

'Dear lord.' Filene thought. 'The two want my blessing! How awkward.'

Filene closed her eyes. "As much as I would like to say I am okay with it…. I would be lying."

He nodded as if understanding what she said, Bella looked a bit more nervous. Filene didn't want to upset her sister so she said.

"I am scared shitless here, but will give your family the benefit of the doubt since you guys call yourselves vegetarians." she told him opening her eyes to him. "But know this Edward; you break my sis, I. Break. You."

He was smart enough not to laugh or smile at her, Filene could see. The way he was frowning though, made her realize that he was taking her seriously, which was good on both their parts. Bella on the other looked away and had sighed in relief.

"Edward would never hurt me Filene." she said.

"He could Bella; you have to realize that Bells, Edward can." Filene stated.

"I can see who has the common sense in the family." Edward said looking at Filene through the review mirror.

Bella looked back to Filene; she could see her big sister's stubbornness showing through her eyes. "But he won't."

Apparently that was that as she turned back to look ahead. Filene didn't think so though, not by a long shot, but she will keep her mouth shut for the sake her sister. She prayed however, that someone would give her strength enough to kill Edward if he does.

Finally, they reached the house… or could Filene say mansion? The house was nicely done and had newness around it while the Swan's house was old fashioned. Edward, being the gentlemen, opened both of the doors with super speed of course but helped Bella out of the car. Filene got out while rolling her eyes as they looked at each other with nervous happy smiles.

"You're lucky I hadn't eaten yet or I would be barfing on the front of your lawn." Filene said as she walked by them and towards the steps. "And I know for a fact no one wants that, now come on!"

On that last note, she began growling quietly, Filene knew how her stomach felt, and she had put hard work into that burger to make it a Filene Burger. It's probably either still sitting there on the counter singing 'I Am All Out Of Love' like that potato in that commercial singing to the butter and goes suicide on a fork, or eaten by Charlie already. Filene sighed in mourning for the Filene Burger it could have been something more.

Edward and Bella were ahead of Filene as she remembered her burger and walked in before her. Filene went out her daze when something poked her on the shoulder. Her head shot up and looked to where she assumed the poker was and was right.

Alice stood there smiling away, and Jasper a few steps away look at them with a slight smirk on her face.

"Hi Filene!" Alice squealed as she hugged Filene to her small frame. "We're going to be the best of friends you and me!"

Filene blinked for a second before patting Alice's back awkwardly. "That's good to know."

Jasper walked a little more closely to them. "Hey Filene."

"Yo." Filene greeted, still waiting for Alice to get off of her.

Jasper scrunched up his eyebrows but was now smiling at her, as he looked down to his little girlfriend.

That was when she realized that Alice was sniffing her, like in that laundry commercial where the clothing smells so good that another person just continued hugging that person so they could continue to smell them. Okay now things were getting more awkward by the minute.

"Um, Alice," Filene spoke gently, didn't want to piss off a vampire. "As much as I love being hugged, especially by you, but this is kind of…"

"Oh!" Alice giggled before letting go. "Sorry, but you smelled so good, like warm apple cinnamon buns just coming out from the oven!"

'Okay now I am hungrier!' Filene thought with a sob.

"Well, I have been making cinnamon buns this morning so that must be what you smell." She said smiling.

Body: 'Cause I know I smell nothing like that.'

"Oh." Alice tilted her head towards the house.

Filene watched her for a moment before whipping her head to the house as something crashed inside.

"Bella!" Filene shouted, when she was about to run towards the door Alice grabbed her arm.

"Bella is fine, come on, Jasper and I were going back inside before we saw you." she said before dragging her to Jasper.

"Honey, mind giving her a lift? She's taller than me and it might make her uncomfortable." Alice asked Jasper.

"Give me a what?" Filene asked with wide eyes.

Jasper was the same and looked a bit panicked; Alice on the other hand rubbed his upper arm like calming down a horse. "It's alright, you won't hurt her, I promise."

What she was promising, Filene had no idea and it was freaking her out, however it seems to have taken some of the panic away from his face but certainly not from Filene's face. Before she could ask or protest, Jasper swooped her up onto his back like Emmett did and the two of them began to climb up a tree that was next to an open window to where the crashing came from. Alice went through the window before the other two hold some random flower Filene had not seen before.

"Hi Bella." she greeted as she landed on to the floor, followed by Jasper and Filene.

Bella's eyes widened at the sight along with the others at Filene gripping tightly to Jasper, whom was looking a bit green in the gills as he watched Alice with Bella.

"I'm Alice." she introduced herself before hugging Bella.

Jasper looked over to Filene as the family talked to Bella. "You can get down now Filene."

"No thank you." she squeaked. "I'd rather stay up here since you and Emmett deemed it necessary to put me onto your back and climb up high places top speed. I am saving you two the trouble of putting me-"

Filene stopped because she now realized that everyone was looking at her and Jasper now, looking amused.

"Um hello, I am Filene, Bella's younger sister, a pleasure to meet you all." Filene greeted with a wave.

Emmett chuckled as he walked behind them and slowly but surely lifted her up from Jasper's back, unclawing her fingers from Jasper's shoulders in the process and put her down to the ground.

Esme smiled at Filene before walking over to her and smiling motherly to her. "Hello Filene."

Now that Filene was seeing the Cullens, she would have mistaken them as a happy family if she didn't know about them being vampires and having Dr. Cullen and Edward as the eldest of the bunch.

Filene's mind was swept away at the smell of something that was making her mouth water. She looked over to the food.

"Are you making Italiano?" she asked now drooling.

Dr. Cullen smiled. "Why yes, are you hungry?"

"Hungry? I'm starved, the crazy people over there took me away from my dinner before coming here and…" she stopped as she saw the chef on TV instructing how to make Italiano. "Oh my panties are you seriously following the instructions on the TV? That is so awesome! I only able to do it once but only because the guy was making an omelette."

She babbled on, now sitting on the stool near the counter, than looked down at the broken salad bowel on the floor. "Here, I'll help you clean." Filene said getting the rubber gloves from the sink and grabbing the garbage can.

"Filene." Bella half moan, half whispered dragging her hand across her face in embarrassment.

Filene looked up. "What?"

Edward left with Bella to show the rest of the house, Filene was being fed by Esme and Carlisle, Rosalie had picked up the rest of the glass after Esme took Filene away from it to feed her and was now cleaning the dishes and the other watched Filene as she ate and talked food with Esme.

Filene finally figured why the Cullens wanted to see her.

"Jasper is the youngest to our group, so he has a harder time as you have seen with your sister, but you however seem to not entice him to take you." Carlisle explained to Filene.

Filene almost choked on her glass of milk she was now drinking. 'He has no idea how dirty that sounded.'

"FILENE! FOR ALL THAT IS HOLY QUIT THINKING THAT!" they hear Edward shout.

Filene looked up at the ceiling with a glare. "DON'T YOU RAISE YOUR TONE AT ME BOY! I AIN'T A NO FREAKIN' GLITTERING FAIRY PRINCESS LIKE SOMEONE I KNOW SO DON'T MESS WITH ME ND MY METTLE ROD OR I'LL COME UP THERE AND STICK IT UP YOUR MANHOLE LIKE THE PRINCESS YOU ARE AND GET OUT OF MY MIND! IT IS RUDE!"

Cullen family: o.0

Filene was suddenly reminded of the others turning her face to them, her face becoming as red as cherry and cleared her throat when everything went silent.

"So um… continue." she told Carlisle whom was looking at her with wide eyes.

They were all still silent, when all of the sudden Emmett busted out laughing and was followed by Alice, and Jasper. The other three were trying to smother their laughter or hide their smiles. Filene's face went absolutely red as she watched Emmett collapse onto the floor in laughter.

"I am so sorry." She tried to apologize to Carlisle and Esme. "That came out so badly."

Carlisle just shook his head and hugged her, rubbing her back. "It's alright Filene, it's alright, and it has been quite some time since have all laughed like this, thank you."

Now, this might be sappy since Filene was smiling at him, but her head, mind, heart, hormones, and body were having a party all up inside her as Carlisle hugged her. She had smacked them a couple of times before they could quiet down and decided to just have a glass of wine in celebration instead.

Everyone stopped as they heard a piano playing.

"Claire De Lune." Filene whispered closing her eyes to the song with a smile.

Everyone looked to her and was surprised to her fingers playing the notes on the counter; it looked as if Filene didn't notice as she closed her eyes. Filene used to play piano before Bella and she moved away from Phoenix, she even played a song on her mom's wedding with Pops.

"You like Debussy?" Esme asked.

"Yeah, but I like other music as well, but when you want to relax or think of a happy place, classical music works best." Filene sighed as the song came to the end.

She looked over to the others and was surprised that even Rosalie was smiling now. Suddenly Filene felt guilty about the car.

"Hey, um, sorry about your car Rosalie, but I was trying to make a point." Filene said to her while picking at her sleeve.

"Aww!"

"Gah!"

In a moment Emmett and Alice tackled her to the ground, hugging the life out of her. Filene tried to escape.

"You're so cute!" Alice squealed.

"Can we keep her please?" Emmett pleaded to Rosalie.

Of course everyone laughed and didn't see Edward climbing up a tree with Bella on his back. If Filene wasn't busy trying to save herself from the two brunettes and saw this, Edward would have been severely punished.

As soon as Bella saw Edward driving away, she began to tell Filene about what happened. Of course now Filene couldn't do anything to Edward now, now that she saw how happy and still love struck about him. This was getting out of hand, love doesn't come this freakin quick, Filene knew this, well, and she thought she did.

However, there her sister was like, on cloud nine, sighing as she looked out the window as if waiting in a tower, waiting for her true love to come and save her, and Filene was the dragon.

This amused Filene for a while but then, not as much.

None of her friends could blame Filene for trying to have her sister time with Bella, even if they had to do dishes to do so. Filene discovered that Edward could play piano, she found this when she went over to the Cullen's house and watched from the door way as he played a tune for Bella, she could tell the melody was for her sister. She hated it, but she could feel the jealousy spread through her, not of being with Edward, no, just of being loved.

"I don't know what to do mom," Filene finally broke down to their mom when Bella left once again. "I know I am acting selfish about this but-"

"Oh honey, you're not being selfish." her mother told her. "You just want to spend time with your sister, that's all; you are not doing anything bad."

"But mom, I actually went as far as telling Edward to back off for a few minutes so I could spend time with her." Filene confessed.

Her mom, god bless her, cooed into the phone, comforting her baby. Bella was fine with Phil, but they had awkward moments, but Filene, the sweet girl calls him Pa or pops. And here she was just wanting some extra time with her sister who is still going through the honey moon phase and Tyler continues to call it.

Filene said good bye to her mom and Phil before heading down stairs, Bella was there smiling away like nothing bad has happened.

"Come on Filene, dad is waiting for us at the café," she said.

Filene smiled; she could feel her face brighten. "Awesome, I have been craving for some grease and fat."

Bella made a face before smacking her sister playfully before getting into the truck and heading down to the café. She was able to park the truck without running over Tyler and Mike and some other guys whom were tossing a football around.

"Hey Filene!" Mike shouted as he tossed the ball to her.

Filene smiled as she tossed towards Tyler. "Hey Mike."

Mike turned to Bella. "Arizona! What's up?"

Bella nodded in greeting before walking beside Filene, Mike followed.

"So, you and Cullen huh?" he said. "That's… I don't like it."

Filene had to snort; it was the only way for her to stop the laugh.

"It's just, I don't know." Mike continued. "He just looks at you like you are something to eat."

'Mike wouldn't believe how far from the truth he was.' Filene thought.

They entered the café and walked towards their dad.

"Sorry I'm late, had Biology project to do." Bella said.

"I ordered you the spinach salad and Filene the same as mine if that's okay?" Charlie asked them.

"No, that's okay." Filene spoke up.

"Maybe the two of you should order one for yourself next time." Bella told the two and the same waitress from before put down the plates. "Cut back on the steak."

"Hey," Charlie said. "I am as healthy as a horse."

"As am I." Filene added. "And you know I hate spinach."

"Say, chief," the waitress said, the Swans look up at her. "The boys want to know, did you find anything down by Queets River today?"

That was when the Swans realized that they were being watched by the others at the next table and the other one. Charlie looked at them before sighing.

"Yeah, we found a bare human foot print, but it looks like whoever it is, is headed east, so Kitsap County is going to take over from here." He told her.

Filene grabbed Charlie's hand into hers and squeezed it gently, comforting him. Bella has already told her what Edward has said to her about the Normans, and prayed Charlie never meets one. She almost jumped when Charlie returned it, the waitress, satisfied with Charlie's answer, left them alone, including the people around them. When Charlie and Filene looked over to Bella, they both had to do a double take at what was happening behind the oblivious Bella.

"Looks like your friends are flagging you." Charlie told her.

Bella looked at them in confusion before looking behind her then swiftly looked back embarrassed.

Mike was doing some sort of dancing in front of the window, doing the Bow chica bow tune. Filene suddenly was laughing, hitting the window gently enough to get Mike's attention. It worked; he turned around and did a sign of '.here.' Filene couldn't ignore her friend.

"Sorry dad, could you put my dinner to go? I have to teach Newton boy a lesson." she said.

And with that Filene rushed out of the Café, chasing after Mike before jumping onto Mike's back laughing. "Mike, what the hell were you doing, my dad is in there!"

Mike completely ignored the question as he began shouting in fake panic. "Ahh! Someone help! Crazy Swan sister is attacking me!"

Filene decided to play along and hugged his neck as he bucked and tried to get her off of him. "You are never going to escape from me Newton! No can save you now!"

"Do not fear brother." Alan, one of Mike friends shouted running towards them. "I shall save you!"

For hours, Filene played with Mike and the other football players and when it was time to go, Mike was nice enough to drive Filene back home.

"Thanks for driving me Mike." she said looking to Mike.

Mike smiled. "It's alright, and besides, I did take you away from family time."

Filene's smile disappeared and looked away from Mike, frowning at the window. "I gave up Mike, it's no use, and Bella is hooked for life. I can't do anything."

Mike looked her with a soft kind smile. "Hey, you are not allowed to give up! Or frown!"

Filene looked over to him with a raised eyebrow. "Says who?"

"Says me, and Eric, Tyler, Angela, and even Jessica." He told her, bringing Filene into a brotherly hug.

Filene smiled and hugged the boy back, she was glad to have friends like Mike; they may not have chemistry, but their friendship makes up for it.

Filene pulls away and smiles at Mike. "Bye Mike."

"C'ya Filene." he replied. "Remember that the others and I are just a phone call away!"

She nodded grinning as she got out of his car and towards the house. It was true, she had more friends than she did back in Phoenix, a lot more and they want her to be happy. Heck, Jessica and Angela almost went as far as trying to hook her up with a popular boy besides the Cullens, but Filene declined, she like her guys pale, makes them look sick and easily sunburned… or sparkle.

Filene turned and waved from the steps as Mike drove away, she was tired, and hungry. She turned and went inside, putting her jacket on a hook beside the door and slowly took off her sneakers as she yawned. When someone with Filene physic she was bound to be tired when she ran from, and wrestled football players.

Filene opened the door to see Edward and Bella making out. Edward surprisingly had not heard her or was too busy concentrating on not eating Bella. Filene slowly closed the door shut after grabbing Livy from behind the door and walked back down stairs without a word, putting back on her shoes and jacket she walked back outside still without making a sound and into the woods, with her metal bat perched on her shoulder.

"That, was the most disturbing thing I ever saw." Filene said to herself as she continued on her way. "I think I am going to go and find me some poison ivy to rub into my eyes now."

As she took another step, she stopped. She heard it, that low rumbling that sound like thunder but reminded her of the wolf creature from The Never Ending Story that used, no, still scared the crap out of her. She looked around and went wide eyes as she saw a Huge. Ass. Black. Wolf.

It was laying there, looking straight at her like that bloody thing from the movie with the tree branches surrounding it, making it look like a little cave for it, still rumbling in its growl. Filene stayed absolutely still, expecting the beast to speak.

It never did - Thank god!- just stared at her before looking over her shoulder and growled a bit more loudly, she turned around fast and saw the silver wolf from before only this time, he wasn't snarling or trying to eat her, instead it just looked her, as if curiously. Yet another huge ass wolf came behind it and looked straight at her, tilting its head.

"I'm going to die, aren't I?" Filene asked.

The wolves began barking, call Filene crazy but it sounded like they were chuckling. She felt movement from the black one and turned to it. It stood now and walked slowly towards her, Filene wanted to back up but then was reminded that the other two wolves were behind her, so she stood her ground and not look at it in the eye as she was told by her father.

"Never look a predator in the eye Filene." she could hear Charlie say to her. "It's showing either you are challenging it or threatening it, and that is not a good thing, make yourself look big and make loud noises, but if they are close to you, you must stay perfectly still."

Filene was going to thank Charlie for drilling that into her brain after she tried making friends with a bear when she was nine. If she made it out alive that is.

She almost jumped when she felt the black one rubbing it's head on her stomach, she kept her stomach still as the black continued doing whatever it was doing. She felt two other cold noses touching her, if she wasn't so scared to death, she would have been jumping for joy, her favourite animal besides the cougar was so close that she could pet them.

She knew better but, still.

This time she did jump when a cold nose went under her jacket and shirt and pressed against her side.

"Ahh!" she squealed, jumping away from the wet nose.

But then another cold nose pressed from the other side, making her jump yet again.

"Stop it!' she squeaked.

This didn't stop the brown one to tackle her to the earth and started licking her face as the other nipped her sides softly. She couldn't stop the laughter coming out as she tried to escape from them. Filene didn't know whether they were tasting her to see if she was good enough to eat or… tickling her. That was crazy!

Filene was trying so hard to get away she didn't she was touching one of their heads until it licked her hand. She looked up to the silver one from the ground and saw that it was on top of her, licking her hand.

Before she even knew it, she put her other hand on top of her head and began to scratch the back of its ear. Silver looked like it was in ecstasy as it closed its eyes and leaned more the hand. The brown one then shoved it head under Filene's hand as if it wanted the same treatment, she gave it to him, feeling the furs under her fingers, and they were so soft.

What felt like hours, which were only minutes later?

Filene was laying against the trees as the huge wolves surrounded her, laying their heads on some part of her body, right now she was petting the black one whom was sitting and was on alert unlike the others.

"You must be the alpha." she whispered to him. "Kind of reminds me of the guy I met after I saw you guys."

If Filene wasn't looking at the other wolves she would have seen it stiffen for a second before going back to alertness when a twig snapped somewhere to the left. Filene began petting the back one again, seeing as it calmed down a little when she did this.

"I bet my apple cinnamon buns that you and your pack could kick vampire ass any time of the day." Filene said, smiling at the image of the three kicking Edward's butt.

Filene sighed once again. "You are so lucky to have the other three with you Doyle."

(Shut up! I am a Laurell K. Hamilton Meredith Gentry series fan)

Since Filene found them to be friendly and was not going to eat her, she decided to name them, and they don't seem to mind… Filene thinks anyways.

Doyle; the black one, looked towards her with a stare as if saying 'are you kidding?'

"No I'm serious, I mean, I have a sister, and we were inseparable, we would do everything together, but ever since she met Edward…." she said slowly. "We don't hang out as much as we used to, like I am happy she has someone, really I do, but… I guess I am being self centered."

The brown one; Gaelen licked her arm before nuzzling her side. Frost; the silver one, nipped at her shin before going back to sleep.

Filene laughed. "Even wolves are telling me I am not selfish, well that has to be worth something."

Feeling the chill even with the wolves, Filene decided to go back to the house, she watched as the three wolves disappear into the forest. Filene missed them already, and couldn't help but smile happily, her favourite animal; the wolf, took some time from their life to comfort little old Filene.

One could not help but feel loved, and feel like they were in some book or movie.

"Maybe I should write book about the them and the vampires, no one would believe it's real, so that could make me a couple of bucks." Filene said to herself as she walked up the stairs to Bella and her room.

When she opened the door, she wasn't surprised to see Edward there with Bella sleeping on him. Filene ignored the two and flopped onto her bed looking at all the wolf pictures and posters she had around her room and smiled. She would never forget that moment in the forest, not for a very long time.

"Why do you smell like wet dog?" Edward asked softly.

"Can't you read my mind?" Filene answered the question with another question.

Edward shook his head. "Every blue moon or when you put emotion into it then yeah I can read yours, but when you don't want me to no or unconsciously, you put such a thick and tall brick wall I don't think even Aro could go through."

Filene blinked at him in confusion. "Who's Aro?"

Edward shook his head. "Never mind, just thinking out loud for a moment, go to sleep I am taking you and Bella to play baseball."

"Bella. Baseball…. Good luck with that." Filene snorted and turned away from the two. "Now shut up and fake sleep so I don't have to look over my shoulder all the time."

Filene heard Edward chuckle softly, and she grinned. He wasn't so bad, but Bella was changing, Filene could feel it.

She didn't like it not one bit.