“Honestly, I don’t know.” He chuckled. “When he told me he imprinted on a vampire I was shocked, I’ll admit. But how he looked when he talked about you was something I thought never to see again. It was like he was talking about Bella again, but there was something more there. Then I got to thinking. If this was possible, maybe times are changing,” he smiled, “I’m on my way to visit the other elders to completely rewrite the treaty. That way the ‘golden eyed ones’ will be welcomed on our land.”

“Wow… Carlisle will be delighted to hear about that!” I hope Edward was catching all this. “I know Bella will be thrilled!”

A phone rang inside. Maybe Edward did catch it after all.

“Jacob? Can you get that, please? I have to go. Congrats again, you two.” And he wheeled off. Jacob let me down and went inside to get the phone. I followed.

Jacob answered. “Hello?” I could almost make out Bella’s every word. “Heh, thanks… Calm down! You’re going to make me lose my hearing… No, I haven’t yet… Yes, I will soon… Yes, that’s Lexy. She can hear you so she can’t stop laughing… Anyway, there’s another barbecue later this week. They’ll find out then or by then, depending on… If I phase, right… Yes, you guys can come… Yes, all of you are invited… How did you?… Oh, right… Bye, Bella!”

I was cracking up the whole time. “You could barely get a word in!” I could barely get a word out because I was laughing so hard.

“I know. Edward knew all that happened, of course.” He looked kind of annoyed.

“I figured. Bella attacked me as soon as I got home like I expected and wanted to call you as soon as she could, so we had Edward tune into my thoughts so she knew the best time to call. As you can see, it worked out better than expected so you didn’t have to explain everything.”

“She seemed like she was staring at the phone the whole time until she could call.”

“Most likely that was the case.” We laughed at the metal image of Bella staring at the phone with Edward stopping her over and over. “So what’s this about a barbecue? You do know we won’t eat anything, right?”