"FAMILY MEETING," yelled Esme as loud as she could, totally unnecessary since all of her children could hear her perfectly fine if she whispered. Well, everybody except Bella, and Edward would tell her anyways. Half a second later and all six of her adopted children were in the living room, all except Edward and Alice demanding to know what was going on.
Esme announced, " Carlisle and I have decided that the pranks you pull on each other has gotten a bit out of hand. So we have are taking action and are allowing you a prank weekend." "YES" exclaimed Emmett, only to immediately shut up at seeing Esme's face. Acting as if no one had spoken, Esme continued, " You will have all weekend, from midnight Friday to midnight Sunday to pull your pranks. Remember that Bella is human, so be careful with her. No burying her alive, tying her to a boulder and throwing her in the ocean, etc." "She better come back in one piece or else," snarled Edward. Bella just trembled, but put on a brave face and said, "Continue, please". "Well," Esme replied, " please keep your spending to under 500,000 dollars -ALICE- and after this is all over we will replace everything that has been damaged."
Bella still seemed remarkably calm after all of this, although Jasper uncharacteristically had slung his arm around her shoulders. Emmett boomed, " These are soooooo much fun, Bella! You have nothing to worry about!" After receiving another glare from Edward, he added "I promise to not lock you in a closet and forget about you or anything." "Yeah," chimed in Rosalie, " you have no reason to worry!". Now Bella looked terrified and seemed to be affecting Jasper. He looked like he wanted to go hide underneath the covers on his bed. Alice started laughing, and through her giggles, said, "Bella, I promise it'll be okay. Edward would kill all of us if anything hurt you. Now please stop scaring my husband before he screams like a little girl."
Bella seemed better after these reassurances, but Jasper still moved to the opposite side of the room. "Sorry Jasper," she mumbled, "I didn't mean to affect you like that." Recovered from his terror, Jasper grinned. "It's okay, Bella. No biggie."
And with that Esme pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. "It's 11:58 right now," she said, "two more minutes and the games will begin." Everybody watched the clock as the seconds ticked by. Finally, the clock hit 12 and everybody rushed up to their rooms to start thinking of pranks. Edward picked up Bella bridal-style and ran her up to his room.
As he gently set her down, Edward asked, "So, who should be prank first, love?" "Well," Bella replied, " I was thinking we could start with Alice. Maybe cutting up all of her clothes?" "Perfect," exclaimed Edward, "but what if she sees that?" Bella said hesitantly, "I was thinking…um….maybe we could…um…..call Jacob and….ask him to be involved?" A dark look flashed across Edward's face, but it was quickly gone. "Fine, call Jacob" he sighed, "but how is he help us cut her clothes? There are way too many clothes to just haul over to the border line." " Well, as long as we are talking to him on your cell phone while we are actually cutting the clothes, Alice won't see right?" Bella asked. Edward conceded that this was right and with that he called up Jacob and let Bella talk to him at first. As soon as he answered, Alice's scream echoed through the house, "BELLA! What are you doing?! I can't see anything! That dog better not be involved!"