Chapter 1 - Afterschool

"Hey, Eddie!"

My voice boomed from the top of the staircase as I made my way down. I was excited, because today was the last day of the school year. Edward was already waiting for me at the door. He had a small smile on his face as he noticed my excitement.

"Excited about the last day, Emmett?"

I nodded as we walked outside and into the cloudy overcast of Forks. I took the keys to my Jeep out of my jean's right hip pocket before unlocking and getting into the massive vehicle's driver seat. I pressed the switch and unlocked the passenger side so Edward could get in beside me. We then began the drive to school, ready to end the year. The road twisted and turned, but I held the Jeep perfectly in the road, allowing it to glide against the curves. Upon arrival to school, I whipped the Jeep in right beside of Edward's girlfriend's truck and cut the ignition off.

"Let's get the year done and over with!"

I said as I opened my door and looked around the parking lot. Edward chuckled as he exited the confines of my Jeep. I followed suit, locking my vehicle up and putting the keys into my pocket. Edward and Bella met up shortly upon entering the building, as did Rosalie and I. I kissed her as soon as she entered my arms, making her smile. Then, we all went our separate ways, I went to the gymnasium, Rosalie went to English, Edward and Bella went to the Art room. Gym class passed quickly, we were playing one of my favorite sports, Baseball. I hit three home runs, two doubles, got six people out, and caught two pop-flies. The bell rang right as I caught the last pop-fly, making us leave the gym.

I stopped to enjoy a fight in the hallway on the way to my next class, I recognized the one girl as Jessica Stanley, Mike Newton's girlfriend. The other, however, I didn't know. I watched the action and yelled out different things before it was broken up and everyone was sent to their classes. Just as I rounded the corner to go to the Science lab, Jasper ran up to me, looking slightly afraid as he eyed everything around of us.

"Hey, Emmett, you have to hide me!"

"Now, little Jasper, why would I do that?"

My voice was thick with humor as I waited on an explanation from him. Jasper sighed, and then continued, looking over his shoulder before speaking.

"Alice and Rosalie are trying to make me dress up in a cowboy outfit and run around school shooting a cap gun."

A long stream of laughter broke out of my body as he turned and looked at me again. He was clearly reconsidering who he had asked, because the light just flickered on inside of my head as a smile formed on my face.

"That will be hilarious!"

I said, before I tackled him down to the ground and held him there, pinning him beneath my legs as I took his phone out and dialed Alice's phone. It rang a few times before she picked up, it was clear she had a smile on her face.

"Hey, baby, you ready to be a cowboy?"

I couldn't resist, I gave him the shush signal and then spoke to her, suppressing a laugh as I answered.

"Yeah babe, I'm ready, but only if you will be my horse."

Alice gasped and then shouted over the phone at me.

"EMMETT!! HOW DO YOU HAVE JASPER'S PHONE?"

Another laugh stream busted from inside of my body when she heard Jasper complaining about being stupid to ask for my help.

"Wait," Alice said as she regained her smile, "you have Jasper with you?"

I put his phone on speaker before speaking again.

"Say hi, Jasper."

"Emmett, please, let me go! If Alice and Rosalie find me, I am doomed!"

"Oh, goody! Where are you holding him at?"

I thought for a minute about letting him go, but then realized how funny it would be to see Jasper running around school in a cowboy outfit. So, I told her exactly where we were, closed Jasper's phone, and a few minutes later she and Rosalie came walking down to where we were standing. I eyed the outfit in Alice's hands, and noticed all of the sparkling stones in it.

"I hate you, Emmett."

Jasper's voice was full of rage as I escorted him, with the girls, to the janitor's closet. Alice threw the outfit to him and winked as I closed the door. Jasper took his time, coming out of the closet dressed in the ridiculous outfit right when the bell for lunch came. He hung his head in shame as he pulled the cap pistol from the holster on the belt of the outfit and ran down the hallway, shooting the caps at anyone and everyone. Alice, Rosalie and I laughed hard as we watched the spectacle. When Jasper made it to the main doors and started towards the gym, a teacher, Mr. Varner I think, chased him past us. I checked the clock on the wall; it was almost the end of lunch when Jasper came back. He hopped inside the janitor's closet and emerged a few minutes later in his street clothes. Alice sauntered over to his side and allowed him to wrap her up and hold her with his left arm. He glared at me when I smiled at the sight of Mr. Varner walking up the hall, exhausted and holding the cap gun in his hand.

"Well, Jasper," Rosalie began as soon as Mr. Varner had passed us, "I think that deserves a celebration."

"Yeah! Let's go out after school!" Edward shouted as he and Bella appeared behind us.

I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard his voice. Jasper had turned white from shock before he noticed it was Edward. We all relaxed, and then Bella spoke.

"Before we go making any plans, remember that we still have the rest of the day to get through."

"Relax, I promise nothing is going to happen, Bells."

I made sure to accompany a laugh with that, and held up a set of crossed fingers from my left hand. Rosalie giggled slightly when Edward hit me in the arm. The bell for the next class begin to ring, and we all went separately again. The rest of the day went by slowly, and I fell asleep in the weight room during fourth. No one bothered to wake me up, either. My cell phone jarred me to life, buzzing and ringing loudly as I stirred. I dug into my pocket and flipped the phone open.

"Hello?"

My voice was heavy with sleep as I spoke into the mic of the phone.

"Emmett?" Rosalie called through the phone, by the sound of her voice, she had been crying.

"Babe, is something wrong? Who did it? I'll rip whoever it is to pieces!"

"No one did anything to me, physically, anyway." Her voice was shaking with each word.

"Then what is it?" I said, rubbing my eyes.

"I am locked up in the school, so is Alice. I think something has happened to Edward, Bella, and Jasper."

I lowered my hand slowly, taking in all of the information she had just said. My girlfriend was locked up somewhere in the school, with me and Alice. Something wrong was going on with my best friend, his girlfriend, and Alice's boyfriend. The way I had it figured, things were definitely going bad!

"Rose, babe, I'm locked up in here too. I'm in the weight room, where're you?"

I tried to keep my voice even and calm, but I was shaking with anger.

"I am in the Music room."

Rosalie's voice was very enraging to me. Each word was rushed, but I felt every bit of her pain and sorrow in it, and for someone to make my girl cry, that pissed me off.

"Babe, hang up the phone and sit tight, I'm gonna bust outta here and come and get you."

"No, Emmett, please! You can't leave where you are, if something happens to you, I'll kill myself!"

All of the pain and sadness she had tried to keep hidden was now coming out in full force, she was crying and it hurt me to hear her sad.

"Tell me what happened, from the end of the day until now, whatever time it is."

"Okay," she breathed deeply and let it out slowly as she started, "at the end of the day, we all met near the gym. We were waiting for you, and when you didn't show, we decided to look for you."

She paused for a minute before continuing.

"It's five o'clock p.m. now, so we looked for around……an hour. Then we all regrouped and met up in front of the gym doors. Edward checked the front building doors and, being the weekend, they were locked. We waited for another fifteen minutes, but, when you still didn't show, I got worried and started to freak out, and Alice stayed with me while Edward, Jasper and Bella went to find a janitor to help us look. The next thing I know, some crazy bastard was chasing us through the school. Edward said that they had found a janitor, though, but he was cut from his mid section all the way up to his mouth."

Rosalie then started crying again, I knew she was worried about the others, so I devised a plan. I would find Edward, Bella, and Jasper, then come to get her.

"Babe, listen, I'll take one of the bats from the baseball locker and I'll come get you and Alice. I'll be fine, don't worry, I'll call ya when I am near you."