Hey readers, Today is my birthday so I decided that I was going to post the first chapter of my second Twilight Fanfic. Hope you guys enjoy. This story will be in third person.
Cross Country
Chapter 1. Adventure Idea
"I'm so booored" Bellowed Emmett as he flopped down onto the couch.
Renesme looks up from her book.
"Uncle Emmett, why are you bored on this lovely afternoon?" she asks.
"Because sometimes doing the same thing all the time gets boring. I want an adventure."
Sitting up on the floor she asks, "What kind of an adventure?"
"I don't know yet actually." He begins thinking while Renesme goes back to her book.
Upstairs Carlisle is in the library reading a medical mystery when Alice walks in.
"Carlisle I know that you are truly engrossed in your medical mystery but I was wondering if you could do me a quick favor." She smiles in a pretty please kind of way when a daughter has something up her sleeve that she does not want her father to know about.
"Yes Alice, what can I assist you with?"He's learned over the years to never fight that face.
"Can you point or throw something randomly at a map for me."
"Sure, where is this map?" he says standing up from his seat after quickly making a mental note of the page that he is on.
"In Jasper's study." She answers happily; clearly she has something up her sleeve.
Carlisle follows Alice into her and Jasper's room and then into Jasper's study. He immediately takes note of the map of the U.S. on the opposite wall across the room. Without looking up from his book, Jasper hands Carlisle a tack. Without focusing on any particular area of the U.S. map he tosses the tack. Alice picks up a red pen, removes the tack and marks the area with a red X.
"Thank you Carlisle. I will have a proposal for you this afternoon."
"You're welcome Alice and I am assuming that the proposal has something to do with all the red Xs on the map."
"Precisely." She smiles. "Thank you. Jas, could you look up from your book for a second and be a witness for me?" she says without facing Jasper.
"If you tell me what you have up your sleeve darling."
"I have an adventure up my sleeve." She says menacingly.
"Oh, trying to give Emmett something to do before his short attention span causes him to destroy something?"
"Something like that," She says glancing at Jasper for a quick second.
"Ok, darling I'm watching." With that note, she lifts her delicate hand. With the flick of the wrist, the tack soars to the map landing near the west side of Nebraska.
"Perfect," whispers Alice to herself. She returns to their bedroom to finish looking up landmarks. The first thing she typed in was landmarks in Oregon. Scanning the screen making mental notes of the landmarks in Oregon she decides to select a nature related landmark. Her next landmark search entailed Nebraska. Scanning once again she settles on a landmark close to where the tack landed. But before she could fully put her plan in action she needed to recheck the future. Ah, yes, he would enjoy it but she will be in Mississippi. Still I will not risk it, she thought to herself. Nebraska is definitely the better option.
"So are we traveling to Nebraska in the near future," Asks Jasper while hovering over Alice.
"Yes, I can see that we are and I'm going to have some fun while we are there."
"Oh is there a mall nearby that has an article of clothing that you desire."
"Nope but now that you have mentioned it, maybe we should take a gander at the local thrift stores." The twinkling of shopping danced momentarily in her eyes.
"Why did I ask?" he says more to himself than directly toward Alice. She only lifts up her head with a smile. Jasper leans in and kisses her smile.
While Alice continued to finalize her idea, Jacob comes into the house.
"Where's my Nessie." He says walking in.
"Over here if you look down." She responds without taking her eyes off the page.
"Why are you reading on the floor, Ness?" he asked perplexed.
"Because I didn't feel like reading anywhere else," she responds.
With a shrug of his shoulder Jacob joins her on the floor.
"Hey Jacob would you like to play a game?"Asks Emmett eagerly.
"Sure, Nessie do you want to play as well?"
"No I prefer to read, thank you very much."
"Your such a nerd." He retorts back.
"But I'm your nerd."
To himself Jacob wishes that she was officially his nerd. The last six years have been entertaining and filled with joy but Renesmee had not even expressed a change in feeling. Though subconsciously, he had sensed a change. Taking his attention off this fact, Jacob focuses in on Emmett setting up what looked to be a new Xbox. The last one ended up in pieces after Emmett lost again for the fifth time in a row. Emmett had recently obtained a new zombie game. "Shall we play?" Emmett asks in his competitive voice.
"Sure, sure, bring it on and no, we are not going to bet on anything. I hate to see you cry."
"I don't cry." He wines in response.
"You just made my point. Also I don't want Esme to be mad at us again."
Roughly about a month ago he and Emmett were messing around and broke Esme's newly purchased Greek vase. It did not survive with them horsing around and Esme proved that she was not to be messed with when it came to her antiquities.
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During the early evening Bella and Edward came to the family home. Soon enough the house took on its evening energetic atmosphere. Bella and Esme are in the kitchen cooking up a meal for Renesmee and Jacob. Edward had joined Carlisle in the library where they were discussing the medical mystery novel that Carlisle had just finished. Alice on the other hand had just finished her little adventure planning. On her desk laid five pamphlets with five cameras on top of them. Each map pamphlet contained a physical and road map. Another final map had an image of the selected location in its area. She was ready for her presentation.
"Oh family, can we have a meeting after some people are finished eating?" She asks while standing at the top of the steps.
"Ready to give your proposal?" asks Carlisle from the library. Considering every ones hearing, it was not necessary for anyone to shout. Alice collected everything in her hands and made her way downstairs. Carlisle and Edward also made their way downstairs. Edward watched Alice while attempting to tap into her mind, but found that she was blocking him with thoughts of Jasper discussing his most recent philosophy book with her.
"Existentialism bores me Alice."
"I know." She smiles.
"So what are we going to do with the cameras," Asks Emmett taking a seat at the table.
"Aunt Alice, I can listen to you while I eat," States Renesmee as she takes a seat next to Emmett, and then points her thumb towards Jacob. "It's this one who can't multitask while eating."
"Ha. Ha. Nessie, very funny." Replies Jacob.
"Jake, I'm glad that you can laugh at your faults." She answers back.
"You know what Alice? If you want to give your proposal now, I'm all ears." Says Jacob after rolling his eyes at Nessie.
"Works for me, I can't wait," Replies Alice in her chipper tone.
The remaining family members took a seat at the dining room table. Before even mentioning her little adventure, she gives a map to each of the boys and sits the cameras in front of all the women.
"Are we going to make a scrapbook or something?" asks Rosalie.
"No." Alice answers. "Now as I recall some of us are soooooo board," Smirking at Emmett. "And I agree that an adventure would be most entertaining. Thus I have mapped out a cross country race just for us."
"Wait, wouldn't you see who would win?" asks Bella.
"Nope, simply because I can't see some people to start with and well, people may make decisions to visit locations that are not on the map."
"Oooohhhhh, this sounds like fun." States Jacob after swallowing some of his food.
"It will be… or at least I know that I am having fun," Alice lets a future image briefly flash before her eyes again as if to reconfirm her words.
Rosalie speaks up again, "Alice may I ask a question please regarding these locations."
"I will get to that if you guys would let me finish what I have to say. Now the locations were selected based on our home towns. See, to help make the race fair for everyone you have to take a picture at the selected land mark. Which as you can see if you look at the back of the first map is a list of all the locations, and if you take a look at the final map, you can see the images of the listed locations."
"Why are we not stopping by…oh I don't know Mississippi?" smirks Edward.
"Because I saw Maria and decided that it was best if we avoid her. This is why Nebraska is on the map. I didn't know where to make the next landmark or if I should just simply forget it but the tack decided."
"Whaaat? Little Mrs. Future let a tack decide something in the future?"
"Yes Emmett I did," she smugly responds.
"Oh and I'm guessing since this is a cross country race we are sticking to one country, thus the reasoning for the other tack selecting Oregon." States Carlisle with a warm smile.
"Exactly. Now the rules are simple. One, we have to start on foot and end on foot, however considering a few external factors, a car is expectable between the start and the finish. Two, you have to take a picture of the landmark and be in it or your partner, so that everyone knows that you have been there. Three, avoid southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama for reasons previously stated. Fourth , no airplanes, just feet and wheels. Got it?" They all nod. "Last rule, HAVE FUN!."
"I like this idea. Yeah I'm down with this adventure." Shouts Emmett with excitement.
"I knew you would. Oh and I have one more question. We will be racing in teams of two. So, do you guys want to choose your selected other or mix and match for kicks?"
"Oh, you don't know the teams already." Asks Jasper smirking at his wife.
"I get Jacob." Yells Nessie with delight.
"Good, because no one else wants to be stuck with the dog," comments Rosalie.
"I don't know." Responds Edward.
"Oh, Edward, let them be on teams. I'm sure Jacob would do a good job at protecting her and I'm sure that they would promise to stay out of trouble." reassures Bella.
"But she's only six. We can hold off on this little adventure until she turns seven at least. Also she sleeps." I don't want her sleeping in the same room considering things.
"Exactly, that gives Rose and me the upper hand." Edward rolls his eyes at Emmett's remark.
"Oh, Daddy, I can take care of myself perfectly and this one." She says once again pointing her thumb towards Jacob. "Plus you know that you can trust Jake."
"Oh, I'll be good, calm down old man." comments Jacob. "And I'm not stupid enough to forget the rules." And I will not do anything to tick you off. Jacob thinks for Edward's sake and his own benefit.
"Well then I get Bella."
"So obvious, which now I am seeing that it's couples against couples." Adds Alice.
"Ha, we're so going to win." Claims Emmett.
"I don't think so, we're going to win." Challenges Jacob.
"Oh you wanna bet on it."
"Yeah, let's."
"Boy's I'm not trying to come home to any temper tantrum." Scolds Esme.
"Now, teams you are free to plan because we all know that it is at least going to take a week to travel the continental U.S." smiles Alice. She grabs Jasper's hand and leads him to their bedroom. Her only words being, "Time to plan Jas."