Chapter 2
'No, no, no, NO!' I am NOT doing this! No way, nu-uh, never. You can't make me!' Alice protested as Bella tried to get her out of the truck. 'And anyway I haven't got a swimming costume! So there!' Alice stuck out her tongue and refused to budge.
'That, Alice, is where you are wrong!' A gleeful voice came from the other side of the cab. 'Jasper brought your stuff with his!' Alice turned her head to look out of the drivers window, Emmett was stood next to his Jeep in the adjacent space. She growled.
'This is NOT funny!' she fumed, 'And anyway, just because he brought my swimming costume doesn't mean I'm coming!'
'Want to bet little sister?' Emmett's voice was confident, 'We are all going swimming. That includes you, Alice.'
'But I'll mess up my hair,' she whispered mournfully, 'I'm sure you will have just as much fun without me.'
'I beg to differ,'
'But...'
'Enough protesting Alice,' Edward appeared from the passenger door of the Jeep. 'If you don't come peacefully, I will personally drag you out of that car and throw you into the pool.' Alice got out at once, hoping to avoid being thrown in at any cost. It was a good excuse to show off her new Chanel swimwear anyway. But that was as far as she'd go. She would get changed but she was not getting into that pool.
'It can't be that bad, surely Alice?' Jasper had followed Edward out of the Jeep and had come to stand by her side. Alice pulled her top lip back from over her teeth and growled at him.
'I hate you Jasper Whitlock.' He took her hand.
'You don't mean that darlin', surely?' She raised her eyebrows.
'Don't I? You know I hate swimming and yet you went along with the whole thing.' She pulled a face.
'Darlin' I had no choice, you know what Emmett's like! I tried to talk him out of it, I swear!' She placed a hand on her hip and turned her face up to look him in the eyes.
'Promise?'
'I promise, darlin'.' Alice beamed up at him.
''Kay.' She stood up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his very quickly. Emmett gagged.
'Enough already! All this lovey dovey stuff is making me feel sick!' Emmett was still pretending to throw up. Jasper snorted.
'And you and Rose don't do it at all?' Emmett didn't answer, instead he gave a huge faux yawn and said:
'All this talking is dead boring, can't we go swimming yet? I am really looking forward to throwing Alice in that pool!' Edward rolled his eyes and Alice whimpered, ducking behind Jasper.
'Emmett, we agreed that we would not throw her in if she is willing to get out of Bella's car and come swimming with the rest of us.' Edward reminded them, but no one missed the wink he gave. 'And Alice,' he added, 'Bella wanted to go swimming so we are all going swimming!' Bella had the good grace to look a little sheepish as Edward took her hand and lead her towards the building at the far end of the lot. The others followed, including Rosalie who clambered gracefully out of Emmett's Jeep looking very bored.
The six of them met up with Seth after they had paid for an afternoon in the pool. He was waiting in the corridor that lead off to the changing rooms.
'Hey!' He called in way off a greeting! 'You okay Bella? Edward?' When both had nodded and returned the question the boys and the girls divided into their separate changing rooms. Jasper waited behind a little just to hand Alice her things before he ducked into his respective changing room, without waiting around for the angry comments he was sure to get.
Two minutes later everyone was ready, all sitting on the side of the pool in their swimwear. Jasper slid into the pool first, reaching out a hand to help Alice into the water. She refused it.
'Now Alice,' Edward cautioned, 'If you are not going to get into the pool willingly I won't stop Emmett throwing you in. This is supposed to be a fun family outing, in which everyone takes part.'
'Humph'
'Alice...' But Alice ignored him so he left Bella, sitting, dipping her feet in the water and came over and grabbed her left arm. 'Emmett...' Edward didn't need to say anything but his name, Emmett came rushing over at once.
'Excellent!' He seized her other arm and on the count of three the two boys threw their squirming sister into the pool, both laughing at the outraged expression colouring her pretty features. Jasper chuckled too as she splashed into the water beside him but hastily composed his features again as she resurfaced.
'Sorry, darlin',' he said, laughing again as she glared at him, her wet hair plastered to her forehead, dripping into her eyes, 'You look so funny, like a drowned rat!' Alice, unsurprisingly, didn't find it funny.
'Jasper Whitlock Hale,' she said, her teeth gritted, 'You are going to pay!' And, so quickly he had no time to anticipate her move, she ducked under the water, grabbing his legs and pulling them out from under him so, coughing and spluttering, her husband collapsed onto the pool floor on top of her.
So that was chapter 2. Please R&R if you want to make me happy! :)
