"Just hold on a second here, what kind of a switch? And why are we doing it?" Rosalie had now put down the nail polish and was staring at Emmett with an annoyed expression on her face, clearly not pleased with him teaming up with me on any occasion.

Well, the feeling was mutual. I really didn't want to get stuck with Emmett, I knew that he still hadn't forgiven me for beating him at arm wrestling when I was a newborn. He had been dying to get back at me ever since. Knowing that if I didn't agree to a rematch he would be even more frustrated, I declined his invitations every time. He was now past his boiling point, so he would grasp at any opportunity to get even.

"Well, Emmett was thinking we should switch partners for fun, to see who would get on whose nerves first." Edward explained, a smirk on his lips as he continued "An excellent idea, but I was thinking we should make a competition of it."

Wait, what? I was screaming at him in my head NOT do this to me, he knew as well as I did that Emmett would gladly take as much as advantage of that situation as possible.

"Competition? How? And what's the price?" Emmett asked, he was jumping up and down in the same fashion as Alice was now. God they really were bored, weren't they?

Edward cleared his throat and glanced around the room with authority, trying to look serious but failing completely since he had an excited grin on his face the whole time.

Oh Edward, what are you up to now?

"Okey, so this is how it's gonna go down" Edward began, and shot Emmett a dark look as he started howling at Edwards choice of words. Boy that man had the dirtiest mind ever…

"We're gonna switch partners, but we will still be a team with our usual partner. The goal is to irritate the hell out of our new partner and make him or her want to abort, using whatever means you can think of. A couple hasn't lost until both partners has called it off, and when someone has called off, he or she can still help to try and make the partner that's still in the game win." Edward said, and I stared wide eyed at him. Did he seriously think this was a good idea? Emmett was laughing his ass off and Alice was bouncing around the room, yelling at Jasper that they needed to decide their team colours and team song. Jasper looked slightly worried, but also quite excited. No doubt Emmett and Alice's moods were rubbing off on him.

He he, rubbing off…

Oh damn it Bella, you know you've spent too much time with Emmett if that sentence makes me think dirty things. I shook my head and looked sceptically at Edward, he smiled back and his expression was saying 'don't worry babe, I've got this one in the bag'.

Yeah, I sure hope he had some kind of plan to surviving this, and to not let Emmett irritating me to death. I know vampires are hard to kill, but somehow I was quite certain that Emmett could pull it off.

"Are there any rules?" Alice asked, finally sitting down on the sofa. Oh I bet she couldn't wait to try and get on Edward's nerves, he was after all practically begging her to do it. Well I wasn't going to be there to hold his hand when Alice painted his Volvo bright pink or used his CD's as Frisbees. In fact, I was thinking of giving her some suggestions…

He was after all basically giving Emmett permission to drive me completely mental, so he had no empathy to find here.

Alice jumped up and ran to the Carlisle office, and returned 2 seconds later with a pen and a sheet of paper. Edward placed the paper on the table and started writing. Everyone except me was hanging over his shoulder to see what he was scribbling down. I sat with my arms crossed in front of me, glaring at my siblings and my overly excited husband as they laughed and wailed over what he wrote on the paper.

I was suddenly grateful that Carlisle and Esmee had taken Renesmee out of town yesterday; they were going to Denali to see our friends there for a couple of days. Although I missed my daughter, I was glad that she wasn't here to see what her father was up to. Pah, some father figure he was! Trading his wife away to win some stupid competition? Was this the man I married? I wonder if I could blame temporary insanity and file for divorce before this plan of his got any more out of hand?

But I had to admit, seeing Edward's face lit up with excitement like this was almost making me warm up to this ridiculous idea. Just a bit though, I was still worried about what ever Emmett had planned for me.

Finally Edward put the pen down, and I leaned forward to read what they had all come up with. Alice had already left the room, shouting about picking out outfits for her and Jasper.

I rolled my eyes, not getting how Alice could always manage to make everything about clothes. Kind of like how Emmett could make everything about sex… And how Rosalie made everything about herself… Hmm, am I seeing a pattern among the Cullen siblings? I should probably talk to Carlisle about that later.

Edward held out the paper for me, and I started reading.

PARINGS

Teammates:

Emmett-Rosalie

Jasper-Alice

Edward-Bella

Partners:

Emmett-Bella

Jasper-Rosalie

Edward-Alice

RULES

1. Partners must always be within 5 feet of each other at all times.

2. He/she can not refuse any request from his/her partner.

3. Everything is allowed in order to annoy each other.

4. Physical violence is allowed to a certain degree (loss of limbs is not allowed)

5. Once a partner aborts, the two shall continue to help their teammate win.

6. The partner who doesn't abort will win once his teammate's partner aborts.

7. The winner is the first team who both makes their partner abort.

8. Shall there be a draw (example; if Jasper, Bella and Rosalie are first with making their partners abort) the winning team will be the one with the partner who made his/hers partner abort in the shortest amount of time.

PRICE AND PUNISHMENT

The couple who wins will pick one person who will be their personal assistant for a week, and that person must do whatever the winning couple asks of them.

The couple who loses must wear their teammate's clothes for a week. Including underwear.

At first, my mind was preoccupied with the mental image of Edward wearing my underwear… It would actually be worth loosing this silly competition to see him in a pink bra and matching panties. Hmm, wonder how my lacy black super short nightgown would look on him… But then the realisation of what I had just read hit me in the face.

"We have to do EVERYTHING our partner asks?" I shouted, horrified. How would that even work? If Emmett took me to town and forced me to run around naked, did I have to do that? What if I told him to make out with Jasper while wearing nothing but leather pants and a sombrero?

Oh damn it Bella why did you think that? Stopstopstopstop… I chanted, trying to make that haunting picture leave my brain. Not pretty, not at ALL.

"Well, within reason. I should probably add some specifications to that rule…" Edward mused, and took the paper from me.

He looked at it for a few seconds, and then turned to beam at Jasper. I looked from him to Jasper, who had his eyebrows raised and a smile on his lips.

"What do you think? I mean it would limit Emmett's chances to force your wife eat human food or mess with Esme's rosebushes." Jasper said, and I gathered that they had just had a silent communication.

"Excellent idea Jasper" Edward nodded and started to write down whatever new rule Jasper had come up with. I leaned forward at the same time as Emmett and Rosalie did, and heard Alice laugh from upstairs, she was pulling out drawers and searching through every single closet in her quest for the perfect outfits for her and Jasper.

Edward had made a note after rule number two, it now said:

'2. He/she can not refuse any requests from his/her partner, but both partners must participate in whatever task one of them orders.'

Hmm, I might be able to work with that. Say hello to my dear friend 'The complete first season of Vampire Diaries' Emmett! I knew he hated that show, he always went on and on about how gay the characters were for having to wearing rings to stand the sunlight. Watching all the episodes might make him see that there was so much more to brooding, beautiful, sexy vamp Stephen…

An angry growl interrupted my fantasies, and I realised that I had just said that last part out loud. Oops.

I glanced warily at Edward, and he was watching me with narrowed eyes. I batted my eyelashes at him, trying to look innocent.

"I'm sorry love, I got carried away a bit … You know you are the only brooding vampire for me" I said, reaching out to stroke his lips with my finger. His irritated expression faltered slightly, but then he mumbled "perhaps we don't need to switch partners to win this…"

I chuckled to myself, and looked up to see Emmett watching me with a mischievous grin on his face. Oh this was going to be interesting…

"Okey everyone, let's take an hour to work on our strategies and then we'll meet back here to commence the switch" Edward said, still a bit sour but at least he reached out to take my hand.

I stood and followed him, and as we reached the front door, I stopped to glance back at Emmett. He and Rosalie were already clinging to each other, making the most of their time before they had would be apart. Jasper was gone and I could hear him growling from upstairs, followed by a "No Alice, I don't think that a pink miniskirt would make my legs look longer". I laughed and shook my head at the mental picture of Alice and Jasper in matching pink skirts.

"Hey Emmett?" I called, and he looked up.

"Yeah Bella?" He answered, his hands still all over Rosalie's body.

"Save some of that for me" I said, winking at him as I turned to follow Edward out the door. I caught his horrified expression before I left, and knew that I had my own strategy already worked out.

That boy wouldn't know what hit him after I was finished with him. I'll have him running for the hills in no time.

Let the games begin…

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