There Can Only Be One Vampire Guitar Hero
AN: Thanks for all the reviews!
The ride home was relaxing after an afternoon running around a mall, my feet were hurting from all the walking and standing around. I was glad for the few short hours from Seattle to Forks. I was happy to have some alone time with Edward, but I also couldn't wait to see his family playing the new games. Edward got a few extra guitar controllers, just incase, for Emmett. He tends to get a little too carried away while he's playing video games.
"What are you thinking about?" Edward asked me, breaking our quiet, relaxing silence with his velvet, musical voice.
"Just wondering about what everyone will think about the new games we got." I replied, smiling at him.
"Don't worry, Bella. They'll love it. Alice loves the eighties." He smiled back. "And Emmett will love any new game if he has a good chance to beat Jasper and I at it, since it's new and all. Rosalie might play, she doesn't usually bother with our video games, then again, neither does Alice. But there's a first time for everything, right?"
"Well, what about Jasper?" I replied, curious.
"Jasper," he thought about it, "Well, I think he'll like it. He hasn't complained before. Although, he has to get used to all the emotions that come with every new game we get. Like the excitement, or the anger when we get frustrated at it, like when we lose or die."
"Oh, well that's understandable." I replied, thinking of how annoying that must be for him. "But you think he'll like it?"
"Definitely." He smiled his crooked grin.
I turned away from his stare, and looked out the windshield. Remembering to breathe. The sun was setting. The sky was beautiful, swirls of pink and yellow and orange all blended together. Then turning to blue higher above and behind us.
We didn't talk after that. We just enjoyed the silence until we reached the long road to his house. I turned to Edward, he was trying to hide his laughing.
"She knows about Guitar Hero, right?" I asked him, a little disappointed that Alice knew about our surprise. Her visions made it almost impossible to surprise her.
"And that you left her here while you went shopping." My face fell, "But, right now she's more excited about playing Guitar Hero. She's probably too excited to talk to you about it." He tried to sound hopeful, it worked a little for now. But I knew Alice, she would be waiting to talk about it eventually. And will be wanting to see what I got.
"Maybe I should be smart and leave my new clothes in here till you bring me home. You know, just incase she forgets about the whole shopping thing." I was lying to myself, but there was still that slim chance that she would be too occupied with Guitar Hero to ambush me.
"She won't forget." Edward replied, squashing my hope. "Too late now anyways." He motioned to Alice. She was outside on the porch waiting for us. She looked impatient.
We pulled up next to the house and she was next to the car before I had time to blink. I opened the door, and stepped out next to her. Trying to read her expression, which was unfortunately blank. Quickly changing to a wide grin.
"Can I see what you bought without me?" She asked.
"You probably won't like them. They are plain, normal everyday clothes." I teased. Well, it was somewhat true, she liked more expensive clothes, something designer.
"It can't be that bad, you do have some good taste." She teased back.
She helped me take my bags into the house. I sat next to her on the couch as she took each item out and examined it. She seemed okay with my choices, until she pulled out a pair of Crocs. I watched her face scrunch up, then she giggled and turned to me.
"You bought Crocs?" She asked turning back to look at them, inspecting them.
"Yeah, they looked cool. And they're really comfortable." I tried to defend them, she still looked at me with disbelief.
Then with a disgusted face, "But look at them. They're ugly!"
"They aren't ugly. White goes with anything, and I like thing green, I think it's pretty. And besides, for me I think they are safer than flip-flops." I added in defence.
"Ok, I guess I can see your point. But I would never wear them." Alice replied, placing them back into the bag.
"Too bad, they are really comfy. Like walking on sponge, or Styrofoam." I knew it was probably hopeless to convince her. If she thought they were ugly, she might not change her mind. Next time we go shopping, I grimaced at the thought of being dragged from store to store, I would have to show her the pink ones.
Edward came in the door and brought the Xbox 360 to the tv. Once he set the box down on the floor, Emmett came into the living room, saw the Xbox box and ran back out. Edward just sat on the floor back on, so he didn't see Emmett come in and started to set it up. He was laughing quietly to himself. Alice and I watched as Emmett and Jasper ran back into the living room and plopped down next to Edward. Jasper took one of the Guitar Hero games away from Emmett and started to read the instructions. Emmett's face brightened.
"I'm playing first!" He said loudly.
Jasper looked up at him. "You don't even know how."
"So? You can tell me, you always do." He said back.
"Well maybe this time I won't." Jasper shot back.
"Ten bucks says he won't last five minutes." Edward butted in.
Emmett laughed. "I'll side with you, so make it twenty bucks."
"Might as well give me my money now." Jasper said back, looking back at the book. "Not changing your minds now are you?"
"Nope." Edward and Emmett said.
"Five minutes it is then." I said. They glanced at me. Forgetting that Alice and I were in the living room too.
"I can last five minutes no problem. Right Alice?" Jasper looked at her, waiting for her reply.
"I'm not even going there, Jazzy. You're going to have to find out yourself." She said with a smile. "I'm going to get Rose. She's going to want to see this." She skipped out of the room.
"Edward, do you got it hooked up yet?" Emmett whined.
"Yeah, hang on. Pass me the wireless controller, I need to connect it." Edward replied.
Jasper threw it over. Edward connected it and came over to sit by me on the couch. Alice and Rosalie came into the living room. Alice sat on the other side of me and Rosalie sat on the other couch, Emmett and Jasper got up and sat next to them.
"Where's Carlisle and Esme?" I asked no one in particular, looking around. I hadn't noticed their absence until now.
"Carlisle had the rest of the night off so he took her dancing. They said they wouldn't be back till tomorrow." Rosalie said, cuddling into Emmett. He put his arm around her and kissed her head. I smiled at how happy she looked. I looked at Edward, but he got up and plugged in the guitar.
"We need to play in Career Mode in order to unlock more songs first." Jasper said, still looking down at the book. Alice sighed, side-glancing at the closeness that Rosalie had with Emmet. Jasper took a quick look at her, then put his arm around her waist, pulling her close to him.
Edward was still plugging in the guitar. As soon as he did, Emmett jumped up, messing up Rosalie's hair with his arm. Edward, expecting it held the controller out for him, smiling.
"Emmett!" Rosalie said, trying to fix her hair.
"Sorry Rosalie. But I wanted to play first." Emmett said.
She didn't reply, just rolled her eyes, and continued fixing her hair. Edward came back so sit next to me.
"So, Jasper. How do I play?" Emmett said, smirking.
This chapter was pretty easy to write, I didn't even need to play to write this. I put in that whole "hate Crocs" thing cause a few of my friends hate them, but I like them. I have school tomorrow, so I'll probably have another chapter up tonight, if I finish it. If not, I'll try to finish it soon. Hope you liked it!