A/N: Hey, you guys! I really truly think that I wrote this chapter so much better than I did the last one, so I hope you enjoy it! The pictures will be on my homepage, so go check it out. I'm still brainstorming about how to continue Why Did I Get Married, but I think I have a pretty good idea of where to go with it, so be ready for an update after I finish this short series.

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BPOV

"What are you?" he growled.

I stuck up my chin and squared my shoulders, "A thank you would suffice!" I said and tried to maneuver around him to get out, but he blocked me.

"You're not going anywhere until you answer my question." He threatened.

I felt my mood darken and my body began to heat as I summoned another element, an element vampires wish to never be caught in.

"Get out of my way." I warned. I felt every cell in my body begin to boil, but I suppressed it, hoping to not have to scare Edward with such a tactic. It was not something I was good at controlling, and I didn't want him getting caught in the crossfire.

"Or you'll what?" he snarled and began to back me up towards the wall.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm down so as not to set the closet on fire, but he was pushing me to a place I did not enjoy going to.

Its better that I explain what's going on. I have many powers, some that I can control better than others, some I can't control at all, but like my father, my powers are connected to my emotions. Because I cannot control my fire element that well, the anger from the fire consumes me, and many a time I had to be taken down by the elves that can bend the water element. I'm never in the right mind set when I handle fire, that's why I try my hardest to stay away from it, but if I'm angry, then I am unable to do so without a struggle.

Fire is an element that requires all of your attention. It's a jealous element that will either work with you if you give it the right attention...or it'll consume your very being until all you desire is destruction.

Sounds strange right? An elf with an anger management problem, but I'm the only one who has it. My body is too small to hold all these powers, so controlling them is extremely difficult, that's why my father had to seal some of my powers with an age seal that breaks when I come of the right age for each one.

"Edward, I'm warning you, get out here before it's too late." I began to tremble. I could feel my seal start to burn as it suppressed my fire element.

I called for help to Lilly in my mind, so she'd stop me from doing something stupid, like turning Edward into ash.

"I asked you a question!" he pushed me into the wall and held me by my shoulders against it. I whimpered as my seal stung and began to burn even worse than it did before. If Lilly didn't hurry, I wouldn't last long.

"Please, Ed..." I took a breath and clenched my fist, "Get off of me and leave." I said between clenched teeth.

"Not a good an…" before he could finish the door flew open just as my fists caught on fire. Edward leapt back before he could see them and turned towards the door. "What the hell?"

"Move!" Lilly pushed him out of the way and closed the door behind her. She ran over to me and held me against her. I felt my burning hot tears singe my skin as they ran down my cheeks. I bit so hard on my bottom lip to stop me from screaming from the searing pain that I drew blood without difficulty.

"Its okay, LaLa, you can handle it. You always could. You're strong, now fight it." She spoke softly. I listened to her words and tried to prevent the guttural scream that was caught in my throat as my seal branded its warning on the very flesh of my back. A warning to control the power and to not let it overcome me. I continued to tremble and convulse, my skin felt like it was melting off my bones as it overheated. I thought about happy things to calm down, anything that would help stop me from burning everything in sight.

There was only one time when I couldn't fight my anger, and it resulted in me burning down the reindeer's stalls. I had a lot of apologizing to do to the elves and the reindeer, but they all understood that it was hard for me to control as it was in the beginning years of my seal, and I had yet to learn how to contain my anger. Well, everyone except the reindeer. I especially had to do a lot of sucking up to Vixen, she and I didn't always see eye to eye.

I kept taking deep breaths, and sighed in relief when the burning started to qualm and I was able to stand again.

"Thank you." I said softly and hugged my best friend.

"There's no thanks needed, though I wished your father would have used the other seal and not this one." She mumbled.

"None of that, remember I asked for this seal. It's a disciplinary one, and I'll be able to control the fire element faster with it, instead of the other seal. That one will just stop me from feeling any emotion at all for a couple of hours." I explained in a monotone voice. If I didn't feel any emotion, then there would be nothing for the fire to fuel off of.

Lilly and I have had this conversation many a times before and I definitely didn't want to have it now. My body felt weak like it usually did after one of these spells, and I was ready to go home and go to sleep.

"Come on, we'll tell the front office that you're sick, so I can take you home and you can sleep." She said and helped me walk with her holding some of my weight on her shoulders.

When we reached the office, Mrs. Cope gasped and called for the nurse, who made me lie down with an ice pack on my forehead. I sighed impatiently and waited for them to release me.

"Calm down, they're just calling Aunt Vicki to let her know that we're coming home." Lilly said. I nodded my head and stared at the ceiling, sighing in relief when the nurse came in again and said that we could leave.

Lilly drove us home quickly where my aunt was already outside with a blanket, thermometer, and a bowl of soup.

"Oh, poor baby, come in the inside where it's warm!" Vicki coed as she wrapped the blanket around my shoulder and put the thermometer in my mouth.

I always wondered why Aunt Vic hasn't had children yet, though she has said many times that she doesn't want to lose her figure. That, I always thought, was preposterous, since she could easily get her figure back, but both my Aunt and Uncle said that they weren't interested in having children yet, and instead, chose to dote on me and Lilly.

Vicki led me into the living room where the couch was done up like a bed. A humidifier was on the coffee table, and a stack of magazines with the TV remote on top of them was lying by a steaming cup of tea.

"Aunt Vicki, really, all I need is sleep, you didn't have to go through all this trouble." I whined. I hated when people had to go out of their way to take care of me, it always made me feel like a moocher of some sort.

"This was no trouble at all, darling, now lie down and eat your soup." She said in a motherly tone that made me instantly miss my own mother. I obliged, wanting to feel that motherly nurture, and started to sip on the chicken noodle soup that still steamed in the bowl.

Lilly sat by me and took a few sips of my soup, "Well, today has been one interesting first day." She commented.

"I know, but what can we do about it? Dad said not to approach them…"

"Unless we had to." she interrupted with a glint in her eye, "That penny headed one attacked you, I say that calls for a little approaching don't you? At least we should get copper crotch back." she reasoned suggestively. Lilly was always the adventurous one who loved mischief. She was often the cause of our spankings when we were little kids, but even knowing the outcome of our adventures, it never stopped us from getting into a little mischief. We are elves you know, and we elves liked some fun…

"Lil, the rest our group is back at the North Pole, you know we can't get into mischief without them." I explained.

"Then it's time to call them in! They can come down here, we're figure out a plan, execute it, and then they'll be back home before dawn!"

"I don't know about this, Lilly, it sounds risky." I said hesitantly.

"Come on, LaLa, just think how fun it will be to get back at the bastard for making you go through pain when you told him to back off."

I thought about it, and the more I did, the more I felt pissed off at him. He had no right to manhandle me the way he did.

Oh, this payback was going to be good.

"Fine, I'm in." I could feel the mischievous look on my face mirror Lilly's. Then a thought occurred to me, "How are we supposed to get them down here without my dad finding out? He is Santa for Frost's sake!" I asked hysterically.

"Calm down, I already have that covered."

"Of course you do." I said with a shake of my head, "What is in that evil mind of yours?"

Lilly leant forward and whispered, just in case if Aunt Vicki was able to hear us.

"How well is your shimmering?" she asked.

"It's good, but I shimmer better with dad. Why?" Lilly raised an eye brow suggestively, "Oh, no, no, no, no, how in the world do you think I can shimmer to the North Pole and back without Vicki or James finding out? Plus, you know it takes me a few tries before I actually get to my destination!"

"You can do it, LaLa, I know you can!" she begged with a pout. I huffed and looked the other way, but I could feel her piercing stare. That stare that could put puppies to shame, and make even an angel committ a sin.

"Fine, I'll do it! Curse my inability to refuse the pout." I mumbled dejectedly.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, now what are we going to do?" she asked. I thought for a minute, before I got the best idea ever.

"I have it, but we have to go to their house and see if they have what we need or if we have to go buy it."

"Well, tell me!" she commanded, vibrating with pure excitement. I whispered my idea in her ear, and listened with satisfaction as she laughed hysterically.

"That's…gonna…be so…good." she choked out between laughter. I nodded my head and checked the time; school would be over in five minutes.

"Come on, I'll shimmer us to the forest near the school, so we can follow them to their house." I got up and grabbed her hand.

"Aunt Vicki, we going to go for a little walk so I can get some fresh air, we'll be back in about twenty or so minutes." I said.

"Are you sure you're strong enough?" she asked with worry in her eyes as she walked into the living room from the kitchen.

"I promise, I feel much better, I just need some air. Thank you for the soup, it was delicious." I smiled. She nodded with an approving smile and walked away to finish dinner. "Come on, we have to hurry." I felt my body tingle and cool off as we shimmer to the trees. Soon, I felt my feet touch the ground again and I opened my eyes to make sure that I didn't shimmer us to the next state or something even more horrible.

I sighed in relief when I saw that we were across from the school. The bell signaling the end of the school day rang, and we watched for the Cullen's to come out. The parking lot was almost empty when the Cullen's finally emerged from the double doors of the front entrance.

"What do you mean her eyes turned black?" I saw the blonde haired guy ask, Jasper I think his name was.

"I mean exactly what I said." Edward answered with a frustrated growl and ran his hand through his hair roughly, "One minute her eyes were brown and the next, they're pitch black, but that's not all. I could sense that I was in danger, but other than her warnings, it didn't seem like she could do anything."

I huffed, "I could have killed you if I wanted." I mumbled. I would never do that, it's not the type of person I am, not even when I'm in that mind set, but I could kill him accidently if he were to ever be caught in one of my 'tantrums' as my father liked to call it.

"Did you see her do anything?" Jasper asked to Alice.

"No, I didn't even see that they were coming! And every time I try to get a look at them, all I get is static or blurred images. I can't see them!" she said with irritation clearly in her voice.

"She can't see us?" Lilly asked confused.

"Well, well, it seems that we have a little psychic on our hands." I chuckled. My father told me of some of the possible powers that vampires could have when I was younger. Hell, he even gave me a list!

"What to do, what to do?" Lilly pondered.

"No, no, no, we're here for Edward, not the rest of them. They haven't done anything to us…yet." I added the last part. "Come on, they're driving off."

Edward was driving his siblings in a silver mom mobile, I think it's called a Volvo, at a crazy speed, but we easily followed.

"I wonder how far away from humans they live." She said.

"I don't know, but when we get to their house, we have to slow our heart beats so that's it's barely there, or they'll be able to hear them." I warned. I knew vampires had speed, strength, sight, smell as their advantages, but with the many alterations we elves can do to our bodies, they won't be able to detect us that easily.

"Hey, they're turning up there." Lilly pointed to a turn that, if it weren't marked with some type of sign, no human would be able to find it.

"Okay, let's stop and blend with the environment." I said. Lilly nodded and we closed our eyes.

Elves are more than just Santa's helpers, as only humans know us to be. We are closely related to nymphs, who take care of nature, because we can blend in with nature too. Our clothes aren't symbolized as green and red, because those are Christmas colors. Green represents the love of nature, like Christmas trees, mistletoe and more, while red represents the love of family and friends around us. Nature is peaceful and beautiful, and it's where we find serenity most of the time; within the dew covered moss and frosted bushes that shielded our workshop.

I could feel my scent being masked by nature as we became one and my heartbeat slowed to the point where it only beat once every ten minutes. I opened my eyes to see that Lilly was finished. We nodded to each other and ran the rest of the way through the trees, following the winding road until we saw a house appearing in the distance. It was a beautiful, Victorian house…that had enormous windows that would make it easy for us to be spotted! These windows would make it even more difficult to sneak around, but I had a feeling that we could do it.

I turned towards Lilly and pointed to a tree that gave us a good view of both the upstairs and the down stairs. She nodded and we scaled it with ease, and perched ourselves on a branch to look for what we needed.

We watched and listened as a beautiful woman, with caramel hair and a heart shaped face join the Cullen kids in the living room.

"Hello, kids, how was your day?" she greeted them with hugs and kisses to the cheek.

"We have two new girls at school." Edward said, getting right down to business, "We need to call Carlisle so we can discuss this."

"But what is the problem that there are two new girls at school? Just ignore them like you all do to the other students." She advised looking utterly confused.

"Apparently, they aren't human." Jasper answered this time. "Edward had a run in with one of them and he sensed danger." Esme gasped as she walked over to Edward and held onto his arm.

"I'm quite alright, mom, don't worry." He rubbed her back. I almost awed at the sweet gesture and voice he used with Mrs. Cullen, but I knew of his tempter, and suppressed my scoff at his so called compassion.

"I'll get Carlisle on the phone." Alice said and quickly dialed a number. She told this Mr. Cullen to come home quickly, because they had something urgent to talk about, and I heard from the other line that he will arrive in seven minutes.

"Do you see what we need?" Lilly asked. I glanced around as the Cullen's sat in the living room and spoke in idle chat as they waited for Mr. Cullen. I was about to give up hope and say that we'd have to buy it when I spotted exactly what we needed perched on top of the bookshelf.

"Look." I pointed to it and watched as Lilly's eyes lost hope in the mission.

"How the heck are we going to get that with the Cullen's in the living room? Vampires don't sleep, and they'd easily hear us if we tried to break in." she said. I sighed and nodded my head. The mission was over before we could even get it started.

In the distance I could a car coming up the drive at a maniac speed, at least going a hundred mph, so I figured it would be the last member of the coven. A sleek black Mercedes, soon, parked behind Edward's Volvo, and an extremely gorgeous man, with an air of authority and leadership, got out. He had honey blonde hair, the color of Jasper's, and golden eyes. He was handsome, but not as handsome as the ass hat, Edward.

As soon as he walked in, Esme was in his arms, giving him a kiss and a hug before proceeding to the living room.

"Hello, family, how are you?" he asked in a soothing tone. I could tell he was very kind, and it almost made me want to give up this mission. Almost.

A chorus of 'hellos' and 'fines' greeted him before everyone got serious again.

"Okay, now what is this urgent matter?" He asked his family.

"There are two new students at school, but I know they aren't human." Edward answered.

"And how do you know of this?"

Edward fidgeted uncomfortably, "She, Isabella, sits at my desk in biology class. When the fan made her scent flow towards me…I almost lost it." Edward mumbled and looked down. Gasps filled the air and Esme placed a hand on her heart. Edward must have great control to get such a reaction out of his family.

"Its okay son, go on." Carlisle assured him.

"It was like…like I couldn't even control myself. I pictured…" he shuddered, "I pictured myself asking her, no, luring her to somewhere where no one could hear us...her. I would have lured her somewhere far away, and she would have followed." He admitted gravely.

"Don't bet your CoverGirl products on it, vampy." I growled. Stupid flawless vampire with his golden eyes and fire crotch hair! I know exactly what he is, I definitely wouldn't have followed him like he oh-so believes I would've.

Carlisle sighed and leant back into the sofa, "La Tua Cantante." He said.

Emmett gasped, "You think so?" I was confused by his reaction. I know, with my rough Italian, that he said 'your singer', but what is with Emmet's gasp?

Carlisle nodded his head, and Emmett turned to Edward with wide, unbelieving eyes, "How did you get away? How did you not…drink from her where she sat?" he asked in a dazed voice.

"That's the thing!" Edward shot up from his chair, "One minute I'm smelling her blood, and making a plan to kill everyone in the biology room, so I could drink from her and the next, all I'm smelling from her is ginger and cinnamon!" he complained.

I giggled, "How did little old me get his whitey tighties in such a twist?" I said with Lilly joining in.

"So, you think she changed her scent?" Carlisle asked incredulously. Edward sighed heavily and practically fell back into his seat on the couch next to Alice.

"I don't know anything anymore." He said with a shake of his head.

"I'm still on the La Tua Cantante part." Alice commented.

"La Tua Cantante means your singer in Italian. Isabella's blood sings to Edward, making it practically impossible to resist. She is his La Tua Cantante." Carlisle explained.

I scoffed, "I'm not his anything, except his worst nightmare for the next day and a half." I said.

"So we're still doing it?" Lilly squealed. I clamped my hand over her mouth and shushed her before the Cullen's heard. Thankfully, they didn't notice anything and kept talking.

"Yes, we're going to do it, now hush." I commanded and kept listening.

"So what happened after she changed her scent?" Mrs. Cullen asked, intrigued.

"When class ended I left before the hall could get crowded and hid in the janitor's closet. When I smelt her I pulled her in and demanded that she tell me what she was, but she refused. I…I got angry and held her against the wall, but she wasn't scared. In fact, it was like she was battling something within her. I can't explain it, but she kept warning me to leave and I didn't. I sensed the danger, but nothing was happening with her, she just looked strained! Before anything happened, the other girl, Lilly, flung open the door and pushed me out. The thing is, it was locked." He explained the rest of the story.

Carlisle hummed, "Yes, well, they do not seem human, especially the Lilly girl, since we know that she has abnormal strength, but we'll keep watching both of them. For right now, keep an eye on them and watch what they do and say to give us a clue on what they might be and if they're a danger." He instructed.

The Cullen's nodded and dispersed to their own activities. Esme went to the kitchen with Carlisle following, while the boys stayed in the living room and set up what looked like a Wii as the girls talked to each other on the couch.

I nodded towards Lilly to let her know that we should head home. We had been up here for about a half hour and we needed to get home before Vicki worried. We crept down the tree and sped off without a sound.

It only took us ten minutes to get back home. Aunt Vicki smiled when we walked back in and continued to watch whatever show it was that she was so engrossed in. As soon as Lilly and I got to my room, we started to formulate a plan to get our buddies here and back before anyone noticed, along with how to get what we needed off the bookshelf.

We bounced ideas back and forth, but it didn't seem like we were getting anywhere until an idea, albeit crazy, popped into my head. I told Lilly my plan and she laughed with a nod of her head.

"It'll take some convincing, but I think that it'll work." she agreed. "Now, how are we going to get our friends here?"

"First, we have to let them know that we need them for a mission, and I know just the thing." I placed my hand on my snowflake and thought of one of my good friends, Shane.

Soon, he was being projected in front of us and we watched as he executed his job with ease. Shane's family job was to make the ornaments. He and his family sculpted the most beautiful and intricate ornaments anyone has ever seen, they were simply magnificent.

"How goes it, Shane!" I yelled. He yelped and I watched in horror as the ornament he was working on flew into the air and came barreling down towards a shattering end, but, thankfully, before it reach the ground, he grabbed it and placed it gently on a small pillow.

"For the love of all things frostbitten, don't do that to me again, Bella!" he yelled. His eyes widened as he realized who he was talking to, "Bella! I thought you left! How are you? Is that Lilly I see, what's going on with you two? I miss you guys, mischief just isn't the same without ya." He said in one breath.

"Calm it down, Shane, it's good to see you too and we're fine." We laughed.

"Good, good, so what can I do you two for?" he asked.

"We have a mission, but we need the whole gang." I smiled. Shane got that same glint that Lilly had in his eyes and told us to wait before scurrying off to find everyone else.

"You think we can get them down here?" Lilly asked unsure.

"Yeah, I mean, it may take me a couple of times to get to the right destinations, but I'm sure that we'll end up back here…even-tu-ally." I drug it out and looked at the ceiling, trying to avoid Lilly from seeing my insecurity.

She hummed, "You'll do fine." She was about to add something else when Shane appeared again with the rest of our gang.

A chorus of excited 'Bella's' and 'Lilly's' were being yelled as they told us how they missed us all at once.

"Shut up!" I laughed, "We miss you too, but we have business to take care of." I suddenly got serious as I explained the mission.

They laughed, "You have one evil mind." Kevin shook his head.

"I know, now at exactly midnight, I will be there to get you guys. Be ready with the stuff, and…be ready to be sneaky." I whispered with a smirk.

"Aren't we always?" Amira smirked back.

I chuckled and cut our connection, "Okay, let's get through dinner and homework without looking suspicious." I said.

"Easy enough." Lilly nodded. We started on our homework and waited for Vicki to call us down for dinner when James got home.

We finished most of it before our names were yelled to come down stairs.

"Hey, girls." My uncle kissed our foreheads, "How are you doing, Bells?"

"I'm fine, just didn't feel too good. It was probably just nerves from being stared at all day." I lied.

He nodded and felt my forehead to make sure I wasn't running any sort of fever before he let the subject drop, so we could enjoy the dinner that Vicki made. The chicken alfredo pasta was absolutely delicious. The only thing heard at the table was the hums of appreciation and the clinking of forks on our plates.

"That was awesome, Aunt Vicki, thank you." Lilly commented and I nodded my head in agreement.

"You two are very welcome. If you would clear the table, please?" she asked as she collected the utensils. Lilly and I cleared and the cleaned the dishes without complaint, since my aunt cooked for us, the least we could do was clean.

We went back upstairs to finish the rest of our homework. It was just a few five hundred word essays asking us what we expected from the class. We had two hours before we could execute the plan giving us plenty of time to finish our work and rest a little.

I thought about Edward and what we were about to do to him. A small pang of guilt resided in my emotions, but it was overridden by the remembrance of what transpired in the closet. The magnitude of the pain from my seal as it literally scalded my skin only spurred my emotions to beat his ass down.

Couldn't he see it? Couldn't he see the struggle I was going through to fight the very side of me that destroys anything in my proximity?

No, he didn't, because he was too busy bullying answers out of me to realize just how much pain I was in. He saw how dangerous I was and he ignored it. He pushed me to a place where I hated to be. To feel that angry…to not be able to control it. It scares me, because I know that I could hurt the ones I loved the most if I wasn't careful.

The more I thought about it the more I wanted to forget about the prank and instead, give him a little taste of what he was messing with, but that is something I could never do. To intentionally hurt someone with fire…

Who would do such a thing?

"LaLa, it's almost time." Lilly startled me. I looked over to the clock to see that it was a quarter 'til twelve. Wow, I've been thinking that long.

"Okay, I should go now. I don't know how many times I have to shimmer before I get to there." I said.

"Okay, and don't worry about James and Vicki, I heard them go to their room already." I nodded my head and closed my eyes, feeling everything around me disappear as my body started to become cold.

As soon as my feet were on the ground again, I opened my eyes.

"What the hell?" I gasped and looked around, "Seriously? Of all the places, I had to shimmer in the middle of the desert!" I yelled in frustration.

Okay, okay, calm down, I thought. Focus and think about where you want to be. I closed my eyes once more and felt the ground disappear.

I opened them to see that I was surrounded by snow, but not the snow from the North Pole.

"ANTARCTICA?" I screamed. Hearing a roar behind me, I turned around to see Polar Bears walking around with their noses to the snow. I looked around them for sleds or Coca Colas; I believe its what they use for transportation and nutrition.

Shrugging when I didn't see any, I closed my eyes once more and begged for the North Pole. When I felt ground under my feet, I kept my eyes closed and hesitantly opened one.

"I did it!" I squealed, but quieted myself when I saw that it was dark and everyone was in their rooms sleeping. I scurried to the Great Hall and saw that the rest of the crew were already there.

"Hey, you guys!" I whisper yelled.

"Bella!" they yelled in the same tone and cocooned me in a hug.

"Okay, okay, I missed you all too, but I want to see my parents really quick." I said and grabbed Brandon's hand. I ran outside, dragging him behind me, to their bedroom window.

"Okay, put me on your shoulders." I instructed. Rolling his eyes, he picked me up so I could see inside their bedroom window. I held in my gasp, there, in front of me, were my parents in bed sleeping. My father was holding my mother as she lay on his chest. I wished I was little again, so I could sleep in their bed like I used to. I felt so safe and warm there.

"Hey!" someone whisper yelled from behind us. Brandon turned us around to see an elf on his balcony looking down at us. "May I help you?" he asked.

"Yes, have you seen two guys that look like us? It seems we've lost track of our chicken fight." I said politely. Shaking his head, he walked back into his room without answering. "How rude." I said and jumped down from Brandon's shoulders.

We ran back into the Great Hall where everyone was waiting.

"Finally!" Shane threw his arms.

"Shut up." I chuckled and held out my hands for them to grab.

"Bella, please don't shimmer us to the bottom of the ocean like last time." Brandon shivered, "I still can't watch the discovery channel without hyperventilating."

I rolled my eyes and grunted before begging to go back home. Opening my eyes, I gave a small squeal of delight when I saw I had done it in one try.

They all let out sighs of relief when they saw that I wasn't panicking.

"What's up!" Lilly whispered with a huge smile.

"Lilly!" they continued to whisper, thank god! I didn't want to explain to James and Vicki why my room was filled with elves.

I took a good look at my friends. I know we've been gone for one day, but I had missed them so much. Brandon, with his tanned skin and muscular body, still hadn't cut his hair like I advised. His long bang still swept in front of his eyes, and he shook it back in his usual Justin Bieber fashion. When his brown eyes caught mine, I smiled.

He called for me with a nodding of his head and the opening of his arms. I gladly took the invitation and gave him a hug. Brandon was the big brother I had always wanted, and though we tried out the dating thing and it didn't work, we were still best friends without the awkwardness.

"I missed ya, Bells." He said. I hummed and took in his scent, hacking at the strong scent of soot.

"Sleigh bells, Brandon! You didn't take a shower today?" I asked. Brandon's family job was to clean the chimneys around the workshop, along with the chimneys that my father goes down during Christmas. He is one of the few elves that leave with Santa; a job that isn't so glamorous, but is highly wanted, so they could experience the sight of my father doing his job.

"What? It's not that bad!" he shook his head and sat on the floor.

"Yeah, to a chain smoker." I mumbled and hugged Amira.

"You look so pretty, Amira." I commented. She could go against Rosalie and win! Her platinum blonde hair and icy blue eyes could kill the confidence of any girl, but if you ever got to know her, you'd see that she is extremely humble…unless you piss her off. Then, she's scary as hell.

"Me? Look at you, Bells, you're look so gorgeous." I scoffed, "None of that, you know we've talked about this." She said. I giggled and gave her another hug, getting a whiff of her fruity smell. She always smelled like the fruits she worked with.

Amira is one of the rare elves who aren't destined to work with their family. Instead, she was born to be a caregiver to the garden. Her gentle touch and soft voice when she spoke to the garden plants and fruits made it clear just why she was chosen to do such a job. She had the patience of a saint and a green thumb that could rival Mother Earth's.

I looked up to see Shane and Kevin punching each other's shoulder. Rolling my eyes, I watched as Shane grabbed his shoulder in pain. He knew not to go up against Kevin when it came to that stupid game. Shane was incredibly lanky with absolutely no muscle mass, but his hands were delicate and soft, making him perfect for ornament making. But even without muscles, he had a girlfriend, which wasn't surprising.

Shane is the funniest guy you'll ever meet. He had a heart of gold and would try to make you laugh when you felt like you could never be happy again. I loved that about him the most!

Kevin, who was just as built as Brandon, was extremely sexy! He is the most serious of the group, the protector if you will, especially of Lilly, Amira, and I. Sure, he smiles, laughs, and jokes around with us, but he is not a person that you want to anger.

His jet black hair and grey eyes will scare the crap out of you, but he wouldn't hurt a fly if he didn't have to. His muscles aren't something he flaunts, though I would love him to! He takes pride in staying in shape, since, like his family, he's a carpenter. They aren't actually into using a lot of technology, residing in building things the old fashion way with a hammer and saw, so he needs the strength to do his job.

"LaLa, are you going to just stand there, or are we going to go?" Lilly huffed.

I rolled my eyes, "Let's ride." We jumped out of my window and raced into the forests with the crew following Lilly and I.

As soon as the house came into sight, while we were still at least a mile away, I stopped them.

I started to take out black clothes from a bag and handed them to Amira, Lilly, Kevin, and Brandon.

"Here, change into these." I instructed.

"Where the hell did that bag come from?" Shane asked.

Chuckling, I threw on a black turtle neck sweater, black cap, and black gloves.

"These clothes will hide our scents, since I practically soaked them in Pledge or Pine Sol."

"Wait, where's my clothes?" Shane asked, but gulped when a leery smile crept on my face and I held up another bag.

"How the hell does she do that?" Amira asked Lilly, who shrugged.

"You, my friend, are going to dress up as an old woman." I admitted.

"Wha-why?"

"Because, what we need is on the book shelf in the living room and we need them to be distracted! What's going to happen is we are going to change your look completely, then we're going to dirty you up to look like you were stumbling through the forest. Make sure to make a lot of noise too. Then you have to knock on the door and look completely lost and ask for their help, but you're going to be a little c-nile. When they are distracted with you at the door, hopefully they'll all come to see who it is, I'll shimmer in and grab it really quick and then shimmer out. After they finish what they have to do upstairs, Brandon…" I turned to him, "You will change into different clothes, and knock on the door looking frazzled and panicky, asking them if they've seen your mother and how she just wandered off, so on and so forth."

I took a deep breath, "You got it?" I asked. Everyone had their mouths hanging open and eyes wide as saucers, but they nodded their heads anyway. "Great!"

I bent down and opened the prosthetics case.

"You didn't have that anywhere on you!" Shane said, but Amira shushed him.

"It's a mystery we'll never figure out." She sighed.

"Come here, Shane." I commanded.

For the next half hour, we glued prosthetic skin that was old and wrinkly on his face. We put a ton of makeup on his face, and fitted his grey haired wig on his head. He put on a hideous purple flowery moo moo over the body suit that I took out of another big black bag, which gave him saggy boobs and made him look fat. We had to help him into the white crocks, but finally his makeover was done! I doused him in old people perfume to hide his scent, and then the fun began.

We all took turns smearing dirt and grass on him as he squirmed to try and get away.

"Hey, stop, Shane, we have to make you look like you've been in the woods for hours." I giggled.

He sighed, but stopped, "Whatever."

We stuck leaves in his hairs and onto his clothes, and with a little more dirt, he was through.

"Here's your cane." I handed him the grey cane with the four silver legs at the bottom.

"How…I'm not even going to ask." I nodded my head in agreement and sent him on his way.

"Remember to make noise, and whatever you do, do not let them try to wipe your face off!" I whispered yelled.

He grunted and made lots of noises as he walked away from us and towards the Cullen's home.

"Come on, let's go to that tree we were on." Lilly said. We ran and climbed the tree to watch the show from there. Each of us sat on different branches that could hold our weight, but we would still be able to get a good view of the show.

As Shane got closer, I saw some of the Cullen's look up and at each other. Only Esme, Carlisle, Jasper, and Alice were on the first floor, while the rest were upstairs. I could see Edward lying on a leather couch with his arm thrown over his face.

So, that's his room!

Finally, Shane knocked on the door loudly.

"I wonder who that could be?" Esme said as she got up. When she answered it and saw Shane, she gasped. "Oh, dear!"

Everyone came rushing downstairs and towards the door to see what the commotion was about.

"This is our chance." I said and jumped from the tree with everyone following. I closed my eyes and shimmered into their living room and by their book shelf, while I sent the rest of them upstairs into Edward's room. Grabbing what I needed off of their book shelf, I shimmered into his room to see if they were finished.

When they saw me, they rushed over to me with the stuff. I opened the glad air freshener, that automatically sprayed when it detected motion, and took out the small aerosol can from inside and replaced it with the lethal spray that Brandon brought.

'Liquid Ass' it read.

I refrained from giggling at the name and replaced the other aerosol can with this one. After I closed the top, I cut a medium sized hole in the front so the spray could come out. I handed it to Brandon, who rewired it, so that it wouldn't spray until morning when Edward would be getting ready for school.

Placing it where Edward would not be able to see it, but it would spray onto him was the difficult part of the operation. Finally, we decided on placing it under the crevice under his counter sink where he'd stand in front of the mirror in the morning.

We gave each other soft high fives before shimmering the hell out of there and back to the tree.

"Oh my god, that was so tinsel!" Lilly squealed softly as we climbed back to our space. We decided to watch a little of the show before going to get Shane.

"Ma'am, how did you end up in the forest?" Carlisle asked as he handed Shane a glass of water.

"Oh, come; let me take a look at you." Shane said with an awesome old lady voice that shook when he spoke, completely ignoring Carlisle's question. He held his hands in the air and waited for Carlisle to stick his face in.

Carlisle hesitantly put his face in Shane's hands.

Shane gasped, "You are the spitting image of my son, Austen! Just as handsome as can be! Wait, what's that?" Shane turned Carlisle's face to the side, "Oh, you have a little smootze, let me get that for you." Shane spit on his thumb and wiped the spot where he 'saw' a stain.

I about fell out of the tree holding in my laughter, while the rest of them weren't doing any better.

"Um, thank you." Carlisle said as he lifted his head up and took a few steps back. "Ma'am, what's your name?"

"Oh, deary, I'm so sorry! Where are my manners when I'm hosting a shindig! My name is Dorothy McClain, come sit and let me get you all something to drink!" Shane got up and walked towards a wall.

"Really, that won't be necessary, Ms. McClain." Rosalie caught him and sat him back down on the couch.

"Why look at you, little one." Shane patted Rosalie's cheek, "You and my granddaughter, Amira, look just alike! Can you do me a favor? She does this little dance that just warms my heart every time, would you do it for me?" Shane requested.

Surprisingly, Rosalie's eyes softened, and she nodded her approval.

"Oh, goodie! She does the chicken dance, and I just love to do it with her!" he said excitedly.

"Oh, I can't miss this." I pulled out a camcorder to record. I heard a chorus of sighs and grumbles about where I pulled out these things, but they would never find out.

I hit record when Emmett started singing the music to the chicken dance and Rosalie began to dance with Shane following on the couch.

"Everyone, join in!" he yelled gleefully. Hesitantly, everyone joined, except for Emmett, who gladly assisted Rosalie while he sang the music. For about five minutes they did the dance, until Shane complained about being tired.

"Okay, let's put him out of his misery." I stopped the camera and jumped down. I took a white dress shirt, plants, and black shoes from out of a bag and handed it to Brandon.

"Put these on." I instructed him and turned around with Amira and Lilly so we couldn't see. When he was finished I grabbed his hand, "We're going to shimmer back to the house and grab James car, so he can drive it to the house." I informed them before shimmering back to the house.

I set him by the car, while I shimmered inside to grab James' keys from off the hook by the door. Shimmering the car, me, and Brandon at the beginning of the turn towards the Cullen's house wasn't easy, but I managed to do it.

"Drive up to the house and act frazzled. Mess up your hair a little and look lost. Beg and ask if they have seen your mother, and I think you can run with it from there." I said as I patted his shoulder.

"Ah, an acting gig, I always knew this was my true career path, but I'm settling for my line of work now. I don't think Hollywood is ready for an elf with this much talent just yet." He sighed with a shake of his head.

I rolled my eyes and chuckled, "Just do your job." I said and shimmered back to the gang. We climbed the tree once more and watched with anticipation.

Finally, Brandon drove to the house, and with a screeching halt, he jumped out of the car and ran up to the door.

"Don't overdo it, you idiot." I giggled with Lil, Amira, and Kevin joining in.

Brandon practically beat down the door, when finally Carlisle answered it.

"Yes, how may I help you?" he asked with a little more bark in his bite.

"Please, sir, have you heard anything about a lost woman. The people in town told me to check with you at the hospital, but you weren't there! And no one there has seen a lost woman today, please sir, you have to help me!" Brandon begged as he tugged as his hair.

"Wait, what is this woman's name?" Carlisle asked.

"Her name is Dorothy McClain." He said it slowly.

"Come on in, sir." Carlisle brought Brandon in and led into the living room, where Shane was playing in Alice's hair.

"Mom!" Brandon yelled and rushed over to him.

"Austen? What are you doing at this party, this party is for adults? Now, you march you're little tail upstairs and go to bed this instant!" Shane commanded with a wag of his finger.

"No, mom…"

"NO?" Shane interrupted, "Don't you make me lay you over my knee and spank that little bottom!" Shane threatened. I rolled my eyes, such the drama queen.

"Mom, this isn't your house and this isn't a party. Look at you, you're a mess! Didn't we tell you not to wander off like that anymore?" Brandon said as he sat down by Shane and turned towards the Cullen's. "We're from Seattle, and we're passing through, but I stopped at the gas station not too far from here. Mom said she needed to stretch her legs, so I let her out. I turn around for a two minutes to pay for the gas and she's gone! Thank you…thank you for taking care of her." he finished as he held Shane in his arms.

"It's no problem...Austen?" Carlisle said like a question as he looked at his own arms then looked Brandon up and down. I heard him mutter, 'Yeah, we're the spitting image alright' before plastering on a smile once more.

"Well, I think we'll be going now. Thank you, again, for your hospitality." Brandon said as he helped Shane. "Come on, mom, we still have a couple of hours before we get to Kevin's house." He said.

"Oh, Kevin, how I miss him so! Him and his fat little cheeks." Shane said before turning to Edward, who he was passing by, and stopped, "And I don't mean his face." She winked and smacked Edward's butt.

I clamped my hands over my mouth to stop from laughing out loud.

"Mom, don't do that!" Brandon chastised.

"What? He has a nice ass." Shane said as they walked out of the door. I could hear Emmett's guffaw's as he held onto Jasper, who was laughing just as loud.

"I'm sorry about that." Brandon apologized, "Have a nice night." He said as he walked Shane to the car and got him in.

They drove away while we followed behind them in the forest. As soon as I shimmered us into my room, we collapsed into quiet laughter, using anything that we could get our hands on to muffle it.

"Sleigh Bells, Shane, I didn't know you were going to smack his ass!" I giggled.

"Did you see Edward's face when you did it?" Amira giggled. We all stopped laughed and did an interpretation of his face, widening our eyes and dropping our jaw. Of course Shane crossed his eyes, before laughing again quietly.

"Wow, that felt good." I sighed before becoming sad, "It's time to shimmer you guys back."

'No's' and 'I don't wanna go's' could be heard, but either way I had to send them home. Lilly and I gave each one a big hug. I got in a circle with the crew, leaving Lilly here while I dropped them off, and begged to shimmer into the Great Hall.

Thankfully, the begging seemed to work.

I gave Amira, Brandon, Kevin, and Shane a big hug once more. "Shane, that'll come right off. Just peel it off, and use soap and warm water to get the glue off your face." I told him.

"Thanks, Bells, we'll see you next time." He said with a wave. I waved good bye to them and shimmer back home where Lilly was laying on my bed.

"I miss them already." She said as she grabbed my hand when I layed next to her.

"I know, Lilly." I sighed, "I know."


A/N: Do you like it? Love it? Hate it? I thought I wrote this chapter much better, but hopefully somemore people will leave some reviews telling me what happened. Until the next update!