Edward, Emmett, and Jasper were running as fast as their little vampire feet could take them, which by the way is pretty damn far. Far off in the distance they could hear the girls screaming. The screams urged them only to get farther and farther away until they came to the Canadian border and which point Emmett skidded to a halt.
"Wait a minute you guys!" He said as Jasper and Edward stopped too.
"Come on! You want them to catch us?" Jasper pleaded looking over into Canada hopefully.
"We can't go into Canada! That is where they will think we are going!" Emmett announced. "We have to go somewhere else. Somewhere they will never be able to guess."
"For once I think Emmett is right about something." Edward mused. "But where should we go?"
"Florida?" Jasper wondered aloud.
"It's too sunny there…" Edward trailed off thinking to himself. Suddenly he turned towards Emmett. "No! We are not going there!"
"Going where?" Jasper asked curiously looking between his brothers.
"Oh come on! It's dark in there!" Emmett pleaded.
"You are a married man!"
"What the hell are you two talking about?" Jasper was asking anxiously.
"Emmett wants to go to a strip club." Edward announced distastefully.
"Okay, fine! We won't go to the stupid strip club. You guys ruin everything; Rose would want to go to a strip club with me!"
"Oh yeah? Well if you love Rose so much maybe you should just go marry her!" Jasper accused.
"I already did like eighteen times!" Emmett shouted back.
"Oh no I can smell them again!" Edward looked very scared all of a sudden.
"Oh my God! Oh my God! What do we do? We got to get out of here!" Emmett started to run in a circle. "I'm too young to die!""
Jasper slapped Emmett across the face rather harshly. "Emmett you're hysterical!"
"Oh. Sorry." Emmett relaxed and rubbed his red cheek. "But seriously what are we going to do?"
A train whistle blew off in the distance. All three vampire boys turned to the noise at the same time. "I know! Let's follow the train tracks and see where that takes us!" Jasper pointed out.
"Yeah!" Edward and Emmett shouted together. And off the boys went in search of the train tracks. When they finally found they tracks they stopped running and began to walk alongside them happily.
"So what do you suppose will happen if the girls ever do catch up to us?" Emmett asked solemnly after walking a few more miles.
"I don't want to think about it…" Jasper shuddered.
"Hey let's not talk about that okay? We are all going to be fine. Besides we are bachelors now." Edward was balancing himself on one of the railings, his arms were held aloft to give him more balance.
"What about you two? Edward you already have a kid and Jasper you got one on the way."
Jasper started to cry a little bit at the reminder and Edward just shrugged to himself. "Does anyone even really care about that kid? I sure as hell don't and I don't think Bella does either. That's why she always lets her hang out with a wolf-man."
Jasper stopped crying to nod in agreement. "Hey do you guys hear that train coming?"
"Yeah are you thinking what I am thinking?" Emmett's eyes were full of excitement.
"Actually I am thinking what you are thinking." Edward answered coolly. "And I think it's a bad idea."
Jasper waited for Emmett to tell him what was going on again. "Fine then Mr. Grumpy Pants, Jasper and I are going to jump into one of the boxcars and you can just keep walking."
Edward read the excitement go off in Jaspers head too now. "Oh man…" He groaned.
"Two against one, sorry man." Jasper patted Edward on the back and waited with Emmett for the train to show up.
"You both know that the girls can run faster than a train and might be able to catch up to us right?" Edward tried unsuccessfully to persuade them.
"Yeah but they aren't going to know we got on a train. Besides they are probably snooping around in Canada right now." Emmett waved him off. The train slowly chugged its way into view. "This is going to be awesome!"
The train was passing the boys and they found an open boxcar. "Quick let's go!" Jasper shouted running towards the train. The all jumped in one by one rocking the boxcar slightly. "We made it!" Emmett shouted gleefully.
"Hey you! Get off this is my boxcar!" They all turned around to look at the opposite corner. A man with a dirty face and beard glared at them from beneath his oversized trench coat.
"Wow! It's a real hobo!" Emmett was amazed at the dirty old man.
"I said get off my boxcar or I will cut you." He pulled out a rusty pocket knife and pointed it in Edward's direction.
A few seconds later a dirty old hobo was lying beside the train tracks grumbling to himself while Edward was dusting off his hands. "He left his banjo." Jasper observed picking up the stringed instrument.
"Play us a tune." Emmett sat down so that his legs were dangling outside the car.
"What makes you think I can play a banjo?" Jasper asked.
"Well you grew up around that stuff when you were human didn't you?"
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"Stop arguing guys you are giving me a headache. Or maybe it is just the smell of this train. Either way shut up." Edward was sitting alone in the corner of the car.
They sat in silence for a little while. "Maybe we should head to Australia. Esme will protect us." Emmett suggested.
"No, we can't keep running to them every time we need help. We are grown adults after all." Edward rubbed his eyes.
"So we just keep riding the train until it stops?" Jasper asked.
"I guess that's the plan." Edward sighed. Emmett nodded and went back to staring out at the open fields of grass. "I sure hope that hobo doesn't decide to come back." he said out loud but more to himself.
They all remained quiet until the train stopped hours later.
