Things To Ponder
Question 4
A.N: So I want to thank tjPCfreak for the question in the review! But yeah, short again, I know. It's hard to write a bunch statements when you are arguing over it with yourself. Hope you enjoy though! And 50 Things To Do When You're Bored Vampire Style is up.
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
Emmett
"This is so much better than the questions Alice keeps asking," I stated, nodding me head. Jasper just wouldn't listen to me. I knew I couldn't be that convincing, but come one! He was telling me he would rather argue about the answer to some question that there was no answer too than watch this baseball game. "Believe me, I would know."
"And believe me, I would know too!" He replied hastily, raising an eyebrow. "Only you would think this is better because you don't have the attention span to stay concentrated on the questions for more than ten minutes. These questions make you think. And last time I checked, we've been watching baseball for over fifty years. There is only so much you can learn watching re-runs over and over again." Well, he had a point there.
"I honestly don't care what your opinion is. I'm asking the questions whether or not you like them," Alice interrupted angelically. Bella and Rose trailed after her, bags from shopping in hand. "And you're staying here whether you like it or not, too."
"What's going on now?" Rose asked, rolling her eyes at the sight of us arguing. Edward still hasn't said anything, helping Bella with the bags. "Emmett, please tell me you're behaving." What? I don't need supervision.
I was about to reply when Bella snorted. "Just ignore them like we usually do. Alice, what's the question?" I guess Bella has been hanging out with us a little too much now a day. She sounds like Rose and Alice…What happened?
Alice smirked, eyeing Jasper and I. I leaned back against the couch, crossing my legs. If we were going to do this for the next hour or so, I better get comfortable. "If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is it homeless or naked?" I stared at her, what kind of question was that?
I turned to look over at my siblings, and Bella. They all appeared to be thinking their heads off, a serious question to them. "Wouldn't it just be homeless?" Jasper asked. "Think about it, that's a turtle's home. They carry theirs on their back, unlike other animals."
Rose raised an eyebrow. "Why would they be homeless? Their home would be the environment they were living in. It's like this; a house is someone's home, but after going on a long vacation and driving home, they say they're home when they are in their town. It's their environment. A home could be anything, and more than one meaning."
Edward nodded, disagreeing with her statement. I decided I wasn't gonna take part in this conversation, so I grabbed the remote and started flipping through channels. There was nothing good on TV, and the sound didn't drown out their voices. Darn ears. "If a turtle lost its shell, it would be dead. The creature's spine is connected to the shell, and if that is gone, the animal is too." Of course he knew everything about animals. All I knew about them was which ones tasted good, which ones didn't, and all of them run away when we come near.
"Really?" Alice asked, bouncing up and going to the kitchen. No doubt getting something for Bella. "Well, I guess that makes sense. But let's keep the conversation fake. If the turtle didn't die, would it be homeless or naked? I say both."
"Both, why?"
She came back, a bag of chips and a water bottle in her hands. She handed them to Bella, and then took a seat on the couch. "Well, I don't know? If you were ripped out of your home with all of your belongings in it, I guess you could say that you would feel naked. And the shell is its only protection-clothes or so to say. So technically in this conversation, he's both. The shell is both its clothes and home, without the shell, it's a lot of things."
"She's right," Bella agreed, snacking on her food. Ew. I still don't understand how she could eat such things that tasted so bad. I still can't believe I used to eat human food when I was human. But I'm pretty sure people would freak if I went out hunting and started drinking animal blood. Haha, that would be an awesome joke. "It's both."
"I still think it would be homeless," Jasper stated.
"And I still think it would be naked," Rose added.
"And you two can still think what you think. I just don't understand why you care about the body parts of turtles," I stated, throwing the remote across the floor. I looked up at them, expecting to see a surprised look, but all I got was eye rolls. "It's neither okay?"
"Why?" It was Edward who talked, much to my surprise. I thought one of the girls would ask me.
"Well cause I doubt the turtle would care. It would be like 'Why are you talking about me?' and what not."
Bella raised an eyebrow, smirking. "So you're calling yourself a turtle?"
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