A/N
Here is a brief shopping trip and the first day of school! Enjoy!
"Come on! We don't need to be late!" Alice was forcing us into cars so we could leave for our shopping trip. She was a sweet girl, unless you get in the way of her shopping.
Upon arriving everyone was watching Jasper like a hawk. Alice wouldn't let go of him and everyone else circled around him, except me.
"He isn't going anywhere guys. Were all right here, if he needs us I'm sure he will tell us. Let him breath." Jasper looked back at me and gave me a gracious smile, I just giggled.
When Alice got involved with one of the stores Jasper walked over to me.
"Thank you Bella."
"No problem. I wouldn't want people hovering over me."
"It's annoying."
"Sister! Look what I found!" I looked over to see Emmett wearing a matching set of bra and panties over his clothes.
"Emmett! Put those up right now! What did I tell you before leaving the house?..." Esme continued scolding him and I snickered.
"But you didn't say I couldn't try on bras and panties." He pouted.
"I didn't think I would have to!" The rest of my family laughed.
I suddenly had a strange sense that someone was watching us. I turned to see if there was anyone around but I couldn't find anyone. I relied on my hearing for a moment to see if anything seemed odd. There was nothing. Maybe some human was just being nosy.
"We need to get to the next store, let's move!" Alice was ushering people into the next store again. She kind of reminded me of a drill sargent.
"Hey Rose let's go in there!" Emmett pointed out Victoria's Secret.
"No Emmett! I told you when we left the house." Esme told him as he pouted.
"You guys can go to another store while we're in here. We will meet in the food court when we're ready." Esme told Carlisle.
We went inside the store, Alice's favorite, and got several pairs of undergarments.
"You ladies have a nice day!" The extremely perky sales woman told us as we made our expensive purchases.
We walked out of the store and into the food court. Alice wanted to go to one more store, Rose saw a hairstylist she liked and left to talk to him while Esme went into a jewelry store. That left me alone waiting for the guys.
Again the feeling of being watched came over me. It was odd that I couldn't place where the feeling came from and from whom it came from. I searched the court but found nothing odd. I felt a tap on my shoulder.
"Look Bella! It's a weasel ball!" Emmett had one of those toys where the stuffed weasel was attached to a ball that rolled around.
"Fascinating Emmett!" I said sarcastically. He frowned but continued playing with it.
"I named him Harry. Harry Peter." Emmett burst out laughing and his voice echoed through the food court where everyone turned to stare. "Get it? Harry Peter..." Again the laugh boomed.
"That's great Emmett. Can you try to keep your voice down?" He sighed
"Marvelous isn't he? His brain capacity doesn't even compete with a ten year olds." Jasper stated and I laughed.
Emmett pouted more and plopped in a chair and almost broke it because he wasn't watching his strength.
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We returned home and put our things away in our rooms. Again we decided on a movie, it was Jasper's turn, he picked Gettysburg.
"That isn't what happened!" I never understood why Jasper would pick these movies about the civil war and then get angry when they weren't accurate. All the same, he always picked them, and he always got angry.
School was only one and a half days away and now I was actually anxious for it to begin. It would give us something different to do for once. It would be nice.
Everyone got settled for the night in their rooms and I laid on my couch with my eyes closed. Although sleep would never take me, I still liked to take a few hours to rest like this. It eased my mind and gave me time to think. I knew something I wanted to do for Jasper today, give him a little something for his kind words the other day.
The sun rose and everyone was starting the day again. Carlisle left for work and Esme headed to her office for a new project on a house she was starting. Alice and Rose were watching TV while Jasper and Emmett were outside wrestling. I decided to head outside and watch.
Fighting was something I was good at. Over the years everyone taught me little things they knew, especially Jasper.
"You always cheat!" Emmett was complaining again.
"I do not. I just don't go for the obvious kill. Strength is nothing if you don't know how to use it." Emmett was stomping around whining and I took my chance.
I crouched down and stayed very quiet. Jasper saw me and knew what I was doing but said nothing. Emmett didn't even notice Jasper's brief distraction. I brought myself closer but made no noise that would give Emmett a clue.
"Brute strength is much better than having skill. You are always ready for an attack." As soon as he said that I tackled him and my lips were at his neck.
"You sure you're always ready for an attack?" I whispered. I looked over and Jasper was on his knees he was laughing so hard.
"No fair! You two double team and that isn't fair!" I joined Jasper in laughing. Emmett stomped inside and sat next to Rose.
"That was brilliant!" Jasper said while trying to contain his laughter.
"Thanks." I was beaming.
I took a moment and thought through the situation. I heard Emmett coming back outside but I didn't pay attention. I turned to Jasper who was fully focused on his laughing. Perfect shot.
I crouched again and pounced on the unsuspecting Jasper.
"Hey!" He yelled out as he hit the ground. I heard Emmett's guffaw of loud laughter and saw him rolling on the ground kicking his feet in hysterics. I was sure that if he could produce tears they would be pouring down his face.
I reached my hand out for Jasper and helped him up.
"On a serious note. I have a surprise for you. Let's leave. We won't be back for a while. Go tell Alice bye." He looked at me for a moment in confusion then ran in and told everyone bye. I grabbed my keys and he got in my car.
"Where are we going?" He asked still confused.
"You'll see."
After driving for a little over an hour at top speed we arrived in the middle of the wilderness. Jasper was even more confused now.
"Bella what are we doing?"
"Well, I knew you would have a hard time tomorrow. I also knew you wouldn't want to ask anyone to hunt since we all hunted the other day and you wouldn't want to seem weak. I wanted to take you. Tell you thank you for trying to help me with the whole...situation." He knew I was talking about the person that left me. I didn't have to explain.
"Bella, this is so kind of you. Thank you so much for doing this for me." He smiled at me and I could tell he was feeling many emotions right now. Relief, gratitude, love, excitement, and I'm sure more.
"Stop being sappy, we have bears to hunt." I smiled at him and we jumped out of the car.
We had our fill. There were still many bears out there and we would probably have one more before we left.
"I've noticed things haven't gotten too much better." He was looking at me with sorrow filled eyes.
"It's just hard. I hate feeling like I bring the family down. It isn't fair to everyone else."
"It doesn't matter. Everyone just wants you to be happy Bella. That's all we care about." He sifted through the emotions I knew he could feel. "Don't you even think that Bella! Whoever this guys is, you don't know what happened. None of us do. You are worth coming back for. Do not think for one second you're not!"
"How can I not think that Jasper? He wasn't there. Maybe he didn't really love me after all."
"Well if he didn't I'm glad he left. If I had met him when he left, I would have killed him for hurting you like this. He is crazy for not being with you."
I sighed heavily at that last comment. Everyone always says that. He's crazy if he doesn't love you. I wish someone would tell me something different for a change.
"Bella stop it. Don't even think it! I'm not lying to you! He is an idiot." He took a deep breath. "Like I said, we don't know why he wasn't there when you got back. You never know the reason for him leaving. Maybe he was looking for you. You. Never. Know." He looked pointedly at me.
"I'm sorry. I keep thinking I'll be fine but, I never am. I don't understand this."
"There is nothing to be sorry for." He put his arm on my shoulder. "You can't help the way you feel Bella. But you can help the way it affects you."
We arrived back home early Monday morning. School would be in a few hours and Jasper and I needed to get cleaned up after our hunt.
"Thanks again for taking me Bella." Jasper told me as we walked in the house.
"It was my pleasure. It's our little secret." I knew he wouldn't want the others to know I took him to hunt. He would feel even more weak if they knew.
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"Drive safely! Have fun, make new friends, and behave." Our mother turned to Emmett. "Do not pick on any of the humans. No arm wrestling any of the humans. No fighting with any of the humans..." As always, her list continued.
Rosalie and I drove to school and parked outside the office. We got our schedules and stood in the hall for a moment. The students were just starting to arrive.
I heard a few cat calls outside from the boys looking in and a few of the girls had their mouths dropped at Emmett and Jasper.
"Good morning class! These are two of our new students, Bella and Alice Brandon." After the teacher introduced us to our ogling classmates we took our seats next to each other.
"Hi. I'm John. Nice to meet you." The guy named John whispered to me.
"Hi. I'm Bella." I whispered back.
"Where are you from?" He asked quietly.
"Uh, we just moved here. From Alaska."
"Oh. That's cool. What was it like there?"
"Mr. Dale! Is there something you would like to share with the class?" The teacher was glaring at John.
"Uh...no sir Mr. Denton."
"Then I suggest you be quiet unless you want detention." After the class was over Alice and I left as quickly as possible, although it was quicker than it should have been.
"I had someone talking to me too! It was quiet sweet actually. He asked me for my number." Alice exclaimed excitedly.
"And that's a good thing?"
"Well, it was nice." She took it as a compliment, I thought it was rude. They didn't even know us and they were trying to pick us up already.
The rest of the day until lunch wasn't much better.
"It makes me uncomfortable." Jasper said at the lunch table after we mentioned the humans hitting on us.
"Tell me about it." I replied.
"It pisses me off. These girls won't stop trying to get a date with Emmett." Rosalie could be a very kind person...then again she could be a bitch. Especially if you flirted with Emmett.
At the end of the day Alice and I had gym I wasn't looking forward to that at all.
"Alright. Karate is going to be our subject for two weeks. Pick a partner and we will begin." The gym teacher explained.
Of course Alice and I would pair up but it didn't stop all the boys asking or the girls glaring.
Alice and I did very well with Karate, go figure. The teacher was amazed at how much we knew and wanted to enroll us in a class but we declined.
"I enjoyed today!" Alice was bouncing in the backseat. "How was your day Jasper?"
"I did fine I think. It just gets really difficult when they get close to you." You could tell he was uncomfortable with it but he tried to to complain too much. After arriving home Esme asked about our days and Alice and Emmett were the only ones extremely excited for tomorrow. Go figure.
A/N
So, we had some Emmett Bella bonding. I liked it, hope you did too! I liked this chapter, I hope it was what you guys wanted. I know you want Edward back right now but it isn't happening :) :)
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