Chapter 4 – First Night

EPOV

"All right, time to go, everyone!" I called out into the house. Alice and Jasper flew down the stairs, closely followed by Emmett and Rosalie. I wrapped an arm around Bella as Carlisle and Esme finally descended.

"Yes!" Emmett shouted. "Time to go for some grizzlies!"

Bella rolled her eyes and I just grinned.

"There'd better be some mountain lions left," I said in response.

"Um, Alice?" Rosalie said, barely hiding her chuckles. "You might want to change into something else."

Alice looked down, and we laughed. She was wearing her favorite outfit, which happened to be very light-colored. "Well, dang it!" she muttered.

A second later, she was back in some older clothes. Why do I never get to wear pretty clothes for hunting?

"Because chances are, that'll be the last time you wear it," I told her, smirking.

Shut up, stupid mind reader.

I just laughed, and Bella tightened her arms around me.

"All ready? Let's go!" Carlisle said. We all ran out the door into black forest.

My hand was on Bella's. "Let's see who can catch a mountain lion first!" I challenged.

"If there are any," she murmured.

"There are; can't you smell it?" I asked her.

Suddenly, she darted off into the forest.

"Hey!" I yelled. "No fair!"

All I heard was her beautiful, musical laugh coming at me from the forest.

Soon enough, I found her, bent over a lion's body. She was a good hunter; unlike Emmett, who let his poor grizzly targets just die slowly and excruciatingly, Bella quickly snaps the animal's neck. When her head snapped up, her lips were covered in blood.

She jumped at me, flinging me to the ground. "I win," she whispered seductively in my ear. I pulled her mouth to mine and kissed her, licking the sweet blood off her lips.

"Hey!" she said, laughing. "Go get your own lion."

"Will do," I muttered. We stayed stock-still, and soon my own lips were blood-covered.

"Now..." Bella trailed off. "We need a deer to finish off the meal."

I laughed. "I prefer elk," I told her.

"Go get your elk, I'm getting my deer."

Wandering into the woods, I heard Emmett's thoughts before I saw him.

Idiot grizzly...he's got no fight in him....

"Hey, Em, why don't you just finish the deed, instead of torturing the poor animal to death?" I suggested.

Emmett just grinned. "Hunting's more fun this way," he insisted.

"Whatever." At that moment, the faint scent of elk - a herbivore - wafted up to my nose. I followed the trail until I saw a lone elk, drinking from a small puddle. I gathered my weight into my legs, and sprang at the creature. In a second, I had all the animal's blood in me. When I looked up, I groaned. I'd landed right in the puddle, and I was soaked. Then I heard the most beautiful laugh in the world come from above me.

"Interesting hunt," Bella laughed, waving down at me from her place in the tree. I held my arms out to her and she leapt gracefully into them.

I picked her up and ran with her to where the others were finishing up. "Ready for college, love?" I asked while I ran.

"Not really, but I don't really have a choice now, do I?" she grinned, looking up at me.

Carlisle and Esme weren't in sight, but we found Emmett and Rosalie. They were…well…in the middle of a romantic act. I winced as Emmett's mind revealed disturbing things I never wanted to know about Rosalie.

"Tune it down, Em," I told him. "God, it's so hard to be the only mind reader here."

Jasper and Alice appeared hand in hand from the trees. Jasper looked unsurprised to find Emmett and Rosalie like that. They're just sick and that's the end of it.

"Too true," I agreed.

Alice was racking her brain for visions of anything that goes wrong in Dartmouth. I thought about our plans for the next few days. Because we signed up late, we had to go to the campus office the next day for some papers and introductions.

Emmett and Rosalie finally broke apart a few seconds before Carlisle and Esme came in sight. Emmett was planning…oh, Lord; this was going to be a loud night.

We all ran back to the house, and it was only two thirty a.m. We had plenty of time.

Bella must've been thinking the same thing because her hand tightened around mine and she leaned into me.

We flew up the stairs to our room and shut the door. Bella leapt on me, pushing me down to the bed.

As we were in the middle of our time alone, Emmett's mind became increasingly X-rated.

My expression must've been pained, because Bella paused. "What?" she asked me tenderly.

"Emmett."

She laughed. "Well, at least they're not right next to us. I bet that Jasper and Alice's minds are much more tranquil.

"Yes," I agreed. Their minds only held their pure love for each other, but Emmett…ugh!

I rolled off Bella after a while, and we lay side by side, gasping for air.

"Edward?" she whispered sweetly in my ear.

"Yes?"

"What's my alibi again?"

I mentally groaned. She already forgot what she was going under. "You, Emmett, Rosalie, and I are going to be the Cullens, and Alice and Jasper are the Hales. Emmett and I are brothers, and your major is in medicine, your minor is in literature. It's the same as mine, basically."

"So we're going to have the same schedules?"

"Yes, except for maybe one class," I answered. "The two required classes that all freshmen have to take are randomly chosen, so you could have either one, either semester. But it's only one class, so even if we are apart…."

"I really hope that we have it together," she whispered.

"Me too, love."

AN: Sorry, this chapter sucks! The next one will be better I promise!

Well I hope….

But I have major writer's block right now. Do I deserve to ask for reviews?

Probably not….