Chapter 6: Emmett
Alice had tried to get me to skip to class with her, but I'd told her it wasn't a good idea because I would most likely trip and fall. With that, she'd left me to walk to gym by myself after wishing me luck again. So, I sigh as I walk into the gym and introduce myself to my teacher, Coach Clapp. When he's done explaining the rules – there are a lot of rules – I turn around and bump into something hard. Stumbling backwards, someone catches me before I fall. They're freezing cold and as I look up into black eyes, I start breathing heavily and struggle to break free of the giant's grip.
Emmett Cullen was towering over me, gripping my arm so I won't fall.
"Let go," I tell him, still struggling to break free of his bone crushing grip.
"Are you sure you want me to do that?" he asks with a slight edge in his voice.
"Yes!" I yell at him, still struggling to get away, "Just let me go."
"Okay," he tells me with a smirk, "Whatever you say."
With that, he lets go and I lose my balance, which makes me fall backwards. I scream as I fight to regain my balance or catch myself, but I'm surprised when I stop before I hit the ground. Sure enough, Emmett had done it again. His arm is wrapped around my waist, keeping me just inches above the ground and he's leaning over me with an amused smirk that seems sort of antagonizing.
"Ha ha. My hero," I say sarcastically as I roll my eyes and cross my arms, "So, what am I? Your new play thing? You seem to enjoy letting me fall."
This must have been what Alice was warning me about before.
"Well, I can't let you hurt yourself," Emmett says with a small raise of his eyebrows, "You might bleed all over the place."
So, he's thirsty. Then why isn't he dragging me away somewhere so he can kill me for my blood?
"Hasn't anyone ever told you not to play with your food?" I say quietly as I realize how strange our position is, "And will you please back up a bit?"
He chuckles as he realizes how weird this is getting. "What can I say?" he answers with a shrug, making no movement to back away, "I'm a guy… I like close places."
I smirk at him. "Won't Rosalie be jealous?" I retort, wiping the smile off his face.
He sighs and stands up straight, pulling me up with him. When I'm balanced, he removes his arm from around my waist and steps back a bit. "You're not going to tell her about this, right?" he asks, looking like a little kid who did something wrong.
"If I don't, Alice might," I say, remembering how she seemed to know about what happened in Biology before anyone else.
"You know about Alice?" Emmett asks, his coal black eyes widening a bit.
"Yeah, and I hope she bites your head off," I tell him and stalk off into the girls' locker room to change for the class before he can say anything else.
I add another thing to the list: "extremely strong".
I walk out to class, having a feeling it was going to be torture and – you know what? – I'm right. We are supposed to be playing badminton, but mostly I just fall down a lot and get hit by the birdie and my own racket. I think Emmett is enjoying himself because he's on my team, but insists I try to cover my own spot. I notice Mike is on the other team and he's trying not to hit the birdie in my direction.
The one time I actually try to follow the birdie, I trip and fall into Emmett, managing to catch him off guard and hit him in the face with my racket. I think I'm hurt more, but he seems really annoyed with me. I can tell he's caught between amusement and frustration. Joy. Now, I've managed to get the big one mad at me. It was different with Edward. He wasn't in my gym class where he could use any number of the various gym equipment as a torture device. I back away from Emmett quickly and brush myself off. Just then, the bell rings and I quickly rush back to the locker room, change, and dart out of the gym as fast as possible.
Sighing to myself, I realize I still have to go to the front office and return my paper to Ms. Cope. So, I pick up the pace a bit, suddenly sure of what I need to do next. I get to the main office and quickly hurry inside and out of the cold. Taking a few seconds to warm up, I hand over the slip and Ms. Cope asks me how my day was.
Just as I'm about to answer, Edward and Emmett burst into the room and we all say, "I want a transfer."
I look over at their stern expressions, but they barely glance in my direction. I just cast them an angry glare before turning back to Ms. Cope, who is staring wide-eyed at the three of us.
"And what seems to be the problem?" she finally asks in confusion.
We all start talking at the same time, complaining and arguing about what happened in class. "One at a time," Ms. Cope tells us and we stop talking, "Edward, you may speak first."
I roll my eyes. This should be good. "Thank you, Ms. Cope," he replies politely, giving me a look out of the corner of his eye, "I want to transfer out of Biology because Isabella keeps harassing me."
"I did not!" I yell at him, "You were harassing me. I was just sticking up for myself."
"Isabella Swan, it's not your turn to talk," Ms. Cope scolds me before turning back to Edward, "Please continue."
This is infuriating. I cross my arms and scowl, impatiently waiting for my turn to speak. Emmett chuckles silently at my immaturity. I turn to glare and stick out my tongue at him. Edward had finished talking and Ms. Cope was staring at my rude behavior.
"Well, since you all seem to get along so well, I'll just keep you all in the same class."
We all turn to stare at her and then start arguing again.
"But she hit me with a badminton racket," Emmett complains.
"Only because he was hitting on me," I argue back.
Emmett stares at me, clearly shocked at my rebuttal. Edward barely notices. It's almost as if he's heard the argument before. Silently, I wonder if Alice had anything to do with it. I'm still confused about how she'd known about what I'd done to Edward and about Emmett being in my gym class. Just because they weren't human didn't mean they had unearthly abilities… did it?
Ms. Cope shakes her head at us in disappointment. "I don't care what the reason is," she informs us with a sigh, "I'm not changing your schedule no matter how much you argue."
"But you have to," Edward continues to plead with her, "Please… I need a transfer from sixth hour Biology. Any other time will do." His voice was strained as if he'd been struggling to fight some silent force.
"And I don't want to risk anyone getting hurt in gym," Emmett chimes in, obviously implying he didn't want to witness me spilling my guts out all over the gym floor in case I hit him during the fall. Not that it would hurt him; after all, that poor badminton racket broke on impact. At least we are all after the same thing – a separate class away from the other.
"I'm sorry, boys, but it seems I can't do anything about it. None of you – that includes you, Isabella – are getting a transfer," Ms. Cope finally tells us sternly, "Emmett, you already transferred from your previous gym class to this one due to an unfortunate accident, so I can not permit you another transfer. Edward and Bella, since nobody was really injured, I don't have a good enough reason to give you one. You will all go to the same scheduled classes tomorrow. Is that clear?"
Edward is clenching and unclenching his fist and grinding his teeth. He wouldn't try to hurt Ms. Cope, would he? Of course, he will… He's a vampire and he's thirsty. Now that I look closer, so is Emmett.
"We understand," I say to Ms. Cope before turning toward the vampires.
I figure they're able to smell my scent, so maybe I can get them to follow me instead of Ms. Cope. I take a deep breath and walk right between them, grabbing their wrists and tugging hard in attempt to get them to leave. Surprisingly enough, Edward jerks away suddenly and darts out of the room, leaving me and Emmett to stare.
(A/N) Hey, how's all my happy little readers? I think for now I'm kinda doing okay… not that anyone really cares. What do you think will happen next? Thx for all the lovely reviews and keep them coming. I'm still looking for 3 each chappie, but I will update weekly unless I don't get three. :D Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and merry New Year to you all!
Many blessings from,
Girly 411
EDIT:
Yeah, same changes were made this time… I fixed the formatting and I corrected grammatical errors. You know, looking back at it, I think I kinda liked this chapter as much as the last one. =) Hmm… I dunno… Chapter 4 was also pretty interesting, but 5 and 6 are my favorites so far. I wonder what else I'll come up with. =/
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Revised: 10/28/11
Reposted: 10/30/11