I woke up yet again to find myself staring at the moving ground. "Whoa! Alice! C'mon the least you can do is wake me up!" She rolled her eyes at me. She set me down in the same clearing as the one I met Edward in. She licked my pelt with rythmic strokes. I laid there while she groomed me. "Okay, okay! Stop it!" now she was just doing it to bug me. She moved on to herself and I helped. She laid down and I laid pressed against her. We waited watching it grow dimmer. Then we heard rustling in the bushes. Out came one cat then another. They walked straight towards us. Once they were close enough I saw them more clearly. One of them was Huge. Emmett no duh. Jasper walked right up to Alice and touched noses. She started to purr. She beckoned me with her tail. I got up and marched right up to Emmett, he didn't even notice me! He was staring at Alice and Jasper. I put my paw on top of his and dug my claws in. Hard. He looked down at me in surprise. "Emmett you big jerk! Look what you did to us!" he stared at me. "Bella?" I stared at him not blinking with an angry expression. He burst into laughter. "Bella you're so small!" that's just the type of comment you'd get from a guy like Emmett. "Yeah thanks for the
support!" he laughed harder. Jasper was staring at me with unblinking yellow eyes. He nodded at me. Emmett was still howling with laughter. "Oh shut up! That's so mean! You were this small once!" he got up off the ground and sat down. "Sorry." I turned around and went to stand by Alice who was having a conversation with Jasper. I laid down next to her leg and fell asleep. I felt something pressing on me. I opened my eyes to see Emmett prodding me with his oversized paws. His eyes sparkling with amusement. "Wanna play?" I yawned and got up. "Sure. What are we playing?" he thought for a moment. "How about hide and seek?" I nodded. "But you have you be it first." he closed his eyes and pressed his face against the grass. "One, two, three......" he kept counting. I ran over to the nearest tree and hid in its tangled roots. "Ready or not! Here I come!" he looked around. Then headed over
in a direction where I couldn't see. "Boo!" he shouted behind me. I screamed. "Emmett you ass!" he laughed again. "That is not the kind of language I should be hearing from you." He stuck his nose in the hole. "What are yoouu going to do about it?" I extended my claws and pressed both paws down onto his nose. He yelped. I bit his nose. He pulled his head out and shook it sending me flying a couple of feet to the right. I landed with a thud, it knocked the breath out of me. I sucked in a jagged breath and winced in pain. Alice was over in an instant. "Emmett you hurt her!" she started licking me, that made it feel a little better. Suddenly I screamed in pain. She pulled away, her eyes filled with sorrow and pure fury. She whipped around to face Emmett "Look what you did!" her tail was lashing from side to side. She leaped at him and bit into his neck. He threw her off just like me. Alice was fighting, for me. Wow I had a feeling she loved me more than I knew. "I'm sorry okay! It was an accident!" she hissed at him. "How is that an accident!" she flicked her tail at me. "I think we should go now Emmett." Jasper commanded. He shot Alice a sympathetic look. He didn't bother coming closer, he knew Alice would kill him, so he just yelled "Sorry Bella!" Alice turned to face me again. "Are you okay? Where does it hurt?" I tried to sit up but she wouldn't let me. "Were going back, now." she picked me up very gently. And Emmett snickered. Jasper lashed a paw across his face. He deserved it. Alice started carrying me back to camp. I noticed a troubled look on her face. She stopped. And bit down hard. I wailed, "Alice stop it! You're hurting me!" she paid no attention I thrashed from side to side and screamed. She dropped me immediately. I just noticed I was bleeding. She looked at me slumped on the ground. Horror on her face. She started crying. "Bella!? Bella!? I'm so sorry! I don't know what happened!"She started licking me again. Getting rid of the blood in my fur. Tears streaming out of her eyes. "I'm okay Alice! Stop it! I'm..... Fine..." I suddenly drifted into unconsciousness. I found myself dreaming. A large battle was going on. I couldn't see it but I could hear it. I wanted to help but I couldn't move. The sound of the battle was getting weaker. I heard a loud and familiar scream. A voice murmured "you cannot save them all.... You will lose friends and your friends will lose you" it chanted again "you cannot save them all..."