Chapter 7: I Don't Know

I'm so confused. I had stopped in my tracks the moment Edward had rushed by me. The burst of cold air from the door brought me back to my senses. I look down and notice I'm still holding Emmett's wrist. I'd let go it if I didn't think he'd eat Ms. Cope as soon as I did. I yank on his wrist again and try to move forward so I can lead him outside. The wind must have blown my scent in his face because he follows me without a problem. He hesitates once we get outside and I drop his wrist as I turn to him.

"What is going on?" I demand an explanation, but he gives me a confused look, "I know I broke a racket over your face, but it's not like it hurt you… and it never would have happened if you'd just covered my spot instead of insisting that I tried."

Emmett just stares at me blankly as if deciding whether or not to talk to me. "What did you do to Edward?" he finally asks, flashing me an amused grin, but I glare back at him, "You must have done something. He came into the office asking for a transfer from your class and just now he ran away from you. What did you do?"

This is just great. The vampire runs away and his brother blames me. I roll my eyes at him and take a deep breath as another gust of wind blows at us from behind me. Emmett takes in a deep breath. "You smell good," he tells me as if that is both a compliment and a bad thing, "But why do you have garlic around your neck… and a cross?"

"It's for good luck," I give my sarcastic remark, "Maybe that's what made your brother leave."

"No, Eddie's just thirsty… You probably smelled too tempting," Emmett chuckles to himself and I start walking to my truck, but he easily catches up to me, "Tell me what you did in class to bother him. You didn't hit him, did you?" He scans me, probably checking for bruises on my hands and arms. Seeming satisfied, he looks over at my face, waiting for my response.

"If I hit him, I would have hurt myself instead," I state as a matter-of-factly, "I poured holy water on him because he wouldn't stop harassing me. Even so, that's not a reason for him to disappear."

I stop once we reach my truck and I start searching my pockets for the keys. "I don't know," Emmett begins, thinking it over to himself, "Eddie does tend to take things pretty seriously. Then again, you must have been bugging him all day with that smell. He might be back soon after quenching his thirst, so I wouldn't worry."

"Who's worrying?" I state, realizing my pockets are empty, "And what about you?"

"What about me?" he asks and I hear a strange clinking that sounds like metal.

I look over at him suddenly and see he's leaning against my truck, dangling my keys in front of him with a smug smile on his face.

"How did you…?" I begin to ask in surprise, "Give that back. I don't have time to play games, Emmett. Alice needs me to develop a picture for her and I can't go anywhere unless you give me back my keys."

"First… what do you mean what about me?" he asks curiously and I can't tell if he's trying to stall because he wants to bite me or because he enjoys antagonizing me to no end.

"Go ahead and bite me," I say with a sigh, not wanting to give in to him, "I know you're thirsty, too. I'm not afraid of you."

Emmett bursts out laughing and I try to swipe back my keys, but he manages to pull them out of my reach… just like Edward had done with my list.

"Do I have to pour something on you, too?" I ask him, raising an eyebrow, hoping he'll give in.

When he finally calms down enough to speak, he looks at me funny. "Okay, so I'm really in the mood for a drink. Calm down," he tells me, "But are you sure you aren't afraid of me?"

I shake my head. "I'm not afraid of you or any vampire. I just want my keys back."

"What did Alice want a picture for?" Emmett questions, curiosity getting the better of him.

"She's in my art class," I explain, not wanting to tell him I snuck a picture of them at lunch, "Go ahead and ask her what she wants with it. I'm not psychic, so I wouldn't know. Now, if you'll give me back my keys, we'll both be free to do what we want." I hold my hand out again as Emmett chuckles at some private joke.

"Alright, fine, you win," he tells me as he holds the keys out in front of me with a grin, "You can take your keys back."

I look at him skeptically. It has to be a joke. There's no way he'd just hand it over to me like that.

I sigh. "That's it?" I ask him, trying to find some kind of string attached, "No cruel jokes… nothing?"

Emmett nods. "You don't think I can be nice for nothing in return?" he asks me, looking sort of hurt.

I shake my head. "You're not going to pull it away at the last second, are you?" I ask to make sure.

"Don't give me any ideas." He grins even bigger, dangling my keys again, making them clink together. "You want your keys? You can have them."

After a minute of silence between us, I try to grab my keys, but Emmett pulls them out of my way again and I sigh in frustration.

"If…" he continues with a smirk, "you do me one favor."

"I knew it," I grumble as I glare at him, "It's something stupid and unreasonable, isn't it?"

"No!" Emmett counters defensively, "Kiss me."

"Forget it. I'll walk," I state angrily and turn around to leave, but he grabs my wrist to prevent me from walking away again.

"Then will you at least let me drive you?" he asks seriously and I just nod, completely fed up with him and his constant games, "Great. Just tell me where we're heading first."

He walks around to the passenger's side and opens the door for me. I get in and he closes the door behind me while I buckle myself in. I guess he can be polite when he wants to, but something tells me he's up to something. He gets into the truck and starts it. He eyes Jacob's note as he closes the door and scrunched up his nose as if he smells something terrible, but quickly shakes it off before rolling down the window and looking at me.

"Where to?" he asks with a smile.

"Well, I was going to stop in town first so I can get that picture developed for Alice," I tell him and he starts to back out of the parking lot, "So, I guess that's where you can drive me first."

Emmett just nods and as we pass the rest of the vampires, I notice Alice staring at us in disbelief and frustration. I try to wave back, but Emmett speeds up a bit, so I don't have enough time. I look over at him quietly and notice he's staring straight ahead in concentration. Silently, I wonder what could be so bad that even Alice didn't approve.

When we finally stopped in town, Emmett held my door open for me and walked me inside the place we'd stopped at. I handed my camera over to the person who was supposed to develop my picture for me and I sat down to wait. Emmett stood farther away, fidgeting every few minutes or so.

It was very quiet and I didn't have anything to read to keep me occupied, so I stood up and went over to him. "I'll be back in a minute or so," I tell him before turning around to head out to my truck, but he grabs my wrist to stop me.

"Wait. Where are you going?" he asks concerned and I turn back to look at him.

"I'm just going out to my truck so I can get a book or something to read while we wait," I inform him.

"I'll come with you," he tells me as we start to walk towards the exit, "Plus, I still have the keys."

When we get outside, he unlocks the truck for me and I shuffle through my backpack to find a good book to skim.

"What do you think you're doing?" I hear Alice's voice and I spin around to see her glaring at Emmett.

I look over to see if any of the others are there, but I don't see anything.

"I just offered to drive her here," Emmett explains carefully, "Don't look at me like that."

"When you get back to the house, you'll be lucky if Rose doesn't bite your head off," Alice warns him, "Now, give Bella her keys and leave now."

Emmett casts me a strange look, tosses me my keys and darts off quickly.

"Alice," I say quietly and she turns to me, "Is everything going to be okay?"

"In truth…" she begins, "I don't know." With that, she darts off after Emmett.

(A/N) Hey, everyone! Okay, so I've finished yet another chappie. How about I up the review demands. I want 5 now. If you can't handle that, well… then that's too bad for the ppl who want to read the next chappie. Cuz, I was sitting in front of my comp and saw that 5 ppl put my story on their favs or on alert and not a single one of them reviewed at all. Yeah, you know who you are. So, how about you actually review next time and then I'll update so much quicker. Even if it's just to say hi or to tell me to update, I want at least one thing in there that says whether this story was worth it or not. So, with that said… can anyone guess what Emmett was up to? That's something for you guys to review about. Now, press that little (now turned big) button and REVIEW! Yeah! Okay, now obsessed with the 80s – listening to Totally 80s CD right now. R&R! Tootles!

EDIT:

Again, minor changes were made to the narration (because I left out a word the first time round and spelled some things wrong) and I fixed the format and several grammatical errors.

Here's a wee secret about the title of this chapter… and the theme of it, I suppose. I was drawing up blank when I was attempting to develop a chapter title to describe the idea I wanted to write for the chapter. So, when I was talking with TheBadassRoza, I just said "I don't know" when she asked… and she wrote it onto the page for me. XD Heheh… And so it became the chapter title as well as several lines in this chapter. I'm so good at title-dropping, huh? ;P

Oh, well…

Original Post: ?

Revised: 10/ 28/11

Reposted: 10/30/11