Disclaimer: I do not own the twilight series, nor will I ever.
A/n: sorry for not updating for so long! I was away most of the summer and I've had a serious case of writer block. sorry i didnt know what car jasper had so i thought he could just use the motorcycle.
i awoke to the dulcet tone of my alarm clock, ugh i rolled over. thump, i fell onto the cold, hard flor, i could already feel the bruises. where the hell was edward? i looked out of the window puzled, where could he be? the pewter grey clouds looked ominous but werent raining yet. silvery mist rose up out of the ground engulfiny our small patio, but i still couldnt see edwards distinctive shock of bronze hair.
i got dressed in the clothes alice had thoughtfully left out for me, a not was pinned to them 'wear them' just in case i had never encountered clothes before.
i walked downstairs to hunt for my breakfast, i wasnt sure if our kitchen was fully stocked with iritable grizzlies but i intended to do my best. i poured myself a bowl of cereal and was pondering what the scheldule for today was, alice must be running out of crazy schemes sometime soo. right?
"morning bella" i heard a voice behing me and jumped up. it was jasper crouching on the flor his coal eyes glinting meancingly, my heart sped up.
was he going to attack me? i was frozen where i stood with shock, jasper stood up and i felt myself take a step back as he took a step towards me, i flinched. 2hey bella is this your earing"? holy crow i felt like a complete fish, he was just picking up an earin, like jasper would ever attack me. "what were you so scared of"? he asked confuddled, his head whipped round to fast for me to see "theres no one here but me and you", i saw the realiseation dawn across his stone face. "oh bella im so sorry, i didnt mean to sneak up on you!"
"its okay i just didnt hear you coming" "and you never will, kung foo shuffle, hach-ah-ya" he screamed as he brought the side of his hand down on the table splitting the wood in two. "er you might want to replace that " i sighed, at least he had the decency to look guilty, " sorry bella i got caught up in the moment, ninjas you know"? i shrugged and he ran a hand through his blonde hair looking sheepish.
"well moving swiftly on, what are we doing today?" "omg bella i cant believe you just said that! call yourself a forkian? its the annual rubber duck race down the river!" er right annual duck race and when had i ever called myself a forkian?, why wasnt i informed. "so wheres edward?" "i think he went hunting, he should have his phone on him, but he told me earlier that i should tell you he loves you and he will be cheering for your rubber duck" he grinned as i smacked him bruising my hand "and alice is buying you a rubber duck i believe" he shook his head in disbelief.
i pulled on one of the many new jackets alice had left out for me and ran out to jasper who had his silver motorbike running. soon the wind was roring past my face and my hair whipped round my head. when we stopped my checks were flushed with the cold, "thanks jasper" i jumped off running towards alices tiny bobbing head. "just make sure you win, okay, i have a lot of money riding on you and your duck."
when i reached alice throught the excited crowd, she was twittering on about my 'designer duck', i just nodded like i knew what the hell she was on about, something about the lengths she went to to find a designer rubber duck, thats the stupidist thing ive ever heard. i took my position by the side of the almost frozen river and waited for the race to start, my breath was very conspicuos, haning just in front of may face. but maybe alices lack of frozen breath was even more conspicuous, but she didnt seem to notice. she was too absorbed in her bouncing up and down. "i can wait, its so anoying i can see whats going to happen..." she trailed off frowning.
"oh look its starting" she bubbled. i held my breath in awe as a fleet of rubber ducks swam there way through the mist. it had to be one of those sights youd see, then wake up and go round telling everyone what a weird dream you had.but then again i spent most of my time hanging out with werewolves and vampires so what did i know.
i began to get a little suspicious of the game being rigged when mike and jessicas ducks sunk almost imediately. and even more suspicious when my duck sped ahead, almost like someone was pulling it along but no one was quick enough to get past the judges or could hold their breath that long ,right?
not suprisingly my duck finished first. and jasper looked pleased, well untill emmet whacked him on the side of his head. "no fair, alice tell him it doesnt count, that huge white koi carp was carrying it along, did you see it bella?" "yeah sure, the one wearing hawiian shorts right?" emmet fumed "yeah well my rubber duckie could cream your rubber dukies ass any day of the week!". while alice backed away "no please bella anything but that", "no i mean it this time alice no bella barbie for at least a week!" i wasn't that mad but any excuse to get out of a makeover was fine by me. irritable grizzlys would have nothing on me when edward got back from wherever he was.
later that evening:
i was curled up on the cullens sofa watching the marshmallow dissolve slowly in my hot chocolate "say, alice where do you think the duck will end up?" "well lets just say a hermit off the coast of australia will be praising god for all his new found tiny little friends in a few hours time" i giggled.
