Hey everybody, Here's the next chapter. We now have Esme's POV in the mix. To anyone who reviews, sorry that I don't always respond but thank you so much for the feedback! I really apreciate it. I'm so excited for New Moon! I will be going crazy two weeks from now. Also that's the night The site I'm on fan fiction site goes up! It's such an awesome place. I'm trying to decided if I'll still update on here or give y'all the link so you can still read. There's tons of awesome storys on there also. But I have two more chapters until then anyway and I just started chapter 13 last night. It's going to be awesome. Anyway enjoy this chapter and give me a quick review if ya get the chance. Also I have never put this I don't think but my beta is the best. She gets a big thanks for dealing with all my stuff:D
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Esme's POV
"I'm in, anything to keep the bet." we heard Emmett say letting us in on their secret. I looked over at Carlisle with a smile and motioned for him to follow me. We had to get out of where they could hear us; of course Alice was going to make this hard.
"We should've known they had a bet going on. Our children always have to make things a competition," I said, shaking my head.
"Now, the main question is what do we do? We have to be careful or Alice will find out," Carlisle said deep in thought. This was a delicate situation, one wrong decision and Alice would be on to us. I wasn't a good liar either; I wasn't as bad as Bella but not far off. My good heart was the cause of that.
"Well, we could always let Alice get the message that we know. I love them all dearly, but they've crossed a line this week. The hard part is going to be finding out what they have on the line," I said, trying to ignore the part of me that didn't want to make the kids suffer more.
After a minute of thought Carlisle looked over at me and smiled.
"I think that's an excellent idea. Maybe they made a contract or something so it was official," Carlisle said, smiling.
"I did see Emmett walking around with a piece of paper the other day and I thought he was acting odd. So if Emmett hid it then it shouldn't be too hard to find." I said taking my husbands hand and leading him back towards the house.
Alice's POV
"No, no, no, no, no!" I screamed, thinking about the vision I just had. This could not be happening!
"What now," Jasper groaned from somewhere behind me. I didn't have time to pay attention to him. The last thing he needed was to know about this. He just got out of thinking we were in a war. I ran out of our room without answering him and ran up to Edwards room throwing the door open. They were sitting on Edward's black couch; Bella was in Edwards lap staring at me in sock at my entrance. Edward growled at me and was about to say something but I interrupted him with my thoughts.
"Carlisle and Esme know about the bet! They don't know what our motivation is to win, but they know! Do even know how bad this is?" I screamed in my head panicking.
"Oh no," was all he could manage to get out. I showed him my vision and after I was done he took Bella off his lap and started to pace holding the bridge of his nose. "This is not good at all."
"What am I missing?" Bella asked, looking over at Edward with concern.
"Carlisle and Esme found out about the bet. Which means that if they find out why were trying to win, we're either going to be in huge trouble or there going to use it against us to make us crack." I said, falling to the ground with my head in my hands. I wanted to win this bet so bad, but know I was starting to think that it wasn't worth it. This was taking so much out of me and who knew how far this was about to go.
"You don't seriously think they would try to make us crack to you?" Bella asked sounding afraid as she should be. Poor Bella, she always looked for the best in people; and in doing that forgetting to look for the bad side.
"Yes, love, yes they would," Edward said, answering before I could. "After everything we've done this week, I'm almost sure they're going to go against us."
"This is really bad," Bella said after a minute, mimicking the grave tone in her voice that had taken over both Edward and I.
"What now?" I asked looking for help. This was the reason I came and found Edward and Bella. First of all they both were capable of coming up with a good idea. Second of all I wasn't about to ask the hag. And third of all Jasper and Emmett were in no state to make up plans. I moved my hands off my eyes when I heard Edwards pacing stop. Edward was staring at me concentration had taken over his face and I closed my eyes to see the feature getting blurry which meant he was planning something.
"Get Rosalie and meet me outside in five minutes. We have to be careful so they don't suspect anything, so find a back way out. I can here their thoughts but they are blocking me, so we have a few minutes before they show up."
"But what about-" I began to say slowly before he interrupted me.
"I have a plan," he said, looking over at Bella with an apologetic glance.
"Oh, I'm off then," I said dancing out the door. I did not want to be apart of that conversation.
"Bella, love," I heard Edward say as I reached the second floors hallway.
Bella's POV
"Bella, Love," Edward said, giving me his pleading eyes. This was not good; he wanted something that he knew I wouldn't want to do. This must have been what the weird exchange with Alice was about.
"What?" I asked nervously as he slowly sat down next to me.
"Bella, I need you to do something for me," he said, taking my face in his hands and hypnotizing me with his eyes. "I'm not going to lie to you, it's not going to be fun and you're not going to enjoy it one bit. But if you don't do it there's a chance were all going to crack."
I was getting even more nervous when he said that there was a chance we were all going to crack, instead of just him and I might crack.
"Love, I needed you to restrain Emmett and Jasper from doing anything stupid while we're gone," Edward said starting to use all of his dazzling power on me. I didn't know how I did it, but I looked away and stood up from the couch my hands going into fist at my sides.
"Edward Cullen are you insane? There is no way I'm going to be able to control the Confederate Solider or the Wilderness Man! They are crazy, and not only that, but I hate them right now! Jasper had Alice tie me to a tree, and The Wilderness Man is blaming everything on me!" I screamed, freaking out. Had he lost his mind? How in the world was I supposed to keep them from doing anything? I was a human that they made fun of and never listened to.
"Bella, please calm down," he pleaded, coming over to me and putting his arms on my shoulders. As I stared at him in disbelief he started to dazzle me again. I pulled his arms off me and turned my back to him getting mad now.
"Don't you dare try to dazzle me into this! Why do you even need another meeting anyway?"
"We have to get prepared for what's going to come if they go against us. We will be playing on a whole different playing filed if that's the case. Can you please do this for us? Rosalie and Alice will make sure they behave. They need you right now to make sure they don't crack either. Without them here, who knows what Jasper and Emmett will do. Please do this Bella, we need you," he said in his most pleading voice, to my surprise staying behind me the whole time. If it were true that they all needed me no matter how much I hated them right now how could I not help? It was in my nature to help and take care of everyone else, even if they were vampires who had lost their minds. I was doomed for what I was about to do. I was basically digging my own grave at his very moment.
"You owe me big time Edward," I said through my teeth. Before Edward could even respond the door slammed open and Alice ran in and started hugging me.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I promise they will be good," Alice squealed, hugging me so tight I was finding it hard to breathe.
"No problem," I said, when she finally freed me. That was when I noticed that Rosalie was standing in the doorway looking uncomfortable.
"Thank you, Bella," she said quietly. I could see that it wasn't something she wanted to say ,but she did anyway, which made me happy. It probably was killing her to be nice to me.
"No problem, Rosalie," I said, with a timid smile.
"Ok, now that that's out of the way we need to go, like, now," Alice said motioning to the window before turning to me and pushing me out the door. "You need to go watch the boys."
"But wait, Edward," I started to say but she shut the door in my face. I couldn't believe it, after I said I would keep an eye on their childish husbands they wouldn't leave me say goodbye to Edward. I stormed down the stairs then mumbling to myself the whole way and when I made it to the first floor I found Emmett and Jasper sitting in the living room. Jasper was staring off in space and Emmett had an evil grin on his face that was scaring me.
"Well, hello, dear babysitter, ready to have some fun?" Emmett asked, the tone of this voice was menacing. I was in for it.
Rosalie's POV
Why did we have to keep coming back to this horrible place? Once again I found myself in the forest with my most two hated people on the planet at the moment. God why couldn't this week just be over already? I had to get pulled out of my tomato bath after only five minutes so I still stunk; and now my own parents were going to be against me. God, I would give anything to be anywhere but here at the moment. He had almost got caught by Carlisle and Esme when we left so my stupid so called siblings were making me go deep into the forest. While running my hair got caught in a huge branch and I let out a scream of frustration as I stopped to get it out. Whoever came up with this stupid place needed to die!
"Did you seriously just wish death on whoever came up with the forest?" Edward asked laughing as he showed up in front of me with a giggling Alice at his side. To respond to his lovely words I took the branch that I had just got my hair untangled from and threw it at him. It hit him square in the face making me smile.
"Want to ask me anything else?" I hissed, walking around him.
"Edward," I heard Alice say with warning in her voice. Why couldn't people get it in their annoying ugly heads that I didn't care if he attacked me?
"What hellish part of the woods do you want me to run to now?" I asked wanting to get this over with as fast as I possibly could.
"Let's just stay here," Alice said happily. Did she ever stop being annoyingly happy? I turned to see her and Edward both sitting next to each other on the forest floor cross legged. Alice patted the open spot next to her and in response I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, I don't think so, I'll just stand," I said, crossing my arms across my chest.
"Rose, it's just dirt, it won't kill you," Alice said, rolling her eyes at me. Apparently, she was no longer going to call me hag. Edward laughed his stupid laugh at something; whether it was my thoughts or hers, I didn't care. There was no way I was sitting on the ground.
"Whether it kills me or not, I'm not sitting on it," I hissed.
"Suit yourself," Alice mumbled, glaring at me. "You know you could try and be nice for the time being."
"How about we do what Bella and Emmett did earlier and call a five minute truce?" Edward asked, looking at Alice and me with his smile on his face.
"I'm in," Alice said, before laying her eyes on me. The evil apperceive looks they both gave me were horrible. I couldn't believe I was going to have to agree to this.
"Fine, I'm in," I screamed, plopping down on the ground. "Are you two happy now? I'm sitting on the disgusting, dirty, repulsive forest floor!"
"Yes, we are very happy," Alice said smiling at me. I gave her a dirty look.
The next half an hour was spent with all of us deciding what to do to if the found out anything new about the bet. We actually did come up with some good plans and now Alice was looking into the future to see what was going to happen. While she was out of it Edward and I were silent. It was our own unspoken agreement to not say anything to each other which I was perfectly happy with. I heard Edward growl and turn his face to look at Alice who had just come back to reality.
"I am going to kill Emmett!" Alice hissed with a furious expression on her face.
Esme's POV
"Hurry, we have to find it before one of them comes back from their walk," I whispered quickly to Carlisle as we ripped apart the house to find anything for their bet. We didn't know where Rosalie, Edward, and Alice went to but the other three were on a walk. Poor Bella looked like she was going to die when Emmett pulled her through the door, but she went anyway even after I told her she could stay here. I was in the living room looking through all the drawers and I felt guilty. I didn't like snooping through things; the worst was my children's rooms. I felt like such a bad mom after going through their thing, I always wanted to respect their privacy and I didn't feel right after it. I was starting to think that they didn't need punished after this.
"Esme, lets try the Rose and Emmett's bathroom," Carlisle said, grabbing my hand and leading me upstairs. We hadn't looked there first, because we thought that it would the last place they would hide something. To Emmett, that bathroom was off limits, due to the fact that Rose had all of her things in it. He was told not to go in there and dirty it up after hunting. Since that was the only time he took a shower he never went in there. We ran in and started looking through everything, acting like mad men.
"Found it!" Carlisle exclaimed, smiling at me hugely. I walked over to him and we both started to read the little paper that had caused so much trouble.
Bella's POV
"Na Na Na Na, There's nothing he can't do, there's nothing he can defeat. Na Na Na Na, The Wilderness Man can survive it all, near or far he's going to conquer it all, cause he's smart, he's cool, he's going to rule the world! The Wilderness Man," Emmett sang as loudly as he could as he jumped from a tree. I was going to kill him! After Carlisle and Esme got back Emmett had to behave, which he couldn't handle. So Jasper and I were forced to take a walk with him in the forest. I was going to die; Emmett was killing me with being annoying. He knew he could get to me this way without dying for it. They were like children, Jasper was the bored whiny kid that never stopped complaining, and Emmett was the annoying wild one that never seemed to shut up. Emmett went into Wilderness Man mode the minute we were out of hearing range from Carlisle and Esme so for the last ten minutes he sang his theme song and kept jumping around in trees.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!" I kept saying, while I sat on the ground with my head in my hands. Jasper was sitting next to me in the same position trying to control his emotions. When Emmett started another verse Jasper groaned and rolled on to the ground.
"Jasper, just go back to the house before you have a breakdown," I said, rolling my eyes.
"Thank you," he said, getting up and running off.
"Na Na Na Na," Emmett sang, starting his theme song again.
"I swear to god Emmett, that if you don't stop singing, I will have Edward kill you when he gets back.," I screamed jumping to my feet.
"Now, Isabella, it's not nice to swear." Emmett said shaking his head in mock disappointment.
"I'm going to swear you one!" I mumbled closeting my eyes and counting to ten so I didn't do something that would just make me hurt myself.
"If you don't like my theme song then I will just sing something else!" He grinned and that's when I real torture began.
"Mamma Mia, here I go again. My my, how can I resist yeah," Emmett sang. This was way worse; he knew I hated this song with a passion. "Mamma mia, does it show again. My my, just how much I've missed ya."
"Emmett stop, please stop! I can't take it!" I screamed, on the ground begging. But nothing would stop his singing.
Ten horrible, long, annoying song filled minutes later, I was sitting on the forest floor with my eyes closed, rocking back and forth. I suddenly heard the sound of someone approaching and I looked up to see Edward walking to where Emmett and I were, with a confused look on his face. I didn't even remember running over to him. But I had my arms warped around his back holding him close.
"I'm so glad you're back. I will never, ever in a million years baby-sit your brothers again!" I said while I breathed in his scent. Edward chuckled and warped his arms around me and kissed my head.
"They couldn't have been that bad," he said, smiling down at me.
"Yes, they were. All I can say is, you owe me Edward Cullen," I said resting my head on his chest. "Did Alice see anything new?"
"No, nothing at all that was helpful." A very irritated looking Alice screamed coming into view with Rosalie by here side. "But I did see Carlisle and Esme finding our bet contract, because Emmett hid it in a stupid place."
"Hey, don't blame me for that. I can't help it that they found it," Emmett laughed.
"Oh really?" Rosalie screamed at him. Alice and her went over and started smacking him everywhere they could reach. "Now were all going to crack you idiot! They've left the house probably to go plan our doom!"
"Stop, I get it, I'm stupid," Emmett said, cringing.
"What do we do now?" I asked
"We spy!" Alice said with a determined look.
"Guys, we don't have cars or anything to follow them with, and not only that, Alice, can't you see what's going to happen?" I asked, panicking about what was going to come next for me.
"Yes, Bella, I can, but where's the fun in that. And as for your other concern we will have cars," Alice said grinning evilly. Did the craziness ever stop?
