I don't know if the review count was down so low last chapter from me losing readers or for it being a filler but I'm hoping this chapter will pique your interest!

It's a bit short, like last chapter was, but I didn't feel the need to drag this out. Just wam bam, crap happening.

I did an outline, and this story is going to be 14 chapters in total, meaning 4 chapters left! D: If you've read any of my other stories you should know that I do not like long stories!

You know what's unfortunate? My friend has nicknamed me Emmett, as my name is Emma. I think this is due to the fact that we lived in an all girls dormitory, so she teased me, but we haven't been there in almost a month, and she STILL calls me Emmett.

So, I decided to give Emmett some love this chapter :)

This chapter is for lauradean who is on her way home from work, and I told her I'd write this two nights ago. SURPRISE. She is coming to visit me soon. I am excited :D.

I didn't feel like sounding profound and dragging this out, so sorry it was short!

Dix is ten in french, and is pronounced Deece, not Dicks! It's actually pronounced Dee when it is not followed by a vowel.

Throwing that out there in case you want to pick on me for my french. ._.

Dix:

Edward and I didn't leave bed for days. We didn't move into the room of the house we shared with six other people, and we hardly made the bed except for plain white sheets and a quilt we'd found in the closet. We could tell that the others had gone hunting for a few days after we'd moved in.

In truth, it wasn't exactly moving in. Edward and I were so ridiculous from how happy we were since the engagement that we'd brought our things into the house and hadn't left each other alone since.

The morning after our second day completely alone together I decided it was time for us to take a break and get some work done.

"Where are you going?" Edward murmured as I rolled out from under the sheets and stood up. I laughed and pulled on his white button up shirt and a pair of underwear as I went to the closet and pulled out my paints and brushes.

"I'm staying right here love, don't worry," I assured him, smiling and holding up a brush.

The new house was beautiful, and it was exactly that- a new house. It was a simple, two story rectangular house. It was gigantic and the outside was covered in the huge windows that opened up to all of the many rooms on both floors. It was covered with dark wood siding, and the inside was simple, the walls still unpainted.

I sat on the floor in the corner next to the window and opened up several tubes of different coloured paint. I squirted them out onto my pallet and put it at my feet. I thought about what to paint.

To be honest I liked the plain walls. They reminded me of our time in the city apartment so long ago. I decided to just do a lazy multicoloured curlicue pattern around the wall, framing the huge window in it and stretching up the wall with it.

Edward grinned at me from bed as I little by little got covered in paint. It would be on my hand when I wiped at my face- or it would fall on the mahogany floor and I'd use a corner of his shirt to quickly wipe it off.

He eventually got out of bed and pulled on pants, coming to stand next to me as I reached on the tips of my toes to make a final stroke close to the ceiling molding.

He pressed the length of his body against mine and his hand stretched up my extended arm and wrapped around the fingers of my hand holding the brush. He pulled my hand down and let it rest by my side as he held onto my waist and kissed the back of my neck.

"The others are almost home," he murmured. "Esme's looking forward to the next few days of decorating, and I'm sure she'll be excited to see your talents in this room." I turned around and grinned.

"I better take a shower then and get some of this paint off, want to join me?" He grinned mischievously but shook his head.

"I'm sure they'll all be a little upset to come home and find us still at it," he murmured against my lips. I smiled and kissed him back, but took the wet brush in my hand and smeared it over his face, crossing his cheeks and nose in one swipe.

He pulled back with a look of absolute shock on his face that I had just done such a thing. I giggled at the bright smear across his face and ran into the bathroom with Edward hot on my heels.

We actually used the shower for the purposes of getting clean, quickly scrubbing the paint off our skin and washing each others' hair. We dressed simply and went downstairs to join the others who looked full and satisfied from their hunting trip.

Alice rushed up to me and hugged me again still grinning madly at the fact that the engagement ring was on my finger.

"Come on, you can help me paint my room!" she said excitedly.

We spent days remodeling the house and redesigning everything to Esme's fitting. She was so excited to have a new house to work on. After much of the initial work was done Carlisle went into town looking to secure a job at the local hospital while Edward, Rosalie and Jasper decided to go on another hunt.

Alice and Esme constantly had their head together talking about different design ideas for the house, so I had to admit I was feeling a bit left out with everyone gone.

I sat down on mine and Edward's bed and opened my mother's trunk, going through all the old dresses and hanging them up in the wardrobe. I dropped off Alice's things in her and Jasper's room and as I turned around to bring Emmett his things and I bumped into my brother himself.

"Hey!" he said happily, his brown eyes lighting up when he saw me. "Just the girl I was looking for!"

I grinned and he took his clothes to put away as I followed him into his room.

"I was thinking, I haven't gotten to talk to my only twin in a while, and I'm feeling a bit hungry so why don't we go for a hunt, just you and me?" I grinned and nodded. I hadn't been for one in a couple weeks, and though he'd gone for one a few days ago his eyes were starting to darken.

"Sure," I said with a huge smile. "Let me go leave a note for Edward and we can go?" He nodded and similarly began to write a note for Rosalie.

With everyone else preoccupied and me left with nothing to do, hunting with Emmett sounded like a brilliant idea. Edward was coming back in a day, and I suspected we wouldn't be too long behind him.

Emmett pulled out his favourite new car and I hopped in the front seat with him as we made our way down the highway. We went to his new favorite hunting ground. Here, the trees were thick and green, immensely tall. They were old, even older than the Cullens.

"Are you happy you're finally getting married?" Emmett asked with a grin. I couldn't help the huge smile that broke out on my face. I had been playing with my ring all night, and I'm sure it was mildly annoying to see me look down at it and then smile like an idiot.

"Yes," I said quietly before looking out the window again.

"Man it took him long enough, you think?" Emmett hinted. I shrugged.

"It's not like I was going anywhere," I told him honestly. "Edward and I have been together for so long, and I loved him the moment I saw him, pretty much. There isn't anyone else for me, so why would he be so desperate to bind me to him forever?" Emmett thought about it and nodded.

"I mean now, I can have the title of his wife and I am so excited for that, but it was fun to sneak around you guys to be alone, and act like kids. We grew up so fast anyway, but now we're so much wiser than anyone can imagine."

"I heard Rosalie's planning another wedding," I said with a smirk. Emmett laughed that happy belly laugh that I loved so much about him.

"Yeah, she figures when we're going to school some people will get to know us, and then after we graduate she's going to invite the whole school, one huge affair. That's what she wanted the first time, but I think it was better with just the family." I nodded.

"Well, we're here," he said cheerfully, pulling over to the shoulder. I hopped out of the car and pulled off my jacket, leaving me in just some skinny jeans and a tank top.

"How about we meet in this clearing near the other end of the forest when we've got a bit to eat?" Emmett suggested. I nodded and we split up, running like flashes of light through the trees.

It was a bright day outside, even with the cloud cover. However, stepping into the trees made it seem like hours had passed and we were nearing the nighttime.

I ran through the trees with ease, dodging the thick trunks and recognizing a path I had run before. The wind blew against me as I ran and I picked up on the scent of a lynx nearby.

I made easy work of the animal. Pounce, snap and bite. I sucked her dry, the warmth from her blood filled me for a moment before I fell back to my normal temperature.

Abnormal temperature.

However you wanted to look at it.

I realized there was a grouping of deer nearby that the lynx must have been looking at apprehensively. I made quick work of them as well. I felt full, and better than I had in days so I hurried to where Emmett and I agreed to meet.

The wind was blowing hard today, carrying all sorts of scents upon it. None of them were particularly delectable, so I felt as though I could wait for Emmett and see if he wished to continue hunting.

I tensed when I heard footsteps a few yards away but eased a little upon realizing they were merely my brother.

"Hey, Bell, find anything good?" he asked, checking over my golden eyes. His were much the same shade and I grinned.

"I did pretty well for now," I told him. "If there's anything in the way on the way back home I'll probably snack on it, though." Emmett nodded and smiled.

The wind blew hard again, carrying a wonderful perfume upon it. I pushed my hair out of my face and was about to comment to my brother about the weather when I saw the look in his eyes.

Where moments ago they had been a bright golden hue, now they were completely pitch black. His nostrils flared as he breathed in heavily, closing his eyes. I watched the muscles in his arms tense and I knew what was about to happen.

"Do you smell that?" He murmured. His eyes opened, still their terrifying black. I opened my mouth to speak to him, to stop him from what he was about to do, but I was too slow.

He ran, and I couldn't tell what possessed him so badly that he felt he had to chase this scent. But, I followed after him.

He was going faster than I ever thought he could before, and I fought hard to at least keep him in view.

When we broke through the trees I knew what was wrong, and I knew why that smell had made him act in such a frenzy.

There was a small red house in front of us, a quaint little dirt driveway leading down to a main road.

An old woman was outside hanging white sheets on a line. She paused to hold her back, sore from reaching up to pin the line. She bent to pick up another sheet and I saw Emmett move.

"No!" I called out and ran, but I knew it was too late. His movements pulled a gust across the sheets, enough to lift them and bring he and the woman into my view. When they fell back I barely heard anything, the moment pressing in my ears so heavily it deafened me.

What made me stop and fall back in the grass was the streak of blood that splattered the pure white sheets.

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