Let the Games Begin
A/N Yeah...I'll just start talking at the bottom of this page…
Chapter Eleven
Recap, cuz it's been a while:
"RAH!" was Jacob's only response, as he sent the animated ball at 'lightning speed'.
Emmett quickly drew back his arm and used a great amount of strength to send the ball back over the net, and
–CRASH-
the controller smashed right into the TV screen, putting an end to the game.
"Dun, dun, dun!" No one looked at Bella this time, all eyes glued to the white plastic stick now implanted into the flat shattered screen LCD.
3rd Person's POV
"Well that's a bit of a pickle."
"No shit Sherlock." Sam growled, and Jared cowered back a little.
"No big, I'll just get a new one." Emmett walked off into the hall and pulled out another screen out of a closet full of backup ones like he was just getting another glass out of the cupboard.
He hooked up the new TV and disposed of the broken one in no time.
"I don't think we should play this anymore." Sam said referring of the catastrophic disaster due to too much competitiveness the game caused.
"Then what do you guys wanna do now?" Jasper lounged on the couch.
"Let's play hide and seek!" Bella clapped her hands, jumping up and down in excitement, looking a lot more like Alice then Bella.
"Um Bells, that seems a little childish." Embry pointed out.
"Pfft and all those other games we've been playing weren't?" She got him there.
"Alright people, let's play hide and seek then…" Emmett looked from one end of the group to the other. "NOT IT!"
Everyone shouted after him, frantic not to have to be the seeker in the game.
"Aw damn it." Jacob groaned.
"Sorry Dog, but looks like you're a tad too slow." Rosalie smirked, completely unaffected by the dirty look she was receiving in return.
"Well I'll have you know that I'm one of the fastest in the pack, second to Sam of course. I remember the good ol' days when I was still human and I was always the fastest in all my gym classes, which leads me to this one horrible teacher I had. She was the biggest bitch I've ever known. Not to mention you should have seen the nasty hair the just keeps growing on her upper lip. Oh, you should've seen the teacher's washroom, one time I really had to go and some prick locked the guys bathroom door and there was no way in hell I was going into the girls bathroom-"
"Hey Jake." It was as if everyone could read everyone's mind as they said it at the same time.
"Yeah?"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
"No YOU shut up, I'm trying to tell you that she had a whole bunch of little hairs clogged up in the sink. It was so nasty and there was even this little toothbrush covered in it too on the ledge. And it smelled really funky, wait, now that I think about it, it could—okay never mind, I just hope it was her upper lip hair. And it had to be hers because ever since she came, none of the other teachers used that bathroom, not even the janitors. Oh my god I have to tell you about what one of the janitors…" and on and on he continued to drone.
Edward tipped his head back like he was going to die of boredom, already knowing what the one-sided conversation was going to lead to next as he could read his mind.
"Damn, you should've seen the water splashing at the way he was plunging the toilet like there was no tomorrow! There was so much water, he almost slipped and fell in the potty himself!"
Quil decided to sit down, realizing this could be a while after the last five minutes of non -stop talk about the first time Jacob accidentally let go of the wheel chair when he tried manoeuvring Billy down a flight of stairs. They were at the mall because there weren't any escalators, let alone elevators, and they needed to get some Christmas shopping done.
"Man, the security guard just took out that guy! It was so cool; you could literally see the robbers face smash into the ground when he went down! I think he got knocked out though, good thing too 'cause the bloody nose looked bloody painful!"
Alice looked at her Louis Vuitton watch she had gotten for her Birthday last year, finally having the courage to check how long it's been since Jacob first opened his big mouth.
Bella finally has enough and walks out of the room, coming back with a small object in her hand, and says "Hey, Jake."
"What Bella, I was in the middle of the importance of tooth paste-"
"Lookie lookie at what I have" she bent down with one hand on her knees as she waved the other with the small object that looked like a ball, as in talking to a puppy.
"Not now Bella, I'm-HEY WHAT'S THAT!?" the small squishy ball finally caught his attention. Correction, she was talking to a pup.
His eyes got wide as they were mesmerized by the blue sphere, his head turning in every direction Bella brought the ball to as she continued waving it in a teasing manner.
"See, that? You want it?" his body looked tensed with every question, getting closer and closer to pouncing after it. "Well, go fetch!" and she threw it down the hall and all you could see was Jacob's dust in his wake after he dashed after it.
"Well looks like we need someone else to be it." Paul sighed.
"I'll be it. This was kind of my fault anyway." Bella volunteered.
"Okie dokie." Obviously no one was going to have any complaints, I mean, who ever wants to be it?
"Alright, ground rules, Bella has to count to five hundred while we get to hide anywhere in Forks."
"What?! But that'll take forever—no wait never mind." Bella stopped complaining after realized just how small the town was. It'd be like find an Oreo in a cookie jar full of chocolate chips.
"AND, she'll have to be wearing this." The pixie held up a clothes peg. It was the only thing she could find on such short notice, hanging outside from Esme's last attempt at trying to conserve energy by not using the dryer.
"Aw do I have to?" Bella whined.
"A' duh. There's really no point in the game if you can just sniff us all out." Emmett said in a tone as if talking to a bimbo with the IQ of an acorn.
"Fine." She grumbled, snatching the peg from Alice's outstretched hand. "Do I have to find Jake too, or is he automatically not in the game?"
"Yeah, he's not going to be back for a while." Edward scrunched up his face in distaste. "Let's just say right now he's 'marking his territory'."
And that was way too much info for anyone's ears.
"Not bothering with him it is, then." Bella turned to the corner of the room, closing her eyes and plugging her ears with her fingers as best she could. "One, two, three…"
Everyone ran off as she already started counting.
Some of them jumped into their vehicles while some just ran off into the woods, frantically looking for a good hiding spot.
"…four hundred and ninety seven, four hundred and ninety eight, four hundred and ninety nine, five freaking hundred! Ready or not, here I come!" Bella spun around, eager to find her friends.
She walked out of the room, when she thought she heard a snicker. Not seeing anything after a quick scan of the living room, realizing it was getting dark, she went to go investigate the next room.
Sure enough, she found Emmett in one of the cabinets. She couldn't help but erupt into a fit of giggles at the sight of the big teddy bear in a very strange position that no one should be in, to fit into one of those tiny things.
"Shut up! This is a very uncomfortable predicament—even for a vampire." That only set Bella off further. "Well you better help me get out of here, because I'm stuck and I don't think Esme will be as kind if I break it."
"Okay okay." Bella finally calmed herself some, with the occasional chuckle as she somehow managed to pull Emmett out without ruining the kitchen.
"Thanks." He signed in relief.
"No problem. I'm going to go find the others, do you want to come?" Bella asked.
"Su-" he glanced at the time above the stove. "OH MY FUCKING GOD! I'M GOING TO MISS ARTHUR! IT STARTS IN TWO MINUTES, AND THERE'S NEW EPISODES!" he darted up the stairs to his room.
"Guess not…" she muttered, going in search of the rest of the house.
She searched the bathroom next. Not finding anyone in there, she went looked in the basement. Nothing.
Trying her luck upstairs, she set off the first flight of stairs, walking down the hall when she found nothing in Alice and Jasper's room.
"ARTHUR, YOU DUMBASS! GROW SOME, AND ASK FRANCINE OUT, YOU PANSY! DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW I'M FUCKING RIGHT, YET AGAIN! WHAT THE FUCK BUSTER!?" Bella tried to make quick work of the room to see if anyone other than Emmett was in there and get out as quickly as a vampire is possible. "WHERE THE HELL DO YOU PUT ALL THAT?!?!" But it was too late, Emmett already noticed her. "YOU MUST TAKE A DUMP SEVERAL TIMES A FUCKING DAY IF YOU EAT ALL THAT SHIT ASS HUMAN FOOD! BELLA, DID YOU MOTHER FUCKING EAT THAT MUCH AS A HUMAN?! HUH, NO I DIDN'T THINK SO! SEE BUSTER, YOU NEED HELP, YOU SICK BASTARD! GO-"
She slammed the door after pulling a very scared looking Embry by the ear.
"OW, OW, OW, OW, OW!" Letting him go after they were a good distance away from the kiddy show obsessed weirdo's room, he clutched his left ear in a vulnerable matter.
"You will not, I repeat NOT, be anywhere near Emmett when he is watching his god damned four year old cartoons!" She continued pointing her finger at him, prodding his chest with it for emphasis.
"Y-y-yes m-m'am." He cowered away in all his vulnerable glory.
With that, she spun on her heel and continued her search throughout the rest of the house. Not finding anyone else, she set off towards the woods.
She was running about for a minute before there was a very loud—and girly—squeal.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SPIIIIIIIIDDDDERRR!! AHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHH! GET IT OFF, GET IT FUCKING OFF!" Paul fell out of the tree tops, hysterically jumping up and down in fear trying unsuccessfully to swipe off the eight legged creature.
Raising an eyebrow, with a sigh, Bella walked over to the poor bugger (the spider, not the werewolf) and flicked it off of her tall not so macho friend.
She found Sam and Jared (strangely only sitting by a stream flipping through a magazine that Bella had no idea where he got in the middle of nowhere) not too long afterwards.
Coming back to the mansion, she noticed one of the vehicles missing.
"Way to be obvious, Alice." Bella snorted as the flashy yellow Porsche was the only car missing out of the lot.
She set off towards town on the look out for the rest of the Cullen kids.
Not surprisingly enough, she found Rosalie in Mallory's Manicures getting, you guessed it, a manicure. She left the blond beauty to finish her nails as she walked off in search for the others.
Bella checked the school, finding nothing yet again, and the ice cream parlour with no luck.
As she walked along the streets, thinking of where to check next, she felt a sudden intense interest as she stopped in front of the new bookstore.
Jasper.
Sure enough, his nose was stuck in a book as he sat in the history section of the store.
"Maybe you should just buy the whole shelf. It'd make life so much easier." He looked up at the sound and they both laughed when they realized the ironic phrase Bella had just used.
She left Jasper to pay for the few new books he didn't already have. She looked all around the whole town with no Edward or Alice anywhere.
Scratching her head in confusion, her eyes finally landed on Newton's.
"What the hell?" she shrugged and tried Mike's families store.
Opening the door with a jingle alerting her entrance, she heard Mike in the back.
"What the hell are you doing in the tent, Cullen?"
"I'm, uh, testing to see if it's durable for my next camping trip?" she could hear Edward whispering anxiously.
"For half an hour? And why the are you whispering? Never mind, I don't want to know. I have no time for this. It's getting late and I still have other customers to help." Mike turned to walk off when he saw Bella. "Oh hey Bella! What brings you here? Your next shift isn't until tomorrow." He leaned on the shelf, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to tell he thought she was looking for him.
"Yeah, I know. I was just wondering if you've seen Edward?" Bella tried not to ask in curiosity, not wanting Edward to know she knew and she was just teasing.
"Oh…" That put a damper on Mike's mood. He was about to answer when he looked to the side, into a tent (which she could only guess was where Edward was shaking his head 'No' frantically) as Mike looked back at her with a smirked. "Well, actually yes, yes I do."
Before he could actually tell her, Bella peered into the tent and saw a defeated Edward lying in a tent, propped up by his elbows with his head hung back. "Why, hello there Edward." She grinned at him.
Already at a loss, he lifted his head back up to look at his mate with a sheepish grin of his own. "Hello Love, care to join me?"
Bella was about to respond when, "Oh, ew. Still here people! And if you're gonna do stuff like that, then I suggest you buy it now, take it home, and then contaminate it there before you end up really having to buy it." Mike walked off before he could here anymore.
Watching Mike trek off in the other side of the store, they turned back to face each other.
"Am I your first find?" Edward questioned with a sigh.
"Actually no, you're my second last." He raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Who else to you have to find then?" he asked, curious.
"Alice."
"Of course." Edward muttered, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
They searched town once more with no avail, so decided to head back to the house.
By then, everyone that was found was gathered by the doorway of the house, talking amongst themselves.
Conversation was halted to a stop when Bella and Edward came in through the front doors, still with no Alice.
Everyone was surprised that they came back empty handed.
"Where could that pixie be?" Bella groaned, walking into the now dark living room to have more room to pace as she ranted, too frustrated to bother turning on the light. "I mean, I checked every where in the little wee town, and I found all of you guys!
"Um, Bella?" Edward asked.
"Not now Edward, I'm trying to rant here. Not to mention I looked like a fucking douche wearing this stupid damned peg on my nose like an idiot!"
"Bella?" Jared tried too.
"Quiet! Man, that pixie has skills. You would think I'd be better at this being a vampire and all now, even if I can't smell her. But then again, she is pretty tiny, maybe I need to look around town again, I probably miss-"
"Uh, Bells? What the hell is Alice doing in the corner?" Jacob randomly came out of nowhere. Apparently he had come in with a hot dog (yeah…) in hand, stopping by the entrance of the living room with the rest.
"What?" she whipped to face him, and then looked towards the corner staring intently at it for about two seconds before noticing the little vampire was indeed sitting cross legged in the corner. Her back faced towards everyone and her hood up, the sweatshirt matching the white walls as she shook, trying to hold in her fits of laughter before finally releasing it once Rosalie flipped the light on.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx s2 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ok…well I don't really have a good excuse for not updating after I finished my other story…other than writer's block but that ended a long while back still…ANYWAY, feel free to throttle me if you please. I tried making this chapter longer and funnier like the last (not the other shit filled piece of crap I tried calling chapter eleven). I'll try to update more now, but you guys might have to do some constant nagging and harassing and filling my inbox with death threats continuously xD But I want to give thanks to Shikiangel CerEbow for the Hide and Seek idea and those who have gotten so irritated with me, that they PMed or reviewed me to tell me to get off my lazy behind and get started on the next chapter, although it still took a while. I've tried several times to just sit down and write it earlier but…I've done procrastination to it's finest. Though, I couldn't not update for Christmas and its fucking ass cold outside, and I'm done shopping for presents so I was left stuck inside. So this is my present to you guys along with a "I'm sorry" card.
Anyway, off to the non-important stuff. That almost exact situation happened to me, I'm not even joking, except even worse them Bella's predicament. Me and my friends were playing hide and seek (shut up, we were bored) a few months ago and I was it. Both my friends were hiding in my basement because I checked upstairs twice before coming down after hearing them whispering down there (nice). I looked into the storage room first and found my friend Sophia first and she was like "Shit, I can't believe you found me first." And I started looking quickly everywhere in the basement because what she meant was that my other friend Doris was in a really obvious hiding spot. I only turned on the main light (there's several lights down there and I'm a lazy person if you didn't realize why I procrastinated so much) and I checked every room carefully. Then Sophia starts laughing her ass off and I'm all confused and then I hear something so I checked the rooms again and she was literally down on the ground cuz she was laughing to hard. I'm like what? And I look straight ahead for a good two seconds and realize that there was a part of the wall that wasn't the wall. Yep. It was Doris sitting cross legged with her hood up facing the wall in the corner of the pool table area. Turns out that "something" I heard was her knocking over a fucking pool stick when she tried sit down inconspicuously because she was standing in the beginning. And, AND her sweater wasn't even close to the same color as my basement walls. It was a kind of dull aqua color while my walls were a beige-greenish color…and don't even get me started on how many times I walked by her…yeah, ultimate epic fail there. Ok, away from the saddest thing that's ever happened in the history or sadness, I've also gone completely insane over the months. Says who? Says the fact that I stood thirteen hours in the rain for that Live at Much thing with RPatzz, Kristen, Richelle, and Nikki. Never. . Now I have a slight phobia of the rain, and crowded areas. Or too many people in one place. I'm not even going to tell you the whole story of what happened while I was waiting, but I will tell you that if any of you have watched it and saw some girl almost hit Robert in the head with a poster by accident, that was my friend Sophia LMFAO. She can't decide if she should scold herself for almost doing such a thing or scold herself for not actually doing it so he might look at her and remember that moment HAHA. Speaking of RPattz, which leads to the cast, which leads to Twilight, which leads to the movie, what did you guys think of it? How many times did you watch it? I only watched it twice, I haven't had the time or opportunity to watch it the two more times like I wanted yet. I know there were a lot of flaws with it, but I still loved it, although its probably just the fact that I'm insane now so its just because its Twilight and I'm now in a Robert Pattinson phase (Does anyone know how someone can be so ew but beautifully dazzling at the same time?). Honestly, I'm like broke because of Twilight because I keep buying the merchandise, and I scream at the mere sight/sound of anything to do with Twilight. Fantastic isn't it? Yep I think I lost it. LOL I really need Faber Drive to come out with their new album soon to help calm me down by obsessing over them instead. Oh, that reminds me, this was a while back as well but the Hedley concert was amazing, and I would SO go to another one again. I also went to their signing two days after at Chapters. It was pretty cool. A lot of other junk happened but this A/N is already super duperass long so I'll just stop talking now and post this.
Merry Christmas fellow Twilighters, and remember to not be afraid to nag me till the point I crack and just get the next chapter done and over with!