There's a lesson in this chapter you can all learn!
"Okay, today we are spending family day going over the dangers of strangers!" Esme smiled. We were all seated around the table, with Esme and Carlisle standing at the front. We got home mid-Thursday. We stayed in Italy until Bella woke up, and then had breakfast. We got better seats on the airplane, and sat together as a family. We were spending family day together.
"Mom, we know about stranger danger!" Emmett whined.
"It doesn't matter. If someone told you their cat was stuck under their van, would you help?"
"Well, yeah."
"WRONG. That's how Bella was kidnapped." She said. Bella nodded, giving Emmett a I-Fell-For-It-Look. He pouted, and slumped in his seat.
"Now, we're going to go around the table, and give you each a scenario. You tell us what the right answer is." Carlisle said.
"Jasper, your first." If Jasper was first, then Bella was second, then me, Emmett, Rosalie, and Alice.
"If a person says they have some candy for you, but they said they left it in their car, and they ask you to come with them to get it, what would you say?"
"I'd say no thank you, and send them some waves of guiltiness so they'd go turn themselves in for trying to kidnap kids." Jasper said with a smug smile.
"Er...okay, Bella. If someone asks you to come help them find their car, cause they lost it in the parking lot, what do you say?"
"I'd say no, then go get Jasper so he can send some guilt waves at them. Or get one of you to beat them up." She nodded at her back-up plan, then smiled. We all smiled back.
"Alright, Edward, if a man comes up to you, and says he's a policeman, and tells you your mother is sick, and you have to come to the hospital with him, what do you say?"
"I'd read his mind, so I knew if he was lying, then run away." I said simply. Esme and Carlisle nodded in approval.
"Okay, Emmett, say a man tells you he'll give you a fancy new car if you come with him. What do you tell him?"
"Um...No, I love my jeep!" Emmett exclaimed.
"Okay. Rosalie, if someone asks you to come with them so they can show you this new car that's never before seen, what do you say?"
"Yeah right, get lost. Then I walk away." Rosalie said.
"...Alice, a person says he is a new world designer, and offers you some top of the line designers clothes if you go with him. What do you say?"
"No! I know who the designers are, and your not one of them! Then I run away. I actually wouldn't be there in the first place, cause I saw them coming." Alice exclaimed.
"Very good. Now, if your ever approached by a person you don't know and they ask you to go with them, you scream. Understand?" Esme said. She was saying this more for Bella then us. She nodded. After about a half hour more of going over stranger danger, Esme and Carlisle had a seat.
"Now, what should we do?" Carlisle asked.
"Let's play hide-and-seek!" Bella exclaimed excitedly. No one bother to tell her it was impossible to hide from us on the property due to the fact we could smell her scent, blood, and hear her heartbeat.
"Yeah!" Emmett exclaimed. The other agreed.
"Who's it first?" Bella asked. "1-2-3 not it!"
"Not it." Everyone but Emmett exclaimed simultaneously. Emmett groaned. We got up from the table.
"Count to 100 Emmett, slowly. Keep in mind Bella doesn't move as quick as we do." Esme reminded him. He nodded, and got up and went and stood in the corner. Bella got up, and ran to the laundry room. The others dashed off.
I heard the laundry machine start, and Bella came running out. She turned the sink on, then ran to the living room. I knew what she was doing now, she was trying to sound out her heart beat. I ran upstairs, and turned on all the stereo's I could find. The thick scent of perfume cut through the air, along with many scents of soap. I came out of my room to find that Alice and Alice had sprayed tons of their perfume, and Esme was filling the bathroom sink and bathtub with soap. We were making it a fair game for our human. I couldn't even find her scent.
She was already hidden, and so know we decided to hide ourselves. I went in Alice's room, and hid in her closet, which was practically overflowing with clothes. I couldn't hear whether or not Emmett was looking, but I could hear his frustrated thoughts that the noise and smell was hiding Bella, and everyone else.
Emmett's POV
I couldn't hear Bella's heart beat, and I couldn't smell her, or anyone else for that matter. I went into Edward's bedroom, and looked under the bed. No one. I looked in his closet, and among the racks of clothes. No one. I went into his private bathroom, and saw the bathtub/shower was overflowing with bubbles. There's where the soap smell was coming from. No one in here.
I went to Alice's room. Checking Edward's closet gave me the idea that someone had to be hiding in her mound of clothing. Before I checked though, I looked in the closet in the hallway, and found Alice!
"Dang! You cheated!" She said.
"No, I just made snap decision to look in the closet!" I teased, and went into her room. She followed, now the person who had to be it first.
I looked in her clothes, and grabbed an armful and threw them behind me. I found Edward!
"Ugh! Now clean up my clothes!" Alice demanded. I brushed her off and looked under her bed as Edward climbed out. He gave Alice an annoyed glance, I laughed, she must be singing in her head. I continued to hunt for everyone, I only had Carlisle, Esme, Bella, Jasper and Rose to go. I went downstairs to the living room. I checked behind the couch, and found Jasper!
"Haha, I found you!" I cheered loudly over all the noise. He shrugged, and stood up. I continued on my search, and went into the laundry room. I began to throw all the dirty clothes around, and eventually found Carlisle in them!
"I found you!" I grinned. I continued on my hunt, now only having Bella, Esme, and Rose left. I looked in the downstairs bathroom, and found that tub overflowing with bubbles, that they almost touched the roof! I almost walked out, but then I had an idea. I turned around, and moved all the bubbles around. I found Bella!
"Found you!" I said, pulling her out of the bubbles. They clung to her, and she was having a giggle fit. I handed her off to Alice, so she could go get changed from her now wet and bubble soaked clothing. I continued looking until I found Rose hiding in a cabinet in the kitchen, and Esme hiding under the desk in Carlisle's study.
"It's Alice's turn, I found her first!" I said. She pouted.
"But that's not fair, Alice can see where we hide!" Bella said. We all nodded. Alice beamed, happy to get out of being it.
"Then that means Edward's it." Edward pouted. Bella took his hand.
"I'll be it with you." She offered. He smiled.
"Okay."
