Its a new year! Woohoo! So happy new year everyone!
I'm really sorry about the wait! It was the holidays and i spent alot of time with my family so i didnt have alot of time to update. so sorry!
I dont really know what i think about this chapter... I dont love it but i dont hate it. So read it and review please!
**notice that the POVs change in the middle!**
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Chapter 20
BPOV
I stared down at the book that was in my lap without really reading it. 2 weeks had passed since Edward, Alice and I had gone to the mall and nothing exciting had happened since then. Olivia's wedding was this week and Alice had dragged everyone out of the house except for Emmet, Jasper, and me.
Olivia and Jacob had left Alaska last night to go to the reservation so that they could be with Jacob's family. Olivia's family was driving down tomorrow and we were going back to Forks the day that we got out of school for Fall Break. We were going to be staying at our old house. Charlie wanted me to stay at his house because he hadn't seen me in so long but Renee was coming up from Florida and I didn't want her to have to sleep on the couch. So I insisted that I would stay at the Cullens but I would spend tons of time with them. It would be the last few days that I could be with them so I needed to make the most of it.
I got butterflies in my stomach when I thought of this and I closed the book before putting my head in my hands. I don't really know how long I sat like that but when Emmett called my name from somewhere in the house, it was already dark.
"Bella! We need your help!" He yelled. I blinked a few times and smoothed down my hair before going to find him. I followed his thoughts until I got down to the basement. Jasper was with him and the lights were out but their thoughts didn't sound suspicious so I went down the steps.
"Guys?" I asked cautiously at the bottom of the stairs. There wasn't an answer and I sighed before putting my hands on my hips. I could see perfectly in the dark and I scanned the large area for them. I didn't see them so now they were hiding. "Ok… I'm going upstairs now. I'm not playing hide and seek." I said turning around and walking away.
Just as I made it to the top of the steps, I felt someone's hands around my waist dragging me back down the steps. I screamed loudly, not excepting it. I could tell that Emmett was now holding me as I struggled against him.
"What the hell are you doing?" I yelled at him.
"Calm down, Bella." He said grunting as I elbowed him in the stomach.
"PUT ME DOWN!" I said when he turned me around so that I was facing him. My arms were pinned behind my back and pair of vampire proof handcuffs was placed around my wrists and another pair around my ankles.
"Sorry, no can do, squirt." I sighed loudly.
"What are you doing?" I said struggling against him. They didn't answer me and they put me in a chair and handcuffed my already handcuffed legs and arms to it. "Guys! This isn't funny!"
"Is it?" Jasper said raising one eyebrow and laughing. I glared at him and attempted to jump the chair to the steps. All that did was make me fall over on to the ground. I laid there on my side while Emmett and Jasper laughed.
"Aren't you going to help me?" I said still glaring at them. Emmett pressed his lips together and thought hard.
"Nope." He decided after a moment, shaking his head. I growled at him and scanned their thoughts but I couldn't find anything to help me figure out what they were doing.
"Ok… fine. Then tell me what you're doing." I decided that I would let them just play their little game until Edward got home to save me. I relaxed and stopped struggling.
"I'm glad you see it our way." Jasper said sitting on the ground next to me. "Here's the reason for little prank." He started.
"We just want to make little Eddie mad!" Emmett yelled with a huge grin on his face.
I laughed, surprised at their reason. "Well I can tell you that he's going to be really angry. Are you sure you want to do this?"
They both nodded without thinking about it and picked me and the chair up. They ran up the steps and out the back door.
"Where are you taking me?" I demanded as they started off running in the woods. They held the chair up so that I was staring at the top of the trees and the night sky blurring past us. I got a look into Emmett thoughts. "You wouldn't." I growled seeing what he was planning on doing.
"We would." Jasper said. They ran me through the woods and out of range for my powers with the house. Now it would take Edward even longer to come get me since I couldn't even yell for him.
I continued bouncing up and down handcuffed to the chair until they stopped. I looked around me and saw that we were at the base of a huge rocky hill. They nodded at each other and run up it. My head smacked down on the back of the chair.
"Ow! Could you be any rougher?" I yelled.
"Stop yelling! No one can here you!" Jasper said. I noticed that the ride got a little gentler after that though. I knew they wanted to return me to Edward without a scratch or else they would really be dead.
At the top of the hill they stopped and put the chair down on a smooth even patch of grass. They used some rope to tie the chair to four trees around me.
"So now what?" I growled looking around.
"We leave." Emmett said with a wicked grin.
"Don't leave me up here!" I yelled.
"Sorry Bella, but Edward going to be home soon and we need to be there." Jasper said.
"Why so he can kill you?" I narrowed my eyes and glared at them. They laughed and started running back down the hill and to the house. "He'll follow my scent, you idiots!" I screamed at them. I knew they could still hear me because I heard Emmett's booming laugh. I didn't understand how this was funny. I was handcuffed to a chair at the top of some rocky hill in the middle of nowhere.
'And it's raining… great.' I thought as the first few drops fell down on to my face. I knew why Emmett had laughed at the last thing I said. Edward wouldn't be able to follow my scent if it was raining. It would get washed away. As long as it a light drizzle it wouldn't be completely gone, I assured myself. But after a few minutes it began to pour.
"Come on!" I yelled into the rain, knowing that no one could hear me. I couldn't even use my powers since there was no one to use them on. I looked down the hill. It wasn't that far down; if I could get the chair free from the ropes I could just role down the hill and bounce my way back to the house. I bounced the chair up and down and side to side, trying to get the chair freed from the ropes.
It was some kind of vampire proof roping too. Where do they find these things?
"I guess I'm not getting out of this." I muttered, sitting back into the chair. I put my head back and let the rain fall onto my face. I was soaked thoroughly and felt like I just jumped into a pool. I thought about the revenge that I would have to use on Emmett and Jasper when I got out of this. I was coming up with some really good ideas when I got a vision of Edward coming home.
EPOV
Alice had dragged Rose and me out to finish some wedding details. I wanted Bella to come with us but I knew that she hated shopping so I let her stay home with Emmett and Jasper. I wanted to get her a present too. I missed her dearly and jumped out of the car once we pulled into the garage. I got the small bag out of the back of my car.
"Edward, calm down. It's not like she's gone and you'll never see her again." Rose said, but I knew she was just as excited to see Emmett. I ignored her and ran into the house to find Bella.
"Bella!" I yelled running up to our room. I dropped the bag on the bed and looked around. She wasn't in there so I waited for an answer but never received one. "Bella?" I ran down to the indoor porch, where I had left her. Her book was lying on the chair closed. I sniffed the air and followed her scent around the house and down into the basement. I smelt Emmett and Jaspers' scents mingled with hers but I still couldn't find Bella.
"Edward?" Alice yelled from the kitchen.
"Alice! Do you know where Bella is?" I yelled, running up to her. Emmett, Jasper, Rose, and Alice were all sitting around the table.
"No…" She said looking at her husband suspiciously.
"Where did she go?" I asked Emmett and Jasper. I saw her car in the garage so she couldn't have gotten that far.
"I don't know, Eddie. She just kind of left." I growled at Emmett.
"Don't call me that." I said slamming my hands down on the table. "What do you mean 'she just kind of left.'?"
"I mean she just left. In a hurry." Emmett said. Where would Bella have gone? Why would she just leave? It was so unlike her.
"I think she just wanted to hunt or something." Jasper added. I attempted to shift through their thoughts but they blocked them from me. Something wasn't right.
"In the rain? Guys, it's pouring out there. Show me when she left." I demanded, knowing that they had something to do with it. They shared an uneasy glance but kept their thoughts blocked. "Emmett and Jasper! Tell me where Bella is!" I growled at them.
"We can't." Emmett said letting a small laugh out.
"What did you do to her?" Rose asked. I rubbed the bridge of my nose and thought since they didn't answer.
"Alice, can you see something since these idiots don't seem to want to help?" I begged her.
She focused and closed her eyes. After a few moments an alarmed look crossed her face.
"Jasper! Emmett! What did you do?" She asked. I saw the vision through her thoughts and saw my Bella sitting in a chair in the rain. She wasn't moving and her head was rolled back with her eyes closed.
"Where is she?!" I growled at them before smashing the table in half. They both looked alarmed and ran off somewhere in the house. I was going to follow them but Alice put her small hand on my shaking arm.
"Go find her, Edward. I'll let you know if I see anything else. Rose and I need to take care of them first. I'm going to make them tell us where she is." She said as I ran out the door into the pouring rain.
"Bella!" I yelled. I sniffed the air and couldn't find her scent. The rain washed her delicious scent from the air. I yelled for her again and again as I ran trying to find her.
After about an hour of running around in the rain, I was going to go back to the house and drag my stupid brothers out here with me.
I made a circle back to the house and was almost home when I looked down at the ground and saw 2 sets of footprints. They looked about Emmett and Jaspers size so I followed them. The prints went for about 10 miles in the woods. I was angry and wet. This time they had gone too far.
They led to the bottom of a small mountain. I sniffed and could faintly smell my wife so I ran up the hill. I gasped at the top when I saw her. She was handcuffed to a chair that was tied to some trees. Bella's eyes were closed and her head was rolled back, just like Alice's vision.
"Bella…" I said running to her. I touched her hand gently but she didn't move. If I could have cried I would have right now. I growled loudly through the forest and a few boulders tumbled off a mountain close by. Her eyes fluttered opened and she rolled the stiffness out of her neck before looking up at me.
"Edward!" She squealed. "I thought you were never going to find me!" I breathed a sigh of relief and kissed her lightly on her rain covered lips.
"Bella!" I kissed her again. She tasted even more delicious in the rain. "Never do that to me again." I whispered. She looked confused and then read my thoughts.
BPOV
I must have fallen in to my vampire sleep when I was woken up by some loud growling. I rolled the stiffness from my neck and saw Edward. His face looked worried and he honestly looked like he was about to cry.
"Edward!" I yelled. "I thought you were never going to find me!" His face washed over with relief and he kissed me.
"Bella!" He said kissing me again. His soft lips tasted so good in the freezing rain. "Never do that to me again." He whispered at me. I was confused. What did I do? I read his thoughts and he thought that I was hurt. That's why he looked so worried and looked like he was about to cry.
"Oh Edward." I said looking up at him. "I'm ok." I assured him. He nodded slowly and his eyes traced over the features in my face and down my body. His eyes stopped at my chest and I blushed. I guess my black bra was showing through my soaked, thin white shirt. I cleared my throat and if he would have blushed, I'm sure he would have.
"I'm sorry, Bella. You're just so beautiful." Edward muttered. I was thinking that I looked the exact opposite. I felt like a drowned cat next to Edward. The rain ran through his hair and down his face. His shirt stuck to his body and showed all of his muscles. He looked incredibly sexy. He cleared his throat now and I blushed a deep shade of red.
"Sorry." I muttered. I wanted to reach out and touch him but my arms were still stuck behind my body. He leaned down and kissed me.
"Now, let's figure out how to get you out of this…" He muttered after breaking the kiss.
"Edward, there is no way unless you get the keys from Emmett and Jasper. I've tried everything." I said pulling at the handcuffs.
He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger. As he thought I shivered because my body and the air temperature were so cold the rain was beginning to turn to ice when it touched me. I had been sitting so long that parts of my hair were like icicles and my clothes were becoming icy and hard. Edward frowned when he noticed that he wore no jacket that he could use to cover me.
"I could use a space heater now." I said smiling.
"Are you really cold?" He asked. I knew why he was asking because usually vampires don't get cold.
"Well, I think it is just out of habit. I don't feel cold; it's just that I know its freezing right now." He shrugged and knelt to the ground to untie the ropes that had kept me from escaping. Eventually he had untied all of the ropes and picked me and my chair up.
"Let's get you out of the cold, love." He cradled me and the chair awkwardly as he ran through the forests back to the house. He looked down at me and frowned again.
"What?" I asked.
"I can't believe that they would actually tie you up and leave you on some mountain." He said shaking his head.
"They said it was a prank to 'upset little Eddie.'" I explained, mimicking Emmett's deep voice. He chuckled and shook the water out of his eyes.
"Well, it worked. I'm really upset about it."
"I'm fine, Edward." I reassured him. He looked like he didn't believe me and I really wasn't. I was really ticked off that Emmett and Jasper thought that this was funny. I really liked the shirt that I was wearing and now it was ruined in the freezing rain.
"I can read you, Bella." He muttered and slowed down as the house came into view.
"Oh, shit. He's back." I heard Emmett whisper from inside. It sounded like him and Jasper took off running to go hide from him but Edward didn't really seem to care about them at the moment. He just wanted to get me out of the handcuffs.
Edward carried me up into the house and Alice held open the door for him. Rosalie and Alice gasped when they saw me.
"Oh my God. Bella! What happened?" Alice asked. I sighed.
"Well your husband's thought that it was funny to tie me up and leave me in the rain on some freezing mountain." I explained.
"Your hair…" Rose said, feeling the frozen strands.
"Is it really that bad?" I said cringing.
"I can fix it." Alice said happily but frowned. "They ruined your shirt. That was my favorite tee shirt for you. JASPER!" She yelled angrily. Rose restrained her so that she wouldn't go hunt him down and Alice calmed down as I sent some calming waves her way.
"Thanks." She said taking a deep breath.
"So did you get the keys?" Edward asked putting his hands on my shoulders.
"Oh, right. I almost forgot." Rosalie said pulling them out of her back pocket.
"How did you get them?" I asked her.
"I have my ways." She answered. I decided that I didn't want to know.
Edward quickly unlocked all of the handcuffs and helped me stand up. I stretched my arms up towards the ceiling and all my joints popped from being so stiff for so long.
"So what are you planning to do to them?" Alice asked with an evil look.
I looked at my watch and saw that it was already 3 in the morning and we had school tomorrow. I knew that we didn't have to sleep but I still had to pack and do homework for tomorrow.
"I think that it can wait until we get back to Fork." I said. "We can keep them on their toes for a while." With that I grabbed Edwards hand and pulled him up to our room with me.
"We need to pack because we're leaving for Forks tomorrow after school." Edward said pulling out some suitcases from the closet. I began pulling clothes off the rack from my closet and tossing them to Edward who folded them and put them in the suitcases. After I got all the clothes that I would need for Forks, Edward and I got all of his clothes out of his closet. In 10 minutes we were all packed and finished.
"So you're really not going to go after Emmett and Jasper after what they did to me?" I asked him, carrying all of the suitcases to the door.
"I thought that you wanted to wait until we got to Forks?" He said.
"I said I was going to wait… I didn't say that you had to." I answered with a wink. He let out a breath.
"Ok, good. I can't wait." Edward said kissing me quickly and then running down to go find his brothers. I heard some crashing and Emmett's girly scream. I started laughing and got out of my laptop to start on my homework. By the time I had finished, Edward was back up with me.
"That felt good…" Edward said sitting down next to me on the bed. I quickly looked through his thoughts and saw what he did with Emmett and Jasper. I started laughing and he just smiled at me. "They won't ever do anything like that to you again." Edward promised.
I leaned in and kissed him deeply. He kissed me back until Alice burst into our room.
"Alice…" I groaned.
"Oh… Sorry! I could come back later." She said with a wink.
"No, its fine. What do you need?" Edward said untangling himself from me.
"Well, I just need all of your luggage so I can get Emmett and Jasper to carry it down to the cars." Alice snapped her fingers and Emmett and Jasper came up wearing girl maid outfits. I started cracking up when I saw them. Edward and Alice had forced them to dress like this when Edward had gone down after them.
"Emmett and Jasper, take these down and into the car. And then I need you to finish cleaning the whole house." Alice commanding with her arms crossed. Emmett groaned and complained but with one look from Alice, he shut up completely.
They picked up the bags and took them down to the cars. Soon they were back and quickly they cleaned our whole room.
"Don't forget the bathroom!" I yelled over the vacuum. They both rolled their eyes and went in. When they came back out I took a picture of them.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Jasper said attempting to snatch the camera from me.
"Oh can't I?" I said raising my eyebrows and dangling the camera in front of him.
He tried to grab it again but Edward knocked his hand away. "Bella is entitled to do anything to you."
"Right, of course she is." Emmett grumbled.
"She is." Edward said. "And I don't think that either of you have apologized yet."
"Sorry Bella." Jasper said immediately.
Edward glared at Emmett and I waited for him to say something to me.
"I'm so deeply sorry that Jasper and I tied you up to a chair and left you in the rain, Bella." Emmett said bowing deeply in front of me.
"It's ok. I forgive both of you." I told them. They thanked me and nodded before walked out of the room with all of their cleaning supplies.
"I have to take a shower." I said laughing when Alice started yelling at them for missing a spot on some table.
"Ok, love." Edward said tossing me a towel from the linen closet.
I showered quickly and then got dressed. I picked a cute but comfortable outfit since we would be leaving for Forks at the end of school.
Edward and I went outside to put our backpacks in our cars before leaving for school.
As soon as I opened the door to the garage I stopped dead in my tracks.
"Oh my god! Is that my car again?" I yelled. There were two Cadillac's right next to each other. One was my older car and then another brand new one. They looked exactly the same and I looked at Edward who was just smiling hugely at me. "Why are there two?" I said walking over to both of them.
"Well, we're taking your car down to Forks and you are getting into a car accident and Alice and I didn't want to mess up your baby so we bought you a car to wreck." I nodded slowly and opened the new car.
"All of our stuffs already in here." I said putting Edward and my backpacks in on the back seat. I put my purse in the front seat and closed the door. "Thanks, Edward." I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him.
"You're welcome. I know how much you love your car so I didn't want you to have to get a new one." I kissed him again. Who was lucky enough to have a sweet husband that would buy you a brand new car just so you could ruin it? I held his hand and we went back into the house.
"Did you like it?" Rosalie asked excitedly.
"Yes. Now I don't have to ruin my baby!" I said laughing.
I looked over at the clock and it was 7:30. Edward followed my gaze and nodded.
"I think we should get going." Edward said. "Pack up the car your taking." He instructed and took my hand and brought me back out to the garage.
"We'll see you at school!" I yelled back into the house. We got into my new car and I started the car.
"Off to school and then to Forks!" Edward said taking my hand as we drove to school.
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ok so i really didnt know how to end it so this is just how i ended it.
I guess it was just a fluff chapter to get them off to Forks (where the next chapter will take place!)
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