Author note: This chapter was written by the inspiration of the character Emma Jane, who happens to have the same name. Hope you enjoy Emma Jane's creation. Oh, and for reference, Ily is Emma Jane's nickname for Megan, which will be explained in future chapters.

Emma Jane Sanders

Chapter 21 - Costume Party

Ugh. Bleck. I'm having sleep issues. Seriously, lately I've been going to sleep late and then walking up almost every hour! And then, oh and then, I wake up thirteen minutes before my alarm goes off. This is ridiculous. I'm starting to look like my favorite friends; Y'know, pale, purple sleep bruises? yup. It kind of sucks, but I still end up really happy at school. Well, with my friends and Ily there. I'm not sure what it is, personally I blame Sleep Insanity (where you go crazy from lack of sleep), but I get pretty hyper and giggly.

Anyway, this is one of those sucky mornings where I get up an hour earlier than my alram. One second I'm dreaming and then the next I'm completely awake with my eyes still closed. My room was silent except for whatever was outside my window. I groaned at the lack of music from my radio-alarm clock.

I opened my eyes to look at my clocked and I croaked "Ew" at it. No one should have to wake up too early for school. I wouldn't wish this on anyone but Andrew.

Now, I'm a pretty likeable person. I'm fairly happy all the time, I'm adorable, I'm short, and that makes people want to pick me up for sone reason, and I don't usually hate people. But Andrew? he's such a douche and there are just so many reasons for me hate him, especially since he's been trying so hard to get into Bella's pants ever since she and her siblings got here. So figging annoying! Plus he went out with Ily and that didn't exactly end well.

Being Ily's sister means that we share a connection, which is pretty fascinating to me, so I looked up other twin circumstances at one point of my laptop. But besides that connection she talks to me a lot. We share pretty much everything. She doesn't even need to tell me that she's suspicious of the Cullens and Hales. I can practically feel her suspicion wafting off of her at times. It kind of makes me want to start laughing. Me, I'm not one to judge. Much. They'll tell us if they want to. I can wait. Not so sure about Ily, though.

I sat up after staring at the clock for a few minutes and then got out of bed. Sometimes it's weird to get up and not have Ily in my, formerly our, room. However there is that little fact that sometimes we're way different and clash a bit. Plus we've accumulated so much stuff that we require our own rooms. I tried not to trip over anything on my floor while I found the light switch and flipped it. I scrunched up my face, closing my eyes at the light while my eyes adjusted. I didn't feel like getting dressed quite yet, so in black shorts and a grey wife beater, I went out to find the kitchen. I flipped light switches as I went.

As I passed one of the couches in the living room, I picked up my book from a cushion and continued on to the kitchen, yawning and opening the book as I went. I sat at the dining table to read my book, a copy of all of the Lord of the Ring bookes in one.

When Ily came into the kitchen looking sleepy and squinting at me, I knew that it was around six in the morning.

"Wha...are ya doin' up, Em...Ja...?" Ily yawned, rubbing her eyes. She was in her pajames as well.

I grinned and told her, "I woke up."

She didn't need any more explanation than that so she nodded sleepily before rummaging in cupboards and the fridge for breakfast. She brought back a bowl of cereal for herself and strawberry PopTarts for me.

"Thank you, Ily," I smiled widely at my sister before ripping the packaging open to get my food.

She replied with "Mngrbmng" which I took to mean "I'm too tired to reply properly, but you're welcome, little sister."

When we got to school, we went our seperate ways, different people calling our names. We grinned at each other for a moment and then went to our friends and later, our classes.

We didn't have any classes together since Ily didn't take any advanced classes and I did. Except for History. I'm not so fond of learning dates and what dead old white guys had to say or what they did, so why take Pre-AP World History? That's just more work on something I sorely don't want to do in the first place.

I made it through my morning classes and then fast walked to my locker to switch books and then head to lunch. I loved lunch. i like to eat, even though I don't have much of an appetite sometimes, and I like to be able to hang out with my sister and see many of my friends.

I had gotten my food, a mini pizza and a bottle of strawberry-kiwi juice, and was about to sit down at a table with some of my old friends from elementary and middle school and their friends when I heard Bella call my name. "Mrah?" I turned to look at her.

Bella, well, glided across the cafeteria floor between people and tables expertly to stand beside me. It still amazed me that she could do that. But then again, her whole family was just as graceful, if not more so in the case of Alice. I always felt pretty graceless and extra klutzy with them around. But they definitely made up for it by catching me when I actually fell. Except for gymnastics. That's one of the only physical things I can really do without messin up too horribly, or at all.

Even when Bella was just standing beside me, I could smell her. She always smelled really good, and that made me wonder sometimes, especially since the rest of the Cullens and Hales smelled just as good.

Bella annonced politely to my friends that she was stealing me, that I would be able to sit with them tomorrow, and that she had something to tell me. She sounded kind of excited about it, too. As we walked - or in her case, glided, I stumbled a little - to her table she said, "Alice already got Megan, and with you we have everyone!"

"Okay?" It came out as more of a question because I was curious. I spotted Ily sitting next to Alice, and the two of us locked eyes. I gave her a curious look, tipping my head to the right in question. Ily just grinned in response. I sighed. She already knew. Of course. Alice probably just couldn't resist telling her. That made me the one out of the loop.

When I was finally situated between my sister and Bella, I glared all around the table at their happy, beautiful faces. Bella and Edward twitched a little at my glare. Emmett just grinned wider. Rose giggled with Alice while Ily laughed and Jasper chuckled. Growing impatient, I started bouncing around in my seat a little and whined, "C'mon, please-please-please?"

Ily rolled her eyes at me while laughing before smirking at me and saying, "Two words, Emma Jane; costume party."

My whole face must have lit up because when I hugged my sister, Bella, Alice and possibly Rose were all like, "Awwwww."

"Alright, alright! Get off!" Ily pushed me a little to make me let go, which I did, and then continued, "Holy mother of peanut butter and cookies, Em! I didn't think that you'd get that excited about it!"

I made a pouty face. "But, but, I get to wear a costume and it's not even Halloween! you know I love Halloween and costumes together and apart!"

"Yeah, I know, Emma Jane, but seriously, if you don't stop squealing then I will be forced to break out the duct tape. And possibly the flying monkeys." Ha the monkeys. A little inside joke between the two of us.

I deflated and stuck my tongue out at Ily with my arms crossed.

She gave me a look that vaguely reminded me of a satisfied cat and said shortly, "Thank you."

I just huffed at her and when I was about to ask when and where the costume party would be, Edward interrupted with an answer to my unasked questions. he and Bella seemed to do that a lot. Edward mostly. They just knew things. Edward leaned forward with his arms crossed on the table with a smile. His eyes flickered around to all of our faces while he spoke. "We are hosting the costume party on Friday. And yes, it was Alice's doing. She likes the idea of being able to choose costumes for all of us."

I glanced over at Alice, who nodded and grinned mischievously.

"I'm going to be Dracula!" Emmett announced happily. He and Jasper started snickering. Rose rolled her eyes and shook her head at her boyfriend. I noticed that Ily gave him a weird look before speaking.

"I still think that you should be a teddy bear, Emmett." Ily raised an eyebrow at the large...boy-man-thing. This earned snickers from everyone at the table. Bella, between laughs, informed me that Evalyn also thought that she should dress up as a teddy bear for the party even though she kind of wouldn't be there to see it. Esme was going to take Evalyn out while we partied. However, apparently we needed some sort of parental supervision, so Carlisle was going to oversee the party.

For the rest of lunch, we talked about costume ideas. Alice dominated the conversation by giving me and Ily suggestions every thirty seconds and describing a few details of her siblings' costumes. The eight of us left the cafeteria smiling. I called my usual "See you in English, Bella!" behind me as our group went in pairs in seperate directions.

By the time I got to English I was exhausted. Being away from my closer friends makes me extremely sleep and I just lose all my energy. I'm assuming that Bella noticed that I looked "kind of, I dunno dead." At least, that's how she voiced it. "Emma Jane? Are you okay? You looke kind of, I dunno, dead." It amazed me how she could contort her face into concern that way and still look beautiful. Just like always.

I sighed and told her, "I'm okay. Just really sleepy." I suddenly hung my head, closed my eyes, and pretended to snore. I heard Bella giggle and looked up at her. "See?"

She laughed again, shaking her head slightly. "Alright. Just get more sleep, Emma Jane. And don't forget that we're kidnapping you and Megan after the party. Bring whatever you want for sleeping over."

I nodded, smiling, as the starting bell rang and our teacher started roll call.