A/N: Hey guys! I planned to have this written and posted yesterday, but I forgot I had a party to go to. D'oh! This chap is another shorter one, but I hope to get back to my normal, decent length chapters soon! I promise!

Not a lot happens in the chapter, another filler, but I have things I want to get into the story, I just need to fill gaps to make it happen. Time needs to kind of speed up, so next chapter, I think, is going to be a bit of a leap forward. Try to stay with it. It won't be a very happy chapter, but it needs to happen for the over-all story.

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EdPOV

I woke up to laughter in the living room. Which is normally a good thing. But it is 6 o'clock in the morning and neither of my brothers wake up this early for the fun of it. I stayed where I was and listened for a moment. There were no female voices out there with them... why are they awake? I heard a bark. Ah. I just got my answer... wait... no, no I didn't.

I walked out of my bedroom and saw Emmett and Jasper on the ground throwing one of Pixie's toys back and forth and the dog was running back and forth between them, trying to get it.

"Where are the girls?" I looked around, hopefully.

"They had to work." Emmett said without looking away from Pixie.

"Emmett volunteered to doggy-sit." Jasper caught the toy and waved it above Pixie.

"Ok..." I walked off to the bathroom to take a shower.

When I came back out, they were all sitting on the couch watching television. Well, Pixie was destroying a treat of some sort, and they were watching a show.

"So, what are you doing with the dog all day?" I asked, sitting in the empty chair.

Pixie jumped off the couch and ran over to my chair. I scooted myself against one side of it and she hopped up next to me. I scratched her absentmindedly as my brother's and I watched television. Before long, the dog was asleep.

"I thought dog-sitting would be fun... this is kind of boring..." Emmett whined after a while.

"What did you expect to happen?" I asked him as Jasper just snorted in response to his comment.

"I don't know. It is a puppy... aren't they supposed to be full of energy?" He gave a pointed glance at the sleeping dog.

"They do have a lot of energy. But, when you sit and watch television, they sit and sleep. If you do something, she will get excited. Watch." Jasper explained, then stood up.

"Pixie!" He called to her and her head instantly perked up. He picked up her toy and started tossing it from hand to hand, she was now standing on the chair, watching it fly back and forth.

"C'mon girl!" Jasper called waving the toy in front of her.

She leapt off the chair towards it. Jasper moved it just before her teeth latched on, and he held it out away from his body, making circles in the air. Pixie was on her hind legs spinning in circles with it. He pretended to throw it down the hall and she ran in that direction. We could hear her sniffing around by the door, trying to find it. After a minute she ran back into the living room and saw Jasper still holding it. She ran to him and tried to jump up for it. He pretended to throw it again, and she ran again. The cycle continued, with Emmett taking over the pretend throwing at some point.

After a while, my stomach grumbled. I looked at the clock and saw it was almost noon.

"Hey, Jasper, want to walk with me down to that little Chinese food place a couple blocks away?" I asked while I stood up. Emmett heard mention of food and lost concentration. Pixie stole the toy and ran away. My brother being who he is, chased her, and now they were running in circles around the apartment.

"Yea, sure. What do you want, Emmett?" He called as we moved towards the door.

Emmett called back his order, still chasing the dog, and we left. It was not a long walk, so Jasper and I had our food and were walking back maybe 20 minutes later. We waited in the elevator for it to reach our floor, and when the doors opened, we were greeted by Pixie.

"Uh... the elevator doesn't open up at our place, right?" Jasper asked as we just stared at Pixie for a minute.

"Last time I checked... no." I responded. We laughed and shook our heads.

I reached down and picked up the dog as we made our way down the hall. She was licking my cheek and neck the whole way. Jasper opened the door for me and we got inside to see Emmett searching every room.

"Lose something?" I laughed.

"Where did you find her?!" He ran over to me and grabbed the dog.

"She met us at the elevator. How did you lose her?" Jasper asked as we walked into the kitchen to set the food down.

"I don't know!" Emmett half-yelled, setting the dog on the ground.

Jasper and I laughed at him as we all pulled out our food.

*****

JPOV

We were all sitting around the living room again, watching television. Emmett was playing with Pixie, so at least they were both entertained. There was a knock on the door, and Emmett was already standing, so he walked over to answer it.

I am not sure what exactly happened next, but it ended with Emmett yelling. Edward and I glanced at each other before jumping up to see what happened, but Emmett was gone. There was a very confused person standing in our doorway, and Edward spoke to them as I took off trying to find Emmett. I got down the hall just in time to see Emmett run into the stairwell, and Edward joined me soon after.

"What the hell?" I looked at him.

"Pixie got out. That guy was looking for someone who no longer lives in our apartment, and he said that when Emmett opened the door, Pixie took off." He sighed.

Well, shit.

We took off after Emmett. We need to find that dog. The girls will never forgive us if we lose their dog. We found Emmett downstairs, he had Pixie cornered. I sighed, relieved.

Then, someone opened the door and she ran again.

"Damnit, Emmett!" I yelled as we all ran outside.

We saw her running down the sidewalk and took off after her. We were all yelling out her name, but she was ignoring us. She would stop every now and then to sniff something, or pee, and we would try to sneak up on her. She always caught sight of us before we got close enough, and would take off again.

The people on the sidewalk were not helping either. It is almost like they were purposefully getting in our way. Before long, we lost her.

"Where do you think she would go?" Emmett asked as we all caught our breath.

"Gee, I don't know. If I were a dog, in New York, where would I go?" Edward said sarcastically.

Emmett was silent for a minute as he seemed to seriously be trying to think about this.

"I think, if I were a dog, I would want to go to Central Park. It is a huge park, with lots of people and things to see." He finally said.

Edward and I both just blinked at him.

"..." Edward seemed to be trying to come up with something to say, but could think of nothing.

"I guess we are checking Central Park." I sighed and we all started jogging there.

We did not see Pixie there, so we split up to walk around and look.

~*~

Several hours later, I walked back into our apartment. I was the first one back, and I knew the girls would be getting home soon. How are we going to tell them that we lost their dog?

It did not take long before my brother's returned, as well. We sat down and tried to figure out how we were going to tell them. This was going to be rough.

A couple hours later, I heard the front door open. Edward and I were sitting in the living room, watching television and Emmett was picking up dinner.

"Hellooooo." We heard Alice call as she walked down the hall.

"Anybody home?" That was Rose.

"Pixieeee!" And there was Bella.

They walked into the living room and Alice came over to me, Rose sat on the couch next to us and Bella wrapped her arms around Edward, still standing behind his chair. She leaned down and kissed him.

"Where is the mutt?" Rose asked, which earned her a pillow being thrown at her head.

"Uh..." Edward started.

"Is Emmett walking her?" Bella asked before he could say anything.

"Well..." I started, but got cut off by Alice.

"He had better have walked her a few times today, I doubt Bella wants her peeing all over her room tonight." My Alice giggled.

Bella glared at her.

"If she does, I am SO moving all her things over to your room."

Alice stuck her tongue out at Bella. Just then, Emmett walked in with the pizza's we sent him to get.

"I'm back. When are the girls coming home?" He called from the kitchen, having not seen Bella apparently when he walked in.

"Uh, they are home now." Rose called back.

"Pixieee!" Bella called for the dog again and tried to turn to find her, but Edward held on to her arms so she couldn't.

"Did you tell them?" Emmett looked at us worriedly when he walked into the living room.

"Tell us what?" Alice asked, all three of them looking between us.

"Well, uh, you see..." Edward started, but wasn't sure how to say it.

So, I tried.

"Well, this guy showed up and, uhm... Emmett, you tell them! It is your fault!" I couldn't stand being the one to tell Alice that her dog was gone.

"Uh... I... uh..." Emmett was also at a loss for words. Great, this is going to take all night.

"Guys! Just spit it out." Rose was getting impatient.

Actually, looking at all three of them, they all were.

"We lost your dog." Emmett finally said quickly.

I got ready for the screaming to start. But, it did not come right away. I looked down at Alice who seemed almost in shock. All the girl's seemed to have a careful mask of calm on, if we didn't know them as well as we do, I wouldn't be able to tell it was just a mask. Alice finally spoke.

"You... lost... Pixie?" She spoke slowly.

"Yes. A guy showed up at the door and when Emmett answered it, she ran out. He chased her down the hall and someone else happened to be coming up the stairs and the door to the stairwell was still open. She slipped in it and when she reached the bottom, someone else had propped the door open - I am guessing the people moving in downstairs." Edward started explaining.

"I caught up with her downstairs, but someone walked in the building and she was able to dart out the door. We chased her several blocks before we lost her." Emmett cut in.

"We spent the better part of the day split up, searching for her." I finished, staring at Alice. Hoping she didn't hate us.

We watched the girl's glance at each of us then each other. Then, it happened.

They burst into laughter.

My brother's and I just watched for a few minutes, unsure of how to take this.

"Uh... we aren't joking..." Edward laughed cautiously.

"We know!" Rose said through laughter.

"We knew!" Alice spoke next.

"What do you mean, you knew? Knew what?" I asked.

"We knew she got out as soon as we got home. Mrs. Johnson from 57 found her outside the building this afternoon. She must have come back at some point and you were out looking for her still. Mrs. Johnson knew Pixie was ours, so she brought her in and waited for us to get home." Bella explained when they calmed down enough.

My brother's and I scowled.

"So, you knew when you walked in that door that we lost the dog. And you didn't tell us?" Edward asked, looking right at Bella.

"We wanted to see what you guys would say." Rose shrugged.

"One thing is for sure though, you guys suck as doggy-sitters." Alice laughed.

Edward and I glared at Emmett for tarnishing our reputations.

A/N: Hey-lo again! I hope you all liked this chapter. Fun times with Emmett losing the dog. *Sigh* OH! And for those of you who notice.... I REMEMBERED TO USE SPELL CHECK THIS TIME!!! Yay me!

Love2bdazzled - I am sure other people will be happy for this, too, but you mentioned it. I did not really think about putting in the names of the songs I have used and the artists, but I will from now on. Here is a list of the BellabyTime songs for everyone so you can check out. They are all ones that I LOVE, so I suggest you take a listen. :)

Chapter 11 - Take a Bow by Rhianna

Chapter 18 - Man! I Feel Like A Woman! by Shania Twain

Chapter 20 - Hey You by No Doubt

Chapter 26 - This I Promise You by *NSYNC

Chapter 35 - I'll Be by Reba McEntyre

Chapter 36 - I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

From now on, I will mention song title and artist in A/N of the chapters they are in. :)

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Ok... that was sooooooo cheesey... *sigh*