A/N: Text message conversation withBella (in italics)and Edward (plain text)

What do you think about these designs for the crop circle.

[sends three possible designs, they are concentric circles and each circle's width varies along its circumference to indicate either a . or - in Morse code]

Emmett Cullen, 01/01, 00:00, right?

You can read morse code? And fast?!

I shouldn't be surprised I guess. You're good at everything.

I'm not good at making friends.

Oh boo hoo Cullen,

What am I chopped liver?

You're my assigned English partner, Bella.

Ouch.

I thought we were friends.

We are?

I thought so.

No, no we are. If you want to be.

Sorry, I'm an idiot.

You changed your mind didn't you?

Oh no.

Oh no, Bella. I'm so sorry you don't want to be my friend now..

Hey, calm down, we're friends. Charlie was asking about dinner.

It's objectively true that you're an idiot. Luckily I knew that already.

Really?

Really.

Anyway *friend*, what do you think of the designs?

I think we should use the simplest one (the pink one),

I'll make sure he figures out how to read it.

You made the stomping boards to flatten the grass?

Yeah they're in the basement, I'll bring them on Black Friday.

I plan on marking out the design beforehand.

Won't Emmett and the others see?

Well, he has no reason to go to that field, there's nothing but tall scrub grass there.

I think Esme wants to do something with it eventually, but for now it's just boring grass.

Even if someone does go there, the grass will cover the golf tees I plan on using mostly.

How big should we make it?

Well, we need to have it big enough to see and read clearly, but also be able to easily finish it in a day.

The stomping boards are about 4 feet long right?

Right.

Well, shall we make the narrowest lines 4' then?

Then it'd be 46 feet diameter, I'll stake out a 48 x 48 square and then we can put it inside that.

Ooooh, it's gonna be big!

Yes! The field is more than large enough though.

This is so fun!

Yes! I always have fun with you.

You too, friend!

Friends!

What else should we plan between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve?

I think less is more in some ways

How so?

Well, the less he sees directly, or the vaguer the things he sees are,

the more his imagination will do the work for us.

Oh definitely, that's the way to go then.

I think so.

So just lights in the sky or some weird 'alien voices' when he's alone?

Exactly

I was thinking about an egg.

An egg? Emmett loves eggs.

RIGHT? He brings whole bags of them to school,

like he doesn't know what normal food is lol.

Wouldn't an egg be a little small?

No, silly, I think we should make an *alien* egg for him to find in the woods.

How would we do that?

I'm not sure.

We could maybe just make the shell?

So it looks as if it hatched already.

YES, with slime and IDK some kind of weird membrane remnants.

OK, so maybe we could make egg pieces by making a latex membrane

and then coating it with plaster and paint to make the shell.

You're so clever!

Do you think it would fool him?

I think the slime would help. I don't think I can touch the slime though.

I will handle the slime, don't worry Edward. You can keep your fingers clean!

Thanks friend!

OK, let's think about what colours to use and I will look up slime recipes.

You can plant it near the house or somewhere he will find it when he's hiking, ok?

Yes. This sounds perfect.

Cool, well we can talk it all over when we are making the

crop circle too and come up with the ideas we need for the grand finale.

We have a lot of things from Esme's parties that we might be able to use,

like outdoor lights, a big power bank we use if we take a long camping trip

and I think Jasper has a projector somewhere we might be able to borrow.

Oooooh a projector has potential. I'm going to need some

time to work this out, but I think we can make something amazing.

Me too, it's so much fun making things with you! First Halloween, now this!

Yeah, I really enjoyed Halloween too!

The oven timer just went off, so i think dinner is done now, I'd better go and serve it up.

OK, have a nice evening Bella.

You too Edward

Bye friend.

Bye!

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