Bella and Kagome drove home in silence, every now and then Bella would look over at Kagome, while Kagome stares out the window. Kagome sighs, why did Emmett have to be such a jerk, and why couldn't she be attracted to human boys instead of demons, vampires, whatever. Because let's face it, she was attracted to him, that is until he spoke then he ruined everything. Kagome sighs again.

Bella looks over at her cousin, she hates seeing her look so miserable, even though they had only known each other for a week, Bella already felt a connection with Kagome. She worried that maybe she was taking this thing with Emmett a bit too hard.

"You know, Emmett really isn't a bad guy." Bella tells Kagome.

"Oh really? You could have fooled me."

"I don't know what got into him today but usually he doesn't act like that. Maybe he was trying to impress you or something."

"Well, if he was he did a terrible job."

"Maybe tomorrow he'll be back to normal."

"It doesn't matter, I already told Emmett to stay away from me." Kagome tells her cousin.

"Why?"

"Because, I already had one jerk in my life treat me like dirt, I don't need another one." Kagome explains.

"Emmett would never treat you like that, I'm pretty sure he really likes you."

"Oh, yeah, and teasing me was the best way for him to show it."

"Like I said I don't know what got into him today, maybe you made him nervous. You really should think about giving him a second chance."

Kagome pondered for a moment, she really wasn't the type to hold grudges against people, just look at how many times she forgave Inuyasha.

"Maybe."

Bella and Kagome get home, they each go to their respective rooms to change and then come downstairs to start on their homework. Once they're through, Bella tells Kagome that she's going to make dinner this time and that Kagome can go ahead and relax if she wants.

Kagome goes downstairs and grabs her quiver of arrows and enlarges her bow. She heads back upstairs and goes into the kitchen.

"I'm going to go do some target practice."

Bella turns around and sees Kagome with a long bow and arrows, her eyes widen.

"Whoa, is that what you used on your Kyūdō team?"

"Yeah this has been in my family for a very long time."

'Almost two years' Kagome thought.

"Wow, well, don't go too far into the woods, they can be dangerous." Bell advises her cousin.

"Okay thanks," Kagome says as she walks out of the house heading for the woods towards the back of the house.

Meanwhile:

"I can't believe I acted like such a jerk toward my own mate." Emmett says as he walks in the door.

Rosalie was sitting in the living room reading a fashion magazine when she heard what Emmett had said.

"What do you mean you were acting like a jerk."

"I met my mate today, Rose, and acted like the biggest asshole towards her all day long, she even told me to stay away from her."

"For god's sakes, why would you act that way?"

"I don't know, she got mad at me first period for not using her name and she was so cute all mad that I couldn't help it, I just wanted to tease her, just to make her mad, and now she wants nothing to do with me."

"Well then it's your own stupid fault."

"I KNOW! What do I do now, Rose?"

"You're going to have to get back into her good graces," Rosalie tells him

"Yeah, but how?"

"Figure it out."

Alice comes downstairs with a happy smirk on her face, "You could start by apologizing for being such a jerk, but first I think you should go hunting before tomorrow, you need to let off some steam. Go South East you'll have some luck."

"I don't want to go." Emmett pouts.

"Just go, oh and change into some joggers before you go." Alice tells him.

Emmett gives her an odd look, he rushes upstairs changes then head out the door.

Rosalie looks at Alice, "You set him up."

Alice dances out of the room, "I'm not telling."

Kagome walks for a while into the woods until she comes to a clearing, there she finds a lone tree stump in the middle of the clearing. Thinking that it would be a good target she pulls an arrow out of the quiver on her back. Knocking the arrow she takes aim at the tree, Kagome takes a deep breath and looses her arrow. She hits the tree dead center.

Eyeing the tree critically she quickly draws another arrow and looses it, the arrow flies true and splits the other one in half. Kagome smiles and shoots three more time, hitting again dead center.

While Kagome is practicing, Emmett is running through the woods, he wasn't thirsty but the run was helping to clear his head. He suddenly stops when he hears a familiar sound, the sound of arrows hitting a target. Curiosity getting the better of him, Emmett goes to investigate. Using his vampire speed, he makes it to the edge of the clearing in no time, there he sees Kagome standing in the middle of the clearing with her bow drawn.

For her part, Kagome felt the minute Emmett arrived, her eyes shift to the direction from which his demonic aura is coming from. She can't see him, but she knows its him. Kagome chooses to ignore her new audience and continues to loose arrows into the tree. Once she is finished, Emmett steps out from behind the tree. He claps as he gets closer to her.

"Wow you are really good with that thing."

Kagome doesn't say anything to him she just turns and starts walking away. Desperate for her not to leave, Emmett reaches out and grabs her hand.

"Kagome, wait. I'm sorry about today, I was being an asshole to you and I want to apologize."

Kagome looks down at their joined hands, she realizes that his hand is ice cold.

'Are they all like that?' She wonders.

She looks up into Emmett's amber eyes, eyes that remind her so much of Inuyasha, her eyes begin to fill with tears as she remembers all the times that Inuyasha would ask for her forgivness and a wave of sadness overcomes her.

Emmett, seeing her eyes filling with tears, feels his chest constrict painfully, thinking that he is the cause of her pain. He hastily pulls out a handkerchief from his pocket, an old habit he has from when he was human, and hands it to Kagome.

"Oh god, Kagome, I didn't mean to make you cry."

Kagome accepts the handkerchief from Emmett and wipes her eyes, she smiles at him, "You didn't, Emmett, you just reminded me of someone I used to know, he was a jerk to me too, but I always forgave him and he was worse than you."

"Kagome, I am so, so sorry, please, please forgive me."

"I think I can forgive you, Emmett, you were only teasing, If I can forgive Inuyasha for being a jerk, I can certainly forgive you."

Emmett beams at Kagome, if he had a heart it would be racing right now, he was so happy.

"Thank you, Kagome, you have no idea how much that means to me."

"No problem, Emmett, by the way what are you doing out here anyway?"

"Oh, I, uh was just out for a run there's a trail not to far from here but I stopped when I heard you shooting."

"Oh."

"Come on, I'll walk you home." Emmett tells her.

"I'd like that."

As Kagome and Emmett walk back to Kagome's house all Emmett can think is to thank Alice for telling him to change into his joggers or else it would have looked like he was stalking Kagome. Suddenly Emmett stops, Kagome looks at him concerned.

"Something wrong, Emmett?"

"No, nothing at all, come on, let's go."

'Rotten, Pixie, set me up.' Emmett thought.