Sunset Chapter 8: (Nightmare) A Reveal, I Guess

Sunday morning, I was startled awake by a heavy weight falling on top of me. I quickly sat up, pushing the object away from me. Bella leaned back towards the other half of the bed.

"Whatzit?" I muttered, looking at the clock.

"You're not going to believe –" I threw a pillow at my sister.

"No. To early. Sleep." I laid back down and pulled the cover over my head in defiance. It's not like I couldn't get up early, but it was, like, six. And on a Sunday.

It was oddly silent for a minute before my covers were rudely ripped off my bed.

"Bella!" I yelled, scrambling for the sheets. "Give it back!"

"Not until you listen to me. It's important, I swear."

"What if I was naked?" I pout, crossing my arms.

She rolled her eyes and pulled the sheets further away.

"Well you aren't so just let me speak. Ten minutes."

"You got five."

"Okay, uh…"

Bella pushed her weight from foot to foot, unsure where to start. She opened and closed her mouth multiple times.

"Three minutes."

"It's barely been a minute!" She protested.

I sighed and patted the bed. Bella hopped up next to me, both of us in crisscross across from each other.

"Okay," she finally started, "you remember how the Cullens are hiding a secret right? Well Jacob told me some ghost stories yesterday from the tribe and… I think I know what the Cullens are."

Oh, wow, we were already this far? Okay, okay, Emma, don't panic, just act normal. But how to respond? Oh God, its been too long hasn't it? Think, morning brain, Think! Interested but conserved. Don't deny, it'll make it easier but not too interested.

"Um, Emma? Look you don't have to know if you don't want to, but I thought with how much time you spend with Jasper you might –"

"What? I don't like him. We're just friends."

Bella raised an eyebrow and her grin became predatory.

"Sure, right. You realize I never said anything about liking anyone?"

I felt like I just got sucker punched in the gut. Oh no, what have I done?

"Bella – Bells, please, please, don't say anything. I know that Alice and Jasper are together, and I won't get between them and he wouldn't like me anyway and –"

"Hey, calm down" Bella soothed me, her hand rubbing up and down at my shoulders. "Emma, breath. I know you, I know you would never. Remember Mark? You liked him and you didn't ask him to freshman homecoming because you knew he liked, what was her name? The blonde one?"

"Jasmine Helmly," I supplied, feeling a bit better. I always did after talking with Bella. Being able to talk to someone about your problems was nice, I forgot the sensation of sharing stress. A nice reminder about why Bella shared with me so much.

"Yeah, her. I can say for utter certainty that you are not the only person to have a crush on Jasper. I know most of the school have liked, at the very least, one Cullen at some time or another."

"I know, sorry for the freak out. You know I'm just … not good with accepting my crushes."

"That's putting it lightly." Bella laughed. "Remember the only time you tried to ask out a guy, uh, Reid? I think? You almost broke your nose running into that locker."

"It was so embarrassing," I groaned, "Just thinking about it – Ugh it's too early for all of this. Can we go back to whatever was so important that you had to wake me up?"

"Yes, please! But just remember your sister is here if you ever want to talk about Jasper."

For half of a second, I thought about bringing up my Alice dilemma, but it was way too early to deal with any more freak-outs. Also, I had no clue how I was even dealing with the situation myself. I had pretty much accepted that I liked Alice at this point, but I think it was more of a her-thing than a girl-thing. I knew Mom, Dad, and Bella well enough to know they would be fine with it, I just didn't want to deal with it at this very moment. I had vampires to deal with.

"So," Bella started with a totally unnecessary clap that I appreciated, "get this. Vampires."

"Okay… so how exactly did you get from superhero to vampires of all things? I'm not totally throwing the idea out, but give me some proof? I've not really seen anything that screams 'I want to suck your blood,'" I asked, making sure to do my best Dracula impression.

"I know, but I don't think they're that type of vampires." Bella grabbed my arm and tugged me towards her room. "Look, I've been doing research, just come see."

With a sigh, I pulled a blanket around me and let her drag me towards her room. There I sat on her bed as she read aloud to me articles from some vampire site and compared the entries to what she had noticed from the Cullens. Then she added in the story Jacob told her, one I had known for years but let her retell anyways because I had no energy to fight her.

"So, good vampires that most likely won't hurt us," I summarized, "If that's the case, we have nothing to worry about."

"You're not scared? They could kill us." Bella looked on at me, disbelieving that I could be so chill. Says the girl who will not care about any of this in a few weeks or less.

"If they wanted to kill us, they would have done it already," I shrugged, "Besides, weak baby human versus super strong old vamps. If we die, then there's not much we can do about it."

With that, I left Bella's room and spent the rest of my weekend relaxing.

On Monday, after Mike and Jessica got together for the dance, Jessica invited us out to Port Angeles for dress shopping. I was hesitant to allow Bella or myself to go at all. While I knew that everything would be alright in the end and it was important for Bella and Edward's relationship, I was honestly scared. I didn't think that I could ever willingly let Bella put herself into a situation like the one she originally went through. I could only hope that I could keep Bella from getting herself lost this go around. Maybe Edward would show up if I gave him an opening instead of just stalking her all night.

That night prayed that I wasn't making a huge mistake as we drove out of town.


School got me dead, sorry I'mma be late.

Not really much for this chapter, Emma is already over the 'shock reveal' so... Also, I don't care to restate the Mike-Jessica drama. I imagine that Emma lets Bella handle all that anyway. I've been wanting to get to the next chapter, like, forever ago but now I'm just dead from school so who knows when I'll get to it. Enjoy, sorry its so short.