Alright so I know that it's been a REALLY long time since I put anything up for this story. So this is just part, the next chapter will be the rest of what happens. When I get the rest of this typed up then I'll put it up for you guys. Remember to review and leave me some luv'n.


Chapter 9 – Birthday/Halloween Party
POV: Rose

Songs: a7x - Hail to the King


I woke up somewhat early one morning, and to my surprise Emmett was nowhere to be seen. Ali made her way down the hall to our bed, coming through the cracked bedroom door. I had just made my way up so my back was against the headboard, when Ali jumped up onto the bed and made her way to my lap. Climbing up my body, she gave me her good morning lick in the face.

"Well good morning to you too. Where's daddy?"

She answered with a bark, and then Emmett made his way into the bedroom carrying a tray of food. I couldn't help but look at him with a smile planned on my face.

"Morning." He stated while taking a seat next to me on the bed.
"Morning. What's all this?"
"Birthday breakfast."
"I totally forgot about that. Another year older. I don't like it one bit."
"Well get use to it. You aren't going to have too many more of those. I can't be marrying a cougar now can I?"
"Very funny." I said while taking one of the strawberries and popping it into my mouth. "So what's on the agenda for today? I mean being that I skipped school and all."

"Whatever you want to do." He popped a piece of pineapple into this mouth. "I mean it is your birthday after all. But just remember that Alice and the others are going to be coming over here later. They have to make sure everything is together for the Halloween party tonight."

"I forgot about that. Well," I paused trying to come up with something that we could both do and have fun. Then it hit me. "Why don't we go muddin'? I ain't done that in a while now."

"I told you whatever you want to do. Just eat first birthday girl."
"Fine."

Thirty minutes later, eating and dressing done and over with, Emmett was leading me down a path through the woods to God knows where. I had settled for a pair of distressed jeans that always got muddy, a dark brown Browning shirt with the buck head logo on the front in pink camouflage, along with the brown Timberland boots. I wasn't going all out this time because I knew that I was going to get drenched in mud one way or another.

We pulled up to the edge of the tree line and stopped. In front of us was a huge clearing and what looked like an old pond in front of us. I pulled the black Ray Bans down the bridge of my nose and looked over at Emmett.

"What is this place?"
"This is my mud hole." The smile creeping up onto his face.
"Uh why didn't you tell me about this?"
"Didn't think that you would want to come out here." He said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Well you don't know me that well do you then?"
"I know you very well. Better than you think missy."
"Enough talk lets have some fun please?" I pushed the glasses back up the bridge of my nose.
"Be my guest. Go ahead I'm right behind you."

With that I sped off on the four-wheeler towards the mud hole. Emmett right on my tail the entire time. It was around nine in the morning when I woke up, and we spent a few hours out here. So that had to make it around eleven or twelve right now. I pulled out onto the grass then looked over at Emmett to my right.

"Alright enough mud for one day. Time to take a shower." I stated while wiping the mud off my glasses.
"Kay. You'll get your other presents later tonight."
"What other presents?" How many did he get me?
"Not telling. You'll have to wait for 'em."
"Fine. Let's go."

Once again Emmett led the way back to the house. The four-wheelers got parked behind the house near the garage. I went to the backdoor that led into our room and stopped.

"What's the matter?" Emmett asked walking up behind me.
"Nothing." I stated while pulling the Timberlands off. Along with my other clothes.
"Babe you're supposed to strip inside the house. Not outside."
"I know that but I'm not going to track mud into the house when you know durn good and well I'mma be the one cleaning it."
"Kay. I see your side. Proceed."

I couldn't help but laugh at him when he started doing the same thing. Once done and the door was opened, I carried the dirty clothes into the bathroom and put them into the hamper that was in the walk-in closet. After that it was on to the shower to get this mud out of my hair. Emmett gave me a little bit of help with that part.

After over an hour in the shower, thanks to Emmett playing around which led to us doing something, I got out and dried off. While sitting on the edge of the tub, my phone started to ring. I knew who it was the moment the ringtone started to play. Emmett threw me the phone from the counter at my sink. What is Syn doing calling me right now? I thought he would be asleep. Only one way to find out. When I answered, the last part of Save Me stopped playing.

"Yello?"
"Yello." I could just see the smile stretching across Syn's face at that moment. That got me to laugh. "What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing. I just know that you have this shit-eating grin on your face right now."
"How did you know that?"
"I'm your cousin. Trust me I know this stuff. What are you doing?"
"Nothing…is Emmett around?"
"Yeah why?"
"Can he hear me?"
"Yes you're on speaker phone."
"Yo Em."
"Yeah man." He said walking up beside me and taking a seat.
"That thing still good?"
"Sure is."
"Sweet. I'll text you after while, we're about to get something to eat."
"Okay. I'll be waiting."
"Kay. Ro?"
"Yeah Syn." I said just looking at Emmett. What would he be talking about to my cousin?
"Happy Birthday!" It wasn't just Syn, but all of the guys.
"Thanks guys. I wish ya'll could come down tonight. We got this huge Halloween party going on. Oh! Remember that year, when Matt did that one show wearing the vampire teeth the entire time?"

That got them to laugh. I knew they remembered it. I mean who wouldn't?

"Yeah I remember that. I had fun wearing those things." That would be Matt.
"So much fun that you wear them EVERY Halloween?" I could see Johnny's eyebrow being raised as he asked.
"Yes! Just like now."
"How the heck do you wear those things for so long? Let alone eat with them."
"Pure talent babe. I might show you sometime."

I couldn't help but laugh. "Sweet. I'll hold you to that."
"Speaking of eating, that's what I'm about to do. So go have fun at your party, we'll talk to you later."
"Kay. Love you guys."
"Love ya too babe."

I hung up the phone and set it aside. Grabbing my Love Spell lotion bottle, I looked at Emmett.

"What was all of that about?"
"What me and Syn?"
"Yes that." I started to rub some on my legs while I talked to Emmett.
"Nothing. He had asked me about something the other day."
"How did he get your number?"
"I gave it to him. Do you not remember when we went to the show?"
"Oh yeah! Never mind."

Emmett walked off into the closet, next thing I knew Hail to the King was playing. I rushed to get done then walked up behind Emmett.

"Where did you get that? The CD isn't even out yet." I was a little ticked because every time I tried to get it, something went wrong. Which ended up with me NOT being able to get it.

"Same thing happened to me. So when Syn called I asked if there was any way possible that he could send it to me. And he did. Oh he sent the tabs for the other songs on the CD to your e-mail. Since I know you already have this one."

"Okay. Well thanks."
"Welcome. Now can we put our costumes on? Or do we have to wait?"
"Wait."

I threw on a pair of old shorts that had holes all in them, one of the many Avenged Sevenfold t-shirts that I had hanging up, and walked out into the living room. While walking, I had to fix the black pushup bra. When I made it into the kitchen, I rummaged through the fridge trying to find something. The fruit salad Emmett made this morning would have to do until tonight.

Trying not to mess anything that Alice made up, I got a fork out of the drawer and took a seat on the stool at the island. She had really decked it out in here. We had plastic jack-o-lanterns hanging from the ceiling by fishing line. The counters were covered in old looking bottles with everything a witch would need to make a spell or curse. Things from frog's breath to coffin nails. Grave yard dirt to a vampire's ashes. To think about it, all of this stuff was fun to make. More fun finding things to put into the bottles that would go with what it was suppose to be.

In front of the island we had made a cauldron. Held up by PVC pipe painted to look like metal, they made a tepee and connected at the top. We had taken Styrofoam cut, painted, and hollowed some of them out to look like wood. The ones that had been hollowed out had orange and red stringed lights inside to look like they were on fire and burning. Inside the cauldron we put neon green lights and in the middle there was a mist maker in a bowl ready to be filled with water. The mist maker was just that, it made mist. Well an eerie fog that was cool. You just put this thing in anything and add water.

On the island behind the cauldron, we had set it up like a witch was making something. There were different bottles sitting out, and a huge Book of Shadows that was flipped to a certain page with the spell. We had aged it out with brown paints. It looked awesome.

The hallway from the front door was done in spider webs. All along the walls and up to our bedroom was done in spider webs. Emmett must have moved the guy from in front of our bedroom door. Alice had picked up a guy that was wrapped in spider webs to put in front of our bedroom door so no one would go in. I went behind her and wrapped some cotton from an old blanket around him too. It looked sweet. To make it even better, any time someone would walk past it would start to move around. The webs went all the way up the walls and onto the ceiling. Hanging from the ceiling were the huge spiders that looked like they were moving to get this guy.

The stair case was covered in black tulle and purple string lights up the rail and down the other side. At the bottom there were black leafs and black cats that looked really pissed off. I had taken the plastic cats and added some fake fur to them to make them look real.

The great room was where everyone could dance. We really didn't have anything set up in there. On the wall to the left were tables for the food. In the middle of the right side there was a table set up for an offering. The wooden table had Styrofoam skulls on the corners, and a flat piece that connected all the sides. To give the look that it was made out of a stone slab. On top Alice had put a pop-up coffin that had a red velvet lining inside while the outside was black. She had filled the thing with candy. And when I say fill I mean to the top and overflowing. If I'm thinking right, she had already spent well over five hundred dollars on candy. But she got everything from Snickers, M&M's, Milky Way, Reese's, War Heads, Smarties, Blow pops. It was just a mix of every kind of candy there was.

Outside was the fun stuff, starting with the driveway. Out at the road the Grim Reaper that we got holding the sign written in blood was hanging from the trees about eight feet up so everyone would see it. Then Alice wanted to put the orange rope lights leading the way up the mile long drive way, which we did. We also fixed it up some. Every fifty feet or so on both sides, we had a skeleton hanging from a noose in the tree. We also hooked PVC pipes up to fog machines. Every few feet in the pipe was a hole so when the fog machine was running instead of just coming out the front, it would be pushed down the pipes. It would then be pushed out the holes and cover the driveway. Much like they do in some of the horror movies.

When you get up to the house, the huge Nightmare Before Christmas/Jack-O-Lantern tree thing was set up in front yard to the left. We had taken black trash bags and cut them making strips. It looked sweet hanging up in the carport entrance that would take you to the back of the house. As you walked down the walkway to the front door to the right of the walkway was another cauldron with three witches around it. We set it up again so it looked like it was cooking something. Only this time we put neon purple lights inside the cauldron instead of the neon green with the mist maker. The front steps had green goo running down them. The goo was just a glow stick Alice had broken open and poured along the seam of the step.

Out back was made out into a cemetery. We had the pool covered with wood and everything under the sun to make it look like real ground. Fake tombstones stuck out of the ground with a few having the coffin itself sticking out. In the middle of the backyard, where the pool was covered, was bare. No tombstones or anything. But most cemeteries had a few patches where there wasn't anything. We had a fake chained fence up and entrance into the cemetery with gargoyles and everything. It was sweet.

A few hours had passed when Edward and Bella finally came over. Walking in from the side entrance that led to the kitchen, they carried their costumes with them.

"Hey guys. Where's the others?" I said looking up from the laptop screen.
"Jacob is on his way in from outside. Jasper and Alice had to go pick something up."
"Sweet. I think Emmett was going to start grilling if you want to go out there with him Edward. Bella if you want you can put that in our room so you can get ready later."

"Thanks Rose. Hey where's Ali at?" She asked looking around the room.
"She's probably outside with Emmett. Come on."

Jake came busting through the door then, I just looked at him. He knew what I was going to say and apologized before anything came out of my mouth. All three followed me through the house and out to the back porch where Emmett was on the phone and getting the grill started. I just caught the tail end of the conversation when he hung the phone up and looked at me.

"That was Alice. She was just calling to tell me she was stopping for more candy. But she had to go to another store 'cause they were out. When she gets done with that then she's on her way here."

"That works. Bella and I are going to put these costumes up in the bedroom. Did you put that Avenged Sevenfold mix CD on the loud?"

"Yes. I just don't have it playing yet and you might want to cut the volume down a bit."
"Will do. I'll hit it when I go in. Give ya'll something to listen to." I said walking over to the bedroom door, to which Bella followed.

On the wall to the left of the side door, Emmett had a radio and CD player hooked up to speakers throughout the house. After walking in the side door, I turned to the right and hit the button that would start playing the CD. After which I cut the volume down a little bit. When that was all done, Bella and I made our way though the bedroom and bathroom to the walk-in closet.

"Where do you want me to set these?" Bella asked while moving the costumes around on left arm a bit.
"You can put them on the bench or on my dresser. Either one is fine."

While Bella claimed the bench, I grabbed two large shopping bags from the floor. Inside were the Halloween costumes for me, Emmett and Ali. As I made my way back over to the bench, Bella started to talk.

"What are your costumes? Alice picked mine and Edward's out. Just like she does every year."
"Emmett is going to be an inmate and mine is a fallen angel. I got one for Ali too. She's going to be Snow White."

"I bet hers is cute. Alice got me and Edward to be the Mad Hatter and Alice from Alice in Wonderland."
"What is Alice and Jasper going to be?"
"I'm a flapper while Jasper is a gangster."

With that Bella and I turned around to find Alice standing in the doorway. With two shopping bags in each hand, she made her way over to us. When she took a seat in front of us, Ali came running in and jumped into her lap.

"Did you get the candy?"
"Of course. There are four bags sitting at the table that have all kinds in them. We had to get the mixed but I did manage to get you some Take 5's and some more War Heads. I put those on your bed."
"Oh well thanks. So when do we need to get ready?" Bella asked a little curiously. All for the simple fact that we knew Alice had to have everything right.

"Well the party will start in a few hours. Maybe you should go ahead and get ready."
"It's a little early don't you think?"
"Nope. It's going to take some time to get everyone ready."
"Well I've got mine and Emmett's." I said looking at her.
"Alright. But I've got to approve before anyone sees. Comprende?"
"Si madre." I said with a slight laugh.

Alice and I made work by dancing around and fixing Bella up. When all was said and done, she looked cute. We had her hair down with loose curls throughout, while a black headband with a black ribbon bow sat on her head. The dress I knew Bella hated. Just for the simple fact that it came up to about her thighs. It was almost a Caribbean blue color with a sweetheart-cut neckline, and puffed sleeves with white and black diagonal trim. The same black and white trim went around the bottom of the dress. Attached was a mini white apron trimmed with ruffles. While large black buttons adorned the apron and an oversized black bow attached at the waist. Underneath she wore a black and white tulle petticoat and white ruffled tanga shorts. Black gloves covered her arms up to her elbows, while her feet were shoved into the same Caribbean blue colored heels to match. While covered in glitter to shine, the trim was black with a small black bow in the front. Alice didn't put that much makeup on Bella. Just a little black eyeliner, blue and black eye shadow to match the dress, and black mascara.

Next it was Alice's turn. Her flapper costume was white and silver. Elegant yet sexy. The white tube dress was sequined around the neckline and on the dropped waist. The bloused bodice had a front-center overlay of knit mesh and strands of silver sequins, while the skirt was covered with strands of sequined fringe from the waistband. There was a sequined elastic headband with a white feather attached at the back, and a sequined choker that fastened with Velcro. Like Bella, Alice wore white gloves that covered her arms. The only difference being hers went up above her elbows. The silver heels she got went along really well with the costume. A small strap covered over the toes while another one went around the ankle and locked. The white rhinestones that adorned the straps set everything off.

After Alice and Bella walked out, Emmett walked in followed by Ali.

"Yo babe." I heard as I was going through the bags to get the stuff out.
"Yea?"
"Where's mine at? I feel left out. All the others have their costumes on already."
"I'm getting it. Hold on." I said as I finally got a hold of his costume and pulled it out.

One look at it and Emmett started. "An inmate?"
"Yes an inmate."
"Come on babe. Not that."
"Would you rather be an inmate or had Alice pick something out like Edward's Mad Hatter?"

That got him to shut up. "I guess you're right. Give me that thing."
"Shoes are on your dresser along with the socks." I said while handing the costume over.
"Well what are you going to be?"
"I'm not telling. You'll get to see just like the others when I get done." I straightened up after finding Ali's costume in the bag with Emmett's. "When you get done, put this on Ali."
"You're dressing the dog up too?"
"Yes. It's Halloween. You're supposed to dress up."
"Yeah but not the dog."
"Well get over it. This year she's dressing up."
"Fine. We'll all be out back when you get done. I'm still cooking."
"Okay. I'll be out when I get done. Now shoo! Go change." I stated while giving him a shove out of the closet.

Once he was gone the fun began. First off I had to strip, so everything came off. And I do mean everything. I put on a pair of black ruffled tanga shorts, then a black and red tulle petticoat. Overtop of the petticoat went the black corset layered ruffled skirt. It was more of a dress though. You had the black corset top with a black ruffled trim around top. The skirt was layered with black satin and black lace. Next I put on the black leather looking heels and jewelry. The red teardrop earrings were a nice touch and brought out the red in the petticoat. So was the red teardrop necklace that came down between my boobs and another necklace with a skull with horns pendent that came down to lie on my chest. Of course I had my engagement ring on, but added a large round red stoned ring that fit my middle finger on the right hand. There was also a black and red beaded bracelet, looking much like a charm bracelet, which went on my left wrist. When all of that was done, it was time for hair and makeup.

My hair was already wavy so I kept that the same and didn't do anything with it. Makeup consisted of Smokey eye shadow, black eyeliner, and black mascara. No lipstick, but some vanilla flavored lip gloss would work. When all that was done, I made my way back to the closet and over to my dresser to grab my cell phone. Alice picked up after the first ring.

"What do you need help with?"
"Wings."
"Closet?"
"Yes."
"Be there in a minute."

Before I could hang the phone up, Alice was standing beside me. "Where are they?"
"Bench."

With that Alice went to work attaching the black feathered wings to the back of my dress. After no more than five minutes, the wings were snug against the dress. Those things were going nowhere. Alice had already walked back out into the backyard. A few minutes later I did the same thing.

Everyone's eyes were on me as I walked out of the bedroom. Emmett was the last one to turn around and look. Just the face that he made when he saw me was priceless. Hehe. His jaw was dropped and his mouth was in the shape of an O as his eyes got big. Jacob then walked out of the double doors that lead into the great room and turned his head to see what everyone was staring at. Of course he was the first one to say something while everyone else was speechless.

"Holy hell Rose."
"What?"
"That thing short enough?"

I looked down at the hem of the dress. It was a little short. But I liked it. "Yeah I guess." I walked over to Emmett's side as he was grilling. "Umm…babe?"

His head shook side to side. I guess he was coming out of the dreamland he was in at the moment. Looking sideways at me, "Yeah?"

Pointing to the grill with my French tipped finger, "Might want to watch the grill instead of looking at me like that."

"But you're making it hard right now for me to not look at you."
"Grill now. Look later."

By seven o'clock it was already dark outside, and people were starting to pour in. Alice had cut the lights off in every room. The only thing lighting the place up were the rope and string lights that she had hung throughout the rooms. All the decorations that we had made for outside looked even spookier, with only the staged lights to light everything up.

At the moment Alice was bouncing off the walls because of all the candy she had eaten. Emmett was all done with grilling. Mostly everyone was dancing. Except for the few that had gotten here late, they were sitting around eating. While I danced Emmett went to get us something to drink. I thought he had gotten back when I felt a hand move over my stomach from behind and pull me back against him. Of course I started to dance against him. But when I looked across the room and saw Emmett coming out of the kitchen, I panicked.

Whoever this was knew they had been caught. Tightening their grip around my stomach, they pulled me towards the front door.

"Get your damn hands off me!" I yelled while trying to wring myself free from their grasp. I got a quick glance of who it was from over my shoulder. I should have known who it was by the cologne smell that he was wearing. Royce. "What do you want?"

"Why…you should know what I want. That McCarty boy took you away from me…and I want my property back." His mouth was so close to my ear that I could feel the heat when he talked slick down my neck.

"First off I'm NOT your property." I moved a hair to my left, pulled my right arm up and slammed my elbow into his stomach. Next I stomped on his right foot with my right. At this point he had let go of me. I turned to face him and with the palm of my right hand smashed it up into his nose. Making his eyes water in the process, and for good measure I kneed him in the balls. "And second you shouldn't have screwed me over you piece of shit."

By this point Emmett had walked up behind me. Along with the others and some of the guests to see what was going on. What made me happy and put a smile on my face was when I glanced at the front door when I had a feeling I should. Walking in was my family. Syn, Matt, Johnny, Zacky and Arin. Along with their girls of course. It wouldn't be a party without them. With the smile still planted on my face I looked Royce in the eyes. "You know you really shouldn't have tried anything like that."

"Why not bitch?"
"Cause for one you had to deal with me busting your balls. The other is you have to deal with my family that you pissed off."
"What family? You're dad isn't even in this country."

My smile got this devilish look to it when all of them walked up into the circle that had formed. The first to say something was Matt. Of course.

"What's going on babe?" He asked coming to my side and throwing an arm over my shoulder.
"Oh nothing really." I said while looking up at him. My eyes they moved back to Royce who was leaning against the great room wall. "You remember Matt don't you Royce?"

"Yeah. What are the freaks doing here?"

Zacky spoke then. "Did he really just say what I thought he said?" asking to no one in particular.
"Yup." Johnny answered while popping the 'p'.
"What do we do with him?" That would be Arin.
"Cut his tongue out?" Johnny again.
"Na…" I answered. I was trying to come up with something really off the wall.
"I know we could cut his dick off." Syn said while he got this evil grin on his face as well.

Royce's eyes all but popped out of his head. As he tried to make a b-line for the door, Arin and Johnny each grabbed one of his arms stopping him in his tracks. All three stood in front of us with their backs against the wall. Royce's face just set everything off. It was funny as hell. As he looked back and forth between all of us, he spoke.

"What are you going to do with me?" He looked like a small scared kid.
"What Syn said." I answered him then looked to my right where he was standing beside me. "You got your blade?"
"Now you know I don't go anywhere without this thing." He stated while pulling the butterfly knife out of his pocket. With a few flips of his wrist the blade was exposed. It was done the same while they do in the movies. That evil grin coming back to his face as he said it.

"Now…" I started as I looked back to Royce. "…we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Which would you prefer?"
"Wh...What's the easy way?"
"Easy way. You walk out of my house and never come in contact with me again. If you see me walking down the hall, you turn and go the other way."

"And the hard way?"
"Hard way is I let my cousin here have his way with you. Which I know will be very gruesome, considering he has that butterfly. After that the rest of the family has their way with you. There's no tellings what evil they could come up with in those heads of theirs. When their done with you then my husband gets a turn." I stated as I looked over my right shoulder at Emmett as he walked up behind me. I looked back to Royce then. "Now I know Emmett here could kill a bear with his bare hands. So trust me when I say, you want to take the easy way." I waited letting it sink in his head. "So which is it going to be?"