BB Mtn Part 2

Mike's POV:

Alright! I thought to myself as I finished pitching the tent Bella had packed for this impromptu camping trip of hers. She's been fairly quiet and I can tell she's upset about Cullen "cheating" on her. Finally, one of my plans worked! I knew if I just kept at it, my hard work would pay off. I walked over next to her now.

"There, Bella," I said softly, rubbing the small of her back and motioning to the erected blue tent. I felt her shudder underneath my touch. Should I not be touching her? No, she's probably just cold. "The tent's all finished. We should go inside so you're not cold."

"Oh, Mike," she said without much inflection, "you did such a wonderful job." I brushed her nonchalant tone off as heartbreak and followed her inside. I brought the rest of our gear with us, including one sleeping bag, and we sat down.

"Would you like to talk about it?" I prompted her, trying to play the sensitive role. Of course I couldn't care less about her feelings for Cullen. I'll make her forget that pale creep soon enough.

"Not really, I would kind of like to just forget about the whole thing." Music to my ears! She handed me a cup of the hot cocoa she packed. "Here, I brought this for us."

"Thank you," I accepted it eagerly. We sat companionably while I sipped my cocoa. The poor girl wasn't even drinking hers since she was probably too upset.

"Mike?" Bella asked tentatively.

"Yes… darling?" I replied slowly, feeling suddenly woozy and lethargic.

"Why did you do it?" She implored, sounded like she was miles away.

"Do… wha-t?" Why are there three Bella's looking at me intently? And why is the tent spinning at an incredible rate?

Then, everything went black.

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Emmett's POV:

"This is so great! I've always wanted to be a Hollywood Director!" I grinned stupidly. Edward, Jasper, Sebastian, and I are positioned in the woods, approximately .25 miles due south of our impending photo shoot location.

"Shhh, Emmett," Edward shushed me impatiently. "Bella just gave Newton the cocoa."

Jasper and Sebastian, a family friend, exchanged a glance and rolled their eyes at my apparent childlike enthusiasm. What the three of them don't realize and won't for approximately ten to fifteen more years, is that I'm actually more intelligent than all three of them combined. I play the brawny dumb guy for fun – living forever is a long time and what is the point if we can't amuse ourselves somehow?

The only one in the family who knows I'm not just a heap of muscle is Rosalie. She plays along and doesn't give my secret away because she gets a kick out of it too. The day when I finally get bored of this charade and reveal myself to the others will be shocking and worth the many years of self inflicted sacrifice. Wait until the golden child and genius, Edward, finds out that the only reason the Volturi haven't killed our coven is because they are aware of my capabilities and they are terrified of me.

Edward can read minds. I can read them and control them – including Bella's mind!

Jasper can play with emotions. I can do that plus what little Jane from Volterra can do, multiplied by fifty.

Alice can see the future, but it changes. I see more accurate precognitions before people even make up their mind to do something.

And the list goes on. Now, it's not that I don't love my family, I absolutely do. Acting like a total imbecile is, again, just for entertainment.

"It's time, let's go!" Jasper commanded to our little group.

"I'm ready!" Sebastian danced around in nothing but his boxers and a bow tie. Conspiratorially, he confessed, "I hope my boyfriend won't get mad at me for this – if he ever finds out!"

Ha! Not only will his boyfriend find out, but he'll leave Sebastian for a human woman! Oh the drama! Again, even though I had seen the future, I didn't share it. Instead, we hauled off our camera equipment, easily, to the location where Bella and a recently passed out Mike Newton lay incapacitated.

Jasper and I tore holes in six different locations along the upper seams of our tent so the camera lens could get the best angles of Sebastian and Mike Newton. While we accomplished this task, Edward had placed Bella safely outside the tent, and then he rapidly removed Mike's sweater and jeans.

"Okay, let's start shooting," Edward ordered authoritatively. Sebastian entered the tent while everyone else stood outside, Jasper and I armed with our digital cameras.

"Let's start with some hugging," Jasper snickered. We snapped about ten shots of the two embracing.

"Show me more love," I chuckled, while Sebastian kissed Mike's neck. "That's it baby, look into the camera." Snap, snap, snap… "Sebastian, pull out the cowboy hats, please." He cooperated and placed one on Mike and one on himself.

After a full three minutes of continuous flash photography, Edward interrupted, "Stop! That should be plenty."

Yes, master, I thought.

"Oh, but can't I finish him off?" Sebastian whined, flashing his sharp white teeth, pouting at Edward.

"No, you may not," Edward placed a protective arm around Bella who had been quiet this whole time. He wanted to make it clear to Sebastian that she was off limits too.

"Fine," he pouted. "Are you going to just leave him here?"

Jasper and I looked at each other and smiled.

"No," I answered. "We're going to leave him unclothed, in his sleeping bag, outside of the police station."