CARLISLE POV

Personally, I have no idea what the children could possibly hope to gain from this little 'prank war' of theirs they have going on at the moment. Every move they make seems to backfire on them. And yet, they do nothing to stop it.

Walking into my office, I scanned the room. Apart from an open jar of snails on the floor, everything seemed unusually normal. I sat in my computer chair and turned on the computer screen. Rosalie's naked form appeared on the screen, causing me to groan in frustration. Emmett already had his own computer. Why was it that he continued to use mine? Even after all the punishments I had given him, along with the children's help, it was quite clear that he still hadn't learnt his lesson.

Not that I approved of the children's pranking, I decided that maybe I wasn't being hard enough on Emmett, and that perhaps it was time for me to teach him what happens when you mess with Carlisle Cullen. Chuckling to myself, I made my way upstairs, and into Emmett and Rosalie's room. Ever since the prank war had started, the children were barely ever home. Esme was on holiday in Canada.

Having had no previous experience at pranking, I was unable to come up with something that would teach Emmett not to mess with me. It seemed unfair to do something that would affect Rosalie, as she had not crossed me lately, but surely she would understand my intentions.

In fact, everyone would probably be quite grateful that I had finally sorted out Emmett.

JACOB POV

I raised an eyebrow at Nick, who was peering through the curtains nervously. He had been watching the forest all day.

"Nick," I sighed, "come on, man. We can't sit here waiting for them to make their move. We need to get to them before they get to us."

Nick looked over at Jessica, who was looking gloomy, curled up in a ball on the sofa. It was obvious that she had no intention of pranking the Cullen's again.

"That Jason kid is outside," noted Nick, "standing behind a bush, looking upset."

I frowned.

"Jason?"

Jessica sighed, a sad smile forming on her lips.

"My stalker."

She didn't seem bothered by that. I had always thought of her as a strange person…

"Watch this," whispered Jessica, pointing over at the window.

Nick giggled stupidly to himself. Ignoring him, and trying not to think about how stupid he was, I glanced over at the window.

"I'm going to get dressed. Gee, I wonder where my pants are," yelled Jessica. Sure enough, a head appeared at the window. The sandy-haired, blue-eyed kid blushed upon noticing that we were all staring at him, and that Jessica was fully clothed.

An idea formed in my head.

"Hey kid, come inside. Jessica needs you to do a um… favor for her."

Jason's eyes filled with happiness, and he climbed through the open window. Nick and Jessica appeared puzzled. I winked at them. This was going to be pure genius!

They had taken over Quil, and made life hell for us. Payback would be sweet.

BELLA POV

"Bella, you need to stop listening to Edward so much. Now the guy won't even let you outside…"

"Emmett, stop trying to make Edward out to be a…"

"Shit!" cried Emmett, as he swerved to avoid a young boy standing in the middle of the road. The jeep collided with a tree and Emmett's strong hand kept me back in my seat.

We got out of the car and ran over to the little boy who was lying on the ground screaming and clutching his arm.

"Are you okay? Did I hit you?" gasped Emmett. The boy's eyes filled with tears.

"My… arm…" he moaned.

An old lady was frowning at us from across the street. I ignored her. Emmett picked the kid up in his arms.

"It's gonna be okay, kid. I'm Emmett, and this is Bella. We're going to take you to the hospital."

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We took a cab to the hospital and rushed Nick inside. We handed him over to the doctors, and all we could do was sit in the waiting room.

Emmett looked really upset with himself.

"Oh god, I hope the poor kid makes it," he groaned. I smiled slightly.

"Emmett, he's just hurt his arm, that's all. It's not like he's on his deathbed or anything."

Emmett sighed, unconvinced.

"Rose is going to kill me. Rose is going to kill me."

I laughed.

"You'll be right."

The little kid rounded the corner, his arm in a sling, a grumpy look on his face. Emmett and I raced over to him.

"Are you okay?" demanded Emmett. The kid sighed. He looked like he was only twelve, perhaps younger.

"My arm really hurts. They x-rayed me. Apparently, they can't find anything wrong with it. But it really hurts, so they put it in a sling."

Emmett sighed in relief.

"Can we drop you home?" he asked the kid. The kid sighed, and his grumpy look returned.

"My parents aren't home. They've um… gone out for the day. I've got nowhere to go," he explained. Emmett grinned.

"That's okay, you can hang with us for the day. It's the least I can do. Really, I didn't mean to hit you. I got distracted," he suggested.

The kid grinned.

"Sure! Well, I'm Jason."

ROSE POV

After another of Emmett's little porn incidents on Carlisle's computer, I had finally come up with something that would hopefully get the mongrels in BIG trouble. But of course, Nick and Jacob were almost always on Quileute land. Which left…

Jessica.

I snuck around the back of her house, holding a disk that I had got Emmett to put together earlier this morning. No one was home. The perfect time to get even with her, as I was sure she had been in on the whole 'tattooing Bella' ordeal.

I climbed through her open bedroom window. They had told me that she was stupid, but obviously she was stupider than we all thought, if she decided to leave her window open during a prank war.

Her room was quite large. Almost everything was pink. The walls, her bedspread, the carpet, her phone, her laptop…

She had even been stupid enough to leave her cell here! I picked it up and began texting her father. It was his birthday today. His day would be ruined when he got home and saw what was on Jessica's computer. Poor guy. But it had to be done!

Daddy,

Happy birthday! When you get home, I've left a present for you on your laptop. You're going to love it! I love you!
Love Jessica.

I hit the send button, and put her cell back where I had found it. Grinning to myself, I crept out of her bedroom and down a long hallway. Finally, I located her parent's bedroom. Her father's laptop was sitting on his bedside table. I turned it on and put my disk into the side slot.

I deleted all of his files, and download the disc's contents onto his laptop. Grinning to myself, when thousands upon thousands of pictures and videos of naked men and women appeared on his screen, I pulled my disk out, and left the room.

While I was here, maybe I could trash Jessica's clothes as well. Her father would be so angry at her over the porn ordeal, that he wouldn't give her any money to get new clothes. Hopefully this would be enough to get her to back off. Maybe Jacob and Nick would get the message, too.

Running back into her room, I opened up her wardrobe and ripped all of her clothes into shreds, leaving only a worn-out old brown tracksuit in good condition.

JASON POV

The Cullen's had a massive house. Surely they were millionaires. Maybe they had won Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? That show is so cool!

Bella and Emmett were sitting on the lounge watching TV. Nick and Jacob had been right! She was pretty. But not as good-looking as Jessica, of course! I sighed happily. Jessica…

Bella let out a scream.

"Oh my god, Emmett! Turn it off! It's too scary!" she yelled, blocking her view of the TV. Emmett raised an eyebrow.

"Dora The Explorer scares you?" laughed Emmett.

"Why are you guys watching Dora?" I gasped, blocking my view of the TV. "That show's like R rated!"

Emmett sighed to himself.

"Am I the only sane one here? It's a cartoon fox chasing her! It's not gonna eat her or anything! You guys are idiots. This is just a normal baby cartoon!"

"Which explains why you watch it, little boy," I muttered, hoping he wouldn't hear.

"What was that?" asked Emmett. Bella pouted.

"Nothing, Emmett. Just change the channel, please. I can't bear to watch it. Oh god, the fox has found her!"

Leaving Bella and Emmett to argue, I turned and ascended the stairs. The house was so fancy. These guys were living in luxury. None of the bedrooms had beds in them. How strange.

BPOV

"Seriously, Emmett! What's with the children's shows?" I groaned, as Emmett flicked to yet another boring kids show.

Emmett grinned.

"They can't be that bad if Jason and I like them," he laughed. I looked around, wanting to ask Jason what he thought. But he was gone…

"Speaking of Jason, have you got any idea where he is?"

The front door burst open and Edward, Jasper and Rosalie walked in, laughing.

"Such a brilliant plan," laughed Edward. Emmett and I exchanged a glance. So much for keeping Emmett's crash with Jason a secret. Sometimes Edward's mind-reading skills became really annoying. Edward's smile fell, and his eyes landed on Emmett.

"Well while we were out, Emmett managed to hit a young boy called Jason, who just happens to be Jessica's stalker. Emmett felt bad for the kid, so he decided to bring him back here. Now Emmett has no idea where he is, and he's not in the house."

I gasped in shock.

"That kid was Jessica's stalker? You've got to be kidding me!" I groaned. Emmett's face fell.

"Why is it so bad? The kid knows Jessica. Big deal."

"What do you think the chances are of this whole thing being organized by Jacob and Nick?" groaned Jasper.

That would be a good plan on Jacob and Nick's part. Emmett probably never even hit Jason. Jacob, Nick and perhaps even Jessica would have been in on this. Get Jason to pretend to get hit by Emmett, then get him to pretend that his parents were out, then come back here, sneak off and…

"What do you think he's done?" I asked Edward. "Jasper's right. This whole thing was probably a stupid plan of the mongrels."

"It's not a stupid plan, Bella," noted Rosalie. "Actually, I'm surprised that the idiots had the brains to think up such a clever plan."

"Yes, but now," interrupted Jasper, "we must ask ourselves if it's safe to go upstairs."

Everyone looked over at me.

"Okay, so you tough, strong, invincible vampires want a poor little delicate human like me to go up there and face whatever that kid's done?"

They all laughed. I sighed, and went upstairs. I walked through Emmett and Rosalie's ajar bedroom door, and glanced around their room. Everything seemed fine.

Edward appeared behind me, making me jump.

"I've checked all the rooms. Maybe this wasn't a cleverly thought out plan by the mongrels. Maybe Emmett really did hit Jason."

We went back downstairs, puzzled. If the mongrels hadn't planned the whole thing, then why had Jason disappeared?

JESSICA POV

I walked through the front door, smiling to myself. Jason would have done what we had planned by now, and the Cullen's would be totally unaware of what we had done!

My father was stretched out across the lounge looking grumpy, a beer in his hand.

"Happy birthday, daddy!" I greeted, bending down and kissing him on the cheek. He got to his feet, looking angry.

"What have you got to say for yourself?" he demanded. My mother walked into the room and scowled at me. She put an arm around Dad.

"Stay calm, honey. It's okay. I've thought of a suitable punishment for her," said my mother.

"What are you talking about, Mom?" I demanded. My father scowled.

"You went onto my computer, deleted all of my files, and now the computer's full of porn and viruses. It's not a pleasant thing to face that on your birthday."

"Daddy, what are you talking about? I would never do anything like that!" I cried, tears filling my eyes. No doubt the Cullen's were somehow involved in this.

My mother sighed and raised an eyebrow. There was no point trying to defend myself by explaining the prank war to them, and blaming it all on the Cullen's. They wouldn't believe me. They would just think that I was making up stupid excuses.

"Look, lying won't get you anywhere in life, Jessica. We know you did it. No one else has been in here today. You even sent your father a text message telling him to check his computer when he got home!" she exclaimed.

I gasped. The Cullen's had even managed to send a text message to my father that would make it look like I was behind it all! Why had I even agreed to take part in this stupid 'prank war'? But after everything that had happened, there was no turning back. They'd keep pranking me, and I wouldn't be able to get my revenge without the help of Jacob and Nick. I needed to stick with them, continuing to plot against the Cullen's. After all, it would all be over soon. Both sides were getting sick of it.

"You can choose not to believe me," I sighed, looking out the window at a group of kids laughing across the street. They wouldn't have to worry about stupid prank wars.

"Already done," grunted my father. "I can't believe you would do something like this. There's nothing I want to say to you."

Tears filled my eyes as he turned and left the room, leaving my mother to deal with me. It was his birthday, and the Cullen's had ruined his day. The worst part was that he was convinced that it was I who caused the damage.

"No tantrums, Jessica, but I have confiscated your phone, your laptop, your iPod, all of your electronics. You won't be getting your allowance anymore, after what you've done. Go to your room. I can't believe you would do this to your father. Did you see how upset he looked?"

No allowance? No electronics? What was I going to do? I walked down the hallway and into my room. I closed the door behind me and opened my wardrobe, looking for a sweater.

I screamed at the top of my lungs. My clothes! My beautiful clothes! They had all been torn to shreds, leaving only an old brown tracksuit that looked as if it was from the eighteenth century. What was I going to wear to school? My parents weren't even giving me an allowance anymore, and I had stupidly spent all of my money at the mall with Lauren…

The Cullen's would pay.

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