EmPOV-

I was walking down a dirt path that led to this little meadow-like place my younger brother had shown me. I liked to go there when I had to think. And today was definitely a day I had to think. I walked through the trees and flung myself onto the soft grass, so that I could think back on what happened today.

~Earlier~

I was lounging on my girlfriends couch watching TV, waiting for her to hurry the hell up.

"Woman!" I bellowed, "Are you going to take forever? We're gonna miss the movie, and I want nachos!"

"I'm coming!" She called, her heels clicking on the tile floor as she shuffled into the room.

She came to stand in front of me and threw her arms in the air like a game show girl, "Well, what do you think?

I stared at the gorgeous, leggy blonde standing before my eyes and wondered how I could possibly be so lucky. She had pulled her hair back slightly, and pinned it so that it hung loosely around her face. Her lips were painted blood red and she was wearing a royal purple v-neck sweater with tight black skinny jeans.

"Dear God woman, you are gonna be the damn death of me."

She pouted, "You don't like it?"

My mouth dropped open, "What? Of course I do, I'm just gonna have to spend the night swatting off all the dudes trying to hit on my woman."

She smiled seductively, "I love it when you 'protect' me Em. It gets me all hot and bothered."

I adjusted my jeans, "Rosie…"

"Yes," she simpered innocently.

"You begged me to take you to this movie, so we're going. Can we at least wait until we're in the dark to do this?"

"Of course baby." She winked. This woman would be my undoing.

I ushered her out to my jeep that I had insisted on taking. We were silent on the ride over, I was too afraid to talk, because she usually got very…handsy in my car. And I didn't want to crash. All of a sudden my phone that was in the center console vibrated.

'Who the fuck is texting me? All of my friends know I'm out with Rose tonight and not to try and contact me!'

Rose had a confused look on her face, "I thought nobody texted you when we were out babe."

"They don't." I growled.

She picked up the phone, "Can I see who it is?"

I shrugged, "Sure, then I'll know who I can kill tomorrow."

She opened the phone and read the text aloud,

"E

Guess what? I'm moving to Forks!

I'll prolly be there tomorrow. Get ready for a wild ride!

Bells"

'Shit.'

"Who the fuck is Bells?" Rose snarled.

"Uh, my friend."

"Really? If she was your goddamn friend she would know not to text you."

"She doesn't live in Forks."

"Well then how do you know her?"

"She's chief Swan's daughter."

"He doesn't have a daughter. He lives by himself."

"No, he has a daughter, she lives in Phoenix."

"Well, what does she mean by 'Get ready for a wild ride!'?"

I cleared my throat, "She means, I haven't seen her since last summer and she's one of my best friends. We used to get in trouble when she visited."

"And what do you mean by trouble?" She was furious.

"Um, we used to…uh..." 'Fuck', "Play pranks on people."

Rose frowned, "Oh."

"It's not like we dated, and I'm not cheating on you."

"Yeah. Emmett?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm not feeling well."

I sighed, "What's wrong?"

"I have a headache."

"All of a sudden?"

"Yes all of a sudden, I don't think I'll be able to make it through an entire movie."

"Okay…well do you wanna fool around at your house?"

'Please say yes, please say yes...'

"No, I just wanna sleep."

"Oh." My face fell.

I turned the car around and headed back to her house. When I pulled up she placed a quick kiss on my cheek and hopped out of the car.

"What no goodbye kiss?" I called after her.

She turned and glared, "I just gave you one."

'Fuck. She's gonna have a headache for at least a week. What a wonderful time for Bella to text me. Damn'

~Present Time~

I love Rosalie with all my heart, but when she got into one of her 'moods' I could throttle a puppy. I tossed my arm over my eyes. It wasn't sunny, it never is, but I needed to block everything out and just think.

Bella was, if I was being honest with myself, my best friend. I met her a little about four years ago, when her dad became the chief of police here in Forks. It seems like all I was gonna be able to do today was reminisce so I gave in and thought about what I had been through with Bella.

~Four Years ago~

It was the last day of eighth grade and I was completely stoked. I saw my best friend Jasper walking towards the door, leaving school.

"Yo Jazz!" I bellowed

Jasper Whitlock turned around slowly with a giant smile on his face.

"Emmett!"

"Jazz are you ready for tonight??"

"Hell yeah dude. What are we doing?"

Jasper and I had a tradition of pulling a prank at the end of each school year. This year it had to be huge because we were gonna start high school the next year.

"Okay, so you know how Chief Dullard retired right?"

He looked confused, "Yeah, so?"

"Well last night his replacement moved here from Seattle."

"Okay… where are you going with this?"

"I know where he lives; I think we should do something to his house."

"Are you fucked in the head?" Jasper hissed.

I shrugged, "Prolly."

"We could get arrested."

"Not if we don't get caught."

He sighed, "Fine, but if we get caught I'm blaming it all on you."

I stuck my tongue out at him and he grabbed it, "Damn it Jasper! Let go!" I garbled.

Jasper let go of my tongue quickly and wiped his hand on his pants, "Dude." He said, chuckling, "You better not have mouth-herpes."

I laughed, "Oh you bet I do Jazzy-poo! And now you have it!" I twirled an invisible mustache like one of those villains from the black and white movies.

He flipped me off, "Are we gonna prank the new chief or what?"

I smiled deviously, "Oh yeah. Let's go."

Jasper and I walked to his house everyday after school; we didn't want to deal with my younger brother. I liked him, but he was soooo annoying. He would always practice his piano when I had people over and make fun of my 'immaturity'. I also didn't like Jasper coming over because my little sister Alice had a huge crush on him. She would scribble Alice + Jasper 4ever, all over her diary. It was sickening. I didn't want him to have to deal with my snotty brother or obsessive sister, so we always went to his house.

When we got to his house we made a bee-line for his room. I sat on his bed and he sat down on his computer chair and picked up his acoustic guitar, strumming it gently and humming a nameless song.

"Dude, you are so odd." I sneered.

He looked up and glared at me, "Why is that asshole?"

I laughed, "Because you're sitting at a computer and playing the guitar."

He shook his head, "You don't make sense. Aren't we supposed to be planning something monumental?"

I slapped my forehead, "Oh yeah! I almost forgot." I reached into my backpack and pulled out a few pictures and a paper bag."

Jasper raised an eyebrow in confusion, "What are the pictures for?"

I smiled, "Okay dude this is gonna be so freaking sweet."

I laid the pictures out on the bed and motioned for him to come over to look.

"Whose house is that?"

"Chief Swan's."

Jasper looked horrified, "We're messing with his house?"

"Only a little..." I smirked.

"I said I'd go through with it, so what are we doing?"

I pulled five silver cans out of the brown paper bag. Jasper picked one up and examined it.

"Black spray paint? We're not writing 'Welcome to Forks' or something lame like that are we?"

I shook my head, "Hell no! We're blacking out all the windows in his house while he's asleep."

"Why?"

I shrugged, "For fun."

"Whatever Em. That sounds dumb."

"Are you chicken?" I started to cluck at him and bob my head.

"No!"

"So you're in?"

He sighed deeply, "I guess. When are we going?"

"Tonight at midnight. I went by the police station and asked when he gets off his shift and they said nine. So that gives him enough time to get home, eat dinner, chillax and go to bed. And then," I stood up and crouched, "we strike!" I pounced on him.

"Dude get off me! You're crushing my bones!"

I blushed slightly, "Oops, guess I don't know my own strength."

He punched my arm lightly, "Guess not dick head."

"Let's get some grub and play some video games."

"Kay. What game do you wanna play?"

"Ooh! The one with the hot chick with the guns." I loved her. If she was real I would marry her.

"Tomb Raider?"

"Hell yeah!"

For the next eight hours we played video games and goofed around. At some point I'd called my mom and told her I was spending the night. I had to have an alibi after all. At eleven we decided to head on over to the good chief's house. With the pictures I had taken, Jasper and I had planned our attack.

We arrived at the chief's house a little after eleven thirty. Luck was on our side all the lights were out in the house. And his car was there, so we knew that if we were quiet and meticulous we could get it done with out getting caught.

I crept up to the kitchen window and sprayed it black. By the time I had finished with that one window Jasper already had the living room windows done and was starting on the chiefs window. Luckily for us the chief had a ladder resting against his garage. I started the garage windows and Jasper came up to me.

"I did almost all of the windows."

"Why almost all?" I whispered.

"There was one on the second floor that I couldn't get. You're taller, can you do it?"

"Yeah, finish the garage windows."

Jasper nodded and I made my way over to the ladder that Jasper had set up. I climbed slowly and steadied myself at the window. What I didn't expect was for there to be somebody in that window. Jasper had already painted the chiefs window and he lived alone.

So imagine my surprise climbing to the top only to be face to face with a beautiful brunette. I didn't have enough time to admire her, because she started screaming.

"Oh my God! Charlie! Help! Somebody's breaking in!" She screeched.

I started waving my hands frantically trying to get her to stop. But I lost my balance and fell off of the ladder with a thud.

"Fuck!" I screamed.

Jasper came running over, "Dude! What's wrong? You're gonna get us caught!" He scream-whispered.

"Too late young men." A low voice boomed.

I looked up and there standing above me, was the new chief and the pretty brunette.

"I'm afraid you're going to have to come with me." He said.

"I don't think I can sir." I said through my teeth.

"Oh? And why's that?" His voice rang with authority.

"Because sir, I think I broke my leg when I fell."

He looked down and gasped. "Oh my! It seems that you have. Bella, call an ambulance."

"But Dad! These dudes were trying to break in!" She whined.

"Bella, they don't look much older than you are, please call an ambulance."

"Fine." She huffed and stomped back to the house.

"I don't think I'll need an ambulance." I grunted.

The chief shook his head, "No son, I think you do. You're bone is showing through the skin."

I grimaced at the realization of pain and Jasper gasped, "No friggen way dude! It totally is!"

"Jasper, shut up!" I spat.

Bella reappeared, "The ambulance will be here in five minutes."

"Thanks Bells, you can go back to sleep."

"Okay, night Char—dad."

"Goodnight Bella."

The chief turned his attention back to me, "Now since we're waiting, I'd like to ask you a few questions." It wasn't a question so I just nodded.

"What is your name?"

"Emmett McCarty."

He turned to Jazz, "And your name young man?"

"Jasper Whitlock, sir."

"Good. Now I'd like each of your phone numbers so I can call your parents. I assume you're both underage?"

"Yeah we are. We're both fourteen." Jasper answered.

"Okay Mr. Whitlock, what's your home phone number?"

"555-2983"

"And you Mr. McCarty?"

"Ow. Sorry, uh, 555-6190."

"Alright. Now what were you doing at my house?"

"Um..." That was all I was able to say.

Jasper was good enough to answer, "We just got out of school today and every year we pull a prank. And since we're gonna be in high school next year we wanted to do something epic."

"Okay, in a strange way I understand that." Chief Swan said amused, "But what were you doing at my daughter's window?"

Jasper frowned, "We didn't know that you had a daughter sir. We were painting all your windows black, and Emmett was getting ready to paint that one and you're daughter so him."

"And then I fuckin fell." I snapped.

"Watch your language young man."

"Sorry sir. I'm in a lot of pain."

"Understandably. Now, since this is your first time offence, with a police officer that is, and since you've already hurt yourself, I'm not going to take you in and file a report."

"Thanks sir!" Jasper enthused.

"Well, that's not all Mr. Whitlock, I have one condition."

"Yes?"

"You're going to clean every window of this house until all the paint is gone. And then you are going to show my daughter around town."

"That's fine sir." I answered.

"Chief Swan?" Jasper asked.

"Yes Mr. Whitlock?"

"Jasper, sir."

"Fine then, Jasper?"

"Since when did you have a daughter?"

He chuckled, "I've had a daughter for fourteen years, and she lives with her mother in Arizona. But she stays with me in the summer."

"Oh, I was just wondering because we've never seen her before."

"She just got here this morning."

"Okay. Thanks for everything sir, we're really sorry."

"It's alright boys, let's take care of his leg and soon this will all be forgotten."

"Yes sir." Jasper said.

That was the beginning of my summers with Bella.

~Present Time~

After that night Jasper and I had gone back and cleaned every window. I couldn't do a lot of work at first because I was in a full leg cast, but I talked to Bella a lot. Jasper and I got into our first fight because of Bella.

I had a crush on her, and Jasper didn't care for her too much. So for the entire summer before sophomore year I didn't talk to Jasper. I didn't even know he was dating my sister until school had started and I saw them making out. I shuddered at that memory.

Bella and I had gotten really close in the summers she spent here. I didn't really date because the girls at our school weren't very nice and most of them had STD's. But Bella had been my first everything. We made out the summer I wasn't speaking to Jasper and then this past summer we had sex. We had a lot of sex. I mean that's all we really did.

It was only November and our junior year had just started. I met Rosalie on my first day of school. She's Jasper's step sister. After Jasper and I had made up, he told me that his mom was dating some rich guy with a daughter. Then this summer when I spent my time between Bella's legs, Jasper's mom got married. I hadn't really been over to Jasper's house lately. He always wanted to go to my house, because of Alice. Luckily for me Edward, my younger brother had become nice to me. We played video games and fucked around all the time. It helped that he was dating some chick named Tanya. Who was 'saving it for marriage', because Edward was doing the same thing.

When he told me that I rolled my eyes and thought, 'You should meet someone like Bella.' Edward had never met Bella, because we kept things on the down low. Like I said I was pretty much oblivious when Bella was around.

Anyway, I met Rosalie in third period Psychology. She was the one to ask me out. When I asked why, she said that she always gets what she wants. And boy does she ever.

Up until today, I forgot that Bella and I had a no-strings attached sex deal going on. And I was completely exclusive with Rose. I didn't know how Bella would take it. I loved Bella, but as a friend. It was only ever about the sex and friendship with Bella. But Rose…I was falling head over heels in love with her. And I couldn't let this come between us. I would have to tell her when she came here tomorrow.

I decided to call Bella and brace her for what was gonna go down. She answered on the first ring.

"Hey hot stuff." She purred.

"Hi Bells."

"What's up Em? Can't you wait to talk till tomorrow? Or won't we be talking?" I used to love when she would talk sexy like that. But right now it was kinda annoying.

"Actually Bells, that's all we'll be doing."

"What do you mean Emmett? Didn't you have fun last summer?" She sounded hurt.

"Of course I did Bella. But it's different now."

"How?" She spat, "It was only three and a half months ago!"

"Calm down Bells. I know. But I have a girlfriend now."

"Oh." Her voice sounded small.

"I still love you Bells. We'll always be best friends."

"Yeah, of course. Hey can I call you back?"

"Um, sure Bella."

"Okay I'll talk to you later Emmett."

"Yeah, hey Bells?"

"Yes Emmett?"

"What time are you coming tomorrow?"

"Well I'm leaving tonight at eight, so I'll actually be there in mere hours. But I won't see you till tomorrow."

"Why is that?"

"First of all I'll be living with my dad."

"That never stopped you from hanging out before."

"We weren't just 'hanging out' before Em. Second of all you have a girlfriend, and if you're resorting to telling me all this over the phone, it must be serious. I'll just see you tomorrow."

"Please Bella; can't you meet me outside your house around midnight?"

"No."

"Please…pwwweaaaseee!" I put on my baby voice, she could never resist.

I heard her sigh and grumble, "Fine. Don't be late."

"Yesss. I'll see you tonight."

"Fine. Bye Emmett."

"Bye Bella."

She was right; I was in for a wild ride. But not the kind she had in mind.