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Chapter 4

You have my permission

"Emmett, please be careful." This was Edward, looking at the three of us, his face full of concern. I am still getting lessons from Emmett, and now Jasper is helping too. I want to be fully prepared the next time my life comes crashing down, which hopefully is not anytime soon so I'll have ages to practice. I have to admit, I believe I'm getting better. Although I can feel that I'm getting weaker; meaning that I'm not really a newborn vampire any more. However, I'm still ten times stronger than Emmett; one thing that has began to get on his nerves.

I heard Emmett coming back towards me, and I moved slightly out of the way. Yet again he came back, and yet again I moved. I remembered, what felt like a lifetime ago, watching Alice fight with Jasper. The night of my graduation party. It made me laugh to remember that, as only now had I realised that my style of fighting was similar to Alice's, apart from slightly less fluent due to the fact that I could not predict the future. I laughed, as, for the first time in a week, I managed to beat Emmett. I could hear Edward chuckling to himself near the house.

Emmett wasn't amused. "Let me up." He growled. I laughed, and got up, releasing him. Emmett didn't like being pinned down. Jasper came over and gave me a high five whilst Emmett stalked off.

"Bella," Jasper asked, trying to phrase some request by the sound of it.

"Yea?" I replied, still gazing at Emmett who had turned round curiously. I saw Edward stand up as if to run for it, but Emmett grabbed him before he could escape.

"Can you do us a favour?" Jasper asked, slightly unsure if he should be asking this or not. "We, I mean, me and Em wanted to see how Edward would do against us without his gift." I laughed, understanding now why Edward had began to leave.

"Please?" Emmett added. He was excited now. I heard movement from in the house, and saw the whole family come out, curious. I didn't answer. Of course I knew that they would never do anything to hurt Edward, but I still didn't want to let Edward fight. "Erm, I dunno..." I said, looking at Edward.

This time he sighed. "Emmett." He muttered. Emmett released him, and he was by my side in a second. "Do you want me to?" I asked quietly. Of course, the others could still hear, but they pretended to give us some privacy. It was just an inconvenient and unavoidable habit of being vampires; eavesdropping.

Edward thought for a second. "You know they won't hurt me, and I think I could still beat them." He smiled. "Plus I'd like to get them back for every time they beat you." He chuckled. "Sure, you have my permission, if that's what you're after." He kissed me briefly; or at least it seemed briefly but by the time we had finished everyone was watching us.

"Sure Jazz, Em." They both grinned. I carefully pushed out my shield, keeping it tightly around Emmett and Jasper, but not on Edward. Then it hit me; "Hang on, isn't this a little unfair? There's two of you." I accused them. Of course they had already thought of that. "Ok then," said Emmett, full of confidence now. "You and Edward, me and Jasper. Deal?" I looked at Edward, who just shrugged his shoulder. "Deal." I said.

I sank into a crouch, my eyes fixed on Jasper. Both Emmett and Jasper were smirking at Edward. It was obvious they did not consider me as a target, and only wanted to get in a few swipes at Edward whilst they could. That would make it easy. Jasper was the first to make a move, going straight for Edward who dodged him. Then Emmet tried to tackle Edward. It would have succeeded too if Jasper hadn't got in the way. I waited in the sidelines for the moment, just watching Emmett and Jasper making the most of what i'd given them.

The others were still watching on the sidelines. Alice shot me a questioning look, as if to say, I thought you were going to join in. I still waited. Soon it became apparent Edward was losing quite badly. I got into a crouch and darted towards Jasper, knocking him off Edward. Edward took the opportunity at once, getting Emmett in a headlock whilst I had Jasper firmly pinned to the ground. It had taken a very short time. I laughed and helped Jasper up. Emmett had decided he hadn't finished, got himself out of the headlock and began fighting furiously with Edward. I took away my shield, and I saw the look of shock cross his face, followed swiftly by annoyance.

Soon Edward had him pinned again, this time to the floor. "Do you surrender?" He hissed menacingly, his teeth near Emmett's neck. Emmett growled.

"Fine. Get off me." Edward let go and Emmett jumped to his feet. He headed straight for me, his eyes blazing. Luckily Edward got there first and took my hand. "You said you'd take away his ability! How could you do that to me Bella?" He asked whining. I nearly laughed. Some of the others did.

"Simple." I said. "Firstly, to get payback for every time you've beaten me and left me feeling bruised after our sessions, and secondly because Edward had already won, and you were just being a sore loser." He growled. Emmett looked like he had some sort of retort, but was interrupted when Alice came over.

"Bella," She said, handing me a box. I opened them to find brown contact lenses in them. I looked at her questioningly. "Charlie's coming over. I think he wants to talk."

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I think that was a bit longer than the last chapter at least. Hope you enjoyed it; don't forget to review. 