SHENANIGANS

Edward ran upstairs quickly and silently and told Bella to meet him at his place in an hour, by this time it was approximately 4.00pm. Bella, using her genius math skills, quickly deduced that Edward would expect her to be at the Cullen's house for 5.00pm (what a clever girl). Bella had an hour to kill, and no idea what to do so she sat by the clock watching the second hand tick around for a while (you know what they say about simple minds) and wandering what Edward could possibly have in store, whatever it was it couldn't take too long, she had to be back by 6.00pm to cook chief Swan's dinner, he was always hungry after a day of enforcing law, she could never really work out why because kids tended not to break the law around Forks, so Charlie mainly just sat around all day doing...well, not a lot.

By around half-past 4 Bella was becoming impatient, she even resorted to doing some of her much neglected homework that had piled up due to her inability to be away from Edward for longer than about five minutes. She even rang her absentee mother whom she had not seen since her visit to Florida a few month before, Bella could not help but feel a bit cheated by her mother who never made an effort to come and visit her in Forks, not even when she graduated. Sometimes Bella thought the only way she would ever get her mother to visit would be if she was to get married, at this though Bella laughed out loud. Get married? At her age? What a preposterous idea.

The clock finally told Bella (and no, it didn't literally talk to her) that it was ten to five and so she grabbed a coat out of her wardrobe and sprinted out to her car, not noticing that Edward had taken something from her house. Bella sped to the Cullen's house; she drove much faster now that she did not have her precious cargo of lemons. Bella got out of the car much slower than she had entered it, deciding it wasn't worth the embarrassment if she were to trip, and as she reached the door to her surprise Alice wrenched it open.

"Edward is in the kitchen" Alice said smirking "he's waiting for you" she called again as she walked off towards the stairs. Bella was worried by Alice's expression and cautiously edged towards the kitchen door which was ajar. It occurred to Bella, just before the nudged the door open, that Edward was a vampire and so he had no need to eat, thus no need to be in the kitchen either. She shook her head and dismissed this thought quickly, stepping into the brightly lit room.

Bella was shocked at the scene that unfurled before her, Esme and Edward were both in the kitchen, completely covered in a sticky substance that look like it might be liquid, but Bella could not say for sure. At the moment in which Bella entered the room Edward was stood in front of Esme laughing uncontrollably as a stream of the cloudy substance spurted from between his hands, which at the time were held down in front of him, and hit Esme in the face, causing her to burst out laughing and wiping the liquid from her face, laughing at the sticky mess that it has created...