Mud

"That was really a great experience, Emmett," Rosalie said a few hours later.

We were lying on our bedroom floor, hands behind our heads, after she showed me her new clothes and stuff.

When she sang, Rosalie made the song sound beautiful, like "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. I have three women in the family with super hearing; I couldn't escape Celine Dion for almost five years. After, she faked this extremely pissed scene and totally scared Jasper and Edward out of the house, taking their girls with them.

Apparently, she liked it. I don't know if I wanted her to be mad or not. But then she forced us to stop 'cause Bella ratted me out with the whole "he's been playing for almost 12 hours straight" stuff- I think she just wanted alone time with Edward, though. Queer...

"What do you think Bella and Edward are doing?" I asked. It was only 8:30 on a summer night, so she wouldn't be in bed for a while.

"Sshh," Rose whispered. She looked like she was concentrating on something really hard. I did, too.

I was hearing whispers that sounded a lot like Edward and Bella right outside our back window. I grinned at Rosalie and kept my thoughts focused on her while I snuck to the window. The two were standing beneath it.

"RRRRAAAAHHH!" I yelled as I opened the window in a flash.

Before I could see them run in terror, my face was pelted in mud. And I heard them laughing hysterically.

I jumped out of the window and started towards them.

Edward threw Bella over his back and raced into the forest. I could hear her breathing and still giggling and that made me even giddier to catch them, soak them with the hose until they looked like drowned cats, and cake mud ALL OVER THEM!

"That's not going to happen, brother," I heard Edward say. Yeah, I thought it, and it wasn't too smart. I blinked, and then my brother was gone. I heard nothing but the wind... shouldn't I'd have heard Bella's panting, though?

"Just you wait, Eddie!" I yelled. I knew it'd make him mad- Edward didn't like the nicknames his name came with. The rest of us Cullen kids had lots of fun with them.



I heard a gasp, a snarl, and then Edward was on top of me with his teeth bared. I threw him off of me, straight into the tree he and Bella had hidden in before (and yes, she fell, and yes, he caught her), and ran to the mud pile.

"Don't you dare," he warned severely. But it was too late.

Plop. Edward's face was caked in mud. I grabbed another handful to lob at Bella- lightly!- but I was cut off.

Alice held the hose, laughing like a maniac, and turned it on... full blast. Bella was knocked down- duh- and Edward tried to help her up, but slipped in the mud and fell. It was hilarious!

Here my brother and soon- to- be sister- in- law sit, trying not to fall again while they are being blasted with icy water by my sister, and I'm standing there like Superman.

"Thanks for the idea, Emmett!" Alice called to me while running into the house, still laughing.

"Umm, Emmett, I'd run if I were you," Bella muttered.

"Naw," I disagreed. "He won't do anything."

The next thing I know, Edward and I are wrestling in the mud with Bella giggling. We sat up, Edward looking very un- Edward like, and Bella grinned.

"Don't ask me to help you explain to Esme," she said, holding up her hands.

Edward and I looked at each other, completely horrified now.

We walked back to the back door and opened in time to see Alice and Esme standing next to it.

"Bella, why don't you go upstairs with Alice? She'll get you cleaned up," Edward whispered and kissed her.

"Okay." She looked like she was about to explode from holding in laughter, but she went with Alice.

Esme had her hands on her hips and was looking like Wonder Mom... and we were the villains. Her face held the question, if not Alice got to her. I figured she'd heard from Alice, but I still explained- from fright.

I made hand motions as I explained. "Um, you see, whispers and the window and mud and jump and... and...running and, uh, and jumping and more running and Alice and the hose water and falling and rolling... and yeah."

"Nice explinaton," Edward hissed.

At least I said something, I thought and I heard him sigh.



"Showers. Now," Esme demanded.

We trudged upstairs, but I could hear Bella and Alice completely laughing their heads off at the top of the stairs.