Chapter 16: It's All Fun And Games Until Someone Tries To Sneak Into Your House.
"So, it's finally Friday." We were lounging around my house again, after another long week of school. I rolled my eyes at Emmett.
"And the sky is blue, and the sun comes up every day, and my eyes are brown. Are we done stating the obvious?" I was feeling just a tad bit bitchy today.
"Whoa there, Izzy. I was just trying to start a conversation," he whined, sticking his lower lip out in a childlike pout. I poked him in the arm.
"I know brother-bear." He grinned at my newest nickname for him.
"I think I like that one." I grinned back. He always made me feel at ease with his antics.
"So…" he drifted off, a mischievous grin on his face.
"Uh-oh. Watch out everyone, he's thinking! We should all take cover!" I was only half teasing. He had a knack for getting us into trouble. Usually it required either Jasper or Edward's skills of talking us out of it. Edward could always say the right things because of his ability, and Jasper, well; he always seemed to have a naturally calming effect anyway. Plus he was pretty charismatic and charming when he needed to be.
Rose smirked and joined on in with my teasing. "Maybe we should call in the SWAT teams!" she crowed in mock horror.
"Good idea! Maybe we can convince them into airlifting him to a secure mental facility!" Emmett seemed amused to see us getting along so well, seeing as to how we had first behaved when we met. He didn't seem to mind that it was all to his expense. I thought back to when he confided in me that he really like Rose. I wondered why he hadn't asked her out yet. It'd been a while. Maybe he was just biding his time for the perfect time.
"Oh, I'm pretty sure he'd drive everyone in there insane." Emmett pouted for our benefit, before getting us back on topic.
"What I was thinking was about what we're going to do about Victoria and James." Jasper and I immediately tensed slightly, the names getting us on our guards. I sighed, dropping all humor and abruptly shifting to seriousness.
"We've been training to fight them," Emmett continued, "but what are we actually going to do when the time comes?" Jasper and I glanced at each other. We had gone over countless strategies and plans.
"Well, Emmett, Izzy and I are prepared. We have come up with a counter for anything they can throw at us." Emmett nodded, trusting us. Everybody seemed fairly content with letting us lead, and worry about things like that.
"Well, yeah, but what are we going to do about our parents? School?" This was something that we hadn't really worked out. It wasn't something we were really as concerned about, really.
"Well, we can't really come up with something until we know when the time will be. And really, we'd have to wait until just about last minute unless Alice has another vision. So we can't exactly do anything except wing it when the time comes." I could tell this made Jasper uncomfortable. He liked to have everything certain so he could be ready and prepared when the time came.
Emmett nodded, seeing the logic. We all sat in silence for a while. Emmett couldn't take silence long before feeling the need to start up a conversation, though.
"Hey, Jasper, didn't you mention that you could understand Morse code once?" Jasper looked slightly confused, but went along with it, nodding. I didn't know that about Jasper.
"Cool, I know some, too." I tapped out a message to him, hoping that it was right. I only knew the basics, after all. Dot, dash dash, dash dash, dot, dash, pause. Dot dot, dot dot dot, pause. Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, pause. Dot dash dash, dot, dot dot, dot dash dot, dash dot dot, end.* He smirked.
Impervious to my message, Emmett continued on. "If one of you were to hear a tap dancer, would it drive you crazy?" We both shook our heads at him, amused. He was such an individual person. "Well?" To his disappointment, we refused to answer him. He huffed in annoyance. His odd question had set the mood for the rest of the evening. It passed by with more humorous speculation and banter.
"You know all the teachers hate me, right?" I asked incredulously. Emmett had just suggested that I talk a teacher into one of his insane pranks. They didn't suspect a thing about him, they couldn't find a possible culprit for any one of them.
"So? I know for a fact that you can be very persuasive."
"Yeah, but only to a point. I'm not magical."
"Fine. But you know who are magical?"
Knowing where this was going, I replied the way he wanted me to. "Who?"
"Alice and Edward," he replied with ease, turning to the duo.
"Magical, Emmett?" Edward scoffed. It was entertaining how he feigned annoyance whenever Emmett joked about him.
"Yes, Edward. Magical like a monkey eating rainbows as he rides around on his quadricorn that shits sparkles and butterflies." I had to hand it to Emmett, he said that all with a perfectly straight face. The rest of us laughed, while Edward rolled his eyes.
I was feeling pretty high on dopamines in my brain, so I plopped myself on Rose's lap. She seemed surprised.
"Hey, Emmett?" I asked innocently.
"Yeah, Izzy?" He replied, a wary look on his face.
"I was wondering."
"Wondering what?"
"If we could make a sandwich." He looked at me like I was out of my mind.
"What?"
"Oh, you know, I sit on Rose's lap, she sits on yours." Puzzled, he agreed, seeming curious as to where I was going with this. He hefted Rose, with me still on her, into his lap with his bodybuilder strength. I then accidentally 'slipped off of her, and quickly took a picture of them on my phone.
"Awwwww, you guys look so cuuuuuute!" Alice squealed, seeing the picture. Rose blushed, something I never thought I'd see. Emmett looked a little bashful, also something I thought I'd never see. They looked at each other hesitantly, a little embarrassed. It was pretty cute.
Rose moved to get out of Emmett's lap, but I stopped her before she could. "Wait, don't move yet! You two look so adorable!" She looked even more embarrassed, but I could tell she really didn't want to move. She stayed. Emmett looked pretty happy about that. Alice and I did a mini high-five. Edward and Jasper looked mildly amused by our antics.
"Stay, right there!" I exclaimed, motioning to them with my hands. "I need to go get something!" I ran up the stairs, all excited to get back down, when I realized that someone was prowling around outside my house. I froze for a second, cursing myself for being too caught up and not realizing it sooner. I could tell that they hadn't been there very long, though. I knew exactly where they were, I could sense them. I hesitantly moved forward, keeping my senses open. I had only a tank top and some shorts on, but I always had a couple knives with me. I slid one out and advanced to my window, making sure to keep out of sight of it. I could tell that the prowler was trying to sneak inside. And he had just noticed this window was slightly open. I tensed, to the left of the window, waiting for them to come closer.
"Izzy?" I heard Jasper whisper. He had sensed them as well, after presumably coming up to look for me. I gestured for him to come near without turning around. He stood by the other side of the window, ready and waiting as well. I finally heard the footsteps come closer, and a shadowy figure lean over and push it open with a grunt. The figure crawled through the window, and I immediately knocked the intruder over the back of the head with the hilt of the knife. They immediately went limp and fell on the floor. I groaned, seeing who it was. Well, hell.
AN/: So, I felt like writing, after receiving a nice review, as they always give me motivation :). It's kind of a filler, and pretty short, but...well...
*All Morse code comes from Wikipedia, so it may not exactly be accurate. I have absolutely no idea. So, if it's wrong, I apologize. I also didn't know any way to describe it but with dots and dashes, even though she was tapping…so….yeah…