Chapter 5
Emmett's POV
"We're here" Jasper said
"Finally. Everything's so slow when you have to do it at human pace." I complained.
I looked around the park. The grass had been freshly mowed, the sun was shining, and the pond was clean. I guess it would have been beautiful to some, but I'd seen things more beautiful. I looked around more carefully, to see that there were ducks, dogs, cats, birds, geese and a swan but not a single squirrel.
"Why so silent, little brother?" Jasper asked
"There aren't any squirrels!" I said
"Is that such a problem?" Jasper asked
"Yes, it is actually." I pointed out
"Why?" He asked
"Well, I wanted to vampirize one." I said
"You could always vampirize a duck." He said
"That won't be as fun though." I whined
"You're such a two year old Emmett" He said
"Well, you know what they say" I said
"No, I don't know. What do they say?" He asked
"The more you learn, the less you know." I said
"Nobody says that! It is true though. Every time we go to high school, we just get stupider." He said
"Well, I want to vampirize a squirrel." I said
"I can't exactly do anything about it." He explained, sounding a bit exasperated, like he was talking to a three year old who kept asking the same question, which it was like in some ways.
"Can we go to the other park near our car? The cops will have cleared up by now and we can get back in the car as soon as we are finished." I said
"But then we have to run all the way back." He complained
"It's not exactly gonna tire us out, and we'll be there in a few minutes." I argued
"I guess we will have to run back there anyway, and sooner rather than later." He said, almost like he was thinking out loud.
"So let's go." I said
"I'll race you!" Jasper said
"Sure. But you know I'm gonna win." I said
"Your ego is so massive." He said
"OK then. If I win, I get……………oh wait, you're so sad that I don't want anything you have." I teased
"Oh give over. I know you want my signed baseball bat really badly." He said sarcastically
"Never mind. Let's just race." I said
"3, 2, 1, GO" He shouted. I may have jumped the gun slightly, but I don't think Jasper realized.
"You cheater! You started way before I said go!" Jasper said indignantly
"I didn't think you'd realize." I said
"Well, I have vampire eyes, remember! You're way too used to hanging out with Bella from when she was still human." He said
We ran for a few minutes giving the town a wide birth, and reached the car park ion less than five minutes.
"OK, shall we go to the park?" I asked, getting all excited about the squirrels I was going to vampirize.
"Yeah. Let's go." He agreed.
It took us about 3 minutes to get to the park. It was full of happy little squirrels, but I didn't know which one to pick. In the end I was stuck between a little dark brown one, and a big fat one that was a bit greyer than the other.
"OK, I want that one." I said decidedly, and pointed at the fat one.
"Well go get it then." Jasper said
I looked around to check nobody was looking at us, then scaled the tree and grabbed the squirrel as fast as I could. It took no longer than 3 seconds. When I got back down to Jasper, it started squirming in my hand, probably because it was too cold for its liking.
"It's so fat, why didn't you choose a skinny one." Jasper said
"Well, I wanted to see if it would stay fat or get skinny when I bite it." I said
"Bite it, quick, its getting uncomfortable." Jasper said
I bit it quickly, and suddenly it started to turn white. Funnily enough, the change only took about 30 seconds.
"Hey look, it's white and has red eyes. I hadn't been expecting that to happen." Jasper said "It's still fat as well."
"OW! Shit! It bit my hand!" I exclaimed
"You'll get over it." Jasper said
"It's really cold." I said
"Yeah, it's a vampire now, duh!" Jasper said
"What are we going to do with it?" I asked
"Let it loose in that shop over there I want to see what it does." Jasper asked.
We walked over to the shop, and I put Fatty (as I had christened it) down on a clothes rack. It started scampering around, and jumped onto an old lady's hat.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" There's a squirrel on my head!" The old lady screamed
"What an old loser" I sniggered
"This is so funny!" Jasper agreed
We tried to leave the shop without making ourselves look too ridiculous, but Jasper tripped over a clothes rack in his rush to get out, and fell flat on his face. He left a slight dent I the floor.
"Jasper you idiot! You've dented the floor!" I hissed at him
"Let's go." Jasper replied
As soon as we went out, we looked back into the shop and saw the squirrel messing up piles of clothes and causing complete havoc in the shop.
"I hope it won't spread its vampirism to other squirrels." I said
"I don't think it will. We should probably go home now though." Jasper said
"Yeah. Let's go back to the car." I said
"You mean Bella's car." Jasper pointed out
"Yeah, yeah, same thing." I said
We started walking back to the car, when we saw the hobo again.
"Look! There's that hobo that called the cops on us!" I said
"OK, just try and make it to the lift without attracting too much attention." Jasper advised
However, in my rush to get to the lift, I accidentally bowled over an old lady. We caused a massive commotion, and the hobo saw us.
"There you are again. You little vandals!" He screamed, and started chasing us.
We took the stairs down to the car park, and flew towards the car. We quickly got in, started the motor, and sped away, but not before we heard him say
"I will get you!"
We drove back to the house, and crept in as inconspicuously as possible.
"Hi boys, what did you get for your wives?" Esme said
"It's in the car. I'll go and get it now." I said, but not before Carlisle saw the news.
"What's this boys, because it looks exactly like your faces on the TV." Carlisle asked
"Erm, I don't know" Jasper said
"Because it says here that two boys who look exactly like you, on charge for vandalism in Seattle." Carlisle said
"Erm, I don't know?" I said
The TV suddenly flicked to a picture of Fatty, being held by a TV reporter.
"And this looks very much like a vampire squirrel." Carlisle said
"Yeah, about that." I said
