Chapter 7
Jaspers POV
"I don't want to kill him." Emmett whispered dejectedly
We had gone to the park, and now it was the dead of night. Almost everyone was in bed, and I'd only seen two cars so far.
"There it is" Edward whispered
"OK, let's go and get it!" Rosalie whispered excitedly
"Why are we all whispering?" I asked
"SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Carlisle hissed
"OK then! Chill!" I whispered
To tell the truth, I don't really want to kill Fatty either, as I co – created him, but I guess it has to be done. I definitely don't want another visit from the Volturi so soon after the incident with Nessie. She is about the size of a 7 – year – old, even though she is really only a year old. She is perfectly content with staying with Jacob all day, but she hardly ever sleeps which annoys Jacob a lot and she stinks really badly when she comes home again.
"Shall we go chase it?" Alice asked
"Not yet. We have to wait till it is completely relaxed. You have to remember it has just as good smell and hearing and speed as us, but probably with all eight of us we will be able to catch it." Carlisle said
"Just say when." Bella said
We waited for about 5 minutes, before Carlisle shouted "GO!"
Fatty looked up and saw us running at him, and almost immediately ran off away from us. We could catch up with him though.
"Bella and Edward, you're the fastest. You go as fast as you can and try to get in front of it and round it up. Emmett and Rosalie, you go round the sides." Carlisle ordered
"What about me! I'm fast too!" I complained
"Yes but you have to stay here with Alice, Esme and me to try and catch it." Carlisle explained
"Yeah, well. I still think I'm faster than that stupid lump Emmett." I grumbled.
"Jasper, you're such a three – year – old. Thanks for the dress from Chanel by the way! It's really nice!" Alice said
"You're welcome." I said, and gave her a quick peck on the cheek
She almost immediately turned round and started kissing me properly.
"Come on lovebirds. We have a fat vampire squirrel to catch." Emmett said
"Yeah, why did you actually pick the fattest one Emmett?" Bella asked
"Dunno. I thought it would be funnier." Emmett replied
"Got it!" Edward shouted.
"Ah! Jesus that's cold!" Edward said, and it slipped out of his hands
"You're such an idiot. Why did you let it go?!" Rosalie scolded
"Well you could've warned me" Edward said
"Yes, I should've warned you that it's a lot colder than us." Carlisle said
"Well, let's go catch it again" I said
"OW! Crap!" Emmett said
"What've you done this time Emmett" I said
"I bumped my head on a big branch." Emmmett said
"You're such an idiot. You should've ducked under it." I said
"I was focusing on running. Edward and Bella are really fast." He said
"Yeah, well just cos they're better than you doesn't make you any less stupid." Rosalie pointed out
"Rose, you're my wife! You're meant to be on my side!" Emmett complained
"I should not have married such a stupid vampire." Rosalie sighed
"Well too bad. You can't un – marry me now!" Emmett said
"The word is divorce." Alice pointed out to my incredibly stupid brother
"Yeah, yeah. Same difference." Emmett said
"YES!" Bella shouted. Fatty was trying to wriggle away, but she held him in her strong, new – born grip.
"Emmett?" Carlisle said
"Yes, I'll kill it." He sighed
"Jasper, Alice, get a fire started." Carlisle ordered. Even though he said no – one was the leader in this family; it was obvious to the rest of us that he was, so I obeyed him.
We ran far to the other side of the park to talk.
"He is the biggest idiot in the world." Alice said
"We so shouldn't have joined this family of weirdo's." I said
"Hmmmmmmmmmm. I guess we can't leave now though. We're already too attached." Alice said
"I missed you so much." I said
I leaned in to kiss her. We kissed for a long time, until a loud squeal made us jump.
"What the hell was that!" Alice exclaimed
"Probably Fatty." I said
"We'd better get some wood for the fire." Alice said
We both started gathering twigs and branches as fast as we could, and ran back to Carlisle with an armful of branches
"Ew. What is that?!" Alice said
Edward's POV
"That is the remains of Fatty the squirrel." I said
"I'm sorry Fatty. I had to." Emmett said to the pieces of his squirrel
"I'm sorry, are you actually talking to a ripped up vampire squirrel." Rosalie said
"Yes, in fact, I am." Emmett said
"It's dead for god' sake." Rosalie said
"Yes, but he was special to me." Emmett whined
"Just burn it." Bella said impatiently
Jasper and I started up the fire, and Emmett carefully put the pieces of Fatty on the fire, and created clouds of white smoke.
"Ugh that smells foul. Only you would have taken the fattest and the smelliest squirrel in the park." Rosalie whined.
"Well, let's go back home." Carlisle said, once the fire had stopped and we made sure Fatty would never be re – born. "It's getting close to dawn."
We ran back home, and arrived back at about 7:30
"Hey, we were still going to do a re – match on that race that you jumped the gun on." Jasper said
"Well, let's go then. Who wants to be the referee?" Jasper said
"No"
"Nope."
"Yeah right."
" No way."
"Absolutely not."
"Well, I guess that leaves you, Edward." Jasper said
Oh no.
We ran to the starting point.
"Ok, you have to run along the river right to the source, and back here again." I declared
"OK"
"Sure"
"3, 2, 1, GO!" I said, and they ran off. About two seconds later, they both came back, neck and neck.
"I so won that." Emmett said
"No, I did." Jasper said
"OK, OK!!" I said
"And the winner is………………………..JASPER!" I shouted
"YES! Haha Emmett. I get your car!" Jasper said
"NO! What? No way!" Emmett said
"Sorry Emmett." I said
"Emmett, come and look at the news." Carlisle said, but with a tone in his voice that meant something very bad had just happened. I felt sorry for Emmett.
"Erm, yes?" he said
We ran inside, and started at the TV screen.
"Oh no." Emmett whispered
We all stared at the news, showing hundreds of white, red – eyed squirrels in Seattle park.
"No way." I said
FIN
