Okay everyone here is the next chapter hope you all enjoy. Stephenie Meyers own the Twilight characters, I am just giving Emmett a back story.

Chapter 2 : Growing Up

Growing up was a lot of fun at my house. We were always busy doing something, doing homework, doing chores, in my case getting into trouble. During the school year we worked hard in our studies and of course our chores. During the summer we were off on our next camping trip or going to a grandparents house. My Parent were always getting compliments on how she was raising the most polite young men and a wonderful little lady. That was one thing we knew, our manners.

My brother Ryan was the oldest, he often thought at times he was better than Tyler and I. However he was better in school and being very creative. He would volunteer at the hospital down from our school in the children ward. He put on puppet shows and would teach kids how to make bag and sock puppets. All of his puppets we made by him and looked just as good as a professional. Ryan thought it was the coolest thing ever. Mom gave him the nickname "family actor". He later moved to New York so he could go to school. He stills volunteers at the local hospitals and should be finished with school in a couple of years. He still comes home every summer for our family camping trip and comes home for the holidays. He claims that it is just to visit but we know it's because of mom's cooking.

Tyler was at one time the middle child but now he is the second oldest brother. He is very SMART, He seems to be smart in every subject. I'm so Jealous! He is quiet most of the time reading the latest book or doing something with his hands. During the summer he would go Colorado and work on a snow dog ranch for a couple of weeks. It wasn't far from nana's house, so mom said it was ok. Tyler loved animals; if he could he would turn our farm into a dog ranch too. He moved to California when he was 18, where he began to work on things that are called moving pictures. When he wrote mom, he told her that his title was a Lighting Guy. Dad said that he was making a living out of screwing in light bulbs. Tyler said that it was fun and that he would one day create things so they could do live shows with lights. He as well still makes time to come home for the Family camping trip as well as the holidays. He too comes home for the cookin, nobody can resist mom's pies.

As for Michaela and Jaysen, well they were very close. They were the 1st set of twins in the family and our little town. Mom always said they were very special, truly they were. I was no longer consider "momma's little baby boy" that title now belongs to my baby brother Jaysen. Jaysen was the first one born by seven minutes he came out screaming, while Michaela was quite. Jaysen is like Tyler in many ways. He loves to read, always making a's and always at the library. He loves adventure to; we would always go rock climbing or jumping off of something. We were all going to jump off the bridge into the creek but my sister chickened out. She referred to herself as a "Lady" and said that "Ladies" don't jump off of bridges. That would be the only time she referred to herself as a "Lady". Jaysen made plans for his life. He was always talking about how he was going to be a Doctor. Find a cure or a new operation that would put him in the history books. Our parents always encouraged us to be whatever we wanted to be. Deep down inside they knew we would do great things and even if we didn't we knew we were loved.

Michaela however is not a princess, far from it. She is more of a tomboy than anything. I guess it was because she was our only sister and she lived in a house full of boys. We were all she had to play with, so we taught her how to climb trees, go fishing, hiking, all the things we liked doing. We were very close, even though her and Jaysen seemed to be inseparable most of the time. I believe we were still closer. My mom hated the fact that she was always trying to do everything the boys were doing. She enjoyed school, but loved art class better. I guess you could say that she was more like Ryan. She is always creating something. I guess you could say that our family was kind of creative in more ways then one. I'm not for sure who we get that from, dad's side probably. She would often say when she grew up she was going to make a book, full of colored pictures of nature and all it beauty's. One of my favorite things she used to say was "We live in a beautiful picture, just waiting to be taken". My brothers and I were extremely protective of her and made for sure everyone knew it to.
Me on the other hand, well I saved the best for last. I am the third son my parents had, I'm so glad I am no longer the baby of the family. I did okay in school. I made passing grades. I was not like my brothers at all when it came to school. I would do the occasional reading but I was mostly fishing or doing some other outside activity. I played sports in school, the only one in our family. Our couch at school said I would be better at basketball instead baseball. I guess it was because of how tall I was. I was the tallest in the family at a towering height of 6'3. Something my sister really liked and used it often to her advantage. I was good enough to actually do something like this as a job. How much fun would it be to get paid to play a sport you love to do. However, my parents said they would prefer something a little more professional just in case playing sports didn't pay off.

My parents made our home a very loving, peaceful and fun place to live. While we were growing up my dad would always be home on the weekends and was never gone longer that 4 days at a time. There were a couple of times that he was gone for 2 or 3 weeks at a time, but not very often. Most of the time, during the summer, is when he would be gone for long periods of time. This is how our family camping trips started. We got to travel all over the place in Tn, Ky, and the Carolinas. My mom would needle point or work on her lasted quilt during this time. Sometimes we would go to our grandparent's houses. But most of the time we would go during the school year. I guess you could say that I was pretty lucky growing up. In my eye's I had the best family anyone could ask for.

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