Edward POV
"Can't you hear them?" I asked the guys again. I was sure I could hear the girls on the cliff, speaking a mix of Old English and Pirate-speak.
"BY JOVE, METHINKS THOU HAST IT!" I heard Alice screaming.
"You must have heard that!" I said, listening harder.
"Yeah, he's right Em. The girls are up there, talking like crazy people!"
"Maybe a bug got them when they were in the shower..." Emmett said, a little worriedly.
"Don't be stupid!" Jasper said, laughing.
I didn't laugh.
"No, guys. Something's got to be wrong!"
"Or maybe they're just messing with us?" Emmett asked, sounding more than a little hopeful.
"AVAST, ARR, FITZ WILLIAM DARCY!" I heard Bella crow from the top of the cliff.
"They're messing with us." I agreed.
"I think it's time for the mess-ees to be come the mess-ers!" Emmett said gleefully.
We all smirked, putting our heads together and forming a plan.
Bella's POV
"On me count of three." Rosalie whispered. "One, two, three, GO!!"
We all jumped from the cliff, holding each others hands. Our only-dry-for-2-minutes bodies were surrounded by water. We rose from the water, expecting to hear booming laughter from the boys, but heard nothing. I loved over at my two best friends, they both looked confused.
"Where are they?" Rosalie asked.
"I have no idea.." I said. Waves hit our backs, getting stronger and stronger. Suddenly, Alice began a coughing fit.
"Alice! What the hell is wrong with you?" Rosalie asked.
"Choki-" She started, interrupted by another cough. "On..Water!" She managed to spit out before coughing once more.
"We gotta get her to shore." I said. Rosalie nodded.
"But I don't see shore." Rosalie pointed out. I looked around. I spotted a cave in the cliffs left from us.
"There!" I said. I grabbed Alice's arms and started to swim towards the cave. Rosalie swam next to us. Once we arrived at the save, we picked Alice up and sat her on a rock. She kept coughing.
"Why wont she stop?" I asked, starting to panic.
"There's only one thing we can do.." Rosalie said. Rosalie walked towards Alice, and stood behind her. She brought her hand up and smacked Alice's back, hard. An ear piercing scream escaped Alice's lips, along with water. But, she stopped coughing.
"Told you it would work." Rosalie said, looking proud of herself.
"I hate you." Alice said, glaring at Rose.
"Love you too." Rosalie said.
"If you two are done...Me thinks we be in a cave." I said, going back to our little charade. Alice's face lit up.
"Arr, and ye knows what lies in caves?" Alice said, getting up. We all looked at each other and smirked.
"Treasure." Rosalie said.
"And the search begins!" Alice shouted before skipping into the darkness.
Jasper POV
"I think we should have thought this through a little better." I said, running my hand through my hair in an Edward-esque move.
"I agree." Edward growled.
Emmett had suggested hiding in the caves because he'd heard from someone at school that there was a way out to the top of the cliffs through them.
And so, we were trudging, half naked, through the cold darkness.
"Nah, don't worry guys," Emmett assured us. "I can see in the dark."
"You can see in the what?" Edward asked scathingly.
"I can see in the dark." He repeated. "I used to eat my carrots."
"Right, okay." I said, feeling my way around in the dark.
"OW!" Emmett yelped. "God dammit!"
"What's wrong, Em?" I said, worried.
"I stubbed my toe on a frickin' rock!" He sounded annoyed – at the rock.
"Oh, Carrot Lord, how could that have happened, with your awesome powers?" Edward said sarcastically. I snickered.
"Shut up, you oafs." Emmett said, sounding like a corporal. I shrunk down a little. "Look, our best idea is to make our way back to the opening of the cave."
"Agreed."
"Agreed."
Suddenly, I heard a high pitched scream, like a sea bird crowing, echoing down the tunnel.
"What was that?" Emmett said loudly, the sound echoing.
"Well, I can't hear because you're talking!" Edward retorted.
"Shh!" I said loudly, hoping to hear more.
There was nothing.
But then, almost like an echo-whisper, I heard my love's distinct voice singing "And the search begins!"
I turned to where I thought the boys were. "Looks like the messers have arrived."
We all (well, I did, anyway) smirked.
Bella POV
We were stumbling along in the darkness, feeling our way through the wet sand and sharp rock, when I heard a clatter nearby.
"What was that?" I hissed.
"I don't know..." Alice said worriedly.
"It was probably a loose rock," Rose reassured us, keeping calm.
"Yeah." I agreed, nodding – even though they couldn't see my expression. "Just a loose rock."
"Oof!" A loud noise echoed through the high-roofed cave, and I stopped dead.
"What was that?"
"I..I don't know." Rose mumbled.
"Guys, I...maybe we should go back..." Alice said unsurely.
I nodded.
"Guys?" Alice asked, expecting an answer.
"Oh!" Rose exclaimed. "I nodded."
"Me too." I smiled. "We should hold hands in case we get lost."
We all felt around blindly for each other's hands, and I felt safer once my best friends' hands were in mine. We stumbled forwards.
After some time, I began feeling worried. I couldn't even see the lightening that should have signaled the entrance of the tunnel.
"Guys," I whispered timidly. "I think we're lost."
Alice whimpered. "Me too."
I heard Rosalie inhaling. "We should stay put. The boys will realize we're lost and come and find us."
I agreed. "We should stay put."
And so, the blue babes felt around for a flat surface wall, and sat themselves down, waiting for their bad-boy saviors.
"So.." Rosalie trailed off.
"Da." Alice said.
"What?"
"Da! You said so, so I said da. Put it together it's soda!" Alice shrieked with laughter. Rosalie burst out laughing.
"I can't believe you're laughing at that Rose." I said, trying not to laugh myself.
"I'm not laughing at what she said," Rose said between laughs, "but that fact that she said it!"
This made me laugh. Tears fell from our eyes, and our laughter finally died down after ten minutes.
"Well, that was a real knee-slapper." Alice said once she caught her breath.
"You sound like my mom." I muttered.
"OW!" Rosalie screamed suddenly.
"What?" I asked, panic rushed through my body.
"Something hit my head!" She said.
Edward Pov
"Smooth Emmett! You hit your girlfriends head." I hissed.
"Now she wont remember you." Jasper added.
"Trust me, after a little one-on-one time with me, she'll remember." Emmett said. I could just picture the expression on his face. I shrugged it off, not wanting to even think about.
"Guys, I'm getting worried." My love's voice said.
"You'd think those guys would realize that their girlfriends are missing by now." Rosalie muttered.
"Oh come on girls! We have like, two days left before we gotta get back home and start getting ready for college! Let's enjoy this time! It's our last summer before we head off and start our futures! Lets live it like its the last summer of our lives!" Alice said.
Emmett took this as a chance to shoot down Alice's contentment. Even though we couldn't see what he had done, it had sure had an effect on Alice.
"OHMYGOD THERE'SAPIRATE HESGOINGTO KILLUS BECAUSEWEMADE FUNOFHIM!" Alice screamed at the top of her lungs, the words bundling together in her haste to get them out.
"Alice relax! It's probably a bug or something." Rosalie assured her.
"GAAAAH!" Alice continued screaming. "SOMETHINGGOTONME, OHMYGOD IT'SAHOOK...OHMYGOD WHATIFIT'S THATPERVERTEDSQUIRRELL? AAAAAGGH!"
Alice was truly distressed, and Jasper couldn't take it. "Ali? Ali, are you alright?"
"OHMYGOD I'M DEAD! I JUST HEARD JASPER! OH MY GOD I'M DEAD!" She sobbed. The girls were trying to placate her but she just wasn't listening. "I HEARD THE VOICE OF MY LOVE ONE LAST TIME AND OH, NOW I'M DEAD!"
"Alice, Alice, babe, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here." Jasper flailed around in the dark, searching for her, hitting me a few times in the process.
"Er, Jasper." Bella said awkwardly. "You're..not touching Alice."
"Oops." Jasper said. "Sorry, Bella."
"Jazzy?" Alice exclaimed. "You're really here? I'm okay? You're okay?"
"Yes, Ali." He said comfortingly.
Rosalie coughed. "Jasper, do you mind? You're kneading my boob."
"Ooff!" Jasper said, retreating backwards into Emmett.
"Get your hands off my lady!" Emmett boomed. The sound reverberated around the cave, and I heard rocks falling further away.
Jasper gulped audibly. "Sorry, Em, I thought Rose was Alice."
Suddenly, I felt a tiny pair of hands around my ankle. "Is that you?"
"Yes." I said, bending down and finding Bella's face. "God, I've missed you."
"I've missed you too," she breathed, before kissing me.
Her lips tasted of salt and peaches – she'd used her peach shower gel. I smiled against her lips. "I love you so much."
"I love you too." She mumbled.
Suddenly, I felt another hand on my foot- a distinctly bigger hand than Bella's. "Rosie?" Emmett's gruff voice said near my ear. "Is that you?"
He didn't wait for an answer, he launched himself at me, kissing me.
I pushed against him, shouting – though it came out garbled. "Emmmmt, I'mmm MOTT MOSALIEEEE!"
"What babe?" Emmett asked, pulling away from me.
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, EMMETT, IT'S ME, EDWARD!" I roared. "AND YOU JUST STUCK YOUR TONGUE IN MY MOUTH!"
"Oops. Dude, I didn't mean it..." Emmett tried to cover up his mistake.
"I feel sick." I said, wiping my mouth against my arm.
Bella chuckled, and snuggled against me. It seemed that everyone had finally found their correct partners. I felt her lips at my neck, slowly coming closer to mine.
"Don't," I said hurriedly. "I think I still have some leftover Emmett in my mouth."
She giggled. "Okay." She kissed my chest instead, then said loudly to the girls, "I told you we'd find treasure."
But the Blue Babes and Bad Boys were still lost in a cave, and had no idea how to get back out.
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