Caffeine

Korlee's POV

By the time I found my shoes and we had finally left the house, I had a total of four glasses of coffee. I couldn't even feel my headache anymore.

Embry explained more about what happened after the wedding on the drive to the Cullens, and I couldn't help but be impressed how Jami had handled Emmett, until I had puked on him of course.

He pulled into the driveway and I was about to open my door, when Embry beat me to it. I hadn't even seen him get out of the car.

We were almost to the front porch, when I heard yelling coming from inside the house. I couldn't under stand it through the walls, but I could tell that it was Jami, and that she was beyond mad.

Embry ran in front of me and opened the door in a gentlemanly manner. I giggled and walked past him through the door and saw that everyone was gathered in the living room, with Jami and Emmett standing in the middle yelling at each other.

I went over to the couch and sat down, feeling the coffee fully kick in.

Jami's POV

"Where did you get the alcohol anyways? You can't drink it." I yelled at Emmett in the middle of the Cullen's living room. I had come over first thing this morning, just to yell at Emmett for what he did last night.

"I found a stash of vodka at Billy's." Emmett replied, as if it was completely obvious.

"But why would you put it in the punch? Vampires don't drink it and werewolves can't get drunk. It would burn from our system before the affect kicked in."

"Like I said last night, I thought it would be funny and it was." Emmett's smile faltered. "Until she threw up on me."

"Well that's what you get. When people get drunk, they're bound to throw up soon or later." I laughed internally at the memory of Korlee puking all over him.

I heard the door open and turned to see Korlee and Embry walk in. Embry closed the door and Korlee walked over to the couch and sat down. I turned to face Korlee and saw that her eyes were glassy.

"I can't believe I did that. So much punch. What was I thinking." Korlee starting blabbing to herself. "So not like me. I was just so thirsty."

I walked over to the couch and sat down beside Korlee, placing my hand on her shoulder, turning her so that she would look at me. "Korlee. Are you okay?"

Korlee smiling. "I couldn't be better. I feel perfectly fine. One hundred percent okay. Why do you ask?" She was talking so fast that I could barely catch what she was saying.

I looked more closely at her to see that she was shaking a little, but it didn't look like she cold. I got up and walked over to Embry who was leaning against the stair rail with his hands cupping his chin, looking adorably at Korlee. "What did you give her?" I asked him, turning around so I could watch Korlee who was starting to shake more.

"When she woke up I gave she some Tylenol to help the headache." Embry said, his eyes never leaving Korlee's face.

"What else?" I asked. Tylenol wouldn't make her act like this.

"I also gave her some coffee to-"

"You gave her coffee?" I said, interrupting him. I closed my eyes and rubbed my hand across my face. "How much did she have?"

"She had four cups." He said, finally looking away from Korlee to look at me confused. "Why?"

I sighed and looked back up Embry. "I forgot to tell you. Korlee's not suppose to have to much caffeine or sugar." My eyes widened when I suddenly thought of something. "What did you put in the coffee?"

Embry bit his lip and looked down at his shoes. That was answer enough. "Sugar." I said, shaking my head.

"Yeah." Embry said slowly, drawing out the word.

We both looked up at Korlee, and I saw that she was shaking so much it looked like she was vibrating. She was still muttering to herself, but it was to fast that I couldn't make out a word she was saying. I had never seen her this hyper before, and I've known her for a little over five years now. "Well we can't do anything about it now." I told him, patting him on the back, showing him that I wasn't mad at him. He hadn't done it intentionally.

I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass and filled it with water to help get the caffeine out of her system. When I walked into the living room, Korlee was gone. "Where did she go?" I asked everyone in the room. One of them had to have seen where she had ran off to.

Esme listened for a second, then pointed above her. "It sounds like she's on the third floor." How in the world did she get all the way up there so fast? She was just sitting on the couch when I left and I hadn't even been gone a minute.

I set the glass down on the end table and went upstairs, following her scent. When I got to the third landing, I followed her scent into Edward's room. "Korlee." I said, looking around the room. There wasn't many places that she could hide at. I sniffed the air, trying to pinpoint her, but some how her smell was all over the room and I couldn't locate her. "I know you're in here." I went into the bathroom and looked behind the shower curtain. Nope, not there. I went back into the room and looked under his bed, but she wasn't there either. I was about to get back up, when the curtains blew out. I jumped up and looked at the window to see that it was closed, so the curtain shouldn't have moved.

I stepped closer to the curtains, when I heard a giggle behind me. I turned around and saw that the closet door was open a crack. I went over and opened the door more and stuck my head in, but I didn't see anyone. My hair blew to the side and I turned around in time to see Korlee running out of the room. I ran out into the hall, then stopped. She just… disappeared. I couldn't have already lost her. She didn't have time to run into another room, but she was gone. I walked down the hall and stuck my head into every room and sniffed, but her scent wasn't in any of the rooms.

"Korlee!" I heard Alice yell from downstairs. I quickly ran downstairs and into Alice's room to see Korlee throwing clothes out of Alice's closet.

"Korlee?" I said, walking into the closet. Korlee held up a shirt in front of her, shrugged, then threw it with the rest of the clothes. "What are you doing?"

"These clothes are all to small for me." she replied, throwing another shirt into the pile behind her.

"They're not your clothes." I told her. "Let go back downstairs, and get you a glass of water. It'll help calm you down."

She twirled around in a flash and stared me in the eyes. "I am calm." she said before skipping out of the room, whistling.

I followed her out of Alice's room and to the stairs. I watched as she swung her leg over the railing and lied on her stomach facing me. She smiled as she pushed off and slide down. I ran forward and stuck my hand out trying to catch her before she got to far down and ended up falling off and hurting herself, but it was to late.

"Weeee." she yelled, as she rod down. My eyes widened when I realized that she was going to fall on her ass once she got to the bottom, but at the last second Embry ran forward and caught her. I sighed in relief.

I ran down the stairs and stood my Embry, while Korlee lied dangling in Embry's arms, giggling hysterically. She craned her neck up, and kissed Embry on the bottom of his chin. Embry looked up at me with twinkling eyes and a apologetic look on his face. "It alright." I told him, patting him on the back. "Just sit her down on the couch and I'll grab her glass."

I walked over to the end table and grabbed her glass, then quickly went over to the couch and sat down beside her. "Korlee, you need to drink this." I said soothingly, holding the glass out for her. "It'll help calm you down some." She told hold of the glass and chugged it down immediately. Within a minute the glass was empty and she wasn't any less hyper.

I grabbed the glass out of her hands and went to refill it. When I came back, Embry was on the floor and Korlee was gone once again. "What are you doing on the floor? And where did Korlee go?" I asked, setting the glass down.

"She jumped up once you left the room. I tried to stop her from leaving, but she pushed me down." I looked at him as if he was stupid. He was a werewolf for crying out loud. A human couldn't have pushed him to the ground. As if reading my thoughts, he explained it to me. "She was really strong." He got off the floor and dusted his pants off. "Now I know what you meant when you said she wasn't suppose to have to much sugar."

I sighed and cocked my head to the side, listening for any sound of her throughout the house. I heard a sound behind me, coming from the kitchen. I spun around and stormed into the kitchen. Korlee had her head in the refrigerator, digging around. How did she get past me without me noticing?

Korlee backed away from the fridge and turned around to face me. She kicked the door closed with her foot as she pulled off the lid of the container that she was holding. I looked down at her hands to see that she had a bottle of spray whip cream. Why in the world would the Cullens have whip cream? Then again, knowing Emmett, I probably didn't want to know.

She lifted the bottle to her mouth and sprayed until she had a mouthful. She lowered the bottle and swallowed her mouthful of whip cream. She was raising the bottle back to her lips, when I rushed forward and tried to snatch the bottle out of her hands. Knowing what I was thinking, she raised the bottle above her head where I couldn't reach, since she was almost four inches taller than I was.

I was jumping up and down, trying to grab the whip cream out of her hands, when Edward, Emmett, and Jasper walked in from the living room. "What in the world in going on?" Emmett asked, looking at Korlee with her hands above her head, and me trying to climbing over Korlee to get it.

I heard Korlee snicker and saw Edward double over in laughter. Edward controlled himself and walked over to Jasper and whispered in his ear. Jasper started to laugh but was still able to nod to him.

What's going on? I thought to Edward. He walked over to me and leaned down to whisper into my ear. I couldn't help the devious smile spread across my face.

I let go of Korlee and stepped back so I was far enough away that I wouldn't get in the way, but still close enough that I could watch the show about to play out.

Edward and Jasper grabbed hold of Emmett's arms, but he started struggling and they all fell to the floor. Bella, Esme, and Embry walked into the kitchen from hearing the loud crash as they landed on the floor and stopped in the doorway to watch. Korlee stalked forward, holding the whip cream in front of her like a weapon. Emmett starting to struggle even more, but Edward pinned his feet down by lying on them and Jasper put him into a headlock and pinned his arms behind him with his legs.

Korlee went and stood above the boys and Jasper forced Emmett's mouth open. Emmett's eyes widened, finally realizing what they where trying to do. Korlee shook the can, then turned it upside down above Emmett's open mouth. Emmett bucked his hips, trying to throw Edward off, my to no avail. Korlee pressed down on the cap, and whip cream sprayed into Emmett's mouth and all over his face. Emmett closed his eyes from the disgusting taste of the whip cream.

I laughed so hard, I had to clench my hands to my sides from the pain. It was so funny what Korlee was doing, and she didn't even realize what she was really doing. Emmett was just going to have to throw it all up later.

I looked up in time, to see Jasper force Emmett to swallow the whip cream, then him and Edward finally let go of him. Emmett immediately jumped up and ran for the doorway. Everyone moved before he could run them over, and Emmett ran up the stairs to his bathroom. I could barely hear him trying to throw up the whip cream from his system over all the laugher everyone was making.

By the time I had finally controlled my laughter, Korlee had disappeared, again. I completely sobered up and ran into the living room, but surprise surprise, she wasn't there. Embry had noticed the same thing as me and sighed from behind me. "Again?" he asked.

"Yep." I said, popping the p. I went back into the kitchen and walked up to Jasper, how was still sitting on the ground. "Jasper." I said, getting his attention. He jumped up and raised his eyebrow in question, wondering what I wanted. "Could you try and calm Korlee down? It's getting tiring trying to keep up with her." He nodded, and I could see the look of concentration on his face as he located her and influenced her emotions.

Suddenly I heard a yell come outside, and I knew it was Korlee. I threw open the door and ran out. I turned around in circles but she was nowhere in site. She screamed again and I looked up. I gasped at what I found. How in the hell did she get all the way up there? Korlee was fifteen feet in the tree. Embry ran out of the house, looked at me, then looked up and gasped as well.

"Jami, help me." Korlee screamed. I could see the terror in her eyes, from being up so high in the tree. "I don't know how I got up here. Jami, please help me. I'm scared." She moved her hand to get a better grip on the branch she was on, but her foot slipped under her and she fell onto her stomach. Before she could slide off the branch, she wrapped her arms and legs around the branch and squeezed her eyes closed. Even from on the ground, I could see the tears leaking from her eyes.

"Don't move a muscle Korlee. We'll get you." I turned to Embry and saw that he was terrified for Korlee as well. "Embry climb up there and get her. I'll stay down here just incase she falls." He nodded and started climbing the tree as fast as he could.

Korlee's POV

I could feel the sugar wearing out of my system. I could feel the wind on my face, but I couldn't see anything. I realized that my eyes were closed and opened them to see tree bark. I looked down and saw the ground, fifteen feet away. I did the only thing that came to my mind. I screamed.

I was still looking down so I watched as Jami came running out of the house and turned around in circles trying to find me, I hoped. I tried to yell her name but all that came out was another scream of terror. Jami looked up and stared at me with wide eyes.

Embry came running out of the house, looked at Jami, then looked up at me with the same look at Jami on his face.

"Jami, help me." I finally screamed down to her. "I don't know how I got up here. Jami, please help me. I'm scared." I moved her hand to get a better grip on the branch I was on, but my foot slipped under me and I fell onto my stomach. Before I could slide off the branch, I wrapped my arms and legs around the branch and squeezed my eyes closed, not wanting to see the ground so far away from me. I could feel tears running down my face.

"Don't move a muscle Korlee. We'll get you." I heard Jami say. I wrapped my limbs tighter around the branch, but otherwise I did exactly what she told me to do, and didn't move a muscle.

After a few minutes, I felt the tree start to sway. I started to cry even more, terrified that I was going to fall. "Don't worry Korlee. You're not going to fall." I opened one of my eyes and saw that Embry was on a branch below me. He reached his hands up and grabbed hold of the branch right beside me and he hauled himself up. "You have nothing to worry about. I'm going to get you down safely." He grabbed onto my left arm. "Know you're going to have to let go of the tree." I shook my head and closed my eyes again. "Do you trust me?" he asked. I opened my eyes and looked into his and knew that he wouldn't let anything happen to me. I gave a short nod, as to not shake the branch to much. "When you let go, I want you to grab hold of me and hold on tight. Okay?" I nodded again.

I slowly let go of the tree and reached for him with a trembling hand. He grabbed my hand and lead it to his neck and I grabbed a fistful of his shirt, and did the same thing with my right arm. He moved onto my branch so I wasn't leaning over both branches and I screamed out because it felt like I was about to fall backwards. He quickly put his hands on my back and pressed me into him, making sure I didn't fall.

"Now you're going to have to wrap your legs around my waist." I let out a breath that I just now realized that I was holding and slowly unwrapped my legs from the tree branch. I winced from the pain in my legs from the bark of the tree rubbing against them and quickly wrapped my legs around Embry's waist, not wanting there to be a chance that I would fall off. I locked my ankles together and buried my head into the crook of his neck.

I felt Embry move his head side to side, probably trying to find a way down. "I want you to hold on as tight as you can. Don't worry about choking me." I tighten my hold on him. "Now close your eyes and don't open them until I tell you that's it's okay."

I did as he asked. A few seconds later, I felt the wind blowing my hair back and it felt like I was falling. By the time I started screaming, it was already over. "You can open your eyes now." Embry said, rubbing my back soothingly.

I opened my eyes and saw that we were back on the ground. I unwrapped my arms and legs from around Embry and fell to the ground on my ass, my legs to sore to hold me up.

"Thank you." I said in a trembling voice, looking up at him. "I'm terrified of heights."

"Any time." he replied, offering his hand to me. I grabbed it and he pulled me to my feet and into his chest, and didn't let go, making sure I didn't fall again. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I blushed, and buried my head into his shirt. That's when I felt the full effect of the sugar wearing out of my system, and I fell into a pleasant slumber.