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Confidence
RPOV
Emmett bounded into the house the minute his name left Julie Chen's mouth.
"Woo! About time!" Emmett hollered.
I sauntered in behind him eyeing the house critically; I suppose it's up to my standards for a few months. I walked past the pathetic looking humans, hiding out in their rooms for now, all themed; figures they would have cheesy themes for each room. I passed a ghost room, a fairy room, and passed Edward and Bella being repulsively sweet in a vampire room. Emmett appeared at my side dragging me through the house.
"I found the perfect room for us babe!" Emmett chattered on happily until we reached a frilly room with unicorns and rainbows covering it.
"Yeah and its right back there," called Alice sweetly but with a smug expression on her face from her place on the bed.
"But this is the room I wanted," said Emmett confused.
"I got here first!" Alice dismissed Emmett quickly.
"Rosie, help me," whined Emmett. I took another look around the room and raised by eyebrow letting Emmett know that he was on his own.
"Fine, I'm checking out our room then" Emmett said dejectedly. I followed him into the last available room and felt the anger begin to bubble inside me almost immediately. The ceiling was painted as the night sky with a huge full moon in the corner. The bed was covered in a brown blanket that was furry, FURRY! This just kept getting better, the mutt was dead.
"Absolutely NOT!" I screeched! "First he gets us into this mess, I just bet he's howling seeing this, I will NOT stay in this room. Its bad enough he still follows us around like the lost puppy he is! I'm going to kick his furry ass, this is beyond belief" I started to rant until I heard a little giggle from behind me.
"It's the same colour fur as him," Bella giggled and whispered to Jasper.
"OH MY GOD, NO! I refuse to stay in here! It's the same colour! The same colour and it probably smells just as bad!" I was seeing red, there was no way I was going to stay here, and I'd stay in that vampire monstrosity before I stayed here.
"Rose, calm down, don't act suspicious" Edward tried calming me down, but to no avail.
"I don't care; I will not stay in this room!" I felt a soothing wave come over me, and glared at Jasper, he might have won now but will pay for that later.
"Houseguests please meet in the common room to become acquainted with your roommates for the rest of the summer" Julie Chen's voice came over the intercom.
??? POV
I watched through the monitors in the Head of Household room as the houseguests trickled in. I loved the idea to do this, it'll be a good break from the monotony. It should be so fun and it's a vacation from constantly watching couples be all lovey dovey together while I sit on the sidelines. Nothing all that interesting was happening until the big bulky guy came in with the blonde. At first they just walked through, you could see the excitement from the guy and the girl was sceptical already. But the look on her face when she entered the werewolf room was priceless. What a princess, couldn't even handle a little fur.
Third Person
Edward shot everyone a warning look and ushered Bella out the door to head to the living room. "Please Rose, drop it for now" Emmett whispered into Rose's ear. She took a deep breath and followed her husband with Alice and Jasper behind them.
"Hi, I'm Adrianna, I'm 25 and am a waitress" said one of the girls while popping her bubble gum.
"I'm, Ty, 23, and am a computer programmer" a skinny weak looking guy greeted.
"Naomi, I'm an office assistant at a law firm and I'm 22" a meek looking girl squeaked after being elbowed by Ty.
"Names Ethan and this is my girlfriend" he said cockily and nodded his head towards Adrianna. "I'm 27 and I'm a personal trainer."
"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Edward, and this is my lovely wife, Bella" Edward said
motioning towards Bella lovingly. Bella moved closer in towards Edward and smiled
sweetly at the other houseguests.
"We're in college still, Dartmouth, and we're 19" Bella finished.
"I'm Emmett, and this is Rosalie, my wife" he said boastingly. Ethan couldn't
take his eyes off of Rosalie once he took notice to her. It took a sharp jab in the ribs
from his girlfriend to bring him back from his reverie.
"I'm 20 and could run circles around you in the auto shop, I manage my own repair shop, Emmett here owns our local gym" Rose taunted Ethan.
"My name is Alice, and this is..."
"...I'm Jasper, Alice's husband and couldn't be happier, right Hun?" Jasper
interrupted with a dark glance at Ethan and Ty.
"Right, I'm a personal shopper and Jasper is a Teacher's Assistant in Dartmouth's history department" Alice said proudly.
"Well, I'm sure all of you have guessed our sexuality, my name is Nicholi, and his is my boyfriend Ashton" he said confidently.
"We're 28 and we co-own a mortgage firm," supplied Ashton.
"Hello houseguests! Now that you have all met we have a little surprise for you..." Julie Chen said as she appeared on the plasma TV that faced the couches in the living room.
Rosalie's nose began to scrunch as if she were smelling something that were
offensive to her and a look of anger crossed her face yet again. Edward gasped and
everyone looked in the direction that his eyes were set.
"Hi everyone!" Leah said cheerfully and she walked down the stairs from the
Head of Household room with a tall man following her. Emmett had to squeeze Rose's
leg to calm her down.
Alice clenched her jaw, and Bella smiled excitedly. Jasper seemed to feel the
tension, and quickly sent a calming wave over his family before things got to out of hand.
"This isn't good" Alice whispered too quietly for anyone to hear.
"Houseguests, meet the two singles of the house, Leah, and Micheal... Now if you
please make your way out to the back yard we will now be holding this season's first
head of household competition."
EmPOV
Yes! The first competition, it's about damn time. I would need to kick this Ethan guys ass, I didn't like how he looked at my wife, I was used to guys ogling her, but this was different. He clearly had a girlfriend, didn't she mean anything to him. Stupid jerk.
I soon forgot about being mad at him when we first stepped through the sliding doors to reveal the back yard. It was set up for the Head of Household competition and it was transformed into a rock climbing set it looked like.
"Houseguests, pair off with your significant other and strap up into the harnesses that are there for you." Julie said over the intercom.
I helped Rosalie put the harness on then went to kiss her and she pushed me away. "Later" she snapped.
I looked around and everyone had sufficiently suited up into their safety gear. Not that we needed to worry about getting hurt, but we did have to keep up the human façade.
"Now houseguests, this challenge will test your physical strength along with how well you work with your companion. One at a time you will scale the rock wall and at the top you will find five bags with your names on them. Pick one then fly down the zip line back to your partner, then they will go to retrieve the next bag. In the bag are a few pieces to a puzzle, once you have gotten all of your puzzle pieces you must complete it. The first couple to complete this challenge will become HOH for the week".
Man I got this in the bag! "Rose, I will go first ok?" she gave me a glare and I corrected myself. "That is if you didn't want to go."
"Go ahead Emmett, I don't care, but please do pretend to be human, don't beat them too badly" she warned.
"Yeah, yeah, don't worry babe, I got this!" I said confidently.
I eyed my opponents who were waiting to start the competition; it looked like the first ones to start with me would be Jasper, Edward, Leah, Naomi, Ethan and Nicholi. Yes, this is my chance to beat Ethan.
A loud buzz sounded and we sprinted off towards the rock wall. It was Jasper and I who took the lead, and were climbing the wall easily. When we reached the top Edward was there with us, I found one of our bags of puzzle pieces, put my hand through the loop, then flew down the zip line and tumbled at Rose's feet. I put it on the table and Rose took off to get the next ones.
As I watched her, I realised that Naomi was still trying to pull herself up the rock wall and Ty was trying to cheer her on. Ethan was just coming down the zip line and Bella and Alice were now matched with Rose.
I went once more and Jasper was beating me by a fraction, but I was still worried. For fuck sakes, if I could actually move as fast as I am able I would be kicking his ass. I growled and Edward shot me a furious look.
"Emmett, calm down right now" he nearly growled back as we chased Jasper down the zip line with the last of our puzzle pieces. I put the last bag on the table and Jasper had already started, so it was a race between Bella and Edward, Rose and Me, and Jasper and Alice. The human couples still had to retrieve at least two more of their bags, and Leah only had to get her last one.
I hissed at Rosalie to hurry up as I kept glancing over at Jasper who was working fervently.
JPOV
I was laughing inside the whole time; Emmett was way too into this. But I had to play along for the sake of the show. I kept pace with Emmett and Edward the whole time and felt Emmett's frustration with Edward and I increase with each bag we retrieved. We had all our puzzle pieces in front of us and we were quickly working to get a head start on the puzzle. I was feeling confident as my hands flew as fast as I was able to allow them threw the puzzle pieces. The picture was coming together nicely but I kept hearing Alice sigh frustratingly.
"We're almost there, look at Emmett's expression, it's hilarious." I tried to cheer her up, not really asking what was wrong. I was too determined to win at this point. I was in my element. Edward was sure to win anything based on speed and Emmett would win based on pure strength, but me and Alice were suited for solving puzzles.
We were down to our last five puzzle pieces and could see the shape of America on the board. As we put our last two pieces in place we saw a giant red question mark in the centre of the country. Hmm, that's strange but I didn't spare another thought as I lunged towards the bell we had to ring in order to be crowned Head of Household. Just as I was halfway to the bell I saw Edward come chasing after me and I stepped up my pace as much as I could without causing suspicion. The ringing of the bell was like music to my ears. I won the first challenge. Somehow it felt like winning this meant I was strong enough to endure this competition.
"Congratulations Jasper and Alice, you are this season's first HOHs. You will have to nominate two people to put up for nomination and get to spend the week in the HOH room. Your key is on the pedestal; please make your way up there now." Julie Chen said over another flatscreen TV.
``Ooh I wonder what we get from home in our room?" Alice wondered next to me.
Leah POV
"So was this your idea too or are you in hell too?" I heard from behind me and turned to see Rosalie following me on the way to see Alice and Jasper's HOH room.
"It was his, I was just as pissed at first, but I'm starting to like the idea a lot now" I answered honestly without letting her know to what extent.
"Ugh how could you?" she sneered.
"I don't know I just feel like good things have come of it" I replied trying to level with her.
"It is nice to see Emmett so excited."
"Haha, even if it's a little much already" I joked back at her.
"Yeah, well I'll make him more, you're taking the wolf room" she shot at me, "it does suit you a lot better."
"Fine, not sure I could handle that much frill and lace anyways." I told her.
"Well, I'll tell Emmett the news, good to know I don't have to kick your ass too, see you later mutt." She said almost jokingly. I couldn't believe I was upset about this to begin with, this has been a great escape and I couldn't be happier.
"YEAH! Unicorns here I come!"
I guess she told Emmett about their change in rooms.
