20. Depression & The Zoo

Emmett's POV

My eyes snapped open, as I took in my surroundings. Oh that's right! I was in Ireland! Woo!

I ripped the covers off me, and jumped out of bed. I slipped a grey shirt on, and decided to change my pants. I'm sure the family didn't want to see me in my boxers. . .

I slipped into some comfy sweats, and went downstairs.

"Morning Guys." I said, waving as I walked into the lounge room.

Esme was humming to herself, Jasper head was resting on Alice's legs, Edward was at the piano with Bella (How they got a piano here I don't know), Rosie was brushing her long, blonde hair, Nessie and Jacob were nowhere to be seen. . .

"Hi Rosie." I said, and climbed onto the couch next to her.

"Hey Baby. How'd you sleep?"

"Awsome. I think this castle helps. . ." I murmured.

I slept like a baby last night. Or maybe it was because Rosie promised she wouldn't ignore me anymore.

I sensed some tension in the air. And Rosie looked at me funny.

"Ready for the zoo Em?" Esme said, and appeared behind me.

"Yeah." I whispered, and hugged Mom tight. "I'm absolutely starving. I missed dinner last night."

"I'd better be getting you something then." She said, and we shuffled to the stone kitchen. "What would you like?"

"Some Cheerios would be great Mom."

She reached for the box of Cheerios, as I got a bowl and spoon out of the cupboard.

Esme poured it in, steadily and carefully. She seemed unusually distracted.

"You ok Mom?" I asked, with a mouthful of Cheerios.

"Sure I am." She said, and smiled at me. I nodded.

With that Bella walked into the kitchen with the same distracted expression.

"Why is everyone so tense?" I asked.

"We're not honey." Bella and Esme both murmured.

Bella stood behind me, with her hands on my shoulders.

I finished with my Cheerios fast, and decided to call Sarah. I missed her already.

"I'm just gonna call Sarah upstairs ok?" I said, gave my empty bowl to Mom to wash. "I'll get dressed while I'm there."

I stood up, and the chair scraped across the tiles. I pushed it in, and ran up the winding staircase 2 at a time.

I dug through my bag, and found my phone. I flipped it open, and dialled Sarah's number. I knew it off by heart.

She picked it up on the first ring. "Em!"

"Hey Sar. How are you?"

"Missing you. A lot." She sighed.

"I miss you too."

"Yeah. Well how's Ireland?"

"I haven't seen much yet, but otherwise, its pretty green."

"Just like Forks, eh?"

"Hmm. . ."

"How's the place your in?"

"Its fit for a King. Literally. It's a castle Sar, its amazing. I wish you were here to see it."

"I do too."

We didn't say anything for a while, and I broke the silence.

"I gotta go. We're going to the zoo today."

"Cool. Well. . .Have fun." she sighed.

"I will. You take care of yourself won't you?"

"Will do." She hesitated. "Love you Em."

" Love you too. See you soon."

I pressed the hang up button, and chucked my phone in the bag.

I went to my dresser, and got out a white button up shirt, and my favourite pair of light blue jeans.

I put them on, and ran down the stairs.

"She's depressed?" Edward said. I stopped on the last step, and hid behind the one of the rails on the staircase.

"Yes. Her Mother says she cries herself to sleep." Esme sighed.

"Em?" Alice said. "Stop eavesdropping."

I walked from behind the rail. "Who's depressed? And you dare lie."

They all looked at each other. "Sarah." They all said.

I looked down. "She seemed ok when I was talking to her. Why is she depressed?"

They all grimaced again. "She seemed ok because she was talking to you. She depressed because she misses you." Alice said.

"Oh." I looked down awkwardly. Rosie's face was unreadable. "Well what do we do?"

"We can't do anything." Carlisle sighed.

"How about we just have a good time at the zoo, then I'll ring her again later."

Everyone nodded, and stood up.

We all filed out to the car, and suddenly, Jacob and Nessie appeared.

"Where'd you guys go?" I asked.

"I had to phase, and Ness wanted to hunt so. . ." Jacob muttured, and climbed into the car.

I followed suit, and sat in between Bella and Jake.

Esme said it will be a long ride to the zoo, because, we live in Dublin forest, and the zoo is in Dublin city.

I sat twiddling my thumbs, nearly the whole ride, until a thought came to me.

Why in the world was Sarah depressed because of me? I'm only Emmett Cullen, who would get depressed over me? I'm just a small town boy. Then it hit me. I may be 10, but I wasn't stupid.

Sarah was in love with me.

I looked expectantly at Edward, and he nodded. Great.

I have an admirer. I shook my head.

Rosie put her hand on my shoulder from the other side of the car. She winked at me.

"Emmett's got a Girlfriend." She said teasingly. But I could see in her eyes, she, wasn't very happy about.

"No I don't." I said stubbornly. "Just an admirer."

Everyone in the car laughed loudly.

"Eek!" Alice squealed excitedly from the front seat.

We all looked at her, confused. She rolled her eyes impatiently. "Em going to go out with Sarah when he's 14!"

Everyone looked at me, and smiled.

Esme Awwwwed.

I rolled my eyes at their stupidity. "Oh my god."

"Do you like Sarah?"Alice asked, her face falling.

"Sure I do. Just not in the loving way."

Everybody stared, then looked forward. I thought I heard Alice whisper to Jasper, but I couldn't make it out.

We pulled into a crowded car park, and everybody got out. The air was icy, and the grey clouds were spread across the sky.

Everyone around us stared. At first, I thought it was because of the car. But I was wrong. They were staring at the people who owned the car.

They all just kept walking to the entrance. I could already hear Elephants blowing their trunks loudly. I smiled, just as Rosie put her white marble arms around me.

"Hey Baby," she murmured. "You ok?"

"Yeah. Just worried about Sarah that's all." I whispered.

"I guess Alice was right." Rosie whispered. I could only just hear it.

"What?"

"Nothing."

I walked forward, and Carlisle was collecting the tickets.

The women at the register swooned over Carlisle's good looks. He just smiled, and walked forward.

I followed everyone. Esme wrapped her arm around my waist, and I did the same.

Nessie pulled out the map, and examined it. "What do we want to see first? The Grizzlys? The Meerkats? The giraffes?"

"The wolves." Jacob laughed.

"The Grizzlys." I said, as we all began walking toward's the Grizzlys exhibit.

I heard a loud roar. Must be the Bears.

"I wanna catch me some Grizzlys." Jasper laughed in my ear. I punched him playfully in the arm.

I stared at the huge animals. They looked cute and fluffy most of the time, but, I'll bet if you get on their bad side, they wouldn't be so cute anymore.

Rosalie's POV

We walked aimlessly around this zoo. I'd seen so many zoos in my time.

I spelt the mixture of animal blood, and human blood around me. My throat burned, yes, it was uncomfortable, but I could handle it.

Men stared as I walked past them, and flicked my hair.

Emmett looked like he was worrying, but trying to have a good time.

I rubbed shoulders soothingly.

Alice had said in the car that Em would grow to love Sarah, just like she does him. But I knew their relationship wouldn't last very long, seeing Alice saw me and Em together.

"Do I sense jealousy here?" Jasper said playfully.

"Shut up." I muttured.

"You know its true. . ." he said, his voice trailing of as he returned to stand by Alice.

I rolled my eyes at him.

I looked at the cute little Australian Koala, asleep. I wish I could do that.

The Australian section of the zoo was a lot of fun. Em enjoyed it. They don't have Kangaroos, Koalas (A/N: Notice how I didn't say Koala 'Bear'. They are not bears. There just cute little fluffy animals who live in the bushes of Australia), Wombats and Echidnas in America.

Emmett smiled as he looked at the little baby Koala the Mother was carrying. Esme awwwwwed. I giggled.

So far we had seen: the elephants, giraffes, Australian animals, Seals, lizards, Duck, Meerkats, Wolves, Grizzly, Sun and Moon Bears, Red Panda, Fairy Penguins, Owls, Lions, Tigers, Zebras and Hyenas. We had seen nearly everything, and now we heading to the car

Jasper kept on cracking jokes about how he was dying of thirst, and yet her couldn't fulfil that, yet we were surrounded by animals!

Everybody laughed the first time, but it did get really annoying.

I hugged Em and Nessie equally, trying not to get distracted by my half daughter.

I shared the attention around equally, and Emmett was happy.

Bella walked with Nessie to the car, talking about Jacob. I tried not to listen in on their private conversation, but found it hard.

"Are you being safe?" I heard Bella mutter.

I laughed, and Bella and Ness looked at me.

I chased after Em at a slow human speed, and surprised him when I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Hey Baby."

"Hey Rosie." He said. "The zoo was a lot of fun."

I nodded, and kissed him on the cheek. He smiled.

We walked to the car together, and climbed in.

I'd somehow forgotten about Em and I being together in the future. It just seemed like a normal day, and was no longer awkward.

The rest of the family thought it would be tremendously awkward between us now, but its not. Thank goodness.

He climbed in ahead of me, and I sat with my arm around his shoulders. He lay his head back, and closed his eyes.

I stared at him, and realised how beautiful he really was.

My little Baby.

The rest of the family giggled, but, by this time, Em was already asleep.

What'd u think guys?

Uh I home sick with a cold. I feel horrible. My nose totally stuffs up my head, and my throat is BURNING! Ouch! I'm soo glad I didn't have to endure school.

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