Chapter Five

More weekend madness, thunderstorms and new faces

Warning: This chapter may be a long one because it's the Friday night and all of Saturday :)

Jacob's POV, Friday night

I finally managed to get all the Cullens into bed by 10pm; turns out they were eager to go to bed once I'd seen the hole in the wall. I have no idea how they did it, but there's now a gap the size of a small bear in the wall. Well … I'm not going to be the one to explain this is Carlisle and Esme, no way; I'm throwing the kids into the deep end for this one. Or… you could always put a window there…

I was sleeping on the sofa for the next two nights, Carlisle and Esme tried getting me to sleep in their guest room, but I refused saying the sofa would be fine. How many rooms does this house have? Nessie has her own little nursery, Rose and Alice share a room, Jasper and Edward share a room, Emmett has his own room since no-one can stand the mess, Carlisle and Esme have a room, and they have a guest room. That's one, two, three, four, five, six. Yup six.

I wasn't tired yet so I decided to clean up the mess in the kitchen. I managed to get it all off the walls before I noticed that there was a thunderstorm heading our way. I was cleaning one of the windows before I saw the big, black, monster clouds. I ignored them and continued cleaning, thunderstorms never bothered me.

At around 11:30 the kitchen was finally clean, it still stank of eggs, but at least it was clean. I put the mop back where it belongs, put the rest of the cleaning stuff away and turned round to see Alice, standing in her PJ's, holding a teddy bear in one arm. Her expression was frightened. I put down whatever I was holding and got down to her height, put my hands on her tiny shoulders,

"Hey," I said softly, "What's wrong kiddo?" Just then lighting flashed lighting up the kitchen. Alice jumped, and then whimpered. Ohh, she was scared of the thunderstorm. I picked her up, turned off the kitchen light; momentarily sending us into darkness, turned on the living room light, brought Alice over to the sofa and sat her down beside me. As soon as I sat down she curled into my side so I put my arm around her. I put the TV on, hoping it would calm her a bit. Every time lighting flashed, or thunder struck Alice jumped and whimpered quietly, every time she jumped and whimpered I held her closer and rubbed her back. I saw her smile a little once or twice.

As the thunderstorm slowly went away, and Alice started to fall asleep curled against my side using my rib cage as a pillow my mind started to wander. I watched Alice as she fell asleep, she really was tiny. Both of her hands against one of mine didn't even cover my half my palm. All her features were tiny and fragile. I felt a strange protectiveness over her as she slept, some of the time I saw these guys as family, my little brothers and sisters. I turned off the TV and watched the night sky outside, I've always wondered what happened when everyone else was asleep at night.

It was at least half-an-hour before I heard anything but Alice's deep breathing beside me, I heard a creak at first, then a set of footsteps making their way downstairs. At first I thought it would be Emmett, or Rose trying to sneak up on me, but I was wrong. Little Edward came round the side of the sofa rubbing his eyes, a blanket trailing behind him.

"I had a bad dream," he whispered. I patted the sofa on the other side of me and Edward crawled up onto the sofa and curled up at my free side using my leg as a pillow. I pulled up the blanket and wrapped it around him. Soon, he fell asleep too.

It wasn't long before Rose came down with Nessie.

"Join the party," I said softly, shrugging. She set Nessie on my knee, lifted Edward gently and set him on her knee so his head was still resting on my leg. I used my free arm to make sure Nessie didn't fall. And of course Emmett and Jasper came down stairs as well and joined us on the couch. Jasper snuggled up to his twin sister, and Emmett lay next to him.

Saturday Morning, Jacob's POV as usual

I fell asleep at some point during the night, but of course, it wasn't a deep sleep, no, I was slightly conscious of a banging noise coming from the kitchen, but wasn't awake enough to care. Something clattered and I jumped, causing myself of roll off the couch and onto the hard floor below. I groaned, rolled onto my back and looked up. The couch beside me was empty, the Cullens were gone. Could that have been a dream? Nah, my dreams usually involve the Cullens trying to blow something up, or giant 7ft wolves. I once had a dream about the Cullens all grown up; Emmett was super fast and was chasing a bear just out of hibernation for some reason. But it wasn't very logical so I had pushed it from my mind.

I heard laughing coming from the kitchen, but it didn't sound like the Cullens; it sounded more like … Charlie? Why would Charlie be here? I groaned again, slowly got to my feet and dragged myself into the kitchen. Charlie was sitting on a chair at the table, little Nessie on his knee still in her PJ's. Alice, Bella, Jasper and Edward were outside, Emmett was sitting on a chair talking away to Charlie and Rose was at the cooker. Charlie raised his head when I came in and smiled a little as I rubbed my eyes like a child being woken up for their first day of school.

"What time is it?" I mumbled, yawning.

"11pm, you're not that late up," Charlie answered. 11pm, that's not so bad.

"How long you guys been up?" I asked, turning to Emmett.

"Just an hour or so," answered Rose, bringing a plate over to the table, it was full of pancakes. I looked up (Down really, since I'm taller than her) at her surprised. She smiled at the look on my face,

"I didn't know you could cook," I told her. She only smiled.

"Everyone else has eaten," she told me, so I thanked her and took a pancake.

"What happened to your hand kid?" asked Charlie. I looked down at my hand and the bandage thing covering it.

"Oh, um…I fell," I told him and took a bite from the pancake in hope he wouldn't ask any more questions. My hand was less painful today, just a dull ache remained. Lucky for me Charlie didn't ask any more questions about my hand, though I noticed Emmett and Rose smiling at me.

"I'll be back in a moment," I announced, grabbed my bag from where I left it (in front of the sofa) and made my way up stairs. I locked the bathroom door, took a quick shower to get rid of the eggy smell, changed into fresh clothes brushed my teeth and ran back downstairs. I left my bag in front of the couch again and went back into the kitchen. Charlie was standing, getting ready to leave I presume. He handed Nessie to Rose, smiled at me and walked out, just before he left he handed me something, winked and then left. He had handed me a picture, it was a picture of all of us sleeping on the couch. I was in the middle, my head resting on the back of the couch, with Alice curled up at my right side and Nessie on my knee. Rose was on my left; her head resting on my shoulder, Edward was using her knee as a pillow, his legs dangling off the edge of the couch. Emmett was hugging Jasper who was leaning against Alice. I smiled slightly.

"Right, what are we doing today then?" I asked, Emmett shrugged. I looked towards Nessie,

"First things first, you guys need to get ready," I told them and Emmett ran outside to get the other Cullens. Rose, already changed and ready picked up Nessie and went upstairs. Now, what are we going to do today?

20 minutes later the Cullens, and Bella, were lined up at the front door with smiles on their faces. I took Nessie, carrying her favourite wolf toy, from Rose and opened the front door. Then I realised a problem, okay two problems. Firstly, I still hadn't figured out what we were going to do, and secondly, my rabbit can't hold, I did a quick head count, eight people. Then, I announced the worst thing imaginable without thinking it through,

"We're taking a bus."

Seven little faces smiled up at me, brilliant.

We walked to the Bus stop in silence, well, mostly in silence, Emmett, Jasper and Edward were behind me (carrying Nessie), Rose, Alice and Bella, whispering. That's never a good sign. Once we got to the bus stop we didn't have to wait long before a bus came. There was a couple of old people sitting at the front, a few teenagers at the back and the Bus driver. This'll be fun.

"I'm not sitting with you guys," I whispered to Emmett who was behind me, while I paid for eight tickets. The Bus driver's eyes narrowed as he saw the Cullens. Emmett and Jasper sat together, with Edward and Bella behind them, Alice and Rose sat in front of the boys and I sat a few rows behind them all with Nessie on my knee, pretending I didn't know them. Like that was going to work. Maybe it would, for the first two seconds, and then the little old ladies at the front would scold me for not keeping better control of the kids that came on the Bus with me. I shrunk down in my seat as the bus started to move, keeping a hold of Nessie while she giggled uncontrollably, has this kid ever been on a bus before? Seriously, Carlisle and Esme need to take this kid out more if she giggles at four wheeled vehicles. She pointed at a passing car and started banging her hand against the window,

"Doggy, Doggy!" she began shouting. A few of the old people with good hearing turned round. I glanced at them nervously and took Nessie's hand away from the window and turned my back on the window,

"Come on kid," I whispered to her, "be good for Jake, and don't lose that wolf." Nessie just smiled up at me as though she were thinking, I have no idea what this guy is saying but I'll just smile up at him and he'll get the picture.

I glanced at the Cullens, and Bella, hoping they weren't hitting teenagers, or shouting at the old people, but they were sitting there like perfect little angels. This wouldn't last long; I just hope they can keep it up til we get there. Hang on, where are we going? This is just great, I don't even know where we're going and I'm the adult here! Says the guy holding a child's bus ticket.

I'm even insulting myself now! If babysitting the Cullens (and Bella) does this to me within two months that I'd hate to find out what it'll do to me within a year.

The Bus stopped, and all the old people slowly got to their feet talking quietly among themselves, until

"WHAT?" an old man asked, "WHAT DID YOU SAY? I'M A LITTLE HARD OF HEARING."

"No way!" said Emmett sarcastically. Oh no. I sank lower in my seat. Please don't notice me, please don't notice me. I don't know them, I don't know them.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY YOUNG MAN?" the man asked, who managed to get up and make his way over to Emmett.

"NOTHING SIR!" Emmett shouted.

"COME ON HENRY," a woman at the steps getting off the bus, "WE'LL MISS THE MAGIC SHOW!"

Henry then walked off the bus, glaring at Emmett on his way out, muttering

"I know you said something sonny." Which made me think, if he's hard of hearing, did he know what he just said? With all the old people off the Bus, gone to see a magic show, there was only the Bus driver, the teenagers at the back, me, the Cullens and Bella.

At the next stop the teenagers got off and a couple of old women got on and decided to sit at the back of the Bus.

Five minutes later they passed me, in the seventh row.

10 minutes later they were finally seated and were chatting quietly among themselves. The Bus driver put down his cup of tea (which he had made while the Women were making their way to a seat) and the Bud started to move again. You know, maybe this bus ride won't be so bad.

There was a crash and I looked up, Emmett had a frying pan in his hand and the Bus driver was slumped in his seat, either unconscious or dead. I really hope he's just unconscious, because I'll have to explain this to the police. I starting to believe every time I say, maybe this won't be that bad, or, maybe I was wrong about these kids, I just jinx it.

Then I realised that there was no-one driving the Bus. I got up and ran to the front of the Bus completely panicked with Nessie asleep in my arms.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" I shouted at Emmett. Emmett only held the frying pan in one hand, which made him fall over with the weight of it, then he stood up and showed me his hand, his index finger and thumb were about an inch apart and the rest of his fingers were curled up in his hand indicating a little bit. (AN; that's so hard to describe, if anyone can think of a better way to describe it let me know, if you even know what I meant there cause I'm not even sure myself what I was trying to say there reading it over again. Anyways, not my idea, it was on an Advert for the Sorcerer's apprentice, a movie that's out at the moment and is supposed to be pretty good)

I then looked out the front window and saw that we were driving against the traffic, in other words we were driving on the wrong side of the road, into the traffic. Oh hell. I gave Nessie to Rose, pulled the driver from his seat and took the wheel, and then I remembered that driving a bus was different to driving a car. Rose screamed pointing at a truck which we were about to drive into. I yelled as I quickly served to avoid it.

This was not going well, at all. I tried to calm down, but it wasn't really working out too well.

"WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?" I shouted at no-one in particular.

"DRIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD FOR A START!" Emmett shouted. Jasper and Edward were busy trying to move the driver and sit him in one of the seats. Alice and Bella were standing behind Rose and Emmett was standing next to me shouting instructions. So I figured I'd listen to the kid, since he knew much more about driving than I did, even though the only think that was going through my mind was, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

First things first, the Bus was driving too fast, so basically, every few minutes we'd almost crash into another car, or drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid crashing into another car then manage to get that car to crash into the car we were trying to avoid in its panic of a Bus be driven by a teenager with a eight year old shouting instructions coming it's way. So of course naturally they cause a collision, not the one they were trying to avoid (bus and car) but another one! (car and car) Meanwhile Rose, Alice, Bella, Jasper and Edward screamed every time we almost hit a car, Emmett still shouting instructions, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! still running through my head and the little old ladies at the back of the bus were shouting,

"WEEEE! THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE BUMPER CARS IN DISNEY!" Yeah, crazy world out there. Warning to the kids out there reading this, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

Suddenly Rose screamed.

"What is it Rose? I think I've finally got the hang of this thing, we're not doing so badly," I said, then swerved to the left to avoid a train. Driving on train tracks is so much easier than driving on the road, fewer cars to deal with.

"THERE'S A CAT!" she screamed, pointing. Sure enough there was a cat sitting just about a hundred metres away, licking it's paw. I pushed down hard on the Brakes and the cat saw us but it didn't move out of the way. The Bus stopped and I ran into the doors, forgetting to open them. I fell backwards, Emmett opened them and I walked out, looking like I was drunk. I looked under the Bus and saw the cat very much alive with its paws over its head. Then it looked up, looked at its paws and smiled, I swear the cat smiled. Then it ran out jumped at me, scratched my face and jumped into Emmett's arms and started to purr contently. Blood started to drip down my face but I was in a daze. What the hell just happened?

"Thanks so much for the ride Sonny," the little old lady said, her friends nodding behind her, "We feel 30 years younger now." Then she walked off, forgetting her walking stick and the fact that we were on train tracks.

The Cullens and Bella were all off the bus and sitting on the grassy bank beside us. Alice, Bella, Jasper and Edward were shaking from head to toe, Emmett and Rose were trying to calm them and Nessie was still asleep. She slept through that?

Then I heard the whistle of a train, and I then I remembered the Bus driver. Emmett looked up with a horrified expression so I figured he remembered him too. We ran onto the Bus, grabbed the Bus driver, and jumped of the bus just seconds before the train ran into the Bus, crushing it beneath its wheels. Then I collapsed.

When I woke up The Cullens (and Bella) were sitting on the bank, eating sandwiches, the cat purring contently on Emmett's knee while he stroked it absentmindedly. Nessie was awake and in a police woman's arms, giggling, and I was still lying on the ground, but on my front with my hands behind my back. I was vaguely aware I was wearing handcuffs.

"Jacob?" I stern voice asked. I groaned.

"You're under arrest for high jacking the local transport system, almost killing the driver," the Driver was awake and sitting beside Bella, nodding, "almost killing these kids and three old ladies, kidnapping these kids and destroying the local transport system." The voice was male I and was I pulled to my feet. A police officer was frowning at me.

"I'm under arrest?" I asked. He nodded,

"Anything you say can and will be used against you in court," he continued, "You…." I raised my eyebrows to stop him.

"I'm under arrest, me," I said.

"Well, Yes," the police officer replied, looking a little confused. Then I started to laugh. They all looked at me funny, and then I stopped laughing thinking of my dad, what the hell would he think?

"Ah hell," I muttered, then I said to the police officer, "If you're taking me to jail now, take the kids with you, I'm their babysitter. Their parents are out of town and I'm taking care of them for the weekend." The police officer nodded and took me to the car. I got in without any hassle; let him put my seatbelt on. But when he closed the door, I glared at the Cullens and mouthed, you're dead.

It was only when they tried to put me into a cell that I started struggling,

"No please no! I promise I'll be good! Don't put me in there! I wasn't the one to knock the driver unconscious, it was Emmett! The kid! The kid did it! I was only trying to save all our lives! I don't wanna be an inmate!" I shouted and tried to struggle from their grip and when that didn't work I tried to hang onto them so they couldn't put me into the Cell without them coming too. The kids just stood and laughed while the police officers tried to get the other police officer out of my grip. Then they figured it was a bad idea to let me off the handcuffs.

"I'm too young to be an inmate!" I shouted, that stopped them.

"How old are you?" one of them asked.

"17," I answered calmly.

They looked at each other and shrugged, "That's old enough for us." Then I started struggling again.

Four hours later they had managed to finally get me into a cell and three police officers were playing charades with the Cullens and Bella. I even joined in after a while.

"FISH!" I shouted out, and the police officer nodded.

"Finding Nemo!" shouted Bella.

"Yes!" the police officer cried out and then it was Bella's turn. Just then Charlie came through the door,

"CHARLIE!" I cried, I'd never been so happy to see someone in my life. Charlie laughed at me,

"What they do this time?" he asked coming over to the bars so I repeated the events, Emmett knocking the bus driver out, me taking the wheel, several collisions, then the train, the cat which Emmett named Sassy, and the police thinking I did all that.

"Let him out," he told the police officers. They stared at him shocked.

"But… you don't believe him do you? That the kids had anything to do with it?" one of them asked,

"Yeah I do, I believe every word, now let him out," replied Charlie. They let me out and I hugged Charlie.

"Thank you!" I cried. Charlie stiffened away after two seconds and I let him go.

"Give him and the kids a ride home," he told the police officers, they nodded,

"And Emmett?" Charlie continued, Emmett turned round, "No more high jacking Buses, got it?" Emmett smiled and nodded.

It was 6:30 by the time we got back. The hole in the wall had sucked out all the heat in the house so it was freezing inside. Rose went upstairs to grab blankets while I made them all dinner while carrying round an infant.

Once we had all eaten we all sat on the sofa together with a huge blanket covering us. Nessie was on my knee, Alice, jasper and Emmett and the cat to one side of me, Edward, Rose and Bella to the other side of me. I flicked on the news and my picture came up on the screen,

"… and this seventeen year old boy had high jacked this same bus," a picture of the crushed bus came up, "earlier in the day. No-one was hurt but he gave a few people quite a scare," A man was standing in front of his car, which had collided with another car, and talking to the camera,

"The bus just came at me so I panicked and collided with Tom here, I don't think he even knew how to drive a bus!"

By this point we were all cracking up, and then I remembered I had a criminal record.

"You guys are explaining this to your parents," I told the Cullens. They nodded, but I highly doubted it.

"Off to bed, or we won't go to the zoo tomorrow," I told them. They all jumped up and ran up the stairs shouting,

"The zoo! The zoo!"

Bella was staying over; she'd be sleeping on a spare bed in Alice and Rose's room. Rose had taken Nessie up with her so I turned off the lights and the TV, lay down and closed my eyes. No more buses, no more trains, and definitely no more criminal records. We'd have to buy food for the cat tomorrow as well; since Emmett is keen on keeping the cat I almost killed. Tomorrow will better be better than today.

There was a crash from upstairs,

"EMMETT!" six voices shouted.

I sighed; I have to stop saying stuff like that.

AN; I didn't intend to offend but if I did, I'm sorry! Hope you liked it, and sorry that it's a bit rubbish. By the way, thanks so much for the comments, I really appreciate them.