The Bear and the Bunny Rabbit Chapter 16: Poetry Fest, a twilight fanfic

Chapter Fifteen: Poetry Fest

"Guys, I don't know about this." I said nervously as I stood on the raised portion of the floor in the living room of the Cullen house. There was a piano behind me that I was told belonged to Edward. They had turned the furniture to face me and were watching with deep-seeded interest.

"Bella," Alice whined at me. "You promised! No one is going to laugh at you. Stop being so shy."

I bit my lip as I thought of an idea. "Ok, but only if I'm not the only one to perform."

"Deal. Now read." Alice commanded with a triumphant smirk.

I took a deep breath and opened my journal to the poem I wrote about Emmett. I was highly aware of their eyes on my, especially Emmett's and Esme's. "My Heart is Yours: a sonnet."

I miss you when you are not beside me

Waiting for you to come back to your home

Your perfect face I dearly wish to see

I will wait until the end of your roam.

My heart sings a sweet song for you alone

I know that you will come back for me

I cling to the love for me you have shown

Love on your face I would gladly see

I can't help it, there's nothing I want more

Than to love you with all my beating heart

It's you I passionately adore

I can hardly stand to be apart

Come back, my heart is yours for the taking

Till you do, it will surely be breaking

I closed the journal when I was done reading and looked up at them. Jasper and Edward looked shocked by my words. Alice and Rosalie looked really happy for me and their brother. Esme looked positively smug with glee.

Emmett got up and wrapped his big arms around me. "I love you. You hold the key to my unbeating heart, Bella Swan." He said and kissed me. My heart hammered in my chest at the thought of his affection for me.

"Will you read another?" Esme asked from behind us. She sounded really happy.

I couldn't deny the look she gave me or Emmett's smiling face. "Fine but just one more for now. Then someone else can go." Emmett went to sit next to Esme in preparation to hear me read again. I decided on a haiku.

Sunshine warms my face

Holds on in its bright embrace

Beloved Phoenix

I closed it again and went to sit in Emmett's lap. Edward jumped up from where he had been sitting next to Rosalie.

"That was I haiku, right?" he asked me. I nodded. "Ok, I have one."

The silver moonlight

Sweeps its beams down to the earth

In a gentle kiss

Edward swept his fingers over Rosalie's cheek as he said the last line and she smiled.

"wow." I said as he stepped down from the platform.

Jasper got up next and said, "I guess its haiku day." He smiled before he started his verse.

The dying sun light

Turns the water deathly red

Bloody ambience

"Oh, you would recite that one." Emmett shouted at him. I looked at him in confusion. "Jasper was a military man before he joined us. He was used to blood before he even became a vampire." He chuckled. I sensed that there was more to the story but I wasnt going to press it.

"I think I'll go next." Esme said as she stepped up. She got a deep sadness in her eyes before she spoke.

A lark called in the night

Searching for his long lost mate

Which the lark will not find

"Oh, that's so sad." I moaned as she came to sit next to me.

"I know. I wrote that for Emmett a few years ago. I was afraid he would never find you, dear." She told me, taking my hand in hers.

Rosalie got up then. "Here's something from my past."

You destroyed my life

For your own stupid pleasure

Drunken idiot

I couldn't help but wonder what had happened to Rosalie to make her sound so bitter. I didn't know her outside the beautiful persona of Emmett's sister, Edward's girl, and my new friend. I wasn't going to ask though. She would tell me if she wanted me to know and the same went for Jasper. Edward was grimacing about something, probably about the reason for Rosalie's haiku.

"My turn, my turn!" Alice chirped enthusiastically, diffusing the sadness that had settled during the last two haikus. "This isn't a haiku but it is a poem I wrote for Jasper." She announced and fixed her eyes on him lovingly.

My dream is of a happy place

Of bright and sunny skies

Love and happiness all around

In my dream, I want it to be true

My dream is of a warm, kind face

Set in it, a pair of perfect eyes

Of loving devotion I have found

This dream of mine, my world anew

Come with me to this dreamy place

We belong there, you and I

For to me, you are my lover bound

I know absolutely, for this dream of mine is you

That was even better than mine. She was fabulous the way she read. All of them were pretty good but I wanted to hear what Emmett would do for his.

Emmett got up and slid me onto the couch. "Give me a minute. I'm going to go get my guitar. I wrote a song." He said, disappearing and was back within a second with the guitar. "Edward, can you help me out? Play the music Igave you this morning?" he asked and edward got up and went to the paino. "Ok, I wrote this song for Bella. Here goes." He said nervously and took a deep breath before beginning the song.

They read you Cinderella
You hoped it would come true
That one day your Prince Charming
Would come rescue you
You like romantic movies
You never will forget
The way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet
All this time that you've been waiting
You don't have to wait no more

I can love you like that
I would make you my world
Move Heaven and Earth if you were my girl
I will give you my heart
Be all that you need
Show you you're everything that's precious to me
If you give me a chance
I can love you like that

I never make a promise I don't intend to keep
So when I say forever, forever's what I mean
I'm no Casanova but I swear this much is true
I'll be holdin' nothin' back when it comes to you
You dream of love that's everlasting
Well baby open up your eyes

You want tenderness-I got tenderness
And I see through to the heart of you
If you want a man who understands
You don't have to look very far

I can love you
I can
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
Move Heaven and Earth if you were my girl
I will give you my heart
Be all that you need
Show you you're everything that's precious to me
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
Move Heaven and Earth if you were my girl
I will give you my heart
Be all that you need
Show you you're everything that's precious to me
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
Move Heaven and Earth if you were my girl

I can love you like that

How did he know all that? I had never told him that my favorite fairy tale was Cinderella or that I loved Romeo and Juliet. Wow, what else did he know about me? I decided that I was happy that he knew me so well.

"You liked it?" Emmett asked when I didn't say anything.

"I loved it. I'm yours, Emmett Cullen. Thank you." I said and came to hug him.

"Good. Miss Swan, will you do me the honor of singing with me?" he said and started picking out a melody. I smiled as I recognized the beginning of my favorite song.

Emmett :Down a back road
Long, hot summer
A couple kids runnin' loose and wild
He kissed her
She said mister,
Take an inch and I'll give you a mile

I joined in here: I ain't here to do anything half-way
Don't give a damn what anyone might say
I just wanna free fall for a while

That rebel moon is shinin'
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasin' down that crazy slide
I'll follow you where you're leading
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me runnin' baby,
Wild at heart

emmett:About midnight, he tells her
I ain't got no come-on lines
Me: Well I'll love you, or I'll try to
We got nothing to lose but time

both: Stick your hand into my back pocket
Light me up like a bottle rocket
I just wanna free fall for a while

That rebel moon is shinin'
Those stars burn like diamonds
Hell bent on chasin' down that crazy slide
I'll follow you where you're leadin'
To the first sweet taste of freedom
You got me runnin' baby,
Wild at heart

O-oh, alright
Tonight is tellin' us we're way too young

O-oh, that's alright
I've forever on the tip of my tongue

O-oh, alright..

They all clapped when we were. We sang songs and read poetry until about 4:15. I needed to beat Charlie home so he wouldn't know where I was. Emmett rode back and hung out with me before Charlie got home. That night, I fell asleep in Emmett's arms again.

A/N: ok, neither of the songs that are in this chapter is mine. The one Emmett sang was I Can Love You Like That by John Michael Montgomery and the other one is Wild at Heart by Gloriana. But the poems were all mine. oh, news flash, if you havent heard yet, Rob Pattinson has a new song! i found the lyrics the other day and put them in my Collection of poetry 'Twilight Poetry'. check it out. the song is pretty cool.