A/N: So it's a day late! Sorry guys but its finals time. I'm skipping out on English studying just to make sure I posted this today. So what do you guys think? I know, it's short but I also thought it was a little sweet. I'm debating whether or not to actually make a full date chapter our just set it up as a separate story. But I won't know what you want unless you review! Please :D So without further ado, chapter 40!

Emily's Nightmare_40

Matthew's POV

I stood from the couch, glad to have the attention shifted for a while. I couldn't help but think that maybe it would be best if we stayed inside tonight, with her family on guard about the vampire smell. I'd suggest it to Emily when she came down.

"Hi Matthew," Rosalie smiled when she walked down the stairs, a camera in her hands. I tried not to feel awkward as she looked me over.

"Hi Rosalie," I greeted back, seeing her hand the camera to Mrs. Cull-I mean Esme. I was still getting used to calling them by their first name. "Emily coming down soon?" I asked. Bella came up beside me and pointed behind me with a smile on her face. I turned and followed the direction of her finger and I swear the world stopped and time froze.

Emily stood there, smiling at her mom who was excitedly talking about something. Emily was just so beautiful. She always has been beautiful, but tonight there was just a something extra. I don't get to see her out of uniform much, and sometimes I felt like she was trying to look less like the eighteen year old, half vampire she actually looked like and more like the fifteen year old human she tried to pass as to fit in. I would know, I have the same issues too; it's harder to hide size and muscle from being a werewolf.

At that moment, Emily didn't look like that fifteen year old human. She looked like Emily, the real Emily and I loved her even more. The way her soft hair was curled softly, the way her lips seemed more kissable with the color she was wearing, the way her jeans hugged her curves, it all made me want to…

"I'd stop that thought if I were you," someone said softly into my ear, bringing me back to reality. I jumped slightly and turned to see Edward standing there. I felt my face flush, remembering he could read minds.

"Sorry," I apologized. "I will defiantly keep my thoughts in check," I said seriously, not wanting this to go any further.

"Are you verbally abusing my boyfriend?" Emily asked, coming up behind me. "Leave him alone Edward."

Edward gave Emily a not too innocent smile and stepped back, though not before giving me a warning look. "Not at all," he told her. "Just getting along," he promised. Bella laughed and came up to Edward, wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Have fun you two," Bella smiled and I relaxed slightly. "Do you need a ride?"

"I drove here," I told them, feeling the keys weighed down the pocket of my jacket.

"See? We're good. Okay bye," Emily grinned, pulling me away. "We'll be back before curfew. We'll be safe, I won't talk to strangers and everything else" she opened the door and stepped out. I gave an apologetic looked to her family and followed. "Longest goodbye ever," she mumbled when I caught up with her.

I laughed a little. "It wasn't that long," I told her, getting the keys out. "I don't see why we left so quickly though." I opened the door for her and she sat down in her seat. "For a moment I was worried I'd have to explain the whole license thing and we wouldn't get to the carnival." I teased as I pulled out of the Cullen's driveway.

"We just have to be careful and not get pulled over," Emily grinned. "Or else how else are we going to explain your actual age to the age you supposedly are. Being un-aging is such a hard thing to hide. The downside for living amongst humans." I grinned, remembering her initial reaction when I told her I wasn't actually 15 years old.

"I'm sure you'd be able to charm your wait out of it," I told her, pulling out of the Cullen's driveway and down the street towards the carnival. Emily made a pft noise and I chuckled, still surprised how she didn't care if it were a date or to a teacher, she always made that yeah-right noise when she wanted too.

"Or it would be the juiciest gossip this town has had for a while. Emily Cullen, caught seducing a police officer after sweet, innocent Matthew Cunnings was caught driving without a license. How will she corrupt him next?" I turned my head towards her, an eyebrow raised in question.

"Sweet and innocent? Since when am I sweet and innocent?" I asked her, pretending to be offended that my manliness had been called into question, though it was quite the opposite. Emily smiled up at me, a wicked twinkle in her eyes.

"Since you apparently saved a rabbit from getting caught under Mr. Morgenstern's lawn mower." I chuckled turning my eyes back onto the road, remembering the event, though it had been four summers ago, before Emily and her family had even moved here. I wasn't going to ask how she found that out though, because she was right. Our town loved to gossip.

Even now I could see the bright lights of the fair ground, each ride brightly lit, attracting the curious minds of everyone, young and old. I could imagine the sounds, the bright laughter and shouts from the towns people having fun; the vendors calling out to buy their food. Oh the food, the aroma of the various carnival food filling my imagination.

"Matt, you're salivating," Emily teased me, imagining what was going through my mind. I glanced over at her with a cocky grin.

"Hey now," I joked, "Is that a werewolf joke?" Emily just laughed, shaking her head.

"Nope. I just know your mind better than you think." Oh I'm sure she did.