Emily's Nightmare_42
No POV
It was close to midnight before the Cullen clan returned to their house. The storm had stopped, but not before they could finish their game. Any sign that their house had been intruded on had been washed and rewashed away by the rain.
"That was totally an out!" Emmett said rather loudly as they walked in through the garage door that lead to the kitchen. "Were you blind, or what?"
"Emmet shut up!" Alice told him, placing a finger to her lips. "You'll wake them up."
"How do you know they're even asleep? I thought you couldn't see wolf people," Emmett asked, but his voice significantly lower than before.
"I don't need to," Alice grinned, grabbing Jasper's hand. "I can hear them sleeping." She bid everyone a good night before pulling Jasper along with her up to their bedroom.
"I can't believe it's almost midnight," Bella grinned, sitting at the kitchen island. Edward stood behind her, rubbing her shoulders. "We played for three hours! It's amazing the storm lasted that long."
"Remember when you weren't even able to catch a baseball?" Edward asked her, making her laugh at the memory. "Maybe we should head in too."
"You just want to check up on them," Rosalie grinned, shaking her hair to relieve it of some water. "Leave them alone Edward. You're already nosey with your whole mind reading business. Poor kid turned red earlier when you told him to keep his thoughts in check."
"Well he should," Edward muttered darkly.
"Oh it's nothing new from what you've been hearing for the past 100 years or so." Edward was about to say that for the past 100 or so years he hadn't really cared because they those thoughts hadn't pertained to a family member, but that would have been a total lie. "Point made," Rosalie said triumphantly. "Come on Emmett, let's get into bed."
"Ugh. Now that was totally on purpose," Edward said, disgusted as Rosalie left with a smiling Emmett. Bella laughed, unable to help herself. She stood up from the island and grinned up at him.
"Edward," she said, taking his hand. "We'll swing around before we head up too." Bella knew that would make him feel a little better.
They walked hand in hand, quietly, across the foyer towards the sound of the sleeping children. They'd passed Esme, who was heading up to her room with a book in her hands. Carlisle had been called in for an emergency at the hospital when they'd arrived back at the house. Before they peeked into the living room, Bella put her finger to her lips, reminding Edward to keep quiet, no matter what he saw. Grudgingly, he agreed.
It wasn't as bad as he had feared, but it wasn't the ideal situation either. They'd obviously fallen asleep while watching television, because the light reflected off their faces kept changing color at different speeds. Matthew's head was on the bed of his arm was onto of the couch's armrest. To Edward's dissatisfaction Emily lay in front of him in a similar way, and they were much too close for his comfort. It didn't help that they were so close together; Matthew's other arm wrapped around her waist to keep them even closer. He glared slightly, knowing it would be useless.
Bella on the other hand smiled, finding them adorable and basically had to drag Edward away from there. "Oh leave them be," she told him as they walked up the marble staircase. "It's not like you can do anything about it now."
"I could separate them," Edward pointed out. "Lock him in the basement." Bella just shook her head.
"I think it's nice and a good thing."
"How on Earth is them being a hair apart a good thing?"
"Because if things were different, Emily wouldn't be able to enjoy this. It's such a human thing to do," Bella pointed out to him. "And we have always wanted her to live as close to as a human lifestyle we could offer."
"Snuggling on a bed? We do that all the time," Edward debated. "So it's not such a human thing after all."
"You know what I mean. To fall sleep, listening to the beat of your partner's heart, enveloped in their warmth. Now that's only things humans could do." Edward sighed, frowning.
"You're right," He mumbled, pulling Bella towards him. He held her close to him, thinking. "You're always right. Don't you ever get tired of being right?"
"Not at all." Bella teased and walked into their room. Edward was about to follow when he got this strange sensation, like someone was watching him. He turned around and found no one, and everyone's minds were preoccupied with their own thing so he knew it wasn't one of them. Emily and Matthew were still asleep downstairs, but the sensation didn't go away. "Edward, you coming?" Bella asked from inside their room.
"On my way," Edward replied, but not before one more look around. Could someone be in their house with him knowing about it? He quickly shook the thought away. No, that was utterly impossible with both Alice and him making sure that didn't happen.
Emily's POV
It was a rather nice Saturday afternoon. Matthew had gone home after breakfast this morning, without being harassed by my brothers. Of course, they were all out doing an errand for Esme, but it was still nice. The second he left, I'd been bombarded with questions. Surprisingly, it was Rosalie who had come to my rescue and calmed down my mother and two other sisters.
I retold them about most of my night at the autumn carnival; how we'd ridden on the Ferris wheel and done the photo booth. I told them how we did the hay ride and went through the hay maze and how we'd shared a cotton candy in the shape of a straw hat. They laughed when I told them how Matt had tried to win with at the marble in a bottle game and how the rain started before he could do his fourth try. Basically I told him all the nice things they wanted to hear.
I told Liana all the good stuff. Like how we'd seen her and Marco once on the wheel, then the second time behind the ice cream stand, which raised protests from her as she insisted they weren't making out but whispering intently. I also told her how Allie Newman had the nerve to come up and try to spill her drink on me, but I'd seen it coming and moved out of the way. Then Matthew accidently tripped her and she fell into a puddle of mud, which made her laugh.
Compared to that, the rest of my day was pretty uneventful. I avoided my older brothers intentionally/unintentionally because I did not want to be drilled on anything having to do with Matthew and well mostly because we somehow never ended up in the same room.
Of course, peace never lasts long when you're happy.
It was close to twilight when I went for a walk in the woods, towards the lake and the tree house that I hadn't seen in a while. Everyone else had gone for a quick hunt, which left me some alone time. It was a calm night, cicadas making their loud mating noises in hopes of getting in one last mate before the sun set completely. I shivered at the thought of cicadas mating and to drive the thought away I put my headphones on and listened to The Band Perry singing If I Die Young.
I watched the sun set at the lake's edge, my feet in the cool water. I didn't hear anyone come up behind and the hard grip on my shoulder made me swirl around and almost fall into the water. The hand grabbed my arm and steadied me.
"Sorry to scare you," an unknown voice told me and I looked up. I had never seen this guy in my life, but immediately knew he was a vampire. The dark, red rimmed eyes were kind of a dead giveaway. I took the headphones out and put them away, not wanting to miss anything because
"Its fine," I said, trying to figure out who this guy was what he wanted and if my family knew he was around. "Not to be rude, but who are you? And what are you doing here?"
The guy chuckled. "I am Christopher," he said. "I am just walking through and noticed that other vampires were near. I came to find them." I noticed he talked a little slow, pausing before certain words as if thinking about what and how he was going to say something. He was probably foreign and couldn't speak English well.
"Well I'm Emily, Emily Cullen," I told him. "The rest of my fam-clan is out hunting. They'll be back soon if you want to wait." I hoped he said no, I did not want this guy waiting around. But Esme had raised me with manners, so of course I did the polite thing.
"I wait here with you, if that is all right?" Christopher asked me. Trying not to grimace, I nodded and motioned for him to sit down. As long as we were going to wait, we might as well wait sitting down. I set my feet back into the cool water, and didn't say anything. I was afraid we would sit in awkward silence for a long time, until he spoke up.
"You are not a vampire," he stated, finally saying what was on his mind. Internally sighing, I tried to figure out how to reply to this. "Yet you know of us and do not scream or show fear. This clan must trust you a lot to let you keep their secret."
"Not as much as you would think," I muttered, recalling how vampires come to visit and I am sent away, or locked up in my room until they left. Only few new of my half-vampire, half-human status, and I didn't know why. Nor did anyone bother to explain to me why. I mean, even Bella hadn't been locked away when she was human and vampires came around to visit. Sure, they ended up threatening her life, chasing her down and nearly killed her, but at least she hadn't been locked up.
"Surely they do," Christopher insisted once more. "Especially if you are a part of their clan as you claim. You must be close to them if they let you out on your own and they know you will keep their secrets. They must always tell you what's going on, so that if something were to happen you would be able to stay safe or find help."
I didn't say anything, just twisted my mouth slightly to keep from saying the truth. But it didn't keep me from thinking it. When Christopher put it into that prospective, I wasn't actually trusted. I never got to participate in their deep discussion, making them full vampire. And didn't I just find out that werewolves existed, even though I've been living with the Cullen's and known about vampires since I was three. Even these days there were on the edge about something, and I didn't know what it was or how bad it was.
"You know," Christopher said, standing up. "I think I will join them on their hunt. It was good to meet you, Emily." I forced a smile and nodded.
"Like wise Christopher," I agreed and watched as he suddenly left. I sighed and got up, heading back to the house, thoughts rolling. My family still treated me like I was that innocent, human girl they picked up in Europe. The only reason I was a part of this family was because my parents had been killed by vampires. I had been a liability. I was a liability, that's why no one knew I was a half-vampire. I wasn't as strong as they were, or as fast. Sure, faster and stronger than an average human, but humans wouldn't be able to know. I was stuck, in this middle part of nothing. In my family's point of view, I was just trouble.
Fine. If they thought I was trouble to keep around, well then I guess my presence won't be missed.
A/N: So new chapter! And it's been a week since the last one, so I think this is pretty good. I'm hoping on doing weekly posts from now on till the story is finished.
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