Chapter Ninety Nine

Emmett

Esme kept giving Peter and I black looks and it was making me nervous. I'd already had to swear to Rose that I wasn't going to ruin the wedding but Peter seemed blithely unconcerned.

"Em you need to chill out. They don't want us to ruin the big day and we've told them we wont. Touching the honeymoon might be a step too far but the bachelor party? Now that my friend is fair game. Everyone knows that."

"And you don't think our plan is a step over the line?"

"Em, the guys are getting married the following day, there is no line now don't chicken out on me bro."

I nodded,

"OK, I did what you said and they're happy to play along but I can tell you neither Carlisle or Esme are gonna be pleased, we might need cricket boxes after wards."

Peter

As The Major's best friend it fell to me to plan the bachelor party and make sure it went with a bang. No one could deny me although I knew quite a few would have liked to. I was keeping my distance from Bella, she still looked at me with a gleam in her eye, anyone would think she couldn't take a joke! Now we had Dr Doom and his wife trying to ruin things,

I sometimes asked myself why I bothered but then of course I knew the answer, I loved causing mayhem. It was in my blood and there was fuck all I could do about it except sit back and enjoy the ride.

Carlisle tried worming the plans from Emmett but he stayed firm and kept his mouth shut, I was proud of him. I thought I might have a permanent partner in crime in the making. The bachelor party was planned for two nights before the wedding which was just as well, I had the feeling it would take our two grooms that long to get over their special treat!

Emmett had found an old abandoned warehouse about thirty miles from the marina which was ideal for our needs and we spent a couple of days preparing it and making sure we weren't followed or spied on. The girls were too busy with dresses or some such shit but I saw Carlisle watching carefully whenever one of us slipped away. He was itching to know what was going on but he'd know soon enough!

Em had done a brilliant job, he'd blacked out the windows and rented a couple of smoke machines and colored strobe lights which gave the interior an almost hellish like feel. and there was loud music ready to play.

"Listen to this Peter."

He hit a button and heavy metal thundered out of eight huge speakers hung around the walls just below the ceiling.

"Even I can't hear anything over that and the smoke and strobes mean they won't be able to see anything. Vampire senses can be a pain when you're trying to trick one but I think I got it just about right."

I was impressed and told my partner so.

"What about scents?"

"Ah now that was a little more tricky but I had a word with a friend of mine and he came up with this."

He pointed to a huge black box with pipework sprouting from it like tentacles. and disappearing into the smoke filled space.

"You choose your scents, put them in the chambers inside the box and it's on a timer. Every few seconds a different one is released. After five minutes you couldn't pinpoint an individual one, no way. There's about an hours worth in there which should be enough so I think we're ready except for our extra guests."

"No sweat they'll be here tomorrow and will come straight here. All we have to do is explain the plan and then sit back and watch. Did you get the cameras set up?"

"Yeah although you're going to have a pretty bad view with all the smoke so I set infra red sensors around the wall, that way we'll know where our victims are and I have a way for our guests so we can guide them in."

"How? Nothing our victims can hear I hope."

"Nope, bracelets with vibrator pads inside. That's all they need to know, which direction to hunt their prey."

The night of the bachelor party we got together and explained how the evening was going to go.

"First we go hunt in the woods, just for a laugh. I don't suppose the mentally sound of us will be joining the crazies for bunny juice but it should be a laugh. Then we have a surprise for our grooms."

"A surprise?"

Jay looked at me then back to The Major.

"Yep."

"Like what?"

"Like if I told you it wouldn't be a fucking surprise would it numbskull. Now come on, let's go have some fun."

The Major and Jay followed looking as if they weren't enjoying themselves but they would. The hunt was just to loosen them up for the main event and I for one couldn't wait for that.

Jasper

Jay and I had decided to stay close, that way it would be more difficult for Peter and Emmett to try anything funny. I didn't doubt they had something planned and it was my guess they had the forest booby trapped but then they threw me by hanging back and allowing us to choose our own direction. Surely they hadn't booby trapped the whole forest? Even those two weren't that crazy….were they?

Carlisle was sticking close to us while Hunter and Edward seemed content to pal up chatting away and seemingly very relaxed although I didn't let my guard down for a moment, I knew Peter of old and I'd seen some of his more elaborate tricks. I just hoped Emmett was on our side and reined him in a little or we could find ourselves in a planes hold on the way to India instead of waiting for our mates at the altar.

Hunting became fun with us trying to catch something with our friends making enough noise to wake the dead. Only swift reflexes and great speed enabled me to catch a large deer while Jay tried a smaller one but by the look on his face I doubted he was finding it easy to follow Carlisle's diet and I remembered just how difficult it had been for me. The only difference being that I was a human hunter for much longer. Even now animal blood seemed a poor alternative, like drinking water instead of fine wine or so I was told. I didn't remember drinking wine but then when I was a human it was the rich who drank fine wines not poor country farm boys.

Catching up with me Jay grabbed my shoulder,

"Do you get the feeling we're just being lulled into a false sense of security here?"

"Yep, don't think for one moment tonight is going to be a piece of cake. Peter and Em have something up their collective sleeves and it's sure to be pretty diabolical."

"Yeah that's what Alice said."

"Did she? Well she knows him of old. What else did she say?"

"Watch and listen, stick close to you, and pray! Not a lot there to make me feel at ease."

"How are you finding the new diet?

He wrinkled his nose,

"It's like drinking swamp water, I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it after the real thing. How long were you with Maria?"

"You mean how long did I hunt humans? Too long my friend and before you ask yes it was hard and no you never forget the taste of human blood but in my case the change was for self preservation."

"Yeah still…..I promised Alice I would give it my best shot so I guess I'm stuck with it."

"It'll get easier, it just takes time."