Okay, so I wasn't thrilled with Kate right now-she was trying to get me to strengthen my shield. It already picking was! And still, she didn't listen. I hate that vampire.

"Erin, are you sure you're focusing?" Kate asked me as I got up from the ground after being Tasered by her for what seemed the millionth time-technically, it was only the tenth, but I was kinda pissed off.

"It's kinda hard to focus when you're pissed off, Kate," I growled at her.

"Come on! I'm only trying to help."

"I know, but it doesn't seem like that right now," I said through gritted teeth. I sighed, trying to concentrate on my shield and not how annoying Kate was. Closing my eyes, I said, "Again."

She placed her hands on my arm. "Ready? Three…two…one!"

I felt a faint shock, but stayed standing. I felt Kate remove her hands, and then she burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" I asker her coolly, opening my eyes.

She didn't say anything. She just laughed and pointed at my head. Soon, other people joined in with her. What was so funny? I looked into Kate's mind and saw through her eyes what she thought was funny. My hair looked like a balloon with static-electricity had been run across it-i.e. my hair was standing on end everywhere, so it looked like a long-haired Alice impersonation. Jeez, why hadn't I chosen to put it in a ponytail?

I growled at Kate, and tried to say my next sentence calmly. You could still tell I was angry, though. "That's not funny. You must've forgotten-I'm a newborn. And my normal temper I already have, mixed in with a newborn's temper is not pretty. You have five seconds to get the heck outta here, or you'll find yourself missing an arm or two."

She stopped laughing and stared at me with wide eyes. "Are you serious?"

She seemed to get the hint when I snarled at her, and she high-tailed it into the house. I was still growling as I flattened my hair down, when Seth came up to me.

"Wow, what happened to you?" He asked, grinning.

I was still growling-it seemed like a never-ending purr of an engine. "Kate."

"How?"

"Do you know of anyone on the Volturi's guard?" I asked, my hair finally flattened. He shook his head. "Well, there's this one girl, Jane, who has the ability to give someone the illusion that they're burning just by looking at them. Kate can do something similar to that, only whoever touches her falls to the ground like they'd been Tasered." I added with a growl. "Apparently, her power can electrify hair if she does it just right."

"What? Were you the guinea pig, or something?" he asked, a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

I growled at him.

"Okay, okay! Sorry," he said, no longer fighting the previous smile. "It's just not everyday that happens, you know?"

He had a point-even though I was Kate's enemy #1 right now.

"Remind me to never let that girl near my hair again," I grumbled, and grabbed the can of Diet Coke that I'd put down before Kate roped me into her 'training.'

"Where do you keep getting that stuff?" Seth asked as I took a long drink.

"That's for me to know, and for you to never find out," I said, smirking.

"Aw, c'mon, that's not fair!" he whined. I turned to look at him, and saw he was giving me puppy eyes.

I glared at him. "Don't you dare give me the puppy eyes, Seth Clearwater." I said threateningly.

"Please?" he asked.

"No," I said firmly. I wasn't being mean to him, he knew that. "You don't even like Diet Coke!"

He grimaced. "Wait, it's Diet Coke?" He wrinkled his nose, and whispered. "Yeesh. What is this world getting to? What happened to the Diet Pepsi?"

"The Pepsi company copied to Coke company," I informed him.

"Too smart for her own good," Seth muttered.

"Hey, Seth!" I looked up to see Jake running up to us. "I need you out on patrol."

"See ya." I smiled, and he kissed me on the cheek.

"See ya," he echoed me, and ran into the forest tailing Jake.

"Come on, try it!" Emmett had cornered me in a, well, corner of the living room. He had a plate of human food in his hand; it was a slice of the homemade pizza I'd made for the wolves, and a few chips. "You handle that Coke well, why not this?"

"Seriously, Em, I'm feeling like a caged animal right now," I said, panicked, but also growling a bit. "If you don't get out of the way, you might end up with a missing limb."

"Come on, Erin! Seth and I made a bet-"

"You and Seth made a bet that I'd try human food?" I shrieked. Seriously, the caged animal feeling wasn't helping.

"Well…I kinda forced the guy into it." He shrugged. "I said you'd eat it, and he said you wouldn't. Come on, Erin, I'm gonna loose 20 dollars if you don't eat this!"

"Did you think I'd swallow it, or spit it out?" I asked warily. There was no way to get out of this, so I mind as well trick him.

"Well, technically, swallowing is eating it, and spitting it out after you put it in your mouth is not eating it, so…I think you'll swallow it?"

Emmett had gotten an audience to watch by now. Stupid, completely stupid.

I picked a chip off the plate, and Emmett looked a little hopeful. "I'm not making any guarantees I'm gonna swallow it." His grin faded a bit, but he looked confident.

Slowly, I brought the chip up to my mouth; it was a cool ranch flavored Dorito. I sniffed a little bit. It sure didn't smell good, that was for sure-kinda like rotten eggs, but not really. It's hard to describe.

I could hear some person eagerly shouting in their mind, Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!

And then I put the chip in my mouth, and chewed on it a few times. The taste in my mouth wasn't what I expected from reading the books. I expected it to taste like dirt, or mud, or something. Nope, as if I would be so lucky. It tastes like dirt, yeah, but it also had a mixture of some weird pinecone taste in it. There's just three words to describe it: It. Was. Gross!

Quick as lighting, I spit it out. Unfortunatly for Emmett, it was spat in his face. He just blinked, and wiped the venom covered mush off.

"You know," he started. "for a vampire who can consume Diet Coke, you sure have a really limited taste in food."

Oookay, then. Whatever that was supposed to mean.

"You can tell your boyfriend that I owe him my precious 20 dollars, and he can let me borrow you for a night."

"Emmett!" I shouted. "Don't you dare start up with that!"

It annoying the crap outta me in the book, I don't need it in real life! I thought to him, snarling as I did it.

"Jeez, time-traveler lady, calm down. I was only kidding." I dug in the pocket of his khaki shorts. "Here." He slapped a 20 dollar bill in my hand. "Give this to Seth."

I stuffed the money in my back pocket and skipped away from the corner. About halfway across the living room, I discovered that the nonhuman taste of the chip was in my mouth. I darted to my stash-which was in Edward's old room now-and chugged a whole can down.

Why on earth did Stephenie Meyer have to make Emmett so annoying?

"I heard that!" Emmett voice boomed from inside the house.

"Shut up!" I shouted back. That guy was worse than my dad. I think. Emmett McCarty Cullen has officially made #1 on my top ten annoying people list.

"I try!" He shouted.

"Shut up," I mumbled. "Rose? If he annoys you, I pity you greatly."