Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

An Imperfect Life

By Midnight Dreamer

Chapter 19: Vacationing with Vampires

(EMPOV)

They arrive today. I can’t wait to see Rose. Bella seems to be okay with the whole vampire thing. She is always asking me questions. Some I have absolutely no idea how to answer. I never thought to ask some of them. Boy are they going to hear it when she gets a hold of them. They might have to sedate her or tie her up and gag her to get her to stop with the questions. I knew Bells was to smart for her own good sometimes. Alice called from the airport. I asked her if she needed me to come and pick them up but she said no they had a rental car, she just needed the address of the house to put into the G.P.S. So I gave her the address. They said they would be here in a half hour. I said it took us an hour and a half. She just chuckled at me and said that we aren’t vampires. I wonder what she meant by that. Oh well. Time to set up for Operation: Prank the Vamps.

Bella is already in position. This is going to be great. After doing some research on line Bella and I have taken all the precautions. We know about their super hearing and smell. Bella’s smart. Bella’s really smart. She made this stuff that she bathed in to hide her smell. Then she found she can slow her heart rate down, almost like a bear in hibernation, so they won’t hear her heart beat. God she is slick. I’m proud to call her my sister. She’s hiding down in the cove just past the rock pier. It’s nice having a private beach. My job is to block my thoughts from Edward. Piece of cake. Oh and Bella has found away around Alice too. Remember when she was upset after Charlie’s death, well she’s going to use that to block out Alice. If Bella completely thinks of nothing Alice only sees black. Only with Bella though. Maybe this is what dad meant about Bella being special. Maybe Bella has powers too. Oh that would be so cool. My sister the super hero. Oh crap here they come. Think Bella’s lost…Bella’s lost…Bella’s lost.

Out of nowhere Edward came flying through the door..

“What do you mean Bella’s lost?”

“Just that. I can’t find her anywhere. I went to get a shower, and she said she was going for a walk on the beach. I came down and she is nowhere to be found.”

“Emmett how can you lose your sister?” Alice yelled at me.

“I didn’t lose her, she lost herself.”

“Edward we have to find her.” Alice cried.

“I know this Alice” he said.

“Go check the beach Edward that’s where she said she was going.” Alice said to him.

“No one will see you Edward the Beach is private. No one around for miles.” I told him.

He nodded and took off out the door.

“Alice check for her future, maybe you can see where she is going?”

“Okay Emmett I’ll look”

“thank you Alice”

Rose ran over to me and wrapped me in her arms.

“Emmett I’m so sorry. Edward will find her I promise.” she said to me.

“I know Rosie. I trust him.”

” Do you want to go look for her in town maybe she went there?” Rose asked.

“sure Rosie. Jasper will you and Alice be okay here alone.”

“Yeah sure I’ll stay and help Alice and Edward. Maybe she’ll come back here.” Jasper said.

“Okay we’re going, be back shortly”

With that Rose and I left. Once we got a good 6 miles from the house I pulled over. Rose looked at me with shock on her face. I couldn’t hold it anymore I burst out laughing…

“Emmett I don’t find anything about this funny”

“Oh baby I’m sorry. You’ll understand shortly give it another 5 minutes.”

“What do you mean?”

Just then Bella came out of the trees to the right of us.

“Oh Emmett look it’s Bella”

“I know”

“What?”

“We planned this. It’s a prank on Edward. Bella wants to know how much he likes her. Plus it’s just  really funny to play a prank on a bunch of Vampires.”

“Emmett”

Just then Bella crawled into the back seat.

“Hey guys what took you so long?”

“I had to wait for Edward to leave the house.”

“Oh where did he go looking?”

“The beach.”

“Good one”

“Wait you know he will smell you right?” Rose asked.

“No he won’t. can you?”

She sniffed the air.

“No I can only smell Emmett. How did you do that?”

“I told you Rosie, Bella is really smart. That and the Internet.”

We all laughed at that.

“How come I can’t hear her heart beat?” Rose asked.

“That’s an easy one. I can slow my heart beat down to the point you can’t hear it.”

“That is so cool. I would be enjoying this right now if it wasn’t for the fact that Edward and Alice are going to kill us when we get back.”

“No they aren’t” Bella said.

“So can you hide your thoughts Rose, long enough for this to work?”

“oh hell yeah, anything to get Edward worked up.” she said.

“Okay guys time for part two.”

With that Bella climbed out of the car and disappeared into the trees again.

“You guys really thought this out didn’t you?” Rose asked me.

“Yep. We started planning right after Bella called you guys.”

“Wait what about Alice?”

“Bella can work around her.”

“How”

“Well we realized that if Bella completely blanks her mind Alice can’t see her future. It goes completely black.”

“oh my god that is so cool. She will have to teach me how to do that.” Rose giggled.

“Okay we should head back now. Are you ready?”

“Yeah make sure your emotions are worried or Jasper will give us away.”

“Already on it.”

We drove back to the house. Upon entering we found Alice on the couch staring blankly, Jasper next to her rubbing her shoulder, and Edward was pacing the floor.

“Any sign of her?” I asked.

“No and I can’t trace her sent either. It makes no sense.” Edward sighed running his fingers through his hair.

“Alice can’t see anything either. She said Bella’s future is just blank nothing but blackness” Jasper chimed in.

“But that has happened before remember. Maybe she is just broke down somewhere. All the memories of this being where our parents would vacation.” I added.

“Jasper can you feel her emotions anywhere?” Rose asked.

“No I only feel your worry and Edwards sadness. Alice is slightly getting pissed, and Emmett is …is…I’m not sure his emotions are all over the place.” Jasper added.

“Did you find anything in town?” Edward asked.

“No we checked the market and some of the local stores but I couldn’t find her. Could you smell her at all Rosie?” I asked.

“No I couldn’t”

“I CAN’T EVEN HEAR HER HEART BEAT” Edward was yelling at this point.

“Edward it’s okay we’ll find her” Jasper said. Adding a mixture of calm and confidence to room.

“Thanks Jazz” I said.

“Edward did you check in the cave’s on the other side of the Rock Pier?” I asked.

His head snapped up.

“No. Why would Bella go into those caves anyway?” he asked.

“I don’t know but this is Bella we are talking about here.” I added.

“He has a point Edward I think you should go check.” Jasper said.

With that Edward was gone again.

Suddenly Alice gasped.

“Alice what did you see?” Jasper asked.

“It’s Edward. He’s found Bella. She was in the caves. She’s dead” Alice cried.

“No. she can’t be” I cried. Playing along. This is going to be great.

Rose just looked at me.

Jasper looked over at us. Uh oh I forgot to cover my emotions.

“What’s going on Emmett?” Jasper looked at me.

“Busted!” I smiled.

Alice’s head snapped up and she stormed over to me.

“What do you know?” she said shoving her finger into my chest.

“Owe.. That hurts. How close is Edward?”

“Not close enough to hear us why?”

“Well because there is nothing wrong with Bella.”

“How can you say that I can’t hear her heart beat and neither can anyone else.”

“I know that”

“What?”

“Yeah it’s just something Bella can do.”

“Rose how do you know about this?” Jasper asked.

“Well we didn’t go to town. We met up with Bella about 6 miles down the road and they let me in on it.”

“that’s just far enough away that we wouldn’t hear you guys.” Alice added.

“Yep”

“But how?” Jasper said.

“Internet” I added smugly.

“what about her smell?” Alice asked.

“Something Bella concocted to hide her sent from you guys.”

“She is slick and evil… but again I ask why?” Alice said

“She wants to know how Edward feels about her. I wouldn’t tell her anything, so she came up with this prank. Don’t tell him Alice you guys have to hide your thoughts and alter your emotions. Bella will be pissed if he finds out what is going on before she finds out if he loves her or not.” I told them.

“So Bella Loves Edward?” they all asked together.

“Ah no but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t wanna give the guy a shot. Can’t Jasper tell how she feels about him?”

“No actually. I can’t she has some weird block or control over her emotions. I can only feel the ones she lets me.”

“Alice?”

“I have seen some glimpses but they are fuzzy like someone is tampering with them.”

“Damn she’s good” I said.

They all just looked at me puzzled.

“Bella is controlling you guys.” I laughed at this.

“How?” Jasper asked.

“There’s no time Edward is getting closer we need to make this work for Bella…and for Edward.” Alice chimed.

We all braced ourselves and did what need to be done. When Edward walked through the door with Bella in his arms he looked heart broken. Like someone killed his best friend. Well technically someone did. She killed herself so to speak.

“I’m sorry Emmett. I found her like this in the caves. She isn’t breathing, I can’t hear her heart beat, or feel her pulse. If I didn’t have the vision I have I wouldn’t have found her. I can’t smell her either.” Edward was almost to tears.

“Let’s take her to her room” I said.

He nodded and headed toward the stairs.

“Jasper can you feel anything” Edward asked when we entered Bella’s room.

“No Edward I can’t I’m sorry” Jasper said.

“Edward why don’t you check her pulse again” Alice said.

He did as he was asked.

His face perked up a bit.

“There is something there it’s faint but it’s there.” he said. He kneeled next to the bed and grabbed Bella’s hand.

“Bella love, wake up. Can you hear me.” he said to her.

“Maybe she is unconscious” Rose added.

“That could be why I can’t feel anything Edward. It makes sense.” Jasper said playing along nicely.

All we have to do is get him to tell her how he feels. He may try to kill us afterwards but it will all be worth it.

“Bella…please. Bella come back to me. I just got you back you can’t leave me again.” he was pleading with her. It’s a good thing his head was down or he would have seen her smirk. She is good.

“Her future is clearing Edward keep talking to her.” Alice said. She’s egging him on. You go Alice.

“My sweet Bella. Please wake up. Show me a sign you can hear me. Anything. I need you here with me.”

He’s getting closer… now if only…

“Bella please. Please wake up look at me; Bella.”

“Her pulse is fading again. Edward I can hear it.” Jasper added.

These guys are good.

I’m glad I can hide my true thoughts from Edward or this whole thing would have been blown hours ago.

“Bella no please hold on… for me. Bella come back to me. You can’t leave me like this…I…I…I LOVE YOU BELLA!”

Thank god he said it. Then he leaned down and kissed her lips. Suddenly she reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and was kissing him back. He jumped and pulled back slightly.

We all started laughing and cheering.

“What…but you were dying. Your pulse was fading. You guys knew about this.” He suddenly turned on us and growled.

“We only just found out before you brought Bella back to the house” Jasper added in defense.

“Rose new longer then that” Alice added.

“Hey don’t pin this on me I only found out when we went into town.” Rose spoke.

“Wait so your telling me this was all you Emmett?” Edward was pissed.

“Actually it was all Bella!” I said hiding behind Rose.

Bella was sitting up on the bed now. Edward turned to her.

“You did this?” he was still seething but softened because it was Bella.

“Yeppers, thought it up last night after I got off the phone with Alice.” she smiled proud that it worked.

“But Why?” he asked her.

” I wanted to know your true feelings for me, no one would tell me, so I decided I would find out from you. Then I figured you wouldn’t tell me, and that’s when I decided to do it this way. Plus I was getting revenge for the shopping trip with Alice. I recruited Emmett and he was all for it.” she smiled at him.

“But how?”

“Well I found out that I can cover my emotions so that Jazz only feels what I want him too. You already can’t read my thoughts. Then Emmett told me how when I was depressed that Alice couldn’t see my future so I just blanked out my mind like I did then.”

“But your heart beat, and smell?” he was still confused.

“Emmy and I did some research last night on Vampires. I concocted this stuff that I bathed in and it would cover my smell so you couldn’t follow it. As for my heart beat I found that I could lower it to the point where it would look and feel like I was dead or in a hibernated state.”

“Again I ask Why would you do this?” he was begging now.

“I told you this already. I needed to know how you felt about me.”

Edward looked lost, confused, and pissed all at once.

Bella got up off the bed, walked over to him put her arms around he neck, looked up into his eyes, stood on her toes and kissed him.

At first I think he was shocked, but then he returned her kiss. Wrapping his arms around her waist and lifting her off the ground. As they pulled apart she looked at him and said

“That’s why”