Videogames…Vampire Style! CH 3

Rise of the Wii

"Uh, Emmett," Edward leaned down and picked up the case to the game, "This isn't a Wii game."

"What are you talking about?" Emmett said in a know it all voice.

"I'm talking about this," Edward shoved the case in Emmett's face and pointed to the game system title at the top.

Emmett didn't say anything. Alice laughed and Jasper just shook his head.

"Can you handle finding a game that's actually for the right game system?" Edward said it like a teacher talking to a little first grader.

Emmett scowled at Edward and rummaged through his bags, "Here," he said as he pulled out another game, "Wii sports. Can I put it in, Edward…or do you need to inspect it first?"

"Just put it in, Emmett," Edward said.

Emmett put it in and stepped back up to Edward's left. Edward looked to his right where Alice stood. She was smiling but her thoughts were a bit more active. Jasper was on her right and Edward heard Jaspers thoughts and chuckled. Just as Edward had stood on the sidelines and watched so far in amusement, that was pretty much what Jasper was doing now.

The game loaded and an arrow like on a computer screen appeared. As Edward moved his control, the mouse moved.

"Aim at that," Emmett pointed to a thin black thing on top of the TV, "That's the movement detector.

On the left of the screen was a list of sports.

"OH! Let's play tennis!" Alice pointed at the screen and looked at Edward. He was silent as he moved the mouse over the tennis button.

"Push that one," Emmett pointed to one of the buttons on Edward's control.

"How do you know this?" Edward asked as he set the game to tennis and selected the "four players" button.

"Some geek at the store explained it to me," Emmett shrugged.

"We need to pick teams," Alice pointed out, "I'll be on your team, Edward."

Since you and Emmett have a score to settle, Jasper thought directly to Edward.

Alice and Emmett switched sides around Edward and a screen with a bunch of animated people appeared.

Oh, you have got to be kidding me, Edward shook his head. No one needed to explain this part to him, they had to pick characters.

Alice picked one of the few normal looking girls. Edward tried to find the least degrading of the characters and finally settled on a boy with light brown hair that was way to pointy. Emmett smirked when he picked a character that wore "cool guy" glasses. Jasper let Alice pick his, since she asked, and got a character that didn't look quite human to Edward. It was a bald boy with huge eyes that Alice found cute. Edward stared at Jasper and heard him think, Hey, you have to let her have her fun sometimes.

Oh, how true, Edward thought.

The game started. Emmett and Edward were the characters at the back ends of the court; Alice and Jasper's characters were closer to the net. Emmett served first. "Try to hit this, Edward," he pushed a button and swung the control like it was a tennis racket. The animated Emmett served on the screen and the ball flew over the net. Alice was a bit caught off guard without knowing that it was coming; but Edward knew and even though leg movement was completely unnecessary, all four found themselves running left and right and swinging their controls like rackets. The ball volleyed back and forth over the net, lasting much longer with vampires than humans of course. Edward heard incomplete sentences through Emmett's racing mind.

Left! Right! He would think. And Edward would only smirk as Emmett became more and more distressed. Alice and Jasper hit the ball a lot less since Edward and Emmett's shots were meant for each other. Finally with a hard swing to the left with Emmett's character far on the right, Edward and Alice's team scored.

Emmett turned to Edward and scowled. "Was she cheating!?" Emmett pointed at Alice.

"Nope," Alice said smiling.

Edward couldn't resist. Emmett was so annoyed already and Edward had to tell him, "She wasn't, but I was."

Emmett stood there with his mouth hanging open. Jasper brook the silence, "You now, Emmett, you never did say Edward couldn't. You only set rules for Alice."

"But…but…" Emmett stammered, "That's not fair!"

Edward burst out a laugh.

"Your serve, Emmett," Jasper said.

"How about I serve this," he was suddenly over by the couch.

Alice yelled, "Edward, duck!" The couch flew over Edward's head as he ducked.

Then two things happened.

The couch flew through the window and it shattered. And the front doorknob twisted and the door opened an inch. The door was still a moment. Edward heard them wonder about what had just happened and looked at Emmett with a smirk. Edward knew who it was by their voice. All three knew who it was by Edward's face.

"You are so in trouble, Emmett," Alice said.

The door opened the rest of the way and Rosalie stood there with her eyes fixed on Emmett. She slammed the door shut and put her hands on her hips.

Edward heard Emmett's thoughts. Uh-oh.