CHAPTER EIGHT - A DEATH IN THE FAMILY

"Emmett what are you doing?" Alice asked. They were waiting in the driveway for Rosalie, Jasper and Edward.

"I'm waiting for Jasper." Emmett whispered, crouched behind Edward's car.

"You're not here. Got it." Alice turned back away from the hiding Emmett and stared off into space.

Jasper came down the steps and was approaching nearer. An evil smile spread across Emmett's face and he tried his hardest not to burst out laughing.

This time Emmett did not announce his presence, until the last second.

"Alice," Jasper asked, "Why do you feel like your about to burst out laughing?"

Emmett than started to laugh and launched himself at Jasper. Emmett almost landed face first into the ground, but saved himself the last second.

Jasper was standing a few feet away from Emmett. This time it was his turn to grin evily.

"Damn it, Jasper." Emmett got off the ground, and wiped the dirt off his jeans.

"Working on your speed Jasper?" Edward asked. He had just joined the little cluster near the car. Jasper again grinned and got into the car.

"Rosalie!" Edward called to the house. She heard him, even though his voice was barley over normal volume.

"I'm coming!" She stuck her head out of her open window.

"We still have to pick up Bella!" Edward said.

"She has a truck!" Rosalie yelled from the window. Edward blocked out her thoughts, he didn't care about what she thought of Bella and her laziness.

Rosalie jumped into the car just as Edward started the engine.

They pulled up to the curb and Bella was waiting outside, she ran, quite clumsily, to the car and got in.

The rest of the day past by in a blur for Emmett.

He didn't pay attention in class, he didn't have to. They were learning about World War II, he was alive when that happened.

Emmett started thinking of that time when Carlisle had told them it was time to fake a death once again.

He had to hide the smile that was spreading across his face, the topic that the class was learning about wasn't funny.

Carlisle had come to them one night when they were all crowded around the TV watching Dracula, which they all thought was really funny, and said "It's time for a death in the family."

Everyone instantly jumped up.

"I call it! I call!" Emmett said raising his hand in the air.

"No way!" Alice said in her freakishly high voice, "It's my turn."

"You did it last time." Rosalie said "You jumped off the cliff, remember?"

"No, that was in the 70's." Alice said waving her hand at her.

"Don't wave your hand at me!" Rosalie retorted.

"Everyone calm down." Carlisle said, holding up his hands. Everyone plopped back down on the couch and waited for him to continue.

"Alice, according to the records you are now ninety years old" Alice smiled "and the oldest of your siblings. You get to die this time."

Alice jumped up, "In your face!" She pointed at Emmett.

"Can I kill her?" Emmett turned to Carlisle hopefully.

"No you can't kill her. Then you'll be wanted for murder!"

"No. I'm mean…okay here's my idea. Alice is a little drunk." Alice laughed evilly and then listened, "So she's driving and she rams into a tree, the tree crashes down, hitting the engine and causing it to explode!"

Emmett illustrated with his hands and made minor sound effects.

"So the whole car bursts into flames, killing her and burning her remains!" Emmett looked at his family smiling widely. "Well, what do you think?"

"I think it's….great Emmett." Alice seemed taken aback by his brilliant idea.

Rosalie looked worried, "Which car are we going to explode?"

"Uh…" Emmett turned to Rosalie, he hadn't thought of that part.

"We'll crash the Volvo." It was a dark blue one, before the present silver.

"Fine with me, that car sucks." Jasper said.

"I was going to fix it!" Rosalie cried.

"Would you rather we crash the convertible?" Edward said. It was Rosalie's first convertible and the idea of busting it was absurd.

"No." Rosalie went quiet then, and everyone continued.

"Where are we moving to?" Jasper asked.

"I was thinking Washington." Carlisle said. None of them were too happy about that, but then they started to like Washington eventually.

"Okay. When am I dying?"

"I was thinking tomorrow" Carlisle said.

"Why not?" Emmett said just as Rosalie said, "Tomorrow?"

"We're not moving tomorrow," Edward said, "Alice is dying tomorrow, and we're moving later."

"Because Esme can't stand living here where memories lurk around every corner of her favorite daughter!" Alice said putting her hand to her heart, "It's brilliant."

The next day, Alice was in the Volvo giggling evilly in her seat. "This is so exciting!" She said to Jasper who was outside the car. "Remember last time when I jumped off the cliff? That was the best." Alice had tripped over the edge of a cliff and had done flips and tricks all the way down.

"Yeah, that was funny." He laughed, "Be careful" he added.

"I won't die." She said smiling.

Jasper patted the hood of the car twice then ran into the woods to Emmett, Edward, Rosalie, Esme and Carlisle.

"Ready Alice?" Alice heard Emmett whisper from a few yards ahead.

She laughed and then whispered back, "You bet I am."

Alice turned up the stereo and revved the engine. "I'm a crazy ass drunk and no ones better get in my way!" She yelled in a slurring drunk voice.

She heard suppressed laughter from the trees over the roaring engine. Alice gave one final laugh and started swerving all over the road.

She laughed again and threw a beer bottle (a prop jasper acquired from under a pile of leaves) and through it through the window of the car.

Rosalie whimpered quietly as the glass shattered and the rest of the Cullens roared with laughter.

"Go Emmett!" a huge boom rattled their brains as Emmett ran at full speed into a tree. The tree wavered and then fell onto the car and exploding into flames.

"That is so cool!" Alice said from behind Jasper.

"Alice, I've never seen you run so fast!" Emmett laughed.

Alice giggled behind a pale hand.

Then Rosalie hopped into her car down the road, "stumbled" upon the burning car and tree and called 911 in panic.

Rosalie made a good damsel in distress and their neighbors were sending them food that was fed to the deer and animals they didn't eat.

The whole scenario had been pretty funny, but Alice didn't find it funny when she missed the Black Friday sales because she was "dead".

Emmett's thoughts were interrupted when the bell rang and he was off to lunch.

AN: Sorry that took so long. Oh and just so everyone's clear. At the beginning of the chapter it was Emmett's feelings Jasper felt not Alice's. Emmett was blocked from view but that didn't stop Jasper from feeling his hysteria.