Just a ~little~ crazy (EmmettCullenxOC)

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It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

I side-eyed Emmett to see his hand making a fist repeatedly. Mrs. Cullen had stilled as she stared at the island, however, she quickly recovered and relaxed again. Rosalie, who had been silent the entire time, had a scowl on her face as she looked off to the side.

I let out a long sigh as a newly born frustration overcame me. I thought I could ignore every wrong about their family and act like everything is normal, but every time I speak to them something pops up and makes it impossible to stay ignorant.

"Emmett. A word." I pushed away from the counter as I grabbed my crutch and painstakingly made my way out the front door to walk up and lean against my wagon. I let out a small laugh as Emmett stood in front of me, so many things were going through my mind yet I had nothing came out.

"I feel like I'm losing my mind." I palmed my forehead as I stared at nothing in particular, what was one to say when they were in my situation.

"I know."

"I know? Are you serious? I wanted to ignore this, so badly..." I stressed, "But when I'm away from you, you're all I think about. When I'm with you, the weights on my shoulders feel lighter. Like maybe life isn't all that bad. But at the same time, I feel like I'm in danger. Constantly. There is something about you that's -wait no -something about you and your family that's different."

"I know."

"You are all so impossibly perfect. Yet, there's something about you that is so much more... I have never felt so drawn to someone that I don't even know that well. I don't know what your favorite food is. I don't know what you like to do in your free time. I don't know which class you like and hate. I don't even know what your favorite color is." I felt myself going delirious as my voice slowly raised.

"I don't know any of that! Yet I can't help but feel as though I don't need to." Emmett softly shifted his weight onto his left foot as he refused to look at me and instead examined the pads of his fingers.

"Unbelievable..." I hissed as I shoved him away, even that was a feat as it felt like I was pushing an actual stone. "You're not even listening to me." I felt a slight urge to cry but I swallowed it down and turned around to open my door.

Just as I opened it, a large hand closed it and then proceeded to grab my shoulder to turn me around. I gasped a bit in pain at the sudden turn on my feet but was distracted as Emmett leaned in closer, trapping me against my car door as he looked down at me. His face was slightly distorted as he looked at me with grief on his face, it almost looked as though he was in actual pain.

"Please don't go."

"Then tell me." I pressured, I didn't want to be led around by a string anymore. The Cullens were hiding something but they continued to pursue me and Bella, it was driving us crazy. Emmett took a deep breath as he continued to stare me in the eyes, at this distance we were exchanging oxygen which would have been gross if it was anyone other than him.

"I want to. You don't know how badly I want to tell you." His voice was raspy as his entire body kept tensing over and over again, my body was heated up with frustration but he radiated a coolness that was again, not normal.

"Then what's stopping you?"

"Everything."

I scoffed, I turned my head away from him and crossed my arms. I was well aware I seemed like a child having a tantrum.

"I have a right to know! Nearly every day I am spending time with one of you, we talk all the time. Something isn't normal, if our friendship or whatever is in between us matters at all to you, you would at least let me in. But then again, I hate that I'm selfish enough to want to force you." Emmett ripped away from me, taking a few steps back. It was then that I saw him mad for the first time. His honey gold eyes darkened right before mine and he was heaving.

"Why does it matter?! Can't you accept the me you know?" He bellowed, I was shocked as he yelled at me. But the anger I felt after was thick and nasty as I felt like throwing something.

"No! I can't!" I paused to take a breath, "I can't ignore these signs for my safety!... I feel in danger constantly around you, but it's been made clear that I can't help but stay close." I felt my nails tearing through the skin of my hands, as I screamed at him. I was about to go on another rally of gibberish when I noticed his eyes weren't on me anymore.

I followed his eyes to see they were on my hands, I looked down at them to see the blood sluggishly dripping down my palm. I opened them wide as I looked down at them. I laughed ludicrously at them.

"Great. Now they are bleeding. Am I going crazy?" I wiped the blood carelessly on my pants and looked back up.

When I did, I froze.

His eyes were a deep black. It was inky and stared ahead at me as his visible veins bulged out of his skin. Of course, I had noticed such things as this with this strange family, but I had never seen such an impossible eye color. I pressed up even more against my wagon as I slowly reached for the door handle, I did not have a good feeling about the look in his eyes.

"Echo. In the car. Now." His voice was heavily strained as he held his throat. I nodded and turned to open the door, I nearly climbed in when a crushing grip grabbed my wrist. I yelped in pain when all of a sudden the voices of Edward, Alice, and Rosalie came out of nowhere. I looked back to see Rosalie and Alice peeling off Emmett's fingers from my now bruised wrist and Edward and Carlisle holding onto Emmetts shoulders. I felt intense fear flood my veins as I looked at the crazed glint in Emmett's eyes. As soon as I felt the hands leave my limb, I slammed the door shut, discarding my crutch as I put the shift in reverse and pressed the gas.

I didn't look at the family once when I turned my car around and escaped out of there. I wanted nothing more than to return to the comfort of Charlie's house and forget all of this, I felt the sting of tears pierce my eyes once again. One slipped out before I wiped it clean and forced myself to focus on the road.

I felt terrible.

(A/N: I wasn't sure how to continue this chapter appropriately so I will just end it here.)