Secrets (Emmett Cullen Twilight fanfic)

Chapter 21

*NO POV*

Emmett looked down at Nichole's sleeping body on the couch in his room. Her arms were tangled around the pillow her head rested on. She slept peacefully on her stomach and he covered her in a few blankets, ever since she got back from Italy she had been cold. Emmett left the room the room for the family meeting that was to be held when Nichole was asleep.

"The Voltori want her turned. They think she's a danger to our secret." Alice was explaining.

"They not only want her turned they want her as one of them." Emmett sighed sitting down.

"What did she say to that?" Carlisle leaned forward.

"She said no. In fact she said she would rather die then hang around the Voltori for eternity." Emmett smirked.

"I bet that sat well with Aro." Edward grinned.

"But the pack. What are we going to do about them? We can't turn her or war starts." Carlisle persisted.

"We could have Carmen and Eleazar change her. Technically it wouldn't be breaking the treaty." Rose pointed out.

"But would they actually do it? She's the reason Tanya is dead." Carlisle countered.

"So what? We turn her and never come back to Forks? Is that it? Why can't we just say we weren't the ones who did it?"Rosalie demanded.

"We would have no proof we didn't do it." Jasper simply shrugged. "With no proof they don't have to believe us."

"Jasper's right. We can just claim we did nothing." Carlisle sighed.

"I say we kill them all." Rose sniffed.

"I would love you but I don't think that would solve the problem." Emmett groaned

"So what are we suppose to do?" Rose demanded.

"I wish I knew." Alice answered staring at the floor. "I really did."

"So we just wait? Until what? Until she dies unexpectedly? It's not like she's going to die anytime soon! How's she going to die? In a car crash? She doesn't even know how to drive yet! So we just wait until god knows what!" Rose yelled.

"Rosalie calm down." Carlisle sighed.

"But what about after? Say she isn't turned for a few years. Do you think she'll really just up and follow us where ever we move?" Jasper asked wearily.

"She has nothing left. Where's she suppose to go? Do you really think she'll want to follow us around until she grows old?" Esme asked carefully.

"Maybe instead of deciding someone else's choices you should simply ask them. It is rather rude to dictate someone else's life." Nichole said softly from the doorway. All the heads in spun around to where the voice came from. There was Nichole, leaning against the door frame with a blank expression on her face.

"How do you keep sneaking up on us?" Jasper asked.

"How don't you not hear me walking up to you?" Nichole countered

"Are you even real? What the hell you're so quiet!" Edward taunted.

"Maybe I'm real and you're not." Nichole shrugged pushing herself off the frame walking across the the room. She sat down next to Emmett on the couch. An awkward silence drifted through the room, no one quite knowing what to say to the person they had previously been talking about. "Well don't let me being in the room stop you from conversation." Nichole rolled her eyes.

"When you were laying in your room bleeding, we found you closer to dead than alive. I had a choice: change you or try to heal you in a human fashion. I didn't turn you because it would of been wrong of me to not let you choose for yourself." Emmett looked into Nichole's eyes thoughtfully.

"Go ahead next time. I have nothing left here, I'm an orphan. There is nothing left for me in Forks. I was planning on leaving anyways. Before I got to know all of you. I was going to leave the first weekend of you here but I kept putting it off." Nichole shook her head.

"But you changed your mind?" Rose asked.

"Yes, I did. I didn't want to leave you behind. You're the closest thing I've had to a family in eight years." The corners of Nichole's mouth rose slightly.

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"Wanna go on a date?" Emmett asked suddenly. "There's a new movie playing in Port Angeles. I saw you had it and I think Jasper was talking about how good the book was."

"When does it start?" Nichole cut off his rambling.

"In about an hour." Emmett said innocently.

"Well what movie is it?"

"I can't remember. Something about failing stars." Emmett shrugged. Several shrieks came from throughout the house.

Alice burst in the room at the mention of a date, grabbing Nichole's hand to get her ready. Jasper burst in after at the mention of the movie title.

"CAN I GO WITH YOU I PROMISE I'LL SIT THREE ROWS IN FRONT OF YOU!" Jasper pleaded.

"C'mon I need to get you ready." Alice beamed.

Alice dragged Nichole out of the room while Jasper was begging Emmett to take him with them. Not having much time Alice applied minimal make up to Nichole's face. Throwing her hair up in a bun Nichole followed Alice back into her room. Alice rummaged through Nichole's closest throwing clothes at her every few minutes. Nichole looked down at what was in her hands groaning because the skinny jeans were back. Although the sweater she was wearing with it was lovely the jeans were horrible.

Emmett was waiting downstairs with Jasper who looked like a kid on Christmas. Emmett took Nichole's hand leading her out into the garage. They took Edward's Volvo while Jasper and Alice took a different car.

The radios were playing while the cars sped down the road to Port Angeles. Emmett and Nichole lightly having a conversation about the movie while Alice was jabbering about god knows what to Jasper in the other car.

"No. The main characters have cancer you doof. It has nothing to do with going into space!" Nichole laughed.

"Did you just call me a doof?" Emmett eyed Nichole playfully.

"What are you going to do about it?" Nichole challenged.

"I'll get you. Don't worry about it. But seriously. It has nothing to do with space! This is just like that alien love story movie!" Emmett groaned.

"Don't worry. This ones good." Nichole laughed.

Nichole's laughs turned into screams when a black creature ran straight into the middle of the road directly in front of their car.