Chapter 1
The Masquerade
As I walked into my apartment my two roommates practically attacked me.
"BELLA!!!" screamed Alice.
"What!?!" I yelled back
"The Masquerade Ball is in two weeks and we all got invited!!" squealed Rosalie, my other roommate.
The Masquerade Ball was a huge ball in New York City that takes place on every New Years Eve. Everyone who was ANYONE went. Seriously. The Masquerade was HUGE. Every one had to wear masks that completely cover their faces and wigs so nobody knew who you were. Basically so that you can party all night and as hard as you want without having to worry about the paparazzi catching you. I'm sure you were probably wondering why we were invited. I, Isabella Swan, am an actress. I have been in seven movies but only had two starring roles. Alice Brandon owns a huge fashion boutique that she just started last year, and it was a huge hit. Rosalie Hale was an award-winning photographer.
"Are you guys really going to make me go?" I asked.
"Of COURSE Bella!" Rosalie said.
"Last year Angelina Jolie didn't go because she had plans with her family, and the the movie that said was going to hire her pulled out of their deal." Alice said, trying to persuade me.
"That was just a coincidence."
"Was totally not." said Alice.
"I guess I will go."
The room was filled with squeals as Alice took my hand and led me out of the apartment.
"Where are we going?" I asked
"SHOPPING!!" They both shouted at once.
I groaned and got into Alice's Porsche 911 Turbo and we sped off to Alice's boutique to get some gowns first.
"You guys won't have to pay for anything you get here." Alice commented casually
"Awe thanks so much Ali!" I said and hugged her as we stepped out of the cars.
"Thank you!!" Rosalie said as she joined in.
The boutique was called [love,claire] Of course you are probably thinking 'what the hell does Claire have to do with anything'? I asked her and she said she liked the name Claire better than her real first name Mary, but she is happy with Alice, her middle name.
The store was absolutely GIANT. This was one of the newer locations she bought and was her favorite. It had two floors and had every single one of her designs. Unless it was sold out of course, which was very common.
"The gown section is this way." Alice led us to the back corner of the boutique. There were so many different dresses; I had no idea how she designed them all.
"Bella, the blue dresses are over there," she pointed to her left. She knew blue looked the best on me and I had to agree with her.
"And Rose, the red ones are over there" she continued and pointed to the color that looked best one Rosalie.
"If you need any help, I will be in the green dresses." she walked towards the left section and I walked towards the blues. I sifted through the dresses finding that most of them were a little too revealing for me. Finally, I found I pretty deep blue strapless one. The fabric met at the middle and flowed down to my knees in the front and angled down to my ankles in the back. I normally don't approve of strapless dresses but this one just really caught my eye. I looked for Rose and Alice and found them in the green dresses arguing about what dress Alice should wear.
"Bella! Which one is better?" Rosalie thrust the two options at me. I held them out in front of me to inspect them. One was a bright yellow green that was really sparkly and pretty except for the fact it came down to Alice's ankles making her look shorter. The other one was a little greener and silky but was a little too big on Alice.
"Well what about this one?" I asked as I pulled a dress off the rack next to me. It had spaghetti straps and a V-neck and was lime green. The silky fabric came down to a little below mid thigh.
"Oh Bella! I forgot about this dress! I love it thank you so much!" Alice squealed and gave me a bone-crushing hug. She was tiny, but she was strong.
"Rosalie, did you find a dress?" I asked even though I clearly saw the red fabric in her hands.
"Yep!" She held it up for me to examine. It was crimson red, and it had a V-neck halted top. In the center of the chest was a sheer diamond that had red designs on it. At the bottom tip of the diamond the two seams were tied in a not and the fabric flowed with the rest of the dress down to touch team floor.
(All dresses are on my profile)
"Its gorgeous Rose, I love it." I told her and she smiled.
"Alright. Now that we have our dresses, let's get wigs!" Alice yelled and sprinted off into the mall [love,claire] was connected to. We walked into a costume shop and headed to the wig section.
We all looked around to find wigs that looked the best on us. I found a golden blonde wig that ended right at the top of my shoulders. I put it on and went to show it to Rose and Alice. Rosalie was wearing a deep red almost brown wig that came down to her mid back. It was stick straight with blunt bangs.
Alice had a chestnut colored one that came down a few inches below her shoulders.
We then all headed to find masks that matched our dresses. I found an elaborate white one that had beads and feathers at the corner and a silver design on the forehead.
Alice had a gold mask that had blue and green feathers at the top and golden designs on the whole thing.
Rosalie's mask was black and had beads that hung down on the sides and had small silver buttons that started at the corner and moved along the nose line.
(All masks are on my profile)
"You know what? I think we have done enough shopping today."
"Alice!" Rose yelled. "Are you crazy? You never have enough shopping!"
"Well if we continue shopping I think I might go crazy with excitement and anticipation." Alice replied.
"Well I guess that's true," I said and we all laughed and walked back to Alice's Porsche.
"Maybe we will all find guys at the Masquerade!" Alice exclaimed.
"I don't know," I said. "I'm just going to look plain next to you two."
"Nonsense Bella!" Rosalie scolded, "You are just as pretty as me and Alice. Besides we are all wearing masks and wigs so we will all look different."
I sighed and got out of the car. I walked across the street to the magazine stand and picked up this weeks USA weekly. On the cover were Edward Masen and his newest girlfriend Tanya Denali. He's every girls dream man. I met Edward when Rosalie did a photo shoot with him but we didn't talk much. I was too shy. Maybe he was going to the Masquerade Ball.
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Well I thank all of you who gave this story a chance. This chapter is dedicated to you. Me and my bffl Darcy are doing a collaboration on this story. She will be writing the next chapter (which has part of the ball in it!! Well it might have more I don't know much about what she is going to write.) lol so yeah.
All my love,
Veronica 3
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'Ello people! Thanks for reading Veronica's chapter! As you can see we are both working on the story. I am writing some of the ball in my chapter. It should be exciting. So if your all cool you might want to add this story to your favorites or review… because reviews make me update faster… and cookies, but that is beside the point. The next chapter will be up sometime before next Thursday, so keep an eye out for it.
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Darcy