Lifeline

I, sixteen year old Bella Swan, woke up one Sunday morning to the sun which was unusual for the small town of Forks. I slowly swung my feet over the edge of the bed and stretched. I stood up and went to the bathroom. It was quiet in the two bedroom house, Charlie probably wasn't up yet. Today was his fishing day with Henry.

I walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower. I looked in the mirror. Major bed head! Besides that I liked what I saw. My hair was a mahogany with a hint of blonde. Edward had said it was unnecessary to highlight my hair but I want to make look cute. My skin was pale, but rosy. My eyes were a deep chocolate brown, which had many depths so I'd been told so many times.

I ran my hand through my unruly hair and went to start the water. In about two minutes the water was perfect. I stripped out of my clothes and stepped into the shower. It felt amazing on my skin, kind of like mini fireworks. I put the shampoo I had squirted into my hand, and rubbed it all over my head. I washed my body and stepped out of the shower. I took a towel and wrapped it around my body.

I dried myself off and walked over to my room with the towel wrapped around me. I dropped the towel and went to my closet and put on bra and panties. I turned to my clothes and looked for some clothes to wear. Since I assumed that it was warm I decided on a pair of black jean shorts and a green polo. I looked at myself in the mirror. I like the way it looked, cute and chic.

I turned around and saw a present on my bed. I walked over to my bed and picked up the present. The tag read; To: Bella From: Edward, Happy Anniversary. I smiled to myself and thought how lucky I was to have such a good boyfriend.I unwrapped the rectangular package and untied the bow. It was a little box and a card. I looked at the card first. The card had a heart on the front and read "To my sweetheart." I opened the card and skipped the printed words and started to read Edward's handwriting. "Dear Bella, I hope you have fun with Alice and Rose. I can't wait to see you tonight. Love Edward XOXO"

I collapsed on the bed and sighed, it was official I had the best boyfriend ever. Edward and I were going to Seattle the weekend, something that Charlie had, at first, been dead set against. After Edward had sweet talked him a little he gave in. Before tonight though, Alice and Rosaline and I were going to go shopping at the mall in Port Angeles. I was not exactly looking forward to shopping, but I knew that Alice would be upset if I didn't let her drag me around like a rag doll for a couple hours. More than be dragged around I was dreading the makeover session.

I sat up and looked at the clock on my bedside table. It read seven-thirty, that meant I had an hour to get my stuff together, get breakfast for me and Charlie and would need some time to get to the Cullen's house. It wasn't a particularly a long drive if your car went over sixty-five mph, I however did not own a car that did that. I present would have to wait until later. I set it down on my purse so I could grab it later. This is one of the rare times that I actually carry a purse. I walked out of my room. The house was still very quiet, I figured that Charlie must be sleeping in, just then I heard feet hit the floor. Charlie was up.

I started down the stairs to get breakfast ready. I stepped out onto the landing that led into the kitchen. I looked in the cupboards to see what we had. As soon as I was back from Seattle I would have to go grocery shopping. I decided on some ego waffles, eggs, and sausage. I popped the waffles in the toaster and started up the stove to cook the eggs and sausage. After twenty-five minutes the table was set and the food was cooked. That meant I had thirty minutes to eat, get ready and get to the Cullen house.

I didn't wait for Charlie to come downstairs to eat. I got done and went back up to my room and heard Charlie in the shower, it sounded like he was singing a Beatles song. I walked into my room and looked around for what I need. I grabbed my purse, some money off my desk, and the box Edward gave me. I looked once around the room to make sure I hadn't forgotten something. I turned off the lights and shut the door deciding I had everything I needed. I headed downstairs again and grabbed my keys off the hook in the kitchen and started towards the living room.

"Bella," It was Charlie's voice, "I want to talk to you." I need to go, but if I just left then Charlie would be mad and I would hear about it later. So I walked back into the kitchen drumming my fingers impatiently. "Bella I need to talk to you about….. Umm, stuff that is uncomfortable, but it has to be said, sooo"

"Dad, I've already had the sex talk like five years ago." I said to him which after which he breathed out a sigh of relief.

"Oh, good, that makes this so much easier. Have fun Hun, and be safe." Charlie said standing up and putting his hand on my shoulder.

"I will dad, I promise." I said and turned to leave. I walked out the door and stepped into the cab.

It was cold outside not like I expected, but that was to be expected since first; Forks was always somewhat cold and second; it was late November. I turned on the heat and started to pull out of the driveway. Charlie watched me from the window. I didn't care tough. I drove down the street and towards the highway. I turned on the radio as I turned onto the highway. I always missed the turn to the Cullen house, so I was scanning the road for a small opening. That's when I saw something. I looked again and saw Emmett. He was standing on the side of the road looking at my truck.

I slowed down to stop and pulled over to the shoulder. He ran over to my truck and opened my door. "Hey Bella, "He said climbing into my truck and pushing me into the passenger seat, "Edward sent me he said you would miss the turn, so he told me to find you."

"Why didn't he come?" I asked a little disappointed.

"He's hunting now so he won't have to this weekend." He said.

I sat back in the seat and let the music over take me. It was no use arguing with a vampire. Emmett suddenly turned on to a nearly invisible road. If I would have been driving I would have missed it. I knew it was a long driveway, but today it felt longer. This is probably because I was dreading the shopping day. Alice had said she would buy everything and since the Cullen's were billionaires, I believed her. I hated when they bought her stuff she liked being self-sufficient. The door slamming brought me back to reality. We were at the Cullen house. The house never ceased to amaze me; it looked like it was mad from glass and looked like a raindrop could break it.

I looked at the door and saw Esme coming to meet me. She looked so pretty in her orange sun-dress; it really complimented her brown hair and golden eyes which was similar in all vampires. Carlisle was at work and wouldn't be home until me and Edward were gone. Esme came over to me and embraced me in a warm hug, the kind of hug that made me miss my mother. She let go when Alice came up behind her and started to talk.

"Are you excited Bella? We are going to get so many cute clothes. Rose is getting ready then we will leave, does that sound ok?" Alice spoke all in one breath.

"Yea it's fine." I said, honestly the longer Rose took the better. My luck would no grant me that however. Just when we got into the house Rose came bounding down the steps. "Ok I'm ready to go." She almost sang. It still amazed me why it took Rose so long to get ready she was already so pretty and it seemed like it's impossible for her to be any prettier.

"Ok Bella lets go. We have to be back by five. You and Edward are going to diner at seven and then you're going to The London in Seattle…" Alice said pulling me towards the garage door. I wondered whose car we were taking, Rosalie's red convertible or Alice yellow Porsche. I turned out we were talking the Porsche, "suitcase and a dress. How does that sound Bella?"

"Ummm… that sounds fine." I had no clue what was being said, but I would find out later. I climbed into the back of the car and looked out the window. The scenery was moving too fast to make anything out. I couldn't tell if I saw a cow or a tree.

"Where do we go first, Victoria's Secret or Vanity?" Alice asked.

"I think we should go to Victoria's Secret last and American Eagle first." Rose answered.

"Excuse me but why are we going to Victoria's Secret?" I piped up.

"You'll see Bella." Rose smiled and looked away I could not imagine what they have in mind. I continued to look out the window and tried to make out some of my surroundings. It didn't seem like it took us an hour to get to Port Angeles, but it did. Alice parked the car and we all got out. It didn't take us very long to get inside the mall. I had no clue where I was going but Alice and Rosalie didn't even need a map. In no time we were at American Eagle. Alice made me try on polo's, jeans, T-shirts, you name it I put it on.

After they decided on buying six polo's, seven jeans and a hat and a scarf set we left spending around three hundred dollars!!!!!!! We came to the next store that was right next door. We walked into Vanity and I went through the same process. That routine went on for what seemed like forever. We went into every store and finally we came to Debs. I tried after dress after dress and it was down to a lacey black one and a salmon full length one.

"Come on Bella you look gorgeous in both. Let us buy both of them, please, please, please Bella." Alice whined.

"No, you can't spend a thousand dollars on me. Choose one dress." I said.

"Bella, we can and we will just watch us. Now we are going to buy you both of these dresses and you are going to be happy about it." Rose folded her arms and gave me a death stare.

"Rose please." It was me turn to beg.

"No let's go." She grabbed both the dresses out of my hand and started to walk towards the cahier. The girl, who seemed to be about my age wrung up the dresses. 542 DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!! How could they spend that much. They had already spent over the thousand dollar range and we weren't done. Rose and Alice started to drag me into Victoria's Secret. I was not looking forward to going in here.

How many bras can one store have? It seemed like I had tried on a thousand. They also had me try on lingerie and I had no clue what they liked and didn't. I hoped they would stop soon. My prayer was answered.

"Bella we're going to ring us up, you go get changed, ok?" Alice asked.

"Fine." I said it was 3:50 according to the clock on the wall. If Edward was coming at seven, what were Alice and Rose going to do for two hours? I shuddered just thinking about it. Alice skipped over to my side, while Rose went to the car so we could load up the shopping bags. Finally we were driving down the highway back towards Forks. It was mildly uncomfortable in the backseat since not all of the bags fit in the trunk and we had to put some in the seat. We had over twenty bags, and it was more than enough. We turned on the radio and started to sing to some random song.

It felt like fifteen minutes and we were in Forks It had gotten stormy and was raining rather heavily. The rain did not stop Alice from going 100 mph. She started to slow down and for a second I thought it was because of the rain, but she made a turn and I realized that we had reached Cullen drive. The driveway twisted which sent a bunch of bags into my lap. I pushed them away and into the seat next to me. We stopped in front of the house. I got out of the car and grabbed like seven on my way. Esme and to my surprise Carlisle came out to help. He must have got off early.

I took the "like" seven bags into the house and dumped them on the floor. I walked over to the couch and sat down. It was good to relax and sit. I had been standing for so long it felt like my legs were jello. The relaxation was short-lived though. Almost as soon as I sat down, Alice was pulling me up the stairs. She turned to the left and went down the hall to her room. As soon as I entered the room it was apparent what they were going to do.

The room was full of hair supplies and make-up. I had known that's what they were going to do, but this was ten times worse. Alice pushed me into a chair and Rose started to mess with my hair.

"How about something like this, Alice." Rose asked moving my hair to show what she meant. Alice shook her head.

"Here let me show you a picture." Rose let go if my hair and went over to where Alice was to look at the magazine.

"Perfect! I'll get started." Rosalie moved back over to me. She plugged in a straitener and a curling iron.

She started to pull my hair and straiten it. At the same time Alice was powdering my face with some weird stuff that made me want to sneeze. I had no idea how long this was going to last, but I did know it would take awhile. I tried to sit as still as possible, but every couple of minutes my butt would fall asleep and I would fidget. After what seemed like forever they allowed me to stand, but not look in the mirror. They steered me over to the closet where all the clothes we just bought were. Alice went over to a hanger and got the black dress. Rose got jewelry and hair accessories while Alice helped me step into the dress.

Finally after two hours I was allowed in the mirror. It was amazing! My make-up brought out my eyes and my hair was curly and it framed my face.

"We better get downstairs before Edward has a heart attack." Alice laughed.

EDWARD! I was so nervous my heart was going to jump out of my chest. I took a deep breath and walked down the hall and there I saw him sitting on the couch. He turned around and…