"Edward, I want to go shopping." I said to my perfect boyfriend
"Wait. What?" His reaction was no less than what I expected. I'm definitely not the shopping type. I don't even like clothes, but today I wanted a change of pace. Do something drastic, and uncharacteristic.
"You heard me. I want to go shopping." I told him again. We heard a squeal come from downstairs and one-second later Alice burst into Edwards's room.
"I've been waiting for this day to come!" Alice squealed. "Bella is finally interested in clothing!" She was jumping up and down with excitement.
"Alice, Alice calm down. I don't want to buy anything. Just look around. Shop. Not purchase." I emphasized my last few words.
"But why would you just look?" She pouted.
"Because looking is just as fun a buying. Besides, I don't need any new clothes. My closet is jammed with clothes that you bought and 'secretly' put in my closet."
"Fine we'll look," She said look with a bit of difficulty, "but I'm not promising that I wont buy anything."
"As long as you don't buy anything for me, I'm fine. Do you think Jasper and Emmett and Rosalie want to go?"
"Jasper will do anything I want to do and Rose wants a new dress which means that Emmett will want to 'help' her." She said in an annoyed voice.
"Go tell them to get ready and meet us in the cars in ten minutes." Alice squealed with excitement again and ran to tell everyone to hurry up. I turned to Edward who sat there patiently that whole time. "Where should we go?"
"Seattle. Alice already saw us there."
"Seattle it is."
Ten minutes later we were on our way. Edward, Alice, Jasper and I in the Volvo and Emmett and Rosalie in the BMW. The drive up there was quicker than what it would take a normal human, but then again, they weren't human. The whole drive was Edward and Rosalie playing snake, weaving in and out of the different lanes. It scared me half to death. When we finally arrived at the best mall in Seattle, Pacific Place, I jumped out of the car.
"Were you trying to scare the living life out of me?" I yelled at Edward and Rosalie. They both just laughed "What? Do I amuse you?"
"Love," Edward began. "Do you really think that I would let anyone hurt you? Rosalie and I were just having a little fun."
"Fun for you but you are not breakable. I am. Just promise me you won't do that on the way back." He kissed the top of my head.
"I promise."
"Ok. Enough chitter chatter. Let's shop!" Alice demanded. She walked the fastest into the mall. First we went into Bloomingdale's, Alice's favorite store. She gave me something to try on.
"Alice I told you I'm not buying anything."
"And I told you, I didn't promise not to buy anything."
"You are not buying anything for me."
"Just try it on." She gave me her best puppy dog-face.
"Fine." I sighed. I went into the dressing room and tried on the shirt she handed me. It really did look good on me. It was a dark blue, Edward's favorite color on me. It was a short sleeve and perfect for this summer. I stepped out of the dressing room and showed Alice.
"Bella! That looks really good on you!" she exclaimed. "I don't care what you say I'm buying this for you!"
"No, Alice you promised." I argued feebly. I really did like the shirt but I didn't want her or any if the Cullen's to buy me anything.
"Please?" She asked
"No." I said more firm this time.
"Fine, but I might come back later and buy it so you might as well let me buy it now when it's on sale." I was really tempted then. But I still held my answer. After twenty minutes of arguing, I finally gave in. Alice jumped up and down and grabbed the same exact shirt off the rack so she didn't have to wait for me to change. I changed quickly so we could get out of here, before Alice made me try something else on.
As soon as I stepped out of the dressing room someone caught my waist.
"You really do look good in that color." Edward whispered in my ear. "I'm glad you let Alice buy it."
"I can't say no to her." I explained to him. "C'mon. Let's get out of here before she wants me to try something else on."
We shopped for hours upon hours, only stopping so I could eat some lunch. Around 6 o'clock we decided to leave. We were just about to walk out the door when I heard a familiar voice.
"Bella," someone called out to me. "Bella Swan, is that you?" I turned around. There I saw my best friends from Phoenix.
"Jade?" I asked.
"Yes! It is you Bella! Sapphire! Kitty! Come here!" She called behind her shoulder.
"Sapphire and Kitty are here too?"
"Yeah. For our graduation present, our parents gave us a trip to Seattle. We never thought we'd see you here though." She explained as Kitty and Sapphire came up behind her.
"Bella!" They both exclaimed. We all embraced in a group hug.
Kitty whispered in my ear, "Who are your friends? They are cute!"
"Oh how rude of me. Guys come here" I waved the Cullen's over. I pointed them out one by one. "This is Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, and this is my boyfriend Edward. Guys this is Jade, Kitty and Sapphire. They were my best friends in Phoenix." Edward gave a snort. I glared at him. He immediately straightened his face.
"Pleased to meet you." He said.
"Hi!" Alice said happily.
"What's up?" Emmett asked trying to be cool.
Rosalie just nodded her head giving a faint smile and Jasper was staring into space.
"So…" I said trying to break the awkward silence "Where are you guys staying?"
"We actually don't have a hotel we're staying at. Our parents just gave us money and said to stay at whatever hotel we want to." Jade explained.
"Why don't you come stay in Forks?" Alice asked "You guys and Bella could catch up."
"Uh… sure… but I thought Forks was really small."
"We have one little motel. I'm sure they have room. And if not you can stay with us." Alice stated. Her siblings glared at her. Edward was the first to relax and whispered something at vampire speed to them.
"What do you girls think? It would be great for us to catch up."
Jade, Sapphire and Kitty looked at each other and nodded. "Sure we'd love to stay at Forks. Just show us the way."
Fifteen minutes later, when we made sure that the girls were behind us, we were on the road again. I turned to Edward.
"What did you laugh for?" I asked him.
"Your friends thoughts. They were pretty funny."
Oh no. I thought. This couldn't be good. Kitty was known for thinking stupid or superficial thoughts. Sapphire always thought of perverted stuff. Jade was the only one of them that actually had normal thoughts. "What were they thinking?" I asked a little nervous.
"Well, Kitty was
remembering these sunglasses that she put on earlier in the mall and
commented that she looked hot in them. Sapphire was singing the
Viagra song." Alice and Jasper cracked up. "And Jade was thinking
that I was gorgeous and that you were very lucky to have me as a
boyfriend. She also noticed that you had an engagement ring and made
a mental note to ask you about that. But then she decided against it
and is going to let you tell her and the other girls when you're
ready."
Same old Jade. Always thinking about her actions before
she does anything. "So what did you think of them?" I asked the
three of them.
"Well, uh… they were very interesting." Alice said. Edward and Jasper quickly agreed.
"So you don't like them." I stated.
"We never said that." Edward said. "I think we're all a little jealous. Even Rosalie. She's grown close to you, and then we meet your friends today and you were so happy."
"Oh." I didn't
really notice their reactions when I introduced them. "Sorry. I was
being selfish."
"No you weren't Bella." Alice spoke up.
"You haven't seen your friends in two years. It's
understandable. We've just forgotten that you had friends in
Phoenix and thought we had you all to ourselves. We should be the
ones apologizing for being jealous."
"It's ok." I mumbled. I was still a little nervous about the girls staying at Forks.