TWILIGHT - UNDERLINED
"Mia! Drea! I'm so glad you're here!" I cried.
"Hiya! We thought of..." Hialie trailed off
"We thought of dropping by for dinner. Why would I even bother eating at my house? We're having pig slop tonight. AKA: potato and relish 'lasagna'. You know how my mom is with food. She experiments and thinks that it's good food even though her stomach –and dad's and my— stomach doesn't say so." She shivered at the thought.
"What about you Mia? What's your excuse?" I asked her grinning.
"I was hungry." She grinned back. We all laughed.
Mia isn't really a person who gets hungry now and then. She's loaded.
With money I mean.
Not food.
Well she is, in her big first class refrigerator and awesome kitchen, she is filled with food. Her mom never had money problem, no problems with bills, none with electricity, nada on anything.
We head to the living room.
"You know, my mom said that you guys can come over for a party tomorrow since it's Saturday. And you know my mom she likes organizing parties for people. But never for herself." She stared down at the floor. There's this one thing you should know about Mia, she's always paranoid that her friends are going to one day leave her behind or stab her back or that her friends pretend they like her because she has oodles of money but hate her inside.
"Of course! We'll come! Right Bella?" Drea not waiting for my answer and says, "She says yes." Drea answered for me. I didn't like it when she answers for me. But I would say 'yes' to Mia. I wouldn't turn her down.
"I invited someone." She declared still looking at the ground.
"Who?" Drea and I asked.
"Um, Joey, Conner, Joshua, Dominic and Ramund—"
"Will Edward be there?" I said cutting her off.
Drea and Mia giggled.
"What?" I ask. There's nothing wrong asking your friend if your boyfriend is coming to a party she planned. Gosh.
"Yes Bella. Edward will be there." She said rolling her eyes with a smile.
"Who else is coming Mia?" Drea asked eagerly. I bet she's waiting to hear Ryan's name. Seriously? That girl has been crushing on that guy since kindergarten! And to top all of that they're neighbours!
"You know my mom and Celia's dad are dating… well my mom said that I should invite her too and her friends." She looked up, her smile had disappeared.
"So are you still coming to the party? Because you don't really have to go if you don't want to." Mia said.
She's just too cute.
"Of course! We won't miss it for the world!" Drea cried "Right Bella? We won't miss it even for anything!" Drea added.
"Drea's right Mia. Don't sweat about it." I gave her one of my bear cuddles
Mia smiled. Drea joined in.
"Thanks guys." Mia said smiling between Drea and I.
Just then the doorbell rang. The pizza was here!
"Oh wow the smell gets here faster than how I would eat it." Drea rubbed her stomach.
Oh really? I bet you'll eat five pizzas in a minute with that wild stomach of yours. I thought and giggled.
"Come on! I'm starved. I haven't eaten normal food for decades!" Drea pulled Mia and me to the dinning room.
We sat down laughing at Drea.
"What's so funny?" mom and Drea questioned us at the same time. We laughed some more. They just joined in the laughing. Soon we stopped to eat. Drea already got to her third pizza.
Mom barely cooks now that her and dad had divorced. The thought of it made me shiver.
"Are you cold Bell?" Bell was mom's nickname for me. But it's only for her.
"No mom I'm not cold." I tried changing the subject "Can I go to Mia's for a party? Drea's coming. Right Drea?" I looked at Drea. She was done all three pizzas. She nodded chewing carefully anxious for mom's approval. Mom looked at Mia. Mia nodded too.
"Of course. Whose coming to this party?" mom asked Mia. Or me. I'm not very sure though.
"Um…" Mia looked at me for backup.
She never did like talking to my mom. Or to anyone at all. She always gets nervous and let other people do the talking. Then when ever Celia lounges for her (cause she's such an easy bait… oh Mia. You'll learn someday.) She just lets her bully her and just stand there like a zebra getting attacked by a lion… although the lion talks and doesn't eat the zebra. Mia just lets Celia kill her. It's just not right. I mean Drea and I back her up every time she gets ganged up by Celia and her troops. But sometime we're not there, and sometimes she just got to make a stand. But I'm not going to worry about that now.
"Celia, Joey, Connor, Ramond, Edward, Celia's little posy, and other people that we know from school, and Celia's friends that we totally know who because we hang out with her sometimes." Drea said in one breath.
Yeah. We totally know Celia and her friends. I thought
"Okay. What time?"
"Uh…" Drea and I looked at Mia. Even we don't know.
"Starts at 5:00 but Drea and Bella can come over earlier… maybe at 3:00?" Mia said.
"Yes. I'm fine with that. But Bella has library volunteering at 12:00 it ends at 2:30. Maybe you and Drea can tag along with her. Just don't get her fired." Mom joked.
Mia and Drea laughed their best fake laugh to mom's pathetic joke.
I mean why would Mia and Drea get me fired? I mean yeah Drea would get me fired probably because she wants me to spend more time with them and the only solution to doing so is to get me fired. What could go wrong? (Or Drea's going to think of an excuse to not go to the library and just hangout at the mall or at Mia's house. But what are the chances of that? –Maybe a 99.9% of it happening and a 0.1% of that not happening. Who knows? –)
After eating we just lounged around the living room talking.
Mostly just about school and Celia's new hairstyle (which was curly and blonde with dark blonde highlights.). as much as I hate to say it, but it actually looks quite hot with the highlights.
Another point goes to Celia. I sighed.
I miss Edward. I need him right now.
I need his broad arms to wrap around me and make me feel really small.
I want him here so he can treat me like a princess.
His princess.
"Are you thinking about Edward again? Because when you're quiet and have that look on your face, you're usually thinking about him." Drea asked wagging her eyebrows at me while grinning.
I just smiled.
Edward Cullen.
My boyfriend.
Bella's boyfriend.
I smiled at the thought.
"Come on Drea! Let's go!" I shouted at her bedroom door.
"Well what if the guys are there and I don't look very decent?" oh god. Drea is always caring what she wears. Not that Mia and I don't we just don't over-react over little things. I mean I thought Drea was supposed to be the tough girl in the group. I guess not. I figured I was the paranoid one, Mia was the quiet one, and Drea is a mixture of a lot of things… like she likes her clothes and her shoes, she likes almost all sports (except for swimming. She likes swimming for fun, not for swimming laps), she's very competitive; she's usually the one to get me and Mia in trouble and be the blame. Drea always needs help.
"Should I wear the green tank top with the flower on the side that complements my skin or the red tank top that makes my figure look good." She asks opening her door still in her pajama top but already decided to put on jean shorts.
"I'd pick the tank top that makes my boobs stick out but not to stick out like stick out and poke someone's eye." Mia said.
And typically we laughed at that.
"Okay. I pick this red one." Drea said after a long while laughing.
"Finally. She has made her decision. But the question is… will Ryan notice your pointy boobs." Mia joked.
"Very funny Mia. We'll just hope he notices me at all." Drea sighed.
"God Drea. Stop stressing about that boy. If you would have made your move like years ago maybe you guys will last." I said.
"Or not." She replied.
"Possible, but you never know." Mia said while she goes back in her room to change into her tank top.
"Come on. I'm going to be late for my shift." I say to the closed door.
"Oh I don't care about your shift in the library. Hell I wouldn't care." Drea says coming out of her room.
"Ha ha. You're not the one who's going to get banned from the library forever when she doesn't attend her shift. Now get your butt out of here and get moving." I say back at her.
"Oh come on. Let's go. And you are not going to be banned from the library. Gosh, you take everything so seriously." She says walking out of her room and taking me and Mia by the hand and towing us out of her house.
I stopped to make her let go of my hand and said, "Okay I might be exaggerating on the I-will-get-banned-from-the-library-forever thing. And no I do not take everything seriously."
"Oh just come on." She said back taking my hand back at her grasp and rolling her eyes.
I chuckled and I heard Mia chuckle too.
"Driving?" I asked Mia.
"Oh gosh. You know how she gets behind the wheels. She starts shaking and then pulls over multiple times and stuff. So I'm driving." Drea says.
"Yeah I do but at least I don't drive like you do. You drive like some drunk driver on the loose. Like you're driving for your life!" Mia said as a comeback.
But really they both drive really bad.
I mean they don't suck or anything… they're just not…good.
"Guys stop bickering and let's get in the car. I'm driving." I say impatiently not wanting to listen to them fight like two couples while I get late for my shift at the library.
But of course through the car ride Drea had to be stubborn and bring the subject up again.
"Well. If you don't drive like a slow-poke I won't be dissing you right now." Drea exclaimed to Mia's comment on her driving, again.
"Well if you don't suck so much on driving so much then I won't be dissing you." Oh. That was hot.
When Drea didn't answer for a long time Mia said, "Yeah I went there."
"What ever." Drea says.
Then the oddest thing happened.
Drea and Mia laughed.
"That must have been out best fight ever." Drea says in between laughs.
"I" laugh "know!" laugh.
I started on reverse to a parking slot I had to fight for with another driver.
Parked.
I went out of the car and shoved the keys in my front pockets of my shorts.
"Guys c'mon. lets get out of this car. When was the last time you cleaned the car Drea?" I complained scrunching my nose.
"I dunno…maybe like months ago…I forget." She said climbing out of the car thinking deeply.
I laughed.
"C'mon. I'm going to be late. Like really late." I concluded rushing in the library.
We ran inside the library and I separated myself from them, heading into the staff room.
"Morning!" I smiled brightly at the staff.
"Morning Bella." Max, head librarian greeted.
I nodded and walked over to the bin of books that needed to be put back into the shelves.
"I'm taking these if no one minds." I said aloud waiting for a response.
No? Okay then, I'll go and stack these books.
"Sleepover, sleepover, sleepover." Drea chanted.
"Drea would you stop and pay attention to the goddamn road?" Mia exclaimed holding on to her seatbelt.
"Sleepover, sleepover." Drea keep chanting.
"Drea please shut up and look—Drea! Sign!" I shouted pointing at a stop sign.
Drea swerved quickly, missing the sign only by an inch.
"Holy buckets of cow. That was epic." Drea laughed.
"Drea!" Mia and I shouted.
"What?" She shouted back in the same tone. "Seriously, if you wanted my attention you could have just poked me or called my name."
I rolled my eyes at her and looked out the window.
I closed my eyes and imagined myself in a dark place where there is no one around. Well except for Drea's constant whispering of "Sleepover, sleepover, sleepover."
"We're here!" Drea screamed excitedly getting out of the car.
"Yay." I said sarcastically.
Mia smiled apologetically.
We headed to Mia's front porch and waited for Mia to stick in her key and let us in.
Mia's house was like a Victorian mansion.
Big and very, very (very) rich looking.
"Party, party, party, party." Apparently Drea changed her song from 'sleepover' to 'party'.
Lovely.
The party was just how any other parties would go.
Celia and her friends were there to ruin it of course.
Always the centre of drama.
But I wouldn't know much, Edward and I took a walk in Mia's (huge) backyard.
"Bella?" Edward said, taking my hands and started walking.
"Mhm?" I answered, cuddling closer to him.
"Bella?" Edward repeated.
"Yes, Edward?" I replied.
"Bella?"
"Edward."
"Bella."
"Edward."
"Edward."
"Bella." I said.
Pause.
"Hey!" I laughed.
Edward laughed with me.
"So what's up?" I asked.
Edward stopped walking and pulled me back against him.
"I want to marry you one day, Bella." He admitted.
I looked at him.
He looked at me.
I smiled and hugged him. "I want a ring."
"Only the best."
We didn't say anything else, but the silence was somewhat reassuring.
"I love you, Bella." He whispered.
"And I love you, Edward." I giggled kissing his neck.
"No Bella. I mean it." Edward said, face serious.
I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion, "I mean it too Edward."
"Do you, Bella?"
"Of course! You mean everything to me! Don't you know that? I love you and I—."
Edward's lips crashed into mine so suddenly I almost fell back if it weren't for Edward's grip.
"Just checking." He whispered against my lips.
I felt myself smile as I kiss him again.