"No way!"
"Come on Bella! Please?" Alice's plea made no dent to my obstinacy. I sat on the couch, arms crossed.
"No, no, and if you ask again, and I know you will, NO." Alice made a face. She had been trying to convince me to let her give me a makeover for over twenty minutes now! When will she give in and let me have some piece and quiet?! Alice looked me straight in the face and sighed in disappointment.
"Okay then, I understand." She stood up and started to walk out of the room slowly. Oh great. I knew exactly what she was doing for she has done to me a hundred times. Guilt flooded over me and I groaned angrily in defeat. She turned around quickly, knowing full well that I gave in.
"You never fight fair, do you?" I growled at her angrily. She chuckled happily with a smug smile on her face as she started to file my nails, humming a tune. I laid against the black leather couch and exhaled all the air out of my lungs. Edward had been gone only 5 hours on his hunting trip with Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle and already I missed him and already had Alice inflicted total torture against me: she painted my nails. I thought about escaping this agony and taking my truck over to La Push to visit my best friend, Jacob, when I remembered that Jacob probably didn't want to see me again. Thinking of Jacob made me choke up and tears started to slide down my cheeks. Alice looked up from my nails that she was currently painting crimson red.
I tried hiding my face, but Alice had already spotted it. Just my luck. She gave me a disapproving look and, misinterpreting my tears, said, "It's only been five hours! Can't you at least live one day without him?? He will be back tomorrow!" She mumbled something else that I could not understand and went back to my nails with a frown upon her angel face. I looked down to the watch Charlie gave me as a late graduation present. Having felt unhappy that he didn't give me a present on my exact day of graduation, he spent quite a lot of money on this watch, to my utmost displeasure, the next day. It was a shiny silver watch, which was medium weight, yet small. According to it, the time was 6:35 P.M. I had to go home to make dinner.
"Oh look at the time! I have to go home to make Charlie dinner!" I told Alice with fake disappointment for she hadn't finished painting my nails. I knew that she didn't believe my tone one bit, but allowed me to leave without trying to convince me to stay so she can finish. "Bye Alice!"
"Bye Bella," said Alice glumly. Happy as I was, I did feel a little guilty when I heard her upset tone saturate her angelic voice. I hopped into my truck hurriedly so she wouldn't have time to change her mind. The engine started up without a hassle, like usual, and I started home, drying the tears off my face that I had cried for Jacob with Edward on my mind.