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More about the story: Bella and Edward have always liked each other. They both thought that their feelings was just one sided but are they? It is now 10 years after their high school graduation and they have different lives. What will they do and will they ever admit their feelings to each other? Watch as Bella and Edward's friends work there magic on the both of them.
Now that that is out of the way. On with the chapter
Chapter One
I have always thought that I was an ok looking girl. Just a little on the plain side. My hair is light brown and straight as a board. So there is the plainness of my looks.
But to hear my friends tell it, I am gem just waiting to be shined. That with a little help, I could be drop-dead gorgeous. I just don't see it.
Anyway, we are suppose to go out tonight to have a girls night. Alice Brandon is the pixie in our bunch. She is short and has short black spiky hair. She has all the designer clothes and the quirkiest personality that it is hard not to love her. She always talks a mile a minute and sometimes it's hard to understand her. She is also my best friend from high school.
My other friends was Rosalie Hale-Swan and Angela Weber-Chaney. Rosalie is a beautiful model and the wife to my brother Emmett. She has platinum blond hair and her looks always screamed beauty. We also went to high school together and I think that Rose was a little more protective of me then and now. She always says that I am like little sister (seeing how she is 2 years older than me).
Angela is almost just like me. Although she was able to meet a guy and get married. They are expecting a baby in a few months, she will not be attending the outing tonight. She says that she is to uncomfortable these days to enjoy it and she will make everyone around her miserable, too.
So, here I am, waiting for the tornados that is Alice and Rose. What do I do with my time while I wait, you ask? I am at my computer desk grading papers. See I am a college professor at the local college here in Forks, Washington. I teach calculus two days a week and the next three days I teach Basic Literature. That class I love. I love to read.
But right now I am grading my calculus papers. These kids think that if they barely pass my class that they can go on and not need to use it in life. I have another thing coming to them, they will need it at some point in their lives.
"What are you doing? Grading papers when you should be getting ready for us to come help?" Alice says and startles me. I should have never given her a key to my house. At the time, I thought that it was a good idea, seeing how I was a single woman and lived alone. Now I am starting to rethink it.
"Alice, did you ever think to do something to make your presence known so you wouldn't startle people? I love you, but you just scared the crap out of me." I said while clutching a hand to my chest.
"I'm sorry and I love you, too. Now will you hurry up? We don't have a lot of time to work on you now as it is. Get in the shower and get all clean and put your robe on 'cause we will be in there to work our magic in seven minutes." Alice said back. How she can give me an exact time on things I don't know, but that is Ali. She just knows these things, she has said since we first met.
"But we still have a few more hours to get ready." I pouted.
"Like I said, Bella, not much time."
So I go to my master ensuite bathroom and start the shower to get the water warm. I undress and get in. I let the water run down my body and relax me, cause I know that Ali and Rose will have me confined to the dang vanity chair for the remaining hours of my time primping and prodding.
I start by washing my long hair with my favorite shampoo. I inhale deeply. Jasmine and vanilla and it relaxes me further. Then I wash the rest of my body and make sure to shave my legs. I like the smooth feeling. I also shave some of my more private areas. You never know what will happen tonight.
I finish and as I am putting on my robe, Alice and Rose walks in. Rose is beautiful as always. I tend to think, what is the point in trying when she is around and she seems to know where my thoughts are going cause she gives me a stern look. It's like she is having a silent conversation with me that says 'I know where your thoughts are and they need to stop before I brake bad on you'.
I immediately look down. Gosh, she's scary at times. And I love her for it.
"I didn't see you earlier, Rose. When did you get here?" I asked.
"I was here, too, Bella. You just didn't see me because of the hurricane of Ali here. She is worse than me sometimes and that is saying something" replied Rose.
"So what is my big bear of a brother doing tonight while you are out with us?" I asked. Emmett can be intimidating sometimes cause of his size, but he is just like a teddy bear. And he is very loyal to the ones that he loves.
"He going to have a guys night out with his best friend, Jasper Cullen and his brother, Edward. I'm sure you remember Jasper. Anyway, he and Edward just moved back to town from attending college at Dartmouth. Jasper just went through a really nasty break-up with his long time girlfriend, Lucy. Or should I say ex-girlfriend. So they are going out to do guy things go figure."
"Wow, they really broke-up? I always thought that they would be married with kids by now. What happened?" I asked. I knew that Ali had a thing for him back in high school but she had always played off to say that it was my own imagination. I was actually doing this for her benefit.
It was his younger brother, Edward Cullen, that I had a secret thing for. I was always too shy to do anything about it. We was in the same grade in school. We was lab partners in my tenth grade biology class. The only time that I ever got the courage up to talk to him was when it was about our class work.
Gosh, I wonder what he looks like and if his eyes are still like looking at my own soul.
It wasn't just some little thing either. It wasn't just a crush either. I was and a part of me still is in love with him.
"I'm not real sure, but I think I remember Emmett told me Lucy was cheating on him and he found out about it. He was so devastated that he just picked everything up and moved in with Edward." Rose concluded.
I saw that Alice was about in tears hearing about Jasper, so I tried to change the subject. "So what is it with Edward then? Why are they both back? He could have stayed in New Hampshire." I said, trying not to draw to much attention to my eagerness at knowing more about him.
Alice had that knowing look though. Cause the smile that creeped up on her face told it all.
"They just wanted to be close to their family. The Cullen's are real big on family and being close to them. Their parents are still here in Forks, so they just thought that it was best moved here, I guess. Why are you asking so many questions the guys?" Rose stated.
Oh, no! She thinks something is up.
"No reason other than I remember how Emmett was when Jasper left. I don't want to think that that will happen again. At the time I thought that he was a girl the way he took everything. He literally lost his best friend." I replied.
"He is most currently is not a girl. He has this really big package that he knows how to…"
"Oh please, shut up! I do not want to hear about my brother and your sex life. I maybe a woman with wants but I'm still his sister and don't want to hear it. You know I am still a virgin and I am twenty-eight years old, so it is a sore subject with me in any way. I will probably die a virgin." I say. And now my eyes are leaking the trader tears that always come pouring when this subject is brought up.
"I know and I'm sorry. And no, you will not die a virgin if I have anything to do about it. You just wait. Tonight might just be your night."
"I will not have sex with just some random guy just to say that I will not die a virgin. I have too much respect for myself to do that."
I saw the look Rose just gave Alice and decide to ignore it. They continue to fix my hair and make-up, while I just sit back and close my eyes. I try to in vision myself somewhere other than here to make the time go by faster.
I don't know what it is that got me to thinking about Edward other than that Rose mentioned him earlier, but I am on an island with him and he is holding me from behind with his hands around my waist. I smile and look down at the swell of my belly. Our intertwined fingers are resting on one another's. I feel that he has a wedding band on. I can only assume that we are married and that I am carrying his child.
His bronze hair is at the side of my face as he softly kisses my bare shoulder. I look back at the water and see the sun setting. I feel him move his face up to my ear as he utters to me in his silky velvet voice "I love you so much, Mrs. Cullen!"
"Are you okay there, Bella?" Alice said, bringing me out of my amazing daydream a little too soon for my liking.
"Sure. Why?" I asked.
"'Cause you must have fallen asleep. You was talking about Edward. Is there something that you want to talk to us about?" Alice said, eyebrows rising knowingly.
"No."
"No? are you sure?" Rose asked next.
"Yes, I am sure." I said, blushing madly.
"Okay. If you're sure, then you need to go in your bedroom and put on the clothes that I have laid out for you. And before you start, I don't want to hear it and the shoes are at the foot of the bed. Put them on and then come out to the living room so we can go."
I go to my room and I find that Alice has got me mixed up with someone else cause I really don't see how this will make me beautiful at all.
But before I can go to my closet to pick something else out to wear, Alice is at the other side of the door telling me not to even think about it. Gosh, how does she do that?
I do as I am told and put the extremely tight short dress on. It is of a fire engine red color with like tank top straps for the shoulders. It comes to about the mid-thighs and is showing off every bit of the curves that I have.
And the shoes! I will break my neck in them I am sure. They was the same color of red as the dress, with open toes. And really, I am a natural born klutz. Somebody just might die tonight.
Ok so everything is on and finally I look in the mirror. But what I see staring back at me is not what I expected to see. The woman is a beauty. I could really stand by Rose and feel like I really belong in the beautiful group.
I turn and walk out of my room and find that Alice and Rosalie are standing waiting on me.
"See! I told you that you are a gem just waiting to be shined." Alice said, wiping at a non-existent tear on her face.
"Okay, enough of your dramatics for this evening. Let's go, shall we?" I replied, rolling my eyes at her.
My spirits are rising as we climb into Rosalie's black BMW X5. I finally have a genuine smile on my face. Maybe the night will be good for me.
I hope so!
Authors Notes:
Well this is my first fan fiction. So be gentle and review, please.
This is a Bella and Edward story. And right now I just have Bella in my head but Edward may come along soon, too.