Trick Or Treat

AN: I started this story a long time ago but despite my best intentions, I was never able to finish -- until now. All the chapters will be posted tonight. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or its characters, they belong respectively to Stephanie Meyer. These words however are my own.

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Sometimes things that start out bad usually end that way. Unless…you have a little imagination…

Suddenly I wasn't so sure if this was such a good idea.

"Oh Bella, the whole point of this is to have you know…fun!" Eyebrows were raised, accentuating the word 'fun' as if it were actually supposed to mean something.

But standing in front of the three-way mirror examining myself in one of those hand me down Clown outfits used for kiddie parties made me rethink things…a lot. It gave light to the fact that maybe I was not up to this as much as I thought I was. Perhaps though things would have been different if Jessica had not been so overly preoccupied with getting her and Mike matching outfits. There was only so much of that lovey dovey torture I could actually handle in one sitting.

Now if it was between Edward and myself…The thought crossed my mind in a flash as I wondered if I could actually picture myself handing out candy to kids in a clown outfit with my Vampire lover dressed up just the same way. The thought of Edward with rainbow coloured clown hair was both mortifying and hilarious. I had to struggle not to laugh and cry at the same time.

Of course, Jessica never noticed my turn of expression; she was much to interested in a costume that had caught her eye on the rack next to her. I tried not to look at the other horrors around us as kids screamed in delight and frazzled parents tried keeping them in line. In my peripheral vision I saw a shop keeper to my left getting bopped in the head with a rubber axe, I cringed and silently thanked that I worked at a an Outback Camping store.

"I don't really know if this is for me though Jess, I mean isn't the whole point of Halloween to be scary?" My eyes roamed over my outfit again, eyeing in particular my dorky red clown shoes. I was something all right just not 'scary'.

Jessica never turned to look "I think it's a great costume Bella, but if you're really going to whine about then you can be an un-dead clown" she sniffed, still with her back to me.

I rolled my eyes, as much as I adored Jessica I usually took her with a grain of salt. Meaning I knew she was one of those girls who, when they got married, would put their bridesmaids in ugly purple taffeta dresses just so they could look best. Even if she did not say it in so many words, Jessica was always trying to outdo someone else. Up until a year ago, I would not have been able to imagine why anyone would be jealous of me. I was very plain looking and certainly did not have any athletic qualities. However, I guess when you have the most handsome boyfriend in town you were bound to get some people who were jealous. The thought made me a little smug actually as I remembered Edward telling me that Jessica would always fantasize about him during class and how he, with his mind reading abilities, would always cringe through them day after day. So naturally, having Edward all to myself must sting her ego a little… I tried not to let that thought make me to smug; after all, I really did care about Jessica a lot.

I sighed once more and looked at myself in defeat, wondering if this whole 'Halloween' thing was highly over rated. It probably would not have been if Alice, and well all of the Cullen's in fact, were not so hyped up about it. It was apparently a big tradition in their family, and as a partial member of their little unit who was I not to partake in their wild antics? Pulling off my costume, I stuffed it into a bin, where it would hopefully forever stay, and took one swifter glance around the crowded store. Nothing in particular really caught my eye even as Jessica fussed over a pretty princess dress, gushing over how cute she would look in it. Maybe I just wasn't the dress up kind of gal? I had gone through dozens of costumes from a bony looking skeleton to swash buckling pirate to the backside of one of those two people donkey outfits. I shuddered at the last one wondering how I was roped into even considering it. Jessica could definitely be persuasive on times…

But none of them seemed to be the one. I wanted to look quaff and sophisticated while having that hint of Halloween spook to it. I tried not to think about what Edward would wear, I had already preoccupied myself with that too much over the last three weeks ever since he had mentioned the silly idea, and instead focus on something else. Like how his smooth pale skin always looked so flawless, how his perfect amber eyes shone like liquid topaz, how his…

…Suddenly an idea occurred to me, and I could not believe I hadn't thought of it before!

"Jess…" I said grinning; my cheeks flushed with excitement "I think I just thought of the perfect Halloween costume!"

I marvelled at my own sheer stupidity, the perfect costume idea was right under my nose the whole time. And all it would take to pull it off was time and a little imagination.

The thought crossed my mind in a flash as I wondered if I could actually picture myself handing out candy to kids in a clown outfit with my Vampire lover dressed up just the same way. The thought of Edward with rainbow coloured clown hair was both mortifying and hilarious. I had to struggle not to laugh and cry at the same time.