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The Bookstore Girl & The Third Son.
A Vampingsolace© Twilight FanFic.
Chapter One: The Bribed One and The Fashionista.
"My, oh my… Are you sure about this Bella?" Alice asked as I held up a perfectly normal shirt, in her favorite fashion store. Her fashion store; 'Dazzled'.
"Why shouldn't I, Alice? Is there something wrong with it?" I really didn't understand the fuss she was making about this shirt.
It was just a shirt, I thought.
"Now Bells, I know just what you are thinking… This is just a shirt… It's just for work… blah, blah!" she exclaimed, throwing her slender arms up in the air.
How did she do that? Care about clothing… so freaking much?
"Alice, come on, it's nice!" I tried to persuade her.
"Not it is not nice! It's damn plain, can't you see it?" She said, sighing deeply as she saw something that I clearly didn't see.
"If it's so damn plain, why do you sell it then?" I tried to make a point.
"What I mean, my child, is that it's not nice for you." She appeared a bit calmer now and held out her hand.
"But, it's yellow…" I tried one last time.
"Exactly the point being! Yellow is so not your color. It makes you look like a corpse… We discussed this in the past, don't try to convince me. It will look so uncute, and then when people ask you where you have bought it, you will answer at 'Dazzled', and that way I will have no clients anymore resulting a bankruptcy!".
Wow… Drama-queen, much?
I'm surprised she didn't even faint because of lack of oxygen.
"Okay, okay, fine. I'll just pick something else then." I glared at her.
Alice knew that I didn't like to shop one bit.
I'd rather go working on a Saturday, then to stand in lines for some fitting booths and checkouts.
So not worth of your time.
"Let me pick something for you?" She gazed at me with her big blue eyes, pleading to let her choose some shirt for me.
"Oh, fine… Just don't let me wait another hour, Alice… I need to be somewhere at four." I stared at my watch.
Two-thirty already. And I've been here since one 'o clock sharp.
"Oh my God! That date I set up for you was today?" Her mouth even made that 'o'-shape you see in movies all the time.
And yes, she did get me to agree to arrange me a date.
What can I say… She bribed with giving me a make-over Alice-style. And believe me, you so don't want that.
"No Alice, that's tomorrow actually. I need to go see someone for a job interview." I told her.
Once that sentence left my lips, Alice looked at me with a kind of angry expression.
"Please tell me you weren't going to wear the yellow thingy to that interview, Bella" Alice said rhetorically.
"No?" I tried.
"You are so lucky I saved you… Now come with me please!" She didn't ask me that question to answer either, but grabbed my arm instead and pulled me to her more fancy clothing corner.
"Alice, I remember telling you I only had forty bucks to spend… This is way more than that," I told her with a bit of embarrassment in my voice.
"Oh please, I can wait to get that money from you. Once you get that job, you pay me back." She said, matter-of-factly.
"And what if I don't get the job?" She looked at me for one second with her 'you-must-be-joking-look' and then continued her quest for the 'perfect thing'.
"Please, go bother someone else with your nonsense."
Just a few seconds after that, she turned to me again, flashing my a bright smile.
She then held the thing in front of her.
It was red…
It was dressy, yet not overdone…
And someone-call-the-paper, because Isabella liked it.
"It's pretty," I told Alice who proudly presented Miss. Red-with-a-hint-of-sexy to me.
"I told you I was going to find you something," she winked at me.
"Now, hurry up, to the fitting rooms with you. Go ahead and put this on, I'll be right there."
I promised myself that I would let Alice do her thing, and not argue with her until I didn't like it anymore.
But this wasn't that bad…
Installing myself in the last fitting booth, I threw my purse on the floor and pulled my v-neck shirt over my head.
Putting on the red thing, I saw it wasn't a blouse.
It looked quite good on my actually.
The top had sleeves that reached my elbows and the neckline wasn't too nor too high. It was perfect.
I also noticed that the red of the top brought out the red streaks in my hair.
Wow, Alice would have been so proud if she had heard me saying that.
There was a stitched motive on the front of the top, but it wasn't a figure, just lines crossing each other and curling and all that stuff.
"Bella, I just…-" she opened the curtain and her eyes widened at the sight of my new top.
"Oh. My. God, it looks even better than I could imagine! You go girl,"
She smiled, helping creeping up a smile on my face as well.
"And here you have a little something extra, from me to you," she handed me a jacket. It was a blazer.
Nice, soft, black and also… Eighty-five freaking dollars!
Then, my eyes fluttered to the price tag on the red top.
'Please don't be expensive, please don't be expensive', I prayed.
"Shit no Alice!" My mood, was ruined. Officially.
"What's the matter with you now? I provide you the perfect interview-outfit and what do I get from you? A 'Shit no, Alice!'". She wasn't happy with me now.
"Eighty-five dollars for the jacket and a nice and oh so shouting-in-my-face fifty dollars for the top? I'm sorry but I really can't afford that, Alice." I shook my head.
She looked… sad.
"But that's why I'm giving you the blazer, a gift from me to you!" Her eyes looked hopeful.
But Alice knew all too well that I didn't like her giving me expensive things.
No furniture, no fancy pink laptop, and definitely not a blazer.
"Alice…." I groaned.
My little friend seemed to be thinking.
"Don't hurt yourself," I joked to lighten the mood as I began to take of the top.
"Sorry?" she asked, confused.
"With the thinking, don't hurt yourself," I winked and she laughed.
"Sorry Bells, I know you don't like it… But this is for an important thing. It's got something to do with your future. Please take it, and you know what? Because I won't let you pay me the blazer, you could always uhm…" Thinking again.
"Do what, Alice?" I was amused by her.
"Buy my lunch tomorrow? Or you know, I'll think of something," She smiled handing me the blazer again.
"You should be in politics… Really…"
After getting dressed again and after giving Alice my forty bucks, she wrapped up the top and gave the bag to me.
"Thanks again Alice," I said, actually glad she did convince me.
"Oh, you know it's not a big deal. I'd do about anything for you, Honey,"
And I knew that.
"Still, thanks, and I'll call you once I get home from the interview,".
I winked, said good-bye and walked over to the opposite of the street.
Towards my place.
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