"But... if it's sunny, you guys won't be able to go outside," I pouted, while Alice tightened the back of my strapless bikini. It took a lot of bribing on her part, including her helping me with my plan, but she eventually got the royal blue simwuit on me.

"Don't worry Bella," Alice assured me. "It will be cloudy with sunny periods. Not rain clouds, though. Plus we'll be in a place where humans don't regularly go."

That sounded reasonable. Well, it would have to be warm if I was in a bikini, which would be good. And even if it wasn't exactly 'warm', Alice made sure there were pads in it when she showed it to me for the first time. "You can never be too certain. Because coldness isn't the only thing that makes them-" I'd cut her off. I knew what happened when girls got happy.

"Okay, Bella. Even if it's cloudy for most of the day, they won't be thick ones and they won't completely cover up the sun. So I got some sunblock for you..." she produced a brown bottle of Coppertone SPF 8 sunblock, and proceeded to spead it on me at vampire speed. Then she started spreading something else on me that smelled like bananas, coconut and pineapple.

"This is tanning lotion. I know you don't tan much, but a little boost never hurt." She explained as she plopped a thin white sundress over my head and handed me a pair of dark tinted sunglasses, I could practically see the designer label of the side of them.

"Oh, don't worry about it," Alice said as she saw me about to protest. "They're an old pair of mine I was going to throw away. They were too big for my face. Look cute on you though," she added with a wink. "Besides, all this stuff is part of the plan. They all serve a purpose!"

I nodded, as she had explained the plan to me before. My thoughts were cut off as I heard Emmett shout from downstairs.

"Bella! Alice! Hurry up, before Esme and Carlisle decide to come!"

I giggled and walked downstairs into Emmett's huge jeep.

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"C'mon, Bella," Rosalie muttered. "If you want Edward to crack you have to pull off your dress as if you were totally confident with your body. You can't shrug out of it and hide yourself."

"Yeah, Bells! I didn't even know you had a chest till I saw you in that! Edward doesn't know what he's been missing!" Alice added.

We were at a small, but beautiful, lake. The water was clear and the sand was smooth. It was surrounded by forest, and it would take a normal human hours to trudge through it all. I was glad for Edward's vampire speed; hiking wasn't really my idea as a vacation.

"Hurry up! Everyone's waiting to get in the water!" Rosalie said impatiently. I nodded, and slowly took off my sunglasses. I placed them on the log next to me, and slowly started sliding my dress up my stomach, trying my hardest to be 'sexy'. Hah. As if I, Bella Swan, could ever be considered sexy.

But as I whipped the dress over my head and shook my hair out from it's messy bun, I was soon aware of Edward's eyes on me. I put the sunglasses back on and faced forward, away from him. Because of the dark tint, he couldn't see me peeking at him from the corner of my eye. I smiled, and started toward the rest of the Cullens, wading in the water up to my lower abdomen. Ok, big mistake. The water was freezing. Freezing. Like so-cold-I-won't-ever-be-able-to-pull-off-sexy-while-my-teeth-are-chattering cold. I took a deep breath, splashed the others whith a brave smile on my face, then dashed back to my towel.

"Too cold, Bella?" Edward was suddenly standing beside me. I looked at him.

OH. MY. GOD.

It should be illegal to look that hot!

His bronze hair was touseled, water droplets glistening on it like diamonds. His muscular build was phenomenal, god-like. Streams of lake water ran down his chest onto his abs, and ended at his black and dark red swim trunks. Then I looked at his feet, and gasped.

Come to think of it, I'd never seen Edward's feet before. I never even gave them a second thought. I mean, I always knew he had them, I just never...

"What is it, love?" Edward questioned as he saw my surprise.

"Um.. nothing. You have...nothing." I stammered. What the hell? They were feet. They were perfectly normal. Ten toes, clipped toenails, totally fine. They didn't look weird. They looked like FEET.

"Is there something on my face?" He asked, feeling around his cheeks with his fingertips.

"No. I just noticed you had... feet..."

We were silent. Edward blinked. Once. Twice. He knit his brows together, as if he were deep in thought, and looked down.

Wow, Bella! Nice one! The plan is going perfectly. But what did I expect? I try to be seductive, we end up having and awkward conver sation about Edward's... feet...

"...Yyyeah." Edward looked at me like I was insane. Come to think of it, I probably was.

"Soo... how are those working for you?" I asked, like an idiot.

"Umm, pretty good, I'd say. I mean, They help me walk, so they've gotta be... good..." He was still looking at me like he was about to throw a straight jacked over my bikini and haul me away.

"Well, that's good. So anyway, I'm gonna go, you know, this way..." I gestured toward Alice sitting on a rock, waiting for the sun that was about to peek through the thin sheet of white clouds.

"You do that. I'll go this way..." he said, gesturing toward his brothers and Rosalie.

I stood up, nodded awkwardly at Edward, and stumbled off toward Alice, who had a grin on her face.

"You heard everything, I presume?" I said, laying down beside her.

"Mhm," she said happily. "I doubt the others did, though. Emmett and Jasper are wrestling, and Rosalie's refereeing."

I nodded, happy I wouldn't be subdued to their ridicule afterward.

"That was probably the most hilarious thing I've ever witnessed, by the way. Why didn't you stick to the plan? You know, lay on your towel, rub tanning oil on yourself...? Why did you bring up his feet, of all things?" She asked, amused.

"I can't really say, Alice," I shrugged. "I've never seen them. I don't know what happened, but I want this plan to work!"

"There is still a chance to redeem yourself, Bella. Listen to me."

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A few minutes later, the sun was out and I was laying on my towel, tanning. The back of my bikini was popped open so I didn't get tan lines. (ha-ha. That wasn't the ONLY reason.)

"Hello, Bella." Edward greeted as he sat, sparkling, in the sun next to me.

"Hey." I said casually. I knew Edward was staring at my greased up back (Alice sure didn't do things half-ass.)

"Rosalie and Emmett left to go... do something..." Edward said, though I could hear him smiling.

"Oh yeah?" I murmured. "How nice. And Jasper and Alice?"

"Jasper had to get something from the jeep. Alice is off somewhere, wondering 'Where she lost her desinger flip-flops'. It's getting her quite upset," he explained.

"BELLA!" I heard Alice scream. "COME HERE!"

I knew that was my cue. Acting completely oblivious, I sat up quickly before I could chicken out.

The back was still undone.

My bikini top was laying on the towel, and I was sitting up.

Still acting as if I had no idea what was going on, I screamed, "Alice?! Where are you?!"

"Er... Bella, you might want to..."

"Quiet Edward!" I said, facing him head-on, only blushing a little. I was getting better at supressing it. "I'm trying to hear what your sister is so frantic about!"

"I realize that, but..." I could tell he was trying not to look at my bare chest. He wasn't suceeding too well.

Innocently, I said, "Whoopsies! Tee-hee, Gotta put that on. See you later!" I brushed his lips briefly with my own, but my bare breasts brushed against his chest as I did so. With another angleic grin, I put the bikini on and dashed off to Alice.

Operation Get Edward Hard? HUGE sucess. I felt the evidence as I was saying my good-byes.