AN: Hey guys I'm pack with another chapter which is going to be 2 parts . I hope that you guys enjoyed the last chapter and again please bare with me with any errors lol just still trying to get a feel for putting everything together.
And again I do not own Twilight or the characters but I hope you guys enjoy this story as much as I enjoy writing it and hopefully you guys will love the growth and development of the people in this story.
Thursday Morning
The girls were currently occupied in their bathroom preparing for the day with their evening attire on. Alice was sitting on a little stool as Tanya was perched up on the side of the tub delicately applying some wax above Alice's' lips.
"Alice, be still," Tanya scolded lightly as Alice began to fidget.
"Do we have to do this?" Alice asked as Tanya stopped and looked at her in the eyes.
"Its either wax it or put it in braids," Tanya replied to Alice then continued on with what she was doing.
"Owwww" Bella yelped from over by the mirror above the sink as she was currently plucking her eyebrows. "I don't know why we go through this torture..every week its yank this, shave that...I cant wait to get married so I can just let myself go," Bella complained as she turned away from the mirror looking at Alice and Tanya.
"All this for men we don't even have. You think there are men out there shaving their backs for us" Alice ranted as Tanya finished placing the wax above Alice's lips.
"Well now ladies to be fair, I'm sure there are alot of guys out there that go through the same grooming rituals as we do," Tanya offered getting up from her seat off the side of the tub.
"Like what?" Bella questioned raising her eyebrow to Tanya.
"They trim their nails," Tanya answered.
"With their teeth," Bella countered as Tanya turned her attention back to Alice placing a tan strip above her lips.
"I say we stop mutilating ourselves and just be happy the way God made us," Alice said as Tanya nodded at her rubbing in the little strip into Alice's skin.
"I couldn't agree more," Tanya said to Alice as she quickly ripped the strip off of Alice.
"Owwwwwwwww," Alice bellowed in pain from the stinging, burning sensation and she faintly rubbed the spot above her lips as Tanya walked away to throw the strip away.
Later on in the evening
Bella, Alice, and Rosealie were sitting in the living room with the lights off. The only light and sound was coming from the television they were currently watching. After the movie ended Bella got up from the couch.
"I don't know why you rented Basic Instinct..that woman was bugging for real," Bella said as went over to the wall near the kitchen door to turn the lights on. " I mean who would go into an office with a business suit with no underwear on?" Bella questioned walking back over to the couch. Rose looked up at Bella as she bent over grabbing some chips off the table giving her a look of 'I have'. " I mean besides you," Bella replied to her look as she sat down beside Alice who had her hands covering her face.
" Can I look now?" Alice asked as Bella shook her head.
"Alice, it's over" Rose replied to her shaking her head as well.
"oh….good movie," she says as she removed her hands from her eyes. Then the girls heard Tanya's flirtatious squeal from the hallway.
"Seems like Tanya is home from her date," Bella said looking towards the door.
"Or you got rats," Rose said as she put a chip in her mouth.
"it's a little too early for her to be home from a date..I wonder what's wrong?," Alice said giving a questioning look to her cousin.
"There's only one way to find out," Rose challenged then her and Bella raced to the door to be nosey leaving Alice on the couch. Bella had beat Rose to the door then Alice decided to come behind them. As Bella tried peeping through the peep hole Rose was on her back with Alice on Rose's back.
"mm mmm mmm," Bella gave off and rose tapped her shoulder.
"what? Is it good?" She asked getting more intrigued and she pushed Bella out the way sending Bella almost tripping to the side and Rose began looking through the peep hole with Alice still behind her.
" we have to be some lonely ass women to be spying on Tanya and her date," Bella said as she balances herself on the recliner chair. Then they heard the jingling of Tanya's keys in the door alerting them to abort so Rose took off fast placing herself back on the couch as Bella did the same thing. Leaving poor Alice to look frantically around with nowhere to go fast so she backed up from the door standing awkwardly in front of the closet when the door opened revealing Tanya and her date.
"oh well okayyyyy…the piano would go right here," Alice babbled with no clue trying to not make it seem she was spying. Tanya eyed her as if she was crazy and Alice stopped talking.
"Hey guys, this is Charles…the Assistant DA Charles," she introduced as she looked towards the handsome man standing beside her and placed her arm in his arm bringing him further into the apartment. "This is Alice and Bella…my two room mates…and this is Rosealie, their friend who just thinks she lives here," Tanya finished introducing as they girls gave off a wave to Charles.
"Rosealie Hale? from Aro, Turner and Associates?" Charles questioned pointing to Rose.
"Yes," she answered rising from the couch and stood proud.
"You know I saw you in the courtroom this week…you are tough and I actually thought you were going to hit the judge," he said with to tone of being impressed.
"So did I," Rose replied back with a serious tone and a smile on her face and Tanya looked on clearly not amused.
"well it was good seeing you again," he said offering her his hand to shake and she shook.
"it was nice seeing you as well…I didn't recognize you at first," Rose said as she sat down on the couch with Alice perched on the arm of the couch.
"Well, that peep hole does make everyone look a little warped," Alice said to Rose and Rose waved her off a little saying to keep quiet.
"well Charles you should be leaving now because I know you have that big trial in the morning…the one you couldn't stop talking about tonight," Tanya said with a little annoyance as she was leading Charles to the door. "Kisses," she continued as she opened the door for him to exit.
"Are we still on for Saturday night?" he asked her as he was walking out.
"Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever," she replied as she began shutting the door " goodnight," she said as the door shut and she rolled her eyes.
"Oh Tanya, Charles seems like a good one..he is sweet, charming, polite…and his nose hairs was neatly trimmed," Alice said as she walked up to Tanya and Tanya looked at Alice as if she was crazy.
"I agree…I got to hand it to you girl.. Charles is one damn good attorney," Rose offered as she kicked her feet onto of the table.
"Mhmm..I wouldn't mind a peak at his briefs," Bella agreed with a innuendo.
"well sorry to disappoint girls…but Charles is not the one," Tanya said as she placed herself on the arm of the recliner.
"But Tanya….Charles is handsome, he has money and status…technically you should be in love," Bella questioned her friend not believing what she was hearing.
"Yes I know but Charles has no je ne sais quoi…no….umpffff ," Tanya said sounding pretty bougie at the moment.
"Girl that is what we are for. To cultivate them," Rose started as she sat up "You see..a good man is like fine wine. They all start out like grapes. Our job is to stomp on them," Rose continued on to explain as she pounded her foot on the floor to make an example as Bella nodded her head in agreement smiling wickedly. "Then we put them in the dark until they mature into something we wouldn't mind having dinner with," she finished her strong argument with a clap from Bella.
"Yeah well I cant wait that long," Tanya said as she slipped her heels off and got up from her spot. "I need my thirst quenched now," she finished as she swayed to the stairs and Bella shook her head.
"Why do you always have to have a man?" Bella questioned Tanya as Tanya turned on the stairs to look at Bella.
"Hey, some people paint….."she said as she gave off a diva-ish laugh and turned back around twirling her heels leaving the girls in the living room.
The Next day
Alice was sitting on the stool in the kitchen as Jasper just got done fixing their refrigerator. Jasper turned to Alice as he wiped his hand on a blue cloth.
"Is there anything you can't fix Jasper?" Alice asked looking at Jasper truly impressed.
"Nope," he answered simply "that's why I put an ad in the newspaper to expand my handyman abilities beyond this mere brownstone," he replied as he leaned on the counter looking at Alice. Just then Bella and Rose came in through the back kitchen door with bags from the grocery store.
"This is the last time I go to the grocery store with you." Bella said to Rose laying her bags on the counter top. "Do you have to flirt with every man you see?" Bella questioned as Rose played her bags on the kitchen table.
"I got us this free meat didn't I?" Rose questioned back not seeing what the problem is.
"I keep telling you that you and Tanya are just alike…always trying to turn some man's head," Bella said as she unloaded the bags.
"Me and Tanya are nothing alike," Rose replied turning to Bella "I'm looking for a good time, she's looking for a sponsor," she said turning back around to unload the bags on the kitchen table when Emmet came barreling in through the same door the girls had entered.
"Hey, I got the paper," he announced to Jasper as he shut the door.
"Damn…these paper delivery boys are getting older and uglier," Rose said as she looked at Emmett then turned back around to the task at hand.
"Rose..Rose..Rose" he started as he walked up behind her" just another failed attempt to ignore you animalistic attraction towards me" he said as he growled into her ear and Rose squinted her eyes a little.
"You're right about the animal part…fido," she rebutted and he gave her a annoyed look.
"You want me soooooo bad," he said lowly but everyone still could hear.
"Ohh my Goddd," Rose mocked like her body was shaking in anticipation and Emmett smacked her on the shoulder softly with the newspaper and turned to Jasper occupying the stool Alice previously had but she had gotten up to help put groceries away.
"Did you check out my ad?" Jasper asked eyeing the newspaper in Emmett's hand.
"Yeah man..but I don't think it's going to give you the response you wanted," Emmett replied as he placed the paper in front of Jasper and Jasper picked it up to find his ad.
"Expert handyman that will service your needs" he read and looked at Emmett "Tell me that isn't good," Jasper questioned to his friend.
"Good for a laugh," Emmet said as he laughed a little and grabbed the paper "Your ad is in the personals, while your beeper number is in the swingles section," Emmet said pointing to where Jaspers beeper number was and started laughing again.
"Oh man and it's right next to big butt blondes at the Sam Connection," Jasper saw and shook his head then his beeper started ringing. Jasper looked to the number and looked at Emmett. "I'm scared Em," Jasper said faintly as he walked toward the kitchen phone to call the number.
"Soooooo what is Mr. Lover Man doing cruising the personals," Rose asked walking up behind Emmett.
"Baby I was looking for a much needed date," Emmett began and Rose hummed "For you," Emmet finished and Rose walked away from him with her left eye twitching in annoyance.
"Yes ma'am, expert handyman that will service your needs," Jasper said over the phone to the person that paged him and paused "you want me to what? Ummm I'm sorry but shouldn't your husband be fixing that," Jasper said looking bewildered over the phone call.
"Maybe her husband isn't handy like you," Alice said as she walked over to Jasper unaware of what the situation was and Jasper gave her a timid smile while blushing.
"I'm sorry lady but the answer is no, there was a mix up in the ad and I'm pretty sure we violating some kind of FCC rule talking like this…goodbye," Jasper said and hung up the phone quickly as Tanya made her entrance into the kitchen going straight for the refrigerator grabbing something to drink. Bella who was now standing at the cabinet by the refrigerator turned to Tanya.
"Hey Tanya what's up?" she asked as she looked at Tanya while walking back to the table.
"Yeah, you look tired Tanya," Alice commented as she looked at Tanya.
"Ughhh I just gave Charles his walking papers," Tanya replied as she walked over towards Emmett and he turned in his seat to look at Tanya "and it's such a drain trying to break up with someone delicately, you know the routine" she said as she tapped Emmett lightly on the shoulder because she knew he knew "its me, it now you, of course we will still be friends, blah blah blah cry cry cry hug hug hug..okay bye" she said as she used her hand to talk giving examples while Emmett followed her on que.
"You dumped him?" Rose asked as Bella was beside her.
"Yep" Tanya replied.
"Any hard feelings?" Rose questioned again with intrest.
"Not on my part," Tanya replied looking at Rose.
"So Charles is free?" Rose asked and Bella looked up at Rose.
"Rose…stop," Bella cautiously said eyeing Rose suspiciously.
"What?" Rise asked innocently towards Bella.
"I know that look…it's the same look you gave the Meat Man an hour ago," Bella said as she pointed at Rose. "Don't go after Charles," Bella warned as she picked up a magazine and Jaspers beeper began to ring again causing everyone to look in his direction.
"Bella relax Tanya doesn't care," Rose said to Bella then turned her attention back to Tanya "Tanya do you care if I give Charles a call?" she asked as Tanya walked towards her.
"No girl I don't care, give him a call," Tanya replied as she pulled up a chair at the table with Bella and Rose. "Why do we have so much meat?" Tanya asked as she sat down.
"Ummm ma'am, you are breathing kind of hard," Jasper said on the phone call that paged him. "You want to call me back after you catch your breath?" he asked as Alice and Emmett looked over to him.
Sunday Morning
Bella was standing in her living room in her church attire while Alice was on the couch going through her purse when Bella heard a knock at her door and she went to open the door revealing Edward who was in his church suit. He entered the apartment giving Bella a kiss on her cheek as a greeting.
"Hey Bells," he said with a smile.
"Where have you been last few days?" she asked as she leaned in to fix his tie.
"Last minute business trip," he replied as he let her fix his tie with no fuss. Then there was another knock at the door so Bella went to answer that as well and in came Jasper, but before he could even enter the apartment his beeper went off.
"Man am I ready for church today," Jasper said as he walked in "Take it from me Bella never put your ad in a paper," he said as he walked further in.
"Still popular with the pervs huh?" she asked as she sat near Edward and Edward looked at her confusingly "I'll tell you later" she said in a low tone.
"Why don't you just turn you beeper off Jasper?" Alice asked from her position on the couch.
"Oh sure I just turn my beeper off and as soon as I do that that's when someone's tub over flows, then the water leaks through the floors onto a stove then puts the pilot light out next thing you know the whole damn building blows up," he responded picking up the phone.
"Nevermind I don't want to know," Edward said as he was more than happy not to be in the know. Just then Tanya came down the stairs in her revealing church attire and Edward whistles at her earning a slap on the shoulder from Bella.
"This is okay for church right," Tanya asked showing off her dress.
"That's between you and your God," Bella replied as she shook her head. Then Tanya looked up smiling as if she was showing God her outfit and walked over to the mirror when another knock at the door came and Rose just let herself in.
"Rose," Bella greeted as she got off the couch "okay let go," she said as she was ready to get to church since Emmett was going to meet them there.
"Actually I wont be going with yall, I will be attending church then brunch in the park…with Charles," Rose announced and Tanya turned around.
"Charles?" she asked looking at Rose.
"Hey, both of you are dating men named Charles," Alice said leaning in front of Edward pointing to both Rose and Tanya.
"You are just destined to be a step behind aren't you," Bella said looking to her cousin as she smiled and shook her head.
"Tanya, you are okay with this aren't you," Rose asked smiling a little uncomfortably.
"Oh yes I'm fine," Tanya replied with a tight smile and turned back to the mirror.
"I just want to say that I am happily not in the know of things right now" Edward voiced as he looked around feeling that maybe it was a good thing he was confused.
"Great..so who has the stockings," Rose asked changing the subject.
"Here you go," Alice said as she pulled it out of her purse "but could I get the egg back, I want to make Christmas ornaments," she said as she passed the object to Rose.
"Ummmm okay," Rose replied and in walked Charles through the door.
"Hey Rose, I thought I may find you here," he said as he spotted Rose and Tanya turned around to look at Charles who was standing in her apartment next to Rose and Rose placed a forced smile on her face and Charles turned to Tanya.
"Um hey tanya," he greeted awkwardly as he rubbed his hands together.
"Hello Charles," she greeted as well and the whole room fell awkwardly silent for a few seconds as Rose still had a forced smile on her face.
"Awkward moment huh," Charles nervously chuckled pointing out the obvious.
"Oh nah, Haha, not at all," Tanya said giving off a laugh waving her hand dismissively as Rose still had the forced awkward smile on her face.
"Well..um..Rose are you ready to go?" he asked ready to high tail it out the apartment.
"Yes, if you are," Rose answered and her and Charles began exiting.
"Okay have fun..say a prayer for me…kisses," Tanya said as she followed them to the door to let them out and she firmly closed the door "Tramp," she said out loud with a stern look turning around to Jasper, Bella, Edward (who was still confused), and Alice who all witnessed the awkward exchange with her hands perched on her hips.
AN: Uhoh a little trouble just brewed but do you think Rose is wrong in this situation?
I know many of you are wondering where was Edward during most of the chapter but stick with me and answers will be answered lol his job keeps him busy sometimes but he will be in it alot more so this isnt a diss to Edward lovers (I love Edward) but hopefully I will have Pt 2 available by this weekend. Please review and let me know what you guys think so far.
