Chapter Two: Alice's Test
"You shall face a test from each of us in turn." Said Emmett. "and if you pass all of them you get to be in "The Club."" Edward nodded.
"Bagsy I go first." Alice piped out.
"Damn it." Emmett cursed and stamped his foot on the floor. Alice grinned.
"I'll need, Bella, Jasper and five minutes." Her pixyish features were slightly crazed and she grabbed Bella and headed into the kitchen.
Five minutes later Alice emerged from the kitchen holding a gigantic bowl of. . .cereal. Edward, who was sitting at the piano, stared at her as she set it down on the coffee table, he could see what was coming.
"Alice what's. . ." he started but she interrupted him.
"Edward Cullen." She said with an air of triumph about her. "For your first task you must consume this bowl of cereal." Edward put his head in his hands. "But, it isn't that simple." She gestured to the window and Edward looked up. There hung Bella, by her ankles, in the rain. He stood up suddenly. "You have to eat it before Bella hit the ground." She looked immensely proud of herself. She handed him a gigantic silver spoon and Edward approached the swimming pool of utter filth he would be forced to eat. He turned back to Alice, about to plead with her, to beg her but she silenced him with a shake of her head. He knelt done beside the basin and glanced outside once more, Bella was swinging precariously in the breeze.
"Your time will start when you take your first spoonful." Said Alice sombrely
Edward closed his eyes and picked up the ladle-like spoon. He dipped it into the pool of gloop and it made slurping sound as though it was getting sucked under. He lifted it out slowly and brought it up to his lips.
"God what one will do for love." He whispered. Alice scowled.
"Zippet frosties boy"
Edward glared at her but reluctantly shoved the first shovel full into his perfect mouth. He let out a grown of disgust and Alice signalled to Jasper who was hanging from the top of the window frame, he leaped up and started to lower Bella slowly down. In actual fact Bella was completely safe and dry because Jasper had taken two precautions. The first was to attach an umbrella to the aerial that stuck out of the chimney so that it was directly above Bella and the second was a large trampoline positioned directly under the window just out of sight.
Edward shovelled furiously covering every inch of his clothes, hair and skin in milk and assorted cereals. He had a cheerio in his ear, several cornflakes in his hair and shreddies littering his shoulders.
Bella was half down now, swinging dangerously in the wind, Edward didn't take his eyes of her as he crammed wheatabix down his throat. He was nearly finished he just needed to drink "the milk" Edward scoped it up with the spoon but he did it so quickly that most of it ended up back in the bowl. He cursed, cheerio's still dribbling from his mouth. Jasper let Bella drop a couple of inches and she let out a high pitched squeak. Edward became more frantic and he picked up the bowl, chugging down the putridly sweat liquid. He set down the bowl with such force that the glass table smashed ear splittingly loudly.
"Oh god, that the fifth time Esme's had to replace that stupid table this month, why don't we just get a wooden one?" Rosalie said, staring down at the mess.
Edward looked out the window, Bella was still swinging, she gave him the thumbs up and smiled. He beamed at her but his grin turned to a look of horror as she dropped suddenly out of sight. Fortunately she bounced up a moment later otherwise Edward probably would have screamed like a little girl.
She clambered down from the trampoline and came running into the house, through herself into Edward's arms.
"You were so brave!" she squealed.
"It was only a bowl of cereal." Muttered Emmett "My challenge. . ." he trawled of and started muttering darkly to himself.
"So am I in?" Edward asked cheerfully.
"No! You have to do a task from each of us!" said Rosalie quickly.
"Ok who's next?" he said confidently.
"I think Bella should go next." said Jasper emerging from upstairs and grinning at everyone.
"Okay." said Edward turning to her. "What's you task?"