Alice POV

Finally Friday was here. Thursday dragged on, and nothing exciting happened. Except I did make plans with Bella to go costume shopping today after school in Port Angeles. Therefore today I was still debating on my outfit for the party. After morning classes I spotted Bella so we walked to our next class together. "Have you decided on a costume?" I asked.

Bella looked at me shyly, "No, I was hoping you'd --"

"Help? Of course!" I smiled, she looked down at her feet. "I need your help too, I still have no idea. Is Jasper going?"

"Shopping? No, never," She chuckled.

"No to the party!" I don't think she has a clue that I think her brother is totally gorgeous.

"Yeah, um, I believe so," I tried not to show how excited I was that he was probably coming, so I just shrugged. The she asked, "Is Edward driving us to the city?"

"Nope, I am!" I was excited. "Edward has to take his Volvo to get fixed, and Rosalie is helping Emmett get ready for tonight, sooo Edward suggested I just take my car."

"Alright," She didn't seem as excited as me, but we were about to part ways as the warning bell rang. "I'll see you at lunch." I turned around and ran into none other than my brother.

"Get to class, Alice," He huffed. I smirked and walked to my class, glad to be away from him. My next class happened to be Social Studies... not really my favorite. Luckily I sit in the back so I can get away with checking my phone for any new texts. Alice, I need a costume. Buy me one, please. I guess that means Edward will be going to the party tonight. However my stress level has now gone up, three costumes I have to think of! Will do! I responded back to him. Lunch came, and went, then the end of the day suddenly appeared.

I got to my locker to find Bella waiting for me, she was chatting with my brother. "Ready for shopping?!" I smiled as I approached and opened my locker. She nodded and Edward rolled his eyes. Personally I was ready for shopping, for some girl time with my best friend. Edward said farewell then whispered something to Bella that made her laugh, and I was about to question it when he caught my eye. "Hey," I tried to play it cool.

"Hey, Alice," He turned and smiled back at me. "Bella, Mom gave me money for your costume. So here."

"Thanks," Bella took the twenty and smiled. Jasper nodded, then departed with a second glance back at me. That was enough to make my weekend, no my year. "You, ready yet?" I realized Bella was still standing there.

"Yeah, let's go," We headed out to the parking lot, to find it mostly empty. Finally at 2:30 pm we were headed to shop.

Minutes passed but it felt like seconds, when I realized that I needed to stop for gas. Luckily there was a station on the next corner. I pulled in and there were a couple teenage guys pumping gas into their truck at the pump next to us. I checked my appearance in the mirror before getting out. "I'll meet you inside," I heard Bella say and I nodded. I smiled at the two guys as I swiped my credit card and began fueling. One approached the car and suddenly all the talks my dad had with me about being respected by men flashed through my head.

His hand slowly felt the car, "This is a nice car." I should have known that all they'd care about it my car.

"Yeah, I love it," I leaned on the car next to me. "I like your truck too," That was my lame attempt at flirting. He smiled and nodded, but then his friend yelled his name and they waved goodbye. I shrugged it off, and my car was full of fuel. Bella was inside getting a icee and I decided to join her.

"Any luck with the guys out there?" Bella laughed. I grimaced. "They weren't your type anyways," She reassured. I paid for the drinks, and we got back in to the car to finish what we headed out to do. The city was now in sight, however it didn't look as magical in the daylight. I parked right in front of the little store they had set up for just for the month of October. We had 2 hours to shop, because we only had that many quarters to put in the meter.

"I want something girly, and... perfect!" I walked right over to one of the many racks of costumes. "Do you like it?"

"Oui," Bella appropriately responded to the French Maid costume I help up. We both laughed and had to walk away from each other before we got kicked out. I tried to discreetly slurp some of my icee that I hid in my oversize tote bag. Neither of us had time to finish our drinks by the time we arrived at the store, and they were sure to melt in the car, even in the chilly weather of Washington. So we decided to carefully stand the icees in our bags to enjoy while costume shopping.

"Oh! I have to find a costume for Edward too," I rejoined with my best friend after our laughing fit was over. I took another sip of my icee and smiled in triumphant because one costume down, two to go.

Bella POV

Thursday at school was pretty normal. I discovered the big talk at lunch I missed out on Wednesday, when I was zoned out, was about the big Halloween Party Friday night at Emmet's. Alice already roped me into going costume shopping in Port Angeles with her after school Friday. I wasn't really all into this party thing until I realized Edward might be going. I would have to ask Alice, in a total nonchalant way and confirm my hopes. I'm not sure that I could ever tell Alice that I loved her brother, let alone her twin. I just don't know how she'd take it and I wasn't willing to stake our friendship on it. Plus the chances of Edward liking someone like me were slim to none. So as far as I saw it, there was not even a slight reason to chance my best friendship on something that was never going to happen anyway. So I'd just keep on suffering in silence. I also had absolutely no idea what to wear as a costume, would have to ask Alice about that too.

Friday rolled around and before I knew it was between second and third hour and Alice met up with me in the hall. I learned that while Edward was going to the party, he wasn't going to drive us to Port Angeles, because his car was going to be in the shop, getting the tail light repaired. I suppose I could have just asked Edward himself but I didn't want him to know I was that interested in him. Math and lunch were just like any other day. Edward and I also had advanced physics together for our last hour of the day so that class was another one of my favorites and then we'd always walk to his locker together so I could meet up with Alice. While we waited at the lockers Edward and I were joking about the boring physics movie we'd just endured and how absolutely no one in the class watched it. Alice strolled up, shortly followed by Jasper who gave me money for my costume. Even though it was assumed Alice would be buying mine since she always did, her parents had a lot of money and were very generous and she probably already felt she owed it to me for dragging me along on this shopping trip. We walked out to her very vivid yellow Porsche in the parking lot and took off for the city, only stopping for gas and icees.

Of course Alice found a cute costume that she'd look gorgeous in within ten seconds of being in the store. She really is the best shopper I've ever met. As soon as she said had to find Edward a costume, I got a goofy smile across my face that I quickly diminished. We spent the next two hours going over every inch of that costume shop until Alice was convinced that not only I, but Edward too had the perfect costumes. I tried on countless cutesy costumes that didn't go past my knees, in which I felt extremely uncomfortable in. Finally my costume came in the form of a form fitting but not too revealing angel costume. Alice shrieked and exclaimed, "Bella you look beautiful!" when I came timidly out of the dressing room. I looked in the mirror and I did look girly and I wanted to look good for Edward and not be so obvious about it. I decided this was the one, if Edward was suspicious, I could just put it off as Alice's idea. Alice also knew Edward wouldn't be entirely thrilled about a full out costume so just got him a cape and vampire teeth. As I suspected, Alice picked up the eighty-five dollar price tag on my costume along with hers and Edward's, thinking nothing of it, she just swiped her limitless credit card as I thanked her graciously.

As we made our way back to Forks, our new costumes in tow, I couldn't help but think of all the possibilities of the interactions I would have with Edward tonight. I would not really talk to him at all, talk to him a little, or talk to him a lot. Of course, I was hoping for the third possibility. I was enjoying the drive with Alice, and the time to just talk alone. She is the sister I never had. She's always got my back and we have fun together. As we talk she casually inquires as to what Jasper will be wearing tonight and I reply with my hearing of talk of a pirate costume or something of the sort. Alice wouldn't take no for an answer when she asked me to let her do my hair and makeup so I reluctantly agreed and surreptitiously thought it'd be fun to get all dolled up for a change, so we headed back to the Cullen mansion to start getting ready and I was secretly hoping to see a soon to be vampire while I was there.

End Notes: Trying to get a Chapter up every few days. Some will be longer than others, whatever we feel like the topic needs. Thanks for reading!