A Note From Kasey: I guess that is what I will call them now. Anyway, it is officially 12:05 a.m. and Edward Cullen's 107th birthday. I have lost my voice screaming about him.
We stepped inside the bakery, the scent of vanilla, peppermint and cupcakes hitting us full on. Emmett gagged, Jasper grimaced and pinched his nose, Alice puckered up her face like just tasting a lemon, and I managed to keep a normal face, yet inside I was throwing up. As an employee caught sight of us, she happily charged forward to meet us while we adjusted our faces to look normal.
The girl, her nametag reading "Jazz" bounced over to us, looking at each of us. With her golden ringlets and baby blue eyes, she was a very pretty human. "Hey y'all, my name is Jasmine, but y'all can call me Jazz. What can I do for you?" she drawled in her southern accent, leading us to the counter.
"My husband's birthday is tomorrow, and I was hoping to get exactly 17 cupcakes for the party" I told her, and Jazz nodded, her hair flying. "Okay, let me go get y'all some samples, and I'll be back" she said, disappearing into the back. Two minutes later she reappeared with a tray full of cupcake samples. "Fast human" Emmett murmured, and we all cracked up.
Jazz came over, carrying the tray. "I brought out our white cupcake samples. We have Classic, which is chocolate icing and rainbow sprinkles, Plain Jane, which is simply butter-cream icing with a bit of confetti, Lavender, which is lavender flavored and scented icing with a little purple flower on top, and Peppermint Party, which is peppermint icing with white sugar and sparkly green sugar too" she explained to us.
We nodded, staring at the little perfect cupcakes and their scents. "Well, how about each of you pick one and try it?" she asked, gesturing to them. I nodded, and motioned for the others to pick first. "Ooh, I want Peppermint Party!" Emmett cried, grabbing the cupcake and unwrapping it. He happily stuck it in his mouth, before grimacing a bit and swallowing.
"I'll take Classic" Jasper mumbled, grabbing the cupcake and turning away from Jazz. He then stuck it in his mouth, wrapper and all, and gagged as he choked it down. "Lavender for me" Alice announced, also turning around. She stuck it into her mouth and pinched her nose before swallowing. Both turned around, and I picked up the last one, Plain Jane. "It used to fit you Bella" Alice whispered as Jasper and Emmett burst into a fit of giggles at the ironic-ness of the name.
I giggled along with them, unwrapping the cupcake and eating it in two bites. I mentally gagged as I swallowed, then smiled at Jazz, who grinned back. "So, which one will it be?" she asked. "We'll take 17 Plain Janes" I told her, whom nodded and bounced off to go pack up the cupcakes and ring us up. As she did that, we dashed off to the bathroom.
When we came back out, looking and feeling better, Jazz was just finishing ringing us up. I whipped out one of the credit cards given to me when I had married Edward, and handed it to her. Her eyes widened, but she slid it through the slot, and after I chicken-scratched my name on the pad, she handed it back.
Jasmine gave the cupcakes to Jasper, who balanced them on one hand as we all turned around and walked out. Alice and I walked in front, Jasper behind Alice and Emmett behind her. We pushed open the doors, and over the ding of the bell could be heard Jazz's voice calling "have a nice day y'all and come back soon!"
After loading the cupcakes into the trunk and everyone resuming their places in the car, and Alice turning on the radio to a rock station Emmett liked, we drove off. As the boys listened to Rockstar by Nickelback and Alice and I talked more about the party in low voices, the rain lightly splashed down on us, the perfect day.