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Chapter 2: Getting Ready

BPOV

The mall, how I hate it but here I am being dragged into it by my two best friends.

"Finally we are here!" Alice sighed like she hadn't been here in forever. Which is not true she was here yesterday! "What should we get first?" She asked us.

"Well I am in desperate need of a new bathing suit." said Rose.

"Okay bathing suits first, then clothes, then shoes and accessories, and anything else last." Alice said already moving towards Swim Suit Land. Why we even had one in Forks I don't know. For God's sake it is Forks, I mean it's not like we can go swimming here anyway.

When we got there I stood to the side while Rose and Alice looked through all of the swimsuits. I knew better than to get in their way when they were in shopping mode and they really did have a good taste in clothes. It was just some were a little too reveling for my liking. After about two minutes they came back over to me with a bunch of swim suits for me to try on. Then like always I walked into the changing rooms to change and then show them how it looked.

The first one was cute, it was a jade jewelled bandeau top and scoop bottom. I put it on and stepped out of the changing room. I had learned from previous experiences not to even look in the mirror.

Alice's eyes lit up and she opened her mouth to say something, but she was interrupted by wolf whistles. Rose turned and glared at the immature guys while I blushed furiously.

"Hey losers!" Rose yelled as she stormed over there.

"Oh God." I groaned quietly.

Alice giggled. "Bella as I was about to say before I was interrupted, you look great!"

"I think it's too revealing." I sighed.

"Bella, you have a body. Show it off!" Rose laughed as she came up behind me. "Those guys think so too." Then Alice and Rose started laughing.

"Great, just great." I mumbled.

Rose laughed. "Well anyway you are getting that so suck it up." She then slapped my butt and winked at me as I walked back in to the changing room. The next one I tried on I really liked. It was a teal ruched halter tankini top and bow-tie bottom. They both liked it, but I heard Rose mumble something like 'not revealing enough'. So it went on like this for a while some they loved, and some they criticized. Rose even went so far as to call me pale, she is such a hypocrite. We live in Forks, we are all pale. Finally after I was done, it was their turn. Of course they looked amazing. When we left we each had at least nine or ten. I thought that was ridiculous but you tell that to Rose and Alice.

"Okay now we need clothes and lots of them!" Giggled Alice. I groaned this could not be good for me. If it took us an hour to just get the bathing suits, I would be here all day!

They went crazy, from store to store I tried on all the clothes they gave me and didn't complain. They were all cute and they were being nice so they didn't give me anything to revealing. We got everything from dresses to swim cover-ups to pants. I didn't like dresses but I got some anyway because Alice said I would need them and you never bet against Alice. Everything Alice and Rose tried on was fabulous on them and I looked okay. They kept telling me I looked gorgeous, but I don't believe them.

Then we went to the food court to take a break and eat. I got pizza and went back to find Rose and Alice who had found a table. Rosalie had gotten a sandwich from Subway, and Alice had gotten Japanese from Little Tokyo.

"Okay now we need to hurry so we can go back to shopping!" Alice commanded.

"Ah! Alice my feet hurt can't we call it quits for today?" I pleaded as I took a bite of my pizza.

"Bella we have to pack tomorrow so we have to get everything today if we are going to have it all ready for the flight the day after tomorrow." Rose said.

"Yeah Bella and I promise we won't stay longer than two more hours." Alice pleaded.

"Okay but we are leaving at 8:00 okay?" I asked.

"Sure! Oh by the way can we spend the night at yours Bells?" asked Rose. They knew when they called me Bells I couldn't say no to them.

"Okay but why do you guys need to stay at my place?" I was confused why would they want to stay at my place seeing as their houses were nicer than mine.

"Well there are some last minute details we need to take care of and we need to do them together and you probably want to spend some time with Charlie before we leave." Rose explained. It made sense because now was probably the only time I could spend with Charlie because tomorrow was packing and we left early the next day.

"Yeah sure, it's fine with me." I told them.

"So Rose what happened to those guys?" I asked, genuinely curious.

"Okay so I went over there, right? And I was yelling at them and telling them how disgusting they were and I started to walk away when one smart ass guy whistled. So I turned around and four of the guys looked like they were going to piss their pants, but the other looked all cocky. So I walked over there and punched him so hard he passed out. His friends ditched him and ran out." She sounded so proud of herself. I started laughing and Alice giggled while raising her eyebrow at Rose. Who was beaming. "What? He deserved it!"

"He did." Alice agreed. "Well I'm done...now lets go finish shopping!"

Then we went and got shoes and accessories. It was horrible I had absolutely no say so what so ever and so I ended up with mostly pumps and heels. I mean they were cute, but dangerous to me. They got me some sensible shoes but not many. Then I just let them go wild with accessories and purses because I didn't really care.

"Now what do we need?" I asked them mainly because I didn't think there was anything left to get, not really out of curiosity.

"Well..." started Rose, "We need cosmetics and such and toiletries from Bath and Body works. I'm pretty sure thats it though." Then Rose and Alice exchanged a look. I raised my eyebrows at them, but I let it go.

"Well come on lets go." said Rose nervously.

After we finished getting make-up, we went to Bath and Body Works. I love that store it smells so good. We were quick in there and we were walking to the doors when Rose and Alice started going the wrong way.

"Where are you going the cars this way?" I asked confused.

"Well me and Rose need to get some new underwear." Alice said. So I was dragged along with them to Victoria's Secret. What I didn't know is they were also looking for me. After they were done they gave me a pile so big I couldn't see and told me I was just helping them carry them. Then they threw me into a changing room and told me I wasn't coming out until I showed them all of them. Eventually I just gave in and they grinned victoriously. Then when I refused to buy them they bought them for me. I felt dirty, I officially owned lingerie.

When we got back to my house Charlie was already home.

"Hi dad!" Alice and Rose chimed.

"Hey dad." I said laughing at Rose and Alice.

"Hello girls did you have fun?" He asked.

"Something like that," I muttered, " Did you eat?"

"Yeah."

"Okay well we're going upstairs, see you later." I said.

"Fine, you girls have fun." Charlie said as I grabbed three cokes and some chips. We ran up to my room.

"Now I'm going to call all the hotels and make sure our reservations are still there. And Rose you can call the airlines and makes sure nothing has changed on our flight. Bella you call and make sure your car is in New Hampshire at my beach house." Alice said. The beach house was our place to stay while in New Hampshire.

"Sure whatever." Rose and I said. After we all finished our calls we hung out and watched movies until we eventually fell asleep.

When I got up I made French toast. Alice and Rose came skipping down the stairs a couple minutes later.

"Dear Bella, Alice, and Rosalie, I left for work I'll see you later. Don't burn down the house! Love Charlie." Alice read Charlie's note aloud, trying to imitate his gruff voice. "He just won't let me live that down will he?" She asked.

"Well Alice dear, you did almost burn down Bella's kitchen." Rose laughed.

"It was an accident!" She pouted.

I laughed and popped in Gilmore Girls which we watched starting from season one while we packed. We kept breaking into pillow fights so we didn't get finished.

"Hey Bella we have to go home to get some stuff we'll be back in about an hour. Take a shower and get dressed and we will be back." Rose informed me.

"Oh please make lunch. I will be hungry." Alice clapped her hands at me like I was her maid. I, of course being very mature, stuck my tongue out at her.

"Ladies, ladies," Rose laughed. "Break it up. Come on Alice, we must be off.

So I did as instructed and showered and then made burgers for lunch.

"Honey, I'm home!" Alice laughed as she grabbed a burger. I rolled my eyes at her and grabbed Rose and me a burger. Then we continued packing with Gilmore Girls buzzing in the background. Finally after taking half of Alice's stuff out we each had three suitcases and a carry on bag. We ordered pizza just as Charlie was coming home. After dinner Alice and Rose went home to pack a small overnight bag, since they didn't want to mess with their suitcases, and say good bye to their parents.

I talked with Charlie until he was about to fall asleep.

"Dad I think you should go to bed. You're about to pass out." I said.

"Yeah I think I will. I'll see you in the morning, kid." Charlie said gruffly as he walked up the stairs.

I chuckled quietly and heard a car pull up. I jumped up and opened the door to see Alice and Rose hop out of Alice's yellow Porsche.

"Yellow!" Alice whisper yelled as she slipped past me with Rose. I rolled my eyes as we ran upstairs and crashed onto my bed. We had to get up at 5:00 to make it to our 9:00 flight because Alice and Rose took forever to get ready, and we had to be there an hour early and it took a while to get to Seattle.

"Good night!" We all said at the same time. We laughed and I set the alarm clock then fell asleep.

AN: Swimsuits on homepage. Review please! I love you guys!

Once again thanks to my wonderful beta An End Has A Start!

*Kristen*