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Chapter 3

We all- even the ghosts –sat in the living room waiting anxiously for the morning to come…

"So," Henri Thomas said breaking the long silence at 2:15 AM. "What are they like?" he asked. You didn't have to be a mind reader to know what he was getting at. He wanted to know how far you could go pranking them.

"You can't," I said flatly.

"Why not?" Emmett moaned.

"Because they'll take it the wrong way and try to kill us," Alice snapped. She had been concentrating hard all night.

"Wait! Try? Try to kill us? They'll try?" Henri Thomas said. He and Emmett were grinning from ear to ear.

"Please do not even try thinking about it," Carlisle said with a sigh.

"We need a plan," Jasper said as he stood up and walked over to the window where Carlisle stood looking out into the forest. "I mean on how to tell them."

"I think the ghosts should stay at the back of the house until we introduce the fact that we are running a hotel. We'll bring up the hotel after I introduce everyone," Carlisle said calmly. He turned around and gave the hardest look he could to Henri Thomas. "Is that clear?"

"Crystal," Henri Thomas said flatly.

"When will they know to come out?" Esme asked.

"Bella bit me so I have advanced hearing," Catherine said. "I'll know. And not before," she said glaring at Henri Thomas who shrunk under his mother's gaze.

We were all hungry for distractions so we ate up this one like there was no tomorrow.

"How does that work?" Carlisle asked.

"When I'm ready to go on I won't be able to. I'll just become a vampire. Bella and I were discussing it the other day. I think she was a vampire ghost and I'm ghost vampire or something like that," Catherine explained. She was smoothing over her old dark blue sixteenth century dress that she always wore

"Did you bite anyone else?" Carlisle asked Bella.

"No. But Catherine bit the twins so we'll never get rid of them," she said faking a shudder trying to lighten the mood.

"Hey!" Henri Thomas said feigning hurt. "She also bit Harriet, Master Lawrence and Helen. So for John it shall be all of Helen's shows for the rest of eternity!" he crowed making John shutter involuntarily. I couldn't help but smile a little.

"What time is it?" Rosalie asked impatiently.

"Around 2:45," Alice said. "Bella can you let me dress you?" she asked. Her stress lessened at the prospect.

"No!" Bella shrieked. She jumped on to my lap trying to get away from Alice.

I laughed pulling her tighter against me. I looked into her eyes and immediately forgot about everything but my wife. "I love you," whispered softly.

"I love you, too," she whispered back.

"Bella!" Alice moaned.

"I'm sorry I can't subject myself to that torture," Bella told Alice.

"Can't you please just for this once?" she said giving Bella puppy dog eyes. "It will help with my stress."

"Fine," Bella groaned pulling herself up reluctantly. Alice was already jumping up and down. She was excited beyond belief. Alice half dragged Bella upstairs.

I could hear Bella groaning every few minutes. I considered rescuing her but I would be insane to subject myself to Alice's anger. I then started to wonder who was more dangerous. Alice or the Volturi?

I heard Bella moan again and I decided to save her from Alice.

"Don't you dare! Don't even think about it Edward Cullen!" Alice shrieked at me from upstairs. I sighed. I was defeated before I had begun.

Bella was suddenly sitting on my lap. She looked beautiful. I was pulled into her eyes almost at once. I forgot what was going on around me until Alice spoke.

"What time is it?"

"Around 6:15," Carlisle said looking at his watch.

"They'll be here at 9:00," Alice said and started to tense. We phoned the school at around 8:00 to tell them that we would not be there for a few days. Same with Carlisle and the hospital. It seemed right just in case the Volturi decided to stay longer then planned. I shuddered at the thought.

At 8:57 Alice hissed. All she said was, "They're here."