For once I wanted to stay in P.E. I was not looking forward to shopping with Alice. Knowing her she'd drag me to every store just to look for something to wear.
-Ding-
Class is over. I walk slowly out of the gym towards my car. The first thing I see is a girl with spiky hair bouncing up and down by my car… Alice, I thought. This is going to be a long day.
"Hey Alice…" before I could say anymore I was rushed into my car and Alice took my keys to start the car.
"Alice! We have about four hours! Slow down!" I looked over at how fast she was going… WOAH! 80 MPH!? I didn't get a response she looked so focus on getting to the mall.
"MARY ALICE CULLEN! SLOW DOWN!" I screamed at her. She did comply though, she started going at 60 mph… not that was any better, but it made me feel better nonetheless.
"Bella, we have barely three hours to fix you up for your date tonight! I need to hurry!" This made me think… yes! That means we won't spend a lot of time in the mall! I held back my smile so she wouldn't think I was mocking her.
"Okay okay Alice we're almost there and its only one date, I don't see why it matters how I look" I looked at Alice's expression, it was in complete outrage… maybe I shouldn't have said that.
"BELLA! How could you say that! I have to make you look absolutely perfect tonight! You agreed we'd go to the mall so just deal with it!" she seemed to be calming down a bit, but she started to accelerate as soon as the mall came in view.
"Okay Alice…" I sunk down into my seat afraid she would explode again.
We were finally at the mall; Alice was searching for a parking space, like how she searches for shoes. She finally found a parking space, but since there were two empty spaces next to each other, she badly parked diagonal in the two spaces. I knew this would make a lot of people upset, but Alice didn't care she didn't seem to have time to park in one parking space. As soon as she turned off the car she quickly got out of her seat and was at my door pulling me out.
"COME ON BELLA!!! NO TIME TO WASTE!" She was dragging me into the mall turning her head left and right looking for a specific store. We finally went into Forever 21, I don't normally shop there, but it wasn't a bad store.
She started to look through the clothes, until she handed me a deep blue dress that stopped to the middle of my thigh, and had billowy sleeves and didn't show too much cleavage. I was about to protest at how short the dress was, but Alice cut me off before I could say anything.
"Don't worry I have some skinny jeans you will be wearing with the dress now just go try that on!" She pushed me towards the fitting rooms.
Well if I was going to wear it with some jeans then it should be okay right? I put on the dress in the fitting room, and actually didn't look that bad. I heard a loud knocking on the door I opened it and saw Alice with an approving look on her face.
"Okay, take of the dress and toss it over the door" I didn't want her to pay the dress for me, but before I could protest she gave me a stern look, which made me forget to even try to argue with her.
I closed the dressing room and tossed the dress over. I quickly changed into my clothes and walked out of the dressing room. I went over to wear Alice was who was tapping her foot impatiently. She had already paid for the dress and was holding a box of shoes. How did she buy shoes so quickly?! I was barely gone for more than 10 minutes! Then again it is Alice. I pulled out my phone and saw it was 4:30, no wonder Alice seems so impatient. As soon as Alice saw me she pulled on my arm out of the store towards the exit.
We were back at her house in no time, especially since she started going at 80 mph again. She dragged me up the stairs towards her bathroom that connected to her room. She pushed me in there and told me to take a shower.
I took my time while taking a shower, even though I knew that I was going to get a mouthful from Alice when I got out. When I walked out of the shower there was a pair of black skinny jeans with the blue dress and amazingly she wasn't forcing me into high heels, but instead letting me wear my black converse.
I slipped on the clothes, and went into Alice's room only to be pushed back into the bathroom again. Alice started to pull out hair curlers, a hair straighter, a bit of make up appliances, and a few hair accessories.
"Alice, do I really need all of this for one date?!" there was way too much on her bathroom counter for it all to be used on one date…
"Of course not! I'm just going to use most of it!" I groaned in response and let Alice get to work.
When she was finally done it was about 5:45. I looked at myself in the mirror my bangs were straightened and pulled back into a pin, and my hair had little curls at the bottom. Alice barely put on any make up, but you could still tell she put some on. She applied a little bit of lip gloss, but enough for it not to be too noticeable. She didn't apply any blush, because I obviously didn't need it.
Alice was wearing a yellow dress that went to the top of her knees with black leggings underneath and yellow ballet flats. She also had on a matching black headband. To just sum it up she looked adorable. I assumed Edward and Jasper were down stares, because Alice was rushing us down the stairs, and with my clumsiness I tripped over one of the steps, I put my hands in front of my face, but I never made contact with the floor, instead I felt someone grab me by the waist and pulled me back up.
I turn to see who caught me, and it was Edward and he has his crooked smile on his face. I was surprised to see him smiling, I was sure he'd still be as bad as he was before, but he seemed happier now… I wondered why…
"EDWARD! BELLA! GET DOWN HERE NOW AND LETS GOOOO!!" We laughed in response, which only made Alice even more impatient.
"We better get down there before she rips our heads off" Edward chuckled.
We took our time down the stairs just to make Alice even more annoyed with us, even if she was going to let us have it later, it was worth it to see her face get gradually more annoyed.
I realized when we finally got down the stairs I had no clue where we were going.
"Alice?" I questioned.
"What?!" she seemed very annoyed at me… wondered if I should continue with my question.
"Where are we going?" I heard a soft chuckle behind me and realized it was Edward.
"Alice you took her to the mall and harassed her for about 3 hours and didn't tell her where she was going?" this made Edward laugh even more at just stating this question.
"I was kind of busy before so I never got around to it!" Alice exclaimed.
"Well…?" I said slightly annoyed they still hadn't answered my question.
"Oh! Well it's a surprise!" I groaned in response. "Oh… I forgot to mention Jasper and I won't be accompanying you two" she said with a wide smile.
"WHAT?!" this was not part of the plan… I didn't know they'd be leaving me alone with Edward, but then again I did wanted to get him alone to ask him about earlier, maybe this would be a good thing…
"Bella, if you feel uncomfortable you don't have to come with me" I looked at Edward who looked slightly disappointed, but composed himself very well.
"No, no its fine I just didn't realize we were going to be by ourselves, but its fine" I smiled at him, and in return received a crooked smile that made my heart skip a beat.
Wait… what?! I shouldn't be thinking that way towards him! I was getting over Jacob remember! I can't be having feelings for him this soon anyway… he probably would never think of me that way anyway…
"Well can we go now?" Alice whined, we all just laughed at her as Jasper escorted her out the door.
"Well shall we?" I looked towards Edward as he led me out the door towards his car. Before I could reach my side of the car Edward was already there opening the door for me.
To make things even more embarrassing I blushed and mumbled thank you and got into the car. Somehow this made Edward smile even more, I have no idea how all I did was embarrass myself, but as long as he was smiling I felt better.
I never cared this much about someone's happiness before. Why did I care so much if he was sad or happy? I didn't get it… for most people I would try to make them happy, but then not do anything else. Why was I hoping so much for him to be happy again? Why did I care so much if he told me what happened? I then thought about where we were going… I still didn't know.
"Edward?" I asked.
"Mmm?" he said while glancing at me then looking back at the road.
"Where are we going?" I asked still wondering where he could be possibly taking me, I look at him and he started to smile again.
"That's a surprise" I groaned in response I hated surprises.
"Pleasee?" he just shook his head in response and laughed.
"Be patient, will be there soon its not too far, and I assure you it's not fancy or anything if you're worried about that so relax for a second" he turned to me for a second and gave me a smile and turned back to the road.
"Fine" I crossed my arms and looked out the windows to continue to think of where he was taking me.
A few minutes passed and we were there, he wasn't lying about how it wasn't that far. I looked out the window to see we were at… a playground? Was he serious? I haven't been to a playground since I was little back in Phoenix… suddenly I found an urge into wanting to go to the playground. It was completely empty, so that means I could ask him about earlier… but I didn't want to kill his mood… he seemed so happy now… but I still wanted to know…
He parked the car by the side of the playground, and was at my side of the door to open it for me.
We walked silently towards the playground, and I squealed.
That seemed like a very Alice thing to do, but I haven't been on a playground at least since I was in 5th grade… its been so long… I gave Edward a hug and told him thank you for taking me here.
He seemed to be amused by my reaction, and a bit surprised I liked where he took me so much.
I walked over to the swings and sat down on one of the seats and pushed myself lightly back and forth not wanting to go too high yet. Edward sat down onto the swing next to me, and started to do the same thing. After a few moments of silence I couldn't take it anymore, I had to ask him… it was on my mind all day, and it's been bothering me like crazy.
"Hey Edward… about earlier today… will you tell me now?" I slightly hesitated at my words not wanting to see those sad eyes again, but I failed…
He looked towards me, and I saw the same sad eyes again, the ones I saw before… then he let out a sigh and began to speak…
"Earlier today I was how I was, because the girl I thought I loved didn't love me back… I waited two weeks to hear from her, I was so hopeful she'd tell me she returned the same feelings…" he scoffed and continued on "but I was wrong of course, how did I not see how impossible it was for that to happen? No one has ever loved me, and no one ever will" he said with a defeated sigh.
"That's not true" I said not knowing where my voice came from… what he said made me angry and sad… how could someone reject him that way? Making him wait and replying with a no? Losing all hope? How could anyone do that? I felt a bit of jealousy too… but I don't know why I would be jealous of this situation…
He looked at me with those sad eyes and shook his head "Yes it is"
This made me angry, this girl whoever she was made him think no one would ever love him. I even loved him, it wasn't the way he wanted it, but I still loved him as a friend or was it more? No it couldn't possibly be more, no can't be.
"I love you" I said that with all the strength I could muster in my voice.
He pulled up a half smile, but still with sad eyes, they were a bit lighter now… but I wanted those eyes to go away…
"I meant as in a relationship love, but this works too" I smiled at him glad I somewhat made him feel better.
I never felt so happy before, and I was happy, because I caused someone else to be happy, and this person happened to mean a lot to me after just talking to him more in one day.
"Thank you Bella I feel better now" He smiled at me, and his sad eyes went away, but knowing they would reappear again sometime.
"You're welcome, you know I'm always here" I smiled at him, and I thought I heard him mumble yeah I know, but maybe I was wrong.
It started to get late so we decided to head back home. The ride home was pretty quiet, not many words exchanged between us.
When we arrived to my house, I told Edward thank you for the night, and I was about to exit his car, but then he pulled me back in.
"Wait Bella…" he said looked like he been thinking about something on the whole ride back that he wanted to tell me.
"Yes?" wondering what he could possibly want to tell me.
"I just wanted to say… well thank you for caring… I've never met anyone… who really cared about me so much… and just knowing you care makes me feel a lot better than I did before at school today… so I just wanted to say thank you for that and for going out with me tonight" his eyes were pure happiness when he said this and he gave me a crooked smile…
"I told you I'd always be here, and of course I care, don't every think I don't you don't need to thank me for that, and you're welcome I had a good time, good night Edward" I smiled and looked at him one last time before exiting his car. I thought I heard him whisper goodnight my Bella… could he really have said that? I shook my head at the outrageous thought and continued walking towards the front of my house, I turned and saw Edward was still watching me I waved and went inside.
I realized my heart was beating hard, harder than it ever has before when I was with Jacob. What was this I was feeling? I couldn't be developing feelings for him so soon could I? It's not possible… I can't be… not now he's recovering I can't do that to him… why am I feeling this way? I shook my head and continued to make my way to my bedroom… maybe if I slept on this I'd figure it out…
That was the night I dreamt of Edward Cullen… and the same night I realized I fell for him, before I could tell myself no.
How was that? Was it okay :]? Haha anywho there you go :D! Its kinda well a lot longer than the other chapters but yeah enjoy!