So... It took me a few weeks, but I've finished.

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Millionaire Hotspot


"Honestly, sorry about my brother. I promise that he's not always such a barbarian." She rolled her eyes. We were in her bedroom and Alice was lying on her bed. Her big ginormous bed. It was bigger than a king size bed. And it was purple. Very, very purple.

"Um," Bella tore her eyes away from the bright coloured bedding and focussed on the little pixie going through what they had bought earlier that day. "It's fine." She was used to getting judged. It seemed like the Millionaire Hotspot was just like another place except she was the poor one.

Alice split the clothes she had bought into two piles, "It's not. He was being such an asshole."

Bella stayed silent, unwilling to contradict her but also unwilling to agree. Instead, she chose the safer ground, avoiding the topic altogether. "Why are you splitting the clothes?"

"Oh, well one pile is one that I'll actually wear. The other is the pile I'll return to the shop." Alice looked on wistfully at the smaller, yet decisively more flashy pile of clothes.

"Why are you returning them?"

Alice rolled her eyes again, "Because I'm never going to wear them, silly."

"Then why did you buy them?" Bella was getting more confused.

"Because I wanted to own them for a while, even if it was only a minute." Alice spoke as if speaking to a child. Bella stayed silent then. She supposed that's the norm for anyone who was born into wealth. She, who still remembered the stress her father went through in order to appease Renée's money loving side, wouldn't understand what someone like the Cullens, born with wealth, way of thinking.

She shrugged it off mentally and dived into calmer waters, gossip.


It was well into the evening when Bella came home from her rendezvous at the Cullen's house.

"Did you have fun?"

Bella spun around quickly. "Emmett? How are you home?" She paused for a second, "You aren't ditching again are you?"

Emmett pulled a mock sad face. "My first day in the office, and you think I'm slacking. Oh, the shame!" He pretended to swoon.

Bella rolled her eyes and trudged up the stairs. "Seriously though, does Mr Cullen know you're not at work?"

Emmett followed Bella up the stairs like a bored puppy. "He looked a bit shaken after you left. Said I could leave early, the poor guy."

"I am so sorry, I didn't mean to cause anything like that." Bella felt her face flush, remembering the embarrassment afterwards, the silence of Mr Cullen, the hot flush down her neck, the shame when Mr Cullen stormed out of the room.

"Aw, Belly, it's alright. Eddie probably had a bad day or something. He wasn't that bad to me."

So he hates me now, Bella thought disgruntled. Just because he was a Cullen, and she was just a Swan.

"Don't worry your pretty little head about it, Belly. Eddie's sweet side will come out soon." Emmett patted her head lightly before giving her a quick noogie.

"Ow! Emmett!" Bella squealed as she chased her brother all around the Swan household.


EPOV

Why are you doing this? Get out of the driveway. I mean it Cullen, you look like some kind of stalker. He debated to and fro in his mind, only interrupted by the buzz of his phone.

"Cullen." He barked.

"No, 'Hi dearest sister, how do you do?'" A sarcastic voice drawled.

He growled, "You're sounding more and more like Jasper every day. Be careful, Alice-"

"He might just be using for money and dump him whenever he starts to ask you to pay for things." Alice growled deeply, in what Edward assumed to be an impression of himself, "It'll start small but it'll escalate quickly if you don't shut it down. Honestly, dear brother. You could write a whole lecture on that topic."

Edward growled again. "Nice kitty." Alice cooed.

Frustrated Edward yelled into the phone, "What do you want, Alice?"

"What are you doing in the Swan's driveway?"*

Edward balked, "What? I'm not in their driveway." He could almost see her eyebrow cocked, "Alright, so I am. I'm waiting for Emmett."

Alice sighed. "Brother, how long have we been siblings for?"

"20 years." Edward grumbled.

"And in those 20 years of my existence, when could I not tell when you were lying?"

"Never." He pouted, sounding like a child.

"So do you think I'm suddenly going to not see the light now?" Edward stayed silent. "I thought so, and if you really wanted to see Bella, then you could have just told me. I'll invite her to the weekly Cullen dinner."

"Alice, don't."

"Please, brother. It was Esme who invited her you know."

Edward closed his eyes. Esme, of course. How could he not have realised. It was entirely like his mother to meddle in his affairs. After the first disaster, he hoped she would stop, but after inviting the Swan family over he could see that was not the case.

"Don't tell me you didn't think of this before, brother. She looks almost exactly like her. Déjà vu?"

All Edward did was slam his head into the driving wheel.


Ooh. Esme up to her old plotting again.

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P.s What do you guys think of the relationship between Edward and Alice?