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Chapter 4: Show Stopping
When he finally let me go I felt empty, as though my body was made to be in his arms. I just wanted to keep making excuses to be in his arms or at least hold his hand, man what is wrong with me? I don't know if he is some creepy stalker or something and I keep thinking about being with him and getting married and having babies. Well if I were getting married I would want a destination wedding maybe Disneyworld, having Mickey Mouse marry us in front of Cinderella's castle would be perfect. Wait what? What is he asking me? I better pay attention.
"How about the 6 of us go to dinner, I bet your hungry it's been a long day" Edward asked while looking amused at my current lost in thoughts face. Man I need to start practicing how not let my inner dialog get to me.
"Actually that's perfect! I know a great place its not anywhere around here, it's by the beach by our home we don't live anywhere near here in Hollywood." Jasper responded for us girls
"we don't either my parents had a heart attack thinking we would live in the same building as the rest of the acts, something about not trusting us girls near any horny boys," Rosalie scuffed as she was walking towards the parking lot.
"Where are you ladies living, we aren't going to stalk you or anything, well I'm speaking for my self and jasper I don't know about our little boy Eddie here"
"Emmett shut it! That's twice today next time you say something like that your precious baby is going to get it" Edward responded looking slightly amused and slightly irritated.
"No! Don't hurt bertha! She hasn't done anything to you!" Emmett was defending Bertha; Rose looked as she was going to be sick. You could tell she had a big crush on Emmett. I just wanted to hug her, poor Rose.
"Who is Bertha?" asked Alice sneaky little girl she beat me to it.
"Bertha is Emmett's 1967 candy red Chevy Impala, this boy has been restoring this thing since he was in middle school with my dad in our garage and once it was done he has been guarding it with his life, let me warn you don't even look at that thing if I were you. He is very attached to it." Jasper answered Alice, Rose composed herself now knowing that it was just a dumb car and not an actual girl.
"Hey! Bertha is not a thing she is a beautiful woman! And don't you forget! Anyways, back to what I was saying, if it makes you ladies more comfortable I will tell you where we live, we live in Marina Del Rey, it's a quite little town near the famous Venice Beach." Emmett responded.
"Are you serious? We do too! But we live on the beach in a condo on Eastwind St." Alice jumped excitedly.
"What? We are on Fleet St and Pacific Ave right on the Corner." Jasper replied with as much enthusiasm as Alice, these two are made for each other.
"well now, isn't that a coincidence! Well where is restaurant anyway?" I asked Edward since we were the only ones silent this whole time.
"its on Washington it's called Islands Emmett discovered it last week when we moved in and he has been begging for us to go with him but we have been so busy with rehearsing we hadn't had time. Come on lets go you guys."
We all reached the parking lot and my eyes fell upon the most gorgeous candy red car ever, so im guessing this is the infamous Bertha I thought to myself but the funny thing is that Jasper and Edward climbed into the H3 Hummer next to it.
"ohh I get it you guys don't ride together because Emmett thinks you will mess up his baby?" I asked the boys.
"exactly that's why we take 2 cars" Edward yelled to me from the passenger window.
We followed the boys to Islands, then a idea hit me while the girls were talking about the 3 hot boys we just met.
"Hey guys, I have an idea for our next performance, how about we do show stopper by Danity Kane, we have most of the cars they mention In the song and Bertha and the H3 would be even better for the song, how about it? Rose, Alice I need your help getting those cars" I whinnied to the girls
"Perfect! Alice was jumping in her seat
We arrived to the restaurant and it had a tropical theme to it which was cute. Once we had our orders in we all received texts at the same time.
Hello everyone, congrats on making it to round 2 here is your assignment for next week
Pop/R&B OR hip hop but the catch is only singing no instruments and the whole group has to
Participate, you are able to use props since you will be performing in front of an actual audience
Have fun!
-Ben
This is perfect! Now let's get our plan under way.
"So, who's H3 is that?" I whispered to Edward who was sitting across the table from me.
"Jasper's he thinks he is a war hero or something when he is in the big thing, un like him I prefer cars, I own a silver Volvo that's my everyday car then I have a special occasion car," Edward looked away nervously
What is this boy hiding? "What is a 'special occasion' car?"
"It's the car I bring out when I go some where real special or want to be seen"
"Well kind is it?"
"Umm a Maserati"
OMG! This boy has a Maserati I think he is rich or something. He might think I may be a gold digger or something, cue gold digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx.
He looked at me and sighed, he explained that his dad is a successful surgeon in Chicago, where they are from and he never has time for his boys so instead he buys them whatever their hearts desire which explains why Emmett is so attached to Bertha. That was the last real time he spent with his dad, poor guy I feel for him now.
"So guys, we were wondering if we could borrow your cars for this week's performance, we had an idea but it would only work if we used 3 of your cars and please don't make us put on the charm." I looked at Edward through my eyelashes this worked for my mom I wonder if it would help me now. He swallowed hard and just nodded his head. I looked at Alice, and in typical Alice fashion she was using the pout, and of course that scored us the H3. Now on to Rose who had the sexiest pout look I have ever seen this chick is unstoppable but Emmett looked hesitant, but his car is the most important one for the song to work its like making Kool-aid with out sugar, peanut butter with out jelly, you get the picture.
"The only way I am letting you 3 with bertha is under 2 conditions and you have to agree to both if not you can't have her."
"Fine" we all said in unison
"Numero uno, I need to be on stage in front of her making sure no one gets close to her it could be on the side of the stage but I need to keep an eye on her, and numero dos,"he started stroking his chin like he was the god father or something "and if someday we, my brother's and I, require any assistance from you 3 then you will be our beck and call girls."
"Deal" we squealed
"So what song are you performing?" Edward whispered to me
"Sorry honey, you have to wait and see." I winked and got up from the table
The girls follow me out of the restaurant, I actually had a great time with the boys I just hoped to see more of them in the next couple of days. In the parking lot we exchanged phone numbers all 6 of us you know for umm professional purposes.
The next 2 days we spent rehearsing show stopper, It felt like a music video because of all the choreography we needed to learn, we even got a spot for Emmett he will be 'rapping' the Young Joc portion of the song, but we made him promise to keep it a secret from everyone. Tonight was the day of our performance, I went to the beach to clear my head. The sounds of the waves crashing always calmed me for some reason. I was letting the wind play with my hair, I was trying to focus when a ding startled me. I looked at my phone and it was a text from Edward. We had been texting back in forth this week getting to know each other, I learned his love of music, reading, and performing, he even told me about his grandmother who had recently passed away from cancer and the reason why they decided to join the competition was because of her, like paying tribute to her.
Hey B What are you up to?-E
Nothing clearing my head before tonight what about you?-B
Same, just thought I check up on my competition- :) –E
Boy please, you know we will wipe the floor with you tonight :p –B
Yeah keep telling yourself that…hey what cars do we need to take for you?-E
Umm, Bertha, the hummer and your maserati that's it-B
Hmm you won't tell me what song your doing? –E
No I told you to wait, Just a few more hours though- B
Well good luck see you soon-E
Bye Hon-B
I sent out the last text and made my way back towards home, Alice was eagerly awaiting my arrival in one hand she had the curling iron and the other a make up brush, great Barbie Bella begins again.
After 3 hours of hair pulling, make up layers being applied we were on our way to the theater of course we all drove alone, Rose in her BMW, Alice rented a Mercedes to be more appropriate for the song and I drove my Audi. The boys had already arrived and were waiting by their cars for us. As soon as we stepped out of our cars all I saw was Emmett's, Jasper's and Edward's jaws hit the floor. Rose, Alice and I were dressed up like Danity Kane from the performance sequence of the video, yeah alice never does anything half ass.
"Wow.. ummm you guys…wow" were the only words coming out of Emmett's mouth.
"Come on, let's get inside and see when we are performing." Alice ran inside before Jasper could catch his breath,
Sure enough we were the first ones to perform and the boys were last. Here come the butterflies I hate going first. We drove our cars on to the stage. I never noticed how big it really was until we put 6 cars up here.
I took a deep breath as the host of the show started welcoming everyone to the show telling everyone how the rules worked. If you like the performances tonight they would need to call the numbers on the screen and vote for their favorites.
"You will do great, I promise " Edward hugged me goodbye and went to take his seat in the front row, great since when did we start hugging?
"And now our first act Bella Swan, Rosalie Hale and Alice Brandon" Ben said and the crown started clapping
I took my place and started singing along to the music
[Rose, Alice and Bella:]
We in the car, we ride slow
We doin' things that the girls don't do
The boys stare, we smile back
All my girls in the rainbow (let's stare boys) Cadillacs, yeah
(Bella)
Show stoppin' at the latest spot
The ride shinin' with the open top
Hydraulics make our heads go nod
Hair blowin' in the breeze
Yo, we superstars
(Alice)
Put in the keys, make that engine purr
3 in the back, one in the passenger
Slow creepin', 'cause we look that fly
All the boys tryin' taste our candy ride
(Rose)
We in the car, we ride slow
We doin' things that the girls don't do
The boys stare, we smile back
All my girls in the rainbow Cadillacs, yeah
(Rose, Alice, Bella)
Bet you ain't never seen (hey)
Chicks ridin' this clean (hey)
Louis Vuitton seats (oh, oh, oh)
We do it deadly
This how we keep it poppin' (hey)
Make sure that bass knockin' (hey)
So when you see us ridin' (oh, oh, oh)
(all girls)
We call it show stoppin'
We show stoppin'
We show, show stoppin'
We show stoppin'
We show, show stoppin'
That's how we keep it poppin' (hey)
Make sure that bass knockin' (hey)
So when you see us ridin' (oh, oh, oh)
We call it show stoppin'
The crowd was eating it up. I could see Jazz and Edward in the front row and as usual Edward was staring at me again, things don't change.
(Rose)
This is for my ladies in the 280s Mercedes
In the H3, Baby Ranges, Bentley Coupes, my Escalades
Say oh (oh), oh (oh, oh)
Break 'em off somethin' proper
Like a real show stopper
(all Girls)
This is for my chicas with the Beamers A6s
'67 Chevys, Maserati, or a Lexus
Say oh, (oh), oh (oh,oh )
Break 'em off somethin' proper
Like a real show stopper
Then Emmett climb out of Bertha started his part
Hey shawty, baby hey
Ain't never seen chicks like this before
Thousand dollar jeans with them candy 6 4's
Louis V sneaks match your Louis V seats
See ya swag like no other, so them other's can't compete
Independent and discrete
Check her VDS piece
Melt in ya mouth like M&Ms, kapeesh
She do whatever she wanna do
Money out the ying yang
Blowin a dollar and the change
In the Rover switchin lanes
Imma take her under my wings, Imma teach her things
She say she got paper cuts from countin all this change
Tell her meet the parents
Like Ben Stiller
Baby say she want them carrots and the chinchillas
(Rose, Alice, Bella)
Bet you ain't never seen (hey)
Chicks ridin' this clean (hey)
Louis Vuitton seats (oh, oh, oh)
We do it deadly
This how we keep it poppin' (hey)
Make sure that bass knockin' (hey)
So when you see us ridin' (oh, oh, oh)
(All girls)
We call it show stoppin'
We show stoppin'
We show, show stoppin'
We show stoppin'
We show, show stoppin'
That's how we keep it poppin' (hey)
Make sure that bass knockin' (hey)
So when you see us ridin' (oh, oh, oh)
We call it show stoppin'
Once we were done the crowed went nuts, we took our places next to each other and faced the judges James a record executive from Atlantic records, Jane a MTV VJ, Aro a very well respected artist manager he had represented Britney and Christina in the begging of their careers.
"well, this a great way to start the show and the competition the other acts have their work cut out for them, you ladies really set the bar high I am very please with what I saw keep doing this and you will make it through to the end" James stated
"I felt like I was watching a music video, with that said Rosalie less ass shaking and more singing next time ok?" Jane looked at Rose and winked, what a bitch.
"What surprised me was the addition to your performance at the end, Emmett is part of another group why bring him to perform with you? Try to keep with in the rules next time ok girls?" Aro looked away seeming bored by our performance great, it was all my fault. As soon as I was off stage I started crying. I ran into our dressing room and collapsed onto the couch. How could I have been so stupid? Why didn't I stick to the rules? Because I wanted to get noticed from the start, man I'm so stupid.
"Bells, are you ok?" the most magical voice called to me, it was Edward. I couldn't look at him, I couldn't make him see me like this I embarrassed myself on national TV and now in front of him.
"Bells look at me love" I looked into his piercing green eyes, man he is so gorgeous.
"Don't let him get you, so what, you had Emmett in a small piece of your performance big deal, that performance was insane you looked gorgeous, you should've seen how everyone kept talking about your performance, the girls after you guys are currently performing an disgusting rendition of milkshake by Kelis its pretty disturbing so I wouldn't worry about getting eliminated next week."
"How did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Make me fell better in the matter of minutes?"
"Well, I don't like to seeing you so sad," he walked closer to me, as he took me into his arms, I felt as thought I belong with him in his arms the whole world melted away "Bella, your smile, your laugh make me happy. I don't know what I would be without you in my life, when I'm not with you I am constantly thinking of you. Your beautiful and I know we barely know each other and I will beating myself up later tonight if I don't ask you now," he looked so nervous, how can this be happening to me, one minute I'm crying my eyes out the next I have Edward telling me I'm beautiful. I like him so much, but he could never really like me in the way I liked him.
"Would you like to, umm be my girl?"
"Are you serious?"
"Yes baby girl I am, I cannot just stay friends with you, your all I ever wanted. So will you be my girlfriend?"
"Yes, Edward I will" I squealed, at that moment I knew what happened before didn't matter, Edward was mine; he would be my rock through this whole competition. His opinion will be the only one that mattered. He bent down to kiss me I felt this spark that I always felt when we touched, it intensified. Kissing him was new favorite thing, we were so into it and then I heard it. "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
A/N: I decided to be nice and do one more chapter today.. if you want anymore.. i need atleast 1 review.. Rate and Review kids!*please *