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Sorry it took so long to get this one up…… Life gets in the way some times… LOL
"You need to re think this." Jasper said as he sat next to me on the bed and pulled me into a hug. "You love him, how can you just let him go?"
"Hummm… what part of brother and sister don't you understand?" I asked angrily, as I pushed myself off the bed and went into the bathroom to finish my makeup. Alice and Jasper have been here for an hour now and all they wanted to talk about is me and Edward. Yeah sure I got the normal hugs, and all that Happy Birthday shit, but then it was all 'You are so wrong; how can you just turn your back on love?' I love my two friends with all my heart but I am so wishing they never flew here to celebrate with me. I felt the stinging in my eyes again and pushed it away, I am done crying over everything for the day, this day is mine. I may hate to celebrate my birthday but I am going to shop and party my ass off tonight and just forget all about my problems. I felt Alice's hand on my shoulder; I exhaled deeply and caught her eyes in the mirror. "Can we just forget about all the Edward stuff for today? I will re think everything when we get back home; I just want to pretend nothing happened yesterday and have fun with best friends. Well we are missing Rose, but I understand when you're sick you're sick." I smiled trying to change the subject. Alice wrapped her arms around me and laid her head on my arm. The complete contrast of the two of use was obvious in the mirror. Alice looked like a pixie; 5 foot 2, 80 pounds soaking wet, short jet black hair against pale while skin and hazel eyes that could make any man week at the knees. Me; plain old Bella, Brown hair and eyes, 5 foot 7, 120 (fully naked and exhaling every ounce of air from my body). Hell the only man I ever made week at the knees was Edward, and I still have no idea why.
"Ok Bella, But I am holding you to that. I won't give up on your happiness and neither will Jasper." She smiled and stepped on her tip toes to peck me on the cheek. "Let's go have breakfast and then…..shopping." Alice said as she stared jumping up and down, I heard Jaspers groan from the room and we both started laughing. I heard a knock on the door and looked at Alice.
"I thought they were gonna wait for us in the restaurant? God my mom can be so impatient sometimes." I was more or less mumbling to myself as I walked to the door and opened it. I didn't even get it all the way open before a huge wall slammed into me and wrapped me in steal. "Emmett?" I screamed as he slammed me onto the bed, and started tickling me.
"Happy Birthday Bella." He laughed. "Did we surprise you?"
"We….. You mean…" I push Emmett off me and threw myself at my other best friend. "ROSE." She was laughing and wrapped me in a hug.
"Do you even know how hard it was to keep this from you?" She said as she looks at Emmett with loving eyes.
"But, your both sick; on your death bed." I stammered as it hit me. "Emmett having a hard time keeping his trap shut? So you had to make up the whole flu stuff." I smiled as I looked at him. Rose went to sit next to him on the bed and wrapped her arms around his waist. They complimented each other well; He was a big Teddy bear; Black curly hair, deep blue eyes, and the body of Mr. Universe. Rose was supermodel material; platinum blond hair, (and it wasn't the box one either) deep blue eyes, 5 foot 9, but instead of the flat chest, skinny as a rail waifs of the run way, she had all the right curves to make a man pant like a dog.
"Yeah, you know Emmy Poo; can't keep a secret to save his life." Rose said lovingly as he turned his head to her and they kissed chastely. Then she jumped off the bed and grabbed me around the wait in a hug. "Ok so I know that Alice and Jasper have already reamed you about the whole Edward thing," I felt myself tense up ready for another onset of how stupid I was being. "SO…. I am going to drop it today and not say a word. But when we get home you better be ready missy." She said as he kissed me on the cheek. "Happy birthday Bella. Let's go eat before Emmett dies from starvation." I walked out of the hotel room happier than I ever thought I could be after yesterday. Yeah maybe today will be a good day. I thought as we walking into the restaurant to meet up with my family; Edward nowhere in sight.
We all sat and ate while talking about all the plans that my mom and the girls put together for my day. Shopping at the Caesars forums, Going on ALL the roller costars our bodies could handle, then lunch at In 'N' Out (my favorite hamburger place in the world); they even got tickets to see the 'Blue man group' for tomorrow. I was so excited to get everything started.
"Hey I overheard a group of girls at school talking about a nightclub called Frozen 75, it's an underage dance club." Emmett said as we were trying to decide how to wrap off our day of fun. My eyes widened and I looked down, didn't they remember the last time I went dancing at a club. I round up in the middle of the dance floor on my face with Edward lying on top of me laughing his head off. That was the last time I tried to swing.
"We are so there." Alice yelled as she bounced up and down on her chair. Well I guess I'm going to do a repeat performance of Bella the klutz; I cringed.
"Hey has anyone seen Edward?" Edward Sr. had finely took his eyes off my mom long enough to notice his missing son.
"He probably sleeping off all the alcohol he drank last night." My mom said as she shook her head looking back to her husband.
"Hey Seth, was he still in the room when you get up this morning?" Seth was Edwards's best friend; outside of Jasper and Emmett. I saw his eyes fly to mine and blushed. Then just shook his head.
"He... He never came back to the room. I thought he might have passed out in" He looked at me again, the back to Edward sr." someone else's room." He finished then stuffed his mouth full of pancake showing that he was done talking. My eyes flew to Jasper and Emmett and they excused themselves from the table. Edward had a bad habit of drinking himself stupid and passing out anywhere he was when he was upset about something.
"We will go up and check. Maybe someone at the front desk has seen him." Jasper said as he bent down and whispered something into Alice's ear. She nodded once and turned to look at me and help my hand under the table.
"Well you may want to ask about some woman named Jessica… Stanly I think it was, they were all over each other last night." A deep male voice came from behind me; I really need to get to know his side of the family so I can tell who is who. My whole body felt numb and I dropped my strawberry I was about to put into my mouth on my white tank top. I felt Alice squeeze my hand and the she said something, I couldn't understand what she was saying all I could hear in my head was my own screaming
My Edward, all over some girl her met at a bar in Vegas. How could he do this to me, I though he loved me. We were going to work everything out. I felt the tears stinging my eyes again.
Now just wait on minute, you told him to go and be happy, you told him to go find someone else. You pushed him away, not the other way around. My rational side said.
Yeah but…but. Even in my head I was a stammering fool…
There is no buts', move on chicky, you did this to yourself.
Your right, and now I can just forget about him and go on with my life, scandal averted. I smiled to myself.
"Bella, are you ok?" Rose asked as she placed a hand on my shoulder. Her voice brought me out of my privet conversation; I looked around expecting to see my family staring at me, but instead found that we were back in my room.
"Better then ok." I looked down when I remember the fallen Strawberry. "I better go change into another shirt." I rummaged through my suitcase looking for another one of my tank tops and could hear Alice and Rose whispering behind my back. After finding my purple top I turned around to look at my two best friends. "DON'T" my yell startling them and myself. "I. AM. FINE. He is moving on like I asked him to, now it is my turn to do the same. Please let's just go shopping." I begged them both as I changed my top. After exchanging worried glance between each other they nodded and smiled, but I knew this was far from over. "I now have no clean tops, do to my klutz chromosome, thank you mom. AND I wasn't planning on going dancing, so I will need a new clubbing outfit." I saw both of them light up at that and we ran out the door right into Jasper and Emmett.
"Where are the three most beautiful women in the world running off to?" asked Jasper, as he kissed Alice on the lips.
"It's time for shopping, want to come?" I asked trying hard not to let the one question I just didn't need an answer to flop out of my mouth.
"Hummm. No I think we're going to back out of this one, let you ladies have the morning all to your selves." Emmett answered as he looked Rose in the eyes. "Can I talk to you a minute?" He took her elbow, led her back into the room, and closed door behind him before she could even answer.
"WHAT!" I heard Rose scream through he door. "Oh my god." I turned to look at the door and then to Jasper, who was lowering his lips to whisper something into Alice's ear.
"What is going on Jasper?" I said, worry spilling over me.
"Nothing." I knew that was a lie, he couldn't look me in the eyes and he kept running his fingers through his hair. Jasper was a worse liar than me, that's why he never played poker with the boys.
"I know that you found Edward. I'm not stupid. You wouldn't have come back if you hadn't. So what in the hell is going on?" I yelled as Emmett and Rose came back out of the room. Rose grabbed me by my hand and pulled me back into the room, everyone else followed. Alice looked like she was still in the dark like me and was getting a little mad too.
"OK, spill it." Both Alice and I said as the door closed. The three of them looked back and forth, probably trying to figure out who was going to speak, when Rose put her hand up and looked at me.
"Ok Bella, you need to sit down." She pushed me onto the bed; Emmett sat on one side of me and Jasper on the other each grabbing a hand. I could feel my anxiety flowing though my body, and I started to shake.
"Is he hurt?" I whispered, I would never be able to forgive myself if he got so drunk he himself hurt.
"No Bella, he's not hurt." Rose said as she knelt in front of me with both hands on my legs. "Bella…." Rose stammered. "Edward… he….. Hummm" She looked at Emmett for support, he winked at her and squeezed my hand.
"God damn it Rose, just spit it out." I fumed as I stared into her eyes. Emmett had put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me into his side, Jasper was still holding my hand. I knew it had to be something bad, Rose never stammered.
"He…got…marriedlastnight." Rose said so fast that I couldn't quite make out the last part but it kind of sounded like 'he got married'. I relaxed my body and started laughing; this must be birthday joke or something.
"That's funny Rose, I thought you just said that Edward got married last night. But that would just be silly…" I stopped talking when I saw the look of sadness in her eyes. I turned my eyes to Emmet to plead with him to say she was lying, but I saw the same look in his eyes as he pulled me closer to his chest. I looked at Alice and she was standing in pure shock hand covering her mouth. Jasper squeezed my hand and leaned into me for a hug. I felt like the earth was going open up and try to swallow me whole.
How could he, How could he go and get so drunk that he winds up married to some slut in Vegas? I thought he loved me, I thought he wanted to marry me.
You don't know she's a slut. My rational side piped up.
What else could she be, she meets a man in a club and marries him the same night. I mean come on; that spells SLUT to me. And you, what are you saying; that you forgive him for what he did and now want to be best friends with your new Sister in law? My hurt side screamed at my rational side, daring her to open her big mouth again. Miss. Rational shrugged she shoulders and frowned.
What else can you do? Do you want to lose him from your life forever? You know you would be miserable without him somewhere in your life.
Your right, I do need him, even if it is just as my married step brother. I shook my head. This is what I wanted to happen. Well to be honest much later down the road, I wanted him to fight me on this I wanted him to prove he could find a way for it all to work out. But I knew he couldn't and I wanted him to get married and have a life. This just makes it easier, now I don't have to worry about making up my mind. He made it for me. We can both move on and find the lives we were meant to have.
What if he gets an annulment? There goes Miss. Rational again. God, Can we just throw here out the fucking window?
We will just have to make sure that won't happen. But knowing Edward like I do, he has made his bed and he will sleep in it, no matter how miserable it makes him. I pulled myself out of my friend's embraces and walked to the door. This is so going to work. Today I am going to show everyone, including myself, that Isabella Marie Swan can live a happy fun filled life, and she doesn't need Edward Cullen to do it.
"Bella, where are you going?" Rose asked as Emmett lifted her off the floor, and Alice ran to my side.
"Well I have a new sister in law to welcome into the family. Then we are going to celebrate my 20th birthday. I can't wait to go dancing tonight" I said as I opened the door, looked back into the stunned faces of my friends, and turned to walk to the elevator.
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A/n
So I have been doing a little research on 21 and under clubs in Vegas, and frozen 75 was the only one I could find, But they no longer have a website, so I am not sure that it is up and running.. But for my story we will say it is, and I am going to make it the way I want it... LOL
Oh I love being the one in control…LOL