A/N: - smacks hand - Bad author, bad! My updating has been non-existent for the last couple of...how long has it been? Let's just say that I've been very busy...

It's a short chapter, hope you enjoy.

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Bella pawed at her alarm sleepily, still in a daze over the previous day's events. The bags from her shopping excursion with Alice were piled up against the chair in the corner of the room, but she was still finding it hard to believe any of it had really happened. She pushed herself out of the relative comfort of her bed and walked over to the window to check the day's weather.

After a few moments of looking out the window, however, she realized something rather important. Her car was nowhere to be found, having left it at school the previous day. Bella sighed and grabbed her toiletries bag from the top of her dresser, she would just have to ask Charlie for a ride to school, then.

She freshened up in the bathroom and attempted to make herself look somewhat presentable, but failed to recreate the style that Cameron had shown her. After a few more feeble attempts, she gave up and started to pull her hair up in a simple ponytail.

There was a knock on the door, causing her to jump slightly, "You in there, Bells?" Charlie called through. Bella smiled and opened the door, "I'm done, actually."

He stood in the door awkwardly, "Alice Cullen is here for you, in your room. She said something about helping you get ready." A look of suspicion flew across his face before he nodded at her and made his way back downstairs. Bella tilted her head inquisitively and made her way back to her bedroom, curious to why Alice had come by.

Alice nearly pounced on the poor girl as she walked through the doorway, "Come on Bella, we've much work to do, and a short amount of time to do it in!" She pushed Bella into her desk chair and started applying products to her face with speed and precision that she found amazing. After she was satisfied with her makeup, Alice pulled her up from the chair, handed her a garment bag, and instructed her to get dressed. Bella followed the order, still to shocked by the treatment to say much.

The item that Alice had picked out for her happened to be a dress, which immediately set Bella's teeth slightly on edge. The bust was beige, then darkened to a medium shade of brown just above her knees. She put on the jacket almost immediately, not feeling comfortable baring her shoulders for the whole of Forks High to see.

Alice grinned when Bella walked back into the room, and pinned the mahogany hair into an effortless looking bun, before putting her in a pair of heels at the summit of dangerous. At this, Bella finally found it in her to speak, " Alice, I don't feel entirely com-"

"Ah, none of that now, my dear," she interrupted, "if my plan is to work, you need to be stunning." She flashed Bella a mischievous grin, "They will rue the day they ever messed with you by the end of this."

Most of what Alice had said flew over the poor girl's head, and she sat silently while Alice put the final touches on her outfit (a golden cuff, that reminded her ever so slightly of a tree), and dragged her down the stairs. She fought to keep her balance as Alice dragged her down the stairs and toward the door, just as there was another knock.

Alice pulled it open, with a sly grin on her face. It took Bella a few moments to register who it was, let alone what he had just said. Alice was gone in a flash.

Leaving Bella face to face with Edward Cullen.

A/N: That was evil, but I couldn't resist.

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Lizzi