So this should be the last chapter that is building up the story. We should start moving in terms of the plot by the end of the next chapter.

Thanks again to my amazing beta Vicky and thanks to those of you who reviewed my story. It really makes me happy to know that you like it!

Convinced

I stared blankly at the pages in front of me.

What the fuck? What the actual fuck?

After drawing no sensible conclusion, I looked up with wide eyes at the girls who had shit-eating grins on their faces.

"Explain," I gasped out frowning intensely at their stupid sly smiles.

"Well," Alice began rolling her eyes dramatically and putting forth both hands, "we were trying to find something that suited your personality and Rose picked up on how your notions could be regarded as submissive."

"I was all for buying you a variety of floggers and some vibrators," Rose piped up, wiggling her eyebrows villainously.

"Yes, well anyway, we thought about how you always say that you are tired of being a virgin and how you like being told what to do."

"I do not like being told what to do!" I exclaimed.

"Well, I guess I phrased that wrongly. I meant that you like being given specific instructions, right? And I mean, the amount of erotica that you read is insane!" Alice said, chuckling.

I blushed at that one!

It was almost as if she had delved into the deeper workings of my unconscious mind. I shifted again as I remembered something that had happened in my subconscious mind as I slept. The latest development on the dream front portrayed myself tied to a bed by the hands and ankles by chains whilst Mr Cullen worked over me with a flogger. My breath hitched embarrassingly just by recalling it.

"Romance novels," I muttered under my breath.

Rose let out a loud snort and threw her hand over her mouth, "Romance novels my ass!"

"You have to admit that the lifestyle of a submissive completely suits you. I mean, you live to please other people!" Alice stated convincingly.

I looked down at the information in front of me and for the first time, took in what it was telling me.

"You found details for a BDSM gathering in Seattle on," I scanned the text," Saturday?"

"Précisément," Ali said bouncing on her feet like the little pixie she is.

I giggled and they looked on, slightly amused at themselves.

Proud bitches

Hey shut up! You know this is exciting.

I sobered up enough to actually think about it. I took a deep breath and tried to organise my scattered thoughts. The reality of the situation was that they were exactly right! I am tired of being so innocent, I do have a submissive nature and the punishment frankly sounds arousing – I have a high pain threshold due to my copious amounts of falling over, yes there are in fact perks to being so clumsy, I'm nearly disabled… and in all fairness, I do want to go to this gathering…

Whore

My inner-voice wasn't too far off the mark! When did I turn into such a kinky cow? Screw it; this was too good an opportunity to cast it off. But seriously?! I don't recall being introduced to this side of me!

The thought of Mr Cullen strapping me to a bench turned me on. Just the thought of him ordering me to suck his cock in his deep, husky voice made me go weak at the knees and the thought of being talked through a punishment made my heart skip a beat. Maybe this was for me? I mean, part of the appeal was that the lifestyle is secretive and no one would have to know what I enjoy behind closed doors.

I'm sure the next words out of my mouth shocked all three of us. "You need to help me get ready beforehand so that I can catch myself a fuck-hot Dom." I said nonchalantly however I sensed there was a sparkle in my eyes as I dropped the pages on the bed next to me.

Alice's mouth dropped open and her big, puppy dog eyes enlarged and Rose just stared at me unmoving. After twenty seconds of silence, Alice started turning red and bouncing on the spot. I got up from my position on Rose's bed. I don't know what I was going to do, perform the Heimlich manoeuvre maybe? All of a sudden she let out an extremely high-pitched squeal (which was apparently enough to break Rose out of her trance also) and barreled towards me, resulting in us sprawled inelegantly across the bed. This sort of behaviour was not uncommon with my strange yet wonderful friend Alice.

"Careful Al, just 'because I admitted to being into this kinky shit does not mean that I am willing to try some femme slash!" I joked.

She completely ignored that comment. "Oh my God Bells! I really thought you weren't going to agree to this and it would have been such a shame, I mean this is just so… you!" she said clapping her hands together excitedly.

Rose flopped down besides us, keeping her cool much better than the pixie!

"Tomorrow after school, we are going to Port Angeles to get you everything you could possibly need!" Rose said and of course Alice agreed whole heartedly – anything to go shopping!

And for once, I was actually quite looking forward to this trip.

XOX~Compelled~XOX

Several tubs on Ben and Jerry's cookie dough later, we were flopped out on the bed and fed up of the chick-flicks that we had been watching non-stop for the last four hours.

Suddenly Alice jumped up from the bed. "Oh my!" she squealed, "We can watch porn!"

I flushed red whilst Rose nodded affirmatively. How I can get embarrassed over this when I have just agreed to attend a dominant and submissive party beats me! It's not even as though I haven't watched porn with the girls before!

Rose sauntered over to her walk in wardrobe and pulled away a bit of loose skirting board where she hid her pornographic DVDs. After selecting one she set it up in the player whilst myself and Ali arranged our seating plan, grabbing the thick duvet off the bed and laying it one the floor so we could all huddle there.

Luckily Rose's parents and brothers were out for the night or I'm positive we would have been caught and that was something that I wouldn't like to explain to Mr and Mrs Hale.

The opening scene featured a man walking around a large room that looked like a medieval dungeon with torture devices all around. I felt a shudder run down the back of my spine - already turned on. A brunette woman, with the "just shagged" hair look, knelt in the middle of the room, butt naked and keeping her eyes lowered respectfully.

I immediately realised that we were watching a dominant and submissive scene and turned amused to Rose. She shrugged with a small smirk on her face and Alice giggled.

What a coincidence

"I though perhaps it would give you a taster of the lifestyle. I don't know how accurate it is though," Rose frowned.

"Don't worry. It was a good idea of yours. Very… thoughtful."

She laughed. "I'm a very thoughtful person."

"That you are," I replied before turning back to the screen.

What I saw caused me to do a double take. The dominant had bright green eyes and brown/bronze hair. He resembled someone I knew. He had a strong jawline but he wasn't as tall as the person I was thinking of. The one name that was in my head was Mr Cullen's. His body was probably not as well toned and he had a massive tattoo of a naked woman stretching up his arm. But still, the resemblance was unnerving. It fuelled my desire to attend this party even more, anything to rid myself of the images that plagued my mind, so unrealistic. I needed someone, anyone, to get my mind off the one man that I couldn't have but I so desperately yearned for. I needed a Dom who would command me – body and soul – making me forget Mr Cullen and his stupid porn look alike!

"Are you alright B. You've gone awfully quiet," Ali asked, cocking her head to one side.

"I'm fine. I was just thinking."

Over the silence that stretched between the two of us, she knowing that I was keeping something and myself knowing that she knew yet I was keeping my lips sealed, the sounds of stretched out moans and heavy panting could be heard. The movie was all but forgotten as the girls tried to decipher my mood.

Rose finally broke the silence that was stretching on endlessly. "My God. That man looks remarkably like Mr Cullen, doesn't he?"

Alice let out a gasp. "So that's what's on your mind. You are thinking about him again."

Am I really that predictable?

I let out a small sigh. "I just can't get him out of my mind. I need to find myself a guy, a Dom, who can do that!" I took a deep breath, "Tomorrow, straight after school, we are going to buy me everything I need, we will tell Charlie that I am staying over here from Friday evening until Monday and then you can drop me off at Charlie's on the way back from school on Monday."

They looked shocked that I was the one planning to disobey Charlie. I was usually the good girl out of the three of us.

"That gives us all of Friday after school and Saturday morning to get me prepared and we can do some research. You will help me get ready in the afternoon and then you can drive me up to Seattle for nine and drop me off at the club. You won't be allowed in as neither of you are eighteen yet but I'll text you when I get out, hopefully with a sexy Dom's number on my phone and you can pick me up. Your parents won't notice that we will arrive really late will they?"

"No. They never notice a thing B and they leave on one of father's business trips at five in the morning so we could in theory stay in Seattle the whole evening and they wouldn't know a thing! It's great having parents who couldn't give a shit about you! But I will get their attention somehow; possibly by running up the account on my black card until they ban me from using it for a while!" Rose said, the sadness glistening in her eyes.

Both Alice and myself smiled sympathetically at her. On the one hand, it was nice to know that the risk of being caught by our angry parents was lessened but on the other, we felt terrible for Rose. They used her beauty to help themselves get popular amongst their social circle and never paid any mind to their daughter or son Riley who left for university as soon as he graduated and never came back, only keeping in contact with Rose via email.

"Anyway, carry on with your plan Bella," Rose said a little too enthusiastically, trying to draw attention away from herself.

"Well we will arrive back here late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and then we can spend the whole of Sunday analysing what happened and Charlie will never know a thing!" I said.

I was proud of my plan, and by the looks of it, so were they! Alice would also tell her parents that she was staying at Rose's that weekend so that we could all go up to Seattle. And as Rose said, her parents couldn't give a flying fuck what their daughter did so she could get away with murder!

"Very nice Bells," Alice smiled whilst Rose frantically bobbed her head in agreement.

"Why don't we read through all of the information that we printed off for you, see if you still want to go ahead with it," Rose said gently.

"Sure." I picked up the paper and began to read aloud.

The first page was just a general introduction, talking about BDSM and what it is. The next pages were more interesting though. They were about the contract, limits, safe-words and gave an example of some of the rules a submissive would have to follow. I was slightly surprised when I saw that the dominant could control what you wore, ate and your sleep and exercise regime, but I felt that I should be able to follow all of the instructions I get given. By the end, I was sure that this is for me.

I read the final sentence and turned to the girls, "I want this."

Nothing was said for a while. I looked at Alice who had tears welling up in her eyes.

"Alice, what's wrong," I asked frantically, wrapping my arms around her.

"I'm just so proud that you are taking control of your life. It's like watching you grow up in five minutes!"

Rose joined in our hug and stroked my hair. "I have never been more proud to be called your friend than in this moment Bells," she said, her voice also cracking.

Five minutes later and we were all blubbering like the crazies we are!

This has indisputably been the best birthday present ever!

XOX~Compelled~XOX

"Come on Bella, we're going to be late for gym!" Alice called over to where I was standing at my locker, lost in thought.

I snapped my head up and looked at my watch. Shit. I had two minutes to get changed or I would probably end up with a detention tonight. That would be fun to explain to Charlie. Perfect Bella Swan gets two detentions over a period of two days!

I ran down the corridor with Alice to the changing rooms, my speed making me even clumsier and possibly costing us more time!

We made it to the field three minutes after the final bell and luckily Coach Clapp wasn't there yet and we managed to sneak into the back of the group.

We were waiting outside for five minutes and still Coach Clapp hadn't turned up so the majority of the class moved to wait on the bleachers. Another five minutes passed and I was beginning to hope that no one would turn up, therefore saving me from the torture of jogging.

That was when Mr Cullen, dressed in navy jogging bottoms and a tight black top came running out on to the field.

Oh shit!

Everyone went quiet straight away. I think that all the sentient beings with a pussy just had a spontaneously orgasm!

Including you Bella?

Of course. Drip.

"Sorry I'm late," I thought about raising my hand and reminding him about what he said the day that I was late, how he is 'very pedantic in terms of timing', "I was literally just asked to cover Coach Clapp's lesson as he has fallen ill all of a sudden and I had a free period."

I prayed that we wouldn't have to run circuits again as we had to last lesson. Rose and Alice stayed with my pace. It wasn't that I am a slow runner, it's just that I end up on the floor for half of the class.

We only have forty minutes left of this lesson and I haven't been told that you are doing anything specific so I think you can probably just run track for the rest of the lesson. Count how many you do and report to me at the end of the lesson. I will know if you are lying so don't even try it!"

Motherfucker!

The class let out an audible groan before everyone set off at their own pace, the jocks out front and us girls towards the back.

The person at the front was half way around the track when Mr Cullen set off, joining us in our jog unlike the slightly portly Coach Clapp had ever done. He was very fast. And looked so athletic. Although he set off about thirty seconds after us, he caught up and overtook me within seconds. He was at the front of the pack by the time the once leader had completed one lap. The jocks, trying to obtain their macho image sped up to try and keep pace with him. Unsuccessfully.

After another minute, Mr Cullen was well ahead and only possibly one hundred metres from lapping the last person and one hundred and fifty metres from lapping me!

In hind-sight, it probably wasn't my best idea to look over my shoulder. I was definitely tempting fate. All it took was for Lauren and Jessica to run alongside me, Rose and Alice and for Lauren to stick out her leg. I instantly went tumbling over it grazing my hands and knees on the track and very nearly smacking my head on the hard surface.

"Sorry," Lauren sneered, not meaning a word of her apology. Jessica giggled and they continued to run whilst Alice and Rose crouched at my side.

"Bella!" Mr Cullen sprinted towards me and was by my side in less than ten seconds. "Well Miss Swan, it looks like you weren't exaggerating that first day in English when you said you are really clumsy," he smirked but I could see the concealed anger in his eyes. He knew exactly why I fell over.

"Lauren did it on purpose," Alice said indignantly.

"Don't worry Miss Brandon, I'll have a word with her after the lesson. She can make up the laps that Miss Swan would have done in this lesson after school now that she is injured."

"You can carry on running if you want ," I said to the girls, "I'll just sit on the bleachers.

"No, Miss Swan. I'm taking you to the nurse's office. You may have hurt your ankle and I want you seen to." With that, he swept me up in his arms causing me to yelp embarrassingly and throw my arms around his neck.

"What are you doing?" I questioned.

"Carrying you of course Miss Swan. What does it look like?"

I ignored that comment and he started to stride off in the direction of the main office and over his shoulder I looked at Alice and Rose who gave me a wide grin and a thumbs up.

I tried to be inconspicuous as I buried my face into Mr Cullen's neck to inhale his gorgeous, musky and spicy scent. A tiny bead of sweat was making it's was down his throat, from the jogging I hoped rather than the effort of carrying me, and I had to resist the temptation to lick up its saltiness.

"Does your ankle hurt, Miss Swan?" He asked me.

"Not especially. It's more the grazes on my hands and knees that hurt."

He continued in silence again after that.

"Do you work out often sir?" I blurted out after a couple of minutes.

He raised his eyebrows and smirked at me, "five times a week Miss Swan. Can I ask why you wanted to know?"

"Oh. It's just that you were so far ahead of everyone else so I thought that you must be really fit." I mumbled.

He merely chuckled.

"Oh I can give a good workout too Isabella," he said under his breath, I'm not too sure if he intended for me to hear or not but I called him out on it.

"What does that mean? Are you a personal trainer in your free time?" I frowned at the unlikeliness of the comment.

He looked straight into my eyes with that mischievous smile again and a saucy wink. "Something like that."

I'm not too sure why, but that comment made me blush.

XOX~Compelled~XOX

Mr Cullen stood in the corner whilst the nurse took a look at my ankle. She said that there was no damage to the bone but I would have a bad bruise. Mr Cullen's nostrils flared at that and his eyes grew darker. Not in a way to make me wet my panties. Well maybe, but not in a good way – more out of fright than arousal!

The nurse wiped my hands and knees with an antiseptic wipe, causing me to hiss at the slight sting as it touched my open wound.

I stood from the bed as the nurse dismissed me and Mr Cullen was instantly at my side, supporting me.

"I can walk sir. It's just a bruise."

"Yes but with your sense of balance, you could end up breaking your ankle if you fell over." He smirked but there was concern shining in his brilliant orbs.

I let him have that one, more than content to feel his muscular arm wrapped tightly around my waist.

He helped me hobble to the girls changing area where he dropped me off, saying that once I was changed, I could wait in our English room as that's my next lesson and there isn't a class in there at the present.

"Thank you," I told him as he turned to go.

"Anytime." He shot me his wonderful crooked smile and jogged down the corridor back to the class who were probably all slacking due to the lack of supervision.

I got changed back into my jeans and jumper before going to the English room where I sat and took out my new book that Angela and Ben got me for my birthday.

I had just finished the third chapter when Mr Cullen entered the room. I had been too engrossed in my book that I missed the bell. He had gotten changed into a pale blue shirt and black pants and he looked stunningly beautiful, so much so that it took me a few minutes to rearrange my scattered thoughts and return to my book. I heard him sigh as he sat down but resisted the urge to ogle at him again, lest I get caught.

"What book are you reading Miss Swan?" He asked, squirming slightly in his chair. He was so damn adorable. He clearly wanted to know what I was reading but didn't want to distract me.

"Charlotte Bronte," I responded, purposely being ambiguous in hopes of enticing him to ask more.

Eventually he gave in, "Which one?"

"Jane Eyre. Angela gave it to me for my birthday yesterday."

"So you like the classics? He leaned forward on his elbows, his eyes smoldering at me, enthralled."

"Yes. I always have," I replied, looking him in the eyes.

"The same as me in high school," he told me whilst smiling fondly.

Our conversation stopped as the rest if the class filed in from their respective classes.

Rose and Alice ran over to me.

"Are you ok, Bella. What did the nurse say? Is your ankle sprained? Do you want to deck Lauren? Shall I call Charlie?" Rose demanded, protective as always.

"Whoa. Slow down there Rose! Take a deep breath."

She just glared at me and tapped her foot, wanting answers.

"Ok. No you don't need to call Charlie. The nurse said that it was just a bruise and if you deck Lauren than you'll land yourself in detention this evening and we wouldn't have as much time to go shopping tonight." I looked at her intensely, trying to portray the importance of the shopping spree we had planned.

"Fine," she pouted.

"Miss Hale. May I talk to you for a second please, outside?" Mr Cullen asked from behind his desk.

"Sure," she said, sending me and Ali a puzzled glance.

She returned seconds later wearing a wide Cheshire Cat grin, Mr Cullen not far behind her and smiling secretively.

I know it was irrational but I felt a slight pang of jealousy.

"You look like the cat that ate the canary. What's with you?" Alice asked.

"You'll see," she said mysteriously.

The lesson passed speedily as was routine for Mr Cullen's lessons but the biggest shock came right at the end.

Mr Cullen gave a subtle nod to Rose and turned to face the board, writing what seemed like nonsense to me.

Rose got up gracefully from her seat and walked over to where Lauren was laughing at the back with Jessica, Mike and their crones acting out where I tripped over.

My eyes widened as their group went silent and Rose muttered something too quietly for me to hear before giving Lauren a massive slap across the face. Louder this time she said, "If you ever hurt my friends again bitch, you answer to me! Before turning on heel and striding back to me and Alice looking proud of her handy-work."

"Language Miss Hale," Mr Cullen said. It was ironic how he scolded her for her language yet not for bitch-slapping Lauren in the middle of the room.

"But sir. She just slapped me!" Lauren screeched.

"I'm sorry Miss Mallory, but I didn't see and I can't accuse her wrongly," he said with a subtle gleam in his eyes.

I instantly caught on. Mr Cullen must have given Rose permission to sort Lauren out when they went outside and that is why he turned to write a load of rubbish on the board. So he couldn't see Rose hit Lauren.

How very professional Mr Cullen - very mature!

But extremely sweet of him too...

"But," Lauren blubbered, "There's a room full of witnesses! They all saw her hit me!"

No one said anything, too scared of Rose to say that she did actually comit the offence.

"I'm sorry, Miss Mallory. Next time, wait until a teacher is looking to be slapped," Mr Cullen said mockingly.

Lauren stomped her foot, turned and left the classroom with her posse following behind.

Those of us who were left in the room laughed at the spectacle and I hugged my best friend for sticking up for me.

"Love you Rose," I whispered to her.

"Love you too," she said back.

"Ok, enough of the love fest, let's go shopping!" Alice said impatiently.

XOX~Compelled~XOX

The drive to Port Angeles was relatively quick and we headed straight for the dress store on the boardwalk by the bay.

We managed to find two dresses that were very different in style. One was black, low cut and showed a lot of leg and cleavage whilst the other one was dark blue and looked slightly more respectable in terms of the cleavage I would display yet it was completely backless and would come down to about mid-thigh. After trying them both on several times, we decided on the blue one and I would accessorise with black.

The next stop was the shoe shop that we always favoured that was run by Rose's God-Mother who she spent more of her childhood with than her actual mother!

"Hello Dears," she called cheerfully as we walked into the store.

We all smiled and said hello politely back.

We managed to find some black killer heels that would give me three inches more height. Alice was all for the six inch heels but I managed to convince her that if I wanted to end up in some Sex God's bed rather than the ER, I should probably stick to the three inchers.

After that, we went to another small store that stocked a lot of accessories. I purchased a small black clutch that would be suitable to hold my phone and a purse and Rose and Alice bought me some jewellery to go with my dress – a simple silver choker necklace. I guess I was slightly hinting that I would like a name to be put on there!

We were walking down the main road with our bags to put back in Rose's car when Alice stopped dead.

"What's wrong Al," Rose asked her.

She raised a shivering finger to point across the street. We followed her finger and saw what had her so hyped up. Suddenly she let out a keening wail causing a woman walking passed us to jump ten feet in the air and then scowl disapprovingly at us.

Across the street, a new shop – Victoria's Secret – had just recently opened. Paying no attention to the traffic, Alice grabbed our hands and literally dragged us across the street.

"Hello, Victoria's Secret, how may I help you today?" A pretty red head asked when we entered the shop.

"We're just browsing for the moment thank you," Ali said having composed herself a bit.

The girl smiled at us and went to talk to her colleague behind the till.

"Oh Bella, you need to get these… and these," Alice said, piling clothes into my arms. Eventually, I had tried on half of the store and carefully selected several items that I wanted. I found the perfect undergarments for Saturday evening with the help of the girls. The push up bra was black and lacy, seemingly the most sinful part of the outfit yet the black lacy panties were completely crotchless which you wouldn't be able to see unless I spread my legs!

We paid for the items, much to my objection, on Rose's black card. Her parents, although extremely wealthy, didn't spend much time caring for their children and wouldn't notice the decline of money in Rose's account until they got the final bill through. The closest figure Rose had to parents were Alice's mom and dad and Charlie, even Renee was a better mother figure, hence Rose felt no guilt spending her money on us girls, a thank you for sharing our parents with her!

"Where did Alice go?" I asked, only now as we were leaving the shop realising that she wasn't with us.

"She just went to get something for you," Rose said smiling.

"Oh. What?"

"You'll see," she replied, not looking at me directly. I thought I saw a slight grin on her face.

Two minutes later, Alice returned with a bag and gave it to me. I looked inside curious and pulled put a pink box. I stared unseeingly at the box before it sunk in what I was holding in the middle of the street.

"You bought me a rabbit vibrator?" I hissed at Alice who merely shrugged.

"Well we know that even sexually frustrated Bella would refuse to lose her virginity to a bit of plastic but once you do lose the V-card, you can use this!" She exclaimed swinging mischievously from left to right her hands clasped in front of her like a little girl, except for the fact that there was nothing little girl about this conversation!

There was no point arguing with her so I said a pitiful thanks, blushing the deepest crimson!.

We drove back to Forks and I laid my head back against the seat to think with my eyes closed.

Only three more days to go!

So what did you all think of that chapter? Anyone manage to guess what the girls were planning? Anyone predict Bella's reaction? Wasn't Edward just so cute?... and sexy?

So the next chapter should be the first part of the party in Seattle.

Let me know what you think and I'll try to get the next chapter out to you quickly