Disclaimer: my name is not Stephenie Meyer; therefore I do not own Twilight.
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This may not be my best chapter, but anyway this chapter contains shopping with Alice and her date with Jacob. Sorry if Bella sounds like a 'chooser' and picky, but she doesn't like Jacob, and she keeps on comparing him to Edward.
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Chapter 6
Sunnyside Mall, Phoenix, 10am
I agreed to letting Alice take me shopping, and oh boy was that a mistake! As soon as we parked her car, she practically sprinted into the shops. I was looking for something plain and simple to wear to the date with Jacob tonight, but, by the looks of it, Alice wasn't on the same radio frequency line as I was.
"Come ooooooooooon Bella, we don't have all day!" Alice said hurrying me along, dragging me to a store with some weird fancy writing called 'An Evening to Remember', and by the looks of it, sold dresses that you would wear to the prom or formal, not a date at the movies!
"Awww Alice, please, something less... I donno, eveningwear?!" I said in a 'duh' tone.
She then turned to me with her right eyebrow raised and put a purple wrap dress back on the rack and put her hands on her hips, shaking her head. "Silly Bella, we're getting your dress for the prom, I'm not that crazy," then she looked like she was thinking, "maybe it is too early to buy this dress because we still have three weeks till prom... nah we'll get it now."
I knew when Alice decided something, she was going to stick by it, so there was no use arguing. She flipped through a few racks, until she picked up a bright yellow dress that looked too short. "ALICE, you know that'll be short for me! Plus you sooooo know yellow isn't my colour!"
She then laughed, "Bellaaaaaa, don't worry, the dress is for me," then she held it up to her body and said, "Do you think it will look nice?" She looked serious, so she wanted my honest opinion. She had always liked yellow, and ruffles suited her nicely, since she was only about five feet tall. I smiled, and then nodded, showing my approval of the dress. She grabbed a few other a dresses, apparently, 'just to have a few back-ups', and skipped off to the change rooms.
While she was getting changed into her dress, I looked around a few racks and a sky-blue coloured dress caught my eye from the other side of the room. I walked over to where it was hung on the rack, and then heard a clatter of high-heels on the tiles; the noise was coming toward me.
"Ohh darling, that stock was from last season, we have some nice, new dresses over here," that was when I turned around to see a tall lady wearing a suit with her hands gestured towards a bunch of black and grey dresses. The nametag said: Giorgi.
I smiled back at 'Giorgi' politely, and said to her, "But I like this dress, what size is it?" I knew I wasn't going to give this dress over to the Good Samaritans; it was just too damn gorgeous.
She sighed and walked over to me, she looked around where the tag was on the back of the dress, but found it to be ripped off, she checked down the bottom of the dress, where there was another tag. But there was still no size to it. Giorgi turned to me and said, "The only way you are going to know if it'll fit, is if you try it on for yourself."
I nodded at her, grabbed my future-prom-dress, feeling the lovely silky texture of it, the colour reminded her of the beautiful, cloudless sky of Phoenix. I passed Alice's cubicle of a change room and headed into a vacant one. The back of the dress only had two straps of material on the back, and flowed down to where my feet were, where my waist was there was gold sequin patterning and had a little v-neck at the front.
By the time I had changed into it, Alice was already outside the change room door, with the dress she had really liked on, with her makeup and her hair done up, she would be envied by nearly any girl in the school, the dress showed off all her curves and made her look taller than her 4 foot 9. When she saw me exit my change room, she squealed, clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Bella, that dress looks gorgeous on you! You have to get that one; Edward won't take his eyes off of you!"
I smiled and said, "I donno about the Edward thing, but I want this dress to be my prom dress this year." I found a mirror and saw my reflection; the dress made me look quite slender and brought out the colour of my eyes. I turned to Giorgi, who had just entered the changing rooms and was nodding in what I hoped was in approval, and told her, "I'll take this dress, thanks."
Hopefully Edward likes it.
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After finding our prom dresses, I found a cute black, strapless dress that I would wear to my movie date with Jacob tonight, and some nice necklaces to wear as well. Alice started to shop, not just for her but for me too! At least it kept her happy. In the end she had about thirteen bags, while I only had four.
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Alice's house, before the date with Jacob...
Alice had just finished doing my makeup (which was only a bit of mascara, eye shadow and lip gloss), and had started to straighten my hair. When she had finished, I looked in the mirror, to find a completely different person, she had quite pale skin that mixed well with the black dress, her hair was dead straight and the little amount of makeup she had on made her look stunning.
"Another masterpiece is now complete," Alice said, with a wide smile on her face and dusting her hands off, "Jacob is gonna be lusting after you dumb him for Edward!"
I suddenly felt like I was using Jake, I mean, he could be reaaaaaaaally nice, and could fall for me! We could be really good friends. I gulped and thought who would dump who first.
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The movies...
We had decided to watch 'Year One', halfway during the movie, Jake did 'the move' which consisted of him yawning and putting his arm around me, suddenly I felt very, very uncomfortable, it was like... a brothers touch to me, not a lovers, with Edward there was this spark between us, but this, this just felt wrong.
When the credits were rolling, he got up, turned to me and said, "Let's take a walk, shall we?"
"Sure," I said.
My brain then decided to host a conversation to itself, which sounded like:
Oh GOD, I hope he doesn't try anything funny on me.
Don't be so paranoid, you just want Edward to kiss ya, that's all.
Ahh, Edward....
O Wake-up!!!
No, too many pleasant thoughts of Edward... ahhh
He's not even yours, he's Alexa's, am I speaking German or something?
No
He's not yours!
Those words don't make sense in that order
Argh I give up!
You go do that, go read a dictionary, you need to look up the word fun, spelt F-U-N 'cause you're the opposite
*no comment*
"Uhm, Bella?" I was suddenly pulled back to reality, by one of Jake's hand's waving in front of my face.
"Yeah," I called back, wondering where we were; we were outside the cinema complex.
"I've been calling your name about a billion times," he closed his eyes, laughed a bit and shook his head, when he had finished shaking his head he asked me, "Do you want my jacket? Because it's getting quite cold now," to add to the statement, he pretended to shiver slightly.
"No thanks, I'm fine," then I realised something; that this date was completely and utterly boring, "Ohh, Jake can you take me home now, I'm catching a cold," I pretended to cough, and his face fell.
"Maybe another time then..." he trailed off.
The whole ride back to my house, he made small talk that I was necessarily wasn't interested about, stuff about cars and 'chicks', did he seriously take me for a sick lesbian?
He walked me up to the doorstep, like they did in movies; he leaned down to kiss me, and... Ewww.
He thought, my response was good enough to continue to tongues, and that was worse, Edward would never kiss like that, he was always gentle... Where did that come from?
I had had enough, I pushed him away, but he thought wrong, he thought I wanted him to kiss me more, I kicked his 'private area' as hard as I could, which sent him to fly backwards into a rose bush.
'Good' I thought, 'the prickles can hurt him too.'
"Maybe you should write a book Jacob, 'how to not impress a girl on their first date' it will be a best seller," I was well and truly pissed by this point and went straight to my room and phoned Alice, and told her all about that horrible date with 'saliva boy'.
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Monday, School, Morning Assembly...
As I took my seat in the auditorium next to Alice and Andy, I saw Edward. When he saw me we both smiled half-heartedly at each other, not knowing position we were after that almost-kiss.
As the assembly started, the part where the principal was meant to introduce new things and programs etc, was about to start, except, instead of the principal coming up to the podium, it was the head of senior year ,wearing a sad expression on her face.
"Mr Goldberg," Miss Lesley began, "was killed Friday night in a car accident on his way back from the school football game."There were murmurs all around the students, I spotted Mr Goldberg's daughter; Melizza, with a tear running down her pale cheek. "To replace his duties, we have Mr James Renaldi, his two assistants that will also be helping out are Mrs Victoria Renaldi and Mr Laurent Holmes, please make them feel welcome." Then three people came on stage, and were greeted with claps from the students.
Something in my head sensed something wasn't right.
The new principal is here to make havoc, hey?
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