Announcements: My 'internet name' is now Lola. This is my name for all intensive purposes on the internet, but it's not real. So good luck there stalkers! I'm starting a short story, maybe five chapters, and I'm not posting it untill it's done. ShamanicNinja owes me a cookie again, and also, please excuse the formatting. I haven't figured out the auto-formatting. It's werid.
So, I think all of you should know that the only reason Jacob's in this chapter at all is because Shamanic Ninja is obsessed with him. Also I've decided to include extra funnies at the beginning of every chapter. Said funnies will take the form of 'Final Words'. This chapter's Final Words is 'I will call you Princess if I want to Princess!' (and yes, I had to.) Enjoy!
Bella POV
We were all on our way to the meeting now, and Edward wouldn't stop asking questions the whole way there. Where are we going? What is the picture? Why won't you answer any of my questions? When do we get there? He could be so annoying! "Ignore him." Alice whispered in my ear. "He has an ego bigger that an elephant's backside. It comes from being able to anything he wants from any girl he chooses. Well, almost any girl. You seem to be the exception. I'm glad." "I don't go in for just anyone, no matter how big his ego is." Alice giggled at this. "That's a good thing, otherwise boys would be all over you." What is she talking about? I'm nothing special. "Girls, what are you talking about?" Alice and I groaned. We couldn't have five minutes of peace without Edward asking something. "Edward?" I asked. "Would you like to know what I think you should do?" He grinned. "Sure." "Shut up." The grin was gone in an instant. "What?" He sounded disbelieving. "Seriously, Alice and I were trying to have a conversation and you can't keep quiet long enough to let us get more that a couple sentences out." Jasper and Alice both laughed out loud. "You just took some major ego points from Eddy." Alice spit out the words between giggles. "I heard Eddy, what were you saying Alice?" I fought to contain my giggles as I said: "We were talking about how your ego is bigger than an elephants rear end." "What." Edward growled. "Gives you that impression?" I only laughed along with Alice and Jazz. "Well," I said when I finally stopped laughing. "You've been parading around ever since I met you as though you were the best person in the world. It's kind of obvious you think very high of yourself." I laughed some more at his expression "Bella, I am shocked." "That I caught on so quickly to your tricks?" Things were getting more serious now. "No, I'm shocked that that's your opinion of me." He was shaken though, I could tell. Alice and Jasper were ping-ponging their eyes back and forth between us. "Right. I assume other girls ask you if you have a girlfriend, and then try to seduce you without bothering to find out what kind of person you are because you have a handsome face." I was sarcastic now, hoping against hope what I said wasn't true, but knowing it was. "Is that really what you think about me?" "Yup." "Really?" "Mm-Hmm." "You sure about that?" "Completely." "Truly?" "Alright, I'll play along. Do you want me to say that I was only playing hard-to-get and I think you're the best guy in the world?" "That's not necessary." He grinned again. Does he have a muscle disorder or something? "What will get you to stop talking then?" "If you answer my questions I'll be quiet." "Do you promise that if I answer your questions you will shut up until I say you can talk again?" "Yes." "What's your first question then?" I can't believe he fell for it! It took all my self-control not to laugh in his face again. "What is the picture?" The fun begins. "A magic painting made by the Fey." "Who are they Fey?" I winked at Alice and Jasper. They know who the Fey are. Alice exchanged a look with Jasper, and they both laughed. "The Fey are supernatural creatures often referred to as fairies." Edward turned to look shrewdly at me. "You said that you would answer my questions." "Yeah, but I never said I'd answer them truthfully. Do you have any more questions?" "As a matter of fact, I do." "Well, I can't answer it if I don't know what it is." "Will you go on a date with me?" My head was spinning. I almost couldn't breath, I nearly passed out. He wants to date me? Maybe he doesn't though . . .
Edward POV
"Will you go on a date with me?" Why did you say that? Because she's different, that's why. Brain? Yeah? Shut up. "Edward this wouldn't happen to you trying to seduce some honest answers out of me. Would it?" Hmm. Not what I expected. Again. But Alice came to my rescue "No, it wouldn't. When he wants to seduce stuff out of girls, he just kisses them senseless. I don't think he's actually had a girlfriend. Ever." Sadly it was true. At least Alice was on my side now. "You see Bella? Completely honest." I want her to trust me. I realized. In my peripheral vision I saw Jasper shake his head once. Hey, what did I do to him? "As honest as I was answering your question about the picture?" "Yes. Wait, no!" What's wrong with you brain! She and Jasper smirked. "Make up your mine Eddy, do you or don't you want to seriously date me?" Well, do you? Answer her! "I-I" I stuttered. I actually stuttered because of a girl. "Nice try Eddy. No." Alice giggled then said: "Denied. You're the only girl to ever say no to Eddy that wasn't part of our family." Why are they calling me 'Eddy'? That's very annoying. "Why does everyone call me Eddy?!" "Why do you want to call me Isabella?" "That's different. Where are we anyway?" I said as I tried to get the topic away from Bella's refusal and our names. We were walking through the woods now so my question was valid. "We're in the woods." Jasper said. Thank you Capitan Obvious. Bella rolled her eyes and said: "That's real specific. We're almost there. The meeting is in the old school. No one goes there anymore, so the woods have pretty much taken it over." "What meeting?" Finally Alice asks a question I want to know the too. "Sorry, can't tell you yet." Well, at least I'm not the only one being snubbed. Alice pouted. "When will you tell me?" Bella shock her head at Jasper who was trying not to spill. "As soon as we're inside." Then I saw the school, and I could see what Bella meant when she said the woods took it over. Trees were nuzzled so close to the school I couldn't see anything accept for the front wall of the building. I was beautiful in it's own way. Surprisingly, the front door was open, so we walked inside and Alice, Jasper and I jumped when Bella yelled: "JACOB!" And then she ran up to a tall Native American. He spun around and grabbed Bella in a bear hug. "I've missed you, Bells." He said softly, right in Bella's ear. I was filled with an emotion that I didn't recognize, but it made me want to rip him away from Bella. "I'm so sorry." What could he be sorry for? "I know." I desperately wanted to know what they were talking about. Jasper was greeting some people, and glaring at others. A small fan club of tittering girls was beginning to form around me, so I pushed through them to join Jasper, and proceeded to glare at any and all boys that were looking at Alice. Jasper placed a protective arm around her waist and continued glaring when I stopped. I found I didn't mind that much that Jasper was so protective so soon after meeting Alice. Maybe it was because Jasper seemed so calm, while Alice was so energetic. He was Alice's opposite, and as they say, opposites attract. I was so caught up with my own thoughts, I barley noticed anyone until I saw that Bella and Jacob were still hugging, and that my fan club was growing. A confidant looking strawberry-blond came up to me and said: "Hi, my name's Tanya. You must be new here; I've never seen you before. What's your name?" She was staring at me triumphantly. Half the other girls were giving death glares to Tanya; the other half had moved on to give death glares to Bella because Jacob now had his arm around her shoulders. I rather felt like giving Jacob a death glare. "Hello?" Tanya's voice snapped me back to reality. "Um, hi. My name is Edward. That's my sister, Alice, over there, with the short black hair. You're right, we did just move here." The girl, Tanya, smiled in what she must have thought, for lack of a better word, a sexy way and said: "Well, if you need anyone to show you around town, give me a call." And she wrote a number on a piece of paper, handed it to me, and went to talk to some other girls. I could hardly wait to 'lose' the paper by accident. Bella disentangled herself from Jacob's arm and walked purposefully to the front of the old lunchroom we were standing in. "Everyone." Bella called out in an authoritative voice I had never heard her use before. "The meeting has begun. First order of business, as all of you can see, we have three new attendants." Three new attendants? Who was the third, I wondered, but Bella continued talking, unaware to my inner confusion. "Alice, Edward, and Jacob haven't been initiated, so as you all know, voting time." Ah, Jacob was the other newbie. "Just so this is clarified, we vote by show of hands. If you get more than half, you're in the picture automatically." So this is the picture. A group of teenagers, doing who knows what, well, who would expect that? Definitely not Miss Vicky. I thought, and then: Bella must be the leader. "Who votes for Alice?" All hands went up. Well, that's not surprising. "Alice, you're in and now you get to vote. Who votes for Jake?" Again all hands went up, including Alice's. "Jake, you're in. Same deal as Alice, you get to vote. And last, who votes for Edward?" I expected to get in as easily as the others did, but I was surprised when I didn't. All the girls raised their hands accept two. Bella and the one other girl besides Alice who wasn't in my fan club didn't vote for me, and neither did ant of the guys. "Sorry, Edward you're not automatically in. You can stay for the rest of this meeting; then we will re-evaluate our decision in the nest meeting. Right, on to the second order of business, anyone see Mink? No. All right, he's officially ejected from the picture. Anyone else have anything they want to talk about before the meeting ends? No? Well, I'll inform Alice, and Ted, will you tell Jake?" Nods. "Well, that's all. See you all later." Bella skipped back to where Alice, Jasper and I were still standing. "So this is the picture." Jasper nodded and said: "Yup." "What do you do?" Will they answer Alice's question right in front of me? Bella jumped in then. "Alice, I will tell you later." Not in front of your brother. The words were not spoken, but lay there, painted in the air in front of her. "Ooh, ooh, ooh!" Alice, a definition: tiny, pixie-like, ball of never-expended energy. "Alice tell us before you explode!" "You and Jazz should spend the night at our house! Then Jazz and Ed can get to know each other and you can tell me the stuff!" The idea intrigued me. Bella at my house. "Everyone, swap phone numbers, go to your house, tell your parents, grab your stuff, and Edward will meet Bella at her house, and I'll meet Jazz at his and we'll all go back to ours!" "Lets get going then." We did.
