Chapter 7

The month had passed by blissfully, Edward and I were closer than ever, knowing what it was like to live without each other made us want to be together constantly. And we pretty much were the only time he left my side, or I left his, is when one of us had to go home and get ready for school. We spent every night together, either at his house or mine, usually mine.

It was now December 10, and we were at the airport headed to Volterra, Italy. The party didn't take place for two weeks, but Aro had ask that we come early so that he could instruct Jess and I with our new abilities, my destruction, and Jess' physical shield. So we were now sitting on a plane, most of us by our significant other, but Jess with Matt. I had been hoping that they would turn out to be each others mates, but it didn't happen. When I asked Jess about it, she just shrugged and said that they just didn't like each other that way. He was more of a brother to her and she was like his little sister.

"Bella, love, what are you thinking about?" Edward asked.

Lots of things. I answered him in our heads.

Care to elaborate?

Anything for you, I was just thinking over the last few weeks. And lingering on my favorite parts. I smiled up at him.

And what would your favorite parts be?

Well, that first night, and well really every night. And then at school the first day back from break, when we walked in and everyone stared.

Since when do you like attention? He raised his eyebrows at me, and I smiled.

Since then, but only then, so don't get any ideas!

He chuckled, but let the subject drop. We spent the rest of the plane ride having these silent conversations.

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Volturi Castle.

"Welcome!" Aro's voice boomed as we walked into the castle from the massive garage. "I trust your trip went well."

"It did good friend, and how have you been?" Carlisle said taking Aro's hand and shaking it firmly before giving him a friendly hug.

"Wonderful, and even better now that I have some dear friends staying with me." he smiled then greeted the rest of us.

"Ah, Isabella, Jessica, I expect to see the both of you in the training room in three hours." he said this as we went to unpack and then disappeared.

"Wonderful, we have to train on our first day here." Jess grumbled.

"Just peachy." I agreed. "At least he's the one training us, and not Caius. Remember what happened last time." I laughed.

"Wonder if they ever fixed the floor?" Jess said. We laughed at our inside joke while everyone else just stared at us.

"I have a feeling we don't want to know." Jasper said after a minute, and they all continued to their rooms, well, everyone but Edward.

"Come on love, we have to unpack if you are going to have to practice." he winked, no way were we about to spend three hours unpacking.

"Bye Jess." I said without looking at her. She laughed.

"Have fun 'unpacking' Bells." I turned and glared at her, which just caused her to laugh more.

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We were now standing in the training room in shorts and tank tops, waiting on Aro. We had decided to play it safe and showed up early.

"Come on Bells, show me what you've got." Emmett was begging me to fight him. I had already told him no about seven times, and was getting tired of it.

"Fine, you want to see what I can do? Watch and learn." I smiled evilly and made him dance around like a little school girl. He kind of resembled Alice after she came home from shopping..

"Not fair Bella!" he shouted and we all cracked up laughing at him. Just then Aro walked in.

"Well, I see your mind control powers are coming along nicely Isabella, now, what about your teleportation?" I teleported to his side and then back across the room. "Wonderful, and you Jessica? How are your powers?" He made us show him each of our powers, this took about an hour.

"Excellent, now for your new powers. We will start with Jessica, I am going to throw this at you, try and stop it with your shield."

He threw a fist sized rock right at Jess' head, it almost made contact, but she stopped it seconds before it made contact.

"Good, now take a deep breath, and concentrate on trying to extend it to cover Bella." I was the closest to her. "Are you ready?" She nodded and Aro threw the rock again, this time at me. It didn't even come close.

"Extraordinary, that is enough for today. Now for Bella." he placed a crystal vase on a pedestal next to him, "I want you to try and destroy this, and only the vase, not the pedestal." I concentrated as hard as I could, finally, I tried to destroy the vase. I got it backwards apparently, because instead of the vase shattering into a million pieces, the pedestal did, the vase was completely intact.

"Well, good thing there are more pedestals." Aro laughed. It took me two hours, but I finally got it. "Good Isabella, you just need to work on learning where to focus your attention."

We did this every day until guests started arriving, it was very tiring mentally.

Finally, it was the day of the party. Alice came and got Jess, Rose, and me at around 11 a.m.

"Oh come on Ali, the dance doesn't start till six!" I whined as she actually dragged me from my bed, Edward laughing as she did. I glared at him, and he quieted down real quick like.

"Exactly, Im already behind, I have four girls to get ready and only seven hours to do so!" needless to say, she won the argument, and so I spent the next seven hours in Alice's room being tortured by manicures, pedicures, and useless facials. Finally, we were done and headed to find our men.

When we rounded the corner of the lobby where they were waiting Jasper, Emmett, and Edwards eyes opened wide and they all stared with their mouths hanging open, this made us laugh hysterically.

Alice walked up to Jasper, and he almost fell over. She was wearing a strapless floor length gown in gossamer pink and yellow, she really did look like a pixie. There was beading on part of the bodice and the skirt flowed into a Cinderella like poof. It was adorable on her. She had done her hair in neat little pin curls almost plastered to her face.

Rosalie wore a deep crimson red fitted strapless gown, that poofed out in neat bunches all the way to the floor with a slight train in the back. The bodice was fitted seamlessly to her figure, and she looked beyond sexy. As always, her beautiful blond hair was flowing down her back, this time though, she had allowed Alice to ad some volume and curl to it, it was stunning.

Alice had picked Jess' dress for her, so she was in a deep green halter with a floor length skirt that also poofed out in six layers. In the front there was a piece missing from the skirt revealing a lighter colored green underneath, there was also beaded detailing right under the bust. She looked like a little elf with her hair curled and pulled half way back.

I, also dressed by Alice, was wearing a chocolate brown strapless floor length dress. It had an aqua blue sash around the waist and the bodice had blue speckled all over it. Of course, it poofed out in five layers, Alice really liked poofy dresses. My hair was up, but only in a pony tail. It was also straight as a board, a major feat in and of itself.

I walked up to Edward, feeling very self conscious as he stared mouth agape at me. I waved a hand in front of his face and he snapped out of it only to bring me into his arms and kiss me passionately.

"You look stunning love." He said breaking out of our kiss.

"Thank you, so do you." He had on a black tux with a brown tie, the others had on much the same, only their, tie's matched their dates, obviously Alice had dressed them as well.

"Well," Carlisle said, "Shall we get going?"

Esme was wearing a white dress that poofed like ours, it also had black and silver glitter polka dots on the bodice and skirt. She looked marvelous, her hair pulled up dramatically on top of her head.

"Wait!" Alice yelled as she pulled something from her pink clutch. It was a camera. "I need a picture of the group, one of Esme and Carlisle, one of Bella and Edward, Rose and Emmett, Jess and Matt, and Jasper and me. So who's going first." she glared at all of us.

"We are!" Jessica loved cameras, Matt groaned.

It took about twenty minutes for all of us to get our picture taken. Then finally we were headed to the ball room.

End Chapter.

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AUTHOURS NOTE!: ok, so i know it may be gettin kinda boring right now...
but there is an over all plot line and i just thought you needed the fluff haha it was fun to write weather you like it or not (i hope you do)
i am hopeing i can get good at giving yall regular updates but im a scatterbrained nut so....who knows
well hope yall enjoyed this chapter and the next should be up in a few days