A/N: Hey everyone! Thanks for all the reviews. I might start responding to a few of them, since some of you guys left suggestions and other helpful stuff, as well as questions, so here we go…
krissy- Thanks for the suggestion; I'm going to use it in this chapter! You're getting credit for it and thanks for reviewing (:
Bellacullen1620- Bella's birthday is in September for the real Twilight stories, but for my story I made her birthday October 20th, plus she shares her bday with Alice. I mentioned it in the second chpt. that that date is my birthday for real, so I made it hers ;) Thanks for reviewing!
BiggesTwerdAlive- Yes I know, and I apologize for taking so long, but my life has gotten pretty hectic lately =/ BUT there will definitely be a lot more chapters, so don't fret ;)
WannaxBexCullen- Don't worry either, some of that Bella/Edward goodness will be coming ;)
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A/N2: PLEASE READ: Some curse words will be used in this chapter, so just a heads up. That's why the rating is T.
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Previously on Just One of The Guys...
"Night guys." Bella called out from the other side of the room.
"Sweet dreams Bella." Emmett responded. I turned around and saw her grinning widely, whole still holding the towel of ice on her head. "Night bro." They shut the door behind them and I was left alone in my dorm…with a girl I just met.
Chapter 7: It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Glammed Up.
-+-BPOV-+-
"You're brother's amusing." I giggled.
"Yeah, he's something, alright." He sighed as he walked towards his bed. "You can take the bathroom first, if you need to, you know."
"Okay, thanks." I took the suitcase that had some clothes I didn't put away and lifted it onto my bed. When I lifted the flap open, I gasped out of surprise and much shock. All I saw was pink, and no other possible color was visible.
"Is something wrong?" Edward made his way to my side and took a glance in the direction of my horrid gaze.
"That." I pointed at the clothes in front of me.
"I don't see what's wrong."
"Are you colorblind? Everything's pink! I don't see one blue, green, or black article of clothing in here, absolutely nothing!" I cried as I pulled shirts out one by one.
"Hmm…" he rubbed his chin in thought.
"My overly exaggerative friend probably did this. She hates my regular wardrobe, she said so herself. Oh, when I see her, I'm going to do such bad things to her." I had enough and began stuffing everything back into the suitcase. When I closed it back up, I stuffed it under my bed. I walked over to my dresser, took out pajamas for the night, and marched my way to the bathroom, leaving Edward puzzled. After taking a well needed shower, I slipped into my pjs and brushed my teeth. As I opened the bathroom door to get out, I saw Edward sitting on his bed looking straight at me.
"So I'm guessing you have a strong hate for the color pink." He stated with a grinned.
"Yeah, sorry bout that." I apologized with a stiff grin. "Um, bathroom's free now." As he walked into the bathroom, I took a seat on my bed and began combing the knots out of my damp hair. I turned down my bed and sat there against the bed's headboard, reading every single one of Alice's text messages. When I was done, I turned off my phone and set it on the table to charge.
The bathroom door opened and out appeared Edward, looking very attractive and very shirtless. My jaw dropped at the sight of his perfectly toned body and what he was wearing. He had nothing but boxers on, and they were navy blue with a bunch of yellow little ducks on them. He caught me staring and stopped in his tracks. He turned to face me and locked his eyes onto mine. The awkward silence was well, extremely awkward, no doubt there.
"C'mon Bella, say something or look away, anything, but just do something!" My mind was shouting at me.
"Nice duckies." I coughed out.
"Oh Lord, tell me you didn't just say that! Nice way to break the ice, dim-wit!" I mentally slapped myself for that stupid statement.
"Uh, thanks. It was a birthday gift from Emmett. I had to be nice and keep them, even though I thought they were kind of, well, childish. He thinks he has such good taste in underwear." He chuckled out.
"Hm…" Was all I could mutter out. I didn't want to speak another word, fearing that I would end up humiliating myself in front of him, and what girl would want that?
"He even got me a SpongeBob Squarepants one."
"Oh, how nice of him." I said trying my best to sound enthused.
"Yeah, I've got a lot more that you'll probably see later in the near future." He joked with a grin. I tried not to blush.
"Is he seriously having a conversation with me about his undergarments? What is wrong with this picture here?" I shook my thoughts away. "Well, as much as I find this talk about your underwear entirely fascinating, I'm getting pretty exhausted, so goodnight."
"Haha, sweet dreams Bella. You won't for any chance be needing a nightlight, would you? Because I can go to Emmett's room and get one of his if you do." He teased.
"Shut up!" I scolded as I rested my head on my pillow.
"Oh, c'mon, that was a double burn, on you and Emmett." He laughed.
"Well, too bad he wasn't here to acknowledge it."
"Okay, I'm being serious here; do you snore?" He asked sternly, but it felt like a joke.
"No, well, I don't think I do. Why, do you?"
"I don't really know either. If I do and you hear it, you can do something to tell me to stop, just don't slap me awake or what not."
"Haha, ok. Well if I snore and you hear it, don't bother me!" I smiled.
"That's not right." he pouted.
"Oh well, tough luck. Goodnight!" I turned to my side and closed my eyes as he went to switch off the lights.
"Sweet dreams Bella."
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4:32 a.m.
(credit goes to krissy for the idea!)
A faint murmuring woke me up from my deep slumber. I rubbed my eyes and took a look at the clock on the table which read 4:32. I lay still in my bed, waiting for the hum to come again, but when nothing sounded, I resumed to my sleep.
"Edward." I heard a soft, weary voice call out gently from the opposite side of the room. I turned to my side to face her and lifted my head to rest it on my hand.
"Bella?" I called out her name in a quiet whisper, wondering if there was something she needed. "I'm awake, what's up?"
She didn't say anything back. Okay? That's strange. I thought. I told myself to forget it and was about to lay back down when she finally said my name again.
"Edward."
"Was she talking in her sleep? She told me to not wake her up if she snored, but this is completely different." My mind went back and forth telling me what I should do. Part of me wanted to wake her up, to stop her from saying something she probably wouldn't say if she were awake, but the other part of me wanted to hear what she might say. I decided to not disturb her, mainly because I wanted to know what was going to come out of her mouth.
"Fine, but if she starts sleepwalking you better slap her the hell awake!" the annoying voice from my head chimed in. I rolled my eyes and continued to listen in.
"Edward…" she breathed.
"Yes, Bella?" I answered back. Man did I feel weird and stupid talking to an unconscious person.
"You look very hot in your duck boxers." She slurred her words, but I heard everything she said. I bit my tongue to prevent my laughter to sound, but I couldn't hold it in. Just then she stirred a bit, turning onto her other side, and began a hushed snore. My mind was fixated on what she had said. I rested my head on my pillow, and fell back to sleep with a smile plastered on my face.
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My eyelids shot open as I sat up in my bed. While I was looking around the room for a clock, I spotted Edward snoozing like a baby on my right. He looked so still and serene, that when I got up to the bathroom, I tried to not make any noise to disturb him. When I got dressed and put my hair up into a ponytail, I took a look at the clock and it was 10:23 a.m. Edward was still sleeping and I had nothing to do, so I decided to grab a bowl of cereal and wait for him to get up, or for something to happen. (A/N: okay, they have a small kitchen in their dorm, with cabinets, a counter, a fridge, a microwave, all that good stuff. Sorry to not mention it when I was describing the room for the first time…) I took a seat on a stool by the counter and slowly consumed the Frosted Flakes. Moments later, a loud knock on the door sounded and before I could go to open it, in came Emmett and Jasper.
"'Morning Bella!" Emmett exclaimed while picking me up and enveloping me into a tight bear hug.
"Good m-morning, Emmett." I said while gasping for air. "Um, Emmett, it's s-starting to h-hurt…"
"Sorry for that." He apologized while setting me down like a toddler.
"It's okay. So what's up?" I asked the both of them.
"Not much, we got up around 6 and went for a run at about 7." He answered.
"Wow, for what reason?"
"We're gonna start soccer soon." He said with a smile pointing his thumb towards Jasper who was holding a soccer ball.
"Oh, that's cool. You guys any good?" I asked.
"Puh-lease, Bella, I'm a beast at it." He snatched the ball from Jasper's hands and started to juggle it on his knees.
"Wow, you are good." I laughed.
"Wait watch this…"
"Emmett, remember we are inside and not on the field. Don't do anything crazy."
"Yeah, yeah, I know." He kicked the ball up into the air in front of him and as it was coming down, he kicked it hard across the room. It flew over to where Edward was sleeping, and it struck him in the head. As it made an impact with his face, a loud smacking sound was heard throughout the whole dorm. Edward flipped out of his bed and onto the floor with alarm.
"Nice going, man." Jasper patted Emmett on his arm.
"I told you I was good."
"Yeah, Emmett could end up the next David Beckham." I said sarcastically as I made my way over to where Edward was clutching his head in pain. "Edward, how's your face? I'm sure it can't be worse than how mine was." I knelt down by him and helped him sit up.
"Yeah, I'm good." He was seemed a bit drowsy and was rubbing and patting his face vigorously.
"What are you doing?" I eyed him weirdly.
"I'm trying to get the blood flow back. I can't feel my face!" He said angrily while giving Emmett a death glare. "You know, a simple 'Edward, it's time to get up' would've done the job. You didn't have to mash my face in with a soccer ball." He reached out towards his bed and got up slowly from the floor.
"We weren't trying to wake you up; I was showing Bella my soccer skills." Emmett laughed.
"What soccer skills?" Edward huffed.
"Emmett, just apologize." I said.
"What!? I didn't mean to do that!" he whined.
"So, just be the bigger person and say sorry." I sighed.
"Fine," Edward turned towards his brother, waiting for the apology to come out. "Edward, I'm sorry for leaving the pattern of the soccer ball on your face."
"Emmett!" I scolded him.
"What? I said 'sorry'."
"Ugh, it could've been a little more nice and meaningful." I folded my arms across my chest."
"It's ok; because I'm gonna get you back for it." Edward said.
"Love to see you try, little brother." Emmett scoffed.
"Alright, that's enough you two!" I sighed. "Let's go get some lunch later or something to keep ourselves occupied, so you guys don't get bored and kill each other."
"Fine, I'll go get dressed." And with that Edward stomped his way into the bathroom.
When it was noon, we all went out to get something to eat and we went to GameStop to get a few video games. Edward bought a new Wii for our room and when we got back to our dorms, we all got together and tried to set up both the Xbox and the Wii. Once we got everything connected and running, we played a little bit of Wii boxing and baseball. When it was around 8 o'clock, we sent Emmett and Jasper to get some pizza. After everyone had a few slices and Emmett finished a whole pie by himself, we decided to end the night by seeing what movies were playing on HBO. We stayed up until it was after midnight. Jasper went back to his room to get some rest, while Emmett, Edward and I stayed put. When the movie we were watching was over it was 1:15 in the morning.
"Oh, wow, it's really late." I yawned. I got up to turn the TV off and noticed Emmett was snoring away on the couch by Edward. "Geez, Emmett's knocked out. How are we gonna get him up now?" I laughed quietly.
"Hm…" Edward eyed me strangely.
"What? Oh no, I've seen that face before. What are you thinking?"
"I've got a good idea on how to get my revenge." He smiled evilly.
"Okay, tell me." I insisted.
"You're a girl right?" He started.
"Edward, we already established that…" I rolled my eyes at him.
"I mean, you've got to have some makeup on you, right?"
"I don't really wear a lot of it, but I think I've got some. Why?" I asked.
"Alright well you go get whatever face goop you've got and bring it over here. We're gonna make Emmett an Emma." He said looking up at me with a wide smile on his face.
"I'm loving this plan already." I laughed my way over to the bathroom. I came out with a bag that held every kind of makeup that Alice had gotten me. I returned to Edwards's side and dumped out everything onto the floor.
"Okay, what do you have?" He looked down at the contents spread out on the ground by me.
"Well, there are about 4 different shades of lipstick, a compact that has 7 different colors of eye shadow, and 2 kinds of blush… oh, and this pistachio pudding face mask thing." I said sifting through the mess.
"That's perfect. We can put that green stuff on and then put some stuff on his lips and his eyes." He picked up the tube that had the face mask cream in it and unscrewed the top.
"He's a deep sleeper, right? Or else this can't work well." I asked.
"He once slept through a big fire drill during pre-school and he's been the same ever since, so this will go by fine, trust me. We just have to be careful to not make too much noise." He reassured me.
I nodded my head in agreement and started to choose which stuff would be best to use. Once everything was picked out, I helped Edward apply the green goop to Emmett's face. I finished up by putting on some bright red lipstick and an ugly shade of blueish green eye shadow. Everything worked out perfectly. I was dying of laughter on the floor, while Edward had to keep his hand over my mouth so I wouldn't wake him up.
"Oh my gosh, I can't believe we did this!" I gasped at the drag queen passed out on our couch.
"We are too good." Edward gave me a high five while holding back a laugh.
"Let me get my camera, I need to take pictures of this!" I ran over to my bag and took out my digital camera. I turned the flash setting off and began snapping some photos of him. Edward took some of me sitting next to Emmett making stupid faces. "Okay, now I'm really tired." A yawn escaped from my mouth. I began putting everything back into the bag, and when everything was cleaned up, Edward and I got ready for some sleep.
"Tonight was fun." He smiled at me.
"Yeah, it was the best. What are we going to do with him?" I looked over where Emmett was drooling away.
"Just leave him there for the night. He'll wake up with a surprise in the morning." Edward laughed.
"You are such a badass, Cullen."
"Yeah, well, I try." He shrugged and hopped into his bed. "Goodnight." He sighed as he stretched out his arms.
"Night." I closed my eyes as the room turned suddenly dark.
-+-Next Morning-+-
Edward and I woke up at about the same time the next morning around 11:30a.m. I sat up, looked over at him, then at where Emmett was snoring away with everything still on his face. After I brushed my teeth, Edward went in to do the same. When he got out, we walked over to the kitchen area and got some cereal for the both of us.
"Oh my god, I just remembered something!" I said in a loud whisper.
"What?"
"That pistachio pudding stuff hardens on your face, and it's only supposed to be kept on for a certain amount of time!" I bit my lip.
"Oh, so it's a bad thing at it was on his face for the whole night?"
"Absolutely bad!" I yelled. That's when Emmett started to awaken. He began to yawn loudly but stopped mid way.
"Ahhh." he moaned.
"Oh no, he's waking up. What do we do?!" I panicked.
"Bella, calm down, I'm sure nothings wrong." Edward said.
"Why can't I move my face?!" Emmett called out from the other side of the room.
"Oh god, he's gonna slaughter us!" I whispered to Edward. He mouthed a 'don't worry', got up and made his way over to his brother.
"Hey, bro!"
"What am I doing here?" Emmett asked Edward confusedly.
"Well Emma, *ahem* uh, Emmett, sorry there's something in my throat…" Edward fake coughed while rubbing his neck. "Well as I was saying, you fell asleep here last night and we didn't want to bug you." I let out a laugh at what Edward had called his brother.
"Oh, uh, thanks I guess." Emmett said while getting up. The sight of his face made me go hysterical. The face mask was cracked and the lipstick was smeared all over his cheeks, as if he wiped his mouth with his hand. Edward cleared his throat to get my attention. When I looked at him, he told me to quit my laughing. "Are you okay, Bella?"
"Yeah, never better Emmett." I smiled at him. He tried to smile back but couldn't. He went to raise his hand up to his cheek but I stopped him before he could touch his face. "So, did you have fun last night, I sure did!"
"Uh huh, it was fun." He said strangely. "Hey, is there something on my face?"
"Er, nope. Why do you ask?" I bit the inside of my cheek to keep myself from having an outburst.
"I don't know, it just feels kind of…stiff?" He said. There was a knock on the door and Edward went to go open it. Jasper entered the room and walked over to the kitchen.
"Hey, Bella, can I borrow some cereal? I'm out and I'm kind of- holy mother of…what the hell happened to your face, Emmett?!?" Jasper exclaimed.
"What-what is it?" Emmett clutched his face in worry while running off to the bathroom. He slammed the door shut behind him.
"3…2…1…" Edward counted down the seconds until…
"OH MY FUCKING-!" the bathroom door swung open and Emmett trudged out with his hands balled up in fists. He went up to Edward and pinned him against the wall, about to beat the pulp out of him. "What the hell is wrong with you? You know I can seriously mess you up…" he breathed heavily. Edward just continued to laugh. "What's so funny about this, huh?!"
"I'm sorry; I just can't take you seriously with you looking like that." He pointed at Emmett's face while laughing some more. "But now you know to not kick a soccer ball at my face!" He was serious now.
"That was an accident, and you know it!" He poked Edward hard in the chest with his index finger.
"Well, I told you I was gonna get you back, so I did. Now we're even, so can we call it a truce?"
"Whatever." They backed away from each other and shook hands. "Just get this shit off my face before I change my mind!"
"Ok I'll help you with that." I scurried off to the bathroom and came back with a warm washcloth. I sat Emmett down on a stool and roughly scrubbed his face.
"Take is easy with that!" he groaned in frustration.
"I'm sorry, but it won't come off! We need a jackhammer to remove this thing." I joked. After a long time of washing his face, everything was finally off. The only bad thing was that it left his face as red as the lipstick I had put on him.
"Thank you, Bella." He sighed.
"You're welcome. But I wouldn't fall asleep here anymore if I were you. Hell, I'm scared to be staying in the same room as Edward, now knowing what he is capable of." I whispered.
We spent the rest of the day hanging around. We went to the grocery store and I got some food to last us about a week and a half. With a bunch of guys around, we would need to stock up on a lot of food. I even went shopping for my new school uniform. When the day was drawing to an end, we knew we had to turn in early since the first day of school was tomorrow, but I couldn't fall asleep. I was too busy contemplating how school was going to be for me.
A/N: I actually did to my father what Edward and Bella did to Emmett. Yup, it's truee! He was passed out on the couch and my brother and I made him look like a clown, but we didn't use any of that face mask stuff. Gosh, Emmett is the kind of person you might want to stay away from, unless you have a death wish haha ;) Alright this chapter was pretty lengthy, so review and I'll have the next chapter up in no time (: Thanks for reading!
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