BPOV
We ended up taking the Cullen's car to the fair. The shiny new looking silver Volvo didn't look big enough to fit Emmett let alone four other people but we ended up making it work. After a lot of complaining from Edward and name calling from Emmett, Emmett ended up driving the Volvo with Rosalie in the passenger's seat and me, Alice, and Edward in the back.
They were definitely friendly people, especially Alice. The girl had more energy than the damn energizer bunny, she wasn't capable of sitting still and according to Edward and Emmett she had never been capable of it. I wasn't aware that someone that is as tin as Alice could hold that much energy. She was like 5'1, a tiny body that still had curves that fit her and beautiful sea foam green eyes. But beauty was a common trait in this group of people. Rosalie was the epitome of gorgeous. With her long pale blonde hair that reached all the way to the middle of her back, with it's shiny golden highlights and the slight tint of brown to the underneath. She had pale skin with a peachy tone and the bluest eyes you could imagine. Yes I can and will admit that if I was gay I'd do her in a heartbeat. She looked like a damn swimsuit model for Christ sakes!
And then there were the boys. Emmett was huge and I'm positive that it was all muscle. His arms were bigger than my head! He would be intimidating if it weren't for the dimples and curly brown hair that gave him a more boyish look. Edward, well he was different. You could say he was like the modern day Adonis. He was tall and lean but it was obvious that he had muscles just not quite as much as Emmett. His face looked like it was perfectly and carefully sculpted. And his hair, oh my god his hair. That boy had a bad case of sex hair. I just wanted to run my hands through it.
Wait what? Where did that come from?
"So Bella what do you think your going to do when you get there?" I don't know I think I might play a few games." I replied. I hadn't really thought about what I'd do. Truthfully I hadn't wanted to go but somehow I ended up agreeing.
"Oh Bella you just have to try the mechanical bull with me!" Is she crazy? "It will be so much fun. Me and Rose have been so excited." She was literally bouncing in her seat.
"Emmett and I are going to go join the pool tournament first." Rosalie piped up from the front seat.
"Ok then that leaves me, Bella, and Edward. Oh I know the perfect thing we can do." Her smile almost seemed to take over her whole face.
"Care to share?" Edward asked from his seat next to me. I was startled because I had almost forgotten he was there, he hadn't said a word the entire car ride.
"Nope it's going to be a surprise!" Oh lovely.
Soon we arrived at the fair. There were people everywhere, kids ran in front of there parents who lagged behind.
"Alright guys heres the plan." Alice dictated as we walked through the front entrance. "We're all going to meet up at the booth over there at six so we can grab a bite to eat and put our names on the list for the bull." She pointed to a large booth that said Sign In in big white letters across the front. Everyone nodded and Emmett and Rosalie headed for the tent that had a sign that let people know it was for the pool tournament.
I noticed Edward was standing to my left with the same look on his face that I probably had. We had no idea what to do, but thankfully we were saved when Alice grabbed our arms and dragged us over to the first game booth she saw. It just happed to be a BB gun shooting booth. The object of the game was to shoot out the little red star in the center of the paper and win a prize.
I grabbed my gun and waited as Alice and Edward grabbed theirs after paying the guy behind the counter. I lean forward and aimed the gun a little higher than the star and squinted as I pulled the trigger. The BBs shot out from the gun and the paper flapped back and forth from impact. When we were out of shots the guy pulled our papers off and handed them to us. Alice's paper had one hole in the star and the rest were a little away from it to the side. Edward's was a little better, he got three shots in the star that took out two and a half of the points and he looked pleased with himself, that is, until he looked at mine. My entire star was shot out, there was no red left on the paper at all.
"Woah what the hell Bella?" His asked with his eyes bugged out of his head.
"What?" I asked slightly confused as to why he and Alice were looking at me like I had a third head.
"Where's you learn to shoot a gun like that?"
"My dad is a cop. He taught me how to shoot a gun when I was around eight and I guess it stuck." I said with a slight smile. Alice skipped over to me and gave me a hug.
"Good job Bella!" She said as she squeezed the life out of me. For someone so tiny she sure was strong.
"Here you go miss." The guy at the booth said as he handed me a giant white teddy bear with a huge blue bow on the front.
"Thanks." I said and then we headed over to the next game.
A few hours later it was around four o'clock when an announcer stepped up onto a stage a few feet away from us. Emmett and Rosalie had joined us about an hour ago and we were all standing around joking around and having fun
"Hey everyone. Thanks for coming out to the annual Oregon state fair! Is everybody having fun?" the crowd shouted back answering yes.
"Well as some of you know every year we have the karaoke competition." Cheers sounded out through the crowd. "The rule is that every year we pick a word and the song you pick must have to do with that word, this year's word is summer. The names of the contestants are going to be randomly drawn from that names that were entered." He shoved his hand into the box and pulled out a small white piece of paper. "First up we have an Alice Cullen. Come on up girl and pick your song" Alice squealed and ran up onto the stage. I hadn't even seen her sign up for that. A second later the song she picked began to play.
Summertime is finally here School's out and the nights roll in And it's two bare feet on the dashboard
That old ballpark, man, is back in gear
Out on 49
Man I can see the lights
Man, just like a long lost friend
You ain't seen in a while
And can't help but smile
Young love and an old Ford
Cheap shades and a tattoo
And a Yoo-Hoo bottle on the floorboard
Alice had a huge smile on her face and she worked the stage like a professional singer. She sang like one too, she had a voice that most pop singers would kill for or computer enhance to get.She kept with the beat and people had started to sing along with her. Summertime by Kenny Chesney. Perfect song on the radio Temperature says 93 Bikini bottoms underneath And it's two bare feet on the dashboard Perfect song on the radio The more things change Two bare feet on the dashboard Perfect song on the radio
Sing along 'cause it's one we know
It's a smile, it's a kiss
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime
Sweet summertime
Down at the Deposit and Guarantee
But that swimmin' hole
It's nice and cold
But the boys' hearts still skip a beat
When them girls shimmy off
Them old cutoffs
Young love and an old Ford
Cheap shades and a tattoo
And a Yoo-Hoo bottle on the floorboard
Sing along 'cause it's one we know
It's a smile, it's a kiss
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime
Sweet summertime
The more they stay the same
Don't matter how old you are
When you know what I'm talkin' 'bout
Yeah baby when you got
Young love and an old Ford
Cheap shades and a tattoo
And a Yoo-Hoo bottle rollin' on the floorboard
Sing along 'cause it's one we know
It's a smile, it's a kiss
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime
Sweet summertime
The song finally ended and Alice did a little bow and waved at everyone before jumping off the stage and heading for us. Several people complimented her on the way and she just smiled and thanked every one of them. I smiled at her too as she came up to us.
"Alice that was amazing! You're a really good singer."
"Thanks! I'm glad I don't suck that would be terrible." She giggled.
A few minutes and several bad renditions of Brad Paisley later. The announcer started speaking again.
"Next up is Bella!" I did a double take and my eyes widened. Did he just say what I think he said? No way! I looked over at Alice and she just looked back innocently even though I knew she was the one that had put my name in there. I just took a deep breath and walked up on stage. I was nervous and my hands were sweating but I tried not to focus on that. Once I found the song that I wanted I began singing.
I looked in his pretty brown eyes and ever since I saw him
I've been checking for him seriously
And when he walks by I say hi
He don't reply like he doesn't even notice me
But I know its all a front
I can tell he really wants to come close and kick it to me
But he's running out of time
Hurry up and make up your mind
I channeled the feelings that I had been feeling about Jake into my song. All the confusion, hurt, and heartbreak molded together and somehow made the song come out in a way that I never expected. The words flowed out and my body moved to the rhythm of the music. Everyone had gone quiet and were listening intently. [Chorus:] Summer Love, Summer Love (remember my) I would of held on really tight [Chorus:] Summer Love, Summer Love (remember my)
I'm falling like autumn leaves
you call like a winter breeze
Cant wait til spring comes and leaves
Cause I miss what I was getting in the summer time
I remember (remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love
Now that its cold I don't know here to go
I cant wait for the seasons to change to bring me back to my
Summer Love, Summer Love (I remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love (I remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love
All I want is to take back the day we had to say goodbye
If I would of realized that night we were gonna part
Drove me crazy to go and even though I'm gone
I left him with a piece of my heart
Though the seasons change my feelings remain
And I know they will always be
Until I find my summer love, he's all Ill be thinking of
I'm falling like autumn leaves
you call like a winter breeze
Cant wait til spring comes and leaves
Cause I miss what I was getting in the summer time
I remember (I remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love
Now that its cold I don't know here to go
I cant wait for the seasons to change to bring me back to my
Summer Love, Summer Love (I remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love (I remember my)
Summer Love, Summer Love
All I want is to take back the day we had to say goodbye
I was really into the song. The lyrics connected with the emotions that I tried to keep bottled up and the weight lifted from my shoulders as I released them into the song. I'm just telling you what you told me baby,
Never thought you could be so cold to me baby
Just when I thought you would go with me baby
Where did you go my summer love?
Either I'm confused or you lied to me baby
Why you couldn't be here to ride with me baby?
In the middle of July you leave baby
Where did you go my summer love?
Everyone clapped as I hopped off the stage, the smile on my face felt permanent and the feelings that were holding me back from having the best time I ever had were gone and it felt like it was time that I let loose a little. When I got to Alice and the others they all looked so happy. Alice gave me another hug and the others congratulated me like they had Alice. Several people told me I was great and I just blushed and thanked them.
Several minutes later Emmett's name was called. He looked pumped when he got on stage, he was smiling and looked like he was having a great time but that seemed to be how he always was. I had been right when thought that he would be a lot of fun.
Come on ladies Well the sunset better set soon Summer nights
It's time to pop that top
And fellas, I know you're ready to rock
We went crazy cooped all winter long
And school is out, so let's get it on
Flip flop tans and some white sand
I know the perfect spot
So we can get in the mood
Things start getting all heated up
When it starts getting cool, yeah
Everybody, are you with me?
At that he motioned for everyone to answer. The crowd was eating it up, several people were singing and even a few were dancing.
Let that igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise Oohhh, oh yeah yeah.
Summer nights
Everybody's feeling sexy
Holler if you're ready for some summer nights
Come on.
Instead of doing the normal oh yeah from the song Emmett imitated the "OH YEAHH" from the Kool-aid commercials. Everyone laughed at that. Now fellas, you better watch your step
Don't let them teeny french bikinis
Make you loose your breath
Back to the ladies
Ya'll keep doing ya'lls thing
'Cause everything about you makes me wanna scream
He pointed at a group of girls at the edge of the stage and winked. They all smiled and laughed. The sun is getting low Summer nights Whoa It's a party down in Padre Summer nights
There it goes, here we go
Here comes the moon, yeah
Things start getting heated up
When it starts getting cool, yeah
Everybody, are you with me?
Let that igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights
Everybody's feeling sexy
Holler if you're ready for some summer night
Oooh
Big bonfire on the beach
It's Coronas in Daytona y'all
Well it's wild and it's free
Everyone listening had started to scream summer nights along with him. He really knew how to control a crowd. I couldn't stop smiling or laughing.
Everybody, are you with me? Summer nights Yeah, oh are you ready? Yeah baby
Let that igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights
Everybody's feeling sexy
Holler if you're ready for some summer nights
Come on
Everybody, are you with me?
Let that igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise
Summer nights
Everybody's feeling sexy
Holler if you're ready for some summer nights
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
For some summer nights
Summer nights
It's summer nights
Come on
He struck a crazy looking Elvis pose before jumping off the stage, grabbing Rosalie and flinging her over his shoulder.
"I need some food woman!" She screamed and kicked but giggled the whole time and he just laughed and continued walking.
Alice had already went to sign me, Rosalie, her, and Emmett up for the mechanical bull so at around six thirty we all decided to head over to it to wait to be called. Rosalie was the first one to go. It started out slow at first and sped up a little and she had to hold on tight until it was over but she managed to stay on the whole time. Next was Alice, she was so short that they had to get someone to help her on. She lasted a few seconds before she slid off the side and onto the big blue mat underneath her. Then I was next, I hesitantly walked up to the bull and pulled my leg over. I gripped the bar that I had to hold onto and signaled for them to start it.
Like with Rosalie the thing started out slow and once I got used to it I started to get really into and lifted one hand off the bar. That was a really bad idea because I did that right as they decided to speed it up so I went flying off like I'd been thrown from a real bull and landed face first into the mat.
Edward and Alice were the first to run out to me to check to see if I was ok. I was a little dizzy but other than that I felt fine but as we were walking out to the food booth I got really dizzy and swayed and stumbled to the side but before I actually fell I was caught by Edward.
"Are you sure your ok Bella?" He asked with his hand still attached to my arm. I was brought back to reality when I felt the electric feeling up my arm. He must have too because he dropped my arm and took a step back.
"I'm fine I'm just a little dizzy. It'll be over in a second." That was all I got out before I passed out.
