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If things were different.

CHAPTER 8; Ice Cream ^-^

The next day things were more hectic than ever. That's when Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett arrived. Rose bringing two suitcases full of clothes I'd never seen, Emmett and Jasper had all they needed in one sports bag. Rose decided, not long after she arrived, that she has back problems.

"Bella, I can't sleep on that sofa bed!" she complained for the umpteenth time.

"Rose, get over yourself!" Jasper groaned, getting increasingly annoyed at our sister.

"Look Rose. Where else are you going to go? It's Bella's house," Emmett told her.

"Renée's house," I corrected him. "And Rose, if you're that worried about it you can have the bed...sheesh!"

Rose lent back into Emmett's arm, looking pleased with herself. Alice snuggled up into Jasper's chest. Jasper put his nose into Alice's short, spiky hair. Edward, sat on the other side of the coffee table, lent back into a pile of Phil's TV papers. Lying on the papers, Edward sighed, breaking the silence.

"Hey, Bella. Do you and mom have any ice cream? I'm kinda over heating here," Jasper asked from behind Alice.

"Sure, Jazz. I'll just go get it," I said, standing up.

I went into the kitchen and over to the freezer. As I opened it, my legs got a cold breeze. A relief from the sweltering heat.

"Cookie dough or Raspberry Swirl?" I shouted.

I waited for a reply. "Both," Alice shouted back. I grabbed both tubs from the freezer, slammed the door and strolled across the room, back into the hallway. I stumbled over the door lintel, on the way in.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I do that all the time," I said in a dismissive tone.

"LOL!"

"Emmett, did you just say that in real life?" Rosalie asked.

"So what, I just cba to say the whole thing?" he laughed back.

"Ugh!" Rosalie groaned, while the rest of us just laughed.

***

"Sooo, what we going to do?" Emmett

"I reckon... we go swimming!" Alice shrilled

"Yeah, sounds good," Jasper said, walking up to put his arm around Alice.

"And I have to see this pool," Rosalie added.

"We'll be down in a few!"

"Okay Jazz," I smiled at the obvious genuine enthusiasm in his voice.

After Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie had gone upstairs to retrieve their swimming gear, me, Alice and Edward went into the pool area to change ourselves. We'd left out kit in there the night before.

"Bella, you should wear that black and white bikini I got you," Alice suggested.

"Do you remember where I put it?"

"Yeah, you put it in the drawer over there," she said, pointing at the drawers in the corner of the changing room, that I had completely forgotten about.

"Oh yeah!" I said, whacking my head in a self mocking gesture.

"So, you looking forwards to being back in Forks?" she said, hiding her giggles.

"Yeah, can't wait! I'll miss the swimming though."

"I told Esme it was a good idea!"

"What was a good idea?"

"N-Nothing!" she smiled knowingly at me.

"Argh, I hate being the one who moved... no-one tells me anything anymore!" I sulked.

"But, I don't want to ruin the surprise," she whispered patting my back.

"What surprise? You know I don't like surprises! Alice! Don't be a meanie!" I said, slipping into the skimpy bikini.

"You two done in there?" Edward called.

"Almost," Alice replied, raising her voice slightly. "You ready? And before you ask, yes you do look fine. In fact, you look stunning."

"Pshhh!" I dismissed the compliment. "Yeah, let's go!" I added with false enthusiasm.

"Yeah!" Alice exclaimed, mirroring my tone.

"Hey, you two, we're going to play volleyball in the pool. You coming?" Rosalie asked coming into the changing room, wearing a hot pink bikini. She was already dripping wet.

"Yeah," I said, leaving Alice to take off her jewellery.

"I'll be out in a sec," she said.

Rose and me walked out into the pool area, where the boys were all already in the water playing piggy-in-the-middle. Jasper was the piggy.

"You guys, this isn't fair, you have to at least make it possible for me to get it!" he moaned.

Edward was facing the opposite wall, so I decided to pay him back for the ball-in-face incident. I signalled to Emmett and Jasper to ignore me and continue playing. Then I ran to the cupboard to find something to chuck. Finding nothing, I decided to bomb him. Emmett seeing my face screw up with determination, as I started to run, let out a loud guffaw.

"What's so funny?" Edward asked, sounding innocently curious.

"I reached the edge of the pool, and jumped. I grabbed my legs into a tuck position and curled my head into myself. I had aimed to land just next to Edward and give him a huge wake up call. 3...2...1...SPLASH!

"Ha, Edward! Your face is classic!" Jasper yelled at him. As we both broke the surface of the water.

"Edward: One; Bella: Two!" Alice laughed, tying her hair up and walking onto the poolside

"What, where did the one to two come from? Bella only just got Edward, how is she already on two?" Emmett asked, confused.

"Yesterday I hit," I started. "By accident, yesterday Edward's face met my hand," I rephrased my sentence.

"Ha,.…. that's so.... funny. Edward.... is that..... true?" Emmett said through fits of laughter.

"Yes," Edward mumbled, barely audible. "But, I did get her back, when I hit her in the face with the ball," he paused, seeing Rose's face, "by accident."

"It was pretty funny," Alice added.

"Not for me it wasn't," I disagreed.

"Nor was that!" Edward said, standing up in the water, revealing his torso. Oh... God, I thought.

"I...urm...well...you know," I murmured.

"VOLLEYBALL TIME!" Alice yelled, in her bell like voice.

"Me and Rosalie are team captains!" Emmett shouted immediately.

"Bring it on, Bitch!" Rosalie said moving towards edge of the pool.

"Edward!" Emmett claimed first.

"Jasper," she said giving Emmett a wicked grin.

"Ladies first," Emmett said in a mocking manner.

Jasper whispered something to Rose. I looked at Alice, to find her looking at me, we exchanged unworried glances. We were both as bad as each other when it came to competitive sports. Rose being a sore loser compelled her to push herself to the boys level. The boys we're mostly equal abilities. Aside from Emmett, he was the strongest.

"We can't chose," Rosalie muttered.

"We'll do Ip-Dip-Doo then!" Edward chimed with false enthusiasm, obviously imitating Alice. An irritated expression grew on Alice's small features.

"Ip..." Rosalie said pointing to me.

"Dip..." Emmett said, while Rosalie changed the focus of her point to Alice.

"Doo," Jasper joined in with Rose.

"Doggy. Did. A. Poo." everyone joined in, except me and Alice.

"Cat's. Got. The. Chicken. Pox. We. Pick. You." Rosalie's finger ended pointing at Alice.

"May the best team win," Edward said, gesturing for me to go to the shallow end, while Emmett and himself got out the games net.

"We'll switch sides halfway through, right?" Jasper confirmed.

"Yeah, sure, but first to five," I said, not really worried by the disadvantages of the deep end.

After Edward and Emmett set the net up a third of the way down the pool, so Rose and Jasper would be able to bob slightly under the surface and reach the floor. Alice was a different story, her height ment she was aloud to sit on a float. This had both it's advantages and it's disadvantages.

"Go!" Rose shouted at Emmett, who released the ball and whacked it over the net.

"Unph!" Alice made a noise in her throat when she returned the ball back to us. I noticed she hit it at an angle, which made the float turn around, so Alice now had her back to us and she was desperately trying to turn around, to no avail. I started to giggle at her thrashing around on the float. Meanwhile, Edward had spiked the ball and Emmett had aimed it at Alice. It went over Alice's head and landed on the water.

"Urgh!" Alice huffed, jumping off the float and swimming to the side. "It's not fair, I'm shorter that the rest of you. Don't aim at me!"

"Alice, there's a plastic bat in the cupboard go get that," I suggested.

"Alrighty, now we're talking!" she chimed her bells standing on the edge of the pool, poising the bat, over the pool, and herself, steady enough not to fall in, but on her toes so she could move suddenly if needed.

Edward threw the ball in the air, it curved towards me as it fell. I hit it as hard as I could to their weak point, where Alice couldn't reach. Alice saw what I was doing and jumped forwards. She hit the ball back over the net and fell into the pool with a slash. Emmett jumped up and rebounded it. Alice, being under the water, missed it. We celebrated our victory.

"We won!" Edward exclaimed, slapping Emmett on the back.

Alice had reached the surface and was gasping for air dramatically.

"What?!"

"We said first to five. I don't want to be here all night!"

"So you mean I needn't have bothered belly flopping?" Alice said whilst pulling herself out of the water. I walked to the steps, struggling against the water.

"Yup, but it was pretty spectacular," Emmett replied, concealing a guffaw.

"Brrr. I'm cold," Rose complained.

"Yeah, it's getting late. I'm going to bed," I agreed, before climbing out using the steps.

"Okay, I guess I should be getting to bed too," Jasper said.

"Yeah, me three," Alice giggled.

"Me four," Rose added.

"We might aswell go too," Edward said looking at Emmett.

"Sure, see you ladies in the morning," Emmett nodded in agreement.

"Night."

"See you."

"Night."

Me, Alice and Rose went and had a shower to wash the chlorine off.

"Can't believe you won, since when were you good at volleyball?" Rosalie questioned, giving me a sideways look.

"What?" I asked innocently.

"If I had known I'd have chosen you instead of Jasper, and we'd have won as a girls versus boys match."

"I know you two!" Alice chimed.

"What?" I repeated.

"Yeah?" Rosalie said.

"We'll do it again tomorrow," she waited for us to agree, we both smiled and nodded. "but we get the shallow end for the whole game," she added. That made me laugh.


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