I am trying to not give away the plot just yet. I'm sorry if the next few chapters are just basic stuff. I'm trying to make the chapters longer, so a lot of boring stuff will be compacted into chapters. Sorry!
Disclaimer: The disclaimer is currently in the hospital, for, um … previous abuse. Heh … heh.
Chapter Nine: The Ninth ChapterHello, and welcome to the ninth chapter of this book. How do I know? Well, you see, I'm kinda in this book.
Now that we've cleared things up, let's get on with this. I want lunch. Since I have nothing better to do, I'll give you week-by-week installments! Now doesn't that sound fun? We'll do it diary style. Oh, and by the way? Try not to die of boredom. I don't want to be the one who has to bury you.
1st day of 3rd week. A Sunday. I don't know the exact date. I was too lazy to go look at a calendar.
I lounged around on the couch most of the day watching cartoons. I love cartoons! The Cullens prepared the guest room for me, but I don't spend much time in it. I like the good ol' couch. After a while I got bored. So I got a movie and a bowl of popcorn and sat back down. Around noon, I ate lunch. A little later, I got in a fight with Emmett. He wanted to take me to the zoo, and taunt the bears there while pelting them with peanuts. I won that argument, with my womanly wit, thank you very much. Emmett went off to sulk in some corner. Just as my movie was ending, Jasper walked into the room.
"Do you know why Emmett is feeling murderous?"
"Yep." I answered, popping some more popcorn in my mouth.
"Do I want to know?" Jasper asked warily.
"Nope." Japer walked away. A few minutes later, Edward entered.
"Hey, Valerie? Did you give Emmett permission to look through your purse?"
"No. Why?" I instantly became suspicious. My purse held my few belongings from my world. Getting at it would be a perfect way to extract revenge.
"Because right now, he's upstairs emptying out the contents of it, and his thoughts concerning the purse are not what you would call pure." As an afterthought, Edward added "Unless you add the word 'evil' after it."
"EMMETT CULLEN! GET YOUR EVIL, ANNOYING BUTT DOWN HERE BEFORE I COME UP THERE AND DRAG IT DOWN HERE!!!!!!!!" Even Edward winced, but there was no sign of Emmett coming down the stairs. I sighed. I turned to Edward and said grimly, "I'm going in. If I don't come back alive, give my purse and clothes to Alice. You can divide the rest amongst yourself." Edward nodded once and I headed up the stairs. "Ready or not here I come." I muttered under my breath. I found Emmett on the floor in my room, my purse also on the floor, with everything spilled out.
"Ah. Valerie, good. You're just in time for the show." At that moment, I noticed a can of pop behind his back. He tilted it menacingly over the purse.
I gasped. "You wouldn't."
Emmett grinned. I was really beginning to dislike his grins. "I would." He tilted the can of pop a little farther.
"If you tilt that soda any farther, I will seriously kill you."
A hand placed itself comfortingly on my shoulder. "And I'll help her." Came a pretty, feminine voice. Emmett's grin froze on his face. I looked over my shoulder to reveal a smirking Rose.
"Rosalie?" Emmett and I said the name at the same time, each with different emotions in our voices. Mine with confusion and wonder, his with pure fear.
"Yes, me." Was Rose's cool answer. I was surprised. This was the first time Rosalie had come anywhere near me, let alone help me! I was too distracted by this change of events, that I didn't notice the pop going to a very dangerous angle. By the time I did, the can was almost to the pouring point.
"Emmett." I warned and took a step closer. Turns out, I didn't need to kill Emmett; someone else did it for me.
A multi-color blur flew past me and tackled Emmett. Emmett was pinned to the floor in mere moments, and the pop went flying … right onto my outfit. Well, at least my from-home purse was spared. Alice stood up and brushed the non-existent dust from her clothes, and then she turned to reprimand he-of-many-grins.
"Emmett! I had a vision of you abusing a poor purse!" She picked my purse up from the ground and cuddled it to her chest. "What did the purse ever do to you? There, there." Alice started to console my purse, as she walked out of the room.
"Um, Alice? I kinda need my pur…" By that time Alice had already disappeared. Rosalie sighed.
"Don't worry, she'll give your purse back sooner or later. Probably after she plays dress up with it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must go terrorize my three-year-old husband into saying sorry."
"Emmett isn't three-years-old." I pointed out.
"His maturity is." Rosalie said as she walked out of the room. I have to admit she had me there.
2nd day of 3rd week. Monday. Still too lazy to look at a calendar.
I had school today. Two words, very boring.
October 7th. Wednesday.
How did I know what today's date was? Read and you'll find out.
The first thing I heard when I woke up was, "Valerie! You're up!!!!!!!!!!" There really were that many exclamation points. I lifted my head to reveal a super happy Alice. "OMG!! I had a vision that you're going to come shopping with me, Valerie!" She grabbed my arm and dragged me to the door.
"Alice!" I tried pulling away, but her vampire strength plus my morning sleepiness equals, my plan no work. "At least let me get dressed and eat breakfast first!" Alice considered this for a minute then skipped away calling "You have one hour!"
I decided to make the best of it. After I ate, I combed my hair and threw on a hoodie and jeans. I also grabbed my purse, which Alice had returned the day before. I didn't care about my appearance as much since I got here. I still wanted to look good, but I wasn't as into the latest fashions as I was before. I zoomed down the steps, almost running into a cross-looking Alice. "Aaugh!!" I yelled. Alice nimbly stepped out of the way just before I crashed into her, leaving me to run into the wall. "Ow." I whimpered, rubbing my head.
Alice started to scold me. "I told you that you had one hour and only one hour. You're five minutes late! That takes off of our total shopping time." She made a tsk-ing sound. "And those clothes! You'd better be happy that we're going shopping today." She hustled me into the car and drove down to the huge shopping mall.
An hour and a half later, Alice and I were finished shopping.
First, we went to the makeup isle. There, Alice firmly stated, "No less than ten things in each isle."
I let out a laugh. "Most people would say no more than ten things per isle. How much money did you bring anyway?" Alice wordlessly held up two large stacks of money extracted from her purse. On closer look, I discovered that each stack was made up of hundred-dollar bills.
All I did was stare. "What are you planning on doing, buying the entire store?"
If vampires could blush, Alice would be blushing. She turned her head away from me and mumbled, "Maybe."
I groaned and placed my head in my hands.
Alice quickly regained her happiness. "Look!" she exclaimed, holding up a tube of bright red lipstick. "Lipstick!" My head resumed its position in my hands.
After makeup, we looked for clothes. I tried on a few thousand ensembles before heading to the shoe department.
We fawned over all the cute pairs of shoes. Then, we decided to see who could find the most ridiculous shoe. We were in hysterics. I modeled a particularly ugly pair. It consisted of sky-high heel, too many straps to count, lacing up to the knee, had a few flowers on the foot, and was mustard yellow. Alice took one look, and doubled over once more. Still laughing, we headed over to the snack bar for cappuccinos and pretzels. Well, for me.
I had a blast.
Oh, and about the date thing, there was a huge sale announcing half off shoes today and the date was on the poster. Nothing exciting. On second though, maybe that was the whole reason Alice decided to take me shopping today. Hmm. I guess that's one of those things in life that you'll never know.
October 8th. Thursday.
When I got home from school, a voice from the kitchen announced, "Valerie's home. Good. Now we can start the family meeting." A meeting. Great. A family one at that. I headed up the stairs to my room where I could hide out until the meeting was over, when a voice stopped me.
"Now where do you think you're going, missy?" I looked down to see a quizzical Alice.
"Um, to my room." I pointed up the stairs. "So you guys can have your meeting in peace." Now all of the Cullens congregated at the bottom of the steps. Surprisingly, Jasper spoke up first.
"Yeah, that's why you're coming."
I pointed at my chest. "Me?"
Rosalie let out an exasperated sound. "Yeah you."
"You're part of our family now, Valerie." Esme looked up at me with a smile on her face.
"I-I am?" I managed to stutter.
Emmett wrapped me up in a humongous bear hug. "Of course you are, Val!"
I couldn't speak I was so surprised. They actually considered me family. I was just the freak that popped out of a book into their lives and now I'm family. I was touched.
Edward sighed. "Now that you finally get it, can we get on with the meeting?"
Bella patted his shoulder. "Of course, dear."
We headed to the dining room table, which we clustered around. Carlisle started. "Valerie, this mainly concerns you. And before you say it, yes you." I sunk down in my chair. They were really getting to know me. "This is about your… condition." Carlisle continued. "We have come up with no reasonable explanation of how you got here. We do, however, have an idea of how to get you back." I immediately perked up. "You got here by reading a book, our book. Correct?"
"Correct."
"My," Carlisle corrected himself when someone cleared their throat. "Our, theory is that if you read another book, then you will travel into that book. The one problem is that if we need to get you back to your world, then we need to find your book."
"B-but that could take forever!" I exclaimed.
"We know. We'll try as hard as we can. As for now, you just have to sit tight and hope for the best. If we don't come up with anything, then we'll have to come up with another solution. We also have another problem, we don't even know what is in your book or what the title is." Carlisle explained.
"I know. Thank you so much!" I gave each one of them a hug then headed upstairs with a smile on my face.
By the end of the week, I wasn't as cheery.
Aw, now Val is sad. Song Of The Day: If Everyone Cared – NickelbackLove,
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