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Bella Pov
Chapter 8: Middle ground.
My mind was made. Edward Cullen is going down!
I slept that night with my new now made promise. What am I going to do to make him pay first? I thought before I fell asleep. I woke up tired, as if I hadn't fallen asleep.
"Good morning sleepy head." Alice said from beside me.
"Good morning." I said with a voice thick of sleep.
"It's party time!" Rose declared entering the room.
"No… It's time to get ourselves decent for my birthday. Don't argue it's my birthday." She said and looked directly at me and I nodded.
"I'll go shower first." I said.
"Wash your hair with the strawberry shampoo." Alice commanded.
"Yes mom." I walked into the hot water and felt my tense muscles relax. I was now not sad with myself, I'm angry but not with myself. I finished my extremely long shower and looked at myself in the foggy mirror. Confidence Bella! You are a hot, smart and nice girl. I tried to convince myself. It almost worked if it hadn't been the fact that my eyes were swollen but it was nothing Alice couldn't fix.
I walked to the room and grabbed a pair of shorts and a loose shirt. I brushed my hair several times and went downstairs for breakfast. Everyone was on the table having breakfast and it was smelling wonderfully.
"Good morning." I said smiling brightly at everyone.
"Good morning sweetheart." Esme said and smiled brightly at me, probably pleased to see me in such a good mood. Everyone else had surprised looks on their faces except for Edward who was blank.
"So what we doing today?" I asked looking at Alice.
"What if we go shopping?" Alice suggested. Emmett and I shook our heads no.
"What about laser tag?" Emmett suggested and the two other girls shook their heads violently.
"What if we watch a nice movie?" Jasper suggested. Everyone nodded besides Edward and I.
"What about fancy dinner?" Rose proposed.
"What about a nice swim in the pool?" Esme suggested but Alice shook her head no.
"We will never agree on anything." Edward said speaking for the first time. We all nodded.
"Unless you get to a middle ground." Carlisle offered. Of course Carlisle the wise got it right.
"What if... We go to the laser tag, then the mall then a quick swim in the pool, after that we could have a fancy dinner and watch a movie at last? It's a compromise." I suggested and everyone nodded.
"What time is our departure time?" Emmett asked.
"In about two hours. Mom dad will you join us?" Alice asked.
"We will join you for the swim later and the dinner." Esme said. We all nodded and ate our breakfast with light conversations.
Alice, Rose an I went upstairs to get ready for our laser tag adventure. We were all ready in about an hour, Alice was in black high-heel boots a black mini-skirt, a black blouse and a vest with glitters, half of her spiky hair was being held back by a head-band. Rose was in black stiletto heels, black shorts, a black blouse similar to Alice's and her long blonde hair was up in a ponytail. I had black sneakers, (didn't really understand why they had o wear heels for a laser tag game but as Alice said, fashion is always first.) black skinny jeans that clung perfectly to my curves, black corset like shirt that made my ladies look way bigger than they really were, and my hair was in a fishtail braid at the back.
We all left in Emmett's huge jeep and took our 40 minutes drive to the laser tag club.
"Girls versus boys." Emmett said once again still arguing with Alice about our game arrangements.
"No, I want to stay with Jazzy." Alice whined.
"Sucks for you then." He said.
"Alice don't worry we will beat them anyway." Rose said smugly. Emmett's booming laughter echoed in the car for a few second then he recovered.
"Sure." Was the only thing he said.
"I mean it." Rose said. I heard Emmett Um-hum and Rosalie growled.
We arrived then and we divided the team. Girls VS boys. We went to get our laser-guns and vests to prepare for the battle. We were at the back of the dark room with only the guns, vests and very few lights out there. We ran around killing people from other teams before we met team muscle, as Emmett called it, boys. The six of us were the last survivors. I was the one who would be after Edward, Rose after Emmett and Alice after Jasper since I thought that Jasper would of course choose not to go after Alice and Emmett after Rose so that left me, but if needed I had both girls as my backups. I was running around with adrenaline full force on my pounding heart and veins. I bumped my back into someone and instantly jumped around. It was Emmett, he fired but missed because I gave a back-flip and ran for dear life. When I was well hid I saw him coming closer but he had no idea I could shoot him in a few seconds but I'd leave him to Rose. I turned around and ran to where I thought was safe.
" Rose, Emmett is in isle 6." I whispered into my device.
"On my way there." She whispered.
Soon later we were running and I heard the sound of someone down.
"Emmett is down." Rose said happily and I heard his scowl at the back, I could imagine that giant baby pouting.
I was running around looking for Edward or Jasper but found an Alice on the ground.
"I got shot." She said. "Edward." She whispered before dramatically closing her eyes.
"You shall be avenged." I said going the direction Edward had gone. There was another shot and I knew that someone was down.
"Jasper down, Edward no!" I heard as Rose's machine went out. Now it was just the two of us.
I turned left and walked to where I could see gorgeous bronze hair.
"Bella, come out I know you are hearing me." Edward sang. The hair on my neck stood and I was crouching.
"found you." He yelled from behind me and I jumped at the sudden appearance. With my amazing balance I fell bringing Edward down with me. I was on top of him with my legs on either side of his waist.
"Looks like I got you." I whispered into his face. He shivered and I shot him ending the game.
"We win!"I sang in victory as I got up.
"Way to go girl." Rose said running to me.
"First in the list down, Shopping time!" Alice said excited.
Thanks everyone for the patience. I'm so sorry for taking so long and thanks so much for all the support guys you are awesome. Please tell me what you thought about the chapter. Hope to post something soon and 'Happy Valentine's day.'
Song for the chapter is 'Love and war' by Rita Ora.
