Author's Note: Ummm...Hi.

Previously:

My eyes opened to six very confused Cullens. But one wore an expression identical to mine. Edward. My mind went blank as I noticed how…unprotected I felt. Has my shield been down this entire time?

"Yes. Yes it has." Edward responded, to my surprise.

Great.

Now:

"And you didn't think to tell me? You invaded my thoughts without my permission and didn't bother to even warn me first?" I was practically seething with rage right now. My mind was only mine for a reason. It shouldn't be open to anyone besides me.

"You would've hid it from me again. I want to understand, Isabella. What do I have to do to get you to trust and love me like you did before?" Edward explained, and I could tell that my mind's previous image was still bothering him.

"Edward, you really don't get it! I did love you and you lied to me! You left me in the forest! You could've cared enough to at least make sure I got home safely. But you didn't. I ran after you, Edward. I called your name over and over again...but you didn't come for me!" I spoke through my teeth in a poor attempt to hide my anger, but eventually I just let my emotions go. Screw the consequences.

"Would you honestly have let me leave if I'd come back?" Edward asked, as he took a few stapes towards me.

"No. I would've tried to stop you from making this mistake and we wouldn't be in this situation! But you made my decisions for me and it caused both of us pain. Why didn't you just talk to me?" That one word had bothered me throughout my entire existence. Why?

"I couldn't face you. I hurt you on the regular basis. How could I just pretend like it never happened? I would rather live every day of my life in excruciating pain, then have you hurting over me."

"But I was! I died over you! My life ended when you left, both literally and figuratively! How could you, Edward? I understand your reasoning but…why was it so easy to leave?" I cried, through the rivers flowing from my eyes.

"Leaving you was the hardest thing that I'd done in over a hundred years." He exaggerated.

"Well, it seemed easy enough." I retorted, replacing my sadness with anger. I walked out of the training room and went into my room to shower and change. After showering for an hour in steaming hot water, I wrapped a fluffy white towel around my body and walked out of the bathroom. But before I got a chance to change, there was a knock on my door. I opened it and Jane was standing there with a very irritated Heidi right behind her.

"Are you ready?" Jane asked me, though I was completely clueless to her request. Noticing my confusion, she clarified.

"Shopping? You promised you'd go with me." She whined.

"Jane, that was four months ago. Why'd you choose now of all times to go shopping?" I thought that she would've forgotten by now.

"Because I need a dress for the ball." I looked at her in astonishment.

"You waited until 20 hours before the ball to buy a dress?" I nearly shouted with irritation.

"Well, I haven't exactly been able to just walk up and say, 'Hey, Isabella, why don't you just blow off the Cullens and come shopping with me?' now could I?" She imitated my voice almost perfectly.

"Well, I didn't know that you thought they were a liability." I told her. "I don't have to put my entire life on hold for them. I still need to spend time to shop with my best friend." A huge smile lit up her face. It looked like her face was going to give in and break off. But I took that as a good sign.

"Isabella, that was so sweet." She complimented.

"Yep. Now, Jane do you mind watching the Cullens while Heidi and I go shopping." I joked with her but she obviously took it very offensively.

"Isabella! That was mean!" She said with a frown.

"I'm just kidding, Jane. You know I love you." I gave her a tight hug and kissed her right cheek. When I pulled away, I noticed that she looked as if she would cry if she could. Venom pulled into her eyes.

"I love you, too." She replied. "But it's not fair that you are the only vampire that gets to cry. This would have been a beautiful moment if tears were involved." I laughed at her complaint and she laughed along with me.

"Well, thank God for me being a weird species of mythology." I said with a lot of sarcasm.

"You're welcome." She laughed as she walked down the hallway leading to her room.

"Get dressed and meet me in the throne room… NOW!" She yelled through the hallway. Well, I thought. Jane will be Jane.

I quickly walked to my closet and decided not to dress elegantly. Grabbing a pair of fashionable ripped, black skinny jeans, along with a white camisole tank top and a black leather jacket, I got dressed at vampire speed. I rolled the leather jacket's sleeves up to my elbows and walked to the closet again to find some shoes. After much debated, I decided on a white and black pair of knee high, five inch stilettos. After putting those on with a pair of white socks, I looked in the mirror to find a way to style my hair. I finally took the rubber band out of my hair and chose to have all of my hair over my left shoulder. I put a few bobby pins in to make sure it stayed in place. With one more glance in the mirror, I grabbed my purse and left out of my room, heading to the throne room.

When I walked in, everyone looked at me with the same shocked expression. The Cullens and my family alike.

"What?" I asked.

"Wow, Izzy. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to find your mate." Santiago said with a slight smile. My eyes widen and I knew if I were human, I'd be blushing from anger and embarrassment.

"Santiago. Please don't ruin my day with your ignorance before it's even started." I pleaded, teasingly. Everyone in the room laughed and chuckled right before he turned invisible and left. Jerk.

"You ready?" Jane asked.

"Yep." I said, putting emphasis on the 'p'.

"Alright." She responded. Then, she got a very mischievous look on her face but covered it up before I could put much thought into it.

"Hey, Izzy." She called me by my irritatingly common nickname.

"Yes?" I said, drawing out the 's' suspiciously.

"You know what would be a great idea?"'

"No." I answered.

"You should invite the Cullens. I'm sure they'd love to go." That little devil! I racked my brain for an excuse but covered up my uneasiness.

"But who will take care of Melissa?" Was all I could come up with on such short notice.

"Carlisle and Esme wouldn't mind, right?" she said, referring to Carlisle and Esme for confirmation. They nodded in agreement.

"Sure, I don't mind." I said, glaring at Jane with crystal clear ice. She smiled and mouthed 'payback' and I knew that I would get her for this later.

"So is there anybody else going other than Heidi, Jane, The Cullens, and I?" I asked in apparent annoyance.

"I'm in." Demetri and Alec said at the same time. They were very protective of Jane and me.

"Okay, since we have ten people, we'll need three cars." I said, quickly doing the math in my head. "Who's riding with who?" I asked.

"Emmett and I will ride with Alice and Jasper." Rosalie said.

"I'm riding with Alec." Jane answered quickly.

"Me, too." Heidi said,

"Count me in." Demetri responded with his hand in the air.

"Okay, so Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper are in one car. Jane, Alec, Demetri and Heidi are together. That leaves Edward and I in my car." I sighed."Any questions?"

Emmett raised his hand.

"Yes, Emmett?" I asked, not even attempting to disguise my irritation.

"Can we race?" He requested.

"What? Why?" I inquired.

"I don't know." He said, stupidly.

"Fine. Any other questions?" Emmett did a victory dance and it took a lot of strength to not burst out laughing at the sight. No one asked anything.

"Great. Jane you take the blue Camaro. Rosalie drives the green Bugatti Veyron." Her eyes widened and a smile graced her face.

"And I'll take…the white Mercedes Convertible." I just named a random car from my inventory. "Cool?" Some nodded and some murmured their agreements, so I took that as a yes.

"Let's go." I led everyone to the garage and got the keys from hanging on the nails on the wall.

"Rosalie." I said as I handed her the keys. "Jane." Jane skipped over and nearly ripped the keys out of my hand. Eager are we? Grabbing my keys , I led Edward to my car and, unlocking the doors, got in the driver's seat. Edward crawled into the passenger's seat. After checking my mirrors, I rolled the windows down and did the countdown for the race.

"Ready. Set." I said, at the same time I realized that this will be a very interesting shopping trip.

"Go!"

Author's Note: Okay so, a couple of things. One, should I do a chapter from Edward's Point Of View? Second, Isabella's outfit is on my profile. Enjoy!