School? In July?
We were all relaxing in a hot mud baths, cucumbers over our eyes and a green mud mask on our face. There was a low hum of classical music playing in the background, but other than that it was silent, comfortably silent.
Chelsea looked as if she was asleep. You could see the mud rise and fall in a steady pace. Alice was bopping her head to the music that was playing in her head. Rosalie was messing with her hair, making sure her layers stayed out of the sticky mud. And Melissa was texting.
"This is really fun," I breathed, more relaxed than I had been since my mother's passing.
"Yeah, perfect too, since we start school tomorrow," Rose commented, finally laying still.
"What?" I shot up, there was mud all over my body, so no one saw anything.
"Oh right, Bella, our school is different. We have four months off of school each year, but at different times. The school year starts in July, then we have school until September, then we have December off, and then March. The school year ends at the end of May," Alice explained.
"So you mean I start my senior year tomorrow?" I asked, confused.
"Correction, we start our senior year tomorrow."
"What are they going to do," I asked, pointing at Chelsea and Melissa.
"Get drunk and drive off of a cliff," Chelsea joked. "We're capable of taking care of ourselves for a few hours."
"We start senior year," I said elated.
"We'll rule the school," Alice joked, quoting Grease.
"Al, we all know we already do that," Rose said.
"Oh right," she giggled. "Oh Bella, we have to pick up your jacket before we go home. I was thinking we'd sleep over your house tonight since Charlie has seen you for a full ten minutes since you got into town."
"Jacket? Oh, yeah that sounds great."
"For the Purple Ladies, remember? We all have leather jackets that match, lined in purple," Alice said, everyone had started to get out of the mud bath, heading towards the showers in the locker room.
"You're serious," I asked.
"Dead serious, tomorrow you have to wear it. Oh, I'm gonna pick out your outfit, Bella Barbie time!" she squealed.
We had decided it was a good time to head home, we had already gotten massages, and mud baths and we had too much to do before school. I still had to get notebooks, and pens, and everything else needed for school.
We decided to split up and meet back at my house for movie night, with every junk food ever invented and hidden alcohol. The boys arrived with Alice and Rose and I saw that they were planning on staying, even Edward.
My dad had left a note, "Bella, I'm staying over Billy's tonight. We're watching the game then going fishing in the morning. I'm working the night shift tomorrow night so I won't see you until Tuesday night. Have a good first day of school, and order pizza for you girls. I'll call you tomorrow afternoon while I'm at work." I smirked, the house to myself, and the girls, and the boys. What a wonderful evening.
We had started Moulin Rough, the boys grew bored of it and started to make out with their girlfriends, leaving Edward, Chelsea and I out of the loop.
Chelsea's phone rang, she muttered it was her mother and went down stairs, leaving Edward and I out of the loop. We were sitting next to each other on the couch, while the couples were on the floor. I grabbed a soda bottle full of some sort of alcohol and drank. I stared at Edward from the corner of my eye, he was paying attention to the movie, ignoring everything around him.
I put my feet on his lap, wanting to feel the spark of his skin against mine. He put his hand on my calve, rubbing circles on it, and I felt just as relaxed as when I was in the mud bath.
I started to sing along to Diamonds are a girl's best friend in a whispered voice, afraid of people hearing. Edward heard though, he turned his head to look at me as I sang every lyric with ease.
"Bella, I could fall asleep to your voice," Edward whispered in my ear, sending shivers down my spine, and judging by his smirk, it was not missed.
Once Moulin Rough was over, Rose proposed Truth or Dare; Chelsea still hadn't come back, leaving it a square of couples, and Edward and I.
The game was very entertaining. Emmett was dared to walk into school tomorrow with no pants on, which he seemed oddly excited about; on several occasions he suggested we go to sleep, wanting the morning to come. He was also dared to run around my house naked, shouting "touch my wee-wee," I hesitated at first, then I remembered that Charlie wasn't home. There were several up-close shots of Emmett's "wee-wee", and two videos of him running, a frontal one and one from the back. Alice was dared to go a week without shopping, which brought a few tears; after that she decided to pick truth, playing it safe. She didn't reveal any secrets, claiming she was just an open person, but I think she was hiding something. Rose was dared by Emmett to give him a lap dance, which earned him a smack; she, like Alice, picked truth mainly. Jasper also picked truth, claiming that after the last time they played, he needed a break. He told that group that he had kissed another girl while he and Alice were dating. Alice had already known, and she had forgiven him for it. It was a famous actress; she admitted that she would have probably kissed her too, if she got the chance. It was Mila Kumis.
Sam and Melissa fell asleep after revealing that they were both virgins and that they wanted to wait to have actual sex until after they were married. The girl's aww'ed, the boys snickered.
Edward was dared by the lovely Alice to not date a girl, meaning no contact with women other than a conversation for an entire week. He shrugged it off saying he could handle it, everyone else scoffed, knowing he could barely go two days without sex.
"Bella, truth or dare?" Edward asked.
"Dare," I rolled my eyes, as if there was another answer.
"I dare you to go on a date with me."
"In your dreams, Cullen," I told him.
"You know the rules of the game," he told me.
"And I know you were dared not to date a girl for the next week, you just asked me out; I guess we're breaking some rules."
"Come on, I'll show you what an amazing time you'll have with the Cullenator," he joked.
"I'll think about it," I said. I actually did want to go on a date with him, but I didn't want him to gain the control that he was getting at.
"I'm gonna go find Chelsea," I told them, she had been gone for well over two hours. I found her asleep on the lounge chair, cuddling the throw pillow, I grabbed the Redskins blanked from the hall closet and draped it over her.
"You know, you'd think people from California could stay up later than, is it already two AM," I asked when I got back to my room. Sam and Melissa were asleep under a purple, fuzzy blanket on the floor.
"We better go to sleep, Rose and Emmett can take my bed, since Em is huge, you two can take the couch here, and Edward and I will sleep on the sectional down stairs," I told them, pointing at Alice and Jasper when I told them to sleep on this couch.
"Okay, 'night guys," Alice said.
"'Night," everyone muttered. Edward and I climbed down the stairs and went in search for blankets. There was only one left.
"You can have it," I told him, pushing the comforter toward him.
"No way, it's your house," he pushed it at me.
"How 'bout this, we'll share it. I'll sleep at your feet," I told him. I sat on the couch in the corner where the other half of the couch jutted out. He sat at the other end, pulling the blanket so it covered us both.
"'Night Bella," he whispered.
"'Night Edward," I replied.
I woke up, and felt something fuzzy against my face, it smelled awful. My eyes opened, slowly, adjusting to the light then I saw it. Edward's sock covered toes resting on my cheek.
"Edward," I screamed.
He jumped up, the blanket falling to the floor, and took on a fighter's stance.
"What, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Your foot was on my face, you stupid prick," I pushed past him, and into the kitchen. I searched for the kurieg cups through the cabinets. I heard Edward enter as I climbed onto of the counter to find the K-cups. After much searching, I only found Irish crème flavored coffee, but it was better than no coffee at all.
"Looks like I'll be having Irish coffee today," I muttered to myself as I picked up the Irish whiskey bottle from the freezer. I poured a shot glass worth of whiskey into the mug that was now filled with coffee and I drank it. I felt tingles go through my spine as it went down.
"Bella, you know if I didn't know any better I'd say you were an alcoholic," Edward told me.
"And if I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a nice guy, but luckily I do," I retorted.
Alice came barging in through the front door, with Emmett, Jasper, and Rose in tow. As she climbed the stairs she yelled, "Bella to your room." I obeyed, grabbing my cup of coffee and smirking at Edward.
"Ed, we have clothes for you too," Em told him.
In my room, Alice was throwing things out of my closet, shoes, accessories, pants, and more.
"Bella, shower," she ordered and I had no voice to argue.
But I did ask, "When did you guys leave?"
"You guys were asleep, so we figured that it would be best to let you sleep while we got ready then we'd get you ready. It's your first day, you gotta look kick ass. Now go shower," she threw a towel at me and I grabbed it as I went into the bathroom.
I let the water run down my back and shoulders as it relaxed every muscle; I felt a little achy due to sharing a couch for the night. As Rose told me to hurry up, I quickly washed my hair, then conditioned. I rung out my hair with my towel, then wrapped it around my body before I exited to my room; Alice through my black skinny jeans, and a white, loose fitting V-neck at me. I grabbed a bra and some underwear and returned to the bathroom. I honestly looked the same as how I dressed in LA, aside from the leather jacket that was waiting for me when I left the bathroom again.
"Put these on," she ordered, they were biker boots with a heel which would add to my tough look. I loved the boots, I wore them back in LA, and probably owed them from why I was on top of my school during freshman year. "Great, now do your make up, and we'll do your hair."
I added some light make up, and opted for a bright red lip stick, which only smudged when you kissed someone. They straightened my hair, and left it down. Then Rose threw some ray ban aviators, and Alice threw a chain around my neck.
"You look like a force to be reckoned with," Alice told me.
"I look like a biker chick, where's my hog," I joked.
"Shut up, for your first day, you want to be tough. You want to scare them into doing what you demand," she told me, fixing her makeup.
"They'll be scared no matter what," I told her with a wink.
Alice and Rose walked in front of me with a smirk on both of their faces, they knew what the boy's reactions would be. As I walked down the stairs, I waited to see the boys reactions would be the same as the schools reaction. I wanted it to be a mix of lust and fear. If they wanted me or wanted to be me, I would get away with whatever I wanted. If they feared me, then I would be able to do whatever I wanted.
Rose knew that this year, she'd have competition and she knew that I was a force to be reckoned with. I would be on top of the school. I would be queen of the hallways, the classrooms, the town hangouts, homecoming queen, prom queen. Queen of Forks. Just like I was at LA Prep's queen. I ruled over everyone and everything and I would continue to rule in Washington too.
Their reactions were perfect, you could see the fear evident on their face, but in their eyes the lust was hidden beneath the green of Edward's, the grey of Jasper's, and the brown of Emmett's.
I smirked some more, grabbed my keys, and walked out the door.