Disclaimer: All the characters belong to Stephenie Meyer, and this story line originally belongs to dreamscribbler (link in profile). Again, if you missed the last A/N above the story, dreamscribbler wrote chapters one through thirteen.

BPOV

Alice pulled me across the hall to Edward's room. I really wasn't ready to see him again, I did wonder what his reaction was to the newspaper article, but could I face him after almost kissing him on my own free will this morning?

Alice started knocking on the door, repeatedly, nonstop, while looking around. All of a sudden a small squeal came out of her mouth and she ran away and leapt into Jasper's arms who had been walking from the stairs toward his room. He picked her up and spun her around while they hugged. They really did make a cute couple.

My attention was drawn away from the happy couple when the door I was standing in front of was forcefully pulled open revealing a very agitated looking Edward Cullen. The hard look on his face caused a lump to form in my throat, though I guess I did kind of understand why he would be angry. I think I would be pretty annoyed if someone continuously knocked on my door for almost two minutes straight.

As he looked at me his angry mask softened and transformed into one that was a mixture of curiosity and amusement, and then quickly turned to one of worry.

"I swear I had nothing to do with the article, I was just as surprised as I am sure you were, you can ask anyone," he rambled.

"No, Edward…. I didn't think…. Why would I…" Why couldn't I form a complete sentence?

He seemed to relax and then looked curious again, "then what are you doing here?" Crap, why did Alice run down the hall? Why didn't she come back yet, I was seriously rethinking my position on them being a cute couple. I was deep in thought between trying to come up with an excuse for being here and thinking of all the things I wanted to say to Alice, though I doubted I would, I could already tell she was one of those people you just couldn't stay mad at, when Edward continued, "Not that didn't want you to come. I mean I didn't want you to come. Wait…I didn't not want you to come…I just…I wasn't expecting to open the door and find you standing there, on the other side of the door, waiting to…"

"Edward," I cut him off, although I was thoroughly enjoying his struggling to find words, and I hated to admit that it was kind of cute, I felt the need to point out that it was Alice who was here to see him. "I didn't come here." He looked confused, and then I thought about what I said. Great job Bella, that makes a lot of sense, you are standing in front of him claiming you aren't there. "I mean, I didn't come to see you," did his face just fall a little? "Alice did, she just ran down the hall when she saw Jasper."

"Oh," he thought for a second, and then looked confused again; all this thinking had to be hurting his brain, "since when do you hang out with Alice?"

"Since I decided to rectify the fact that you and Emmett have been friends for years and Bella and I have never met!" Alice chimed in appearing out of nowhere, "plus if you two are going to be dating she is going to need new clothes, I didn't see any date worthy clothes in that closet."

I felt my face turn red, then at the exact same time Edward and I said "We are not dating." Alice didn't look convinced though.

Then Jasper looked at me, "Bella, you agreed to go shopping with Alice?"

I just looked at him unsure of what to say, I was starting to get nervous remembering how Emmett had also seemed reluctant when Alice mentioned us going shopping, "Yeah, why does everyone make that sound like a really bad thing?"

Edward and Jasper exchanged glances; it was Jasper who spoke, "Alice, Bella isn't like Rosalie. I don't know how much she is going to enjoy shopping with you. Please be easy on her."

Alice rolled her eyes, "Guys, she is still a girl, a girl with serious need of a shopping trip after what I saw in her closet. I think I can handle this. I just came here to get my mail that mom sent from Edward."

"Why does he have it?" I asked.

"Oh, mom was sending him some of his CD's from his room and decided to just put my mail in the box with those since I see him all the time anyway. There are a few credit cards in there!" she explained.

"OH" she suddenly exclaimed as we all went into Edward and Jasper's room so Edward could get Alice's mail, "Bella agreed to dance with us for the Christmas dance competition! We are SO going to win this year!"

Edward and Jasper looked from Alice to me and back to Alice, "Alice have you spoken to Emmett about this?" Emmett? Granted he was the one who brought it up to me, why would it matter if he was spoken to about it?

"Of course, he was trying to convince Bella when I came into her room earlier!" Jasper and Edward looked doubtful, "What?"

"I just don't think that Emmett would want Bella dancing with any of the guys from the team." Edward stated mater-of-fact-ly, "especially the way you normally choreograph the dancing."

"Well, he was the one wanting her to do it so clearly you are wrong, plus, it is her choice and she was thrilled," Alice said making a point to avoid the glare I was now giving her, her eye seemed to catch something on the floor near Edward's desk.

"Oh dear brother of mine, since when do you own a hair straightener?"

I glanced in the direction she was looking to see the basket I had brought to the prep room this morning with all of my stuff in it sitting on the floor. He must have picked it up after I ran out.

"That's mine." I stated. Alice raised her eyebrow at me, "I kind of forgot my stuff in the prep room this morning; Edward must have grabbed it for me." I glanced over at Edward who had a crooked smile planted on his face; I couldn't help but smile back while thinking about the reason why I left so suddenly. NO, no smile, awkward, gross…right? "Thanks."

"Anytime." He replied still smiling, I felt the fluttering in my stomach and my heart started racing. Bella, he picked your basket off the floor and brought it to your room, it really wasn't a big deal, calm down.

"Are you sure you two aren't dating?" Alice asked eyeing us suspiciously.

"I'm sure," I responded.

"How did you manage to leave all of your stuff in the prep room?" Jasper asked.

I willed myself not to blush, "Well…something came up and I had to leave." I figured keeping it short and simple would work best.

"What was there another misunderstanding?" Alice joked.

Now, I knew she was kidding, she was using my words from earlier when she asked about the picture of me and Edward kissing and I said it was just a misunderstanding, and she couldn't possibly know what happened, but I couldn't stop the blush that crept onto my face this time.

I watched as her eyes grew wide, "Oh my God! You two kissed again?!"

"NO!" I exclaimed, "we didn't…what happened was…we were…I had to…" I was dying, and I could tell from the amused look on Alice's face that she didn't believe me.

"We didn't," Edward spoke up, "someone pushed her into me and then someone else snapped a picture of us, it was awkward and she left." I was suddenly very grateful for his presence and nodded, backing up his statement.

"That is what is making her blush?" Alice pushed.

"Alice, what doesn't make her blush?" Edward countered. I narrowed my eyes at him. My good feelings toward him started to disappear with him making fun of me, but when his eyes met mine he winked, the fluttering in my stomach picked up and I was blushing again. "See?"

"Whatever," Alice was giving in, "Thanks for my mail, now it's time to shop! Bye Jazz!" She kissed him, then grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door.

Alice insisted on driving her car to the mall. When we got to it my jaw dropped, she had to be kidding. Did she seriously drive a yellow Porsche 911Check info in new moon

Turbo (man I have to stop hanging around Emmett, you know it is bad when I start recognizing cars)? She didn't even notice my hesitation and just hopped in the driver's seat, so I carefully opened the passenger door and slid into the passenger seat.

The mall was about 20 minutes from the dorms, well, I stand corrected the mall is about 9 minutes from campus when Alice is driving. We met Rosalie at Andy's Pretzel shop, and the second I saw her i immediately regretted not checking the mirror before I left. For the first time ever I cared how I looked, even though I knew that there was no way on earth I would ever compare with this blonde haired model who was waiting for us.

"Rose!" Alice squealed after hugging the model, "we have a shopping emergency, I saw the inside of dear Bella's closet and it is just hoodies and oversized jeans, and she owns like one pair of sneakers and 2 pairs of flip-flops. That is her entire closet."

Rosalie then turned to me and smiled as she held out her hand, "You must be Bella," I nodded and smiled back at her.

"Yup, apparently I am the fashion victim, and Alice, one of those flip-flops are actually my shower shoes if I were to be completely honest." Alice's eyes widened and she took a deep breath.

"We need to start now! Full wardrobe, head to toe." She announced then pulled me toward the first store at the far east end of the mall.

Shopping with Alice and Rosalie was insane, I never tried on so many clothes in my entire life. Alice made me try on dresses, skirts, jeans, shorts, bathing suits (not that I knew when I would be using them any time soon), millions of shirts, tons of shoes, jackets, and even some pajamas. At one point Alice left me alone with Rose, leaving me with a pile of clothes for Rose to decide on, and she came back with bags from Victoria's Secret that she said nothing about, they had better be all for her.

The worst part of the whole experience was when they were trying to find clothes for the Christmas dance thing, I had never seen tighter clothes or shorter shorts before in my life. They decided that the outfit was going to have red and white striped tights, a very short green skirt with short green cheerleading shorts underneath, tight short sleeved white button up shirts with a red half vest and stiletto boots that I am going to kill myself in. I have never worn anything like that in my life, and did not want to be out in public like that. But Alice insisted that it was a cute outfit.

By the time we left the mall we had about twenty bags. Alice had paid for everything which was absolutely insane, she refused to let me pay for anything except for the hoodie that she didn't want me to get, that I did get to buy.

I had to admit that although shopping for 3 hours with Alice and Rosalie was exhausting, they were really sweet and we really did hit it off. I felt really comfortable around them like I had known them forever instead of just meeting them today. We seemed to talk about everything, Alice told me that she had always had a crush on Jasper and then told me how she met a guy online in a class study-chat and was meeting him and knew when it was him that he was her soul mate. It was really sweet, she wasn't questioning it, she was so sure, like she somehow knew what would happen.

Rose told me that she had just gotten out of a horrible relationship that her mom and stepdad had tried setting up with this guy Royce who seemed to just want to show her off to his friends like she was some kind of trophy. He would always tell her that she was eating too much, or looked like crap. Once he even wanted her to hook up with one of his friends because he lost a bet. That is when she decided to dump him and transfer schools, which brought her here.

I didn't have any stories to tell them. I hadn't really dated anyone…well…no one I could admit to…I had dated this one guy freshman year but we both swore not to tell anyone, and as far as I knew he kept his word. It didn't last more than a few months; we both realized that we made better friends than anything. I just told them that I had never had never been interested in anyone.

"What about Edward?" Rosalie asked. I was getting so tired of that question. Luckily Alice decided to answer for me.

"They claim that they aren't dating. The kiss thing was apparently a 'misunderstanding.'"

"Oh," Rose responded, "you guys would be cute together; all those pictures looked like you were really enjoying each other's company."

I rolled my eyes, "don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen." In what universe would Edward Cullen be interested in dating someone as plain as me? I mean, he belonged with someone like Rosalie, I am sure she is his dream girl anyway.

"Why not?" Alice asked, "you two seem to be getting along well enough."

"He's just…I'm…I doubt I'm his type and he isn't really mine."

"Bella," Rose reasoned, "if you haven't dated anyone then you don't really have a type." I just rolled my eyes, I was getting good at that. "Alice what is Edward's type?"

"Well," she said her eyebrows furrowing, she clearly had to think hard about the answer, "I haven't actually seen him with a girl before, all I really know is she likes brunettes, and smart girls, and that he has a thing for…"then she suddenly stopped, like she hadn't meant to start that last thought.

"Has a thing for what?" Rose prodded.

"Umm…" she said sounding panicked, "has a thing for…music…it has nothing to do with girls so I don't know why I was going to say it." She was lying, obviously but I tried not to care, tried being the key word. It really bothered me, all I could think of was what she was going to say.

Rose didn't seem to believe her either but didn't press the subject. We got apple juice slushies and then finally left the mall.

Alice drove just as fast back to the dorms, though she got stuck at a light that she missed on the way so it took 11 minutes to get back. She pulled up to the five minute parking lane to unload the car.

I went to the trunk to get the bags and she laughed and stopped me.

"Bella, we can recruit help to carry the bags in, apparently Rose had been texting Emmett and Jasper (and Edward) on the ride home because as if on cue they walked out of the building to unload the car. "Bella, give me your keys, I will supervise the unloading of the bags if you watch my car."

"I can unpack my own bags," I countered.

"Bella, not all of the clothes are yours, I can do it faster. Oh Edward, I think we can get all the bags, why don't you keep Bella company."

Edward gave his sister an odd look, which Alice responded to with a seemingly sweet one. It seemed like they were having a silent argument, but then Alice just bounded away toward the building.

"What was that all about?" I asked, I assumed he didn't want to have to babysit the car with me, I don't blame him.

He looked over to me, his eyes meeting mine, I tried to convince my heart to slow down, "Oh, she is just being Alice, always up to something. You'll find out soon enough." Suddenly I was nervous."So you survived shopping with Alice."

"Yeah," I said, "It was…"

"insane?" he finished.

I found myself laughing, "No, interesting. I do not think I have ever put on so many clothes in my life." He laughed, "I do think she is trying to kill me though."

He looked confused, "How is she doing that?"

"Well she is going to make it look like an accident, death by a pair of shoes. I will die at the Christmas dance thing, if I even make it through the practices."

He laughed then moved a little closer to me and said in a very low voice, "Don't worry, I'll protect you." I swear my heart was having a seizure or something, it pushed all of my blood to my face which made Edward smile, causing me to blush more if it was possible. He reached up an ran the back of his fingers across my cheek, causing the seizure in my heart to double, I was pretty sure I was going to die before I even had to chance to wear any of my new clothes, and the weird thing was I didn't mind. Why did he have this effect on me?

"Ahem." I heard and I jumped back a little to see Alice and Rose standing in front of us with amused smiles on their faces. "Thank you for your services Edward, I believe we are done with you. Emmett and Jasper are waiting upstairs for you, apparently you are late for some videogame showdown that Emmett planned.

"Oh crap!" He said running his hand through his hair, I wished I could do that. WHOA that is a new thought Bella. "Umm…well see you ladies later." He then ran up to the building and inside.

"Not your type huh?" Rosalie said.

"its not what it looked like." I tried to defend.

"Then what was going on?" Alice asked

"He was…we were just…" what did just happen? "nothing, we were talking."

"oh yeah, I always talk to people like this," Rose mimicked Edward's position on Alice and some guy walking but whistled, Alice and Rose laughed. The guy wined when then backed off of eachother.

"Look nothing happened, I am going to my room now."

"Okay," Alice said too easily.

"Thanks for taking me shopping."

"Oh no problem, we are definatley going to do it again now that we are friends!" Alice came over and hugged me. Then Rosalie came over and hugged me.

"It was really nice meeting you, and I know for a fact that I will see you soon so see you tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow? What's tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow is the first meeting for the Christmas dance competition." Alice said matter of factly, "And don't forget that Friday there is a party, I expect to see you there!."

"I'll see you tomorrow, I'll think about the party."

"ok," she said as her and Rose got in her car, then she stuck her head out, "Edward will be there." And with that she drove away.

I went into the dorm building and walked slowly up to my floor thinking about how crazy this day had been. I also could swear that my cheek was tingling, although I was trying my best to resist the urge to reach up and place my hand where Edwards was just minutes before.

When I got to my room I went to put my sneakers in my closet I saw that Alice had hung up all of my new clothes, separated by style, color, length and type. I also noticed although I hoped that I was wrong, that my old stuff wasn't there.

I walked over to my dresser and reluctantly opened my top drawer that I knew would be just as I left it, the drawer that I kept all my bras and underwear in, my heart stopped when I looked inside, nothing looked familiar and there was a note:

Bella-

Don't be mad, you just needed a little update in your wardrobe and I figured you wouldn't want to try this stuff on in the store. I know it will look and fit great!

Your newest friend,

Alice

P.S.- you can keep two hoodies and one pair of pajama pants and a couple of pairs of your old jeans as long as I approve when you wear them, the rest could not be salvaged. I asked Emmett if there was anything you were particually attached to before I got rid of them and he said no, if he was wrong you have until 11pm to plead your case. Love you!

Great now I am going to have to adjust to all of these new clothes, I wonder if that is what Edward was talking about when he said that Alice was being Alice. But why would he care? He was in on it, he kept me pre-occupied so she could rid my room of clothes. How had my life changed so much in just two days?