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sorry for the massive wait guys. but guess what? it was my birthday 3 days ago, and im ssoooohappy! and i decided to start writing again. :P I also had heaps of fun writing this chapter.

And I'd just like to say that I know before that I said that I loved Twilight (the movie) but now that I've thought about it, I've seen better movies. I think that they changed things that didn't need to change and the acting wasn't really all that crash hot. BUT I will say that I think they picked a perfect Emmett. Kellan is so close to what I actually Emmett to look like. I was a bit disappointed in Bella Swan because she just seems so much more emotional in the book, and I'm not really buying that she loves Edward in the movie. but hey, thats just my thoughts.

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Mystery Note

Song: I gotta feeling by Black Eyed Peas

Previously:

"Think I just let your brother off the hook and . . . I think we're friends now."

Alice's eyes were dancing at the news.

"I knew this was going to happen." she said a-matter-of-factly.

"How?"

"Not talking to either of you was making both of you unhappy."

"Was not. How would you know?"

"I thought you just said 'was not," she started laughing.

"Was not." I spoke with authority.

"Whatever you say Bella. And when you get out of denial land," she winked, "Give me a call."

I was hardly listening to Alice, because at this moment I was happy. And I was glowing.

~~*~~

"Bella," Rosalie moaned.

"What?"

"You look like I just kicked your puppy."

"I don't have a puppy but-"

"Stop delaying the inevitable."

I groaned as the gigantic shopping outlet towered over me. Alice was to busy being mesmerised to pay any attention to my discomfort.

Rosalie guided me gently forward.

"At least let me buy my own dress," I pleaded.

"Maybe," Alice answered in a trance. She turned to Rosalie and I and grinned madly. "Are you ready girls?"

"Hell yeah!" Rosalie replied. I smiled inwardly about how much she sounded like Emmett just then.

"No." I mumbled. No one listened to me.

~~*~~

"Your kidding me," I breathed.

We stood outside of a designer boutique and I was terrified to go in. Through the large glass windows I could see row after row of classy garments.

"Let's go!" Alice bounced into the store with Rosalie.

"You know what? Maybe I'll just wait out here for you guys."

"Don't be silly Bella." Both Alice and Rosalie steered me into . . . hell pretty much.

"Alice," I whined, "I don't fit in here."

Rosalie held up a striking black gown that Alice was interviewing.

"Uh, ah. No sulking or we're going out tomorrow as well."

I shut up.

~~*~~

"Have you got it on Bella?" Alice called.

"Yeah, hang on two seconds," I sucked in a deep breathe and open up the stall door.

"Oh my," Alice had her hand over her mouth while Rosalie was staring at me. I blushed feeling self-conious.

"Do I look that bad?" My head dropped

Alice dropped her hand. "It's not bad Bella, not bad at all."

Rosalie started grinning like mad, "What she's trying to say Bella," she nodded her head to Alice, "Is that you look amazing in that dress, more so that dress looks amazing on you."

They had found a shop that I was actually willing to go into. And then they had forced me into a skimpy but beautiful midnight blue dress. I twirled in front of them and giggled at their expressions.

"Look Rose," Alice said with a twinkle in her eyes. "Our little girl is growing up." Rosalie started pretending to cry.

I smiled hugely.

"So is this the one you want to get Bella?" Rosalie asked.

I looked at myself in the small stall mirror.

"I love this colour," I said holding up the end of the dress, "But it's not me."

They both looked disappointed. Probably hoping that this was the dress that I wanted.

I got changed back into my normal clothes with speed and gave the dress back to Alice to put on the rack.

"So," Alice said, "We have to find a dress that screams 'Bella'."

"What was that?" Rosalie asked.

"I said," Alice danced through the shop waving her arms in the air, "WE HAVE TO FIND A DRESS THAT SCREAMS 'BELLA'!"

It was hard to believe that the little pixie could possibly make enough noise to hush the whole store, but she did. The sales assistant stared at her in astonishment.

"Hello." Alice waved at her.

The sales woman was frozen in shock, shook her head then quickly strolled away. Alice then waved at everyone who looked at her as we -muffled our snickering - tugged her out of the shop.

Rose, Alice and I were having a laughing fit as we exit the store.

"I can't believe - laugh - you did - laugh - that." I only barely managed to get out. "I'm scared to go - laugh - into another shop with you."

"Did you see her face?!" Rose breathed.

That sent us into another fit. An old couple walked past us with worried expressions mumbling, "I hope they are okay."

We all sat down on a bench to catch our breath. Finally, after minutes of panting, giggling and more panting, we settled down.

I straightened myself up. "Okay," I cleared my throat, "Are we ready to go?"

"Bella? Interested in shopping? I think I'm going to die from shock," Rose placed a hand above her heart.

I chuckled at her.

"Come on girls," Alice linked our arms ,"Let's go hunting!"

~~*~~

"What about this one?" Rose held up an emerald green cocktail dress with black lace casing it.

I examined the garment, then huffed.

"No, it's not what I'm looking for."

Alice wrapped an arm around my shoulder and squeezed me.

"Well find it, won't we Rose? Don't you worry."

"Sure, sure," I mumbled.

"Okay, this negative attitude is helping Bella,"Rose sighed, "Let's stop off for some food then start clean again."

Alice and I agreed with her. Rose showed us a cute little cafe she'd gone to before and got us all menu's. A waiter came over to our table to serve us, but his voice caught in his throat. But I guess that kind of thing would happen if you were faced with Rosalie and Alice. Their beauty light up the tiny shop.

"Um, hello?" Alice waved to get the man's attention.

"I-I um," he cleared his voice. The waiter was clearly embarrassed, he fidgeted with his hands.

"What's your name?" Rose asked.

"It's, um, I'm Jake." I closed my eyes as my breath hitched. It felt like a knife stabbed the pit of my stomach. Jake . . .

"Hello Jake. My name is Rosalie and my friends and I would like some food."

"O-okay." The poor boy stuttered. When Rose did that whole intense thing, no male had a chance.

After a lot of stumbling and stuttering the waiter had retrieved our food then took refuge in the kitchen, not game enough to come back out.

I hardly touched my food -seeing as I've already eaten my fair share these past days, pretending to be human- and I excused myself to the restroom.

"I'll be right back," I told Alice and Rose.

I pushed the heavy door open to open up the brown titled room. There was no one in the stalls, so I thought it'd be a good chance to -unfortunately- bring my food back up. I didn't have to but eating too much made me feel slouchy. I walked into the first stall and locked the door. I'd only ever had to vomit up my food once before, and from that experience I knew that I never wanted to do it again.

I almost had it all out when the bathroom door opened.

"You shouldn't do that to people Rose. He's probably freaking out in the kitchen."

I internally groaned.

"Is that you Bella?" asked Rose, as she tapped on the stall door.

It's probably a better idea just to act sick.

"Yeah," I groaned.

"Bella!" Alice knocked on the door, "Open up!"

"'Kay." I held my stomach as I exited to toilet, after flushing it of course.

Alice wasted no time in wrapping her tiny arm around my waist. I closed my eyes, enhancing the effect. Rose's cold hand pressed against my forehead.

"She feels a little warm." Thank you, unusually hot skin.

"Was it something that you ate?" They had me out of the bathroom already and towed me out of the cafe.

I slowly nodded my head and groaned again.

"Come on. Let's get her back." Alice said and hurried me faster out of the shopping center.

Let the acting begin.

"How are you feeling?" Worry filled Alice's usually cheery voice.

Bored, I thought. They had me drowned in layers of blankets with glasses and glasses of water. And on top of that they wanted me to sleep so I couldn't do anything. When we first got back it took ages to convince them that I didn't need to see the school nurse, so they agreed to let me stay in bed, the catch was letting them look after me. Big mistake.

"My stomach is still swirling." Which was partly true, seeing as I was unable to bring up all of my food.

Alice was pacing back and forth, "I have a right mind to call up that place and give them a thrashing!"

"I don't believe it,"Rose shook her head, "That place has the best ratings and everything."

"Guy's," I sat up on my elbows, which was quite an accomplishment because the sheets were tucked in so tightly, "Don't worry about it okay? I'll be fine soon."

They weren't convinced.

Then something clicked in my brain like a puzzle. Of course! I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier. I could've saved myself a lot of hassle.

"Excuse me," I placed one hand over my mouth and the other clutching my stomach. I pushed against the blankets trying to get free. Alice and Rose understood what I was trying to do and ripped them from the bed. I flung myself off my bed and raced into the bathroom. I knelt in front of the toilet and threw up into the bowl. Alice held up my hair while Rose patted my back. It felt so much better to dispose of that awful food then to just let it rot in my stomach. (A/N. of course the food wouldn't actually rot, just a figure of speech).

I rocked back from my knees to my butt and sat still for a few minutes, keeping up the charade.

"Feeling better?" Rose quietly asked.

Yes! screamed my head. My insides were empty and I felt back to normal again. Like I could run and run and run for miles at a time.

"Yeah, I feel better now." They smiled at me and helped me get off the bathroom floor.

"I still think you should stay in bed for a little while longer, just to make sure that the sickness has passed," Alice said. I grimaced at her but of course, when Alice wants something -I've learnt- she gets it.

I trudged over to my bed and flopped down underneath the soft covers. I closed my eyes and sighed. Outside I could hear the raging winds hit and crash against the large french doors, making them ring and chime. The sound was oddly peaceful to me. Every bash against the doors seemed to be in time with my heart, keeping the same pace, keeping the same rhythm.

"Get some rest Bella." Alice stroked the side of my face. And to my utter bewilderment I started falling gently, deeper and deeper into a serene slumber.

--

"HOW'S THE PATIENT?!!" Emmett's signature voice caused an earthquake to erupt through my apartment. I groaned, stretched, groaned again then opened my eyes.

"Yeah, I'm sure she feels better now Emmett," Jasper rolled his eyes and winked at me.

Emmett snickered,"You would know." While Jasper threw him a dirty look.

"Aww, now look what you've done. This is the second time this week that you've woken Bella up." Alice rushed over to me, trying to stop me from sitting up.

Being as nice as possible, I pushed Alice back so I could get up.

"No, I'm fine. Sorry guys, but I've got to use the bathroom for a minute. Won't be long." I flung myself out of bed, happy to be moving, and waltzed to the bathroom.

"Don't worry about us Bella," Rose smiled,"I'm almost positive that Emmett will do something to keep us entertained while your gone." Alice and Jasper laughed when Emmett glowered at Rose.

I grinned as I closed the door on Emmett and Rose's quarrel.

After a swift look in the mirror (which told me that i was going to have to hunt in the up coming weeks), one basin filled with ice cold water and a new set of clean clothes, I felt refreshed and energised, ready for anything that the rest of the day -or more precise, Alice- had scheduled for me.

I strode out of the bathroom smiling slightly to myself for no particular reason at all.

Once I was in their line of sight, Alice and Rose rushed up to me.

"What are you so happy about?" Emmett grumbled. I smiled wider. Rose must have given him a serve.

"Oh Bella!" Alice hugged me tightly,"You can't possibly imagine how happy I am to see you better. I was so worried for a moment there." I wrapped my arms around her petite frame and squeased her reassuringly.

"Alice," I giggled,"I told you there was nothing to worry about. Just a bit of bad food." She let go of me and frowned.

"Yes. We have to do something about that Rose." Rose nodded in agreement.

"! I don't want you guys to do anything. Just let it go. Please? For me?" Alice and Rose stood there glancing between themselves and me.

Rose sighed,"Okay, fine. They are so lucky neither Alice or I got that plate of food because if we did, we would be suing their a**es." Alice gave Rose a high-five.

The apartments atmosphere was suddenly lighter when every ones laughter filled the room, I sighed, relieved.

"Well I know that you probably don't feel like it Bella, but we were going to go out for tea. Would you like to come?" Jasper asked.

They all looked at me expectantly.

"Sure," I smiled. "Why not."

Exactly 48 and a half minutes later -with the majority of that time playing 'Dress me up in very inappropriate attire considering that it is only about three degrees outside!!' with Alice and Rose -the five of us were standing outside of a fancy, expensive looking restaurant.

"Wow," I murmured. This place was magnificent. You could see into the restaurant through the large glass windows that basically covered up the entire wall. The tables were placed stratigetly on the floor to give enough room in the center for dancing, waiters in black and white matching outfits and an exquisite chandelier hung dangerously over the heads of custermers -an accident waiting to happen if you asked me- and that stretched out so far across the ceiling that the reflection from the glass hit the walls and bounced back again.

"Okay! Whose's ready to eat?!" Emmett clapped his hands together, which made a couple that was walking by jump. They stole one quick glance at Emmett and hurried into the resturant.

I couldn't help but laugh at the poor people. If I didn't know Emmett I'm sure that would've been my reaction as well.

"Seems like you are," Alice raised an eyebrow.

"Don't worry everyone! We're all paying!!" He tried to gather us all in a group hug and, incidentally, scared another couple quickly into the building.

"Okay Emmett," I laughed as I managed to squeeze my way out of the hug,"I think we've got the picture. Let's go in before you scare anyone else." Our small party laughed as we took shelter in the restaurant.

--

"Ugh! I'm so full!" Emmett complained and gripped his stomach as we walked back to our rooms.

"Well, serves you right Emmett," Jasper swatted him on the shoulder,"You shouldn't have stuffed your face."

Rose, Alice and I started snickering.

"Just because I'm so unselfish, that I put the restaurants needs before mine-"

"What?" Jasper interrupted,"Like basically eating all their food."

"No," Emmett pulled a face at Jasper,"I see it more as, 'testing the food to see if it was satisfactory."

We couldn't hold in our amusement anymore and started to fall about laughing.

"So Mr Food Critic,"I sobered up,"What is your professional opinion about the restaurant."

We all stopped walking and looked at Emmett who was very deep in thought.

"Hmm . . . um . . . ah-hm . . .-cough-. . . hmm"

Alice was getting impatient and started to tap her foot,"Well?"

His eyes lit up and grinned like a maniac,"I say we go back there!"

I shook my head and laughed. Emmett, I thought. The others must've been thinking the same thing because we all started to walk off without Emmett.

"Hey! Wait up guys!" He called. We just kept on walking, laughing the whole way.

--

"Did you have fun tonight Bella?" Alice was sitting up in her bed not lifting her eyes from the book she was reading.

"Yeah, it was fun,"I smiled,"But I do feel sorry for the people Emmett scared."

She looked up at me and her grin turned into a grimace.

"What?" I asked.

"Why do you still wear those?"

"Huh?" I asked again. I had just gotten out of the shower and was wearing my favourite pair of pajamas -old tracksuit pants and a t-shirt- and was drying my hair with my towel.

She put her book down on her bedside table, "We really need to update your sleeping apparel."

Now I grimaced.

"Alice. Would you rather be fashionable but uncomfortable while sleeping, or, extremely comfortable in clothes that hardly anybody are going to see?"

She smirked and opened her mouth.

"Right," I shook my head and chuckled,"Bad question."

"Are you going to bed?" She asked.

I crossed the room towards the red freesia that was without a home at the moment.

"Soon." I picked up the flower, careful not to damage the roots and placed it in a bigger pot. I started searching my drawers and found what I was looking for. Paint.

"What are you doing?" Alice asked as she lent over her bed.

"I'm going to paint this pot for the flower," I went and sat down at the end of my bed and started taking out colours.

"Why? It's not like it's going to notice anyway."

"I know," I sighed,"I just want to give it some life." I turned to her,"Do you know what I mean?"

She grinned from ear-to-ear,"Not at all."

We sat in relaxed conversation as I worked on the pot.

After a few moments of silence from Alice, I started to worry a bit.

"Alice?" I asked.

Nothing.

"Alice", I spoke louder.

Nothing again.

I looked over to her bed to find Alice sleeping peacefully under a load of blankets. With her black hair everywhere and lips softly parted, she looked like an angel. Angel, I shuddered, Renee. When ever her name was even thought, a familiar sensation bubbled in my eyes and I felt them pricking. I clenched my teeth and tightened my fist. I so badly wanted to hit something. Or more pacifically, someone.Why, if Aro was here right now I'd rip out his neck, peel the skin from his muscles and throw him in a blazing fire!

Why did they have to come after me? Why did they want to kill me? Why did they kill my mum?! Why did they kill Renee?!!

I gripped my head tightly in my hands and was silently glad that Alice was asleep. I never want anybody to see me like this. Ever.

A light knock on the door made me jump in surprise, bringing me back from my hell. I took in a deep breath - straightened myself out- and looked up. Slipped underneath the door was a slip of paper.

I quickly stole another glance at Alice, who was still asleep and made my way over there. I picked up the paper and unfolded it.

This was the most graceful writing I've ever seen and the paper had a familiar scent to it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Written on it was:

Bella

Please meet me in Ms Lily's music room,
At 11:48pm
I have something I want to show you
Come alone

please.

My curiosity flared as I re-read the note three more times. I glanced at my alarm clock which read, 23:40.Without even thinking of the consequences, I seized my jacket, the note and my handbag. And with extreme caution not to wake Alice up, I quietly closed my apartment door and hurried off in the direction of my music room.

Soo? how did you like that chapter? another long one XP

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