A/N: I'm so, so SOOOOOO sorry for the REALLY late update on this chapter, but I have two excuses – one of them is really lame but that is that I got a writer block and just couldn't' get on with this. Second is that I've started school now and I haven't had the time to continue because of homework, parties, friends, work or my sport.
But here it is.. chapter 9 :D
DISCLAIMER: I do not own twilight *almost to tears while she's writing that sentence* or any of the songs.
EPOV
It was now Friday, the day for the beach party. Bella's other 'family' as she called them had gone home yesterday because of what happened Wednesday. After they were gone I spent the most of my time to talk to Bella, to get to know her better. About her childhood and what she did in Forks, her hobbies and so on. I was shocked when she told me she had been cliff diving in La Push with Jacob, Quil, Seth, Leah and Claire.
:FLASHBACK:
"Cliff diving?! Are you insane? That's dangerous you know?" I asked horrified but she just laughed.
"It's not that dangerous. There was always one who jumped before me to make it safer. It was normally Jacob or Quil because they were the most trained. They would be in the water when we others jumped to make sure that if something went wrong they could bring us in to the coast."
"Still doesn't sound safe to me though" I mumbled.
:FLASHBACK:
I still shuddered with the thought of Bella throwing herself out from a cliff. This was the first day I haven't seen Bella, I blame Alice and Rosalie for that because they claimed Bella all for themselves because of this party tonight. I didn't know if I should feel terrified to see her again. Don't misunderstand me, I really want to see Bella again but just when she has a T-shirt and jeans on she's amazingly beautiful; then think of the thought of her being in the claws of Alice and Rosalie aka the fashion addicts? I'm sure I wouldn't know what to do with myself, and the worst part is that I have to pretend like nothing's going on and we're just friends because that's what she wants. I just hope it will change someday – soon.
"Eddie?! What's wrong with you man?" Emmett yelled and shook me hard to get me out of my thoughts.
"Nothing, just thinking about tonight. What do you want Emmett?" I asked with annoyance.
"Thinking about how you can prevent the drooling and the jaw-hanging tonight?" He grinned and I threw a pillow after him but nodded.
"Look dude, just let her know how you feel about her, maybe she feels the same way?" He said – without a grin not even a little smile on his face. Since when did Emmett get serious?!
"I can't do that Em, she's just thinking of me as a friend. You heard her that day on the beach when she introduced us to the Quileutes. I'm just a friend, and will probably never be anything more than that." I said, pouting. He threw the pillow back at me.
"Stop being such a wuss and just confess to her 'kay." It wasn't really a question but I nodded as answer. Ha! No way I would confess to her and especially not tonight. My mind was determined; I wouldn't say anything unless I was nearly a hundred percent sure on her feel the same feelings for me as I did for her.
"Come on Edward, be finished man." Emmett whined. It's was time to go, or that was what Emmett thought.
"C'mon Eddie! We need to goo NOW" he almost jumped up and down, while he was waiting for me to get ready. Technically I was already finished but I was unsure of how I would say to Bella that I liked her. Not that I would tell her tonight though. I was just going to enjoy the evening in her company.
"Edward, I agree with Emmett, we really need to go now. Just got a message from Alice saying that they are heading down to the beach now." Jasper said and got me sighing while Emmett pulled me up from my bed and headed over to the door.
We met Alice and Rosalie at the beach entrance. Alice danced over to Jasper and gave him a sweet kiss on the lips; I had to look away because of their stares into each others eyes as Alice gently slid under Jasper's right arm. Rosalie did the same but with them I just had to look away so I didn't get disgusted, sometimes they go a bit overboard and I was glad to know that this one wasn't one of the times. I looked around for one special person, but couldn't find her.
"Where's Bella?" I asked, looking at Alice's back as she walked side by side with Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett.
"She's coming; she just needed to do something before she would come down here to paaartay!" Alice over geared by the last word and I kind of wished that I had held my hands for my ears at that moment and felt really bad for Jasper's ears because they were so close on her mouth.
I couldn't wait to see Bella, if I knew Alice and Rosalie right; they had made her look even more beautiful than she used to be. The music was booming out of the speakers on the beach and there was a bonfire with four big tree trunks around as sitting places. The others were already dancing and as I looked around I spotted Tanya and Lauren dancing with some guys I've never seen before.
I couldn't find Jessica anywhere until I looked after Mike and saw her talking with him, obviously asking him something, because he kept shaking his head and looked everywhere else than at her, like he was seeking for something – or someone – of course he was looking for Bella but I wouldn't let him dance with her tonight, or never. She's hopefully over him and I think we should keep it like that.
"Edward? Will you dance with me?" Tanya's voice broke my thoughts. I looked at her and saw her pleading eyes. I wanted to say no but there was just something in her eyes which told me that if I rejected her either she would begin to cry or I would end in the ocean and I believe the latter option would be something Tanya would do.
"Uhm, sure.. but only one dance okay?" I said, not really asking the question.
"sure, sure." She smiled and we got out on the dance floor which was basically the whole beach. I caught Alice's stare and she quickly turned away before I questioned her stare.
I didn't get to dance one dance before I saw her. Bella.
BPOV
Alice was going through my whole suitcase; looking for one special dress she knew she had packed for me.
"Where is it.." She mumbled to herself. My whole suitcase was almost torn apart and my clothes were all over the floor. "Rose!" she yelled after a minute or so. I sighed and fell back on my bed which I was sitting on.
"yeah Ali?" Rosalie asked.
"I can't find it. I really can't. Do you think that you can look while I'm looking in my own suitcase?"
"Sure" she said and began to look. I rolled my eyes and reached out for my book on the bureau and began to read. After five minutes they still haven't found it and my patience were running up, so were theirs.
"Girls, I really don't think you are going to find that dress." I careless said while I got up in sitting mode.
"I sadly think you're right bells. But you know what that means.." Alice's face lit up from the doorstep. I knew that face; it was the face of my horror; the shopping face!
"No Alice. Please not now. There's not lots of time left and you are gonna need the time of you're gonna do my make-up and hair." I tried but Alice shook her head.
"Bella, there's no point in doing your hair and make-up if you don't have the perfect dress." She told me matter-of-factly. I groaned and fell back down again.
"Maybe I can help." Rose said and I got my hopes up for help. Both Alice and I looked curiously at her. She smiled a sly smile and got out of the room.
"Do you know what she's talking about?" I asked, still hoping that whatever Rose had in her mind, it would get me out of shopping.
"Not. A. Clue." She said and began to read a magazine, probably to find the perfect hairstyle to me for tonight. Rosalie soon came back with the most beautiful sky blue dress ever seen. It had thin shoulder straps and went down in a V-neck and then it fell slack from bodice of the dress and down to the knees.
"Wow" that was the only thing I could say as I looked at the dress. It was just like me, except for the V-neck, but I could live with that if it meant no shopping for me.
"Where did you get that Rose?" Alice sad, amazed that she didn't know about that. Rosalie laughed.
"Well, I bought it a while ago, but it didn't fit me then. But I kept it in case it would fit someday and when we decided this trip I took it with me just in case something like this would happen."
"Well, you're a lifesaver" I said and hugged her. "I just don't know what to do without you."
"Hey! What about me?" Alice pouted and I laughed.
"Of course you're my lifesaver too Ali." I said and hugged her too. "I know I'm going to regret this but don't you girls have a job to do with me and my look?" They nodded and got up.
Soon they both ran around in the apartment, looking for all and nothing which I didn't know anything about, while I was reading in my bed. Then I heard a rumble from the living room and stopped reading.
"What's going on you two?" I asked warily.
"Nothing!" Called Alice from the hallway, and it sounded like she was a bit out of breath. *clonk* it sounded like she put something down, but if I should be honest I really didn't wanted to know what she was caring on.
"Rose have you found the iron smoother?" Called Alice from the hall
"Yes, it's lying in the bathroom, under the sink." Rose called back from her room, probably looking for some make-up. I didn't felt the need to read anymore so I picked up my Ipod and laid down in my bed and listened to music. The song 'comatose' by Skillet came on and even though I wasn't a big fan of Skillet there were some of their songs which I loved; like 'comatose' and 'say goodbye' - Alice called my name:
"BEEEELLAAA" She cried from the bathroom, "COME ON, WE HAVE A LOT TO DO."
I groaned and got up.
"Coming" I called back. When I reached the bathroom everything was set. There was an empty chair in front of the mirror; behind the chair was another chair with Rose sitting on it. She had a brush in the one hand and.. what.. a scissor in the other? I looked closer, yes it was a scissor.
"Uhm Rose? What do you need a scissor for?" I asked and I think I looked a bit scared because whe laughed and said:
"Bella – honey, have you seen the end of your hair? It's dry and needs to be cut." Oh my God, how much cutting had she in mind, this didn't look good from my point of view. She must have gotten the vibes I sent because she laughed again.
"Don't worry it wont be more than max 6 inches that I cut off."
"6 inches?! Are you insane? I won't let you do that you know." I freaked and Alice, who was beside me, put an arm around me and let me inside the bathroom, to the chair.
"Come on Bella, you know we wouldn't do something that would look ugly right." She said and I knew that, but it was the thought of Rosalie cutting my hair that scarred me.
"But Rose, do you even know how to make it pretty?" I asked.
"Bella, have you forgotten that I have an aunt who is a hairdresser? I've learned something from her, for example how you cut the ends, and how you cut your hair thinner." She said in a disbelieved tone.
"Yes, actually I had. But I trust you, so you can cut my hair, but only the end right?" I surrendered and planted my butt in the chair.
"So Alice, while Rosalie is cutting my hair, what are you supposed to do today?" I asked in a casual tone and when I said 'today' I meant that they are doing something like this almost every week because of school parties at mine and Alice's school – not Rosalie's because we went there once and they both think the party sucked, so they were like 'been there, done that – never doing it again'. Personally I don't like parties but they kind of force me into it too and I don't really have any choice – unless I'm sick, but then they usually don't go either, because they are so great friends that they stay home to keep me company, and vice versa.
"Well, Daisy Baisy Bella" Alice mocked, "I'm getting ready to do your make-up for tonight.
"Alice, please don't call me that, it was a long time ago and I curse Leah far away to say it in public." I joked. I didn't really mind that she called me Daisy Baisy Bella, but I knew it bothered Alice that Leah got to use it and not her.
*cut* Oh God, there goes the first cut. *cut**cut* Oooh God, here we go. I closed my eyes for some reason. There were more cutting sounds and after half an hour – which felt longer – the cutting sounds stopped and Rose told me to open my eyes. I couldn't get why it took so long just to cut some inches of the end. I opened my eyes slowly.
I could clearly see a difference, but it was a good one, actually a great one. Rosalie had cut about 6 inches of my hair, which she said she did, but she had cut my fringe in a light style where it went just half an inch over my eyes and were in wisps so it didn't look heavy, out in the sides of my newly cut fringe did the wisps go an inch further down.
"Wow Rose, I didn't know you were that good." I said, amazed over my new haircut. She laughed.
"Do you remember the summer where I didn't have the time to be with you guys?" I nodded to her in the mirror, "well, that was because I worked in my aunts hairdressing saloon."
I grab a wisp of my hair, "you got it thinner?" She nodded.
"I hope its okay?"
"Sure it is." I said.
"But Bella, that means that you have to set your hair every morning from now on." Alice smirked. I groaned. She knew I didn't want to do that and it would end with her doing it for me. I looked at Rosalie who grinned, but mouthed 'sorry' to me.
Then Alice began with her work and it was all: 'sit still', 'close your eyes', 'open your eyes'. I think I sat in the chair another half an hour before she was done. While she was doing my make-up, Rosalie sprayed my hair with hair-spray to make it sit perfectly.
"Done" Alice beamed. I opened my eyes and a whole other person looked back. Not only had Rosalie set my hair in a stylish way, Alice had given me a make-over. My eyes shined more brown in contrast with the light blue eye shadow she had given me and my eyelashes had a dark edge near the eye but not more than that. Then she had given me a natural lip gloss on and some rouge and that was that.
"Wow I actually look beautiful." I said in amazement and that comment got me two slaps from Alice and Rosalie. "Auw, what was that for?" I asked while I stroke the place where they hit.
"Bella, you are always beautiful, and we don't understand why you can't see it." Alice said and Rose gave a nod in agreement.
"Sure, let's say that." I mumbled and Alice rolled her eyes before saying:
"And now the final detail." And grinned. Final detail? What's missing? Alice left the room and I looked at Rosalie for an answer.
"You really don't know?" She asked like I was ridiculous. I shook my head and made her laugh.
"You wait and see." And just when she came with that comment Alice walked back in with the dress in her hands.
"Of course!" I said out loud and made Rosalie laugh again while Alice didn't quite understood.
"'of course' what?" She asked and I blushed.
"It was just Bella who couldn't figure out what the final detail was." Rosalie explained and Alice laughed her soprano laugher. She handed me the dress and both stood in the door frame and watched me. I turned to them.
"Ahem, could you please leave the bathroom and let me change – alone?" I said and they both turned around and left, I could hear Alice murmur something about me being prissy, they closed door behind them. I quickly changed into the dress Alice had given me and admired my reflection in the mirror before opening the door again where I was met by two gasps and hugs.
"Oh my, Bella you look so beautiful!" Alice exclaimed. "Come on, let's go to the beach and have the time of our lives."
"But we have to make sure that no one puts baby in the corner" Rosalie joked and I laughed as her and Alice began to sing time of my life.
Before we walked out of the reception and towards the beach, Alice stopped.
"Bella, can you please wait here in about 10 minutes?" She asked.
"uhm sure Ali, but why exactly?" she was confusing the hell out of me, we needed to hurry because we were a bit late and then she wanted me to wait another 10 minutes? It just didn't make sense.
"because you need to make an entrance. As much as I wanted to do that too, it just doesn't matter with me and Rose, and secondly the boys are already waiting for us. But just sit down and I don't know.. read something. But something boring because otherwise you're just going to sit in here the whole evening. And that we can not have!" she said and kind of pushed me toward the bookshelf.
"See you in 10" and with that she and Rosalie left.
10 minutes later I rose from my seat and got out. There were so many people that I had a hard time finding Alice and Rosalie standing from the beach entrance. If it wasn't for their gorgeous looks I wouldn't see them. I felt many of the guys' eyes at me but tried to ignore them and my upcoming blush. I walked as elegantly towards them as I could, which isn't saying much and of course I tripped one time or two. But I made it my way.
"Hey my little daisy Baisy Bella." Emmett grinned and put into a bear hug.
"Emmett you know it's only Leah who gets to call me that right?" He pouted.
"but I want to call you that too!" I laughed.
"But Emmett dear, you get to call me other things she doesn't get to." I said and patted his arm, I couldn't reach his head.. he snorted.
"Like what?" that made me silent because I couldn't think of something. "See!" he said triumphantly. Before I could say anything someone poked me one the shoulder. I turned around and saw Mike standing with a nervous look in his eyes.
"Hi Bella" he started, this couldn't leave to anything good.. "I was wondering if maybe.. Maybe you would l-like to.. uhm.. Dance with me?"
"I'm sorry Mike, but I can't dance." He looked down. I really wanted to say no, but my better half felt sorry for the guy, so I smiled as good as I could and surrendered with an okay. He beamed and took my hand and leaded me to the dance floor. I looked back to send a 'help me'-look to Emmett, who just stood and grinned.
EPOV
Oh no he didn't! Mike didn't just ask her to dance?! That was my job! I was on my way to her and then I he came first, life is just unfair. I walked toward Emmett and sent him a death glare in the way. *smack*
"OUCH!" he yelped.
"Why didn't you stop him?" I asked.
"Haha, why should I? This way is so much more fun." He grinned and earned another smack, this time not from me but from Rosalie. I turned my back to them and watched Mike leading Bella around on the dance floor; not very well I might add.
"Oh I can't look at it anymore!" I said and made my way towards them. I poked Mike on the shoulder and politely cut in. Bella looked thankful and smiled at me.
"Thank you for saving me, but I have to warn you; I really can't dance." She said apologetic.
"Just leave it to me." I said and smiled. Just then a slow song came through the speakers and I held Bella tighter into my body and lead her around. I could see her blush a bit by my action but I didn't let go. We danced around through half way of the song before Bella said:
"It's beautiful" not as beautiful as you I wanted to say, but I didn't think it was appropriate.
"What's beautiful?" I asked instead.
"The sunset" I looked at the ocean and true, it was a beautiful sight that met my eyes. We had stopped dancing but stood close still. I looked at Bella she was looking at the sunset, but I think she could feel my stare because she turned and looked at me. Our eyes met. We stood like that for a while until she made her lips come closer and closer towards mine, I looked at her lips, they were so inviting and it took me all I got not to snog her to dead. Her lips were so close that I could feel her breath against my lips. It didn't take long before I felt her warm lips on mine and it took less time for me to answer the kiss. It was defiantly better than our first, our lips moved like they just fit to each other. Her arms was around my neck and her hands ran through my hair, I held her around her waist. I licked her bottom lip as if asking for entrance to deepen the kiss and she parted her lips to let my tongue in. suddenly she abruptly moved away she looked at me with a horrified look and moved her hands to her mouth.
"I'm sorry!" and with that she ran. I couldn't move, I just stood there, rooted to the ground and watched her run away - away from me..
A/N: that my dear readers was the ninth chapter :D Oh my , I'm so evil.. I don't update for a long, long time and then I leave you with a cliffy! Anyway hoped you liked it and again I'm so sorry it took me so long, but to be honest I don't know how much I like this story anymore. But nevertheless I will complete it! But I don't know when the next chapter is up.
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