Chapter 11
BPOV
"Bella! Bella! Come on open the door I want to do your makeup for the ball." Alice. Shoot how was I going to tell her that I have to get changed continuously so I matched with the band and had my dress for the actual ball.
"Bella fortune teller out here I know about the costume swap." Oh. I opened the door and she rushed in going in my closet and getting out both my outfits. One for when the bands playing and one for when I'm just playing hostess. She quickly picked up my dress for the band and threw it in my arms shoving me into my wardrobe. I sighed and got changed. It was a black dress with a red corset around the middle and had a black choker necklace with it, I added a pair of black boots and headed out whilst Alice jumped up and down before getting her makeup.
"Alice. Are you done yet?" I had been sitting here over an hour and the band needed to be down there in ten minutes.
"Almost. Just… a… sec… there done." I looked in the mirror and my mouth dropped open. My hair was up on the top of my head with a few curled strands coming down. My lips were blood red and, I had black Eyeshadow and eyeliner making the topaz in them more yellow. It looked great. I hugged Alice and ran down to the back entrence of the stage where Jane, Alec, Felix and, Reneta were waiting. The girls squeeled when they seen me and the guys whistled. I twirled.
"What do you think.
"Gorgeous." Jane
"Stunning." Alec
"Hot." Felix
"Beautiful." Reneta
The girls were wearing the same as me apart from that the dress was red and the corset was black. The guys were wearing black bottoms with chains on the side, a black t-shirt with a red skull and cross-bone and, to top it off a leather jacket and black boots. Overall we looked brilliant.
"What are the songs for tonight?" Reneta probably had a good idea because a lot of them I always do.
"Everybody's fool, Haunted, bring me to life, good enough, all that I'm living for, the only one, going under, my last breath and finishing with It doesn't matter." They all nodded until the last one.
"Which ones that?" I had forgotten to tell them I had wrote a new song.
"it's a knew one I wrote but is slow and is brilliant for our last song I think." I gave them the cords and we got into positions whilst Aro introduced us.
"Alright all of you who have been to balls here before know who are about to come on stage. Give it up for Eclipse. The curtain came up and the Cullens gasped. Esme was smiling and Alice was jumping up and down clapping whilst jasper looked as if he were trying not to do that himself. I think Alice needed to tone down the excitement. Carlisle was shocked but had a smile on his face. Rose's eyes were bugging and her mouth was open. Emmett was the same. I couldn't see Edward at first but I eventually noticed him a little to the side. I didn't care what he was thinking.
"Hello everyone. I'm glad to see so many of you able to make it and, am letting you know that we will only be doing a few songs tonight until the other band take over. So tonight I will be playing hostess later." I smiled and my old friends who I'd met before laughed. My playing hostess is normally rather funny. Felix counted us in and we started to play.
Perfect by nature Never was and never will be Look here she comes now Never was and never will be Without the mask, where will you hide? I know the truth now It Never was and never will be It never was and never will be
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
Can't find yourself lost in your lie
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool
(Everybody's fool By Evanescence)
I could hear Emmett's whoops loudest out of everyone and I rolled my eyes laughing. We carried on with our show and sang another seven songs.
"Okay everyone I'm afraid that this is our last song and I only wrote it a few days ago and it is our first time performing it. Do here goes.
It doesn't matter what I want
It doesn't matter what I need
It doesn't matter if I cry
Don't matter if I bleed
You've been on a road don't know where it goes or where it leads
It doesn't matter what I want
It doesn't matter what I need
If you've made up your mind to go
I won't beg you to stay
You've been in a cage
Throw you to the wind you fly away
There was a long instrumental during which I looked down and blinked back tears that wouldn't fall.
It doesn't matter what I want
It doesn't matter what I need
It doesn't matter if I cry
Don't matter if I bleed
Feel the sting of tears
Falling on this face you've loved for years
(It doesn't matter by Allison Krauss)
There was a huge round of applause as our band bowed. When we got off stage Alice was there a huge smile on her face and my outfit in her hands. She kept saying how brilliant we were when I was changing and she wiped off the makeup and re-did it to go with my aqua blue dress.
"Come on then everyone wants to say how well you did." She wasn't kidding when I got out everyone was surrounding me saying how brilliant we were tonight I smiled my thanks at them all and made my way outside to get some air. I sat down on the swing in front of my home. It still never really felt like home even after all the years of living here. I could only call one place home and that was Forks. I would eventually leave this place for a while. Go back there at some point. Especially to see what was new in my old home.
"Bella?" I gasped. Not at being startled but by who's voice it was. I would recognize that voice anywhere. The velvetiness of it that made my heart feel like it was beating again. I turned around to face him.