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Previously...
I had a feeling that tomorrow would be a very long day.
Edward POV
I was asleep when I suddenly felt something small, cold and wet being moved around my face. I sat up quickly and wiped my cheek when I saw Alice, one of Bella's friends standing by my bed holding up and ice cube laughing, but before I could yell at her I heard Emmett scream...
"What the fucking hell? You don't tip ice water over someone while their sleeping Bella! That's just wrong!"
I looked around the room and saw Emmett and his bed, both were drenched in water and there were some ice cubes on top of the covers. Jasper however was ok; he didn't have any water on him. Actually Jasper was laughing. Most likely because he was fully dressed and had his breakfast on the table. I glared at him. Seriously was it so hard for him to get me and Emmett up if we sleep through the alarm?
When he saw me glaring at him he shrugged before carrying on to eat his breakfast. I glanced back at a furious Emmett who was glaring at Rosalie and Bella, probably the people who throw the water over him as they were both holding two buckets each.
I got out of bed and looked though my suitcase; taking the clothes I would wear today out when I heard Alice screech next to me
"What do you think your doing?"
I looked up to see her glaring at me.
"I'm getting clothes out of my suitcase." I answered her nonchalantly
"Why?" she asked me as if it was the hardest concept to understand.
"So I don't have to walk round naked." I replied.
"What?" I thought at that moment she was telling me to walk around naked but then she continued to say
"You can't wear those ... things. They're ugly and you've probably worn them before. Besides I've already chosen your outfit today." Then she shoved a small pile of clothes at me.
"What if I said I refused to wear them?" I asked.
"You don't have a choice army boy. You either wear what she tells you or you go shopping absolutely naked." Bella told me with a smirk.
"You find this funny, because I really don't find this funny at all. Why is she dressing me anyway?" the first part was said to Bella, but the second was to anyone who would tell me.
"Oh I find it hilarious actually, besides Alice isn't just dressing you she picks out everyone's clothes so get the fuck over it."
I looked over at jasper and he pointed at his clothes with one raised eye brow. That was when I noticed he looked like a guy from the girl magazines. He was wearing blue jeans with no holes in; black button down shirt with black buttons and he was also wearing his newest trainers.
I looked down at the pile of clothes Alice had given me, it was similar to Jasper's but instead of a black button up it was green and I was in black jeans instead of blue.
I looked at Emmett and saw he was eyeing the bathroom. He looked at me and yelled.
"Race you!" before he started running to the bathroom. I wasn't having that so I jumped up and climbed up on Jaspers bed with Emmett just getting off mine before I was on Jaspers.
"Hey get the fuck off my bed!" Jasper yelled while I jumped just landing in the bathroom.
"Hey no fair you were closer." Emmett whined when I shut the door. I ignored him and went to shower, brush teeth and got dressed.
The minute I was out the bathroom Emmett pushed past me so he could go into the bathroom. On the table sat five boxes of fresh doughnuts with plates next to them while sitting at the table was Jasper, Rosalie, Bella and Alice. They all had plates in front of them with food on them and the girls were talking quietly.
I went to sit down and I grabbed a paper plate shoving food on to it.
Once I was sat comfortably with my breakfast me and Jasper started talking about what we would tell mum and dad because they knew we would be following Bella but they didn't and couldn't know bout us becoming spies.
"Well they have to know we're working." Jasper commented.
"Yeah I know, we can't let them keep sending us money." I said.
"Yeah I know they sent us money. I mean how many parents do you know would send money to stalk someone."
I laughed when put like that our parents sounded completely insane but though they weren't. Esme and Carlisle only did what they thought was best for us.
"Don't forget letting us go to the Army and letting us travel the world." I told him.
Jasper chuckled too.
"Yeah, I know. Its amazing what they do for us."
Just then we heard Emmett started singing blah, blah, blah by Ke$ha. It was so far off tune and it was loud enough to wake the whole hotel. Me, Jasper, Alice, Bella and Rosalie all stopped talking and we started laughing at Emmett's singing voice. Within 5 minutes the hotel phone started ringing and Jasper picked it up.
Jasper listened to the person speaking before agreeing with whatever they were saying. After a few moments he hung up but before anyone could ask he answer the question going through our heads.
"That was the morning manager; he told me that he got 25 complaints about Emmett's singing."
"Already?" Rosalie asked.
"Yeah he's woken up the whole hotel because it's 5 am in the morning and Edward it's your turn to poke the bear." Jasper said before he began laughing. I groaned. I hated having to piss him off; it wasn't such a good idea so early in the morning. I got up and walked to the bathroom. I took a deep breath before I started pounding on the door.
"Emmett shut the fuck up. You're waking the whole hotel up!" I yelled at the door. Emmett stopped singing immediately and the water stopped as well. Within a couple seconds the door opened with Emmett behind it, only wearing a towel around his waist.
"What did you say Eddie?" He asked with a cheesy smile.
"I said shut the fuck up Emmett, your waking the whole hotel up." I said again.
"Oh right, Sorry Eddie boy." Then he walked back into the bathroom. I sat down to finish my breakfast. Well at least he didn't punch me like he did last time.
2 hours later
It's 7 am and we were already in the mall. Nobody else was around apart from a young mum and the security guard. I mean not even the shops were open!
"Why do we have to be here this early?" Jasper asked.
"So we can get all we need. Duh" Alice told him matter of factly with an eye roll.
"What do we need exactly?" Emmett asked looking absolutely terrified.
"Well we need to get you guy's button down shirts; t-shirts; proper trousers; jeans; leather shoes; trainers and of course we need new clothes to like..." but before she could continue Rosalie interrupted.
"Basically Alice is buying the six of us new wardrobes because she thinks putting people through the pain and suffering called shopping is Alice Brandon style is fun."
"Hey, that's not fair; I'm not that bad when I shop!" Alice exclaimed. When she did both Rosalie and Bella started laughing really loudly.
"Yeah right, last time we went shopping it took 12 hours with only 3 toilet brakes and no lunch or dinner." Rosalie said once she had calmed herself down enough from laughing.
"Are you serious?" I asked her totally gobsmacked.
"Yeah but we told her that this has to be a 10 hour shopping trip because we still have to work tonight." Rosalie told us.
10 hours of shopping later
I was exhausted. When Rosalie said that we'd only get two breaks from shopping I thought I'd be ok. I was wrong. I never ever want to see a shopping mall again.
Alice dragged us into every single clothing store, made us try on about 100 items of clothing each and then made us show her to see if she approved. I am pretty sure that she brought three quarters of the mall and funnily enough that isn't the worst part. No the worst part was she terrified about twelve store attendants and forty eight customers. No we didn't just count to piss her off after the third customer we started betting. Rosalie won $500 for guessing twelve store attendants and Bella won $550 for guessing fifty customers. To be completely honest I didn't think that she'd terrify that many fellow shoppers but I was wrong.
So at the end of this eye opening experience I had 50 shirts of different types, colours and shapes; 35 trousers, jeans and shorts; 9 pairs of shoes and 28 jackets which equalled about 40 bags.
Emmett had roughly the same as I did and Jasper had slightly less. The girls as we refer to them when they are out of hearing distance had a hell of a lot worse as they had to have dresses, skirts, shorts, trousers, jeans, t-shirts, blouses (or whatever Alice called them), high heels, flat shoes and trainers. This meant they had about 100 bags each. It was stupid. When Jasper told Alice she still had four bags full of new clothes she flipped him off and when I asked how we were meant to travel with this crap seeing as we didn't have any bags or whatever to hold them in we all bought four bags. Apparently we needed one for shoes, one for casual clothes, one for the smart clothes and then a whole one for equipment. So today wasn't really fun but Rosalie did promise that next time would be with more breaks and we wouldn't buy as much. God if you exist please do not let Alice torture me like that again. I swear I'll pray or whatever every night and never sin again if you stop her from torturing me.
I was brought out of my miserable thoughts about today by Rosalie and Bella sitting either side of my bed.
"You okay?" Bella asked, surprising me a little bit seeing as she never really spoke to either me, Jasper or Emmett apart from explaining stuff to us making us seem really stupid.
"Yeah I'm okay." I replied to her.
"What were you doing? You seemed as if you were in serious pain or something." Bella continued the conversation while Rosalie watched almost amused.
"I was praying." I answered catching her off guard a little.
"Praying?" she repeated. I nodded. "What for?" now Bella seeming interested.
"I was praying that I would never have to go through today ever again." That comment caused Rosalie and Bella to laugh softly.
"Oh well no offence to your god or whatever but I can promise you that it will happen again and it will be worse. I may have only known Alice a couple of months but shopping is Alice's hobby, she will never give it up and she will always take everyone with her to keep her company." Rosalie informed me. Oh great.
"So what do you guys want anyway?" Bella looked like she was going to do the 'hurt what me want something' act but Rosalie spoke first.
"We're having our first plan meeting thing. You know where I have to tell everyone what they're doing. Since someone else infiltrated the mafia all we have to do is keep them main people occupied while they get the troops to arrest them." Rosalie told me.
"Ok so where is this little meeting happening?" I asked.
"In our room. Ten minutes." Bella ordered. They then got up and left the room. I spent the next ten minutes sitting on my bed starring into space.
After spending ten minutes in my own world I walked into the girl's room for the meeting. When I entered Bella was sitting on a bed reading; Rosalie wasn't anywhere in sight and Alice was in the bathroom doing god knows what to her hair.
"Hey, where is everyone else?" I asked Bella after I sat on the bed next to hers.
"Errrm Emmett is outside with Rosalie fixing a car, Jasper is downstairs getting food for all of us, Alice is in the bathroom and we're here." Bella answered without looking up.
"Oh ok then." The room was filled with silence for about thirty seconds and then Alice walked in with a massive grin on her face.
"Hi Edward!" Alice greeted me while skipping to where I was sitting.
"Hey Alice, how are you?"
"Oh I'm great. Do you like my hair?" She asked out of nowhere, was I starring at it or something?
"Um it looks ... nice." I heard Bella sniggering from the bed next to me.
"Do you think Jasper would like it?" she asked and then it clicked together. She was interested in Jasper. Well she was in luck; Jasper was telling me and Em yesterday that he liked her.
"Yeah I think he will." I said while chuckling. As if he knew we were talking about him, Jasper walked into the room with two boxes and ten bags hanging off his arms full of food. Alice took one look at the food at horror.
"You know we're six people right. We can't possibly eat that much food."
Now it was mine and Jaspers turn to start laughing – which we did.
"Obviously you don't know how much Emmett can eat." Jasper told her matter of factly.
After waiting a couple of minutes Bella decided to go get Rosalie and Emmett. The second she left Jasper asked.
"You think one of us should have gone down instead of her?" I looked at him catching their meaning before rolling my eyes.
"I don't think Rosalie is the type to easily fall for Emmett's charm." Jasper chuckled.
"Yeah but Emmett actually likes her. Not like girls in the bar type of like but..." Alice interrupted him
"What do you mean girls in the bar type of like?"
"Nothing" we replied in unison. Luckily Rosalie, Emmett and Bella walked in. I hopped with them in the room Alice wouldn't push but she did but not me or Jasper, she asked a clueless Emmett.
"Emmett what is a girl in the bar type of like?" she asked looking all innocent. He immediately looked at us.
"Oh it's nothing Alice." He replied. Me and Jasper nodded to tell him that what we told her, but now all three of them were curious.
Before they could ask I asked.
"Don't we still need to go over what we are doing tonight?" that distracted them.
"Well it's really simple, you three" Rosalie pointed to Me, Emmett and Jasper.
"Have to pose as a pimp, drug dealer or gambler." Emmett interrupted her.
"Do we actually have to win the game if we're the gambler?"
"Yes you need to win a couple of games or else they'll get bored." Rosalie said to us.
"Well Eddie's the gambler person then." Emmett declared.
"What? Why me?" I said in horror. I don't gamble and he knew it.
"Well you're the one that can cheat the system or whatever." Emmett said dismissively.
"Counting Cards only works for Blackjack Emmett." Jasper told him as if he was a four year old but also trying to help me out.
"So how do you win at poker?" Emmett asked me if I was about to tell him the biggest secret ever. I decided to humour him and motioned for him to come over to me. He got even more excited like a small child getting promised their favourite sweets in the world. When he was close enough I cupped my hand around his ear and whispered.
"I am good at reading people." Then I sat on the bed again.
"Is that it? Your big secret for always winning poker in the barracks?" Emmett asked in disbelief.
"Yeah pretty much." I replied.
"So that's settled then, Edward you will be gambling with this guy." She pulled a picture out of a folder.
In the picture there was a guy with long blonde dirty hair tied in a pony tail and dark eyes. He was wearing a grey shirt and jeans, but that was all I could see.
"His name is James Kindley. He's 35 years old, likes to gamble and major player in the new mafia they're trying to create. He doesn't have any Italian in him but he's smart. The police think he's a dumb rich kid from England who lives off his parents fortunes. Unfortunately for us he is a lot smarter than the police give him credit for. There is no evidence that he is tied to the Italian thugs other than eye witness accounts. But from the impression I got from talking to Bree the first team leader they are all very protective of him and will happily kill anyone who tries to go to the police. So Edward I want you to do research on both the mafia and James Kindley. Try to find out any connection, we need more than an Espirit de corps agent's word that he was any part of this new mafia they are trying to create." Rosalie said.
"You keep saying that they're trying to create. But to me it sounds as if its all up and running. I mean they've got gamblers, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes so they are organised crime. I'd even bet they've already got people paying protection money to them." Jasper said. I knew what he was thinking. He thought that it was a stupid idea to go into an actually mafia family gathering, then trying to get proof of one guy actually being there and arresting the lot of them.
"It takes years if not generations to set up a proper mafia. The criminals there will all be from the old organisation from Italy, the chances they have any American criminals are slim to none. But James Kindley is good. He already has a couple of American" Bella looked at Rosalie once she said that and then continued "and foreign clients for the man he is working for. Which is why we arrest them now, before they a web connection that beats ours." Bella told us and by her tone she wasn't exactly happy about it.
Jasper nodded.
"How dangerous is this exactly Bella?" Alice asked in a small voice. Bella turned to her and smiled.
"As dangerous as you want it to be." She responded, then she turned to look at Rosalie who met her look and muttered a word or name, I wasn't to sure which one it was.
"Royce." That is all she muttered. I didn't understand what it meant although Alice seemed shocked when she muttered it and Bella just nodded.
"Errrm someone want to explain what 'Royce' means?" Emmett asked.
"It means that I have to sit and watch your guy's first mission from here." Rosalie said dryly, obviously not liking the turn of events. She turned and started to walk to the door. Emmett stood up and was about to say something but Bella stood up and went right in front of him before he could do anything she pushed him back into the seat.
While this was happening it gave Rosalie time to leave the room. After she left no one spoke, just starred at the door until Alice said.
"Would he still be able to recognise her?" she paused. "Even after all these years?"
"Alice we aren't risking it. If Royce was to recognise her Espirit de corps is ruined. Then they're the consequences to us personally, Royce will personally kill all six of us." Alice looked at Bella with absolute terror in her eyes.
"Ok so who is this Royce guy? And wont he recognise you too Bella, seeing as you trained with Rosalie and always been on her team?" Emmett asked thoroughly confused.
"Royce is someone from Rosalie's past Emmett. I don't know him but I do know I want to blow his brains out." Bella said in an innocent voice almost like butter wouldn't melt.
"I second that." Alice said out of nowhere.
"Ali why don't you go talk to Rose, ill sort this meeting thing out." And Alice left.
It took an hour for us to sort out what we were doing exactly but by the time we were finished we were happy.
Emmett was going to be the pimp for Alice and Bella. Something Emmet didn't like the idea of but we thought he should be the pimp because of his size. It wasn't because Jasper wasn't big enough to be the pimp, it was the fact Emmett looked to big to be a drug dealer and Jasper had a more trusting face. Jasper was going to be the drug dealer. When I asked where we were going to we get drugs from Bella went to the closet and brought out a box. Inside the box had loads of different drugs like weed and coke all real but we weren't allowed any. Emmett took real offence to that comment from his sister but she said that she had to say it. Emmett was still pissed off with the comment but let it go so we could be ready for our first mission.
We sat there talking to Bella after the conference thing and tried to get to know her which didn't end well. Every time any of us brought up her past she would change the subject. She did it very subtly but we noticed. After about an hour of Emmett trying to find out what happened after he was taken away Alice and Rosalie walked in.
"What's going on?" was the first thing Rosalie asked when she saw Bella glaring at Emmett and Emmett meeting her glare but flinching every now and again.
"He's digging." Was what Bella told her and Rosalie nodded as if she understood.
"If you value your life you wouldn't." Was all Rosalie said on the subject. She then changed it by asking
"So did you work out any thing while we were getting equipment?"
"Yeah." Bella nodded. "What did you get?"
"We got these tiny little cameras with microphones in them. They are so cool Bella, I swear. They are like the spy shows except these works." Alice said laughing. Everyone laughed with her.
"Well we have three hours to get ready. So lets get moving." Rosalie said.
And we were off. Apparently we could use the clothes we bought today to make us into the characters we were playing with Alice's design skill. It was a pain in the ass being her dummy but she didn't have a fake one so she used us. It hurt but three hours later everything was done.
Emmett looked like a proper pimp, Jasper looked like a drug dealer especially with the trench coat Bella found, I looked like a geek apparently I was meant to play a geeky collage student hence not coming with anyone, both Alice and Bella looked like prostitutes which neither like much as they very little clothes on and way to much make up. Somehow Alice had put the small cameras with microphones in every single outfit. Rosalie however didn't have to change and every time I looked at her she looked pissed.
When I was changed and the monitors were up I walked over to her.
"You okay?" I asked.
"I shouldn't have to sit out of this. This is your threes first mission in Espirit de corps and you have no idea what you're dealing with. Alice has a vague idea but"
"I thought you said it would be easy." I reminded her.
"I wasn't talking about the mission." I looked at her confused, she just sighed.
"Does Emmett ever do anything stupid or reckless?" She asked me.
"Yeah that's how we ended up here now. It was stupid to stalk you three but we did it to support him, im sure if it was just him you'd have him arrested." I told her. She laughed.
"Well put it this way the last mission we were on with the bomb on the plane was mild. Shit scary but mild. Bella is reckless, she doesn't do reckless things she is reckless. Now I'm worried something's going to go wrong and no one will be the voice of sanity for her." Rosalie told me then she sighed before giving me a small explanation. "Before Alice came we had another agent called Tanya. She was a good agent and was a bit older than us so she knew the ropes. Our first mission we ended up skydiving off a mountain and it was totally Bella's fault that we had to do it. Luckily Tanya knew how to skydive because if she didn't we'd both probably be dead. Tanya had to put the parachute on us while explain what everything is and what to do. If we didn't have Tanya I can assure you that we wouldn't of seen the next day." But there was something bothering me about her story, you have to be in a plane to sky dive but she said mountain.
"How do you sky dive off a mountain exactly?" Rosalie laughed
"Easy drive off a high mountain and jump out the car." Rosalie laughed harder obviously I looked terrified.
Everyone in the room was curious to what was so funny but I refused to tell them. Something tells me that this is going to be interesting evening.