Okay everyone. Now for the eleventh chapter. I feel as if I've been writing this story for so long, when in reality, it's only been about a month. Freaky.

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Chapter Eleven: Dreams And Interior Designing

Everyone (hopefully) knows where we left off, so I'm not going to even bother with saying the date. Ella and I finally went to bed at five in the morning. The sleepover was so rockin'!! Oops. I'm a little ahead of myself. I'd better start where I left off.

Ella led me up the stairs down a long hallway to a door at the far end. A sign on the door pronounced in flowery letters "Ella's Room". The interior was amazing to say the least. She still had nothing on Alice, but it was definably a good start. Her walls were vertically striped light blue and sea green with tiny strips of white in between. One wall had floor to ceiling windows that gave you a perfect view of the small balcony right outside. On either side of those windows were fluttering white lace curtains. Ella's room had a caramel colored hardwood floor. Her bed was fit for a princess. It was queen sized, with a high back. The sheets were teal and blue, with small threads of gold and white woven in. The pillow was set to match. Her bed included a canopy that cascaded in all its translucent light blue glory down the sides and enclosed the bed. Ella's dresser was a simple white one with a gigantic mirror behind it. A golden leaf pattern surrounded the edges of the mirror to create a rippling reflection effect. Her closet was a dugout on the northern side with a white silk curtain draped over it to partition it in a way. An entire wall was designated to books. Journals, fiction, science, poems, they were all there. In short, her room was breathtaking.

Ella must have noticed me standing there gaping like a fish because she soon explained. "My mom's an interior designer." Ahh. That explained a lot. Ella stared at me. "Valerie. Don't tell me you didn't notice the downstairs rooms!"

I sheepishly bowed my head. "No. I was too absorbed with my cookie." Ella laughed and flicked a switch. Suddenly, the room was brighter. My head snapped up. I hadn't noticed any lamps. Then I noticed a small, crystal chandelier on the ceiling that gave off a medium glow. Wow.

Ella led me through a small door on one wall. "This is where we will be hanging most of the time."

I gaped once again. "Is this still part of your room?" I asked incredulously.

Ella beamed. "Yup!" This room had white walls splatter painted rainbow and had a tan carpet. In one corner, there was a TV with a stand full of videos and DVD's right next to it. In another corner, there was a popcorn machine and a mini fridge. A vanity full of makeup and hair supplies occupied another section. The main focus was on the three beanbags that were smack-dab in the middle of the floor. On was blue, one was teal, and the last was white. A close to the ground table stood in between the three chairs, and a funky lamp was placed on it. Also included in the room was, a phone, a bookstand, a Wii, a karaoke machine, and a CD player.

Ella spread her arms wide and announced. "Welcome to the party room!"

I just stood there. "You know, I'll have to ask Alice to decorate my room like that." Then I remembered that Alice had already seen this room. "Wait. Never mind. Alice is probably already at home redecorating each and every room like this."

Ella smiled. "I don't doubt it." We laughed, then unpacked my bags and got everything settled.

At six, Ella's mom called us down for dinner. When we got back upstairs, I asked Ella a question. "When does your dad get home?"

Ella looked at the ground. "My parents got divorced five years ago. My dad died in a car crash two years ago."

I immediately felt ashamed. Ella saw me blushing and said, "It's okay. I'm used to it now. It's just a touchy subject."

After we jumped that hurdle, everything else ran pretty smoothly.

"So… what do you wan to do first?" Ella asked. "Movie or a game?"

I though about it for a while. "Hm. We should do an action movie now, and then later do a scary one. We should have games and snacks in between."

We watched 'The Princess Bride'. It's an old movie. It's about a plain girl named Buttercup. She falls in love with a farm boy named Wesley, but a few years later, he has to go out to sea for five years. More than five years pass, and in Wesley's absence, Buttercup is engaged to Prince Humperdink. While she is riding in the woods one day, three men kidnap Buttercup. A short, but genius man named Visini, a swordsman named Inigo Montoya, and a gigantic man named Fezzic. After the four set sail, they notice a ship following them. They christen the man onboard 'The Man In Black', for obvious reasons. He rescues Buttercup and heads back for the palace. By accident, Buttercup discovers that The Man In Black is actually Wesley. When they reach the palace, Buttercup makes Humperdink promise not to hurt Wesley. He does, but secretly does not keep his promise. He tortures Wesley to near death, and Wesley finds out about the prince's evil plan. If you want to know how it ends, go rent the movie. It rocks. It is also hilarious.

After the movie, we decided to decide which game we should play. After much discussion, we finally decided on 'Life'. I set up the game while Ella put a CD in her CD player. The name of the band was Radiation. Apparently they're some sort of rock/hip hop group. Their music actually wasn't that bad.

At the end of the game, Ella won with $6,538,770. I ended up with a measly $75,380. I had been in debt for most of the game. Another fun fact; in the game, you get married and chose a house and a job and everything. Here were the results:

Ella: Mansion, artist with a hundred thousand dollar salary, happily married with two kids, AND she won the noble peace prize and discovered the cure for cancer.

Val: Trailer, movie star with a sixty thousand dollar salary, lost job halfway through, technician with a thirty thousand dollar salary, married with five kids and they all share one bathroom in the tiny trailer.

Go figure.

After 'Life', we danced around and sang to a whole CD. Her mom came up once to yell at us for being so loud, and ended up dancing with us. We each danced to our own style. Mrs. Brownstone disco danced, I did hip-hop (pretty badly might I add), and Ella did a ballet/breakdance combo. She rocked. I tried doing it and fell flat on my butt. Everyone laughed at me. -Sniff-

When we settled down, Ella and I made popcorn and got soda from the mini-fridge. Mrs. Brownstone reappeared with a fresh batch of chocolate-chip-cookies a few minutes later. I was once again in heaven. I plopped down on the teal beanbag and Ella sat on the white one while we slurped our sodas.

"So," I started casually. "What do you want to do next?"

Ella grinned an evil grin. She looked so much like Emmett that I just had to shudder. "Truth or Dare."

Of course. Truth or Dare. The typical sleepover game. "You're so on." I shot back. We started immediately. I went first. "Ella, Truth or Dare?"

She thought for a moment. "Truth." She finally decided. "I wan to start out safe."

"Who do you like?"

Ella gave a groan. "Everyone asks that question."

"Quit stalling and answer it." I demanded.

"Blake Napier. He is so cute! And really nice too."

"What's he look like?" I asked eagerly.

"He's really tall." She gestured with her hands. "And he had short, black hair with soft gray eyes." She frowned. "The only problem is, he's the brother of Kamryn."

"Kamryn? Who's that?"

Ella heaved a sigh. "She's the girl who was gossiping with Chelsea in grammar."

"The girl with the dirty blonde hair and dull gray eyes?" I asked.

"Yep" Ella clarified.

"Uhg." I said. "I really dislike her."

"Same here. Anyways, my turn. Truth or Dare?"

I tapped my finger against my chin. "Hmm. Dare."

Ella got a wicked look on her face and I instantly regretted my choice. This girl could be seriously evil when she wants to. "I dare you to call Kamryn and tell her that it's Edward Cullen. Say that he thinks he's in love with her and needs to talk to her. We'll see just how gullible she is."

I rubbed my hands together. "I love this dare. One problem. I don't have her number."

"Don't worry. I got it from her when I was still considered cool."

I gave her a one armed hug. "Don't worry, you're still cool in my book."

She flashed me a smile. "Thanks Val. You're definably a good friend." With that, Ella disappeared into the other section of her room. A few seconds later, and she was back with a small piece of paper in her hand. "I knew I'd need this sooner or later." She handed it to me and I pulled out my cell phone. I quickly dialed the number on the scrap of paper and waited for someone to pick up.

"Hello?" Came a snobby voice on the other end of the line.

"Hello? Kamryn? This is Edward Cullen." I tried to make my voice sound as low and manly as possible. Still it sounded nothing like the deep music that was Edward's voice.

There was silence on the other end. Then; "EDWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I swear I was momentarily deaf in my right ear. "OMG! OMG! OMG!" Finally Kamryn got a hold of herself, though she still sounded slightly hysteric. "What is it?"

"Umm." I didn't really know how to phrase it, but I quickly saved myself. "Kamryn. I think that you're the one for me. I know I only knew you for one year before I went off to college, but I think that you're beautiful and I need to talk to you about this. I'm a little confused myself about… all this. Could you meet me at my house?" I waited. "Kamryn? Kamryn?" There was no answer. "Oh, well." I said, and then hung up.

I looked over to see Ella laughing uncontrollably in the corner. I was offended at first, and then joined her in laughter.

"My turn." I said, when we stopped laughing. "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare." She replied immediately.

I wanted to come up with something really good, so it took me a while. "I dare you to take a little of each type of soda in the fridge, mix them all together, and drink all of it."

Ella did it. She didn't look too disgusted, just a little queasy when she actually drank it.

"That tasted… interesting." She choked out when she finished drinking. "Truth or Dare."

"Dare. I love dares."

She looked at me as if deciding whether I was out of my mind or not. "Okay… I dare you to strike some crazy poses while I take pictures of them."

"Only if you promise not to send them to the entire student body."

She raised her right hand. "I promise."

Many giggles and ten pictures later, it was once again my turn. "Truth or Dare?"

"Truth."

I tried to come up with an interesting Truth, when my cell phone rang. I checked the call ID and said "Don't worry, Ella, it's just someone from my family calling." I opened my cell. "Hello?"

"Valerie, may I ask why a teenage girl showed up at our door, asking what I wanted to talk to her about and telling me that I could kiss her now?"

I giggled at Edward's tone of voice. "Sure you can ask, doesn't mean you're gonna get any answers." I aimlessly twirled a piece of hair around my fingertips. "You can tell us what happened though, and we might tell you what we know."

Edward growled. "Just tell me."

I gave a theatric sigh. "It's too bad you can't read minds." I phrased the statement so that Ella would think I meant that he can't read minds and it's too bad he can't. Edward would know I mean that it's too bad that his power didn't extend far enough to reach us.

Edward finally relented. "I tell you. Well, I was at home when-"

"Wait!" I suddenly cut him off and turned my phone on speaker so that Ella could hear the story also. "Okay. You can continue now."

Edward sighed. "I was at home when the doorbell rang. Thankfully all the others were hu- getting food." Only I knew what he meant by that sentence. "I opened the door to find Kamryn Napier, that is her name? Standing outside. She started talking before I could ask her what she was doing there. In a rushed voice and a love crazed expression on her face she began; 'Edward! I'm here now! What is it you wanted to talk to me about! What was so important, dear?' At that point I almost died. She called me 'Dear'. I did get to ask her what the heck she was doing out there. She stared at me as if wondering if I was crazy. I, of course, thought it was the other way around. She continued. 'You don't remember? You called me and told me that you loved me!' She threw her arms around me. 'Well I love you too! Eddie-poo!' At that point, I calmly asked her if she was supposed to be in a mental asylum right now and shut the door in her face. Last I checked she was still out there in the rain. I have just told you my part, now it is your turn."

I thought I was going to die of laughter. "Well-you see-I-we-" It's so hard to get stuff out when you're laughing really hard. Finally I managed to sputter; "Truth or Dare! I-dared-call-her-say-I-you-and-loved-her!" My sentence made no sense, but thankfully Edward's enhanced brain got it.

"I see." He said in a dry voice. "I better go now."

"Are you going to tell Kamryn what happened?"

"Let me think. No, I don't think so. That girl was exasperating!"

"Thank you Edward!" Ella and I chorused as I shut the phone.

"So," I said. "Whose turn is it?"

After a few more rounds of Truth or Dare, we settled down a bit. We unanimously decided to do makeovers next. Ella and I snuck downstairs to grab her mom's nail care kit. Ella forced me to let her do me first.

"Please Valerie?"

"Okay, okay." I grumbled as I sat down in front of the vanity. She actually did a pretty good job. My hair was pulled into a high ponytail with small braids woven in. Tiny jewels were on the sides of my head. My eyes were a sparkly blue color outlined in deep black. My lips were simply glossed and I had a natural shade of blush. Ella had painted my nails dark blue with white tips and a light blue and silver pattern on them. Next I forced Ella down into the seat. At long last, I got to enforce the skills Alice had taught me. Ella gasped when I was finished.

"It-it's- it look beautiful." Ella managed to get out, tentatively touching her hair. I had put tiny strips of braid reaching across her scalp to the back of her head. Each plait had a small red ribbon woven in. the braids ended just at the back of her head, letting her sleek black hair flow freely down her back, ribbons included. Her eyes had a light shade of green on top, to bring out the blueness of her eyes. Natural blush and red lips completed the look; making her face look pale, which looked pretty and brought her eyes out even more. I had made her nails blue, red, and yellow; all swirled together, yet not mixed.

"Wow." She breathed. "I should have you as my everyday makeup artist."

"I would be honored." I added. "If I only had more time in my morning schedule. I already have a jog with Rosalie, a fashion show with Alice, and an insult at Emmett. With all that, my schedule is pretty much packed."

Ella stared at me. "You take a walk in the morning with Rosalie?" I nodded. "Wow. She never seemed like a friendly person to me. Though the fashion show with Alice doesn't sound to bad."

We flopped onto her bed and looked over the latest magazines.

"Ooh! Look at him!" I said, jabbing at a photograph.

Ella glanced over. "Which one?"

I pointed again. "Him! Taylor Lautner! Isn't he so cute?" I sighed and fell back against the bed, holding the magazine against my chest.

"Eh. He's okay."

"Just okay?! I am offended."

Ella snorted, "I'm sure you are. But look! Robert Pattenson! Now he's cute."

"I think he puts a gallon of hair gel in his hair a day." I said.

"You're probably right Val, but he is still hot."

"What I can't believe is that he's going out with Kristen Stuart. She can do way better. Though she needs to smile more. She always has the same 'blah' expression on her face."

"It makes you wonder." We chatted and gossiped some more until midnight. Ella had a tradition. When you are staying up late, you have to scream and jump around at exactly midnight. I added on that you have to also chug a soda of your choice. What? Emmett was rubbing off on me.

So at exactly midnight, Ella and I danced to a song and sang the words at the top of our lungs. I gulped an orange Fanta, and Ella got Cherry Cola. Her mom came up in a nightdress to tell us to settle down and we told her never. She glared at us and told us once again to settle down. Then she left. We ate and talked for a little longer.

At one point, Ella tried to teach me some ballet moves. I think I sprained my ankle. Ella gave me an 'F' for the day and gave up.

I don't know how late it was when we decided to watch our chosen horror movie. We chose the movie 'Deadly Sleepover'. It's about this girl who decides to host a sleepover. She invites six of her closest friends over. They have fun until midnight. That's when they find one of the girls in the kitchen with a butcher knife in her chest. From then on, every hour at the hour, one of the girls die. They can't go for help because the parents are gone, the door is somehow locked from the outside, and the windows won't open. When it reaches the point where there is only one girl left, the girl who invited them all over, you find out who the killer is. It's the main girl's older brother. He has gone insane and is driven to kill. The last girl barely escapes death only by killing her brother. The best part of the movie is when the last girl has just escaped death and finds the front door unlocked. She steps outside into a beautiful sunrise. When her parents come home, she frantically tries to tell them everything. They call the police to arrest their daughter for killing everyone, when, in truth, she killed only her brother and that was to defend herself. The police decide to lock her in an asylum. The last scene is where the asylum van drives away. You see the girl's face through a small window. They give you a close-up and you slowly see her eyes fill with the same madness her brother's eyes had. It was scary. Ella and I were seriously freaked.

We moved our sleeping bags into Ella's main room just in time to see the start of a sunrise. We looked at each other, remembering the movie. We both laughed and crawled into our sleeping bags.

We woke up at ten to choco-chip pancakes. They made the world go round. At eleven, Bella picked me up and I waved goodbye. Ella waved back.

It felt so good. So good to have nice friends, friends I could trust. It felt so good to just forget about all the havoc that was going on around me.

It felt good to be normal.

Awww. So sweet! Happy ending and the longest chapter I've ever written. Hope you liked it! Just for the record, Radiation is not a real band. I just made them up. 'deadly sleepover' is also fake. I came up with it. 'The Princess Bride' on the other hand, is a real movie. Go see it!

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Lovve,

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