The Thunder

Stephenie Meyer is the owner of all these crazy character I am having run around Vegas. She rocks!

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BPOV

"Alice, did Edward SEE me in this?" I screamed from the bathroom as I was changing out the outfit corset and into the outfit Rosalie had picked out for me. It was a Green halter top with a short white skirt that made my legs look really long. She was good, I had to give it to her. I opened the door and walked out to see Alice and Rosalie laughing.

"Don't worry Bella he didn't see anything he just heard me think 'I've got to cover up Bella' so we're fine. He keeps cutting in and out like bad cell phone service. Rosalie and I are going to mess with them a bit. We're singing 'A Pirates Life for Me' in our heads to let them know we know where they are. That should have them running scared and buy us enough time to run out on our quick shopping trip and make the show without interference."

They ran and changed their clothes at vampire speed. Rosalie grabbed her purse and made sure she had her huge wad of fifties from earlier in the day. She turned to Alice "Money – Check" Alice said back to her "Ticket – check." They looked at me "Clueless Bella – Check!" And without another word we were off.

They had the greatest shops in the hotel. We went to Gucci, Prada, Fendi and Dior. Alice looked like a kid in a candy store. If she could have bought one of everything she would have. Rosalie loved purses and shoes so she spent her time picking all the shoes to match the outfits Alice was coming up with. They were a perfect shopping match and I knew if all else failed, I would look good as long as I lived with Alice and Rosalie.

Rosalie ended up getting a fire engine red strapless dress that was very simple but on her body looked illegal. She found a pair of strappy heels and a gold clutch to finished the outfit. Alice got a funky emerald green skirt with a matching green sweater and patterned camisole under it. She went with simple silver flats.

My outfit was something I would have never picked for myself, but I had to admit when I put it on, I felt like a million bucks. It was a simple black dress, off the shoulder. Rosalie threw me into another corset thing to give me some cleavage and a tiny waist. The dress came to mid calf and then had lace ruffle around the bottom hem. It was gorgeous. Rosalie spend a good hour trying to find me sexy shoes that I wouldn't fall down in. Not and easy task, for someone as clutzy as I was, but she found them none the less. They were closed toe patent leather with a good 3 inch heel. I walked all around he store without tripping before letting them purchase them for me. I really was having too much fun to want to take a side trip to the local emergency room.

Alice looked at her watch. "Wow, time flies when the shopping is good! We need to get going." She turned to the lady behind the counter. "Would you make sure all the clothes we were wearing make it back to our room?" The lady nodded her head. She just made a huge commission off our purchases, so she'd do anything we asked. We gave her a wave and dashed out the lobby doors.

We no sooner stepped outside the hotel, and a gentleman in a tuxedo walked up to me and took my hand. "Miss Bella, my name is Rocco and I will be your driver this evening." Behind him was a huge, black, stretch limousine. Rocco was one good looking guy and as I glanced over to Alice and Rosalie they must have thought so too. I wondered to myself if Alice had paid extra for him. The limo was fantastic. Leather seats, a TV, Radio, a bottle of champaign chilling and three glasses waiting to be filled. Rosalie grabbed the glasses and filled them quickly and passed one to me and one to Alice. She raised her glass and said "To the newest addition to the Cullen family. May you and Edward love each other for all of eternity and hopefully Alice and I can give you a night you will never forget. We love you Bella." And with that, we clinked glasses and drank the champaign.

Rocco turned around and asked "Are you ready Miss Bella?"

"Let's go Rocco. I think there's some trouble we need to get into!" The three of us started laughing as we pulled out of the hotel.

I had hardly realized it was dusk until we were going down the strip. The lights of the casinos were all lit up and flashing. It was more than I ever imagined my life would be. I had sisters, who loved and protected me. I had brothers, who were crazy and lovable. And I had Edward, my soul mate and my one true love. How lucky could one person be?

As I tried to hold back tears, we came up to New York New York and Alice asked Rocco to pull over in front of the ESPN zone. I gasped. In the window I could see Edward, sitting by the window and looking too good for words, laughing as Emmett got slapped by some woman in a purple dress. Jasper was watching what appeared to be a horse race on the plasma screen above them. I could feel his waves of happiness all the way in the car. Knowing him, he was winning on all his bets, Edward had told me he was a big gambler. I wonder what Emmett did to that lady?

Rosalie turned to me and smiled. "Phase 2 of Operation Ball Smasher begins NOW!" She spun in her seat "Rocco, open the sun roof a minute." This huge hole appeared in the roof of the limo. Alice, Rose and I all stuck our heads out the top and were facing the boys.

"Rocco when I say three, you need to pull out of here like a bat out of hell got it?" Alice shouted down to him and he gave a thumbs up out his window. Alice turned to me. "I'm going to get Edward's attention so he sees us and then we are out of here OK? Give him a wave, he'll DIE! Rosalie, shoot Emmett some death rays that should freak him out and I'll blow Jasper a kiss. Believe me he needs it after today. OOHH Jasper's winning, that's good."

Alice counted "One, Two..." and at that moment Edward's head snapped around to look out the window. I smiled and waved to him. He gave me that crooked smile that melted my heart. Emmett's eyes got as big as saucers and he started shaking his head no and waving his hands furiously. Jasper mouthed to Alice 'I'm winning' with a big smile on his face. I braced myself because I knew Rocco was going to pull out soon and the last thing I wanted was to be sprawled out on the concrete right in front of ESPN Zone. That, Edward wouldn't find funny.

'THREE"Alice screamed and the car flew down the road. We spun around the corner and pulled into the back entrance to the Excalibur Hotel. There were a number of limos parked there so we blended right in. I was out of breath from laughing so hard. "Did you see Edward's face? I thought he was going to come through that window! Don't you think we should get farther away? Edward can probably pick up my scent from here." If he was determined to find me, there would be no stopping him.

I should have known Alice has all the bases covered. "Don't worry Bella, before we pulled away I threatened him within an inch if his life if those three stooges came after us and ruined our fun. He has decided to stay put for now so let's get a move on. We have place to go and people to see!"

Rocco threw open the door and offered each of us his hand as we exited the limo. All the people waiting for their taxi's were staring at Alice and Rosalie and even me as we walked past them into the hotel. I felt like a million bucks.

"Can I ask what we are doing here? Are we going to do more gambling?" Frankly, I didn't care what we did I was having so much fun tormenting the boys.

Inside the lobby, I noticed two huge, shirtless guys standing in the middle of the room. One was blond and the other had very dark hair. Their bodies were amazing, there were muscles upon muscles upon more muscles. They definitely gave Emmett a run for his money. Apparently Rosalie thought so too because she went right over to them and gave them a hug. I guess when you're a drop dead gorgeous vampire you can do that sort of thing. I stood off to the side while Rosalie and then Alice talked to them. "Bella," Alice called "Come here and meet a few of our friends." They knew them? I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach and headed over to where they were standing. My night had just begun.

"These are friends of ours Bella, this is Matthew and this is David." Rosalie gave me a shove from behind and I stumbled into David, the blond. "Nice to meet you guys." I had nothing else to say, I was completely speechless and couldn't stop staring at their abs. The must get that a lot because they didn't seem to mind. They just smiled and shook my hand and kissed my blushing cheeks.

The brunette, Matthew, offered me one of his arms and David offered me one of his "Shall we go to the show?" My eyes almost fell out of my head. Without waiting for my answer the guys took my arms and grabbed Alice and Rose with their other free hands and we headed down a long hallway to whatever show we were going to see.

Rosalie started asking them how much they worked out to keep their bodies in such good shape, Alice asked if they had girlfriends and what they looked like. I kept my mouth safely shut and blushed a furious shade of pink that was visible even in the dimly lit hall. We turned a corner and that's when I saw the sign.

David turned to me and said "Bella, welcome to the Thunder From Down Under. We have the best table in the house waiting for you, Alice, and Rosalie. We have to go get ready for the show now, but we'll see you again real soon. All the guys are looking forward to meeting you." I felt like I was going to hurl. What did Alice do?

Matthew turned to me and said "I'll save you a dance, Bella." He winked at me and they took off jogging down the hall. Before I could turn around Alice and Rosalie came flying around me and they were laughing hysterically.

"What did you do Alice?" I asked with a horrified tone. My face felt like the heat coming off of it could melt steel. As I stood there, I debated running for my life. There were other people around and they couldn't risk running at vampire speed to catch me. I'd have to lose the shoes however and I really liked them. I could run all the way to ESPN Zone and hide in Edward's lap. Of course then I'd have to explain myself to him which I didn't think I could ever do.

"You aren't going anywhere Bella." And before I could run she and Rosalie each grabbed a hand and they were escorting me into the theater for the show. We are at the best table in the house. It was on the floor, front row, right in the middle. We wouldn't miss a thing during this show, and sitting with two inhumanly beautiful vampires we were sure to get a lot of attention.

Once we sat down, Rosalie turned to me and said "Bella, just relax. Have fun! I promise nothing horrible is going to happen and you might actually have fun if you remember to breathe!"

"If we go through with this I don't know that I can ever look Edward in the face again. He is such a gentleman and so proper. He will think so much less of me when he finds out what we did. He would never..." Alice cut me off.

"Bella, there is something you need to know. We didn't tell you before because we didn't want you to worry about it, but the boys are going to a strip club tonight. It has been Emmett's plan all along. Our first phone call warned them to abandon the plan and that's when Emmett decided to try and trick me which we know totally failed." I considered it for a minute.

"That may be Emmett's plan, but there is no way Edward will go along with it. He would never..." Rosalie cut me off this time.

"Bella, the other two were ready to back out of the idea hours ago. Edward was the one who convinced them to go through with the whole bachelor party plan." They both sat silently waiting for my reaction.

"Give me the phone." If I had learned one thing on this trip it was don't take crap from anyone, especially your future husband. Alice saw the fire in my eye and her mouth turned up in a grin. She knew what I was going to do. "It will drive him crazy you know?"

"Good. That's the plan. Phase three of Operation Ball Crusher begins...NOW." I dialed Edwards cell.

"Hi Eddie. Yes Eddie, I'm human, I have to drink to stay alive. I've been having the most delicious iced tea. I guess they get it special from Long Island, at least that's what the bartender keeps telling me. OOHH you know what Rosalie taught me? She taught me how to do, oh what's it called, oh yeah a body shot off the bartender. His name is Paolo and he is a soccer player from Brazil. He must work out a lot to get that body." The girls were shaking with silent laughter. "Are you guys having fun? What do you have planned for the evening anything special??" I wanted to see if he would admit it. "Oh Emmett is in charge and you're just going to let him take you wherever he wants? You have no say in the matter?" I rolled my eyes. I couldn't even get mad at him for lying to be because he was just so bad at it. And I know technically, he wasn't lying, he was just leaving out major details and I could tell he felt terrible about it by the tone in his voice.

Sides had been chosen in this Cullen battle of the sexes and for now we were on opposite teams. All's fair in love and war... so I went in for the finishing strike. "OK, well you boys have fun, be safe, and don't do anything I wouldn't do. I gotta go now Eddie, the strippers are taking the stage! Love ya!"

Right on cue the lights dimmed and the women around me started screaming. And with that, I hung up the phone. Rosalie and Alice beamed with pride. "We have taught you well grasshopper." Rosalie said with a bow. "Our little girl is all grown up" Alice stood up and gave me a standing ovation. The room was still dark and music began to play in the background. I drew my line in the sand, I'd worry about Edward's reaction after the show.

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