When I thank everyone for reviewing the song "This is the song that never ends...it goes on and on my friend...so people started singing it– yeah, yeah, you get it. That song always pops up into my head because when I thank everyone who has reviewed, I know thanking you will go on forever, so...Yeah. Okay, I'm just stupid. I don't blame you if you just skipped through that.
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This Chapter's Recommendation:
"The Boy by the Window" by hopefulhappenings09
Summary : Upon moving to Forks Bella becomes spell bounded by her elusive and mysterious neighbour. Small town gossip and far-fetched stories tell her to steer clear of the peculiar boy that watches intently from his window but her curiosity ignores all warning.
Belongs to Stephanie Meyer
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"Please?"
"No."
"Bella pl–"
"No."
The knee high stiletto boots were being pushed back and forth between Alice and Bella each time they spoke. My eyes were starting to hurt from looking from one side to the other. Seriously, it looked like a ping pong match.
Jasper and Emmet were sitting to the side, on the small plush chairs that were placed in the corner of the changing area. They both were looking on amused at the show also known as Bella and Alice. Rosalie was paying at the front register, already done with her shopping... in this shop.
Bella had a look of determination on her face, and I knew she was trying her best to put her foot down, but Alice's pouting and pleading was starting to break her slowly. I stood behind her, holding on firmly to her shoulders making her bear with goose bumps, much to my delight.
Bella sighed, "Let's make a deal. If I buy these shoes then that means we're done shopping for the day." Alice's face fell, but was quickly replaced with a sly look as she looked between Bella and me. I cocked my eyebrow. What?
"Ok." The breath that Bella was keeping in was quickly let out when she did a double take. Jasper chuckled quietly at the compromising.
"What?... Seriously? I..You..Never listen to me when it comes to shopping." Alice rolled her eyes and carefully wrapped the boots back into the box and wrapper it was originally lying in and started making her way to the checkout.
She shrugged as we all followed her out towards the exit after she bought the shoes, "I feel... enlightened today, and besides I'm kind of tired." We were all practically gaping at Alice for her strange behaviour, all except for Jasper, suspiciously.
"Well, I'm good as long as we're done shopping." Leave it to Emmet to make things light, Bella pretended to remove a sweat off her brow while Rosalie and Alice rolled their eyes at her childish behaviour.
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Since Bella had told me truthfully that she wanted to do things for real with me, and be more than friends things, between Bella and I had escalated and to say I was ecstatic would be an understatement. During these past two weeks we had spent mostly all our time together Most importantly trying our hand at something very new and hidden to us. Dating. I could tell the difference between before when we were just friends and now. Our touches would be more softer and meaningful than before, looking out for each other, not that we hadn't done that before, but now it seemed different. Like our whole relationship was set on a new level, and everything we saw now was on a different angle.
I hadn't officially taken Bella on a date yet, and we decided against it because we wanted to spend some time to see if it could actually work between the two of us. At school, even though I wasn't quite positive with what my and Bella's relationship could be defined as, everyone still thought that we were a couple. Bella never denied it, so who was I to interfere?
Actually, Bella had finally decided that she was comfortable enough with where us was going that she agreed to go on a date with me. Tomorrow Bella and I were going on a date.
"I hate surprises, Edward." The six of us were meeting up at Emmet's house tonight for one of our small get togethers, the girls also use it with the term, slumber party. Bella's truck was giving her a hard time and she didn't feel like taking the Audi out, so we decided to go together.
After we decided on the date, Bella wouldn't stop asking me where I was taking her, it was quite amusing actually. I clucked my tongue a couple of times, "Bella, Bella, patience is a virtue."
"Like you need any more of my virtue," she muttered making me grin wickedly.
"Oh, trust me, I'll always need more," Bella looked up at me, her eyes widening at the fact that I heard what I wasn't supposed to hear. As if on queue, her face flushed a light pink. I poked her cheek with my finger making the spot where I touched white for a couple of seconds before all the blood rushed to the tiny finger print I made again. I laughed while Bella smacked my hand away.
She seemed a little flustered, and the way she tried to change the subject again didn't make it any more subtle, but I went a long with it any ways, but the small smile on my face didn't disappear until we reached Rosalie's house.
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"Alice, I still can't believe you were able to make dinner without actually burning the kitchen down." Bella joked in mock horror.
Alice rolled her eyes but giggled, "First, I only burned the bottom of the cupboards last time, and that's only because someone," she looked pointedly at Jasper, "was distracting me, and second, I bought the packages from the super market and just fried it." We all laughed, while Emmet still complimented Alice's excellent frying skills.
Jasper cleared his throat gaining our attention, "My parents had just gotten the Whitlock cruise maintained and ready because this time around the year more people tend to take vacation, and it would be great for business and all, but to cut it short, my parents had earlier in the year reserved six spots for each one of us to be on the cruise, and they had it booked for the long weekend coming up next we–" He was broken off mid-sentence by Rosalie's chair dropping. She quickly zipped around the table to Jasper's side of the table and hugged him fiercely, alternating between screaming every other minute. Jasper cringed a little while Emmet slowly pried Rosalie away from him. Bella clutched my hand with a huge smile on her face, in turn making me smile too.
"Oh My Freaking Gosh Jasper, you are the best... ever." Jasper grinned and shrugged his shoulders.
"It's the least I could do, and besides, we're going to have a blast!" Everyone nodded, each a little jumpy in there seat, including me. We were sure our parents would agree for us to go on the trip, but after we had the permission of our guardians, we were good to go.
Rosalie lifted her chair up right, smoothed down her hair, and sat back down in her seat. Jasper and Emmet and I were talking with excited voices while Alice and Rosalie were talking about all the shopping that had to be done before they left, Bella groaning every now and then.
Bella crossed her arms and glared at Alice, "So this is why we left early today from the mall, because we were going to being going right back down there this week."
Alice smiled cheekily at Bella making her habit of insistently tapping her foot when she was frustrated faster. "Oh, Bella, take a chill pill."
Bella just grumbled, while I laughed at her. She looked at me with narrowed eyes before looking back at Alice and smiling. Huh?
"Only on one condition."
"What?"
"Edward, Jasper, and Emmet have to convince my dad to let me go on the cruise." Great, persuading Bella's father to do something was not an easy task, but it wasn't impossible either. It just took a lot of time.
The three of us groaned, "But, Bell-a...." Emmet groaned again.
Rosalie smirked, "No buts, if this is what it takes to get Bella to go shopping for bikinis, lingerie, and short girlie clothing, than so be it." I groaned this time, louder than before making Rosalie and Alice giggle (I didn't dare look at Bella), and it was definitely not why the other guys were groaning.
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Author Note:
Yeah.
That's all I got to say about this chapter. It was mainly just fluffy fluff and I really didn't enjoy this chapter as much as I will enjoy typing the next chapter aka The boys asking Charlie's permission and THE date.
So there, you got this chapter....Yeah....look forward to the next chapter.
Have you ever wanted to buy stiletto boots?
