Hey everyone!! I am so so so so so so sorry that we haven't updated in so long. We had exams (though that is no excuse for me becasue I managed to write a whole other story minus one chapter while I was supposed to be studying for exams) and then a week of laziness. We will never go that long again without updating unless like, one of us is in the hosptial or somthing drastic like that.

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Alice phoned me and asked me to stop by the supermarket to pick up some last minute items for tonight. She felt that there was a critical shortage of Cheetos, Pepsi, and frozen pizza.

Today is New Years Eve, so Alice is having a little party thing over at her house. Alice being Alice never did anything half way. We were going to be so loaded on junk food, games, and movies I doubt we will be able to get through a quarter of them. Also, from the snippets I heard when talking to her on the phone I am guessing she went way overboard with decorations. I was worried, at first, when she said 'party' but she ensured me that it was just her, me, and Rose who are going to be attending. 'A girl's night' she called it.

Rosalie still scares me, but I'm trying my best to avoid thinking about that.

I was wearing my weekend clothes there. I attempted to at least but some effort into the outfit since I knew Alice would harass me if I didn't look a bit decent. I was wearing slightly worn jeans and a white sweater zip up sweater with a black tank top underneahth since I let a little cleavage show.

When I got to her house I immediately felt under-dressed. Alice came prancing outside in a pink silk pyjama set and a black robe, obviously from Victoria Secret. Rosalie was standing in the doorway in light purple pyjamas that were made of the same fabric as Alice's. There were dark purple flowers printed on them. The way they emphasised her every curve made me certain that any guy who sees her in those would get knocked out. If they didn't I am sure Emmett would do the honours.

"Bella! Did you get the stuff I asked for?!" Alice said, giving me a running hug.

"Yes I did... Now will you please let me breath?" I said gasping for breath; despite being so small her running hugs were something to be afraid of.

Alice let go of me, took my hand and dragged me to the door.

"Seeing as you two have never been formally introduced, Rose, this is Bella; Bella, this is Rose." I just stood there and smiled awkwardly.

"Yes, we met last week at the book store." Rose said.

"Oh I heard about that!" Alice exclaimed.

Rose turned to me, "I heard you gave Edward a black eye."

"… I did?" This was news to me.

"Yes and a handful of other bruises. You haven't seen him since you attacked him for the whole car incident, but Emmett and Jasper surely had loads of fun making fun of him. He tried to convince us that he got in a scrap with a few big guys from downtown, but we all know what really happened." She said with a wink.

I smiled, proud of myself.

"Ok now can we go inside!?" Rose exclaimed suddenly, "It is freezing out here!"

I followed Alice and Rose through the house. "How much junk food do we have anyways?" I asked.

Alice laughed; Rose gave Alice a disapproving look and said, "Well let's just say I hope no one here made a 'losing weight' resolution."

We arrived at what I guess was a living room, because there was a giant flat screen television on the wall, a beautiful fireplace, and a coffee table with two large couches and one loveseat The coffee table was covered in bowls of chips, popcorn, and other fattening goods. I saw what looked to be a mountain of unopened chips and stuff in the corner.

"The pop is in the fridge in the kitchen and in the cold room downstairs." Alice explained, "We have enough stuff to feed four football teams and a soccer team so you guys better have empty stomachs!" Alice exclaimed happily.

I laughed with her, Rose simply looked horrified. I was about to dive in, ready to start packing down the salt and vinegar chips, when something caught my eye. Attached to the 'living room' was another room but this one was filled with…

"Alice, are those… pillows?"

"Yes!!!"

The room was filled with what must have been like a thousand pillows. There were pillows that seemed to be glued onto the walls, and a bunch that were piled up on the floor into a pile almost as tall as me. What made it even more exciting was that they were all different colors. There were red ones, blue ones with stars on them, green ones shaped like circles...

"What are they for?" I asked.

"What do you think?! We are going to have the most epic three person pillow fight in history! And besides, don't those pillows look like the most comfortable things ever? We can literally party till we drop!" She squealed, clapping her hands excitedly. I noticed a large TV and DVD player in the corner of the room. This would make to be the most comfortable bed ever.

"Oh my god Alice you are my hero." I laughed, eager to jump in the pile of pillows.

EPOV

"Oh my god Emmett, would you stop being such a baby. Are you just going to sit there and sulk all night or what?" I asked, annoyed.

Emmett has been in a bad mood since Rose told him that she was going to a 'girls-only' party thing at Alice's instead of staying home with him. She told him she would forgive him for messing up on Christmas Eve if he didn't make too much of a fuss.

So now I am stuck trying to comfort my sexually – deprived friend and cook a dinner of chicken and potatoes for Emmett, Jasper, and myself at the same time. Not easy business I tell you.

Jasper was being of little help himself. I guess he was also hoping to spend New Years with his girlfriend.

I checked on the chicken in the oven and threw in the potatoes before heading back to the living room where Jasper and Emmett were playing cards. I plopped down on the couch next to them.

"So… Emmett… how is cooking class going for you?" I asked. Emmett was being forced to take these classes for the past week or so. It has been something Jasper and I love to bug him about to no end.

"Mhmmff"

"So are you guys going to just sulk all day or are we going to… go play some Halo 3?" I asked, purposefully brining up Emmett's and Jaspers favourite video game.

Neither of them responded.

"Ok then, how about we go visit the girls before one of you, or both of you, die of depression?"

"They would kill us!" Jasper exclaimed, "Alice told me if she sees my face at her house tonight, she would never ever play Call of Duty with me ever again."

"Wait a second Jazz… I think Edward is onto something…"

We gave him a second to think.

"Ok…" Emmett started, after a second "So she told you she doesn't want to see your face at her house tonight… right?"

"Yes…"

"Well then! We can just go and not let them see us!" Emmett clapped his hands together, proud of his brilliance.

"I don't think that's a good idea at all!" Jasper worried.

"Oh come on! Stop being so whipped!"

"I am not 'whipped'" Jasper said, offended.

"Oh yes you are."

"No I am not."

"Yes."

"No."

"Edward, isn't Jasper whipped?"

"I'm sorry Jazz, you are."

"You know what!" Jasper exclaimed angrily, standing up.

"What?" Emmett said. His voice laced with humour.

"I am going to be a terrible boyfriend and go and see my girlfriend when she specifically told me not to!"

"That's what I'm talking about Jasper! Welcome to the world of men!" Emmett said giving him a hard slap on the back, causing Jasper to nearly fall over.

Jasper gave Emmett a dirty look and went to get his coat and boots on. Emmett followed him.

"Uhh… I was sort of joking, you guys… when I said we should go see them." I said; worried about what would happen to us if we get caught.

"Joking or not Eddie we are going! Yes you have to come." Emmett replied.

"Don't call me that!" Oh how I hate that nickname…

"Then hurry the hell up stupid!"

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"So guys… who is at Alice's anyways?"

"Probably just Rose and Alice like usual. They don't really become close friends with many people."

"Bella might be there, Alice has been hanging out with her a lot recently." Jasper answered.

I mumbled something about a dirty little traitor, earning me a good glare from Jasper. We were approaching the house. I told Jasper to pull over beside the driveway rather then going into it. It would be hard to explain to the girls why Jaspers car is for some reason parked in their driveway. I saw the little green car that I had seen Bella driving around. She was here. Just perfect.

"You know if they are in Alice's room we are screwed." I said.

"There is a tree next to her window that is easy to climb" Jasper replied, determined.

"I am sorry, but you two are the biggest stalkers of life."

"We are not stalkers Edward. We are in love. When you finally get yourself a girl then you will understand." Emmett started patting my shoulder in a sympathetic way.

I shrugged off his hand. The day I start watching girls through their windows in the middle of winter (or at any time for that matter) is the day I fall in love with Bella Swan (icky).

The two idiots made me climb the tree first.

"Oh sure guys, risk me as the first one of being seen. I don't even want to be here," I groaned but kept climbing. The branches were a little slippery but I managed to get a hold on them.

We had perched ourselves on a branch where we would be able to see in the room but they wouldn't be able to see us… or at least I hope they wouldn't.

"What are we going to do? Sit out here until we have seen them or one of us dies?" I asked.

"Shut up Edward, they're coming in," Emmett flicked me. I saw Rose and Bella dump their over night bags on Alice's bed. Alice started shaking her head at Bella when saw what she had brought. Bella rolled her eyes as she was handed new pyjamas by Alice.

Jasper and Emmett had grins on their faces when their girls came into the room but they fell when the girls left, only leaving Bella. I looked away, not wanting to invade her privacy.

"Eddie, your attacker has a pretty good body," Emmett said as he hit my shoulder with his.

"Like I care," I said back in my grumpy self.

"Seriously dude, she's hot," Jasper piped in.

"Whatever," I said. I turned back to look at the window as Bella turned to face it wearing only her pink Snoopy pyjama bottoms and a bra. The girl sure did have nice curves. I actually found myself watching her as she grabbed a black tank top and pulled it over her head. Her eyes drifted to look outside, and she screamed.

BPOV

"AHHH," I screamed. Alice and Rose came rushing back into the room.

"WHAT'S WRONG?" they yelled.

"There are people outside, in the tree," my eyes went wide as I backed away from the window.

".. What?!," Alice's eyes went wide as well. Rose began panicking.

"What are we going to do?" she asked.

"Let's back away from any windows, and make sure the doors and windows are locked. We'll go down to the living room and watch a movie, not a scary one, and hope they go away," Alice said calmly. We left the room and headed downstairs.

"Alice, they were sitting in the tree," I told her.

"What?" she asked.

"They were sitting in the tree, I don't know how many there was, but I'm scared," I whispered.

"You know how I said that this should be an all girls night?" Alice said to Rose and I.

"Yeah?" we responded.

"I'm thinking that we should call the guys, they need to be here," Alice whispered as she grabbed the phone. Rose nodded her head in agreement.

"Their not answering any of their cell phones," Alice said after a few minutes of dialling various numbers.

"Call Edward's house, I think that's where Emmett said they would be tonight," Rose added.

"Ok," Alice said as she dialled the number, "Hi Aunt Liz, Is Edward there? … They went out? … No it's alright, I have feeling where they might be … I will … Ok, bye Aunt Liz," Alice finished.

"Are they the ones I saw?" I asked.

"I think so," she nodded her head and went upstairs to check. Rose and I stayed downstairs, sitting on the couch.

"Well, they aren't there now and I don't see any of their cars, so I don't think it was them," Alice said nervously.

"We need to do something… distract ourselves from what is happening outside," Rose breathed.

"You make it sound like there is a plague going around and if we step outside we are going to die," I laughed.

"We probably would," Alice whispered. There was an awkward silence, "I have an idea! Let's do Bella's hair."

"What's wrong with my hair?" I asked.

"Nothing's wrong, you just don't do a lot with it, I was thinking we could straighten it all out perfectly and add little curls at the end," Alice smiled.

"Now that sounds fun," Rose smiled also. I just groaned.

They left me in the room full of pillows. There was a TV in there too so we could easily watch the movies we wanted to watch. Ten minutes later they came back with their arms full of hair brushes, flattening irons, curling irons, and a bunch of hair care bottles.

"Ready?!" Alice exclaimed.

"No…" I pleaded.

"Yes you are! No just sit there and watch whatever movie you want and we can have our fun," Rose smiled. I looked through the pile of movies that were sitting beside the TV and DVD player. I finally decided on Step Up 2.

"I love this movie," I smiled as I stuck it into the DVD player.

I sat in the pile of pillows and enjoyed the movie while Alice and Rose had fun with my hair. Half way through the movie, right when Moose was doing his dance on the steps at the school, there was a sound from the living room.

We froze and turned to look at the door.

"Holy shit," Alice whispered. She was starting to shake. The hairspray Rose was holding fell from her hands as she backed up against the wall and buried herself in pillows.

Alice dropped the curling iron on one of the pillows, I grabbed the handle of it before it had a chance to catch fire. Alice followed Rose's lead and buried herself in pillows as well. Before I had a chance to completely cover my body the door to the pillow room opened.

The face looked at me questionably before laughing darkly.

"AHHH," I screamed and threw the curling iron at it.

"AHH! What the fuck Bella!?" Edward screamed.

"Edward?" Alice said menacingly.

We came out of the pillow room and saw Emmett and Jasper laughing hysterically.

Alice and Rose went over to them and started yelling.

"What the hell were you thinking? You scared the shit out of us!" Alice smacked Jaspers arm.

"Um, Ow? And we missed you," Jasper said rubbing his arm.

"I don't care that you missed me. This was supposed to be a girls night! And now you three idiots ruined it! Bella saw you sitting in the tree. While she was changing! You guys are such pigs! I can't believe you three, the least you could have done before coming here was um, I don't know, CALL?" Alice yelled at them.

I went along the row of the three of them and smacked all of them. I made sure to hit Edward extra hard, across the cheek, so I gave him another bruise.

"What the hell was that for?" Edward rubbed his cheek.

I walked up to him so that I was standing not six inches from him and gave him a good slap in the face.

"You were sitting in the effing tree while I was CHANGING, your lucky I didn't call the police, or better, MY DAD. I'm sure he would love to know how you and the other two idiots were stalking us. You're lucky I didn't realize it was you. If I did, you would be lying below the tree with broken bones," I pressed my finger against his chest numerous times. He was holding his hand, which I burnt with the curling iron by the way, to his face where I slapped him. He was looking positively furious.

"Who the hell do you think you are anyways Swan? Do you actually think I came here with any intention of seeing your face? I am forced to see you enough then I would want to anyways at school. Besides, shouldn't girls your age wear sexier underwear then that? Come on, those must be the same ones you have been wearing since you were ten." He scrunched his nose in disgust.

I was going to reach across and rip that look of his face but Rose and Alice were holding me back. I turned around to yell at them.

"Please Bella, you can rip his face of all you want tomorrow, and trust me we will help you, but for now let's not fight. It is storming outside and they cant go home so lets not spend new years fighting with each other." Alice begged.

"And Edward will apologize of course" Rose said, giving Edward a look. She went over and picked up the curling iron off the floor.

He mumbled something that sounded like it might have been a forced apology. Alice kicked him in the shin hard.

He yelped in pain and begrudgingly said a clearer apology.

I grunted and turned away from him, agreeing with Alice that New Years Eve should not be spent fighting.

They joined us in watching the rest of the movie and the New Years countdown. Edward and I didn't acknowledge each others existence since our fight earlier, but at least we weren't trying to rip each others heads off… yet.

Alice was the little devil who decided to play truth and dare, (have I even mentioned I hate that game?).

Even though I complained about it, I won't say I didn't end up having fun. Emmett ended up in one of Alice's old tutus (it didn't fit him at all), Jasper ended up calling some random person of the phone and asking them if they know where his boyfriend went to. Alice ended up having to confess how many pairs of shoes she has (72 pairs) and Edward had drink this horrible concoction that Alice cooked up (I really don't know what she put in it but it seemed pretty terrible). Now it was Edwards turn to give someone a dare (or truth).

"Bella, truth or dare?" Oh that little bugger HAD to pick me. I usually just took the safe path and said truth, because I really don't have many embarrassing things they can ask me. This time however, I felt like I would be losing to him or something if I took that safe path… don't ask me why but it does!

"Dare"

"Ok… I want you to…" Edward started thinking for a moment, when suddenly horror flashed across his face. Oh god what was he going to make me do!

"F**K THE CHICKEN!"

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There you have it! I hope you all liked it and I am still very sorry for the wait. See you guys really soon!

AlyssaLutz :)