Aww..sorry I broke my three-chapter promise :( Was just too busy today. Geometry was a piece of cake, thankfully! Here's a pure JxR chappy. Hope you likey!

12. Something To Take My Mind Off Things

The following days were busy enough for me not to think about any problem.

First of all, I have two photoshoots. One for the album cover and another for Rolling Stone.

Then, after that, I have to go on another show. At least it will be with Jake.

I went to the office building for the album photo shoot, but it turned out we had to do it in the recording studio. The theme of the album was pretty much Tears.

I had to really cry for the cover, but it wasn't hard. Kind of nice to cry after i thought i couldn't anymore.

There was one shot where I was able to act natural. Absentmindedly plucking my guitar. My favorite frame, however, had to be the flying sheet music.

After the album shoot, I headed off to the Rolling Stone office.

Since the magazine liked running off a little wild, they tried to create a belated tribute to one of my albums.

They dressed me up as a vampire.

Crap, everyone's going to laugh when they see this. I had dark makeup, hair in pigtails, plastic fangs and some dark coffee-smelling syrup that looked a lot like real blood dripping down the edge of my mouth. Fortunately, it wasn't. My lips were painted a dark matte red and I had to wear a sleeveless black top, fingerless lace gloves, a black-and-red-fringed skirt, black-and-blue plaid pants with patches and black Converses. They told me it was the "seductive look of a modern teenage vampire." They could take all this gunk off me to see what a modern teenage vampire really looks like.

The whole shoot was pretty cool, I guess. I let myself run as wild as I could go, not reaching the wild I was when hunting. They made me jump from a tree, "flirt" with one of their models and even try to dig his grave when I was finally "done" with him. I wanted to laugh the whole time.

I had to run off to Fox after that. Today was the American idol finals and Jake and I were performing a number with the contestants.

Before everything, of course, we had to meet all of them.

"You're just one step away," I said when they asked for advice. "All I can say is, don't let go. This is what you've wanted all along. Go out there and show them what you've got."

We had the intermission after that.

Woah
Yea, yea, yea, yea

How to choose
Who to be
Well let's see
There's so many choices now
Play guitar
Be a movie star
In my head a voice says

Why not
Try everything
Why stop
Reach for any dream
I can rock
Cause it's my life
And now's the time

Who will I be
It's up to me
All the never ending possibilities
That I can see
There's nothing that I can't do
Who will I be
Yes I believe
I get to make the future what I want to be
If I can become any one and know the choice is up to me
Who will I be

Right after the performance, they led me off the stage.

"Miss Cullen, we need you to sit right here," one of the stage directors instructed.

Suddenly, then whole crowd was shrieking.

"Why?" I asked. "What's going on?"

"You'll see," he replied with a smile.

I finally agreed to sit down on the throne.

It began to rise slowly.

This is all Jacob's fault.

I knew it!

I could hear him singing Tonight. The crowd was screaming and some were even crying. What did Jake tell them? What craziness is this?

Each one of the contestants gave me a rose. Sometimes white, sometimes pink. But Jake gave me a long-stemmed red rose. Just like Prom. And we began twirling on the stage like no one was watching. Just like Prom.

Tonight I've fallen and I can't get up
I need your loving hands to come and pick me up
And every night I miss you
I can just look up
and know the stars are
holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you tonight

It was all magical. Just like Prom. I'm beginning to think that I knew what he was up to. The contestants began singing. He set this all up.

We stopped spinning. Then he knelt in front of me with a black velvet box in his hands.

I knew it!

I can't help but cry. Why was I wasting the last of my tears again?

"Miss Nessie Cullen," he began. Everything became quiet except for the music. "Will you marry me?"

The crowd shrieked. I don't even have time to think. Why was he doing this? He'd already done this.

"Just to prove to you how much I love you," he whispered.

You don't have to do that.

"I want to."

I was left with no choice.

"Yes."

The crowd broke into a tumultuous noise.

Anyhoo, I'll write more tomorrow. I'll be home early so hopefully I get in the mood. Please review :)