Hello All, i hope everyone had a splendid New Year.

Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight, Hunter owns Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas & Avenged Sevenfold Own Bat Country...R.I.P The Rev...One of the great drummers...

Anyways onto the chapter....

Enjoy!


He who makes a beast out of himself,
Gets rid of the pain of being a man
- Hunter S. Thompson

Bella POV

I woke up the next morning early, well earlier than I would have liked any normal day but I felt like I should do a service to Alice and appear like I wanted to get up early, Edward on the other hand was still asleep at half past nine.

"Edward, wake up" I whispered shaking him gently.

"No" he mumbled covering his face.

"You still ill?" I asked stroking his forehead.

"No, just don't want to get up" he whispered.

"Fine you can explain to Alice why you're late" I giggled.

"Okay I'm up" he muttered quickly sitting up, a sleepy scowl on his face and his hair in total disarray.

"I would love nothing more than to stay in bed with you all day sweetie, but we did promise Alice" I said apologetically crawling back over to him.

"Fine" he muttered kissing my forehead.

"Um i dont mean to get annoying and keep asking and all but um, where are we going after here, I mean are we going where everyone else is or are we gonna take off later like you did before or what?" I asked biting my lip, I really didn't want to bring it up but hell majority of my life was spent planning things and it irked me a little to not know where our next step was.

"Well everyone else is probably going to want to head back to Chicago" he muttered softly.

I nodded slowly feeling my heart deflate in my chest "How about Cali?" he said tilting my chin to meet his face.

"Cali is so not the way towards Chicago" I laughed.

"Who said anything about me going back to Chicago, I'm on a pretty good adventure here, I'm not ready for it to end yet" he said looking at me with such determination in his eyes it was difficult for me to not believe him. I couldn't help the butterflys in my stomach when he said that, he didnt want us to be over yet just as much as i didnt.

"Are you sure you want to go back there? I mean after what you told me yesterday?" I asked quietly.

"I'll be fine" he said flashing me a smile and I so wish I could say it reached his eyes.

"Okay so from here to L.A….were looking at…maybe four to five hours give or take a bit" he said tapping on his phone.

"Could you be old school and get a map out for once, y'know do it the 90's way" I said putting my hands on my hips.

"You look sexy like that" he smirked.

"Stop changing the subject Cullen" I said folding my arms across my chest.

"I'm so happy were forgoing the bra again today" he drawled out, his eyes fixed on my chest.

"Hey! Eyes up here" I said clicking my fingers in front of his face trying desperately to hold back my smile.

"Sorry I keep getting distracted" he smiled.

"You're feeling better today though right? I mean you really freaked me out yesterday" I admitted biting my lip.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to put you through that" he said rubbing my arms.

"Just don't get ill again okay" I smiled.

"Ill try my very best" he said quietly.

"So I figure if we leave after breakfast we can get there by this afternoon and we can find somewhere to stay" he added.

"Cheap motel" I practically begged.

"Whatever you want, no radiator springs though" he added laughing.

"Yay" I said clapping. He laughed running his fingers through his hair before he walked over to the bathroom to get ready.

Sitting downstairs waiting for Edward to get back from the breakfast buffet I thought something was seriously wrong, not only were we awake, fully functioning and all before 9:30, but we were downstairs for bang on ten and no one else was here. I self consciously looked around the room scanning for everyone else thinking maybe we sat down and didn't see them but nope nothing.

"E I don't mean to get all annoying and moany but isn't there something missing from this picture" I said as he sat back down next to me placing a plate in front of me.

"Moany?" he questioned.

"Focus please" I sighed punching him lightly.

"We've been ditched, we'll don't I feel like the cool kid" he muttered sarcastically before flipping his phone out of his pocket. He quickly pressed some buttons and held the phone to his ear muttering to himself.

"Yo twin, so you came to my door last night didn't you forcing me and Bella to come to breakfast yeah? Well it looks like its oh 10:15 and no one else is here" he said, his voice rising with each word "Uh huh…Uh huh…Right" he said simply "They'll be down in 20 minutes" he smirked.

"What happened" I asked taking a bite.

"Overslept, my sister does not oversleep, everything is planned out to perfection, she's like a drill sergeant" he mumbled putting his phone back in his pocket.

"What's the big deal? So they're a bit late, we practically became hermits yesterday"

"I was ill!" he pouted.

"I know but still, cut her a little slack, she's only human, she's allowed to mess up" I laughed.

"Yeah but we could have stayed in bed longer" he whined, I almost thought he was going to stamp his feet.

"Well we can do that later" I said suddenly blushing when I realised how that sentence must have sounded.

"How's your food?" he asked smirking from my previous statement.

"Its good, very good" I mumbled shoving another forkful in my mouth "You not eating" I managed out.

"I'm not hungry really" he said quietly.

"You're not getting sick again are you?" I asked concerned.

"Bella, trust me, I'm fine, me being ill and not wanting to eat has happened before, not as often now as it used to but ill be okay trust me" he said flashing me that smile again.

"Okay, I trust you" I admitted in all honesty.

"Well look at you two up bright and early" I heard Alice chime in behind us, she walked round and sat down opposite us, she was wearing a red halter and a pair of black shorts, her hair was flat down under a hugely oversized hat, huge sunglasses and red lipstick finished her look, she looked like some 50's movie starlet.

"Either we were wrapped up in discussion for way too long or that was the quickest 20 minutes ever" Edward said looking around.

"Oh dear little brother, you should know I'm like lightening when I get ready" she said taking off her sunglasses "Everyone else will be down in a little while, I just felt bad for telling you to be here and then I wasn't even here, I'm so ashamed" she said overdramatically, adding to the dramatic by putting her hand to her forehead.

"Yeah yeah, you're forgiven, and stop calling me little brother" Edward muttered rolling his eyes as she leaned over him kissing him on the cheek.

"You got yourself a keeper there Edward" Alice said pointing to me making me almost choke on my juice.

"What?" I said coughing.

"What you think this will be over when you get to where your going Bella, no no this is it, and Edward be nice to her, she gave up her whole night last night to babysit you" Alice nodded. "A night which involved Emmett winning a thousand dollars at blackjack and then loosing it again" she smiled as both Edward and I looked at her in surprise.

"Yep, it was hilarious, he cried and everything" she said laughed as she remembered it.

"That's probably why he's not here this morning, he's sulking" Just as she told us three figures walked over to our table, Jasper giving me a small smile before talking his place next to Alice, Rose walked straight past us to the buffet and Emmett sat down next to Edward and silently poured himself a glass of juice. Everyone's eyes were trained on his but he remained silent, I could see Edwards mouth twitching trying to hold in the smile which was just dying to break out. Emmett on the other hand remained sullen and never took his eyes off his juice.

"So Em" Edward stated, as calm as he could "Win big last night?" he stuttered out before breaking into fits of giggles, this was quickly followed by Jasper.

"Bitch" Emmett muttered glaring at Alice.

"Oh c'mon Em, don't cry" Edward said before bursting into more laughs, this time even I couldn't suppress my giggle. Emmett seriously looked like someone had died, I supportively reached my hand out to put on his shoulder just as he turned to face me.

"We bonded over Hollywood Undead Betty, I would expect it from those two hyenas but not you" he said shaking his head.

"We still have that bond…that and the fact that I'm not even gonna correct you about my name anymore because then that's our thing. I'm sorry for laughing, they made me its like a yawn" I said through giggles as he looked at me bewildered "Infectious" I muttered trying to stop myself from laughing again.

"Fine, but you watch ill win it back, ill get it all back" he nodded defiantly as Rose came back over with a huge plate for him.

"Of course you will baby" she muttered stroking his hair before turning to me and rolling her eyes.

"You're gonna have to be quick Em, were leaving today" Edward added.

The table went suddenly quiet after he mentioned that and for some reason the I could feel the tension level rising, what the fuck?

"Yeah about that, we kinda decided that were gonna stay here a few more nights" Alice said quietly, playing with Jaspers fingers.

"You're staying here how long?" Edward asked calmly.

"It's just were having so much fun here and we thought it would be cool to stay a little longer, y'know like a honeymoon for Em and Rose" Alice added quickly.

"Don't honeymoons tend to just invole the couple that got married" i asked skeptically.

"Yeah but were like a big couple really arent we?" Emmett grinned.

"Do you even realise how wrong that sounded" i asked him shaking my head.

"That's fine Ali, that's great" Edward told Alice cutting into our conversation as her face lit up.

"But we're not" and just like that she looked crushed again.

"Why not?" she pouted.

"Yeah dude its my honeymoon" Emmett said, his mouth full of bacon.

"You spend your honeymoon with just your wife" I said again smiling.

"Not important" he said holding a finger up to shush me.

"Alice I don't particularly want to stay here, I don't want to waste my money gambling" Edward said glancing over to Emmett who remained focused on his food "and its really expensive in this hotel" he added putting his hand on my leg under the table supportively. This guy is just wow…not to mention the fact that him just putting one hand on my leg can get me riled up…I really need help,

Edward Cullen obsessed? Yeah that sounds about right.

"But it wont be the same, I need to take Bella shopping again" she added.

"And that's why we are leaving" he added simply as I started giggling.

"Oh you think its funny! I had plans and everything" she pouted folding her arms.

"Alice its not like I'm never going to see you again, we can go shopping some other time" I told her, just as I did she glanced at Edward who then looked at me funny…weird.

"I'm gonna see you again?" she asked slowly, ah that's what it was.

Brave little toaster Bella…

"Yes you are Alice, I'm sure of it" I said glancing at Edward smiling.

"Where are you going then?" she asked changing the subject slightly.

"L.A, I've never been there" I said smiling. My brows furrowed though when I saw the smile slowly slide from her face.

"L.A, Edward really?" she asked turning her attention back to her brother.

"Yep why is there a problem with that?" he asked tightly.

"No problem Edward just wanted to make sure you were sure you wanted to go back" Alice said looking at me as if silently asking if I knew he was there before. Jesus what the hell is up with us going there!

"I'llbe fine Alice" he said roughly.

"Okay, I believe you, will you excuse me a minute" she said standing up and walking towards the hotel reception.

"I better go see if she's okay" Jasper said standing up to follow her.

Something was off here I was sure of it "I'm gonna go to the bathroom, ill be right back" I said running my fingers through Edwards hair as I stood up.

"Hurry back" he said smiling, all the tension from a few minutes gone from his face. I walked over to the exit and towards the bathrooms before changing my direction towards the reception.

Okay so I know I'm not the most graceful of well co-ordinated person so fuck knows how I planned to become a stealthy lurker and eavesdrop on Alice but hey its worth a shot. I walked out into the reception and saw her standing to the side of the front desk in what looked like a heated discussion with Jasper well the fact that she kept moving her arms about and then folding them gave me a good idea she was pissed about something, I moved closer to the two of them trying to listen well as close as I could get without them seeing me, what could have upset her so much, us leaving or something about Edward maybe? I stood behind a the door way closest to them listening intently to what they were saying

"- Stupid idiotic immature man child!" Yep definatly about Edward.

"Alice you needto calm down" Jasper soothing voice rang out.

"I don want to calm down, I want to go back in there and beat the shit out of him for even thinking about going back" she huffed.

"Who's to say it's the same, you've seen what he's like with her" Jasper added and I felt a small smile tug at my lips.

"I dont want him to drag her down with him, I actually really like her. I don't want it to become Edward and Kate take two" she said sternly. Fuck if I'm gonna become like his ex I though fiercely.

"That's not going to happen, Bella is nothing like that, I can tell you for a fact that wont happen. She's stronger then you give her credit" Jasper told Alice.

"Because you know her so well" Alice mumbled bitterly, and that was when I realised that he wouldn't really get over the whole Jasper thing and my heart felt heavy at the thought of that.

"Jesus alice will you let it go for fucks sake, you either believe me and let it go or you don't, but stop changing your mind because its pissing me the fuck off" Jasper shouted, that was the first time I heard Jasper raise his voice, he was normally very calm and serene, quite frankly it scared me a little hearing him get angry.

"I'm sorry…I…I didn't mean to say that, im not mad at you…or her, im mad at him. I don't want her hurt all because he loves his fucking C & C club so much" she said her voice wavering.

"She wont get hurt, she's got balls that girl, she's not gonna get sucked into all his crap. That's even saying anything happens, which I'm pretty sure it wont" that was the last thing I head before started walking back into the restaurant.

So Many things were running through my head, it was making just processing one thing at a time difficult. Obviously they were worried about Edward but from what everyone told me he wasn't the best before all of this and that's when he was in L.A so that's understandable, but what the fuck is his C & C club. I knew that if mentioned it right now it would open up a whole new can of worms so I tucked that little of nugget away for another time…..No I couldn't even tuck it away, what the fucking hell did it mean? I walked back into the room and sat down next to Edward, his hand instinctively went to the back of my chair and into my hair.

"You okay?" he asked quietly.

"Yeah I'm alright" I said flashing him a smile hoping desperately that I reached my eyes.

"You want to leave in a little while then?" he asked scooting his chair closer to mine.

"Are you sure you want to go to L.A?" I asked honestly, I needed to know.

"Yes, I'm certain, listen Alice is just being overprotective because I didn't enjoy it there before but its okay I want to go" he said with so much conviction in his voice and eyes that I couldn't say no to going even if I wanted to.

"Okay, let's do it" I nodded confidently.

"Right, you two" I heard Alice say as she walked back over to us, Jasper following behind. For some reason I couldn't look her in the eyes knowing that on some level she still didn't like me because of Jasper.

"We are going to meet you in L.A" she nodded.

"We are?" Rose questioned.

"Yes we are, we're going to stay here a few more days let them have their honeymoon and then we are going to meet these two, besides we can spend all of Emmett's obvious winnings when we get there because hello shopping" she said almost squealing, yep the real Alice was back.

"Why do you want to come out there, you never did before?" Edward asked slyly.

"Well I changed my mind, besides this time my very favourite Bella is gonna be there" she said walking up behind me wrapping her arms round my neck.

"Oh! Okay hello" I said half smiling at her sudden affection giving her a small arm tap thing back.

"You okay Bella?" she asked sensing my tension.

"Yeah I'm fine honest" I said trying for a more convincing smile.

"Good" she nodded.

"Okay then that's fine, ill text you when we get there and let you know where we're staying. Just let us know when your on your way there and we can sort out where to meet up" Edward said back in planning mode, for all he bitched about her being planned he really was like her in that sense at times, I'm surprised he didn't get his phone out and start synchronizing times with her.

"You good fox?" he asked standing up.

"Yep, ill see you all soon" I said doing something very un me like, I walked round to Rose and Emmett giving each of them a hug to which they both returned gratefully.

"See ya soon Betty, keep him busy" Emmett said winking, cue my blushing. I walked over to Japer hovering wondering whether to hug him or shake hands or what especially with Alice standing right there.

"Fuck it" I muttered pulling him toward me for a hug.

"Thank you so much" I whispered and felt him hug me that little bit tighter before letting me go.

"Bye Alice" I said walking towards her but I didn't get very far she practically jumped on me enveloping me into a huge hug.

"I'm really glad I met you Bella" she whispered, I didn't believe it for one second but I nodded in agreement anyways.

"Don't take any of his bullshit Bella please" she begged before letting me go.

"Three days and we go on that shopping trip okay?" she nodded, I could only agree in somewhat of acould only agree in somewhat of a daze.

"Bye" I said waving, genuinely sad that I wasn't going to see my new friends for a few days, damn what happened to me?

We walked back up to the room in silence and packed everything up. Edward was kind enough or annoying enough, I hadn't decided yet, to go down to the gift shop and buy a suitcase to put all my clothes in.

"This will come in handy when Alice takes you shopping again trust me" he told me when he bought it into the room.

So here I was grudgingly packing my lovely new clothes into this lovely new suitcase, Edward being a male and all just haphazardly threw his clothes into his case dirty clothes mixing with clean, shuddering I made a mental note to do some washing as soon as we got where we were going.

"C'mon time for the next adventure" Edwards whispered wrapping his arms round my wait behind me.

"Bye hotel room" I sighed grabbing my case and rolling it out the room.

When we were situated back in the car I rolled the windows down and plugged my Ipod into the docking station before Edward even got in the car. I put my shades on and slouched back in the car…well any further back slouching and I would have been laying down but I was so god damn comfy, the seats were nice and warm and I felt so relaxed.

"Ready?" he asked getting in the car

"Dude you asked me that about 500 times, I'm ready lets go" I laughed sitting back up and shuffling my ipod to find a good song, I smirked at the song that came up.

"You are now leaving Bat Country" I smirked as Edward pulled onto the Vegas strip before pressing play. Avenged Sevenfold came flooding through his speakers and I couldn't help but find this song fitting for a Vegas trip.

"We cant stop here this is bat country" he recited to me

"Hunter S. Thompson?" I asked surprised

"I love that book, its so…..fucking insane" he laughed as I nodded agreeing

"My favourite Avenged Sevenfold song, its based on that book, I love it" I said relishing the feel of the wind whipping round my face.

"So what craziness waits for us next?" I asked turning the music down slightly.

"I have no idea, but aren't you excited to find out?" he asked smiling.

"Yes I am" I replied confidently.

Next Stop L.A, i hope you're all excited about that because i sure am!

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