AN I do not swear in writing but sometimes I believe that a characters feelings are strong enough that they want to swear and so I put the first letter and stars. I am not against swearing, I just don't do it.

Strange Things Happen to the Best of People

Chapter 24

After Alice came back we told her the news; I was being let go. She did a happy dance for a while and then we told her Edward had twelve hours left. She sobered quickly.
Soon after comforting me she left to find me some 'real clothes' seeing as she didn't want me leaving the hospital in the same thing I left in; my purple hoodie, plain white tee, dark jeans, rainbow lightening toe socks, and worn sneakers.
After she left I decided to try the clothes on anyway; she'd never know, plus it was my favorite outfit.
The pants were a size to small in width, two sizes in length. The shirt was way to small on my chest and arms, the sleeves pulling a seem. The jacket still fit perfectly, seeing as it was huge on my before. The shoes... They were dead, I could see that now and I didn't even want to try the toesocks.
I changed back to my gown. I still had the sweater my grandmother made me... All else fails I could wear that with the gown...
Alice won't allow it, I told myself.
"Bella, Bella, Bella!" she cooed at me, her arms full of shopping bags. Great. "Just wait and see what I have in store for you!" she set all her bags down.
"Is that all for me?!"
"Psh, no silly! I bought some for me!" she pulled out the smallest bag. "see? I got myself a new pair of earrings. Small on the carat side but the were on sale and they were so cute!" all I saw was pencil eraser sized heart diamonds.
"Alice, those aren't small."
"Psh, yeah they are; haven't you seen the Star of Africa?"
I shook my head.
"Missing out! Now," she grabbed an outfit from a bag, "go model for us."
I decided then that I should just play along for Alice, god knows arguing with her won't help.
I walked into the bathroom to go change. She handed me a turquoise empire wasted satin shirt and a pair of darkwash jeans with a pair of chocolate boots and a gray cardigan with a dark turquoise wallet purse.
Surprisingly, I liked the outfit.
I slowly opened the door, it creaking a bit as I peered out. Edward was sitting up in the bed with a similair look as Alice had; expectant... But hers was just a tad more smug and in the know than his... Suddenly, she got some weird shocked look on her face.
"Bella! Wait!" she ran in the bathroom with a small bag labeled Sephora and another labeled Estee Lauder. I didn't understand, what were these companies?
"Makeup." as if she read my mind. I don't know whether my look on my face was shock or horror but it seemed to amuse her.
"Silly, Bella, it won't bite! Now hold still," she brought a long, slender brush out of a bag, along with some other colorful makeup.
"I expect you to remember all of this: This evens your skin tone, it goes first." she applied some pale lotion type to my face from the Lauder bag and then threw it into a Vaultz looking case. "It's called foundation." she pulled out a thick colorful tube of bright pink from the Sephora bag. "This is cheek and lip stain. I am not going to use it today, but know its there." she tossed it into the case. "Bronzer: it goes on very few select places: the bridge of your knows, cheek bones, tip of your chin, and for some people, above your eyebrows." she swiped some on my face.
"This is eyeliner in pencil form. It goes on like this." she swiped the brown pencil across my eyelid. "Mascara." she brushed that on too. "Today you are going to wear a dark lipstick. It is also a stain so the only thing you need to worry about is it not getting on your lips right and not wiping off your lipgloss." with that she applied it to my lips and threw it in the case. "There is more but that's for another day!"
I looked in the mirror... I looked pretty? Wow.
"Alice, I finally understand why women wear makeup. When you can look like this and you do look like this it raises the confidence. Thanks, Ali." she beamed.
"I had beautiful building blocks to begin with, it wasn't too hard.
"So... Er, Bella, Edward tells me you will be staying alone tonight?"
Tonight? I looked at the clock. 8:05 PM. Oh. Made sense.
"erm, yeah... Why?"
"Well, I was just thinking that since I am going to have to drive back home alone and I hate driving alone at night... Maybe we could crash together?" ohh.
"Sure, Ali, if you wanna. We will have to pick up some stuff first from the store."
She smiled. "Awesome Bella! You know, I am really glad Edward chose to fall in love with you and not some random b**** off the street in a ghetto and only loves him for our money."
Money? What money? "Money?"
"Yeah, we have plenty. Dad won the big lottery a few years back and was a successful surgeon as he is now so we have plenty. You've seen our house."
"yeah, I just never thought..." I spaced off.
Then I heard a muffled "Bel-la! Al-ice!" through the door and smiled.
"Somebody's lonely." I smirked and Alice giggled. "Got that right!"
Alice pushed me behind the door. "Play along" she whispered and opened the door.
"Hey Edward."
"Where's Bella?"
"Don't you remember? You fell asleep and she left."
"W-what?"
"Yeah!" she moved to the otherside of the room, his gaze following.
"She left without saying goodbye?" I slowly left the bathroom, him not noticing my presence. I went up behind his bed and stood there.
"Psh, no she said goodbye, just not to you." she made a face at him.
"W-what?" he paled out. I looked at her outraged. I had an idea. I pulled my hair back behind my shoulders and slowly crouched down so we were similair in height, Edward and I.
"Why wouldn't she say goodbye to me?!"
I leaned down gracefully and kissed his forehead. He looked up surprised. "Bella!" he reached up to try and pull me on the bed. I snorted, he was going to try this when it would flip me upside down. "I swear Alice had me convinced you left already."
"No, Alice is just cruel to you sometimes." I kissed his face again and walked around the bed to lay next to him. She stuck her tongue at me.
"No, but really, we have to go soon."
"We?"
"Alice is going to crash at the garage with me seeing as its already" I looked at the clock "8:32 and we still have to stop at the store for supplies."
"Oh, yeah, Mairenn dropped off your paperwork and I-uh- filled parts out for you." he blushed a bit.
"Awwww!" Alice cooed again.
"Thanks," I kissed him on the cheek.
Quickly, I finished out the form. I saw what Edward blushed about- there was a whole page dedicated to the menstrul cycle.
I was about to leave when Edward grabbed my hand. "Wait." I turned around, "I never got to tell you how beautiful you look." I blushed.
"oh really? How pretty?"
He shook his head. "Beautiful, not pretty. Beautiful." I blushed again.
"Come down here?" he asked.
I smiled and leaned down, as he kissed me sweetly and gently, but still full of love.
Surprisingly, Alice was the one to break the kiss with a halting "Ahh!" she smacked her hand over her eyes jokingly as we broke apart. "Bleach! I need bleach!... JK you guys!" she smirked.
"Thanks, Alice, you have perfect timing." Edward said sarcastically.
"You know it! Plus I had waited for fourty five seconds! That's plenty for a goodbye kiss."
"Alright, when you fall in love, and can't see each other after spending nearly every waking moment together for a few months... I will do that to you." I smirked.
She shrugged. "That will never happen, we will never be in your situation."

After going to the store; buying many cds, a few movies, tons of junk food, sleeping bags, and pillows; we headed over to the garage.
Technically, the garage was a house built on top of the garage, but what did that truly matter? We called it the garage anyhow.
When we got there I showed her the layout, you went inside the garage- which I knew the password of- up the staircase, and entered the small living areas, where we would be staying.
Everything was new- three years old at max. The kitchen was stainless steel, the floors all a dark hardwood. The living room had a projector instead of a TV and the couch folded out into a bed.
"Wow. Nice place Bella! I was disapointed when we first walked in;-- TBC