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A/N: All of you should thank Lauryn for forcing me to update again, four of my anonymous reviews are from her! Trust me, I know (and I will find you when we get back to school!). So since I got seven LEGITIMATE reviews I decided to update as an early Easter present to all of you. Here goes...

"Go away Alice." I turned away from her covering my face like a child.

"Get over it Bella, Jaspers leaving too-"

"Along with Emmett…" Rosalie walked through the door, her expression unreadable. I couldn't decide if she was trying to comfort me or if she was trying to tell me to suck it up like Alice was.

"Fine," I sighed after a moment. "when will they be back?"

"They're not coming back anytime soon but don't worry, we have plenty to do!" Alice practically skipped out of the room shoving past Rosalie who stood, arms folded, in the doorway.

"Is she going to give me a makeover?" I grumbled. I was surprised to see a genuine smile play across Rosalie's gorgeous lips.

"Yes, but don't worry, I'll be here." I would have been shocked by the sincerity of her kind words but I was too preoccupied trying to believe that Rosalie was sitting next to me, her arm around my shoulder, trying to comfort me.

The shock must have been apparent through my expression, my posture- which remained unmoving-, and my mouth, which refused to close.

"You know Bella…" I finally managed to close my mouth. "You're going to be part of our family very soon and I guess I should…tell you…" She was trying to say something nice, I could tell. If not she wouldn't be having so much trouble.

"I should tell you that I accept you and… and I don't think that you're half bad. I never have. I guess I thought that me acting like a bitch would dissuade you from joining our family and making one of the biggest mistakes of your life but obviously you're much stronger than that."

"T…thank you Rosalie." I stuttered, still in shock.

"Call me Rose." She said with a smirk and pulled me into a tight hug. I couldn't breathe but it wasn't because of the hug, no, Rosalie just gave me permission to call her a nickname that Edward was very rarely able to get away with.

I screamed at myself to say something a simple okay or maybe a sure, even a thank you would have been better than my dazed silence.

Alice walked through the door her arms full with miscellaneous products, all devices of torture undeniably intended for me. Rose stood cracking one last smile at me before walking gracefully through the door.

"Snap out of it Bella, we've got a lot to do." Alice seemed to be extra determined, which scared me more than normal.

We'd spent all day inside getting ready, my nails and toes were painted classical red, as well as Alice and Rosalie's.

I'd gotten a facial and Alice even waxed my legs. I was almost upset when the pain went away; I was looking forward to use that as an excuse for not going to this stupid ball.

"Which one?" Alice asked holding up two dresses, I wasn't expecting to have a choice. Rosalie walked in then, fully dressed and ready to go. The dress closest to me was a classic ball gown, though I was surprised Alice picked it, it wasn't very attractive. I knew I'd choose the second one, which looked ten times less dressy especially when looking at Rosalie's short and strapless red dress, which matched her nail polish perfectly. It didn't look much like a ball gown to me.

"The crème one." I grumbled pointing to the more classical looking one. It was simple, strapless, and the soft material gathered beautifully to the side where a silver broach held it all together at the hip. I got into the dress and without even looking in the mirror sat on the bed resting my head in my hands. All day I couldn't help but worry about Edward, his sudden strange behavior had me worried, was I doing something wrong?

"Bella? I know you're upset right now but don't you at least want to see how you look in the dress? Besides, if you don't get your face out of your hands in the next second I will hurt you, your make up is perfect."

"No, I don't want to see how I look." I didn't bother to even raise my head.

"Now!" Alice demanded, her tone more harsh than I expected. I stood up when suddenly there was a knock at the door. Alice's head shot in my direction worry clear in her wide eyes.

"Not now!" She shrieked, I narrowed my eyes at her in response.

"Come in!" I called as I rushed to the door. To my disappointment Jasper walked in, I stopped in my rush to the door, it wasn't Edward. That's when I remembered they supposedly went hunting together.

"Where's Edward?" I demanded standing on my toes looking behind Jasper.

I didn't miss Jasper's eyes flash to Alice's before he spoke.

"He and Emmett had to go get their tux's." I pursed my lips, how did he get his? "Alice got mine yesterday." He explained, it was apparent he didn't want to get Edward in trouble with me but I was already annoyed.

"So he was here?"

"Just for moment, not very long at all."

"And he didn't even bother to see me!" I yelled incredulously rushing into the bathroom and slamming the door loudly behind me. I heard Jasper apologize and a leave, a moment later Alice's voice was loud n the other side of the door.

"Bella stop upsetting yourself before you start crying, the sooner you put on your shoes, the sooner you see Edward."

"I don't want to see him." I pouted crossing my arms, something was wrong with me, I never acted this childish.

"That's not good." Rose laughed. Suddenly there was silence, most likely caused by a threatening look from Alice. Unexpectedly the door, which I made sure to lock, let out a loud cracking sound. I gawked at the now door less entry way where Alice stood, it was strange to see her holding the door she just ripped off the hinges beautifully dressed in her flamboyant purple ball gown.

"We're leaving, here are your shoes." She placed them in front of me, her hard expression softening into a much kinder one as she planted a kiss on my cheek. "You know I love you!"

She danced out of the bathroom as I placed the shoes on my feet, this would be a very interesting night.

I finally looked in the mirror automatically doing a double take, I didn't recognize myself at all, now it made sense that this took all day. The dress looked better on me than on the hanger, the heels Alice forced me to wear were surprisingly not that high, though the dress was so long my shoes weren't visible. I picked up the train of the dress and walked out into the bedroom where Alice and Carlisle were waiting.

"You look beautiful Bella."

"Thank you, Carlisle?" Why was he here, wouldn't he have had to pick up a tuxedo too?

"Everyone else left, you were taking too long and we needed to get tickets." He explained. "But I was willing to wait with you and Alice." He stood opening the door. "Shall we?"

I walked through the door focusing on not tripping. I shouldn't have been surprised but, of course, I was. There was a large black limo, it wasn't your usual limo but I knew nothing about cars.

"It's a Chrysler 300." Alice patted it climbing in. "Let's go Bella!" She shouted snapping me back to consciousness, I was in awe, I'd never ridden in a limo.

"Where's this ball?" I asked as the limo began to move slowly maneuvering through the crowd that was beginning to form in the street.

"Remember that church you forced Edward to go into?"

"Yea, the cathedral."

"The ball is a couple blocks away from there." Even though this was one of the worst days of my life so far I was happy for a moment. Yes, Edward was acting strange, yes, he was acting distant, yes, I hated the idea of the ball, but for one second I was happy, overjoyed for no reason at all, I sat back relishing in the feeling of contentment letting it flood through me completely.

A/N: I feel like I struggled to write this chapter so I'm sorry if it sucks. I'm going to try and post a picture of Bella's ball gown on my page if ya'll want to see it, I don't really know how to make it clicky or anything so I guess I'm just going to copy and paste the URL. I hope you liked the chapter!! REVIEW!!

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