I've got to go away for work for a few days so I decided to give you a double posting before I leave. Hope you like them.
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When they reached the house Alice helped Bella inside and Edward immediately appeared and moved to her side. He leaned down and they kissed as Alice looked away and then she released Bella into Edward's arms.
Edward helped Bella to the couch as Esme walked into the room and smiled when she saw her.
"Bella, it's wonderful to see you," she grinned.
"You too Esme," Bella smiled.
Emmett and Rosalie walked into the room then and Emmett grinned when he saw her but Rosalie just scowled at her.
"Good to see you up and about Bella," Emmett commented.
"I don't know about the up bit," Bella smirked as she pointed at the cast on her leg.
Rosalie just glared at her and walked towards the stairs.
"Emmett?" she called out firmly without turning back.
"I'll catch up with you later," Emmett smiled apologetically at Bella and turned and followed Rosalie upstairs.
"What is your problem?" they all heard Emmett ask, even Bella managed to hear him.
"I said I'd bite my tongue for Edward," Rosalie snapped. "I never said I would make myself like her or be her friend."
"Rose!" Edward snapped angrily. There was instant silence then but Rosalie didn't apologise or reappear and Edward glanced at Bella.
"Sorry about that," he murmured.
"It's okay," Bella replied.
Esme had disappeared out of the room but she now reappeared carrying a tray with sandwiches and iced tea on it and she set it in front of Bella.
"I noticed it is nearly the time of day when humans eat lunch," she said as an explanation. "I thought you might be getting hungry."
"Thank you," Bella smiled and picked up one of the sandwiches and nibbled it.
"When you've finished that can you bring Bella up to our room Edward?" Alice asked from where she was still standing near the door with Jasper.
"Of course," Edward nodded, knowing what Alice wanted her for.
Alice pulled Jasper's hand and they walked up to their room and as soon as they entered it Alice dropped his hand and grabbed a huge bag of things she had bought for Bella. She tipped it out on the bed and Jasper sat down on the edge and looked at it all in amazement.
"I recognise some of this stuff," he said as he waved his hand over the pile. "But what the hell is the rest of it?"
"Its makeup," Alice laughed. "I use mascara, eyeliner and gloss but humans use other stuff too."
"Like this?" Jasper frowned as he picked up a pick coloured powder.
"That's blush, it gives humans rosy cheeks," Alice explained. "And they use foundation and powders to even out their skin. I don't use that, not really much point when my skin is flawless anyway."
"Thank God I'm married to a vampire woman," Jasper teased. "I could never get my head around all this."
Alice laughed at him and scooped up the pile in her arms and walked into the bathroom. She dumped it on the spacious bench beside the sink and then started to pull things from the cabinets. She was plugging in heated rollers when she felt Jasper walk in behind her and he set a chair down in the middle of the room.
"Figured you would need that for her," he smiled.
"Thanks Jazz," Alice grinned.
"Do you really think she is going to sit still long enough for you to do all this to her?" Jasper asked.
"If I take her crutches away she won't have a choice," Alice giggled.
"That will work," Jasper laughed.
"Alice?" Edward called out as he walked into the bedroom, his arm holding Bella up and Jasper stepped back in the room and smiled when he saw Edward had obviously had the same idea as Alice. Bella was firmly in Edward's arms and he was holding all her weight off her broken leg but her crutches were nowhere to be seen.
"She's in the bathroom," Jasper smirked and stepped back and watched in amusement as Edward led Bella into the bathroom and he couldn't resist following them.
"What's going on?" Bella asked warily when she saw everything Alice had spread out.
"Makeover," Alice grinned at her.
"Alice, no," Bella sighed.
"Oh come on Bella," Alice begged. "It will be fun."
"No, it won't," Bella said surely and Jasper sent her waves of serenity and congeniality but she just turned and glared at him. "Nice try Jasper, it won't work. You couldn't possibly influence me enough to agree to this."
"After everything I have done for you?" Alice pouted and looked sadly at Bella.
"Alice, that isn't fair," Bella sighed.
"Bella look at me," Alice whispered. "I have had the same face, with the same skin and hair for over a hundred years. Please just let me have some fun for once?"
"Okay," Bella mumbled, still not looking happy and Jasper and Edward shared a smirk at Alice's obvious attempt at a guilt trip.
"You'll love it, I promise," Alice giggled excitedly as Edward helped Bella over to the chair and lowered her down into it.
Edward and Jasper slipped out of the room to leave the women on their own and Alice began to work on Bella.
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Four hours later Jasper was sitting in the chair in the corner of their bedroom when Alice walked out of the bathroom, Bella in her arms and she settled her on the bed.
"You look pretty," Jasper commented when he saw Bella. Alice had given her skin treatments and applied makeup to her face and curled her hair.
"Thanks," Bella mumbled.
"Now for the finishing touches," Alice giggled and disappeared into her closet causing Bella to groan.
"Thank you for doing this for her," Jasper said quietly.
"I feel like a life-sized barbie doll," Bella grumbled.
"You do look lovely Bella," Jasper offered.
"Clothes!" Alice announced as she danced out of the closet. Bella's eyes went wide in horror when she saw the stunning blue dress hanging on the hanger in Alice's hand, obviously a designer dress.
"Alice, no!" she gasped.
"It matches your makeup and hair," Alice shrugged as she walked over to her and slid the dress from the hanger.
"Alice, I hate to state the obvious," Bella sighed. "You are a lot smaller than me, your clothes will never fit me."
"This will," Alice grinned and looked over and winked conspiratorially at Jasper.
"Okay, get the torture over then," Bella mumbled and Alice glanced at Jasper.
"Jazz, give us a minute?" she murmured and Jasper frowned at her for a second before he realised Bella needed to change into the dress.
"Of course," he said quickly and jumped to his feet and raced from the bedroom. Once they were alone Alice coaxed Bella into the dress and then slid a dangerously high heel onto her foot.
"It's a good thing I don't have to walk anywhere in that," Bella smiled as Alice bent down and tied the ribbons that held the shoe in place.
"Not much anyway," Alice mumbled and then stood up and let her eyes wander over Bella.
"Jewellery," she announced and before Bella could protest Alice had raced to her dresser, grabbed her jewellery box and moved back to sit beside Bella. She slid a plain gold watch onto Bella's wrist and then grabbed the other wrist and slid some gold bangles onto it.
"Alice, how much jewellery do you have?" Bella laughed as she looked over her shoulder and saw the contents of the large box.
"Oh, a few trinkets," Alice shrugged. "Most of the good stuff is in a safe in the closet." Alice pulled out a matching necklace and earrings, pearls set in gold and held it up for Bella to look at.
"What do you think?" she asked.
"They're beautiful," Bella admitted. Alice smiled and handed the earrings to Bella and she slipped them in, knowing it was useless arguing with Alice again. When she was finished Alice crawled onto the bed behind her and fastened the necklace at her neck before moving in front of her. She reached up and adjusted the necklace and then sat back with a soft smile.
"They look perfect on you," Alice sighed wistfully. "I have never been able to pull pearls off."
"Then why do you own them?" Bella asked, a little amazed that she may have stumbled on something imperfect about a vampire, even though an inability to wear jewels was hardly a major thing.
"They are Jasper's mothers," Alice smiled. "Just after we got together we found out his cousin had died and her grandchildren were auctioning off her things to make money. We went to the auction and Jasper bought every item he recognised as his mother's. He didn't want them leaving his family. I have a lot of her jewellery and I know it pleases Jasper when I wear it."
"Oh Alice," Bella gasped, her hand flitting to the necklace. "I couldn't possibly wear it now."
"You have to, it looks perfect," Alice smiled.
"Won't Jasper be upset?" Bella frowned.
"Not at all," Alice assured her and reached forward to pull Bella up so she was standing on her good foot. "Let's go down and show the others."
Alice lifted her easily into her arms and carried her downstairs and smirked when she saw Edward, Jasper, Carlisle and Esme all standing there, all of them in on the secret.
"Bella, you look lovely," Edward smiled as he walked towards her as soon as Alice set her down.
"Thank," Bella mumbled in embarrassment and then noticed he was wearing a suit. "Are we going somewhere?"
"Yes," Edward nodded. "I decided we shouldn't waste Alice's hard work."
"I promised Charlie I would stay with Alice and Jasper," Bella sighed.
"He won't know," Alice said surely. "Go have some fun." Bella nodded in defeat with a smile and they said goodbye to the others and then Edward helped her out to the car.
"You did a great job Alice," Esme smiled once they had left.
"He's in big trouble when she works out where she's going," Alice grinned and then danced over to Jasper. "Now, it's your turn." Jasper laughed and Alice pulled him upstairs so they could get ready for the prom.
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Ten minutes later Carlisle and Esme were waiting in the living room, Esme with camera in hand, when Emmett and Rosalie came downstairs. Emmett looked handsome in his classic tux and Rosalie looked stunning in a long red dress that hugged tightly to her perfect figure. Esme snapped a few pictures as Jasper walked down the stairs in his own tux and Carlisle walked over to stand with his son while Esme photographed the other couple.
"Where's Alice?" Carlisle asked.
"She threw me out of the room," Jasper laughed. "She has a thing about me not seeing her dresses until she has them on."
Carlisle laughed with him and remembered the same thing happening when they had gone to the dance a few months earlier. Jasper heard their door close softly upstairs and turned to look up the stairs expectantly and a few moments later Alice appeared at the top of the stairs.
"Oh wow," Jasper gasped as his eyes drank in Alice's body. Her dress was black satin and as Jasper realised the white geometric shapes on it weren't material but cut out designs that exposed her flawless skin his breath hitched.
Alice grinned as she danced down the stairs and he held his hand out to her and helped her off the last stair, the step causing the split in the side of the dress to strain and expose her legs, revealing the black sandal heels that graced her feet.
"Stunning," Jasper gasped.
"Jasper, cut it out," Emmett groaned at him. "I'm suddenly lusting after Alice."
"Emmett!" Rosalie snapped and he just shrugged at her as Jasper reluctantly tore his eyes from Alice and looked at his brother.
"Sorry," Jasper mumbled and struggled to control his emotional output.
"Photos," Esme announced and snapped photos of Jasper and Alice together before taking some group shots. When she was finished the two couples walked out to the garage and got into Carlisle's car and Emmett drove them to the school.