Greetings Losers! The fact that you are reading this is proof that you have no life and are obsessed with reading the writings of a teenager! Congratulations! Lol, just kidding. Sorry for not writing in a while, Golf is eating up my time. I know what you're thinking, Stronger does GOLF?! And she was calling US losers? Anyhoo, on with chapter 23! Oh wait wait wait! Um, I wanted to know if you guys would want to read… a lemon? I already wrote it and if you want to read it I'll post it. NOW on with the chapter.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING!
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BPOV(a few hours before the Prom, girls are getting ready)
"Ooh, try this sparkly one Saera, it will make your eyes positively pop!" Rosalie said, passing a circle of glimmering blue eye shadow to Saera who was seated in a spinning vanity chair(like all of us were) curling her short spiky blond hair with a thin iron. Saera took the shadow and dabbed a bit on her eyelid reveling the effect it had on her ocean blue eyes and rubbed more on the other lid.
Once Saera finished with the fine tuning of her eyes she grabbed one of the many cans of aerosol hairspray off the counter and sprayed it all over her head, scrunching her nose up and covering her eyes. After her hair was completely finished I passed her a tube of shiny cotton candy lip gloss and she rubbed it all over her lips, creating a lovely layer of shimmering pink, before passing it back to me.
We were all in my bathroom to which I had added a long makeup counter complete with runway worthy makeup, several different versions of any hair tool you could ever want, and, of course, a gigantic mirror. There was also a stick of extra strength deodorant for each human since this was a very nervous experience for them and no one wanted to be smelling like sweat tonight.
With only a few hours left before prom we had to make sure we looked our best especially since Angela and I were freshmen, some of the only lowerclassmen that had the guts to attend the dance.
Even though the invitation had been extended to the entire school, other freshmen and sophomores had been too afraid to go to the biggest dance of the year. Edward, Emmett, and Jasper were actually the only seniors in our group while Ben, Eric, Saera, Rosalie, and Alice were all juniors. Many people were still shocked that I had "hooked up" with a senior but at least no one had tried breaking us up… yet.
"Okay, well I'm done, I'm going to go put on my dress." Saera said, jumping down from her chair and exiting my bathroom. We were all preparing our hair and faces in spaghetti straps and short shorts so we could easily take them off with out ruining anything. Well, all of us except for Rosalie, she wore a big t-shirt to cover her swollen belly, she was about 6 months now.
Rosalie and Alice had given everyone a long speech about the benefits of doing hair and makeup before putting on the dress on the off chance some makeup could fall on the material or a curling iron could burn a dress. All in all we wasted about 10 minutes listening to them, but the thought was nice all the same.
Soon after Saera was done we all finished Alice being second with her inky black hair sticking in every direction and sparkly pins stuck all through it. Her makeup was a mirror image of her; bright pink eye shadow, black eyeliner, mascara, and the shiniest, bubbliest pink lip gloss I had ever seen.
Rosalie finished next with the top part of her hair poofed up a bit almost in an Amy Winehouse style and the bottom half down and curled and her bangs swept to the side. Her makeup consisted of black eyeliner, mascara, red eye shadow, and clear lip gloss. Her dress was nearly the same shade as her eye shadow, or so she told us, although I am sure she was serious.
Angela was after that, her long hair braided down her back and her bangs swept, like Rosalie's, to the side of her face although they were to the left. Angela's makeup only included eyeliner, mascara, and a smidgen of lip gloss; she said she couldn't find any shade of eye shadow to match her dress so she went without.
And of course I was last. No, not because I chose to or was trying to make sure I looked better than everyone else but because I constantly was being asked to help with a bobby pin or asked if one eye had too much liner than the other. The girls were worried that they were asking for too much help but I was sure to tell them I had no problem with helping them, I actually loved it because it made me feel like I belonged and almost normal.
So, once I finally got done, which would have normally taken less than 5 minutes but I decided to do it the human way, slowly and total attention devotion. But I couldn't undo the superhuman ability to have amazingly steady hands which resulted in perfect makeup.
I had chosen to use a combination of a silvery color and aqua blue eye shadows which I blended into each other so I had two colors on my eyelids. Then I went with the same black eye liner and black mascara as the others but for my lips I used a shade of lipstick called "Fairy Pink" and then rubbed the same bubbly pink lip gloss as Alice on top of that.
I curled all of my hair with the largest curling iron I had which made my hair appear nearly twice as large as it normally did. The only part of my hair I left uncurled were my bangs which were straight as a pencil and swept to the right and framed my face along with another large chunk of hair on the left.
When I finally finished I also left my bathroom to put on the dress(only I quickly flitted into my closet so I wouldn't be seen) that would be talked about for years to come, it was spectacular and nothing like it would be seen. It is aqua in color and has a satin bodice with a sweetheart strapless neckline and is decorated with a sparkling beading design and overlaid with tulle draping along with circular tulle. The skirt is of ball room style with beaded edging that asymmetrically draped over the skirt and has a corset tie in the back.
When I bought it, it came with a bolero jacket but I wanted to show off a bit so I didn't wear it, plus, who really wears a jacket over their prom dress? The salesman had told me the dress was intended to be worn for a quinceanera but I told him it was for prom and he just smiled and told me I would be the most sought after girl there.
It was only $350.00 too, so, bargain for me! Anyway, after taking off my shirt, shorts, and bra and then replacing it with a strapless push-up bra I slipped into my dress, tied up the back, and put on my white 4-inck heels. Taking a deep, unneeded breath, I opened the closet door and… no one was there. The room was empty of my friends who had, until recently, been in there, putting on(more) deodorant, fixing eyes, and nervously checking their hair.
I listened carefully and found four fast heartbeats just outside my door accompanied by three equally fast and nervous whispering voices. I hesitated for a moment to listen to what they were whispering about, careful not to make any noise as I pressed my ear gently to the door.
"I'm so nervous." Saera breathed and I heard the spritzing of what must have been breath spray or perfume, perhaps even hairspray to keep a stray hair in place. It was a while before someone responded, it was Alice.
"Don't be. You look lovely and I know Eric won't be able to keep his eyes off of you, well until he see's Bella." she added with a laugh that sounded oddly clipped and somewhat bitter.
"Alice," Rosalie reprimanded her sharply, "what are you saying?" the tone in her voice was angry and I could hear one of her peep-toed heels tapping on the hard-wood floors.
"Come on Rose, you know you can't help but be jealous of that girl. I was just saying… I-I just worry that she could… take Jasper from me." Alice admitted, defeated. I covered my mouth in horror, still careful not to get any of the sticky gloss on my hand. Did Alice really think I wanted Jasper?
"Alice! You honestly believe that?" Rosalie whisper/yelled to Alice and I could picture her wrapping her hands around her huge tummy. You also have to admit that it took courage for her to even be going to prom since her dress would show off her stomach.
"I don't want to but I can't be sure. You know I love her like a sister but her beauty is unparalleled and I can't compete with her." Alice whispered back, her voice cracking at several spots. It was then that I ripped the door open to reveal the shocked faces of the four girls.
I marched over to Alice and stared into her eyes, "Do you really believe that?" I demanded. She nodded wordlessly, a few tears escaping her eyes and she brushed them away. Luckily we had all used waterproof makeup so it didn't smear over her cheeks.
"How? I would never. Even if Jasper wanted me I wouldn't have him. Don't get me wrong he is handsome but he will never be anything more than a brother to me. One because he is so madly in love with you, two I would never dream of hurting you like that, and three, most importantly, I could never do that to Edward!" she nodded absently and I continued.
"I only had Edward a short while when we were human and I spent the last 600 years alone and now that I have him back there is no way I am going to let him go. And let this be a warning to all, if anyone attempts to take him from me I will fuck them up." I swore solemnly. They looked shocked at my oath but Alice threw her arms around my neck and cried into my shoulder.
"I'm so sorry Bella. I don't know what I was thinking. Please will you forgive me?" she begged pulling away to look at me with pleading eyes.
"Don't be silly, of course I will." I promised and she hugged me fiercely again.
"Alright now, let's go down, I think we've kept those poor boys waiting long enough." Angela laughed and that was what broke the grim mood. We laughed quietly as we lined up in the order we left the bathroom, Saera, then Alice, Rosalie, Angela, and lastly me.
Saera walked slowly down the stairs and I heard Eric's intake of breath as he took in her plain, but breath-taking, floor-length black halter dress along with the shiny black 3-inch heels. Her dress hugged her torso but then flowed out in the skirt which also had a slit running up to the knee and exposed one of her long pale calves. The back of the dress was nonexistent so it was bared to us as she lightly walked down the steps.
"You look beautiful." Eric whispered to her as her heels clacked on the foyer where our dates waited for us at the bottom of the stairs. I could already see the impatient looks on the other boys' faces as they waited for their respective partners.
Alice took a deep breath, wiped under her eyes, and stepped down the stairs where I knew Jasper had the biggest smile on his face as he took in his gorgeous Alice. Her dress was a bubbly satin pink strapless number that barely extended to her knees. On her feet were the cutest white slippers with little pink bows on the toes that matched the shade of her dress.
Once Alice reached the bottom of the stairs I heard Jasper lift up Alice and the whoosh of air as he swung her around and the smack of his lips on her cheek once he set her back down, her feet making a soft thud on the floor. She giggled at his comment of her resembling a fairy or pixie.
Rosalie shook out her hair and confidently strutted down the stairs with one hand on the banister and an arm around her babies earning a wolf-whistle from Emmett and a school-girl giggle from Rosalie. Her dress was a strapless red with beading all along the bust and bodice and around the waistline where the dress flowed out until it touched the floor. And on her feet were white 3-inch peep-toe heels that strapped around her ankles.
"You look… stunning." Emmett whispered and the softest brush of his lips against her skin met my ears.
"You look amazing yourself." she whispered back. Angela turned and waved at me as she soon followed Rosalie down the staircase where Ben waited eagerly for her.
I heard Ben whisper a small "wow" as soon as he saw Angela in her strapless floor-length black silk dress, the same one I saw her wearing in that vision when we went to the park and then the girls minus Saera spent the night at my house.
Which left me all by myself for all of 3 seconds until I stepped around the corner and took each step down the stairs, closer and closer to the love of my life. Edward wore the typical black tux with a tie and white dress shirt underneath as did all the boys but none of them could make it work for them like Edward. The black of the fabric contrasted brilliantly with his smooth white skin and the suit clung to his perfect body like a second skin.
As soon as I reached the end of the seemingly never-ending stairs I was enveloped in Edward's strong, but careful, arms and brought into a strong and loving hug. I breathed in his unique scent, sweet and comforting, before I pulled away to compliment his dashing looks.
"You look stunningly and breathtakingly gorgeous," he said before I could say anything.
"Thank you, so do you. Uh, I mean you look handsome, very handsome." Oh, my goodness. I just told him he looked gorgeous instead of handsome, what guy wants to be called gorgeous? Oh well, he did look gorgeous so I may as well speak the truth.
We stared at each other for a while more until someone, Jasper, broke our moment, "Hey guys, limo's here." light just shone through the windows by the front door and momentarily shining on the wall. We, meaning me, had rented a huge Hummer limo to drive us to dinner and then the prom and then back home to my house where everyone would crash.(a/n: There will be NO drama at the prom, except for with the humans. Sorry but I want this to be a GOOD experience for them all. Drama will be later.)
And so that vision I had, you know, the one from about a million years ago, yeah that one, was finally coming true! First Alice and Jasper joined hands and walked through the door they had just opened to the limo that was waiting patiently for our laughing and chattering group. The driver was an old man with a thick white mustache and any hair he had left was covered by a black cap, the same it seemed all limo drivers did.
The driver opened the door quickly as we poured into the limo where leather seats, champagne glasses, and a mini-fridge awaited us. I heard delighted gasps and we hurriedly got seated so we could get seated and get to the restaurant where we had dinner reservations for 6:30.
Once we were all seated the door was shut and the limo pulled out of my driveway and onto the highway where it sped off at 60 miles per hour towards Port Angeles and Prom. There it was, Edward and I on the way back seat, Alice and Jasper to the right and on the side with Saera and Eric next to them farther down. Rosalie and Emmett were on the left side and Ben and Angela sat further down, closer to the driver, across from Saera and Eric.
"This is going to be great, I bet no one else is going to have a limo, especially not a Hummer at that." Angela laughed, and we all murmured our agreement, laughing along with her. It was undeniable that no one would be able to afford to pay for a limo for more than 2 hours at the most unless their parents wanted to be totally broke.
For the next hour or so we laughed, talked, and watched TV on the flat screen that was complete with cable and surround sound. When we finally reached Port Angeles I got a giddy feeling in the pit of my stomach and I opened the sunroof to stick my upper body through. The little city rushed by and I was soon joined by Rosalie and Alice who shouted a "Hello Port Angeles!" which was returned with several other people shouting hello back to us.
One particular group of rowdy teenage boys decided to be idiots and started catcalling and whooping while making some rather obscene gestures.
"Hey baby why don't come over here and I'll show you a good time!" one of them shouted taking his middle and forefinger and flicking his tongue in between them in the signature move for oral sex. I scoffed at their childishness and felt Rosalie and Alice go back down only to have Edward come and take their spot. While the boys were still watching Edward crushed his mouth to mine and kissed me good and long, just my lips on his, for a while before pulling away.
I turned around and stuck up my middle finger at the astonished group before pulling a laughing Edward back down with me so we could sit down. The limo stopped and the driver quickly came to open the door and we piled out, the girls grabbing shawls I had had put in the limo in case they were needed. I decided to take a soft white knitted shawl while Alice took a white woolen one, Rosalie red silk, Angela and Saera black silk.
Edward offered me his arm and I gladly hooked mine through it as the doorman opened the door for us and we approached the maitre de who was a cocky looking male who looked about 18 or 19. He saw our group approaching and he got a self-assured look on his face as he stood up straight and grabbed 10 menus.
"Hello and welcome to La Bella Italia. My name is Harvey, how may I help you?" he asked, sending a huge smile in my direction(sadly) and looked at a clipboard on the podium.
"Reservations for 6:30 under Cullen, party of 10." Edward answered, wrapping his arm around my shoulders, sending a glare towards Harvey who gulped a bit but quickly recovered and resumed his cocky exterior.
"Right, follow me and I will show you to your table." he wrote something quickly on a slip of paper and led us to a sparsely populated wing of the restaurant with long tables and cushy chairs. Once we each took a seat he laid out a menu in front of everyone and left, telling us a server would be with us momentarily.
Not wanting to appear strange, I picked up my menu only to find a small white slip of paper fall out of the folds and onto the table. Curious, I picked it up and read the contents which read: Call me for some fun and then seven digits followed by Harvey's name, signed messily.
I passed it to Edward with a smirk on my face and once he read it he rolled his eyes and crumpled it up, tossing it behind his head. Laughing, I placed my hand in his as I looked through the menu, trying to look as though I was contemplating what to order.
"Like, hey my name is Candy and I'll be your sever today. Can I start everyone out with a drink?" a very cute and bubbly girl with platinum blond hair with a pencil and notepad in hand came bouncing towards us, looking delighted as a fat kid in a sweet shop. But the strange thing was, her eyes weren't glued to the boys in our group, they were focused on her notepad in front of her as she wrote something down.
It was Eric who spoke first, "I'll have a Mountain Dew." he told her looking carefully at the drink selection.
"Cool beans," Candy answered, laughing and scrawling down the order on her pink notepad.
"Root Beer." Saera followed after Eric, then it was Emmett and Rosalie both ordering Virgin Pina Colada's. after them it was Alice with a Cherry Pepsi, Jasper with a regular Pepsi, Angela with a Cream Soda, Ben Sprite, and Edward and I Cokes.
"Alright, I'll be out with your orders in a bit." she flounced of towards the kitchen, practically skipping as she walked. We stared after in shock for a bit until someone cleared their throat, breaking our hypnosis spell with the throaty sound. 10 heads swiveled to see a very slutty looking Jessica and Lauren with their man-ho's from the baseball team, one of them including Jeremy.
"Oh look what the cat dragged in, two bimbos and their chew toys." Rosalie drawled, making a show of pretending to gag at the end of her statement. Lauren narrowed her fishy eyes at Rosalie but Jessica was still trying to figure out what Rosalie had just said.
Lauren was looking very skankish in an extremely tight strapless puke green dress that barely covered her flabby ass and her boobs were almost falling out and the dress made the fat under her arms roll over the top of it. Her makeup was caked on over her acne and her false eyelashes were nearly about to fall off her flat grey eyes. Jessica had a little more dignity and her dress went to her knees and covered more skin but she still made the mistake of getting it two sizes too small so she looked pained whenever she shifted.
"Very funny Hale," Lauren snarled at Rosalie, pushing up her boobs even more, "just know this, you will not be getting prom queen this year, I made sure of it." she spat, her and her group sauntering out of the room to a table in the most crowded area of the restaurant, next to a crying baby and a loud group of fat old men.
Candy came back then with our beverages then and effectively distracted us as we ordered our meals, forgetting Lauren's warning. 20 minutes later we were eating, well the humans were, I had put Edward's and mine under the blood flavor disguise. Too bad we would still have to hack it up later.
Once we were finished, Edward so generously paid the bill(with many objections from everyone else, myself included) and we left La Bella Italia and went back into the limo where the driver drove to the Hilton hotel and the best(or worst) prom ever.
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Yay, I updated! The prom scene will be next chapter, obviously, and I'm pretty excited to write it. Um, pictures of dresses will be on my profile in a bit. Please review!