HOLY POOP ON A STICK! I just saw Harry Potter, the day it came out of course(: Even though I saw it at 9:50 at night and did not get home till one in the morning I still thought the movie was AMAZING! Totally beat Twilight in my mind; I actually did not enjoy the Twilight movie… at all. Except Emmett of course… I liked him(: Anyway, here we go!
Disclaimer: I do own nothing!
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"Throughout this year there have been many losses. To those that lost their lives in the fire, we remember you. And in tribute to our lost friends, my family is willing to donate one million dollars for renovations and a memorial service for those lost. And now, as valedictorian of the class of 2007 to 2008, congratulations. We did it." Edward's closing of his seven minute long speech was met with clapping, whistles, and sobbing.
Each student was called forward in alphabetical order as diplomas were distributed to the remaining 43 seniors of Forks High. "And now, will each students please rise and switch your tassel to the opposite side of your cap." once that was done forty-three graduation caps were tossed into the air and cheers rose up throughout the gymnasium.
"Excuse me!" Edward's voice came on again through the microphone. All heads turned once again to face him as they listened to his announcement. "Thank you. Now that I have your attention, I must ask Bella Laroche to join me on the stage. Come up here darling." All eyes flew towards me on my spot on the bleachers. I bashfully made my way down the steps, unintentionally gracefully loping down them like a model on a runway.
I climbed up the few steps to the stage, my blue cocktail dress bouncing around my knees and my loose newly browned and curled hair swirling around my neck. Once I reached Edward, he took my hand and caressed the back of it with his sinfully sensuous pale lips, tautening the muscles and he kissed my skin. I giggled lightly as the goggling humans watched Edward get down on one knee, producing a small purple velvet box and opened it to reveal a simple gold band with a single, two-karat diamond shining in the middle.
"Dearest Bella, I have loved you ever since I first set my eyes on you. Your captivating eyes bore deep into my soul, your touch sent aching shivers down my spine, and your love astounded me and everyone who witnessed us. I know we are young in societies' eyes and our elders will say we are too inexperienced and immature to really understand what love truly is, but I must ask you this. Isabella Marie Swan Laroche, will you do me the honor of being my wife?"
A collective gasp went around the room and the breath of the standing onlookers was silent as Edward's question rang through the microphone into which he still spoke. "Of course Edward." I whispered. A huge smile split Edward's angelic face and with a simple flex of his calf he was standing and he was cradling me in his arms. Cheers and applause broke out but I had only one thing to say right then so I grabbed Edward by his hideous yellow robe and pulled his ear down to my lips, "That must have been the fifth time you have asked me that question."
Edward chuckled and turned his head and his lips pressed against my own, spinning me around on the stage and dropped the microphone to the floor where it landed with a clunk and a hollow boom resounded through the speakers. The applause died down and chairs scraped against the gym floors as people proceeded to exit the building or take pictures with their child.
I pulled away from Edward as I remembered that the simple, yet beautiful ring was still in the purple box that was clutched tightly in Edward's hand. Edward pulled the ring from the velvet and slid it onto my ring finger where it rested snugly next to the first ring he presented me with over six centuries ago that sat on my middle finger.
"It is beautiful Edward, thank you." I whispered. Loud footsteps clattered up the rickety steps of the makeshift stage at the front of the room. I turned to see our group of four closest friends, two of them in robes that matched Edward's, approaching us with gigantic smiles on their faces.
"Hey guys, congratulations!" Rosalie said as she hugged me and then Edward, quickly being followed by Alice, then Jasper, and finally Emmett, all offering their congrats. "I can't believe you had the guts to do that man." Emmett told Edward after they did their "manly hug" that includes shoulders to chest and pounding of the back.
"Ah, well I'm not gonna be here next year to fight them off of her so I thought I'd let everyone know she's taken." Edward replied jokingly pulling me to his side and ruffling my hair. I gasped mockingly and poked him in the side, "And what about you? Going off to college next year. Who's going to keep all those other bimbos off of you?" I questioned, finishing with a discreet wink at Alice and Rosalie.
"Hmm, I don't know, I guess I'll have to fend for myself." Edward sighed defeated. I rolled my eyes and curled into his side, wrapping both of my arms around his slim but muscular waist. It felt somewhat strange because my head only reached his chest and he had to bend down really far or had to lift me up whenever we kissed.
"Hey, I still can't believe your dad was so cool about you springing the news on him so suddenly!" Alice exclaimed. She was referring to what had happened in my living room a few days ago, which we had all been extremely surprised about. "Yes I know, I expected him to put up some form of a fight but to give us his blessing immediately. I couldn't ask for anything more." I answered, feeling just a tad bit fruity.
"Oh shit, how could I forget, my parents are having a big celebration tonight," Jasper began, "for me graduating and it would be amazing if all of you could come and save me from my ancient relatives. I have a grandfather that is convinced that he fought in the Civil War in the Confederate army but he is only 87. It's tonight in an hour at my place, who wants to help me?" Alice agreed instantly, and soon we all had plans to go with Jasper to his graduation party.
"Emmett, aren't your parents doing anything for your graduation?" I asked once we were all on our way to our cars. Cheers and hollers came our way as a large charter bus chugged past us, filled with graduates, headed to the airport in Seattle. They were flying down to Florida where they would board an ocean liner for a weeklong cruise for the project graduation they had been fundraising all year for.
"No, they're kicking me out for being irresponsible and getting Rose pregnant. I'm going to see if I can stay with my uncle in Tennessee." he replied, like he wasn't about to move across the country. "The hell you are!" I spluttered, turning around from my spot on Edwards's shoulders where I towered over everyone. Edward had lifted me up after we left the gym and put me up there.
"Why not?" he asked, genuinely confused. "He is going to get me a job at his garage and I can save up money to rent out my own place. It is going to work out." Emmett sounded assured that him deserting us was fine, like no one, especially Rosalie, was going to put up a fight.
"Are you insane?" I cried, "You are just going to abandon Rosalie? She's due in a few weeks! How do you all of us are going to feel! Gosh Emmett! You can't just leave I freaking love you like a brother! You are staying with me!" I declared and if Emmett said no I could always force him to do it. Jasper, Alice, and Rosalie all voiced their agreements with me, Rosalie's fervent and tearful.
"No I don't think I could, I would get in the way." he replied, shaking his head, furrowing his eyebrows, and looking down at the large tires of his Jeep, which we had just reached. I guess he "forgot" that I lived in a rather large mansion all by myself.
"Emmett, I live all by myself in that huge house, there is no way that you could possibly get in the way. Jeez, all of you could come live with me and there would still be a few empty bedrooms. If you wanted I could even make you a house today and you wouldn't have to pay a cent. You do not have to move away and leave us all behind. Did you ever think how many people would be hurt by your move Em?" my voice never broke instead, to myself, I sounded angry.
"Alright fine, I'll stay with you." Emmett gave in, opening the passenger door for Rosalie and then sending a large smile my way. "And thanks Bella, for talking me out of something really stupid." I smiled and tipped my head toward him as I took myself off Edward's shoulders so I could open the doors for my Bugatti, which was on the right of Jasper's car. Emmett's was to the left of Jasper's. I rolled down my window once the car was on and motioned for Jasper to do the same, only he rolled the passenger side down.
"I need your address, buddy." I called lightly. Jasper gave me the numbers then drove off with a wave towards his house with Alice lounging in the backseat with her feet pressed up against the right side window, the rest of her body hidden. "Strange little girl." I whispered after them as I pressed the button that made the window go up with a whir and a slight hum.
I turned over to Edward to see him completely covered by the mustard yellow robe, his cap discarded on the floor, as he pulled the material over his head. Underneath the gross gown was a tight fitting long sleeved grey shirt that stuck to Edward's muscles and flat stomach. On his legs were dark blue pants that hugged his legs closely but not to the point where it looked uncomfortable.
A loud and unpleasant Vffft, Vffft, Vfffffft cut my ogling short.
My phone vibrated in my medium-sized Dior handbag and I rifled around in it until my hand found it all the way at the bottom, telling me that Alice had sent me a picture message with a caption at the bottom. It was of her with a stern face lying down on Jasper's vinyl backseat, pointing her index and middle fingers to both of her eyes. Underneath it was a long list with many directions and specific details telling me what I was to do to my hair and what to wear tonight at Jasper's "party".
A gathering with six teens and a bunch of old folks celebrating a gradation was not much of a party but my guess was that it made Alice feel better. I got another picture message from Alice so I opened it and it was of her pointing the same two fingers at the camera. "I'm watching you." It said underneath the photo along with a slightly shorter list of what Edward was to do to prepare him for tonight.
"Oh, my goodness. Edward you might want to take a look at this." I passed my phone to Edward and he read the list with an increasingly scrunching forehead. "Well that's… interesting.," he said at last, giving my phone back to me, the iPhone, which I had gotten days before it would be on the market. "Did she send one for you also?" he asked.
"Yeah. I do admit that it sounds great but I just am wondering why she sent us specific instructions as to what to wear. I'm not quite sure I own some of that stuff but I think I can manage." I replied wiggling my fingers and flooring it to my house. "Anyway, she is a strange child and I am very curious to see how she will turn out next summer once we change them all. I also meant to tell you that I think we should change them all at the same time, Jasper and Emmett too. I don't want for them to have to wait for Rosalie and Alice." I told Edward as I drove on the highway.
"Yes, I think that would be best for all of them. That way they can learn to control themselves together. Which reminds me, we still have not told Angela, Ben, Saera, and Eric of this plan? However, I don't think we should change them." Edward told me as I turned into the long driveway that led to my, and only my, house. It had begun to rain and there was a light mist swirling around the car as it wove on the dirt path, animals darting off the road into the thick green bushes.
"I must agree with you there Edward. No offense to those four but I do not think they could handle the change; they have too much attachment to this human world they live in. And, honestly, I don't think they would agree to the animal diet." I admitted to him as the trees thinned out and my house came into view.
I parked in front of the house, cut the engine, and stepped out of the car, flitting quickly to the door to unlock both the deadbolt and the handle of the double doors. Edward was close behind me as I stepped through the threshold. I pulled off my shoes and shut the door after Edward came in, then ran up the stairs with him on my heels. We did not stop until we reached my room where I opened the black painted door covered with dried up and crunchy flowers, mainly irises, dahlias, and foxgloves, held on by my magic. Literally.
"There is only forty-five minutes left until the party of sorts begins and Alice wants us to wear," I snapped my hand at the wrist and our entire outfits appeared laid out on the soft black carpet beneath my bare feet. "This. So, if you will get dressed in the bathroom while I dress in the closet, that would be lovely." I picked up my outfit, which I really loved(thanks Alice) and headed to my large closet while Edward went into my bathroom with his clothes.
Once I was fully dressed I picked up my phone from the floor where I had left it when I picked up my clothes and reopened Alice's message, quickly memorizing the contents, and then tossing it onto one of my chairs. After that, I had to fix my hair, which included me completely changing the color and then somehow making it do some strange, impossible sounding style. Nevertheless, lucky for me, I have phenomenal mind powers and I could do my hair with a flick of my wrist.
And I did. Soon after my hair was done, perfectly I may add, and Edward came out of the bathroom, looking exactly like Alice told him to. Down to the last detail, he was able to follow Alice's vivid instructions to create… well a masterpiece. He looked magnificent and I hoped that Jasper did not have any grandmas or great aunts with heart problems.
"Let's get this show on the road!" I clapped my hands together and headed down the stairs, towards my car, with Edward in tow.
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Third Person Point of View
"Jasper," Mrs. Whitlock called up the stairs in her thick southern accent, "where are them friends of yours? Grandpa Louie wants to leave but we haven't even done anything!" Jasper had insisted to his mother that they wait until all of his friends came. Alice was there from the beginning since she rode with Jasper and Emmett came with Rosalie not too long after. They were all just waiting on the two vampires, which were a whopping two minutes late.
"Impatient old man." Jasper grumbled as he jogged down the stairs with two small wrapped packages in his left hand. Right as he reached the bottom of the stairs the doorbell buzzed. He moved to answer it but his mom was already bustling toward it, shooing her son away from the door, pointing to the living room where everyone else was.
Jasper sat down on the floor next to Alice where she sat listening to Jasper's Grandpa Bill talk about his imagined days of fighting alongside the president in the Civil War, which in itself sounds completely ridiculous. But he was old and dying so Alice sat there and pretended to be interested. Jasper silently thanked her and waited for his mom to come through the door.
When she finally did, Jasper was shocked when he saw the two people who trailed behind her with their hands intertwined and their bright, traffic stopping faces smiling down at him and the other three humans that were fortunate enough to call themselves their friends. But what shocked Jasper was how well Bella and Edward were dressed.
Edward looked heartbreakingly handsome as always but this time his hair was not flattened so that it fell naturally in soft bronze locks, short and close to his skull in the back and then becoming longer in the front to cover his forehead and ears. His outfit consisted of a chic grey jacket that opened to show a black tee and the sleeves of the jacket came down to his elbows, showing off his strong forearms. His legs were clad in dress pants of the same color and material of the jacket. The pants and jacket screamed designer and Jasper wouldn't doubt that they cost more than his car which he bought for $1000.
Bella looked even more stunning with white Gucci Genius Skinny Jeans, which Jasper knew from Alice cost more than three-thousand dollars, that hugged her toned legs. Her shirt was strange since it was a dark blue long sleeve ribbed turtleneck sweater with the 'Gucci' crest ornament by the neck and it was summer, but Jasper remembered what she was and realized the slight heat wouldn't bother her. Around her waist was a black belt with the 'Gucci' crest buckle and she had black high heel platform boots on her small feet.
Despite her $5000 plus entirely 'Gucci' outfit Bella's hair and face were anything but what would be seen in a Gucci magazine. Her hair was the same as it had been when her an Edward came back from recovering from the 'terrifying car wash' they told people they were in the past Spring. Only him and his friends, along with Edward's parents, knew that what really happened. She also had all of her usual piercing's: navel, snakebites, eyebrow, and Jasper guessed that she had her tongue and belly button rings in, they were just hidden.
"Um, Jasper. I think these are your… friends?" Jasper's mom asked, looking back curiously and somewhat disgusted of the two beautiful people waiting in the doorway behind her. Jasper got up from his spot on the floor next to Alice to greet his friends which caused Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice to do the same; they wanted to greet their friends too of course.
"Sorry 'bout my mom. She hates anyone different. I think I may have something to do with the hair and the face." Jasper smirked once he had reached the immortals. "But, anyway here's the party, not much fun but I'm getting quite a bit of money from the elders so who am I to complain." Jasper's relatives believed strongly in giving their only nephew/grandson tons of money for birthdays and Christmases and if he had planned on attending college he would have been able to pay for a whole year with the money they had given him hat evening.
"The party is nice. And if your mum wants someone to blame for my appearance it's your girlfriend over there. She set the whole thing up." Jasper still couldn't get used to the exotic accent of one his best friends and was always thankful that he never felt anything more than brotherly affection for the beautiful girl. He would hate himself forever if he hurt Alice that way.
"Alice? When did you do that?" Jasper asked incredulously, turning to his girlfriend who had grabbed his arm when she had joined the small circle of the closest friends to ever walk the halls of Forks High in the doorway where they all stood. Emmett had his arm around Rosalie's shoulders while Bella was leaning against Edwards' front with his arms holding her there with his arms around her waist.
It was clear to the other four that Bella and Edward were extremely intimate even just from the way that they were around each other and how they reacted to one another. Even to humans it was clear that these two were deep in love and would always be.
"When we were driving here I sent Bella directions for what to look like for this party thinger. And it looks like I was right because you two look amazing. Oh! Bella did you know that your outfit is over $5000 put together? I was looking at Gucci's website and I found that outfit there. Except for the pants. I replaced the ones in the picture with those 'cuz Genius jeans are the most amazing jeans ever. Even though I don't own any… but I am saving up to buy a pair." Alice was babbling so Jasper put his hand gently over her mouth to quiet her. Alice looked apologetically at the group and relaxed.
"Well, Alice I have a few pairs at home if you want you can borrow them sometime." Bella offered to let Alice borrow the pants like they were just regular pants, no worries about them getting ruined at all. Shows how much she didn't worry about money.
"Really? Oh my goodness that would be amazing! Bella do you realize that you are, like, the most generous person alive? Err- well in the world? I mean you're letting Emmett stay with you, you are going to help Rose practically raise her twins, and you are offering to lend me $3000 jeans? No normal person would ever do that." Alice pointed out.
Bella just shrugged, "Alice you do realize, though, that I am richer than Oprah or Bill Gates? I have so many clothes that I don't know what to do with them. Emmett is one of my best friends and he needs a place to stay and I live in a big house all by myself so of course he will live with me, like we discussed earlier in the parking lot. Rosalie's parents hate her for getting pregnant and if I weren't going to help her kids would suffer. I'm just doing what I know is best." Bella explained.
Rosalie laughed in response to that, "I think we should rename you Bella. From now on you will be known as Mother Teresa." the whole group dissolved into laughter and continued to enjoy the rest of the evening.
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Lame, I know. There was nothing exciting in this chapter at all and it really lacked in quality. I'm super unhappy with this chapter but if I were to rewrite it this wouldn't be out until damn Christmas. I hope that everyone semi-enjoyed this chapter. And, in case you did not see in my a/n, I have been writing another story(on paper) and it is called "From Freaky, To Fabulous" and if you would like a summary then you will please review! First 5 get a sneak peek!