Strawberries

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: Sorry I do not own Twilight….but the nicest and greatest author I know does; Stephenie Meyer.

I had been wishing this day wouldn't arrive for about….three weeks. It had been three weeks since I had last been pulled around to eight different malls. Three weeks of sure hell. But those three weeks had been planning and searching to make my final year of high school perfect; my senior year.

For almost the last month not only Alice but also Edward, had been literally pulling me and tugging me to every clothing and school supplies store that they could imaginably think of. And that was a lot I must tell you.

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Flashback of the first shopping day with Edward and Alice.

I went to bed thinking about this morning and how badly I was dreading it. How badly I didn't want to spend ten long and blistering hours in large and crowed malls filled with little kids that smelled like terrible BO. I knew from the start that this school shopping summer would be something to die over!

All I could remember that morning was that the only good part of it was that few moments being alone with Edward.

Edward kissed me lightly with his marble cool lips against my boiling hot lips. His touch made me shiver with pure happiness. Edward would wake me up like this every morning; just today he kissed me very slowly. He was driving me crazy with his toxic touch running his hand up and down my back slowly as he kissed me deeply.

Ever since Edward had known me he had a special gift, he may have not been able to read my thoughts like he could with everyone's but he could tell by the look in my eyes whenever I was troubled.

"Bella really, it will be fun. I know you don't want to go and you would rather do anything else but please, please do this for Alice and me." I didn't want to. The thought of looking at clothes, that I wouldn't be able to buy in the first place, and the never ending dressing rooms made me want to throw up the nonexistent food in my stomach. Food………I began to feel hungry.

"I know." I said to bring back the smile that I loved back onto his faint colored face. The smile that would never expose any teeth but would travel from each end of his perfectly modeled face. "I just don't like the idea about you two buying all of the things I need. Don't get me wrong, I mean I like it but it makes me feel as if….I don't know, as if I'm not working hard enough to be able to buy all of my school clothes and everything I need." I watched as his face turned from his normally happy smile to a certain face that I didn't get to see often, humans (like me!) would call it…confusion. Edward still wasn't use to the thought of him being confused.

"I don't understand, Alice and I aren't buying you clothes and nice things because we think you can't afford it, we're doing it because it's fun and it's so much different and more exciting when we do it for you." I already knew this; he told me the same speech over and over again when he first told me about the awful thing he was planning in his head.

"I know, thank you." I dropped the subject not wanting it to turn into a silly and unneeded fight.

I got out of bed even if every part of me was screaming and pleading that I didn't. My body and heart knew that today was going to be a dreadful day that I didn't want to be apart of. I hated shopping.

The only reason I did was because when I looked into Edward's eyes again this time, I fell into a deep sheet of love. I couldn't tell him no even if I wanted to say that more than anything.

He wrapped me in his arms and wouldn't let me go……and I would never want to leave his side until the day I die. Whether that day I would be old and wrinkly or if I die right in front of him; waiting for eternity with him. I dreamed about that day…..the day that I would spend eternity with him, more and more often now.

We both walked down stair to the kitchen. I quickly, as routine, searched for Charlie thinking that there was a chance that he was still home.

"He has already left for work" Edward told me.

After Edward made and practically feed me breakfast I rushed upstairs for one of my famous human moments. Alice was already here now so she thought that it was extremely amazing that I had a human moment and she wanted to know more about it. I laughed and ran up the stairs two by two. Wishing that the day would be over with and I could go back to bed in Edward cold arms.

I turned the water in the shower slightly to hot to warm up my cold skin from the wet and windy day outside. The house temperature had increasingly dropped and so had mine. After I pulled myself out I brush my hair and teeth and rushed back downstairs to meet Edward and Alice.

"Are you ready!" Even though I hated Alice for making me do this, I also loved her for being a great friend. I nodded to her question.

I looked over at Edward noticing something different. Edward had obviously run home and changed because he was now wearing a different outfit than the one he was wearing before. The bright dark blue bounced playfully on his white skin making him look slightly like a frozen blueberry.

"Are you two ready also?" I wasn't sure if they were waiting for others to arrive to make my day even worst. But thankfully I could tell that he wasn't when he began to laugh.

"Yes" He chuckled as he looped his arm around mine. "And we have been for awhile, was everything alright up there?" The truth was that trying to put on a pair of jeans on when you legs were still wet was very difficult, and at first I couldn't find my hair brush so my human moment ended up a few moments more than it normally was.

"Yeah I was just having a little difficulty, nothing major." We walked out to Edward's Volvo and hopped in.

Alice sat in the back allowing me to sit in the passenger seat with Edward. Today he looked even more beautiful than I had ever seen him. No he wasn't sparkling like a diamond like the first time I saw him in the sun at our meadow but he looked more amazing than any human or creature could ever imagine looking.

He was breathtaking.

"Bella? Bella please breathe….are you all right? Bella!" His voice startled me.

"I'm sorry, yes I'm fine." I took in a loud and deep breath to fill my lungs with the oxygen that I needed. I had forgotten to breathe!

It seemed as if every time I looked at him there was always a length of time that I couldn't breathe. I looked down at my hand because it suddenly felt very cold; Edward was holding it – our fingers crossed together tightly.

We got to the huge shopping mall and I walked next to Edward the whole way wishing that he could really turn into a bat and fly away with me….no it didn't happen! But a desperate girl can wish can't she?

We got inside and just how I thought the mall was crowed and the noises of little kids crying down the isle reminded me of me at the mall when I was younger pleading my mother to go home. Even when I was young I hated shopping but this time I think that I would try my hardest not to cry when Edward would refuse to leave after the first 2 minutes.

We walked around the crowed shop and Alice searched on every rack for something that would look great and amazing on me.

She walked to an empty rack and search through the shirts hanging on it. She paused and then gasped. "Look at this shirt! Oh Bella, this is a really beautiful shirt!"

She held up the light blue blouse and placed it over the shirt I was wearing to see what it would look on me. Her eyes twinkled as she looked at the shirt on me.

The blouse had small jewels on it and the color popped on my pale skin. The fabric was slightly soft like cotton and looked as if it would look very nice on me. I smiled as she jumped jump and down with her success.

Then she threw the short over Edward's shoulder and they both ran to the next rack full of more shirts. Then after finding six shirts in there they happily ran over to the jean rack wear they began to go a little crazy!

When Alice was at the jean rack she couldn't help to laugh at all of the clothes that were rapped around Edward and my body. She had flung so many clothes over us that it became hard to see.

"Would you like a basket to put all of those clothes in?" Asked the clerk who was very tall. He was even taller than Edward but had many pimples all over his face.

"Yes please, that would be a big help." Alice took the basket from the clerk and once the basket was in her hands she looked down at the basket in disbelief.

"Could I have about five or six of these?" She counted each of all of our hands to count and she how much we could hold.

"Um…sure, wait right here." The clerk ran like a baby giraffe to the back of the counter where he picked up five baskets.

"There you go…..could I help you with anything else?" He asked.

"No…oh wait yes, is this 50 off?" She looked at the clerk and dazzled him. Poor guy!

"Yes….It is now….well I guess if you don't tell my boss you can get it half off." He walked away trying to clear his mind.

"Alice that was really mean! Why did you dazzle that poor guy like that?" She laughed again and looked at me.

"Because he charged the girl before us $ 10 extra on accident….I saw that he would've got in trouble for over charging again if I didn't balance everything out for him….ohh who in the world would wear this!" She held up a dark orange shirt with bright green writing on it. The sleeves where cut in half and at bottom of the shirt was a rainbow outline.

"Oh…well that was nice." I said.

"Alice are you ready to go to the store next door yet? Some girl is going crazy and seems to think she is going to get all of the hottest clothes!" I laughed as I watched Alice's eyes go wide.

"Oh no she isn't! Bella…no Edward you and Bella go next door and get everything you can, I will pay. I promise I will be there as soon as possible! GO!" Edward grabbed my hand and we ran to the clothes store next door.

When we got in Edward handed me a basket and told me to get everything I could. I tried to find things that I liked but it was very difficult. Every time I thought I saw something I liked some other girl would snatch out of my hands.

"Um…this store is only for people that aren't nerds! Get out of here you geek!" Just then Edward came up behind and saved me from the evil girl.

"Excuse me, but do you have a problem with my girl friend?" The girls flew up and down Edward's body and then smiled.

"You've got to be kidding me! You and her?" She looked at me and the glared heavenly at me. What did I ever do to her? Edward snatched the shirt out of her hands and placed it in my basket.

"No, now get away from her." He placed his arm around my waist.

"The nerds always get the hot guys. Bye baby…"she handed him a slip of paper. "Call me." Edward took it and ripped it in half in her face and let it fall to the floor.

"Only in your dreams! Come on Bella, we have some shopping to do." He grabbed my hand and walked me to were he was shopping before.

"If you have any second thoughts, I'm free every Friday night!" She yelled out to Edward. That's when I lost it! I was so furious at her!

"AND YOU KNOW WHY YOU ARE FREE EVERY NIGHT? IT'S BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO HANG OUT WITH A SLUT LIKE YOU! NOW LEAVE MY BOYFRIEND AND ME ALONE!" I yelled.

"Or what?" She said. She walked closer to me and got in my face. I was about to say something… (Something was the key word) before Edward came in between the girl and me.

"Go continue your shopping and stay away, or I will call security! Or I will just throw you out myself!" The girl saw the anger in Edward's face and fear spread through her body. She looked at me and then walked out of the store, placing the clothes in her basket on the floor.

"Thank you. I got a little carried away I think." Edward smiled.

"I think she will be fine." He leaned down and kissed my lips more passionately than he had ever had before. "I love you." He said.

"I love you too." He looked at the girls basket across of the store and then back at me.

"Race you to her basket!" He had grabbed the girls basket full of the same sized clothes as me and had already came back before my heart could beat another beat. "I win" He whispered in my ear.

"You cheated!" I playfully punched him on the shoulder multiply times and then hugged him as hard as I could. "But I still love you." I said as I stood on my tip toes and kissed his marble cool lips again just as passionately as he did to me.

"OK! I told you two to get everything you could, not make out in the store!" Alice laughed and placed down the four bags that where in her hands. "Now….let's see what you happened to get within every few grasps of air…..hmm…just as I expected. Bella, you don't have anything! Do I have to watch your every move?"

"I'm sorry but…" Edward covered my lips with his finger signaling me not to talk. It wasn't my fault; I got a little occupied with a little someone! (And it wasn't with Edward!) But thankfully she left!

"I told her to fill up my basket first, and then we would fill hers up." I looked at Edward's perfectly modeled face and smiled. 'Thank you' I mouthed to him. I knew that Alice would have bit my head off if I didn't get as many clothes as she wanted me to.

He smiled back at me and took my hand. "Now…let's get some clothes so my Bella is the hottest girl in Washington. I was more than happy to be Edward's hottest girl….as long as it didn't involve me getting into a fight every time.

Five hours later of clothes, clothes, and more clothes we were finally done shopping at THAT mall!

"That was SO much fun! Bella you are going to look so cute your senior year! I can't wait…you will be so….cute!" Alice also got a few things at the mall for herself but certainly not as much as she got for me!

"Thank you for buying me everything, I wish you didn't but I guess there wasn't any way of getting you to stop." Alice and Edward wouldn't even let me buy one thing that they picked out for me. After the first thousandth time I started to stop asking to pay for my own stuff.

"Bella, we get it! You've said thank you over half a million times! Are you ready to go to the next mall?" Alice asked me.

"No…" I whispered. All I wanted to was to lie in my bed and never come out. I had enough of bitchy girls and funny looking clerks. But I barley said anything so Alice couldn't hear me.

"We're almost done precious. I promise." Edward kissed my forehead with his cold lips and held my hand as he drove quickly to the next and final mall for today.

Thankfully when we got to the second mall I could tell that it wasn't as busy as the mall we just left because the parking lot wasn't filled with billions of cars.

I walked next to him as he opened the door to the large and crowed mall pretending that I wasn't going to die if we didn't leave this mall soon. I hate this, I hate shopping. Edward didn't leave my side as Alice quickly threw in clothes off of racks for the second time.

She didn't even ask me anymore. She just threw in shirt after short, pants after pants and so on…..I ignored it hoping that I could get out of the mall sooner.

I took Edward's hand to feel his cool touch. It did the trick. I felt my body calm and relax and his smooth skin touched mine. I loved him. I thought trying to get my mind off of what was going on around me.

After shopping in that one store for a couple of hours Edward nodded to a question that I couldn't hear from Alice. He picked me up and carried me like a baby.

I knew it would draw attention but the way my feet were aching I didn't care. All I wanted to do was be in Edward's arms forever and forget about all of the expensive things Alice was throwing into a cart she had "Barrowed" from the supermarket a block down.

He walked quickly and moved around every person that came in contact with him and carried me to what I thought might be a food court. The smell made me feel hungry once again.

"Bella you need something to eat, what would you like to eat?" I didn't know. All I knew was for some reason I didn't know what I wanted to eat. Like for some reason, food seemed non existent when I was with Edward.

"I'm not sure." I said. Edward smiled and left to go find me something.

"Wow, Edward…..I don't think I'm that hungry!" He smiled and barley kissed my cheek. The quick cold touch made me shake.

"I know, but you didn't really help me very much. I got a little excited finding one thing after another that you might like…I just got them all. I didn't know what you wanted so I got you everything." He sat down next to me and started opening everything that he had just got. He was so nice and cute….I wished that I could be as perfect as he was.

Before I was done Alice came back from the store. She had the shopping cart that she stole filled with twenty or so bags.

"Ok…I think I got everything from this mall to satisfy me for today."

"So no more malls?" I asked hopefully.

"Well…not today no, no more malls today." I was happy that I would be able to go home (Edward's house probably) now.

I ate as much as I could before blowing up and we left the mall quickly. Alice drove Edward's Volvo, to my surprise, so Edward cuddled me in his arms as we began to go home.

The feeling of his arms around me burned my skin. The touch made me smile and grow warm. My heart had never felt like this….and I loved it. I loved Edward.

The agony and dizziness left me when I was in Edward's arms. I signed in relief when I knew for sure that today we were done with shopping for school.

"That wasn't so bad now was it?" He kissed my cheek, causing my skin to turn red underneath his skin. He smiled.

"Sure…whatever you say Edward." I leaned my head on his shoulder and closed my eyes….soon falling asleep in his safe arms.

A/N – OK….so that was the first chapter of this story! I like this story! Trust me it is going to get really good soon once school starts for Bella and Edward! Bye….and please review! (Let me know if you like it!)

Luve much,

J.