AN: The very longest chapter so far! Read, enjoy and review!
Disclaimer: Still the same: Twilight's not mine, just this crappy idea . . .
"Bella, it's already eight. The shops are opened. Come on!"
I moaned and turned to Edward who was smiling at me apologetically. We kissed each other passionately before I went out behind Alice and Rosalie. That was going to be a long day.
We got into Rosalie's red car and sped down the highway towards Seattle. I was anxious to know what they had planned for me.
"Err – guys? Where do you want to go exactly?" They looked at each other and started counting.
"Well, you need now cloth. You have to be about one size smaller by now, perhaps two. So, I'd say . . ."
"Versace, Escada, Louis Vouitton . . ."
"Prada, maybe Dior . . ."
"Dolce and Gabana, too, maybe, and so on . . ."
"And of course," Alice started. I frowned, that couldn't be good if she was so kryptic. She looked at Rosalie who continued the sentence with a huge grin plasted all over her face.
"Victoria's Secret!"
"No!" I gasped. They couldn't do that to me.
"Why not? You need something really pretty . . ." Alice and Rosalie smirked at each other.
I was hesitant to ask "Why?"
"Well, Bella," Alice giggled, "you see, since you're one of us now . . ." She was giggling too much, so Rose continued for her.
"You and Edward won't have to hold back any more . . ." She joined Alice giggling. I sank deeper into the backseat of the car in attempt to hide myself.
Wonder what our Eddie is capable of …he's surely not better than Emmett …
Why shouldn't these two have some fun as well. Oh Bella's lucky she can't blush anymore. Right now she would be beet red if she could …
Maybe something sexy in black, or a deep shade of red. Definetely dark with her pale skin and her hair…
Edward will love what he sees …I've changed her often enough …I know what I'm talking about…
"Alice! Rose!" I yelled, completely shocked about their thoughts.
They just looked at each other sheepishly and burst out in laughter, knowing what the other one must have thought. Luckily Rosalie just pulled up in a parking spot near a huge designer shop.
We walked into what had to be at least ten shops since we didn't have to stop for human needs like food any more. Rosalie and Alice just kept throwing loads of cloth into my arms and after the fifth shop I decided that I would at least help searching for my own cloth. It was actually fun after a while.
"Wow, look Rose! Bella finally thinks it's fun!"
"Yay!"
"Come on Bella. Let's sit down for a sec!" Rose yelled after another two shops. We paused at a near bench and she pulled a small present out of her pocket.
"This is our welcome-to-the-family present for you! Since you have decided that shopping is fun…" Alice added while I ripped the paper off what turned out to be a tiny black box. I opened it and inside was nothing less than …
"Wow!" I breathed! "You can't give me this! It is …"
"A platinum cash card. Key to our money. It's as much yours as ours now, Bella!" Alice was so excited. I hugged her and Rosalie tightly.
"You two are the best sisters alive!" was my comment. When we realised what I had said we all burst out in laughter once again.
"Ok, let's go on. We still have one particular shop left." With that the two of them dragged me into Victoria's Secret. We made a treaty that everyone was allowed to pick five items for me. Three minutes later I was inside a cabin and tried out a deep red bra and panty Alice had picked for me.
"Come on, Bella. Let us see you!" Alice squealed impatiently. Why did she want to see me? She had most likely already seen me, anyway. I stepped out and they gasped. I looked down myself.
"That bad?" I asked.
Wosh. Wait till Edward sees her. He will really like what he sees. He should be glad that he isn't alive any more. She's absolutely drop-dead beautiful.
FUCK!
"What is it Alice?" I was really worried.
"Oh, nothing important, really…"
If she finds out that he's seen that she'll kill me…
"He WHAT?"
"Uh, err, Bella, well, Edward listened to my thoughts to see how far we'd gotten and when we'd be finished and, well, err, he… saw you."
"MARY ALICE BRANDON CULLEN! Wait till we're back home…"
After that we just hurried to pay the things, back into the car, and sped back to Forks, Alice still didn't say a word. I was mad at her.
Don't be mad at her. All in all it was my fault. And don't be ashamed. You are truly beautiful.
So you did sneak. Well maybe I should be mad at you then.
It wasn't my fault that you were in that shop at the moment in question.
Oh, sure. Blame me then. Now I am mad at you. I bet you just waited until we were at Victoria's Secret and I were in these things …
Bella! Don't be ridiculous. I would never do something like that…
Sure? Well why did you enter Alice's thoughts at all?
"Because I love you and I wanted to look out for you. I was worried." I nearly jumped out of the car when I suddenly felt his cold lips on my ear and heard his velvet vioce.
"I love you, too" And we kissed and I even let him carry me into the house. Just when we entered the living room I was surprised by six vampires that happened to be my family jumped out and screamed
"SURPRISE!"
I looked through the room. They had hung up a huge banner saying 'Welcome to the family!' and now they were coming towards me and I was all over covered in presents once again.
"Open your welcome presents, Bella!" Edward whispered into my ear. I did like he told me and I once more discovered that I had the most wonderful family of the world. I had been given a new copy of Pride and Prejudice as well as of Sense and Sensibility; a huge framed picture of myself and Edward in our meadow, a couple of CDs like Evanescence, Linkin Park, Debussy and others. Also I was given three pairs of sunglasses, all from various designers, and a new bag for my school books, this one was beige and from Louis Vouitton.
When I was finished I looked up into the happy faces of my new family and I was sure that if I could have cried I would have been crying tears of joy and love in this moment.
"You are the most wonderful family walking on this earth. Thank you guys. I love you!" Esme gave me a motherly hug and Emmett gave me a brotherly pat on my shoulder. Alice and Rose practically jumped at me and hugged me both at the same time.
Edward kissed me passionately and carried me up to our room.
"You have, of course, already gotten your best present," he whispered into my ear as we sat on his couch.
"And what would that be?" I still had problems concentrating while I brethed in his heavenly scent or looked into his dazzling eyes.
"An eternity with me and no more boundaries to hold us back." With that he tackled me and before I recognised what was going on he had me already pinned with my back to the wall, his hands on both sides of my face and his whole body less than an inch away from mine. He kissed me fiercely and I put my arms around his neck, while he ran his hands over my back towards my waist and underneath my shirt.
Suddenly we heard a whistle from the door and turned around tho face Emmett.
"Out!" Edward roared.
"Sorry to interrupt you two…in action," he teased, "but Bella's dad called and asked why she hadn't visited him for a while and if she could come over to do him a favor." Edward didn't like the idea of me leaving his side again.
"Ok. I'm going. See you later my love." And I left the room with a quick peck on Edwards cheek. Within a second I was out and in my new car, since I hadn't brought the truck. Ten minutes later (oh I loved that speed, now I understand why Edward always drove so fast) I pulled up in Charlie's driveway.
"Hey Bells," he greeted me. He had been sitting in the living room. Billy Black was there, too.
"Hello Bella," he said as he saw me. He looked at me with that concerned look once again.
"Hello Billy," I answered him. I didn't like that he showed up here so much lately.
"Like I keep telling you, Charlie. Don't let Bella stay with the Cullens. They are dangerous."
"Bill, Dr Cullen has saved Bella's live! They are nice people." I decided to just listen to their conversation that had obviously going on for a while now.
"Charlie, believe me! They are endangering Bella's live every moment she is with one of them!"
"This is absolutely ridiculous, Bill. How could they endanger Bella's life? She may be some danger to herself, but surely not those people."
"I think I have to tell you then. The coven that calls themselves Cullen are vampires. Blood sucking monsters, Charlie. Don't let your daughter be around them!"
"Billy! How can you say something like this? Maybe you don't like them, but this is no reason –" I decided to interrupt the talk at this point. That couldn't be true! Billy broke the treaty!
"You asked me to do you a favor?" I asked Charle then, remembering Emmett's words.
"Yes. Could you drive Billy home again, please. I believe it's better if he leaves now." He glared at Billy.
"Sure dad." With that I helped Billy out of the house and into my truck. I decided to better not use my new car with him. When I sped as fast as my old truck would allow towards the reservation, I turned towards Billy.
"You know that I will have to tell Carlisle that you broke the treaty!" I asked him as calm as I could, looking at the road.
"Isabella! How could you do that when I'm only worried about your safety. I believe we had this dialouge a week ago. How can you side with them? They are dangerous and I believe that, by now, you know this as much as, or even better than, I do…"
"I'm honoured by how you care for me." I said sarcastically. "What do you want to happen by telling Charlie about them, he didn't believe you anyway."
"Maybe that he would look out for you better. Maybe even force them to leave. In any way, keep you safe!"
"We're here!" I said hoping to get rid of that conversation.
"Bella, I beg you to come in with me. I want to talk to you." I didn't feel the need to say no, so I led him into the house and we sat down at the kitchen table in his house. It was small, but very tidy.
"And? What do you want me to hear? Or even say?"
"Bella, stop spending your time with them. Move back out. Forget him. You can't be with him anyways!" He sounded somewhat desperate.
"Of course I can. Why shouldn't I be able to be with him?" For some reason I knew what he was going to say, though, I hadn't listened to his thoughts because that made talking easier and felt more normal.
"Because you are going to die one day. Either of age or from his hand. I just want to save you, Bella. I don't want you to endure such a terrible fate. Or even you get damned like them …" He left me no choice. I knew he was just caring, but that went far too far.
"Billy. You can stop it. It's too late. Please leave us alone."
"No Bella. You can just leave them. Please don't let them harm you …"
"Didn't you get it? Like I said Billy, it is too late." With that I took out the chocolate brown colour contacts, the first thing we had bought for me this morning, that covered my crimson red eyes. Billy gasped.
"Oh Bella! You made such a terrible mistake you can never take back again," his voice was full of agony and sorrow. "You don't know what you have given in to…this is so cruel…oh Bella…what have they done to you?"
"Billy, it's ok. I wanted this. I wanted this more than everything else. I love Edward more than I did lovemy life. It's ok. No it's more…it is good the way it is now." I tried to sooth him, although I didn't know why.
"No, Bella. This terribly wrong. What are you going to tell Charlie?"
"We will tell him sometime. As well as Renee. I can't bear to let them stay in the dark about what I am now."
"And you are comfortable with this way of life?" He asked, now again truly worried.
"Yes. Now I am able to live with him forever. I love him. And his family, our family." I smiled.
"I believe then, that this is what you are happy with. And I believe as well that you are no danger to anyone?" The last bit came somewhat anxious.
"No, Billy. I am even less danger than anyone of the Cullens, for I can hardly smell human blood at all." He seemed relieved. "And if you swear not to tell Chalie or anybody else about us, before we ourselves did, I won't tell Carlisle that you tried to convince Charlie about our identity. Deal?"
"Deal. But Isabella … watch out for you, ok?" Now he was definetely relieved.
"I'll go now … oh, by the way, did Jacob manage to build his car?"
"No, not yet. Why?"
"Well, the Cullens gave me a brand new car as an engagement present and I don't need the truck anymore. He can use it until he's finished, ok?"
"Fine, Bella. Thank you. How are you going to get to Charlie now?"
"I'll run. Goodbye Billy. Thank you for caring about me." With that I was out of the door and I sped through the forest towards Charlie's.
"Hey Charlie, I'm back!" I yelled when I entered the kitchen. He was standing with his back to me getting a piece of fish out of the oven.
"Hey Bells. Wanna eat something? I'm sorry, I thought you wouldn't come back, so I decided to eat something", he said.
"Well, actually I was planning on returning to the Cullens' now. If you don't mind, that is." I felt sorry for leaving him like this, so I hugged him and went out of the door. I climbed into my car and sped at lightening fast speed towards home.
In a flash of light I was outside Edward's room and opened the door quietly. I stepped inside and saw him lying on his couch. I jumped at him.
"Boooh!"
"Whooa! Bella! I didn't hear you at all!"
"Didn't you smell me?" I teased.
"No." I was taken aback.
"Why?" I was really insulted now. Didn't he pay attention at all?
"Smell!" He said and tossed me a big shirt. It smelled like me. "You wore this one during your change. I had to smell you while you were gone." He smiled my favourite crooked smile.
"So … shall we continue where we had to break up?" Before I could respond he had me once again pinned up against the wall, his lips on mine and his hands underneath my shirt. Within another two minutes we had our shirts off and were lying on the bed.
Thirty minutes later we entered the living room. I was wearing one of Edward's shirts. It smelled deliciously like him. We sat down on the piano bench and Edward played my lullaby for me, but within thirty seconds Alice and Rosalie had entered, taking my hands and feet, carrying me into Alice's and Jasper's room and locking the door behind us.
"And?" Alice asked expectant.
"And what?" I mimicked, playing innoncent.
"Oh, Bella, come on! You know exactly what we mean," Rosalie begged, "tell us!"
"Well, ok, I'll give you a rough summary, ok?"
"Just start, Bella." Alice squealed.
"Well, at first he had me pinned against the wall, kissing. Soon he removed my shirt and I did his. Then we were on the bed, and I think you can imagine from there on …" They started giggling like mad.
"And?" Alice pushed me further.
"Well, ok, he was pretty good, I guess." Was there anything my personal greek god was not absolutely perfect at?
"Alice! Let me in. Stop that! Bella, come out." Edward was suddenly standing outside the door. Knocking like mad, so that I was afraid he'd break the door.
"Keep cool, Eddie! She's absolutely fine with us." Rosalie yelled.
"Edward rescue me from these two! Help!" I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.
"Rosy! Open! Now!" He screamed. Gosh, he was pissed. A second later he knocked the door down, swept me up in his arms and carried me into his room. We sat down on the couch, listening to Evanescence and bathing in each other's presence, lost in our thoughts.
