The reviews that I got on the last chapter where very nice! Thanx to you all. Even to those who didn't review, I want you to review this time! Please? This chapter is basically the main chapter, because they all get dressed up. I know you guys will be laughing at Emmett, because his is my favorite to make fun of! I'm having fun already and I'm just typing that author's note! Okay, calming down now! My fingers are all over the place right now, so please excuse any spelling mistakes. To the story!
Chapter 2- Halloween
"Punish Emmett," I moaned.
Her golden eyes narrowed at Emmett, "I didn't do anything!" he held his hands up in the air.
The god-like angel was comforting me with my lullaby as I fell into a peaceful sleep in his cold arms.
"Bella! Open those brown eyes, come on!" a voice urged me awake.
When I rolled over, I realized I wasn't in Edward's stone arms, "Edward?" my eyes flew open.
"Nope, silly!" Alice's pixie-like face was right in front of mine, when she backed away, I saw I was in her room.
So was Rosalie, I was on Alice's bed while Rosalie was sprawled out across the floor.
"Good morning!" Rose smiled at me as she looked up from a sewing book. Wait, why did she have a sewing book in front of her? Scary thought coming. They WEREN'T going to try and make me something. If they were, I was going to try and run away. But I had a bad feeling I wouldn't make it that far.
"Oh, geez, Bella!" Alice sighed and then pounced over to me, catching my arms and lifting me into a sitting position.
I looked down and saw I was in some purple pj's, "Where's Edward?"
"Uh, we stole you again. Esme had to yell had him in her head so we could have you!" she was so joyful I thought I might burst, "You don't look happy about that."
"I am, just surprised," I lied, I had wanted to see Edward's beautiful face when I woke up.
"Sure," Rose cut in from the floor.
"Shut up, Rosalie," Alice snapped playfully, in response she threw the sewing book she was reading at Alice.
Alice chirped giddily, "Anyway, it's time for you to wake up! We have so much to do today!"
I grunted but got out of the very comfortable bed. Why'd did they need a bed at all anyway? They never slept. Oh...never mind, I got it! Naughty Jasper and Alice. My head shook to dismiss the thoughts as I stretched. Alice was whispering something into Rose's ear, she sighed and got up, too. Her face was partly angry, partly smiling if that was possible. But it wasn't aimed at me, it was aimed at Alice.
"You're terrible," Rose told Alice.
"Shhh!" Alice put a finger to her lips and shook her own head, "Come on downstairs Bella. Breakfast."
"You actually bought me something to eat?" I asked, amazed.
"Esme had a lot of fun after she figured out you liked the caramel apples. You're going to get stuffed stupid today," she informed me happily.
I rolled my eyes as she pulled me to the door, "Edward's waiting at the kitchen table with your breakfast," she motioned for me to go.
"Aren't you coming with me?" I pursed my lips.
"Right now, we have a little bit more important business to tend to," Rose answered before Alice could and gave me a grin before lightly shoving me out the door and then closing it quickly.
As I was about to knock to ask what the hell was going on, I decided against it. So I stumbled down the stairs without actually falling, which I was very proud of myself for, then I got to their kitchen. Warm inviting smells came erupting from there, I licked my lips eagerly as I moved forward. My god of perfection was standing there at the stove with an apron on stirring something in a small sauce pot. Esme was there, too, she beamed as I walked in.
She rushed over to give me a gigantic hug, "Good morning, dear!"
"Morning!" I yawned and hugged her back.
When she released me, it was Edward's turn. He stepped away from the stove and showed me the front of the apron. In huge capital letters, it announced: "Kiss the Cook!" with a whole bunch of frilly hearts around it. I'm sorry, but I just had to laugh. He scowled at me, then gave me his favorite crooked smile before sweeping me up in his wondrous arms. Of course I sank deeply into them, my heart pounding in my ears. Embarrassment again as well as blushing!
"Hello my sweet," he kissed me on the lips then pulled back, "How did you sleep?"
"Very peacefully," and he let me go fully.
Esme chided him, "Edward, get back to those berries before they burn!" her finger was pointed to the pot.
"Oh, right," he gave another crooked smile before zooming off.
"Come sit down, Bella," Esme waved her hand at the set for one breakfast nook by the semi-circle window, then she took my hand and led me there, "I'll have you well know that Emmett was duly penalized for what he did last night."
Edward chuckled while he brought the steaming pot over to the table just as I sat down.
"Don't tell her! She'll find out what it is tonight!" she turned to Edward and shook her finger at him.
He pressed his lips in a tight line before getting reprimanded once again, "Don't make that face at me!"
"Hey!" he cried as he poured molten berry sauce over a pile of French toast that was in front of me.
"OOO!" I dug right in as he stepped away, Esme was fascinated as I stuffed the pieces into my mouth. Edward set a tall glass of milk by the plate, I took a few large gulps before starting to eat again. "Wow, you sure are hungry," she noted as I was halfway through the food. I nodded and swallowed only to take another drink.
"I made it," Edward sounded smug.
"Well I bought it!" she fired back at him.
"She a little bit moody because of the whole Emmett thing," Edward had sped back to take off the apron and put down the pot, "It took her nearly all night to come up with-"
"Don't do it!" Esme raised her voice then smiled at me.
Edward sighed, "I wasn't."
By then I was done and all the sauce was licked up from the plate. Removing the plate, Edward actually took the fifteen seconds to wash it. Wow, I'd never seen anyone in this house do that before. When he came back, she handed him the empty milk glass. Growling, he went again to the sink and cleaned it.
"Okay, to the living room!" she clapped and picked me up.
Just as we were passing the stairs, Jasper came down.
"Hey Jasper!" I smiled at him.
"Hello Bella," he said quietly, and went into the kitchen with Edward.
In the living room, Rosalie was just pushing in a DVD. The huge plasma screen rolled down and movie play lists began to scroll across the screen.
"HURRY EVERYONE!" Rose yelled before Esme could.
I bit my lip as she set me down on the comfortable couch, "What are we doing?"
"Watching scary movies, after all today is Halloween!" she made crawling motions with her fingers at me. Without being able to help it, I giggled. It was so weird to see Esme all worked up, partly because of Emmett. Or so she and Edward claimed. Plus, I guessed, Halloween. Normally, I don't think the Cullens celebrated Halloween. Well, they were this year, that's for sure! All the rest of the family came racing down, all a bit delayed because of something I didn't know. Even Edward was. Hmm...strange.
After Rose clicked play, I saw the title and freaked in Edward's arms. The Omen, the old one, oh crap! One time when I was really little, like maybe seven or eight, Renee was watching this late at night. For some reason I snuck out and watched some. It scared the bjesus out of me!
"Are you okay?" Edward asked when I started shaking when the movie began.
I faked a smile through the darkness, "I'm fine."
There was a rumble of laughter in the room, "Emmett!" Esme chided him.
"Sorry," he snickered, trying to smother it.
Was he laughing at me? I guess my response time was low. Oh well, I knew I was safe in Edward's marble arms. A few times during the movie I jumped and shrieked. Edward quieted me instantly, whispering things like, "I'm here, Bella," or "You could tell that was fake," just to calm me down. For that I was quite thankful. Each time Emmett started to chuckle, he was cut of by three sharp smacks- one from Alice, Esme, and Rosalie each. And at those times I shot him quick smiles. Which he returned with glum expression but cheered up to grin evilly back at me.
When that movie ended, Alice took it out and popped another one in. The Exorcist of Emily Rose was playing next. That one I cringed away from a lot. Which caused more hilarity from Emmett. How nice! As much as he tried, sometimes Edward couldn't calm me down. So Jasper had to, as well as himself because he could feel it from me. I saw a few looks he gave me, they were frightened just as I was. The Devil's Advocate was good, even though some parts I could hardly stomach. At least I couldn't smell the blood on screen.
By now it was lunch and for some reason I was hungry again. Plus the fact that I had been sitting on the couch all day in my pj's with my vampire boyfriend didn't explain why I was so hungry. But maybe the getting scared silly part figured in there somewhere. Anyway, on an intermission where Emmett and Jasper were wrestling on the floor about some blood scene -how many gallons were used for it?- Esme gracefully ran off to get something for me to eat. When she came back, they were still fighting, but soon stopped after getting a few glares from her. She handed me a bowl of popcorn drizzled in white, milk, and dark chocolate.
"You're a genius!" I gushed as I ate some of the awesome popcorn.
She looked sincerely pleased, "Thank you!"
I blushed as I smiled with a whole bunch of chocolate in my teeth, she leaned down swiftly and hugged me. After she zoomed back a gave me a huge bottle of Mountain Dew. Uh-oh, were they trying to get me all hyper? For tonight? I wish I knew. Edward smiled as Esme sat down, because Alice shoved in yet another movie. This all was getting sickening. But the popcorn and soda were doing complete wonders!
"Which one's this?" I questioned him as he nuzzled my neck.
Instead of answering me, he started to kiss my neck softly. My world was spinning and I was sitting down! Putting the bottle on the little table by the couch, as well as the bowl, Edward brought me to lay down on him. Did he want to be kept warm or something? Let me tell you, I shivered a bit because of his cold body. Even though he had stopped kissing my neck, his light caresses were gentle enough to make me blush.
"This one's gonna be good," Rose muttered, near under breath.
Edward growled at her, then Alice for some reason. Why? The music freaked me out. Then they hit play before I could process what it was. See No Evil, I brought my hands up to my face so I didn't have to watch some parts. Overall, I probably missed half the movie. Emmett was bored, he found other things to amuse himself. Like once he somehow snuck out of Esme's hearing range, claiming something about Kane -the wrestler that was the main evil guy in the movie- and came up in front of me quickly. I screamed bloody murder while he rolled and laughed on the floor. While Edward patted me and shushed me, Emmett was stopped by death glares from his wife, and frankly all the people in the room. Myself included in that. Esme made him apologize and after that it was quiet. Except for the occasional gasp from me.
The credits were going when Alice came by my side, "Do you want to get out of those pajamas?"
"Um...okay," I narrowed my eyes into slits at her, was she planning something?
"Bella, relax," she cooed gently as she held her hands up in the air, "I'm not going to do anything sneaky."
"Really?" I quirked an eyebrow as Edward pushed me off his lap, I turned around to stare at him. More like ogle, actually. "Edward," I sounded breathless.
"See you in a bit!" he quickly kissed my nose and then Alice threw me into her arms and rushed up the stairs.
Wow, that was a big surprise. He let me go so willingly? Alice stopped by the door of Edward's room. The door was closed, before she opened it she gave me a huge smile. "Are you ready?"
"For what?" this was all so confusing.
Her laugh was musical as always, but with a darkly cheerful undertone, "You'll see."
"This is all getting on my nerv-" I was cut off when she swing open the door.
All over in Edward's room, the whole floor was filled with candy. Of every size and color and kind imaginable. Were they insane? Had they lost it? They couldn't eat this stuff. Hello, vampires can't digest food! I sure as hell couldn't eat it all. Wading through the piles of mountains of candy, Alice encouragingly smiled at me. Sure, I was probably going to fall or something, but I shook my head as I went in too. More like stumbled.
"Bella! You're blood will be pure sugar, now!" Alice choired as she sat fluidly on his couch.
I was still making my way, every second I heard the cracking sound of hard candy, "Um, is that a good thing?"
"I vaguely suppose so," she shrugged as I finally reached her.
"Where are these clothes?" I groaned super loudly.
Her grin widen profusely as she held up white pair of soft cotton pants and a orange shirt, "Right here!"
"That's not too bad," I commented as she handed me the shirt. On the back of it, was black spider webs, it looked pretty.
"Told you so, well not really, but anyway!" she quickly made a pathway from the couch to the bathroom before I could even comprehend it.
With clothes in hand, I shuffled easily to the bathroom. A lot easier than before. Once inside the bathroom and away from Alice, I stripped off the pajamas and pulled on the pants. After smoothing those down, I got the shirt on and looked into Edward's mirror. I looked brighter, less pale if that was even possible. But I was, I smiled and blushed, with no one else with me. Pretty stupid, huh? Alice was banging on the door, "Enough time in there Bella, come on out!" her voice was excited.
Taking a big breath then letting it out, I opened the door. She cracked a gigantic smile and swiftly hugged me, "I love you so much!"
That came out of nowhere, "Thanks Alice! I love you, too!" I gushed.
"Great! Let's go back downstairs," she laughed and somehow had managed to get a bowl. As we were walking out of his room, so proceeded to scoop up candy with the bowl. I guess that was for me. They were trying to get me sick off all things sweet, I swear! She zoomed out of my sight as we made our way to down the stairs, only to appear again by me in less than four seconds.
"Hello again!" she waved, like she hadn't seen me in years.
Without being able to help it, I blushed at her.
"Already, now for the real special of movie day," she sounded like she was doing a trained monologue, "In the Halloween history, one creature has always survived the test of time. The creature most terrible, scary, and at least a bit morbid. Of course we know this creature as the vampire."
As soon as she said vampire, the lights went out. Still barely being able to make out her figure, I was a bit muddled to say the least. Then I heard a scream. I wondered where it was coming from, oh crap, I was doing it! Instantly, I cut it off and blushed. A cold hand took mine and whispered, "Follow me if you wish to die."
This sparked my interest, "Really? You'll do it?"
Alice giggled, she might have shook her head no but I couldn't be sure.
"Walk or stumble this way," her voice was back to the practiced monologue.
While I was being pulled further into the dark, I wondered what the heck they were doing. Obviously they were all having lots of fun. Emmett was probably off in some corner somewhere snickering his head off. And I wasn't going to spoil their fun, so I groaned silently as we moved down the stairs and went along with their game. Only a few times did I actually stumble, but I didn't fall. Which was great! Maybe I'm starting a record or something. At the end of the steps downstairs, I could see nothing still. All the windows were covered, including the wall.
"Are you enjoying it yet?" Alice asked almost too quietly for me to hear.
I gulped loudly and nodded, I knew she could see me.
"Excellent!" she shouted and the lights flashed on to show the room was decorated with pumpkins and streamers in black and orange. The whole family jumped out from behind the furniture and yelled, "Surprise!"
My mouth was hanging open and I was speechless. Edward raced over to me, replacing Alice, and chuckled at my expression. I was dazzled not only by him, but by his whole family and the decor. My family. They were all dressed in varying shades of orange white and black. Of course, Edward looked the best. Rosalie was very close in beating him for that title, though.
"Geez you guys," I finally found my voice, though it was hoarse.
"Happy Halloween, Bella!" Jasper gushed off to the side, completely unlike him.
Everyone turn to look at him with a speculative eye, "What?" he questioned.
It was such a rare and funny display that I just had to laugh. Then Alice joined in and all the rest did too. Even Jasper giggled at himself. So for about five minutes we were all laughing so hard my cheeks hurt.
"Okay, enough with the laughing! You guys are killing me in the non-literal sense!" Jasper had to say, because he was getting the worst of it.
Edward murmured into my ear, "Do you like it?"
"I love it," I turned to him and smiled, "I love you, too."
His smile beat mine before I was wrapped in his frigid arms and his lips were to my hair, "I love you, Bella."
"I'm getting scarred over here!" Emmett ruined the romantic moment.
"Emmett!" Esme yelled over at him, he hung his head before lifting it up again.
"Now for my favorite part," he rubbed his hands together, "Sucky movies!"
"Huh?" I gazed up at my angel.
"Vampire movies that are so fake it's funny," he whispered back to me, then zipped us right over in front of the tv. Since there wasn't any candy on the floor here, he just laid us down and I cuddled up next to him. The candy thing reminded me, "Thanks for all that candy, Edward. And breakfast."
"No problem, sweetie," he kissed my forehead, "Hmm... you taste sweeter already."
I raised an eyebrow and then giggled as the first of a long line of vampire movies came on. In Queen of the Damned, Emmett was making rude comments so much Edward had to put his hands over my ears. The movie was pretty good though for being totally off base. The Lost Boys was comical, for some reason I could imagine Emmett falling over the railroad tracks. That would be just like him. I whispered that into Edward's ear.
"Actually, I think he's done it before," Edward twirled a lock of my hair around his finger, stopping every once and a while to sniff it.
"Really?" my voice was shocked.
"Yes, he didn't like it because the one he went off wasn't high enough," he mused, "Or so he claimed," his eyes made my breathing hitch because they were smoldering in the darkness.
"Oh," I muttered and couldn't pay attention to the rest of the movie because of those eyes. He didn't seem to mind, staring right back at me as I was to him. It's like they were lit with a hidden fire, I wanted so badly to find out with it was like. Edward moved me closer to him, then flipped me over so I was on top of him. I bit my lip and blushed, his whole family was there, watching us! He sighed and I was dazzled by his amazing scent. Who cares what they think, a voice in the back of my brain said, Edward's touching you. It had a point. My chin rested on his chest, still I was gazing up at him.
A smile graced his lovely face, his arms crossed over my body, chaining me to him. "Bella," he breathed my name quietly.
My heart started racing super fast and I couldn't really think at all now. But somehow I was aware that the movie was over and Rosalie was getting back up to slip in another movie.
"You started without me?" Carlisle popped his head into the room, causing me to look up.
"Sorry, dear," Esme beamed, "Couldn't wait," she ran into his arms and they hugged each other tightly.
Stroking his face, I ran my fingers over Edward's perfect lips. They parted and I could feel the cold air rushing out. Suddenly, he smacked his lips to mine with just the tiniest amount of force and I closed my eyes. It was so powerly passionate that I thought my brain might explode from the resatance to hold back from going too far. Once he broke away to give me some air, I turned my head and laid my cheek against his marble chest. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Alice and Rose grinning.
"Another movie or make out session 2.0?" Rose asked and instead of waiting for an answer put in Blade 3.
After we got finshed with all the movies, Alice annouced what I had been dreading: dress up time. I groaned quite loudly but it didn't help the situation any. Rosalie broke me away from Edward, because I had been clutching his shirt really hard and bounded me up the stairs. Once again in Alice's room, they locked the door.
"Do you want us to get ready first or you?" Rose asked, they were actually giving me a choice?
"Um, you!" I pointed to both of them.
"I knew it," Alice muttered, "Of course you did!" Rose butted in.
Alice sighed, "Never mind, maybe you'll stop being so hard headed if you see us first."
"Probably not," I shook my head and crossed my arms over my chest.
"We'll see!" Rosalie wagged her perfect finger at me and locked herslef up in Alice's bathroom first.
"Why do you always have to be so difficult?" Alice sounded not a bit annoyed in the least.
I shrugged, "I don't know. You always do stuff for me and I never get to do stuff for you I guess."
"Silly Bella!" she rushed over and hugged me, "Just you being here is all the stuff I need!"
Blushing, I stammered out, "Okay."
"Are you ready?" Rose asked through the door.
"For what?" I had no clue what she was talking about.
"For what! For me!" she yelled.
"Sure," I threw my hands up in the air.
"Get ready for..." she trailed off, "The alternate Rosalie!" when the door came open, it was stunning to see the transformation she took on. Instead of her beautiful golden silky locks, Rose had super straight long black hair. Her skin was just as pale, being off-set by the short black shiny dress she was wearing with black fishnet panty hose. On her arms she wore sleeves of fishnet hose again, her make up was done dark. A bright sliver choker was postioned dead center of her model-like neck. Like wise, hordes of silver bangles were on both arms.
"Whoa," I breathed, she was more beautiful than I could ever hope to be, "What are you supposed to be?"
"A gothic person!" she smiled, but then it disappeared, "They don't smile, whoops."
Alice clapped her hands, then turned to inform me, "Our theme is opposites."
"Oh, good idea!" I smiled at her.
"I know," she winked then pranced off to the bathroom.
It really was a cool costume. She walked over to me, not too fast but not human speed either. And did it in three inch heels!
"How'd you come up with that?" I was truly dumbfounded.
She cracked a stunning smile, "Thought it would look good and very different."
"You're right, it looks awesome!"
"Thanks!"
"It's my turn, now!" Alice announced and before either of us could speak, she came out.
Her costume was the total opposite of her, too. A red sequined top that stopped just ablove her belly button showed off her small figure. Rather puffy but still short matching skirt acompanyed the top, they looked like they were hand sewn. On her head were devil horns. Because Alice is always an angel, she is now the devil. Smart.
Alice coughed in her throat and waited for one of us to say something.
"Oh my god, Alice!" I shreeched strangely enough.
She flounced over to us, "How do I look?"
"Gorgeous," Rose told her, "Jasper will be so...marveled."
"So will Emmett," she winked.
"Now time for you, Bella!" they both said in unison. Oh crap. No way did I want to dress up. WE made a deal. But they did look so awesome. Should I still say no? They both must have saw the indecsion on my face because each grabbed one hand.
"We'll help you," Alice shook her head, "Don't worry."
"Uh..." I trailed off as they both tried to shove me into the bathroom.
My hands grabbed the doorframe, not letting go. If I was a vampire, I would have cracked it by now. "Stop it!" Rose groaned as she was being very careful about peeling my fingers away.
"No!" my mind was back working full force. I had been beauty lagged!
"What if I say that Edward will fall down when he sees you?" Alice asked me, I started to say why, but she beat me to it, "In the best way possible."
"Please," I begged, "No. You guys look beyond great, but no! Alice, you promised!"
"Oh well, I broke my promise now didn't I?"
"Yes."
"Now inside."
"For the love of everything, no."
"Bella! Stop being so stupid!" finally both of them managed to break my hold and get me inside.
"First, get her into the dress."
Gulping, I paled. Dress? Holy crow, what were they planning on subjecting me to? How crazy were they? This wasn't going to be good, I could tell.
"Stop being a sissy and come here," Alice grabbed be and dragged me over to a little linen closet in the corner. Actually, it wasn't little. It was the size of my whole bathroom! She opened it up and revealed a dress that looked like it belonged in Victorian times. Except that it was black and red. It had a corset, uh-oh. But I have to say, it was incredably marvelous.
"I can see in your eyes that you like it!" Rose pointed to me.
"I do," I admitted queitly.
Taking it in her arms, Rose swiftly laid it on a chair. How was I supposed to get that thing on? All the lace and everything was sure to make it hard. "See, we'll help," Alice reminded me and montioned for me to come by her and strip. Blushing, I undressed and they helped me into the oufit. Surprisingly, it wasn't itchy at all. Surely I thought all the ribbon and lace was make me want to scratch everywhere, the it seemed the inside was lined with silk. This must have been expensive.
"Okay," Alice shimed, "Now my favorite part of all!"
Oh great, the make up. How fun for me. "No, please guys. Don't do this." They ignored me of course. I groaned loudly as she pushed me down into a chair and went rushing all around to do my face while Rose had taken control of my hair. Every so often I winced, Rose was pulling at it and was chided by Alice each and every time. Plus, what was worse, I was turned away from the mirror so I couldn'y seek a peek a myself and probably freak.
"Done!" Alice happily clapped her hands then gasped, "Whoa!"
I was frightened by her sudden on slot of silence, "What?"
She murmured over to her sister, "Rose, look at her," so Rosaile came in front and her jaw dropped as she gazed at me.
"Geez!" she exclaimed, still star struck.
"You guys are scaring me!" I bit my lip and stood up.
"Turn around Bella," the both whispered, amazed by what they were seeing.
Slowly, fearing what I would look like, I turned to face the mirror. I looked for myself in the mirror, but couldn't find her. The sexy woman in there was more beautiful than I could even comprehend. Ever. Her hair was pinned up in an intricate bun with curling tendrils spilling out, some framing her face. Her face was pale, paler than usual with lavender lids and bruise looking marks under her eyes. The lips of the woman were fully red, like cherries. As I moved my eyes down, the chalky paleness of her skin flowed until the oval neck of the black and red dress stopped it. Now that I looked closer, that I saw that it was black lace over a deep blood red silk. It was beautiful and the corset tied on the back, forcing her boobs up. It stopped at the floor, covering my feet.
"What do you think?" Alice bumped into me.
I asked, raising a hand to touch the face, "Is that me or someone else?"
Their laughs were musical as the stared at me, "Silly! Of course it's you!" Alice threw her arms around me.
"Oh," I bit my lip and then smiled because I knew what I looked like.
A vampire. They had made me into a vampire but without the biting part. It was an opposite theme, so it make complete sense. I wonder what Edward would be dressed up like, does this mean he's going to be like a human? Switching roles? As Rose kissed my cheek and left a pair of open toe black thick half inch heels, I beamed at both of them.
"I love it!" I out as much meaning as I possibly could into those words and surprisingly without falling I launched myself onto both of them and smothered them in hugs.
"You know what? I think we should do this more often," Alice hugged me back, forcing all the air out of my lungs.
"Alic-" I tried to breathe, "Can't-"
"Whoops! Sorry!" she let me go and I could breathe again.
Putting the shoes on, they were super comfortable so they were easy to walk in. Carefully, I step out of they door after Rose opened it, "Edward will be more that speechless. He'll drop alive."
"Oh la la," I gave my voice a seductive hint and gave a coy smile.
"Do that when you see him!" they both gushed at the same time, "I can't wait to see it!" Alice was jumping up and down, I was afraid her skirt would fly up.
"No Alice, they have to be alone when it happens," Rose shook her finger her sister in a mocking tone.
Instead of a snappy smart comeback, Alice whipped her head up.
"Let's get her set up, Edward's getting ansty," Alice sighed.
The black hair of Rose's wig flew as she came over to take my arm. On the other sdie was pixie Alice, leading me out of her room. Coming to the hallway, I saw at the staircase there was a flat velvet box on the stair post. It hurried me, it was almost as if I was borrowing their vampire speed. When I got there, I found a piece of paper folded underneath it. It read in his prefectly elegant script:
My dearest Bella,
Don't open the box just yet my sweet. Wait for me so I can see your angelic face when you discover what's inside. I feel like I'm becoming alive just waiting for you because I love you so much. My utter perfection.
Love with all my power,
Edward
It made me start to cry, but I stopped in an instant because I remembered all that mascara that was put on my. This jogged my memory of my sisters, I turned to find them gone.
"Thank you, guys!" I whispered knowing full well they could hear me. Sure enough within a few seconds, I heard them start to giggle.
I steady myself with the other post and stood there waiting. Suddenly I heard a very audible gasp and wondered were it was coming from. No one was downstairs that I could see, I heard a soft name being whispered from behind me, "Bella."
To his adorable voice I turned to, to see the man I loved with all my life, death, heart, soul, and everything else. When I saw him out of my perferival vision and gasped at the sight of him. Dressed on completely black, his shirt hugged his chest, showing me how perfect it was. The color of his skin was just as ghostly white, but he looked happier somehow. Around his eyes, someone had done his make up darkly - it made his ocher eyes pop out against the blackness of the shadow. His hair was mainly the same, more messy maybe, more lovable it seemed. No, lovable wasn't the word. Touchable. I longed to ran my hands threw it. After my eyes connected with his again, they weren't able to leave them. His perfect eyes held three things: utter compassion, lust, and total amazement.
"Isabella," he was walking slowly up to me, but sped up so till he was only about a foot away.
His mouth was dropped open, he only moved it to speak my name, his eyes wide against the black of the eyeshadow and the whiteness of his skin.
"Edward," I seductively breathed his name as I leaned into his chest, "Oh la la."
It really astounded me that I remembered my lines. He was surely flabbergasted, not being able to speak any more. Like the snap of a whip, he pulled me closer to him, lifting my chin up more so he could look clearly into my eyes. Now they burned with absolute lust, whether it was for my body or blood, I had no clue. One of his hands came down and folded across my lower back, his hand ending on my opposite hip. Edward's other hand was still on my chin, it had never left.
"It's a great thing none of my family can read my mind," his cool breathe tickled my throat as he leaned into my ear.
I was dazzled completely, my face was by his hair. He smelled so good, "Why?"
"Because even as vampires they would be blushing," he kissed my neck, then quickly moved up to my lips.
"Oh, okay then," a blush crept up into my cheeks as he moved his against mine to cool it down.
Edward gave me the alluring crooked smile, "Want to see what that box holds?"
All I could do was nod my head, he chuckled, "You're face is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
The red box was in front of me in a second, in his palm wait for me. I wait for him to give me some signal.
"You can open it now, you know," he placed a quick kiss on my lips and then pulled back.
Giving him the most beaming smile I could muster, I placed my hands on the box and carefully opened it up tp reveal something that made my heart stop. Inside was a connected three layer diamond necklace that was a choker with platatium clasp. My gasp was loud, even to my ears. I took my hands off the box and let them fall to my sides.
"You don't like it?" Edward's voice was scared as he raised the necklace up in the air.
"But it cost so much!" I stated and bit my lip.
"You deserve more that this," he came behind me and put it on my neck, clasping it in the back. The coolness of his hands lingered on my shoulders and his lips touched the base of my neck, "Happy Halloween, Bella."
A swell of graditute washed over me and I don't think it was from Jasper. It was from deep down inside, the kind of feeling you'll never forget. Quickly, so I would be sure to startle him, I spun and and launched myself onto his ice cold body. He was surprised, so surprised in fact that he lost his balance and we fell back on the stairs. Before I could get hurt through, he had us right side up at the bottom of the staircase.
"Bella," he growled deep in his throat -a playful growl.
A shy smile played on my lips as I ran back into the living room to see the rest of the Cullens there and was wholly amazed at the sight. Looking boyish, Jasper was dressed in a brown cowboy's outfit. The chaps were leather and he didn't look very happy about it. Alice on the other hand was beaming up at him, with a smile so bright I had to look away. Esme was dressed as an old lady hag, with gray and white hair, wrinkles even, and a hunchback with a cane. This was very different, Rose and Alice probably had to work very hard on her.
Standing by his wife was Carlisle, his appearance actually frightened me to no end. Hosptial scrubs coated in blood and gore splashed across his body made me want to run and hide. But, I reminded myself, it was Carlisle, so I was fine. Even though it was probably fake blood, I was still a little freaked. I found myself scanning the room for Emmett and Rosalie, but couldn't seem to find them at all.
When the family turned to me, they all gasped, even Alice who had already seen her handywork.
"Oh my god!" Esme rushed over to me and gave me a huge hug, "You look absolutely marvelous!"
"You look spectular Bella," the totally still scary Carlisle told me, giving me the same old comforting smile.
I winked at Alice, "Thanks!"
"She's glowing with joy, you know," I somehow heard Jasper whisper to Edward.
"Of course I know," Edward smiled down at me before we heard a bell-like noise.
All of us looked up to see the goth Rose standing at the beginning of the stairs.
"Is everyone ready to see the main event?" she asked, her beautiful voice echoing through the halls.
The rest of the Cullens cheered loudly, almost popping my ear drums. I just looked up at Edward questionably while the cheering was still going on. He winked at me and pointed to Rose.
"Okay!" she boomed and I saw the tip of something green. And purple.
"No! Don't make me do it! Please!" Emmett pleaded, but I still couldn't see him.
"Come on you wuss!" Jasper chorled, "You serve worse!" Edward laughed. I didn't understand what they were talking about.
"Emmett! Get your butt down here! And make it slow! We all want to get a good look at you!" Esme commended him, so slowly Emmett inched forward. The first thing that I saw of him was the mutli-colored hair. But instead of it's usual curliness, it was stright like his wife's. Purple, green, and day glo orange streaks ran through it so much you couldn't see and black. This wasn't why I was laughing, though. It was qhat he was wearing that made me want to die of amusment. The plum purple of his lace v-neck tank cami top showed of his broad shoulders while the vinyl lime green tight pants squeaked with every movement that he made. The bright orange lace up boots made quite an inpression also. I wondered what he was supposed to be.
"Edward, what is exactly is Emmett supposed to be?"
"A drag queen."
Basically I've decided to add another chapter than I thought I wouls since I made this one so long. That means there will be four chapters instead of three! YAH! To all the people who reviewed and will review now, I thank you so much! You kept most of my depression away! Well, tonight's Homecoming, so I have to go get ready! Please, take the tiny time to review! Sorry it took so long to post! But it is long enough, right? Love you all very deeply!