"I like you in a jumpsuit." Rosalie said as she admired Bella's body in a long sleeved tight purple jumpsuit while riding in the back seat of the town car Bella had arranged to drive them that night. Bella completed the outfit with a pearl necklace, matching pearl earrings, a black wide belt and 4in black jimmy coos. "It hugs you in all the right places."
Bella ran her hand up and down Rosalie's thigh. "I'm enjoying these leather pants myself, but the lack of fabric on your back is a very nice touch."
Rosalie adjusted the neck of her red halter top. "I thought you might like that. Did you manage to get us into the club?"
"Piece of cake. Having a person representative has it's perks." Bella told her.
"Gene doesn't mind doing this kind of stuff for you?" Rosalie asked.
Bella shook her head. "No, he is really happy that I'm doing things and not hiding away from society. He also knows I'm responsible so he doesn't worry about us going to a club with alcohol. He knows I would never drink, so there is no way I would make a scene and embarrass myself."
"It's a good thing we didn't bring Emmett and Alice then. They would have been a guarantee embarrassment ." Rosalie said.
"You should go easier on them."
"No, you should stop letting them walk all over you. Why do you always let them get their way?" Rosalie asked.
Bella thought about that for a minute. "I think it's because of their innocence. So many bad things have happened to Alice but she remains a bright spot in this world. I mean look at Jasper. He has every right to become a vicious, mean, horrible vampire hell bent on destruction, but Alice gives him so much support and love that he is actually able to forgive himself and enjoy life. Then there is Emmett who always seems like a goofball that wants to have fun but I know underneath that he loves deeply. I have no doubt that if we asked him to, he would stand against Edward and the whole newborn army himself just to make sure we were safe, knowing the whole time we didn't need his help. If I can help those two keep a hold on even a little bit of their happiness I would do so gladly. You also have to admit they really haven't asked for anything to extravagant."
Rosalie gave Bella a kiss."I love that you can put a positive spin on such an annoyance. Can you at least try to reign it in though? You have to remember they have parents, they don't need us."
A clearing throat caught their attention. "Ms. Shurlong we are here."
"I'll get the door there is no need for you to do it." Rosalie told the driver as she got out of the car and held her hand to help Bella.
Bella handed the driver some cash. "I'm not sure how long we will be but it should be long enough for you to get something to eat. So go enjoy yourself and we will let you know when we are done so you don't have to wait."
The driver looked at the cash and went wide eyed. "That's ok . It's my job to wait for you. I don't mind."
"I insist. If you want I can call your boss and clear it with them." Bella said.
The driver shook his head. "No ma'am it's fine. You can text me and I'll come as soon as you do. I'll just go to some place close."
"Thank you." Bella said accepting Rosalie's hand and getting out of the car.
"No,Thank you Ms. Shurlong." The driver said as the door was closing.
Rosalie pulled Bella to her side and pointed to the line of people that wrapped around the building. "Do we have to wait in that long line?"
"Of course not. You're with American royalty." Bella chuckled.
"Back of the line." The doorman said not even looking at them as they walk up to the door.
"I'm on the list." Bella said.
"Sure you ar…" The bouncer stopped mid sentence when he finally looked up at Rosalie and Bella.
Rosalie rolled her eyes and Bella chuckled. "It should be under Shurlong."
"Shit. They told me the Shurlong heiress was coming tonight." The bouncer mumbled to himself not realizing the two girls could here him."Of course Ms. Shurlong, my apologies. Come right in."
"Thank you." Bella said politely as she led Rosalie by the hand into the club with her.
They hadn't even made it to the main room before a man in a suit approached them. "Ms. Shurlong, I'd liked to introduce myself.I'm James Weston and I'm the manager of the club."
Bella held out her hand. "It's nice to meet you ."
James took her hand and shook it a little to enthusiastically. "Thank you for coming this evening. It's not everyday we get someone of your caliber in here. I have a VIP booth ready for you and a dedicated server for your table. If there is anything you need let her know and it will be brought immediately."
Bella gently extracted her hand that was still being held by James. "Thank you, that is very kind of you."
James waved a girl dressed in black slacks and a white button up shirt over to them. "This is Brit. She will be your server. I'll let her show you to your table. If anything isn't to your liking let her know and I will deal with it personally."
Bella gave Brit a reassuring smile, noticing the girl seemed really nervous."Thank you for taking care of us Brit. Please call me Bella and this is my girlfriend Rosalie."
Brit blushed as she looked at Bella and Roslaie's intertwined hands. "If you will follow me this way I'll show you to your table."
Rosalie followed close behind Bella never dropping her hand. The club was packed with a lot more people than she thought would be there. The dance floor was dark with only strobe lights and black lights for visibility. She wasn't sure how the humans could see where they were going or who they were even dancing with. The booth they were led to was in a well lit roped off area and had a bouncer at the entrance blocking people. Out of the five booths two of them towards the wall were empty and Rosalie wondered if management did that by design to give them privacy. As they walked passed the three vip booths Rosalie rolled her eyes at the random whispers.
"Whoa look at them…."
"I mean the the blond one is hot but did you see the freaky looking one…."
"Shurtlong heiress…"
"Worth billions…."
"If I was dating her I would want to mark my claim by dying my hair too…."
"Did you see her eye? I felt like she was looking straight into my soul….."
"Do you think they would talk to us? I mean a few of us are really famous….."
"Is that a bite on her shoulder? You can see the teeth marks…"
Bella sighed as she too heard the whispers. She wanted Rosalie to have a good time and get her wish to go dancing but was worried that maybe they would be bothered. Rosalie deserved a night out. Hell Rosalie deserved more than a night out. She deserved a ten year vacation for all the crap she had to put up with by being Bella's imprint. A night out was the least she could give her. Hopefully her status would intimidate the people around them enough to leave them alone. If not Bella hoped that she wouldn't have to spend the night keeping Rosalie from killing these humans. She wanted to romance Rosalie not restrain her.
Brit stopped them at the booth farthest from the three others giving them a small buffer from everyone." Can I get you anything to start? We do an excellent bottle service and we serve a small menu of food."
"We both would prefer everything we drink tonight be non alcoholic. Is your bartender able to make virgin drinks?" Rosalie asked as she slid into the circular shaped booth, pulling Bella to sit right beside her.
Brit blushed at the word virgin. "I'm assure you anything you want we can make it non alcoholic."
"I'll have something tropical. You can choose and maybe in a little while we will order some food." Bella told Brit with a smile.
Rosalie rolled her eyes at the girl. She looked like she was ready to swoon. " I'll have the same, thank you."
Brit nodded not taking her eyes off Bella."Sure be right back with those."
Bella wrapped her arm around Rosalie. " If this annoys you we can leave, but I'm sure when they get used to us here we will be fine."
Rosalie snuggled into Bella's side. "It will be fine. It's weird getting noticed. I'm not sure it's the brightest idea for us to be so public though. Eventually someone is going to notice that neither of us age."
Bella kissed the top of Rosalie's head."We can worry about that another time. Let's just enjoy the perks while we can."
"You're right." Rosalie agreed. "We have enough things to worry about. That's something we don't have to deal with for many years. Let's leave serious discussions to when we get back home."
Bella leaned back and ran her hand through Rosalie's silky locks. It was nice to just enjoy each others company. Even though they were getting looks from the people around them in and out of the VIP area, it felt like they had a space just for themselves. It was a nice change from only having Rosalie's bedroom to go to. Bella decided right then that as soon as this Edward stuff was dealt with she was taking Rosalie on a vacation. Anywhere Rosalie wanted to go Bella was taking her. Charlie would just have to deal with it because she wasn't going to worry about his permission.
Brit walked up their table and sat down two colorful drinks in martini glasses, each with an umbrella. When Bella tried to hand her her credit card Brit stopped her. " These and everything else you order tonight are being taken care of by Miss. Billings over there."
Bella looked to the VIP booth Brit pointed at and noticed an attractive brunette looking over lifting her glass to them."Who's that?"
"You don't know who Cynthia Billings is." Rosalie and Bella shook their heads causing Brit to go wide eyed. "She's an Oscar nominated actress. She's been in a ton of movies and she also models."
Rosalie shrugged "We can pay for our own food and drinks. Please tell Miss. Billings thank you anyway."
Brit looked uncomfortable. "She insisted."
"Really it's ok. We pay for ourselves." Rosalie told her.
Noticing Brit getting more uncomfortable Bella asked. "Is something wrong with us paying?
"Honestly?" Bella nodding and Brit leaned forward. " She isn't the only one to ask to pay your tab. She was just the first."
"Really? Why would people want to pay for our stuff?" Bella asked.
"Well because your the Shurlong heiress. Surely you must realize your popularity. I mean your family founded America." Brit said.
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "How about this. We pay our own tab and you send Miss. Billings a bottle of your finest champagne as a thank you for her offer. Then if anyone else asks you can tell them it's already taken care of."
Brit gave her a small and scanned Bella's credit card with her tablet. "That's awfully generous. I"ll make sure she gets it. I'll check in with you guys again but if you need me press the bottom on this and I'll come right away."
Rosalie took the black remote like device from Brit. As Brit walked away Rosalie turned to Bella catching her amused smirk. "What?"
Bella's smirk grew. "Oh nothing. I just enjoy you spending obscene amounts of money to prove to a complete stranger that you can take care of your own mate."
Rosalie sighed. "I can't control myself when it comes to you. You aren't mad are you?I mean it is your money."
Bella kissed Rosalie's forehead. "It's our money and no I'm not mad. You didn't go over there and hurt her so it's fine with me. I would have done the same thing in regards to you. So I don't blame you."
Rosalie smiled. "I'm glad you accept me and all the pettiness."
Bella chuckled. "It's not pettiness. It's in your nature to be offended when someone else tries to take care of your mate even in little instances. Don't think I haven't noticed how much effort it took for you to hand over the cooking responsibilities to Charlotte."
"I just don't understand why they won't let me take care of you." Rosalie grumbled.
Bella took a sip of her drink. "It's the fact that you let them do those things that shows what a great person you are. I'm sure you would rather tell them all to go to hell and to leave us alone but you don't. You know letting them do the little they like to do with us and for us makes them happy and even if you don't want to admit it you want them to be happy."
"I want them to leave us alone is more like it. Sometimes it's just quicker to let them have their way instead of fighting over who gets to do what." Rosalie told her.
Bella kissed Rosalie's cheek. "I totally get it. I mean how dare something think of you as a caring, considerate person who thinks of others happiness."
"Exactly." Rosalie said gruffly.
Bella took the last drink out of Rosalie's glass. "I love you."
Rosalie beamed. "I love you to. Now let's go dance."
Rosalie slid out of the booth and took Bella's hand as they made it past the other booths without being stopped. As she pulled Bella to a dark corner Rosalie laughed.
"What? What's so funny?" Bella asked.
Rosalie held up some of Bella's now glowing hair. It looked like it was lit up with led lights."Your hair is glowing."
Bella pointed to Rosalie's white streak. "Yours is too."
Rosalie looked at her hair and laughed harder. "It must be the black lights."
Bella chuckled and grabbed Rosalie by the waist. "Are we going to talk about our hair or our we going to dance?"
Rosalie put her arms around Bella's neck and pulled their bodies together. The music had a loud thumbing bass and Rosalie moved her body in time with Bella's. Even though she said she wasn't a good dancer Bella actually could hold her own on the dance floor. Many times Rosalie caught other people staring at them but she just ignored them and focused on Bella. On the way Bella's body felt against hers. At the feel of Bella's fingers as she ran her hands across Rosalie's exposed back, how Bella would grind against her just enough to tease but never enough to satisfy.
After several songs her leather pants were starting to feel a little bit to tight so she pulled away from Bella . At her questioning look Rosalie said. "I need to take a break to cool off."
"Cool off?" Bella asked.
Rosalie looked at her own crouch area."Yeah cool off. These pants are getting tight and I don't want to rip them."
Bella smiled. "Yeah let's cool off. I could use something to drink anyway."
Rosalie put her arm around Bella's waist after Bella laid her arm over her shoulders. Where as the other people looked sweaty and smelled foul, Bella was completely dry and had that discint smell of wilderness that Rosalie so loved. They moved through the thongs of people and were let through the entrance to the VIP area. Rosalie's hopes of making it to their booth without being stopped were dashed when the woman Brit had called Cynthia Billings jumped up from her table and cut off their path.
Cynthia held out her hand to Bella. " Ms. Shurlong, I just wanted to say thank you for the champagne. It was very generous of you to send it to my table."
Bella shook the woman's hand. "It's no problem and please call me Bella. This is my girlfriend Rosalie."
Rosalie sighed when Cynthia turned her attention to her. "It's nice to meet you."
"The pleasure is mine I assure you. I have always found your family so interesting. I mean we all learn about them in school but to actually meet you in person is amazing." Cynthia gushed.
"Thank you, I take great pride in my family also." Bella told her politely.
Cynthia motioned to her table filled with 4 females and one male. They were all looking at Bella as if starstruck."I know you have your own table, but would you like to sit with us for a few minutes. I really would like the chance to ask you some questions. I mean how many opportunities will I ever have to talk to a Shurlong."
"Uhmmmm." Bella looked to Rosalie.
Rosalie leaned forward and whispered into Bella's ear. "What would your grandfather want you to do?"
Bella gave Rosalie a greatful smile and turned to Cynthia. "I guess we could spare a few minutes."
Cynthia clapped her hands together excitedly causing Rosalie to roll her eyes. "Excellent. Let's get the waiter to bring more drinks. What are you drinking?"