Chapter 19: The Makeover

Alice's POV

"But you went hunting with me yesterday," I whined as Jasper pulled on black his boxer briefs. He looked at me and then sent a calming wave through the air, taming my lustful need for him.

"Babe, you know I'm always hungry." He kneeled down and crawled seductively back across the bed and over to me. He placed a tender kiss on my lips fueling my desire for him once more.

"I'm still hungry too," I breathed against his lips, his silent laughter shook the bed.

"I promise to feed you later, but right now… daddy needs blood." I giggled at Jasper, sometimes his country drawl made some of the things he said sound so sexy. "You could still come you know," he picked up his jeans off of the floor and put them on.

"Nah, I have a feeling I need to be here. Besides, there's going to be too much testosterone out there." He was going with Emmett and Edward. I'd much rather stay here and do nothing; Edward's still being a drama king and Emmett… I take Emmett in small doses.

"I'll be here waiting… naked." I lifted the covers off myself allowing my husband to feast his eyes on me. Nothing boosts my ego like the way Jas looks at me.

"I'll hurry home." He seemed to be willing himself to blink. He eventually gave me a playful smile and blew me a kiss and ran out of our room. I lay back in bed and giggled to myself. After all the years that Jasper and I had been together we'd, not missed a beat when it came to knowing each other's bodies. I seriously planned to stay in bed naked and revel in the great sex I'd just had. After a while I may grab a book but Jasper had left me with a great deal to think about.

After a few minutes of sweet solitude, my phone buzzed and started playing my favorite song, Rihanna's 'Diamonds'. I read the ID, why was Leah calling me?

"Hey." I looked at the clock on my nightstand it was around 9:00PM. I was trying to figure out why she could possibly be calling me. "You okay?"

"Uh yeah. You still want to cut my hair?"

"Yeah." I sat up in the bed and picked at the comforter. "You want me to come over tomorrow?"

"Actually, I was wondering if I could come over there… if… um the coast is clear."

"Leah, Edward's not going to bite you or anything. He's not going to force himself on you. There's no need to avoid him, but for the record none of the guys are here and Rose is out with Esme, so I'm all alone."

"Cool, I'll be over in like fifteen minutes." She hung up and I stared at my phone. So much for basking in my afterglow.

At 9:35 I answered the door and let in a red eyed Leah. She was wearing and jean jacket and black sweatpants. She waltzed into our living room. I hoped that she wasn't going to pretend to be fine, because there was no way that was going to be believable.

"You ready to channel your inner Edward Scissorhands?" Leah chuckled and then plopped down on the couch.

"Yeah, come on into the bathroom I've set everything up in there." She got back up and followed me upstairs. Once Leah had sat down on the chair I'd placed in the bathroom I pulled out my scissors.

"You know you're trusting me with a lot here, Leah," I teased and waved the scissors in her face. She chuckled dryly and moved my hand out of her face.

"Weren't you ever told not to play with pointy objects?" She was trying to be comical but she was just coming off kind of bland.

"You want to talk about it Leah?" I offered as I wet her hair and started to work.

"Sam called. He wants to be close to me and for me to be okay with him dating my cousin. He wants me to come home while all of this 'stuff' is going down." She paused for a moment. "I can't do that. It seems wherever I turn I'm going to get hurt. Maybe when this war goes down fate will put me outta my misery." I looked in the mirror and noticed that Leah was discretely wiping tears from her face.

"So you're still in love with Sam?" I questioned and she snorted.

"I'm not in love with him. I still feel betrayed by him, but I'm not in love with him. Being around him just reminds me of how easily someone I love can disappear from my life. Its better I banish them first." I knew she was thinking of Edward but I was tired of getting in the middle so I wasn't going to pry.

"I hope you're okay with side bang short layered bob, because that's what you're getting, little girl. Then after I'm finished I'm going to give you a makeover, put you in a hot black dress, and go out and get you drunk!"

"That's the last thing I feel like doing," she muttered, she was picking at her fingers.

"That's exactly why you need to do it. All this talk of loneliness and death is killing my mood. You obviously need to have a little fun and forget about all of this stuff. It's my duty as your friend to provide a distraction."

It didn't take long for me to finish Leah's hair. I was pretty accurate and I had a very steady hand. She was admiring herself in the mirror when Rose appeared by the doorframe.

"It looks cute, you getting ready for the big fight!" She came in and jostled Leah's shoulders. Leah took a deep breath and then nodded. "You okay? You look like you've been crying?"

"Yeah, she's fine," I answered for Leah. "I'm taking Leah drinking. Wanna come?" I asked and Rose smirked.

"Sure, I'll go throw something on." Rose turned on her heel and went to go get ready.

"You know I'm not old enough to drink." Leah snickered.

"Don't worry about that. I had Jasper get a fake ID made for you. I figured we might need something, sometime in the future." I pulled out my makeup and worked on adding blush to Leah's face. She really didn't need much make up. She had what I considered a natural attractiveness; she could just roll out of bed and look exotic and beautiful.

After adding some ? lip gloss I deemed Leah an absolute Eleven. "Okay I'm gonna grab you a dress, then we'll be ready to party." I clapped my hands in excitement and Leah gave me small smile. I seriously needed to lift her spirits. I was scared the poor girl was going to go into battle and allow someone to harm her.

I already knew what dress I was going to grab for Leah to wear, it was black, sleeveless, tight, and clingy. I paired it with these sexy red pumps I'd just bought for her. I knew she was going to be a knock out. This outing was going to prove to Leah that there were more men on this earth than Sam and Edward.

I let Leah use my room to get dressed and joined Rose in the living room to wait for her. Rose was sitting on the couch flipping through a magazine. She looked up at me and smirked. "Cute dress, Alice, I haven't seen that one before." She lowered her eyes and went back to reading her article.

"It's new." I smoothed the fabric of my red dress. Rose, of course looked picture perfect in her gray dress that showed off her best assets, her breasts.

"So… what's up with Leah? She normally doesn't come to the house. Not that she dislikes us, but the smell burns her nose." Rose commented and I rolled my eyes. I was the one who gave her that information, I didn't know why she was repeating it to me.

"She's heartbroken." I shrugged and my sister snorted.

"Right… you can't be heartbroken if you don't try," she said under her breath as she turned the page. She looked up at me and I glared at her. "Her mood is as much her own fault as it is Edward's." Just as I was about to respond, there was a knock at the door.

Bella's POV

"Bella?" Alice opened the door, she seemed confused and almost guilty seeing me here. I noticed that she was all dressed up. God, I wanted to be as beautiful as her.

"Hey, you and Jasper headed out?" I slid past her into the house and I saw Rose sitting in the living room. She glanced at me, shook her head with a frown, and looked back down at her magazine.

"Hi Bella," Rose murmured dryly.

"Hi." I forced out the one syllable word. "You two going on a double date?" I looked to Alice for answers. Alice glanced at Rose and Rose just shrugged. Alice took a deep breath and then looked toward the stairs.

"Actually we're going to have a girl's night out." There was an awkward silence and the house felt still. There was something that wasn't being said.

"Oh, well, I wish I could join, but I'm here to see Edward." I sat down and waited for him to appear.

"He's not here," Rose said bluntly.

"Weird. He texted me and told me to meet him here." I pulled out my phone and checked the message. Yeah, he wanted to see me. I was actually shocked he had contacted me; Jacob seemed to be the only one that missed me lately.

"He must be on his way back." Alice shrugged.

"Or he's here." Edward whispered in Alice's ear and she jumped and hit him.

"Don't do that!" She yelled at him, then chuckled.

"I'm surprised you didn't see me coming!" Edward teased his sister. He seemed happy. This was about the first time since I'd come back that I'd seen him look completely happy.

"My vision is a bit blocked right now," Alice mumbled. Edward and Alice shared an intense look. He looked upstairs and then swallowed hard. He turned his stare to me and offered me his hand.

"You wanna get out of here?" I reached for it and began to get up. In the moment that I paused to get my coat, Leah appeared and began to walk down the stairs.

"Alice, this dress may be a little too small." She was looking down, adjusting her top. When she locked eyes with Edward she froze. I wondered if he had noticed, I looked at him and he had frozen in time with her. Maybe she was just embarrassed because he'd seen her adjusting her top. I took a deep breath and tried to calm down my jealousy. I also took note of the fact that neither Alice nor Rosalie had told me that Leah was here. Were they keeping her a secret from me? Maybe they just thought there was nothing to tell.

"You ready to go?" I reached out and took Edward's hand in mine and tugged. He looked down at our joined hands and then back to Leah.

"You're going to the bar?" he asked Leah.

"It's none of your concern, Edo," Leah groused and moved past him to stand between Rose and Alice.

"Edo?" I snickered.

"Yeah, it's a nickname I've had for Edward," Rose offered. "Leah picked up on it." Leah arched her eyebrow at Rose.

"Seriously?" Leah scoffed. "I call, Edward, Edo because I want to and I can. I didn't pick it up from anyone. Weren't you two headed out?" Leah crossed arms and looked down to the floor.

"Yeah, and so are we!" Rose locked arms with Leah and walked her to the door.

"Uh… wait. Leah, can I have a moment?" Edward let go of my hand and stood as if he were about to go after her, it seemed like he was almost pleading with her. She stopped for a moment, glanced over her shoulder with saddened lowered eyes.

"No," she whispered and shook her head as she hurriedly headed out of the front door, Rose and Alice followed her. "No."

Once the door shut behind them, Edward dragged himself to the couch and sat down and closed his eyes. Something felt like it crawled into my stomach and rotted inside me.

"Weren't we leaving, too?" I walked towards him.

"Wha- oh yeah, maybe in a little while. There's no big rush." I slowly sank down beside him. It was crazy how his mood had changed so rapidly.

"Okay so, we'll just sit." I grabbed his hand once more. He stared down at our united hands and then looked into my eyes. I couldn't place the emotion I was seeing on his face. I took my other hand and smoothed it over the side of his face.

"Edward, what is it?" He shook his head… was it sadly?

"It's nothing you need to concern yourself over. Bella-" He paused and looked as if he were trying put his thoughts into order. "You wanna go to the bar?"

Author's Note: Okay now that Remembering Leah's finished I can spend some much needed time on my other stories. I hope you all liked this chappie. Let me know what you think. Please read, review, and no flames.