Shopping Trip OH la la
(hey piper a lil note the word creep its pro noced cra pees but I don't know how to do the lil acent think over the last e could you do that for me)
With the events of last night swimming dizzily through my head, I stirred early the next morning, not wanting to open my eyes yet.
As I realized that all the events of the day before were real, I opened my eyes wide. With eagerness I jumped up from our bed. Everything seemed too perfect; I almost expected some sort of danger to lunge out at me from the shadows
A twinge of pain ached in my heart yet again; my best friend and best man, my Jacob had skipped out on my wedding. I can't believe he did this to me!
I pushed him roughly out of my mind as I stretched, instinctively searching on the bed for my beloved, my Edward. I frowned somewhat unsurprisingly; he wasn't in the bed beside me.
I could smell crêpes wafting through the house. It was a warmly inviting smell. Within that second, Edward came walking through our bedroom door with a tray of crêpes with several different types of jams, a can of whipped cream and icing sugar, and a glass of orange juice. In the middle of the tray sat small vase with a single lily in it.
"Good morning Mrs. Cullen." Edward smiled his crooked smile; the one that I loved so much.
I sat up on the bed as he walked swiftly over to me and set the tray down. I sniffed it cautiously, but it smelled incredible.
I smiled devilishly at Edward as an idea struck me. We were married now; there was no reason for me to hold back any longer. I grabbed the whipped cream and shook the can as I leaned in to kiss my beloved. It was times like this I was glad Edward couldn't pick through my mind like he could everyone else's.
My finger on the nozzle I pulled back and took aim, spraying Edward with the cream, making sure I covered him in it; hair and all.
Alice passed by our room at that moment and seeing Edward covered in the wiped cream caused her to let out that musical laugh of hers. She stopped in the doorway leaning against the frame. "Edward, I must say that you just look so hilarious covered in all that cream," she laughed again. "Nice one Bella!" A sly smile played across her face.
"Uh thanks Alice," I smiled.
"Oh and Edward," Alice said, "I have to steal your wife for a little while, just a small shopping trip for the essentials before we leave tonight."
I looked quizzically at Alice, wondering what exactly she had planed for us. What did she mean 'before WE leave'?
I rolled up a crêpe before stuffing it in my mouth. Alice stifled a laugh at the sight of my cheeks bulging like a chipmunk that had a mouth full of nuts.
"That's fine Alice, just be back before five, we have to be on the plane by seven in order to be on time," Edward ordered, before smiling and giving me a small wink.
"Bella, I'll see you downstairs in an hour." Alice turned and headed towards the library, usually where Jasper was.
I turned to Edward. "What dos she mean by WE? Where are we going?" I almost growled at him in my frustration, although I didn't intend for it to sound as menacing as it did.
"Oh that…well it's our honeymoon, but Alice and Jasper are coming as well. It's another one of their trips, their anniversary is in a few weeks and Alice thought it would be nice to take an early anniversary with Jasper…and us," he said meekly.
"Do you know what Alice has on this all too elusive shopping trip she has planned for us?"
"Not a clue. Just that Mom and Rosalie are coming with you. That's all I could get out of Alice before her thoughts turned to Jasper."
Edward shuddered. Although he had never revealed what Alice was truly thinking, I had a pretty good idea.
I wiped my finger across his bare chest, and then shoved it in my mouth. "Mmm…cream of Edward," I teased, a grin on my face.
He chuckled.
Throwing the covers back, I jumped out of the bed, grabbed my toiletry bag and headed toward Alice's room.
I knocked on the door hoping that Alice was in her room. I didn't have any decent clothing to wear. All I had at the moment was an old pair of sweats and a t-shirt.
I opened the door slightly, just enough to poke my head through the crack. "Alice?"
"Come in Bella," Alice called from somewhere deep in her closet.
"Alice," I said again as I closed the door behind me, "could I borrow your bathroom? I desperately need a shower and some clothing, so do you think I could borrow something?"
"Of course Bella," she replied as she stuck her head out and around the corner of her closet.
"I'll find you something. You just go shower. There are towels on the rack when you need them."
She disappeared into her closet again, and I made my way to the bathroom. Closing the door, I stripped myself of everything and eagerly jumped into the shower, letting the hot water run over me like a cascading waterfall. I let the water ease my tensed muscles.
Relaxed, I let my mind wander.
Everything was wonderful. I was Mrs. Edward Cullen. Alice was my sister and now everything else ceased to exist except my new officially acquired family.
After twenty minutes, I reluctantly turned off the water and stepped out of the shower, wrapping one of Alice's fluffy pink towels around myself. I quickly brushed my hair and teeth before exiting the bathroom wearing only the fluffy pink towel.
Alice was waiting for me patiently on her snow white sleigh bed with pink covers. The bed itself was almost completely covered in red pillows that accented the red and pink walls of the room. Alice of course, already had a whole outfit picked out for me, and knowing her, she would insist on doing my makeup too, although I didn't see the need for it.
Glancing at the clothes, Alice had picked out a very pale pink dress for me. It was strapless and silk by the feel of it. It was a very pretty dress. In accent she also had a cameo sweater picked out to go with it that was a very deep crimson in color.
"Here Bella," she said enthusiastically as she shoved me back into the bathroom with the clothing in hand, "I think you'll like this one."
I slipped the dress over my head slipping into it easily. I pulled the zipper up at the side, just under my left arm.
Alice was right, as usual. I did like this dress. It shows off my curves, dipping slightly in the front and flaring out like a tulip in full bloom in the spring. I put on the cameo, which matched the dress perfectly.
I examined myself in Alice's full length mirror. I wasn't quite sure why, but the combination of the red and pink seemed to make my features pop.
Alice appeared in the mirror behind me. "Alice I love it, it's exquisite!"
"You can keep it on one condition," she said as she handed me a pair of red wedge heels. I was relieved; I would do much better in these then the heels that she had me in yesterday.
"And what would that be?" I raised one eyebrow at her.
"Please, please, please just let me put some makeup on you?!" she begged, totally ignoring my question and giving me her sad puppy eyes.
I couldn't resist, giving into her every time she gave me that face. How could anyone not give her what she wanted when she looked at you like that?
"Ok, Alice," I sighed, "but just the eyes and lips."
She squealed with glee as she rushed me towards her snow white vanity table that matched with her bed. Alice then started pulling things out of her drawers; an eyelash curler, eyeliner, lipstick, eye shadow, and finally mascara. I groaned as her slender white fingers wrapped around the handle of the eye lash curler; to me it looked like some sort of torture device.
"Oh, quit it Bella! It's not going to bite you! That's Edward's job," she laughed jokingly.
She ever so gently and swiftly pinched my eye lashes up. She was probably trying to make me look like some model off the cover of some expensive magazine. She then applied the mascara just as swiftly. My eyelashes were turned up in a seductive sort of way and I was feeling more and more like a life-sized Barbie doll for Alice to use her torture methods on. She painted my lips a bright crimson and my eyes a soft pink in a very subtle, and so very Alice way. When she seemed pleased with it, she let me go with a wide toothy smile that showed she was very happy with her work.
When she had released me from her death grip, I examined myself in the mirror. I had to admit, Alice does love doing this, and I always end up looking quite remarkable.
I turned to Alice with a pleased smile plastered across my face. That seemed please her even further.
"You wouldn't happen to be able to tell me where, and for what exactly, we are going today?" I tried to be menacing but with no avail. Alice just laughed.
"You know Bella, you trying to sound deadly doesn't work that well. It actually works against you. But yes, I'll tell you. We're going to Seattle, but for what, that will have to wait until we're a safe distance away from prying minds." She seemed to say the last bit more to the door than to me. I frowned, as I heard someone trip over something in the hall, most likely a carpet or something along those lines.
Then I herd Emmett's loud booming laugh as he went into a small fit of laughter. "I told you Edward! She would find out!" Emmett boomed.
"Well Bella," Alice said, "we shouldn't torture your poor husband anymore than we already have." She laughed lightly.
I rose from the small seat Alice had sat me on and we moved to the door. I opened the door to see my husband standing there. I looked at him shyly from beneath my lashes, in all his glory, his golden eye's smoldering, hungrily as he took in my appearance. He pulled me towards him, capturing my lips with his hungrily. Unwillingly we pulled apart for my need of air.
"I take it you like, Edward," Alice chimed gleefully.
I turned as Rosalie glided gracefully down the stairs, her car keys in her hand and a sky blue purse on her dainty wrist. Esme was right behind her.
"Ready to go?" Rosalie asked Alice, almost happily.
"Of course," Alice turned and skipped back into her room, grabbing two purses; one pink and one black. There wasn't anything special about them; they were mostly plain, except that they looked shiny.
I looked at Alice questionably, cocking an eyebrow up as if to ask her why the hell she needed two purses. Rolling her eyes, she shoved the pink one into my hands.
Rosalie and Esme were already down the stairs and waiting by the door for me and Alice. Rosalie was tapping her foot impatiently. We descended as fast as was humanly possible for me, the purse in my hand swinging heavily on my wrist and knocking me hard in the ribs.
We entered the garage and I looked around at the vast amount of fancy cars wondering which one of the outrageously expensive vehicles Rosalie would prefer to drive today.
Rosalie turned to Alice as Esme slipped into her Audi A5. "Why don't you and Bella take one of the other ones? We'll be able to get more into the trunks this way." She smiled meekly.
Alice looked at Rosalie suspiciously and grabbed a set of keys off the corkboard holding about 10 different sets of keys. Alice then walked playfully, almost child-like, across the room to Edward's Volvo.
"I'm sure Edward won't mind, especially after he sees you tonight," Alice gave me a sly smile as I slid into the passenger seat.
Esme and Rosalie were already ahead of us. Alice whipped the car out of the garage, flooring it down the dirt road toward the highway and down to Seattle. When we were at least a good ten miles from the house I turned to Alice.
"Ok what are we shopping for ALICE?"
"Oh nothing special, just some nightwear," she smiled impishly, stealing a look at me from the corner of her eye.
"NO way Alice! Your…..you….no" I couldn't get a coherent thought out. I couldn't believe Alice was doing this! Taking me out to shop for things for bed with her BROTHER!
I groaned at Alice as we turned into a parking lot in the heart of Seattle at a strip mall.
Esme and Rosalie were waiting for us in the parking lot three parking spots down.
"Did you tell her?" Rose asked eagerly.
"Yes," Alice smiled meekly.
"AND I'm not happy! Seriously, come on! That's your brother! Doyou want to know what he sees me in for OUR nights together? It's just disturbing."
I almost screamed. On every word my voice seemed to go up an octave.
Esme put her hand lightly on my shoulder pulling me close and hugging me tightly until I calmed down.
"Its ok Bella, dear, we just wanted you to have more proper clothing, and we're updating the house to give you a room of your own as well. Of course you'll get a say in the design and layout of your room. And yes, it will be next to Edward's."
I slapped Alice playfully across her arm. Of course she didn't feel a thing. She chuckled. "I didn't get to that yet. Bella, you were freaking out about the lingerie thing," she laughed.
"Ok if we're going to do this I want to get it over with," I half laughed.
We walked into the mall. The three of them dragged me through store after store. They had me try on dresses, skirts, sweaters, fancy tops…just about everything I could imagine. I insisted on getting some 'normal' clothes, to which Alice was not entirely impressed about.
Alice and Rosalie dragged me off again, mine and Esme's arms full of bags from various clothing stores. I must've had at least thirty bags myself. They agreed with me that we would do the lingerie shopping last. Now, it was our last stop.
Rose was taking the bags from me as Alice shoved me into a change room with a ton of lacy things. I grabbed one of the outfits; a blue lacey baby-doll, the fabric was soft, but also transparent. It felt nice on my skin, the sheer fabric draped down my body to my hips. There was a V-shape void of fabric that ran from the bottom of the bra right down to my naval. I slipped into the lacy booty shorts and then opened the door to the change room just a crack to find Esme sitting on a big round couch surrounded by the many shopping bags. Alice and Rose weren't with her.
Alice was looking at a sheer layered nightie with thin straps. I looked nice in red but definitely not the neon pink Alice was looking at. That color was dreadful.
"Alice, grab that red one and come here," I said as I opened the door a little more, I wasn't totally sure or even comfortable at this particular moment.
Alice smiled as she grabbed the red one off the rack and danced over to where I had poked my head around the door. I reached for the outfit. "Oh Bella, come on out and show us!" Alice chimed happily.
Reluctantly, I opened the door fully. I wrapped my arms around myself, trying to cover as much of my exposed body as was possible. But to no avail; Alice grabbed my arms and pulled them from my body.
"Mom what do you think?" Alice asked Esme, making me feel even more uncomfortable.
"Definitely a keeper," she smiled at me sweetly.
Alice shoved me back into the change room with the red nightie and the other outfits she had picked up for me to try on. I groaned as I tossed the outfit over the door, although I did like that one very much. I went through the other outfits, most of which, either I didn't like or didn't they look right on me until I came back to the red nightie again. I looked at it more closely, the thin straps, the layering of the fabric laid ever so slightly over the swells of my chest, the little bow between the swells of my chest, the pinching of the fabric on my hips as it accented them, the sheerness of the fabric as it drifted a little lower, covering my bum just slightly. The matching red thong covered the rest of me. I came out of the change room, not as embarrassed now and with a happy but sly smile playing across my face.
"Oh Alice, we are definitely keeping this one. I love it!"
"I would have to agree with you there Bella. You do look good in that," Rose said as she put a couple more bags down with my overflowing mountain of clothing and shoes. The bags had a name in some foreign language written across them.
"Thanks, Rosalie. Where have you been?"I questioned as I eyed the bags suspiciously.
"Oh I just went to the jewelers, you need at least some jewelry to go with your new wardrobe," she smiled happily.
I just rolled my eyes, letting them have there fun with me, as they seemed to be having.
I turned to Alice again as she walked around me, probably making sure the piece met her approval. "Yes this is a really good one," Alice said more to herself than to anyone else.
"Alice?"
"Yes. Bella?"
"Do you think they have anything in white? Maybe something with a garter belt and stalking's?" I gave her a half smile, looking a little embarrassed in the mirror hanging across from me on one of the change room doors.
"Let me go look."
I went back into the change room, took off the outfit, and tossed it over the door. Alice came back with a lacy white thing, and a pale pink corset top with a lotus flower pattern printed across the fabric on the top. The matching short skirt was way too short for wearing in public but not for behind closed doors.
I got the skirt on easily enough; it barely went past my upper thighs and left exposed skin where it shouldn't. It was a good thing Alice remembered a pair of pink booty short panties.
I fumbled around with the front clasps of the corset for about 10 minutes before opening the door slightly; Alice was adding a bag of her own to the collection, most likely something for her and Jasper on their anniversary trip.
"Alice?"
"Yes?"
"Um…could you help me here?"
"Oh, of course." She pushed her way into the small change room to help me. She did the clasps up and then swiftly moved to the back pulling at the strings to make it tight, causing the swells of my chest to become more prominent. I grinned, I was definitely hot. Finally, Alice tied it up at the top.
Alice's face went blank for a moment or two, but it was a look I knew all to well. She came back into focus and a sly smile played across her face. "Don't worry about trying on the white one, Edward will like that one."
"Alright, I'll get this one too. I like it."
With her vampire speed, Alice had me out of the outfit in a blink of an eye. Taking the white outfit that was still hanging on its hanger, and the other two outfits I had picked out, she left me in the change room to change back into the dress.
I came out of the change room a moment later dressed and ready to go. Rose, Esme, and Alice already had most of the bags in their hands when I came out. I picked up a few of the bags myself that were left along with my recently bought nightwear in my free hand. We left the shop happy and giggling as we discussed the different reactions we each had for Edward when he sees the outfits.
I was having such a good time that I almost didn't notice him. Surprised, I went a few steps ahead of the others. "Jacob?" I called and I realized I was still furious with him.
He turned and stared me in the face, glued to the spot where he stood. I didn't know what was happening to me, why I was so angry. I could see his deep brown eyes, his silky glistening hair, and my rage overpowered me…I couldn't see, I couldn't hear anything but the pounding in my ears…
SMACK!!!
