A/N: Here it is the second chapter! Sorry for the wait. I had writer's block and I was just flat out procrastinating. While I was trying to write this chapter more often than not I was writing out funny scenes that I thought of for other chapters. This chapter is really long (2,500 words) so enjoy!
Disclaimer: I much as I wish I did, I do not own Twilight or the show What Not to Wear. So there, now you can't sue me!
Chapter 2:
In which Edward finds out and Bella freaks out.
Alice POV
"Now remember Rose, NO thinking about entering Bella! If Edward finds out he will KILL us! And, he won't let Bella be on the show. By the way, I'll be getting a call a week and a half from now at exactly 11:54 AM telling me that they picked Bella for the show. Until then, not a word or a thought about it!" I warned Rosalie.
"Wow! Isn't that kind of quick? I thought they chose participants for shows like that months in advance." Rosalie asked sounding a little confused.
I thought for a moment then I remembered the tight-fitting cleavage-revealing shirt and micro-skirt that Rosalie was wearing last night.
"Somehow I think your outfit helped Rose." I said with a smirk. Rosalie thought for a second than it came to her and she let out a small giggle.
"In my vision the entire male population of where they review the entry videos was watching it. Which reminds me, you have a new stalker." Rosalie groaned. "He's this creepy old guy. He stole our address and phone number off the form we sent in."
"Great! That's the last thing I need! ANOTHER stalker!" Rosalie exclaimed.
"Remember that one from '86?" I asked.
"Ugh! All to well. We had to move because of him! I rather liked Maine."
I laughed. Then I asked,
"So what do you think he is doing now?"
"Probably sitting drunk and homeless on the side of the street still looking for you."
We both laughed and spent more than an hour reminiscing aboutall of Rosalie's stalkers. Then we heard a car pull into the drive way and a few seconds later Carlisle was walking through the door.
"Hey Carlisle!" Rose and I said together.
"Good Morning!" Carlisle replied as brightly as if he hadn't been working all night and hadn't slept for more than 400 years. But hey, being a vampire has its perks.
Not thinking about entering Bella made the week and a half fly by. The day that I had foreseen the person calling me to tell me that they had chosen Bella, I had to resort to reciting the Gettysburg Address backwards in Russian to keep myself from thinking about it. Edward noticed and began to grow suspicious of me. Around 11 o'clock I began to grow so jittery that I had to go run around the house a thousand times at vampire speed, which took only a few minutes, to calm myself down. I spent 15 minutes anxiously hovering around the phone. At this point Edward had definitely figured out that something was up. At last the phone rang at 11:54 on the dot. I picked it up almost before it rang. The person on the other line seemed startled that I had picked up the phone so quickly and stuttered a little bit when he asked,
"Uh, is this, um, Ms. Alice Cullen?"
"Yes."
"I'm calling to inform you that we have chosen Ms. Bella Swan, who you nominated, to be on the next show of What Not to Wear."
I had to pretend like I didn't know so I let out a sequel and shrilled,
"Oh my gosh! Are you serious? I can't believe it!"
"Well someone will be contacting you tomorrow to discuss arrangements with you." He said unenthusiastically. That poor guy has probably had to listen to thousands of people with similar reactions.
"Okay, that sounds great!"
"Okay then, goodbye."
"Bye, Bye!"
Then I hung up. I turned around and found a very irate Edward glaring back at me.
"You did WHAT?!"He bellowed at me. I should have seen this coming!
"I signed Bella up for a TV show." I answered meekly. Edward sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers.
"I can't believe you did that!" he shouted. He was a little calmer now but somehow I think Jasper had a hand in that. "She will end up getting hurt for sure!"
I quickly looked at Bella's possible futures and certainly enough, she ended up hurt in almost all of then.
"True, but she only ends up dead in 2 scenarios and brain dead in 5. By her standards the odds are really stacked in her favor."
"If she goes I go!" Edward retorted.
"Hmmm…" I looked again at Bella's futures again. Now that Edward had made up his mind a whole new set of futures existed. "Well that eliminates the death possibility and lowers the number of brain dead scenarios to 3."
"Then it's final, I'm going to New York City with Bella."
Emmett chose this moment to make his grand entrance,
"Why do Bella and Edward get to go to New York City? If they go then I want to go!" Emmett said in his most annoying and whiny voice.
"Because Alice here signed Bella up for a TV show without Bella's or my permission." Edward said bitterly.
"Gosh" I thought. "Somebody is a little bit overprotective"
"I heard that Alice." Edward growled menacingly. He was shooting death glares my way. I laughed nervously.
"Well anyways, Bella's not suppose to know! That's the whole point of the show. If we had told you then you wouldn't have let us do it and you would have told Bella. Which by the way, if you tell Bella, I will personally smash every CD in your collection."
"We? Us?" Edward asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Rosalie was in on it too." I confessed. Rosalie, who was in the room now, grinned evilly at Edward.
"Bella's going to be on TV?" Emmett blurted out. "What show did you sign her up for?"
"This show called What Not to Wear. People nominate their friends/family members who dress badly to get a makeover and a new wardrobe on this show."
"Common' Eddie! You've got to admit Bella does dress kind of boringly." I said. "You know it's true."
"Well I guess she can go but only if I go with." Edward said defeated.
I ran up to Edward and gave him a tight hug.
"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Edward! You'll like the outcome, I promise! You just have to promise me that you won't tell Bella!
"Only if you promise to never ever call me 'Eddie' again"
"Promise!"
"What's this talk about going to New York City?" Carlisle asked. He, Esme, and Jasper had joined us.
"Bella's going to be on a TV show and Edward and I are going to come with to protect Bella."
"You know, we haven't taken a whole family vacation in a long time. Why don't we all go?" Esme suggested.
"That's a great idea!" agreed Carlisle. "Esme and I will go."
"I'm definitely going!" I practically shouted. "New York City has great shopping!"
"Well I guess I have to go, seeing as Alice is going." Jasper grumbled. "If I said no, she would just force me to go anyways."
I smiled at my husband. He was absolutely correct. There was no way he was missing this! I was getting flashes of the future and it looked like this trip was going to be very, interesting.
The next day I got the call from the executives at What Not to Wear. They were going to send a camera crew to film Bella's two weeks of secrete footage. The following week they were going to start filming the show. All we had to do was refrain from telling Bella and get her to the movie theater 3 Sundays from now. The two weeks that they were filming Bella's secrete footage flew by. We had booked our tickets as soon as we new what day Bella was leaving. We booked a flight from a different airport using a different route than Bella because we didn't think Bella would like to know that all of us were coming. Edward was planning on telling Bella that he was coming along secretly to protect her. We didn't want Bella to freak out.
Finally we took Bella to the movie theatre. As we were leaving Stacy and Clinton, along with a camera crew, jumped out from behind a pillar and yelled,
"Surprise!" they said together.
"I'm Stacy"
"And I'm Clinton"
"And we're from TLC's, What Not to Wear!"
"Bella you have been nominated for What Not to Wear by your friend Alice." The small group of onlookers that had formed when people saw the cameras applauded. Bella's eyes grew large and panicked as they were introducing them selves and then in a Bella-esque fashion, she fainted.
"Well this is a first, we've never had anyone faint before." said Clinton. "Does anyone have a bucket of cold water? That always works in the movies."
"Don't worry; she'll come to within a minute." I said. "This happens quite often, Bella's a little emotional." Well that was partly true, but mostly I knew when she would come to because I had seen it in my vision. Surely enough Bella awoke exactly on schedule.
"Alice!" she shouted. She looked so fierce that I backed away, even though I knew she couldn't hurt me in the least way until she was a vampire.
Bella's POV:
I couldn't believe it! Alice had signed me up to be on NATIONAL TELEVISION! It was every major klutz absolute nightmare, to have every trip an accident recorded, than broadcasted for the entire COUNTRY to see! I would kill Alice for this!
"Mary Alice Brandon Cullen! I swear that the second I am a vampire you will be nothing but tiny little pieces in a fire!" I whispered so that they microphones wouldn't pick up any thing but anyone with vampire hearing would. All of the Cullens looked slightly taken aback. I guess they didn't know I could be so mean.
I looked at Edward and asked,
"Did you know about this?"
"Yes love, but by the time I knew there was nothing I could have done about it."
"I'm sure there was nothing that you could do to stop this!" I said with my voice dripping in sarcasm. "You could have, I don't know, told them I died or that there was a freak snow storm in Forks and no one could get out of their houses. You could have at least told me so that I wouldn't faint. Now the entire COUNTRY is going to see every trip and fall I make for almost a week! And, if anything I've seen on the show before is true, Stacy is going to make me wear heels!"
"Sorry love, I tried to talk Alice out of it but she threatened me with the destruction of my CD collection."
"Oh so now your CD's are more important than me!"
"Of course not Bella what would give you a silly idea like that?"
I was about to spurt out a witty comeback when a camera guy tapped me on the shoulder and said,
"Uh ma'am, if you're recovered now, we would like to continue filming."
"Okay." I answered. I sent death glares in Edward's direction as I walked back to the cameras.
"Welcome back Bella! I see you've recovered." Clinton. I blushed furiously at that comment.
"Now we have a 5,000 Visa card with your name on it, but you have to agree to fallow all our rules." Stacey said as she waved a thin piece of plastic in the air. I sighed and said,
"Well I might as well, Alice will never forgive me if I don't and I'm marrying into her family so it's not like I can get rid of her, yet." I added in an undertone implying that once I was a vampire Alice better watch out. All the Cullens heard of course, and I saw Emmett hiding a smile and Alice looking aghast out of the corner of my eye.
"It's decided then. Now if everyone will come with us, we're going to watch Bella's secrete footage. I groaned, there were probably a thousand videos that they had of me falling already! I remembered that camera guy that had asked me about how I would describe my style last week. I thought it had seemed a little weird that they were doing something like that in Forks. But the camera guy was kind of young so just thought it was a college kid doing some sort of research project. Stupid me! They had probably sent that camera guy to interrogate me!
Everyone filed into the empty movie theatre. Great, me falling, on a huge movie screen. Everyone sat down in the front row. I was between Stacy and Clinton in the very middle. The Cullens were on either side. I wished that I could be sitting next to Edward even though I was mad at him for not telling me.
Stacy pointed a remote at the screen and hit the play button. The first clip was of me walking out of the grocery store wearing grey sweats and a blue t-shirt. Stacy paused it,
"Bella, what were you thinking? Sweats are a big no, no anywhere except in the privacy of your house!" Stacy exclaimed.
I think my face was about the shade of a very ripe tomato when I answered,
"Ummm, I didn't feel like getting dressed. It was early."
"Still not acceptable."
She started the tape again; it showed me walking out of my house wearing a plain t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans. She continued talking why the tape was still rolling.
"Let's talk about this. These plain outfits are doing nothing for your figure."
"And you've got a great figure Bella." added Clinton.
"You really need to change it up a bit. Like put on a nice fitted jacket and it will make your outfit so different." Stacy suggested.
The video came to Alice and Rosalie sitting on the couch in the Cullen's living room. Alice was talking about how boring my wardrobe was and I wasn't paying any attention at all. When Rosalie started to speak her words caught my attention. Did she just say that I am denying my beauty (which is non-existent) and that I'm pretty! I couldn't believe that Rosalie of all people would say that I am pretty! I could hardly grasp why Edward thought I was beautiful! Now Rosalie too! My head was still spinning and I didn't realize that Stacy had stopped the video again until she started talking.
"Bella, everybody has the right to look good! It will make you feel so much better about yourself if you dress better. Spend some money on yourself sometime!"
I was still awestruck by what Rosalie had said so I just nodded my head.
"I think that's enough of the secrete footage. You definitely need some help." Clinton said.
"We'll see you in New York!"
