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Chapter 3: Ikea

Shopping as defined in the dictionary: searching for or buying goods or services. Sounds innocent enough, right? Well, under normal circumstances I suppose it would be, however if you add one small person named Alice into the equation, suddenly the innocent word becomes a traumatic experience for all involved…

"We're here Bella," Alice squeaked while jumping out of the car and then literally started to run towards the unsuspecting store.

"Wait up Alice!" I shouted, trying to catch up to her as she made her way to the carts.

"Ok, so we need a plan or we'll never manage to get this all done in your short time limit. Let's head over to the furniture isle first to get new beds and desks, then we'll head to the accessory isle to get sheets and curtains and anything else cute we happen to see, then the electric isle of coarse to get a lamp and heck why not go to the appliance isle, never know we may need sometime from there. Oh, and a rug! We'll need a rug, a big fuzzy rug! I wonder if they sell those here…" Alice thought to herself as she started off to find the furniture isle.

Alice was so caught up in her thoughts that she almost ran over a grandmother and her grandchild before I managed to turn the cart, apologizing to the grandmother profusely.

"Alice! Watch where you are steering this thing! You almost ran over some innocent customers." I said to her

"Oh, opps" she giggled a bit before heading down isle 4, the furniture isle. "So Bella, I was thinking a white theme for our room, you know since they wont let us paint the walls in the dorm. We get white furniture, white appliances, everything will be white! Except for our beds which will have one color each, blue for you, pink for me. What do you think?"
"Sounds great Alice," I replied, knowing that'd we doing her plan no matter what and not wanting to prolong this shopping excursion any longer then it needed to be.

"Good, now just to find the right bed, how does this one look?" She pointed to a bed that was fairly simple with a glass headboard that could open up and allowed pictures to be put in it.

"It's cute…" I replied trying to sound enthusiastic, well about as enthusiastic as one should sound while shopping for furniture for goodness sake!

"Ok! Excuse me sir," Alice said stopping an Ikea employee, I glanced at him trying to send out my 'save me from shopping with her' signals, which he didn't seem to pick up.

"Hello, my name is Eric. How may I help you?" He asked, obviously checking out Alice.

She just rolled her eyes and said "How do we go about ordering these beds right here?" she asked pointing to the bed in front of us.

"Well, we can put them in your car for you and at the checkout just say this number here" he pointed to the serial number on the beds.

"And that works for everything in the store?" Alice asked.

"Yes, well any of the furniture or larger items" he replied.

"Oh, ok. Well thank you for your help." Alice said dragging me further down the isle to the desks. As soon as we were out of earshot she said "Ugh, did you see him checking us out? I mean, PLEASE, he was like FIFTY and ew"

"First of all Alice, he was just checking you out, secondly he was probably in his late twenties, way to exaggerate!"

"Same thing and he was so starring at you too Bella, you're just oblivious to these things." I rolled my eyes "Anyways, back on topic! Which desk?"

"Wow, Alice, I just don't know. They are all so different" I said sarcastically, in truth all the desks looked the same to me. "I have to go to the bathroom; I think I saw one up there earlier. How about you pick out the desks and whatever else you feel like getting and I'll meet you in the accessory isle?"

"Aw, Bella, you're no fun," I glared at her "Fine, fine! I'll meet you there. Humph"

I smiled sweetly at her and started to walk back towards the front of the building.

I was about half way there when I suddenly felt someone grab my arm. I quickly turned around trying to remember the karate moves I was taught by my mom oh so long ago when I saw Eric.

"Oh, hi Eric," I said questionably, why was he stopping me?

"Hey, I didn't get your name before"

"Oh, right, it's Bella"
"Bella, so I couldn't help noticing you were starring at me earlier while I was talking to your friend and I was wondering if you would be interested in going out later this weekend"

What? I was starring at him? Well, yes I was! But only pleading with my eyes for him to save me, not in the romantic stare way. Great…

"Oh, I'm sorry I can't, you see I actually have a boyfriend," I said, smiling innocently, thank God for Mike!

"Well that's too bad, we could've had some fun" he said winking at me "well" he said, pulling out a card "here is my number if anything should happen with the boyfriend I'd be more then happy to fill in for him"
"Right" I said and walked quickly into the bathroom, and threw away his number into the trash. I checked my watch, five minutes since I left Alice. Well, at least Eric's conversation had one positive point, it stalled me from Alice a bit, she should at least be in the accessories isle by now. I checked myself in the mirror quickly, and proceeded to isle 8, the accessories isle. As soon as I turned down the isle I saw Alice surrounded by at least 5 Ikea employees who were all looking quite frazzled and confused.

"I just need your help deciding this, is this color a midnight blue or more of a navy blue?" Alice asked the crowd of employees.

"Umm, Alice?" I said, and all the employees suddenly turned their stare to me, pleading with their eyes to help them get free of Alice's clutches. Lucky for them, I can differentiate between the 'I think your cute' stare and the 'Help me' stare, unlike some coughEriccough, and said "Alice, that is obviously midnight blue and I think I heard your boss looking for you all down there" I said towards the employees

"Oh, ok! Well, thanks! Sorry Miss, seems like we have to leave you." They said and ran from the isle.

"Alice! What did you do to those poor people? I was only gone for a couple minutes!"

"I don't know what you are talking about Bella, really" Alice said smiling to herself. "So midnight blue you say? Do you like it? I was thinking this would be your comforter."
"Yea, it's really pretty" I said sincerely.

"Good!" She put the comforter in the cart and proceeded to pick out hers.

Three hours and five shopping carts later, we were done.

"Um, Alice how are we going to fit this all in the car?" I asked, looking down at all our 'essential' dorm room artifacts.

"Hmmm, oh hey, ummm, Eric!" Alice shouted and motioned for Eric to come over.

"Yes Bella and Miss…?"
Alice gave me a curious glance, probably wondering how he knew my name. That will be one interesting story to tell.

"It's Alice, do you guys have some kind of truck or something that you could bring this all back to our dorm in?"

"Why yes, we do actually, there is a $40 rental fee though… however I could think of something else I'd take as payment" Eric said suggestively.

"No, no, that is quite alright, we'll pay the $40" I said quickly

Eric looked disappointed but started to load our beds, desks, and all the other belongings onto the truck and soon was done.

"So just follow us, ok? And then you can help us unload this stuff into our dorm, and while you're at it will you just take away all the current stuff? We have no use for it any longer." Alice said.

"Sure, no problem, it's all included in the $40." Eric said eagerly, probably just excited to be in a girls dorm room.

Alice and I got into our car and took off towards campus, not a minute into the drive Alice turned to me, "So Bella? How does our friend Eric know your name?" Alice asked raising an eyebrow.

"He found me on the way to the bathroom, we talked briefly, end of story." I didn't want to go into much detail and certainly didn't want to tell her about him asking me out!

"Hmm, right, you'll tell me later!" Alice said as she turned on the radio and begun to sing loudly to the most recent top 40 hit. I quickly joined her and before we knew it we were in front of our dorm.

Forty minutes later we, and by we I mean Eric, had managed to clear out our room, and move in our new purchases. Alice stood in the corner of the room the entire time directing Eric on where to put things and I just sat in another corner reading a new book.
After Eric was done, we thanked him and he left, hoping to get out of here before Alice made him move something again, I'm sure. Can't say I felt sorry for him though.

Alice stood proudly at the entrance of our dorm and smiled a content smile and then plopped down on her bed.

"Wow, glad that's over with! Are you going to call Mike now? I'm starving!"

"Sure," I said while I pressed 3 on my cell and waited for Mike to pick up, "Mike! Hey! We just finished redecorating our room up for some food?"

"Yea, sure Bells, meet you in the cafeteria in five. I love you and I'm glad you survived shopping with Alice today" Mike said.

"Haha, yea, trust me no one is as shocked as me that I made it out of there alive. See you in five" I quickly hung up the phone and filled Alice in on the plan.

Five minutes gave us exactly enough time to fix our hair and for Alice to put on a little more make-up and before I knew it we were out the door walking towards the cafeteria to get some much needed food.

A/N: So that was the shopping trip with Alice, they are all settled in now! And everything is up to Alice's standards (thank goodness for that!)

Also, pre requests from multiple views, I will be updating less frequently … HOWEVER the chapters will be longer in length when I finally do update (probably once a week)

And … I was wondering if anyone could explain to be the general procedure to joining a sorority – like how you find out about one? The parties involved? Rush? Things you have to do, etc. I have a general idea, however not enough to write about it! Thanks :)

AND (last thing I promise) do you all want different point of views, like Edward's or Alice's? Etc! Edward should be coming in soon:)