Y'know, methinks I shall just do away with all the mindless chit chatter at the beginning of chapter, as to not distract you from the story itself. So, yeah. But anyways, please review, even if you dont like the story AT ALL, feedback would be welcome.
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After two weeks of keeping Minerva locked inside the house for fear that she would harm herself or other people, though it would be very hard to harm herself, it could be done, as Carlisle said, we remembered that we were supposed to attend the mysterious costume party, and the RSVP date, if you could call it that, was in two days.
"So, are we going?" asked Alice.
"Yes, but we are going to have to get backup to protect all ten of you." said Dominic pointedly.
"Who?" asked Victor.
"Ivy and Mary of course." grinned Dominic again. Christian smiled, and Victor just rolled his eyes.
"Who are they?" I asked, while grabbing Minerva away from the door as she was trying to catch a squirrel outside, and Carlisle didn't approve of killing animals that would have not much affect on our thirst.
"Ivy and Mary are the two women in our league that Dom and Christian have been lusting after for almost eighty years; they don't shut up about them." Victor grimaced.
"You know that you're just jealous. And admit it; Ivy is hot." Christian laughed. Victor snorted.
"Mary is better..." said Dominic dreamily.
"You guys are so cute." smiled Alice as she walked into the room, laughing to herself.
"Anyway," Rosalie almost yelled, getting everyone back on track, "What is with this party?"
"Um, basically, it is a costume party hosted by vampires, and we will be the guests of honor. But I have to warn you, besides our hosts, we will be the only ones of our kind there."
"So we have free reign?" asked Minerva excitedly, her eyes immediately lighting up at the thought of human blood.
"Minerva!" I scolded. "You know the rules; no humans."
"That didn't stop you, did it?" she said with mocking humor and a sneer. I gave her my best snarl, and she jumped and looked back at Dominic.
"Costume party?" Alice's head popped into the doorway, "Does that mean we get go-"
"Shopping, yes." said Edward with a smile.
"Yes!" squealed Alice at the same time as a low "No..." came from Bella's mouth as her head fell back against Edward's chest.
The next day, Alice, Rosalie, Minerva and I were packed into one of Rosalie's cars, making our way to a very nice shopping area, as Rosalie and Alice had affirmed. Esme had opted to stay home with the boys who had really not wanted to go shopping much. This was Minerva's first time out of the house besides going hunting once or twice. I was quite worried that she might attack someone, but everyone was reassuring me that I was let out the day after and I was fine, but then again, Minerva was younger... they ignored that.
"So where are we going?" asked Minerva.
"Well, first we need to figure out what we are going to be. Minerva, any thoughts for your costume?" asked Alice.
"I was thinking a porcelain doll. That's what I wanted to be last year, I think... but I think we couldn't do it because we never had much money..." Minerva had a harder time remembering her human life than I did, and she often got frustrated by that fact.
"Porcelain doll it is then!" Alice said, and after a moment of thought, she added, "Okay I know where we are going!"
A moment later thanks to Alice's illegal and insane speeds, we were inside a little store that specialized in ready-to-wear designer dresses. After we all had one option for Minerva, she was left to pick one of them for herself, and after almost an hour she settled on a seven hundred dollar light pink silk empire dress with puffy sleeves and a square neck, a pair of six hundred dollar black lace up mid-calf Victorian leather boots, a black velvet four-hundred-seventy dollar clutch, and a three hundred and ten dollar rose necklace with three strands of pearls and crystals hanging off of thee silver rose. Alice figured she wouldn't really need white face paint because of obvious reasons.
Next up was Bella, who insisted that she would go as herself, or at the very least, something cheap, but Alice and Rosalie talked her into going as a zombie Bride, and she gave in, because they told her that it would only make sense that her and Edward go as a dead couple, and she could use the dress for her own wedding, but they told me once Bella was out of hearing range that that was never going to happen; of course they were buying a new one. Bella, or rather Alice, picked out a gorgeous eight thousand dollar off-white sleeveless knee-length dress with black lace flowers along the hem and up to the neck, though they refused to tell Bella the price, and pair of six hundred dollar black platform wedge sandals with wood detailing on the back and sides. She refused to get even a new purse, though she was persuaded to at least use one of Rosalie's old viels.
After Bella was done, Rosalie went to gather her costume, which was to be an angel. Figured. She ended up with an silver metallic six-thousand dollar brocade print dress with an v neck and a trail, a pair of five hundred dollar silver dual-buckled flats, a velvet envelope silver clutch that cost six hundred and sixty dollars, a one hundred sixty dollar skull necklace just to be satirical, and to top it off, a pair of seventy dollar angel wings from some party store.
Alice had decided to be an alien, and she picked out a three thousand dollar black sequined dress with a large bow on the shoulder by , a pair of thousand dollar black super-shiny boots, a thousand dollar woven clutch, dangling earrings for two-twenty five, and a white bracelet with colored stones that was two hundred sixty-six dollars and purple contacts that stood out perfectly against her hair and pale face.
I was the last to go. I had decided earlier on that I should go as an American vampire, and after all the others throwing miscellaneous items of vampiric clothing over the top of the dressing room door at me, and then forcing me out to model and debate for about ten minutes each, I finally settled on a four thousand dollar blood red velvet balloon sleeved v-necked dress with black lace flowers over white meshing on the neck and down the back, I also got a pair of Victorian mid-calf lace up boots with black lace over the top edge that cost nine hundred and ten dollars, a nine hundred ninety dollar black clutch bag with some goat type figures for clasps, and a two hundred dollar green and gold serpent bracelet with an amber stone detailing on the head, and to top it off, we bought a pair of ten dollar vampire fang caps from Hot Topic.
On top of all that we also got Esme a costume as a Queen with a five thousand dollar gold Japanese print v-neck dress, a pair of five hundred dollar pumps with a mermaid brooch on the toe, and a four hundred dollar necklace with a turquoise stone framed by gold detailing, a gold leather clutch with a stone brooch in the center for one thousand dollars, and to top it off, a three hundred dollar diamond tiara.
Alice decided that we would each pick out a costume for one of the boys, which left me in the awkward position of should I buy something for Victor, or not? I finally decided not to; he was a big boy he could pick out his own costume, and Alice assigned Minerva and me to get one for Carlisle. By the time we were done, Carlisle would be a king to go with Esme's queen, Jasper, another alien, Emmett would be a Greek god, and Edward was going as the dead groom to Bella's bride.
All in all, I think that we were pretty well stocked clothing-wise for the occasion.
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