Chapter Two: A week later.
A week later Dracula was ready for her debut. Bella and to his disgust Edward had spent a week bathing her, walking her, potty training her (this was Edward's personal favorite, hee hee) and teaching her all sorts of sad but cute looks to flash at the judges. Bella stood in the hallway holding the gleaming puppy how licked her face enthusiastically. Edward sulked in the corner, privately quite jealous of the attention his now mortal enemy got.
"Edward will you hold her while I get her lead?" Bella asked, not waiting for a reply before stuffing the wriggling puppy into his arms. Edward held her as far away as possible giving her a look of utter loathing, in response Dracula merely licked his hand affectionately. Bella returned with her lead and a little Teddy for the little pup to mangle while they drove to the show. She took Dracula from Edward and strode out to the car, Edward following reluctantly behind.
Edward had insisted that if he had to live through the torture. . .I mean joy of the show then ALL the Cullens had to. Everyone was in high drudgen except, surprisingly Rosalie. Rosalie was extremely fond of little Dracula and delighted in the puppy's company.
"Can she sit on my lap?" Rosalie said brightly to Bella as she squeezed into the back seat of the car wear three vampires already sat. Edward was to drive and Emmett was to get the privilege to sitting in the front seat, for the simple reason of his size. No one wanted to be squashed against Emmett's humungous biceps for two and a half hours. Bella sat Dracula on Rosalie's lap grudgingly and sat back in the seat she shared with Alice. The engine started and they were off to the show.
Two and a half hours later. Everyone staggered out of the car, covered in a mixture of human and dog sick. Unfortunately about an hour in Bella had felt a turn in her stomach. She leant forward to tell Edward to pull over and promptly vomited onto the back of Emmett's neck. Not a pretty sight. Rosalie was carrying most of the contence of Dracula's stomach and had had to endure being licked vigorously most of the way by her tiny charge. Funnily enough did not feel the fondness for the puppy that she had such a short time ago.
Bella slumped against one of the pillars of the gigantic building and sighed while Edward stared at what remained of his car's once spotless interior. He decided not to say anything.
"Well, that was. . ." Alice paused, trying to find the right word for the car journey. ". . .eventful."
"Tell me about it." said Emmett removing his sodden short, revealing a grey t-shirt from underneath. He threw it in a nearby bin disgustedly. They all looked at Dracula, who was sitting, obediently at Bella feet, on her lead, wagging her tail happily.
"Well we better go in." said Bella dispassionately and they all traipsed through the doors to stand in a cavernous room. It was extremely bright, noisy and more importantly smelly. The bright red carpet nearly blinded them. Bella checked on a map and they followed her to a little cage with "Puppy 186419: Dracula" written neatly next to it.
"Why don't we put Dracula in her cage and explore for a bit." Said Jasper, trying to lighten the mood, they all felt immediately for cheerful under his influence. Edward lifted the struggling puppy into the cage and closed the door.
"First up." He said firmly. "Lunch." Bella groaned.
"I'm not hungry." She moaned.
"I don't care." Said Edward sternly and lead her away from the unlocked cage. Dracula cocked her head gently to one side, slightly bemused. She timidly nudged the door of her cage and to her delight it slung open. She hopped down from the dizzying heights of the table and stared after the retreating Cullens for a moment before wandering off into the opposite direction.