Okay, here's chapter five. Sorry for the long wait, I've just had a lot going on lately.
--Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or New Moon, Stephenie Meyers does, and I am most certainly not Ms Meyers. I wish...
Chapter Five: Shopping
The next day when I walked downstairs towards the living room, Alice stopped me halfway up the stairs.
"Bella! I've been trying to find you!" She exclaimed as she ran towards me.
I turned and smiled, "What it is?"
"Well...when are you and Edward planning on having the wedding?" She asked. Edward and I had decided that, since I couldn't stay at Charlie's too long like this, then we would have to have the wedding soon and move soon after.
But with that information, he also told me that we would have to fake my death. When he told me that, I wanted to refuse to fake my own death - I didn't want to imagine how Renee and Charlie would handle that - but I had to face the cold, hard truth. It couldn't be avoided. This had to happen.
"In about two weeks," I told her. Carlisle had told me that would give me enough time to tell Charlie of the wedding and get the preperations ready.
Alice squealed. "Bella! We have to go dress shopping. Now!"
She grabbed my arm and wheeled be towards the door.
"We're going shopping, bye!" She called to the others who were scattered throughout the house.
Edward appeared at the doorway in an instant. "Hey, Alice!"
She turned around exasperatedly at him. "What, Edward?"
I looked at Edward, pleading with him with my eyes to get me out of this. I hated shopping.
He smiled his crooked smile and said, "Have fun."
Alice grinned and pulled me out the door as I gave Edward a dirty look.
Alice jammed the key into the ignition of the Volvo and turned the key.
She pulled quickly out of the driveway and turned onto the main road, going towards the mall. "Oh my gosh, we're going to pick out the perfect wedding dress for you. Oh we need bridesmaid dresses too. How many are you going to have?"
"Um..." I said, "Well, there's you, and then Rosalie agreed so...just you both."
"Two?" She asked incredously. "Wow, I would have at least four."
"But there's no one else I want to be my bridesmaids," I pointed out.
"Okay," she smiled. "Call Rosalie on my cell phone and tell her to meet us at that mall."
I took the cell phone she handed me and dialed the number she told me to.
"What, Alice?" Came Rosalie's irritated voice.
"Tell her to leave us alone!" Emmett's voice came playfully from the background.
One thought came to my mind: Ew.
"Uh...it's Bella." I said.
"Oh," Rosealie said.
"Hi Bella!" Emmett said loudly.
I grinned. "Alice said for you to meet us at the mall." I told Rosalie.
"Why?"
"Because we're going to pick out bridesmaid dresses."
Rosalie sighed. "Okay then. I'll meet you there in ten minutes."
"Okay, bye." I said and hung up, handing the phone back to Alice who was grinning and ready to burst out laughing. "I could hear Emmett from here!" she said giggling.
"Yeah, they sounded...preoccupied." I chuckled.
"Well, I think they can spare us a few hours. I mean, who knew Edward would be the first down the aisle?" Alice said, smiling.
We finally got to the mall and got out of the car. There were quite a few cars, though not enough to make it too crowded.
"Right, where first? The wedding dresses, or the bridemaids dresses?"
She asked.
"Bridemaids." I said promptly, wanting to save my torture for last.
Alice grinned and rolled her eyes. "Okay, we'll go find a good store and wait for Rosalie."
I nodded as we walked into the mall, and a thought hit me. "Alice, what if my father sees me? Then he'll know I didn't go with Jessica."
"Don't worry about it. He's not here. And he won't see you. Not until you 'come back from your trip with Jessica'," She said, using air-quotes. "Have you decided how you're going to tell him about the wedding?"
I shook my head wearily. "He's gonna freak... He just got over his 'you can't see that boy ever again' thing."
"Aw, don't worry, Bella. Everything will turn out right. He knows how happy you are with Edward. He'll accept your decision... Or I could always talk to him for you." She said as we entered a store filled with all types of different colored dresses and styles.
"Well, I'll see how he takes it first. If things go downhill, then that's where I'll need you to come in at." I told her as we headed towards the counter.
"Hello, can I help you girls with something?" The woman, a bit pale and petite asked us.
"We're here to look at some bridesmaid dresses," Alice told her promptly.
"Okay then, what kind of style were you thinking about?" The woman asked.
"Nothing frilly." I said before Alice could cut in.
The woman smiled. "All right, these are our most popular ones at the moment," She said as she gestured to some that had spaghetti straps, crisscrossing in the back. The dress was red and came almost to the floor, and flared out at the bottom.
"Well...I was thinking something not so...red." I told her.
Alice nudged my shoulder, and I turned seeing Rosalie coming over to us at a quick, human pace. "What'd I miss?" She asked.
"Not much." Alice told her.
"Okay," the woman said smiling. "What color were you thinking?"
"Lavender?" I said, then looked back at Alice and Rosalie for their opinions.
"Well I like it!" Alice said grinned, and whispered to Rosalie so quietly that only with our enhanced hearing we could hear her while the humans couldn't, "Wait 'till Jasper sees me in that."
Rosalie smiled and said, "Yeah, I like it too."
I grinned and the woman nodded. "Great, we have some lavender ones in the back. We'll just have to alter them. How many do you need?"
"Just two." I said.
"Okay, I'll go get them." She replied.
We nodded as she went towards a door, returning several minutes later with two of the most gorgeous dresses I'd ever seen.
"These right?" She asked.
I grinned and nodded.
She handed them to Alice and Rosalie who went into the changing rooms and came back out.
Four seamstresses were waiting for them as they stepped up on two small stools.
It took about half an hour for them to get the dresses exactly as we wanted them. Then the woman rang them up and Alice whipped out her credit card and handed it to her.
"Wow...dresses are expensive," I said.
Rosalie smiled. "Oh we've bought dresses that cost twice as much."
My eyes bulged. That wasn't exactly surprising, though. I mean, this was Alice and Rosalie we were talking about here.
We got the bridesmaid dresses then headed for one of the several shops that sold elegant wedding dresses.
"Okay, it's going to be hard to find the perfect dress so let's get to work," Alice said.
At the end of an hour, we had three options.
One: A silk, white gown that flowed down to the floor with spaghetti straps and the back cut out of it where it would come to my lower back.
Two: A silk gown with wide, lace sleeves and a V-neck that came down kind of low. It was the kind that would probably make Charlie have a heart-attack. This was Alice's pick.
And number three: A long silk white gown that trailed along the floor a good six feet behind me. It had was strappless and had gold rose stitching around the top.
"Okay, which one?" I asked them, not able to choose myself, though I was partial to the last one.
"The last one!" They both said. Ah, yes, my personal favourite.
I nodded in agreement. "Yes. It's perfect." I said, grinning.
I could imagine what Edward's expression would look like when he saw me in this...
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