Chapter 3:

Bella's POV:

We had been at the mall for a little more than five hours and Alice hadn't even began to tire. The last five hours consisted of me standing by the dressing room while Alice came by every few minutes dropping every few minutes with huge piles of clothes for me to try-on. As i dug through the piles and eliminated everything that was too preppy for my taste. The huge piles of clothes that Alice had given me had diminished to a medium pile of clothes that I would actually wear.

As I walked into the dressing room with my mini mountain, I looked around for the biggest dressing room in the store. As I walked into the room I began slowly to change as slowly as i could with-out going into slow-mo. It took me a little over thirty minutes to try on all of the clothes that I had found in Alice's picked out clothes.

I walked out of the dressing room with only a small percentage of the clothing that Alice had found me. I put all my clothes in my arms as i stumble/ ran towards the register. I shoved all my clothes onto the check-out counter as i swiftly pulled out my bank card.

"I'm in a little bit of a hurry.", I told the cash-register personel. She nodded as she pulled the clothes off there hangers,folded them, and put them in the stores pretty logoed bags. I put my bank card on the counter as I breathed out a sigh of relief as she swiped my card. I thanked her and God as i grabbed my card and my bags and left the store without Alice catching me and paying for all my clothes.

Speaking of Alice, were had she gone? I was suprised that she hadn't bombarded me with anger because I hadn't let her pay for my clothes. I shrugged as I walked out of the store and began to wander the mall. I walked into the closest door entrance and began browsing the clothing racks. I was getting bored with this random boutique and was making my way to the front.

As i was almost out of the store when a suprisingly solid block of air tripped me. I fell headlong into someones well muscled chest. His arms wrapped protectively around me as they saved me from falling into the cold-stone floor. I looked up into the most gorgeous green eyes i had ever seen in my life.

I realized that we had been standing this way for way too long. He set me back on my feet.

"Sorry! Oh my God I'm so sorry! It was an accident I swear!" I apologized repeatedly while trying to pick up my belongings that had fallen to the floor in my fall while simultaneously trying to hide the innocent blush that now covered my face.

"It's fine. No harm no foul. Right?"The stranger said to me as I stood up with my bags all along my arms. I looked up into his face as realization finally hit me. I knew who this was!!! This was Alice's stupid, jerk-ass brother.

"Hi. I'm Edward.", He introduced himself to me.

"Oh. I know." I said with no intention of giving him my name if he wasn't going to recognize me. I glared at him icily as I grew even more pissed by the second becuase he wasn't recognize me. I let it show that I was pissed on the outside.

"And you are..." He questioned me.

"Why the hell do you want to know?", I snapped at him.

"Just interested. That's all. How come I've never seen you around before? You new here?" he continued.

"Are you kidding me? How the HELL do you not know who I am? You of all the people in the world, YOU don't know who I am! Well that's pretty fucked up, don't you think?" I was really getting angry now. How the hell could he not know who I am? I mean come on. I AM ALICE'S BEST FRIEND, AND HIS BEST FRIENDS ARE MY BROTHERS!! I mean his house was like my second home.

Just then Alice's soft bell-like voice was sounded behind me. "Bella? Edward? What's going on here?" She asked, confused

He looked confused for a minute as I stared at him. Then as my stare turned into a glare, a look of realization came upon his face. He looked ashamed, down right ashamed. And embarrased...