BPOV
I had only been sitting down for a few seconds when Emmett barged in my room with everyone following.
"Thanks for knocking. I might have been naked!" I said sarcastically.
"No problem." Emmett grinning so big I thought his face would spilt apart. I looked at everyone to find out that Emmett and Edward didn't have towels with them. I knew it! I chucked one at Emmett and it hit him square in the face.
"Hey!" he protested.
"Sorry, but it looked like you needed a towel," I said giving him an innocent smile. He just shook his head and muttered something to Jasper.
"Look we all match," Alice whispered in my ear, "My and Jasper have on red, Emmett and Rose green, and you and Edward have blue on."
"Great," I said, sarcastically.
"Let's go," Rose said, heading out the door, "I'm dying over here."
"You only played one match," Jasper said, rolling his eyes.
"Those were the most grueling five games I have ever played in my life."
"I'm sure." I just giggled at them as I closed the door behind us. I noticed Edward walking behind everyone else; I took a deep breath, guess it's now or never.
"I got you a towel too," I whispered, holding it out for him to take. He just stared at it.
"Come on, I'm trying to be nice. Just take the towel; you can't be running around wet when it's this cold outside, you'll get sick." He stared at it some more.
"I think I'll take my chances." I slammed the towel on the ground and stormed off after the rest of our group. I passed Edward, quickly sending him a glare and heard him chuckle. I went to walk next to Alice because I felt the closest to her.
"What were you two talking about back there?" she asked, giggling.
"Towels," I growled. She just continued giggling and soon Rose came up.
"I hope your conversation was more interesting than those three idiots," she said, looking expectantly at Alice.
"We're just talking about Bella and Edward," Alice said, smiling mischievously.
"You two like each other so much it's ridiculous," Rose giggled.
"Where have you been these last couple of days?" I asked, "We HATE each other."
"Sure you do!" they said giggling. I was going to argue back, but we had reached the pool and my jaw dropped. There was one lap pool against the far wall and two large pools in the middle, each one with a giant blue and yellow bull in the middle on the bottom. There were white chairs and tables set up on the right side and EIGHT large hot tubs on the left side. One of the pools only went up to eight feet and the other one went up to thirteen and had three diving boards at various heights.
"Bella, you might want to pull up your hair, so it doesn't get tangled," Rose called, while pulling up her own long locks. Well there goes the idea of nobody seeing my tattoo! I reluctantly yanked up my hair into a messy ponytail. It took all of five seconds for Alice to run over to me gasping.
"YOU HAVE A TATOO?!?"
"Keep your voice down," I scolded, "How did you see it from all the way from over there?"
"I have great vision," she smirked.
"You have a tattoo? What is it?" Emmett asked, with Jasper, Edward, and Rosalie right behind him.
"It's just a bullet with my brother's initials on it," I said nonchalantly, but I loved it. Everyone looked at it, but finally they headed to the water. Rose and Edward went to the hot tub while Emmett, Jasper, and Alice jumped into the pool.
I took about ten minutes to get in, but finally I did. I just stayed in the shallow end floating with my eyes open. I heard Alice get out of the pool and head over to the hot tub and then someone else got into the pool. I kept my eyes open just in case, but I felt oddly at ease…….for a minute. All of a sudden someone came right behind me and whispered boo in my ear, but before I could scream four hands pushed me under the water. I came up thrashing and could hear snickering around me.
"Thanks guys, that was priceless," Edward said, giving both Jasper and Emmett a high five. I almost growled.
"What's going on?" Rose and Alice asked.
"Edward," I said his name like a dirty word, "Came up with some plan with your boyfriends to try and scare me."
"Scare you?" Alice asked, skeptically.
"Edward snuck up on me and then they pushed me under water." Rose and Alice's faces showed no emotion and I couldn't tell if they were going to burst out laughing or not.
"Guys, why don't we go get something to drink," Alice said. They all nodded and ran to their towels, except for Edward who didn't have one. I almost laughed, but then Alice shoved her towel at him and went to share Jasper's.
I just sat in the pool and watched them walk away from me, using every ounce of control I had not to cry.
EPOV
As we walked away from the pool I looked at Emmett and Jasper who were also silently snickering. Suddenly Alice stopped and spun around to face us.
"I thought we were going to get drinks," Emmett said, perplexed.
"We are," Rosalie said, grabbing his hand.
"Rose," Alice hissed.
"I'm sorry, but I think you're being ludicrous," she said, walking away with Emmett right behind her. Alice stood there taken aback for a minute before finally remembering Jasper and I were waiting on her on her to say whatever it was she wanted.
"ARE YOU TWO STUPID?!?" she screeched, causing a few people to turn and look at us. Jasper and I exchanged a glance and gulped. We just stood there silently while she yelled out most of her anger…….or so we thought.
"ARE YOU TWO EVEN LISTENING TO ME?" she snarled.
"Of course we are!" We yelled in unison. She shot us deathly glares and the saying if looks could kill ran through my mind.
"I think you're blowing this all out of proportion," I said, shaking my head, "She's afraid of everything and that's not my problem we were just trying to have some fun."
"She's your friend. You," she started, but I didn't even let her finish.
"DON'T YOU GET IT ALICE? SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE MY FRIEND," I screamed. Alice looked like she was going to say something, but I didn't want to hear it.
"Alice, you're choosing her over me," I said quietly.
"That's not true…." She started, but I just turned around and walked towards my dorm room.
JPOV (Okay, this is a onetime thing normally it will just be Bella and Edward's point of view)
I didn't know what to do as we watched Edward walk away. Follow him? No, I couldn't leave Alice. Comfort her? No, she's mad at me. Instead of doing anything I just stood there. Finally Alice spun back around to face me, so I decided to speak.
"If I would have known that it was going to upset you so much, I would have never suggested that idea," I said quietly. I watched Alice's face as a million different emotions flashed across her face.
"You suggested that?" she asked, looking away.
"Well, yeah." It was uncomfortably silent all around us. It seemed like hours as we just stood there with so much to say, but not the guts to say it. All of a sudden a look of pain crossed her perfect features and she said three small words that broke my heart.
"We are over." It took me a few seconds to come to my senses, but I still couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth.
"What?" I asked, hoping and praying I had heard her wrong. She wouldn't do this over a stupid prank, would she?
"We're through." Oh my gosh, I did hear her right. Where was this coming from? I almost opened my mouth to try and talk this through with her when I saw her phone start to ring and the name Bella flash across the screen. I turned around and walked away. Edward was wrong, it wasn't just him she was choosing Bella over it was all of us.
BPOV
I sat there for about twenty minutes before I finally got out of the pool. I wasn't going to sit there alone and wait on them because they probably weren't coming back, but I didn't know what to do in case they did come back. I decided to call Alice.
"Hello," she answered, sadly.
"Is everything okay?" I asked warily.
"Of course," she said with fake enthusiasm, "Okay, so I'll come back to the pool and then we can get ready for my game together."
"Actually Alice, I have to go to practice since I didn't get too yesterday."
"Oh," she said gloomily.
"But we can get together and eat after we are both done."
"Cool. Meet up with me in my room at seven," she said instantly perky again.
"Okay, so I will see you at seven, goodbye Alice."
"Bye!"
I grabbed my bag and headed off towards my dorm room. In the hallway I grabbed the towel I had slammed down earlier and laughed before preceding into my room. I took a long showered, so I didn't smell like chlorine and then grabbed my dance bag and headed off towards the dance studio. As I was walking down the sidewalk I saw Alice in her soccer uniform a couple yards ahead of me.
"Alice!" I called as I ran to catch up with her.
"Hey," she said, turning back towards me.
"Where is everyone else?" I asked.
"They're umm….all busy," she said as she looked away.
"Oh," I said, feeling slightly uncomfortable. We were rescued from the awkward silence by approaching the field.
"Okay, so see you at seven Bella," she smiled.
"Yep good luck sorry I can't be there." I replied, starting to head left. I had to run the last minute because the last thing I wanted to do was be late. As I changed into my leotard, tights, and ballet shoes I could hear Fred taking deep breaths, like he was trying to calm himself. What is he so worked up about?
I walked nervously out of the room and sat down on the floor to stretch before I started my dance."Where were you yesterday?" he asked as he thumbed through a binder.
"Out with friends," I said, annoyed.
"Finally, you made some friends," he said relieved, "just don't miss any more practices." I let out a sigh of relief, he wasn't angry.
"Well now I have something to ask you and I want you to keep an open mind," he said slightly nervous. I gulped; if he said keep an open mind it was something I defiantly was not going to like.
"What?" I whispered.
"How would you feel about being the captain of the SBA dance team?" he blurted out, so quickly I almost didn't hear him.
"ABSELOUTLY NOT NO WAY!"
"I asked you to keep an open mind, please?" he said, sighing.
"Well it was open until you said that one little thing."
"Can't you just try it," he whined, but something in his voice had me nervous.
"I dance for myself and if people knew about it then it would wreck the tranquility."
"You've danced in countless competitions," he pointed out.
"But I don't have to see them and they'll forget all about me until next year."
"Nobody forgets the world champion," he smirked.
"The answer is no Fred!"
"Well too bad," he said. What in the hell did he mean by that?
"What?" I asked, half bemused and half irritated.
"I already conveyed you'd do it," he said sheepishly. I let out a groan of frustration.
"Why would you do that to me?"
"Well, I thought it would be a nice way for you to make friends and get involved with some school spirit," he grinned, now excited by his original idea.
"I'll try it, but if I don't like it for one second I'm quitting," I said, honestly; I had no shame in quitting.
"Fair enough! That is all I ask." he grinned, all though he faltered for a second when I threatened to quit.
"So now only come here on Sundays. Go to the normal dance room on Tuesday at four and they'll fill you in on the details," he informed me.
"Got it," I grumbled, still not completely set on the idea. Then something sparked in my mind.
"The dance team already has a captain, Lauren something or another."
"Yes, but they really wanted an experienced dancer to lead the team she was just a filler because her daddy has money." I nodded my head; dancing was more competitive than some people thought it to be.
"Alright let's get down to business," he said, now serious. Fred truly was a fun guy, but he never joked with ballet and that is why I picked him to train me.
One hour later……
"Bella is something wrong because your moves aren't coming out right and they're simple."
"No, nothing's wrong," I lied. For some reason I couldn't stop thinking about why Alice wasn't with the others; as far as I could tell they went almost everywhere together. She had said herself the games were on a schedule and everyone always knew when the games were, so I doubt they were busy. I couldn't help wonder if I did something to make them not like her too.
"Well, try again. Remember it's a triple attitude turn, pique, pique, soutenu," he encouraged. I had been doing this simple piece for a few weeks now, but I couldn't get it right today.
"If you do it right, you can leave," he said, hoping to bribe me. It only worked because I was hoping I could catch the end of Alice's game. I got back into position and took a deep breath before trying the sequence again. I did it perfectly and instantly heard Fred applauding behind me.
"Great work Bella, see you next Sunday!"
"Thanks goodbye Fred," I said, heading to out the door so I could see Alice. In my rush to get to the field I forgot to change, so I just yanked on my jeans and sweatshirt over my dance clothes and changed my ballet shoes to flip-flops.
I took off running towards the field. I had no idea how long soccer games lasted, but hers had been going on for about an hour and half now. I finally reached the field to see the clock out of time and Alice about to kick a penalty kick. She turned and looked at the crowd seeing me instantly and I smiled encouragingly. She smiled back before turning to the ball with a look of determination on her face. The ref blew the whistle and she sent the poor ball flying towards the net. As soon as the mesh connected with the ball Alice was being thrown around in the air by all of her teammates.
Eventually people cleared out and I met up with Alice.
"Bella, you made it," she screamed, giving me a giant hug.
"I got let out early," I giggled, embracing her back. It was so nice to have friends.
"You were impressive out there," I offered. She then proceeded to tell me all about the game and the other team on our way back to our rooms.
"Did you see those uniforms?" she gasped in horror, "I wouldn't be caught dead in that." I just laughed as we went our separate ways. I took another shower; wow that was like my third one today. Oh well, you can never be too clean. I didn't know what to wear, so I called Alice and she described the dress she wanted me to put on.
How in the hell did she memorize all the articles of clothing in my closet? I realized I didn't want to know and went into the closet to try and find the dress she was describing. After twenty minutes of searching I finally found it and my jaw dropped to the floor. It was more magnificent then Alice had described it as. It was black, sleeveless, went to mid thigh, and hugged all my curves. I felt a little uncomfortable with this much of my skin showing, but I didn't have time to whine because I still had to do my hair and make-up. I straightened my medium length brown hair before curling the ends. I gave myself smoky eyes and just a little bit of lipstick before grabbing my purse and heading over to Alice's room. I got a couple of whistles and stares as I walked by, but I managed to make it to Alice's room in one piece. She opened the door and smiled at me before looking down at my feet and frowning.
"You did such a great job and then you put those on your feet," she said, pulling me inside. I looked around her room as she rummaged around in her closet for something. She came back out with a pair of two inch, black pumps.
"Here," she said, pushing them into my hands. Sighing, I took off my shoes and put on the new ones. I didn't mind heels, but they made my feet hurt.
"Perfect, now let's go!" I hadn't noticed until she got in front of me. She looked beautiful. She had on a beautiful pink, off-the-shoulder dress that had a slit up the side. She hadn't put on much make-up, but her glossy, black hair was now in a 'just got out of bed' look instead of its normal spikes.
We headed outside and got a lot more stares and whistles. Maybe Alice was right, heels were better. We walked around the corner to the parking lot to find Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie getting into Emmett's huge, enormous jeep. Edward and Jasper turned to stare at us, their eyes wide and drool almost coming from their mouths while Emmett and Rosalie just got in the jeep. I was about to say hi, when Alice pushed me into her bright, yellow Porsche.
