Bella POV
How do I always get in these situations? Here I am, being held against my will in the back seat while Alice happily drives her perfect little Porsche. Jake is in the seat next to me, on guard for attempts at escape. I huffed in disapproval and he just smirked.
"Please Alice, I don't want to do this. I want a white Christmas! Not some crummy fake one with no family to celebrate it with."
"Will you stop acting like It's the end of the world? I asked you if you were doing anything special, and your reply was, 'No! I never do anything fun for Christmas. Now It's gonna be twice as bad as before because I have to be in boring old Forks'."
"Hey, nice impression." Jake complimented.
"Thanks," she laughed. I stuck my tongue out at them which only heightened Alice's laughter. Jake just stupidly smiled down at me. Alice looked down at her watch and suddenly increased her speed.
"Gosh darn you Bella, we only have 40 minutes to go through bag check and meet up with Rose." I smiled to myself at the thought of missing the plane. I could always make myself faint...
"Bella, whatever you are planning, stop it right now. We are going to Paris even if we have to drag you onto that plane and tell security you have mental issues that require you to be strapped down and supervised at all times," Alice said. I looked up at her in the mirror and saw the truth in her eyes. I sighed in defeat.
Edward POV
"Edward, I don't get it. You can have any girl in the world you wanted, but you want Bella. Bella." I glared at him. Emmett's booming laughter rang out at the sight of my furious face.
"Ed, we all know you will just dump her a week after you're with her, so why waste all of the effort?" Jasper probed again. I didn't bother to answer. They just don't understand. They can't understand.
"Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in." I turned around to face Rosalie Hale, Alice and Bella's best friend, and Emmett's currant crush. I glanced over in his direction, pleading for his help. He looked at me as if to say, "you don't have to ask me twice".
"Hey Rose," said Emmett in his most 'dazzling' (in his words) voice. She smiled warmly at him, her blue eyes sparkling. I tried to discreetly walk away, but Rose caught me.
"You never told me what you guys are doing here," she said suspiciously. I smiled at her while thinking of an acceptable answer.
"We are taking a trip to Canada. We wanted to get some hunting in," Jasper answered smoothly.. She still looked suspicious, but she was thrown off when Alice and Bella walked through the door, escorted by Jacob Black. I growled under my breath at the sight of Jacob's hand securely on Bella's frail arm. She did not look pleased.
"Sorry we're late. Bella was being uncooperative," she said breathlessly. Bella huffed in response, causing fits of laughter to erupt from Jacob. I glared at him while he just smiled like an idiot in response.
"I guess you can leave now Jake, I doubt Bella could go far if she were to escape. And I hope she realizes that if we miss our flight, I am going to spend the entire break dragging her on shopping sprees and playing make over Bella," she hissed towards Bella. She sighed and grabbed her bags. She began walking away, but tripped over her foot. I automatically reached my hand down to help her. At the sight of me her eyes narrowed and she shoved my hand away.
"I'm not talking to you!" she screamed as if she were a little child. I had to suppress a laugh. Apparently she caught it because she jumped to her feet and slapped me across the face. I gasped as her soft hand sent jolts of electricity through my body. Her face turned to confusion and she ripped her hand back.
"Bella, you can kill Edward when you get back, but right now, we have a flight to catch. And I believe you guys have one to catch as well," Rose mumbled to me as she, Alice, and Bella walked towards check in. I didn't even realize she was there until now.
"They are on flight 214 to Paris," Emmett said. I hadn't realized he had been standing there either. I looked up at him and I immediately knew why..
"So, you and Rose huh?" I laughed.
"I can't say I know what you are talking about, dear brother," Emmett mumbled. He was trying to avoid eye contact, but his swollen lips were still visible.
"So you wanna explain why your face is swollen and your hair is all messed up?" Jasper said. A blush rose in Emmet's cheeks and he tried to hide it by walking away. Me and Jasper looked at each other with knowing glances and burst into laughter in the middle of the airport.
Bella POV
Stupid, stupid Edward. How dare he come here at the exact same time as us!!? The one good thing I had about going to Paris was having thousands of miles between us. We will still have a lot of miles between us, but not enough to satisfy my taste.
"We are so going to miss our flight. Thanks a lot Bella," Alice hissed.
"You know, you have been in a pissy mood all day and it is really irritating me." I was only trying to make her mad, and apparently, I was succeeding. She spun around so she was just inches away from my face.
"Oh I wounder why, Bella," she snapped at me. I waited for her to keep going on her rant (as she usually does), but she turned around and filled in the space that was now between us in the bag check line.
"Care to elaborate?" I almost had her. I could feel the heat of her anger radiating off of her back. She turned slightly so that she could glare at me from the corner of her eye. I smiled sweetly at her.
"OK guys. Thats enough. Its Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be joyful. So get happy now because we are going to Paris!" Rose screeched. Then it came to me. I was about to spend a whole 3 weeks with my best friends. We had grown apart this last year with our separate classes and had not had much time to hang out because of exams. This was some much needed quality time that we were about to receive, and no amount of shopping could ruin that for me.
"Next!"
"Please remove shoes and socks and place all metals in here." The airport security pointed to the container. I hesitated, still debating on whether or not to run, but when Rose and Alice turned their pleading faces towards me, I couldn't do it.
"Alright. Time for our "Holly jolly Christmas" girls!!" I screamed. Alice and Rose squealed and hugged me while the security guy began looking anxious.
"Ladies please. We are very busy." We mumbled are apologies as we walked arm and arm to the plane.
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