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A/N - This chapter is dedicated to my lovely reviewers from chapter 5, Phantom-writer3739, cat97, xXRainbow SkittlesXx, and especially for Gun toten Girly without whose support and encouragement this chapter wouldn't be up yet, oh yeah and for emailing me get well wishes because I'm sick at the moment. Thanks Meg !! I know this is a bit different from the chapter I told you about, I screwed up, thats the next chappie ! Sorry ! And now on with the story !
"Mom, do you mind if Alice spends the night ?" I asked Ciara. Alice's face lit up. My mother looked at me worriedly. "Of course not honey, but are you sure that you're -" "I'm fine Mom, honestly, I'm ok," I smiled at her reassuringly.
Alice grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs before Ciara could argue. "I'm going pick the girls up from school now, Bella," Ciara called up the stairs after us. "Ok," I called back. "Bella !" Alice exclaimed and then pulled me into a tight hug as we reached the top of the stairs, "Alice are you alright ?" "Oh, Bella I've missed you so much !" she cried, tightening her grip on my waist. "Alice, I've missed you too but I. Can't. Breathe !" I gasped, half laughing. She grinned. "You don't need to silly !" she replied giggling. "It's nice to have the option though !" I smiled. She didn't loosen her grip on me in the slightest, but let go of me suddenly.
She grabbed my hand and looked at me expectantly, "Well, which room is yours ?" she asked excitedly. "Up here," I tugged her hand and she followed me through a door and up another flight of stairs to my room. "Oh Bella it's … wow !" She looked at me with honest admiration in her eyes. So she liked it. Good.
My room was nice, I supposed, I'd spent most of my time up here since I returned to Forks, painting and rearranging furniture. Manual labour kept me busy and stopped me thinking about … the past. But you can only paint and rearrange the furniture in a room so many times before your family start to wonder what the heck is going on with you, so I stopped with that distraction.
The room is large and open plan once you reached the top of the stairs, it's forest green with wooden furniture painted white. There's a white plaster fireplace on the north side of the room with a large black wrought iron bed with a dark green comforter facing it, my room runs the length of the house as it was an attic when we first bought the place. I have an old intricately carved wooden wardrobe painted white and a white sofa facing the fireplace. The room is large and airy as the west wall is made completely of glass.
Alice's eyes took the room in, everything from the mirror on the mantel over the fire to the crisp white pillows on the bed, then they stopped on the closet, "Clothes ! Makeover time !" squealed the hyper pixie happily. "Alice, look at me, do I really need a makeover ?" She looked over my outfit quickly. "You're still getting a makeover ! It's tradition !" "Ok," I sighed, sitting lazily on the bed. "Yay, I've got my best friend back !" she said excitedly, waling towards the closet. "Alice, you never lost her," I said softly. She grinned but her face turned sad after a moment, "Edward was a fool to leave you," she muttered angrily.
The pain erupted viciously on hearing his name, I gasped, my arms wrapping instinctively around my torso, trying to hold myself together with my hands, as I had done when I was human. Alice wrapped her arms around me and held me as I tried to get control of myself.
"When I had stopped gasping Alice held me at arms length, "Bella, our leaving didn't do you any good did it," she said sadly looking into my eyes.
"That was never the point of your leaving though was it ? It's not like you left for my benefit," I spoke slowly but my voice still shook. Alice grimaced, "You really need to talk to Edward."
I froze. "Oh Bella I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…" "It's alright Alice, I'm fine," I mumbled quietly.
"No, you're not ! Stop saying that ! You're not alright ! Bella, I'm not blind, I can see what saying his name does to you ! I know he hurt you so stop acting like it's all ok when it's not !" Alice shouted. "Sorry," I muttered, keeping my gaze locked on the floor.
"Bella, I'm sorry, you're just so forgiving ! We hurt you and you just let us back into your life ! You should have shouted at us, we deserve it, we shouldn't have listened to him ! I'm grateful to you, honestly, but you should have shouted at me, slapped me, I don't know !" she yelled angrily, more at herself than me.
I answered quietly, "Alice, I love you, you're my best friend ! I don't want to shout at you or hit you. It wasn't your choice to leave, it was his and it's not his fault either, so don't blame him ! He can't help his feelings towards me." "Bella you have to talk to him, please, you don't understand !" she pleaded. "Alice, I can understand why he left and I don't blame him, so neither should you," I had to stop her blaming him for what happened to me, it may not have happened if he'd stayed but he would have been staying for all the wrong reasons. She opened her mouth to speak but I cut her off, "Alice can we please not talk about this ?" I begged.
"Ok," she visibly brightened, "makeover time !"
"Whatever you want Alice !" I heaved a sigh of relief, the painful conversation was over. For now at least, and quite honestly, at that moment, with her grinning at me like that I would have done anything for her ! Happy Alice is infectious ! She ran back over to the closet and flung open it's doors, pulling out garments and muttering comments about different items of clothing, I got up and stood beside her, "Wow, Bella, that's Chanel !" she squealed, holding up a silky, soft blue dress. As I watched her delve into my wardrobe I couldn't help but smile, "I've got my best friend back" I thought to myself. "Bella, I love this !" she yelled, holding up a dark green Dolce and Gabanna mini dress ( which Lucy had purchased and I had refused to wear ). "Bella, we have to go shopping tomorrow, we could go to Seattle or Port Angeles," the hyper pixie suggested excitedly. "Ok Alice," I agreed. She turned and stared at me I shock, "Bella, did you just willingly agree to go shopping with me ?" she asked warily. "Yep, well Lucy gives me lots of training !" I shrugged.
"Lucy ?" enquired Alice. "Lucy and Jen are my adopted sisters, Lucy's like a miniature you !" I grinned.
"You have sisters ! Older or younger ?" "Younger, they're both sixteen, twins," I clarified.
"Yay, shopping with kids !" "Alice, technically, they're only 2 years younger than me," I grinned, "Alice really is adorable when she's excited," I thought.
"Bella, they're not 18 yet so they count as kids !" I knew better than to disagree with her when she got that determind, steely look in her eye. She was planning on what she would buy them, no doubt.
Then I heard someone running up the stairs, my bedroom door opened but before I could see who it was I was knocked backwards onto the bed…
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