Disclaimer - I do not own Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn or Midnight Sun. Therefore I am not Stephenie Meyer.
A/N -Okay people, I haven't got the Penelope DVD yet so I watched the Twilight movie scenes on YouTube Let me say it now, THEY WERE BRILLIANT !! I almost fainted when I watched the scene in Edwards room, my sister was laughing hysterically at me because I was almost hyperventilating, yes, it was that good !! So it's really YouTube's fault that this is late, because if it wasn't for that then I wouldn't have gotten distracted ! Oh, sorry this is so long but I have to tell someone, BD is coming out on August 4th in Ireland, instead of the 25th of August !! YAY !! I'm sooo hyper right now !! Thanks soooo muchto everyone who reviewed !
We, Alice, Lucy and I, headed to Seattle as soon as Alice returned. Jen, who had decided that school was just too important to miss had, a little ungraciously, declined Alice's offer to buy her a whole new wardrobe, her refusal went along the lines of "not if hell froze over." Nice. Neither shopping nor the threat of it briongs out the best in my sister.
The trip was pretty uneventful. As expected, the car, my Audi, was packed full of bags on the way home, in fact, there were so many that Lucy, who was sitting in the back could barely be seen beneath the mountain of glossy, designer boutique shopping bags.
There were hundreds of them. I should know, I'd pretended to stagger out to the car every half hour or so clutching about fifty of them.
Alice and Lucy had been too busy laughing at the young male sales assistants who, dazed to find two such beautiful women as them in their stores, had practically fallen over themselves in their eagerness to help.
The rest of their time was spent scouring the rails of every shop in the Seattle mall. I could tell that it was really annoying Alice to have to go at a human speed, she could have looked at every garment in every store in the entire mall in about twenty minutes. I tended to just hold the clothes that Alice and Lucy tossed at me and then, when I had enough to look heavy for a human I'd go try them on.
Lucy would follow and do the same, on my instructions but Alice had to be persuaded well, threatened really. With Alice's visions we really didn't need to try anything on as she could immediately tell us if we would look good in something or not but no normal human, I insisted, would go into an expensive store and buy thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes without even trying them on first. I had to threaten her with the whole "I'll never go shopping with you again" card, I must say, it worked quite well, because when Alice went into vision mode to see if I'd really carry out my threat, she gasped. "Okay, okay, I'll try them on," she'd grumbled.
I insisted on paying for everything, after all, when I was human Alice had paid every time she dragged me along on a shopping trip and I was always uncomfortable with that. I was raised on a kindergarten teachers salary, it wasn't like I was used to spending thousands of dollars on designer clothes. So I wasn't going to lose this chance to pay Alice back, besides, I could afford it now, I'd spent a lot of time in universities but I'd also worked in a couple of pretty high paying jobs in the past, and working as a surgeon had been pretty easy for me because I felt no bloodlust, that being my first choice of career once I'd finished high school. Surgeons do get paid a lot. Ciara had also wisely invested in shares in some European company before I met her and had uncanny ability to predict trends in the stock market. So we were always, well, rich.
We left Seattle at six, as soon as the shops closed ( with Lucy buried in bags in the back seat ) because Alice said she needed to get home and get her closet organised, apparently she organises her clothes alphabetically by designer and by color.
My reply to that statement was "Um, obsessive much ?" She just grinned back at me, as if she knew something I didn't. Well doesn't she always ? She can see the future after all !
We arrived back in Forks at seven thirty, I dropped Alice at the Cullens house first. It was hard going back there. The driveway was clear and the grass trimmed neatly on either side of the rough beaten down driveway. So different to the last time I was here. I managed to act normally and keep breathing evenly, but the pain was there, in an underlying current that could have dragged me under if I hadn't resisted. I tightened the grip of my shaking hands on the steering wheel and pulled up in the driveway.
After about ten minutes of rummaging we had found all of Alice's bags and had just stepped through the front door when something came hurtling down the stairs and as I turned to look, it grabbed me in a vice-tight bear hug, Emmett. I dropped the bags I was carrying, as he swung me round in a circle, nearly knocking Alice and Lucy to the floor in the process. He set me on my feet after a minute, and grinned at me, "Hi Bella," he laughed. "Hi Emmett," I spluttered, laughing. We turned to stand in the doorway of the living room.
Lucy, who was standing behind me, tapped me on the shoulder. Then I realised, she hadn't met the Cullens yet. "Oh, Lucy, this is Alice's family, Esme, Carlisle, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett."
Carlisle and Esme were sitting together, Esme curled up, reading, next to Carlisle who had a pile of files next to him, obviously patients files. Rose was filing her nails. Jasper was watching a documentary on the American Civil war. They all looked as Lucy, Alice, Emmett and I walked in. The bags lay forgotten in the hallway.
"Guys, this is my sister Lucy." They all stood up, Carlisle shook her hand, Esme hugged her, Rose smiled while Jasper bowed his head and said quietly "pleased to meet you." Emmett, as per usual, grabbed her in a tight hug while Esme turned and hugged me before asking how our trip went.
When the introductions were over, said to Lucy "We probably should get back, Ciara'll be wondering where we are." Lucy nodded in agreement. "See you all later," I said, looking towards the Cullens. Alice smiled, "We'll see you at school tomorrow." Once again, she gave me a smile that seemed to say "I know something you don't."
Esme hugged me again as we walked into the hall murmuring, "We'll see you very soon Bella." I smiled slightly as we broke apart. Then Jasper saw the bags, he chuckled. "How much did you girls buy ?" he asked in amazement. "Jasper," I said as I walked towards the door, "they're not our bags, they're Alice's." He groaned, as he looked to Alice, "How, may I ask, are we going to fit all of this in our room ?" Alice smiled brightly, "Easy, I'll just get rid of all your books and extend my closet." Suddenly, Jasper's face became serious. "You," he said to Alice in a stern voice, "are under no circumstances allowed to put one finger on my books." Alice grinned as she skipped over to him, "Relax, Jazzy I was kidding." He wrapped his arms around her waist. I felt the hole open up again at seeing such a comfortable, natural display of affection.
Thankfully Jasper didn't flinch, but I saw his jaw tighten, then I felt strangely calm. I threw a grateful smile at Jasper. He nodded slightly.
We said goodbye again and got into the car and returned home. Lucy and I grabbed all our bags before going inside. Ciara and Jen were in the living room when we got home. Jen was finishing some homework which she'd clearly put off.
Ciara was huddled over her accounts, she's an accountant but she's working from home so that she can take care of us, she loves being a mom. The firm she's employed by is in New York so she just faxes everything to them.
As we entered, Ciara jumped up, sending the mountain of papers beside her scattering to the floor in a flurry of white printed sheets. It's surprising, all that work probably took her about thirty minutes.
She walked over to us quickly and pulled us both into a hug. "Oh girls, I missed you ! Did you have fun ?" she asked eagerly. Lucy smiled excitedly, "Mom it was great ! Alice is sooo cool ! We got loads !" She grabbed the bags I had dumped on the floor near the door and started pulling clothes out to show Ciara. "I can see that !" she said, laughing at Lucy's enthusiasm, "What about you Bella ? Did you have a good time ?" I grinned ruefully.
Jen peered at me from over the top of the book she was reading, her eyes glinting mischievously. She was holding back her laughter. The traitor. "Mom," I replied, "When is torture ever enjoyable ? But it was good to spend time with Alice." "Hey ! What about me ?!" and indignant voice cried.
"And you too Lucy," I amended quickly. Though I don't hate shopping as much as I did when I was human, I'm still no Alice or Lucy. Though Lucy has spent the last 85 years trying to rectify that, considering that I'm her only sister whose willing to go shopping with her occasionally.
Ciara smiled at our banter, then returned to her work, Jen resumed her reading while Jen ran upstairs to unpack all the clothes we'd bought, she planned to rearrange all our closets as Alice had hers, by first letter, designer and color. Alice is a bad influence on my sister.
Meanwhile, I curled up in an armchair with a new philosophy book I had purchased in Seattle.
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