If things were different.
CHAPTER 10; Good Morning
"Get up you two!" screamed Alice, shaking me vigorously by the shoulders.
"Mupff, five m...more... m-minutes," Rosalie yawned into her pillow.
"Nope," Alice replied, popping the 'p'. "We're going out for lunch later, so you better be hungry!"
"That's later. I want to sleep now," I groaned turning over too face the wall.
"Get up, now!" Alice cried, opening the curtains to the blinding Arizona sunshine.
"Fuck off," Rose grumbled, hiding under the duvet.
"Mind your fucking language, bitch face!" Emmett chuckled, walking through the door, followed by Jasper and a sleepy Edward. Oh crap, I thought, bed hair! I hid under the duvet.
"Help me get them up!" Alice pleaded.
"Meh. I'd rather still be asleep in bed myself," Edward mumbled. The sound was muffled by the layer of fabric over my head.
"Rise and shine, Bellz!" Jasper said, throwing the duvet off my feet, exposing them to the cold outside the warm little duvet bubble I had.
"Grrr! Get the fuck out of here," I shouted angrily, pushing the covers off my face to give him evils. I kicked the covers back over my feet.
"I want to go to the beech!" Emmett complained.
"I don't give a crap! I am sleeping here!" Rosalie retorted.
"You guys go to the beech, I'm going back to sleep," Edward yawned, rubbing his face.
"Guuuyyys!" Alice moaned. "Not fair! Don't go back to sleep..." I drifted back of to sleep.
"BELLAAAAA!"
"W-what?" I asked, innocently.
"Stop falling asleep! I was talking here!"
"But... I'm tired!" I grumbled, yawning to emphasize my point.
Someone sat on the sofa bed near my feet.
"Quit it," Edward murmured.
"Quit what?"
"Quit moving your foot."
"Why?"
"Because you keep kicking me."
"Oh, sorry," I apologised, moving my feet to the join in the cushions on the sofa.
"Thank you."
"No problem."
"Don't go back to sleep, Bella," Alice warned, pushing Edward's shoulders so he fell back into my feet.
"Alice?" I heard Rosalie groan.
"Yeah," she tinkled.
"Close the curtains."
"Humph, she mumbled. "Let me think... no."
"Meh... Jasper? Cole the curtains."
I don't have a death wish..." he said looking towards Alice. "Do it yourself, Lazy."
"Fine, I will," Roe grumbled, climbing out of bed. She strutted over to the window, and the room was basked in shade. It was short lived. Alice whipped the curtains open again, blinding the inhabitants of the room, and screeched.
"Get up, now! You are worse than Emmett on a weekday morning!"
Nope. Emmett's a lot worse than this," Edward disagreed. "He'd still be unconscious."
We laughed at Emmett's expense, but he joined in. Plus, it was only gentle teasing.
"Alice, you, Emmett and Jasper can go to the beech. We'll join you for lunch later."
"Hell no! I'm not going with them," Emmett boomed. "They'll spend the whole time staring into one another's eyes... like freaks!"
"True... True. Then don't go. Stay and go back to sleep," I suggested, giggling.
"But I want to go to the beech!"
"Go, or don't, but quit being such a baby. You're eighteen!"
"I agree with Edward. Grow up!" Jasper added.
"You have five more minutes left to sleep. Then I'll pull out your toenails, slowly... one-by-one."
"Finally! The pixie gets it!"
"Come on Edward, you can't sleep there," Jasper said, tugging on Edward's limp arms.
"Who says I can't? Bella doesn't mind. Do you Bella?" he asked, opening one of his eyes to peer at me, pleadingly.
"I don't care what you do. Just shut up! I want to go to sleep!"
"See," Edward teased. "Now let go of my hand, you gay!"
"I giggled with my eyes half closed, and Jasper shot me an evil glare. Edward slumped into the back of the sofa as far as he could, without crushing my feet, and closed his eyes. He smiled when I pulled my feet out from behind him and gently put them in his lap, covering his lower half with the duvet.
***
"N'awwww!" Alice squealed.
"That's so cute!"
"What? What's cute?" I questioned, feeling less groggy that the last time I woke up. I pulled my knees to my chest and tucked into a ball.
"N-...." Edward began, but stopped abruptly.
"What?"
He stretched his arms above his head, then lowered them til they were out in front of his body and linked his fingers together, yawning. "Nothing."
"Be like that then."
"Come on guys, I gave you an extra ten minutes!" Alice said.
"Thanks Alice."
I unfolded my legs, catching onto Edward's yawn. I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.
"Bella?" Alice paused, waiting for me to look at her. "Go get dressed and I'll help you with your hair."
"What's wrong with my hair?"
"The more correct question is: What's right with your hair, Bellz?" Jasper laughed quietly, I ignored him.
"You just need to comb it through."
"I'm going to have a shower. Arizona's making me feel all 'icky'," said Rosalie.
"Your clothes will be ready for you when you get out. And Bella... go get dressed!"
"Fine. I'm going... I'm going!"
I swivelled my legs around and set my feet on the floor.
"Hey!" Edward murmered.
"Yes?"
"I was... I'm using this duvet too!"
I wrapped it round myself and stood up.
"Dressed... now!" Alice said, with an evil venom in her voice.
"Going!"
I walked out of the room and into the bathroom.
"Your clothes are the pile on top of the foot stool."
I looked to the foot stool, that stood unused, next to the sink. I saw a pile of clothes, including a dark blue capped sleeve shirt.
"Thanks Alice."
"Hurry up, Bella. I want the shower."
"If you go away I'll be done faster," I said through the closed door, pulling off my oversized band-shirt that I was using as a nightie.
Rosalie gre impatient, and within two minutes she was banging the bathroom door down.
"Hurry up in there!" she screeched... again.
"Go, Away. Now!" I muttered under my breath. I raised my voice so she could hear me, "I'm busy."
"Doing what?"
"What do you think someone does in the toilet?" I asked, rhetorically.
"Oh, hurry up then!"
"I am now stop talking to me on the loo."
***
"Bella, I love your hair."
"Well, I'm glad someone does," I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"
"N-nothing, don't worry about it."
"I won't then," Alice said, quickly smiling to herself. She ran her fingers through my hair to pull in back into a high ponytail.
"After a minute's pause, I began the topic I wanted to talk about with Alice alone.
"Weren't you... shocked, in any way?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, didn't yesterday shock you... in any way?"
"Yeah, of course it did. Why?"
"Because you're acting like everything's completely normal.£
"Am I?" Alice asked, furrowing her brow.
"Yes."
"Sorry, I was trying to be sympathetic... Isn't that how you want it though?"
"I guess," I said shrugging off her apology.
"Your hair looks silly in a ponytail."
"Sorry," I said, automatically.
"It's not your fault, silly. Anyway, we just have to ..." she trailed off.
I turned to give her a look, asking her to continue.
"It doesn't matter. We just have to make your hair look nice with your outfit."
"Okay."
"Rose?" Alice raised her voice slightly when we heard the bathroom door open.
"Yeah?" she replied walking into the room in a rose pink tank top and a baggy grey cardigan that passed the bottom of her white denim short shorts.
"Good. I'll do you hair after Bella's. Then... we'll do make-up!"
"Can't wait(!)" Rose replied sarcastically, flipping her her hair over her shoulders.
I giggled, and Alice pulled my hair from behind.
"Ouch! What was that for?"
You laughed at me," she said, with a sad face.
"...well, it was funny. I'm sorry," I feebly apologised to Alice.
"Can I straighten your hair a bit?"
"Sure, go ahead. You're in charge," I smiled.
"Rose go get my GHDs out of my yellow suitcase," Alice smiled sweetly.
Rose sloped off to go find Alice's pile of suitcases.
"I'm going to straighten the bottom layer off your hair, and the top layer'll be all nice and curly."
"Okey-dokey!"
"Alice!" Rose shouted up the stairs.
"Yeah!?"
"Which yellow suitcase?"
I stifled my giggles.
"Um..." she said looking at me. "The one with the silver heart keyring?" she shouted cautiously down the stairs, it sounded more like a question than an answer.
"The normal, or the leo- scrap that, I'll bring them both."
We heard a quiet clomping up the stairs. When Rose reached the top on the stairs, her feet padded along the landing. She entered the room carrying two black rolls.
"I'll help. We'll be ready faster then," Rose said, dropping one of the rolls into Alice's outstretched hand. She opened her roll, and a pair of leopard print straighteners fell into her hand. Alice did the same, only she now held a second, normal, black set of straighteners.
"Your hair is so soft, Bellz!" Rose smiled stroking her hand through it.
"Hurry up!" Emmet boomed up the stairs.
"Girls!" Jasper mumbled, loud enough for it to travel up the stairs.
"That's your sisters and girlfreind you're tallking about, Jasper!" Alice laughed.
Sister, I corrected in my head.