Chapter 2: Twisted Games

We walked through the mall for about three hours with Alice stopping in basically every store she saw, with the exception of the game store and a maternity store. In every store she forced us, or should I say I considering Rosalie was almost as excited as she was, she bought me at least three new articles of clothing and at least two new bags of clothing for herself.

"Oooh!" She shrieked with joy, "Let's go in here! Can we? Come on!" She grabbed my and Rosalie's arm and pulled us into Pacific Coast with amazing strength for a person so small. She ogled over a pair of jeans with an extremely low waist for a while before putting it in her 'yes' pile. When I laughed and told her what I felt about them, she just smirked evilly and picked two more pairs in a darker wash.

"Whatever," I snickered, "You're the one who's wearing them."

"Actually," She smiled, her evil smirk turning into a more pronounced evil smile, "I'm not."

I frowned, why would she buy two pairs of jeans if she didn't want them?

"What-" I started to question, that's when realization hit me. She was getting the jeans for me. "Oh no, Alice." I warned, "No, no, no," I repeated, "No, Alice, you will not ever get those things on me. Never." I made sure to stress the last word. Her evil smile turned into a little pout. Damn her, I thought, she knows I'm a sucker for guilt trips. I finally consented much to her glee and we checked out at the register.

Alice had already begun walking towards another direction, when I, frantically looking for an excuse to stop shopping for a given amount of time, blurted out, "I'm hungry."

Alice smiled at me knowingly but switched to the direction of the food court anyways. "Okay Bella. Rose, that sound good?"

Rose smiled and checked her nails. "Sure" she agreed nonchalantly.

"Well that's settled then!" Alice chirped, "Lead the way, Bella!"

"Sure!" I replied with mock enthusiasm, leading them up the escalator in an army fashion. Alice rolled her eyes at me, causing me to snicker.

We got on the line for 'Sbarro's Pizza'. I got the plain, Rose got the Sicilian, and Alice got the olive. We headed to an empty table and began 'consuming out feast' as Alice liked to put it.

Alice suddenly got a very sly look in her eyes. I raised my eyebrows at her, knowing that look all too well. She tilted her head at me and smiled angelically in what I knew to be a pretend innocence.

"What ever you're about to do, Alice… don't" I said cautiously.

She gave me another angelic smile and asked in her sweetest voice, "Whatever are you talking about, Bella?"

Rosalie, also seeming to understand my concern, used a more direct approach, "Alice, just spit it out!" She grumbled.

"Fine," Alice gave in, sticking out her lower lip in a pout, "I was just going to say, why don't we play truth or dare?"

I gave her a look of disbelief, "You have to be kidding," I argued, "What are you, five?"

She shrugged, "It just seemed fun." She responded, resuming her pout.

"I'm up for it!" Rosalie said enthusiastically. Rose was always up to a good game.

I dropped my shoulders in defeat, "Fine, but we may not do any dares if there are laws prohibiting us from them." I know that most people wouldn't even have to say this with their friends, but with Alice, it was important that you had to lay down the rules.

"Aw, Bella, you say it like it's not going to be fun." Rose joked, playfully slapping my arm.

"Yeah, Bella," Alice frowned at me, "And I only ever got arrested once on a dare." She held up one finger to prove her point.

I smiled, I couldn't say that I didn't like their twisted games, they were fun, but they were also frightening and sometimes very dangerous. "You remember Dan, Dan the frying pan man?" I questioned them.

They nodded slowly. How could they forget? He had chased us all around a hotel, waving a frying pan over his head and chasing us down the hallway. We had to hide in the ladies sauna area to escape him, and even then he tried to come in before they had to call the police. What had really set him off was that Alice had dared me to go to his room, take his cat and then hide it somewhere. I had chosen his cupboard. But the freak came home early and saw me with his cat and started running after me with his trusted frying pan.

"I don't want any more of those kinds of dares" I told them, looking them each in the eye. They both nodded solemnly before Alice perked up.

"Don't worry Bella! None of that will happen today! I've seen it!" She smiled.

"Are you sure?" I asked skeptically.

"Absolutely positutely!" She answered.

"Come on guys!" Rosalie said, getting impatient, "Let's get this show on the road!" We all cheered.

"Okay, Ali, truth or dare?" I asked before she could get a word out.

"Dare." She responded, scowling that she wasn't able to go first.