Alice's POV-

"Bella," I smiled sweetly.

She narrowed her eyes. Gah, she already knew this was going to have something to do with becoming a Barbie doll. "You need to come to my room so we can all get ready for dinner tonight!" I bounced on my heels happily.

Bella shook her head no, but I grabbed her arm and started dragging her there anyway. "Alice, how can you be so small, yet so strong?"

I giggled and pushed my door open, making sure Bella was inside before I shut the door. Rosalie was looking at herself in the mirror as Becca did her hair. Both of them were almost ready, Rose just had to help Becca with her hair. I was all dressed and ready to go, but we all had decided to work on Bella together. There was totally strength in numbers.

I pushed Bella on to the bed and went into my closet, pulling random pieces of Christmas-y clothing for Bella to try on until we found one we thought was perfect. I came out with an arm load and ordered her into the first outfit. She groaned, but did what I asked her to. After about five more outfits, I had finally found the perfect outfit for her. Becca came over, looking evil with a comb and a box of bobby pins. I would be scared if I was Bella, too. Becca tackled Bella's hair while Rose did her makeup, and then I picked out Bella's shoes and jewelry. I put them on her, and made her put on the shoes. After we had finished dressing Bella, I got the camera.

It was awkward, trying to fit four heads into one little picture, but we managed. We giggled and flopped down on my bed. We were done early, and the Christmas party didn't start for a while. The whole freaking town of Forks was pretty much going to be in my house that night. When my mom threw a party, she threw a party. That's probably where I had gotten it from. I glanced toward Becca, who was chatting with Rosalie. They had become friends, suddenly. I knew that Becca and Bella had never really liked Rose, but I guess Becca had changed her mind. She changed her mind about a lot of things. I glanced at Bella, who looked like she wanted to shift away from Rose and run as far away as she could. I mentally sighed. Some things just would not change. I snapped a picture of Becca doubled over in laughter from something Rosalie said. As soon as the flash went off, she jumped up. "ALICE CULLEN!" she screamed.

I giggled. Rosalie took the camera from my hands and whispered something to Becca. Becca's face twisted into one of her evil smiles. Uh-oh. "We'll be back," Rosalie excused Becca and herself.

I glanced at Bella, who seemed to have a mixture of worry and relief on her face. Was that even possible? "What do you think they're going to do?" I asked her, biting my lip.

"I have no idea," Bella admitted, looking at her hands.

Becca's POV-



Rosalie and I walked up to Edward's room and put our heads against the door to try and hear what the boys were talking about. I caught something like "Alice, shopping, clothes, poor Bella" but that was about it.

"Sounds like we're not going to walk in on anything," I muttered quietly.

Rose nodded, and twisted the handle on Edward's door quietly so the boys would not notice anything, and then pushed it open. There heads turned toward the door, and Rosalie and I walked in, snapping pictures of everything. I went over and sat down between Edward and Jasper. "What's up, boys?" I asked with a laugh.

They looked at me cautiously. Oh come on, I wasn't going to do anything that bad . "I just thought that I would warn you two about something," I started.

"What?" Edward immediantly jumped to conclusions. "Is Bella hurt? Is she okay? What did YOU two do?"

"Edward, calm down. You should be more worried about Jasper and your safety right now than anyone else's. Bella and Alice are pissed at you two beyond belief. They've been ranting about it to Rosalie and me the entire time we've been getting ready for the party."

Edward's jaw dropped, and Jasper slapped himself on the forehead with the palm of his hand. "I knew she sounded angry on the phone! She said it was nothing…what did I do?" Jasper asked frantically.

Uh-oh, I had come to a blank. Rosalie, however, being a savoir cut in, "Honestly, I don't think we should tell you, but if you must know, we will, dear brother, fill you in. Jasper, you didn't tell Alice what clothes you were wearing tonight, so she has no idea how to coordinate with them, and she thinks that you're not going to like her gift, because you never hinted at what you wanted. Jeez, bro, you screwed up."

I would've laughed it if it wouldn't have ruined or joke. "Oh, and Edward, Bella thinks you spent too much on her present, and she's afraid that you aren't going to like hers because she didn't spend very much. And she thinks you're going to hate her in her outfit, because you haven't commented on how she looks like in a week. And she thinks you don't like her as much anymore."

Rosalie smiled at me, looking like she was impressed with my quick thinking about what Bella would be angry or upset with Edawward about. Rose added, "I think I'd be careful with what I say and do tonight if I were you boys."

Then, I looked at Emmett, who was sitting on the floor by the door. "It's a good thing you don't have a girlfriend right now, Emmett, because I know for a fact that they'd be pissed if your cell phone was still dead even after they handed you a charger for it."

I had called Emmett earlier to talk earlier, and his phone was dead. And I had in fact given him a charger the other day so that this would not happen. His mouth opened slightly. I smiled sweetly. "Why are you taking pictures?" Edward asked suddenly.



I shrugged, "Memories."

"Of my room? You two come in here all the time to steal Bella, you can look at it then," Edward pushed.

"We can't walk in here tomorrow and expect it to be party time, idiot," Rose interjected.

I stood up, and Rose joined me, linking my arm with her, and then we were out the door. I smiled at her once we were downstairs, and out of ear shot from all of our friends, "Time to go work on Bella and Alice."

We walked to Alice's room and let ourselves in. "Oh, Alice, you'll never believe what my brother just said," Rosalie started to talk, sounding like she was gossiping.

I joined in, this was what I was good at, "He totally just said that he was sort of upset with you. Something about never calling him back. And he thinks that you're into Tyler, a little bit."

Alice's face twisted into shock, and she looked like she was going to faint. She fidgeted uncomfortably, "But you told him that I love him, not Tyler, right?" she asked.

I nodded, "Of course we did! But you know Jasper, he can be so stubborn."

Alice bit her lip, well actually she more like punctured it with her front teeth. She was worried. I felt a little bad for it, but it was going to be so funny at the party. "Bella, Edward thinks you don't love him anymore. He says you've been ignoring him," I added.

Bella's jaw dropped. "Wha-? Huu-? WHY?!" was all that managed to come out of her mouth.

Both Rose and I shrugged. A few seconds later we heard Esme call, "Kids, come out here, the guests are arriving!"

I smiled. This was going to be fun.

Jasper's POV-

Alice was ignoring me at the party. Crap, I really had made her angry. I kept trying to talk, but she wouldn't let me. What exactly had I done? I mean, Becca and Alice had told me, but I thought that there was more to it.

When I finally found her, she was sitting outside on the deck, curled up into a ball on the porch swing. "Alice?" I said hesitantly, not sure what to do.

When she looked at me her eyes were wide. "You know that I don't like Tyler, right? I love you, and you're the only one that I love. I don't even remotely like another guy the way that I like you," she rambled.

I looked at her. What the hell was she talking about. "So, are you still mad at me?" I asked her.

She looked confused. "I thought that you were mad at me!"



I shook my head no. "Becca and Rose said that you were angry with me."

She stood up and flung her arms around me, pulling me into a hug. I wrapped my arms around her as well, planting a kiss on the top of her head. "I think Becca and Rose played a trick on us," I muttered.

"I think so too," she replied.

"We'll have to prank them back," I said.

Her lips tugged upward at the thought.

Bella's POV-

Edward, Edward, Edward. That was all I could think about! Ugh. This was stupid. How could I think that I didn't love him anymore? That was so…dumb. He dragged me aside after a few miserable hours at the party. "Why are you upset with me, love?" he asked.

My jaw dropped. "I'm not upset with you! But how could you think that I don't love you anymore?" I questioned him.

"I thought that you thought that I didn't love you anymore!" Edward replied.

I shook my head. "Becca and Rosalie told me that you thought I didn't love you anymore," I informed him.

Edward growled. "I'm going to kill those two."

"Why?" I asked, confused.

"Because they just pulled the most unforgivable prank ever."