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Chapter 5 - To The CLUB?
Bella Swan
"I can't believe this!" I exclaimed, outraged. I scrolled down the page. Farther and farther. There had to be dozens of entries on there from all different girls. I scanned a few:
Hi Riley! I'm The One ur looking 4. Would luv to c u again!
Riley: When I said we should stop meeting like this, I already knew we were 2 of a kind. Would luv to meet u again — and show u how much I liked meeting u. BB4N!
Hi again cutie! Would love 2 get 2gether & hear the song u wrote after we met. Luv, yr Planetarium Girl xoxo
There were plenty more along the same lines. I just shook my head, suddenly overwhelmed by the weirdness of it all.
"How can all these girls just out-and-out lie like that?" I wondered aloud. "Especially with such a cool guy who, like, laid his heart out there so honestly and everything?"
"That's sort of the point, Bellsierina," Alice said, reading along over my shoulder. "Who wouldn't jump at the chance to snag such an amazingly romantic and good looking guy? Hey, if I saw him message and didn't know you were The one, I might've tried responding myself."
"Same here." Rose said. They both grinned at me weakly, while I shot them evil glares.
"Well, I'd never do anything like that," I said honestly.
"Duh, Bella. You couldn't lie for Barney's sake! Even if you tried to lie in cyberspace, your conscience would immediately be so heavy like you're carrying Amber's fat ass on your back." Alice said and rolled her eyes.
"True, true."
"Well, maybe I should just forget that that ever happened. I don't like playing games." I shrugged.
"WHAT?" Rose and Ali exclaimed, alarmed. "B-bu-but, you can't give up! Not when you just found him!" Alice whined.
"Yeah, me and the entire female population of Forks." I said sourly.
Alice was scanning the entries again. Suddenly, she gasped. "Whoa, check it out! Some chick used my idea telling him that meeting him was out of this world." When she realized I was glaring at her again, she sat back. "But that's not important right now. We need your man to know that you really are Planetarium girl."
"Why bother?" I slumped back on my chair. "If he doesn't realize that I'm the real planetarium girl, maybe we're not meant to be."
"Sure it was! Come on, you can't give up now! Seriously." Rose crouched down and slapped my face. OW. I put my hand on my cheek and felt that it was getting warmer and warmer right now. Alice whacked Rosalie on the arm and stood in front of me. She grabbed my face and looked at me directly in the eye. "Look, Bella. I've never seen you react like this to a guy. A guy that you don't know much of! Does that mean anything to you? Isn't he worth a little more effort?"
My gaze wandered to Edward's profile picture. I shrugged.
"You know I'm right," Alice said. "I mean, what if this Edward guy is the love of your life? Do you want that some Facebook hussy grab him and steal him away from you?"
"Let's not get carried away here." Even though I said that, I had to admit she had a point, maybe. Was it too soon to give up? "I guess he admitted himself that he doesn't really know what I look like," I said slowlu. "So how would he know it's really me and not some imposter?"
"That's the spirit!' Alice said and jumped up and down. Rosalie was grinning. "All you have to be is your gorgeous, witty self, and he'll figure it out."
"Maybe, just maybe you're right. Minus the gorgeous part, though."
"But-" Rose tried to protest.
"SHUT UP!" I yelled. They both whimpered. El Presidenté was still knocked out cold on the floor. Crazy, weak cat.
I still felt kinda irritated on the deceptive girls out there in FB Land. My moment of helplessness had passed, well mostly that is. Maybe Alice and Rose were right. Maybe I should at least try and show Edward that I really am the Planetarium Girl. What was the worst that could happen? At least it was a little easier to be brave over the internet than in real life.
I took a deep, calming breath. "I guess I could write him back and see where things would go."
"Absolutely, definitely!" Alice exclaimed, looking as thrilled as if she won the lottery and landed a date with Jackson Rathbone at the same time. It wouldn't take that much to make her happy. "So what are you going to say?"
"I don't know." As I said that, my fingers were already reaching out towards the keyboard and mouse. I clicked on the Send Edward a Message link beneath his profile picture.
This time, the words came out pretty easily, and I just had let them flow, trying not to overthink my words. When I finished, I sat back and read what I had just typed:
Hi Edward! Thanks for friending me back. Meeting at the planetarium like that was crazy, huh? But mostly, I'm just psyched to find someone else who appreciates BB like I do. Did u see the latest pictures they posted on their blog from their last show down in VA. Too funny!
"There," I said. "Maybe that'll make him realize that I'm the real deal, not those posers."
"Yeah," Alice said dubiously. "Unless those hussies looked at Riley's info page and took all the stuff there. Links for the blog, official site and downloadable songs were there. Guess he's really into that stuff. Well you know what they say, 'Nobody's perfect.'"
Glancing back at her, I noticed she was on her BBB again. She was most probably logged in on my account and was checking out Edward's profile. This is what I get for giving her my FB password. El Presidenté was alive and walking now. He was looking at Alice's BBB, probably thinking it was some exotic mouse that he should claw and wrestle to get out of her grip. I hoped he wouldn't try it, for his sake. Alice would fight a shark just to keep her BBB safe.
"Oh," I mumbled, when the information that Alice had told me sunk in. "Guess I didn't think of that."
At first, I felt kinda stupid. Of course, any girl that would like to snag him while pretending to be Planetarium Girl would do some major research about the band for her story to sound good. I clicked back to Edward's wall and saw that Alice was right. The first ones that Riley had responded to, had something about BB in it. Including at least two posers that said that "Down the Ocean Road" was, like, her favourite song on the entire universe.
My heart sank. It seemed like what I had sent him proved nothing.
I quickly shrugged that thought off. "It doesn't matter," I told Alice."He'll realize soon enough that I'm a real fan and not a poser. The main thing is getting to know him, and him getting to know me. That's the only way we'll be able to tell if we're right for each other."
"You already know that," Alice glanced up from her BBB to waggle her eyebrows at me. "Love at first sight, remember? Pheromones never lie."
"Whatever." I turned back to the screen as I heard a blip. Edward had just written back!
Hi Bella! Saw those pix on the blog. Ur ryt, 2 funny! I can't believe someone squirted Jay some whipped cream and mustard over his head! So great that he kept it on for the whole show. Those guys r a blast! So I guess you're really into the band, huh?
I smiled. He sounded a lot more friendlier already. Better yet, he sounded like he was as enthusiastic as me about the BB and that made him rise up a notch in the coolness scale.
Rose stood up, stepped closer to my shoulder. She read the conversation we had and let out a 'hmm' sound.
"Sounds like he's a true fan," She murmured.
"What are you waiting for? He's obviously hanging on your every word! Right back already!" She poked me on the arm. Her mood swings were going to give me a whiplash anytime soon if she kept on doing that.
"Ow!" I slapped her finger away. Then, I turned back to the keyboard.
Deff way into BB. I've been a fan since I heard their demo last year. Been to all their shows, they're gr8 live. Have you been?
Alice stood up from her seat and tossed her BBB back to the bed. El Presidenté was narrowing his eyes at it, with his long, slender gray tail twitching. I barely spared that little drama a glance when Alice complained. "Aren't you guys going to talk about anything other than that whacked out band? You should try saying something romantic like how handsome he looks like in his picture. Or remind him how sexy his manly arms felt around you."
"Yeah, 'cause that's who I really am," I said sarcastically to Alice. "I told you already that I wanted him to know me, the real me."
Then, there was a sudden flurry of motion behind us. Also a couple of dramatic growls and a weird little yip. Glancing back, I saw that El Presidenté had pounced on BBB and was doing his best to wrestle it into submission. Alice and Rose saw too.
"Hey get off of that, you mangy, ugly creature!" Alice cried.
I laughed as she lunged for EP. He saw her coming and leaped straight up into the air, all four paws out like Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff. As soon as he landed, he zoomed off the bed and straight out of the room. I could hear his claws skittering across the hardwood in the hall outside and a few indignant yowls drifting back towards us.
By the time BBB was safely back in Alice's hand and she'd determined that her baby was none the worse for wear, Edward's response was up on my screen.
I've been to all of their shows as well. Plus I'm going to see them this Fri at the Cave Club. Can't wait!
"Wow," I said. "He got tickets to the show at the Cave? I can't believe he did! It sold out even before I got through the site. He's so lucky!"
The Cave Club was somewhere near outside of Forks. That was the same place where Edward and Pierre's school were at. It was an all age club that hosted all kinds of local bands around the area. I'd been there a few times, watching Bigfoot Beast perform. The place was pretty small and first come, first served. To my total disappointed, I'd be shut out of that concert that night.
"Mmm-hmm." Alice didn't seem to be paying much attention. When I glanced at her, I saw that she had this certain look on her face. A certain thoughtful, devilish and mischievous look.
"Hey," I said. "What are you—"
Before I could finish, she lunged past me away from the keyboard with an elbow to the shoulder like some crazed professional wrestler. She bent over my laptop, her fingers flying over the keys. All that texting and BBBing had made her a superfast typist. Before I knew it, she'd written back to Edward and pressed send.
"Wait,"I protested. "Was that to Edward? He's going to think that was me! What did you say to him?"
My stomach clenched as several possibilities flitted through my mind. What if she'd written something about how sexy and adorable he looked in his profile photo or maybe changed the topic back to our planetarium meeting?
When I peered at what she'd just sent him, I saw that it was even worse.
Cool! I'm going 2 that Cave show, too. Maybe I'll c u there!
Eep. Bella's in soo much trouble right now. :))
Anyway, I'm bored. What should I dooooo? (Except writing this story. I'm doing that already. XD)
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