AN: I didn't get as many reviews as I'd like but I know I should hurry up and get to the good stuff. Especially the chapter of her seducing Edward. Should he cave and have sex with her? Or should it be teasing but still work? I'm trying to figure that one out. Chapter 9 is almost done, and chapter 10 will most likely be all about seducing Edward.

Depending on how I decide to do that I may need to change the rating.

Also I'm going to start with a recap of last time's for each of these and give a summary.

Last time: Alice orders Bella room service and the seduction talk continues, but even more so. Alice comes close to losing control but doesn't. Esme is on her way and Alice is formulating a plan. Seduce a vampire is all about exploiting weakness.

This time: Esme is coming, they continue the talk. The plan shall unravel. Esme arrives and they go out.

Chapter 8
Vampire Seduction 101: Victoria's (little) Secret and Esme's visit.

"As you know," she lifted her head and leveled it with mine, "each vampire has their own scent. Jasper's is intoxicating to me, especially now that we have mated. Use that, because in your case it's intensified. I'm even intoxicated by it."

She leaned in again and pulled me closer to her. Her golden eyes met my chocolate ones in an intense coincidental manner. My body straightened out next to hers, and her head, once again, headed for a similar destination yet with a different path. The skin between her upper lip and nose traced my jaw line and slowly made its way to the middle of my neck. I shivered from the intimate contact, and questioned her motives for a spilt second then went back to being dazzled. Her hold tightened.

I had no clue what Alice was doing. I looked in her eyes; they were lightly golden, glistening even more so now. She stoked my cheek softly, and trailed her hand down my sides and stopped at my hip. She rolled me over and claimed her dominance, she leaned down and breathed on me, and I was then her little puppet, even more than before.

She danced off of me and held a small phone in her hand, open, and stood next to the bed.

"Yes, that one"

"Oh okay."

"Actually we are on the top floor room 615."

"See you soon."

She hung up the phone and looked at me angelically.

"That was just Esme, she will be here in fifteen minutes and…twenty seconds."

Alice stated everything so matter-of-factly.

She came back over to the bed, slowly paused and slid in beside me. She reached out for me and held me close. "Now where was I?" she purred. It sort of reminded me of Edward, and this was very unlike Alice. Shivers coursed through my body so comfortably, yet the urge to inquire was becoming ever-more present.

"Alice what are you doing?"

Curiosity had, indeed, taken over.

She pulled away.

"Sorry Bella, I'm really sorry. This is so unlike me. I got a little too into it I guess, but I'm trying to prove a point."

She sighed one of the most depressing sighs I had ever heard.

"I really miss Jasper. He would tense up just like you did, and he would let me control him similar to that."

"Well, I don't mind. I was just curious."

Alice seemed lost when she realized her longing for Jasper. She was so angelic and her porcelain features made her look delicate and fragile. She pulled me in closer and I lay there for a while. My mind threatened to vividly picture Edward and I stopped that notion by scooting closer, and closing any gap that could have been present. My arms wrapped tighter around Alice, she looked at me, seeing through my every motive and gave me a sympathetic look and smiled.

"Bella, it'll turn out okay, okay?"

"Okay," I looked down, not feeling entirely assured. I wouldn't be assured until I held Edward safely in my arms.

My forehead touched her cool nose, I held her closer than I had, bracing myself for the tears that could soon follow. I restrained myself for a few moments, but I smelled her, she smelled different yet faintly similar. Alice wiped away the two loose tears and held me closer for a few more moments. I remained motionless and was determined not to cry.

Her head moved downward and past my cheek, her nose brushing the edges, capturing every scent it could as she moved downward. Her nose was at the edge of my jaw line. It began to trace my jaw line. Her soft nose swept back and forth, and then her tiny hands cupped around my ears and rested at the edge of my jaw line to cup my face in her hands.

She pulled back and looked into my eyes, hers twinkled with such desire. Her face neared mine, closer and closer. Alice was giving into desire with every immeasurable bit she slowly crossed and became closer to me.

She got up and I lied there as she answered the door and Esme came running in.

"Esme!"

"Hi Alice. Bella are you okay?"

I was still slightly dazed from Alice, but I regained consciousness and the knowledge of what was surrounding me with those four words.

"No."

Alice filled her in on everything we had discussed at an inhuman speed and Esme came to sit with me. She looked pained. Edward had messed up once and hurt the family; she couldn't let it happen again.

"Bella, just stick with us. This will work out. This will. I think Alice has a pretty good plan put together. Edward went out hunting and something tells me he's going to go listen to Jacob's thoughts."

I didn't want him to, but I'd rather him cross the boundary line than go to Italy. I hated the facts either way. I hated that it was my fault, and I hated that I couldn't prove the truth.

"Let's do this!" Alice exclaimed, grabbing her car keys.

We drove straight for the mall, and then the hunt began.

Alice thought a beige number would suit me well, adding color yet staying simple. Esme liked the idea of something black and silky. Myself, I preferred something neutral and simpler than they would approve. We walked into Victoria's Secret, the name was rather humorous now, and starting scouring racks of designs from simple to elaborate.

"Bella was sizes do you need?" Alice asked

"Umm, 34C and medium for the underwear."

"Bella, you're going to try on everything. This will be fun! And a nice little distraction."

I didn't want all this, I needed a simple black or beige number; that was all. Yet Alice would not hear of it, I didn't even try.

We passed by racks of wild print, lacey, flashy, classy, and downright smutty pairings of nighttime wear. By the time her hunt was mostly concluded Alice had picked out a multitude of an assortment for me to start on in the dressing room. All of which she would want to see, critique, and then ask Esme her opinion, not because she wouldn't know but for my benefit.

I walked in and sat all the outfits down, and undressed. The first one was light pink, a corset with matching underwear that was completely normal cut. This one was meant to be girly, young and classy; I very much liked that. It had a little red trim and would definitely shape me well. Once dressed, I took a good look and decided I liked this one. It left a little midriff, and rested nicely around my sides and waist; and wow did it ever shape me up top, WOW. I opened the door, Alice and Esme crowded the opening to peer in and see.

"Oooh Bella." Alice said, almost cheering me on.

"I like this one; it's tasteful and fits well." Esme said in the most motherly way possible when critiquing lingerie.

I smiled then stepped back inside the dressing room, hung it up, and put in a pile I deemed the 'yeses'. I closed my eyes and picked up another one from the middle of the pile in the chair. This one was rather elaborate but I had to try it on. It was leopard printed, and the top this time was not a corset but rather sheer material hung from the bra. After putting that on, I reached down for the bottoms and made the decision not to get this one. I didn't even think a thong could be so revealing. I held the 'underwear' up to me as I opened the door.

Alice giggled a bit, I wasn't sure if it was my facial expression, the 'underwear', or both.

"So I guess that one is a no?"

"Definitely, I wasn't sure they made thongs this revealing."

Esme chuckled and I went back inside to repeat the process twenty-two more times, trying on black and revealing numbers with lace, ones without lace, classy numbers of all colors, numbers that looked too old for me to wear and the stack of definite 'no's' increased. It came down to three classy numbers, each differing in color and giving me an equally appealing appearance.

I told her not to, but Alice bought them all for me. I guess I was glad that it saved time in debating which would work best. Seducing Edward was not a conversation I wanted to have in front of his mother, though she was comfortable with the idea, it was still highly awkward.

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