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Chapter 6

I followed Jasper to the dining room and watched as he nodded to everyone in greeting before taking the seat beside Alice.

I stood awkwardly, wondering where I was going to sit.

Alice looked at me and, realizing my predicament, smiled and helped me out.

"You sit next to Rosalie." she said before her smile turned into a small pout.

"I wanted you to sit next to me but Edward said no." she said mournfully. "He said that I would ask you so many questions that you wouldn't have a chance to eat." she continued before sending a glare in Edward's direction.

I sat down next to Rosalie just as Edward chuckled.

"You know it's true Alice, you would ask her so many questions that she wouldn't have time to eat between answering them." he said, grinning at her.

She stuck her tongue out at him childishly before turning and grinning at me.

"We're going to have so much fun shopping together tomorrow!" she said excitedly, bouncing a little in her seat.

Jasper chuckled quietly before placing his hand on her shoulder, ceasing her bouncing.

"Let her eat for now, Alice, before you start talking about shopping." he said warmly, smiling at her.

She nodded reluctantly.

"Okay, but don't think you're going to get out of shopping with me tomorrow!" she said, looking pointedly at me. "Hopefully you haven't inherited Bella's dislike of shopping." she continued frowning.

"Shopping's not too bad, I don't mind it too much." I said shrugging.

Alice nodded.

"Okay, at least you won't be putting up as much of a fit as Bella does whenever I take her shopping." she said glancing over at Isabella with a knowing look.

Isabella blushed.

"That's enough talking! Let's eat!" Emmett exclaimed, looking impatient.

Everyone looked over at him and Rosalie hit him on the head.

"Ow! What was that for?" he said confusedly. "The food is going to get cold with all the talking they're doing." he said pouting. Rosalie just rolled her eyes and ignored him.

The servants gave each of us a bowl of soup and I stared in despair at all the silverware beside my plate.

I glanced up at Jasper for help but he was in the middle of a conversation with Edward.

It seemed that nobody noticed that I was in need of help and I was about to grab a random spoon to eat my soup with when someone spoke.

"What's wrong miss? Do you not like the soup?" whispered a maid behind me worriedly. I looked over at her to see that she looked about my age with brown eyes and straight brown hair.

I shook my head.

"I'm sure it's good, but I don't really know what spoon to use, they all look the same to me." I said, a little despairingly.

She looked surprised and she suppressed a giggle.

"That one is the soup spoon miss." she said, pointing to one of the many spoons.

I smiled at her gratefully.

"Thanks, I don't know anything about which one is which, normally I'll only have one fork, one spoon and one knife instead of a million of each." I said to her.

She giggled before looking up ahead of me and looking like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Mary, shouldn't you be helping out in the kitchen?" Edward said sternly. I looked at him and tried to defend her.

"Mary was helping me out, it's not her fault." I said, glaring at him a little.

Mary shook her head.

"No, no, it's my fault, I'm sorry your highness." she said, directing the last part to Edward before curtsying and scurrying out of the room.

I looked over at Edward in anger.

"You shouldn't have been so mean. She was just being nice by helping me out." I said, narrowing my eyes at him.

He shook his head.

"She shouldn't have been talking to you and you shouldn't have been talking to her. If you needed help you could have asked one of us." he said.

I shook my head at him.

"You were all talking to each other, and besides, I didn't want to have to ask you." I said, looking down at my bowl.

"Why didn't you want to ask us?" Edward asked surprised. By now everyone was listening to our conversation.

I shifted my feet nervously.

"I was embarrassed." I said as I continued to stare at my soup.

It was silent and I slowly looked up at Edward to see that he was smiling at me warmly.

"You don't have to be embarrassed, we understand that you don't know things like that. Feel free to ask us if you have any questions." he said nicely, giving me another smile. "Now, we should finish dinner, I bet you're hungry." he continued, nodding to my bowl.

I nodded and started eating my soup before I realized that I had forgotten to apologize to Isabella about earlier.

I looked up and saw that she was busy talking to Esme, so I decided that I would talk to her when dinner was finished.

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When we were finished dinner and people were going their separate ways I saw Isabella heading to the doorway.

It's now or never I thought to myself, before running to catch up with her.

"Can I talk to you real quick?" I asked her, when she turned to me surprised.

She smiled and nodded.

"Yes you may." she said before turning back to Edward. "I'll be back in a minute." she said to him.

We walked a little ways from the door and I glanced down before looking back up at her.

"I'm sorry about being so rude earlier about the name you gave me, I was surprised, I've never heard a name like that before. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." I said, staring at her guiltily.

She stared at me surprised for a minute before she smiled at me warmly.

"It's okay, it is a bit of an odd name." she replied finally.

"I still shouldn't have been so rude about it, that was mean of me." I said, looking down.

I jumped a little when she hugged me, but after a minute I hugged her back.

"Don't worry, it's fine, everyone makes mistakes every now and then." she said before releasing me.

"Are you going to come talk with us? Or do you want to go back to your room?" she asked, gesturing in the direction everyone else had gone.

I shook my head.

"I'm kind of tired, I think I'll go back to my room." I said before starting to walk to the doorway. Then I remembered that I had followed Jasper to the dining room and I didn't know the way back.

I turned back to Isabella sheepishly.

"Could you tell me where my room is please." I said hesitantly, grinning sheepishly at her.

Isabella laughed.

"I can do better than that." she looked around and saw the maid that had told Jasper and I that dinner was ready. "Anna! Could you please show her back to her room?" she asked. She then said goodbye and went to find everyone else.

Anna showed me back to my room and I dressed into my pajamas before putting my clothes into my bag, hoping I would remember to ask if they had a basket I could put my dirty clothes in.

I turned off the lights and crawled into bed.

Maybe today wasn't that bad after all, I thought to myself before falling asleep.

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Once again, I am very sorry that it took me so long to update. (Longer then usual) I can't give you any excuses besides the fact that I had a bit of a writer's block. And I want to tell you that procrastination is a horrible thing.

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