A/N: Well, here is chapter four. Thanks for reviewing, and I hope you like it! (sorry if I don't get Edward's POV right, I have never written in his before.)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Stephenie Meyer's work, or any store/product I might mention in this chapter. I just own the plot of my story.

Chapter 4 - Seattle

EDWARD'S POV

Honestly, I was worried about going shopping with Alice. I had only been shopping with Alice once, and I hadn't planned on doing that ever again. I won't go into details.

But after Bella got into the car, I knew I had nothing to worry about. I didn't quite know what it was about her that I liked - was it her intellegence? Her curiosity? Her beauty was part of it, but I don't focus on that much. And I may have only known her two days, but it felt like I've known her my whole life. I guess I was thinking about it too much, and I needed to focus on being friends with her. I didn't want to freak her out.

"Hey, Bella! Ready to go shopping?" Alice asked excitedly as Bella got into the car. She grimaced and said "sure" reluctantly. I chuckled and moved over so she had a place to sit. She looked at me and smiled.

"Again I thank you guys for coming along," she started to say but I shook my head.

"It was no problem. I honestly don't mind, do you, Jasper?" I said and looked at Jasper expectantly. His eyes got wide and he raised his eyebrows.

"Nope, no problem. I just refuse to go into Victoria's Secret or any other girly weird store," he replied, grimacing. Alice laughed, but nodded.

"Deal. We won't go to a weird girly store with you," she said. I saw Bella widen her eyes hopefully beside me. I chuckled, hating to burst her bubble.

"She said she won't take Japer to any girly store, not that she wasn't going to one." She looked over to me, her eyes narrowing.

"Thanks for ruining my happy moment, Edward," she said punching my arm lightly. I reached up to rub the place where she hit me, pretending to be hurt.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"For ruining my happy moment," was all she said. I laughed again, and she smiled.

The drive went on, uneventful and quiet except for Alice and Jasper's random discussions about where he would and wouldn't go. After argueing for about ten minutes, Alice dragged me into an arguement.

"Edward, where do you draw the line at where we shop?" she asked. I sighed, not wanted to go into shopping arguements with Alice, because we all knew it would be pointless and she would win.

"Don't drag Edward into this," Jasper pleaded, not wanted to cause another arguement.

"I don't care where we go," I answered. Honestly, I could think of a few places I could do without (Bath and Body Works being one of them, I really hated going in there...), but I didn't want to push it.

"Hey, Alice, do I get to draw a line at where I go shopping at?" Bella asked hopefully. Alice peered at her through the rearview mirror, a small smile forming on her face.

"Not a chance," was all she said, and Bella sighed softly, muttering to herself. By the look on her face, she looked like she was plotting how to either escape or get out of shopping. I smiled.

"I would give up right now if you think your going to get out of this," I said, softly so she would be the only one to hear, as Jasper and Alice were still talking up front. She looked at me questioningly. "You look like you plotting a way to get out of this. And I'm saying, it won't work. We've all tried, and we've all failed," I explained, grinning. She laughed softly, and the sound was like angels singing. I like her laugh, I realized. Who was I kidding? I like everything about her. Which isn't right to say, since I'd only know her for so little time.

"I didn't think my plan would've worked anyway. Alice can probably run faster than I can, and she has the key's to the car, anyway," she elaborated. I gave her a surprised look, and she laughed again. "Kidding. I knew I couldn't escape. I agreed to do this anyway." She sighed. "What's your favorite store?"

"I don't really have a favorite store...it'd probably be any store with music in it, since I really like music. What's yours?"

She thought about this one. "I'm not sure. I never really go shopping unless forced or unless it's necessarry. But if I had to pick one, it'd be Barnes and Noble."

"A book store?" I asked skeptically. She smiled.

"Yes. I have always loved books, since before I learned to read. Although, I like to stick with the classics." I looked at her and smiled.

The rest of the car ride passed without insident, except about twenty minutes before we arrived in Seattle. I had set my hand down on the seat beside me, only to find that her hand had been resting there too. The electric current that seemed to travel up my arm when I touched her hand made me gasp, and I quickly pulled my hand away. I looked at her out of the corner of my eye and muttered an apology. She was blushing, a look of wonder on her face like she had felt the electric current too.

Finally we reached the mall, and I got out to take a look at it. It was two stories high, maybe three, and it looked to have every store imaginable inside. (A/N: I have never been to Seattle or a mall that was more than two stories high, so forgive me if there isn't a mall like this one in Seattle. Just pretend) Alice looked like she would be jumping with joy if she could have (Jasper had probably talked to her about making herself stand out embarrassingly in public, no doubt). Bella just looked like she wanted to get this over with, but with a little bit of excitement.

The first store we went into was Bath and Body Works, my own personal hell. I mentioned that to you earlier, how I did not like that particular store at all, and if you are sensitive to smells, you know why. It smells like a thousand different fragrances mixed all together, and not all of said fragrances smelling all that great. All of those smells mixed gave me a HUGE headache. However, Alice liked this store and always found it, no matter how much we tried to avoid it.

"Alice, can we please not stay in here for twenty minutes like we did last time?" I asked, pinching the bridge of my nose. She answered without looking at me.

"Edward, if you don't want to stay in here, you can just go to another store. Closeby," she added. "And take Bella with you too, she looks miserable." I looked over to Bella and she was just standing there, looking every bit as miserable as I was. She looked at me hopefully, then turned back to Alice.

"Do you seriously mean that?" Bella asked this as if she couldn't believe that was true. I couldn't blame her. Alice laughed.

"Of course I did, I'm not going to torture you. We won't be in here long anyway, will we Jasper?" Alice replied while looking at some weird oily stuff.

"I sure as hell hope not," he muttered while standing there looking absolutely mortified at all of the pink and white lotions around him. It was an entertaining sight. Alice just giggled.

"Come on, let's get out of here before my head explodes with all of these smells," I said to Bella as she was looking at the exit with longing. She nodded and got out of there as quick as she could.

"What now?" she asked.

I looked around. We were in a long hallway full of different stores, including Hot Topic, an art gallery type thing, a jewlery store, Gamestop, and a JCPenny's at the end of the hallway. I didn't really see anything that looked very interesting to me, so I looked at Bella for her oppinion.

"Hm. Uh, let's go into Hot Topic I guess. It's kinda fun messing with the people that go in there," she said, giggling. I smiled and started walking toward the neat-yet-creepy store of Hot Topic. (A/N: I don't mean to offend any of you Hot Topic shoppers, just writing it from what I think would be Edward's view on the store...) "Wait!!!" she yelled excitedly before we got into the store, earning her some weird stares from fellow shoppers.

"What?" She was looking toward the end of the hallway, where a jumble of more stores were. She pointed to one next to a cany store that said Walden Books. Oh.

"Come on!" she said, grabbing my hand to pull me toward the book store. I got another electric shock up my arm when she grabbed my hand, and it kind of bothered me. I shouldn't be feeling this way about a person I had practically just met. It was irrational.

We spent all of the time that Alice wasn't there in the book store. Bella found three books that she wanted badly, but didn't have the money. (actually, I think she did, she just didn't want to spend it all on books, and wanted to help out Alice with buying clothes.) I couldn't let her just put the books back, so I bought them for her.

"No, I don't need them," she argued. I wasn't having that.

"I don't care, you wanted them so I'll buy them for you."

She shook her head. "No."

"Yes."

"Fine. At least let me pay you back."

"Not a chance." I smiled. I could see her getting weaker at the sight of my smile. She caved.

"Okay. But it won't happen again." I just smiled and payed for the books.

Five minutes later we heard a voice calling out our names. Alice. "Where have you been? I've been looking everywhere, I told you to stay close and this is most definitely not close! I had no idea where you might've been and..." And this went on and on, her ranting and raving. I eventually just tuned it out, waiting for her to get over it and move on. Finally, she stopped, and by now I could see that even Jasper had tuned her out.

"Okay, let's move on."

When the shopping was over (5 1/2 hours later), Alice had aquired 4 new pairs of jeans, 6 shirts, 3 dresses, numerous different pairs of shoes (shoes were her favorite), and so many accessories that I didn't ever want to see another necalace/bracelet/or any earrings ever again. Bella got 3 pairs of jeans, 4 shirts, 6 pairs of shoes, 3 dresses, a couple pairs of earrings, and 2 necalaces. I'm assuming they both got lingerie, but Jasper and I didn't go into the lingerie store with them, nor did we want to.

"Do you like all of the things you got, Bella?" Alice asked during the drive back to Forks.

"Yes, actually, I do. Thank you so much, Alice."

"I thought the dresses looked gorgeous on you. So did the last pair of jeans you got, those were my favorite," she complemented. That was another thing: we didn't get to see them when they tried things on. Jasper tried to get Alice to show him the first dress she tried on, but she said that she and Bella were going to do a fashion show for everybody the next day to show us all the clothes they bought. Bella groaned at that, clearly not liking the idea of doing a fashion show. I chuckled.

"Do we really have to show off the clothes we got tomorrow, Alice? Do you really think it's necessarry?" Alice thought about this, and finally sighed.

"No, I suppose not. You got off the hook this time, Bella," she said. I could see Bella breathing out a sigh of relief. Then she got thoughtful again.

"Hey, Alice, where am I going to sleep tonight?" I had wondered about this too, considering we had no extra beds for her to sleep on.

"Umm, I'm not sure. We don't have any extra beds...but we do have an extra couch." We have an extra...? oh, wait. That was the one in my room. The thought of Bella sleeping in the same room as me gave me shivers.

"That's fine, I can sleep on the couch," Bella said, always willing.

"It's in Edward's room," Alice said. Bella looked at me nervously and, even in the pitch black darkness of night, I could see the blush creeping up her face.

"T-that's okay," she said, stuttering slightly. Alice smiled, as if she knew something I didn't. Which was probably true.

When we finally reached home, I heard Emmett's booming voice as soon as we stepped through the door.

"Did they torture you guys? Did they take you to...girly stores? Are you two scarred for life now?" At this, Rosalie laughed.

"Shopping with Alice isn't that bad, Emmett," Jasper said, coming to Alice's defence. Suck up. Alice smiled and gave him a hug.

"Thank you, Jasper. It wasn't that bad, now was it Bella?"

"No, it wasn't," Bella sighed in defeat. She yawned. "I'm kinda tired. What time is it anyway?"

I looked at my watch. "Almost midnight."

"Wow. I have officially shopped till I dropped," she said, laughing.

"I agree," Alice said. "I will give you some clothes to wear to sleep, and then tomorrow we can start part 3 in our makeover plan." Bella looked puzzled.

"Part 3?"

"Of course, Bella, remember? I told you we have to get you to get more acquainted with guys, like as in, you need a boyfriend or a date of some sort. Don't worry, we'll figure out something tomorrow." My stomach turned (and not in a nice way) at the thought of Bella being with another guy. I guess I'm being selfish, but I didn't like the idea of Bella being with anyone other than...well, me.

I liked Bella way more than should be allowed for someone who has known her for about two days. She is just so amazing, it's hard not to. But I needed mental therapy if I thought that Bella would ever like me like that. I'm sure she has her heart set on...someone else.

While Alice took Bella into her room to give her a change of clothes, I put blankets and a pillow onto my black leather couch, to make it as comfertable as possible. I didn't fully like the idea of her sleeping on the couch when I had a perfectly nice, big bed in the same room.

"Woah, you have a really nice room," Bella said as she walked into my room. I did like my room, with one wall made completely of glass, and nice wood floors, but I wasn't paying attention to that at the moment. I was too occupied with the goddess that had just stepped into my room. Alice had given her silky blue pajamas, which contrasted stunningly with her skin. Her hair was still amazingly silky from Alice's 'part 1' of the makeover, at it looked beautiful. She was beautiful.

She blushed as she saw me staring at her with semi-wide eyes, and I quickly averted my eyes, embarrassed for staring at her like that. "This is where I'll be sleeping?" she asked to break the akward silence.

"Yes, but you really don't have to sleep there, I have a perfectly comfertable bed you could sleep in," I replied. She looked to the couch, then the bed, then at me, then back at the couch once more.

"I think I'll be okay with the couch, but thank you for the offer," she said, smiling slightly. I smiled back and got into my bed as she lay down on the couch.

"Suit yourself. But if you change your mind, the bed is right here, warm and welcoming." She glared at me, and I smiled, turning off the lamp on my bedside table. I soon fell asleep afterward.

But when I woke up, I felt an arm wrapped around my side, and I smiled.

A/N: Okay, there is chapter four (finally)! I'm sorry it took me so long, I had the worst writers block! I'm hoping to have chapter five up within the next week, but no promises. REVIEW!!!