Emmett at the Mall, Part Two: Alice's Surprise Event
After everything in the car, including Edward and Alice's silent argument and threats, I was a little scared as to why we were all going to the mall. Voicing my concern, Alice only laughed.
"We're having a contest!" Equally horrified looks were exchanged through-out the car. "Okay, so the teams are: Emmett, Bella, and Jasper, then Rose, Edward, and me." She handed everyone a piece of paper. "With your cameras – and I know at least one person in each group has one – you have to take a variety of photos. First team to complete it wins a special surprise."
I looked down at my paper, hoping it wasn't stuff that was dangerous. The paper read:
Alice's Photo Scavenger Hunt:
You must get all the pictures in order to get back into your house tonight. Carlisle and Esme have been notified of this, and Bella is having a "slumber party" with me tonight, so she can't go home either!
One team member posing with a dummy (outrageous poses people!)
Someone (besides Bella) eating a large ice cream cone
Someone on the carousel
Two people "making out"
Team member(s) with a security guard
Team member dressed in old people's clothing
"Alice, you can not seriously think we're going to take pictures of people making out!"
"And besides, you split all the marriages apart!" I blushed, thinking how they already considered Edward and I married.
Just as all chaos was about to break loose, Jasper sent a wave of calm around the Jeep. Nodding my thanks, I looked up to see the mall right in front of us.
Alice pushed Jasper out the door, nearly jumping over him in her excitement. "Now, everyone, GO!"
Emmett grabbed my arm, a gleam in his eye. "Let's go, Bells!"
And we did.
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After an hour of aimlessly wandering around the mall, Jasper, Emmett and I were getting bored. There's only so many times you can Goth yourself up at Hot Topic and walk into Abercrombie before it gets boring. "What about Alice's list?" I half-heartedly said, pulling it out of my pocket.
They both looked at me like I'd grown two heads. "Are you crazy?" Jasper said, his mouth still gaping open. "We never do any of Alice's little games."
Emmett laughed his booming laugh. "Yeah, I just usually do whatever looks fun." His excitement was growing, rubbing off on Jasper who unintentionally sent the same feelings to me.
"Let's do this then!" I cried, waving it in front of him. "It'll be crazy and fun!"
Emmett beamed down at me. "What's the harm?"
If only we had known then what would happen.
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This is utterly ridiculous. I thought to Alice as we stood outside Victoria's Secret. I refuse to set foot in this place, Alice.
Too bad it's not your decision to make then, isn't it?
Rose sighed, looking boredly at us both. "Listen, Edward, the sooner we get this done, the sooner you can go save Bella from whatever stupid thing Emmett's trying to get her to do." She grimaced, thinking of past 'Alice Fun-Time Games'. "We need to hurry, because Lord knows what he'll do to her – and the rest of the innocent people in this place."
I sighed back, thinking of the many dangerous things my brother could be doing. "Fine. What's first?"
Alice danced around a bit, pleasure evident on her face. "Outrageous poses with dummies!"
Rosalie and I both groaned. "Joy."
Mere seconds later, a frown crossed Alice's face. "Aw, they won't allow cameras in Victoria's Secret…"
"What a shame."
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Twenty minutes later, and Emmett, Jasper and I had already gotten through a lot of Alice's list. The security guard, posing with a dummy, and someone in old people's clothes…all too easy. Heh, Alice's slipping! I thought as I sashayed out of the dressing room. As an added gag for the old people's clothes, Emmett had grabbed a 2x pantsuit for my small frame. I tried to look elegant as I held the waistband of my pants up. Striking a pose, I cried: "Ta-da!"
Emmett spluttered out something or another, but I could tell it was funny. "What, does this make my butt look big?" I pulled all the stops this time: wide eyes, trembling lip, sweet little voice.
He immediately sobered up as Jasper snapped the picture. "No, Bells, you look…erm, lovely?"
I laughed, skipping over to put the huge hat on his head. "Three down, three to go."
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Rose and I drew straws. I got the short one. Walking up to the ice cream counter, I looked for the smallest possible thing. "Remember, Edward: it has to be a large at least!" Alice sing-songed from a nearby bench. I tried my best to hold the snarl I felt rising in my throat.
You will pay.
After I bought the offending thing, the prospect of eating it loomed upon me. It was by no means a bad tasting thing, if I had been able to taste it. I remember Bella buying one the last time we were at the mall: an Orange Julius. Slurping the last bit out of the plastic cup, I turned to the sound of Rosalie and Alice's giggles.
"What?" I snarled.
This caused them to laugh even more. "Nice picture, brother." Rose managed to gasp out. I ripped the camera out of her hands, only to see a picture of Bella and myself making out at the house. I groaned, hesitantly handing it back.
"Well, we've killed two birds with one stone!" Alice chirped before pulling Rose and I after her.
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After Emmett and Jasper had successfully pressured a couple into making out for our camera and Emmett had devoured an entire large chocolate chunk ice cream cone, I was ready to throw in the towel. Plopping down on a bench, Emmett just pulled me back up. "No, no: no rest time for the human."
I growled softly at him (I wonder what other "vampire" habits I'd picked up lately), but let myself be dragged towards the carousel in the center of the mall. When I saw what was already on the carousel, my eyes lit up and I ran towards the offending thing.
"Edward!" I cried, launching myself into his startled arms.
"Bella," he whispered into my hair, covering it with kisses.
"Let's get out of here."
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Twenty minutes later and we had finally managed to throw everyone back into the Jeep. I remember as far as making it out of the mall's parking lot before sleep overcame me.
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AN: So, at the part when it talks about getting "Gothed" up, I imagine them all in all black, with chains, spikes, etc., etc. Gosh, wouldn't Edward flip if he ever saw Bella like that? Ha. I'm thinking of making a companion piece with all the stupid stuff Emmett, Bella, and Jasper did before they started on the photo hunt. Review if you want it!
This whole chapter is told in Edward and Bella's POV. Hope that wasn't too confusing, as I didn't want to keep putting "Edward POV" and "Bella POV" all over the story. I think it distracts from it. XD
Although I used another list for this chapter, I also used personal experience. I recently did a photo scavenger hunt, and quite a few of these things happened to me. (Mostly Team Alice-Edward-Rose's experiences, only made human).
I hope you enjoyed this one!