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Here's the first night of the Shopping Weekend. I hope you guys like it...
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A Lost Bet
Happy Place
BPOV
"We'll go to this store first," Alice bounces, "Oh Bella! You're going to love New York City."
"If you say so." I say as Alice and Rosalie drag me in to the first store. I don't even look at the name of it. I know it's expensive. I feel Edward's Gold Card burning in my pocket. He wants me to use it, if I want to buy something... but to be honest, I don't think I want to buy anything.
"Cheer up, Bella. New York is supposed to be a happy place." Rosalie chimes. She takes off, seeing a shirt that she likes. Alice's eyes glaze over and she smiles when she returns back to normal.
"Come on Bella, there's a couple shirts that you're going to like." Alice takes my hand and drags me along with her to a table with a bunch of shirts laid out for selection. She grabs a few, all blue, and throws them at me. "Go try these on."
"Why? You know I'm going to get these anyway..."
"Bella, come on, try them please?" Alice pouts at me and I roll my eyes.
"Fine." I walk in to the dressing room area and a lady helps me find an open stall. I throw on the first shirt, which is a blue and white striped polo. I look at myself in the mirror and smile. It looks really nice.
"You like it?" Alice chimes in front of my door.
I open the door so Alice can see and she smiles. "Perfect."
"Yeah, I like it. And I'll probably like the other shirts. So why don't I get them all?" Alice rolls her eyes.
"Okay, if you want. I'm going to go look for myself then. You can, browse." She winks at me and I shut the door so I can quickly change.
I wish Edward was with me. He usually keeps me occupied while we shop. I don't like shopping with just Alice and Rosalie because then I end up spending way more money then I want to. I take out the cell phone Edward got me and check to see if I have any messages. I have one new message.
Hey, luv. Have fun shopping w/ the grlz. Plz get urself sumthing nice & dont wry bout me. Luv u, Ed.
I smile to myself. I love how Edward always thinks of me and he always wants to make sure I'm going to be okay. I go to type him back a message but Alice grabs my arm.
"Come on Bella you have an eternity to talk to Edward. We only have this weekend for the sales. Let's check out and move on to the next one." I roll my eyes as I place the phone back into my pocket. I drop my three shirts on to the counter and the lady rings up my purchases.
"Please don't tell me how much it is." I say looking away from the register. The lady laughs as I hand her the card.
"New at having money?"
"Yes."
"You should be enjoying this. You can spend whatever you want, while your husband does all the work." She smiles at me as she hands the card and the bags back to me. I smile back politely while groaning on the inside. I look at the bag and glare at Alice.
"Ralph Lauren? You took me in to Ralph Lauren?"
"Well, it's not as expensive as the other stores." She smirks while paying for her purchases. Rosalie comes up behind us.
"She's right you know, we still have more places to hit, and they're more expensive."
"Great." I look down at my watch. "Hey, shouldn't the stores be closing by now? It's almost eight o'clock."
Alice frowns and then her eyes light up. "We'll go clubbing."
"No, no, no. You said shopping. That's all we're doing here is shopping!" The lady at the counter laughs at my outburst. Alice and Rosalie all laugh with her as we walk out of the store.
"Bella, this is a girls' weekend out! We need to go clubbing."
"And how, are we going to do that? We don't even look 21!"
"Charm, Bella. Or you could freeze them so we can get in and then unfreeze them when we're inside..."
"Or, we could head back to the hotel and rest up for tomorrow." I suggest another, better option.
Rosalie rolls her eyes. "Come on Bella. Please?"
I bite my lip and look at both of my sisters. They both have a pouty lip look on their faces and their eyes are sad looking. A smile creeps on to my face. They look absolutely childish. I bite my lip even harder to stop myself from laughing but it doesn't work.
"Okay, okay. Fine. But can we drop these off at the hotel first?"
"Fair enough." Alice says as we start heading back towards the hotel.
- - -
"Come on, use your powers." Alice tries to coax me in to freezing the bouncer. We're standing outside one of New York's hottest club, Element. The bouncer is this tall muscular guy with dark shades and he's wearing all black.
"No! Maybe he'll let us in with just our charm. It seemed to work on the police man on the way to New Hampshire."
"Oh you can speak in to people's minds right?" Alice looks at me like she has a new plan that she wants to put in to action. I look at her as we move closer to the bouncer.
"Yeah?"
"Well, can't you just convince him that we're 21?" Rosalie screeches.
"Oh that's a marvelous idea, Alice! Bella, why don't you do that? That way people wouldn't get confused about his sudden frozen-ness." I bite my lip and stare at my sisters again.
"It's okay." Alice smiles.
"God, I'm always outnumbered. Fine. Let me see what I can do." We walk up to the bouncer and he smiles at us. These ladies are very good-looking.
"ID's?" We smile at him, putting on our charm.
"We're 21." They are 21 years old. Look at them, they're old enough to be 21. You don't need to second guess. They are 21.
"Okay, but just for a precaution..." I look over at Alice.
"It's not working!" I whisper so only she can hear me. Alice walks up closer to him.
"Sir, we've been 21 for awhile, and never have we been carded. So we just assumed that we don't need our ID's."
"Never assume things little lady. Hit the road if you don't have your ID's."
Alice pouts and starts walking away. Rosalie and I follow her. Alice turns around and smiles at me. "Quick freeze them."
"All of them?"
"All of them."
I look at the line of people and then at the bouncer. Please work, please work, please work! Alice thinks in her head. I lift up my hands and freeze as much people as I can. It seems to have worked because everyone outside is frozen. Alice jumps up and down and claps her hands.
"You did it!" We quickly run inside, and I unfreeze them. No one seems to have noticed we snuck in here. We pay the people ten dollars for admission. Alice, Rosalie and I walk in to the main dance floor and I couldn't help but to look around in awe. The blue lights are moving all over the dance floor. There must be about a hundred bodies everywhere, mushed together. I smell a faint hint of human blood, but it doesn't attract me. It just makes me want to puke.
We walk down to the dance floor and Alice is completely jumping for joy. "Come on! Let's dance!"
Rosalie and I follow Alice in to the middle of the dance floor and we all start dancing with each other. The beat of the music flows right through me and I start moving to it. I don't think I could have ever danced like this when I was a human. Alice grabs my hand and starts twirling me around. We are all laughing and having a good time.
Look at these babes. A creepy voice caught my attention. I stop dancing and turn my head in the direction of the voice. The blonde one is extremely hot. I bet I can get her in my bed in record time... I narrow my search and I find this one sketchy looking man staring at the three of us.
"Alice, there's a guy that's going to hit on Rosalie." I whisper at her and her eyes glaze over.
"Let's go somewhere else." I nod, and look at Rosalie to see if she's following. She is and we all find our way to a table where we can just sit and look like normal humans.
"What happened?" Rosalie asks as we sit down.
"This guy was thinking about you, and not in a good way." Rosalie makes a yucky face and we all laugh.
"Why do I have to be the one getting hit on?"
"Because you're so beautiful and self-centered?" I reply and mentally cursing myself for adding the last part.
"Oh, really now?"
"Yes." I say, there's no turning back now.
"I guess you're right." She agrees with me and my jaw drops.
"So are you saying that you're agreeing with what I said about you being self-centered?"
"Yes, Bella, I know I'm self-centered. No need to rub it in." She rolls her eyes and I laugh.
A hand hits our table and we all look up at the intruder. It's the sketchy man that I saw earlier. "Hey cutie, how 'bout you ditch your friends and come with me for a little fun?"
Rosalie snorts. "You got to try harder than that."
Alice and I look at each other and try to hold back our laughter. The guy's face turns in to shock that Rosalie is about to turn him down. I bite my lip to stop any sound from escaping. No girl has ever turned me down before! There must me something on my face. He reaches up to his face and smiles.
"What would you like me to say princess?"
"One, you don't call me princess. Two, your pick up lines really suck, I think you should fire the person who taught them to you. And three, I'm married so unless you want a big football player looking man coming after you in the middle of the night, I wouldn't talk to me." She raises her eyebrows. And the sketchy looking man turns around and walks away as fast as his body can go.
Once he is out of hearing distance Alice and I both burst out laughing. Rosalie has a smug smile on her face and she crosses her arms as she leans back.
"I handled that pretty well, don't you think?"
"Damn right." Alice says and I look at her in shock. "What? I can swear sometime."
We all laugh again. This is one hell of a night, and it's only the first night of the weekend. I wonder what it's going to be like in the next one coming up.
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