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Chapter 5-Clubbing with Emily Landon
BPOV
"Well, that was interesting. What do you think, Izz?" Emily instantly started to talk once the door was closed on the last Cullen.
"That was the longest evening that I have ever had."
It felt like all my bones had turned to jelly, and I wasn't the insanely fast and strong vampire, but my old weak and defenseless self, who needed Edward to keep me from falling on the ground every other second. I both hated and kind of missed that feeling even though I shouldn't have missed it at all. He didn't love me. He'd been totally cold toward me all evening.
I wanted to shout to myself, Snap out of it, Bella!
"Yeah, but after tomorrow night you won't have to see him ever again." Emily tried to comfort me. I could tell she was a little regretful for inviting the Cullen's.
"Yeah, only one more night," I repeated as I started up the stair case up to my room.
Taking the hint that I wanted to be alone, Emily went downstairs to join Jeremy and Dustin in Mario Kart for the Wii, as Jared looked up at them from his book with a disapproving look in his eyes. Once on the second floor, I headed up to my room up in the attic.
When I came to New York as a newborn with Lucy and Chandler, I had to be kept inside for an entire year, and Lucy or Chandler had to watch me the entire time when I hunted, just in case a human wandered into the forest. So, when I moved in, I chose the attic, because other than the roof it was the only place you could see the entire ridiculously long driveway. And with the amazing vampire eyesight, I could see the entire city, which started exactly when our driveway ended. I spent most of my first year decorating the attic with Lucy as something to do.
The window seat that was across from the entrance from the room I made into a queen-sized bed. I covered it with crisp white sheets and a navy blue comforter, adding a light blue blanket at the end of the bed. Just because I can't sleep doesn't mean that it isn't a nice place to stretch out and do whatever on.
Since I only had two walls that didn't slope down, I had to put my desk on the same wall as my bed. The top of the desk that was covered with blue crescent moons was covered with my computer and all my modeling things.
The floorboards I sanded down and stained dark before putting a protective coating on top. A big, fuzzy blue carpet shaped as a crescent moon was in the middle of the floor to match the hidden ones on my desk and the blue moons painted on the white walls. The walls were also covered with mine and Emily's modeling pictures, pictures of my family, friends from work, etc.
A door on was located on the right sloping wall, which led to my bathroom. The bathroom was completely white, down to my toothbrush. A door located on the left sloping wall led to my walk-in closet that was filled with the clothes that I actually wore, clothes I had to wear the next day for a photo shoot, and clothes that were gifts from the agency and I didn't actually like. Shoe racks were
filled with slippers, tennis shoes, flats, boots, and high heels. Cabinets had bags, jewelry, and hair things inside. When I joined the agency, I learned that a walk-in closet was a must with all the things that people give you for modeling their clothes, which you have to take to keep from being rude.
Lastly, on the opposite wall from my bed and desk was a bookshelf that was made to fit the entire back wall. It held all my favorite books: some in other languages, some original copies, hard back and paper backs of one book, and even one or two that I received as gifts from really old vampire friends that were the actual written copy of the book.
I had nothing to remind me of them or especially him. The only thing that had some resemblance to them was my wall of books reminding me slightly of Carlisle's own huge book collection when I first walked into his office, but only slightly.
Grabbing a pair of black pajama short shorts and a white tank top, I headed to the bathroom to take a shower. When I was a human, I had already liked showers, but being a vampire, the warmth of the water made you fall in love with them. So I usually spent more time than needed in them, trying to get myself as warm as possible, which was a lot harder than when I was human. Getting out of the shower, I grabbed the towel waiting on the toilet seat and quickly dried off before changing. Too lazy to blow-dry my hair, I decided to just let it air dry.
Nights were usually the hardest time of day. After forty-nine years of being a vampire, they still got boring at times, but now it felt like this night was too short. I had too much to think about.
I knew I had only two options:
A) Let Edward back in my life or B) After tomorrow night forget all about him. Realizing what I just did (not usually being a fan of lists) it brought a smile to my face. Edward probably did exactly the same thing when he first knew it was me. Thinking about it, I don't think after finding Edward again I could ever forget about him, but that didn't mean I couldn't make it hard on him to win me back. That is, if he even still loved me…
…
For the night's event, I opted for a black dress number with a spaghetti string halter that is tied in the back, a black sequined top part, and the hem cut diagonal so that the left side is father down than the right. I chose black leather pointed flats so that it would be easier to dance in.
While clasping on a silver Tiffany bracelet with a heart that looks like a lock and a tiny key with it, I heard two cars pull up. I started to run down the stairs, but mid-step I automatically froze and started to walk at a "normal" vampire speed toward the door. Emily was already at the door letting everyone in, and Alice, of course, was the first one.
"I'm so excited. I haven't gone clubbing in such a long time!" Alice squealed as she entered through the door.
She was wearing a strapless black dress, and a less-frilly tutu style skirt, with a bow on the left side of it. A pair of hot pink sandals that had narrow straps crisscrossing and a peep toe brightened up the outfit. To finish the ensemble, a silver-chained necklace with a silver charm sat around her neck.
"Being a model, a good chunk of your time is spent clubbing, so it's that not big, but I am still a little bit more excited about this club because my friend Eve. Yeah she's pretty cool, and she has great taste and has mastered making vampire special drinks." Emily had a gleam in her eyes while saying "vampire special drinks."
"What exactly is a 'vampire special drink'?" Jasper's hesitant voice entered the conversation.
"Well, Eve has a special power where she can make blood look like any other drink, and it still gives you the same effects of real alcohol. Cool, huh? She was a bartender when she was human." I could see Emily's brain already at work, thinking of what we could do when we could actually get drunk.
"Yes!" Emmett yelled as he entered through the door with Rosalie at his heels, who was, surprisingly, not giving me a death glare.
Rosalie was, of course, insanely beautiful with a fire engine red halter top that had a satin waist, and was fitted to her perfect curves. She had on short black shorts with a folded over hem and three buttons on the front. Two red peep toe flats sat on her feet, and a red heart necklace was clasped around her neck.
"Why can't we go?" the boys came into the foyer, following Lucy with pleading looks. Jared had one of his once-in-a-century-actually-look-like-a-ten-year-old-boy look, and, well, Dustin just had a please? look on.
"Because you guys are ten years old." Lucy said simply.
"No, we are forty five years old next month!" Jared argued.
"Yet you haven't experienced puberty. Now stop trying to convince me. I said no." Lucy had a stern mother look on.
"It's not fair! We're only one year younger than Emily, yet she gets to go." Dustin grumbled as he left the room behind a pouting Jared. We all heard it, of course.
After the boys left the room, Lucy turned to us and said with a smile, "Ignore them. You kids have fun."
"See you later Lucy!" Alice waved goodbye as we exited the house.
"So, what cars are we taking?" Jeremy asked as the garage doors opened.
Inside sat a whole mess of cars that we actually drove, and some that were just presents from the agency for Emily and I.
"Did I mention that I want your job?" Emmett said in amazement, as the garage door was up all the way to reveal fourteen cars crammed inside.
"I believe you did." I said with a laugh. "So what cars are we taking?" I repeated Jeremy's question.
Alice was the only person to make a suggestion. "Well, how about we take the convertible over there for the girls. Emmett's jeep it can be a huge pain sometimes. The boys will take Edward's Volvo, okay?"
"Sounds good." I answered. I was glad she picked one that was up front instead of in back. That would've taken some time. But when she mentioned Edward, I started to look around. Where was he?
"Don't worry; Edward's just waiting." Alice read my confused expression.
"I don't care." I tried to pull of nonchalance, but failed miserably.
"Sure you are. Now let's get going. I want to start dancing." Alice clapped her hands together and got in the backseat. Choosing the back with Alice, Emily ended up as the driver and Rosalie in shotgun.
Once out of the garage, the guys left a gap for us to go in front, since only Emily knew where this place was. With Emily's driving more insane than the Cullen's themselves, we were there in a matter of minutes. I never thought I'd ever see a Cullen looking like they wanted to slow down, but tonight I guess was special.
Stepping out of the car like she hadn't just driven over six times the speed limit, Emily started to smooth out her dress. As Rosalie and Alice shakily got out of the car, I followed Emily's casualness and got out of the car just like nothing happened also. After a minute or so of waiting by the car, a silver Volvo came screeching into the parking lot with a terrified Emmett and an even more terrified
Jasper sitting as passengers in the back, a bored looking Jeremy, and a hard-concentrating look on the godlike looking driver…Edward.
As the guys exited the car, I noticed they were all covered in black. Emmet had a tight fitting black t-shirt with a silk black vest over it, showing off his muscles and black pants. Jasper wore a long-sleeved snug-fitting sweater and black pants. Jeremy had chosen a tight black t-shirt and black pants.
And lastly Edward. He wore a black dress shirt with it's sleeves rolled up part-way, and a pair of black dress pants with a black shiny leather belt keeping it up. The first few buttons were unbuttoned, showing off his perfectly chiseled chest…stop it Izzy! I screamed in my head, tearing my eyes away from the heavenly sight to the front doors of the club. Two bouncers were at the front, letting some people in and turning others away.
Following Emily to the front, she started to pull out eight laminated passes and handed one to each of us. Each of us flashed them the card and were let in immediately.
It was packed. You could definitely tell the pale, unnaturally beautiful vampires from the less-stunning and not-quite-so-pale humans. All were moving their hips to the beat in unison.
"This is so cool!" Alice squealed as she pulled Jasper to the middle of the floor.
Rosalie and Emmett quickly followed, and not five seconds later, Jeremy got an invite to dance. This left Emily, Edward, and I standing uncomfortably on the sidelines.
"How about we go find a table?" I suggested.
"Great idea, Izz. Lets go to the second floor. That's where the bar and tables are." Emily lead us to the stairs.
The second floor made up half the building, so that if you sat near the railing you could see the entire dance scene, except for a small corner.
"Over here." Edward's velvety voice sliced through the noise. I turned to see him motioning us to an empty table near the railing. It was the first time I had heard his voice all night.
Grabbing Emily's hand, I pulled her to the table. As I looked over the railing, I saw Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett in the middle of the floor. They didn't seem to notice all the attention they were receiving from humans and vampires alike.
"Emily!" a blond-haired woman walked toward us. She wore a black mini skirt and blue tank top with a V.A.M.P in logo form written on the bottom right corner of it.
"Eve!" Emily answered back while standing up to hug Eve.
"I'm so glad you could come. Well, who is this stunning couple?" Eve said, facing us.
"Oh, we're not a couple." I quickly said. I could see Edward's face crumple at how fast I responded.
"You just gave off a look of fighting boyfriend and girlfriend." Eve said with an apologetic smile. I already liked her: she hadn't given Edward a look as if she was undressing him with her eyes like a lot of girls already. Izzy, why should you care? I argued with myself.
"Um, can we order drinks?" Emily broke in.
"Right. I should be doing that instead of just standing here butting into your guys' business. What do you want?" Eve took out her note book.
Emily stared at the paper and pen in Eve's hand and asked, "Why do you need to write down orders? You have an amazing memory, even for a vampire."
"Well, I wanted to write down my first order. It may look like this has been opened for a while, but it just opened a few seconds ago." Eve said proudly as she looked at the grinding dancers below.
"Nice," Emily commented "Anyway, I'll take a 'Jaguar Sour' with the apple flavoring." Emily handed her a drink menu. "And a send a tray of black bear blood shots over for when our friends come up from dancing, please." The gleam in Emily's eyes returned.
"No problem. You too?" Eve finished writing.
"I'll take a 'Frozen Polar Bear' with extra ice, and light on whatever you put in it to make me drunk." I said with a weak smile.
"No problem, but if I know Emily, she's going to get you drunk somehow."
"I know. I'm just postponing it as much as possible." I got a laugh in return for it.
"Edward?" Emily asked. I realized Edward hadn't ordered yet.
"I'll take a 'Rising Mountain Lion.' Light on the alcohol for me also." Edward finally responded.
"Did we make it just in time for drinks?" Emmett had the same glint in his eyes as he fell into a chair next to Edward and Rosalie and picked up a menu.
All four of them looked tired. I bet if they could, they would have been sweating.
"Just." Eve answered with a smile.
"Cool. I'll take a 'Grizzly Bear Attack.' Did you guys already order shots?" Emmett asked.
"Sure did." The glint, completely intact, was still in Emily's eye.
"Sweet. Rose?"
"I'll take a 'Fruity Parrot,' with more mango flavoring than orange." Rosalie answered.
"Jasper and I will have a 'Snowing Leopard'." Alice handed back all the menus.
Before leaving, Eve said, "Coming up. See you later, Emily. I have to go work at the bar. It's hard to find a good human bartender and a good vampire bartender you know. I'm still waiting on the vampire, so I'm doing all the bartending for now."
The drinks came in just a few minutes with, as promised, a huge tray of shots.
"Game time!" Emily yelled.
"This is going to be so much fun!" Alice shouted.
"What did you see, Alice?" Jasper asked.
"I can't ruin the surprise. Now shhhh. Let Emily talk." Alice's attention turned to Emily and all chances of coaxing the answer out of her were gone.
"Okay, here it is. We're going to play a game of Truth or Dare. Only it has a twist: you are allowed to bail out as many as you want, except you have to take two shots." I finally understood the glint in both Emily's and Alice's eyes. "Whoever takes the least shots tonight gets everyone else as their personal servant for the entire day tomorrow, since tomorrow is Saturday. I have checked with Jeremy's, Izzy's, and my work to see if we needed to come in tomorrow, and we don't. Is everyone game? Oh, and you can't pick the person who picked you right after they pick you." Emily finished.
Emmett and Alice answered yes, of course. After much prodding, the three of them got the rest of us to say yes.
"Okay, I brought up the game. I go first. Izzy, truth or dare?"
Crap. I am too strong minded for my own good. I can never let down a challenge.
"Um. I'll take dare." Double crap.
"I dare you to go give that guy over there," I turned to see a sleazy looking guy staring at me. He made my skin crawl. "A lap dance. You have to stay there for at least twenty seconds." Triple crap.
Getting up from my seat, I headed over to the creep.
"Hey baby." The guy was a human for sure since he sported a bad tan.
"Hi. I just got a dare, and I was wondering if you wanted me to give you a lap dance?" I squeaked out. This creep was getting to me. Luckily I could break his skull if he tried anything funny.
"Sure, sweetheart. Why don't you sit on big daddy?" Gross.
I started to count right when I was down.
Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty. Yes I'm gone! I ran back to the group as soon as I was done.
"You're going to pay for that." I sent a glare at laughing Emily. Everyone was either straight out laughing or giggling.
"No pick-backs, remember."
"I remember." I turned my head to Emmett and smiled as a look of fear crept into his face. "I choose Emmett. Truth or dare?" I was still smiling.
"Dare, duh." Perfect.
"Emmett, I dare you to go make-out with that guy over there." A guy sat to the right of us. He had been checking out the guy vamps all night.
"Fine." Marching over to the man, Emmett started to kiss him without warning. As soon as an acceptable time limit was reached, he came back. "That was disgusting! He used his tongue!" Emmett complained.
This time Jasper was laughing the loudest.
"Fine, Jasper, truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"I dare you to kiss Edward." Emmett's smile was huge by now.
"I'll take the shot." Jasper said in disgust, as Edward's panicked eyes relaxed.
"Here you go." Emily handed him the first round of shots of the night.
Downing one, then the other, Jasper waited a few seconds before speaking to let the blood to settle. You could tell it was already partly affecting him when he started to play with Alice's short hair.
"I choose Edward. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth." Edward replied solemnly.
"What's the matter, Edward? Too chicken for dare?" Emmett mocked him.
"Shut up." Edward responded icily.
"Okay, do you still love Bella?" Jasper's voice sent a wave of silence through our small group. I couldn't breathe. A small part of me wanted him to say yes, but the rest was screaming No! He doesn't love you! Don't let him break your heart again! Insanely loud. Everyone's eyes, even my own, were on Edward.
"Yes." Edward's eyes were cast down on the floor.
That's when my body decided to take over. Leaving all reason in the past, I ran as fast as possible out of the club, ignoring that there were humans here, ignoring that Edward said yes, ignoring everything. So what if he said yes? He probably doesn't mean it. Was the last thought I had before running out of that club overflowing with rotating hips and drunk humans and vamps alike.
So, what do you think? Love the cliffie or what? I decided that since I had to wait an ultra long time, I'd make this chapter a bit longer than usual. Please review! I'm going to try for ten reviews before I update, so review!
Also, I know I said it would be Clubbing with Alice, but Clubbing with Emily Landon works so much better, don't you agree?
Also, Questions:
1)Does Bella have a power?
A)Earlier it mentioned that Bella does indeed have a power. It is to block out other vamps' powers on her.
2) Will there be a "confessing of love scene" in the story?
A) Well if I was a good writer would I tell you that? And the answer is not yes. As protection to my beloved story I must say the four dreaded words…Only time will tell. gasp
