A/N: GUESS WHOSE HERE!!! *rocks are randomly thrown from audience* :( I'm sorry for being such a lazy ass! Could you ever forgive me?! ... *no response* Okay then, to make up for the longgggggg wait I bring you a chapter! :D YAY! ~ Elle (P.s. Don't blame Mackie she's totally awesome and pokes me until I get chapters out) hehe. Review please!
The bell rang loudly, bringing me out of my thoughts and into the present. The last few periods since lunch just seemed to drag and drag and I couldn't get out of the building fast enough. I was surprised that Alice or Rose hadn't confronted me about my strange interest in this weekend's shopping trip, but just as soon as the thought ran through my head a flash of spiky raven hair and the unmistakable pull of my sister's grip had me pushed into the vacant girls bathroom in no time.
"Ow, Alice!" I screeched, gently slapping her hand away. She just gave me a look and shoved me down onto the two-person couch against the far wall.
"Oh get over it, I have been waiting for the better part of the afternoon to find out what's going through that pretty little head of yours sis, so spill." I just raised an eyebrow at her, tossing my bad to the floor beside me and bringing my knees underneath me to find a more comfortable position against the worn in couch cushions.
"What's to spill?" I questioned, wanting to know how much I had let on at lunch. I didn't really care if Alice or Rose figured out my plan, in fact, they would be more helpful than hurtful, I just liked watching Alice squirm a bit. Call it what you want, but we were siblings, and our specialty was pushing each other's buttons. And Alice hated guessing games.
"'What's to spill?' Are you serious Bells, come on! Shopping, you agreed to shopping!" I just shrugged. "Your point?" I asked. She stuck her tongue out at me, plopping her little form down on the cushion beside mine and giving me her patented 'Don't mess.' Glare.
"My point is, that you and shopping are like oil and vinegar, like me and last season's Prada bag. You don't mix, and I want to know what the sudden change of attitude means. You're up to something, and I want in." She explained, her excitement at a potential plan breaking through her glare and causing her cheeks to pull into a slight smirk.
"It's really not that big a deal, I just want to go shopping for a dress same as you and Rose." She scoffed.
"You don't even have a date." She pointed out with a slight shake of her head.
"Yet."
"Someone's absurdly confident…or already has a date… Bella Marie do you already have a date and didn't tell me!?" She accused, leaning forward as if poised to attack.
"No, no Alice, come on I would have told you if I had a date already. I'm not that horrible of a sibling am I?" I gave her a puppy dogface, but she never backed down.
"Then you have someone to ask, or a potential date….or…" She drifted off; rocking back on her knees a bit before letting her back hit the cushion once more.
"You wouldn't be trying to make someone jealous would you Bells?" I was surprised it took her this long to catch on.
"Maybe…" I teased, waiting for the onslaught of her patented high-pitched squeal. It never came.
"You're trying to make Edward jealous aren't you?" She questioned further, her face set in a confused sort of state.
"Yea, why aren't you screeching or anything?" I wondered aloud.
"Why would you want to make him jealous, I mean he practically falls at your feet as it is." She asked, completely relaxed into the seat cushion now.
A loud rap on the door broke us out of our conversation as Rose's tall form came strutting through the door.
"What'd I miss?" She asked, going to the row of mirrors and sinks and pulling out her make up bag.
"Bella is trying to make Edward jealous." Alice stated simply, in the reflection of one of the mirrors I caught sit of Rose's informed smirk. "Eh, I'm not surprised." She stated simply, sliding a lip-gloss wand over her bottom lip before turning back to face Alice.
"I feel so out of the loop." Alice stated sadly as she glanced between Rosalie and I.
"You didn't hear? Edward asked that Leah girl to homecoming." Alice's mouth dropped at Rosalie's last statement.
"Why was I not informed?!" Alice nearly shrieked. Rosalie shrugged. "I figured you already knew, what with your boyfriend being the one to set them up." And there was the Alice squeal I had been waiting for.
"What!?" She jumped from her position on the couch to stand in front of Rosalie.
"Yea, didn't he tell you? Well I guess you really haven't seen him since lunch …" I said.
"Yea I haven't…no wonder you were so into the shopping trip this weekend! Why would Edward go out with Leah…and why in god's name would Jasper set them up?" Alice asked, looking between Rosalie and I for the answer.
"Beats me." Rose stated indifferently, "The important thing is, how exactly Bella plans on making Eddie boy jealous." Alice nodded, still a bit thrown from Rose's last bit of gossip.
"Yea, what's the plan?"
"Jacob Black."
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"No, no, no she can't wear yellow it will look washed out against her skin." Four hours. Four hours! Did it really take this long to find 'the perfect dress' as Alice so quaintly dubbed it?
"How about this one?" Rosalie asked, holding up a pretty strapless black dress that would hang well past my feet.
"It's gorgeous, but for her safety and ours lets avoid any dress that screams 'major tripping hazard'." Alice stated nonchalantly, turning back to the rack she was currently sorting through as if I wasn't standing right behind her.
"Hey! I'm right here!" I protested, putting my hands on my hips and glaring at the both of them.
"Sorry babe, the truth hurts. Here. Go try those on." And for the thousandth time today I was sent to the dressing rooms of yet another store.
I sighed, taking the three dresses from my sister's arms and headed toward the store's changing rooms.
"Hello miss, can I help you with anything today?" The dressing room attendant asked in an overly nice tone reserved only for high paying customers or the particularly clueless like myself. She eyed my old jeans and converse with questioning eyes before plastering a sickeningly fake smile onto her make up caked face.
"Oh, I think I'm fine." I answered in the same overly done tone and motioned for her to unlock the closest room. She straightened up at my tone and moved around me in a huff to open the door.
"Thanks." I answered once the door was opened and with a curt nod the attendant was out the door and onto the next poor customer.
I sighed after locking the door behind her and plopped the heavy fabrics onto a provided bench. Which do I try first? I wondered, holding up a shiny pink fabric that stood out among the rather neutral tones of the other dresses.
"What not?" I wondered aloud, locating the side zipper and tossing the dress over my head. After adjusting the fabric to fall in a comfortable fashion around my ankles I turned to stare at my reflection in the nearby mirror.
The pink fabric hugged my curves nicely, the neckline was decent and not extremely low like so many of the others had been today and the color did wonders for my complexion. I turned the 180 degrees required to view the back of the dress and stopped dead in my tracks. For what the front neckline lacked the back made up for. Straight down to the nearly the top of my butt was nothing, nada, zip. "What was Alice thinking?" I questioned, unzipping myself and stepping out of the pool of pretty pink fabric.
That's a no. I thought, lifting the dress from it's resting place on the ground and draping it over the door.
"Oh, now what's wrong with that one?" Alice's nearness startled me and I just huffed in response.
"That dress has no back!" I pointed out, ignoring Alice's attempts to coax me back into the ensemble and parade around for her and Rose.
"Come on Bella, you have to at least try to be sexy." Rose pushed, tossing the dress back over the door. Well if being sexy and being sluty are the same thing I'm out.
"I'm trying on the black one." I stated without another look at the pink fabric on the floor.
"Whatever." Alice complained. I can practically see her tongue sticking out at me even though there's a large wooden door between us.
I turned my attention back to the dress at hand, and after unzipping and pulling it up against my body I realize it cuts off around mid thigh and immediately drop it to the ground.
"Okay, I'm trying on the last dress." I said, ignoring their questioning comments and slipped the silky fabric over my head.
The fabric is smooth and falls just past my knees in shimmery moon-kissed silver pleats. There is a ribbon of the same color that runs around my torso just under by bust line and the wide straps that serve as sleeves hang gently off each shoulder. I know before even looking in the mirror that this is the dress I want for homecoming and can already picture myself standing next to Jacob (whose in a black tux with matching silver tie of course) as we head into the Fork's high gymnasium. I can already picture the drool running down Edward's cheek as we make our grand entrance…and I love it.
"It's perfect." I whispered, doing a full twirl in front of the mirror and watched, mesmerized, as the dim light of the dressing room area reflected off the fabric at different angles with each of my movements. Edward won't be able to keep his eyes off me.
"I found it guys! This one!" I nearly shrieked, feeling more like Alice just then, than any other time before.
"Which one?!" Alice questioned immediately, nearly clawing her way through the door.
I waste no time in twisting the handle and releasing the lock and soon both Alice and Rose are squished into the dressing room with me.
"You. Look. Hott." Rosalie complimented, instructing me to turn around so she can examine the entirety that is my homecoming dress.
"I'm so proud!" Alice pretends to wipe a tear from under her perfectly made up eye, ripping the tag of the dress and demanding for the attendant to charge it to her card.
"Of course miss, will that be all?" She asked. Alice just shooed her away before helping me change back into my t-shirt and jeans combo.
"Things are coming together quite nicely."
A/N: So am I forgiven?? I hope so! Lots of luv to all the readers! ~Elle~