Okay, I want to remind you that this story is really OOC, as you will see in this chapter.

Prepare to see a side of Bella that you will never see.

Enjoy!

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BPOV

Alice picked me up five minutes later, as promised.

She scolded me for my bad tastes in clothes on our way to the mall, and I ignored it as usual.

We pulled up at the Seattle mall within a half an hour instead of the normal hour thanks to Alice's extreme driving skills.

She's just like Edward with her driving.

I sighed as I exited Alice's Porsche and made my way into the mall.

dELiA's was having a sale on farmer plaid and my face lit up like a Christmas tree when I entered the store.

"What are you so happy about, missy? I thought you hated shopping!" Alice pointed out.

"I don't like to shop but they have a lot of farmer plaid. Mine are getting old and I need new ones. My jeans are also too small, and I need new chucks."

"Eww, you still like that plaid crap? Seriously, you need something flashy. You would love to wear heels too, you know!"

"Umm, Alice, I hate to say this, but I hate half the things you dress me in." She frowned.

"Oh, well, I'm sorry."

Aww, man, I need to say something that will make her happy.

"Well, if it will make you feel better, you can get me anything you want on this trip, and" I sighed, "I'll let you pay for it too, if that makes you happy."

I cringed. There was no stopping Alice now.

"Yay, Bella, I love you right now! You will not regret this!" She exclaimed as he gave me a big hug before going into dELiA's.

Man was I in for it with her.

I walked to where I first saw the plaid shirts and immediately collected every color that met my eye: red, blue, grey, purple, teal, white, green, and Turkish teal.

There was also a different version of plaid I have never heard of. Something called Robyn plaid.

Whatever it was I collected the colors that came with that too: purple, green, and blue.

When I was done, I made my way over to the jeans section.

My eyes scanned the section until I came across my favorite kind of jeans: ripped.

I found my sizes in all the different varieties they had, and dare I say, they were actually cute.

"Excuse me, ma'am?"

I turned behind me to see an employee. She was about the same height as me, but she looked about 15. She had dirty blonde hair and green eyes.

"Yes?"

"I see you have a lot of things. Would you like a bag or something to hold the stuff in?"

I looked down in my arms at the overstocked clothing before returning my eyes to the employee and nodding.

She walked away from me and went behind the checkout line before returning back to me with a mesh bag.

"Here you go." She smiled.

"Thank you, so much." I said as she held the bag open for me to drop the clothes in.
When I was done I retrieved the bag from her and gave her a grateful smile as she turned away from me.

When she was nowhere in sight, I returned back to the jeans. I needed some for if it were to get colder and ripped was not something I needed.

I scanned the shelves for any pairs that might have caught my eye, and unfortunately, there were none.

Disappointed, I walked across to the other side of the store to wear the sneakers were, and felt like I walked into heaven.

Oh my—they have every color Chucks that I could possibly think of! Thank you dELiA's!

They had brown, blue, red, teal, purple, pink, white, black, grey, and any other color I couldn't think of.

I scoured the shelves for my size seven and a half in each color.

Thankfully, they had my size, in every color, and now, I would be able to have a nice matching outfit.

Alice should be so proud!

Wait… since when did I become so involved in shopping? Alice is rubbing off on me too much!!! Ahhh!!!

I went through the store one last time for anything that I could've looked over before heading to the cash register, where Alice patiently awaited.

She looked at me with wide eyes when she saw I was holding three large mesh bags full of clothing.

"Bella, what is all this?"

I blushed crimson as I responded, "Farmer plaid, band tees, jeans, and chucks; a whole lot of chucks."

Alice sighed, "Bella, can you need some of my help. I am going to take you to every store in this mall and get you so much stuff you won't even remember what you got by the time you get home."

"But Alic-"

"No 'buts' Bella, you promised that I could get you whatever I want and even if you hadn't have said it, I still would've gotten you whatever I want. It's a lose-lose situation."

Damn it! I should have seen that coming.

"Fine," I pouted as I emptied the bags out on the register.

I looked at the cashier who held wide eyes at all my items.

"Sorry," I muttered.

She rung up each and every item and the total was $610.

I stared at the register with wide eyes, as I looked upon the neon green numbers that mocked me.

I panicked.

"I need to take some of this stuff off. There's no way I'm getting all this."

"Okay so what—"

"Here," Alice said as she retrieved her credit card from her purse.

"Alice, no."

"You said I could also pay for you, Bella," She said with a mischievous grin.

"Well, I take it back."

"No, you don't," she said as she faced the cashier and handed her the card.

The cashier swiped the card and the balance cleared to zero.

"Now, be appreciative, and grab your bags. We've got more stores to hit." Alice chanted behind her as she exited the store.

"Stupid pixie," I muttered before following behind her.

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Approximately five hours later, we finally stopped for lunch.

"Alice, why do you insist on not feeding me?" I whined.

"I forgot you need food." Alice shrugged.

"What do you mean you forgot?!" I yelled, pulling attention on us.

"It was an accident. I got so caught up in shopping. You should've said something."

"I did and your reply was 'okay, when we leave this store'."

"My bad, jeez. So where do you want to go eat?"

"I'm feeling Chinese today."

We walked into the food court and found the Chinese place.

Eyes watched us as we walked in with over fifty bags.

I immediately felt embarrassed.

We found a booth and Alice helped me place all the bags under the table, before giving me her evil black card to pay for my food.

I made my way up to the line and let my eyes gaze over the buffet-style food settings that sat behind the counter.

"Ma'am?" I looked up. A Chinese man with a wide smile stood before me, "What would you like?"

I looked over the food once more and settled with vegetable lo mien and sesame chicken.

I grabbed a can of Pepsi on my way to the register, and grimaced when I handed the cashier Alice's credit card.

Once my transaction was complete, I took the card and made my way back to Alice.

"So," she began, "how do you think this whole meeting with my brother is going to go?"

I shrugged as I took a stuffed my mouth with lo mien. "Truth be told, I really don't know. It could go both ways at this point. Alice, he was cheating on me. I want to let him go, but I fear that I love him too much to let him go."

"So you're just afraid of getting hurt again?"

I nodded as I chewed another bite of lo mien and sesame chicken.

"It's not just that," I said as I swallowed, "It's the fact that I trusted him again, and he took advantage of that."

Alice's eyes saddened. She opened her mouth and closed it simultaneously as if trying to figure out what to say.

I knew she couldn't.

After dinner at the food court, Alice decided that it was late, and it would be best if she took me home.

The ride home was the same as the ride to the mall: brisk.

Upon reaching my house, Alice reached for my hand and squeezed it gently.

"You'll do well. This whole thing will go well. Don't worry."

Oh, I hoped so.

Alice helped me carry my bags up to my room before hugging me goodnight and exiting.

I decided that it would be in my best interest to start hanging the clothes up, so I started going through the bags in search of all the shirts and dresses---yes, dresses---to hang up.

I leaned forward to grab another shirt and moved too fast on the way up and was about to fall backwards, if it wasn't for my quick thinking to step back.

As I did so, I fell into something hard.

Regaining my posture, I stiffened against the hard object and began to try to concentrate on getting the shirt on the hanger in my quivering hand.

I took a deep breath, got the shirt on the hanger, and shakily spoke, "Hi…Edward."

Here goes nothing.

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Okay, like I said before, this is a completely different Bella. I have never seen Bella like to shop, but it is for her favorite type of clothing: Chucks and farmer plaid.

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