Chapter 11
Chapter 11
I was sitting on my bed thinking about what had just happened. Jasper pretended to be my brother so he could ask me to go to this end of summer party thrown by the baseball team. I was really glad to hear he wanted to ask Alice to be his date to the party, I don't know what it is but I get this feeling those two are going to be great together. I wasn't sure what I should wear to the party so I hopped off my bed and walked to Rosalie's room, her door was closed so I knocked.
"Yea?" It sounded like she was far from the door.
"Hey Rose, I need some help. I don't think I have anything to wear tomorrow, can you help me?" I knew she would say yes, it's just fun to pretend. I heard some things fall, and then the door swung open and there stood Rosalie with what could possibly be the hugest smile I had ever seen in my entire life.
"I'll drive!" She shouted as she grabbed my hand and pulled me downstairs with her. She was a pretty fast runner, but I didn't have too much trouble keeping up with her. As we ran down the stairs and into the living room the Emmett and Maverick were sitting on the couch playing Rockband. Well actually they hadn't started playing it yet, they were fighting over who was going to sing.
"Dude Mav, I have a much better voice then you, hand it over!" Emmett yelled while trying to yank the microphone out of my brother's hand. Maverick pulled his hand away quick enough to stop Emmett from getting a good enough grip.
"No way man, I'm the better singer here," he glanced at me and Rose, we were still running like there was a fire. "Just ask B." I would have answered but Rose was still holding my hand and running to the garage, so all I could manage was an apologetic smile. "Have fun girls!" Emmett and Maverick yelled in unison. Those boys were spending so much time together that they would say the same thing at the same time, it's like they were twins.
We were in her car pulling out of the driveway when she started digging around in her purse for something.
"Bella, I can't find my phone." She finally said, "Can you call Alice and ask if she wants me to pick her up or if she would rather meet us there." I simply nodded, I wasn't about to argue with her. I fished my phone out of my purse and began to dial Alice's number. Her ring back tone always made me laugh.
Maybe I'm just a bad girl
Maybe I'm just a bad girl
Maybe I'm just a bad girl, a bad girl
I can be your ad-
"Hello?" Alice chirped.
"Hey Ally, you busy?"
"No, what's up Bella?"
"Well Rose wanted to know if you wanted to come with us to the mall."
"YES!" She had such a high pitched scream I had to hold the phone away from my ear.
"Ok do you want us to pick you up or would you rather meet us there?" I asked.
"Um…hold on real quick. EDWARD!" My heart stopped when she yelled his name, I hadn't thought about him in a while, I missed him. I don't understand what it is about him that makes me feel so, different.
I could barely hear his voice in the background, "CAN YOU DROP ME OFF AT THE MALL ON YOUR WAY TO LAUREN'S?" She was still yelling. Wait a minute, LAUREN'S! He's going to LAUREN'S! I thought. Lauren was on the JV cheer squad so I didn't know her that well and she was never intentionally mean to me but she definitely was NOT pleasant when ever we were around each other. Maybe it was a different Lauren, one I haven't met yet. "Come on, Bella needs me." She wasn't yelling anymore that had to mean he was in the room with her. I could hear his voice now, "Bella needs you? What for?" He asked.
"Bella?" She was talking to me now, but I couldn't respond. He was all I could think about. "Bella!" Her yelling broke my trance.
"Hm?" Was all I could manage.
"Why do you need me?" she asked in her you better make it good voice.
"Um…I don't have anything to wear tomorrow."
"Ok…Hold on again." I don't think she was too pleased with my reason, but that's all I could think of and I'm not a very good liar. "Edward if you don't take me I will never speak to you again." I could hear him snort in the background. "And neither will Bella." It was silent for a moment. Then I heard him speak again.
"Fine, but you have to let me tag along." He said.
"I thought you were going to Lauren's?" Alice asked, I thought the same thing too. However I can't say that I would mind if he didn't go to Lauren's house.
"I was just going to drop her brother's cleats, he left them in my car." Good, so he wasn't going to see her.
"Bella, Can Edward tag along?" Alice asked in a pleading voice.
"YES!" I shouldn't have sounded so happy about it.
"Ok I'll call when we get there, it may be a while before we do get there though."
"That's fine just call us."
"Ok see ya."
"Bye." I hit the end button and shut my phone.
"Is she gonna meet us there?" Rosalie asked, I forgot she was even there she was so quiet when I was talking to Alice normally she would be telling me what to say. She must have been thinking about something.
"Yea, Edward's coming with her." She glanced over at me, I smiled and she returned her gaze to the road.
"Interesting, normally he tries to stay away from Alice when she's shopping." I didn't say anything, we were silent the rest of the way to the mall.
"Ok so I've been thinking and I think you should wear those super cute Hollister jeans you got last time we were here." Rosalie said as we walked into the mall.
"Which ones, I have like ten pair." Rosalie knows more about my own clothes then I do.
"The ones with the…oh never mind…how about a dress?"
"Sure, a dress doesn't sound too bad."
"Dress it is, let's go to Nordstrom and see if we can't find something there." She said as she linked arms with me and began walking towards Nordstrom pulling me along. The mall wasn't as busy as I thought it would have been, I wasn't going to complain about that. I'm not a big fan of crowds, especially since I always feel like everyone is staring at me, it's like they're waiting for me to do something ridiculous. We went directly to the dress section in Nordstrom. There wasn't a huge selection of the type of dress I would be willing to wear.
"Everything's so formal maybe we should go somewhere else." As I said that my phone started ringing, I took my phone out of my purse. It was Alice, I flipped it open and answered. "Hey Alice."
"Hey we're here, where are you guys?" She didn't sound as excited as she had earlier.
"We're in the dress section in Nordstrom."
"Ok we'll be there in a few, bye." She said.
"Bye." I closed my phone and put it back in my purse. Rosalie was looking at a rack of dresses, I walked over to her. "They'll be here in a bit, find anything?" I asked.
"Nothing's jumped out at me, but we better wait here for Alice and Edward and then we can go somewhere else." She said as she looked away from the rack, something must have caught her eye because she began to smile. I followed her gaze and saw nothing, well nothing that I would wear at least. I did however see a very sexy red corset in the section across from the dresses, I was sure that's what she had seen. Before I could say anything she walked to where the corset was picked it up and held it to her body. I walked over to her as she held it close to her, as if she was hiding it from someone.
"That's really pretty Rose, you should try it on." She nodded, turned around and practically ran to the fitting rooms. "Yea I'll just wait here." I said, then started laughing.
I had finally stopped laughing when I heard Alice's voice behind me.
"There she is." She told someone, Edward.
I spun around to the Alice and the most beautiful creature in the world walking towards me. They both smiled at me, but it was Edward's adorable crooked grin that made me blush. I was just about to say hi to them when my phone rang, I grabbed it out of my purse and opened it without even looking at the screen to see who it was.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Bella?" A deep voice I didn't recognize asked.
"Yes?"
"Hey, it's James…" I knew a lot of guys with the name of James. "We met at Bobby J's awhile back." I just about dropped my phone on the floor when he said that. I hadn't heard from or seen him since that horrible Bobby J's incident. Now out of the blue he's calling me and Edward's here, this can not be good.
"Hey James what's up?" When I said his name Edward's eyes turned murderous. I don't understand what it is about this James guy that Edward seems to absolutely hate. I mean I don't like him much either but still, what's so wrong with him?
"So listen I was wondering if you would like to be my date to the party tomorrow." Thank goodness Jasper already asked me, I could tell him no and he would have to accept it.
"I'm sorry James I can't, Jasper already asked me." I was looking at the ground now, I couldn't stand to see Edward look so dangerous.
"Oh, I thought you two broke up…wait are you his date?" He asked not sounding happy.
"Well, um…No, I'm not his date." I looked up at Alice wondering if Jasper had asked her yet. She was already watching me, I smiled at her and she returned mine with one of her own.
"But he invited you?" James continued.
"Yea, sorry."
"It's ok…I'll still see you there." He was definitely not happy about the situation; I wouldn't have gone with him anyway.
"Yes you'll still see me there. I gotta go James, bye."
"Bye beautiful." I shut the phone as fast as I could and threw it back in my purse.
"So you gave James your number." Edward sounded like he was going to kill someone. I looked at him shocked; I couldn't believe he would think I would have given that boy my number.
"No I didn't." My voice sounded steadier then I felt. "I don't know how he got it." I said as I looked down at the floor again. My eyes began to swell with tears and I had no idea why. I closed my eyes after the first tear fell, I didn't want anymore to fall. Not a second had passed before I felt two strong arms wrap around my body. Those arms pulled me close to a very solid body.
"I'm sorry Bella I shouldn't have spoken to you like that and I shouldn't have assumed you gave that cretin your number." Edward's mouth was at my ear as he apologized. "I'm really sorry Bella please don't be upset with me." I felt his head shift and then he rested his chin on top of my head. I loved the way our bodies fit perfectly together.
"It's ok." I mumbled into his chest. "I'm not upset with you." He kissed the top of my head when I said that. Reluctantly I pulled back so I could look at him. He lowered his face as close as he could to mine, our lips were inches apart. I wanted so badly to kiss him; I wanted to feel is lips against mine. He smiled at me then kissed my forehead and very slowly he released me.
"Well that was…Interesting." Alice said causing me to blush and giggle and Edward to chuckle. "So where's Rose?" She asked.
"She's in the fitting rooms." I said as I reluctantly turned away from Edward to face the fitting rooms. I looked back at Alice and Edward; they seemed to be having an oddly intense, silent conversation. I cleared my throat, they looked at me and I motioned for them to follow me.
We were a few feet from the fitting rooms when we heard it, an ear shattering screech of pure joy. All three of us looked at each other, Alice was smiling, Edward was rubbing his ears.
"Rose, you ok?" I asked as I stepped into the hallway that held doors to each fitting room.
"OH MY GOD! Bella you have to see how absolutely amazing this looks on me!" Rose squealed. I turned around to see if anyone had followed me into the hallway, there was no one behind me. I stepped out of the hallway to see Alice and Edward standing there. I leaned forward just enough to reach Alice's arm, I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the hallway with me.
"Rose, which room are you in?" There were four doors on each side of the hallway, all of which were closed, so I had no idea which one she was in. Just as I was about to knock on the first door, the third door on the right side flew open and out stepped Rose. She looked great, the way the corset hugged her upper body would make anyone think it was custom made for her. "Wow Rosalie it looks great!" I said.
"Yeah, it looks so good on you! Ooo are you gonna wear it tomorrow?" Alice asked while jumping up and down, I couldn't help but laugh.
"Uh…HELL YEA I'M GONNA WEAR IT TOMORROW!" Rose shouted, as she grabbed Alice's hands and began to jump up and down with her.
"Well I'll let you guys jump, I'm gonna go continue my outfit search," I started to back out of the hallway, "call me when y'all are done."
"OK!" Rose and Alice shouted together.
When I got out of the fitting room hallway, I thought I would see Edward standing there, but he wasn't. I decided to look around for him; I was just about to walk to the men's department when I saw him holding it. Edward, with his back to me, was holding the perfect dress, it was just what I was looking for.
It was a bright blue, one shoulder, empire waist mini dress. It had a single bow on the strap, it was pleated front and back along the empire waist, to finish it off it had a slight bubble hem. It was beautiful and I knew I had to have it.
"Where did you find that?" I asked Edward. He must not have known I was there because he whipped around with a startled expression on his face. I walked up to him and took the dress out of his hand to inspect it.
"The sales woman just put it out, she said it was the only one they got in." He replied with a slight smile.
"I must have this dress." I turned away from him and was about to go to the cashier and buy it, when Edward grabbed my arm and spun me back around. "What?" I fumed.
"Don't you want to try it on first, you don't even know if it's your size." He chuckled.
"Ugh," I looked at the tag to see what size it was, size 4. "Perfect, it's perfect." I whispered.
So I got my dress, Rose got her corset, it was a good day. Alice said she already had her outfit and Edward said he was just going to wear something from his closet.
"Hey Bella, can I talk to you real quick?" Alice asked.
"Sure what's up?"
"Alone." Well that was weird.
"Um, yeah" I said as I looked over at Rose and Edward, "we'll meet you guys at the food court." Rose and Edward nodded as they continued walking while Alice and I stopped and found a bench to sit on. "Ok so what's up Ally?"
"Um," she was looking down at her feet "I don't know how to…Jasper asked me to go to the party with him tomorrow night, and I said yes. But if you don't want me to go with him I can always cancel." She looked so confused.
"You will not cancel with him." I sounded like Rosalie's mom, which caused me to laugh a bit.
"You're ok with this?" She asked looking at me finally.
"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know, I guess I just thought…never mind."
"Alice, I think you should go with Jasper and have a good time. Don't worry about me I'll be fine."
"Really, you're ok with it."
"Yes I'm ok with it, now let's go get something to eat I'm starving." We both stood up and hugged.
As we walked to meet Rose and Edward at the food court, I couldn't stop thinking about Edward. He was perfect in every way, and I was a bit upset with myself for not seeing it earlier. Then I realized why I hadn't seen or felt it earlier, because I didn't want to have another Jasper situation. I didn't want the awkwardness if for some reason it didn't work out. In order to keep that form happening I vowed to never think of Edward that way, and to never enter into a relationship with him, not that I'm saying he would want to. I'm just taking precautions.
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