Final Preparations

Chapter 4

Edward POV

Getting Bella out of the house after she arrived with Alice could not have gone any smoother. Once she realized the time, and remembered that she had Charlie at home, it didn't take any convincing to get her to leave. Knowing her, I bet she had no clue that we were plotting anything. So I walked her to her truck, because a) I was a gentleman, and because b) after tonight I would be walking her to a different truck. If everything went smoothly the old 1953 Chevy truck would be sitting in a junk yard by tomorrow evening, Bella's truck would be no more. I figured that since I had some time before I had to meet Bella in her room, I should meet up with Rosalie and Emmett. We had to make the final plans on how the massacre of the pickup was going to transpire. There was only one problem - I had to find Rose and Em first. Now seemed like a good time to get started on that. The minute I walked in the house I encountered my favorite pixie.

"I can not believe that Edward would even think about doing that to Bella, and without telling me. Ugh! Ooh, I wonder if Bella figured out what I meant when I said that her stuff was in the Abercrombie bags… Crap Edward might hear me umm, Oh, dice, lei puòvedere, dall'alba prima Luce, ciòchecosìfieramentegrandiniamograndinafarebbel'ultimo gleaming di al crepuscolo?"

Alice's thoughts were all over the place. What was Alice hiding, that she needed to recite the National Anthem in Italian? Oh, I was in trouble now, she had a vision of what I'm planning and I'm pretty sure that she is mad that we didn't include her initially.

"Hey, Edward" Alice said as she walked towards me, with a sly grin on her face.

"Hi, Alice" I knew I was in for some type of lecture.

"So I had an interesting vision today…" Here we go, I really hope she didn't plan on taking long. I really needed to talk to Rose before tonight. The fact that she was still blocking her thoughts was giving me a headache. Now she was translating Amazing Grace into Latin. The easies way to deal with anything Alice is to just play along. So that's what I decided to do, play along.

"What was your vision about?"

"Nothing really" Phew, maybe I was off the hook. Then again, this is Alice we are talking about here. All of a sudden the look on her face completely changed and I knew that I was in for trouble. For a pixie, she sure had a lot of rage.

"It was just something about a meeting that you had with Emmett and Rosalie." She waited before she continued and yelled the rest. "A meeting about how you wanted to murder Bella's truck!!!"

"Alice, before you get mad just hear me out! You know as well as I do that she is in dire need of a new vehicle. Her truck barely crawls along at human speed, and it is unsafe."

"Edward, wait a second." I needed to finish what I was saying before Alice released her wrath on me.

"I have tried to negotiate with her about this, but now it has gotten to the point where I am willing to go against her wishes to make sure she gets a new, safe vehicle." She only needed the super-safe vehicle for a little piece of time. Once she was changed I would get her an over-the-top vehicle, that reached speeds well over 60mph.

"Edward, the only thing that I'm mad about is the fact that I wasn't included in the planning." Yikes, she has a point. Not once did I even run the idea of this by her, which was a mistake on my part.

"I had my vision right in front of Bella. What if I had started mumbling and she heard something about you murdering her truck. She loves that truck!" That would be very bad.

"If you would've told me this morning I wouldn't have had the vision and the whole possibility of me having a slipup could have been minimized." Again, she made another really good point.

"I'm sorry Alice. There is something that you could do for me though." This idea of mine was perfect, and it might help Bella calm down after she realized that her truck wasn't working.

"Tomorrow, after Bella and I try to fix her truck, could you tell her that you've had a vision of her driving around in a new sleek vehicle for a while now? And that it was meant for her truck to end up in Chevy heaven." I'm pretty sure that tomorrow Alice might be one of the only people to get her to think reasonably about getting a new vehicle.

"I can do that." Alice said. "What kind of car do you think Bella will choose as her new one?"

At that moment Emmett walked in with Rosalie and started talking about the truck, so I ignored Alice.

"So Eddie, how are we going to obliterate the beast?" Lately that has been the closeted nickname for Bella's truck, or chunk of crap, as Rosalie called it.

"I have a couple ideas. But it is basically up to you and Rose." I knew that in giving Rose this task, she would make sure that, there was no possible way that, the truck would work again. "All I know is that the thing should never be mobile again, and that Bella should have no clue that we ever touched the thing."

I turned my attention to Rosalie, "Rose you are the best when it comes to cars, so I am really counting on you to make this happen."

"Don't worry Edward, I've got this." She said enthusiastically, with a very mischievous grin on her face. I knew that this was going to be good. "When I'm done she will have absolutely no clue what happened to her precious truck."

"'Kay, that's great." Now that Rose was on board, Bella wouldn't have any clue that anyone tampered with her truck. There was just one thing that I had to reiterate. "Um guys, you do know that you cannot do anything to her truck in the physical sense. She can't realize that anything has happened."

"Don't worry Edward. I know what I'm going to do. So I'm set." She smiled widely, she has been waiting to get rid of that truck since the first time she saw it.

All of this time Emmett and Alice were just sitting there listening, which was very unlike the two of them. They looked a bit confused, so Emmett decided to join in the conversation. "So if Rosie is doing all of the work, what do you need us for?"

"To keep a lookout and help Rose, because I have to stay with Bella tonight."

"Edward, what do you want me to do?" Alice asked in her thoughts.

"Alice I need you to monitor your visions and make sure Charlie and Bella don't wake up. We don't want anyone to see or hear us."

"Will do" She said and smiled.

"So what time will Operation Obliteration commence?" Emmett said, as he was humming the James Bond 007 theme music in his head.

"I'm thinking that once Bella falls into a deep sleep, and no one in the area is up. I was thinking, probably around 1 am or when I text you with the okay."

"Sounds good" Alice said. "Oh, and so far everything looks like it will go off without a hitch." Brilliant, was all I could bring myself to think.

"Edward what are you going to tell Jasper? We can't leave him out of this." Alice asked. She was right we had to include Jasper too, and I had the perfect idea.

"Alice can you tell Jasper everything?"

"Sure."

"Have him come with you guys tonight. While he's there have him keep everyone in the area calm and sleepy, until you guys are done with your work. Then tomorrow, I'm going to really need his help because Bella is not going to be happy, when she calls saying that her truck is not working."

"Yo Eddie, it is almost 10. Shouldn't you be at Bella's by now?" Emmett called out, pulling me from my thoughts.

"Yeah… I should." From then on, all I could think of was how I hoped that I could keep Bella asleep all night. Or else we were in for a disaster.