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Chapter Songs: We R Who We R – Ke$ha, Waking Up in Vegas – Katy Perry
After our crazy afternoon at the carnival the girls and I decided to get a head start on getting ready for our big night out for Jasper's birthday in Vegas. Our other halves had happily settled in the living room to watch whatever game was on with some beers telling us to take our time.
"Well that's a first" remarked Rose as we started pulling beauty products and makeup from our toiletry bags and covering the counter in Alice and Jasper's en suite bathroom. "They actually said take your time, I don't think Emmett has ever uttered those words before."
We all laughed, "Oh well it gives us more time to get ready for tonight!" Alice replied happily. "Have you decided what you're wearing?" she asked both of us.
"I'm starting to think I might just wear this robe" Rose told us "It's so freaking soft!"
"That'd be hilarious, but you do realise Emmett would by trying to undo the tie all night don't you?" Alice giggled.
Rose rolled her eyes "He totally would" she replied taking a sip of her wine.
"Bella what are you going to wear?" asked Alice.
"Ummmm" I stood and stared at my luggage, "Maybe this dress?" I asked holding a little black dress up to myself and looking at them for approval.
"Ooooo yes!" Alice squealed.
"Very sexy" added Rose, "What do you think red or blue?" she asked holding two dresses up.
"Red!" Alice and I both told her.
"Exactly what I was thinking" she replied nodding.
We hung our dresses up on the closet door handle and began to do our hair and makeup. As the men had suggested we decided to take our time, chatting about the evening ahead and polishing off a bottle of wine.
When we were done we stood in front of the mirror together and checked our appearances. Rose was a total knockout in a red Herve Leger bandage dress. It was a deep V neck dress with a cut out back and the zipper ran out the front. She was wearing dangerous looking gold stilettos, her golden hair was out and wavy and her makeup looked phenomenal.
"Emmett won't be able to stop staring at your girls all night" giggled Alice.
"Well they kinda are right in your face with this dress aren't they?" Rose asked pushing them up a little.
"Just a bit" I replied giggling with Alice.
Alice was wearing a deep V necked dress too with a cut out back, though hers had much thinner straps than Rose, the straps were black leather and there was a thin leather band that ran around her waist. It was an animal print dress in various shades of blue and black. Her heels were high, strappy and glittery black. Her hair was poker straight and half pinned back.
"I don't know why you're going on about my girls being out look at you too!" Rose remarked suddenly looking at Alice and my reflections.
"Hey it's Vegas" said Alice with a shrug.
We had decided that we were going to go with uniformity tonight so I also had on a dress with a plunging V neck line and a cut out back. Mine however was black and covered in square sequins. I had to admit it did look really good on and Rose was right about the girls, they were definitely on show tonight. I don't think I had ever worn a dress that showed so much cleavage!
My shoes were also killer stilettos; they were dark midnight blue and lethally high. My hair was out, wavy and incredibly shiny. Alice had given me a smoky eye look.
"Right girls, ready to go knock the socks of our men with our um girls!" exclaimed Alice before erupting into giggles.
Perhaps we had a little too much wine when we were getting ready.
If it weren't for the fact that they had changed their clothes you would have thought that Edward, Jasper and Emmett hadn't moved in the few hours it had taken us to get ready. They were so engrossed in the game and their beers they hadn't heard us walk into the room.
Rose raised her eyebrow at us and whispered, "Act natural, we'll just go and sit down at the other end of the couch, sip on our wine and see how long it takes them to notice us."
We both nodded in agreement trying to suppress the giggles that were trying to escape. We followed Rose's lead and went and perched on the couch sipping our wine and chatting about tonight.
"Are you going to keep drinking wine tonight?" Rose asked us with a serious look on her face.
I stared into my glass for a moment, "I don't think I will" piped up Alice, "We're in Vegas; I'm thinking shots and cocktails?"
"Mmm I'm up for that" murmured Rose taking a sip of her drink, "You two always get crazy when we have shots" she laughed.
We were interrupted by a choking sound; we looked up to see Emmett choking on a gulp of beer.
"I think they noticed us" remarked Alice with a grin.
"It's hard not to, you look amazing. Are you part of my birthday present?" asked Jasper coming over and taking Alice by the hand.
She giggled and kissed him hard on the lips.
"Aw gross man, get a room you two. First I choke on my beer soon it'll be vomit" Emmett boomed. "By the way Rose, you look sexy!" he added jumping up and putting the moves on Rose.
"You look unbelievable" whispered a sexy voice in my ear. "So beautiful" Edward carried on.
"Thanks" I replied with a blush.
"Alright let's make a move before Edward jumps Bella right in front of us" Emmett said loudly, "Not something I need to see my little bro doing."
We headed down the main drag to a restaurant for dinner, after that we made our way to the casino for the real fun to start.
"Shots for all" announced Emmett beckoning us towards the bar, "Twelve tequilas kind sir" he told the bar tender handing him his credit card. "First rounds on me people" he said with a grin.
When the bar tender returned with the shots Alice held hers up and said "To Jasper, Happy twenty second birthday!"
"Happy birthday Jazz!" we all shouted downing our first shot.
Emmett grabbed his next shot and held it up "To an awesome night In Las Vegas, one we will never forget!"
"To Las Vegas!" we shouted downing out next shot.
"Please tell me you haven't gone all Alan from the Hangover on us and put roofies in our shots" Jasper said looking at his empty shot glass.
We all laughed, "No way little Jazz man" he replied slapping Jasper on his back, "We are going to get good and drunk the old fashioned way. Now let's go gamble!"
Edward and I joined a black jack table while the other went to try their hands at roulette. After Edward explained the rules to me I got the hang of the game pretty quickly and was shocked when my stack of chips began to grow instead of disappear.
After a while I grew bored and we wandered over to the slot machines. I put in some money and pressed the button. All of a sudden music started blaring and the big sign hanging above the row of machines began to flash.
"Someone's lucky tonight" I remarked, "Doesn't that mean someone just won the jackpot?" I asked Edward.
He was staring at me in shock, "Yes, you love" he replied.
"Come again?" I asked in disbelief, "I won the jackpot?"
"You won the jackpot babe" he replied beaming at me.
I stared at the flashing sign in total shock, "Fuck me does that say one hundred and fifty thousand?" I asked Edward.
"Ah no love think a little more than that" he replied still grinning like a Cheshire cat.
I continued to stare at him and then the sign and then back again.
"You won one and a half million babe!" he told me.
My eyes widened then I began to feel dizzy.
"Whoa love, take a deep breath" Edward told me calmly. "Are you okay?" he asked.
"I think I just about fainted" I gasped. Before I could say anything else an attendant reached me also wearing a huge grin.
"Congratulations miss" he told me filling out a paper slip, "You can take this cash up to the cashier at any time and claim your prize" he replied with a smile which was all teeth, blindingly white.
"Thank you" I told him taking the slip off him.
Then as he walked away I let out a squeal to rival Alice and threw myself at Edward. "Edward I won! Holy crow I won!" I shrieked.
"You did love! You won one and a half million dollars!" he exclaimed squeezing me tight. "Bella you deserve it."
I beamed at him, "I think we should go and celebrate!"
"I second that" he replied grabbing my hand and leading me through the crowd to find our friends.
"There you are!" cried Alice as we finally found the others and hurried towards them. "We've been looking all over for you two!"
"Did you hear this young chick won one and a half million dollars on one of the slot machine jackpots can you fucking believe it!" exclaimed Jasper suddenly cutting Alice off.
"We heard" Edward replied, he was still beaming from ear to ear and so was I.
"You two look pretty happy, did you get a bit of loving in one of the restrooms?" asked Emmett wiggling his eyebrows.
"I don't think that's it, the last time these two looked this happy was when they finally kissed each other. They both looked they had won the jackpot or something" Rose mused.
"That's exactly why I said maybe they got it on in the toilets" Emmett told Rose exasperated.
"Hang on a sec, holy shit Bella it was you?" Alice shrieked so loudly half the casino turned to stare at us.
I nodded still grinning like an idiot.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" she squealed jumping up and down. A second later Rosalie clicked and joined in Alice's squealing.
"Wait back up a minute, what the fuck are you squealing about?" asked Emmett looking confused.
"Bella won the jackpot?" Jasper said which sounded more like a question than a statement.
"Woooooooo!" shouted Emmett picking me up and spinning me around.
After cashing in my winnings slip for a check we headed back to the hotel where Edward ran upstairs and put it away in the safe. It would be just my luck that I would lose it.
We headed to another casino with an amazing night club where I announced I would be buying the next round. We all got the craziest cocktails on the menu and went and found a table near the dance floor.
"I still can't believe you won the jackpot Bells, it's so exciting!" Alice squealed bouncing up and down again.
"I can't either" I admitted, "I almost passed out when I realised. Looks like my luck might finally be changing!" I said beaming at my friends.
"You totally deserve it babe" said Rose putting her arm around me.
Before long we had finished our cocktails and Alice announced she was buying the next round so with Emmett's help she skipped off to the bar to get more drinks.
Two hours later
"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, four!" shouted Emmett as we waited for our round of tequila shots to be poured.
"Five tequila, six tequila, wait what the hell comes next?" yelled a frustrated Jasper.
"Seven you idiot" replied Emmett elbowing him.
"Oh yeah, five tequila, six tequila, seven tequila!" Jasper sang at the top of his voice.
"Floor!" they shouted together.
"At this rate the floor is exactly where they'll end up in a few hours" Edward whispered in my ear causing me to giggle.
"Oi stop whispering you two, tequila's up" Jasper told us.
One hour later
"If anyone asks we don't know either of them" Rose told us.
She was of course talking about Emmett and Jasper, both easily the drunkest in our group. They were at the centre of the dance floor pulling off dance moves that had us all in fits of laughter.
According to Edward they were what Emmett called his classic, signature dance moves and included such gems as the lawn mower, gone fishing and my personal favourite the sprinkler. Jasper opted for simply waving his arms in the air and swaying which was equally as entertaining. The quiet, thoughtful and often shy Jasper completely disappeared when he had a few drinks and was replaced by the loud, wilder version.
A dance song with a fast beat came on causing Emmett and Jasper to cheer loudly. Emmett started to jump around in half circle motion slowly with one arm straight in front of him and the other on his hip.
"Ah the sprinkler" Edward commented while I suppressed a giggle, "Watch the faces of the people standing next to him" he told us.
Emmett suddenly started jumping on the spot in the opposite direction at a much faster pace than before pretending to spray water on the other dancers. Before shuffling back again and beginning the sprinkler all over again.
The girls dancing next to him gave him a dirty look and stalked off to the other side of the dance floor. With that I burst out laughing.
"Did you see her face?" I choked through my laughter.
"Apparently it's not putting him off" giggled Rose pointing at a man dressed in tight white pants who was eyeing Emmett appreciatively.
"Emmett has a boyfriend!" Alice sang loudly.
Apparently the man had his limits because at that moment Jasper chose to incorporate jumping with wildly swaying his arms, the man took one look at him and ran in the opposite direction.
By this stage we were all laughing so hard we could barely breathe.
"Let's go and show them how it's done ladies!" Rose exclaimed.
"I'll just stay here, guard the drinks" Edward said gesturing at the table.
"No way, if I have to go down there and dance in these shoes you're coming with me" I told him dragging him in the direction of the dance floor.
The next morning
When I woke up on Sunday morning my head was pounding. I groaned covering my head with the covers to try and block out the offensive light that was hurting my eyes.
"Kill me now" I groaned.
"Good morning love" Edward said amused.
"There's nothing good about this morning" I groaned again.
"Feeling a little hung over?" he asked pulling the covers down so he could see my face.
"More than a little, aren't you?" I asked clutching my pounding head.
"Not really" he said sympathetically, "Mind you did drink a lot more than I did last night" he said giving me a small smile.
I tried to remember back to last night, but the events were very hazy. The last thing I really remembered was hitting the dance floor at the club.
"Please tell me I didn't embarrass myself?" I begged.
"Trust me love, anything you did was eclipsed by our dear friends" he told me.
That wasn't the answer I was after and somehow knowing the others were worse than I was didn't make me feel any better. I groaned, maybe I didn't want to know what happened last night.
"How about we shower and get dressed then try and get some breakfast in you?" he asked.
Half an hour later I was dressed casually in jeans and a tee and feeling slightly more human than before thanks to the hot shower. We made our way into the living room to find the other looking just as worse for wear.
Emmett looked surprisingly well for someone who had downed tequila shots like water.
"Morning Bells, so you're alive then?" he grinned.
"Barely" I replied flopping down on the sofa next to Alice who was rubbing her temples, "How can you be smiling?" I asked him.
"Easy, I don't really feel all that hung over since I'm still drunk" he replied happily. "You look pretty good Edward" he commented.
"That's because he's a freak of nature who doesn't get hang over's" I replied.
"It's so unfair" moaned Jasper, "I feel like a sack of shit and you're over there grinning and saying what a wonderful morning it is" he glared at Emmett.
Emmett's response was a booming laugh.
Rose groaned and whacked him on the arm "Shut the hell up, my head feels like it's going to explode."
"How about you little pixie how are you this fine morning?" Emmett asked, "Was that you I heard vomiting up last night's dinner when we got home?"
Alice glared at him "I don't remember" she groaned, "Please someone fill in the blanks."
"Do any of you remember anything?" asked Edward.
"Just flashes" Rose told him.
"A bit, there are some blanks though" grinned Emmett.
"Nothing at all!" groaned Jasper.
Edward's Point of View
Flashback to the previous night
"I've justh had the besth idea" Alice slurred. "We should get married!" she shrieked putting her arms around Rose and Bella as we stumbled down the road to the next club.
"Who?" asked Bella confused.
"Usth sssilly, you me and Rosie!" Alice replied swaying a little, "Look there'ths the chapel over there!" she pointed towards the Chapel of Love. No doubt it was one of those chapels you see in all the Hollywood movies complete with tacky decorations and an Elvis impersonator as the minister.
"Don't you want to marry me Alice?" pouted Jasper.
"Not in Vegath" she slurred, "Plusth I want a diamond right here and a big white wedding" she replied wiggling her finger at him.
"Bridezilla" Emmett whispered to me.
"Do they allow same sexth marriage here?" Bella slurred in response.
"They should" stated Rose bluntly, "Come on."
"Oh no" Bella groaned, "You didn't let us did you?"
"Wait, you called me a bridezilla!" Alice shrieked turning on Emmett.
I grinned and carried on.
We entered the chapel and immediately I knew I was right about the tacky part. Tacky didn't even begin to describe the room we had just walked into. Pink, glitter...
"Oh its stho pretty!" squealed Alice, she must be drunker than I thought.
"What the fuck?" Jasper suddenly exclaimed, "I thought Elvis was dead?" he asked staring at the impersonator in amazement.
"It's not really him Jasper" Rose sighed.
"How do you know?" he asked, "It looks just like him!"
While Rose and Jasper argued over whether or not Elvis was still alive, Alice and Emmett were looking at the souvenirs. To be honest Alice was looking but Emmett was touching everything, it was like taking a five year old to a candy store and letting him loose.
"Look at this hat!" he practically shouted at me from across the room.
I turned around to see my older brother wearing a pink, sparkly cow girl hat. It was one of those moments where I couldn't believe I was related to him. Alice was giggling uncontrollably which set Bella off who almost fell over she was laughing so hard.
"I'm so buying this hat" he told himself looking in the mirror. "Oi Jazzy, look you should get this."
He was holding up a tiara with Birthday Girl written on the front.
"I was wondering where this came from" Jasper said pointing at the tiara sitting on the coffee table.
"Please tell me he didn't wear that in public?" Alice asked me.
After buying Emmett his hat and Jasper his tiara we walked through the gift shop to the registry desk.
"We want to get married" Alice announced to the second Elvis impersonator.
"The cow girl and the princess?" he asked.
"No!" she replied looking at him like he was stupid, "Us" she told him gesturing to the girls.
"Ah I see, we have a two hour wait at the moment but if you'd like to take a seat I'll call you when it's your turn."
Alice stumbled over to the seats closely followed by Rosalie and Bella. My mind was turning over the ways I could convince them that getting married might not seem like such a great idea in the morning. Luckily for me after five minutes Bella announced she had changed her mind and Emmett was complaining he was bored.
"So we didn't get married then?" asked Rose.
"No, you were saved by Emmett's short attention span" I chucked.
"Why do I get the feeling there's more?" Alice groaned.
I laughed at her.
We stumbled off down the road to the club we were planning on going to in the first place. The bouncer didn't even bat an eye when he saw Princess Jasper and Cow Girl Emmett. I figured he probably saw that kind of thing a lot.
Emmett and Alice went and got drinks and returned with two beers and four cocktails.
"What's wrong with you?" Jasper asked Emmett who had the most horrified expression on his face.
"Someone pinched my ass and it wasn't a girl" he told us horrified.
"HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Jasper was doubled over laughing.
"So that hats a chick magnet then?" Rose asked amused.
"Is it attracting you?" he asked wiggling his eyebrows. He dished out the drinks, "here princess I got you a pink drink" he told Jasper who took it gladly and thanked him in what I presume was supposed to be a girls voice.
"HA that's right, Princess Jasper like's girls drinks" Emmett laughed.
"They taste nice" Jasper retorted.
"What happened next?" asked Rose.
"Let's go and dance" Alice demanded dragging Bella and Rose to the dance floor. We followed and soon Emmett was unleashing his signature moves on the other poor clubbers.
I wrapped my arms around a very unsteady Bella who had been dancing with Rose.
"Edward" she sighed.
"Yes love?" I asked her.
"I'm really drunk" she answered.
"Not as drunk as Emmett" I reminded her.
She giggled as we watched Emmett climb up onto a platform in the middle of the dance floor with Jasper dancing wildly in front of everyone.
"I am so getting a video of this!" exclaimed Rose pulling out her phone and pressing record.
"I didn't know Jasthper liked Britney" Alice slurred leaning on me for support.
Jasper and Emmett were singing at the top of their lungs to some Britney Spears song, combined with their head wear they looked ridiculous.
"I totally forgot about that!" Rose said grabbing her phone to look for the video. "Ha here it is."
We all laughed as we watched Jasper and Emmett dance and sing on screen.
"I am never ever drinking again" moaned Jasper.
"What happened after that?" Bella asked.
"Jasper fell of the stage" I told them.
Emmett's booming laugh filled the room. "I'm not shitting you man it was the funniest thing I have ever seen".
"That explains the bruises I'm sporting then, I was a little worried about where they'd come from" said Jasper looking relieved.
"Were you worried you'd pissed Alice off so much last night she beat you?" Emmett sniggered causing as all to laugh.
"Alice can be pretty scary" he mumbled.
"And don't you forget it" she told him. "Did anything else happen?" she asked.
"Nope, after that we all stumbled back here where you proceeded to vomit in the toilet and Bella passed within five minutes" I told her.
"Never drinking ever again" moaned Bella.
Bella's Point of View
The flight home was absolute hell, let me just say hangovers and planes are not a great combination. Aside from that the weekend was the most fun I had had in a long time; Jasper declared it was the best birthday weekend in history, not to mention I was a little richer because of it! It looked as though things were looking up.
On Monday morning I drove Alice and Rose to UW as we had planned to hit the grocery store and the mall after our classes. After promising to see them at lunch I trudged off to class bumping into Angela Webber on the way.
"Hey Bella!" Angela called walking towards me, I really liked Angela. She had been nice to me since day one when I started at Forks High.
"Hi Ange, how are you?" I asked when she reached me.
"Good, how are you?" she asked, I could hear the concern in her voice.
"I'm good, it's been a rough couple of weeks but I'm getting there" I told her honestly.
"I'm glad" she replied, "I was really worried about you" she said with a sincere smile. "So how was your weekend?" she asked, changing the subject for which I was grateful.
"It was great actually, we all went to Las Vegas for Jasper's birthday" I told her.
"Wow! That must have been amazing!" she exclaimed.
"It was, we had a great time, except for the hangovers" I said, she laughed in response.
I filled her in on the trip to Vegas and she told me about her weekend as we walked to class together. Class itself was uncomplicated, the subject matter was easy. Since Angela was majoring in English too we walked to our next few classes together too before finally heading off to the cafeteria for lunch.
"Hey Bella, hey Angela" I heard a male voice yell from behind us, we turned around to see Mike Newton jogging our way.
"You know he still has a crush on you, some things never change huh?" she teased while Mike was still out of earshot.
I grimaced causing her to laugh, "I mean he's nice an all" I replied.
"But he's not your type" she finished with a grin, "besides he's definitely no Edward Cullen."
"No he's not" I replied thinking of Edward's amazing green eyes, sexy bed head hair... I quickly snapped myself out of my day dreams before they got out of hand, "He's got nothing on Edward."
"Hi!" Mike greeted us puffing just slightly.
"Hi Mike" we replied in unison.
"Ange Ben's just over there, he's looking for you" Mike told Angela.
"Oh" she replied turning around to try and spot Ben. She glanced back at me.
"Go on" I grinned at her.
"I'll catch you in English 305 this afternoon Bells" she told me, Sorry! She mouthed behind Mike's back. I smiled at her to let her know I could handle Mike on my own.
"So Mike how's things?" I asked as we started walking again towards the cafeteria.
"So you and Edward Cullen huh?" he asked ignoring my question. Ah so it's going to be one of those conversations I thought.
"What about us?" I asked him trying to keep my tone even.
"Are you two you know together?" he questioned.
"Yes" I replied simply.
"I don't like it" he told me bluntly.
"To be honest Mike you don't have to like it" I answered tersely, "Listen I've gotta go, I'll see you around" I said before walking off as quickly as I could. Angela was right some things never change, I felt like I was right back in high school.
When I reached the cafeteria I found our group easily, sitting at the same table as we always did.
"I got you lunch love" Edward told me giving me a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks" I told him dumping my book bag under my chair.
"You look pissed off" Rose commented, taking a bite of her chicken wrap.
"I just bumped in Mike Newton" I huffed.
"Ah" they all looked at me sympathetically. Despite the fact that my statement really didn't need any explanation I decided to elaborate anyway.
"He asked me if I was dating Edward, I said yes and get this, he said 'I don't like it'" I told the group.
"He is a piece of work" Rose answered. "What did you say?"
"I said he didn't have to like it and ran away" I said.
Everyone snickered, "What is it to him anyway?" Edward asked me.
"He has had a crush on our wee Bella her since arrived in Forks" Alice said with a smirk.
"One that has never and will never be reciprocated" I told Edward.
Later that afternoon
After Mike's little admission and my subsequent running away from him, he seemed to be popping up everywhere all over campus that day. First it was later that afternoon when I was walking to class with Angela and then it was at the grocery store after class.
"Aw he's just like a little golden retriever" Rose sniggered as we spotted him down the canned foods aisle, "Following you everywhere."
"Shut up!" I growled causing her to laugh.
"This is typical Mike Newton behaviour, remember when Conner asked you out on a date in senior year and Mike felt it was his duty to let you know you had other options" Alice commented.
"Argh don't remind me" I replied shuddering slightly as I tried to suppress the memory of Mike Newton trying to kiss me in the storeroom of Newton's Olympic Outfitters.
"I totally forgot about that!" Rose giggled.
"Oh great now he's coming over" I said through gritted teeth trying unsuccessfully to hide behind my hair.
"Hi Bella, funny seeing you here!" he greeted me eagerly, "Hi Rosalie, Hi Alice" he said. His eyes lit up when he saw them, I think secretly he'd always had kind of a thing for them too, but Rose had shot him down so harshly the first time he had never bothered again.
"Hi Mike" Alice replied, while Rose just gave him a little wave.
"So ladies what brings you here?" he asked leaning casually against his grocery cart.
"Quite probably the same thing that bought you here" Rose remarked with a hint of sarcasm, "Grocery shopping."
"Cool" he replied grinning, "So I was thinking of having a small party at my place this weekend, you know just people that went to Forks High. It'd be great if you ladies could be there" he told us with a wink.
"Like a reunion then?" asked Alice picking up a can of tomatoes off the shelf and putting it into the cart.
"Yeah exactly" he replied still grinning.
"Oh okay yeah sure that could be fun" Alice replied shrugging her shoulders, "The six of us will try to be there."
"The six of you?" Mike asked looking a little confused.
"Well yeah, us girls, Jasper, Edward and Emmett" Rose replied in an isn't that obvious tone.
"Oh yeah right, sure" he replied waving his hand. "Eight onwards see you there" he called pushing his cart away.
"I think you just shattered his dream of getting the three of us alone with him" Rose remarked when Mike was out of earshot.
"Ew Rose that's so gross!" Alice exclaimed.