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Chapter 8: Hotel Creeps, Payback + New York City
Edward POV
Wow. Bella looked really hot in her bathing suit. I'm not one of those pigs that only look at a girl's body but even I couldn't deny that she was really beautiful. She was wearing a deep blue bikini top with boy cut swimming shorts. I stared at her for a minute when she took off her t-shirt but I quickly looked away before she could notice. Emmett was also staring at Rosalie wearing a red bikini with black polka dots.
"Damn" he whispered to me" I just nodded my head. Alice and Jasper were having a water fight at the other end of the pool. When they were obviously about to kiss, Emmett, being the insensitive jokester we all know he is, wolf whistled and yelled cannonball and jumped into the pool making a huge splash. Jasper was pissed but we all laughed. Eventually their water fight started again and the rest of us splashed around and goofed off. It was actually a lot of fun. Emmett was totally flirting with Rose the whole time. Bella was smiling shyly and floating around. She really is beautiful. What's going on with me? I think in my head. I ignore it and we continue having fun until it starts to get dark.
We get out of out the pool and dry off. Emmett is helping Rosalie dry off and she's smiling coyly at him. Alice is smiling shyly at Jasper as he hands her a towel and Bella is just in her own little world as she wraps a towel around herself. What is she thinking? I wish I could read her mind. I watch Bella as I throw on my t-shirt. We leave the pool and head back up to our rooms. The girls go into theirs and we go into ours. Once we're changed into our pyjamas we sit down to watch come football. As we're cheering along for the Seahawks Jasper gets a call on his cell.
"Oh hi, Bella? What's going on? Slow down. What? Alice?! What happened to her?! ? Is she alright??? We'll be right there," He hangs up his phone and looks to us with a panicked expression on his face.
"Something's happened to Alice we have to go to their room right now." He says. We run out the door and next door where Rosalie opens the door with a worried look on her face.
"Come in come in! Something's happened to Alice! She's crying and she won't tell us what happened right now"
"Can you tell us what you know?" I ask worriedly.
"She went out to find a vending machine to get some chips. When she didn't come back after 10 minutes we got worried and tried to call her cell but she didn't answer. So we went out to find her. We found her by the vending machine curled up against the wall sobbing and there was an unconscious man laying a few feet away. He looked maybe 25 or so. I'm really worried" Emmett pulled her into a hug.
"It's gonna be alright" he whispers to her but I can still hear.
"Where's Bella?" I ask.
"She went to front desk to tell them about the man. She's going to bring someone up here so Alice can tell us what happened"
We walk over to where Alice is curled up on the couch crying. Jasper has his arms around her and is murmuring in her ear. Rose, Emmett, and I sit cautiously beside them waiting for Bella to come back. A couple of minutes later we hear the door open and Bella walks in with a lady from the front desk.
"Alice? Alice honey? Are you alright?" Bella asks her worriedly as she crouches hear Alice. Alice's cries subside a bit. She nods slightly.
"Can you tell us what happened?" the woman from the front desk asks. Alice nods again. When she looks up her face is tearstained and it almost breaks my heart. I didn't know Alice very well but she was a very happy, bubbly person and seeing her cry like this was enough to make a sumo-wrestler tear up. Alice takes a few shaky breathes then opens her mouth and in a quiet voice, tells her story.
"Well I went down to a vending machine to get some chips for our movie. I was just digging through my pockets for the change when someone came up behind me. I ignored them thinking they were just waiting for me to finish using the machine. So I found the change and was about to put them in the slot when someone put their hands around my waist and whispered in my ear 'Hey beautiful, wanna come back to my room and have a party?'" Alice cringes and Jasper kisses the top of her head. She takes a few more shaky breathes and continues, "I turned around and pushed him away. 'No thank you' I said. I turned back to the vending machine and put the coins in the slot. I was about to press the button when he put his hands around me again but in a different spot," Alice cringes again. I'm shaking with anger by now and so is Bella, Rose, Emmett and especially Jasper. The hotel lady is just standing there with a shocked and worried expression on her face. Alice's face hardens and her voice takes an angry tone, "I turned around and slapped him. He just came closer. 'Are you drunk?' I asked him. 'Only love drunk' he said. I glared at him and tried to go past him to go back to the room. I was just going to leave the money in the slot and get it later. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me into his chest. He... he tried to kiss me." She faltered, "I pushed him away and punched him in the face. Then I punched him in the gut and then I kneed him in the crotch and then punched him in the head again. He fell to the ground unconscious." Her tone becomes slightly proud. We all smile slightly. At least he didn't get anything from her except maybe a grope and a whole lot of pain and bruises. The hotel woman just stared.
"I...I'm sorry. We'll send someone out to get him and we'll check him out immediately. You were very brave" the hotel woman pats Alice's arm and then leaves the room. Rosalie and Bella jump on Alice and hug and kiss her.
"We were so worried! Oh my god I'm so glad you ok! I can't believe it! We're so sorry! We won't ever let you go out alone again!" they cry. Alice laughs softly.
"It's alright. I'm sorry I scared you guys. I was just really shaken up by that" she says smiling at us apologetically.
"Really it's no problem Alice we were all worried about you" I say. Emmett pats her head.
"Ya we were. I'm glad you beat the guy up. If you aren't satisfied though I can finish him off" Emmett flexes is muscles.
"It's alright Emmett" Alice says smiling at him. She looks at all of us.
"I'm so glad I have such great friends as you guys" She says. We all group hug her. Jasper kisses her cheek. Alice blushes.
"Oh there it is again! You blushed!" Bella says clearly excited she's not the only one who blushes now. Alice has had a rough night" Rosalie says with a smile. Alice begins to protest but I interject before she says anything.
"Come on guys we should go back now" I say. Jasper hesitates.
"Come one you can see her tomorrow morning alright?" Emmett says. Jasper gives Alice a kiss on the cheek and says goodnight to the girls. Emmett gives Rosalie a kiss on the cheek and she grins at him. Bella and I look at each other awkwardly.
"Well goodnight guys" Bella says.
"Night" I reply. The guys and I leave the room. Jasper explodes now that we were safely away from a traumatized Alice and a nervous Bella and Rose.
"Why would anyone want to hurt Alice?! How dare he come onto her like that! I could just..." He clenches his fists. Emmett puts an arm around his shoulders.
"Dude I know you're upset we are too but it's over and done with and Alice is safe. That's the most important thing right?" Wow Emmett, I think. That was really deep and sensitive for Emmett.
"I guess you're right man but I still can't help but to think of what could have happened if Alice hadn't been able to defend herself"
"I know I know but she was so there's nothing else we can do" Emmett says, opening the door. I nod in agreement. Jasper sighs.
"I know" he sighs again. We go into our room and open I look at the clock. It's 11:34PM.
"Guys its late why don't we get to sleep and then we can go see the girls tomorrow morning." They agree and we get into bed. I lay awake thinking of what would have happened if it had been Bella who had been in Alice's place. I knew Alice could obviously defend herself and Rosalie could probably fight off one guy but Bella probably would have been defenceless. I shudder at the thought. Why? I ask myself. Well I don't want any of the girls to get hurt. Bella had nothing to do with it except she's more defenceless than the others. Another voice in my head disagreed though. I t has everything to do with Bella. I shook my head. Go to sleep I command myself. And I do. Eventually.
Rose POV
Oh. My. God. I can't believe Alice was attacked! What kind of horrible bastard would want to take advantage of little Alice?! I mean I know she's beautiful but it takes a real sick mind to want to take advantage of someone like that. I want to go and find that guy and punch him out but Alice already said Emmett couldn't so I guess that applies to me too.
Bella and I are up half the night talking about the situation and worrying about Alice. She insists she wasn't in shock but we make her eat something and drink something as soon as the guys leave. It's cute to see how protective Jasper was of our little Alice though. I think they would make a cute couple. Oh no! Now I sound like Alice! I hope he asks her out. I wonder if Emmett will ask me out. God he is so HOT! Ugh. I need a life.
Bella and Edward definitely like each other. They might not know it yet but the rest of us do.
Finally Bella and I get to sleep around midnight. I wake up in the morning to someone poking my ear! I open my eyes extremely annoyed and see Emmett's child like grin.
"Morning sleeping beauty. Time to wake up it's 10AM. You girls are late"
"AAAAH! What?!" I sit upright, "10! Why did no one wake us?!" I glare at Emmett.
"We just did. Listen" He gets quiet but is still grinning. I quiet too so I can hear. I hear nothing and then all of the sudden I hear an Alice like shriek.
"Jasper! What the hell are you doing in here?! How did you get in?!" I was wondering that too. I open my mouth to ask Emmett but he chuckles and puts a finger to my lips.
"There's still one more left" I listen.
"What the hell?! Edward?! How did you even get in here?!" Bella. Emmett bursts out laughing. I glare at him but inside I find it kind of funny as well. Well at least their reactions were funny to me. I get up and stalk out to the living room where Alice and Bella are already standing with their hands on their hips glaring at Jasper and Edward. I join them.
"Ok what the hell is going on?" Alice demands. The guys all exchange grins with each other. Obviously finding it amusing that we were pissed off.
"Well you slept in so we woke you up" Edward says.
"Ya but how the hell did you even get in here??" I ask.
"Edward here charmed the lady at the front desk into giving him a key to your room" Emmett says. We all gape at them. Edward grins sheepishly.
"They made me do it" Edward says. Alice opens her mouth and then closes it like five times clearly at a loss for words. She turns to Jasper and glares.
"Don't you think we had enough excitement last night without you 3 breaking into our room and waking us up by poking us!" Jasper's face pales and he takes on a look of remorse.
"Well... it... we... we didn't mean anything by it" he says weakly. I turn to Emmett.
"Did you guys think at all?!"
"Come on Rose you know thinking isn't our strong suit" Emmett pleads with me. I release the full power of the "Rosalie glare" as Alice and Bella call it.
"Obviously" Bella mutters. Edward turns to her.
"Are you mad Bella?" he asks innocently, trying to pacify her before she could get mad. He obviously doesn't know Bella at all.
"Well," she starts, "Last night we were up really late because of the whole incident, and then this morning we're woken up by poking and pinching by 3 guys that broke into our room. So I would say I'm not in the happiest of moods," Bella finishes with a hard gleam in her eye. We've taught her well I think looking at Alice and wiping a pretend tear from my eye. Alice grins. Bella sees us and rolls her eyes. Edward tries to look repentant but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out he's not really. The only one of the guys that seems the least bit repentant is Jasper, who is staring at Alice while she tries to look angry. I can see her resolve failing though.
"Ok guys well now that you've so rudely woken us up, please leave so we can get dressed" I say pointing to the door. They turn and head to the door.
"See you at breakfast?" Emmett asks hopefully.
"Maybe" I reply with a smirk. Take that! He frowns and I close the door, dead bolting it just in case. I could hear them talking outside the door still.
"Way to go Emmett. Ya let's break into their room and wake them up! It'll be funny!" I could hear Jasper say.
"It was funny" Edward says. Emmett and Edward chuckle. I hear a hitting sound and two "Ows!" I laugh quietly. I turn to my friends.
"So what do you say to a little pay back girls?"
Emmett POV
Ok so our little prank didn't go quite as planned but the look on Rose's face and the screams of Bella and Alice as well made it totally worth it. Edward thought so too. Jasper was not happy though. I'm sure they'll get over it. Won't they?
Edward, Jasper and I grab a table and sit down waiting for the girls. It's amazing how we went from enemies to sort of friends with them in like only 2 days. Jasper interrupts my thoughts.
"The girls are taking a while getting ready" he comments, "Do you think they're ok?" he asks worriedly. Since last night he's been really nervous leaving the girls alone without one of us with them.
"I'm sure they're fine. I mean what are the chances of one of them getting attacked the day after Alice was?" I ask.
"Well..." Jasper says.
"With Bella with them I'm sure they're chances are higher than usual. And it's not like they're ugly or anything" Edward says adopting Jasper's look of worry. I snort.
"Come one guys I'm sure they're fine I'm mean they're girls. They're supposed to take a long time getting ready aren't they? Relax" I roll my eyes. God, they're worrying like a couple of old ladies. I sit back and wait for the girls. They try to do the same but I can see them glancing over at the elevator every once in a while.
Finally like 10 minutes later the girls come out of the elevator.
"See I told you they were fine" I say. They roll their eyes but I can see them relax visibly. As the girls get closer and I can see them clearer my mouth drops.
"Holy..." Jasper says. Edward nods. Bella is wearing a short black miniskirt with a dark blue halter top. She's wearing flip flops. Alice is wearing a short pink miniskirt with a strapless white top. I look at Rosalie. Holy shit! My mind freezes. Rosalie is wearing a short black miniskirt with a red spaghetti strap shirt. The shirt has cut outs on the sides near her stomach. Damn she's so hot! Alice and Rosalie are wearing stilettos but other than that all three girls are wearing similar outfits.
They are smiling and laughing together like the little conspirators they are. We watch them smile flirtingly and wave to guys that stare at them as they walk by. A wave of jealousy surges through me and I watch Rose wink at some guy. They planned this! I nudge Jasper. I look at him and can see that he has the same jealous look on his face. Same with Edward.
"Wow they really know how to get payback" Edward says still staring at Bella.
"Oh ya..." Jasper says.
"Come one guys we're stronger than a bunch of girls in short skirts" I say yet still unable to tear my gaze from Rosalie.
"Act natural they're coming" Edward says. We immediately look somewhere other than at the girls. They walk over and sit down.
"Hey guys" Alice says cheerily, too cheerily. Rose and Bella giggle. I breathe a couple of times then turn to Rose.
"Good morning beautiful" I say. I try to sound as normal as possible. I don't think I succeed though because Rose shoots a look at Alice and Bella who giggle.
"Hey Em how's it going?" she grins coyly. I breathe in sharply. Come one Emmett be a man. I shoot a look of desperation at Edward and Jasper. They mirror my look. Alice is chatting happily with Bella but periodically shooting Jasper smiles. Bella is playing with her hair while laughing at something Alice says and Edward is going crazy. He I knew it. He DOES like her! I smile victoriously for about 3 seconds before Rose starts wiggling her fingers at a random guy that's ogling her from across the room. My smile turns into a frown. I think the whole table sees because the girls start giggling and Jasper and Edward, the traitors, start chuckling. I glare at them. They grin back and shrug. Bella then smiles at a teenage kid staring at her. Edward frowns. I grin at him. That's what you get. The girls giggle.
"Come on ladies I have to go check my makeup" Alice says. All three of them get up to leave.
"Why do all three of you need to go to the bathroom at the same time?" Edward asks.
"It's a girl thing Edward" Bella says grinning. The girls get up and head to the washroom arm in arm whispering and giggling to each other.
"They are just plain evil" I complain. Jasper and Edward nod in agreement.
"We do sort of deserve it I suppose" Jasper says. We did break into their room and wake them up"
"Ya but they don't have to go flirting with every guy in sight" Edward says, "I can practically hear the dirty thoughts some of those guys are probably thinking right about now" he cringes.
"Ya Emmett, I'm never going along with one of your stupid pranks schemes ever again" Jasper says.
"It's not my fault they can't take a joke" I say. Honestly some people have no sense of humour.
"I wonder what evil plan they're concocting in there right now" Edward says.
"Ya is the girl's bathroom some sort of evil plotting room for females or something?" I ask. They shrug.
"Either way I think we should be afraid" Jasper says. We hear some guys talking about the three hot girls that went into the washroom.
"Definitely" I agree.
Alice POV
Bella, Rose and I escape to the bathroom to plot. Our plan was working perfectly. We could almost see the jealousy monster on their backs. Once we are safely inside the walls of the girl's washroom we burst out laughing.
"Oh my God did you see their faces! It was priceless!" Rose squeals.
"I think Emmett was ready to start punching out that guy you were waving at Rose!" Bella says holding her sides.
"Oh ya Bella? I think Edward's head was going to explode! He looked ready to kill!" I gasp. We continue laughing at the guys for a few minutes and then we get down to business.
"Ok so how do you think we should finish them off?" Rose asks, "We need to have them begging for forgiveness."
"Definitely" Bella agrees.
"Hmm... Well I think we should just keep doing what we're doing but maybe turn it up a notch" I say, "Really push them over the limit" Rose and Bella nod.
"Ok here's what we do..."
We exit the washroom ready with our plan.
"They are so gonna get it" Rose whispers. We giggle. We head back over to the table and sit down.
"We're back" I say.
"Did you miss us" says Rose.
"What were you girls doing in there? Having a tea party?" Emmett asks.
"We're girls Emmett. It's what we do" Bella says. Almost immediately some guy starts waving to Rosalie from a distance. Then some random teenage kid winks at me from across the room. A guy that is sitting by himself is trying to catch Bella's eye. I look at my girls. It's payback time.
Rosalie waves back to the guy and then excuses herself to go talk to him. Emmett is absolutely livid. I wink at Bella. Perfect. I send Bella a silent signal to move in. She excuses herself as well and walks over to the loner guy, sits down and starts talking to him. Edward is furious. My turn. I get up and skip over to the kid that winked at me. He's probably like 16 but whatever this isn't about him really it's about payback. His eyes widen as he sees that I'm going over to him.
"Hello" I say. He looks like a deer caught in a headlight.
"Hi" he squeaks. Ew squeaky voice. Oh well. It could be worse.
"What's your name?" I ask. I'm trying to sound flirty like when Jessica Stanley is all over the guys from school. I guess it works because he looks surprised.
"Umm... Mike"
"Hi Mike I'm Alice" I say cheerily. Only a bit longer now. I give a quick glance to see how Rose and Bella are doing. They seem to be doing fine. I look at the guys. They're all staring at us looking absolutely pissed. Almost there. I give a wink to rose and Bella. They wink back.
"So Mike where are you from?" I ask, trying to seem interested. My attention is mainly on the guys though.
"I'm from Hoboken" (lol Hobo-Ken. Get it? It's actually a real place. You can google it.) He says, "I'm visiting a friend"
"Interesting" I say. Not really.
"What about you?" he seems to get less shy as the conversation goes on.
"Forks, Washington" I say, "We're on our way to New York City for a grad road trip" Might as tell the truth it's not like I'll ever see him again.
"We?" he asks suddenly suspicious. I have the urge to say "Yes me and my boyfriend" but I decide against it.
"Me and my two best friends"
"Cool. So, Washington? Wow that's across the country. Did you drive the whole way?"
'Ya..." That's sort of the meaning of the word ROAD TRIP. I give him a flirtatious smile anyways. I look out of the corner of my eye and see Edward having to restrain Jasper while at the same time restraining himself from the guy that Bella was flirting it up with. Emmett just glares at the poor sucker that Rose is with. She is now playing with his collar looking very sexy. Any second now.
Bella looks at me like "What's taking them so long" but I just wink and nod towards the guys. She looks at them briefly and smiles. She looks back at the guy she's talking to. He's absolutely smitten. I grin. The kid Mike is now putting his hand on my arm. Ew sweaty hands! I smile though. Do it for revenge Alice, revenge. Finally they crack.
Jasper gets up and walks over to me and Mike.
"Alice we have to get breakfast now" he says in between his clenched teeth.
"Alright Jasper" I say. He looks surprised. He was obviously expecting more of a fight but I don't really like Mike anyways. I wave goodbye to Mike who is glaring at Jasper and then head back to the table. Jasper breathes a sigh of relief once we sit down.
"Hard morning?" I tease.
"It's not just me" Jasper says defensively, "Look." I look over to where he is pointing at, Rose. Emmett is successfully scaring off what's his face and drags Rosalie back to the table. Emmett sits down with a thump and grumbles. Rosalie winks at me. We look over to see what's going on with Edward and Bella.
Edward is saying something to Bella and her guy and Bella stands up to leave, but then the guy puts a hand on her shoulder and says something to Edward not letting Bella leave. She shoots me a look. I shrug helplessly. Edward says something else and that he walks towards us, Bella in tow. They get to the table and sit down in their spots. Bella smiles at me and Rose. Mission accomplished. They guys grumble and glare while we girls giggle and smile at our success.
After our breakfast is done we leave the dining area with the guys. Mike is staring as we walk out and Bella and Rose's guys are staring as well. I nudge my two partners in crime and giggle. I wave back to Mike and Rose and Bella follow my lead, waving to their guys. Jasper, Em, and Edward notice this and practically drag us out of the room and into the elevator.
Once we were safely inside the elevator with just the six of us Emmett decides to speak.
"Ok what the hell was that?" he asks with an unusual stern Emmett look.
"What was what?" Rose says innocently.
"With the guys?" Jasper adds. Edward nods.
"That my dear friends, was revenge. Girl style. The stand there with their mouths open, staring at us. We break into giggles.
"You should have seen your faces" Bella says.
"Ya it was priceless" Rosalie says in between giggles. The guys are still staring at us.
"Hey that's what you get for breaking into our room" I say. They slowly close their mouths.
"So flirting with those guys was just payback?" Edward asks slowly.
"Duh!" Bella says bursting into another fit of giggles. Edward smiles.
"Well it was a good plan but it didn't work. We weren't jealous at all" Emmett says trying to salvage what was left of their dignity.
"You so were," Rose says, "You guys were practically green!" they scowl. Jasper comes and stands beside me.
"We were weren't we?" he says.
"Jasper!" Emmett groans, "Don't admit defeat!" Jasper smiles.
"Too late. So Alice since you were only flirting with that guy for revenge, do you... like wanna go out on a date? Like once we get to New York I mean" He smiles shyly. I grin. YESSSS!!!!!! I squeal in my head.
"Sure Jasper" I say brightly. He smiles. OMG Jasper asked me out! He's so sweet! And nice and cute and mysterious and funny... I continue this list in my head until we get back to the rooms. The guys go into their room and we into our. I give Jasper a smile before we part and he smiles back. I open the door get inside after Rose and Bella, close the door and we all squeal.
Bella POV
Jasper finally asked Alice out!! I'm so excited! And I know Emmett has already asked Rose out but she's playing "hard to get". Once we get into the room we start to squeal. Normally Alice is the squealer but this was a very important event so me and Rose decide we would squeal too.
Alice turns on some music and we start dancing happily and a little crazily. Ok so Rose and Alice dance and I sort of sway. I didn't really want to end up in the hospital or send either of my best friends there either.
Alice and Rose try to teach me to "sexy" dance. To demonstrate they start to grind against each other moving their hips in perfect time with the music. I laugh when they start to act crazy and start dancing really dirty. They pull me into their little crazy grinding circle and try to teach me how to dance. Because Rose is tallest they make me grand dance with her. She puts her hands on my hips and starts to move them in time with mine.
"Rose," I whine, "Can we please stop you know I can't dance"
"That's why we're teaching you" Rose says, "Now keep dancing"
Eventually we just do back to crazy dancing and I even join in a bit by jumping around. We start to sing along with A Praise Chorus by Jimmy Eat World.
I wanna always feel like part of this was mine
I wanna fall in love tonight!
We shout the last line.
"We wanna fall inlove tonight!" We burst out laughing and collapse on the couch, Me sitting normally with Rose's feet on my legs and Alice underneath Rose's legs sitting beside me her head on my shoulder. And if anyone asks that's why I love my friends.
We start talking about the swimming from yesterday.
"Did you see Jasper without his shirt on?! Oh My God so hot!" Alice squeals.
"Ya but Emmett...wow. He is definitely hot" Rosalie says.
"Why won't you go out with him then?" I ask. They are pretty cute together.
"Well you know I just want to know that he's ready for a serious relationship. You guys know I don't do the whole date for two months, have sex, and then bail thing" she says. Oh we know. Rose is always looking for a serious relationship. She may not look like the relationship kind of girl but that just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover.
"So what about you Bella?" Alice asks coyly.
"What?" I ask. I do not like where this is going.
"What did you think of Edward yesterday?"
"Umm I dunno" I say with a shrug. Please just drop the subject Alice. I plead in my head. Of course she's Alice so she doesn't.
"Oh come on he was pretty cute yesterday" she says. I shrug again.
"Oh really I didn't notice" Lie. I did so notice. I could barely form coherent thoughts the entire time we were swimming. Alice notices and calls me out.
"Liar" she points an accusing finger at me, "You're a horrible liar Bella Swan. Admit it. You like him." Rosalie looks at me with a grin on her face.
"You'd better tell the truth Bella. We'll know if you're lying." I groan. Do I like him? I mean sure he's hot but he's a jerk right? Ok so he hasn't been acting like a jerk recently but does that really mean I like him? ...Yes. Yes it does. I groan again this time in defeat.
"Yes!" Alice shouts, pumping a tiny fist in the air, "I knew it! I knew it!"
"Hey I knew it too!" Rosalie says, fake pouting.
"That's right you did," Alice says, "We knew it! We knew it!" Rose joins in Alice's little victory dance and they dance around the room shouting "We knew it! We knew it!" I just look at them. If anyone asks this is why I hate my friends.
We leave the hotel at about noon. New York is only a few hours' drive from where we are. I'm so excited! New York here we come! We get into our separate cars, girls and guys, and head off to New York.
As we get closer to New York we can see the statue of liberty really far off in the distance.
"Look!" Alice shouts, pointing to it.
"Wow..." We all breathe. It's amazing. Just being here with my best friends and my new friends is making this trip my favourite trip ever! We look around in awe struck silence, and then I get a text on my phone from the guys.
Wow isn't New York awesome!! We R so going out 2 a club tonight! Can U C the Statue of Liberty???
Emmett
Ya we can C it. And don't we have 2 B 21 to go 2 a club???
Bella
No, not always. What hotel R U guys staying at?
Emmett
"Alice? What hotel are we staying at?" I ask Alice as I look up from my cell.
"Umm... the Hilton. We have reservations starting today at 4PM until we leave."
"Thank you."
"Ask them what hotel they're staying at." Rose says. I nod.
We're staying at the Hilton. Where R U guys staying?
Bella
Us 2! Yay! C U there!!
Emmett
I smile. So Emmett.
"They're staying at the Hilton too" I tell my friends.
"Excellent!" Rose says.
"Yay!" shouts Alice, repeating Emmett's words. I laugh. It was going to be fun staying in the same hotel as the guys. And Edward, A little voice in my head said. I shook my head to clear away my thoughts. Even if I did like Edward there was no way he could like me back. I'm just plain old Bella. I'm not as beautiful as my two best friends even if they tell me otherwise all the time. I don't think I'm ugly or anything, I just think I'm normal, average. There's no way a guy like Edward could ever like me. He was like a God! We were just meant to stay friends, even if I wanted more.
We arrive at the Hilton and all I can do is gape. I've never even seen a hotel this fancy up close. I mean my family is not poor or anything we're just middle class. We can't really afford to stay at fancy places like this all the time and it's not like Forks had any Hiltons there. Rose and Alice act like it's just another hotel we found on the side of the road. Of course their families are slightly more "well-off" than mine is. I know they've been to a Hilton before. I guess being in New York though was still a big thing for them too so they gaped and stared the same as me. The other people there probably thought we were crazy.
"Can you believe this?! I can't believe we're finally here! This is so exciting!" Alice squeals in typical Alice fashion. Rose laughs.
"This is going to be so much fun." She says totally serious just smiling as she looks at our surroundings. I smile at my best friends. We just stand there in the parking lot looking around us in silence.
All of the sudden someone zaps me in the sides and yells Boo! I scream and whip around.
'What the hell?!?!" Everyone is laughing at me and Edward is standing behind me laughing and looking smug. I glare at him with all the anger I can muster.
"You are so dead" I say staring him down. He cowers in mock fear.
"Ooo I'm so scared" he says, waving his hands in front of his face pretending to be scared. My glare turns into a devious grin.
"Ooo you better watch out Edward. She may not look menacing but she's pretty devious that one. Clever too" Rose says with a smirk at Edward. His face takes on a more frightened look as I start to walk slowly towards him. He backs away slowly as well.
"Bella? You know it's just a joke right? Bella?" he says backing into the car. I reach into my purse and grab my water bottle. Ha Ha you are so gonna regret that Edward.
I hide it behind my back and open it with one hand so Edward can't see. I corner him against Alice's car and get up really close to him. I can feel the heat radiating off of him. Stay cool Bella. Don't blush. It's revenge you can't blush.
I get close so he can't see my arm reach up behind him. His eyes widen.
"Bella?" I grin. This is going to be sweat. I reach my other hand behind him and put my hands on the car so he can't escape. Our friends behind us can see what I'm doing and I can hear them trying not to laugh. I lift the water bottle over his head and lean in close.
"Gotchya" I say then I pour the water bottle over his head and jump back so I don't get wet. He jumps from the shock of the cold water getting poured all over him. I can hear Em, Rose, Alice and Jasper burst out laughing behind me. I run back to them and hide behind Emmett laughing.
"What was that for?" Edward asks seeming slightly annoyed.
"Revenge" I respond simply. Take that. While I'm laughing and hiding behind Emmett I can see Edward shaking his wet head like a dog. God he looks even hotter wet.
"You are so going down Isabella." He threatened.
"Bring it" I tease. I mean what's the worst that can happen.
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15 minutes later, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Alice, Rose and I walk into the hotel soaking wet. We're all laughing at each other as we bump into each other on purpose. Some of the hotel staff is watching us warily probably wondering if we're going to cause trouble and the other half is glaring at us for getting the floor all wet.
Here's what happened;
"You're so going down Isabella." He threatened.
"Bring it." He runs at me and I'm too slow getting away. He pins me up against another car and shouts,
"Jasper! Water bottle!" Jasper reaches into their car and grabs a full water bottle.
"Jasper!" I shout, "Traitor!" He shrugs, not looking remorseful in the slightest.
"Sorry" He passes Edward the water bottle and opens it.
"Rose! Alice! Help!" My two best friends leap into action and try to wrestle the water bottle away from Edward.
"Guys, grab them!" he says. Emmett and Jasper grab Alice and Rose and pin them up to the car next to me.
"Thanks for trying" I say. We try to wriggle out of the guys' grasps but they're too strong. They grin evilly as we try to escape.
"Guys!" Alice whines, "Let us go please!"
"Nope" Emmett says popping the "p" at the end.
"Ready?" Edward asks with a crooked smile.
"No!" we shout. Then Edward pours the water bottle on us! He runs it over all three of us at the same time and we shriek. They guys are laughing. Now Edward, Rose, Alice and I are soaking wet.
The guys let us go because they're laughing so hard. I look at my friends and we nod communicating in silence. They reach into their bags and grab their water bottles. The open then and dump them on Emmett and Jasper's heads.
"Ha!" They laugh. The guys are looking shocked. Then a full water fight breaks loose. In the end we run out of water and stand around in silence not really knowing what to do now. I look at my friends and then I look at myself. They do the same thing. At the same time we all burst out laughing. Alice and I grab onto each other for support and Rose leans on Emmett. Edward is leaning on his car and Jasper is leaning on Alice's. We all just laugh and laugh.
Eventually we grab our bags and head into the hotel soaking wet and laughing.
End of flashback.
We walk up to the front desk.
"Hello we booked a room for three? Under Cullen." The woman at the front desk looks flustered as she searches for their information. I would be too if I was surrounded by three really hot guys looking like they had been swimming in their clothes.
She finds their room key and gives it to them.
"Thank you" Edward says, always the gentleman. She looks like she's about to swoon. I roll my eyes and Rose and Alice giggle. We get our room keys too and find out the guys are only down the hall from us!
We girls head upstairs and change out of our wet clothes.
"God did you see that lady? She looked about to pass out!" Alice says with a laugh.
"She's probably telling all the other female workers about the 3 hot guys that just checked in right now" Rose says with a smirk. We laugh. Suddenly we get a knock on the door.
"It's probably the guys" I say.
"Who is it?" Alice sings. We snicker.
"It's us. Open the door" we can hear Emmett say.
"Us who?" Alice asks innocently.
"Oh don't play games with us now open the door or do we need to break in again?" he teases. Alice giggles and opens the door.
"Alright, alright come in if you must" she sighs theatrically.
"Thank you" he says plopping down on the bed.
"So do you guys wanna go out and get some food so we can go?" he asks.
"Go where?" I ask.
"Clubbing. Duh" he says like it's the most obvious thing in the world.
"Clubbing?" I ask, "I know you said we should go but come on we're only 18. We can't drink. Most clubs won't even let us in" I point out.
"She's right Emmett" Rose says, "And we've never even been to New York before. Where are we going to find a club that let's in minors?"
"You know most clubs do let in minors. They just make them wear those stupid bracelet things" Alice says.
"Exactly, "Emmett says, "So we're going clubbing. Now let's go out and get some food. I'm starving."
"Shocker" Jasper mutters. Emmett sticks out his tongue at him like a little child.
"Well now that we've established we're going clubbing we need to get ready" Alice says.
"But you just changed" Edward says confused. I roll my eyes. Here we go...
"Well now we're getting changed again. If we're going clubbing we need to look the part" Alice says. Rose nods faithfully.
"How long are you going to take? "Emmett whines.
"Oh only," she looks at her watch, "and hour or so."
"And hour!" Emmett exclaims.
"That is an awful long time Alice" Jasper points out.
"Well there are three of us and we need to get ready in one bathroom by the way. And Bella can barely dress herself and we need to do hair and makeup." Alice prattles on. Edward gives me a sympathetic look. I pout.
"In other words," I interrupt, "It's Barbie Bella time" I pout. Alice nods and smiles.
"Yes that's exactly it. Now you guys get out of here and don't bother us until an hour is up."
"Fine" Emmett grumbles, "One hour and then we go" he gets up and leaves. Jasper smiles, gives Alice a peck on the cheek and follows Emmett. Edward gives me another sympathetic look and mouths good luck to me before following his two friends. I pout. Alice and Rose turn and smile brightly at me. I take a step backwards.
"Guys don't get too excited. It's just a club" I say.
"Just a club?" Alice says, "This is your chance to impress Edward" Alice says.
"And our first clubbing experience in New York" Rose adds. I take another step back trying to get to the front door. Alice runs to the door before I can do anything and bolts the door. She grabs my hands and pulls them behind my back.
"Rose, grab the hair stuff and the makeup. Bella's going first."
Hello people of Fanfiction. I hope you liked this chapter. I'm sorry it took so long but I have alot of tihngs going on and someimtes I don't work on it alot. Any imput will be gladly welcomed. I'm starting work on the next chapter right now so I hope it won't take as long. xo
~Brie