Yeah chapter 30! I'm amazed at how long this story has gotten and I still have so many more things I want to do before the shows over. This story has officially got a mind of its own and we're all just along for the ride. And, just a little note for everyone who yelled at me for getting rid of Jane. (I'm sorry) They all have to go home eventually! I didn't want to do it, but I have a very specific order that everyone needs to leave in until we get to see who wins in the end and I think many of you will be surprised at how I'm going to end this show. You'll just have to wait and see.

Chapter 30- The set up

Pov- Bella

"She really threw a thong at you?"

I nodded and smiled to myself as Edward's laughter filled his bed room. "Yes she did and I'm adding Jasper to the hit list, we should try to get him too."

"Our list's getting long, It'll be hard to hit them all at once."

"We just need to make sure we get Emmett, Alice, and Jake. Jasper and Leah will be bonus points."

"We can work with that."

We were still in our pajamas, trying to ignore the clock telling us it was almost six and we should be getting ready for breakfast. I tugged at his quilt and tucked my toes back under the blanket. He'd moved while he was laughing at me and pulled it off.

"Blanket hog."

He grabbed my good arm and pulled me closer to his side so we could share.

"Sorry."

I tucked myself into his side and rolled over so my back was to the clock. He kissed my forehead and glanced over my head.

"Do you think if I unplugged it, we could pretend we didn't know what time it was?" He asked in a whisper nodding to the clock.

I lifted myself up onto my elbows and sighed. "No, the others would just come looking for us. Alice and Rose are taking me back into town for some more shopping today and we have a taping after breakfast."

"I bet your looking forward to more Alice crazed shopping."

I shrugged. "It could be worse. I think Alice mentioned something about another club around here she wants to go see too so we all have to get new outfits."

Now he groaned. "How many clubs does this town have with in walking distance of the studio?"

"Probably quite a few, we are in Las Vegas after all. She'll probebly demand we go out after every ellimination."

He smirked over at me and I razed an eye brow in his direction.

"What?"

"Did Alice pick out your clothes again?"

I hit him with a pillow and rolled out of bed shivering at the loss of body heat. "Not yet, but I'm sure she will. I bet if you tell her what color you're going to wear she'll match us."

"I'll have to talk to her." He said following me over to the door.

Edward glanced out in the hall and made sure the cost was clear so I could scurry down to my room and get dressed. I pulled on a pair of loose jeans, a t-shirt, and pulled on a pair of ballet flats. Alice would make me change before we left anyway so it didn't matter what I wore.

I ran a brush through my hair and pulled it back into a pony tail away from my face. I walked down to breakfast and wasn't surprised to find most of the dancers already there eating. Edward had beaten me down as well and he was sitting at a table with Emmett, Tanya, Alice and Jasper already eating. To my displeasure Tanya and Emmett had taken the seats next to him so I would have to sit on the other side.

I grabbed a plate and slid into an open chair at the same table and said good morning.

"Morning Bella, you're running a little late today." Alice pointed out as she passed me the milk.

I kicked her from under the table and shrugged my shoulders. "I slept in a little today."

"Me too." Edward commented without looking up from his plate.

I blushed and turned my own attention to my food before anyone could see my red checks. Alice scooted to my side and I was distracted as she started talking about our plans for today.

"I got an outfit already picked out for you tonight Bella, inless we find somthing better in town. After we get our next styles Leo's going to meet us down by the bus."

"Are you going into town today?" Emmett asked, tuning into our conversation.

Alice nodded. "Rose and I are taking Bella shopping."

"I'm going in to, maybe we could go together."

Alice shook her head. "Nope, sorry Emmett no boys aloud on our shopping trips."

Emmett pouted. "Then I'll just have to make Eddie and Jasper go with me."

"I'll go too."

I scowled into my food as Tanya spoke up. Emmett nodded along. "Sure T that's a great idea, you can invite Victoria to come with us and the five of us could make a day out of it."

"Sounds like fun."

She smiled over at Edward and then turned her scowl on me. I matched her gaze not wanting to look away first. She was trying to make her territory in front of me and I was going to have to find a way to fight back without drawing to much attention.

I felt Alice kick me under the table and tore my gaze away from Tanya to look at her. She gave me a WTF look and I shook my head glancing around the table to make sure no one else had seen my stair off with Tanya. They hadn't noticed. Emmett was talking about the different places they could go and Tanya was talking about a restaurant she wanted to go to for lunch.

I cleared away my plate and walked with the other dancers down to the auditorium so the show could film us picking week three's dance styles. Edward and I lined up with the other pairs on stage and I purposely kept between him and Tanya. I was going to enjoy messing with her if she didn't back off real fast.

Cat came out on stage and we got a cue from the cameras to start filming. One by one the groups moved forward and the girls got to pull a style out of the magic hat of doom. Angela and Erik pulled Argentine Tango, then to their displeasure Jasper and Victoria pulled Disco. Nether group looked overly thrilled but it could have been worse.

Heidi and Jake got the short end of the stick when they pulled the dreaded Quick Step and then it was my turn to go. Edward and I stepped towards Cat and I reached into the hat hopping for something nice. My fingers closed around a card and I pulled it out opening it up towards the camera without looking at it first.

"Rumba"

I took a deep breath, oh thank you. I'd done Rumba a few times before and it was a ballroom style dance so I was sure Edward had too. Edward smiled at the card and we stepped back so the rest of the dancers could draw their styles.

Edward leaned down so his lips were near my ear. "I was hopping for a Samba."

I shook my head and leaned back so he could hear me but it wouldn't look to obvious to the camera that I was talking. "It's close."

He shook his head. "Not really."

"You'll have to take another rain check." I teased.

"I'll get that Samba out of you eventually." He promised.

"Maybe next week your luck will improve?"

He nodded. "Maybe."

Once all of the couples had drawn their cards cat said good bye to the cameras and told us the bus would be leaving in a half hour for anyone interested in going into town again.

"Bella come on. Let's go get you changed."

Alice grabbed my hand and I waved good bye to Edward as she pulled me down the stage and off to the stairs. Once we were in the stair loft she released me and we walked in silence up the stairs. Alice waited while I unlocked my door and then started digging through my clothes.

"So what was with you and Tanya at breakfast?" She asked passing me a different pair of jeans. As far as I could tell they were identical to the ones I already had on but I changed without arguing.

"It's nothing."

"If that death look was your definition of nothing, I'd hate to get on your bad side."

"She started it." I snapped defensively before I could realize that she hadn't pressed me for more information.

Alice picked out one of the shirts I had gotten from her store last week and passed it to me along with a necklace I couldn't remember getting. "And just what did she start exactly? You two looked like you wanted to tear each others throats out."

I tossed my first shirt into my pile of dirty cloths and clipped the necklace around my neck. "She's just trying to get a rise out of me, and I hate myself for admitting it, but its working really well."

"Start at the beginning and tell me what's going on." Alice instructed while I pulled on the new shirt.

So I did, I told Alice about the odd looks Tanya had been throwing me and the way she always got in-between Edward and I no matter what we were doing.

"-I never really thought about it until last night, but she's been kind of cold to me all week. I don't think I've done anything to offend her, but she just keeps pushing my buttons." I shrugged. "I don't know Alice maybe I'm reading way too much into this."

The more I talked out loud about the way Tanya had been behaving, the less likely it seemed that she was doing it on purpose. I was pretty sure I hadn't imagined the evil smirks and dark glares, but I really hadn't done anything out right to offend her. Why would she act like that?

"She's trying to mark her territory Bella. I noticed that she never talks to you, but I didn't think she'd get this upset. I didn't think she and Edward had any kind of relationship."

"They don't." I said as Alice ran a brush through my hair. "I talked to Edward about her last week. They've been friends for a while and they dance together all the time, but they've never dated or anything like that."

Alice nodded to herself and fluffed up my hair.

"It sounds to me like Tanya's jealous of how much attention Edward's giving you. You guys do spend every minute together."

I shrugged unashamed. "I like spending time with Edward."

"I noticed." She said with a smirk. "That's why the boys aren't aloud to come with us on our girls only shopping trips."

"And now Tanya's going with Edward and she's going to be hanging on him all day." I growled at my reflection as I ran eye liner around my eyes.

Alice thought about that for a while. "I'll just have to make sure you look extra hot tonight. I'm assuming Edward will be your escort tonight at the club?"

I nodded. Alice dismissed herself to go to her room and I agreed to meet her down in the lobby.

"Tell Rose I'll be down in a minute." Alice said letting her bed room door swing shut behind her.

I nodded to the empty room and let myself into the stair well. I was humming to myself as I climbed down the stairs and jumped as Tanya came around the corner. I hadn't heard her coming up.

"Sorry about that." I said trying to stay polite as I moved to the other side of the stairs and tried to walk past her.

"No Bella wait, I was just coming to find you actually."

I stopped mid step and turned back to face Tanya. She had a frown on her face and she looked over my new outfit.

"You changed." She commented.

I nodded. "Blame Alice, what is it you wanted to talk about?"

"As if you didn't already know." She said with a frown glancing up and down the stairs. We were all alone. I said nothing, waiting for her to speak first.

"I was coming to talk to you about Edward."

"What about Edward?" I asked trying to keep from scowling at her.

"I want you to stay away from him." She said turning to face my fully and moving down to the same step I was standing on. I was disappointed to learn that she was taller then I was, probably closer to 5'7 were as I was only 5'4. Score one point for Tanya.

Now I frowned, no longer trying to keep my face from showing my distaste at the turn this conversation was taking. I wasn't about to let Tanya push me around. I leaned against the wall behind me, going for a look of easy confidence since I wouldn't be able to intimidate her, and crossed my arms over my chest. "He's my partner. It's kind of hard to avoid the person I'm dancing with."

Her scowl deepened, it was clear to me that she did not like me in the least and I was quickly losing any points I had left with her. Was it wrong that I was enjoying, making her look bad?

"That's not what I ment and you know it. Edward's way out of your league Bella," She took a step closer to me and I stayed still, not giving an inch to her offences move. "Edward comes from a good family, he's going to go places in life and I intend to go with him. I know him better then you do and I know his family. You don't stand a chance against me and it will be easier on you later if you just stay out of my way."

"I've meet Esme and Carlisle already. They seem like wonderful people." I said standing up straighter so we were almost touching. She wouldn't back off and I refused to step back.

"You know nothing about them. Carlisle has big plans for Edward after this show and you better not mess it up for him."

She turned on her toes and climbed up the stairs, leaving me alone. I glared after her biting back the smart remark that would only get me in more trouble. I could probably take Tanya in a fist fight but I had a feeling she would fight dirty. She'd just dropped the gauntlet at my feet, figuratively speaking of course, and I planed to pick it up and slap her with it.

I made my way down to the lobby and found Rose waiting with Leah near the doors. The bus with our giant picture on it was waiting outside at the curb.

"Hey Leah, you coming with us?"

She nodded, her long hair pulled into a braid behind her head. "Rosalie invited me. I hope that's ok."

"Of course it is Leah your always welcome. Alice should be down in a second."

"Let's get on the bus." Rose said pushing the door open.

Leah and I followed her onto the bus and we found Leo waiting for us in the front.

"Good morning Ladies, where's Alice?"

"Right here."

Alice danced onto the bus and slid into the seat next to me. She'd changed her clothes and redone her make-up.

"Alice how did you-"

She held up a finger to silence me. "I'm a professional Bella."

I rolled my eyes at her. "That explains everything."

The bus dropped us of in the middle of a giant shopping center and I watched as Edward walked away with Emmett, Tanya and the rest of their group. Tanya had her arm hooked through his again and if Alice hadn't called me and distracted me I probably would have followed after them.

We stopped at a few stores I'd never heard of before and it turned out Leah liked cloths about as much as Rose did. She and the others tried on different outfits and walked a fake runway so we could approve or disown each one. Alice demanded that we go back to Brandon's before we left so she could do our club shopping and after some arguing the rest of us gave in.

We stopped at a salon where a woman talked Leah into getting her hair done up in cornrows while the rest of us got our nails done. After fighting off one woman, who wanted to give him a facial scrub, Leo flattened himself in a corner and tried to blend into his chair so no one would talk to him.

"What do you think?" Leah spun in front of us so we could see her hair. The woman who had braided it was amazing, she looked fantastic. The braids stopped at the bottom of her skull so the rest of her hair could hang free around her shoulders.

"Very hot." Rose commented.

Leah smiled as us through the mirror she was looking in and fluffed the free ends of the braids. "I like it, I might have to get it done like this more often."

"What else do we need?" Rose asked as she looked over a map of the stores layout.

"I think we have everything." I said hoping that this would finally be the end of our shopping trip.

Leo chuckled at us. "If you keep going their will be nothing left."

"Amen." I said.

Alice nodded. "If were done here then the only place we need to go is back to Brandon's."

Leo walked along a few steps behind us as we followed Alice down the street to Brandon's.

"Your family really owns Brandon's?" Leah asked as we walked through the doors.

Alice nodded. "Yep, my mom and aunt started the first clothing line almost seven years ago and it's just kind of grown from there."

An hour later Alice had Leah in a dark green dress and Rose in a deep blue top with black jeans.

"How many people are coming with us?" Leah asked as she and Alice looked over the dresses they had picked out for me to try on.

"Eight, Angela and Ben don't want to come with tonight and Jane's not here." Alice paused thoughtfully and glanced over at me. "We should invite Tanya to come along."

"And why would we do that?" I asked trying not to let the distain seep into my voice. Apparently it didn't work to well because Leah and Rose both raised there eye brows at me.

"You don't like her?" Rose asked.

I shook my head. "I've got nothing against her. She's the one who doesn't like me."

"Let me tell the story Bella, you try this one on." Alice passed me a knee length, bright orange dress and I slipped into a free changing room while she filled Rose and Leah in on my little power struggle with Tanya.

When I came out of the dressing room Leah was laughing and it took me a moment to realize she wasn't laughing at the dress. Orange was not my color.

"She's that jealous of Bella, oh you've got to mess with her."

I nodded and spun around so everyone could see the dress. It was unanimously rejected and I slipped back into the changing room to take it off.

"And you don't even know the best part." I said struggling to unzip the dress by myself. "She threatened me in the stair well on my way down this morning."

"What did she say?" Rose asked, her voice kind of muffled by the changing room door.

"She told me to stay away from Edward and that it would be better for me if I stayed out of her way."

Leah laughed some more and the others had gone quiet.

"Do you think she stands any chance with him?" Rose asked honestly.

I shook my head before remembering that they couldn't see me.

"No" He's my boyfriend already, but I couldn't tell them that.

"Are you sure?" Rose pressed. "They have been friends along time. Has Edward noticed your little fight, does he encourage Tanya's behavior?"

I thought about that for a while. Edward had never pushed Tanya away, but she was his friend, he wouldn't treat her like that. I was pretty sure he hadn't noticed our little fight last night but that would be out of character for him. He generally seemed to know what was going on around him. He'd said the only person he ever had trouble reading was me.

"I'm pretty sure he has no interest in her, but I don't know if he saw our little fight."

"Innless Edward openly tells her that I don't think she'll stop harassing you."

"He already chose." I said to quickly, before I could bite the words back.

I came out of the dressing room and grabbed the next dress.

"Bella you're not telling us the whole story, are you?" Alice guessed.

I quickly closed myself back in the dressing room. I knew I could trust them not to tell if I asked them to, but did I really want word of my relationship getting around the house. Maybe the others would see it as us teaming up together. Would it affect my relationship with the others in the house? No, I wouldn't tell them yet. Now I just had to find a way to back track, or get them to think I ment something different. But, what would work?

"Edward told me once that Tanya had made a move on him, but he shot her down."

"Then she's in sp major denial." Leah said and I could tell she was enjoying this conversation far more then I was. "I say we invite her with tonight then we do something to drive her crazy."

"Like what?" Alice asked.

I came out of the dressing room and Rose helped me finish zipping up the back of the dress so everyone could see it. Alice nodded when I spun around in front of the mirror.

"That's the one Bella."

I nodded along. Pink wasn't a color I generally leaned towards but I really liked this dress. It was strapless and stopped halfway down my thighs. The top was tight and hugged what curves I had and the bottom swished when I walked. The layers of dark and light fabric shimmered in the light.

Leah chuckled to herself. "That dress gives me a perfect idea for what we can do tonight. Have you guys ever seen The Pink Panther movie?"

"Why?" I asked nervously.

"Because I just had a really cheesy idea and if it works, which we know it will, because it's obvious Edward likes you, will drive Tanya crazy."

"And what's this idea?" Rose asked.

"We need to go back to the studio."

An hour later we had gone back to the studio, eaten a quick lunch, changed into some practice clothes, and locked ourselves in one of the smaller studios on the fifth floor. Leah had her I-pod plugged into the sound system and was letting us listen to her idea.

"That's brilliant." Alice said with a smile.

Rose rolled her eyes. "No that's ridiculous."

"You know you want to." Leah said pausing the song.

"Is that song really from the pink panther?" I asked, I'd only seen the movie once and I couldn't remember it.

Leah nodded. "Yep, you should watch the music video sometime, I've never seen so much pink in my entire life."

"And how will this upset Tanya?" Rose asked.

"We'll get Bella to dance to it." Alice said. "Edward's crazy about her, if she flirted with him while she was dancing to this song he'd probably drool on her."

Rose nodded. "It has potential, I'll admit that."

"We should all dance to it, will just stick Bella in the middle. Alice how formal is this club we're going to?" Leah asked setting the song up to run again

"Not that formal, we could probably get the DJ to play this song if we asked him to."

"Perfect, we could do it dance circle style, get right in the middle of the dance floor and bust a move."

We spent the next two hours working on some lose choreography for tonight. Leah's strong background in hip-hop shone as she directed the rest of us. We all added moves and left a lot of places for freestyle dancing.

As our song came to an end again we all sat down to catch our breath.

"I haven't done anything like this since college." Leah said pulling her hair back into a pony tail.

"What about our group dance during Vegas week?" I asked.

She shook her head. "That was different, it was for a competition. This is for a club we're going to tonight so you can attract a boy and piss off his want-a-be girlfriend. I was part of a stomp group, in my sorority, back in school and we use to do things like this at campus dances all the time."

"I bet that was fun." Alice said.

Leah smiled. "It was always kind of a competition between us and our brother fraternity. It was a lot of fun."

"How old are you Leah, I would have guessed you were still in college." Alice asked passing a water bottle around.

Leah nodded. "I turn twenty three in July. I'm taking a semester off so I can do the show. I'm majoring in dance anyway so my teachers all thought it was a great idea."

"Let's get back to work."

I pushed myself to my feet and Leah hit the stereo to start it up again. We worked for another half hour before Alice stopped in the middle of a run and ground.

"I can't do that move Leah."

Leah stopped and glanced back at Alice.

"Which one?"

Alice sunk into her heels and shook her butt in a perfect imitation of the move Leah had just been showing her.

"You just did it." Leah pointed out.

Alice shook her head. "You have to have an ass to do that move. I don't have an ass."

Rose and I started laughing and Leah rolled her eyes.

"What are you talking about?"

Alice stuck her butt out. "I'm short, I have tiny curves. You three actually have something to shake. I look ridicules trying to do that move."

"You look fine Alice. "Rose commented and I nodded along.

Alice rolled her eyes. "Easy for you to say, you actually have a butt."

Rose glanced back at her butt and shrugged her shoulders. "What can I say? I'm just gifted like that." We all laughed and Leah set the music up to run again.

"You'll be fine Alice, having less butt just means you need to use more attitude."

"I think I can work with that." Alice said as she fell back into her place. For not being a hip-hop dancer Alice was getting really good.

We worked a short while longer and then broke off so we could all shower before dinner. I brushed out my wet hair and pilled it up on top of my head so it wouldn't drip allover my clothes. I pulled on a pair of lose sweat pants and a tank-top before heading down to the lounge.

I found Edward on the stairs and he looked like he'd had a long day.

"I was just coming to look for you." He said wrapping his arms around my waist.

"Why's that?"

He pulled me closer and stuck his head in my neck. "Emmett and Tanya together are a lot to deal with on an all day adventure. I missed you."

I ran my fingers through his hair and kissed the top of his head. "I missed you to."

"I got some things for our revenge plan while we were in town."

I opened my mouth to speak but he cut me off.

"Don't worry I made sure no one saw what I was getting."

"Did you find a place to store it?"

He nodded. "I'll show you later

The door to the seventh floor opened above us and shut with a bang that echoed around the stair well. Edward pulled back slowly and kept his hand in mine as we headed down stairs.

"Are you ready for tonight?" He asked.

I nodded. "Yep, Alice picked out a dress for me to wear in town today."

He smirked. "I know, she brought me a shirt to wear so we match."

"Really?"

He nodded. "Yep and I'm guessing from the color of my shirt that your dress is pink."

"Yep."

We walked into the lounge and got plates of food. We slipped into empty seats at a table were Alice, Jasper and Emmett were sitting. A few minutes later Rose, Jake and Tanya all joined us to.

"Where's Leah, I thought she was with you girls?" Emmett asked.

"She should be coming." Rose said, passing a pitcher of water around the table. "She was trying to dry her hair off a little bit."

"Is it true that you guys spent the day working in one of the studios?" Tanya asked glancing at first Rosalie and at me.

"Yeah, once we got back from shopping. We were just messing with some songs on Leah's I-pod."

"Today's supposed to be our cool down day?" Emmett pointed out. "You'll wear yourselves out if you keep working that hard."

I shrugged. "We weren't working that hard. It was just for fun."

"Holy cow, check it out." I glanced to my left and saw Jake starring over my shoulder towards the door. Most of the table had gone quiet and someone at another table let out a low whistle. I turned in my seat and look over at the door and see what everyone was looking at. Leah was wearing clean practice clothes, her newly braded hair hanging wet around her shoulders.

She smiled at the attention and fluffed the ends of her hair. "You guys like it?" She asked with a flirty wink. James cracked a joke about her trying to look ghetto and she flipped him off while the rest of the room laughed. She grabbed some food and sat down at our table.

"It looks great Leah." Jake commented and Emmett nodded along.

"Yeah, when'd you get it done?"

"We stopped at a salon today. I've never had my hair braided like this before."

"I've had my hair done like that a few times but I thought it looked funny." Jake said, while I chuckled at the memory of the last time I'd seen him with his hair like that. He'd been about nine years old and the woman who did the braids made them crooked so it didn't look very good.

We ate dinner and told stories about our trips into town. Alice made sure everyone knew when to meet down stairs and pestered Tanya until she agreed to come with us. Tanya shied and nodded.

"Ok I'll come with, if you really want me to." She elbowed Edward playfully. "Emmett and I can try to teach you how to club dance again." She glanced over at me. "I've taken him out dancing probebly a hundred times and he still isn't very good at it."

"Actualy, I don't think he needs us anymore T." Emmett said with a smile in my direction. "Bella had him on the dance floor the last time we went out and he looked like a natural, it was… odd. She unlocked his inner beast."

I smiled at Tanya as she scowled at me again, loving the irritated look on her face. Score one point for Bella.

~Darkrose
So this chapter got way longer then I expected it to, so I'm cutting it in half. I'll get the next scene up as soon as possible I has two papers due this week so my writing time is going to be split, plus I need to put the finishing touches on "Operation Switzerland!"

I'm also toying with the idea of having the top ten do a tour after the show like they do in real life. It would only add a few chapters since I wouldn't write every show they do in every town, but let me know if that would be something you would want to read.