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Now for the next morning, and did Bella think she could escape Alice without a fight?

Sept 6th

Bella Swan

I couldn't breathe.

No matter what I tried to do, the unknown crept further towards me.

I could hear his voice, booming above everything else; the screams, the moans, the pain.

I twisted away from his presence and felt something warm and comforting.

The heat wrapped itself around me, protecting me from my fears and making me feel safe.

"Bella…"

I tried to get closer to the heat. The cold blackness started to fade.

"Bella?"

I was being shaken softly, causing my eyes to pop open. At first I thought I had been smothered by fabric but then I realised that the fabric was warm, had a heartbeat and was breathing.

"Bella? Are you alright?" Edward voice came from above the fabric. I pulled away and realised that I had been pressed against his chest. He loosened his arms and let me move my face away.

My breathing had been erratic and my heartbeat was racing. After a few deep breaths, I finally spoke.

"I'm fine, just a bad dream."

Edward's eyes searched mine. He smiled when he found whatever he was looking for. He tightened his arms again and I happily pulled myself closer.

We lay silently together for a few minutes. I heard the door creak open but didn't move, feigning sleep. Someone moved across the room to the foot of the bed. Giggling came from whoever came in.

"Aw, so cute," Alice whispered. There was a click and a flash of a camera. Edward lifted his head.

"What do you want?" he asked, annoyed. The bottom of the bed sank slightly as Alice sat down.

I decided that pretending to be asleep was not a good idea with Alice around and sat up with difficulty considering Edward's strength.

"Good, you're up," Alice chirped. She was dressed in a hot pink, fluffy robe.

A banging noise came from down the hall.

"OW!" Emmett shouted.

Alice laughed. Edward looked at the door with a frown, "Doesn't it sound like he's in your room?"

Her face dropped. Right on cue, music erupted from her room.

It took too long, it took too long
It took too long for you to call back
And normally I would just forget that
Except for the fact it was my birthday
My stupid birthday

I played along, I played along
I played along, it rolled off my back
But obviously my armour was cracked
What kind of a boyfriend would forget that?
Who would forget that?

"EMMETT!" Alice shrieked, marching out of Edward's room.

Emmett had started attempting to sing the song, badly, and didn't know most of the lyrics, so he improvised.

I'm the type of guy who doesn't see
What I owned until it pees
Don't let Mom know
So cut the crap I know I'm lost
Find the dog or pay the cost
Soon Dad will know

It's not poopin' 'till it's poopin'
Poopin' with me

Edward slumped against the pillows, laughing hard. The sound of Alice running into her room could be heard through the closed door. After a few moments, screaming could be heard.

"But I need to listen to your music for Rosie."

"I don't care! You already stole one album and now you are sneaking into my room and murdering Aly & AJ?!"

"How can I murder them if I don't know them?"

Edward starting laughing harder. He turned himself onto his stomach and buried his head in the pillows, trying to muffle his laughter. I giggled at his hair. It was standing up on end and looked like some bronze hedgehog was clinging to his face.

He turned around to face me. "Welcome to Cullen Family Morning Wake-ups. Emmett is our star performer and Alice is lead screamer. Mom's the referee and Dad's the on-site doctor," he chuckled.

I laughed, "So what are you then?"

He shrugged, "Either the lead grouch or the musical supervisor."

"Lead grouch?" I asked.

"I'm the last one up everyday and the first to complain about either my lack of caffeine or my lack of sleep," he smiled, "And speaking of which, we should get up before Emmett devours the kitchen, or sets it on fire." He said the last part with such seriousness that I didn't doubt the possibility of that happening.

He pulled back the sheets and climbed out of the bed. I was a little reluctant to leave the comfort of the warm bed for the bedlam that now pursued the halls. My stomach growled loudly and with a sigh, I untangled the sheets and stood up.

A loud groan came from the closet. I walked over to see Edward standing in front of a mirror, pulling at his hair in vain.

"It's not going to behave if you keep pulling at it," I laughed. He looked at me exasperated and pulled a sweatshirt off the floor.

"It never behaves anyway, might as well try everything I can to control it," he muttered as he pulled on the sweatshirt.

I laughed. "Why do you want to control it? It goes really well with the whole 'Edward Cullen: Dazzling without effort'."

I slapped my hand over my mouth. Why the hell did I just say that?

Edward was silent. I risked a glance at him and noticed his smirk.

"'Dazzling'? And might I ask if I dazzle you?"

I pushed forward to the door, hoping to avoid answering his question.

Does he dazzle me? I wasn't too sure how to answer that myself. I mean, of course he is ridiculously handsome, and nice, and sweet, and… Oh crap, he does dazzle me. I mentally slapped myself for even bringing up the subject.

An arm flashed out in front of me and blocked my way to the door. Edward stood in front of me, crossing his arms across his chest.

"I'm not letting you go until you answer my question," he said, a large lopsided grin on his face.

I dropped my gaze after realising I was not going to win this fight.

"Occasionally," I mumbled, trying to push past him. He didn't budge.

"Is that an 'once a month' occasionally or a 'quite frequently' occasionally?" he asked, his voice now a bit softer and less smug.

I looked up at him and smirked. "I believe the rules you set up were that I had to answer your first question to pass. You never included a second question in those rules."

He nodded, his grin growing larger. "Good point."

He moved to let me pass. I walked briskly out of the door, heading for the stairs. I had barely gotten four feet when my legs were knocked from under me.

"Hey!"

Edward picked me up, ignoring my trashing, and started to carry my downstairs.

"What are you doing?!"

He chuckled. "I'll put you down… if you answer my second question."

"And if I chose not to?" I huffed.

His already too big smirk grew larger. "Then I carry you throughout the house and I know that the answer is more embarrassing than this," he gestured to me being in his arms.

I groaned and hid my face against his sweatshirt. If I did answer then he would know but if I didn't answer then he would know and get to carry me around.

"'Quite frequently'. Are you happy now?"

He stopped and gently placed me on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. I nearly ran into the kitchen to avoid another incident.

Esme was standing at the counter, pouring what looked to be pancake mixture into a frying pan.

"Hello, dear. Do you want some breakfast?"

I sat opposite Emmett at the table. "Yes please," I murmured weakly.

Emmett was wolfing eggs and bacon into his mouth but paused his fork once he heard me talking. The large pile of bacon and fried eggs hit the ground with a wet 'splat'.

"Emmett!" Esme scolded him.

He stared at me with an open mouth before finally speaking. "I thought you couldn't talk to anyone but Edward and Alice."

A bread roll was launched at Emmett's head from behind us. I looked over to see Edward glaring at Emmett.

Emmett continued to eat, rubbing crumbs off his forehead. "What?" he said though a monstrous mouthful of food, "I know that she can talk from the screaming she was doing earlier but we weren't expecting her to talk to any of us for a while."

He turned to me, "So does this mean you're a miracle person or something?"

Esme and Edward both jumped for the tray of bread rolls and chucked them at Emmett.

"Unbelievable, you'd think he was raised by dogs." Esme muttered.

"If you guys are finished throwing bread at my face, I have a double date. Me and Eggs with Bacon are going to watch the television." He got up from the table and slouched out of the room.

Esme placed a large plate of food in front of me and sighed. "At least he didn't cause any structural damage today, I'd hate for you to see what could happen when he's at his worst, dear."

I smiled at her in thanks and started to dig into the food. Edward sat beside me but was silent while we ate.

Alice came bouncing into the room when we were almost finished eating. She was fully dressed and had her hair and make-up done as well.

"Good, you're almost done. So what's the plan for today?"

"School. It's a Friday in case you've forgotten," Edward said.

Alice hopped onto a stool at the counter and spun to face us. "Since when has school ever stopped us from doing things? I seem to remember you driving out to Seattle last year to get some cd when it came out on a Tuesday."

"It was a class field trip, we went to his concert afterwards," Edward shot back.

"What class takes a field trip to a music store?"

"A music class. I have Mr Fega, remember?"

For once in her life, Alice Cullen was forced to stay quiet. Her ammo had been demolished and she had no other excuse.

"I'll make a deal with you," she chirped. "We take the day off. I get Bella for an hour to finish off last night's makeover and then you get her for the rest of the day."

"As tempting as that is I don't think Bella would appreciate being put through torture again."

I silently thanked Edward.

"Ah, but I didn't say what your bonus gift was," Alice was grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

Edward stared at her until she continued.

"Us gone for the whole day." She sat back and smiled as Edward thought about her offer.

He seriously did seem like he was contemplating it. "How are you going to get Emmett out of the house?"

"Easy," she smiled. "Hey Emmett? You want to go visit Rose at the car show in Port Angeles today?"

Loud thumping noises alerted us to Emmett's arrival.

"Give me ten minutes to get dressed."

He ran up the stairs and slammed his door. Alice laughed. I backed away from her approaching form, sending Edward pleading looks.

"Believe me," he muttered, "A day without them is worth an hour of torture."

I grudgingly surrendered to the pixie and was marched upstairs to my impending doom.

(A/N: Was going to leave it there but then decided to give you guys more. Now you better review this chapter because I wasn't even going to allow this to happen for another couple of chapters)

An hour of torture did not seem worth the deal made by Alice and Edward.

I was almost finished but had the worst part yet to come.

Alice had pushed me into her shower, styled my hair, applied make-up even though I didn't own a tube of lip-gloss, and now had me in her closet.

"No. I have my own clothes. I will not wear any of these."

Alice stomped her foot.

"Bella, you will wear these. Your own clothes are probably as baggy and non-flattering as Emmett's gym outfit."

I noticed that I had fifteen minutes left. I could argue with her for that long and escape her torture. I had already planned to run into the nearest bathroom once her torture time was up and wash the make-up off my face and pull my hair into a ponytail.

"Oh no, I know that you are planning to go and destroy my work but you won't be able to. You see, you are going downstairs with me before I leave and showing Edward how you could look if you spent more than five minutes on your look. We can do this in the robe," she gestured to the pink fluffy thing she made me wear, "or we could do this in these."

She handed me a blue wrap top and dark jeans, both of which still had tags on. How she had managed to guess my size was beyond me.

I grabbed them and went into the bathroom, knowing that I could never win a fight against Alice.

Thankfully the outfit wasn't as bad as some of the other things she had shown me earlier. This I could do, sequins and glitter; no way in hell.

I tried to avoid my face in the mirror and looked at the outfit. Surprisingly, it looked good on me.

I opened the door and faced Alice again. She beamed when she took in how I looked.

"Good, now come on."

I was led out of her room and into the sitting room downstairs. She chucked a pair of blue flats at me as we were walking down. I looked at the designer when we reached the bottom.

"Manolo Blahnik?"

Alice spun. "You don't know anything about Blahniks?"

I shook my head. The name sounded like a dessert.

Alice started hyperventilating. "You don't know about Manolo Blahniks?"

"Alice are you ready?" Thankfully Emmett's impatience interrupted Alice's shoe-fit. I had a strong feeling that a lesson in designers was in my near future.

She sent me a look to confirm my suspicions and walked into the sitting room. I put on the shoes and followed her in.

Edward and Emmett were sitting on the large L-shaped couch watching the results of last night's game. Emmett turned to greet us.

"Woah! Alice what did you do to Bella?"

Edward spun around and gaped when he seen me. I blushed and looked down. "I told you I looked stupid," I muttered to Alice.

She shrugged at Emmett and sent a glare to me. "You can put your eyes back in now Edward."

I glanced up to see Edward blushing and shaking his head as if to clear it. Emmett burst into laughter at Alice's comment. "She had you there little bro, your jaw was almost touching the carpet."

I sat down beside Edward, still avoiding looking at anyone.

"Well, come on Emmett."

Emmett jumped up and was out of the door in seconds, yelling a goodbye from the hall to the garage. Alice followed him after silently communicating with Edward. The two of them seemed to be telepathic, they both had a wordless conversation with each other.

Once Alice left, an awkward silence fell. I nervously started fidgeting with the tie on my top. Edward cleared his throat.

"You look nice," he said.

I inwardly groaned. "No I don't, I look stupid."

"You don't look stupid, you never look stupid."

I looked at him. "This is me we're talking about."

He stared me down. "Exactly, you never look stupid."

I slumped against the couch. "Well I feel stupid in this outfit."

Edward grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him.

"You don't look stupid in that outfit, you look beautiful. In fact you always look beautiful. Why do you doubt yourself so much?"

I shrugged. "I don't doubt myself, everything I think about myself is true."

Edward sighed. "What do you think about yourself Bella? Because from where I'm sitting I see a beautiful young woman whose smart, kind, loyal and funny. I could go on but the list may take up a few hours."

My blush crept back. Edward's hand brushed my cheek and I looked up to him. He was closer than before.

"You don't have to doubt yourself at all. You have no idea how jealous most of the girls at school were on your first day."

"Jealous? Of m-me?" I stuttered.

He nodded, brushing the hair that was covering my face behind my shoulder.

"But why would they be jealous of me?" I asked.

Something crossed Edward's face, his eyes had changed. I hadn't noticed it before but now I could see that they were darker.

"Because you're everything that they aren't. Most of them try so hard to fake beauty. You show up in a t-shirt and jeans and you're already ten times more beautiful," he joked.

I was beginning to feel strange. My stomach felt lighter and I had a sudden urge to lean closer to Edward. He was only less than a foot away but it felt too distant. Part of me screamed to reach over to him but my mind was still trying to understand what he was saying.

"Yeah the freaky new girl is beautiful," I joked, "Most of them can't stand to be around me."

Edward let out a frustrated sigh.

"Bella you have no idea. Do you know that you already have ten offers to the next dance lined up? Do you remember what I was telling you about Newton? Do you know that most of the guys in our class want to be with you?"

He sounded angry as he was talking. I frowned.

"Why are you so… upset about all of that?" I asked quietly.

Edward closed his eyes. He opened them again and forced me to look at him fully.

"Because I like you Bella."

He leaned towards me and closed his eyes. I froze, my body screaming in joy for what was about to happen…

A/N: Little cliffy there lol. Shorter chapter but I'm wrecked right now. I want to point out that this is unedited because I want to get it up as quick as possible.

Thanks to OnceACullenForeverAVampire (or whatever name you have now) for helping me with Emmett's lyrics.

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Firstly, I have to see your own work. I'm not giving this story to someone whose grammar and spelling are as bad, or worse, than mine. Also I have to see what you're capable of.

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Thirdly, you have to put up with my very weird writing schedule. Some days, I can have a full chapter written up in hours. Other days, I might have part of one written up and then finish it another day. Also I don't plan out future plot lines. I think of a broad idea and then go with whatever happens chapter by chapter.