A/N: One week! One freaking week! Don't worry, I'll try to update more this time around.
Now, it's time to see just how powerful Alice really is in shopping!
Have fun!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Twilight, Gossip Girl, and anything else, except for the plot.
Match Made In Hell
CHAPTER SIX: Spotted: Alice Cullen Buys A Houseful- of Clothes.
Alice's POV
"Yay!" I squealed as the delivery men finished unloading our stuff and drove away. "Girlie time!" I announced before speeding up the stairs to Bella's room, where most of the stuff were.
The two groaned before giving up and followed me. I pushed Bella onto her vanity chair, then starting sorting through the wonderful treasures we had just gotten today, searching for my new toy- a Christian Dior make-up set. "Bella Barbie!" I squealed again. Bella shot me a death glare and Rose plopped herself on the couch next to Bella, awaiting my instructions. They both looked at me with wondering eyes.
"Hmm," I thought it through. "The date's at La Bella, the Italian restaurant, so it's classy, but not too formal," I said. "Rose, sophisticated bun, with a few curls on each side." Rose nodded; she'd done that plenty of times back in the Upper East Side. I dug around again, finally emerging with a nice pearl clip, which Rose would use to decorate Bella's hair.
Bella sighed, then closed her eyes as I got to work with the make-up.
One hour later, her make-up and hair was done, so it was time to choose a dress…out of the dozens that we'd bought for her. I know, most people would usually pick a dress before make-up, but this way, the make-up would compliment Bella's face, and the dress would go with the make-up, and Bells. Which made sense…to me, at least.
We spend the next hour going through clothes, shoes, bags, and accessories, finally emerging with a nice long blue dress, (which I just happened to know was Edward's favorite color on Bella; don't ask how.) a pair of silver heels, a small blue clutch bag and Bella's grandmother's sapphire necklace and earrings. (pics on profile)
She looked stunning.
"Aww, Bella…"I cooed, stepping back to admire my handiwork. Rose nodded her approval, and Bella appraised herself in the mirror for the first time. I held my breath as I waited for her verdict.
Bella's POV
I couldn't breathe as I saw myself in the mirror. Was that really me? I actually looked…stunning. Not something you could usually say for me. I mean, I always knew I was beautiful since moving to New York, because honestly, what else could explain the throngs of guys who'd lined up at my front door, hoping to ask me out? But stunning…well, Alice was an un-stoppable force of nature.
"Alice, thank you thank you thank you!" I said, grinning. Her eyes popped wide open.
"Really?" She asked in bewilderment. "You like it?"
I nodded once. She squealed and almost ran forward to hug me, but stopped herself just in time to save my dress from an ironing session.
"Go change," Rose suggested. "Then we'll sort out all of this stuff, drop it off at our place, and spend the night in my place. Movie night?" We nodded; Rose's dad was a total movie fan, so he'd renovated the basement to become his own private cinema. It was really cool.
I went to change back into my jeans and top, throwing my hair into a messy ponytail, expecting nothing but a day of hauling clothes here and there.
My wardrobe would probably be half full by the end of today.
Rosalie's POV
I took a deep breath and plopped down on the floor along with Bella and Alice, exhausted.
"Damn, Alice," Bella said, impressed. "You really did buy a houseful this time." We giggled.
"Well," Alice said after the laughter had stopped. "I am Alice Cullen, shopaholic extraordinaire." She said with a fake air of importance. We giggled again.
Suddenly, all three of our cells rang, signaling a new message, at exactly the same second. We turned to look at each other- it would be the one and only Gossip Girl. But what would she have now? We hadn't done anything this afternoon…
"S and B," We gasped at the same time, scrambling for our phones. We were right.
There, on the screen of my hand-phone, was a picture of Serena and Dan kissing, and another of Georgina attempting to slap Serena, only to be stopped by Blair, who'd slapped her instead.
Looks like S and B have got themselves into another cat-fight, but not with each other this time. G definitely had this coming- no one messes with S and D without consequences.
We laughed at that part. Gossip Girl definitely had that right. But there was more: a picture of Georgina trying to seduce- of all the people in the UES- Chuck!
But then again, does the same go for B and C? Time will tell…or a picture from me.
You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Gossip Girl.
And that still wasn't all. There was another message. Great, I thought. We leave for one week and we miss all the drama. But I couldn't disagree with Gossip Girl- that bitch Georgina really did have it coming for her. She was just lucky we weren't there along with Blair.
Anyways, the next message.
Spotted:
Alice Cullen buying a houseful- of clothes. Could this have anything to do with the rumored royal reunion to take place at LA later this weekend? Or is BS really going on a date with our Mystery Greek God, who is reportedly Edward Cullen, brother to A? This is going to be juicy, and I'm going to tell you all about it.
You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Gossip Girl.
And there was a picture of Alice, next to the delivery truck, ordering the guys to move the stuff…the humongous pile of stuff.
Bella and I burst into laughter as Alice pouted.
"Okay, okay, everyone knows that I'm a shopaholic anyways." Alice said in her attempt to stop us. "But don't you think calling Serena triumphs over laughing at my shopaholic ways?" She said slyly.
We stopped laughing. I speed-dialed Serena and put her on loudspeaker. She picked up at the second ring and the girls crowded around me.
"S, what happened?" Bella asked, worried.
"Well…" Serena hesitated. "Dan and I are sorta…sorta…" She trailed off, reluctant.
"Oh, for God's sakes, just tell them already!" We heard Blair screech. Even Serena laughed at that, but she didn't continue her sentence, though we had a pretty good guess by now.
"You're back together…again." Alice said flatly. Serena sighed. Blair groaned.
"What does that make it? The third try? Or the fourth?" She wondered.
"Third," the four of us answered simultaneously.
"Girls," Serena said, "we'll talk about this later. But now, where should we meet up? It seems that everyone already knows where we're going, and I just know that Gossip Girl has sent a few informants to LA. And, how did she find out where we were going anyways?"
We shrugged at each other. "She is Gossip Girl, remember?" Bella said sarcastically. "She knows everything." And we resented it.
"When do you think this will end?" I wondered.
"After Yale?" Alice offered. We mumbled our agrees, because the other option would be too frustrating to bear, though it was a silent thought and fear in all of our minds- what if this would never end?
Edward's POV
I suddenly received a text message while playing the piano and the contents puzzled me.
Spotted:
Alice Cullen buying a houseful- of clothes. Could this have anything to do with the rumored royal reunion to take place at LA later this weekend? Or is BS really going on a date with our Mystery Greek God, who is reportedly Edward Cullen, brother to A? This is going to be juicy, and I'm going to tell you all about it.
You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Gossip Girl.
Who was this Gossip Girl? Why was my name there? I briefly recalled over-hearing Ali and Jazz's conversation last summer, the first time she came back.
She's just gotten a text message, and she's seemed upset. "I'm so sorry, Jazz." She'd apologized. Then she'd told Jasper all about a certain Gossip Girl, who kept track of everyone at the Upper East Side, especially her and the others of the 'royal' society there. Apparently, that Gossip Girl had spies here in Forks, and she'd found out about them, along with Em and Rose.
So now, I had to figure this out. I guessed that BS meant Bella Swan, but why not just put a B, like how A meant Alice? Then I remembered Alice telling us about her other two friends, Serena Van Der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf. Maybe the additional S was to avoid confusion with the other girl, Blair.
But onto the next mystery- how the hell had she found my number? And how did she find out about the date?
The front door opened and I knew instantly that Alice was back. How many other super hyper pixies would visit the Cullens? But what surprised me was the other two voices that I heard- Rosalie…and Bella, of course. Those three were joined at the hip.
"Edward?" Alice's voice floated up the stairs, into my piano room, as Esme called it. "I know you're home, so stop being a coward and come down here!" She demanded. I sighed and slowly walked down the stairs, knowing from past experience that Alice always got what she wanted, fight or no fight. And no fight was the easier option- you don't want to get Alice mad at you, trust me. You don't.
"Hi, Alice." I said, noticing that her hands, and Rose's and Bella's, as a matter of fact, were full with shopping bags. I would have offered to help, if I didn't know that she was very particular about who touched what. She wouldn't even let Jasper help her with her bags. Poor guy actually thought that she was going to dump him the first time she said 'no, thanks.'. It was hilarious.
"Rose, Bella." I said, nodding at them, not meeting Bella's eyes when she looked up.
"Edward," She mumbled.
"Hi, Edward. We're assuming that you received a text from a certain Gossip Girl, am I right?" Rose said. I nodded.
"Along with a picture that proves Alice's mighty power of shopping?" She grinned. I laughed in response.
The girls groaned. "What?" I asked, puzzled at their sudden behavior.
"That means that she's got his number and a positive ID." Bella stage-whispered to the others. Okay, this was really beginning to annoy me.
"What?!" I said again, but with more frustration.
"Gossip Girl knows who you are." Rose said through her teeth.
"Well," I said slowly. "That's unfortunate, but what's the big deal?"
"I'm sorry?" Alice said, confused. "Did I miss the part where you actually like having your every single move publically announced to the Upper East Siders? Because it wouldn't be a big deal at all if you did!" She said sarcastically, in a cold voice.
"Oh." I said finally getting it.
"Yeah- oh." Bella said. I looked at her in surprise. That was probably the only real comment she'd made to me so far, since her 'mysterious' run-away at Benji's.
"Anyways," Alice announced. "We,-" she took Bella's bags and gave half to Rose. "-are going up to keep my things. Bella, why don't you…talk to Edward? Oh, and show him Gossip Girl." She said.
Bella looked at Alice, looking very much like a deer caught in the headlights. Alice smirked, Rose grinned, and then they both went upstairs, leaving me and a very nervous Bella in a very awkward condition.
"So…umm," I said after a few minutes of silence. "Why don't you show me Gossip Girl?" Bella jumped, as if she had been day-dreaming, then nodded at lead the way to the laptop that we always kept on in the kitchen, for situations just like this one. She typed in a web address and waited for about five seconds before the page finished loading, then pushed the laptop in front of me. She stayed silent as I read through the page.
On top of the gossip, there was a banner, which stated:
Gossip Girl.
And who am I? Well, that's a secret I'll never tell. You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Gossip Girl.
I scrolled down a bit, and found a post from this morning…
"It seems that BShas snagged a guy just two days into her return. The million dollar question now is, who's Mr. Greek God, and what will S, BW, A and R have to say about this? You know you love me.
Xoxo,
Gossip Girl."
I re-read the passage once more, then noticed something else. Pictures. A whole lot of them, from the point where Bella stepped in Benji's, right until her speeding away. Now that was freaky- to know that someone had been spying on us the whole time.
I turned around and stared at Bella.
"Who the hell is she?" I questioned.
I'm done. See you soon.
Xoxo,
Nessie.