Changing for the Better

Frightening Little Monster

12/27/09

Rated T

EPOV

I was begging to regret the decision of canceling the flights. It was going to take us approximately nine to ten hours to drive from Rochester to Chicago. That meant nine to ten hours in the car with my family and Bella. Normally this wouldn't be a bad thing, but today it seemed to be a very bad thing. Mostly everyone except Bella and myself were pissed off because I had canceled our flights. They were all sitting in the back of the car pouting and shoot death glares at Isabella and I who were at the front of the car.

"Really guys, cut it out." Bella tried to plead with them. "It's not my fault we are driving instead of flying, it's Edwards!"

Wow, way to through me under the bus Bella, I though to myself. I turned to her with a questioning look. "Oh sorry." She muttered.

"Really Bella, because I think it is. If you would have just told him that you would have preferred to fly then we would be up in the air, sailing through the skies right about now!" Alice started to scream.

I braced myself for her to explode on Bella. I was really considering stopping the car and getting out to smack her, but I then remembered that I didn't hit women. Darn.

"But no. You had to condemn me to being stuck in the car with Emmett who won't shut the hell up with his jokes, Rose who is taking up all the room, and Jasper who is pushing me further and further to wanting to punch the shit out of him! What the hell, Bella? What the hell?" Alice fumed.

"Alice, enough. You are being ridiculous. Now stop." I demanded.

"That's it, I hate you all, there I said it. I hate you all. Every single last one of you." Alice yelled.

"I think she's finally cracked." Emmett said under his breath.

"That's it!" Alice shrieked before diving into the very back seat where Emmett was.

I glanced behind me and caught glimpses of Alice smacking and punching Emmett.

"Do something Jasper, control your lunatic of a wife!" Rosalie cried, hitting Jasper in the arm.

"Alice, baby, stop! Stop it, no, let go of his throat! If you bite him, your going to regret it!" Jasper frantically wailed trying to sooth his wife.

This was getting out of hand. Up ahead there was a pull-off. I pulled over to the side of the road and unbuckled my seat-belt. Bella's hand shot out to grab my arm.

"What are you doing?" Bella asked me with a worried expression.

"I'm going to put a stop to this nonsense." I simply replied. Bella reluctantly let go of my arm and nodded. I looked back to see that Alice was still punching Emmett and Jasper and Rosalie were still not helping anything.

I slammed my door and proceeded to march to the side of the car where I attempted to open the door. It was locked. I made my way back to the driver's-side door and tried to open it. It was locked too. I tapped on the window trying to get Bella's attention so that she could unlock the door for me. She looked over, good, I had her attention.

"Unlock the door." I mouthed through the glass.

Bella looked confused, great. I tried again. "Unlock the door." I mouthed. Bella just gave me a confused look and turned her attention to the back of the car trying to calm my family down. I started tapping, well more like banging on the window.

"Open the damn door! For the love of all things holy!" I yelled. Finally Bella understood and hit the 'un-lock' button. Finally. I opened the door of the car and grabbed Alice from behind. Slinging her over my shoulder, I closed the door behind me. I walked about fifty yards away from the car and sat her down.

Emmett then popped his head out of the car window and preceded to yell, "Dammit Edward, take her back to the looney-bin!" Alice tried to slip away to go after him, but I held her back.

"Alice enough." She stopped squirming and fell limp in my arms. I held her up straight and looked her square in the face.

"What is up with you, Alice? I have never seen you like this. Whats wrong." I asked quietly.

"Our stupid family, that would be whats wrong!" She hissed.

"Alice, just calm down. What really has you so wound-up?" I tried to ask her as gently as possible.

"I just really get annoyed with people very easily, that's all. Normally I wouldn't mind driving with you and the others, but this time I would have much rather of flown. That way I would have had to spent less time with people like Emmett who can't even tie their shoes they are so idiotic. I swear if I hear one more joke about me once being a mental patient I might just kill him." Alice seethed.

"Well I'm sorry Alice, but your just going to have to ignore him because we have a long drive ahead of us and I can't be worried and distracted by you two fighting, understood?" I said to her as she scuffed her tiny feet against the pavement.

"But if you force me back in there I'm gonna die Edward, do you understand me? DIE!" She whimpered.

"Oh Alice, quit being so melodramatic," I sighed.

"Fine, but next time we fly, okay?" Alice asked hopefully.

I smiled down at my baby sisters hopeful and cheery face. "Yes, next time we can fly." I agreed.

"First class, right? Because I don't do coach." She explained. I just had to laugh at how childlike she was being. "Yes, Alice. First class all the way." I promised. "Oh goodie!" She exclaimed. She wrapped her tiny arms around my torso and kissed me on the cheek.

"I promise to be good now, Eddie. I'm sorry I cracked. I don't know what happened to me..." She apologized.

I watched with hands on my hips in disbelief as Alice twirled and skipped back towards the car. I couldn't help but chuckle. She was a mastermind at getting what she wanted. All she ever had to do was bat her tiny lashes and stamp her petite feet to get whatever her little heart desired.

I made my way back to the car and climbed back into the driver seat. I met Bella's eyes. She seemed astonished. "Wow, that was impressive. Do you realize Alice just came back and kissed and hugged Emmett, just like nothing had ever happened. Are you a wizard?"

"Sure, you caught me, I'm a wizard. Great guess." I teased her playfully.

She leaned over from her seat and planted a kiss on my mouth, then she sat back and smiled. "What is it with women randomly kissing me today?" I asked, laughing. The smile immediately fell from Bella's face. "I better be the only woman who kisses you mister, do I make myself clear?" She asked in a serious tone.

"Crystal." Then I leaned in to kiss her. Her lips were smooth and tasted like her grape chap-stick.

"Um are you two gonna spend the whole time making-out up there or are we gonna continue on this little family-bonding road trip?" Emmett annoyingly hounded us from the back seat.

I groaned and leaned back from Bella. I put the key in the ignition. I pulled the car onto the interstate and continued down the road.

"Are we there yet?" Alice asked hopefully from the back seat.

Everyone laughed, this was going to be a long nine to ten hours.

About nine and a half hours later. . . . . .

EPOV

It was about twelve at night when we entered the city of Chicago. I entered the urban traffic and woke up Bella who was asleep next to me. "Look love, it's Chicago!" Bella's eyes slowly opened. She quickly pressed her face up against the window and stared into the bright lights of the city.

"What do you think of it Bella? It's pretty grand, isn't it?" Alice asked giggling, seeing Bella's expression.

"It's beautiful, actually, I think I just had my breathe taken away." Bella said in awe. I knew there was a reason why I truly loved this woman.

"Yeah, it's pretty sweet." Emmett agreed.

I chose to drive the scenic route to the hotel we would be staying at. I had been to Chicago enough times since becoming a Cullen to know my way around the city pretty well. I drove through to lighted avenues pointing out different places to Bella.

I finally pulled into one of Chicago's most well-know hotels, The Peninsula Chicago.

I took a peak over at Bella's face. She looked speechless. "The Peninsula Chicago, for real? Are you serious? This is amazing." Bella breathed in awe.

Rosalie and Alice bounced in the back with happiness. I had not only picked this hotel to impress Bella, but also because it was also a personal favorite of my families, especially my sisters. So whatever made them happy made me happy.

"You did good, Edward." Alice congratulated me. "Yes Edward, very good." Rosalie added with a smirk.

The valet tapped on my window. "Time to go." I announced. We unloaded from the car as the valet parked the car and grabbed the luggage to take up to our suite. I stepped into the retro-fusion, stunning lobby and went to check in.

"Can I help you?" A young lady in a low-cut blouse asked me.

"I have three reservations ma'am." I responded.

The lady eyed me up and down. "Three?" She questioned.

"Yes, all under the name of Cullen. I should have three suites, two Grand suits and then I also reserved the Peninsula Suite." I smoothy said.

For a moment the woman's mouth actually fell open. The thoughts going through her mind explained why.

Whoa, this guy must be loaded! The Peninsula is the most expensive suite here, not to mention reserving two grand suites as well... Hmm, I might have to get to know this Mr. Cullen a little bit better....

This woman's thoughts were making me sick. How dare she! Maybe I would play with her just a bit.

"Excuse me ma'am, but could you please hurry up on getting those rooms for me, my girlfriend here is tired." I casually said while snaking my arm around Bella's waist. That didn't seem to stop her vile thoughts.

Wait! Did he just say his girlfriend? Oh my gawd, I am so much prettier then her! Hmm, I might have to pay a little visit to his room tonight, to deliver some sort of gift basket like chocolate or something... yeah, that's what I'll do.

I shot her a nasty glance. She quickly looked away and retrieved our keys for us.

"Thank you, oh and by the way, please don't let anybody disturb us tonight. We will be busy doing things and don't want anybody bothering us. Oh and we both hate chocolate, just to let you know." I said with a wink as I pulled Bella away from the front desk with me and back over to my waiting family in the lobby.

"Wait, please tell me that you got us all separate rooms, Rose and I, well uh, we have things to do and it would be best if our whole family wasn't around." Emmett candidly explained.

"Ugh, say no more. I got you two a grand suite, same with you and Alice, Jasper. I hope you don't mind but I reserved the Peninsula Suite for Bella and myself. After all, it's her first time in the city, I want her to have the best experience possible." I said.

"Please, she isn't ever get the best experience possible in that suite if shes with you, Eddie."Emmett mocked.

I wanted to punch the man. I swallowed my pride though and handed them all the room keys and headed towards the elevators. We stepped inside and I watched as my siblings punched the numbers of their floors into the elevator keys. Floor after floor we waited as people stepped on and off until at last it was just Bella and I.

"Go ahead, press it." I smiled at her. I could see she was bursting to press the penthouse button. I had just asked her but within half a second she had already punched the small golden button. We waited a few minutes and then a soft dinging sound signaled us that we had reached our destination.

We both stepped off the elevator and walked down the small hallway where our room was located. Once we reached the door I pulled out our room card and with a fluid, smooth movement, I swiped the card through the scanner and had the door open.

I heard Bella gasp. We entered the room and I could tell that my girlfriend was in a state of disbelief. The luggage was there waiting for us and I picked it up to carry into the bedroom as Bella wondered throughout the suite looking at all the wonderful things it had to offer.

As I was unpacking the suitcase, Bella walked into the bedroom. "Edward, this hotel room is the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen!" She exclaimed.

I chuckled, "We Cullen's like to do things first class." I smirked. Bella smirked back. I leaned in to kiss her, but right as we were about to make contact, Bella let out a huge yawn. "Come on, sleeping beauty, time for bed."

Bella changed and climbed into the bed. She snuggled her body up against mine. I thought she was asleep when leaned over to flip the light off on the night stand.

"Edward?" Bella asked.

"Yes?" I responded.

"I love you, I can't wait to learn better about your past life tomorrow. Thanks for letting me see a bit of your first class world."

"Anything for you, I love you too. Now go to sleep and dream. I will be here when you wake."

REVIEW!!! I'm pretty good, aren't I? Haha, I got this chapter out pretty fast. I hope to have at least one if not two more chapters out by the time I go back to school next Monday. This story is coming to a close, only a few more chapters, *runs to get tissues to stop tears*. I hope you liked this chapter! I put a link to The Peninsula Chicago Suite on my profile. Please review and enjoy the chapter.

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-Frightening Little Monster TM