A/N: Omyedward! Yes! 38 reviews :) shout out to reviewer #30 beautiful-eyes and also to Carolina81 for being amazing 3 haha Amanda's acting like a five year old now soo instead of a shout out she gets a pat on the head) Oh and Amanda? MickeyandMinnie says thank you:)
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Hahah soo twilight-is-lovee, you can't answer this but everyone else can. What song is this? singsongvoiceHow can I decide what's right when you're clouding up my mind? I can't win your losing fight all the time. How can I ever own what's mine when you're always taking sides? But you won't take away my pride. No, not this time. Not this time. singsongvoiceover oh and you CAN'T Google it! You have to know what song this is!
Oh and before I forget, shout out (I know, it's raining shout outs) to RoryAceHayden147 because she's awesome and I think she/he is French. Are you? (au revoir is French right?)
I don't own twilight, if I did it wouldn't be Bella&Edward, it'd be me&Edward. And remember, there are a few lines here and there from the books.
I shook my head, not wanting to talk about it. I just wanted to be with my Edward. We stayed like that for a couple of seconds before Edward tensed and we were interrupted.
"BELLA!"
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I felt Edward's arms suddenly relax around me and whisper something about annoying pixie. As the sound of running footsteps barely touching the ground reached my ears, Alice's small, 4'10" body came into view- running while still unconsciously making it look like graceful dancing. Her beautiful short, black hair bouncing around with each of her steps. I couldn't help but think that it looked a lot more like an Aussie Shampoo commercial. Her panicked eyes turned to apologetic as she saw me being comforted by Edward. I gave her a weak, but reassuring smile in return and was about to tell her to not worry about it when she started apologizing. After trying in various ways to stop her, I realized it wouldn't work so I just simply stopped listening and waited patiently while playing with Edward's beautiful, bronze hair. After what seemed like an awfully long list of apologies, most of which included the words sorry, stupid, clueless, and guilty. She finally noticed I was silently ignoring her and reluctantly knelt down beside Edward and I on the cool grass.
"Bella?"
"Hey, Alice! Finally! Took you long enough to stop" I teased her – hoping to ease off the tension that seemed to be rolling off of her like a tsunami instead of normal, calm waves. .
"I'm sorry. I haven't seen you in so long, Bells!" It was odd, the way Alice and I had bonded so quickly and became like sisters. It didn't take that long to get attached to Alice, what with her crazy shopping trips in the middle of the night and whatnot. She was the kind of person who would make friends wherever she went. A people person you could say. I got off of Edward's lap to hug her; she wrapped her tiny arms around me and squeezed so unbelievably tight it eventually became hard to breathe. Seriously. How can someone so small be so strong?
"I missed you, too" My voice was distorted as I confessed this with what little breath I had left. I may not need to breathe but it's impossible to talk when you're out of breath. She let go-noticing my discomfort- and I settled back on Edward's lap, snuggling close to his chest.
"I'm sorry I didn't warn you earlier. As soon as I saw what he was planning… well, we decided it'd be faster if we ran here, and then-
"Stop." She did as I asked. "Shouldn't we go help Emmett and Jasper?" I was worried about them. I knew Emmett was huge and strong, and that Jasper had a military background but we didn't know anything about Ian; and Emmett was never careful – he could get hurt!
Her eyes went blank as she looked into their futures, making sure they were fine. "They're fine, Bella. Actually, Em is really enjoying himself. At some point, he'll tell Jazzy that Ian was more fun than an irritable grizzly bear – and you know Emmett loves his grizzlies. Which reminds me, Bella. Will you ever forgive me? I was so stupid and I didn't-"
"Alice, I thought you stopped with the apologies."
"Sorry" I glared at her. It was silent for one second before I noticed the way Alice was looking at me. Staring. It was strange in a way. Her golden eyes – I suppose they hunted on the way here- kept shifting from Edward to me and back again. I tried to think of the reason why – it was nothing out of the ordinary, Edward and I stood, sat and did everything together all the time (except for the dreaded and now not-to-be-mentioned hours that we spent apart thanks to Ian). After repeating the same circuit with her eyes, her wide child-like, curious eyes locked on my left hand. No, they locked on my finger. My ring finger. Which just happened to be wearing Edward's promise ring. Her face abruptly changed. The vacant look in her eyes told me that she was seeing a lot more than just the forest she seemed to be staring at. Then, as unexpectedly as her vision, she smiled. It wasn't a normal, I'm-happy smile. It was a I-know-something-you-don'-know kind of thing. Then she looked directly at me- as if forgetting Edward- and she raised her eyebrows. My own furrowed in confusion. And she mouthed the words. Later. Oh. I should have known! Why, oh why? I knew Alice would never stop until she knew every single detail! All I wanted was to spend time with Edward. I unthinkingly pouted.
"What's wrong? Are you hurt? Are you okay, love?" I noticed it was silent in a way. Alice had stopped breathing; there was no noise of her lungs taking in the air around us. Did she notice how he called me love? A sudden intake of air – a gasp – led me to believe she did.
"Honey, what is it?" Edward shook me gently. I had forgotten about his questions and I instantly felt guilty about making him worry. I looked intently at Alice – who by this point had eyes as wide as a golf ball and her jaw dropped. She composed her face almost instantly and started babbling about how the prom was and asking random questions – had we redone our room? Did we get all 15 boxes? And lastly, was the bed comfortable? I barely managed to hold back my surprise. She'd pay for this. I glared letting her know she was in big trouble. She was in the middle of rolling her eyes when her face, once again went black. Two seconds went by and she came back to normal. Edward became rigid. What had Alice seen? Was Ian coming back? Alice mouth twisted up into a mischievous smile. Well, that was good, right? It was obvious she hadn't seen anything bad. But why was Edward reacting so strongly to this? Before I had any time at all to consider this, Alice interrupted my thoughts once again.
"So, Bella. Guess what!?" She had an evil glint in her eyes. What in the world was that girl thinking? "I was thinking….we should go shopping!" She bounced up and down while sitting. Ugh. Shopping? What was so great about shopping anyways? You got what you needed and you're done. No need to look around for hours at the mall. I mimicked her movements, bouncing up and down while sitting on Edward's lap, "Yay" I said with obviously fake enthusiasm.
Edward abruptly stood up and caught me before I fell. What was he doing? Alice started laughing hysterically, and Edward growled at her. I placed my hand on his chest and pushed him back a bit away from tiny Alice.
"Alice!" I snapped before turning back to Edward. "What is it?" My voice suddenly taking a much softer, loving tone.
"Nothing" he mumbled almost unintelligibly. He looked down at his hands like a little boy – something he did when he was embarrassed.
"Edward?" I whispered. "What is it? You can tell me" I said – encouraging him.
"Later" he said. "Are Carlisle, Esme and Rose getting here any time soon?" he quickly changed the subject and even though I wanted to know what had upset him – cause I was sure something had – I didn't push him any farther.
Alice sighed. "Gee, Edward. Know any subtle ways to change subjects? Yes, they'll be here in….30 seconds. I'm sure they can hear us right now"
Sure enough, 30 seconds later, the three beautiful vampires showed up. Carlisle, with a kind smile on his face; Esme, always so motherly and caring. Her eyes glowed as she saw the way Edward's arm was wrapped around my waist and how my head rested on his shoulder. And lastly, Rosalie. The extraordinarily beautiful vampire who would make any girl in the same space as her take a hit on her self esteem. I had a feeling that part of her didn't like me, and as that part of her showed, she always calmed down, as if telling herself this isn't her fault.
After a couple of minutes, we heard laughter off in the distance. Emmett's no doubt. We all turned our heads in the direction of the sound as Emmett and Jasper appeared. I didn't fail to notice that far away in the distance; there was a cloud of smoke in the air.
"That was so much fun! When I-" Emmett said. More like yelled.
"I know! And when he-" Jasper said. It was odd to see Jasper so free. I hadn't been with him for long before we came to Alaska, but he'd always been so serious.
"I know!" They kept this up – finishing each other sentences – until they reached us.
Emmett chuckled "Bella, I'm so glad Edward didn't kill you. Things are a lot more fun with you around!" He grinned before continuing. "Seriously, though. How could you get into so much trouble in just a couple of weeks!?" He shook his head. "No one hurts my little sister, though."
It shocked me the way he called me his sister; but then again, it was Emmett. I started thinking about being his sister…..in law.
"Let's go, Bella" Alice's high voice snapped me out of my reverie. I hadn't realized they'd been having a conversation and I wasn't listening.
We got to the house in no time. Since we'd been talking nonstop at vampire speed on the way there – about 15 minutes – we all went our separate ways to be with the one we loved. I knew Alice would be asking me questions later so I decided to make the best of the no-annoying-curious-pixie time. Alice and Jasper went to their room; poor Jasper. We heard Alice scream as she saw how "last month" her wardrobe here was. She was definitely thinking of all the things she'd buy in the next few days. Rosalie and Emmett went straight to their bed…er, bedroom. After a couple of uncomfortable noises to hear (definitely, the furniture suffered severe damage), I tried my best to block them out and let them have their fun. Carlisle and Esme were downstairs talking in the living room…for a while. And then it got quiet and I did not want to know what was going on down there. Edward and I made our way to our room.
Edward opened the door – like the gentleman he always is – and smiled his signature crooked smile. "Ladies first?"
"Why thank you, sir." I felt ridiculous saying that but I decided to play along.
He got in and shut the door on his way in. I turned around and faced him, while twirling a strand of my hair in my finger. "Is it later now?" I knew I was running the moment but I really wanted to know what Alice had seen and what the big deal was!
He sighed and started to shift uncomfortably from foot to foot. Then he took three long steps toward me, wrapped an arm around my waist, pulled me unbelievably close to him and kissed me.
A/N: hahaha hope you guy enjoyed that! No cliffie – I decided to give you guys a break from them. Well, actually, it's sort of a clifie, right? Oh well.
Thanks SO much for the reviews. Almost 40 for the last chapter…..hmmmm I wonder. Can we try for…45? Please? Pretty please? pouts Alice's irresistible pout just review if you reviewed the last chapter and also if you didn't! :) Please?? You guys got a long chapter :) around 2,000 words.
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