Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight. Tomoko Hayakawa owns the wallflower series (storyline).

For 21Skadoosh I have uploaded some pictures on my profile that hopefully describe Bella's fringe before and after the cut.

This part is where Bella is already at home, with Edward.

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"Why is that I have to look after the dazzling creature?" Bella queried herself whilst sitting in Edward's room. Edward coughed.

"I wish you wouldn't call me that," Edward sighed before rolling over.

"Is there anything I can get you?" Bella asked helpfully.

"Strawberries."

Bella ran downstairs to get him strawberries.

"I want some water now."

Bella ran to get him some water.

"I want ice in it."

Bella ran to put ice in it.

"I want ice cream. Strawberry flavour."

Bella ran to get strawberry flavoured ice cream.

"Here's your ice cream, even though it's Carlisle's."

"I want yoghurt now. Vanilla flavour."

Bella ran to get him the yoghurt.

"Actually, I want strawberry flavour."

Bella stormed over to the side of the bed.

"Will you stop ordering me around?" Bella insisted. She was thinking about killing him; and having it over and done with. Then I can live without the presence of the dazzling creature, she reflected.

"Sorry."

Bella snapped out of her reverie.

"I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to react the way I did. By the way, I didn't see anything – if that's what you're worried about. The steam and mist covered you up pretty good. I'm also sorry about ordering you around," Edward apologised rolling over and falling asleep. Bella took this as a chance to escape. She was halfway down the stairs when the doorbell rang. She ran to open it. It was Alice.

"Hey. Jasper asked me to drop by," Alice sang, "I have strawberries!"

Bella and Alice sat in the garden. They were eating the strawberries intended for Edward.

"So what you're saying is, you can't live here because you can't stand being around Edward because he's too dazzling for you?" Alice summed up before taking a bite of a strawberry. Bella nodded.

"Do you like Edward?" Alice asked. Bella blushed and began to shake her head erratically. Alice laughed. It sounded like a bell.

"Why don't you become dazzling too, then?" Alice said stating the obvious. Bella looked at her in a resigned way.

"It's easy for you. You're a dazzling creature too," Bella sighed.

"Really? I'm so lucky!" Alice exclaimed.

"I can't defy the will of DNA; I cannot possibly become dazzling like you."

"That's giving up before even trying, you push the idea of becoming dazzling aside and yet you complain that people are too dazzling for you." Alice almost shouted, "You know how hard it is for me just to get Jasper to notice me? I don't want to be like other girls, I want to be someone he looks at and sees."

"I'm jealous of you," Alice finished, reclining in the garden seat, "You get to see Jasper every day, and I have to wait until school days until I can see Jasper."

"You really like Jasper don't you?" Bella questioned.

"Yes. I love him," Alice sighed. Bella looked away from Alice's beautiful face.

"Just remember Bella, your appearance is something you can change once you put in the effort," Alice concluded, before announcing she was going to leave. Bella showed her to the door and Alice sheepishly held up the empty basket.

"Don't tell Edward I actually brought strawberries over and then ate them all," she laughed before waving and leaving.

Hours later, Bella was thinking about Alice's last words.

"Your appearance is something you can change once you put in the effort."

Carlisle pulled a face as he ate a spoonful of chowder.

"Really salty," he explained. The others carefully ate a spoonful. They agreed in their mind with Carlisle's review on the food. Bella ate the food as if it was okay. The other boys looked at her in awe.

"Are you okay Bella?" Carlisle asked her. She looked up.

"Yes." She said quietly.

"What's wrong?" Emmett asked.

"I talked to Alice today," Bella told them. Emmett and Carlisle looked at Jasper.

"W-o-w," Jasper said stretching the word into 3 syllables, "Alice is pretty brilliant doing that just by bringing strawberries." Bella wasn't listening to the other people, she was mulling over what Alice had told her.

"You're the brilliant one, getting Alice to do as you say," Carlisle teased, "when are you going to ask her out?"

"Shut up, Carl."

Bella thought about Alice, her beautiful looks and her sweet charm.

"It would be nice being born pretty," Bella pondered.

"Alice wasn't always pretty," Emmett said to her, he placed a picture in front of her. It was a girl that didn't look too flattering, "that was Alice in middle school. She managed to pull herself up and change her looks without surgery."

Bella was stunned.

"How can she...how can she defy the will of God?" Bella mumbled to herself.

"If you want to be pretty, you have to try – we're all here for you, even Edward," Emmett promised her.

Bella stood up. She walked in a zombie-like manner to her room.

"I didn't know that Alice looked like this in middle school," Jasper said, examining the picture.

"She didn't," Emmett replied. "It's the picture of a girl who sent me a love letter from the bus ride home. This picture was in it," Emmett told them, a smile creeping on his face.

"Isn't that fraud?" Carlisle asked.

"Depending on if it worked," Emmett said smartly.

"It doesn't matter. It's still fraud," Jasper said despairingly.

Bella shuffled along the corridors. She heard a croak as she walked past Edward's room. She walked in and saw Edward reaching out for the glass of water. Bella took it and gave it to him.

"Thanks," he thanked his voice husky. He drank heavily from the glass and gave it to Bella. He fell back onto his pillows. Bella bravely felt his forehead for his temperature. Even though he was ill he seemed to have an aura of bright light. She stood up and started to back away, her eyes glued to Edward. He sat up and tried to undo his buttons on his pyjamas. Edward felt really hot, he needed the top off...he was sweating. He tried to tell Bella to get him a change of clothes, his whisper inaudible. She watched him struggle with taking his buttons off. His fingers slipped on and off the buttons. Bella bit her lip, anticipating it being undone. Edward still struggled, obviously unable to undo the button without any help. In the heat of the moment and the frustration of watching him struggle Bella sat on his bedside and undid his pyjama buttons. She undid all of the buttons and the top fell off him. She looked at his face. He looked at her face.

She looks so different, so..., he thought.

Why is that even though he is ill he's dazzling? Bella asked herself.

Edward fell onto Bella, his lips brushed against her cheek. Bella's face heated up and she blushed. She pushed him off and looked at him.

"How can you expect me to live with dazzling creatures like you if you're nearly all over me?" Bella wailed.

"If you act like a normal kid," Edward said tiredly. Exhaustion took over him and he fell asleep again.

The darkness overtook her and she felt the need to really kill Edward.

Lucky Emmett is as strong as he is gorgeous.

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