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It was Christmas break now and I was bored. Quil and Embry had agreed to let me stay with Edward's family in Forks on school days so I could continue going to Forks high school, but weekends and holiday breaks were theirs. Edward was quick to agree with their terms mentioning that they were my brothers and deserved to have me stay with them. He was just glad to get the majority of my time. He would have settled for things to be the opposite of what they were, but I wouldn't.
Since it was the first official day of Christmas break I was sitting in the living room looking through some of my grandma Swan's old recipes. I had wanted to make something for the Pack and their families. I had remembered some cut-out cookies from when I was little, they were the best. I was also waiting for Alice and Edward to get to my house and wondered what was taking them so long.
I had just found the recipe when the front door opens and Alice and Edward were suddenly on either side of me with grins on their faces. Alice was holding a few grocery sacks in her hands.
"Bella, that's a great idea! We wanna help!" crows Alice. Then Emmett walks in with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Emmett? What are you doing here?" I ask.
"Rosalie went hunting with Carlisle, Esme, and Jasper so I decided to follow Edward and Alice to see what they were up to. I was sneaky," says Emmett winking. I giggle.
"I was just about to make cut-out cookies for the pack. Do you want to help?" I ask.
"That's what I was talking about! I brought everything you would need," says Alice.
"Wait…you can't see me. How did you…?" I trail off. Alice was bouncing in her seat making the couch squeak ominously.
"I found a way to see you! Isn't that great!?" squeals Alice. I decided it was probably better that I didn't know the details. We go to the kitchen and I get out a large mixing bowl and other things I would need. Alice had dumped the contents of her bags on the counter and I noticed she'd managed to get everything we'd need.
"What can I do?" asks Emmett.
"After I put everything in the bowl do you want to mix it?" I ask.
"Okay," says Emmett happily. I was glad it was that simple to find a job for Emmett, he wasn't always so easily appeased. Soon I had enough ingredients in the large bowl to triple the batch. Emmett was watching me with an eager expression on his face and a wooden spoon in his hand.
"Just get it all mixed up into a big ball of dough and then we can portion it off and put the dough into the freezer so it gets cold enough that it won't fall apart when we go to work with it," I say handing the bowl to Emmett. Emmett immediately gets to work mixing the dough up. Soon we had a large ball of cookie dough. Emmett dumps it onto the counter and cuts it into 6 portions of dough while Alice finds the plastic wrap and wraps each ball before putting them in the freezer.
"Wow, your freezer is empty," says Alice noting the tray of ice and frozen pizza.
"I have to go grocery shopping later," I say.
"Let's go now! We have to wait for the dough anyway," says Alice.
"Quil and Embry haven't gotten paid yet," I say. Alice just gives me a look that clearly asked 'are you serious?'.
"We have money Bella. If it makes you feel better you can pay us back," says Alice.
"Do I get much of a choice?" I ask.
"Not really," says Alice. That's what I had thought.
"Let me grab my jacket," I say. Suddenly Edward was offering me my coat. I didn't actually need it, but I knew it would look weird if I didn't have it.
"Here you go, Love," says Edward helping me put it on and kissing my cheek.
"Thanks," I say. Then Alice grabs my arm and pulls me out to the Jeep.
"Why do you have Emmett's Jeep?" I ask.
"The roads are bad," says Edward. As if on cue I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my butt before even Edward can react.
"Ow…" I mumble trying to get up. Edward grabs my hand and pulls me to my feet.
"I'm sorry, Love. Are you okay?" asks Edward. Of course Emmett had found my act of clumsiness funny and was laughing boisterously from the back seat of the Jeep. Alice's tinkling laugh could be heard from the other side of him although she couldn't be seen. Edward helps me into the front seat and gets the harness connected before going to the driver's side and starting the monstrous vehicle.
It didn't take us long to get to the store even with the bad roads. And they were bad, most of the cars were driving pretty slow if at all. There weren't too many people keen on the idea of being out in the weather. We find a spot pretty close to the entrance and Edward reaches over to help me out of the harness before getting out and going to the other side. He opens my door and helps me down before taking my hand and leading me into the store. Alice and Emmett weren't far behind. After grabbing a cart we go to the produce section that was right inside the door.
"What do we need?" asks Alice.
"Quil likes oranges and Embry likes grapes so I usually get those. Maybe I'll make some apple pies or something," I say walking towards the fruit stand.
"What else?" asks Alice.
"I think we'll have a roast for dinner this week so I'll need potatoes, carrots, and onions," I say as I think of possible meals for the week. Soon we were almost done getting groceries. We were just in the freezer section. I was looking at the vegetables and wondering if Quil and Embry would want vegetable soup sometime this week when Alice bounces over to me with a grin on her face.
"What does icecream taste like?" asks Alice.
"It's really cold, like colder than you, and it's sweet as well. I guess it depends on the flavor. My favorite is cookie dough," I say.
"What's cookie dough icecream?" asks Alice.
"It's vanilla icecream with chocolate chip cookie dough chunks in it," I say.
"Oh," says Alice. I pull some vegetables out of the freezer and we all go to the register. I notice Alice looking at a magazine that was sitting on the rack.
"You can put it on the counter," I say. Alice immediately grabs it and throws it on the counter with everything else. Emmett walks over carrying a black can with blue writing on it.
"What's a monster?" asks Emmett.
"It's an energy drink," I say.
"I've heard a lot of people talking about monsters," says Edward.
"They're pretty good I guess. Amber loves them," I say.
"Isn't she hyper enough without it?" asks Emmett.
"It's too bad energy drinks don't effect vampires. It'd be interesting to see Alice after drinking a monster," I say.
"What are you trying to say?" demands Alice. I giggle at the thought of hyper little Alice after having a monster or two…
"I say we give it a try," says Emmett with a grin. Apparently we were on the same track…that couldn't be a good thing.
"That's up to Alice. It might make her sick," I say.
"I wanna try!" says Alice excitedly. Suddenly there was a whole case worth of monsters on the register.
"Emmett, that much would kill a human," I say a little mortified.
"You said you liked them and Alice isn't human," says Emmett. I sigh heavily and roll my eyes. Once everything was paid for we take it all out to the Jeep. Soon we get to my house and after getting everything we needed we get back to work on the cookies. I pull out one of the portions of dough and flour the counter before laying it down.
"Edward, would you like to roll it out? It need to be about ¼ inch thick," I say holding out a rolling pin. Edward takes the rolling pin and begins to roll out the dough.
"What will I do?" asks Alice.
"You get to help me decorate them once they cool. We'll all cut them out and put them on cookie sheets to bake," I say. Soon all of the cookies were baked and I was waiting for them to cool. Alice seemed eager for them to be cool. I go to the first batch we had finished and find that they were cooled off.
"They'd probably cool better if we put them in the freezer," says Edward matter-of-factly.
"If you can get them to fit be my guest. Alice and I will get started on the first two batches," I say.
"I wanna help too," says Emmett.
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A/N: Thank you for reading. I know it's a little random, but I'm having writers block again. I also realize I ended it at a stupid spot, but I'm the writer and I can do that. This chapter will jus have to be in two parts. Besides, if I do it this way that means more chapters. =p With Christmas fast approaching I thought I'd get into the spirit a little bit. I have to help my friend's mom make cut-out cookies…ugh. She makes like a million and a half and cookies are monotonous anyway. I love to cook, but I don't care for baking so much, especially cookies. They're easy, but monotonous. I mean seriously! So my friend's mom is going to make a whole crap ton of cookies and I told her I would help because I didn't have the heart to tell her no. =[ I really need to learn how to say no to people. I mean I can, but usually people start begging and I cave because it gets annoying and the sooner I say yes the sooner they stop bugging me about it. It's just easier to say yes, but then I tend to regret it…like I will this weekend. Sorry, I seem to enjoy talking about my whole life in these things, I swear I have A.D.D sometimes…=] Sayonara