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Sorry for not updating in so long, but my laptop is all messed up and using puts it in grave danger. I shouldn't really be using it now, either, but I hated not being able to work on my story, and therefore not being able to update.
Chapter 3:
"Hey Bells, you manage to fall today?" Emmett called from the other room. He had just arrived home from a hunting trip with Edward, Jasper and Carlisle. That left me, Alice, Rosalie and Esme in the house, alone. That meant wedding planning. Rosalie probably would have helped, but she hated me and my choice, so all she did was glare at me whenever she had to be near me. Alice was her usual happy-go-lucky self, completely oblivious to my grumpy mood.
"No, she hasn't." Alice called back. She was lying of course, but still. First nice thing she's done today. First threatening me with my books, then driving me here in her Porsche then making me be involved in one day of wedding planning. She said that was all, and that it was my mother's idea, but she couldn't've just lied? Oh, wait. My mom was on the phone with us, with the packet of ideas that Alice sent to her so she'd know exactly what we were talking about. One day, Bella. One day. You can do this. I had to repeat my mantra over and over with the hope it would help me keep my sanity. "She hasn't even tipped in the slightest, except for when she was trying on heels. I'd like to see you without vampire balance maneuver even a flat surface in these." She said, holding up the death trap shoes she had forced me to try on. I told her there was no way on God's green earth that I was going to wear those shoes, and she said she just 'wanted to see how the ribbon look went with the dress.' There was a tiny ribbon that went around the shoe and got tied into a bow in the front. Three inch heels. Alice lying when she said I hadn't fallen. A small dent in the corner of the living room, disguised by the lamp. You get the picture. So not worth seeing how the ribbon looked. Poor Alice was heartbroken. Those were her shoes, with one heel now dangling by a small piece. Well, it would have been, but we glued it back into place. Only a vampire or a person really close to the shoes would notice.
"Wow, Bella. Look at you, not tripping over air. What a shame, soon you'd be able to cash those frequent faller mi-OW!!" There was some muffled laughter and cursing, followed by a thud. Then there was a booming laughter that drowned out the cursing I expect was coming from Edward.
"Hello, love, how was your day with Alice?" Edward asked while rubbing the back of his head.
"Ugh, horrible." That didn't begin to cover it, but I couldn't complain about it in front of Emmett. Then he'd know I had fallen. I'm lucky I had been wearing long pant and not shorts, because then they'd see the bruises on my shin that had already begun to form.
"Then let's go somewhere else. Come on." And with that, he led me out the door in the glass wall, into their yard/the forest surrounding Forks. Once the house was out of sight and I was sure Alice and Emmett wouldn't hear, I began to complain. I'm surprised Edward didn't get bored, I was going on for quite a while.
"…and then she made me just try on shoes to figure out which looked best. Then my mom got frustrated that she couldn't see it for herself, so Alice talked her through setting up the webcam in her computer so that once Alice got her webcam set up Mom could see me. Then I was forced to walk around in various heels, most of which were accidents waiting to happen. Most of which did. I'm sure you know that Alice was very blatantly lying when she said I hadn't fallen once. By the way, tell Esme I am sorry about the dent in the wall, but those death trap shoes Alice had put me in made me fall. Good thing that lamp was so close by, because it hides it quite well." By this time we were at a small river I never saw before.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"We're at a river behind our house. I guess your eyes cant see it, but we can see it from in the house. I'm sorry Emmett made fun of you, he's just being an idiot today. So far he's pushed Jasper down a mountain, climbed up a tree and wrote around an acorn 'help the squirrels have me' and then threw it at Carlisle, and hidden half of Rosalie's clothes in a tree."
Wow. I would've thought he'd be worse after hearing about that. "It's okay. Emmet's like a big brother to me, and big brothers are supposed to be irritating to their youngest sibling." I sat down on the grass, and Edward sat with me. We just sat in silence, enjoying the sounds of the river and each other's presence. I was rather comfortable, leaning against his shoulder. It was beautiful when the sun began to set, because the clouds were in the east at the moment, and the sky turned purple and orange and pink and red and gold, more beautiful than any sunset I had ever seen. Edward began to sparkle as the sun shone on him, and with that, a masterpiece more amazing than any painting Carlisle had was complete. All the different forms of beauty were laid out for me to see, and it was wonderful. As the sky darkened, I began to feel my day of walking and falling and stress paired with the fact I had trouble falling asleep last night. I laid my head in Edward's lap and made my arms into a little makeshift pillow and closed my eyes.
Sorry, I know it's short but I had to put something on!
A/N: What should this and the last chapter's name be? I can't decide! I'll give credit to whoever gives me the names I pick!