BPOV

I was sitting in the kitchen reading Pride and Prejudice and snacking on some pop-tarts, when Carmen walked in.

Carmen was a beautiful woman with long wavy black hair and an olive complexion from her Spanish heritage. She was kind and took my sisters and I in after learning that we were on our own with no real place to live. She was creative and loving, trustworthy and motherly. She was our 'safe-harbor' when we needed someone to turn to, or when one of us three sisters where in having a rift.

A smile on her lips she turned to me, "Congratulations Bells on the rescue."

"Thanks," I replied, "you should really congratulate the dogs, they're the ones that found the girl."

"Oh I already did." She said with a grin.

I looked at her with curious wondering eyes at what she meant, "You don't mean that you gave them their favorite treat, do you?"

"Of course I did, I always give them a treat after a brilliant rescue." She stated simply, the smile still on her lips and mischief in her eyes.

"Ooo, you better not let Alice hear that- she's got them on some special diet."

Tanya walked in at the end of my statement, "Who's on a diet?" she asked curiously walking over to the fridge.

"The dogs, Alice is making them diet to keep them in shape or something like that, but Carmen gave the dogs her 'special treat' again." I told her putting quotes around 'special treat'. I finished my statement eyeing Carmen unhappily, yet a smile on my lips- Carmen knew I didn't care, except for the smell.

"Ooh you better hope Alice doesn't find out. The one time I fed their dogs, she threw a hissy fit that I fed them the wrong brand of dog food." she stated with a roll of her eyes, shutting the refrigerator door and twisting open the cap on her water bottle.

"Besides you know what happens when you give that stuff to Jake…ugh the smell is horrid." I told her with a shudder, remembering the last time Carmen gave the dogs her special treat.

It apparently did not sit well in Jake's system, because the smell was horrible- inside the training center, the car! (Making us roll down the windows), as well as the house! Alice was not happy, Rose thought it was funny when it started, but when it got steadily worse- well she sent him outside.

"Well what Alice doesn't know won't hurt her." Carmen stated with a nod of her head, holding her cup of coffee she had poured while listening to our rants. A smile was on her face.
"Well tell that to Jake! Cause he's gonna blow it- and I mean that literally!" I called to her as she exited the room.

"Hello Alice!" we heard Carmen say, her voice echoing down the hall.
"Good afternoon Carmen!" was Alice's cheery reply.

I looked knowingly at Tanya, who chuckled at walked out behind Carmen. Leaving me to hide the knowledge of Carmen's secret treat from Alice, even though she usually saw right threw me.

"Hey Tanya",
"Alice" I saw her nod acknowledging Alice and slipped past.

Alice entered the room with a bounce in her step, which was quite common, also informing me to the fact that she did not yet know about the treat. I smiled at her entrance, taking a bite of my strawberry pop-tart.

"Hello sister!"

"Hey," I replied.

She skipped around me to the fridge, humming along the way. I eyed her suspiciously.

"You're even more hyper than usual, if that's possible. What's up?"

She turned around avoiding my gaze.
"This room could do with a good make-over- Alice style!"

I looked around the room. The kitchen was rather small, holding only one table, a counter with a sink and dishwasher below it, two cabinets above that, and the refrigerator beside the end of the counter and the far wall. The walls were a plain white. The only window was rather dirty and had plain cream blinds on them. The appliances where somewhat new, but showing scratch marks and scuffs along the bottom.
"You're avoiding the question?" I said looking at her from the corner of my eyes, fully wondering what she was up to.

She bounced over to the table and sat across from me. She took a breath and let it out quickly.

"I was kind of hoping we could see the guys again, tonight or tomorrow?" she looked at me straight on, eyes pleading. I couldn't understand why she was trying to get my permission- I was the baby for crying out loud!

"Okay…" I said slowly. "Why are you asking me?"

"Well, I wasn't sure if you had plans, and I didn't want to invite them over without you knowing about it first."

"I could care less Alice." I said looking back at my book. "Besides you always know my schedule, sometimes before I do!" I told her not looking up from my reading.

"Yeah!" she squealed, "I knew you would accept! Now we have to go home and get ready!"

She pulled my hand from across the table and pulled me along behind her, knocking off my book. I grabbed for the book and followed my sister out the door, stopping suddenly and grabbing my trash. The look on her face was aggravated due to my lagging. She smiled as I stepped in behind her, following her out the door.

"Rosie, come on! Its time to go!" she shouted across the room.

After pulling on our gear and clocking out, we trudged out into the deep snow. Alice must have told Rose before me, as the dogs were already in the truck, tails wagging.

We climbed into the truck, Rose driving, Alice in the middle, and me on the end, and drove away.

The whole way home, Alice talked animatedly about having the guys come over. I chuckled at her.
"Alice have you even invited them?" Rose smiled at my question. Alice just stuck her tongue out at me.
"Wait, do you even have their number?" I asked completely confused now. Alice's look said 'duh!', so I chuckled and let it go.

Rose pulled into the 3-car garage, owing to the fact that we had two cars and three ski-doos of our own on the far end. The truck belonged to all of us, but the BMW M6 was Rosalie's, one she earned with her modeling money, and refused to let Alice or I drive it. It was fine with me, I preferred the truck. Alice was working on earning enough money for her own car- she was getting pretty close.

We jumped, got the dogs out, and walked inside the house. Our house was designed by Carmen, but the rooms were done by Alice. Rose had a few specifics she wanted included, but as for me as long as I had a room I wasn't too picky.

The house was two stories tall, with a porch along the front, and the garage on the side of the house. There were six rooms in the house, three bedrooms, one office/library, a guest room, and a game/movie room. We each had our own bathroom and walk-in closet, not that I really needed it, but whatever. The living room was in the center of the first floor, a banister on the second floor wrapped around the living room, allowing you to look over from any angle of the second floor into the living area. The kitchen and dining room were to the right and behind the living room; the game room, office, and guest bedroom off to the left. Our bedrooms were all upstairs, owing to the fact that they were all master bedrooms. A demand by Alice.

The bedrooms were each done to our liking, Alice's pink and black floral motif with matching bedspread. The headboard was a large padded black headboard that had pink buttons. Her bathroom was a matching theme of pink and black. Rose's was more of a French theme of red and black. Her bead was wooden with a lace canopy. The bedspread was white with a black French emblem pattern. One of the walls had the same pattern, but with a few red's mixed in. Her bathroom was also red, white, and black. My room was a subtle blue on the walls, white base boards, and white shutters on the windows as a design. The bedspread was solid white with blue and white pillows. A soft fluffy white rug lay on the sandy colored hard wood floors, which flowed through most of the house, except the hall-ways and living room, which were carpeted.

I walked upstairs, Jake and Seth on my heels. Sam wandered over to the tiled floor by the back door, lying down. Leah following Rose- the only dog Rose actually got along with- to Rose's bedroom.

I kicked off my shoes and fell back on the bed, my arms raised above my head, legs dangling off the bed. I sighed and sat up. Jake was watching me from his bed in the corner of the room, and Seth was curled into a ball on his.

I sat there, knowing Alice would bound in soon telling me what to put on, whether I liked it or not. Sure enough… Alice came skipping into the room a smile on her face and a gleam in her eye.

"Have you called them?"

"Yes. And they said they would love to- after they have dinner with their parents of course."

She flitted over to the closet doors and opened them wide.

"Don't get lost," I shouted after her, and flopped back on the bad. This might take a while.

My mind drifted over the events of the day. The successful rescue and the interesting turn of events involving three handsome guys. I thought over what happened between Edward and James and wondered why he was willing to punch a strange guy. I mean it's not like he knew us or anything? Maybe he was just being nice. I argued in my head and just decided it was they were raised to do.

I sat up hearing Alice come back into the room, her hands cradling several outfits. I groaned.
"Alice I don't feel like playing dress-up. Can't you just decide? You do anyways." I slouched my shoulders, and put on my best puppy-dog face. Alice giggled at my antics.

"Don't worry. I'm just gonna hold these up to you."

She began tossing outfits to the side, a critic for each one. I just sat there waiting to be informed of which outfit- hopefully not a dress- to put on. She finally decided on a yellow strapless dress with dark skinny jeans. I wouldn't need shoes she told me as we would be staying in.

I took the clothes and went into the bathroom, a blue, white, and black motif that complemented my room, and started a shower.

Twenty minutes later I got out and put the clothes on. I went back into my room combing my hair. Alice walked in fully dressed, in a mini-skirt and pink tank top with a jean jacket, and showered forcing me to sit down at my dresser.

"Here, put on the basics, and you will be good. Just leave your hair down, oh and blow-dry it please- I want to see cute little waves!" she added with a smile, then pranced out of the room.

I shook my head at her and began applying the color pallet that she gave me to my eye-lids. With mascara and light pink lip gloss. I wouldn't need blush as I did that enough already.

I slipped on my slippers and made my way downstairs. Jake and Seth were out cold and snoring rather loudly, so they didn't follow like usual. I heard the shower still going in Rose's room, and music blaring from the stereo in the hall-way between Alice's and Rose's room.

I walked carefully down the stairs, trying not to trip again. I headed over to the leather couch and plopped down grabbing for the remote. I clicked the power button to our 50" inch flat screen that hung on the wall, scrolling through the many channels available.

Most would probably see our house and think we were rich, but in truth that wasn't really the case. Our parents were middle class and did not leave much behind. Luckily they had planned ahead- thanks to our parents friends- leaving money behind for the funeral, we had some to pay for random expenses. Most was earned through Rose's modeling career, even though it was short lived, as well as Alice's fashion designs she was paid for. We were also good with our money, saving most of it. Alice also invested in some stocks and real-estate, tending to know when to take out the money due to shifts in the stock prices or whatever. Either way we were making good on our own and got a lot of help from Carmen and Eleazer.

I turned off the TV and reclined, Sam coming over to me and putting his head on the arm of the chair I was in. I rubbed behind his ears and relaxed into the chair.

I was almost out when Alice danced down the stairs and called out to me to wake up; Rose following along behind. Rose was wearing jeans and red corset tank-top. I couldn't help but sigh slightly and lose a little bit of my confidence seeing the two.
Rose possibly hearing the sigh, "Bella, quit putting yourself down, you look gorgeous too!" I sighed again and put on my best smile, "Sorry," was my sheepish reply.

Leah, Jake, and Seth trotted along behind them, wanting to be wherever we were.

We sat down in separate chairs and waited with baited breath for the boys to arrive.

A car pulled up at 8:30 and three doors slammed shut. The boys had arrived!