This chapter is a bit of a filler. I loved the idea of the girls going to a sleepover. I know sleepovers are a little juvenile for High school, but I couldn't resist.
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Cold Moon
Chapter 12: Sleepover
After the invite,
Rosalie and Emmet made an excuse to go home. The rest of us
knew what that meant. Soon after we left, our sole purpose was
to go hunt. If Alice, Renesmee and I were going to be cooped up
in a room full of girls, we wanted to make sure our eyes were as
light as possible. After our hunt, Renesmee begged us to go
home and get ready. It was close to ten o'clock, and she was
excited for the sleep over. We neared the house and Alice
growled. Jasper's head shot up in surprise. Her mood change
caught all of us off guard.
"What's
wrong?" I asked.
"Jacob
must be near." She growled. " I smell something awful, and my
vision just went blank." I heard a rustling in the brush and I
immediately knew it was Jacob.
"Jake!"
Renesmee bounded into the woods and tackled him. She helped him
up and brought him onto the path.
"It's
harder to sneak up on you guys than I thought it would be." He
looked at all of us, counting, motioning to the tops of our heads
with his finger.
"Are
we missing two of you." He acted like he was counting us
again.
"Aunt
Rosalie and Uncle Emmet are at the house." Renesmee took his
hand. Jacob made a face.
"That's
why you're all hunting in Halloween costumes, huh?" Edward and
Jasper nodded.. "That's good, I just thought you all had went off
of your rockers." He looked over at me. "Nice Beauty
costume, Bells. And Edward, You didn't have to dress up to
look like a beast." Jacob smirked.
"I had a lot of hair
for the costume, but I didn't want to look like you and confuse
people." Edward and Jacob had fallen into a comfortable friendship
of harassing each other. Renesmee did not like sharing Jacob's
attention. She pulled on his arm and he turned to her.
"I
went to my first dance today!" She beamed.
"Did
you go with a guy?" He asked, almost with a joking
manner.
"No,
but she did dance with one." Edward had been waiting all night to
tell Jacob that. I could tell by the reaction Jacob had, that
Edward's wait was not in vain.
"What?!"
His eyes were on the verge of bulging out.
"You
know you're my favorite, Jacob. But they wouldn't let anyone from
another school go. And I did almost kill him." Jacob looked
confused. Renesmee touched his cheek, and he was receiving her
thoughts. He smiled.
"He
looked like he was about to puke." Edward smiled. I couldn't
believe it. Those two finally found some common ground.
"She
did well at restraining herself." I added in. "She thought about
attacking him, but then she remembered what would have happened if
she hurt him, so she held back." Renesmee blushed lightly,
and quickly changed the subject.
"We
are also going to a sleep over." She added in, still vieing for
Jacob's attention.
"Tonight?"
"Yes,
Carol invited us." She pointed to Alice and me. Jacob nodded and
added in sarcastically, to Alice and me.
"Good
luck with that." His tone was very Charlie-like. I nodded.
"It
should be fun. Every vampire's dream. To go to a house
full of screaming girls, that sleep and munch on food that smells
like crap." I rolled my eyes. Jake clapped.
"Oh,
goodie." He said sarcastically. "Nessie will love it, won't
you?" Renesmee nodded.
"I'm
so excited. I think those girls are starting to like us." She
beamed. Jacob put his arm around her and turned to the
house.
"Come
on guys, let's get 'Nessie ready for her sleepover. Let's
make enough noise so that Rose and Emmet will know we're heading
back."
Rose and Emmet heard us
heading home and were sitting on the couch when we
entered.
"I
thought I smelled something. Hello, mutt." Rosalie smiled,
wickedly towards Jacob. Jacob smiled. He had gotten into
the habit of harassing Rosalie also.
"
Why Rosalie, don't think I've forgotten you. Why do blondes
drive BMW's?" Rosalie scowled. Her car was a BMW. She
rolled her eyes.
"I'll
play along. Why do blondes drive BMW's?" He grinned
ear to ear.
"Because
they can spell it." Emmet coughed to hide his laughter.
"Babe,
that's what you drive." He laughed nudging her.
"I
know that Emmet." She hissed.
"The tribe has a whole
list of blonde jokes that they have written on the rez, I just read a
few as I come up here for Rosalie. Leah usually has the best
ones." Jacob explained. Alice ran upstairs, and Edward ran
downstairs. Both came back to us holding something different.
"Here's
our clothes! I brought Fredricks of Hollywood pajama sets and I
brought the boring ones you usually insist on, Bella." Alice
chimed.
"Alice,
Frederick's of Hollywood is a little risque for a high school sleep
over party." I interjected. Frederick's of Hollywood makes Victoria
Secrets look like a Wal-mart. The lingerie found in Fredricks
is slinky and pricey.
"Fine,"
She sighed, "We'll wear the boring sets of pajamas." Alice
walked toward the cars. Edward was holding our sleeping bags.
"I don't get why they're having a sleepover." Rosalie complained. "Aren't these girls in high school?" Renesmee walked over to Rosalie.
"They seem to do
things differently here, Aunt Rose." Edward walked up to me and
pointed at Alice.
"Pretend
to sleep, you two, Nessie, have a good time." Renesmee hugged her
dad and walked outside. I moped behind them. We stood looking
at all the cars we had to choose from.
"You
girls take Alice's yellow Porsche, and we'll take.." Edward
started.
"Not
the Volvo." Jake whined. "I wanna ride in a cooler car than
that.
"Take
my car." I offered. Jake jumped into the passenger side. Edward
got into the driver's side and Jasper crammed into the nonexistent
back. Edward started the engine.
"We'll
follow you there and make sure you have everything. Then I
think Jacob and I are going to do some male bonding." Edward
grinned, holding back a laugh.
"Don't
hurt him, daddy." Renesmee warned.
"I
won't hunny." He reassured her.
Edward and
Jacob had followed us to the Ogdons, and grabbed our sleeping bags
for us. Jacob forgot who packed our bags decided to carry that
one in also.
"This
thing weighs a ton, what's in it?" He asked.
"Clothes,
make up, shoes, you know." Alice replied as she skipped to the
front of the door. She rang the doorbell, and Mike promptly
answered the door. He smiled at Renesmee and then looked up at the
rest of us.
"How
many are coming to this sleepover?" He asked,
warily.
"Just
Bella, Alice and I." Renesmee chirped, "Edward and Jacob are
going to go hang out." Mike looked relieved. Edward gave me a quick
hug.
"Be
safe, Mike has something planned." He whispered quickly. And
we parted. Jacob gave Renesmee a large bear hug, swinging her a
bit.
"Have
fun guys." Jacob said as Jasper gave Alice a quick peck on the
cheek. We were ushered into the house. It was a large house,
similar to ours, only with less rooms and more clutter. We made
our way up to Carol's room and Mike followed along. He kept
close to Renesmee, who didn't even seem to notice.
Carol's
room looked like an obsessive girl's room. Her room was
covered in teen posters. She had all of the popular artists
posters on he walls. The other girls were all ready in the
room, munching on potato chips and listening to music. Alice
dove right in, helping one of the girls with her nails. Alice
had at one time gone to cosmetology school and knew how to get
intricate with nail designs. Renesmee and I sat our stuff down
and set our sleeping bags out next to some of the girls.
"Have
some chips." Carol insisted. I shook my head.
"We
ate before we came."
"It's
just a snack." Carol replied. I thought fast.
"We're
on a strict diet." One of the girl's looked up.
"Diet?
You girls are beautiful, what type is it?" I thought for half
a second and then smiled.
"It's
a high protein, low carb diet."
"With
lots of red meats." Alice added, never looking up from the girl's
nails that she was designing. Carol ignored us and went back to her
radio and switched the CD. The radio started blaring a hip hop
song. Carol swaggered to the music for a bit and sat down. She
promptly started to gossip. I listened but stayed on the tip of
the conversation. Renesmee joined in a conversation with one of
the little blonde haired girl farther back. I quickly counted,
there were ten of us all together.
"Hey,
Carol, who was that guy you were telling us about?" One of the
girls asked. She wanted to get a rouse out of Carol and apparently
did. Carol started to glare at her. "You know, that guy you
said you were crazy for." Carol mumbled some boys name. It
was a lie. I could tell by the way she looked away the second
she said his name.
"No,
that's not the guy." The girl in the pigtails and pink and green
pajamas insisted. "The guy you said you were madly in love with.
Like forbidden lovers." She pretended to swoon. Alice's
eyes glazed over for a second, but then she smiled and continued
working on the nails. Carol turned a slight shade of
red.
"Fine,
Abby! I had a crush on Edward Cullen." She admitted, slightly
embarrassed. I smiled. I would be a fool not to think that at
least one person in this room didn't have a crush on one of the
Cullen boys. The girls looked at me to see what I would do.
"That's
fine, you can't help who you like." I replied, trying to help
Carol out. "But I'm pretty sure Edward and I aren't going to be
breaking up anytime soon." Carol didn't like my answer.
"Couples
in this town don't stay together very long." She replied.
"Unless…" She let her voice wander. Her eyes turned big
and she smiled. "Oh. My. God." She held out for dramatic pause,
all of the girls were looking at her now. "You had sex with Edward
Cullen." That was all it took for the girl's to form a circle
around me. This must have been Alice's vision.
"No
I haven't!" I insisted. That was a lie. Renesmee was proof
of that, but still, sixteen was a little young to lose your
virginity, so I decided to go with the lie.
"There
is no way Carlisle or Esme would approve of that." I was so glad
that I was incapable of blushing. "We've planned to wait
until marriage." Carol looked bored with my answer, but turned to
start another conversation with someone else. I wished that I
had the ability to read her mind.
"If
Bella and Edward get married, wouldn't that be like marrying your
brother?" She pointedly asked the girl next to her. Renesmee came
to the rescue.
"They
aren't related, it would be like marrying someone you've been
around forever." Carol was stuck. She couldn't press the
issue, and she had no where else to go. She couldn't pick on
us anymore. The girl that was getting her nails done saved
Carol from the moment of awkward silence.
"Oh
my goodness, Alice! These nails are beautiful! You should go into
cosmetology!" The girl fluttered her nails around to show off
Alice's work. There were intricate flowers on every finger,
each flower was different. The background matched her teal
pajamas. Two other girls went over to wait for Alice's
designs. I got up to go change into my pajamas. Renesmee
followed me. Alice responded that it wasn't the right time to go
get changed. We quickly grabbed our, 'boring' pajamas and I
went first to change, and then Renesmee followed. Our pajamas were
capri bottoms with full sleeve tops. The tops were floral and
low cut. When we returned to the room, Alice was working on her
fourth girl and Carol was complaining about her brother having his
friends over the same night as she was having her sleepover. Her
brother had wanted to do a party, but Carol kept insisting that a
sleepover was a safer bet.
"Mom
and dad won't be the wiser if we have sleepovers and our rooms get
messed up, but if we tear up the house with a party, we are grounded
forever." She looked smug. "Plus, anyone can join a party. It
takes a lot of bargaining to join a slumber party." She looked at
Alice and me when she said this. Alice, as if on cue, stood up,
looked at the surprised girl, who was still holding out her hands to
be painted and stretched.
"I'm
going to go put my pajamas on real quick." She grabbed the bag and
walked to the bathroom. Before she entered, she turned and gave
me a wink. Alice must have lost it.
Just
then Carol's door flew open and Mike and two of his friends stood
in the doorway. They were dressed in Rambo gear and were holding
super soakers. They smiled as they looked into the room. They
quickly aimed and fired water at all of us. The girls started
screaming and scrambling for cover. Renesmee and I could have
easily avoided all of the water, but we would not look normal being
the only dry ones, save Alice. Alice had seen it all along. Renesmee
and I dove beside Carol who had taken refuge behind her vanity. The
boys laughed and left.
Carol looked around and
assessed the damage. A few girls had escaped dry. Alice
opened the door from the bathroom, dressed in her short Fredricks of
Hollywood shorts and a deep purple, low cut babydoll dress. She
had put a deep purple ribbon in her hair. She looked around
innocently at the chaos.
"What
happened?" She looked shocked.
"Mike
and his friends attacked us with water guns." One of the girls
grumbled, while checking her sleeping bag for damage, "Looks like
Bella, Renesmee and Carol got the worst of it." I examined us,
Renesmee and I were soaked, and Carol's shirt wasn't too bad, but
she was still grabbing another pair of pajamas. She took in our
drenched state with a smile.
"Sorry,
I don't think you'll fit into my size." She grinned. Truth
be told, Carol was probably a size larger than Renesmee and myself.
But she was not going to play nice.
"It's
okay. I brought spares, just in case." Alice sang, holding up two
pair of pajamas. Renesmee's outfit was a cute juniors spaghetti
strap top with capri bottoms. Her outfit was themed in multi
color polka dots. My outfit was a halter in deep blue with
shorts.
"How
lucky of you to have spare outfits." Carol didn't even try to
hide the contempt in her voice.
"Be
prepared. You never know what the future holds." Alice smiled her
classic smile. A few of the girls commented on our outfits.
"Your
parents let you wear those in front of….everyone?" One girl
asked, trying to word her question correctly. I knew she meant around
the guys that we were 'dating'. Alice looked
unphased.
"There's
nothing wrong with them. Why would it be a problem?" The girl
blushed, turning three shades of red. Truthfully, the only time any
of us wear pajamas was when we were around our husbands. Well, except
Renesmee.
Our interrogation was cut short by a
sharp howl in the distance. The girl's all jumped.
"Was that
your dog, Carol?" The pig-tailed girl asked. Carol shook her
head.
"That
didn't sound like her." Renesmee smiled, she knew who's dog it
was.
The howl whipped through the air again, this time,
closer and lower. Mike and his two friends came to the door. It
was obvious they were scared. Mike and Carol acted juvenile in
all senses. It must be the small town atmosphere. His friends
walked into the room, and looked out Carol's window. Mike
shut the window quickly.
"It's
just a coyote, or something." He didn't sound convinced.
"They're
coming to bust us out." Alice whispered, too fast and quiet for any
normal person to hear. I looked at her, confused. She
smiled and pointed to her cheek. "Make up." I touched my own face
and felt my make up. It was smearing. The water fight
must have rubbed some of the make up off. Suddenly the room went
black. Mike was the first to yell, followed by the shrieks of
the girls. I could see perfectly, the girls were all rushing
together, to form a little circle. Mike was backing up as far
from the window as possible, and his friends were, now, by the
doorway again. Renesmee touched my hand. I saw a flash of us
being taken home. I nodded. She was aware of the
situation. I heard the leaves rustle. I knew that they
were scurrying in the rustle of the leaves. Someone was next to
the window.
There
was a screech as fingernails drug against the window pane. One
of the girls let out a scream. Carol gave a small whimper. With
a soft whoosh, the window was opened and a dark figure flew in. I
watched as the girls dashed to the other side of the room near the
door, only to be greeted by another dark figure. The figure
held up his arms and fluttered a black cape. The girls, Mike,
and his friends turned to run only to be greeted by the figure that
had entered window. I could sense the anxiety in the room grow.
Fear and confusion was also coursing through the room. Two
more figures came in through the doorway, herding the group into a
tight circle. I heard one of the girls sob. I then heard a
simultaneous click. With the click, four beams of light shined up on
the faces. It was Edward, Rosalie, Jasper and Emmet holding
flashlights under their chins.
"Boo."
Edward whispered. The rest of the Cullens laughed. The lights
flickered back on.
In the light, I could see they
were all dressed up as traditional vampires. Cloaks, and black
clothing. The circle of girls started to separate slowly. The
girls were still a little afraid of the Cullens in their outfits. It
was humorous to see the girls still visibly shaken. Alice
lightly punched Jasper.
"Didn't
have us scared for a second." Jasper hugged her.
"I
think you better ask your friends before you say that." Jasper
replied. Edward looked amused as he observed Mike's petrified
face.
"I'm
sorry for being so mean, but we have family from out of town coming
in tonight, and Carlisle and Esme wanted us to have the entire family
there. They asked if we would come get you." He was explaining this
to Carol. "We called and told Alice we were on our way and we
couldn't resist giving you all a bit of a scare, sort of a revenge
for the costumes earlier." Carol looked stunned. Probably
still shocked from the scare and dazzled by Edward. Edward took
my hand and we started to turn.
"If
you don't mind, we're going to use the door this time, it was
hard getting in through the window."
"Where's
Jakey, dad?" Renesmee asked, once we were outside and out of
earshot.
"He
helped with the howl and the lights. He should be in the car."
Edward motioned. Renesmee ran ahead and jumped into Emmet's
Jeep. It was probably the only vehicle big enough for all of them.
"Looks
like I'm riding with you." Edward smiled as he got inside the
Porsche.
"Thanks
for getting us so fast." Alice started. "Our cover would have
been blown come morning light." Alice's Porsche beat Emmet's
jeep to the house. We were walking into the house when Alice
went rigid. She relaxed almost as soon as she had
frozen.
"Angela's
here?" She asked. We walked a little faster. I opened the
door and came face to face with an lady. She was older and had
dark grey hair. Her style looked almost Victorian.
"You must
be the juvenile vampires. I've been waiting for you."
YAY
on to the next chapter!
I think I've got the story mapped out
from here on out. Well, it's always due to change. Thanks for all
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