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I live in a diverse world with wonderful people of all size and color, which to me is beautiful, so my stories will have diversity and interracial pairings.

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The Truth Revealed

Chapter Two

(Bella's POV)

Stranger And Stranger

Does this thing have any regard or respect for ones personal space, or does this arse actually think he is so irresistible his nearness would make me swoon and forget what he truly is? If he keeps this up I'll be forced to show my hand too early. but if he leans down one more time and whisper some flirtatious nonsense in my ear, which was just an excuse to sniff my neck, I will leave here and go get my dad's blow troches, which he uses to burn back dead foliage from our home and jokingly named Mr. Bubbles and Mr. Crispy, and burn their unfeeling bodies to ashes, laughing crazily while I'm doing it.

I take a deep calming breath, damn what's that smell, anyway, though it would give me great pleasure to watch them burn, I cannot act too quickly, their time will come soon enough. Deep in thought imagining their demise, I jump for the hundredth time today from the squeal that comes from Alice everytime she finds something that she thinks is perfect for me. I wanted to grab one these dresses and stuff it in her mouth.

"Come over here Bella." She calls from across the store. "I found two you're just going to love."

Yeah right, I think as I make my way over to her, my shadow, Edward, following me the whole way, I didn't like the first ten you showed me.

"Here." She shoves them at me. "Try these on." She says as she led me to the dressing rooms.

Bossy much? I thought as I made my way to the dressing room for, what feels like, the hundredth time.

I didn't pay too much attention to what they looked like, except one was a deep burgundy red with a halter-top and the other a deep blue, with a tube top and silver treat woven through it. I just wanted to get out of here. What is that damn smell, I question myself again, but again, brushed it aside as I stepped into the dressing room, closing the door behind me and began to change in the first dress, the red one. I have to admit I like how it fit; softly hugging my curves to mid thigh then gentle flowed out with soft pleats to the knee. I turn, opened the door and step out of the room to the get the opinion of self-described fashionista, Alice.

She squealed, as I knew she would, when she saw me. "I love that color on you." She says enthusiastically, I just rolled my eyes. Edward just sat there with his mouth hanging open, and his eyes began to darken just before he closed it, hiding it from me. I smirked to myself, you wish, I thought.

"Okay go try on the other." Alice told me, clapping with excitement. The way she was acting, I couldn't help thinking she was on drugs, probably formaldehyde. I snicker as I go to try on the next dress.

"Wow." She said in awe as I came out with the blue dress on. "That's definitely the one." She turned to Edward. "Don't you agree?"

"Most definitely." He replied, without taking his eyes off me. "You look beautiful Bella, you should definitely wear that one that."

The way he was looking at me, made me start to think twice about going to the dance with them, but I knew I had to go, don't ask me why, I just knew it was important. So smiling sweetly at them I replied. "Great, the red one it is." Without waiting for their reaction, I turned and went back into the dressing room. If they thought I would actually wear a dress they chose, they had another thing coming.

Quickly changing back into my own clothes, I put the red dress over my arm, but left the blue dress hanging there, the attendants asks us to do that when we were done. I walked out the room and straight up to the cashier, with them following behind.

"I still think the blue one looks better on you." Alice said from behind me

I stopped and turned towards here. "Thanks but I prefer this one." I replied

"No offense Bella, but I do have a little experience in dressing others, knowing what looks good on them." She said smiling softly, trying to show she meant no harm, as if I care.

"No offense to you either Alice, but, since I'm the one wearing the dress, I would know what looks and feels right for me." Her face sort of fell and I started feeling bad, if I didn't know better I would actually they are capable of feeling emotional pain. "Look Alice, you and I have different tastes and I know what I like." That said I went over to the cashier and she rung it up, just when I was about to pay, a credit card was flashed before me.

"My treat." Edward said, grinning at me.

Show off. "No thanks." I replied. "Unless you're a family member, a friend I have known for years or we have been dating and we buy things for each other, I like to pay for my own things." Then I smiled brightly. "But thanks anyway." He just nodded and put his card away.

I finished paying for the dress then we left. "You know we could change that." Edward whispered to me once we were outside.

I looked up at him, confused. "Change what?"

"Us dating." He replied and my mouth hung open in shock. "I am very attracted to you." He continued. "I think I am truly falling in love with you."

The first thought that came to my mind was, you must be kidding me. "I'm not ready for anything serious Edward." I said instead. "I think for now we should remain friends, get to know each other a little more."

"If you allow yourself to give me a chance, I may change your mind." He insist

I made myself look sad. "I don't want to hurt you Edward." I mentally rolled my eyes at that. "But, I don't know you that well yet and as I said, I'm not looking for a relationship, all my concentration and time will be concentrated on graduating in a few months."

He smiled at me. "It's okay, I understand." Then he grinned cockily. "But that doesn't mean I'll give up."

I smiled and shrugged my shoulder while mentally rolled my eyes and walked away from him. "I remember seeing a coffee shop around here and I could use one about now."

Alice walked up beside me. "You know, you should think about giving him a chance. He really cares about you."

"Like I told him." I said and kept walking. "Friendship is all I'll ever be able to offer him at this point." Or ever.

"Oh, okay." She says almost sadly

While looking for the coffee shop I walked by an ice cream parlor. "Hey, who's in the mood for ice cream?" I asked with a smirk. Without waiting their reply, I continued. "I know I am, a vanilla with chocolate swirls, with a cherry, oh and sprinkles, lots and lots of sprinkles."

They both said they would pass. I walked in, with them following behind, and ordered exactly what I told them I would; as soon as it was served to me, I took a long lick, looking at them under my lashes. "You sure you don't want any? It's really good."

They both looked slightly sick. "No thanks." Alice replied. "Maybe next time." Came from Edward. I nodded at them and continued enjoying my ice cream as they seem to look sicker and sicker and as pale as they were, that is quite a feat. I got a little satisfaction from it. Alice trying to talk me into giving her brother a chance would of made me say something I wasn't ready to.

"Well." I began when I was done and cleaned my hands and mouth. "It's time I got back home. I've stayed out longer than I intended to."

We all left and they walked me to my truck. "Are you sure you can't come over for a little while? Esme was really looking forward to seeing you." Edward told me, once I was in my truck.

"Sorry, I told you, I've already made plans with my dad." I replied and decided to throw them a bone. "But thanks for hanging out with me today, it was fun."

"It was our pleasure." Edward said and smiled.

"Will we see you tomorrow?" Alice asked

"Of course, I'll be in school tomorrow just like you." I told her.

She looked sheepish. "That's right, I forgot tomorrow was a school day."

"We'll see you tomorrow then." Edward added still smiling.

I have to admit, sometimes when they smile, I try to see if I could detect any fangs, conspicuously of course, but never saw any.

"I have to go." I said simply and started my truck. "Talk to you tomorrow." And waved as I pulled out and drove away.

While driving on the stretch of road that led straight to my house, I glanced in my rear view mirror and could have sworn I saw their silver Volvo following me. When I had to stop at a red light, I looked again and sure enough, there they were.

I reached my house and was relieved when I saw my dad's cruiser parked on the side of the house. All kinds of kidnapping scenarios rushed through my head as I pulled into the driveway and parked, they pulled over in the front, getting out as soon as I did. I walked over to them. "Something wrong?" I asked

"Nothing's wrong." Alice replied cheerfully. "We were just thinking, we never met your dad, we have seen him around but was never personally introduced. We thought this would be a good time."

I looked at them suspiciously. Trying to think of any reason why they couldn't meet my dad today.

What were they up to? I couldn't think of any reason to deny their request, at least none I wanted to say at the moment. "Sure, why not." I agreed reluctantly and began leading them to the door, but just before we got to it, they stopped and looked at the entrance to the woods across from my home.

I tried to see what they were staring at but saw nothing.

"We'll meet your dad another time." Edward said, as they made their way back to their car.

"Yeah and I'll see you tomorrow." Alice added, she opened the front passenger door then stopped. "I have an idea. Rose and Emmet is riding to school in that red flashy car of hers, she says her baby needs exercise." She put the last part in quotes. "There will be room so why don't you ride with us to school?"

I was about to say no but what the heck. "Sure, why not." The more I'm in their company the more I can find out. I'm just not too crazy about being at that house of theirs.

"Great, we'll see you tomorrow.' Came from Edward then they left.

I smelled the Chinese food as soon as I entered the house. "Dad, I'm back."

"I'm in the den." He called out. "Did you have fun?" He asked when I walked in the room and sat down.

"Yeah, it was great." I answered while checking out the amount of Chinese food he had spread out on the coffee table. "We having company?" I asked jokingly.

He grinned, "I couldn't decide what you might like, so I got some of your favorites.

He sure did. There was lobster Cantonese, shrimp in lobster sauce, shrimp and house fried rice among other things. "Thanks." I said as I reached for the lobster Cantonese, which came with steamed jasmine rice.

"I thought we could watch a movie together while we ate."

"Great idea." I replied as we tucked into our food.

We didn't do much talking as we ate and watched The Shining, one of my favorite movies. It was just a perfect father, daughter night.

That night I slept through the night without dreams, at least none I can remember.