Wish Upon A Star Chapter 2: Hello, Good Morning
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BellaPOV:
The morning after Alice's birthday party was spent at her place, cleaning. Alice's birthday was the party of the century, but it was also going to take part of a century to clean up.
Ever since I had arrived in Forks, Washington, little over a year ago, Alice and I had gotten along well. She was the one that had first come to speak with me on my first day at the school and her bubbly, enthusiastic personality balanced out my conservative one perfectly. We became firm friends and eventually best friends.
But despite this, even though we were in school together and I practically lived at Alice's high priced forest home, for some reason I had never met her older brother. I had met everyone else. I adored Alice's parents, Carlisle and Esme, who were both beautiful people who I really looked up to. I loved Emmet, Alice's teddy bear of a brother but not in that way, of course, as I had also met Rosalie, Emmet's tenacious girlfriend. Hell, I had even met Jasper, Rosalie's brother, the blonde haired charismatic man who I knew that Alice had the hots for. I could see them together someday, travelling the world somewhere.
But I had never met Edward. It seemed that he was always 'out', hunting for CDs to add to his collection or playing the piano or something, never to be disturbed.
But things were clearly different now. As soon as I picked up a broom and began to sweep the floor, Alice bounced in like a human shaped pogo stick, with ... him, with Edward, in tow. She was smiling from ear to ear, obviously pleased her little plan, the one she had outlined to me last night when she had finally gotten me to admit my crush on Edward. According to Alice, it wasn't even anything to be ashamed of.
"Oh yeah, it's like a rite of passage for girls. 'Thou hast not crushed until thou hast crushed on Edward Cullen.' It's really stupid, I think, because he's so hung up on find his soul mate that he hardly even considers other girls because there not as perfect as he is! God, there was this girl, Jessica ... " And off Alice went again, rambling about some poor soul who had gotten on Edward's bad side, and I literally had to wave my hands in front of her face to get her to stop again.
"Well," I asked her, "why didn't you straight out laugh at me when I said I had a crush on him? " I was confused, Alice motives were usually clear to me. "Well ... I never liked those stupid girls who went crushing on my brother Eddie – and whatever you do, don't call him that – so now that you like him, he can have you!" Her eyes were shining with mischievous glee, like a two year old caught doing something wrong by a person who she knows won't punish her. She did spirit fingers at me and said in a mysteriously alluring voice, "I can see the future ... We'll be sisters!" She seemed so happy with her plan, and how could I pass off an opportunity to meet Edward? So I agreed.
"Alice," I said, in passing as I went to make sure the bar wasn't still serving Alice drinks, when I'd told them not to. And, as I had expected, she grabbed my arm as I went and started morphing from Alice to ALICE. "If you could see the future, the world would be in turmoil." I waited for the craziness to begin, and it did without delay. "Yeaaah, but it would be a happy turmoil! Like at parties! I LOVE parties! Let's have a party right now, just me and you and Eddie! It will be fun! FUNNNNNNN!" As you can imagine, this was around the time the party ended. We (well, me) ended up having to lock the doors at two o'clock not so much to keep people out as to keep Alice away from the rest of the world.
But now I stood, the morning after the crazy birthday party, beginning phase one of Alice's hare-brained plan. "Ok! Bella!" That was Alice, dressed in a butter yellow sundress that reflected her mood. Well, if clothes reflected moods, then why was Edward dressed in blue? "This is Edward, my brother, and for some insane reason you haven't met each other and I thought you might want to! So, this is him. Her. Whatever. Just so you know." Alice was nervous, as she wasn't used to lying to her brother and obviously we hadn't told him about the plan. He looked totally bewildered at our sudden meeting after what he had assumed was permanent solitude. Ugh, he must be thinking I'm pathetic, what with my goofy smile and my apparent inability to speak while looking – staring – into his deep green eyes.
There was an awkward silence as I waged an internal war for the power of speech. I could almost see Alice making the turtle hand gesture behind Edward's back. Finally I managed a weak 'hello' to Edward and hated myself for blushing even at those two syllables. Edward smiled carefully, and, in the most gentlemanly way, he bowed deeply and said "Hello, good morning." Alice rolled her eyes but to me it was another master brush stroke in my rapidly forming portrait of him, the boy who was perfect in every way.
"Well ... "Alice said, drawing out the e and grinning evilly. She had something wicked in mind now, something, in her alcohol-infected stupor, she hadn't told me about. "I'll just leave you two alone for ... a half an hour or so, I've got something to do, um, at the mall. Yeah. Bye!" And off she ran! She had better know that I was going to kill her for putting me in this situation. All I wanted was to be in his presence, but that terrified me as well, my terminal awkwardness and the fact that etiquette demanded Edward stay too. Oh, Alice was going to have it when she got back ... I could see my revenge in the form of Alice's burning closet already.
Maybe that was why she was running so fast.