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One Night in Vegas

Chapter Twenty-Three: Part Two.

Bella's Point of View

I tapped my finger on Alice's kitchen table as I silently listened to the mindless chatter going on around me. Esme and my mother were talking about stores we just had to go to today and I had to bite my tongue. It was all that I could do to keep from complaining, and complain was all I wanted to do. Not only was I dragged out of bed and away from my adoring husband's glorious hands and mouth, but now I was going to be forced to go shopping? I hate shopping and everyone here aside from Esme knew this. Damn them all to hell and back.

I looked up as Jasper passed me with a plate in his hand; heading toward the opposite end of the table. The smell of his pancakes teased my nose and my stomach grumbled as if reminding me that I have yet to eat yet. I was sex deprived, being forced to go shopping against my will, and apparently being starved on top of all that. I quickly jumped up to my feet and crossed the room and placed myself in Jasper's lap before he had time to scoot in. He looked up at me as I grabbed his fork from the table top. "Hey Jazz." I muttered leaning forward to cut his food up in to bite sized pieces. "Mind if I take a bite?"

"Uh." Jasper murmured as I looked up at him. He was staring down at his plate with a slight frown on his lips; looking like a child who lost their favorite toy. "I guess so." He finally managed even though I already had a fairly good sized piece of pancake on the fork that was heading to my mouth. My mother and Esme choose that time to turn and look at me with disapproving look on their face.

"Bella, what are you doing?" She asked sitting forward in her chair. I looked at her blindly poking for another piece of pancake before scooting myself forward. I felt Jasper tense before reaching to steal the fork away from me.

"You have a bony butt." He complained as he stuck the fork in his mouth; eating the pancake I had intended to eat myself. I intention squirmed more in his lap to cause him discomfort just for that and he frowned at me. Obviously he wasn't pleased, but neither was I. I had wanted that.

"Bella." My mother's voice chimed again. This time laced with annoyance. "Get off his lap and stop eating his food. We are going out for a big lunch. Don't ruin your appetite." I frowned at her and leaned back against Jasper, knocking him in the head with the back of mine. Jasper groaned and dropped his fork on to the table. "For the love of God Bella." My mother groaned; jumping to her feet. I quickly jumped off his lap and turned to face him; horror stricken.

"Oh, my god Jasper." I whined as I examined his face. "I am so sorry." He lifted his right hand and waved me off all while covering his nose with his left. "No, let me see the damage." I said tugging on his hand; my mother already at his side with Esme at her's.

"I'm fine Bella really." He said grabbing a hold of my hand that was tugging on his. It must be really bad if he was attempting to hide it from me.

"That's enough Bells." My mother said sternly, but with no effect. It was in the moment a saw a trickle of crimson make it's way down his chin and my stomach clenched. Oh, well, that was a good reason to try and hide it from me. I released my hold on him and took a shaky step back all while willing myself not to get sick. I must have pale considerably because Esme had made her way to my side and I felt her hands firmly on my shoulder. The last thing I remember was Jasper calling for Alice. Damn blood.

I came to with the feel of a cold compress to my forehead and I groggily looked up into Alice's eyes. She did not look amused. I grabbed a hold of the wash cloth and quickly sat up. "Oh, my God! Alice is Jasper okay?" Alice rolled her eyes and sighed.

"He is fine, but you should really stop being on people Bella. It's not nice." She said taking the wet cloth from my hand. She was annoyed. That was quite obvious. I guess I wouldn't be too happy either if she gave my husband a bloody nose. In effort not to look my best friend in the eyes I glance around the room and realized I was still at Alice's. In her living room to be exact.

"Um." I murmured after a moment of complete silence. "Where is everyone?" I asked, unsure if I really wanted to know. I should have known nothing good would have come of today. Esme walking in on Edward and me should have been a sign, but I was too dense to notice. Gosh, I just wanted to go home and crawl into bed and sleep the rest of the day away before I bloodied up someone else's face. The thought of blood brought back the mental image of it trickled down pour Jasper's chin and I instantly felt sick. I laid back down and took a deep breath willing myself to think of something more pleasant. Edward. My husband. Edward with no shirt on. Yes, that was a beautiful mental image that had me shivering a bit.

Alice's sigh brought me crashing back to reality. "Jasper's at your place with the guys, your mother is in the kitchen canceling our reservations at Bella Italia, Esme went to go pick up some subs from Subway, and Rosalie is in the bathroom talking to Emmett. You know, part of me wants to think you did this on purpose." Oh, yeah, because passing out at the sight of blood and wanting to vomit was my list of things to do daily. Lovely Alice really.

I sat up again; frowning. "Don't be ridiculous Alice." I said point blank. "Why would I intentionally want to hurt someone? Really? I wasn't that hungry that I'd have beat Jasper up for his breakfast, especially not since I know if I would have pouted out my lower lip and begged that he would have given it to me."

"No, but you might have beat him up to get out of having to go shopping!" She spat; standing up to her full four foot eleven inches to glare down at me. Well, then, I could see where this was heading and if she wanted a fight she'd get one. I was so not in the mood. I returned her glared and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Oh, you have me all figured out, don't you?" I spat back. You wouldn't see me going down with out a fight. Alice placed her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes.

"I've known you long enough, don't you think? One day Bella! Couldn't you have gone along one day and pretended to enjoy yourself?" I rose to my feet and quickly walked passed her looking for my purse. So, maybe I was going down without a fight. I didn't want to deal with this. I didn't want to deal with her. "Where are you going?" She asked as I picked up my purse and slung it over my shoulder.

"Home." I spat simply and marched toward the door. I heard her foot steps pound on the ground after me which was a shock because she was normally so light on her feet.

"Oh, no, you aren't!" She squealed. The instant she grabbed a hold of my arm I tugged it free causing Alice to stumble backward a few steps. As I opened the door and turned to face her, a look of shock on her face.

"I don't know what's the matter with you, but until you get yourself in check leave me alone." With that said I stomped out of her house and slammed the door shut behind me. It wasn't until I got to the end of her drive way that I realized Esme had driven us here and I had no means to get home. Alice had probably realized that and that could be the reason she hadn't come out after me. She probably thought once I realized I had no care I'd go storming back in. Like that would happen. Something as simple as not having a car wasn't going to stop me. I'd simply just walk down to the small shopping center down the street and then call Edward to come pick me up.

My mind raced the entire walk to the shopping center; trying my hardest to analyze what had happened between Alice and I. Did she honestly think I would do something like that just to get out of going shopping? I hated shopping, but that was completely ridiculous. Insane even. I sat down on the edge of the curb and placed my purse in my lap; rubbing my arms against the cool winter air. My coat was the one thing I had forgotten to grab and I had long regretted it. My pride had meant to much for me to turn back though and I wasn't ready to call for Edward. I wanted to sit here alone awhile and try to clear my head. No doubt I'd be getting an earful from my mother and Rose later. That I wasn't looking forward to.

"Bella?"

I looked up at the sound of my name and my breath caught in my throat as my eyes meet familiar brown ones. And I had thought this day couldn't get any worse. Boy was I wrong.

"Jake?"

So, I just made. Sorry it took me so long to get this up today. I wasn't accounting on feeling lazy. Just one of those days. I think I'm going to go a head with my idea of a story with the gang in high school, but I don't think I'm going to make it any longer than ten chapters. I think I'm just going to base it off of senior year. I also think I'm going to do a one shot of how Edward and Bella actually met up in Vegas and how they came to be married. It should be fun. Well, please review for me lovelies and I'll try my hardest to get you another chapter tomorrow.

-Anna