Bella found herself shrieking like a teenager as Emmett lifted her up without any warning and flung her around his back. She hadn't done piggy back since she was so young she didn't even remember it, but he was so large that even if he were human he could do this to her. "God Dammit Emmett." She spoke into his ear, "Everyone is looking at us." And they did have an audience, as they made their way towards the EMP at the Seattle Center. It was only open for two more hours and apparently Bella's little legs weren't going fast enough for the big vampire.

She glanced over Emmett's shoulder to see if Rosalie was going to be any help, but the blonde vampire looked far to amused by the situation, and she was keeping up with Emmett's now longer strides just fine. "They have interactive areas and a lot of history." Emmett was still talking about the place they were going. "And it isn't all music, there is an area for science fiction and fantasy movies." Well, that made it a little more interesting to Bella.

Emmett seemed to carry her halfway through the entire Seattle Center in the rush to get to the EMP. Once they were outside the slightly odd looking building, Rosalie moved up behind Bella and Bella felt cool hands grasp at her waist. She carefully loosened her stranglehold on Emmett with her legs and was helped in guiding her feet back to the ground. "Emmett, why don't you go get us some tickets?" Rosalie told him and the big dork just grinned at them playfully before doing what he was told.

"I swear he is just like a big child sometimes." Rosalie said ,while readjusting the collar on Bella's shirt for her, but the fond smile on Rosalie's lips showed that wasn't a criticism of Emmett. Once Rosalie was done with that Bella ran her hand through her hair to see if that could fix whatever piece of it was just sticking straight out.

The EMP was loud, music everywhere, still Bella found herself smiling a lot at what she saw there, and how Emmett or even Rosalie looked interested in some little thing they'd found to play with. They moved from section to section taking in as much as they could in the two hours they had, and when the place finally closed Bella found herself standing outside the building with the couple wondering what they'd do next. Rosalie supplied the next plan, since Emmett's was the EMP it seemed fair. "Pike's Place Market is opened later." And they were off again. Bella wasn't so surprised when she found herself pulled up onto Emmett's back again as they made their way to the monorail, which apparently was a tourist feature she had to see as well.

"You know, if I don't get to walk under my own power, I'll only get slower over time." She told Emmett as he set her down once they'd reached the monorail line.

"Is that even possible?" He asked with a smug smile and she pretended to growl at him. She could see Rosalie was having fun just watching them. She blushed and waited for the monorail to stop. She did take a few steps away from Emmett and positioned Rosalie between them, so that perhaps she'd get to walk to the Market under her own power.

They had a great time looking at the shops and Bella loved the moment she found a fairy figurine with messy black hair. "I always knew Alice was related to pixies." She said with as straight a face as possible and she enjoyed that it made Rosalie laugh. The vampire also bought that figurine for Alice, so Bella might be paying for that comment later.

They were walking passed a street band, and Bella couldn't even hear herself talking, when her stomach rumbled. She noticed both of the vampires with her glanced down at her and Bella blushed. "I could use some dinner." Emmett said while glancing at Rosalie, as if it wasn't Bella's body that announced the need.

"I have an idea." Rosalie pulled her cell phone out and started talking, but the band was so loud she didn't know who could hear Rosalie at all. The blonde vampire hung up and then they finished making their way away from the noise and towards the monorail again. "Alice is making us a reservation."

"Where?" Emmett asked and Bella could see the lack of enthusiasm, but Rosalie just smiled mysteriously and led them into the building to catch the monorail.

They were only halfway done with the monorail ride when Rosalie glanced at her phone and smiled again. Bella really wondered at what the vampire was planning for dinner, because she could easily go into a food court with them and pretend to be so into people watching that the vampires could hide food quickly, but a sit down restaurant would make being oblivious enough to not see her tablemates weren't eating very hard. "We've got fifteen minutes." Rosalie told them and it was a cruel tease because Bella didn't know what she was getting into.

Rosalie walked with a pace that Bella could match, though it took work, and she found Emmett and herself flanking the woman as they made their way through the Seattle Center again, but they took a turn walked up to the Space Needle. Bella took a moment to stare up at the odd structure. "They have a lovely restaurant up here, with an amazing view." Rosalie said and took a step back to lightly take Bella's arm, while leading her into the base of the Needle.

"Oh, yeah, amazing view." Emmett muttered like he just got it, but Bella had already figured it out. She just needed to impressed with the view and they'd get through dinner just fine.

The prices almost had her wanting to leave, but Rosalie just said she was paying and seeing how proud she seemed of her restaurant idea Bella gritted her teeth and ordered a sixty dollar steak. It was hard to do, but once she got it she found a sixty dollar steak tasted a lot better than a twenty dollar steak.

In this setting, Bella found herself sitting more like the adult she really was, and she noticed the other two doing it as well. The atmosphere was classy, and the pacing seemed to slow as the focus was on just watching the world out the windows. Bella found herself blushing just a little more easily, when she noticed Rosalie gently squeeze Emmett's hand, or him give the blonde an adoring look. She'd almost feel like a third wheel, but they involved her, talked with her, and gave her soft smiles as well and it was weird and still nice. Bella had to remember to stare out the window at times, to give the vampires time to hide their own food, but the view at her table was much more beautiful than what was out that window. In her life, she didn't think she'd ever seen a couple so perfect, and so clearly in love, and to know they'd been together decades and still had that was amazing.

"I think today might be one of the best days of my life." Bella muttered and felt embarrassed as soon as she'd admitted it. She wasn't talking about the few months everyone thought her memory spanned. This was truly a terrific day.

Emmett smirked at her, "Yeah, we do it like that." He teased, but Bella noticed the soft look in Rosalie's eyes as she smiled at her. Rosalie seemed to understand what she meant.

After their dinner they went back to the car and made their way back to Forks. Charlie was awake when she got home, but she could tell he might have fallen asleep for a while. He looked pretty tired as he turned from his place in front of the TV. "Hey Bells. Have fun?"

"It was great." She smiled widely and made her way to the stairs but she stopped before tackling them. "Thanks about the curfew and all." It was nearly midnight. Dinner in the space needle takes a while, and they were hours from Seattle.

"No problem Bells, glad you had fun." He just gave her a hint of a smile and she made her way upstairs. She was tired and needed sleep, but she could feel the soft smile that didn't leave her lips even as she trudged her way up the stairs for bed.

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On Monday morning Bella found Alice was waiting for her to take her to school, so she didn't need Charlie to do it. While it was subtle, Bella didn't miss that Alice walked her to and from English, dropping her off at her second period class before heading to her own. At first it seemed like she was just too busy talking to split off to her own class, but when Alice met her at the door when she left Algebra to walk her to Art, Bella got the sense she was in protective custody. It was not as reassuring as it could be, that Alice, of all vampires, thought she needed an escort around campus.

To make it a little more odd, when Bella grabbed her bagged lunch and was planning to head to the library to work, Alice, for the first time, joined her, making them detour to her locker for a bagged lunch as well. Another first was that Jasper met them there. In the time since she moved here, Bella had little to do with Jasper, but he slid into the seat across from her at the table she tended to sit at to do her homework during lunch.

Alice took the seat next to him, while giving Bella a slightly wicked smile. "So I heard you let Rosalie and Emmett take you to Seattle." She leaned forward. "So that means you owe me."

Jasper chuckled and his eyes were amused looking when Bella glanced at him for an interpretation of that claim.

"I want to be your BFF as well, and you told me no to going to Seattle." Alice acted a little hurt, but she was clearly acting.

"You wanted to shop until I couldn't walk anymore at stores I don't go into. We didn't shop." Bella shook her head, and did her best to resist smiling at Alice's acting.

"I have a little fairy figurine that says your lying. You shopped." Alice looked like she had Bella over the barrel and her victorious grin was over the top. "So, since you owe me, you're going to go somewhere with Jasper and I."

Bella couldn't help but give Jasper a glance. She was under the impression he wasn't great with humans. "Where?" She asked slowly, looking between both of them a little cautiously. She couldn't see Jasper shopping and didn't know what else Alice would be willing to do.

"There is a car show in Portland next weekend." Alice told her and Bella stared at a moment, wondering if someone had switched bodies with Alice while she wasn't looking.

"Isn't that more Rosalie's thing?" Bella asked slowly and got a chuckle out of Alice.

"She took you to Seattle, when she knew I wanted to. I'm taking you to the car show." Alice smirked.

"I'm buying a vehicle, and needed Alice to drive me there so I could drive it back." Jasper slipped that in, and it made more sense, if you didn't know he could have run there. "I'd really appreciate it if you kept Alice company on the drive back. I don't like the idea of her making that long drive alone."

"Oh," Bella looked over at him. "Of course." It was the normal thing to say, but he was lying. It was a good effort though, it sounded totally legitimate.

"And we can see Portland while Jasper looks at the cars." Alice looked pleased.

"When are we going?" Bella asked.

"Saturday. We need to leave early." Bella's heart sank at those words.

"How early?" She tried, but her voice made it obvious she wasn't thrilled with what she expected to hear.

"We'd like to leave by six in the morning." Alice told her and Bella groaned a little.

"Alice, if you want to be my BFF, don't make a habit of asking for that." She shook her head and sighed. "Okay, six. Don't expect me to make much sense for the first two hours, but I'm in." If this were real, she did care enough about Alice to want to keep her company on a trip like this, and if Alice were human it wasn't a good idea for her to be alone for that drive. This was all about maintaining the lies though and Bella wasn't thrilled at the moment that it was going to cost her sleep.

"Alright." Alice beamed at her and it helped to improve Bella's mood just a little.

The week showed Bella what her new routine would be with Edward around. She only once saw him in the halls and he had Rosalie with him at the time. They didn't come to see her, and she took that as a hint not to go see them. Bella found she was escorted around a bit more by Alice, or Emmett, or even Rosalie, but she wasn't always with one of them, it was just more often. If Charlie drove her to school, Alice was always conveniently right there when she got there, or Alice would pick her up at the house in Rosalie's car. Rosalie would then drive her home in that same car at the end of the school day. Charlie was always happy to see Bella's friends helping her out. He had no idea how much help they were really being.

When Charlie was dropping her off for school on Friday, he decided to throw a wrench into her plans of the night. "Tonight the Blacks are coming over for dinner and some games on the tv."

"You do know I'm waking up obscenely early in the morning right?" Bella asked, but she knew she wasn't winning this one. It was at her house.

"You can go to bed whenever you need to, but I invited them last week, before you made your plans." Charlie told her and Bella resisted the urge to say she wished she'd known about that.

"Jacob looks at me like he has a crush." Bella spoke more softly, not getting out of the car right away. Alice was waiting, so she was probably hearing all of this. "Do me a favor and don't 'send us off to play' or anything. He's too young and doesn't even know how to pretend to be subtle. I don't like sports and now I can't go watch something else in my room, because I'm not inviting the boy into my bedroom."

"Oh." Charlie looked a little surprised by her words. "Um, maybe you could invite Alice or Rosalie over."

"I like them, I can't do that to them." Bella knew it would be a disaster if she had Billy Black and any Cullen in the same house, but she wasn't supposed to know that yet. "I don't want to invite them over just so a teenage boy can drool over them instead of me."

"I'm sorry Bells. I didn't know." Charlie frowned, "but it can't be too bad to just be nice and not encourage him."

"Boys are stupid about crushes. Being nice is encouraging them." Bella sighed heavily and then opened the door. "Well, we'll deal but we need to figure something out for the future. I don't want you to not have your friends over, that would be ridiculous. I just need to find a way to avoid things getting awkward." She looked at him for a moment.

"I'm glad you're being so mature about this Bells." Charlie told her and she just nodded and got out. "Maybe I could ground you and you have to stay in your room?" He gave her a weak smile with that weak joke.

"Sounds tempting, if you can come up with a good reason I might take it." She gave him a weak smile in return and closed the door. Jacob was a character she'd liked in the books, but here, in person, she didn't want to deal with him getting territorial or thinking anything could happen with her. Bella was firmly on the Cullen side in their little 'feud'. She found the prejudice of the Quileute's a little disgusting, they didn't even try to listen or pay attention, and they just lumped all vampires into one big evil lump. If the fact that all of Bella's friends were Cullens came up tonight Billy Black was going to be seriously unpleasant.

"Are you okay?" Alice asked her once Bella got to the sidewalk, and Bella gave her a small smile.

"Sure, I'm fine." She did like how Alice took her hand and held it for a moment, before leading them to class. This time, Alice knew she was lying.

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