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I did dream that night – and it was rather sinister, but not in the usual way, more in the spooky weird, creepy way. I dreamt of Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, Emmett and Edward. Their faces so perfect as they stood in a straight line facing me that I started feeling self conscious, I felt myself getting bigger and bigger, blowing up like a beach ball. I really felt my face blotch up, red and spotty and greasy. I lifted my hand to my teeth and they were covered with a metal coating and suddenly my vision was blurred and I bent down to the floor picking up a pair of glasses that had suddenly appeared for me. They all smiled, then snickered then they were doubled up in laughter. All glaring at me their eyes sparkling in glee. Edward stepped forward and took my hand, "You really thought you fooled everyone Isabella Dwyer?"

Then I woke up.

I spent my Sunday cleaning up, doing my massive load of homework and exercising. Charlie watched the game with a few of the guys and repeatedly asked if I needed help but I told him I found cleaning therapeutic. That was a mega lie but it did give me time to think so I got on with it, scrubbing out kitchen cupboard, the fridge, under the table, behind the washing machine and lots more atrociously boring jobs.

Homework took around two hours to complete and when I was finally finished it was dinner time – I ate quickly and then jumped on my saviour... the treadmill. It was while I was on the treadmill that Alice sent a text reminding me about the party on Friday, also informing me that I was from this moment booked on Thursday to help her set up the town hall for this party.

I realised then, as I was running myself into a sweat, that I would need a dress. Once I finished my allotted 40 minutes I done some push ups, then some sit ups, then some squats, then turned on the computer. If I picked out a dress today it would be delivered on time for the party as long as I paid a little bit extra for it to be delivered on Wednesday.

I searched through a few fashion outlet website before I found what I was looking for, I hadn't had an exact image in my head but I knew when I seen it I'd know it; It was a pleated one shouldered dress with a white base, then printed with infused warm pinks, blacks and greys, it had a little black waistband that finished it off with flair and it was a Lipsy so thoroughly acceptable in the fashion terms of things. I paid for it with my little plastic card and smiled, it would hopefully do me proud on Friday night.

Once I had finished with the financial side of things, I decided to start something which I had been waiting for a while to do; I rifled under the bed for one of the notebooks I had bought just in case I needed them for school. I flipped to the first page, and titled it slightly childishly "Revenge Plans".

No. 1 Get Emmett and Rosalie back at the party

I pushed the surfacing feeling of guilt to the back of my mind and forced myself to remember just how destructive that couple could be when they felt like it...

9 Years ago

It was one of those days; the ones where I knew no matter how hard I tried I wouldn't be able to melt into the background and if I didn't try hard at the things they asked me I would just make even more of a fool of myself. It was gym first thing, Physical Education, P.E.; whatever you wanted to call it, it was horrible.

I trudged through the 3 inches of slow and cursed, wishing it was just that little bit higher, or that the heating the in the school could just miraculously fail on us and we all had to be sent home. My cheeks stung with the glacial air and my eyes began watering as the wind whistled around my ears. The bell had just rung and everyone was piling into the school, I got there just in time as they were about to close the doors just a few moment longer and I would have had to walk all the way round to the office to be let in.

I panted as I pulled off my mittens and placed my hands directly over the radiator in the cloakroom, pulling my jacket off and hanging it up unceremoniously before bending down to change into my indoor shoes. I was going to be late to class if I didn't hurry up but the snow had soaked through my boots so now I had to take of my wet socks and get into my indoor shoes in bare feet.

I plodded along the corridors, my feet relatively numb, but the warmth and feeling was beginning to return to them as I reached the changing rooms. When I opened the door everyone fell into silence, I blushed a little and guessed they had been talking about me but as Angela was off with chicken pocks it was unlikely I'd ever find out what they had been saying – I could take an educated guess though, as Rosalie and Tanya were in the midst of it I was sure.

I opened my locker and took out the bag which should contain two pairs of freshly laundered P.E. kit as it was the beginning of the week. I turned to leave, it was a ritual of mine to get changed in the toilets, no one could touch me there, as I turned, Rosalie followed and chose the other cubicle – at just eight years old Rosalie Hale was already toned and had the best shaped legs I had ever seen on a girl my age, I felt a bit stupid staring at her but sometimes it was hard to take your eyes from her. So much evil in a body which was completely flawless.

I opened the bag and pulled out a pair of shorts and T-shirt as I heard howling laughter through the wall, the boys got changed through there. I put on the shorts and they fitted but were a bit longer than usual I was sure, then pulled the top on, it was much tighter than usual – it must have shrunk in the wash, it was tight in excess but I suppose it would have to do. I brought up all my courage just to leave the toilet cubicle, I went to the lockers and put my kit in – everyone was already changed – Rosalie must have been pretty quick too and quiet because she had gone as well.

I ran to the gym, we still had about three minutes before the teacher would turn up – they always gave us a sufficient amount of time to get changed. As I walked through the peeling grey doors the laughter inside hit my ears and by the time I realised exactly what they were laughing at I was just reaching the bench full of children.

"Ayyyyyyyyyyyy, check me out Rose, we match, we're both wearing tents!" Emmett shouted to Rosalie – it's true, what they were wearing did look like tents but it wasn't, it was my missing P.E kit.

"Tell me about it," she lifted her head to see my horrified face and giggled viciously, "have you come to see our belly cat walk Isabella?" she smirked.

"Don't I look gorgeous," Emmett grinned, puffing out his cheeks putting his legs apart and walking like an immensely obese old woman.

I could feel the tears pricking, I wanted to kick and hit and head butt, but I knew it would only make things worse, about a sixth of the class was off with chicken pocks, including Edward, so if I just tried to ignore it...

"Fatty, why did you even bother to put my P.E. kit on, it's too small!" Emmett went into what looked to me like fake hysterics, he was making everyone else join in with him.

It was becoming harder and harder to control the upset, the embarrassment, the blushing. I felt my lip begin to tremble and Emmett made his way over to me pretending to be the obese old woman (or me) then pulled his arms back, smirking, turning his face to the side, "imagine looking like you," he laughed before he pushed me.

I tripped and stumbled backwards trying to keep my balance but eventually I had to give into gravity and put out my hands to save myself, as I did, I heard the seam in the shoulder of the tight top burst, I looked to my right to see the whole thing had ripped apart.

I couldn't understand how this had happened, how had they got into my locker, how had they planned this all out?

I stood to my feet; they cackled behind me and I ran from them, pushing the door open and running to the changing room to find they had locked the door already. I slid down the wall and brought my head to my knees and let the familiar hot tears run down my face.

Soon though, I would have to face the whole class, or at least face the teacher. Life was so cruel.

End Memory

That reassured me, revenge was the only option – so what if Emmett was adopted? So what if Rosalie's brother had cancer? They should never have done that to an innocent little girl and the more I thought about it as it happening to someone else, happening to a girl in a movie, or a cousin or even a little sister I realised just how wrong they were.

Masochistic I may be but stupid I was not. Making friends with the Cullen's and co. was a move which screamed self harm, but that wasn't what it was – it was something else. It proved to me just how different I was, it gave me room for revenge and it gave me the friend I had been in need of for a long time. She wasn't Angela who I had loved for a long time, but she was someone who had that backbone to stick up for me, not that I needed it. For a long while something in me held things against Angela that I hadn't realised hurt me, I don't think in all of the time we were friends she protected me, they never picked on her they picked on me and Angela kept it that way by staying out of their way but just once, even if she had just tried once I would have felt better, but deep down, when I look it at I find that it hurts to think that she couldn't protect me or even try when I would have done it for her without even thinking. I still thought she was a lovely person and all; but she wasn't the friend that I wanted to have for the rest of my life when it all came down to it. I didn't know whether Alice fitted the bill but I knew even in the short space of time I'd spent with her that I was comfortable with her, she made fashion more interesting and she listened about the other things that I truly enjoyed. Edward Cullen and his gang had ruined my life for so long, why should I allow them to take the one thing from me that was on the up – I don't believe that there'd be another person on the earth like her and I wasn't letting go of her even if it made me masochistic and weird and clingy. Whatever, I was being friends with Alice. And Jasper. The others I could be friends with but I would stay unattached, that's the deal I would make myself. Befriend them, let them befriend you as long as you're able to let go of them when the time comes.

So as the week drew past, I tolerated them; Edward, Emmett and Rosalie. I got over myself and let myself have fun, pretended they weren't who they used to be and hadn't done what they'd done. It was, after all, the only way I could start this payback, they needed to trust me, to never suspect me. Now and again my conscience would catch up with me and that was the only time I'd pull little memories out of the back of my head and straight away I was back on track.

James wasn't in school until Wednesday and I asked Alice if it would be okay to invite him to the party, she said of course but I saw the rest of them look at me like I was crazy, they may not like him but I was warming to him even more as time went on. I was looking forward to seeing him Friday night, it made me even more determined to ruin Emmett and Rosalie's night because for once it would be me having the good time and them having the shit fit.

Alice and I decided it would be best that I just stayed at hers Friday night, she informed me that the party was actually supposed to have been held there but her Dad had a friend and colleague staying in one of the guest bedrooms and her dad didn't want him disturbed. Charlie told me he was fine with me staying with Alice, I guess he was just pleased with the change in me, even I could see it, I was becoming my naturally brighter less depressed self, the nightmares weren't as aggressive and I slept a hell of alot better making me a bit... cheerier.

Thursday night came along and everyone met up outside the town hall at 6, just as planned, the boys were told straight away to go and buy all the drink they could, Emmett had fake ID and he definitely looked older so it wasn't like we were in any worry of him being caught out, the only thing was that the main places in Forks all really knew Emmett and knew his real age so they had to travel all the way to Port Angeles, it wasn't too far away but it meant us girls would be let loose on the place for an hour by ourselves. The boys of course weren't too happy about that and elected Edward to stay with us and make sure the place didn't end up a chick party.

"No way Jasper," Alice tried gain sympathy from her boyfriend as they pushed Edward out of the Jeep, "we can do it ourselves and we won't ruin it," he shook his head as Emmett continued to try throwing Edward from the Jeep onto the sidewalk.

"I'm afraid I can't take your word for that my love," he grinned and began rolling the window up but Alice snuck a small hand on top of the glass so quick that for a split second Jasper kept rolling, "watch!" he hissed at her.

She stood back a step, offended at his tone, he changed it and began again, "be careful, I could have hurt you silly," he was trying too hard to be nonchalant now and I realised how Alice could love him so much, he knew just how to be innocent and charming at the same time, she stepped forward and opened the door, giving him a kiss.

"Please take Edward, we don't want him here he'll only get in the way."

"Alice!" Edward complained.

Jasper's face stayed completely unchanged and she waited for a few seconds before pulling back and slamming the door, "You're so stubborn Jasper Hale!" she complained.

He winked just as Emmett had managed to push Edward completely out of the jeep and practically thrown him into Rosalie.

"Watch it!" she complained sulkily, Emmett mouthed an apology as he got back into the drivers' seat and sped off before Edward could reinstate himself in the car.

There was a loud sigh before Alice got the keys out of her pocket she had picked up on the way over to open the place up.

"Well, I'm obviously so wanted here," Edward sniped sarcastically before he took out his phone and started texting at a violent speed, smacking the keys so hard I knew my eyes were popping. He looked up and saw me, smiling, "you'll need my help lifting stuff," he grinned cockily, showing off his 'guns'.

I rolled my eyes and followed the other two into the hall and found a shock, this place was huge. I mean for a little party it was really gigantic, but at the same time it was so bare. I didn't have any idea how we would be able to live it up enough for it to look pretty good like Alice kept smiling and saying it would, but Alice had her clipboard out again and both Edward and Alice's car had been packed full of things to hang up, place and drape.

Alice took charge straight away, first to do was to unpack Edward's car while she unlocked the store room where the owners of the hall had promised her there would be a stand up ladder big enough to reach the ceiling. The feeling of dread began to come over me and I resolved myself to caution Alice that if she tried to put me up that ladder I literally would die. I have ridiculous hand to eye coordination and it definitely would not be smart letting me up there.

I spoke to Alice then walked outside, Edward's car was parked a little bit down the road as there wasn't many parking spaces left, I walked down towards them...

"Rose, is everything okay with you and Emmett, like really okay?" Edward laughed nervously and Rosalie gave him a look that even from where I was standing I knew was burning his eyes out.

"Who gave you permission to ask, and how's your sex life, Jessica still sticking her fingers up your ass-"

"Heyyy, no need for that, Jessica's fingers have never been up my ass, although I don't think she'd mind, that girl does everything for me," he gave an arrogant smile and Rosalie gave him a well-earned slap, "that's not the point though Rose, I was asking about you because Emmett seems a little more frustrated than usual, I was just wondering if it linked in with you and his, I don't know, just your relationship in general."

Totally blunt, that's what that boy was, stuck up his own ass so far that he can't see anyone else. I kind of wanted to know the reply but by the time I had reached them the conversation had come to an abrupt end unless you include the looks they shot at each other after that. I kept silent; it wasn't anything to do with me.

"Can you get those Bella," Rosalie asked, pointing to the plastic cups while she lifted up the some of the napkins. Edward had already lifted two smoke machines and started walking back. Now that I took a good look at Rosalie, she just looked weary and tired than anything else. She gave me a half hearted smile before walking away, leaving me to close the boot. I paused for a moment, if Emmett and Rosalie were on the edge, maybe doing what I had planned tomorrow could send them over it, I was meaning to cause an argument but would it end up more than an argument? I shook my head and walked back into the hall. Fuck them, fuck the fact that I actually care that I might really upset them.

Alice barked out orders and we followed them to the letter, anyone else and I would have felt like I was their bitch but with Alice you just don't feel like that, you know that doing what she says in certain cases will just bring you into something bigger, especially this part, already the hall was beginning to look better due to the expensive banners Alice had already hung up. She wanted ones higher up so Edward demanded I jump onto his shoulder's, it wasn't that I was scared of going on someone's shoulders, they were certainly less opposing than the metal ladders Alice had found and was using to hang the banners up on the other side of the hall. I told him that Rosalie should do it, she was taller, but he said Rosalie was busy setting up the smoke machines. That was true, but I'm sure she would have switched places with me – she trusted Edward, I, however, had issues.

"Just jump up, I'm not even being arrogant anymore, but I lift about double the weight of you every day, trust me I can lift you," not what you used to say.

"I'm fine, just uh, pull a table over or something,"

"No, go on my shoulders, I could do with a minor work out."

"Seriously, I'm fine," the guy was so pushy.

"Don't be stupid, get on my shoulders," he put a hand out to me and I refused, for a second he looked acceptant that I didn't want to then within a second he had vaulted me up so my legs were split over one of his shoulders, "swing yourself over." He spoke so calmly while I screamed. I heard Rose and Alice laughing at his antics but I was not in the slightest amused, I had got a real fright when he had grabbed me.

I realised I was making a fool of myself and I eventually done as he said, it was just then that I noticed the heat that his touch had on my body. At first I thought it was adrenaline, then fear, then as I settled into the cosiness that was his shoulder bones, as I laughed and chatted with my arch enemy I realised that it was just him, just his affect. I never had any memory of it being like this before. Nothing like this at all.

I hung up the banners on that full side of the hall, that was the extent of the stamina Edward possessed when lifting me. "Jasper told me you swim?" he questioned me; they had been chatting about me that meant, I wonder what else they had said.

"Yeah, well I used to back in Phoenix anyways, good way to keep yourself in shape I find, one of the only sports that works on practically everybody muscle at the same time if you're doing it correctly." I rolled up my sleeves to prevent myself from getting too hot and as I did it, Edward tugged them down, "stop it," I complained, unable to prevent a smile – he wouldn't know that though. I rolled them up again and he proceeded to roll them back down, "you just like to wind me up," I moaned, recognising what I had said just after I'd said it.

"Well yeah," he snickered as I finished pushing in the last pin. He swung me around his head as I pushed my legs of his shoulders and all too quickly I found myself mere inches away from his eyes. His smiling eyes. The ones that taunted me for too long to be beautiful. He pulled me close hugging me, I drew in a breath and was caught off guard by just how refreshing his scent was, then all too soon but far too late I was out of his arms and set down on the floor again glaring at him.

"You can be so annoying," I protested, but we both knew his behaviour wasn't as annoying as I made out.

When Emmett and Jasper finally came back a lot of things had already been set up, all that was left really was to position tables, hide the drink in the cupboard under the stairs, put up the disco ball and stick up the neon lights around the place; Alice had already hired a DJ and food company to do a buffet for everyone. They would be in the hall and out of it by quarter to 8 which was perfect timing as the party began at eight.

Emmett was the only one with the strength to carry the disco ball up to the top of the ladder and put it up there, and he wasn't going to let the other guys forget it anytime soon. While he did this Rosalie and I started to haul all of the alcohol into this tiny cupboard – I was pretty sure that they were down at least a few hundred dollars when i looked at the amount they had bought. Alice made marks on the wall for where Jasper and Edward were to stick relatively small round little neon lights, which she had bought loads of as usual, not wanting to under do it.

We were almost finished when I got the text from James asking me if he should bring drink along tomorrow night – I wasn't vain or stupid but I knew it was only a ploy to text me, I text back the answer and sure enough he turned the conversation in a completely different direction and began just to chat with me.

I had to actually put the phone down at the other side of the hall as Alice asked for my moral support on something she hadn't mentioned before...

"You're making us wear what?" Emmett asked in disbelief.

"You got to be kidding me," Edward followed suit.

"Masks Alice, really?" Even Jasper was openly opposed to the idea.

"Okay guys I know it seems a bit stupid right now but if we do this then it'll open up the party, get people talking to people they don't usually talk to cause they don't actually know who they are, and it's not like it's a full face mask and the boys only get a plain black one, the girls where the silver, simple," she smiled with her hands on her hips, her eyes stony cold, she was going for this idea.

"It's ridiculous," Edward chided her.

"No it is not, how's about this, they only wear them from eight till nine, that way everyone's chatting before they make their big reveal, make sense?" The boys grumbled at her as she and Rosalie high fived, she took their low grumbles as an agreement and walked away leaving the various packets of silver and black masks on the table.

"She always gets her way I guess," Jasper smiled good heartedly and walked over to his girlfriend who was scoring out things that had been done on her clipboard and snuck his arms around her waist, it was cute to watch, sort of sugary sweet but nice all the same.

We finished up soon after and I happily made my way back to my truck, it was late and dark and I was ready to go home and finish my text conversation with James, my cell battery had died just a few minutes before and I knew it was going to look rude if I didn't text back quite soon. It was just once I had closed the door to the truck that practically everyone approached me, all of them complaining I hadn't said a proper goodbye, I'd forgotten the rules of friends. I hadn't had real ones for so long.

That night I slept well, no nightmares, and in the morning I found myself itching to get to school, I had gotten my dress in on Wednesday and I already had some black heels and accessories which would do to go with the dress, I even had eye makeup to match. I wanted to show off who I had become now; dresses weren't usually my favourite outfit but the suited and excited me in this particular occasion.

The whole day dragged by and at lunch it felt like dinner time when I got home I felt like I should be there already, as I got dressed I felt like I was running late so rushed a little bit too much.

I curled the ends of my hair and placed a fake pink Rose in my hair which matched the dress so perfectly it was like they had been made to match with each other, my dress fitted absolutely great and because I rushed too much I found myself with time to spare before the taxi picked me up.

I stared at myself in the mirror. My makeup was done and I looked nice – I might even say pretty. I tried encouraging myself, repeating the things you're supposed to repeat in a mirror to give you confidence but found I just sounded stupid so I stopped and just looked. I felt awed at how much I had changed, how I had really blossomed. You hear women, normally old people on T.V. telling people how they'd blossomed into young women and you don't ever think a saying like that applies to yourself. But at this point the only words that came to mind were those. They fitted.

All too soon the taxi arrived and I had to drag myself from the mirror, I felt bigheaded and vain but the truth was that I was just so proud of myself, of how far I had come. Just as I reached the front door and I checked in my bag to see if I had what I needed for tonight's sabotage. Everything will run smoothly, I told myself, and walked into the cab with a fake smile so bright the cab driver had to smile back.

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