Sorry for the delay! I would have had it up earlier, but my sister kept me on the phone for like three hours. I would hang up, but then she just keeps calling until I answer… Yeah… The joys of older sisters. I don't own anything that you recognize. Please leave any ideas you have in a review or pm. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy it!
"No!" I said again, but I knew it would not be the last time.
"Please Bella!" Alice begged me, unleashing the full force of her puppy dog eyes upon me.
"No!" I said again, this time looking away to avoid her face.
"Come on Bella! It's no use to fight! I already saw us there." Of course she had. There was no way I was going to the mall with her.
"And how do I know you're not just saying that to get me there?" It was Saturday and I was spending the weekend with the Cullen's. Charlie was out of town fishing and Alice wanted me to go shopping. I hated shopping to start with, but adding Alice and all the other drama I had in my life… I was standing my ground this time.
"She's gotcha there squirt." Emmett boomed, thoroughly enjoying my predicament.
"If you want someone to go with you so bad why don't you take Emmett? Wasn't it just yesterday that you were complaining that all his clothes were old?" By this time the whole family had joined us. Edward was wrapping his arms around me in a hug while everyone else was trying to hold off their laughter. Minus Emmett, Alice and me of course. "And if you really need a girl, drag Rose with you. She can help keep him in line."
The look on Alice's face was something out of a cartoon when the character was thinking too hard. I'm not sure what she was thinking so hard about, it was just shopping, but she was thinking hard.
"Fine." She finally said. "But you owe me." She added before grabbing both Em and Rosalie by the arm and disappearing.
"Why exactly do I owe her?" I asked after a minute of silence.
"Because she let you off the hook. I think this may be the first time Alice has lost a shopping argument." Edward's velvety voice can from behind me, the laughter evident in his voice. I groaned before turning around to face him.
"How do you feel about a trip to the rink? Jackie said she would be there all day and I need to talk to her." He just nodded his head, not caring what he did as long as he was with me. "Anyone else want to join?"
"We will, if you don't mind." Esme said, gesturing to Carlisle and herself.
"Sure. What about you Jasper?" I asked to one of the men I thought of as my big brother.
"Why not?" He responded in an indifferent tone.
"You could always go catch up with Alice if you want." I teased. Even he was scared of shopping with her. He glared at me playfully before speaking.
"No thank you. Besides, you got out of one trip and you haven't been with her as long. I deserve a break too." I was about to retort when my phone rang, signaling a text message.
I would watch what you're saying. Think of ALL the shopping. And pass that message along to my darling husband. Alice.
I handed him the phone only to see him cringe at the message. I would have laughed if the message hadn't been addressed to me too. This didn't stop Edward from laughing though. Of course, one look from me shut him up.
"I've made a decision." was the first thing out of my mouth when I saw Jackie.
"And?" She said to urge me to finish.
"I'm going to go under Ellie. You sure you don't mind?"
"It's no problem. I actually already have a routine planned. We can start privates this week. Monday good for you?" She responded.
"Sure. I guess I should know better than to ask why you have a routine already?" She just smiled cryptically in response. I just rolled my eyes. "Can I at least know what to practice?"
"Warm up with doubles and start working on triples again. And all the spins of course. And no worrying! I have a plan. I assume you're staying?" I nodded my head as she grabbed her purse and waved goodbye. "One more thing." She said right before she opened the door. "You know where the rentals are Dr. and Mrs. Cullen are more than free to skate with you. As soon as the door was close Jasper, Edward, and I turned to face our parents with the same look. They glanced at each other before answering.
"There's no getting out of this, is there?" We all shook our heads mutely. "Fine. Where are the skates?"
The first five minutes of skating were pretty amusing. While all of their "children" knew how to skates, neither Carlisle nor Esme had ever stepped foot on ice. They caught on quickly though. I guess being a vampire helped a lot with that.
"Go practice." Edward whispered into my ear, knowing that I wanted to start working on the harder things. I smiled at him before taking off.
I started slowly with basic like the waltz jump before moving onto axels. I always did my jumps in the order I had learned them. It was my routine and it felt weird not doing it before class. I had already given Edward a lecture about coming to me every time I fell, so I wasn't worried about him coming to my after each fall, which are inevitable in skating.
I had landed almost all my triples, just my axel left. I decided to take a small break to see how everyone else was doing before talking on of the hardest jumps. Once glance was enough. It was pretty amusing to see the people I thought of as parents attempting to jump… Jasper, sensing my amusement, sent me a smile. I smiled back before returning to my jumps.
I gained speed before launching myself into the air and rotating three times. At least, I was supposed to. I had over shot and landed on the ice with a loud thud. The feel of falling into the slick ice was definitely something I had not missed.
"You okay?" a musical voice asked me, but not the musical voice I was expecting.
"Yeah. Figure skating guarantees falling. At least I haven't fallen a lot recently and that isn't going to bruise my bruise's bruise's. At least, not yet…" Jasper chuckled at my response as I stood up. "Am I going to have to give you the same rules I gave Edward?"
"Is that why he didn't come to your side immediately? I thought that was kinda weird. We all know how protective he gets." At this Carlisle and Esme laughed as Edward pouted.
I skated to where they were standing and gave him a quick peck. Edward was really annoyed when I gave him the rules and I knew that Jasper doing what he had wanted to do so badly just made it worse.
"I can give him a lecture if you want. I didn't suspect him to come. Besides, if I hadn't fallen so hard I doubt he would have come. Right Jasper?"
"Ummmmm…"was the only response I got.
"Fine then." I started "Here are the rules…" Almost fifteen minutes later I was skating again. Not even five of those minutes had been my lecture, the rest laughing at his expense.
"I seem to remember my speech having a lot more stuff in it." Edward said after our laughter had subsided. "And more threats too on what would happen if I didn't listen."
"Well, for one, Jasper isn't going to sit there and try to find all the loop holes he can. Also, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't care if I banned him from kissing me."
"You're right with that one little sis." Jasper said as I smirked at my boyfriend's pouting face.
It was almost nine before we left. I had helped Edward and Jasper with some of their jumps. I don't think I will ever get use to that fact that there was something that my perfect vampires couldn't do. It also amused me to no end that I was actually better at something.
"Oh my gosh! We're going to need to get you a new dress! It's going to be so pretty! And I'm going to need to figure out how to do your hair and make-up and-" I cut Alice off before she could add anything else to her list.
"Alice! Competitions aren't about the glamour! You do realize that I will have to do extra practice to get up to my level again. Plus, most people just wear their hair in a bun or pony-tail with light make-up. LIGHT! Even though skating seems to be a really glamorous sport, that much doesn't really go into the sparkle. "That wasn't nessacerly true, but the skaters, or at least I, didn't put much into it. That was usually the family's job. Of course, that would make its Alice's job… Oh well. I will try as hard as I can to prevent her from turning me into her Barbie. Again.
"Do I look stupid to you? I wasn't born yesterday, believe it or not! You will listen to me and you will be the most fashionable on there." I groaned before turning to the love of my life.
"She may not have been born yesterday, but she acts as if she's five." I whispered.
"I can hear you!" She shouted over the laughter of her brothers, her husband being smart enough not to laugh.
"That's kinda the point…" I mumbled before she stormed out of the room.
"Just so you know, I'm not mad at you for throwing me at the pixie yesterday." Emmett said once he was able to control his laughter. "It's sounds like I may have been better off. Who knows how much shopping you'll have to do with here before she's finally happy." I just groaned once more before making my way to bed. I just hope I didn't have any nightmares about a certain person.
Sunday flew by without anything happening, which is saying a lot for me. I wasn't too excited at the fact that I was about to skate in front of certain people. Of course, the fact that my nerves were shot didn't help any. I had decided that I would tell everyone I was Ellie. To make sure I didn't back out, I only had my Ellie jacket.
Class had started five minutes ago and no one had yet to notice the name on my jacket. I wasn't really paying attention to what Jackie was saying, and I'm pretty sure she knew this. She was confused as to my lack of concentration, but once she saw what jacket I was wearing, she gave me a small look of understanding.
"Bella, can you explain to everyone the difference of a toe jump and edge jump?" She said, snapping my out of my zone. "And show an example of each." Before I could open my mouth the door opened with a loud bang. Several people jumped. It didn't really faze as I was still in my own little world, but even though the noise didn't scare me, the person that came in did. Well, not scare me so much as piss me off. The lovely Valera Velez just walked in. Ravine's mother.
"Ellie, it's so good to see you." She started in a sickly sweet voice. "I heard that you were going by Bella though. Although I guess you've always gone by Bella. I should say you're not going by Ellie anymore." Crap. Everyone's eyes were on me expect for the Cullen's and Jackie, who were all glaring at her. There was no way I was getting out of this one. And even though you were planning on telling everyone today, this was not how I planned to do it at all. Once again, crap.