01/09/2012
Previously
"I can't believe it, I'm going to meet Edward Masen, I'm so excited," I squealed.
Alice looked up at me and started laughing as if she suddenly remembered something funny.
"You know another thing that I'm excited about." she laughed.
"What," I asked.
"I'm excited to see the look on Lauren's face when you come into school tomorrow knowing that she will have to follow through on that bet," she laughed. I started laughing as well just thinking about it.
"You know what Ali, for the first time I'm so excited to go to school."
BPOV
It took Esme over two hours to calm us down, she even had to bring dinner up to us because we were too hyper to come down and eat with the family.
Knock, Knock!!
Esme stuck her head around the door.
“Can I come in?” She asked even though she was already practically inside the room.
“Bella I rang your parents and told them that you are staying here, I don't want to be the one to separate the two of you tonight,” she laughed.
I smiled at her. “Thanks Esme,” I said giving her a hug.
After pulling away from the hug, she then sat down next to us.
"So what are the two of you planning to wear to the premiere"?
I knew then that there would be no shutting Alice up tonight, she loved to talk about fashion.
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I woke up to another cold day in Forks. I stretched while looking sideways at the alarm clock, surprised that it was still only 5.30am. I wasn’t used to waking up so early and it took me a few minutes to realise why today was very different to other school days. My thoughts went back to all that happened yesterday and the events flashed through my mind.
Edward Masen announcing he is coming to Seattle.
The bet that I had made with Lauren.
And finally, winning the radio contest to attend the movie premiere of Bite and go to the after party.
The excitement overwhelmed me. I jumped up out of bed, tripping over the rug in the process and ran into Alice's room.
"Alice, Alice." I squealed whilst shaking her, trying to wake her up.
"Not now mom, give me another 10 minutes" she whimpered.
I quickly realised that she wasn’t going to wake up, but I was too excited to go back to sleep. My mind wondered once again to the contest and I thought about how I couldn’t wait until the tickets arrived from the courier. I went into the guest bathroom and stepped into the shower relaxing and enjoying the hot water. I took Alice's vanilla shampoo and washed my hair. It wasn’t my usual strawberry shampoo but it would have to do.
When I had finished in the shower and dried off it was already 6.15am. I went into Alice’s room to find her going through her closet, trying to find clothes for me to wear. You gotta love the little pixie.
She didn’t even notice when I walked into her room, as she was too enthralled with picking out clothes for us both to wear. After a few minutes she turned to see me watching her.
"What is this?” Bella Swan is up and alert before I can wake her up and torment her?" She asked sarcastically.
All I could do was grin at her.
"So tell me my fashion pixie. What kind of torture are you going to put me through this fine morning?" I giggled.
Alice tried to keep herself from laughing. "Well my fine friend, we are going to dress you as the future woman on Edward Masen's arm."
She shoved a cream satin bra and panties set that still had the tags on at me, a pair of black skinny jeans and a red silk blouse. I had to admire her taste in clothes and she always made me look amazing.
I started getting dressed while she continued talking.
"By the way, my mom is meeting us at the mall in Port Angeles after school today. So we can get our dresses to wear at the premiere." she said.
Sometimes I don't think that Alice realises that I don't have the money for shopping sprees. My parents bar is just taking off so I can't ask them.
"Ali" I whined.
"You know that I hate shopping and that I can't afford to buy a dress. I'm sure that I have something at home that will do."
I looked at Ali and she was glaring at me.
"Isabella Marie Swan, do you honestly think that I am going to let you pay for this dress? For fucks sake girl, you won us those tickets and you’ve made my dream come true. I'm meeting Jasper Whitlock.” She sighed dreamily before continuing.
“Buying you the dress and shoes is the least I can do and I won't hear another word about it. Now put these shoes on and we will do something with your hair," she said while handing me a pair of black flat ballet shoes.
She glared at me to show that she meant business, so I did the sensible thing, kept my mouth shut and did what I was told.
As soon as she was finished putting my hair back in a French braid, I went downstairs while Alice got showered and dressed. I walked into the kitchen to the wonderful smell of blueberry pancakes. I wished I could have this every morning but my mother was an awful cook and I was usually the one that ended up making the meals at home.
"Morning Esme." I smiled.
"Morning Sweetie." She smiled back. "Pancakes?"
"Yes please." I replied.
Esme kept looking at me while she put four pancakes onto my plate. I just couldn’t get the smile off my face.
"I would be smiling too if I won the kind of prize that you won" she laughed.
Just then Alice came running in wearing her usual fashionable attire.
"Mom, can I use Daddy's photocopier?"
Alice's father was the head of the Paediatric Unit at Forks General Hospital.
"Yes dear." Esme replied.
Alice ran into her father's office carrying something in her hand.
What is the little pixie up to now? I thought to myself.
She came back five minutes later with a small bag filled with pieces of paper.
"Ali, what is all this?"
"Well Bella, you know just as well as I do that Lauren is going to try and get out of this bet. So what I did was photocopy the agreement 200 times to either hang up on the lockers or hand them out to anyone that will take them. So if she doesn’t go through with it, everyone will know and she’ll be labelled a coward.” She smirked obviously pleased with herself.
I was surprised, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it. It was beyond brilliant.
"OK you little pixie, let’s get to school and put this plan into action," I grinned.
We walked out to the driveway, I was about to get into my truck when Alice put a hand out to stop me.
"No way Missy, we are going in my car. You can pick up your death trap after we are finished shopping."
I glared at her as she walked towards her Porsche.
"Hey, don't hate on the truck" I yelled as I walked after her and got into the car. Alice laughed as she started the car and pulled out of the drive way.
Ten minutes later she pulled up outside Forks High. I suddenly started to get nervous, I hate attention and I knew that people would be looking at me today, knowing that I won the prize that they all wanted. I sat in the car frozen and unable to move.
"Bella Swan, get out of this car right now so that we can go to class," Alice said while getting out of the car. Sometimes she knows me too well. It was quite scary really.
I got out of the car and we walked into the school and just as I had feared everyone stopped talking and just watched Alice and I walk down to my locker.
"Congratulations Bella." I heard someone say behind me. I turned around and saw Angela Webber, she was a quiet girl but really nice. We had had English together for the last two years but this was the first time I had spoken to her outside the classroom.
"Thanks Angela, I'm so excited." I smiled.
"Yeah I would be too. I tried like mad to get through to the radio station but it was engaged every time. I was so sure that Lauren would win it, she was telling everyone yesterday that it was in the bag. I even heard that she gave the person in charge of the radio station a blowjob so that she could win.” Angela laughed.
I couldn’t help but laugh with her. Now I know why she made that bet with me and Alice, she thought she had already won the tickets.
"Angela, thank you for telling me this. Oh boy, I can't wait to tell Alice."
"Tell Alice what?" Asked the little pixie.
I repeated what Angela told me and by the time I had finished Alice was bent over holding her stomach from laughing so hard.
"Oh my god, she is probably livid" Alice laughed.
Just then Riley Biers walked by, you could smell him a mile away. My face screwed up in disgust.
"You know if Riley got a wash, a haircut and some clean clothes he might be alright!" I told both Alice and Angela.
Angela looked over at me. "Speaking of Lauren and Riley. Did you know that Riley has a huge crush on Lauren? I overheard him telling someone that if she ever shows any interest then he would make his interest known."
By now I was laughing so hard that there were tears falling down my cheeks.
"Well Angela, I'm not going to say anything now but why don't you sit with me and Alice at lunch. You won't regret it."
She suddenly became quiet and shy again.
W-Wh-Why do y-you want to s-sit with me?" she stammered.
"Well firstly Alice and I like you and I’d love the three of us to be friends, so we would love you to sit with us. And secondly, I think that today at lunch is going to be the greatest day of Riley's life and you should witness it with friends.” I stated, grinning madly at Angela and Alice.
She smiled as if we had granted her her greatest wish.
"Ok then, I will see you at lunch," she said and went to class.
My first class was Biology. At least I have this class with Alice. I was still nervous about all the looks I will be getting as we walked into class. At least Mr Banner wasn’t there yet. All of a sudden everyone stopped talking and I saw Lauren sitting at her desk talking to Jessica. She went pale the second she saw Alice and I. All of a sudden everyone started clapping while I walked to my seat and firing questions at me.
"OMG Bella, are you excited?"
"Bella, What are you going to wear?"
"Bella who are you taking with you?"
"What are you going to say to Edward Masen when you see him?"
Bella, why don't you sit at my table at lunch and tell me all about it?"
I sat down at my desk with Alice without answering any questions, just as Mr Banner walked in.
"Ok everybody, settle down and open your text books to page 256."
We opened our books but my head was so full of thoughts about meeting Edward Masen that I couldn’t concentrate on anything. Alice took one of the sheets of paper with the bet written on it and wrote something else on it and then passed it to Lauren.
As soon as Lauren read the note she went as white as a ghost and looked sick.
"Alice, what did you say to her?" I whispered.
"I simply gave her a copy of the bet and told her that she had until half way through lunch to act on it or I was going to pass the note around the whole school.” Alice snicked, before adding.
“You see she prides herself on never making a bet that she can’t keep. So like I said last night, she knows she will be known has a fake and a coward if she doesn’t follow through and she’s terrified of losing her popularity," she smirked obviously pleased with herself.
The rest of the morning dragged by but finally I was on my way to the cafeteria. I saw Alice standing next to Lauren with the bag of letters in her hand, I walked over to stand behind them and heard Lauren saying.
"You know that those tickets are wasted on Bella! Why don't you team up with me to get them from her and we’ll go to the premiere together?" Lauren asked all sweetness and light.
Alice practically had smoke coming out of her ears.
"Lauren if you ever say another word about my best friend, being seen making out with Riley Biers will seem like making out with Edward Masen by the time I’m done with you. Now If I don't see you in there in the next five minutes, I will start handing these out." Alice snarled, whilst waving the printouts in from of Lauren.
I came behind her and put my arm on her shoulder.
"Come on Ali let’s go and FYI Lauren, I'm the one with the tickets and Alice is going with me. You have a better chance of giving both Jasper Whitlock and Edward Masen a blow job at the same time than ever getting these tickets off me" I sneered and walked into the cafeteria with Alice.
Alice was giggling like mad. "Oh my god Bella, that was beyond brilliant."
We got our food and went to our table. I saw Angela getting her food, so waved her to come over to the table. She came over holding her tray with a big smile on her face.
"Hi, would you like to sit here?" I asked tapping the seat next to me.
Just as she sat down Lauren walked in. I looked over to where Riley was sitting and saw that he was drooling while watching her. I almost felt sorry for her when she looked over at the both of us begging with her eyes not to make her do this. Alice shook her head no and showed her the bag full of papers.
Angela looked at me. "Bella what is going on?" Alice took out one of the notes with the bet written on it and gave it to Angela. She looked at the note and started laughing.
"Oh my god, this is history in the making," she giggled.
Just then there was a big roar from everybody in the cafeteria. I looked over to see Lauren sitting on Riley's lap. I couldn’t believe that she was really going through with it. All of a sudden her lips smashed against his and their tongues were dancing together. After she pulled away I saw that Riley was speechless but his face was shining with happiness. He suddenly got up and addressed the whole cafeteria.
"Everybody can I have your attention please? I just want to say that today is the greatest day of my life. It is the day I finally get the girl that I admire and love, Lauren, to be my girlfriend."
Lauren looked at him, put her hand over her mouth as if she going to throw up and ran out with Riley running after her. I really felt bad for Riley but if I had lost the bet that would have been me and Lauren would have never let anyone forget it. That's the kind of spiteful bitch she is.
We got up to leave for class.
"Angela, me and Alice are meeting Alice's mother after school to pick out dresses for the premiere. Would you like to come along with us?" I asked.
"Thank you, thank you, I would love to go." She replied excitedly.
The three of us went our separate ways and I started walking to Trig when I bumped into Alec.
"Hey sis, anything you want to tell me," he laughed.
I must have looked like the cat that got the cream.
"Well my loving brother, the only thing I can say is I'M GOING TO MEET EDWARD MASEN," I said, screaming the last part.
"I had a feeling that was what you were going to say. Do you realise that Dad has found out about this and is scared shitless about you going?" He laughed.
Suddenly I felt like my bubble had burst, I didn’t want my father to be worried about me.
"How does he know, Alec?"
"People started ringing him the second they heard it on the radio. But don't worry about it sis, before you won he already agreed with Alice’s mom that you could go as long as Esme went with you guys. He won’t go back on his word.”
I felt like I could suddenly breathe again.
"Shit Alec, I'm late for Trig so I will talk to you later," I said and ran to the classroom.
It seemed that luck was still with me when I got to class as Mrs Wallace had not arrived yet. I walked in and everyone started firing questions at me again. I didn’t have the chance to say anything because Mrs Wallace walked in and told everyone to be quiet.
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Finally the day came to an end, I left my last class of the day before anyone could start talking to me again. I went to my locker to get my stuff and at least a dozen notes fell out, all of them asking me if they could go to the premiere with me. Nobody had spoken to me in the two years I had attended this school and all of a sudden they were all acting as if they were my best friend.
I walked out to where Alice and Angela were waiting for me by the car.
I saw Mike Newton walking towards me. That guy is so annoying. I kept my head down and tried to make a quick getaway.
"Bella Bella"
So near and yet so far.
I turned around to face him. "Hi Mike"
"Bella, I'm just going to cut to the chase. I know that you like me as much as I like you, so why don't you stop this little game that you’re playing and we can go to the premiere together," he said arrogantly.
It took all my self-control not to laugh in his face. A lot of people had asked me to take them to the premiere today but this had to be the best yet.
"I'm sorry Mike but I have a date," I smirked. I then walked to Alice's car before he could say anything else.
"Wipe that smirk off your face Cullen and get in the car." I said to Alice.
The three of us got into the car and I looked at Mike while Alice pulled out of the parking lot. He was still standing there with a dumb look on his face.
"Ali, would you mind stopping at my house first. The radio station said that the courier would deliver the tickets today, I just want to see if they came yet."
Without a word Alice pulled into my driveway. I jumped out of the car telling Alice that I would be right back. My dad's car was in the driveway which I was surprised at as he was usually at the bar by this time.
I let myself in and looked to see if there was any mail for me on the table. I saw a big envelope with my name on it so I snapped it up. I turned around to leave when I came face to face with my father.
"So Isabella, is there anything new that you want to tell me," he grinned.
I felt myself relax when I saw that he was more amused than upset.
"Don't worry, I know everything and I have Esme Cullen's word that no harm will come to you."
I threw myself into my father’s arms and gave him a bear hug.
"Thank you Daddy" I cried. "This means everything to me."
"Esme called to say that she was taking you and Alice shopping for dresses and that you would most likely be staying overnight with Alice."
He took out his wallet and gave me his credit card. I was about to say no when he stopped me.
"Ever since you started high school two years ago, I started putting money away every week for your prom dress. This premiere will be like your prom so take it and get the best dress available,” he cooed.
I was about to cry and hug him again when Alice started beeping her horn.
"Go, it looks like Alice is getting a bit impatient,” he laughed.
I smiled and went out to the car.
Alice started driving to the Port Angeles Mall.
"So did they arrive?" She asked.
"Yeah, we can check them out later. Also look at what my dad gave me," I showed them both the credit card.
"He wants to treat me to my gown. Who would have thought that my dad was a big softie," I cried.
Angela looked like she wanted to hug me. I was surprised that we hadn’t become friends before today but felt glad that we were now.
We finally arrived at the Mall and found Esme waiting outside Maurices clothing store.
"Hi mom!" Alice yelled running over to her.
"Hi girls, I have picked out some really stylish dresses for you both to choose from," she said.
"By the way Esme, this is our friend Angela. She is going to help us pick out just the right dresses," I said.
"Nice to meet you Angela and welcome,” Esme smiled.
Angela nodded her head. "Nice to meet you too Mrs Cullen," she answered shyly.
"Please dear call me Esme, Mrs Cullen is my mother in law. Well girls, what do you say? Shall we get this show on the road."
We walked in to Maurices and Esme showed us the dresses that she had picked out. I admit they were all beautiful, just not quite right for me. Alice started trying on different dresses but I couldn’t find the right one. To be polite I tried on the dresses that Esme had picked out for me but they all felt wrong.
Suddenly I noticed the dress that was in the window.
"Esme, that's it. That's my dress," I squealed, pointing at the dress in the window.
Esme called the sales lady over and told her that she wanted to see that dress in a size six. The sales lady went away and came back with the dress in her hands.
"You’re lucky, this is the last one of this dresses in the store and it is a size six," she said.
It was beautiful. It was a graceful a-line spaghetti strap floor-length chiffon purple evening dress.
"Go try it on and we will see if it is the right dress for you," Esme said.
I went into the changing room and the second that I put it on I knew it was the right dress for me. I went out to show Esme, Alice and Angela. As soon as I stepped out of the fitting room they just stared at me with their mouths wide open. Just when I was about to go back into the changing room to take it off Esme put her arm out to stop me and hugged me tight. When she pulled away I saw that she had tears in her eyes.
"Bella, there are no words. I don't know when it happened but you have turned into a beautiful young woman," she cried.
"Bella"
I looked over at Angela calling me.
"That dress was made for you," she said.
"Bella, Edward Masen won't know what hit him when he sees you in that gown. It is stunning," Alice added.
"I'm going to get it." I looked at the price tag and nearly fainted when I saw how expensive it was.
"Then again maybe not." I sighed sadly.
I wanted to cry. Here I was holding dress of my dreams and I couldn’t get it.
"If you think that I'm letting you leave this store without that dress, then you have another thing coming," Esme said angrily.
I was about to object when Alice had to open her mouth.
"Isabella Marie Swan, do you remember what we talked about this morning?" I nodded. "Then shut up. We are buying you that dress, you can use Charlie's credit card to buy your shoes and accessories."
I knew that I would end up giving in, so I decided to shut my mouth.
"Alice, did you pick out your dress?"
"Yes I did."
She held up a red satin, cap sleeved evening dress. I knew that it was made for Alice the second I saw it.
Esme went and paid for the dresses while Alice, Angela and myself went into Victoria’s Secret.
We left two hours later, after buying lingerie, shoes and jewelry. Esme left in her own car whilst Alice drove the three of us to her house in her car.
As we were driving back to Forks, I sat back and dreamt about the fact that in exactly two weeks and four days I would be meeting Edward Masen.
I'm so excited, as all my dreams were coming true.
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