Written by: twilightlullaby
A/N: Thanks to everyone that has reviewed this story so far- I can't begin to tell you how awesome you guys are! I just love it when I get complimented on not only this story, but my writing style. It plasters a smile on my face. I'm also happy to know that everyone wasn't mad at me for them not kissing. I was scared ya'll were going to hate me! Anyways, without further ranting I present to you chapter five. DUN DUN DUN.
Chapter Five
Trip
BPOV
I awoke to the annoying sound of something that I actually consider a 'sister.'
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" I jumped up just in time to see my door swing open and hit the wall next to it with a loud cracking noise. Alice grabbed the door and investigated the wall behind it to make sure nothing was broken. "Sorry…" Her voice was a low whisper now. "Nothing is damaged." Even though nothing was broke, her voice still held guilt.
"Jesus Alice. What in the name of Peter are you doing here at," I glanced at my alarm clock, yawing and trying to rub the sleep out of my eyes. "8:38 A.M.?"
I looked back over at her and she had the hugest smile plastered on her face. It made Barbie dolls look sad. She suddenly ran over to my bed, grabbed me by the wrists and yanked my out of it: bed sheets and pillows falling to the floor and all. I thought that for a moment my shoulders were going to be dislocated from their sockets. "I don't care that I'm supposed to be mad at you!" She exclaimed excitedly.
"Ow…."I protested, trying to get away from her death grip on my arms.
"Hurry up and get on your slippers, we have to get to our house. Em said that I couldn't tell you!" She finally let my arms go to grab my slippers and throw them at me. She nearly hit me in the face with one of them. Damn, she's got a good arm…What would Em need to tell me?
"Hurrrrrrrrrrry!" She pleaded. "We have a HUGE day ahead of us. I pulled my slippers on my feet and almost winced at the word 'HUGE'. Without a second to spare, Alice grabbed me by my arms and was flinging me down the stairs in my house and out the front door to hers next door.
"We'll be right back, Chief!" She practically screamed at Charlie-who was sitting at the kitchen table reading the news paper- while slamming the door behind us. "C'mon!" She pulled me by my wrist firmly across our lawn and into the Cullen's "Your sooooo slow." She complained, dragging me. I felt like prisoner held captive by human shackles.
All I could do was mutter incoherent profanities due to the state of sleepiness I still felt. She kicked the front door open and finally let go of my wrist. "She's her!" She screamed skipping towards the dinning room. I could smell something delicious coming from the kitchen. When I walked into the Cullen's dining room, everyone was already sitting in their normal spot, except Esme. She put down a large plate of chocolate chip pancakes right in the middle of the table for breakfast before gracefully sitting in her chair.
"Good morning Bella." Carlisle said nicely while putting his news paper down and taking a sip of his orange juice.
"Good morning…?" I still had sleep thick in my voice. My eyes traveled to Emmett's so he could get on with what he needed to tell me so I could get back to sleep. His eyes were the size of eggs; starring at the plate of pancakes like they were God in food form or something.
"Hello Bella." My eyes drifted over to Edward. He had a smile playing on his lips and I suddenly felt very self conscious of my bed head with the way his sparkling green eyes were appraising me. I knew things had changed between us last night, but I wasn't sure what exactly had changed. Sure, we admitted to one another that we liked each other but did that make us more then just friends? I was confused. I knew that I wasn't really ready for relationship right now- I had Charlie to take care of and school to finish. And why should it matter how I looked in front of him? He's seen my like this a thousand times….Wow. That just made me feel so much better.
I was cut off from my thinking by Alice grabbing my wrist, again, and dragging me to sit down next to Edward- where I usually sat at the Cullen table- and she sat on the other side of me. "C'mon Em! TELL HER!" She practically was bouncing out of her seat. "We have to get ready!" Heck no I am not being her doll for the day in her horridly small bathroom being poked and prodded at for three hours.
I looked over at Edward and his smile just got wider and he nodded in the direction of Emmett. I looked back at Emmett and his eyes were no longer plastered on the pancakes. They were looking back and forth from a smiling Esme to a smirking Carlisle.
When no one spoke, I decided to break the silence. "What in the name of Jelly Beans does Emmett need to tell me that would have Alice worked up and that I would be physically dragged from my bed?" I was starting to get annoyed.
Emmett laughed at the way Alice's face fell before he started to explain the situation. Esme and Carlisle shook their heads at their daughter.
"Well, you know Rose and I have wanted to stay at the beach for an extended stay? I've finally talked Carlisle and Esme into letting us!" He smiled at me.
"That's cool?" I was so mad Alice had dragged me out of my bed physically for this.
"Tell her the rest you A-hole." Alice said just as frustrated. Emmett gave her a look before looking back at me to continue.
"Hey, watch your mouth." Esme scolded Alice while placing a pancake on my plate.
"Anyways…" Emmett continued "We can only go if Alice, Jasper, Edward and you grace us with your presence." His face sank a little and he stabbed his pancake on his plate with his fork. I could tell he wasn't to enthralled with the idea of all of us going along.
I looked back over to Esme and Carlisle "Really?!" I was actually excited now. They both nodded their heads in unison. I felt a ridiculous smile spread across my face. I looked back over at Emmett. "For how long and where…and when?"
"Well, we leave tomorrow morning around 8-ish so, you're going to have to get up early." I felt the smile on my face slowly disappear "And we're going to stay in a beach house that's owned by one of Carlisle's co-workers for four nights." I felt my face smile again.
"EEEEP!" Alice squealed. "Do you know what this MEANS BELLA?" She grabbed my shoulders, rattling my bones.
"What?" I flung her hands off of me.
"WE GET TO GO SHOPPING!" I felt my face take horror.
"Uh, no, no, no. I need to, uh-"Then it hit me. What about Charlie? I can't just leave him here by his self…"Talk to Charlie about everything and make sure that I can even go." I looked from her face to Emmett's then to Edwards.
"It's already done sweetie." Esme said sweetly. "Carlisle called him a couple of days ago and talked to him about it. We all talked about it to see if it was a good idea if six teenagers should go off by themselves for four nights."
"Mom, I am 18 and so is Rose." Emmett rolled his eyes as he took a bite of his pancake.
"Sure don't act like it…" Carlisle mumbled while taking a bite of his food.
"I resent that." Em said pretending to be appalled.
"Hurry Bella! We have a big day ahead of us." Alice ripped a piece of my pancake off from my plate and shoved it forcefully in my mouth. I looked over at Edward with dread in my eyes as I chewed the delicious pancake Esme got up at an ungodly hour to make. He just laughed at my facial expression and took a bite of his pancake.
The rest of breakfast held no other significance. We just discussed what we should do at the beach. I guess we were going to be going somewhere west of Salem, Oregon. That wasn't so bad, but what was bad was the 350 miles we had to drive to get there. In one vehicle…all packed together for what seemed to look like a six hour drive. I felt like slamming my face against Esme's pretty table and into my sticky mess of syrup and pancakes. We decided that the first night that we got there it would be spent looking around and possibly going out for dinner and the second day would be spent hanging out at the beach. That sounded decent to me.
"Now go home and shower. I will be at your house in thirty minutes!" Alice literally shoved me out the door. Jeeze…
I began walking across the lawn to my house but then I heard the door open. "Wait!" Edward yelled, running over to me in his slippers and flannel pajama bottoms. "Are you excited?" He asked. The grass from the lawn seemed to reflect in his green eyes and make them brighter.
"Yeah, I guess so." I mean, I was excited that we got to get away from here for four days, but I didn't want to leave Charlie here all by himself.
"I would have told you last night, but I didn't find out until Alice screamed it at the top of her lungs while waking me up. I'm surprised you didn't wake up from it." He laughed out sheepishly.
"HURRY UP BELLA!" Edward and I both looked back at the house. We saw Alice standing in her window spying on us. "Do whatever it is you guys do and go shower!" She wined. Edward laughed…
You want to be like that Eddie? "Edward is coming shopping with us, Alice." I smiled at Edward evilly.
That whipped the smile of his face and the laugh from his throat. "I am not!" He looked at me then to Alice in the window and then back to me. "I've got stuff to do around here. I have to help, uh- Emmett?" I rolled my eyes. "Bye." He hugged me a little warmly-probably because Alice was watching- "Bye!" Then he scurried back off into the house.
"SOME BEST FRIEND YOU ARE!" I yelled at him as he shut his door. I could have sworn I saw him laughing again. I rolled my eyes and walked across our lawns and into my house.
Charlie was still at the table reading the news paper. "Hey dad." I tried to make conversation while sitting across from him at our small, square, oak table. I know that it was no use, due to my dad's laconic state but it was worth a shot. "So, your okay with me going with the Cullen's to the beach?"
He flicked the news paper down so he could see my face. "Yeah. I think it'd be nice if you had a little fun-"the old Charlie would never let me go…"And the Cullen's are good people." Wow, that was the longest sentence he's said to me since my…my mothers death.
I looked down at the table and began tracing the wood patterns with my finger. "Are you sure you don't want me to go?"
"No, Bells. Go and have fun. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine." He flicked the news paper back up and I took that as a dismissal. I stood up and walked over to him. I don't think I've done something like this since I was seven, but I wanted my dad to know how I felt. I leaned down and wrapped my arms around him. "Thanks dad. I love you." It was awkward since my dad nor I ever showed physical affection, but I felt like it was something that needed to be done right about now.
I let him go gently and walked up the stairs to go get ready for one of the most horrid days of my life. I haven't lived it yet, but my intuition was telling me it was going to be bad.
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It was now three hours later, one thirty in the afternoon and my feet were killing me. I felt like banging my head against a wall and going back to sleep like I wanted to at 8:30 the s'morning.
"What about this one Alice?" Rose said holding up what was supposed to look like a dress. Alice insisted that we get at least one nice dress so if we wanted to do anything special at the beach, we'd all be prepared.
"Rose! That's hideous! You'd look like a huge lemon!" Alice ripped the dress out of Rosalie's hands and put it back on the rack. "Yellow just doesn't go good with blonde hair." Rosalie's face turned into one that looked like she agreed and continued searching through the rack.
I sighed loudly for about the millionth time since we picked up Rosalie at her house and made it to the mall. "BELLA! Go look for a dress!" Alice scolded me. She already had a huge pile slung over her arms, just waiting to be tried on. "Dillard's has a good selection that's why were here." Alice continued to go through the same rack Rosalie was.
"Alice, I don't like dresses. You know this-"I whined.
"I don't care what you like," She spit at me "here, try these on." She threw three different dresses at me. I sighed and gave up on arguing….for now. "Oooh! Rose, look at this one! I think this one would be perfect with your hair, skin tone and if you played up the eyes with smoky shadow!" Rose glanced at the dress and I could tell through her blue eyes she was in love. "C'mon girls, lets try these on!"
Rosalie and I fallowed Alice like lost souls to the dressing rooms. Once I was in my own cubical, tucked away from the outside world I peeled off my ripped up jeans and my- well Edwards- baseball t-shirt. I looked at the first dress. It's not that I didn't like dresses; it was just that they were always so uncomfortable. I pulled it over my head and looked in the mirror. I immediately noted that the dress was way to flow-ey and it was the ugliest shade of green/blue that could ever match my skin. One wrong gust of wind and the whole nation would get a great view of my yellow cotton panties. I quickly pulled the ugly thing off and threw it on the floor-I'd hang it up later. I grabbed the second one and appraised it with my eyes before trying it on. It was a dark maroon-ish color. This one shouldn't be too bad….I took it off the hanger and pulled it over my head. I tried to pull it over my breasts as well, but it took some work. I got down to my hips and had to pull with all my might to get it over my butt. I looked in the mirror and I grimaced. This dress was WAY too tight and it made my boobs look like two volcanoes getting ready to explode hot lava.
"I love this dress Alice!" I head Rose yell somewhere in the dressing room. At least someone is having a good time. I heard two doors creek open.
"What do you think of this one?" Alice said to Rose.
"Wow that defiantly screams 'ALICE!'" She giggled. "But, it's really cute. I think it matches your complexion really well and it brings out you're eyes like no other." She complimented. That was usually rare for Rosalie…
"Show us yours Bella!" Alice said knocking on my door. There was no way in heck I would go out there in this dress.
"Uh, no." I said trying to pull the dress back up over my bottom.
"C'mon, there is no one out here." Rose encouraged. I was still trying to pull the material over my bottom fiercely.
"I think I need help getting this-"I struggled to try and get it off "thing off." I guess I was going to have to go out there for them to help anyways…I opened the door and quickly noticed Alice. Her dress was a bright purple but it also had blue in it. It was gorgeous on her, and Rose was right: it made her eyes stand out more then ever. It was perfect on her petite little frame by not showing a lot of cleavage and with the spaghetti straps.
"Wow Rose, you were right! That dress does scream 'ALICE!'" I said looking over at Rosalie, but I was completely taken back. Her dress was a very warm satin red color with a matching bow under the right breast. Like Alice's dress it looked flawless one her and it was spaghetti straps. Her long, tan legs looked intimidating and I suddenly felt very small and ugly.
"DAMN!" Rose said allowed towards me. "This girl got BOOTY!" She walked over towards me and smacked me on my butt. I jumped at her.
"Hey!" I yelled appalled.
"And boobs!" Alice screamed gleefully. "Why don't you ever show those bad boys off?!" She asked me.
"Shut up you guys." I crossed my arms over my chest. "I'm only a B cup…"
"Well, that little B cup of yours sure looks a lot like a full C in that dress!" Rose chimed in going to grab at my chest. I pushed her hands away laughing a little bit.
"I need help getting it off." I admitted timidly and slightly still embarrassed.
"Rose, you help her get it off…I need to go get something." Alice sounded slightly distracted as she skipped out of the dressing room and back out into the store.
I went back into my small cubical with Rose. It was awkward being alone with her. "It's too tight; I can't get it over my butt." I admitted.
She just laughed and grabbed the bottom of the dress on either side of one of my butt cheeks. She gently lifted it up and pulled it up easily to my lower back. "I have the same problem." She winked at me before walking out of my dressing room and back into hers. I pulled the rest of the too tight dress off and threw it on the floor with the first one.
I sighed loudly as I grabbed the third one off of its hanger and looked it at it. It didn't look that bad. It was basic: The body of it was white while the straps were black and about three inches thick. There was also a big black bow that looked like it went over the breast area. I pulled it over my head and put each limb into the correct spot and pulled my head through the top. I turned and looked into the mirror. I was actually taken back a little bit: I actually liked this dress. It wasn't too tight, it wasn't too flow-ey and it didn't show a lot of boob/butt. Maybe a little bit too much leg, but leggings could take care of that. I smiled to myself in the mirror proud that I was getting in touch with my feminine side. Would Edward like it?...
I pulled the dress off and placed it on its hanger neatly. I then placed the two rejects back on their hangers and walked out of the dressing room to a waiting Alice and Rosalie. I saw that Alice had already bought her dress and probably Rose's because she wasn't holding a bag.
"Ready?" She asked standing from the bench and skipping towards me.
"Yeah…I liked this one." I said holding up the black and while one.
"Okay!" She grabbed the dress from me while I put the two rejects on the 'go back on the rack' rack. We walked out of the dressing room and Alice went straight to the cash register. "We have to make one more stop before we leave." I smiled at the word 'leave.' I went to give Alice money to pay for the dress, but naturally she threw a fit. It was one of the most embarrassing things you could see any seventeen year old do.
We made our way on the complete opposite side of the mall to none other Victoria's Secret. I sighed loudly before walking into the bra heaven.
"Oh, get over it!" Rose scolded "We want to find something nice for our men."
"Uh-huh." Alice said trailing off all on her own to a nice display of panties and bras. I saw Rose go in the opposite direction: straight to the lingerie. I guess I'll take a look around too…I made my way over to what they called the 'PINK' room. I quickly noticed all the comfy pajamas they had. I picked through a couple of the racks before I was noticed by one of the workers.
"Hey, I'm Crissy and I just wanted to let you know that right now we have a special on pajamas. If you buy one of our comfy tank top camisoles by Victoria's Secret PINK then you get a free pair of panties." She smiled sweetly at me, her grey eyes seeming sincere.
"Really? Thank you." I said picking up a cute dark blue pajama tank top that I was eyeing. "I think I'm going to get this…"
"Here, I'll show you the selection of free underwear." I fallowed her quietly to the opposite side of the room. She led me to a nice display of panties. "Here ya go." She gestured.
"Thanks." I said again and she wondered off to help another customer that was calling her. I picked through some of the underwear until I found ones that matched perfectly with the camisole. They were dark blue and white stripes with dark blue lace around the waist and each thigh. And on top of being cute: they were boy short style. My favorite!
I smiled as I walked up to the cash register at my findings. I paid for my things and began looking around for Alice and Rosalie…but I didn't have to look long. They were both coming out from the lingerie room laughing their heads off. Rose looked like she was holding something a deep red- like her dress- and Alice looked like she was holding something black with white ruffles. Boy, they do have other plans for the beach then just soaking up the sun…
"Are you guys ready to go?" I went back into wine mode. "My feet are killin' me and I'm hungry. Plus we still have to pack and we-"
"Were coming! Jesus." Rose said paying for hers and Alice's things. With two new shirts, a new pair of jeans, a dress, new flip flops, a new pair of panties and a new camisole(that was just me) we made our way to drop Rose back off at home to get to the Cullen house, and mine, so we could pack for our trip.
Once we actually made it to the Cullen house I lugged myself up the stairs to Edward's room. I opened his door and he was in nothing but his boxers, leaning over his bed putting cloths into a suit case. He turned around and smiled I froze. Mmmm, muscle. WAIT! You've seen his chest millions of times while swimming, oh GOD? Are my cheeks getting red?
"Oh, hey Bella." He said like it was no big deal and went back to putting cloths into his suit case.
I couldn't really find words just yet. I stared at his back and the way each time he picked up a pile of cloths how his muscles would get firm. I looked lower and stared at his butt. "Uhh-"I stammered "I'm going to go back to my house and pack." I wanted to get out of that room before I did anything to rash.
He looked over his shoulder at me. "You don't need to bring the sun block or anything like that. We've got it covered. But you can bring your shampoo so you don't have to smell like mine."
"Okay." I said quickly.
"Just be sure to bring a couple of towels."
"Sure." I agreed coolly.
"I'll be over later tonight," He turned towards me fully and started to walk towards me smiling evilly. I suddenly got a little scared. "Don't forget to set you're alarm, we have to get up early." He came up to me and wrapped his arms around me in a firm hug. I froze as he brought his lips to my ears and whispered in my ear. "Alice is watching us." He kissed me gently on the cheek and released me. I felt my face turn warm again. "Bye." He smiled at me before turning back to finish packing.
I bolted out of his room faster then a speed racer. I pushed passed an open mouthed Alice in the middle of the hallway. "Oh, hey Alice." I said nonchalantly. "I'll see you bright and early tomorrow!"
I couldn't help but laugh as I crossed their lawn into my own. I was still giggling as I made it into my room and pulled my old duffle bag from under my bed. I began rummaging through my closet and my dresser.
I put things into two piles: The rejects pile and the pile of cloths I was going to take with me. Once I got all my cloths, socks, and underwear down I skipped off to the bathroom. I put my shampoo on the counter along with my hair brush, and tooth brush so I wouldn't forget to put them in my duffle bag tomorrow morning. I then went back into my room and grabbed all of my new things from shopping today and packing them into my duffle bag. I went back to my closet and retrieved my flip flops and my new flip flops and packed them as well.
When I thought I had everything down I pulled my now heavy duffle bag off my bed and put it beside my door. I walked over to my window that faced Edward's to see if he was still packing. The lights were off and he was nowhere to be seen. I sighed as I walked away and grabbed my towel from the back of my desks' chair.
Tonight is going to feel like one of the longest nights ever….but tomorrow is going to be even worse with that long ass drive.
A/N: Yay! Beach/Road trip! I decided that after everything was really depressing that some happiness was needed. If you guys would like to see the dresses the girls each bought, they are on my page. As well as the lingerie Alice and Rosalie bought for Japer and Emmett. I also posted the little pajama set Bella bought- If you guys want to check that out. I would love to hear if anyone has any ideas or anything they'd like to see happen….I will try to fit it in if it can collaborate with my outline.
As always, thanks so much for reading & I hope you take the time to review.