Alice, Bella and friends.

Bella

I pulled Alice into a sitting position, wiped her tears away, and gave her a stern look.

"Alice Jane Johnson!" I said firmly. "You are sulking. You're making yourself sick with all this nonsense. You constantly talk about falling in love. You always used to be depressed when all your friends had dates. Now you have a guy who actually cried over you, and you turned him away."

Alice went to make an objection. I stopped her.

"Alice Jane, are you, or are you not in love with Ronan?"

Alice

I curled up in a ball, "I am."

"Then why the hell did you do this?"

"He deserves better than me."

I braced myself for the smack to come. It hurt like hell.

Bella

I got up and began pacing Alice's bedroom, thanking God that sister was already awake and in the other room.

"Dammit Alice!" I said, keeping my voice at a loud whisper, just to be safe. "You have a guy who would fucking go wrangle the moon for you if you asked him to!"

"Wrangle the moon?"

"Yes! He would get the fucking moon and lay it at your fucking feet! And you're throwing it away! Just tossing it out the fucking window! And you know what?"

"...what?" Alice asked hesitantly, obviously a bit worried aobut this one.

"I'm not going to let you! Get your ass out of bed, now. If you don't, I'm taking you to school in your fucking pajamas. You have to the count of five."

Alice stared at me.

"One..."

Alice

Oh shit, "I don't know what I should wear though."

"Day clothes."

I gave her a skeptical look, getting more and more open to this idea by the second, but it all had to work just right.

"I need something awesome to wear."

She started to rifel through my dresser.

Bella

"Hold on," I sighed, running down the stairs to my van. I came up a moment later with my duffel bag. "How much do you love me?" I asked as I began pulling clothes out of it.

"Depends on what'cha got in there," she replied, grinning. I rolled my eyes and pulled out my favorite skirt of all time, even though it didn't look quite right on me. It was too...blue. It was patchworked into about fifteen different shades of blue, all of the patches worked together in this amazingly awesome, obviously indescribable way.

"Put it on," I ordered, tossing it at her. She smiled.

"Sweet!" she exclaimed, gladly switching her pajama pants for the skirt. Next I found the halter top, which was a shimmery shade of baby blue. I chucked this at her as well. "Oh my..."

"It's perfect, trust me," I replied, walking out of her room to the bathroom.

Alice

I pulled the halter top over my head and adjusted my boobs so they fit in the right place and then followed Bella to the bathroom.

I stood in front of the mirror and just stared for a moment, that wasn't me that I was looking back at. It couldn't be!

Bella

"Oh my god you look so rad!" I exclaimed, messing with her hair before deciding to pull it half up. At least a bit of it had to hand around her face.

"What are you doing?"

"Your hair."

"Why?"

"It must be done," I said all knowingly.

- - - - - - - -

Finally, we made it out the door. She found a pair of blue flip flops in the back of my van and slipped them on her feet.

Alice

When Bella pulled into the parking I was shaking I was so nervous. "W-w-what if I prove my point? What if he realizes that I'm not good for him?"

She patted my shoulder "then you tried."

I took a deep breath and walked into the school. My eyes wide and looking about for Ronan.

I couldn't find him.

Maybe that was a good thing...At least ten minutes to figure out what I was going to say.

He wasn't in Algebra. Crud.

When I went to computers I opened the photoshop, I started fiddling with the text and the pictures until I got what I wanted.

When you walk away I count the steps that you take

I printed it out and wrote a note on the back.

"I was wrong, I do love you. Don't ask why I lied its a stupid reason. But the fact of the matter is, if you want me at this point or not, I'm yours anyways."

Ronan

I skipped out of first hour.

I didn't want to go through math without Alice there.
And if she was there, I wasn't sure I wanted to see her.

After second hour, before lunch, I opened my locker and found a piece of paper. Alice's hand writing was scrawled on the back.

I grinned, looking around for Alice. I noticed her sitting very much alone next to her locker, and immediatly sat down beside her.

She looked up at me, and I immediatly kissed her.

"Of course I want you."


Bella

I walked with Random, his hand in mine.

A lot of people were staring.

Idiots.

Alice

When we parted I smiled and pulled him back closer to me. "I'm sorry," I said, "I can be...a blonde sometimes."

He held me close and for a long time.

"Have you had lunch yet?"

I shook my head.

"Lets eat then real quick before we go to the middle school."


Random

People stared at me and Bella as we walked down the hall. The stares gave me confidence and made me want to pull Bella a little closer, but I kept it the way it was, not wanting to go too fast and scare her.

Ronan

I handed Alice the sandwich I had made for her.

I hoped she liked PB&J ('t was all we had at home).

"Why'd ya bring me a samwich?" she asked, taking a bite eagerly.

"'Cause I care," I replied, grinning.

Bella

I sat with Random at my locker, eating my lunch.

Alice

I smiled and turned his shoulder into my pillow while I ate.

"Is Rushing gone again today?"

I shook my head, "we're going to the middle school to practice remember?"

"Oh yeah. We're doin that all week aren't we?"

"Yeah."

"We'll go out to lunch tomorrow then."


Random

"While we were sitting I wasn't afraid to put my arm around her, "are you happy now?" I asked hopefully, "I don't like it when you're sad."

She smiled and leaned into me a little bit. "Yeah."

I rested my cheek on her head, "good."

Ronan

"We will?" Alice asked, looking at me curiously.

"Yup," I replied, smiling. "Come on, we best hurry."


Bella

"Does it bother you that so many people are talking about us?" I asked, looking up at him. I couldn't see much more than his nose while he rested his head on mine like that.

Random

"No, not really. Does it bother you?"

"Its getting a tad annoying."

"They'll find something else to talk about soon enough."

She shrugged.


Alice

I still felt a little sick today, but I tried not to show it. I made sure I had my feet firmly planted under me when Ronan pulled me to my feet, I knew I looked a little dizzy but I pulled the world out of the spin zone fast enough.

"You okay?"

I smiled, "I'm fine, lets go, we can stop at the ice cream store if we leave now. I've got two bucks." The thought of eating ice cream was mildly pleasent, something slightly non solid and yummy.

Maybe I really was sick.

Bella

"If you say so," I grinned, leaning against him.

"You okay?" he asked, looking down at me. I yawned.

"Sleeepy," I replied, dragging out the word with another yawn.

Ronan

"All right," I agreed, watching her carefully. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Alice assured me, looping her arm around mine.