So, here I sat, curled into Edward's stone lap watching Alice paint my toe nails in ten different colors.

"Alice, why are we making my feet into a rainbow?" I groaned as Edward stroked my hair with his steady, gentle hands.

"Curiosity killed the cat, Bella," she chimed as my pinky toe received a shining coat of dark purple polish.

"Alice, in my case, everything kills the cat," I sighed, "curiosity is hardly the problem when there are three bloodthirsty vampires chasing me all the way to Phoenix and back."

Edward tensed for a moment as my little comparison reminded him of my unpleasant near-death experience, but Alice simply gave me a reproachful look. 

"My dearest and sweetest best friend, you can try to run away with this monstrosity," she patted my thick, white cast, "or you can sit there like a good little girl and let poor-little-old-me have my fun."

"Fine, but just to let you know, I'm taking it all off when I get home!"

"Fine!" she smiled and stuck her tongue out at me.

"You're so small and yet so evil."

"I know, it's a skill," she shrugged and added rhinestones to my silver big toe.

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"Did all of it come off?" Alice asked innocently as Edward helped me walk through the treacherous school parking lot and towards the building itself.

"No," I said bitterly as I remembered my three toes that still sparkled with annoyingly un-Bella colors. I had tried to reach around my cast to remove the polish, but it was simply too bug and bulky, so I had waited for Edward to help me instead. Everything was going fine, but the nail polish remover was too strong and he apologetically jumped out my window for some fresh air after cleaning only two toes.

"Oh, well," she giggled and danced her way into the main entrance and out of sight.

"She's up to something," Edward said with narrowed eyes.

"Obviously she's trying to give me an aneurism," I grumbled.

"No, that's not what I mean," he said with a concentrated look on his face, "I mean she's keeping something from me, she just started naming every species of fish indigenous to the South Pacific."

"Oh...we're screwed aren't we?" I sighed.

"I'm afraid so."

The rest of the day passed by with no reminder of the impending doom predicted by Alice. And since it was predicted by Alice, I knew for sure that it was doom and not some simple little happening that she wanted to keep a surprise. No, Alice only bothered to keep the truly torturous details a mystery.

"Hey Eric," I smiled as he scooted closer to me at our lunch table. I thought it was an incredibly brave move seeing as no one at our table usually got anywhere near me now that Edward and Alice sat by my side. But then again, Edward was in the lunch line buying my food and Alice was so small that no one could really count her as intimidating.

"I just wanted to ask you something," he said looking nervously over his shoulder.

Oh no, this was what Alice was trying to keep from Edward wasn't it? I glanced over my shoulder to give her the dirtiest look possible, but she was conveniently talking to Rosalie a few tables away. Evil, little, pixie wench!

"What's on your mind," I sighed. I might as well get this over with.

"Well, I thought that maybe you would go to prom with me. I know you're dating Cullen, but he doesn't really seem like the prom kind of guy, and I wouldn't want you to miss out," he stammered.

I tried my best not to grimace and settled for an unconvincingly sympathetic smile.

"Sorry Eric, I'm not the prom kind of girl," I said politely as Edward set the tray down in front of me and took his post by my side. He put his cold arm around my waist and pulled me closer as Eric quickly scooted back towards the purely human side of the table.

"Alright Alice, you've had your fun, you can come out of hiding," he muttered.

"Oh, the fun has just begun," Alice smiled devilishly as she danced away from Rosalie and settled across from us.

Edward groaned.

"What now?" I said slightly panicked. How much more of this could I take?

"I don't know, but she's moved onto translating the Canadian National Anthem into Swahili."

It wasn't long before fate and its cruel sense of humor caught up to me again. I was standing on the sidelines of the basketball court while twenty or so players dribbled the dangerous orange ball with a skill that I couldn't dream of having, when an overconfident Sophomore felt the need to torture me.

"Hey, there," he smiled smugly, "basketball not your thing?"

"Sports aren't my thing," I mumbled.

He laughed a bit too hard at my sarcastic remark and then flashed his white smile at me. I'm sure he thought his gleaming white teeth would impress me, but they looked a dull gray compared to Edward's. In fact, everything looked dull compared to Edward. I wondered why these stupid boys couldn't realize that I was blind to anyone but him?

"You got a prom date?" he finally asked.

"No, and I don't want one," I tried to say calmly through gritted teeth, but my tone might have come off a teensy bit furious.

"Feisty, I like it," he said arching an eyebrow. He looked ridiculous.

"Listen kid," I made sure to emphasize the fact that he was younger than me, "I'm taken."

"Sure, whatever you say," he rolled his eyes, but laughed as he rejoined the other players, "I'll give you my number later."

Ugh, non-vampire men are so immature, I thought to myself as the stupid sophomore tried to pass me his number outside of the gym locker rooms, I refused it  and grabbed Edward's hand firmly in mine. The sophomore took one look at Edward's sure to be frightening face, and then scurried off to find his friends.

"Do I have to get you a tee-shirt that says, stop asking my girlfriend to the Prom, sincerely Edward Cullen, because I'll do it! I swear to God I will!" he huffed as we watched my second suitor of the day disappear.

"Alice wouldn't let me wear it," I shrugged as I patted his shoulder sympathetically, "she says shirts with writing on them don't make a statement - they simply make her sick."

"Speaking of Alice," he mumbled as she danced her way past us, "she's calculating pi at the moment."

"Oh no, will it ever stop?"