When Dawn Breaks Chapter 17

"I'm so excited that your dad is letting us have a sleepover." Alice said as she, Bella and Rosalie lay on the floor in Bella's living room in a pile of blankets and pillows. Rosalie had called to invite Alice to spend the night with them so that Charlie would allow Rosalie to stay. Alice of course had jumped at the chance and after the wolves and a pouting Emmett went home, the three girls had made their way to living room to camp down for the night. "What do you guys want to do first?"

"Calm down Alice, it's been a long day." Rosalie told her. "I'm sure Bella is really tired so how about we watch some movies and relax."

Alice pouted."Ok but can I pick the movie?"

Bella tossed Alice the remote. "Have at it. I'm tired,so I don't know how long I'm going to stay up."

"Yes!" Alice cheered as she scrolled through the options on the tv.

"You did wonderful tonight, my darling." Rosalie told Bella as she lay with her head on Rosalie's chest. "I'm so proud of you."

"Yeah, you did great Bella." Alice agreed. "It was like you were a whole different person up there."

"I was just trying not to embarrass myself." Bella said.

Rosalie tightened her hold on the girl."I honestly don't know who was prouder me or Charlie."

Alice looked up from the tv. "He was so cute when you called him out for being a police officer. He was so red I was worried he was having heart problems."

Rosalie smiled. "That man loves you so much. I'm excited to see how the pictures you took with him came out. I don't think he could have smiled any bigger than he did while you were taking them."

"I want to see the ones with the mayor." Alice said. "He was trying to not look as angry as he was when you not only invited Charlie in the pictures but put him between the two of you so the mayor couldn't even photoshop Charlie out of them."

"That man is lucky we were in public with so many witnesses."Rosalie growled. "I wanted to rip his throat out every time he tried to get you to give him a positive sound bite for his campaign."

Bella leaned up and kissed Rosalie on the cheek."Your impeccable self control saves yet another life."

"He's not safe yet." Rosalie huffed. "We'll have to see how he spins your appearance with him in the next few days."

"What do you mean?" Alice asked.

"Men like him are snakes."Rosalie explained. "Even though Bella said nothing about him or his political beliefs personally, he could easily twist any of her words to fit his agenda."

"What will you do if he does that?"Alice asked concerned."Will you just ignore him?"

"Well as my future bride likes to remind me,I am to much of a push over." Bella said. "So if he feels the need to use my words or image to further his career, I will have to also use my words and image but instead of furthering his career, I will probably be hindering it."

Rosalie kissed Bella's forehead. "That's exactly what I would have done."

Bella yawned."Great minds think alike."

"Are you tired sweetheart?" As Bella nodded Rosalie laid down and pulled Bella with her grabbing some blankets to cover the both of them. "Why don't you go to sleep?I'll keep Alice company while you're out."

Bella snuggled half on top of Rosalie. "I think I will. Good night Alice, thanks for coming over."

"Thanks for inviting me Bella." Alice told the already sleeping Bella. "She was really tired."

"Yeah, I think we all forget about how isolated she was her whole life."Rosalie said. "Being around so many people exhausts her."

Alice looked at Bella. The girl looked so innocent and peaceful in her sleep. "It's hard to believe that so many things rest on the shoulders of that one individual. She looks so young."

"She is young." Rosalie reminded her. "Bella is only 17 yrs old. Not the frozen in time for 100 years at 17 either."

"Will she continue to age?" Alice asked.

"I don't know."Rosalie told her. "With me being stuck this age she shouldn't but like we continue to discover Bella is not the usual type of shifter."

Alice was silent for a few moments lost in thought."Do you think you will age?"

Rosalie hadn't even considered that. With all the changes making her more human could she actually possibly age? "I have no clue. I want to say it's impossible but as I'm feeling my heart beating in my chest I don't think anything is impossible."

"I still wish you guys could figure out a way to help us sleep." Alice said. "I find it fascinating that you can. I just want to be able to try at least once."

"When we were in Arizona we didn't even make a dent in all the materials Bella had in her bunker." Rosalie told her. "You should have seen it Alice there were thousands of hand written journals and books by Bella's ancestors. Bella told me there is other secured places that have other ones that were written through the ages by people who weren't Shurlongs. I'm sure if there is a way to figure out how to let you sleep, Bella has the answer at her estate. It's just a matter of going through everything." Rosalie told her.

"Is it that hard to search through?" Alice asked. "I mean there must be some kind of cataloging that has been done over the years."

Rosalie shook her head. "That's the thing. In Bella's family only the male decedents linked directly to Gorgen shift. So there has never been more than two or three tiger shifters at a time. The secret is only shared with them. The work it would take to do anything with the material is more than any one of them could have done in a life time and none have ever taken on the task."

"I would say that Bella should hire someone but I know how secretive she is about all that stuff." Alice said. "I'm surprised she even shared the vampire book with Carlisle."

"Me to." Rosalie agreed. "I think she only did it to make me happy. In fact she invited all of you along to make me happy. I didn't feel comfortable with us separated when we didn't know what Edward was up to. Especially with myself and Bella both being away."

Alice sighed dreamily."She really loves you so much."

Rosalie looked at the sleeping girl in her arms."I love her just as much."

"Thank you for letting Jasper and I go on a date with you guys. I"m really excited." Alice said."Charlotte and I going shopping for the perfect outfit. Do you guys want to come with us?"

"Bella needs to get some new clothes, so we might just want to. We can ask Bella when she wakes up." Rosalie held up a hand when Alice let out a whispered squeal. "That doesn't mean we are going to go overboard Alice.

Alice bounced on her knees in excitement. "I know, I know. This is going to be so much fun. I've been dying to help Bella with her wardrobe. I mean she has a good style but it could be so much better."

Rosalie rolled her eyes. "You are not going to run all over my mate. If she wants your help she will ask for it. I won't have you overwhelming her."

"Rosalie, you worry to much. I won't bother Bella. I will just be the supportive best friend there to give her helpful advice on clothing." Alice promised.

Rosalie groaned. Maybe this was a bad idea. Bella did need some new clothes but did she really want to have to deal with shopping with Alice. Looking over at the big smile on Alice's face as she scrolled through movie titles Rosalie grudgingly admitted to herself that she did in fact love her sister and they hadn't spent much time together since she became mated to Bella. Maybe a day of shopping wouldn't be that bad.