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+30 Minutes Later+

"Please Alice!" Pearl pleaded with the pixie.

"No! You are wearing a dress!" Alice protested. Manoeuvring Pearl into the material whilst the hybrid struggles.

Emmet and Jasper had gone to get ready alongside Edward. And Rosalie, who was in the room with the two girls, was sitting on the couch watching the two struggling with each other.

"I'd rather wear a suit or something!" Pearl yelled, frustrated. Pulling away from Alice once more, and making a mad dash for the door, in hopes of escape.

Alice made no move to try and stop her, as she had already foreseen this coming and had gotten the door properly reinforced and upgraded to prevent Pearl from leaving, or going through it.

Trapping the unruly hybrid inside the dressing room.

The hybrid in question, ran face first into the door and fell backwards onto the floor.

"Put on this dress. Then sit down and stay still, so that I can do your make up." Alice ordered.

"Just because I agreed to come to this wedding, does not mean that I agreed to be your living doll!" Shouts Pearl.

"You are not coming to this esteemed event, in trousers and a T-shirt!" Reprimands Alice.

"I know it's fancy and all! That's why I'm suggesting that I wear a suit! I look awful in a dress! And I hate them!" Pearl continued to complain and argue from her spot on the floor, in front of the door.

"This is not up for debate!" Grabbing Pearl by the back of her vest, Alice try's to drag her to the stool she was previously on.

Pearl attempts to escape the small vampires grip but has no success. "How are you this strong?!"

Alice giggles and ignores the question. Placing Pearl on the stool, she demands, "Clothes off! Dress on!"

Paling at the realisation that there isn't a way out, the hybrid desperately wracked her brain to try and come up with a reasonable excuse and/or a way out of it.

Alice. Tired of waiting. Attempts to once again, speedily put the dress on Pearl over top of the clothes she was already wearing. Dodging the pixies onslaught of attacks, Pearl got an idea.

"What if I do something for you on another day, if you let me wear a suit?!" Pearl hurriedly asked.

"Nice try! You are wearing this dress Pearl Clearwater!" Alice shuts down the suggestion.

Freaking out, now totally beside herself, Pearl blurts out, "What if I do something for every single member of the coven?!"

"No-" Alice starts but gets interrupted by a chorus of voices.

"Yes!" The word rings out from all over the house, from every other family member.

Even Edward and Rosalie join in. Everyone had been listening to Alice and Pearl argue for upwards of 25 minutes, and by this point, they were all fairly fed up.

Bella would be arriving soon to get ready herself.

And if this keeps up any longer, Alice will end up spending more time fighting with Pearl, than actually doing her assigned job as maid of honour and helping the bride get ready.

"Alice. Just let her wear a suit." Rosalie sighed from the couch.

"But, my aesthetic-"

"It will still look amazing Alice. So seriously, stop arguing with her." Rosalie said tiredly. "You literally bought a spare suit that, may I add, is in Pearl's size." She rolled her eyes after she finished speaking.

"...Fine." Alice conceded. 'I tried. At least I got something out of this. I won.' Alice thought.

"Yes!" Pearl yelled happily. Jumping off the stool, she ran to the walk in wardrobe and found the suit Rosalie had mentioned, grabbing it from the hanger, she proceeds to change into it.

Alice frowns slightly at the hybrid, but doesn't try to stop her. Rosalie gets up from the couch and tells the pixie, "Come on. Bella will be here any minute. You can dress her up to your hearts content."

A wide grin spreads across Alice's face. She races to unlock the door and exits the room at full speed, in order to start preparing for Bella.

Pearl emerges from the walk in wardrobe a minute later and is greeted by a smirking Rosalie.

"What?" Pearl asks, now wearing a light grey suit.

"One. You owe me." Rosalie declares.

Pearl sighs before replying, "I'm pretty sure I owe everyone at this point."

"And two. You just got played." Rosalie adds, smirking.

"What do you mean?" Pearl asks confused.

Rosalie snickers at the hybrid and heads downstairs. Pearl following the blonde vampire close behind.

"What, do you mean?" Pearl asks again, slightly louder this time.

The two girls joined Emmet and Bree in the living room, Rosalie still ignoring the hybrids question.

"Dear God. I thought it would never end." Emmet said dramatically, upon seeing the two. Bree giggled and nodded along with him.

"Tsk. Tell me about it." Rosalie commented in a snarky tone.

"Hey. I just didn't want to wear a stupid dress. Is that so bad?" The hybrid whines, trying to defend herself.

"Dresses aren't stupid!" Alice shouted down to the hybrid, from somewhere upstairs.

"They are to me!" Pearl shouted back.

"Why you little-" Alice got cut off, yet again.

"Girls! That is enough!" Carlisle scolded.

"Fine" Both girls said in unison.

Pearl sighs. "Well... at least I got out of it." She said relieved.

Rosalie and Emmet smirks at the hybrid knowingly. Pearl raises her eyebrow at them, silently asking them to speak. Before they can, another voice rings out, replying to the hybrid.

"Oh no you didn't." Alice calls out.

'Huh', Pearl thinks. Momentarily confused.

"You've got to do something for every single member of this coven, when the wedding is over! And you and me, are gonna go on a shopping spree!" Hollers Alice.

"Oh no" Pearl whimpers at the idea.

Emmet starts laughing, thoroughly enjoying watching Pearl suffer. Between breaths, he huffs out, "If you think that's bad. Just wait and see what I'm gonna make you do." He laughs harder. "I can't believe, you fell for it!"

"...What?" Pearl whispers.

"Alice foresaw that you wouldn't wear a dress, no matter what she did. So she decided that she may as well get something out of it." Rosalie said, smirking.

'Oh no. Alice knew. She knew. She let it play out so that I'd be so desperate, and say whatever first comes to mind in order to get out of it!

What on earth did I agree to?! All I wanted was to not wear a dress!

Alice tricked me! I'm screwed! Totally, and royally, screwed.

" Internally kicking herself. Pearl regretted ever agreeing to come to this wedding.

Rosalie and Bree stood to the side. Watching Emmet laugh his butt off at Pearl and witnessing the hybrids clear internal mental break down.

"Are they going to be okay?" Bree questioned Rosalie. Growing concerned for the two.

"This behaviour is normal for Emmet. He'll tease her for a while, but he will eventually calm down." Rosalie stated.

"And Pearl?" Bree asked, looking at the very broken hybrid.

Rosalie looked at Pearl, then shrugged. "She'll live. Come on. Me and you have to go and help Esme." She said, taking Bree's hand and leading her down the hallway. Leaving a still laughing Emmet, and a mentally broken Pearl.