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jennifer chen
Genesis
'Hurry up Bella!" We're going to be late!" my friend Angela screeched up the stairs.
"Chill Ang, I'll be down in a sec. Anyway, the dance doesn't even start till seven, so quit yelling at me!"
It was the day of the pre-term dance. Everyone had been psyched up about it for the whole of last year, when the idea was first proposed by our new gym teacher, Mr Tennor. Personally, I didn't see the point. A dance on the Friday before the beginning of term. What was the point in that?
It turned out that nobody agreed with me. But still.
"Bella!"
"Okay! I'm coming!" I shouted back. I looked in the mirror one last time. My hair had been straightened and I had a small butterfly clip holing up one side of my straightened hair. I was wearing a deep blue dress that came down to my ankles and death traps on my feet. Yes, that's right, three inch heels!
I sighed heavily and made my way slowly downstairs, careful to keep hold of the banister in case I tripped.
"There you are!" said Angela when I reached the bottom of the stairs. "Well, hurry up and say bye to Charlie. I'll meet you in the car." And with that she was gone.
I walked into the lounge, to see my dad, Charlie, sitting on the sofa, watching football.
"Hey dad, I'm gonna go to the dance now, okay?" I asked nervously. Part of me was hoping he'd say no- but no such luck.
"Okay honey. Don't be back too late," he said, not taking his eyes off the TV.
I sighed and walked out of the house. It was going to be a long night.
We reached the school dead on seven. The hall was already booming with people, some of which didn't even go to our school. Great, there were guests allowed.
"Come on," Angela dragged me to the entrance. There we met Jessica, another friend of mine.
"Hey guys!" She called, waving us over. "The school band, Genesis is going to introduce its newest member tonight." Trust Jessica to have all the gossip already. "Anyway, let's go by the dance floor." She led us into the middle of the crowd.
After about five minutes, she went off to dance with some guy called Tyler.
"Ang, this is so boring," I said unhappily, picking at my dress.
"Oh, quit complaining. You've only been here ten minutes," she said.
"Honestly, way to go on the supportive side." I laughed. She sniffed.
"Well, if you're going to act like this then I'm sorry but I cannot be supportive."
I grinned. Only Angela could have cheered me up so quickly.
"Excuse me," a voice came from behind me. I spun round. "Would you like to dance?" I raised my eyebrows at him. Was he serious? Dance. With me. Judging by the looks of him, he could dance with any girl in the room. Now I mention it, they all seemed to be wishing just that. I stared right into his deep, green eyes and nodded once.
He grinned and led me onto the dance floor.
"I'm Edward, by the way. Edward Cullen."
"Bella Swan," I mumbled. He smiled down at me. Just then the music changed. A waltz. Who plays a waltz at a high-school dance? Well, my school, it seemed.
We began our waltz. His was quite good. Actually, that was an understatement. He was brilliant. I looked up at him surprised.
"My mother," he said smiling. How on earth did he know what I was thinking? "She taught me. Said it was useful to know. Anyway, how about you? You dance very well too." I blushed slightly.
"Same as," I grinned. "It's always the mothers eh?" He laughed. "So," I said changing the subject, "How come you're here. You don't go to this school so you're either one of two things- somebody's guest or the new Genesis band member. However, if you were somebody's guest, you wouldn't be dancing with me… and Jess would have told me. So, you must be the new band member." He looked surprised for a moment, then he grinned.
"Quite the Sherlock, aren't we. Well, you're right about the part in the band, but I am now officially, a student at this school."
"Really," I said in mock horror. "It seems I'll have my work cut out then."
"Indeed," he chuckled.
Suddenly a voice rang out over the hall. We both turned to face the stage,
"Well, boys and girls, it seems that the best dancing pair in this hall has already been decided. Would the following two please come up on stage: Edward Cullen and Isabella Swan."
I could have died of embarrassment.
Edward and I walked up onto the stage together, me hoping that the floor would hurry up and swallow me.
Everyone clapped and the rest of the band, genesis, came up onto the stage to join us.
"Hey," began Tommy, the drummer, "As most of you have probably guessed, Edward here, is our new band member!" he clapped Edward on the back and we all made to walk off the stage.
"One minute," a voice rang over our heads. "Just one last thing. Edward and Bella must dance at least five more times this evening- including the last dance and our solo dance now. Everybody, would you please clear the dance floor!"
We walked off stage, and back onto the floor. The music blared on again.
All I could think was oh no- what had I gotten myself into?
