A/N: This is just a little One Shot I came up with while I was singing "I've had the time of my life" from Dirty Dancing to myself in the shower. Yes, I sing in the shower sometimes or anywhere else when I'm feeling really happy or just have a song stuck in my head, but I only sing (outloud) when I'm pretty sure no one can hear me, don't want to cause anyone horrible pain just because I felt the need to give my vocal cords a workout. ;)

Bella is dragged to a party in Seattle by Jessica and Angela. What happens when she meets the handsome Edward, who just happened to be at the same party with his siblings? Fluffy One Shot, because I recently found out that One Shots are awesome to write! And an incredibly entertaining way to drive away the boredom that vacation sometimes brings.

Hmmm… It might just turn out that the Author's Note on this thing will be longer than the actual One Shot… Anyways… Enjoy! :) And let me know what you guys think! (A)

I've had the time of my life

"Remind me again why you are dragging me along with you guys?" I groaned as we were driving in Jessica's car towards the city of Seattle.

Angela and Jessica had decided I needed a night out on the town, it was like they didn't know me at all. When they first asked me to please please pretty please come along I had gracefully turned them down by grumbling "not in a million years".

Apparently they weren't convinced that I really didn't want to join them as they were going to some sort of party in Seattle just so they could meet up with Mike and Ben and dance with them without it being a real date. On Tuesday Jessica had overheard Mike and Ben talk about the party, they were talking about who to invite and settled for just Eric and Tyler. Since Jessica had had a crush on Mike for God knows how long, it was inevitable that she was attending the same party. And it was just my luck that she invited Angela to come along rather than Lauren or any of her other friends. Of course Angela needed me to be there as well, so there was no way I was getting out of this one. That was just fabulous.

I rolled my eyes again in the back of the car as I thought back on how they had both tried to convince me with their puppy-dog eyes and innocent voices. But it was only on Thursday that I had really agreed to go. And as I thought about it again now I couldn't for the life of me figure out why on Earth I had done that! I hated parties, I hated dancing and even worse I couldn't dance even if I wanted to.

"It will be fun." Angela's reply pulled me out of my thoughts and back into reality.

"Sure, I'm sure I'll have a blast falling over my feet as I just walk towards the dancefloor. That must be fun!" I said sarcastically while rolling my eyes so far into my head it hurt a little.

Jessica giggled but other than that there was no reply. It was no use, I would have to endure this. Take it like a woman! I told myself sternly. It wasn't like I was going to be able to run even if I wanted to, we were halfway to Seattle, I couldn't very well open my door, dive out of the car and run back home... Although the idea sounded very tempting right about now...

It was quite a far drive to Seattle and my dad along with the parents of both Jessica and Angela had warned us not to drive back to Forks after the party. So they had gracefully offered to pay for a hotel.

It was late afternoon when we arrived at the hotel. We decided to dump our stuff in the room and explore the city for a bit before going to dinner.

The entire time we were walking through the city Jessica was drooling over Mike and telling us all the good qualities the poor boy possessed. If only he knew the things she seemed to notice about him!

"You know, when he's on his own and he thinks that nobody's watching or listening he sometimes hums to himself, and every time I catch him humming some sort of tune from chick flicks, like "You're the one that I want" from Grease for instance! It's soooo incredibly cute!" she gushed.

I looked at Angela and rolled my eyes, she giggled and shrugged. Jessica would be Jessica.

At a certain point Jessica got annoyed and decided that we weren't giving her enough feedback. Like she needed it, that girl could ramble on about something for hours without anyone ever needing to reply, sometimes I wondered if she really wasn't a secret schizophrenic or had some imaginary invisible friend, she seemed to need someone to talk to 24/7 and I doubted her parents would listen to her all the time.

Jessica needed some new gossip so she changed the subject.

"So Angela, how are things going with you and Ben?" she asked eagerly, bracing for the newest scandal.

Angela and Ben had recently started dating, things seemed to be going quite well, but sometimes Ben was a little distant, I knew Angela was worried that he might be losing interest in her. I also knew that that was the only reason she had agreed to go with Jessica tonight, because Ben would be there too. I started to wonder if that was the reason Jessica had invited Angela rather than any other girl she hung out with, it wasn't like she went clubbing with Angela all the time, maybe she wanted to be there when the story unfolded.

Angela blushed and stared at her feet, she didn't answer.

"Are you guys still dating? Or is that over?" Jessica pried, subtlety was never her forte.

"Still the same," Angela managed to reply, still studying the floor.

"Do you think tonight will be the night the two of you will be a couple for the first time officially?" God this woman was annoying!

"I don't know."

"But you hope so right?"

"I guess."

I decided to step in and help Angela out.

"Where do you guys want to eat tonight? We could see if they have something back at the hotel. Or we could go look for a nice place in town. What do you think?" Big mistake! Even though Angela shot me a thankful glance, Jessica now turned her Spanish Inquisition to me. Nice going Bella!

"So Bella," she started conspiringly, "how are things going with your lovelife? Do you have your eye on someone in particular? You can tell me you know!" she finished in a honey sweet voice. I didn't buy it for one second.

I just shrugged. But that didn't seem to be enough.

"Oh come on! Is there no one you fancy? Or are all the Fork boys not good enough for you? Did you leave a crush behind when you left Phoenix?" That girl had no shame whatsoever.

I did have my eye on someone, but it wasn't like he was ever going to be interested in me so there was no need to bare my soul to this evil girl.

"Not really." I shrugged again, trying to get her off my back by acting very uninterestingly.

It seemed to work, she lost her interest, said "Whatever" while rolling her eyes at me and decided to answer my previous question. "I know this cute little Chinese place a few blocks from here, we could have dinner there if you guys want."

"Sure, sounds good," I replied after I gave Angela a relieved smile, the worst part of it seemed to be over. Angela smiled back, fighting back a giggle.

After dinner we went back to the hotel to get changed. Last Friday Jessica had convinced us that we were in desperate need of something new to wear to the party, so not only did she make me go to this stupid party, she also made me go on a shopping trip for this stupid party! Did she not care at all what I wanted or liked? Of course I knew the answer to that as I had known ever since I met her. No, she did not! But it had turned out to be quite a nice afternoon. Although I'd rather die than admit that to Jessica after all the complaining I had done beforehand. We had spend the afternoon pretty much the same way we had today only Jessica had been less annoying and the chatting was a lot more fun, I had had some interesting conversations with Angela, I really liked her a lot, she was a lot like me in many ways.

In the end I had settled for a nice pair of jeans, black heels, which I was seriously regretting right about now but when Jessica had found the pair she practically forced me to buy them, and a black, low cut top with glitters at the neckline. I washed my hair and let it hang loose over my shoulders. That'll do. I thought to myself. But apparently Jessica had other plans. She was so bossy! When I was in the shower I had already heard her attack Angela and use her as an experiment for make up and hairdo and it seemed like it was now going to be my turn. I knew I could start being difficult but when Jessica wanted something she would go to any length to get it. I was already feeling sorry for Mike.

So I let Jessica put make up on my face, I was lucky, she thought eyeshadow and mascara would be enough and she didn't see the use of doing something different with my hair, it would be a mess no matter what. So I just barely passed her demanding test and we were all ready to go to the party. Great.

We walked into the club a little past eleven o'clock and it was already pretty crowded. There was a deejay playing, there were people dancing and people hanging out at the bar. There was a small podium in the center of the dancefloor and I prayed as hard as I could that Jessica would not find out about that. I was sure she would want to make herself seen by dancing on that deathtrap and she would not be doing that by herself… There was no chance in hell I was going anywhere near that thing.

We made our way to the bar and ordered cokes. I was halfway through my drink when Jessica roughly shook my arm and pointed in the direction of the door. She mouthed "look who's here!", her eyes so wide I was sure they were going to pop out of her skull. I followed her gaze to the entrance of the club and noticed 5 people walking in, all equally beautiful, they looked out of place in this cheap nightclub, but they didn't seem as pale as they usually did, they looked more accessible for some reason. My heart skipped a beat when I noticed the last of the five to walk in. The beyond-beautiful, bronze-haired god that had held my heart from the moment I'd laid my eyes on him. Edward Cullen.

I hadn't noticed that Mike, Ben, Eric and Tyler had joined us. Jessica, of course, had immediately used the opportunity to claim poor Mike's attention. Angela and Ben were staring into each other's eyes lovingly. At that moment I was sure they were going to be just fine. It was just too bad this left me to deal with Eric and Tyler, they both seemed eager enough to drag me to the dancefloor at the first sign of weakness on my part.

"Bella, you know what would be a good idea for you?" Tyler started. I really wasn't in the mood for this but I decided it was best to play along.

"No Tyler, what?" I asked in my most uninterested voice. Maybe he would take the hint and not continue with what would surely turn out to be an awkward comment.

"To dance the night away with me."

"Sorry, no can do, I'm sure there are plenty of other girls willing to humor you for a while," I replied while rolling my eyes at him.

It wasn't his fault that I couldn't dance but I never wanted to be here in the first place and the last thing I wanted to do was humiliate myself!

It took Tyler a moment to recover but then he just shrugged and seemed to mumble "your loss", although I couldn't hear it over the music.

Luckily for me, Eric had gotten scared after I so rudely turned Tyler down and decided not to bother me any further. He struck up a conversation with Tyler and they left me to myself. Which was more than fine for me.

Most of the evening I just sat at my spot and stared into the crowd that was dancing, sometimes waving at Angela, who was happily dancing with Ben, or Jessica, who had dragged Mike onto the dancefloor even though he looked very uncomfortable and was just standing still while she danced around him. It looked like a mating ritual of birds or something.

Sometimes my eyes would wander to a distinct spot in the crowd where the most perfect guy in the world was standing, talking and laughing with his family. I didn't mean to stare at him, but I couldn't help myself.

One of the times I was rudely observing this beautiful creature I noticed he noticed me too, I quickly turned my eyes to the floor, but I thought I saw him smile, I couldn't be sure of course.

Later, I noticed that Edward wasn't standing with his siblings anymore, instead I saw him make his way through the crowd to go to the bar. I assumed to get a drink for himself and his siblings, who were still just standing at the same spot, talking amongst themselves and not bothering to pay attention to anyone else.

It took me by surprise when Edward all of a sudden was standing in front of me and I jumped a little when I heard him address me. I had been studiously looking away from him up to that moment so I didn't expect him to be so close to me.

"Hi, you're Bella Swan right?" he asked while he smiled at me.

"Er… yeah…" was all I could manage, I was so stupid, why couldn't I even formulate a normal sentence?

"I'm Edward Cullen," he told me.

"I know," I told him shyly. I realized how stupid I must look, since we had never really been introduced, I just knew his name from Jessica and I had only studied him from afar.

He laughed at my statement. "it's nice to finally meet you," he said sincerely. I couldn't understand why he was saying that but I let it go.

"I didn't expect to see you here." I didn't know why I had felt the need to admit that to him and immediately felt like a retard for doing so.

He looked a bit embarrassed when he explained. "Alice was getting bored of sitting around the house all day, so she forced the five of us to come here, she said she… overheard some people from school about this party and decided it would be fun to come here." I noticed he struggled with the word "overheard" for some reason and I thought I saw him role his eyes but I couldn't be sure. "And when Alice wants something, there is really no way of stopping her, for someone as small as she is she can be quite terrifying at times." He laughed. I stopped breathing all together, he was gorgeous when he laughed.

I couldn't say or do anything, so I just stared at him. I must have looked very charming.

Somehow he didn't seem bothered by my dumbfounded expression because he looked into my eyes before continuing. "I was wondering if you would like to dance with me?" Was he for real?

I turned bright red and quickly looked away from his eyes to the floor. I couldn't speak. I sat there for an immeasurable moment just studying my hands in my lap before I realized that he was still standing there, waiting for an answer. So I looked back into his eyes, those beautiful golden eyes… What did he ask me again?

"Huh?" I choked out.

"I was wondering if you would do me the honor of a dance?" He repeated his question.

"I can't dance," I admitted and blushed even further.

"That's okay, I can."

While he said that he took my hand and led me to the dancefloor. I couldn't resist. I noticed his hands were slightly colder than they were supposed to be for the sweaty environment we were in right now but I couldn't care less, it felt nice.

When we entered the dancefloor a new song just started to play.

Now I've had the time of my life.

I looked up at Edward and noticed that he was standing right in front of me, asking for my permission with his eyes.

No I've never felt like this before.

All my will broke down when I gazed into his eyes and he took my response as permission.

Yes I swear, it's the truth…

He took me into his arms.

And I owe it all to you!

I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything anymore, this was too much, I felt like I was about to faint.

Cause I've had the time of my life… And I owe it all to you!

And we were dancing. I couldn't think of anything but him, I couldn't feel anything but his arms around me and all I heard was his voice, singing along with the music.

For this instant I could think that maybe Edward Cullen felt remotely the same way for me as I felt for him. I couldn't help but smile. From that moment on, I knew that this would always be our song.

A/N: Well, that was it for this One Shot, hope you enjoyed it. It turned out to be a little larger than I had initially planned it to be but ah well, once I start writing I have a hard time stopping ;) Again, let me know what you think! I had a lot of fun writing it. It won't be long before I'll be back with another story ;)