Chapter 1

Following Gut Instinct

EPOV (Edward)

"I'm sorry Miss, but, I can't let you in"

"Why ever not? And it's Mrs, not Miss"

'She don't look old enough to be a Mrs'

I had to stop myself from laughing. He was right of course. Lena didn't look old enough, at the moment. He should have seen her last year...

"Because, it's against the rules, no under-age drinkers in the club"

"I'm not going in to drink, I'm going in to socialize!"

I could see the poor doorman stutter and trip over his words as my darling 'cousin' let loose the full force of her newly coloured topaz eyes. She smiled and I thanked him as he finally let us both through.

'Damn humans to the deepest, darkest depths of...'

"Lena!" I couldn't let her finish that sentence, it always caused trouble. I followed her through the pulsating crowd towards the family's favourite booth.

"Howdy there kids! Where you been?" Jasper smiled as we slid down into the red leather seats beside him. He'd relaxed a whole lot now he wasn't the only one having trouble with our eating habits.

"Yeah, we were starting to get worried."

The one person I could never live without laughed as she perched herself onto my lap. Her laugh still warmed my cold heart, better than any sun could.

Alice just smiled; already in on the reason why we were late. She looked around at us and let out a little tinkle of laughter.

"Well, the whole gangs here," She looked at Bella, "So, why are we here?"

'I hate not seeing her future any more, Edward, and it's all your fault!'

I smiled, remembering every ones amusement, and Alice's frustration when she realised she couldn't see Bella's future any more, now she was a Vampire too.

Bella shifted herself closer to me, breaking my reverie. She took my hand and kissed it gently, then held it on her knee.

"Well, I thought we could all use a well earned break. So tonight, now that Lena's calmed down, we should let our hair down and relax a little." Bella squeezed my hand as she smiled over at Lena, knowing what she had been through these past twelve months.

'Hell yeah, I'm up for that' Emmett grinned, ever the optimist.

'Thank god for that, the tension was really starting to bother me' I looked over at Jasper apologetically; everyone being stressed at the same time really wore him out.

'Yay!' Alice and Rosalie's reaction didn't surprise me at all, not that they needed an excuse to party.

'Thanks Bella, make me feel guilty why don't you!' There was no spite in Lenas comment; she smiled at Bella in gratitude.

"Where's Tom? I miss my favourite little hippie!" Alice jumped up, looking around the club like the proverbial meerkat, nearly knocking the table off its fixed-to-the-floor legs.

'I'm picking up good vibrations, she's giving me good vibrations...'

I laughed out loud as I heard him walk through the door; he still sung the songs from the 60's, even though he 'slept' through most of them! Everyone started looking around expectantly, looking for the newest male to join our family. I heard one of the girls privately comment how hot he was, but the rest of her thoughts were drowned out by Lenas deep growling.

"Hey calm down Lena, you know he's only got eyes for you! He'll..." Bella didn't finish her sentence since Lena had already crossed the dance floor in 5 seconds flat. Within 7 seconds I was wishing I could find a distraction.

"Jeez they're almost as bad as you and Bella!" Emmett joked as he playfully punched me in the arm. "Actually, no, they're worse!"

If Bella or I could have blushed, then we would have done. My eldest brother had no tact whatsoever. Rosalie glared at him reproachfully, then smiled as he kissed her gently on the cheek.

Bella then pulled me up to dance, something she would never have done as a human. The music drowned out most of the pitiful thoughts of the dancers around me, even the ones emanating from my closest family. I realised that we'd joined Tom and Lena on the dance floor. Both of them were smiling as they danced to the music.

It was one of both Lena and Bella's favourites; Dance floor anthem by Good Charlotte. The crowd around us were jumping to the beat that resonated through the floor; shaking everything that the club held within its walls.

When ever I was dancing with Bella, everything seemed to fade into nothing, it was just her and I. No-one else. It didn't matter if it was club music, or slow and romantic. She once caught me staring at her, and when I explained this unbelievable concept to her she just laughed.

"That's how I used to feel when you messed with my human memory. You still do it now; you still dazzle me"

Even now, as the song finished, it took me an abnormally long time to realise that Lena and Tom weren't around. They had left us with the jumping hoards of humans. Bella turned to me, confusion and panic evident in her eyes.

"Where'd they go?"

"I don't know love, but something doesn't feel right." I whispered to her, hardly moving my lips. Even over the music though, I knew that she would hear me.

I looked over at the table that my siblings sat around. All Alice saw was Lena and Tom leaving the club, but there the vision ended. Given the fact that Lena was still finding the Cullen diet hard, this latest turn of events didn't go down too well.

"We need to find them, and fast."

What happened next shocked me more than my cousins disappearance.

Rosalie was out of the door before Alice had finished the sentence.

She was nearly a mile away before we even got to the cars outside.