"Gone? How can he just be gone?" I ask my voice rising to a pitch I never even knew existed. I'd just woken up from a fantastic dream where Edward and I were about to…"Well, he is coming back Bella!" Alice says to me interrupting my memory. "Where did he go, and why on Gods green earth did he not tell me!" I ask with irritation. "Bella, I don't know where he is..he just told me not to worry and to keep you entertained" she says a sly grin on her full lips and an evil glint in her eyes. Two hours later I am all dressed up, too much makeup and hairspray as usual. "Alice" I say "I am really glad you're having fun but why are you doing this?" she just smiles at me and turns me around so I can see myself in the mirror, my breath catches and I have to take a second look at myself to be sure it is me. I wonder down to the kitchen to see if anything catches my eye. The cupboards are well stocked and I rummage through them finding nothing that strikes my fancy. My thoughts stray to Edward, what could he possibly be doing that he can't call, or text me. I'm standing in the kitchen with a blank expression when Rosalie saunters in an amused smile playing on her lips and a secret in her eyes "rose, do you know where Edward is?" I ask trying unsuccessfully to keep my voice nonchalant. "Yes, I do. I know exactly where he is Bella." Her golden eyes dark, like she is daring me to inquire further. I steel my nerves and say "well, if you see him give him this letter." I rummage through ha junk drawn perfectly organized thanks to Esme and find some paper and a pen and I scrawl out
I hope you have a reasonable excuse for up and leaving me alone with your makeup mad sister…
P.s Alice and I are going to a club in Portland
Love you
Bella
As soon as I sign my name Alice is right next to me a gigantic smile on her perfect mouth "we are going to the cub!? Oh Bella! We are going to have so much fun!" after she changes my whole outfit three times we are ready to go. We take her car and she drives a hundred or above the whole time leaving us plenty of time to kill when we enter the city of Portland. She suggests we park and walk to a nice restaurant up the block from the club and I have to oblige because I am starving. We drive into a huge underground garage and she parks the car. We walk out and the night is warm, Portland is wide awake and the people are bobbing around like it is not eleven at night. When we walk into the restaurant I immediately feel under dressed in my miniskirt and halter top. The matradee seats us in the finest booth I could have hoped for and takes our order obviously trying to get us out of his nice, upstanding restaurant most likely figuring we would make trouble. After our food arrives me and Alice make small talk and bond a little bit more, I really should hang out with her more and not be so involved with Edward. Alice tells me that the club is full and we should get over there, so we pay and walk into the warm air. The walk is short and nice. When we get there the line is at least a block in length. "we should have come earlier Alice!" she shakes her head and saunters up to the man holding the clip board and says "Cullen, party of two" in the sexiest voice I have ever heard and she covertly slips what looks like a hundred onto his jacket pocket he looks startled and nods his head and we go it. The music is loud it thrums straight through me and into my chest. The lights flash and pulse to the beat the music grips something inside of me and I head to the dance floor. I move my hips to the beat and lose myself in the music. Alice joins me and together we bump and grind to the music. When I open my eyes I see Alice smiling at someone across the room. My eyes are not as good as hers so I just see two shapes moving towards us. Alice runs to the smaller shape and launches herself into his arms. Jasper and Emmet are here. Emmet skirts the couple and makes his way to me he leans down and says in my ear "glad to see us?" I nod and say back "well we can see that Alice is, but I wish you could have brought Edward!" something flashes on his face but I cant tell what it is and he whispers in my ear "I brought me instead, I am the party!" and he grabs my hips and twirls me deeper into the growing crowd of dancers. He moves with the beat surprisingly well, I never took Em for a dancer. I am tense, off beat but as the music grabs hold of me I get comfortable. Emmet hands stay on my waist and I throw my head back and let loose. At about 3:00AM Alice comes to me and says "Bella! Jasper and I are going to California for the weekend and id like to take my car instead of running." At that pint Em butts in and yells "that's fine! I can run her home!" Alice smiles and me gives me a hug and a peck on the cheek and is gone. I look into Emmets face and have to laugh as he raises his eyebrows in a suggestive way and he pulls me back to him to dance. The d. j calls out "hey y'all I'm gonna slow this shit down now ight?" and the crown cheers a slow beat comes on I go to leave the floor knowing that I have no one to slow grind with but Em catches my arm and pulls me against him my back to his front. "Bella, its ok, just relax." He wraps his muscular arms around me and moves back and forth. I can feel him inhaling my scent, a shiver of excitement and fear runs down my spine "mmm, Bella relax" I melt into him at these words and the rough edge to his voice. After the song ends I make my way to the table and sit Emmet follows me and sits down as well. "you look a little tired there Bella" he says with a grin splitting his face. I laugh because he looks the opposite of tired. He looks invigorated his eyes darken and he says "Are you laughing at me little girl?" a growl building in his chest. I feel a twinge deep in my stomach. He licks his lips "Don't laugh at me Bella, I might make you pay for it." I lean back in surprise "take me home right now. To Charlie's!" I get up and walk to the door and into the cool night. I feel his hands slid around my waist and his breath, hot in my ear "I have to run you home Bella, remember?" I stop and back away from him "what are you playing at Emmet? This is not how you talk to me ever!" I almost yell at him my voice filled with fear and curiosity his eyes widen and then tense and he thinks about his next words very carefully. "I have seen the light Isabella, and you are it." Looking into his eyes I could not doubt him. "Give me your cell phone." I whisper he reaches into his pocket and holds it out to me, as I reach for it he grabs my hand and pulls me to him lowering his head to mine and kisses me. His kiss is hard, he holds my face hard he doesn't treat me like im glass. It takes only a second for me to stop fighting it and kiss him back. I kissed him like I have never kissed Edward I put my arms around his shoulders and he picked me up. We could still hear the music and he kissed me to the beat. He pushed me against the brick wall. I knot my hands in his hair and pull my face back and I look into his eyes and see lust, passion, fear, hunger, but mostly I see love hidden love that I know he must see reflected back in my eyes. "Take me to you house Em, Carlisle and Esme are gone…"
