BPOV

There I was, sitting on the bed in Alice's room in her huge house here at Manhattan, while she and Rosalie (my two best friends) were dressing up after torturing me with make up and hair curlers. In a few hours I will be going to St. Jude's Graduation Ball. They dressed me up in a midnight blue V neck dress which stops right at my knees. The sleeves are frilly around the edges. They paired it up with two inch black high heels. [A/N: sorry guys, I don't really know how to describe dresses much. Please bear with me. :)] I groaned. They're trying to kill me. I thought. How did I get into this mess? Then I suddenly remember…

Flashback

"Come on Bells." Alice pleaded. "Al, you know I can't dance. Besides I'm just going to be the 5th wheel again."

She sighed, but then suddenly perked up and said "I know! You can go with their other friend; he also doesn't have a date." I glared at her. "Yeah, cause I love going to balls with strangers." I said sarcastically. She gave me her pleading face which she knew I couldn't resist. "Come on Bells, Please. They said he's really nice. And besides it doesn't have to be a date, just someone to talk to." She pleaded again" Please, Bella." I sighed because there's no defeating Alice. "Fine" She squealed and clapped her hands together. "Yey, this is going to be so awesome Bella."

End of Flashback

I was suddenly brought back to reality when Alice and Rosalie emerged from the doors. I let out a low whistle. "Wow. You guys look great." Alice was wearing a black spaghetti strapped dress that had a belt right under the bust line, which goes down until below her knees. Along with it, she was wearing three inch black heels. While Rose was wearing a red tube dress that hugs her curves perfectly which ends right at the middle of her thighs while wearing red two inch stilettos. I said "Jasper and Emmett are gonna be drooling when they see you two." They agreed and Rose said "Yeah, last time I dressed up like this Emmett practically ripped the dress of me when we got home. Then he started ki—" I cut her off. "Eww Rose, too much information, Sister of Emmett here." I pointed to myself. I shuddered, thinking about what she said. "Oh yeah, sorry about that, I forgot you were his sister."

"No problem Rose. Just don't mention it while I' m here."

"Sure."

"Come on guys, Emm and Jazz are gonna be here in two minutes." Alice said

"Oh yeah"

I went downstairs ahead of them. Just as I was going down to the last step, I tripped. I closed my eyes and got ready for the impact. Suddenly two sets of arms caught me on my arms. I turned and saw Rose and Alice behind me. "Thanks guys." I blushed. "What are we gonna do with you…" Alice shook her head. Then suddenly the doorbell rang and Rose went over to get it. Behind the door Emmett and Jasper with a huge guy with russet colored skin and long black hair that was pulled back into a pony tail, which I assumed was my 'date' tonight. Rose let the guys in. Emmett was staring wide eyed with his mouth hanging slightly open. Rose chuckled and said "Take a picture it will last longer." We all suddenly burst out into laughter. Rose turned away and Emm brought out his phone and took a back shot of Rosalie. She turned around and faced him and Emmett said "What? You're the one who told me to take a picture" She just shook her head and pecked him lightly on the lips. Then someone lightly tapped me on the shoulder, so I turned around and saw the guy with Emmett and Jasper earlier. He took out his hand and said "Hi. I'm Jacob Black, and you must be Isabella right?"

"Yeah, but I prefer Bella."

"Bella" He repeated.

"I'm Alice"

"And I'm Rose."

He shook both their hands and we all stood around awkwardly, not really knowing what to say. Emmett's booming voice brought us out of our reverie. "Come on let's get this show on the road." We all filed out and got into Emmett's jeep.

We arrived at St. Jude's 20 minutes later. Rose, Alice and I stopped dead at our tracks, the whole gym was transformed. There was a huge chandelier at the middle of the ceiling. On the walls were small white lights. It was the only illumination in the room besides the chandelier. On the side was a long table which contained food and drinks. In front was a stage which had two large speakers at the side. And in the back part of the stage was a DJ. We snapped out of it and made our way to our table. It was a round table for eight. The other two people introduced themselves as Tyler and Lauren. While eating I made small talk with Jacob. He seemed…okay.

A few minutes later a short balding man appeared on stage and cleared his throat. "Excuse me everyone, may I have your attention." He lightly tapped the microphone and said "okay everyone, we're going to play a game called 'match the hearts'. This is how it's played, you see here there are two boxes. Inside the two boxes are hearts cut in half with random words behind it. The girls will get from the white box and the boys will get from the black box. Within five minutes you will have to find your partner. The first ten pairs to come up on stage will get a prize. Now, no one is allowed to just shout what's written behind their heart. Okay, only 20 boys and 20 girls are allowed to play, so if you want to join just form a line there" he pointed to the center of the room. "And you can go on my signal."

"Come on Bella, lets go" Alice said.

"No"

"Come on" this time it was rose who spoke.

"Please, it might be fun" Alice tried again.

"Yeah, come in Bells." Emmett said

Everyone was ganging up on me so I knew there was no hope.

"Okay, fine."

Thankfully I got in the center without tripping. I waited for the signal and when he said go the boys were rushing to get to the box while we girls got into an orderly line and picked the cut hearts out of the box one by one. I read mine and it said destiny. The short balding man spoke again and said "When I say go find your partners. Okay ready, set, go."

After a few guys I got tired of looking and failing. So I thought maybe I would just get a drink. I was on my way but a smooth, velvety voice came from behind me "Excuse me miss, but what's written behind your heart?" I turned and saw a gorgeous man with a perfectly chiseled face. He had bronze colored hair that was formed in casual disarray. He also had beautiful emerald green eyes and red lips. It took me a moment to realize he was talking about the game. I mentally slapped myself when I realized he was talking about the game. I snapped out of it and realized I had been staring at him. I said "Destiny"

"Finally, I have been looking all over for you."

"Oh, sorry"

"Come on, let's go." He grabbed my hand and I felt a small jolt of electricity through his touch. I froze momentarily. I realized he must have felt it too, because he was staring at our hands. We snapped out of it and quickly went to the stage.

When we got to the stage we were the 8th pair there. Thankfully on our way I didn't trip, even wearing the death traps Alice and Rosalie put me in. Thank God for that. When the last pair arrived I realized he still was holding on to my hand. I blushed. I automatically looked down at our hands and he followed my gaze with his beautiful emerald green eyes. He suddenly let go of my hand and said "Sorry." I blushed and said "Its fine."

The short balding man reappeared on stage and said "Even though we have our ten go find your partners." I looked over to our side and saw Rose and Emmett got paired up. So did Alice and Jasper. When our prizes were distributed, Mr. Jenks, the short balding man (I found out his name through Emmett) said "Tonight your partners, right here will be you first dance for tonight." I blushed when I thought of the pain I'm about to cause the beautiful man beside me.

We went down the stage to dance. He said "Sorry for earlier I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."

"It's okay" Just then Clair de Lune by Debussy started playing. He held out his hand to me wordlessly, and I took it. I felt that small spark again. I said "I honestly can't dance." He just shrugged and said "It's all in the leading." I just nodded. He pulled me closer and he put his arm on my waist and I put mine on his shoulder. "I'm Edward by the way, Edward Cullen."

"Bella Swan" After a while he said "See you're dancing." He gave me a crooked smile which I instantly loved.

"I guess I am" I smiled.

He just nodded. After a few moments of dancing I said "Your girlfriend looks like she's gonna kill me." A look of confusion flashed across his face "girlfriend?" I nodded in her direction. When he looked she was staring daggers at me. "Oh that's Tanya and she's not my girlfriend, She's just been after me since I got here, which was like, what? Three months ago?" I nodded but then it hit me "You're new here?" He merely shrugged "yup."

"Wait I thought they didn't allow new students in the senior year."

"I'm a junior"

"Really, then why are you here?"

"A few of the guys from the baseball team invited me"

"You must be really good if they let you in the team in the middle of the year." He just shrugged.

After a few moments of silence "Your boyfriend looks like he's gonna kill me." He must have seen the confusion on my face and nodded toward his direction. I saw Jacob glaring at Edward. "Oh, that's just Jacob, I just met him tonight. My friends set him up as my 'non-date'." I removed my hand from his shoulder to make air quotes.

He just chuckled. "So what year are you in?"

"Well, I'm also a junior at Constance." Just then the song ended and we went back tour respective tables.

As I made my way to the table I noticed they were all there already. "Hey Bella" They all said in unison. As I sat down I talked to Jacob again, and he seemed nice enough. "Hey Bella, would you like to dance?" Jacob asked. I thought about it for a moment. I knew if I said no he would get hurt because he already saw me dance with Edward. "Sure, but I have to warn you, I really can't dance." He took my hand in his and we made our way to the dance floor.

We were dancing for a while. After stepping on his feet again, I gave up "Sorry, maybe we should go back." He suddenly grabbed my wrist hard and pulled me to him. "Come on Bells, I know you want me" his hands suddenly made its way down my waist. "Come on, just one more song." He suddenly grabbed my ass and I slapped him. "I know you didn't mean that Bells, just one more song, you know you want to." That pissed me off so I slapped him again and turned around to go back to the table but he grabbed my arm. "Ouch, Jake let go. You're hurting me." Then suddenly out of nowhere Edward was there. "Let her go." He gave him an icy cold glare and Jake put his hands up in surrender. "Look we were just fooling around, right Bells?" I scowled at him "Whatever Jake" Edward took my hand and led me outside. "Are you okay?" "Yeah, Thanks for saving me from Jacob." He gave me a crooked smile that made my heart start melting. "You're welcome. You want me to go back and punch him for you?" "No don't!" "Relax Bella I wasn't gonna do it if you didn't want me to." I smiled at him. "Thanks again." "No problem." After that we talked about anything and everything. I found out that like me he also liked classical music. He also liked reading the classic books like me and so much more.

A few minutes later… "Bella, would you like to dance?" I smiled at him. "Sure." We made our way to the dance floor and So Close by John Mclaughlin started playing. He put his arms around my waist and I put my hands around his neck and I rested my head on his chest. Once again I felt that jolt of electricity go through my body from his touch. This time I didn't react as strongly as I did the first time. He started singing along but to just some of the lines. He had a very beautiful voice. After the song ended I reluctantly pulled away. He held my hand and led me outside again. "Hey Bella, may I borrow your phone?"

"Sure" I suddenly realized it was at my bag which was at the table. "It's at the table. Just wait here." I was a bout to leave but he grabbed my arm gently and said "wait. I'll come with you."

"Okay" When I got to our table no one was there. I handed him my phone. "Here you go." He started typing something. He gave me back my phone which had his number. So I asked for his phone and did the same.

After a few minutes of talking everyone came back. "Hey guys." "Hey" They all said in unison. "Guys this is Edward." I gestured to him using my hand. "Hi" Edward said. They all said mumbled hellos except for Alice who as usual was her hyper self. "Hi Edward I'm Alice, I'm one of Bella's best friends." Alice said in one breath. "Hello" Edward said in his smooth velvety voice. "This is Jasper my boyfriend. And his sister Rosalie, she's also mine and Bella's best friend. This is her boyfriend Emmett who is also Bella's brother." Alice introduced them all and she gestured to them with her hand. "Umm, I need to use the bathroom." Alice said. So both Rose and I stood up to go with her. Emmett muttered "What's up with girls and going to the bathroom together?" Rose said "It's a girl thing baby." With that she patted him on the head and left leaving Emmett with a dumbfounded expression on his face. When we got to the bathroom I was greeted with a loud squeal and I was bombarded with questions.

"Where'd you meet him?"

"Is he nice?"

"How old is he?"

"Does he have a girlfriend?"

"Did he ask you out?" I put my hands up and said "hold on, hold on."

"Well he was my partner from the game. And yes he was really nice. He's also a junior like us Al. And he doesn't have a girlfriend. And no he didn't ask me out."

Alice said "Hmm, he's really hot and single, If I wasn't already in love with Jasper I would totally go for him." I laughed. "So do you like him?" So being me I blushed and totally gave away the answer. Alice and Rosalie squealed. "I knew it." "Okay, okay fine. I like him. Let's go back to the table. They're probably wondering what's taking us so long." They both nodded in response.

When we got back I saw all of them laughing. I smiled to myself thinking thing that the boys got along. "Hey boys." I smiled at them. "What's so funny?" I sat down between Edward and Emmett. Emmett said "Jasper and I were just sharing some Bella moments to Edward here." He started laughing. "Hey." I slapped him on his arm. "Sorry Bella." Jasper said to me before I could get to him. Emmett laughed again. I scowled at him. "Okay, okay. I'm sorry little sis."

We all were talking and joking around when Emmett's suddenly stopped laughing. "What happened to your arm Bella?!" I looked down on my arm and I saw a bruise starting to show. It looked like a shape of a hand. I glanced at Edward. Emmett saw that I was looking at Edward. "Did Edward do this to you?! I'm gonna kill him!" I put my hand on his arm to try to stop him. "You bastard! What the hell did you do to her!?" "Emmett it wasn't him!" He abruptly calmed down. "Huh? It wasn't him?" "Yes, Emmett." He suddenly faced Edward "Oops! Sorry man." Edward smiled reassuringly at him. "It's alright man. No blood, no foul." We all sat back down on our seats. "So what happened?" I breathed in deeply. "Well you see Jacob asked me to dance with him. I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I said yes. I kept on stepping on his feet so I stopped I tried to go back to the table, but he grabbed my arm and tried to convince me to stay. And he kept on saying 'you know you want me' and stuff like that." I put my hands out and did air quotes. I was gonna say more but Edward interrupted me and said "I also saw him grab your—." I cut him off with a look. I continued what I was saying "Anyway he grabbed my ass and I slapped him and I tried to turn away but he grabbed my arm again but that time it was really hard, thus leaving the bruise, I thought he was gonna punch me or something but Edward came and rescued me from Jacob." I smiled at Edward. After I gave my story everyone was quiet. Emmett was the one who broke the silence. "That asshole, I'm gonna kill him!" "I grabbed his arm. "Emmett don't." he looked at me incredulously. "At least not now, I don't want to make a scene during your grad ball. He sat back down and crossed his arms and gave out a pout like a little 5 year old kid. "Fine"

The rest of the night went uneventful. Jacob didn't come back to the table and Edward stayed there instead. I was on my way to the jeep since we were all going home when Edward's voice came behind me. "Bella wait." Alice who right beside me said "I'll meet you at the car." With that she left but she looked back and gave me a wink. Edward was suddenly at my side. "Hey Bella"

"Hey Edward"

"I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me sometime." He was looking at his feet when he said this. I blushed. "Umm…sure" He suddenly said. "If you don't want to it's ok." "No, no. I'd love to go" I smiled reassuringly at him. He gave me his crooked grin. "I'll call you to tell you the details." "Okay" He took my hand and brought it to his lips. "Goodnight Bella." I blushed a deeper shade of red. "Goodnight Edward" With that he walked away to a shiny silver Volvo.