Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or any of its characters, they all belong to Stephenie Meyer... unfortunately.

A/N Read and Review!! Oh! And it's not written in anyone's point of view because it switches from Edward to Bella all the time... maybe even someone else from time to time.

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As Bella dressed up with Angela and Jessica at her side, mouth wide while putting on mascara, she wondered why she was going to so much effort to look good. Her steady boyfriend Jake wasn't even going to Phil's anual Chirstmas baseball party. Phil was Bella's stepfather. He had married Renee when Bella was 15. He coached in the minor league, and every year he would have a Christmas party for all his baseball team and their families. Bella had always thought it was a fun night, and she enjoyed going. But this time it wa different, this time was the first time Bella didn't have Jake at her side to laugh at all the annoying player's wifes, or to steal the vodka with. This time all she had was her friends Angela and Jessica. But she still felt like she needed to go.

"Earth to Bella! Hellooooo!" Angela said as she waved her hand in front of Bella's face.

Bella switched back into reality. "Mmmmmm."

"I like the dress..." Angela said as she gestured towards the dress Bella was wearing. It was a red strapless cocktail dress that had black lace underneath the skirt. The dress bunched around the centre of the bust, giving just the right effect for her figure. Bella had bought it on sale last month, even though she had no idea where she was going to wear it, but this occasion seemed to fit. "it looks great, but it just need something... more." Angela mumbled.

She stuck her tounge out of her mouth and let her hand hover over the make up clad bathroom counter until she found exactly what she was looking for.

"This is Perfect!" Angela said as she picked up the blood red lipstick that Bella had never worn, just because she had never been that daring and because she never thought she could pull it off.

"I don't think that's going to work Ange... Won't it look tacky?" Bella asked.

"Bella, red is so your colour... can you please just put it on! We are going to be late!" Jessica said as she started packing her clutch with supplies to last us through the night.

As Bella finished putting on the lipstick she realised that Angela and Jessica were right, the lipstick didn't look tacky and it really did suit her. Angela and Jessica had almost finished aswell. Angela look great in her blue strapless bubble dress, she was so skinny that when it bunched in around her waist, she pulled it off effortlessly. Jessica's dress was exactly her taste, the neckline plummeted to just below her boobs, and around the waist was a band of diamontes, the halter neck showed of the tan of her back nicely.

Angela and Jessica slipped out of the bathroom down the hall of their shared home as Bella opened her purse to put the red lipstick in, just in case.

"Bella, are you coming?" Jessica shouted loudly. Bella quickly shut her purse and fumbled for her shoes, clumsily putting them on her feet.

"Yeah! I'm Coming!!!"

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"Edward, you look totally suave!" Alice giggled as Edward came down the hall of his flat. Edward's suit was black and double breasted, with a bow tie. The black contrasted with his pale complexion perfectly. Alice knew what the suit would look like as she had helped him pick it out. Alice and Edward were carpooling to the party that their father Carlisle was making them go to. Carlisle was playing baseball for Phil Dwyer's team, even though it was only minor league it was what made him happy so no one ever argued for him to get a real job.

"Why thank you, Alice. You look nice too." Alice's dress was about mid-thigh length with a v cut neck. The dress was a berry colour and on the chest and hem their were rows and rows of sequins. "Where's Jasper? Aren't you two with each other all the time, pratically inseperable?" Edward asked while he looked in the mirror on the wall and fixed his tie and cuffs.

"He's meeting us there, I told him that we needed to talk." Alice said quietly. Edward knew what she was going on about, and he had lost count on how many times they had had this conversation.

"Alice, I understand you're just trying to help, but I honsetly don't want to talk about it. Tanya was just, she wasn't right for me," That was a lie, Edward knew that Tanya was the person he was meant to spend eternity with. "we broke up and it was a mutual decision," another lie, it had all been Tanya's doing, he still felt like his heart had been stomped on by one hundred football players wearing spiked boots. "I'm over it and I'm happy," Lie. Lie. Lie. "And now I just want to get into the car and go to this party, and pretend I'm enjoying it for Dad's sake." That was the truth.

"Fine, but when you go all Emo and try to get yourself killed, don't say I didn't try to help!" Alice growled as she unfolded herself from the sofa and placed her heeled feet back on the carpet. She picked up her purse and slung the strap over her shoulder, then started to walk down the hall towards the front door. As she disappeared, all Edward could hear was the clicking of her heels on the floorboards in the front entrance.

"Okay, it's bad enough that you put your heels up on my sofa! You could of ripped a stilleto sized hole in my upholstery! But now you are putting dents in my floorboards! What is wrong with you?!?!" Edward fumed.

"You'll get over it. The taxi is leaving..." Alice said as she put on her coat and walked out into the chilly winter air.

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"Bella, honey, I'm so glad you could make it!" Renee said as she hugged Bella tightly. She looked love in he long plain black dress. She wasn't over the top and for her this was very fancy.

"Wouldn't miss it, mom." Bella said as she returned the hug. She was telling the truth but without her wingman, Jake, it just didn't seem as appealing. At least she had Jessica and Angela with her to pass the long hours. The party normally finished around two or three in the morning and it was only eight now. I could always leave early, fake an illness or something. Bella thought, but she had never been good at lying and it just didn't seem right.

"Hello girls." Renee said to Angela and Jessica, giving them a small wave, as they looked around in amazement. Phil had outdone himself this year, his parties had always looked great but this year it was beautiful. He had hired a function room at a winery, it was less like a function room and looked more like a ballroom. At the edges were roughly twenty glass doors that covered all the walls except the one with the entrance to the rooms. All the doors led to a wrap-around balcony that overlooked the vineyard and the beautiful iced over lake that was the the left of the vineyard. In the ballroom was an ice Baseball player, Phil probably modeled for it, because that's just the way he is. Around the edges were about thirty tables, all set for meals. Angela and Jessica were in absolute awe.

"Hello, Mrs Dwyer." They both said in unison. Giggling shortly after.

"Mom, this looks a little huge for one baseball team and their families. How many people are coming?" Bella asked.

"Well, it turns out that it was more of a league party, so everyone is coming." Renee said. Everyone meant about three hundred people.

"Great." Bella said as she walked away towards the bar.

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Edward enetered the hall, looking around for his family, soon he spotted Emmett, over near the bar making a pass a beautiful leggy blonde. She was standing with her friends not far behind her giggling. Emmett was Edward's brother. The had been best friend's ever since they were younger. Emmett was older by three years, making him 24. But Edward had more intellect.

"I'm like a rubix cube, the longer you play with me the harder I get." Edward heard Emmett say when he was closer. Edward slapped his hand to his forehead. How could his brother be so stupid.

"Well lucky I like puzzles then." The leggy blonde said in response. She slid Emmett a napkin with her number on it. As she walked away she yelled, "Call me sometime."

"Who was that?" Edward asked as he sat down next to Emmett ordering his favourite drink, a gin and tonic.

"That was a Miss Rosalie Hale, and Damn is she fine!" Emmett said staring after her.

"Excuse me?" Edward coughed, staring at his brother is disbelief.

"Oh, Look I got her digits! Up top!" Emmett yelled as he raised his hand.

Edward swallowed his mouthful of drink and started to cough. Emmett used the hand he had raised to pat Edward's back to help stop the coughing.

"Never, EVER, say that again!" Edward laughed.

"Can't promise it, Homey E!" Emmett snickered.

"Don't call me that."

"Why?"

Edward just shook his head and took another sip off his drink. The hall looked good. Edward had never met Phil, but he had never thought he would be this creative. When he scanned the hall again looking for his family, he spotted a girl dressed in a red dress, with the reddest lipstick he had ever seen painted on her beautiful plumped lips. She had just walked in with two of her friends and hugged Renee Dwyer, Phil's wife. He had no idea who she was but he felt magnetically drawn to her. Emmett drew him back out of his daydream.

"Check out th brunette in the red dress. Woah!" Emmett said to Edward.

"Dibs!" Edward said as he slapped Emmett on the chest. But Edward didn't move, he had called dibs, but he wasn't getting up to go and talk to her yet.

"Are you gonna go talk to her, if not revoke your dibs! I want a peice of that!" Emmett said eyeing her like she was a peice of meat.

"Don't talk about her like that! And I'm not going to revoke my dibs, just biding my time." Edward retorted. He skulled his drink and ordered another one. Still not moving from his seat.

"Ohhhh, Homey E is nervous. Homey E is nervous!" Emmett chanted from his seat. More loudly than necessary.

"Will you just keep it down, you don't want her to look over here do you?"

"HOMEY E IS NERVOUS HOMEY E IS NERVOUS!!!" Emmett continued, get louder each time.

"Stop. Emmett come on! Stop it now!"

"To late man, she's coming over." Emmett said as he got up and walked away, whistling.

The brunette walked over towards the bar, her friends had gone out onto the balcony to look at the view, this was Edward's chance. As she sat at the bar and ordered a gin and tonic, Edward got up and walked over to her.

"Is this seat taken?" He asked the mysterious brunette. Before he sat down.

"No." She replied, looking up at him and smile, it was only a half smile, but she still looked beautiful.

As Edward sat down he held out his hand. "Hi. Edward Cullen. What's your name?"

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A/N Ohkay, now it's time for you to review! Please tell me what you think! Welcome to ask questions aswell... will answer if it doesn't ruin the plotline... or even maybe if it does.

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