A/N: Hi there, it has been way too long since I've uploaded any new story. Also since I've written any new stories but okay :P I've just been crazy busy lately so writing kind of got neglected, I had zero inspiration and even less time to write anything if I would have had any inspiration so that was all just crappy :P But I'm back now :D Full of inspiration and a little time to write it all down in :P This is the first story I'll be uploading, I've finished it already but I'll be uploading every chapter (there are 3) on a separate day, so I have some time to check it all and make sure it makes any sense before I upload it :P
This story is called Elevator or Rollercoaster and is kind of a compilation of 3 one shots. Bella lives on the third floor of an apartment building and dangerous as stairs can be it's safe to say she likes taking the elevator to her apartment. One day she meets an amazing guy in the elevator (I'll give you one guess as to who that guy could be ;):P). See what happens when fate keeps bringing the two of them together. AU. Rated T. Edward x Bella. Three One Shots.
I hope you all enjoy this new story and as always, let me know what you guys think! :)
What A Party
Another day was coming to an end as I entered my apartment building. I had only recently moved out of my father's house into this apartment near Forks, my home town. The apartment wasn't the biggest one I had ever seen but it was just the right size for me. I never cared much for big and flashy, I had always preferred small but cozy.
My apartment was on the third floor of the building, which was both a blessing and a curse, it meant that if the elevator would ever break down I could technically walk the stairs to my room without running out of air. On the other hand, it gave Alice, my best friend, an opportunity to make me feel guilty every time I took the elevator instead of the stairs since it was so much better for my health if I would climb and descend those stairs on a daily basis.
I remembered the first time Alice had come over to my apartment. I had met Alice only a week earlier but something just clicked between us and we had become great friends instantly. When Alice had suggested that the two of us should do something fun the Saturday that had followed our introduction I had been very excited. Little did I know that her idea of something fun was the opposite of my idea of a nice, relaxing day with a friend.
Alice had stood in my doorway early in the morning with her most happy expression on her face, nearly bouncing up and down in excitement. "Hurry up Bella," she had all but yelled the moment I opened the door for her, "We don't have all day, Port Angeles has a lot of stores!".
I had been shocked to find out that her idea of a good time was shopping! And shopping with Alice wasn't relaxing in the least. She was certainly a girl with a mission and I had practically been running the entire day just to keep up with her. I had never in my life tried on as many pieces of clothing as I had when I had been with her. So when we entered my building at the end of the day I was completely worn out. I had pressed the button of the elevator and patiently waited for 'ding' indicating that the elevator was at our floor, all the while enjoying the moment of relaxation.
"What are you doing Bella?" Alice exclaimed horrified.
I wasn't sure what I had done wrong at the time so I just stared at her with a blank expression. "Waiting for the elevator?" I asked uncertainly.
"I can see that," Alice had said while rolling her eyes impatiently at me. "Why?" she demanded.
"To go to my floor?" I asked her.
"You're only on the third floor!" she said with a disapproving look on her face.
"I'm beat!" I exclaimed.
"Walking the stairs is good for you!" Alice said sternly while making her way towards the stairs slowly.
"But…" I started.
"Bella!" Alice warned me.
I shrugged and dragged my feet over to where Alice was holding the door to the stairs for me. I had already discovered that arguing with Alice was futile.
"Fine," I muttered before ascending the stairs.
I had known Alice for almost a month now and I had grown to love her quickly. Alice was very easy to like, it was always fun to be around her and she was a great friend. We saw each other at least three times a week. This week was no exception.
"Bella!" Alice exclaimed the moment she entered the building.
Busted I thought, since I had just pressed the elevator button.
"Hi Alice," I said with a face like a tomato.
Alice gave me a quick hug and she smiled at me broadly. "How was your day?" she asked without even raising her eyebrows at me or commenting on the fact that I had clearly been waiting for the elevator.
"Uhm, alright," I said still taken aback by her new approach.
"Great!" she exclaimed happily. "I have such great news Bella!" she changed the subject cheerfully.
"Tell me!" I replied, eager to know what was keeping her mind of my laziness.
"I'm going to throw the most awesome party EVER!" she all but yelled.
"That's great," I said, trying to show as much enthusiasm as was appropriate in these kinds of situations. I wasn't one for the parties really but I knew how much they meant to Alice.
"I know right?" Alice enthusiasm didn't subside.
The elevator arrived at our floor and I stepped in hesitantly, to my great surprise Alice followed me happily and I stared at her in shock for a moment before pressing the right button.
The rest of the afternoon Alice explained all the details of the party to me. She wasn't technically throwing the party, apparently her brother was, only she was in charge. From the way she sounded I wasn't even sure her brother was aware of the fact that he was hosting a party soon. It was in celebration of his birthday apparently, he was turning 21 according to Alice, and the party was going to have the theme 'Back to the fifties', since that was apparently her brother's favorite era.
I had never met Alice's brother, or any of her other family members for that matter, so I was curious to see if they were just as beautiful and loving as Alice is. It was strange that I had never met them really, since Alice talks about them all the time and I feel like I already know them a little. I was happy that I was finally going to meet them at that party.
The next day I came home from grocery shopping and went straight to the elevator, no way was I carrying these bags upstairs. To my surprise, there was a guy waiting by the elevator. I rarely saw anyone from this building and never since I had been here had I been in the elevator with someone else other than Alice before.
I couldn't really see the man who was waiting there because he had his back towards me. But his hair was a strange kind of bronze color I had never seen before and he was pretty well built. And even though I hadn't seen the rest of him, I couldn't help but stare.
'Ding'
The sound of the elevator scared me out of my trance. The doors opened and the man swiftly stepped into the cabin. He turned around and was directly facing me, the shock of the beauty of his face left me unable to move.
"Aren't you going up?" The man asked politely.
I quickly dropped my gaze to the floor and walked in the elevator without saying a word.
"To what floor?" he said, it sounded like he was smiling but I was afraid to look.
"Three please," I mumbled softly, not even sure if he had been able to hear me.
But the doors closed and the elevator started moving so I guessed he had heard me. I kept my eyes straight to the floor the entire time it took the elevator to arrive at the third floor. The doors opened and I all but ran out.
"Bye," I heard his beautiful voice call after me but I was unable to stop walking towards my door and too afraid to respond in any way.
That night in bed all I could think of was that beautiful man from the elevator. I hadn't been able to take a really good look at his face, since I had dropped my gaze too quickly, but I did remember how beautiful I thought he had been and for some reason I couldn't stop thinking about his hair. It was a restless night, full of strange, surreal dreams.
The week that followed meeting the "elevator-god" as I secretly called him in my head, was uneventful. Alice was caught up in organizing her perfect party so I didn't see much of her the entire week and I had no more run-ins with him. I wasn't sure if I was happy about that, on the one hand I was glad that I didn't get another opportunity to make a fool out of myself but on the other hand I was very curious to learn more about him and more importantly have a good look at his face.
"Bella, let's go! We don't have all day you know!" Alice said impatiently as I was wrestling with a dress in a changing room in yet another one of Alice's stores. We were shopping for the perfect dress for me to wear to the party tomorrow and so far Alice had liked all of them but she didn't love them yet, so we continued our search. Although I was beginning to think it was hopeless, I had already tried on thousands of dresses in tons of different stores and none of them had been the dress Alice was searching for.
"I can see you in that dress," she had said an hour or so ago. "You'll look absolutely stunning and it'll be just perfect!"
I sometimes wondered exactly how elaborate Alice's imagination could get, the way she sometimes says she can see things work out the way she wants them to. But this time I was sure she was going to be wrong, no matter what kind of expansive looking, designer dress I would wear to the party, there was no chance of me looking stunning in it so she just couldn't be right about this one.
"Just hurry up and show me the damn thing already! I know you've already got it on, I can see you twirling in front of that mirror missy!" Alice said sternly.
I was looking at myself in what the sales woman had described as a perfect dress for a party in the fifties. I had no idea what women looked like in the fifties so I would just have to take her word for it and since Alice didn't seem to object to the statement I was pretty sure it was correct. I was twirling around in a red cocktail dress, the waist was small and the skirt was wide, when I twirled the way I was doing right now the skirt moved with me easily and it made it look even bigger. The dress was pretty simple but I had to say that it did accentuate every curve in a good way, not that I had that many curves to show off but it made me look a little more feminine at least.
I hesitantly stepped out of the dressing room to submit my dress, and by extension myself, to Alice's scrutiny.
"Oh!" Alice gasped, "That's the one! It's gorgeous!" she said enthusiastically.
"You look lovely sweetheart, your boyfriend will be a happy man!" the saleswoman tried to be nice.
"Thanks," I muttered. No need to fill this lady in on the fact that I don't have, nor have I ever had, a boyfriend. I had accepted the fact that I wasn't really that kind of girl.
"Of course this way you don't get the full impact of it all, we still need to do your hair and make-up but you're going to be so beautiful Bella!" Alice said happily.
I shivered at the thought of needing to go through Alice doing my hair and make-up. Shopping with Alice took forever because she wanted everything to be perfect, I didn't even want to think about the time it would take to get hair and make-up just right by Alice's standards. I had long ago come to terms with the fact that I wasn't ever going to be as good looking as girls like Alice, unfortunately for me Alice didn't seem to think that was an option.
"We'll take it!" Alice said eagerly to the woman.
"Great!" she said kindly.
I silently walked back into the dressing room to take off the dress. As I wrestled with the dress to put it back on the hanger I saw the price tag and I let out a squeal.
"Are you alright?" Alice asked worried.
"Alice?" I whispered.
"Yes?" she replied worried while opening the door to my dressing room slightly so she could see if I was okay.
"I can't afford this!" I was still whispering.
"You're not paying silly! You're shopping with me aren't you?" she said while rolling her eyes at me as if this was the most normal thing in the world.
"It's too much!" I exclaimed.
"Don't complain! It's my party and I want you to look fabulous and that dress is just right for you so that's that!" she said while smiling serenely at me.
"Thank you," I said softly, unable to come up with a clever way that would make Alice forget about this dress.
"You're welcome!" she said while beaming at me. "Now hurry up!" she ordered.
That night when I was laying in my bed waiting for sleep to come, I was thinking about the party. For some reason I was nervous, I wanted to look my very best and I didn't know why, I had never really liked parties before so this one probably wouldn't be any different and on the rare occasion that I had gone to a party I had never really cared about what I looked like, I just wore what felt most comfortable to me. So why was I nervous now? Was I afraid to let Alice down? No, that wasn't it, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was either then.
"It has to be Alice rubbing off on me," I muttered to myself, trying to calm myself down.
I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to focus on nothing in particular, which was not as easy as I had hoped. Images of me at a party where I didn't know anyone were going through my mind and for some reason they were mixed with the image of the elevator-god, who was at this point still faceless, since I hadn't seen him since the first time we met.
It was strange that I kept thinking about him, I never considered myself to be shallow but I knew nothing about this guy and all I had been able to think about ever since I had met him was how beautiful he had been. I pretended that he was a great guy, nice and a real gentleman, but for all I knew he was the biggest jerk I would ever meet and just because he was extremely handsome didn't make him a great catch, at least that's what I had always thought, I wasn't really sure anymore.
The next morning I woke up still tired from the restless night I had had. It was Saturday, which meant the party was tonight and I only had 12 hours or so to transform into someone who was beautiful and ideally also a little more confident and less clumsy and accident-prone as I was. Although I knew I was asking for too much.
I dragged my feet with my morning ritual and it took me forever to come out from underneath the warm, relaxing shower, the only reason I was able to do it was because I had run out of hot water and a cold shower was the opposite of relaxing and the opposite of helpful at this time.
At one in the afternoon there was a knock on my door. I opened it and there was Alice, packed with a suitcase full of what could only be make-up in one hand and her dress in the other.
"Good afternoon sunshine, ready to be beautiful?" she greeted me cheerfully.
I couldn't help but smile at her never failing happiness and it made me forget about the worries I had had last night.
"Hi there, come in," I said while stepping aside to let Alice in.
Alice walked straight into my bedroom to put down all her stuff. She was back quicker than I had expected and she startled me a little.
"I brought some reinforcements, if you don't mind," Alice said with a smile.
"Reinforcements?" I asked suspiciously.
"Yes, my mother and sister both wanted to prepare for tonight's party as well and they normally have me to help them out but I told them I was going to be helping you out today so they said they would come. Might be nice for you to meet them before the party, so you at least know some people other than me at the party as well," Alice explained.
"Oh, alright, well I would love to meet them," I said thoughtfully.
"Great! I'll be right back," Alice said before dashing out the door.
Before I knew it she was back with two other women. The two other women waited in the hallway for me to invite them in, I was momentarily stunned by their beauty and was trying to figure out which of the two was actually the mother because they didn't seem to differ much in age.
"You can come in!" Alice said impatiently, nudging me playfully.
I smiled at the two women apologetically before getting out of the way and letting them in.
"Hello Bella, it's nice to finally meet you, Alice has told me so much about you already!" the woman with the heartshaped face said kindly. "My name is Esme Cullen, I'm Alice's mother," she said while extending her hand towards me so I could shake it.
"It's nice to meet you Mrs. Cullen," I said shyly.
"Please, call me Esme! I'm not that old!" she said in mock horror.
"Sorry," I said as we exchanged a smile.
"Hi, I'm Rosalie, Alice's sister," the blonde, most beautiful girl said.
"Nice to meet you Rosalie," I said tentatively.
"Well, let's get started shall we?" Alice sang eagerly.
With Rosalie and Esme there to reign in Alice a little, the afternoon turned out to be a lot of fun, Esme and Rosalie turned out to be just as nice as Alice and I was relieved to see that I could actually get along quite well with them. They made me feel comfortable from early on, I was intimidated by their looks in the beginning but that quickly faded.
All in all the afternoon was a great success and it was pretty funny to see all of us transform from normal, or extremely beautiful in their cases, women of the 21th century into these 'dollies', as Alice called us, from the fifties.
"Bella, stop fidgeting, you look amazing!" Alice said as we were getting ready to go.
I took another long look at myself in the mirror, I wasn't one to be vain, not in the least, but I just couldn't believe how I had changed completely in only a few hours. Alice, Rosalie and Esme had applied foundation to my cheeks to make me look soft and feminine, they had put liquid eyeliner on my eyelids, which made my eyes stand out a lot, and my lips were red like fire, making them match my dress. My hair had taken them the longest, I had soft curls and it was completely smooth, Alice had put in a diamond pin to finish it all off, or at least I hope it only looked like diamonds. I would have never thought I could pull off a look like this but I didn't feel completely uncomfortable in it so I was happy.
"Time to go ladies," Alice announced proudly.
We all followed her out my front door and into the hallway. Alice danced in the direction of the elevator and pressed the button as soon as she reached it.
"Have you changed your mind about the whole walking the stairs thing?" I asked a little smugly.
"Nope," Alice said while popping her lips at the p. "But today is a special day so I can make an exception to the rule for just this once," she continued in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Not that I'm complaining but why exactly?" I was curious.
"Because, nobody should walk stairs in high heels and looking the way we do! Besides, climbing the stairs all the way to the top would be kind of exhausting and overkill even for me," Alice said meaningfully.
"Climbing the stairs all the way to the top?" I asked confused just as the elevator doors opened for us. "What are you talking about?"
"Didn't I tell you?" Alice said with her most innocent expression on her face. "The party is on the top floor of your building!"
"No you didn't tell me that, I didn't know you could rent those rooms for parties," I said a little baffled.
"You can't," Alice replied mysteriously.
The elevator doors opened again and we walked into the already fancy looking hallway of the top floor. I knew the top floor meant the penthouse suite and I had once, just for the fun of it, looked up the price for that particular suite and I had to say the price was no joke, it was extremely expensive, nothing I could afford even if I worked day and night.
Alice knocked on the only door on the floor and it wasn't long before a waiter came out to open it for us. We followed the waiter in and I couldn't believe the size of that apartment, mine could fit in there at least three times if not more. I was completely stunned.
"Bella?" Alice said while waving her hands in front of my eyes to make a point.
"Oh!" I said, dazed.
"Are you alright?" Alice was worried now.
"Fine, just never seen the penthouse before that's all," I said a little ashamed of my inappropriate behavior.
"Right, do you like it? And what about the decorations?" Alice asked proudly.
I knew she must have decorated the entire room herself, or at least planned it all and I had to say it looked amazing, Alice sure had a talent for throwing parties.
The entire room was transformed in one of those fifties high school parties you would see in movies like grease and the guest that were already there were all dressed in the same style, most females were dressed more elaborately, kind of like Alice, Rosalie, Esme and I were, whereas the guys were mostly wearing leather jackets, jeans and a white t-shirt with a typical grease hairdo to top it all off. There was an occasional athletics jacket or some guys had gone all out and wore entire suits that were popular back then with the hats to match it. It was definitely something to see and I could see from the look on Alice's face that this was exactly as she had envisioned the party.
"It's looks great Alice!" I said sincerely.
"Thanks!" she said while beaming at me.
"Let's go find the boys," Esme suggested.
"That's great!" Alice said enthusiastically. "You'll finally get to meet my family!" she continued to me.
"Alright," I said hesitantly, suddenly afraid that they wouldn't like me or think I was silly, since I wasn't as goodlooking as the rest of them obviously were.
"They'll love you!" Alice assured me but I wasn't convinced, so I dragged my feet as we walked over to the tables in the back of the room.
We came to a stop in front of a table where three men were sitting, animatedly talking to each other about something I couldn't quite follow.
Alice cleared her throat and the men looked up at her. It shouldn't have been a surprise how handsome the guys were considering the girls they were related to but for some reason I still gasped as the three extremely handsome strangers looked at us expectantly.
"Hi guys!" Alice greeted them enthusiastically. "You look perfect," she added with a smile.
"Yeah, like you would have it any other way, I have to say it still feels strange when you lay my clothes on my bed like you did for this party, I feel like a child again," one of the guys, a big, rather buff looking, men with a playful, somewhat childlike vibe, remarked.
"Well, if I could trust your sense of fashion I wouldn't have to treat you like a child," Alice said while sticking her tongue out at the guy.
"Alice, Emmett, behave!" Esme said sternly.
"Sorry mom," the two muttered simultaneously.
"Everyone, this is Bella. Bella, this is my big brother Emmett, don't mind him, I think he was dropped on his head one too many times when he was a baby," Alice introduced the big guy to me with a smile on her face. "He's also Rosalie's boyfriend, although what she sees in him is beyond me," Alice continued with a look of victory on her face.
"It's nice to meet you," I said shyly.
"Don't believe a word that little pixie tells you about me," the guy named Emmett said while winking at me. I couldn't help but smile.
It felt like I should have been afraid of him, since he's so big and he could undoubtedly crush me in a heartbeat but something about his expression made me feel safe and comfortable instead.
"This is my father, Carlisle," Alice continued the introduction as she motioned towards the more mature but still young looking guy next to Emmett.
"It's nice to meet you sir," I said politely.
"Please, don't call me sir, just call me Carlisle, and it's nice to meet you too Bella," the guy named Carlisle said kindly.
"Alright," I muttered while blushing a deep red.
Emmett laughed. "She blushes easily doesn't she?" he remarked jokingly, causing me to blush even further.
"And this here, this is my Jasper," Alice said while moving over to the last guy at the table and settling in his lap.
"Nice to meet you Jasper," I said sincerely.
"Nice to meet you too," he replied politely.
"Alright, have a seat," Alice said while motioning towards the chair next to Emmett. The other girls all took their seats next to their men and conversation emerged.
After a while the entire penthouse had filled up with guest and people started dancing to tunes of the fifties. I wasn't one for the dancing but it was nice to see nonetheless.
"So this is your party then?" I had been talking to Emmett for most of the evening and it only occurred to me now that Alice had said that this was actually her brother's party instead of hers.
"What do you mean?" Emmett asked me confused.
"Well, Alice told me that this was her brother's party and not hers, even though she probably did all the planning, knowing Alice," I said with a smile.
"Oh, no it's not my party, it's our other brother Edward's party, I can't believe he hasn't come by to say hi yet, must be busy with his guests from work I guess," Emmett said while shrugging.
"Aha, I just figured that since I hadn't seen your other brother yet that he couldn't make it," I said apologetically.
"Understandable," Emmett said kindly.
I spent most of the evening talking to the Cullens, learning more about their history and their family. They seemed like a really close family and it was nice to see how they interacted with each other. I was surprised when they told me that all the Cullen kids were adopted because Esme couldn't have any children of her own. Since they all looked kind of similar, they all had the same pale, smooth complexion and the same golden colored eyes, not to mention they were all extremely goodlooking. But apparently Emmett, Alice and their brother Edward had been adopted first, they had the same biological parents, and then Jasper and Rosalie, twins, were adopted not long after that. It was like some perfect matchmaking by Carlisle and Esme since Rosalie and Emmett were together as well as Alice and Jasper.
It was already getting quite late and although I had enjoyed myself much more than I had expected I would have to leave soon, since I had to get up early the next morning again.
"You can't leave yet!" Alice exclaimed when I shared the news with her. "You haven't even met Edward yet!" she said disappointedly. "Can't you stay just a little longer?" she practically begged me.
"Just half an hour, then I really have to leave!" I gave in.
"That's great! I'll go get Edward right now! First, I'll kick his butt for not coming over to us sooner and then I'll introduce the two of you, I'm sure you'll like him!" she said meaningfully.
"Right," I said, unable to make much sense of what she was saying.
It wasn't long before Alice was back, followed by who I assumed was her brother.
"Bella, meet my brother Edward. Edward, this is my good friend Bella," Alice introduced us with an almost proud look on her face.
"It's very nice to meet you, Alice has told me a lot about you already," the boy named Edward said as he extended his hand towards me.
Only then did I look into his eyes and I realized who it was. Elevator-god! I gasped in surprise. For a moment I was completely dazed as I stared into this boy's golden colored eyes and his flawless face.
I felt many things, none of which I could place exactly. But I was mostly happy that I finally was able to put a face to the man that has starred in my dreams for so many nights already.
Then I realized it was kind of rude to stare and not respond in any way and I blushed a deeper red than I had ever blushed before. That was twice that I had made a fool out of myself in front of him, by doing the exact same thing nonetheless! I wished the world would just open up underneath me and swallow me whole but of course I could never be so lucky so I had to save myself from this embarrassing situation.
"Errr, hi," I replied brilliantly while shaking his hand carefully.
The touch of his hand on mine left a trail of burning sensation on my skin, his hand was smooth and perfect and I almost didn't want to let go. But I had made enough of a fool of myself around him for a lifetime so I quickly took back my hand and wondered if he had felt the same electricity or if I was only imagining things.
The boy named Edward stared back at me with a blank expression, as if he was focusing very hard on something but wasn't quite getting it. It only took a split-second though before he turned his gaze elsewhere.
This gave me the opportunity to really take in this gorgeous man. He looked a little different than he had done in the elevator, mostly due to the 'costume' he was wearing for the party. His costume was one of the simpler, jeans and a t-shirt kind of looks, although he made it look like so much more than it was. He looked absolutely stunning with his leather jacket over his white t-shirt and his hair in a greasy do. He made John Travolta and the rest of the gang look like complete nerds.
"You know, it's very rude of you not to even come by and say hi to us! Bella will think you weren't raised well!" Esme's stern voice broke me out of my marveling.
"I would never think that," I said quickly.
All the Cullens looked at me in amusement and I blushed, causing Emmett to laugh loudly.
"Still, my mother is right, I should have shown better manners, I'm sorry," Edward said to me while gazing deep into my eyes.
"That's alright," I muttered weakly.
Edward smiled.
"Can I make it up to you with a dance?" he asked.
"Oh, that's really not necessary, I'm fine," I replied quickly.
"I'd like to nonetheless," he persisted.
"I really can't dance," I admitted ashamed.
"Just go dance with him!" Alice pushed. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Only that I make a total fool of myself again in front of this gorgeous guy by falling on my behind and probably dragging him down with me.
"Really, it's not necessary," I tried one more time, "I really don't dance."
"You'll be fine!" Alice assured me while pushing me softly towards Edward.
Her soft push was enough to make me unstable, with these heels and all, and instead of taking a step forward towards Edward as she had undoubtedly planned, I fell straight into his arms. I had expected the both of us to crash into the floor but before I knew it his arms were around me and he was helping me straighten myself out.
"Thanks," I mumbled almost inaudibly.
"You're welcome," Edward replied sweetly.
"Very subtle Alice," Emmett said while grinning at his sister.
"Shut up!" she muttered.
Edward gave her a meaningful glare before returning his attention to me.
"Are you alright?" he asked concerned.
"I'm fine, just a little embarrassed that's all," I admitted with a face that would make a tomato jealous.
"Don't be, it's not your fault," Edward said kindly.
"Right," I muttered, not convinced.
"How about that dance now then?" Edward asked.
"Errrr."
"I won't take no for an answer," Edward said sternly.
His arms were still around my waist and my arms were still awkwardly placed on his chest, which by the way felt divine but that was besides the point. He was gazing into my eyes again and for some reason I didn't even want to resist him anymore.
"Alright," I said reluctantly.
"That's the spirit," Edward chuckled before leading me to the dancefloor.
Luckily for me a slow song had just started, that wouldn't be extremely difficult to dance to, at least it wasn't rock and roll or something horrible like it, that would surely break my ankles if not do worse.
Edward was leading me around the dancefloor easily and I was surprised at how easy it was to dance with him.
"See, that's not so scary now is it?" Edward asked smugly.
"Guess not," I said unwilling to admit I was wrong.
"It's all in the leading," he replied confidently.
My head was spinning, not so much from the dancing but from the thought of me dancing with him. I could feel all the eyes of the girls at the party on me and I didn't like the attention so much but I did like that I was the one he was holding and not one of them. For some reason I felt protective of this guy even though I had only seen him twice and I didn't know the first thing about him. Not to mention that he would never be interested in a girl like me. How could he be? But it was nice to dream and fantasize nonetheless.
The song ended and the two of us stood on the dancefloor motionless, Edward still had his arms around me and I had my arms around his neck and neither of us seemed to want to let go.
"Would you mind it very much if I stole another dance from you?" Edward asked a little unsurely.
"Of course not!" I said too quickly and Edward laughed a musical laugh that made my stomach turn.
Edward pulled me closer before whispering "good" into my ear. I was starting to get dizzy and I felt like I was floating. For as long as Edward was holding me I felt on top of the world.
Then I realized what time it was and the godless hour at which I had to get up again the next morning and my world felt like it fell apart.
"What's wrong?" Edward asked worried, obviously sensing the change in my mood.
"I have to go," I said reluctantly.
"Now?" he asked incredulously and unless I was imagining things, which wasn't very uncommon for me I had to admit, he sounded a little disappointed.
"I have to get up really early tomorrow and if I don't get enough sleep I'll be worthless the entire day, I told Alice I really had to leave an hour ago already but then you distracted me, so now I really have to go, I'm sorry!" I said while starting to pull away.
"But, when will I see you again?" he asked.
"You want to?" I said incredulously.
"Of course! Don't be silly," Edward said, a little taken aback by my reply. "Unless, you don't want to see me again?" he added cautiously.
"Of course I want to see you again," I replied eagerly. "But I really have to go! Sorry!"
"Alright, let me get your stuff," he said.
"That's alright, I'm just going to go say goodnight to your family and then I'll be gone," I said quickly.
I started walking back to the table we had been sitting at the entire evening.
"What are you doing back?" Alice asked surprised. "You looked like you were having a good time out there!"
"I was, but now I have to go, it's already much later than I had expected and I really need to get some sleep," I said and the moment I said it I realized exactly how exhausted I was.
"Alright, well I'll call you tomorrow alright?" Alice said.
"Alright, good night everyone! It's was really nice to meet you all!" I said sincerely.
"Bye Bella," they all said.
"Thanks for the party," I said to Edward, who had been standing silently besides me.
"You're welcome, thank you for coming. I'll show you out."
We were at the elevator before I knew it and it was time for me to say goodbye to a magical night.
"I hope I'll see you again soon," Edward said and I couldn't detect any insincerity anywhere.
"Me too," I said seriously.
"Goodnight Bella, sweet dreams."
"'Night," I muttered.
Then Edward moved his head closer to mine and gave me a kiss on my cheek. I felt the same electricity as before, although it was so much stronger this time, and it was a miracle that I was able to keep myself upright.
The elevator doors closed and I was all alone. The high I had been feeling since I had danced with Edward was starting to fade away and I was scared that I had made the whole thing up. By the time I was in bed I was convinced that tonight hadn't really happened and I would wake up tomorrow only to figure out that this whole party had been one amazing dream. But that was tomorrow's problem, for now I closed my eyes and fell asleep with a smile on my face.
A/N: Well, that was it for the first one shot, I hope you liked it as much as I liked writing it :) It's not a very groundbreaking story or anything but I'm just happy I'm writing again ;) I'll be back tomorrow with the second part of this story :) Xxx Thari