I had just turned seventeen a little over two weeks ago and was now on my way to one of my best friend's birthday party. Her name was Rosalie. She was turning seventeen too.
"This better be fun or I'm leaving", said my best friend Alice who happens to live down the street from Rosalie.
"It'll be great; all the guys will be there!" I said.
"I hate birthday parties", said Alice.
When we got there, we were one of the first people to arrive. That tends to happen when you live within walking distance. We found Rosalie and gave her our presents before we sat down on the couch and started talking about random stuff.
More people started to arrive. I knew everyone of course. Our town wasn't exactly that big so everyone basically knew each other.
Just then, my eyes caught a glimpse of someone who I hadn't seen in years. He walked in and gave Rosalie a present before coming up to the group of people I was now talking to. He joined into the conversation casually and no one seemed to feel awkward with him there. Why was that? Was I the only one who noticed he was here?
I pulled Alice aside and asker her, "Why is he here?"
"Who?" said Alice.
"Edward. I haven't seen him since like fourth grade." I said. I started thinking of the past and remembered how we used to be pretty good friends…
"Oh. Rosalie has a class with him. Apparently they're pretty good friends. But not like that. Emmett and Jasper are good friends with him too." Emmett was Rosalie's boyfriend and Jasper was Alice's.
"What?"I did I not notice that all of my best friends talked to him? Was I blind?
"What are you getting so worked up about? He's pretty cool. You should go talk to him. He's pretty cool now." Alice said. This made no sense. He was Edward Cullen! He was practically a loser. Why was he now all of a sudden here?
I walked back up to the group of people he was talking to and realized he was telling some joke that everyone thought was hysterical. He noticed me walk up and said,
"Hey Bella. Haven't seen you in a while. Whats up?"
"Oh hey Edward. I know right? When's the last time we talked? Like fourth grade?" I said.
He laughed. "Wow, it really has been that long, hasn't it?"
"Seems like it. I didn't even realize you were friends with Rosalie." I said.
He looked away thinking about something and I took that brief moment of time to get a good look at him. He had defiantly grown up. He was pretty tall with bronze hair and green eyes. His body looked pretty toned, well pretty perfect actually. He was wearing faded jeans, a long sleeve t-shirt, white addidas sneakers and a blue hat. When the hell did Edward Cullen get hot?
He looked back at me. "Oh yeah, were pretty good friends now. He have English together. We've been hanging out a lot lately with Emmett, Alice and Jasper." He said.
What the hell? When? I was always with one of them. When the hell we're they hanging out with this gorgeous guy?
"Oh wow, really? I feel like I've been living under a rock lately now. I'm usually with one of the four of them." I said.
He laughed. "Well, we we've been hanging out after school and going either to my place or Emmett's usually. They're all pretty cool." Ah, now it made sense. School nights were 'date' nights for the two couples and I had work.
"Oh, well that makes more sense now," I laughed, "I have work Monday through Thursday after school."
"Oh that's too bad, it would be fun for everyone to hang out." He said.
"Yeah it would. Looks like we're both the third wheels who have no idea the other existed in the group," I laughed.
He laughed too. "Yeah seems like it."
Rosalie's mom announced that it was time to do the whole birthday charade so I told Edward I'd talk to him later and went over to Alice who was so excited it was cake time. Mostly because that meant presents were coming and Alice couldn't wait for Rosalie to see what she got her.
Everyone sang happy birthday and had a piece of the ice cream cake. When Rosalie saw the Kathy VanZeland bag Alice got her, she almost fainted. It was exactly what she wanted. They both we're jumping and shrieking in excitement with each other for who knows how long.
When Rosalie saw the present I got her, she seemed pretty happy but not anywhere near the happiness of the Kathy bag. But that was obvious, especially when you got a present from someone who had barely enough money to pay for gas. I got her a picture frame with a picture of us when we were four at the beach. It was a pretty cute picture. Our families have been close since we were little so me and Rosalie have been close all our lives.
After the cake and presents, Rosalie's mom took out guitar hero. Everyone was really excited. Guitar hero was like the reason for existence to a lot of people I knew. I personally don't understand the obsession.
I sat down on the couch with Angela, another one of my good friends. We started talking when suddenly I felt someone sit down next to me. I turned to see Edward looking at me.
"I'm surprised. Most of these kids would kill each other over who gets to play guitar hero and here you are just sitting like it's no big deal." I said.
"I don't really understand why. It's pretty boring if you ask me," Edward said.
Wow, did he just seriously say that?
"Looks like we have something in common," I said.
"Sure does," he said.
"So, when did you get so tall?" I asked.
He laughed. "I grew over the summer. I went from five foot seven, to six foot one in three months. It was ridiculous. My mom thought I was turning into a giraffe."
"Oh my god. You grew six inches that fast? And I thought I was the only one who had to go through that," I said.
"Well looks like your five foot eight height is nothing compared to me," he said grinning.
"Looks like it," I said blushing.
"So I was wondering..." he started, but then Alice yelled for me saying we had to go. She must not be having such a good time after all.
I looked at Edward and said, "Im sorry, I got to go but we should defiantly hang out with the group sometime. See ya!" He looked kind of sad, but I got up and heard him say from behind me,
"Yeah defiantly!"
Looks like I made myself a new friend.