BPOV

"Wait up!" I called as I fluttered prettily down the grand stairway.

Alice gasped as she saw my finished figure for the first time- all five feet, one-and-a-half inches of me.

I nearly tripped down the last few steps as I raced in my one-inch heels, trying not to be left behind.

"Wow, girlie, you look gorgeous!" Alice smiled, her wide eyes giving her shock away. She recovered quickly enough, and blinked twice, turning her face to regain her composure. I must be stunning to get that kind of response.

"Alice, Jacob will be here with Lizzie any minute! I… I'm nervous. I've never met her before! I… I dot think I can do this!" I covered my face with my hand- sort of. I had to keep my had an inch from my face so as not to smear my make-up.

Alice laughed, then sobered. She frowned, mumbling, "stop your worrying! You look fine." it was almost a groan. She patted my shoulder to be sure I'd been listening. I peeked at her. "Besides, I don't know how anyone could keep their eyes off that!" She gestured to my blue dress and curled hair. Ah, prom. Only this could get me into a dress and make-up. I couldn't call it a gown, really, because Lizzie had rejected the idea of me wearing anything longer than my knees.

"Well, they're here." Screeching nodded at my assumption as Jacob's vans tires scraped the pavement in a sickening screech. I could recognize the sound of that old van anywhere.

Wobbling, so as not to trip, I moved across the floor to get the door. My curly brown hair bounced lightly with each step I took. The door screeched as I opened it.

"Hey, Jacob. All these people are riding with you, right?" I said, gesturing to the seven people standing behind him.

Jacob laughed and I relaxed. "Well, of course they are, and hello to you too!" Jacob turned to smile at Alice, who was still twenty feet away, at the bottom of the stairway before turning back to his friends. Alice came to stand behind me. "Bella, this is Mike, and he's with Jessica," he said, waving his left hand at two people directly beside him. They were holding hands, and Jessica was blushing. I recognized them from school. "this is Ben, and he's with Angela," he gestured to his left on the other side of Jessica. They, too went to my school. "this is Quil, and he's with Tanya," he gestured to his right. A wave of loneliness washed over me as I began to realize that all of them had a partner, but Jacob wasn't done. "and this is Edward."

I looked around me and then I spotted him, coming from behind Jacob, no one on his arm. Maybe he's alone! my thoughts gathered from his appearance, and then changed my mind as his head came up. His eyes were a pool of golden melting honey, and I felt as though I could nearly drown in them. He couldn't possibly be alone.

Jacob smiled at my far away expression and looked behind me at Alice with a wink. "is she riding with you?"

Alice nodded, I think, and stood there staring at me, puzzled by my wondering expression. Who else would I go with?

"Well, then, what are we waiting for?" Jacob puzzled.

I snapped back into reality then. "Eric and his girl… I forgot her name." My phone vibrated. I checked the number. Speak of the devil, Eric. "Hello? Where are you? No, we were all gonna meet here and drive there… oh, never mind! We'll see you there. Ok, we're leaving now. Bye!" I closed my phone before he could respond. Then I took a real look at the people Jacob had brought.

Mike had blond, spiky hair and blue eyes- typical. He wore a loose bow-tie around his masculine neck, and he appeared to be only an inch or two shorter than Jacob, which put him at approximately six-foot-two. I would say he's cute, but not hot. His left hand held Jessica's right. Jessica, the five-foot-three girl with the blondish-brownish-reddish hair, which was swirled up into a bun at the top of her head, complete with light brown eyes and flushed cheeks. Her black dress flared at her hips making it cut half-a-foot above her knees, and her knee high black boots and long silky black gloves completed her. She wore too much make-up, or she would've been perfect. They were the picture perfect couple, though.

My eyes turned to Ben and Angela. His hair, combed back into a neat, brown fowhawk, nearly glistened in the softly gathering twilight, and I realized the door was still open. What could I care? Ben was dressed similar to Mike, with his dark blue pants, only he wore a neck tie instead of a bow tie. His eyes were wide set but fit his face perfectly. Angela had a real dress, a gown. It covered her feet, which were covered only by baby blue heels, the same color as her dress. Her hair was French-braided back away from her face and down to her waist behind her. She had blue daisies tucked in every other inch or so all down her braid. Simply beautiful.

Quil's skin was a hint darker than a tan and I guessed him to be Indian. He looked more like a freshman than a junior as the rest of us were. His arms bulged almost un-believably so, and I could only think it to be muscle. Duh. Tanya had strawberry blond hair, and violet eyes. And her dress matched her eyes, as did her head band. Tanya smiled gleefully at her hand and I smiled when I realized that she smiled because he held it. Quil's bowtie was red with black polka-dots, and he looked like a party crasher.

Then I turned my attention to him. Edward. Just thinking his name gave me shudders and goose-bumps. I looked him up and down, but my thoughts got lost again when I looked at his beautiful, indescribable face. Then he glanced up and held my gaze. I flushed and turned away, and he snickered. He seemed different from the others, and yet similar. A hope fluttered in me again that he might possible be single… and then I had only to glance back up at him to see that hope be smothered by his beautiful face. He's still looking at me! I thought to myself.

This whole look-over process took only seconds, so no one but Edward had noticed, and I hoped he hadn't noticed much. "who was that?" Alice questioned me. Jasper had come down stairs and now stood silently behind her.

"oh, um, it was Eric. He forgot he was supposed to meet us here, so he's already there. I told him it was fine, and that we'd see him there." I turned back to Jacob. "So, I guess we aren't waiting for anything anymore… lets go."

Jacob nearly growled. "He always forgets this type of thing!"

"Oh, well. You should expect it. Let's go." I motioned for them to exit, and followed them out. "meet you there, Jake." I said closing the door as his friends all piled in. Alice pulled up. I got in the back seat of her car, Jasper in the front. "Step on it!" I cheered as I slammed the door. "now it's a race!"

Then I remembered James.