As we sat in bed while I recovered from the shock of Alice's electrifying wake up she'd given me, Edward began to speak. "Love, I really think we should go now." I looked up at him with curious eyes; he wasn't usually this pushy. "She's thinking about coming up here and dragging you down the stairs. Her excuse will be 'It's my birthday, I can do what I want!'" He took an unnecessary breath and continued, "She says, and I quote 'Come down now or I'll come get you and I don't think it will be that pleasant. Take your pick.'"

With that he held out his hand for me but I kept mine at my side and smiled. "I can walk on my own you know."

He raised an eyebrow, "Yes you can walk. But love, the question seems to be: are you capable of doing it without falling?"

I threw the blankets off my body and jumped out of the bed. I reached the door and turned around to find Edward watching me with a cocked eyebrow, amused eyes, and my favorite crooked smile. I stomped me foot as if it would prove my point and began down the stairs. After carefully making my way down the first 2 steps I was filled with confidence and began to move quicker. Instantly I was falling towards the bottom of the stairs. I shut my eyes tight and prepared for the impact, but it never came. I opened my eyes to find white muscular hands on my waist holding me steady. Edward kissed the top of my head and grinned, "So we were both right." He whispered into my ear. "You can walk…just not without tripping, stumbling, or falling."

Edward scooped me up into his arms and safely flew me down the stairs. I didn't understand what had happened. Esme's perfectly white and open living room had been transformed into a pink and black area of girly and slight mix of punk. After seeing how Alice had decorated my last celebrated birthday I didn't see how she could making something more extravagant, but just like Alice it was done up bigger and better.

Alice had completely redecorated the room. Two walls were painted pink while the others black. Black streamers hung from the ceiling with silver and multi-colored glittered stuck to them. Tables were covered in shiny confetti with 'A's, tiaras, and music notes scattered around. "Wow Alice." I mumbled aloud. 'Happy Birthday' hung on the wall above a giant picture of Alice making a face. You know the one that girls always do: eyes big and their tongue pointed out the side of their mouth. Usually it's not a pretty, but with Alice making the face any super model would be instantly put to shame. The room was completely lit by candles. I stepped closer to look at them, fire had always attracted me. They looked weird; to perfect, as if the wax wasn't melting as the flame burned. I reached out and touched the 'wax' part of the candle…plastic. I took a closer look at the flame; it was only a tiny light bulb shining bright. I turned around and asked, "Why are these candles plastic?"

Edward took a nervous glance in Alice's direction, "Well… Alice had a vision and apparently you have a thing for fire and tried to do a trick that you move your fingers through the flame and not get burned. You ended up knocking the candle over it had a domino effect and the room caught fire…" I blushed.

Oh. Well that explains it then, I thought, "For my and your safety then." I turned to Alice, my face confused. "I thought you wanted my help to set up Allie-kins?" I pouted with mock horror, but she knew I wasn't looking forward to standing on latter's and hanging things.

Emmett who had been standing surprisingly quiet in the background as I surveyed the room spoke up, "You took way to long coming down Bells, so we set up. We want to get the fun started!" His voice was unnecessarily loud.

"You set this entire thing up in about 2 minutes?" Edward rolled his eyes at my questions. I mumbled something along the lines of stupid-super-fast-beautiful-vampires.

Again Emmett was all to eager to say something, "Whatever Bella, you know your just jealous because you I can walk faster than you can run. Plus all my sexy muscle..ie..ness doesn't help it out either!" As he said this he flexed his arms and kissed the giant bulge of muscle that appeared on each one. "Now that Bella knows what real muscles are," Emmett looked pointedly at Edward, "Let's hit up some Truth or Dare!"

Oh no.

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