Costume Party
"Bella, do I have to?" whined Edward. "You know I don't do things like this."
"Well, Edward Anthony Mason Cullen, tonight you will." I replied sternly. It was October 31, Halloween, and Jessica had invited us to a costume party at her house.
"Come on, it will be fun." I persisted.
"Bella, why must you insist on me partaking in these childish human activities? Isn't Halloween a holiday that little kids are supposed to celebrate?"
"I thought you would've been excited. Tonight is the one night you can be who you really are."
"You sound like Emmett." He mumbled. "And do you think I want to act like what I am? I hate what I am, you know that as well."
"Then go as a werewolf or something, that'd be original."
"That's not funny." He growled.
"Just a thought." I said.
He took a moment to compose himself and then said, "What are you going to be, smarty pants?"
"A fairy." I replied. "Alice and Esme took me shopping to day."
"When don't they take you shopping for an event? They'll probably buy you an elf costume for Christmas."
"Don't say that." I warned. "I will never be an elf."
"Now you see where I'm coming from." He said.
"Well you have to be something." I insisted.
"Why don't you be a doctor? Carlisle could help you with that." Said Alice, appearing out of nowhere in my window. She was wearing the French Maids costume she had gotten today.
"Don't be ridiculous." He snapped at her. "They would think Bella was the tooth fairy."
"How about a gangster? That fits your personality real well." Said Rosalie, coming in the doorway. She was wearing a pirate costume Emmett had helped her pick out. It was skimpy and flashy.
"Fine." Edward sighed. "I'll go see what I can find. I'll be back in a little while." And he kissed me on the forehead.
"Thanks guys." I said.
"Don't mention it." Said Alice. Rosalie didn't reply. We hung around my house for a little while, waiting for Edward to return. Charlie was out patrolling the streets because it was Halloween and the town didn't exactly trust teenagers.
Then, the doorknob turned and Edward walked in. He was wearing a white button down shirt that was unbuttoned all the way, revealing his pearly white chest. He also had on baggy blue jeans and no shoes.
"Happy?" he asked, stepping in the door.
"Yes." I replied, very excited at the sight of his bare chest. "Very."
"Good. Then lets go." Rosalie cut in. "We're already late." She was already in the front drivers seat of her convertible. Alice climbed in beside her and Edward and I took the back. Rosalie drove faster than Edward and, therefore, had us there in record time.
"Where are Emmett and Jasper?" I asked.
"They're waiting for us." Said Rosalie angrily. Edward mumbled something under his breath and Rosalie got out of the car and marched over to Edward's car, where Emmett and Jasper were waiting. They got out to greet us. Emmett was dressed as a pirate to match Rosalie and Jasper was the classic vampire, yet modernized a little.
"Hi Bella." Said Emmett when Edward and I got closer. "You look real pretty." Rosalie growled. "But not as pretty as Rosalie." He clarified quickly.
"Shall we go inside?" asked Jasper. "I believe the party has started without us."
"No party has officially started until we have arrived, Jas." Said Alice, using her pet name for him.
"You're right. How silly of me to have thought otherwise." Jasper replied, starring Alice deeply in the eyes.
"Hello!" said Rosalie very loudly. "Can we go inside yet?"
"Yes, let's go." Said Jasper, never taking his eyes off Alice. Inside, about half the population of Forks High School was dancing and talking and eating refreshments.
"Hey Bella." Said Mike, coming over to me and ignoring the rest of the Cullens. He had never forgiven Edward for taking away his chances with me "Glad to see you made it."
"Yeah, I wouldn't miss it." I said, and gave Edward a squeeze around the middle.
"Hi Edward." Mike replied gloomily. "I'd better go and find Jessica."
"Bye." I said and he walked away.
"He really doesn't like me." Edward said once Mike was out of earshot.
"Yes." I agreed. "But be nice anyway." We walked over to the refreshment table and I grabbed a cookie that looked like a decapitated finger, with a nut for a fingernail. Then we went to go and dance for a little while.
"Jessica needs some help in the kitchen." Edward said as we glided around the floor to a dead waltz.
"I'd better go help her than." I said and reluctantly let go of him and headed for the kitchen. I closed the door to the kitchen behind me and found Jessica leaning over a cutting board chopping up some cheese for the guests.
"Can I help?" I asked her and she straightened up quickly; she hadn't noticed I was there.
"Sure Bella. Thanks a lot." She said and instructed me to finish slicing the cheese slices. She went over to the fridge and pulled out a number of soda's and disappeared out the kitchen door, it closing behind her. I continued to slice the cheese. But one stoke of the knife got too close to my fingers and made a nice clean cut on my finger.
"Shoot!" I yelped, clutching my finger as blood dripped down my arm. I spun around looking for something to stop the blood flow. Then, Jessica came back in the room.
"Bella!" she gasped. "What happened?"
"I got the knife a little too close to my finger." I replied. And then there was a loud scream from the other room. "What as that?"
"Someone probably knocked over something glass." Jessica replied, quickly grabbing a towel out of a drawer. She dabbed all the blood off my hand and held my finger firmly in the towel.
"I'll go upstairs and get some bandage. It looks like you might need some stitched though." Jessica said, allowing me to hold the cloth and heading for the stairs.
I sighed and looked down at the blood stained towel. "Just what I need. More stitches." And then I noticed something else. There was blood on the front of my costume, and lots of it.
"I can't go back to Edward like this. It will drive him half insane to sit in the same car with me, I'll have to borrow something from Jess." Right on cue, Jessica came back down stairs with a wad of bandage.
"Here you go." She said and pulled the towel away from, reveling a deep cut in the side of my finger. She rinsed it out once under the faucet and then bound it with bandage.
"Hey Jess. Can I borrow a pair of cloths?" I asked, as she finished wrapping my wound.
"Why?" she asked.
"Cause the ones I'm wearing right now have blood all over them, and you know how I am with blood."
"Good point." She agreed. "I'll go and get you something."
"I'll come with." I said and followed her up the stairs. In her room, she pulled out a pair of jeans and an orange t-shirt with a bat on it.
"Thanks." I said.
"No problem." She said and went back downstairs to the party. I pulled the new cloths on and wrapped my costume in a plastic bag, and then returned to the party as well.
I looked around the room, but couldn't find Edward. . . or any of the Cullens. I looked out the front window and saw that Rosalie's convertible was gone! Scared, I went outside and saw, with relief, that Edward was waiting for me by his car.
"What happened?" I asked.
"We could smell your blood from the kitchen and Jasper almost lost control and had to leave." He replied solemnly.
"Is that what the scream I heard was about?"
"Yes. Emmett and I had to drag him out. Though he did his best to make it look like an allergic reaction to food. We convinced everyone that we had to take him to the hospital."
"I'm so sorry." I said.
"It's not your fault that you are clumsy, though I am beginning to wonder what you were doing with a knife in the first place."
"I was helping Jessica." I admitted. "Though I was kind of spacing out." He didn't say anything, but just shook his head and softly chuckled to himself.
"Come on Bella, lets get you home." He said and opened the car door for me. I got in and prepared for the ride home.
When we were in front of my house, I turned to him and said, "Thank you for talking me, even if it did turn out badly."
"It's alright. Alice didn't even see that happen. No one could have predicted it."
"Alice checked to see if anything would happen?" I asked
"Rosalie made her." He replied.
"Oh." I said and gave him a big hug. "Tell everyone else I'm sorry."
"I will." He said and I got out of the car and went in the house.