Stephenie Meyer owns all of Twilight. Merh.

BPOV

Until this moment, Alice had been the most beautiful woman that I had ever known.

Rosalie Hale ruined that. No one could compete with her. She was tall, slender but way voluptuous at the same time. It must be the way she stood, the way she held herself. It looked like someone had taken the best features off all the most beautiful super models in the world and put them together to form her face and body. Her makeup and clothes were better than Alice's. I hadn't ever thought that could be possible….

Edward's voice broke Emmett's, Alice's and my concentration on the Aphrodite… "Emmett, this is the girl." He smiled. "Rosalie Hale."

If I were able to be that close to him I would have been smiling enough for it to become painful. Rosalie wasn't.

She looked consumed by boredom.

"Hi, Rosalie." Emmett sounded like he had something lodged in his throat.

To my surprise, when Rosalie's eyes rose to Emmett's face, they widened and she smiled back. Widely.

"Hi…Emmett?" She said his name quietly. As quietly as you could in a crowded room and still be heard. She smiled again.

"This is Emmett's sister Bella and their friend Alice," Edward continued, gesturing towards us. I couldn't help beaming up at him when he looked my way. He had such an effect on me.

Rosalie looked back and nodded at us in turn. Then she concentrated on the floor and blushed.

…She blushed? Why was she blushing?! What…?!

"Um, Bella, I think I'm ready to go now. I'm tired," Alice said, grabbing my arm. She was looking at Emmett. I looked at him too, utterly confused. He was looking at the floor the same way Rosalie was. He peeked at her once before I understood Alice's urgency.

I immediately turned towards the door while Alice pulled Emmett away from the couple, but I threw a smile and a glance back at Edward.

He was smiling right back into my eyes.

"Emmett, what the hell was that?" Alice half yelled, half whispered incredulously. She had barely kept her outburst contained until we got into a cab. If I wasn't panicking internally about Edward and Emmett and Rosalie and life in general, this situation would be hilarious.

"What?" He was trying to play it off but we all saw their eyes lock. It wouldn't be that easy.

"No! You and the hott chick had a moment! We're girls, we notice these things!" Alice seemed desperate to get the details. I stayed quiet. If Emmett and Rosalie "had a moment" by just looking at each other, then what the hell had happened between me and Edward? We had locked eyes waaaaaaay more than once.

Wait. Don't compare. Don't read too much into anything.

"I… I… I don't know." Emmett resigned under Alice's sharp glare. She seemed to grow knowing there was gossip being denied her. Alice could be intimidating despite her small stature.

"What's their relationship? It seemed like he might have talked about her to you before?" Alice asked. I smiled, wondering if she was really asking about Edward's relationship status for me.

"Um. I guess they're dating," Emmett said. His shoulders slumped. "He's known her for a while….She's hott…who can blame him." It didn't sound like Emmett was talking to us. He was frowning at the roof of the car. This "moment" must have been much more intense than Alice and I thought.

"Emmett, if they're together than she's off limits," I said, as much a reminder for him as it was for me.

"I know." He responded, with pathetically more sadness. "They're coming over tomorrow night." He directed that at me. As a warning. He had seen my moment.