A/N: Hey guys, thanks for the support so far, this chapter was super fun to write so I hope you guys like it :) and those of you who know Taylor Swifts songs or have them to listen to, I really recommend listening to the song each chapter is about while you read…it just sets a certain mood.
Disclaimer: I told Santa all I wanted for Christmas was Edward…apparently he didn't have enough made in his factory this year; he wasn't expecting this overflow of Edward orders. Oh well…there's always next year…
"We were both young when I first saw you, I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony of summer air
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns, I see you make your way through the crowd and say hello, little did I know
That you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles and my daddy said stay away from Juliet and I was crying on the staircase begging you please don't go, and I said:
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess, It's a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you we keep quiet cause we're dead if they know so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while
Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter and my daddy said stay away from Juliet, but you were everything to me, I was begging you please don't go and I said:
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess, It's a love story baby just say yes
Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel, this love is difficult, but it's real,
Don't be afraid we'll make it out of this mess, It's a love story baby just say yes
I got tired of waiting, wondering if you were ever coming around, my faith in you was fading when I met you on the outskirts of town I said:
Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone I keep waiting for you but you never come is this in my head, I don't know what to think He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said:
Marry me Juliet you'll never have to be alone I love you and that's all I really know. I talked to your dad you'll pick out a white dress It's a love story baby just say yes
Cause we were both young when I first saw you"
Love Story- Taylor Swift
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BPOV
I sat on the balcony of our apartment watching the party below me. We had a sort of common area, the patio, and Mike lived on the bottom floor so he had the party there.
The air around me was soft and warm like summer as I watched the sunset. This was extremely strange weather for Michigan in October but I was really enjoying it. I sat there alone, not really caring about the part below me but truthfully, I was surprised Edward hadn't come to get me yet. I sipped the cup of punch I had gotten in the first few minutes of the party; Alice forced me to stay at least five minutes. We reunited with Emmett and Rose, but after that I was eager to go. And now here I am, sitting up here, thinking about Edward.
Surely he knew where I would be, this was one of my favorite spots of all of our apartments.
After the sun had set I turned my attention to the crowd on the patio. I saw the shimmering lights that Alice had strung carefully around the patio a few hours earlier. As I scanned around to see who had shown up, the party almost seemed to be going in slow motion.
Mike, laughing, with his arm around Jessica, and Eric talking to Angela…it all seemed to foreign to even be real. A few other people outfits caught my eye, especially Alice's. Her ball gown was extremely eye catching as she twirled around with Jasper. I'm sure my dress was just as ostentatious as hers but I hadn't really given anyone time to look it over.
I still hadn't seen Edward at this point. Just as I was thinking this, I saw him make his way through the crowd and look around for a bit. He wandered around, maybe searching for Alice. But then he just stopped dead in his tracks and he was facing my general direction so I saw a smug smile cross his face. He looked up, straight at me and mouthed "Hello." He had known I was there after all. He walked straight towards me and shouted over the music up to me, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." The perfect smile still gracing his face.
I laughed and sat on the rail of the balcony to reply, "Rapunzel's not here, you must have the wrong number."
"Oh, that's embarrassing." He said to himself, jokingly and headed over to Alice. He came back a few minutes later and tried again.
"Come to try again?" I teased.
"O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white-upturned wondering eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him when he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air." He climbed up the side of the fire escape and could almost climb up to the balcony from where he was. He stood swinging around the bar of the fire escape and came to stand at the edge of it which was almost eye level with me.
"So you're Romeo now?"
"Well, not really," he smiled. "Emmett, Jasper, and I are the three musketeers." He paused. "But I can still pretend I'm Romeo, it is Halloween after all."
"O Romeo, Romeo!" I smiled, "Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
"Impressive." His smile grew larger.
"So where are your pebbles to throw up to my window?"
"Hmm…" he seemed to really think about this. "Well I'm already up here aren't I?" he asked rhetorically. "Pebbles would be of no use to me."
"It just won't be the same without the pebbles." I sighed.
I heard the door open behind me and Mike came through onto the balcony and put his hand on my shoulder. "Hey Bells."
"Hi Mike," I slightly shrugged his hand off of my shoulder.
"Why are you up here?" he leaned against the edge of the balcony where I sat still.
I could see the displeasure on Edward's face from the moment Mike came through the door.
"This party is a little over the top for me and I was just talking to Edward…"
"Who would want to talk to Edward, now you can talk to me." I could tell he was slightly drunk as he slurred some of his words. I looked over to Edward for a rescue but he wasn't there anymore.
"Stop it Mike." I got up to leave but Mike got a hold of my hand.
"Come on Bella…" a drunken smile was plastered on his face as he tried to pull me back.
"Mike." Someone called from inside the apartment. Edward came out and started yelling at Mike, thank goodness. I guess Edward had thought he would be trouble so he had left the fire escape to get to the balcony through my apartment.
I sat outside on the steps, not wanting to hear Edward and Mike yelling at each other. I saw Mike come out a few minutes later and he walked across the hall to the elevator, I was guessing he didn't take the stairs because I was there, but Edward hadn't come out yet.
"You ok?" Edward's voice came from behind me countless minutes later and he sat next to me on the staircase.
"Yeah, it's just Mike. Thanks for saving me though." I smiled at him.
"My pleasure, someone should really keep Mike away from those drinks."
We sat there for a bit in silence and Edward got up to go back to the party.
I stood up with him but said softly, "Wait, don't go." and he turned around.
"Come with me?" he asked.
"I never really wanted to go to the party and now I'm definitely not happier with the whole Mike thing."
"Ok, well I'm going where you're going. Where to?" he held his arm out and I wrapped my arm around his.
"Hmm…take me…"
"Somewhere we can be alone?" Edward finished for me.
I smiled and nodded my head.
"Ok, let me go tell Jasper and Emmett, they'll be sad to lose a musketeer." He joked.
"I'll be waiting…all there's left to do is run…from Alice." I added, smiling.
"Great, that's encouraging." He laughed. "Ta ta for now my fair maiden." He smiled and kissed my hand, bowing. I curtsied and he left to go find Jasper.
I peeked around the corner, making sure Alice didn't see me, she would be sure to drag me back to the party and not even Edward could save me from that.
I caught Edward's eye and he walked back over.
We decided we would look to conspicuous if we walked around the streets in our costumes so we just went up to the roof of our apartments.
"So what exactly are you supposed to be?" Edward asked. "I asked Alice, since you guys seem to be wearing the same thing, but she got really mad at me and didn't answer."
"I don't really know to tell you the truth, Alice just wanted wear masks," I held mine up, "So she said we were going to the party masquerade style. Alice likes to say hers is a princess dress but I don't really think mine looks like a princess dress."
"You look like a princess to me." Edward said and I blushed. "But wouldn't a princess need a prince?"
"Ok, you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess."
"But I'm a musketeer." Edward insisted.
"Well I'm a princess and I officially declare you my prince, musketeers are lame." I playfully stuck my tongue out at him.
"As long as you're my princess, I'll be a prince." He smiled. "Besides, there's no way I'm getting stuck with Alice. Maybe Jasper will be promoted to prince as well."
"Only if he's lucky." Edward laughed.
"Oh no, Alice is calling me, I wonder if she realized both of us left…" he picked up the phone and Alice asked him to come down for a minute, she wouldn't say what for.
"Sorry, I'll be right back." Edward said as he stood up. "Meet me in the garden?"
I nodded and he went down the stairs. Being sneaky, I made my way around the party, keeping quiet because if I would be dead if Alice knew. I sat on my favorite bench, around an arch of roses and tulips all along the path. The party was pretty loud; I could hear it from where I sat so I closed my eyes, escaping it all for a little while I waited for Edward. I thought about what Edward had said when we were up on the roof, all that talk of a princess needing a prince… Did he really want to be my prince? I could only hope he wasn't just talking about our Halloween costumes.
"Bella?" I heard Mike call from across the garden.
"Go away Mike." I sighed, great this was just what I needed right now.
"No, come on Bella, I'm really sorry about earlier." His words didn't seem quite as slurred now.
"Well what do you want then?"
"You should stay away from Edward." he blurted out. "I hear people talking Bella, he's not who you think he is." He went on to explain all of the things Edward had said about me and him and what kind of awful person he was.
"Mike, just go away. I really don't care what you have to say."
Surprisingly he left, but that just left me alone with my thoughts, still waiting for Edward.
After a while I got tired of waiting, still thinking about what Mike had said even though I knew I shouldn't believe it. But I started waiting if Edward was ever coming around, my faith in him was fading and every little thing Mike had said was starting to sink into my brain.
I wish he would come back and save me, with everyone telling me how to feel, especially Mike, it just got confusing. The way I feel for Edward is…difficult, but it's real. I really just need Edward to come and tell me don't be afraid; we'll make it out of this mess. I wish it was a love story, just say yes.
"Hey sorry Bella, Alice made me take a bunch of pictures with Emmett and Jasper. She asked where you were but I took the liberty of telling her I had no idea where you were." Edward told me as he sat next to me on the bench.
"Thanks." I smiled.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Yeah I was just feeling kind of alone, I kept waiting for you but you never came…Alice and her pictures…" I rolled my eyes.
Edward smiled and held his hand out to me. "Come on, lets walk around, I love the lights in the garden at night." I put my hand in his and he pulled me up, but didn't let go as we walked around.
Is this in my head? I've always liked Edward as more than a friend in the back of my mind but I had always convinced myself it was just family love and not real love. Now I don't know what to think.
"So am I still a prince or am I Romeo?" he asked.
"What happened to the musketeer?" I joked.
"I decided you were right, musketeers are lame." He smiled.
"Ok then I guess you can be Romeo." No need to tell him how much I longed for him to be my Romeo.
"And you're Juliet." He finished.
We walked around the garden for what must have been a few hours, we heard the party die out after a bit but neither of us seemed to want to leave.
As it was getting late and I reluctantly suggested we head in Edward smiled at me, as he has been this whole night, and said
"O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?" I smiled at his words, he was Romeo again, not that he ever stopped.
"What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?"
"The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine."
"I gave thee mine before thou didst request it: And yet I would it were to give again." I blushed at the truth of our words, or, I didn't know if his were spoken true, but mine were.
"Wouldst thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love?"
Love, he called me love. I smiled internally but soon remembered its just part of the script, oh how I wish this was true.
"But to be frank," I continued, "and give it thee again. And yet I wish but for the thing I have: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
"A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks." We had started walking out of the garden and were now in front my door.
He moved a piece of hair away from my face and his hand lingered on the side of my cheek. His thumb traced slowly back and forth while he seemed to be waiting for my reaction. I looked up at him and blushed which seemed to be all he needed to see.
He pressed his lips softly to mine and I marveled in the embrace. So thankfully I hadn't been imagining all that had happened tonight. His lips moved softly with mine and I briefly wondered how I could have possibly gone so long knowing him and not enjoying this feeling. His feelings seemed to pour through me as he kissed me and I reached my hand up to his face, tracing along his as he was doing to mine.
We pulled apart eventually, both slightly out of breath and he whispered, "Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest. Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell."
He left my side and I opened the door to my apartment in a daze, still basking in the feeling of his lips on mine, smiling subconsciously to myself.
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A/N: so what did you guys think? I had to kind of change the end of the chapter against the song because obviously he's going to up and suddenly propose to her…but I hope you guys liked it!
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