DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT
2 hours before the date:
"Alice, we're just going to the movies, we don't have to dress up that much."
"Bella's right Ali, these dresses look like we are going out to dinner in some fancy restaurant. Nobody will be able to see our outfits in the theater."
"Alright, fine. We can dull it down a little, but we still have to look good."
"Of course." Rose and I agreed. The dresses were beautiful, and they all matched. But we were going to the movies, and we don't need to dress up so much for that.
Eventually we decided to wear matching outfits, but with different colors. We were all wearing halter tops with low-rise, boot-cut jeans, and flats to match our tops.
My top was black, and I had matched it with some onyx earring, necklace, ring and bracelet set. Surrounding the onyx on each piece of jewelry was silver. I straitened my hair, grabbed my small black jean purse, and ran downstairs to meet Alice and Rose.
Rose's color was red. She matched her outfit with a gorgeous ruby jewelry set that looked like mine, and a small red leather purse. The only difference between our jewelry sets was that surrounding the rubies was gold instead of silver. She had straitened her golden blonde hair to reach just above her waist, and held it back with a blood red headband.
Alice's color for the night was blue. She wanted to dress in pink, but the only other jewelry set I had that matched mine and Rose's was a Sapphire set, so she had decided that she would wear a blue halter top tonight. Alice had her short black hair spiked, and sticking up in every direction a usual. But tonight she had decided to put in a blue and silver hair clip to hold her bangs back.
The guys had just pulled up in Emmett's jeep, and were waiting for us to open the door. We had decided to all open the door together, and were slightly amused at their reaction.
"Wow." They all breathed simultaneously. We all just giggled, before being swept off into our own little worlds with our dates. The ride to the theater was fun, everyone was talking and having fun singing to the radio when our favorite songs came on.
When we got to the theater, however, we had a little disagreement.
"Okay, okay. The only way to fairly settle this is with a vote. Bella, you decide. Romantic comedy or Horror?"
"Well Jazz, since you asked so nicely, I think I'm going to choose…Horror."
"Aww, Bel-la." Alice and Rose whined together.
"Sorry girls, but you know I can't pass up a good horror movie."
"Okay then it's settled. What does everyone want for snacks?" Ah, Emmett. Always thinking about food. The boys went and bought the tickets and the snacks, and we went into the movie.
After the movie was over, the boys surprised us by taking us to a small diner, where we all talked and had fun while eating dinner. The boys dropped us off back at my house around 11:30. We weren't tired yet, so we decided to get our showers and put in a movie. This time Alice picked out Grown Ups. We laughed all the way through the movie, and by now it was nearing 4 in the morning. We talked about our dates until we fell asleep.
Before we knew it, it was time for graduation. After taking our finals, we all headed down to La Push where we would meet Vicky, Paul and Jake. We decided to have our graduation party down there, so we decided to start setting up so we could go strait there after graduation. We were inviting the entire senior class, apart from Tanya and James, and all of the La Push kids.
Graduation:
Rose, Emmett, Jasper, Alice and I were all neck and neck for valedictorian, but I won by a hair because they ditched last week for about an hour, resulting in them losing. They said that I deserved it, and they wanted me to be the youngest valedictorian ever. At first I was a little upset, but I realized that they were being the best friends ever. I couldn't believe that they all gave up being valedictorian for me. I was touched.
"You know we love you Bells, besides, you deserve this more than we do."
"Jazz is right, Bella. You totally deserve this. Besides, who else can get us out of any situation with smooth talk? And who else can do the surprised, innocent look better than you? If you didn't have it perfected and spent the time teaching it to us, we would have probably been thrown out of school by now."
"Aw, thanks guys. And Emmett, I doubt I can smooth talk my way out of something, but I do have the innocent look down. Now come on, I have to give my speech."
After my speech, I was literally ambushed.
"Oh, sweetie I am so proud of you!"
"Thanks mom."
"Good job, Bells." My dad wasn't much for words, but we still got along great anyway.
"Thanks dad."
This went on for awhile. I was congratulated by the Hale's, the Brandon's and the Cullen's before we were finally free to go.
The party was going great, until Tanya showed up around 11.
"What do you want, Tanya?" Vicky confronted her.
"Can I talk to you? And Bella please?"
"I'll give you 5 minutes, that's it."
"What about you, Bella? Will you please come with me too?"
"Fine, but like Vicky said, five minutes."
"Thank you. Can we take a walk?"
We followed Tanya away from the party, to the edge of the woods.
"Okay Tanya, we followed you, now what do you want?"
"I-I wanted to apologize. I've been horrible to you both. I don't deserve your forgiveness, nor do I expect it. But I really am sorry. Vicky, I did the most horrible thing possible to you. I took your boyfriend, your best friend, and your trust in men. I don't know what possessed me to do something like that, but that doesn't change the fact that I did it. I really am sorry. I can't believe that I would do something like that. That wasn't me. And Bella, I judged you before I even knew you. I was horrible to you, and I did things to hurt you just because I didn't know you. I'm sorry. You may have noticed in the past few months I haven't been the me that you guys came to know. I have a confession. I was getting clean. Vicky, do you remember James' birthday party we went to in 7th grade? Well at that party, he pulled me off to the side. He gave me these pills. He said that they were vitamins, and he wanted me to share them with you. I wasn't sure he was telling the truth, so I took them myself. Then he gave me more. Soon I formed an addiction, and I couldn't stop. They changed me, made me forget who I was. Vicky, you knew something was up, but you let it go when I brushed it off, thinking it was just something normal, like being stressed because of school. I shouldn't have pushed you away. I know now that you could have helped me. Then, I got jealous of you. You had a boyfriend that you loved, and good grades. You had everything I wanted. All I could think of was that I wanted to hurt you in the worst way possible. When I first started to get clean, I thought back to all of the horrible things that I've done. I realized that I've hurt you two the most. I still don't know exactly what I was on, but that doesn't matter anymore. What matters is that I'm sorry, and I hope that one day you both can forgive me."
"I forgive you Tanya." She and Vicky both looked at me, shocked. Then she ran to me and swept me up into a hug. I have to admit, I was a little uncomfortable. But I hugged her back, because she seemed sincere.
"Thank you so much, Bella! You don't know how much this means to me. I know I have a lot of work to do, but I hope one day I can gain your trust and maybe even be your friend."
"You're welcome Tanya. Just please don't make me regret this decision."
"Never, I promise."
She released me from the hug, and turned to Vicky.
"Tanya, you're right, you did hurt me in the worst way possible. I don't know if I can forgive you. But I will give you the chance to regain my trust and my forgiveness. Don't screw it up, because you won't get another one."
"I understand. Thank you for giving me that chance. I promise I won't disappoint you."
She left after that, and we went back to the party.
"Hey Bells, what did she want?" Jake asked. All of my friends looked at me expectantly.
"She wanted to apologize for how she treated me and ask for my forgiveness. I gave it to her, but she is going to have to earn my trust."
"You forgave her? Just like that?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I have to admit, you're a better person than most people, including me."
"Yeah, I agree with Rose, I wouldn't have forgiven her that quick. But you're not us Bella. I'm so glad that we have you as a best friend."
"Thanks Alice."
We kept up the party until about 2 in the morning, and the boys dropped us off at Alice's. We were too tired to do much of anything, so we just got into some pajamas, and went to bed.
The next morning, we went over to Jazz and Emmett's house to start picking colleges.
"Okay, then it's settled. We'll all go to Washington University."
"OMG OMG OMG! I can't believe we're all going to go to the same college! Bella, Rose, we have to go shopping!"
"Alice, calm down. We still have months until the semester starts. We don't have to go shopping right away."
"But Bella, what about all the stuff we have to buy?"
"Babe, Bella's right. Besides, what if what you buy goes out of style before the semester starts?"
"Thanks Jazz." I mouthed.
"I guess you're right. But I just love shopping so much, please can we go on just a little trip this weekend? Pretty please?"
"Okay, fine. I'll go on a shopping trip with you and Rose this weekend. BUT, it can't last more than four hours."
"But.."
I gave her a look, and she relented.
"Fine. Four hours. Thank you Bella."
"You're welcome Ali."
"So Bella, what are you going to do about Jake still being in high school while you'll be in college?"
"I'm not going to do anything Emmett, I trust him, and I would never cheat on him, so there's nothing to do."
"Whatever you say Bells, but I'm telling you, it'll never work out."
"Yes it will Emmett, I know it will."
"Okay, give it a rest Em, let's watch a movie."
"Cool, how about Zombieland?"
"Sounds good to me. Okay, you guys get the snacks, Rose, call the pizza place, Bella, get the blankets while I put in the movie."
An hour later, we were sitting in front of the TV eating pizza and laughing at the movie.
"I swear, that never gets old!" Yelled Emmett.
I couldn't have agreed more, seeing people kick some zombie butt will never get old.
I woke up a little disoriented. I remembered that I was at Emmett and Jasper's with Alice and Rose, and judging by all the pizza and food wrappers, and the home screen for Zombieland playing over and over, we had all fallen asleep watching the movie. I didn't feel like waking anyone up to take me home, so I just grabbed a blanket and curled up on one of the extra couches.
AN: Hey everyone. I got the chapter done before Saturday! I am already working on the next chapter, so expect that to be up either today or tomorrow. I just wanted to thank all of my readers. Bella will get with Edward eventually, but they don't meet until the party in the prologue. You can expect that to happen within the next 2 chapters. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in a review. I will be turning on anonymous reviews, but please don't use that just to leave mean reviews. I will see you all through the screen. Please review and let me know what you think. Reviewers will get a teaser for one of the future chapters.
