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Bella pov
I glanced around the room and watched as various couples danced together. I had to admit, it made me kind of envious. Rosalie and Emmett where sweet, if a bit full on, and Alice and Jasper where so blatantly in love with each other it looked as if they didn't know anyone else was in the room. I sighed and turned back to the punch bowl, taking my cup and pouring some of the red liquid into it. As I took a sip of the drink I grimaced at the strong taste of vodka at first but got used to it pretty quickly. Some stupid senior had obviously spiked it, not that I was about to hurry and tell a teacher, it really didn't bother me.
"You know that's spiked right?" A silky voice asked from somewhere behind me, I jumped and spilled some of the drink on the floor.
"Yep," I replied.
"Ahh, well in that case," He walked towards to bowl and grabbed the ladle, topping up my cup until it was almost over filling.
I laughed at him and he filled up his own cup and flashed me a crooked grin. I swear my heart rate accelerated for a split second.
"So, about that dance we were talking about earlier," He suggested, raising an eyebrow at me.
"What about it?" I asked playfully.
"Feel like it?" He asked.
"Sure," I smiled at him and took his hand as he held it out for me.
Right on cue a slow song began to blast out of the speakers at the back of the hall and I grimaced as I remembered one small factor I hadn't informed Edward of yet.
"Edward, I'm really not the best dancer," I told him anxiously. Well that was the understatement of the year.
"I'm sure you're not that bad." He flashed me a smile as he dragged me towards the middle of the dance floor.
"No, I am. I'm awful." I told him, trying to pull him back, away from the eyes of everyone.
"It's all in the leading," He told me confidently, pulling me closer to him, so that my body was pressed right against his.
He began to spin me around in a circle slowly, staring intently at my face the whole time. I felt the urge to blush at the way he was looking at me, but the redness didn't come. Instead I looked right back at him, looking right into his gorgeous eyes.
"You know Bella, you do honestly look stunning tonight." He told me, breaking me out of my trance.
There was the blush.
"You don't look to shabby yourself, you scrub up well." I told him. He grinned down at me and I rested my head on his chest so that he couldn't see the redness in my cheeks.
We stayed like that for another song, and then, as the chorus of the song kicked in and I heard Edward mumble the words.
"Have I found you?
Flightless bird.
Jealous, weeping.
Or have I lost you?
American mouth."
He paused as I looked up from his chest and met his eyes with a confused expression.
"Where you just singing?"
"Maybe," He told me, dipping his head slightly. Damn, he was cute when he was embarrassed. I chuckled once and then rested my head back against his chest. He dropped his head against my own and we weren't even dancing anymore. We were just stood, swaying in time with the music.
"What's the name of this song?" I asked, curious, not moving my head.
"Flightless bird, American mouth." He answered, "Why?"
"Because, if we were a couple, this would be our song." I told him simply. I heard him chuckle and I smiled against his chest.
**
We'd danced like that for another song and then I eventually excused myself. Partly because I needed the bathroom, but mostly because I kept getting glances on Rose and Alice. And they looked very confused. I headed into the toilet and checked my reflection in the mirror. I looked fine, not a hair out of place. Just then Alice and Rose walked in and dragged me away from the mirror, an arm each.
"What the hell was that?!" They both practically yelled at me.
"Umm, we were dancing?" I told them, but it ended up sounding more like a question.
"No, that was not friend dancing. This is friend dancing." Alice grabbed a startled Rose and started to do a kind of awkward dance. I stared at them, perplexed. "You where not friend dancing. You where leaning your head on him and everything!" She told me frantically.
"That's because I didn't want him to see me blush!" I told them by accident. Oops. Both of the girl's eyes widened in surprise and I looked at the floor.
"And why would you be blushing?" Rose asked.
"No reason," I trailed off, just then a new song started playing and I used that as an excuse to escape. "Ooh, I love this song! Let's go!" I told them, faking excitement and taking one of their hands in mine and pulling them back into the hall.
Just as I got outside I bumped straight into none other than Tanya herself. She was holding a drink in her hand and it spilled all over her tacky dress. I laughed at her.
"What the fuck! Look what you've done to my dress, bitch!" She screamed at me, causing almost everyone to look our way.
"You did that yourself, love," I informed her, doing my best to hold in my giggles and step around her. I didn't dare look at Alice and Rose, because I knew the looks on their faces would cause me to burst into laughter.
"No! First you steal my man, and then you ruin my dress!" She huffed and my eyes widened.
"Steal your man?!" I asked, a little louder than necessary.
"Yes. You've got your stupid slutty minxy hands all over him!"
"Well, takes one to no one." I told her, rolling my eyes.
I stepped around her and was followed by Alice and Rosalie. We crossed the room and left Tanya fuming behind us, huffing and having a tantrum. It was very amusing I have to say. We met with the boys and I announced to everyone I was going to have a smoke. Like usual, Alice gave me her lecture on how I was killing myself slowly and like always Edward excused himself to join me.
I walked slowly out of the hall, waiting for Edward to catch up with me and then grabbed the bottom of my dress so it wouldn't drag on the floor. As we stood outside in silence and smoked I shivered once, it was getting quite cold. Edward noticed this and began to take of his jacket.
"What are you doing?" I asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Being a gentleman." He answered, slipping his jacket of and draping it over my shoulders.
It was huge on me, but ridiculously cosy at the same time. It smelled just like him and that was very very nice. I held the grin back from my face and we stood there for another few moments and I ran my head over what had happened tonight. Maybe he wasn't such a jerk after all. Maybe there was a possibility that we could be friends. Nothing more than that, of course, but still, friends was good.
"What are you thinking about?" He asked suddenly.
"Things," I told him vaguely smiling at him as I did so. A crease formed between his eyebrows and I wondered what was causing him to worry.
"You frustrate me, Bella." He said simply. I frowned, what? "Normally I can understand people very easily," He began to explain, "You know, kind of know what they're thinking. But you," He trailed of and huffed before beginning again, "You are very difficult for me to read." Well, that was confusing. He took a small step towards me and took a deep breath. "It irritates me. I think you're trying to block out everyone. Or me at least and there's no reason for it. It seems to me like you change your mind a lot." He was speaking in a hushed tone now we where only inches apart. He lifted one of his hands and gently cupped my one side of my face. "Especially about me. One minute you like me, and then you don't." He finished, staring intently at me.
Was he being serious? I pulled away from his hold and stared at his face for a moment. He was being deadly serious.
"You don't know jack shit about me or how I think. So don't assume that you do." I spat angrily at him. Taking another step away from him and I watched as his face turned from surprised to confused.
"What...." He didn't finish is sentence, instead he continued to stare at me, trying to figure me out.
"Stop that." I snapped.
"Stop what?"
"Stop doing whatever you're doing! Stop trying to figure me out!" I almost yelled at him. "You don't know me, and you won't get a chance to get to know me either. Don't assume stuff about me, because you know nothing." I told him and threw his jacket back at him before storming back into the hall.
What a jerk.
Right! I'm sorry if this sucks, but its new year's day and I'm hung over. I spent most of last night looking after my extremely drunk best friend, so it was amusing to say the least. How was everyone else's new years? Does anybody have any good hangover cures? Oh and I had to throw in that iron and wine song from the twilight soundtrack (: Because I love it and its in the prom scene in twilight (: Haha, well, i shall shut up now. Review!
