Hey I don't think I've said this before, but I don't hold any claim to the twilight saga, or the songs I am going to be mentioning in this chapter, just writing for fun (:
This one's extra long, I hope you have as much fun reading this chapter that I did writing it!
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Chapter 7: Dancing
heehee finally!
Bella's point of view
I knew I could not leave him like this. He had asked me if I loved him, and still not wanting to answer him, I knew it would hurt so much more if I told him no.
I decided I would distract him otherwise and move closer to him. As much as he annoyed me, it did not mean that I wanted to see harm befall him. If I went and told him no, he was sure to go into a greater frenzy and attempt to break the law in front of the Voultri again.
I ran, afraid if I stood there too long he would tackle me to the ground and I would be unable to stop him from kissing me into forgetting.
I jumped in my fast, pretty, shiny, sleek black car. I had not liked it as much when I had first gotten it. Now, I was in love. I loved the way it would get fast really fast. I loved putting down the windows and letting my hair down as I went three times over the speed limit on the highway.
I blasted the radio and began to sing on my way back to shopping. I guessed Edward was right, and that Alice and Rosalie would be not yet be done at the shoe store. I thought I would make my own stop at a dress store before I met them at Rosalie's favorite dress shop. I had seen this fancy little designer store on my way back with Edward and Renesmee. I wanted to wear something different for tonight. Alice would be in for a surprise.
I was listening to whatever was new on the radio, and laughed at how despite the lack of meaning behind the words they were saying, I found them very fitting for my current predicament.
I made a fast turn into the parking lot and slammed the brakes of my car. I loved the rush of that car. I leaped out of the car and noticed the eyes of a few men on me and my car.
One guy in particular was walking towards me and the car and I smiled at him. He probably expected me to stay and talk to him but I left him by the side of my car. He had soft features and a nice face and he was probably quite attractive to a human's standards. I didn't even give the man a second.
"Miss!" he called after me. I continued straight ahead with my head held high and my hair bouncing with each step.
Walking in the store, I noticed a short, red haired woman standing at the entrance, coming over to me.
"Good afternoon! Is there anything I can help you with today, ma'm?"
I was about to give the generic response, 'no, I'm just looking' when I noticed that I was the only one in the store and that it would probably benefit the woman if she could make some commission on me.
Feeling nice, I quickly changed my response, "Yes, actually, I'm looking for something to wear to," I thought carefully about why a normal young girl might spend an excessive amount of money on a party dress, "a bachelorette party tonight."
She nodded and told me to follow her to a corner of the store. I noticed it was the expensive side of the expensive store, and I quickly noted that the woman had taken me for the richest part of the rich that usually came in the store. She treated me like royalty.
"Ma'm before I give you some options, would you like anything to drink? Coffee? Tea? Water?"
I shook my head. She brought over a big leather chair, that I noticed probably wasn't really easy for her to carry.
"Please, take a seat," she breathed, out of breath from the lifting.
"Thank you," I looked at her name tag, "Emily."
"The pleasure is mine, miss. Now, what kind of dress are you looking for? More of a party dress, or more of a gown?"
"Party," I said a grin slowly creeping onto my lips. I was so excited. Alice and Rosalie had told me of how much fun they have had when they go partying without the boys. They did not get to do it often because it meant a night where the boys were out of the picture and it was a challenge to get a vampire couple to give up their nights together.
Rosalie loves to dance, and it's always fun to pick up a few moves from the sex-crazed adrenaline and alcohol entranced humans at a club. They had told me that even though I was extremely controlled, a club was not an easy place for a vampire to be, what with the heat of all of the bodies, and the high heart rates everywhere and had told me I had to wait a little before I was allowed to go in there safely. They tested me at a few places over the past month and had declared me ready to party with them.
"Any color preferences?" the lady asked me as she smiled back at me, picking up on my happier disposition.
My grin was bordering on crazy, "Dark blue."
The lady spun around and told me, realizing I was above buying something that, God forbid, was on display, or out for just anyone to see, "We just got something in from Italy yesterday, I'll be right back. It's perfect. If anything needs to be altered I can have Mark do it right here before you go."
She ran to the back, probably hoping I wasn't a dream, and came back very quickly for a human. Carrying the dress, wrapped in a white bag, she gave me a big smile, handed it to me and opened a dressing room for me.
I pulled the curtain shut and unzipped the bag. I was taken aback. The dress was perfect.
The short dress was extraordinarily beautiful and I thought about how this could not have been designed by your ordinary Italian designer.
The dark blue silk was beautiful and the real silver around the top and bottom were shinning like my skin would on a beautiful summer day in some tropical resort. I noticed something between the twisted silver along the top and bottom, little tiny real diamonds, sparkling as well. There was a lacy cream ribbon adorning the middle, and flowing along the back. It looked so short. I put it on. It was tiny.
Not to the point where I looked like a slut, but to the point where it made me slightly uncomfortable to come out and show Emily. The dress was amazing. It hugged my body in all the right places. Not that there was particularly a bad place on my vampire body, but it made me look prettier than I had ever seen even Rosalie. I spun around and I loved the way it flowed outwards just a little bit. Of course, it didn't flow up too much, or my underwear would have been seen quite easily.
It felt magical. I realized the dress would probably cost about the same as a small house but obviously price was not a limit when you were a Cullen. My stomach sunk when I thought about why I was a part of the Cullen family, and realized it was Edward, it was always Edward. I owed a lot to him, and I did not think I was treating him fairly. Yeah, he was being obsessive, clingy and untrusting but he had promised me he could change for me, he had said he would do anything.
Feeling slightly more confident, I swung the curtain aside and Emily was in front of me in an instant.
The woman had no words, she simply stared in awe. Not only was she about to make a commission on this dress that would probably match her paycheck for a month, but she had found me the perfect dress and it was apparent on her slightly wrinkled face.
"It's perfect, Emily, I'll buy it," she smiled at me and walked me to the register, I didn't bother changing back into my old dress, "Can I just keep this on?"
"Of course! It really seems to be meant to be, sort of magically so. It looks stunning on you miss…" she trailed off, questioning me for my name.
"Mrs. Cullen," I said smiling, normally I would give Bella as my name but I felt like being Edward's wife again.
"Married already?" she asked, glancing down at my left hand and noticing my age.
"Yeah quite happily," I knew I was technically lying, but I was set on fixing things with Edward now. I did love him, there was something wrong with him right now, no doubt, but I had promised to love him no matter what, through sickness and health.
"Nice ring you have there. I do not mean to be nosy, but you don't seem to be the kind of lady who usually comes in here. By kind of lady I mean rich bitchy snob." She laughed lightly, "Did you marry into money?"
"Yes, but it's not what you're thinking. He's actually… younger than me," my husband was over a hundred but he only looked and currently acted much, much younger than that.
"Young, successful and in love with you? Honey, you better hold on to that."
"I know. I love him so much, a little difficult at times but I think I can deal." I noticed a ring on her left hand.
"Married as well?"
"Oh, yes, er or well I was, he… died about ten years ago. Now, I only have one dream, and that is to find the guy who invented Snuggies and marry him!"
I felt sorry for the lady as I laughed lightly and as the she typed some numbers into the register at the counter, I remembered the rule.
Nobody could make any big purchases on Alice's shopping day. I thought of the limit on the credit card and thought it might just put us over the edge, and nobody should stop Alice, even though it would only take a half hour to drive home and back to get the cash. I realized how much I was randomly spending on some dress when I could easily feed a small impoverished country with this money… maybe I shouldn't buy it… there was nothing wrong with the dress Alice had picked out for me…
My phone buzzed in my pocket.
"Isabella Marie Cullen," Alice was using her scary I might just think about killing you voice, "if you do not buy that dress you are not my sister, and I will not talk or look at you for a decade."
"Yes Alice," I said, handing over my credit card to Emily.
"Good girl," Alice said, probably having a vision of me wearing it tonight, "Now, I have the perfect shoes for you. Meet us at the dress store Rose is in love with and we will finish our shopping there. We can come back later and finish up the rest of the shopping for us. We are probably near the limit. Ready for tonight Bella?"
"So ready."
Emily probably guessed I was talking to the supposed bride-to-be and smiled handing me back my card and thanking me.
I pulled out a hundred dollar bill from my purse and handed it to Emily, 'thank you' I mouthed to her and walked out of the store in my little dark blue dress. The stares from earlier intensified. Instead of hiding from the attention I embraced it for the first time in my life. Carrying my old dress in one hand, and my phone to my ear in the other, I walked, or probably better described as danced my way to the car. My confident, graceful steps pulled the attention of everyone in the vicinity. My car was only adding to the drooling men behind me. I winked at one in particular just to test it, and I think he might have died right there, his heart was going so fast it sounded like Renesmee's.
"Bella! You will love it," Alice said, still on the phone with me, "and the things you will learn about dirty dancing!" her bell-like laugh filled my ears and I was soon laughing with her, "the boys often get angry when we spend the night apart from them, but the next night they are always happy we went." Her laughter grew, and I was speeding down the highway towards them.
My phone made a buzz noise in my hand.
"Alice, Edward is calling me, I want to tell him I love him again, I really do, but I want to wait for a good time, like after tonight. You don't see a problem happening if I don't, right?"
I could tell Alice was happy with me for choosing to make up with Edward, "Oh, that's fine Bella," she said it like she knew some secret I didn't, "I'm just happy you are thinking about talking to him."
About an hour or two later, it was five o'clock and Rosalie and Alice had bought party dresses as well. In the back seat of Alice's car, and her trunk, were about a billion things, so we put our old things in my trunk and Alice carefully pulled out some shoes she had bought earlier and handed them to me. Strappy silver high heels, they were quite something.
I looked down at them wearily.
"I had a vision about a particular sister of mine saying that she was over her fear of high heels! No getting out of this one Bella!" Alice sang the words to me and Rosalie laughed, completely stunning in her little red dress. When she had seen me in my blue dress she had told me I looked prettier than anyone she had ever seen. That was some compliment coming from a woman that was easily one of the prettiest in the world.
We were all in my car and off to the closest big city, about four and a half hours by a fast human's standards, but only three when it was this new me behind the wheel. We had dropped off Alice's clothing filled car at home
At home, Jasper and Emmett came outside telling us they could not find Max, but that he had left a note saying that an old friend of his had asked him for his help with something, and that he would be back shortly.
They ogled at their wives and begged to at least be able to come with us, but they were denied. I spied Edward looking down at the scene from our third floor bedroom window. I was surprised he did not come down, I would have told him then, but we were only there for about three minutes before we left again. I was confused as to why he did not come down, I asked Alice.
"Oh, Carlisle and Esme basically yelled at him for annoying you. They said if he wasn't willing to give you the space and trust you deserved, he didn't deserve you. They told him he was being irrational, and they sort of told him you were being like him when he was a young vampire. You just wanted your independence. The reason he stayed upstairs is because they said the harder he forced himself on you, the farther away you would pull," she chuckled, "he wouldn't dare make Esme more mad at him, especially for something like annoying you."
Alice told me the directions to the club as we got into the city. We pulled up and I reluctantly gave my car to an excited looking valet.
From my life with the Cullen's I expected Rosalie and Alice to know the owner of the club, whisper something in the security guard's ear, or just walk straight in to the club. None of that happened however, and while we were waiting in line to get in the club, Rosalie told me why.
"Oh, we've tried it all Bella. We've done the whole VIP thing, just walking straight in as the men stare, but it's just not as fun as the surprise you get when the security guard and the," she used air quotes " 'common people' see you. The VIPs are supposed to be stunning, models or celebrities. It's much more fun this way, Bella, trust me."
I nodded my head and we waited in line as the sun went down and the lights turned on throughout the city. We got to the front of the line, and the guard smiled down at us.
"You lovely ladies can go right ahead in," he said grinning. Then he whispered to me, "next time just come right to the front, pretty ladies like you all don't have to wait in any lines."
We smiled back and walked into the club. Alice and Rosalie were right. It was not really easy to ignore the pounding of so many human hearts in such a small place, but my excitement was easily much greater than any kind of vampiristic desire I could have.
Ignoring the bar, Rose and Alice made a beeline for the center of the dance floor where they were sure to obtain as much attention as possible. There was grinding and plenty of the so called dirty dancing was going on everywhere. I did not know how or where to start. Rosalie and Alice told me to follow their lead but I had no idea what they meant by that. I had forgotten about my inability to dance. Damn my two left feet!
I was about to give up all together when my phone buzzed. Edward. I cringed. How would I live this down? Not dancing when I had begged to be able to go for so long? I ignored the call.
All of a sudden another one of those random, what I had before thought to be mindless radio hits, came on. I laughed at its accuracy, immediately it felt like the beat was within me and I didn't want the song to end. Some guy's warm body was becoming daringly close to mine, but I barely noticed as I sang along to my favorite part:
"Boy why you blowin' up my phone won't make me leave no faster,
put my coat on faster, leave my girls no faster.
I shoulda left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster!
Callin' like a collector
Sorry: I cannot answer!
Not that I don't like you: I'm just at a party
And I am sick and tired of my phone ri-ringing
Sometimes I feel like I live in Grand Central Station
Tonight I'm not takin no calls 'cause I'll be dancin'
'Cause I'll be dancin'
'Cause I'll be dancin'
Tonight I'm not takin' no calls 'cause I'll be dancin!
Stop callin', stop callin'; I don't wanna think anymore!; I got my head and my heart on the dance-floor
Stop callin', stop callin'; I don't wanna talk anymore!; I got my head and my heart on the dance-floor!"
I laughed lightly as the song came to an end. The guy who was near me before, now had his body up against mine and he whispered something crude in my ear. I quickly stepped away from him, looking for my sisters. I found them by their cool temperature.
"Hey Bella, I saw you dancing, hahaha, here, come dance with us, we will. . . help you." Rosalie said, pulling me in between her and Alice.
Alice loved the next song, and went crazy at Cascada's Evacuate the Dancefloor. She was moving in ways that I didn't know were possible. I soon caught on and was dancing with the help of my sisters, singing along with my hands in the air.
Rosalie laughed at me, "Bella you are making it too difficult on yourself, feel the music like you were earlier!" I thought I heard Alice's phone ring, when she excused herself for a moment.
Rosalie wondered if it was Jasper, and vowed not to pick up if Emmett called her tonight. I gave her a high-five, also agreeing not to pick up if it was Edward. They could give us a night alone. It is not like Edward would not know and tell them if any one of us did anything they would disapprove of.
Train's Hey Soul Sister came on next, a sort of faster club version was blaring through the speakers. Rose and I jumped and danced and sang it at each other, never losing our huge grins and the attention of men all around the club.
Alice returned to us towards the end of the song, "Oh, Bella." She seemed worried as she dragged Rose and me to the corner of the club.
"Edward was itching to follow you here, Bella, and he did. He was not going to come in, just wait outside, but he found my mind in here when I had a vision a minute ago of you finding him outside and running right out of the city, he decided to come in to try and make you stop. The other boys came to stop him, but he wouldn't listen." Alice looked at me worriedly.
"Bella, you wouldn't do that, right? Because you are ready to forgive him?"
If I could have done so without attracting all the attention in the room, I would scream louder than anyone ever has.
I stomped my foot in anger, shaking the ground around me and my sisters for a second.
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