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CHAPTER 9

Prom was amazing. Although at first I didn't want to come, I am glad that Alice twisted my arm and made me come. I had a blast dancing and acting goofy with my friends. For the first time in a long time I was truly feeling happy. Things in my life were starting to look up. In two weeks I would be graduating school and a week later I would be in New York. I honestly couldn't wait.

During prom Rose had received a call from her cousin James who was in town. Since he was already off school he had decided to come down a little earlier than expected. He was staying in Seattle till her graduation. Since there was going to be a party at the Cullen home, Emmett had suggested that James and his friends come down to Forks to celebrate with us tonight.

Currently we were sitting in the Fork's diner wait on James and his buddies while at the same time grabbing something to eat. We didn't have to wait long though, James and some other people walked in the diner as we were ordering our food.

"Jamie!" Rose stood and ran into her cousins arms. Immediately I noticed that James was a very good-looking man. Then again everyone in her family must be. They must just have some really gorgeous genes.

James was tall, around six feet, had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a toned body. Next to him stood a red-head woman, her hair was curly and long. She was about a foot shorter than him but they definitely looked like they belonged together. James wrapped his arm around her waist and appeared to be introducing her to Rose. There were two guys standing behind James. One was about a few inches shorter than James and had chocolate skin. He had long hair in dreadlocks and caramel eyes. Next to him stood the other guy who had dirty blonde hair and green eyes. He appeared to be less toned than James but still fit.

After all the introductions were made to Rose, they walked over to us.

"Hey guys I would like you to meet my cousin James, his girlfriend Victoria, her brother Riley, and Laurent, James' best friend." We all smiled and said hi to them.

Our new arrivals ordered something to eat and we all sat talking and eating.


Our late midnight meal was quite interesting. James explained to us about our future living arrangement. Victoria was happy to be having another female living with them since she had been the only girl living there for the last year. James was a little scared that now he would be the only male in the home.

Since the party would probably end late or early depending on how you want to look at it, Emmett had offered to have James and his friends stand at his house. This was definitely going to be a great night. I was glad to be getting along so well with all these people and even more to be able to spend time with them. I really now couldn't wait till I moved to New York.

Arriving at the Cullen house I noticed that there was already a great deal of cars. Emmett went ahead and parked the car in the garage and instructed James to do the same.

"Okay so since there is going to be a great deal of young, reckless, and annoying high schoolers in there, I suggest that we take our party to the basement once we get tired of mingling with them. What do you guys say?" Emmett asked us.

Everyone agreed and we didn't even bother walking through the part of the house were majority of the people were gathered. We went start into the basement which to my surprise looked like a sports bar/game room.

We were down here, drinking beer, playing games, and talking our heads off. After about an hour and three failed rounds of Just Dance on Wii, Alice started complaining that our prom dresses were the reason why she was losing so we decided to go upstairs to my room to change.

Back in my room Alice had taken it upon herself to pick out our after party outfits. I was dressed in white shorts, a black off-the-shoulder shirt and black high-top sandals. Rosalie was wearing black high-waisted shorts, a white semi-loose shirt, and shoes similar to mine. Alice had on tan shorts with a white button down shirt and tan sandals.

We, well Alice, quickly fixed our hair letting mine and Rose's loose curls down. My hair looked like a bird's nest but somehow also looked sexy. On our way back down I noticed someone coming out from one of the rooms. Knowing full well that this person was not allowed up here I stood back from the girls and watched the intruder. I noticed it was a girl and she was fixing her blonde hair. Though I didn't see who it was I assumed that someone had or was having some fun in one of the room. Since this was technically not my house I let it go, surely nothing bad was to come from this.

Rushing to catch up with the girls, who were now almost at the basement, the boys and Victoria where coming out from the room.

"Hey we are going to go see how this party is going, what to join?" Laurent asked us. So on our way to the party we were.


The family room, dining room, and kitchen looked like a madhouse. There were people everywhere and there were things going on that were beyond believe. We followed Emmett has he made his way over to the kitchen where there was beer and food. Somewhere on the way we had lost Laurent but James told us not to worry about him.

We had finally made it to the kitchen where I noticed that there weren't any actual alcoholic beverages but people seemed to be wasted. I must've had a confused look on my face because Emmett came to stand next to me and answered my unspoken question.

"Mom and Dad don't actually allow underage drinking so the kids usually keep the drinks in the car. That is why you will notice a lot of back and forth between the house and their cars. Also you see that cooler over there that everyone seems to be getting drinks from?" I nodded. "Stay away from that 'juice', it is anything and everything liquor and liquid found in the house or brought."

We continued walking around. I wasn't sure what it was or who it was we were looking for. Riley appeared next to me and I noticed that my friends had disappeared.

"Hey I kind of lost the others, mind if I stick with you?" Riley asked me. He seemed like a cool guy and there was something about him that told me he was a great guy. So I nodded and we went looking for a seat.

"So Bella that is a very beautiful name." he told me with a smile on his face. Odd.

"Thanks." I smiled back at him. I was scanning the area to locate someone.

"So when will you be coming to New York?"

"In about 3 weeks."

"Awesome. You'll love it there. There is always something to do or someone." I widen my eyes at the last words.

"That's the part where you laugh." Riley told me. I guess he was saying it as a joke but it freaked me out a little. Was he trying to hit on me or something? Oh man where are my friends? "You need to let go a little Bella. I am only joking with you."

"Yeah, I guess I just didn't get it. I haven't been myself lately." I told him.

"I'm sorry. I heard about your father. It must be hard. I lost my mother when I was younger." I gave him a sad smile. I could relate to losing a mother at a young age. It really sucked.

Just as I was about to tell him my story, for some reason I found myself wanting to share this with him, some girl jumped onto his lap and spilled her red drink on him. She quickly got off him and he stood.

"Damn. You think you have a shirt you could let me borrow?" Riley looked at me with pleading eyes. I nodded and stood to take him to my room to give him the shirt.

As we reached the top of the stairs, Edward was coming on his way down. I didn't bother to acknowledge his presences and continued to me room. You know the feeling you get when someone is looking at you with intense eyes? That was the feeling I was getting. I wanted to turn around and give him the same look back but I didn't. As we reached my room I pointed Riley to the correct door and let him go in first, I then quickly followed him in wanting to get away from the glaring eyes. Just as the door closed behind me I screamed.