A/N Hey guys!!! So I know I didn't let Edward and Bella go to the dance together...and I'm sorry but its a very important part of the story!!

And on a happier note I reached 100 reviews!!! Thankyou everyone!! Just a hundred more and we meet my goal!!

I won't keep you any longer...

EPOV

Monday morning…school…seeing Bella…with Tyler…crap.

I was lying in my bed just staring up at the ceiling. I didn't want to go to school and have to see Tyler and Bella together, happy.

I have seen a million and one movies where this happens to a guy and I always thought 'wow what a loser, just go out with someone else.' But it's not that simple. I know I'm going to see them and then kick myself for not asking Bella sooner. I should've told her how I felt about her and paid attention to the posters around school telling me there was a dance to ask her to!

I was thinking about playing hooky when someone knocked on my door.

"Hey…you okay?" I had barely talked to anyone since yesterday at the mall, I knew they all were worried about me, but I didn't want to say anything…except to Bella about how much I wanted to be with her. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

"Yeah…I guess I have to be." I answered shrugging.

"Look, I know this is hard for you, but you need to snap out of it and look around. Bella likes you! I don't see how you're so blind to that fact! The rest of us talk about you two all the time-"

"That makes me feel better…" I snorted.

"Edward…tell her."

"I can't Jazz!" I yelled, he was starting to piss me off, what is he trying to do telling me that Bella feels the same? If she didn't like Tyler she wouldn't of said yes to him!

"And why the hell not?" he was even angrier than me Jasper never curses. "Because then things between you and Bella might actually be normal? Because then you might actually be happy? She might be happy?!"

"She is happy!! With stupid Tyler Crowley!"

"No she's not!! I want you to come to school today and just watch her…she's not the same, Alice told me that she even locked herself in her room yesterday and never came out. She's not okay man, and I know you're the only one who can fix that."

"How do you know that?!" How did everyone apparently know all this about Bella and I didn't??

"Because you two are meant for each other! I have no other way to explain it to you, but you just fit together!"

"What is all the yelling?! I still had ten minutes!" Emmett scolded from my doorway.

"Edward won't admit to himself that he and Bella should be together." Jasper filled him in.

Emmett's face softened and he looked at me, "Edward, didn't you see her yesterday? When you wouldn't even look at her. She was crushed."

"Just leave…now. I have to get ready for school." I didn't want to discuss this topic anymore.

Jasper and Emmett shuffled out of my room and I started getting ready for the worst day of my life.

BPOV

My alarm went off and I groaned as it pulled me from my dream. It was Edward and I at the Winter formal. We were dancing and he asked me to be his girlfriend. Then right before he kissed me, I woke up.

I debated staying home from school today. I didn't have anything major going on in my classes except for a lab in Biology…with Edward. Crap. All the more reason to stay home.

I don't think I could face Tyler today either. He was just so happy and excited for the Saturday and I didn't want anything to do with him. It made me feel guilty that I only said yes to him because he was my 'plan B.' I sighed, If only plan A had worked out…

My phone started ringing, it was Alice.

"Hello?"

"Hey Bella…are you almost ready?"

"I don't think I'll make it to school today Alice…"

"Why not?"

"I just don't feel all that great." It wasn't a lie, I felt like horrible. Just not in the way you would have to skip school for.

"Oh…Okay, I hope you feel better…" She knew I could have come to school, but she was too nice to call me out on it.

"Would you mind getting my work for me?" I hated to ask seeing how I could very well make it through a school day but then I would have something to occupy my thoughts tonight.

"Of course. I'll see you after school."

"Thanks, bye Alice."

"Bye." I hung up and went downstairs to fake cramps so my dad would let me stay home. My mom left earlier for a meeting and this always worked with Charlie, he was too embarrassed about the topic of 'cramps' to fight me about school.

EPOV

When we got to school I saw Alice and Rose sitting at the usual picnic table, but no Bella. Emmett, Jasper, and I walked over there and sat down.

"Hey." Alice and Rose both said to me carefully. They probably didn't know if I was okay or not.

"Bella's faking sick today." Rose said as she moved to go sit beside Emmett.

"Why?" I was curious, what was her reason for faking?

"She didn't tell me…" Alice answered me.

"Oh…you talked to her?" It killed me not talking or seeing Bella for so long, I was miserable, "Jazz told me she locked herself in her room…why did she do that?"

"I have no idea, but I called her earlier and that was the longest conversation I had with her since yesterday before lunch…"

"Oh." Was all I replied back. The bell rang and I went to class.

The whole day was uneventful. My classes were dull, and it seemed like everyone I talked to was utterly boring. I was on my way to the parking lot when a blonde girl I had in a few of my classes stopped in front of me.

"Hi, I'm Tanya, we have English and Math together." She smiled.

"Oh, yeah, Edward Cullen." I held out my hand and she took it.

Tanya looked me right in the eyes and said, "I want you to be my date for the winter formal…I won't take no for an answer…" she teased.

That made me smile a little, only because she had the same fake serious face as Bella.

"Sure, why not?"

"Great!! I'll talk to you tomorrow?"

"Yeah, see you tomorrow Tanya."

I walked to Emmett's Jeep and got in. I decided I better let them in on my new date to the dance, and I hoped they wouldn't freak out on me…

"So…funny thing happened to me today…I was walking down the hallway and Tanya…Denali? I think that's her last name, came up to me and asked me to the dance."

The Jeep halted to a stop and Jasper and Emmett turned around to gape at me.

"Tanya Denali is your date??" Emmett asked for clarification.

"Uhh…yeah that's what I just said."

"Why...? Why did you? Why?" This was a first; Emmett was at a loss for words.

"Well everyone else has a date! Am I not allowed or something?" I was surprised I was getting so mad about this…

"We just hoped that…" Jasper didn't finish his sentence.

"That I was going to ask Bella, and then get rejected?" I fumed.

"No man, not at all. I'm glad you have a date." Jasper concluded and turned back around.

He nudged Emmett, who still was staring at me in shock. "Yeah, that's great."

BPOV

I opened the door for Alice and Rose when they got to my house with all my work.

"Hey Bella! We didn't have much homework at all today, it was a good day to miss." Alice greeted me with a smile.

"Or skip…" I heard Rose say under her breath but I decided to ignore that.

"So we need to decide what all we're doing Saturday night!" Alice said excitedly.

"Well Tyler called a little bit ago and said he was going to pick me up around 8:30 since the dance starts at 9…"

"Okay, well we should get ready together at my house around five thirty then so we have plenty of time."

"Sounds good." I smiled at her and Rose.

"So are you excited?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, I guess…"

"You guess?"

"Well Tyler is nice and all but you know I wanted to go with Edward…"

"WHAT?!?!" they both screeched.

"You guys knew that! Why are you so surprised?"

Rose composed herself and asked, "Well what made you decide to say yes to Tyler and stop waiting for Edward?"

When she said that my heart fell to the pit of my stomach. I didn't feel like reliving that moment behind the ties in Macy's.

"When I heard you, Edward, and Emmett talking at the mall…" I said softly.

"When was that?" Alice questioned.

I took a deep breath, nearly on the verge of crying. "We had just bought our shoes and Jasper took you to the food court. I saw Edward run past me and towards Rose and Emmett. I started walking over towards them but stopped when I heard him telling them about some girl he wanted to ask to the dance. You guys didn't even see me, I was hidden in the men's suit department." I said as I turned to Rose. She had a sincere look on her face.

"Oh…" was all either of them said.

We sat there for a while and just looked off into space.

I decided to break the silence. "So…who is she?"

"Who is who?" Alice asked.

"The girl Edward likes…" It hurt to say that.

"Oh…well Jasper told me he was going with Tanya Denali…" she was fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.

"What?" Rose obviously didn't know either. "When did that happen?"

"After school…that's all I know."

"Tanya??" I asked. Alice just nodded her head. "Edward likes Tanya??"

Sure Tanya was pretty, but she wasn't too bright and had annoying stalkerish tendencies. Like when we were in 6th grade, she sat beside me and thought that I was her best friend. She would have her mom drop her off at my house without even telling me. I would find her eating cereal in my kitchen on Saturday mornings. I still don't know how she got in…probably through a window.

One day I finally told her to leave and she's hated me ever since. I never thought of her as Edward's type…but I guess I was wrong.

"Well actually…Tanya asked him." Alice looked up at me waiting for my reaction.

I was confused…"Well then who did he want to ask?"

Rose started, "Bella, he likes-"

Ring Ring. Ring Ring.

"Sorry, I have to get that, I'm waiting on a call from Renee."

"Hello?"

"Bella! When were you going to tell me about Tyler?!" I groaned, I should have remembered Tyler's mother was on the committee too.

I covered the phone with my hand, "Its Renee asking about Tyler. This is going to be a while…sorry."

"Its ok…we'll see you tomorrow?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, I'll be at school tomorrow."

I heard them pull out of my driveway and I went back to the interrogation my mom was in the middle of.

JPOV (he's become a pretty big part of the story and I decided to change it up some)

I was sitting in my room thinking about Saturday when my phone rang. It was Alice.

"Hey you." I smiled.

"Jasper where is Edward?" Alice sounded really frantic.

"He's in his room moping…still. Why?"

"You and Emmett need to meet Rose and me at my house now!"

"Why?"

"I can't explain right now but I promise I will when you get here."

"On my way."

I hung up and went to find Emmett. He was in the garage messing with the Jeep.

"Hey Em, Alice said we need to go to her house now. It sounded important, we better hurry."

"Okay, go get Edward."

"No she said just us." I clarified.

"Wow, this is serious. Hurry up."

We arrived at Alice's and we saw her and Rose waiting on the front steps. We swiftly walked towards them.

"What's going on?" I was thinking about it the whole way here, and my mind was coming up with all sorts of horrible situations.

"We just got back from Bella's house." She stopped there. And??

Emmett was thinking the same thing. "And?" he asked annoyed.

"And Bella didn't want to go with Tyler. She thought Edward liked someone else." Rose finished.

"WHO CALLED IT?! RIGHT HERE!! I DID! I KNEW SHE DIDN'T LIKE THAT IDIOT!" Emmett boomed.

I just shook my head and chuckled.

"Why are you guys joking around this is serious!" Rose asked clearly irritated.

"What are you talking about? We just tell them they like each other and boom…problem solved." Emmett stated.

"Actually it's more complicated than 'boom, problem solved.' Bella still thinks Edward likes someone else even though she knows Tanya asked Edward to the formal and Edward still thinks Bella likes Tyler." Alice told us.

"Right, see Bella heard Emmett, Edward, and me talking in Macy's when we were at the mall and she thought he was talking about another girl…not her." Rose added.

"So then that's when she decided to say yes to Tyler." I was finally understanding.

"Exactly."

"I still don't get why we can't just tell them." Emmett said folding his arms.

"We can't because we have told Edward, who didn't believe us, and Bella is even more stubborn than him. Plus they're both obviously hurt." Rose told him.

"Ugh! This is a huge mess!" Emmett threw his hands in the air.

"Which is why I think we can get them to see things clearly at the dance." Alice finally seemed hopeful.

"What did you have in mind?" I asked her.

"Well its pretty simple. We just need to convince one of them to finally tell the other how they feel and then everything with work out itself. But it has to be at the dance because I think Bella is planning on avoiding Edward until she absolutely has to be in the same room as him."

"That sounds great. I think Edward would be easier to convince though, since he was about to ask her to the dance himself." I could easily get him to, with the right persuading.

"All right, so its set, Operation: Finally hook Edward and Bella up!" Emmett said as he put his hand out.

The girls just giggled and put their hands in with his. I put mine in too.

"Okay on three, we yell…'Bellward!'" he looked completely serious.

"Bellward?" I gave him a funny look.

"Yeah! Like Brangelina or Zanessa! It means Bella and Edward!" He couldn't believe I didn't get his weird name combination.

"Okay…"

"One two three..." he started, "BELLWARD!!" we all shot our hands in the air.

EPOV

I heard Jasper and Emmett leave the house.

Wonder where they're going? Probably to see Alice and Rose…they are practically couples already…lucky.

I was sitting in my room playing darts, with a picture I drew of Tyler Crowley pinned to it.

"Stupid. Tyler. Stealing. My. Bella!" I said between throws.

I probably did that for about an hour and a half. I noticed it was dark outside but didn't bother to look at the clock. I was tired anyway and just went to bed.

I woke up the next morning and got ready for school. I was pretty sure Bella would be there today, she wouldn't be able to get away with faking sick two days in a row, she was a horrible liar.

Sure enough when we got to school her old truck was parked near the picnic tables and she was sitting there reading. I forgot how beautiful she was. It made me smile for a second before I saw Tyler walk up to her and sit down.

I was about to walk over there and just tell Bella everything but Tanya stopped in front of me, exactly like she did yesterday.

"Hey Eddie." Ugh, I hated that nickname. I only allowed Emmett to because he wouldn't not say it…Bella never called me Eddie, always Edward, exactly how I liked it. But I would let her call me Eddie if she wanted to. Stop Edward! She's with Tyler…well not yet but that's her date. She likes him, stop thinking about her.

"Its Edward, Tanya." I replied.

"Oh well, Hey Edward!" she laughed.

"Hey Tanya."

"Ready to go to English?" she asked me. I forgot we had two classes together.

"Sure, lets go."

We walked past the picnic table Bella and Tyler were at. As we walked by I could feel her eyes following but I didn't dare look back.

BPOV

I watched Edward walk away with Tanya. I was jealous, I have to admit, but still Tanya?! I couldn't believe Edward would like someone like her!!

Tyler was going on about some project in some class he was having trouble with, but I wasn't listening. I was surprised he hadn't noticed. I watched Edward walk away until they went through the English room door.

"Don't you think that's stupid?" I heard Tyler ask.

"Yeah…totally. I have to get to class, but I'll see you later Tyler."

"Okay, bye Bella." He smiled as I walked past him.

I really did feel bad for acting this ways towards him. He wasn't a bad guy; he was actually really nice and funny. He just wasn't who I wanted. I wanted a messy-haired green-eyed boy who made me weak at the knees when he smiled and at the moment was unfortunately unavailable.

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The rest of the week followed the same 'routine' I guess. I would sit at the picnic table, Tyler would come and talk to me, Edward and Tanya would walk by, I would watch them while pretending to listen to Tyler, then I would tell him I had to go to class.

Biology and lunch were especially awkward.

Since Edward was my lab partner, we had to sit beside each other, but lucky for me, I skipped the one day we had a lab. We didn't ever talk but it was still hard. I missed him and his smile. Every time I saw Edward he was frowning or had no emotion on his face at all. I wanted to walk up to him and tell him a stupid joke I learned from an underclassman that day or something crazy I had seen Emmett do to get him to crack a smile, but we had a silent rule with one another not to talk.

During lunch Tanya had decided to join our table. That was great. She always sat beside Edward and would talk about her dress she was wearing to the dance, or her shoes, or how she was getting her nails done. I wanted to just reach across the table and slap her but I knew she was with Edward, and if I did that he would probably hate me. Though I didn't know what our relationship was at the moment. Did he already hate me? Was he just mad I wasn't talking to him? Did I do something to him?

I thought about it, but I wasn't sure.

It was finally Friday and school followed its normal routine without fail. Lunch was especially awkward thought because Tyler took the last available seat at our table. No one talked but Tanya and Tyler the whole hour.

I confirmed plans to get ready at Alice's house with her and Rose and then went home. I finished my homework and had nothing to do. I sat there looking at my phone. I hadn't spoken one word to Edward in six days. It was killing me. I was miserable.

I picked up my phone without thinking and sent him a text.

Hey…

Hey.

What's are you doing?

Nothing too important…you?

This made me smile. He always made fun of me when I told him I wasn't doing anything 'too important.'

Same…so are you excited for the dance?

I guess…

Well I hope you have fun with Tanya…

That was a lie.

Thanks. Same for you and Tyler.

Yeah…thanks.

He never text me back after that…

A/N soo...? they're not, not speaking to eachother...that's good right??

Next xhapter will be up tomorrow!! I'm really excited for it, I think its pretty much the climax of the story...brace yourselves, it gets pretty intense.

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