Chapter Ten

Edward Cullen's Point of View

"EMMETT! Where the FUCK is my black stilettos?" Alice screamed, putting an emphasis on the word 'fuck'. "EMMETT!" I pull on my hair in frustration. They are all messing up my concentration. For the last few weeks, I've been trying to construct a new piano masterpiece. Today, after meeting her, I had a spark of inspiration and all afternoon I've been sitting at my piano playing and trying different combinations of notes. But my family-Alice and Esmè-have been freaking out. Carlisle's longtime vegetarian vampire friend and colleague had just moved to town and invited us over for dinner. Apparently this dinner was a big deal for Carlisle because his friend was a big hotshot director of a hospital in Seattle.

"What midget? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do! You FUCK! You had them!"

"You mean these?"

"Oh you bastard! Give me my FUCKING shoes!"

"You gotta jump for 'me!"

"EMMETT!"

"Emmett give Alice the shoes, NOW." When Esmè finally solved the situation, I thought I'd finally have some peace but no. Ten minutes later, Alice came into my room swearing at me about not being ready. So here I am now clad in a black sweater over a white button up, jeans, and black high tops. I tugging anxiously on my damn hair, wondering why how the hell did I get dragged into this whole ordeal. I disliked meeting new vampires, especially single and emotionally unstable females. Like per say, Tanya Denali of the Denali clan. Her name brings an involuntary shudder down my spine. Hopefully the female vampires, if there are any, will not be interested in me. At all. As I'm pondering all of this, a wave of calm comes over me and I know that's Jasper again.

"Thanks Jasper." Anytime, Ed was the reply in his head and I smile kind of. Growing up, I was the only child so I never knew what it was like to have siblings but now I have four of them. They're amazing, even annoying and extremely childish Emmett. Speak of the devil.

"Eddie, you lookin' sharp, my man!" His huge hand claps down hard on my shoulder and I'm sure that if I was still a human, that would've resulted in a fracture or a broken bone.

"For the last time, it's Edward not Eddie!" I snap. Emmett knows I hate when he calls me that or Eddiekins. Two of Tanya's nicknames for me.

"Why, do you prefer Eddiekins instead?" He says with a shit-eating grin on his face. Before I could reply with an extremely snarky comment, Esmé came around the corner and scolded Emmett. It was actually kind of hilarious. Emmett who is 6'6 with gigantic muscles that could terrify a professional bodybuilder, looks like a downtrodden puppy who lost his bone. I bit the inside of my cheek to keep from chuckling. I didn't want to be scolded as well.

"Carl? Alice? Rosalie? Jasper? Are you finished yet? We're supposed to be there at seven and it's already six forty-five." Esmé calls up the stairs. Rosalie, always the dramatic one, descends the stairs slowly. She wears a short blood red dress that clings to every one of her curves and that matches her blood red lips. Her blonde hair has been curled and done in a way that was reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe. Alice and Jasper, of course, are color coordinating. Alice wears a yellow summer dress and those black shoes she was screeching about earlier. Jasper wears a black button up, a yellow tie, and jeans. Carlisle wears his normal 'doctor' clothes (a three piece suit) without the lab coat.

"Let's go." Carlisle and Esmè leave in Carlisle's silver Altima while Rosalie and Jasper leave in Rose's red BMW. That leaves the screeching pixie (Alice) and the most annoying twat on the face of this earth (Emmett) with me in my beloved Volvo. The drive to Carlisle's friend's house was indeed a short one but to me it felt like years had gone by. Emmett, with little regard for the lovely music of Bach, turns off my music and plays what seems like the dumbest song in the world: Thong Song. Like what the hell? Of all the songs in the world, you want to sing and dance very loudly to something called the Thong Song. Alice wasn't making it any better. She was chatttering in my ear about fashions and a possible friend? You should know that I was so happy when arrived at the estate that as soon as I shut off the car, I practically flew out the damn car. I couldn't stand to be in that damn car listening to Alice and fucking Emmett singing along to Thong Song. I was the first one out of the car and the first at the door.

"Edward, wait!" I heard Carlisle's voice say behind me."Charles doesn't know you yet! He isn't partial to strangers!" So giddy and free to be out of that vehicular prison, I ignored Carlisle's warnings and preceded to knock on the door. There was a melodic voice that said "Get the door *muffled name*". A second later, the door opened and a very familiar and beautiful face showed through the door. Bella. Her chocolate eyes widened in surprise and confusion and her eyebrows furrowed.

"What the fuck," were the first words to come out of Bella's mouth.