A/N: I know I said this chapter would be short so I decided to extend it! Because 500 words is way too short for me so instead you get about 2,500! You lucky ducks! I just wanted to let you guys know that I have writer's block for my story, The Not So Secret Life of a Hollywood Starlet, but don't worry! I just need to place some filler chapters and it's a bit hard making a chapter that has no point whatsoever. Ooh! I also wanted to let you guys know the reason why Edward says what he does- it's because the last chapter was never intended for the plot but it cme to me on a whim and I loved it to death! But, when I first started writing this, after the first ten pages or so, I wrote the ending (unless I decide to make this story much longer which I can do - or a sequel) witch was the Masquerade. But now that a whole bunch of events happened that I never planned, I can make the scene MUCH MUCH MUCH longer. Enjoy the chapter and review!
Oh! and for the Romeo and Juliet thing, I put Edward's lines in italics and Bella's lines in italics and bold.
M A S Q U E R A D E
Chapter 12
BPOV
Song: 'Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Off Her Clothes' by Panic! At the Disco (I know it's a weird name but I love the song and I put the clean lyrics on here) I demand that you YOUTUBE IT!!
I woke up to birds chirping. I was still comfortably cuddled into Edward. He was still asleep snoring softly and adorably and had a strong grip around my waist.
I giggled but closed my eyes.
Wait…
OH. MY. GOD!
My eyes shot open again.
I…was sitting on Edward's lap…in his car…on a deserted dirt road…in the forest…alone.
I clamped a hand over my mouth to prevent my screaming. I didn't want to wake him.
I grabbed my phone out of my pocket with a shaky hand. No signal…no signal…signal! I dialed Alice's number quickly.
"Hello?" she asked wearily.
"Alice?" I whispered covering my mouth and the phone speaker with my hand so Edward wouldn't hear.
"Bella?! Where are you? Do you know where Edward is? Are you guys okay?"
"Shh! Alice! I'm with Edward in his car. We were on some road when lightning came and the car crashed into a tree. We're fine."
She sighed heavily. "Thank God you're alive!"
"Alice…? Do you mind coming and finding us?"
"Yeah. Do you know witch road you're on?"
"Um…it's off of Terry Boulevard I think."
"Okay! We're coming! Stay right where you are!" and with that, she hung up.
I looked back to Edward's sleeping face. I didn't deserve his kindness. And anyway, he's just a player. But he hasn't acted like one recently… He hasn't tried to suck off anyone's face... But, no one can change their ways like that. But…maybe he's trying…
"BELLA!" Alice shrieked.
I drowsily lifted my head off of Edward's chest.
I only called Alice about ten minutes ago and then I just decided to try to sleep.
Edward's eyes opened and he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "Alice?" he yawned.
"EDWARD!" she screamed. She threw the driver's door open and froze. "Bella…?"
I looked at her shocked face. "Hmm?"
"What are you doing?"
"I'm…sitting, breathing, living, trying to sleep, umm… What else?"
"No! I mean, what are you doing…on Edward's lap?" She seemed giddy and amused.
"It's not what it looks like!" Edward and I both yelled.
Alice giggled. "Sure."
I rolled my eyes and burrowed back into Edward's chest. "Go away Alice," I said but it came out muffled by Edward's shirt.
"You're the one who called me," she reminded.
"Fine." I got off Edward's lap and out of the car with Edward following suit.
Alice grabbed our hands and pushed us into her flashy lemon colored speed car.
Edward and I sat awkwardly in the back.
"Oh! Bella, I forgot to tell you! Jasper and I are going out now!"
"When did this happen?" I asked, amused.
"Last night."
I nodded my head and stared out the window. The car fell into a silence.
Edward started fidgeting with his fingers nervously. "Bella…After what happened last night-"
"So you did have sex," Alice giggled.
"Shut up Alice! No we didn't have sex," Edward hissed.
Alice rolled her eyes but made no comment.
"As I was saying," Edward began nervously. "After what happened last night, I was wondering if we could…be friends. Not that we were before…but I'd like it if we could at least be friends."
"Oh." So he only wanted to be friends. He was leading me on, toying with my emotions.
I hid the hurt on my face with a blank expression. "I guess." I shrugged and looked back outside.
Just friends…
It was now Friday. All of yesterday, I was bombarded with question about what happened and didn't even bother going to school since I had missed so much.
I stepped into the lunch line with Alice at my side.
"Ooh! Bella! There's a basketball game tonight! Wanna come?"
"I don't think so."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please." She widened her eyes and made her lip quiver.
It's just a trick…Just a trick…Oh, god damn it! I can't stand that face! "Fine!" I threw my hands up into the air.
"YAY!" Alice clapped happily.
I sighed.
"Can I dress you up?"
"What's the point in asking?" I mumbled.
"ROSALIE!" Alice hollered across the cafeteria. "GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE NOW!"
Rosalie hurried over to the excited Alice. "You shrieked?"
"We are going to dress Bella up for the basketball game!"
"Okay! What time should we go to her house tonight?"
"Well I was thinking that we…"
I blocked of their mind numbing chatter and paid for my lunch.
I sat at the table where Emmett was eating and waiting for the rest of us. "Hey Bella," he said through his food. I laughed and took a seat on his left side.
"Hey Emmett. Anything new?"
He swallowed the food in his mouth. "Well, there's a basketball game tonight, I have a quiz in history next period, Rose is currently talking to Alice, and um…I have a lot of homework this weekend."
I laughed. "I mean anything important."
"Oh…um…nope. I've got nothing."
I smiled and bit into my pizza. The school ordered about fifty boxes of pizza from a local pizza place that had the best pizza.
"Hello," a smooth and absolutely perfect voice said. Edward gracefully slid into the chair across from me. "What's up?"
"The ceiling," I said sarcastically. "Well, actually, Rose and Alice plan to use me as their human sized Barbie after school so that I'll look 'pretty' for the game."
Edward chuckled just as Alice, Jasper, and Rose sat in their seats next to their significant other.
I sighed. I wish I could have someone like that… My gaze flickered to Edward and his beautifully heartbreaking face, his green eyes, his ruffled soft hair, and his perfect-ness.
"Bella? Bella? Bella?" Emmett said, imitating different voices.
I looked over to him. "What?"
"I asked you a question," Alice chirped.
"Sorry…I was just…thinking," I lied. More like ogling her brother…
"Sure. I was just wondering if you had a dress for the dance next Saturday? It's going to be a masquerade ball! With masks, and ball gowns, and tuxedos, and everything!" she squealed.
"Oh…I didn't know that there was one."
Alice gasped. "You know what this means, right?"
I looked at her wearily.
"We get to go shopping!"
"Why do you have to drag me with you? Can't you get one of the guys to be your pack mule?" I whined.
"Nope! And besides, they're coming too."
Edward and Emmett groaned while Jasper looked at Alice adoringly.
I couldn't take the love-y dove-y stuff anymore. "I'm going to go…to my locker." I got up from the table as they chimed goodbyes.
I was the first one to the auditorium – Mrs. Brent wasn't even there yet.
We were practicing on the stage today instead of in the drama room.
I took out my iPod and started playing it on the speakers I brought. 'Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Off Her Clothes' by Panic! At The Disco started playing.
"Is it still me that makes you sweat?
Am I who you think about in bed?
When the lights are dim and your hands are shaking as you're sliding off your dress?
Then think of what you did
And how I hope to God he was worth it.
When the lights are dim and your heart is racing as your fingers touch his skin.
I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better f--
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me
People started filing in with their usual pairs.
"Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
"So I guess we're back to us, oh cameraman, swing the focus
In case I lost my train of thought, where was it that we last left off?
(Let's pick up, pick up)
"Oh now I do recall, we were just getting to the part
Where the shock sets in, and the stomach acid finds a new way to make you get sick.
I hope you didn't expect that you'd get all of the attention.
Now let's not get selfish
Did you really think I'd let you kill this chorus?
"Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
"Dance to this beat
Dance to this beat
Dance to this beat
"Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster
"I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better f--
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me
I was immediately reminded of Edward. How he made my heart race, my palms sweat, how his touch sent a shock and warmth through me, how I could never stop thinking of him… God damn it! How can I listen to a song without becoming guilty for what I said to him or at least not think of him?
"Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
"So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Dance to this beat
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Dance to this beat
And hold a lover close
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster
I sighed. Why didn't my conscience like me? Why did I have to feel so guilty? I ripped the speaker plug out of my iPod. I huffed to one of the seats that were surrounded by no one.
"Good afternoon class!" Mrs. Brent called. "I've canceled our rehearsal after school because of the football game so out rehearsal will be on Monday! Now, places people! We're starting from Act I, Scene V!"
Two servants started talking and then I entered with the other Capulets. Mrs. Brent put on some music and she instructed us on what to do. I was dancing with Chris momentarily as Edward went to one of the people who played a servant.
"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Edward was staring at me the whole time he said his lines. I tried to not look – I really did! But his words made my knees go week and my blood rush. I squeezed Chris's hand harder when Tyler, who was playing Tybalt, accused Edward of being a Montague and talked to my "father" about it. I waited by the edge of the scene where I was supposed to be. I felt someone breathing down the side of my face. I didn't look for I knew exactly who it was. Edward murmured in my ear loud enough for the audience to hear in that silk smooth voice of his.
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
I shivered and my breathing went ragged. My mind went hazy but I remembered my lines through the thick fog.
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
Edward hunched over my shoulder and looked at me.
"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"
I smiled coyly and looked him in the eye.
"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
He grabbed my hand as I tried to walk away.
"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair."
"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
Oh god…I know what happens next. My knees shook. He was so close… My heart sped up. I couldn't do this!
"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."
He leaned closer to me. My heart pounded faster and faster. My palms were sweating uncontrollably. His lips were about an inch away Oh god! My eyes flickered to his lips and I could tell that his green ones did the same. He gently laid his hand on my waist as I rested my hands on his chest. I slid my eyes closed and leaned in slowly…
Ring!
My eyes popped open and I snapped out of my trance. He reluctantly removed his hand from my waist.
My knees buckled – hard. My breathing was ragged and uncontrollable. My face was on fire and I'm sure I was the color of red wine.
"That's the bell!" Mrs. Brent called. "Someone get me a bag! Wonderful chemistry! Bravo! It was perfect!" She was clapping happily.
I couldn't believe her enthusiasm. I felt like I might pass out. But we didn't kiss, but - my gosh - he was so close! I could still smell his sweet breath on me.
I unsteadily grabbed my things and headed out of the room.
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