hello readers (and hopefully reviewers? :)

okay, so, here ya go. i'll continue to update through the night. it's barely past 8 here. :D so, i'll have plenty of time before i get sleepy. besides, it's cold, and my dog had a whole bag of M&M's. so, we won't be sleeping any time soon. :)

anyways, i wanted to make a note. the next time i update won't be ch.20, although that's gonna be tonight. i swear. but first, 16b. His Side of the Story. it's just that—Edward's POV of their date. so, if you wanna read it, you can. it gives you more details on what exactly happened, and you even get incite on what happened when Edward got home.

:) i'm not done yet, because i'm only at the part where she's ordering, but it's gonna be good. i hope you think so too. :)

well, here's this. hope you enjoy, and please continue being awesome and reviewing. :D

21. Tonight Tonight: Hot Chelle Rae

"Sorry, Edward," Alice said lightly as she nonchalantly bounced into his room, her arms swinging by her side as she did so. It was graceful, the way she moved, and, well, I was sorta jealous. She could move like that, graceful and poised. Me; now, I couldn't move like that to save my life.

Literally.

Renée had signed Bella and me up for some dance classes when we were little, around five I think. Even then, it was bad, more so for me. The teacher basically begged her to take us out because we kept falling and knocking over the other girls. Well, I did. Bella was pretty decent, I guess, but she knew that we came in twos.

That was back when we looked almost exactly alike.

Edward stopped rubbing my arm and looked up at her with my smile still on his lips. "That's alright, I guess. We'll just have to play some other time."

"What?" I asked curiously as I sat up, unable to help myself from smiling cheerfully too.

See, right now, we were laying on his couch that he had in his bedroom, listening to my iPod through his computer speakers. He was laying down on the couch, and I was laying in-between him and the back of the couch with my head on his chest. He was laughing at some of the songs in my library, but it didn't matter to me whether or not he liked them. I liked them, and that's what mattered.

"We can't play baseball today," he admitted before sitting up also, brushing some of the stray hairs out of my face with his adoring smile. "It's not storming, so we can't."

My eyebrows furrowed. "That's a strange sentence. It's not storming, so we can't play baseball. Never heard that one before."

He chuckled before nodding. "It is, but you'll see why when you see it."

My shoulders sank and my bottom lip poked out. "Dang it. Now, cause now I'm gonna be all confluseled and out of whack, I wish it would storm so I can see."

I knew it was coming in that moment. It always happened like this. It never failed me.

Thunder clapped very loudly outside, enough to shake the house a little, and both of their eyes widened in completely surprise as they turned towards outside, gawking.

Emmett ran upstairs in that instant, eyebrows furrowed. "Alice, what happened to it wasn't gonna storm today?"

She was gawking at me in complete surprise. "I don't know! Ask Mayze!"

He frowned. "Mayze? What'd you do?" He snorted. "What could she do?" He then smirked at us. "Besides Edward."

I laughed before standing up, not at all bothered by the sex joke. Edward seemed to be though, but I was normally one to do the same thing, so I didn't care. "It's just something weird that's happened ever since I was a baby. Whenever I would say, 'I want it to rain', it would. Also, with fire, I can make it move from across the room. It's kinda weird. Well, I can put it out from across the room. I can't really make it move unless I'm close. With water, I can make it ripple and do funky things with it when I try and move my hands around above it. It's quite entertaining."

They all just gazed at me with large eyes, too stunned for words.

I shrugged innocently. "What? It's not weird, just unusual. And, I mean, seriously. You act like you've never heard of that before with a human."

"We haven't," Edward said simply before picking up a tape deck off of his computer desk he had in there, along with his iMac. "Only with vampires. I mean, there's a vampire named Benjamin who can control the elements. That sounds a lot like him, but you're only human. It's not normal."

"Huh," I said thoughtfully before smiling brightly at that, the idea of being somewhat like a vampire. "Well, that's how I've always been."

Alice squealed. "Alright. You are officially more perfect for this family. I mean, when you're a vampire, just think of what you'll be able to do! Now, I'm gonna go get ready really quickly. Edward, you do that too. Em, tell everyone the game is back on."

He nodded before grinning at me with that mischievous look in his eyes again. "You're so awesome, Mayze!"

I just laughed as he walked out, leaving Edward and I alone. Edward's cold arms wrapped around my waist, and he pulled me tightly against his stone cold body. "See, Mayzie? They love you." His lips tenderly pressed against mine for a few seconds before he pulled back. "You are absolutely perfect."

I brilliantly smiled up at him as he reached over and grabbed a baseball cap off of his dresser. His lips pursed together as he calculated my face, but the smile didn't fade. It made me curious, so I asked, "What?"

He gently put the hat on my head, after taking off his Avenged Sevenfold one of course, placing it carefully to make sure not to mess up my hair. Once fixing it the way he liked it, the crooked smile spread across his lips again. "Perfect."

I just hugged his arm as he slid the tape deck into his pocket. "What's that for?"

"We've got to have some kind of music while playing," he said simply, as if it should be obvious. "And, besides, I'm not done listening."

I just laughed blissfully before hugging his arm again. "Alrighty."

He gently pulled his arm back away from mine, to my dismay, but he held up his index finger. "Give me a sec."

Before I could ask why, he started unbuttoning his shirt. Of course, I'm not gonna complain about that, ever, but it shocked me at first when he just pulled away from me. He seemed to know that I wouldn't have a problem with him taking his shirt off in front of me, because he didn't bother asking when he did.

But, of course, he's gonna smirk at me when I'm caught staring at it. I don't care, though, because that is a sexy sight—his perfectly sculpted, muscular, chiseled chest; with his eight-pack abs to accent its perfection. I had seen it before, but I just couldn't help myself.

After pulling on a long-sleeved off-white tee-shirt and a button-up baseball jersey with navy blue stripes down it, he wrapped his arms around my waist again and pressed his lips gently against mine.

Someone cleared their throat in the doorway. It was a deep male voice, so I figured it was Emmett. It caused me to blush profusely, though, even when I looked at him with the best scowl I could give at the moment.

I was right about who it was.

Emmett chuckled as he looked at me, mostly laughing at my expression, of course. "You two kids ready, or are you gonna give her another hicky first, Edward?"

My eyes shot wide open as Edward let out a growl, giving him a harsh look of irritation. But, I just gaped at him. "You . . . how did you know? That was supposed to be . . . not there!"

He chuckled darkly. "I'm a vampire, Mayze. I can see these things, especially when I'm me. Anyways, Rose, Esme, and Carlisle ran on."

He rolled his eyes, still not quite over his irritation, and I gave him a befuddled look. "Yeah. I got it." Then, he kissed the top of my head. "Alright, Mayzie. Let's go show you how baseball's really played."

He said that, but neither one of us moved to actually go; seemed like neither of us even wanted to. We just stared into each other's eyes as Edward laced our fingers together on both hands and brought them up and let me fall onto him.

"Come on, you two lovers," Emmett teased as he stepped away from the doorway, gesturing for the hallway. "Let's get going. The longer we take, the friskier Rose gets, which means she's meaner to Mayze."

I didn't see anything happening besides the blur of things around me, but I felt the coolness of Edward's skin, along with the rush of the wind. Either way, I was sitting in the middle-seat in the back of a black Jeep that had been sitting in the garage before I even truly realized what was going on.

My eyes bulged as I looked at Edward, who just burst out laughing at the sight. Right at the same time, Emmett walked out at a normal, human pace, to my relief. He, too, started laughing at me.

I just frowned. "Okay. Maybe you could at least warn me next time."

Edward continued laughing for another second or two. Even after he stopped, he had a bright, happy, humored smile on his lips. "But, it's just so fun this way." He grinned at me before quickly kissing me. "Alright. Let's get out of here before Rose completely flips out."

Jasper was already sitting in the driver's seat, and of course Alice was sitting in the passenger's seat beside him. Emmett ran around to the passenger's side, and once both doors were shut, Jasper drove off towards a place unknown—to me anyways.

"What's that for?" Alice asked Edward curiously as she turned to face the back and eyed the tape deck after giving me the most radiant smile I had seen from her yet, which I honestly didn't even realize was possible until she smiled at me this time.

Edward leaned up and slid it in, with my iPod plugged up to it, and looked over at me with a grin. "You know, they'll probably laugh too at the ones I did."

I shrugged. "Oh well. I mean, there are a few songs on there that are really worth laughing at, but I like them anyways." I shrugged again before laying my head on his shoulder. "They're funny."

He swiftly unlocked my iPod without a problem at all, meaning . . . he knew my password, which is ems74. In case you didn't catch it, that's my initials plus my favorite number, but that's not what's so strange.

He knew my password.

My eyes shot wide open as I quickly sat up, almost hitting my head against his. Thanks to his vampire reflexes, he dodged it before my skull could hit concrete, practically. "How did you figure that out?"

"Vampire," he said simply as he pressed shuffle and then play. He shrugged, as if it was no big deal, as he smirked at me. "Remember?"

How could I forget?

"Right," I said slowly. "I just . . . it slipped my mind."

Teach Me How to Jerk by Audio Push started playing.

"Now let me come at a jerk, we got the potion. Next to the push, and leave they suckers open. I'm rejected and might leave a bad go. Now tell me if you can jerk in slow motion. Like earth, you know that my truth stick. Imma show you to my whole squad with them clean whips. Now watch me clean dip. You see the clean kicks. Try to jerk like me. I guarantee it'll leave your team thrip. Pause, drop, go, stop. I let my chain bang, gang swang, go watch. Girls tell me when I jerk I look so hot. Cause' I be jerkin' like a churner, make the boat rock."

Edward laughed. "You could so be a rapper for a living."

I scrunched my nose up at him, slightly disturbed by the idea, honestly. "Nah. I'd go more along the lines of Rock R&B, or something like that. Hard rock? Hell fucking yeah!"

He chuckled before putting his arm around my shoulders. "So, are you pumped?"

"I'm kinda curious," I admitted. Then, I realized the song had changed to This Is the New Shit by Marilyn Mansen, and I just simply could not help myself when it got to the chorus part.

"Babble, babble. Bitch, bitch. Rebel, rebel. Party, party. Sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence. Blah, blah, blah. Got your lovey dovey, sad and lonely. Stick your stupid slogan and everybody sing along."

They all laughed, and I just smiled. Edward seemed proud, though, even after I showed them just how weird I am, and after they all saw the real me. That made me so happy, happier than I thought it would.

"You are officially my favorite person in the whole world," Emmett informed me before slapping me a high five—gentle for him, forceful for me. "Edward, she's awesome! I've said that once already, but I will keep saying it forever."

He laughed again and nudged me slightly with his elbow. "Told ya."

I grinned over at him. "My Southern accent is rubbin' off on ya. Ha."

His eyes were thoughtful for a few seconds before he grinned back at me, clearly liking this. "Yeah, it is."

"I said the same thing," Emmett informed me. "Yesterday, when he was here after school, I told him he was starting to sound like he was born and raised in the South. He said y'all. He's never said that, even after being around Jasper for all of these years! His old time accent is fading into this weird mixture of the old American accent into the new Southern accent."

"Sad thing is, I've never even been to the South," I said honestly, grinning up at Edward. I couldn't deny that his accent was so fucking amazing before, but with the Southern added to it…damn. It was sexy.

Emmett just laughed.

The drive up to the clearing where Jasper stopped went by so fast. We all were goofing around, and they were all very interested in my music—even Jasper, who didn't seem too fond of the fact I was there. He was still polite, but he tried avoiding being around me as much as possible it seemed.

They all got a kick out of Crank That Spiderman by Soulja Boy. In case you didn't know, that song is so fun to dance too. I mean, it's freaking awesome. And, besides, in my defense, I like Spiderman better than Superman anyways, so . . . there.

Just because Superman can fly and is bullet proof, that doesn't mean he's the most amazing person on the face of the planet. Spiderman can do all sorts of stuff, and all he's got special about him is the webs coming out of his wrist and the spiky hairs on his fingers.

But Batman is so much better. Just saying.