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26. DANCING

While we were waiting for our dinners to be served, a few waiters came around take drink orders. Terry and I ordered champagne, and the waiter turned to Seth. "And for you sir?"

With the most mature, serious face Seth could muster he said, "I'll have a virgin Bloody Mary."

The waiter laughed. "Sir… I would give you that, but I guarantee you won't want to drink it. It'll basically be hot sauce and tomato juice without the alcohol."

Seth turned a nice shade of red. I turned to the waiter. "He'll have champagne as well."

"Very good sir." He smiled and walked away.

I looked over at Seth, still remaining tomato-red. "Really Seth? A virgin Bloody Mary? You almost sounded so grown up."

"Shut up…" He crossed his arms over his chest and looked away.

The waiter soon came back with our drinks. I had something to do that I had been planning for a while, I figured I might as well get it over with. I grabbed my glass and stood up. "I'll be right back." I turned and walked straight towards Bella and Edward at the head table, and stood behind them. "Hey everyone? I'd like to propose a toast. Seeing as how I'm the best man."

Everyone turned to look at me, I'm fairly certain a good amount of the people here thought I was going to bad mouth Edward.

I cleared my throat. "Alright where to begin…? Well I know the Cullens have always been at odds with my family, and when I started to like Bella, I developed more hatred towards Edward because he could have her and I couldn't. But recently things have all changed. Seth was the first of us to make friends with a Cullen."

Edward looked at Seth and nodded.

"And more recently, a certain set of events," I looked over at Terry, staring deeply into his eyes, "have made me realize that I shouldn't be angry at Edward for loving Bella. Because I can see that he truly does love her. And as long as he loves her more than I ever could have, there is no reason for me to feel bad about this marriage." I put my hand on Edward's shoulder. "Basically what I'm trying to say is that Edward, despite my first impressions of him, is a really good guy, and I wish him and Bella the best of luck in their relationship. To Edward and Bella." I held my glass up.

Everyone else raised their glasses and drank from them. Bella stood up and hugged me. "Jacob, that was beautiful. Thank you so much for being so accepting of Edward and I."

"Yes Jacob, it was a touching toast. I thank you, with all of my being, for your blessing." Edward stood and shook my hand.

"It's nothing, really. You guys were meant for each other." I looked over at Terry who was talking to Seth.

Edward noticed where my mind was wandering. "I'm sure he'll come around soon."

I hope so…

Eventually the food was served and I basically inhaled it. It was pretty good. Terry was full after eating like half of his, so I ate the rest. He looked marveled at the fact that pack eats so much.

After dinner, the DJ called Bella and Edward to the dance floor. Some weird song came on that I didn't recognize.

"What is this crappy song?" Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Terry looked in awe at the scene in front of him.

"Jacob! Shh! It's called 'Flightless Bird, American Mouth'. Bella told me this was the song they danced to at the junior prom." The lyrics don't seem to hold much significance to be a wedding song…

I rolled my eyes. "What a weird song name…" My mind drifted as I watched Bella and Edward dance. Edward looked too stiff to dance properly and that reminded me that Seth wanted to do our routine. "I'll be right back."

The song ended and I got up. I walked to each of the pack mates, minus Sam he didn't want to do it, and told them we were going to dance next. I got to the DJ and told him my plan and he seemed to enjoy the idea.

I walked back to the table where Terry was sitting with Seth. "Ready Seth?"

"Hell yes!" Seth got out of his chair and walked to the rest of the pack.

I turned to leave when I felt Terry grab my arm. "What are you guys doing?"

I smiled as I turned to him. "Something embarrassing probably."

The rest of the pack and I walked to the center of the dance floor. "I'm excited." Seth looked like he was going to explode."

"We can see that." Paul shook his head.

"Alright guys let's do this." I stood in the very middle of the floor with Seth and Paul on my right, Quil, Embry, and Jared on my left.

As the bass beat to 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake came on, I stared into Terry's eyes. His jaw dropped when we all started dancing to the music. It took is quite some time to get everyone able to dance in synchrony like that. Every movement we made, was done at the exact same moment. I smiled as the crowd of people started to applaud.

I watched Terry's face as we started to dance more sexually, doing suggestive movements with our bodies. Six muscled up guys, the epitome of male sexuality, doing explicit dance moves.

My favorite part of the song came up. "Better have you naked by the end of this song." As the word 'naked' was played, we all ripped their shirts open revealing our bare torsos, sending a rain of buttons at the audience. The crowd laughed.

I made sure to maintain eye contact with Terry throughout the entire song. I wanted him to know that I needed him.

When the song was over, we bowed. "We pulled it off guys." Everyone at the tables applauded and cheered loudly. Seth and I started to walk back to our table, but people kept stopping us to tell us how good our dancing was.

I didn't care. I just wanted to get back to Terry. "So what did you think?" I sat down in my chair.

"I'm impressed. I didn't think you guys had moves." He pointed at my chest. "You do know Alice said not to ruin that right?"

Oh crap… I shrugged. "Whatever. The important part of the wedding is over anyway."

"I guess."

I smiled. "That was the secret by the way."

It looked like a huge weight had been lofted from Terry's shoulders. He must've been dying to know what the secret was… "How long have you guys been planning that?"

I laughed and looked over at Seth. "Well one day we were all hanging out and Seth started playing music and that song came on. He thought he was hot stuff and started dancing. Then it turned in to a competition to see who could dance better. Eventually we all started doing the same moves, until we decided to practice that."

"So you practiced all that just for the wedding?"

"No actually. We never thought we'd have a chance to dance in front of anyone. Then when I took the invitations to the wedding to the guys, they were all like 'Finally!'." I leaned back in the chair, completely satisfied with how that all came out. "That was a lot of fun."

"It looked like it." Terry smiled.