A/N: MY AUTHOR'S NOTES ARE AT THE BOTTOM (:

Nessie.

Ch 54 One hell of a night

Edward's POV

This whole party was insane! These teenagers were rubbing all over each other and doing moves I didn't even know existed. The house was packed and I lost Bella. I saw Rosalie by the dance floor watching these girls disgustingly.

"Ew, that's disgusting! That's what you call dancing? It looks more like they're trying to get into the guys' pants." She thought shaking her head.

From the corner of my eye I saw people moving aside. That's when I heard Alice.

"People, MOVE!" She pushed her way through people until she finally got to me. She fixed her dress and make up before looking up at me. "In about half an hour we're going to announce the birthday girl, okay?" I nodded and she skipped away, probably going to find Jasper.

After about five minutes, I saw Lauren walking over to me. She was stumbling a lot as she walked and giggling. When she came close enough, I smelt her. She reeked of liquor. Apparently when she left the party a while ago she went to get drunk.

I leaned back against the wall as she came closer and put her arms on my neck. I tried to take her off of me without hurting her, but she was persistent. She held on tightly and kept on giggling.

"Edward, did you know you were incredibly hot?" She slurred. I didn't move or say anything. "Well then we're perfect for each other you know? I mean everyone knows I'm the hottest girl in Forks, above your sisters too, even Bella!" I wanted to laugh in her face. She wasn't pretty at all, it was all make up. I can't believe she would even compare to herself to Bella. Bella was like Aphrodite herself, and Lauren was more like a wanna be Barbie doll.

Rosalie heard Lauren say that she thought she was prettier than her, and her head snapped up at her as she glared at the side of her face. Damn, if Rose had lasers in her eyes, Lauren would have a pretty big hole in her face right now.

"I'm afraid I have to disagree Lauren." I spoke calmly trying to pry her arms from my neck. She pouted and held on tighter, which was frustrating me.
"Don't play hard to get Edward, I know you want this" she said pointing to her body. She must be joking if she thinks I want her. First of, she has no body! She was a tall twig! And second of all, I don't like her; I'm in love with Bella. Right when I was about to say something, I caught her thoughts.

"Kiss him now Lauren! Then he'll know he wants you and kiss you back."

I came back to reality when her lips were about to touch my lips. I turned my face just in time and she kissed my cheek. I pulled her away from me, holding her wrists and looked to my right only to see Bella. She was biting her lip and her eyes were wide with tears that threatened to fall over. She stood there, shaking a little.

"Bella…" I whispered, taking a step towards her. She took a step back and ran upstairs. "Bella!" I yelled.
"Forget about her Edward, you have m-me." Lauren stuttered. I grabbed her wrists and shook her.

"No Lauren, don't you understand? I don't want you or even like you! Leave me the hell alone!" She looked a bit shocked. Rosalie appeared behind her.

"Need some help?" She asked suggestively with a raised eyebrow. Lauren turned around startled.
"Who are you?"

Rosalie smiled sickly. "Why I am Edward's sister Rosalie." Lauren paled. "I have something to show you, why don't you follow me?"

"I've never heard any other Cullen, besides Edward and Alice, talk! I don't like this Rosalie, she's really scary." Lauren thought.

"Stupid bitch, who is she to call herself prettier than me and Bella! Please, she wishes, but there are some things that even immortality can't fix. And then she tackles Edward and makes Bella cry? I'll teach her a thing or two." Bella was crying?

"Take care of her Rosalie." I pushed Lauren into Rose and Rose nodded a smile spreading on her face. I ran up the stairs and stopped in front of Bella's room hearing her sob.

Bella's POV

"…So Tyler grabs the football and throws it to Robert but it hit him right in his chest and he doubled over in pain…" I was listening to Mike's story—with my fingers to my temple. This kid was so annoying.

"Hey Mike, I'll be right back." I said walking away, when I ran into Joe. Oh my God! Joe came?

"Hey Bella," he said with a sweet smile.

"Hey Joe, how are you?" I asked giving him a hug. Even though we aren't together anymore, doesn't mean we can't be friends.

"I'm good, you know school." I nodded and he chuckled. "Nice party you're having."

"Thanks," I laughed.

"Well, I have to go Bells, nice seeing you again and happy birthday." He hugged me goodbye and left.
I pushed around the sweaty bodies to try and get some fresh air. What I saw next tore my heart out of my chest. Edward was leaning against the wall with Lauren's arms around his neck, giggling. Then Lauren leaned in and I shut my eyes. No this isn't happening!

When I opened my eyes I saw Edward's face a little to the side and Lauren's lips on him. My heart literally broke into two, and I felt the urge to die right now. Edward pulled her away and held her wrists when he turned and saw me. I didn't have the will to withstand what I just saw; the pain was horrendous, so I bit my lip to keep the tears that were threatening to spill in.

Edward tried to walk towards me but I took a step back and ran up the stairs to my room, locking myself inside. I sank to the floor and started bawling my eyes out. How could he choose Lauren? Out of all THINGS in the world he kissed her? My sadness started evaporating only to be replaced by anger.

I got up and walked to my closet. I grabbed the nearest shirt I could grab and a pair of scissors.

I stood in front of the mirror and started cutting the shirt to what I wanted. "So you like sluts, huh? Fine, let's see if you like my modification." I put the shirt in front of me and saw that it would show a lot of cleavage and shoulders. I sank to the floor and started sobbing. "…W-why?"

That's when I heard banging on my door. "Bella!" It was Edward. "Bella, please open the door!" he shouted over the loud music. I didn't move though, I stayed on the floor. "Bella!" He banged louder, and I sobbed a little more. I've never felt so heartbroken, so unpretty. What don't I have? "Bella let me in!" I squeezed my eyes tightly and soon the banging stopped.

I opened one eyelid and screamed when I saw Edward walking towards me. "H-how'd you get in h-here?" I stuttered.

He simply said, "The window" before he stopped short. It was dreadfully quiet. I had my knees up to my chest with my arms wound around them and my head turned to the side. He just stood there staring at me I suppose, I wouldn't know since I wasn't looking at him.

"Bella," he started.

"What?" I snapped.

"What's wrong?" He bent down to my level.

That just pissed me off. My head snapped towards him and I glared at him. "Are you kidding me? You dare ask me what's wrong. You already know!" He didn't move just stared at me as I went off on him.

"Bella, its not—"

"Why couldn't you just tell me you liked Lauren, Edward." I whispered sadly looking at my floor. A finger lifted my chin up and I saw Edward staring at me.
"Bella, you're being completely absurd." I was going to protest but he put a finger to my lip. "No, listen. I don't like Lauren. What in heaven's name would make you think that?" I pushed his finger away.

"Um, maybe because of the fact that you kissed her, or she kissed you, either way you guys kissed!"

"Bella, Lauren threw herself on me. And I didn't kiss her, when she leaned in I turned my face away and she ended up kissing my cheek instead." He said. Could it be that from where I was standing it looked the other way?

"I-I" I stuttered.

"Bella, why did you look like you wanted to cry and why did you come up here to cry?" He asked. I paled and felt my skin go cold. What do I do? I can't just say, oh yeah I love you and was heartbroken with what I saw. From the corner of my eye, I saw him pick up the black shirt I 'sluttified.' "What did you do to this?"

"Um, I cut it up?" It sounded more like a question.

"But why?" Shit, what do I tell him now? Oh my god, what do I do?

He touched my face with his hand and said, "Bella, whatever it is, you know you can tell me. You can tell me anything." Maybe I should tell him. I took a deep breath ready to tell Edward that I loved him with all my heart, when I heard a crash downstairs.

"I guess I didn't like the idea of you being with Lauren is all." I shrugged. Okay, fine, I backed down, but I couldn't risk it.

He seemed a bit saddened by my answer before he smiled. "Well, we should get down there. Alice is going crazy looking for you!" I smiled. "We're okay right?" I thought about it and decided that we were since he didn't do anything with Lauren.

"Yeah, we are." I said, giving him a tight hug. He hugged me tightly before letting go and staring at me.
"Now, no more crying." He wiped a few tears from my cheeks, though his fingers came out black probably due to my mascara running. I nodded and stood up to check myself in the mirror. I wanted to groan at the sight. My mascara was running down by lips and my eyeliner was fading. I grabbed a tissue and wiped the run off make up and grabbed my mascara and eyeliner to re apply it. When I was done, I gave a small pout towards mirror-me, and turned towards Edward. He had his hand covering his mouth to cover up for chuckling.

"Was it necessary to pout?" He asked and I shrugged.

"I was in the moment." He rolled his eyes and put his arm out for me to hold. I took hold of it and we walked out the room until the top of the stairs, where he stopped.

"Hold on." I looked back down and suddenly saw that the spotlight was on us and everyone was staring at us.

"Introducing the main reason for tonight's party; the birthday girl, Bella!" Alice shouted over the mic and gestured towards me. Everyone started applauding loudly. Edward started to walk down the stairs gracefully with me by his side. I felt like a princess walking down with her prince. I shook the thought away and looked for Rose. I didn't see her, until I saw her silently enter the front door. Where was she? She wasn't doing "quality" time with Emmett that's for sure, because her hair, make up, and clothes were fine and Emmett was here the whole time.

When I reached the bottom step everyone applauded again and some even threw in some whistles, which angried Edward.

"Happy birthday Bella, we love you so much! Don't ever forget that." Alice squealed with a huge smile on her face, holding the mic with both hands. Everyone "awed" and I blushed. "Well, even though this is a club party, we're going to have a slow dance. Which one of our guys are going to dance with Bella?"

"I will," I heard Edward say. I looked up at him shocked and he looked down at me with a lovingly smile. Alice smiled and played Taylor Swift's song, "Today was fairytale." Edward extended his hand, which I took and started dancing with me.

It felt so right be dancing with Edward; to be in his arms. He twirled me once, twice, and a third time. "Are you happy, Bella?"

I looked up at him and nodded. "Why wouldn't I be, I mean I have you guys, I'm seventeen, I'm having fun at my party, and I'm dancing with you." Woops, that last part was supposed to be in a thought bubble.

"I don't know, I'm just wondering. You gave me quite a scare when you wouldn't open your door." I raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know if you did anything, or if you left. You had me worried." I sighed.

"I'm sorry, Edward."

"Its okay, I don't hold it against you. I'm just thankful I could get in through your window."

"Which reminds me? Where did Rosalie go before?" He shrugged.
"I'm not a hundred percent sure, I left her with Lauren. We'll ask her after she doesn't have a flock of guys after her and drooling over her." He cocked his head to where she was. There was a long line of guys just staring either at her face or her boobs. She was standing there with her arms crossed while Emmett looked murderous. He huffed angrily and walked over to Rose and pulled her onto the dance floor and started slow dancing with her like everyone else.

"Well, I don't blame them. I mean have you seen Rose, she has all the things a woman would kill to have. She's almost like perfection, or Aphrodite." Edward shook his head.

"Yes Bella, I've seen Rosalie. Of course she is beautiful, but you want to know something?" I nodded. He leaned in and whispered, "You're more beautiful than she is" in my ear. I shivered and blushed.

"Thank you, but I doubt it." I said looking down at our feet.

"Bella, you obviously don't see yourself clearly because you are extraordinarily beautiful." I smiled and the song stopped. He mockingly bowed. I giggled and curtsied.

After a while the party finished. People were leaving and I was happy, because I was so damn tired!

"Thanks, Bella! Best party ever by the way." A girl I think name was Erika.
"Thanks for coming, bye!" I shut the door and let out a breath. "Phew!"
Rosalie got up from the couch and walked towards me. "Well baby girl, I think you should go to sleep." I nodded.
"Yeah, I am, but could you and Alice come upstairs to my room for a second?" She looked confused. "Please, I want to talk to you guys, but could you make the boys leave for a while?" She nodded and walked away.

I sighed and walked upstairs.

Rosalie POV

What could be wrong with Bella? I walked towards the kitchen where Edward was throwing out decorations, Emmett was picking out things and where Alice was sitting on Jasper's lap all cuddled up.

"Um, hey guys," Everyone looked at me. "Can you boys leave the house for oh I don't know about an hour?" They all looked at each other confused. That's when Alice and I exchanged a glance. I knew through her eyes she was asking if Bella asked this. I gave a slight nod.

"Why?" Jasper asked getting a better grip of Alice. She got off and walked towards me.
"Guys just do it." She ordered with her hands on her hips.

"And what if we don't want to?" Emmett asked. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh really?" I said.

"Well, if you guys don't leave or if you come before time, I swear to God that I will give you guys a make over gone bad and I will make you wear it to school. So unless you don't mind wearing a tutu and stilettos, you will leave now." Alice said sternly. They actually looked scared.

"Alice, baby, you wouldn't do that to me would you?" Jasper asked nervously. Alice gave him a look that said, 'try me.' He dropped the case. "I say we go." He ran out the door and the others didn't stay behind for too long.

"Now what's up with Bella?" She asked. I shrugged.

"I don't know, she said she wants to talk to us."

"This could probably be about Edward." Alice said. I turned to look at her.

"Do you think?" She nodded.
"She's in love with him; it could be getting to the point where if she doesn't tell him she's going to explode!" We walked to Bella's room and knocked.
"Come in!" She called. I opened the door and saw her on her bed lying down on her stomach, swinging her feet in the air. She had on a pair of purple cotton shorts and a black tank top with black socks and her hair was in a messy ponytail.

Her outfit from tonight was lying on her chair. She had what looked like to be a sketch pad in front of her. She was drawing something and was humming something.

We walked towards her and sat down at the edge of the bed. "So what's up, Tink?" Alice always knows how to ask a question lightly. Bella stopped sketching and sat down.

"Well, you guys may or may not know, but I'm in love with Edward, to the point that if he ever left I would die!" I winced at the mention of Bella dying. She was my daughter, my little girl.

"Yes,"

"Well, I am so very confused. You see tonight with what happened with Lauren, I thought he liked her and that broke my heart. I cried and when he explained that it wasn't like that, I was about to tell him that I loved him."

Alice looked like she wanted to smack her upside the head like I do with Emmett. "Well why didn't you?" I asked.

"I backed out last minute because I was scared. I didn't want him to reject me and then let things get awkward between us."
"But baby, listen, how will you ever know if he might share the same feelings if you don't give it a shot? Will you spend the rest of eternity wondering? Is it worth it? Sometimes it's worth the risk." She looked in deep thought. "So now that we got that out of the way, you need to go to sleep." I said playfully.

"Wait, um, what did you do to Lauren?" I smiled evily and thought back.

"Don't worry, baby, let's just say she won't remember a thing." She nodded and slid under the covers. "Goodnight,"

"Night Alice, night mommy." She yawned and drifted to sleep. I urged Alice to walk out with me and we shut the door.
"Rose, what did you do with Lauren?" I smiled and laughed.

"Oh you know, made her fall a couple of times and threw garbage on her head. But don't worry she's way too drunk to even remember what happened, let alone who did it!" Alice laughed and skipped down the stairs. I looked back at Bella's closed door and wondered. Something deep inside me told me this was going to be a very hard year for her. I sighed.

A/N: I updated! (: I made a mistake in my last chapter, when Lauren calls Bella "SWAN" i meant to put "HALE" i forget she's a hale and not a swan.

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~Nessie