Thank you so much for the feedback for that last chapter you guys! Oh, my goodness, it was amazing! Sure there was only a few but still, they said such nice things and I sound like a fruitcake right now, lol. Well on with the prom scene!
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BPOV
The hotel was just a few blocks from where we ate so it only took two or three minutes to drive over to the entryway for the Hilton. As Angela had predicted there were no other limos in sight, everyone was driving their usual crappy cars, the rust on them looking totally out of place in such an environment.
All the heads of students whipped around to stare at the stretch Hummer limo slowly crawling it's way to the cheesy red carpet that led up to the double doors at the front of the hotel. We soon inched to a stop and the driver, whose name we learned was Fred, quickly came to the other side of the vehicle to open the door closest to the carpet.
Cameras flashed from the digital cameras prom-goers had brought as everyone scrambled to take pictures of us as the others slowly made our way out the door, Edward and I having to go last since my shoe had come undone. Not to sound cocky but there literally was a collective gasp when Edward and I emerged from the limo and boys drooled over me, and girls drooled over Edward. Gross.
I quickly grabbed Edward's arm in both of mine, warning the advancing girls coming to flirt to back off, and Edward squeezed my arm to his side pulling me closer, if possible, to him as we walked to the entryway. There an eager young doorman, err boy, pulled the door open quickly, making a show of bowing as Edward and I passed through the threshold.
But we didn't get two steps through the door when we heard mocking laughter and the loud screeching of bad brakes, trying to slow down. I turned around to see Tyler Crowley struggling to regain control of his very soccer-momish minivan with Lauren in the front seat trying to hold down her crappy and fried hair.
The van skidded to stop, inches away from hitting the pole of overhanging thing that extends from the door to about 15 feet out where cars drop/pick people up. People had to back up quickly as the van came their way, nearly crushing the legs of a junior girl I knew from my French class. Once the van fully stopped Lauren and Jessica burst out of the car, making several people's jaw drop, some with lust and others with disgust.
Jeremy came out next and wrapped his slimy arm around Jessica's waist and Tyler quickly parked his van in the parking lot and nearly ran to Lauren and also wrapped his arm around her waist. The gross group slithered up the carpet, the eyes of Jessica and Lauren narrowing to mere slits as they took in Edward's and my laughing. Jeremy and Tyler looked simply horny as they saw me, can you say EWWWW! I sure can.
Edward pulled me through the door and we soon found the rest of our group handing the teacher that was sitting at a table their tickets and then passed through a wall of streamers into the main ballroom where music poured out, heavy with bass. As we approached the desk Edward reached into the lapel on his jacket and produced our two tickets and smoothly handed them to the teacher who put them in the box labeled TICKETS.
Grabbing my hand securely in his Edward led us slowly through the sparkly blue streamers where we emerged into the ballroom where about a hundred teens danced to an upbeat song. I spotted our group dancing in a clump, the girls bumping and grinding on their men while the ones on the receiving ends looked blissful.
By the time we reached our friends, having to have to push through the throng of dancing teens, the song had changed to "Control" by Metro Station. To this people began thrashing as the song got going, hair flying and elbows meeting other elbows, and chests getting rubbed together. Once we were in the general area of our human friends Edward and I stopped and joined the dancing only ours was much more fluent and graceful, our bodies twisting perfectly around the other in time with the music.
People paused momentarily to gape at our dancing, trying to mimic the movement, some moving their arms above their heads as I did only succeeding in looking as if they were trying to scratch an itch. Edward had his hands on my hips now and we grinded our pelvises into each other, creating a deliciously erotic sensation to shudder through my body.
After this a slow song came on next, a big change from the previous; people were still struggling to regain their breath from the intense dance session. Many people actually left the dance floor to get a drink of punch from the refreshments table but there were a few couples dancing slowly to the sweet lyrics of "Remembering Sunday" by All Time Low.
I put one hand on Edward's shoulder, his on my waist, and I placed my free hand in his and we twirled around the room, my skirt swirling around my legs as we slowly picked up pace as the song sped up a bit where the female started singing. Over Edward's shoulder there were many girls and boys watching in awe as Edward and I completely took over the floor as we were lost in our own little world.
I looked into his eyes, a small smile stretching my lips, and saw his eyes filled with passion that made my unneeded breath catch in my breath causing his lips to stretch into a gorgeous lopsided grin. "You are simply indescribable tonight." he whispered, blowing his breath into my face as he spoke. I smiled wider in thanks and stretched out of the dip he put me down in as we continued whirling and pressed my lips softly to his.
The song ended too quickly and was replaced by "Dead and Gone" by Justin Timberlake and T.I. and the dance floor was soon filled, once again, by dancing teenagers. Not wanting to listen to this song Edward and I left the dance and went to sit at one of the sparsely populated tables near the back of the room. It was there that we found Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett sitting, talking quietly amongst themselves, glancing at the rest of our group who had decided to dance to this song.
"Hey guys, the prom is great." I congratulated them, twisting myself in Edward's arms so that my back was to his chest and his arms were loose around my waist. They started a bit, only noticing us for the first time then since we had approached quietly and quickly.
The table area was quickly vacated of the few humans once they saw us coming, them quickly walking through the mechanical walls that separated the sitting area and the dance floor. A waiter looking man was walking away from the table with a pieced of paper clutched in his hand as he headed off towards the kitchen.
"Oh hey! Thank you so much. You guys were amazing out there, I wish I could dance like that." Alice sighed wistfully, finishing up her previously bubbly greeting on a sad tone. Jasper chuckled at her and kissed her spiky black hair, pulling her a bit tighter to his side. I felt a bit of irritation in my eyes and I blinked, surprised, but as soon as it came it was gone so I brushed it off as nothing and tuned back into the conversation.
"Well, hey, sit down with us, we all just ordered a cake so you guys should join us even though you don't eat." Emmett said, gesturing to two empty chairs across the table, telling us we should sit. Ever the gentleman, Edward pulled my chair for me and I sat down, smiling gratefully at him. After Edward seated himself he took my hand in his and I cupped my chin with my free hand and turned my eyes to the four people across from us.
"Whoa! Bella your eye! It's… insane!" Rosalie gasped, leaning over the table to look into my left eye. The other also tried to get a better look as did Edward who gently grabbed my shoulder and turned me to face him so, he too, could look at my eye.
"Amazing." he murmured, releasing me but his hand still lingered on my arm, slowly trailing it down to the crease in my elbow until he placed it back at his side. Alice was now in the chair next to me taking my face in between her hands and her nose was only a few centimeters from my own.
"That's impossible, just before you sat down both of your eyes were gold. What happened?" Alice demanded, shaking my head at the end of her demands, accentuating her burning desire to know.
"I don't know," I replied, "I haven't even seen my eye myself so I really couldn't tell you." as soon as I was done explaining Rosalie already had a compact mirror out and was passing it to me. I took it and held it up to my face which was when I gasped and nearly dropped the mirror on my lap which would have splattered cover-up all over my dress.
Because in place of my previously left warm honey gold eye was one strikingly teal blue orb that seemed to shine and glimmer as my eyelids opened and closed, trying to dispel the obvious illusion. To no avail. My one eye stayed the same, all glittery and as teal as the ocean, 600 years ago. I raised my hand as if to touch my eye but the tips of my finger only hovered, centimeters, from touching it.
Even though I wanted to look at my eye all day I snapped the mirror closed and handed it back to Rosalie, who stuffed it back into her small black clutch bag. Still shocked, I dropped my face into my palms and tried not to scream in frustration and bewilderment. I felt Edward's strong hand rub soothing circles on my bare skin, working the muscles and relaxing my shoulders which were hunched up to my ears.
"How much more screwed up can my life get!" I shouted into my hands, my voice muffled, "First I get wings growing out of my back and now my eyes are different colors." Edward kissed my shoulder and carefully pried my face out of my hands so that he could look at me a he spoke.
"Nothing is wrong with you love- oh… ow." he broke off suddenly, his hand flying to his left eye only to stop abruptly, mere inches away from clutching it in pain, and his scrunched up face to relax back into it's normal smoothness. He slowly opened his eyes, first right then left which caused everyone, including me, to gasp in shock.
"Edward! Your eye is just like Bella's!" Alice gasped, grabbing his face in her hands and pressing her nose to his like she had done to me and stared hard into his teal blue eye. Edward's jaw dropped and Rosalie whipped out her mirror and Edward blindly grabbed for it, his eyes still locked with Alice's as she still was holding his face in her hands.
Once Edward had the mirror Alice released his face and he opened the compact and had the same reaction I did, only he actually did drop the mirror but luckily was able to catch it so his beautiful tux would not be ruined.
"What is going on?" Jasper demanded from across the table, startling me and Edward but Alice merely waved him off, skipping back to his side and wrapping his arm around herself once more. I glanced around the table noticing for the first time the shocked and scared faces of Rosalie, Jasper, and Emmett.
"I think I can answer that." a voice answered from behind me. Edward and I whipped around, jumping out of our chairs and sinking into a defensive crouch with our teeth bared and feral snarls rippling from both of our chests. I quickly straightened out of my crouch once I recognized the familiar laugh and face of the ancient man in front of me.
"Marcus!" I squealed and launched myself at the man I had grown to think of as a father many years ago. He caught me around my waist and planted a kiss on both cheeks as he spun us around once before setting me back down on my feet.
He caught sight of Edward and sent a huge smile his way as he offered a chalky white hand for Edward to shake, "You must be Edward, the one my little Bella told me so much about and promised that she would one day find. Which I can already assume she did." Edward too straightened up and took Marcus's hand with a relieved laugh.
"Yes sir. She also has told me about you and how much of a father figure you were when she needed someone most." Edward shook Marcus's hand before releasing it and pulling me towards him so he could cradle me to his side.
"Yes, I had a hard time believing you were real the way she spoke of you but now I can definitely see that she had good reason to hang herself up over your disappearance." Marcus seemed to hide his grief well for only in his eyes could I see the torment over his loss of Didyme, his beloved that was killed by her own brother.
"Please Marcus, sit with us, I have not seen you in ages." I told him, sitting down with Edward where four very shocked humans sat, waiting for an explanation.
"Oh, my apologies. Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, Alice this is Marcus. Marcus this is Jasper, Emmett, Alice, and Rosalie." I told him, pointing to each person as I said their name. Marcus inclined his head in greeting as I finished the introductions and the four humans waved back to him.
"Now, Marcus I trust that you already guessed the humans know our secret?" I asked him and he nudged me playfully in my side where he sat in the chair beside me.
"Yes darling, otherwise you never would have growled at me like that." he laughed, surprisingly alright that I had exposed the biggest secret we vampires held, our existence. However, maybe he knew something I didn't yet.
"Well you said you had an explanation for our wacko eyes, so would you care to elaborate on this?" at that everyone perked up and turned their attention to Marcus who sat concentrating hard on something only he knew.
"Of course. Well I already know about the wing bit, so no need to explain to me about that. But I have no clue as to why that happened only that it could be some advanced evolution of vampire which, by the way, we will have to keep from my brothers or else they will swoop in here and steal you away and experiment for ages on you two. Anyway, about your eyes. You two are the among the most pure vampires ever to exist, no blood that has ever been purely for sport has passed between your lips." he explained, smirking a bit.
"You two have only ever killed for hunger and even then it has only been from animals which you took grudgingly. Carlisle Cullen will soon get the Mark-Of-The-Good in another 200 years or so as long as he doesn't switch lifestyles. I, sadly, will never get the Mark because I have too much human blood on my hands. It is truly a gift so, please, stick to your "vegetarianism"." he finished his explanation and placed his hand caringly on my forearm.
"Wait!" Emmett held his hands up, palms facing us as though he was surrendering, "so they're extremely good right?" Marcus nodded his head, confirming Emmett's question, "So they are kind of like angels which are really good people right?" again Marcus nodded, confused as to where this was going. "Angels have wings, are really good and are really good looking, just like Bella and Edward. Basically they are just like angels just not associated with religion." Emmett concluded, sounding surprisingly serious.
"Wow, I think he's got it." Marcus said, astonished as he stared open-mouthed at Emmett who was cutting a large piece off the just then delivered cake they had ordered 10 minutes ago. The butter crème frosting oozed out of the corners of Emmett's mouth as he shoved a large wad of the chocolate cake in his mouth. Laughing, Rosalie grabbed a green napkin and wiped the frosting of and kissed Emmett on the cheek who just laughed at her baby treatment she gave him.
"Well, darling I am afraid I must bid you and your friends farewell." Marcus told me, standing up from his chair and heading to the exit.
"What? Already? But you just got here." I complained jumping out of my chair to stop him.
"Actually I have been in the Americas for quite a while, you just haven't found me out." he chuckled tapping the end of my nose with his finger making me pout and put my hands on my hips.
"Fine, well you better call me or something, after nearly 200 years with zero contact you can at least promise me that." I said, producing a slip of paper with my cell-phone number written on it and putting it in his outstretched palm. He just laughed and tucked it into his lapel and kissed my forehead in a fatherly gesture.
"You take care of my daughter you hear Edward? If you break her heart I'll kill you myself." Marcus warned, shaking Edward's hand once more.
"I will sir don't you worry, there is no way I'll ever let her go again." Edward promised, releasing Marcus's hand which I replaced with my own. Marcus bowed slightly and then disappeared through the exit. Edward turned back to the humans who were consumed with the chocolate cake in front of them.
"He better call me soon." I muttered making Edward laugh and pull me in for a much needed kiss.
"Can we have all students please report to the center stage area so we can announce the prom king and queen." I heard the principal call over the microphone which broke Edward and I apart and the four eating teenagers across from us to suck down their last few bites of cake. We all stood up together and made our way to the stage where all the other students waited, excited and scared for the biggest moment in their high school career.
"Thank you. Now your nominees for Prom King are as follows; Emmett McCarty," there was a loud cheer as the football captain made his way up the steps to stand next to Mr. Greene(a/n: I can't remember if I ever said that Emmett was the football captain or if someone else was but he is.), "Jasper Whitlock, Tyler Crowley, Jeremy Fonz, Jared Mink, Max Tod, and Edward Cullen. There was an explosion of whoops and giggles from the female population as Edward smoothly made his way up the stage.
Jasper and Emmett thought it would be funny to nominate Edward and I for prom king and queen so I was sure to be joining Edward up there in a few moments. Right on cue Mr. Greene started naming off the nominees for Prom Queen, "Your nominees for prom queen are Lauren Mallory, Jessica Stanley, Kate Stevens, Rosalie Hale, Mary Alice Brandon, and Isabella Laroche." we made our way up the steps and we stood on the opposite side of Mr. Greene.
I didn't miss the glance Kate, Lauren, and Jessica gave each other before smirking nastily at me and then smiling cockily at the watching crowd. Ms. Cope, the secretary, approached Mr. Greene and gave him a small cream colored envelope which, no doubt, held the results of the vote for the king and queen.
"The results for Forks High School's Prom King of the 2007- 2008 school year is… Edward Cullen for his positive asset to our school and classrooms." there was an even louder shriek and applause this time from the girls of the school. Ms. Cope came back onto the stage with a plastic crown and scepter and placed the crown on Edward's head and gave him the cheap looking scepter that looked like it was from the Thriftway in Forks.
"Now the results for Forks High School's Prom Queen of 2007- 2008 school year is… Isabella Laroche! For her help in the classrooms and positive attitude." my applause, along with catcalls and whoops of appreciation, that seemed to only be from the boys in the crowd was deafening as Ms. Cope came back only this time had an actual metal tiara and a bouquet of red roses which she gave to me after carefully putting the tiara on my stack of curls.
I heard a wet sloshing and the sound of a heavy metal bucket being adjusted above my head so I looked up just in time to see a hanger-on of the popular crowd getting ready to dump the contents of the bucket all over me. I had to act fast so I quickly walked, almost running, to Edward where I "accidentally" pushed Kate. Lauren, and Jessica in my hurry to be by Edward and they were right where I had been standing moments before.
Seeing my movement Rosalie and Alice practically ran offstage, dragging Jasper and Emmett with them to the safety of the rest of the crowd where they were out of the splash zone. I quickly put up an invisible physical shield over Edward and I so we would not be touched by the blood.
And, since the people that planned this were not smart enough they didn't realize that they were about to be covered by their own mistake, they were right under the bucket which was hurtling down due to gravity. 3... 2... 1.
"AHHH!" Jessica, Kate, and Lauren shrieked as they were covered head to toe with the blood of a pig they had killed in order to humiliate me only succeeding in humiliating themselves and the others that had been involved in their scheme.
Tyler, Jeremy, Max, and Jared where also splattered with the blood and Tyler actually started crying as specks of gore hit his face. The crying girls and boys were lead off stage to be hosed off outside while Edward and I were left laughing our butts off.
"Karma is a bitch." I laughed, leaning on Edward for support.
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Alright I have updated! A picture of Bella and Edward's new eye will be on my profile if you want to see what it looks like. Please review!