I do not own Twilight.

I glare over at Edward who just shrugs, burying his hands deep into his pockets, hood over his head. "A party? And you knew?"

He smirks. "A surprise party. She told me to keep you distracted."

I frown because I didn't want a graduation party. I don't even know who she could have invited, but as to the numerous cars piled alongside our street, it seems like she invited the whole town.

"I'm sure she'd love to know how you kept me distracted," I grumble and his smile widens before he pushes me forward towards the front door which is decorated with balloons and banners.

"You deserve it," he whispers into my ear as he dips to pull his hood off.

"The party or what you did to me an hour ago?" It's my turn to grin when he scowls at me.

"Both," he says and then steers me into the kitchen where everyone is huddled around the counter—and the massive cake on top of it. I don't even have to act surprised, because I am, more so by the fact that it seems my mom did invite the entire town and the fact that Alice is here with Jasper, and Emmett is here, surprisingly, with Rosalie.

She grins when she sees me and I can already tell by the look on her face that her first impression of Emmett has already changed.

I spend the majority of the party receiving congratulations and thanking adults that I barely remember and I can feel the eyes of some on Edward and I, probably surprised that we're together, but I ignore the looks and after a few hours, the party has wound down to my mom and Charlie's friends in the kitchen, steadily drinking and laughing, while Alice, Jasper, Edward, Emmett, Rose and I hang out in the backyard.

I had been worried but, needless to say, Rose and Alice love each other.

Jasper goes into detail about his scoutings on the field when Emmett takes a call and comes back, telling Edward they should go. I can tell by their faces that it's something serious. Something that Edward knew about and didn't tell me.

When they leave, I'm far from absorbed in the party and Alice tries to distract me by telling Rosalie stories from high school. Rose and Alice stay the night after Jasper leaves and I grill Rosalie on her and Emmett, only to be met with demure smiles. She asks if I'd disapprove and I tell her no. Of course I wouldn't. Emmett needs someone like Rosalie; someone who will take care of him the way he's taken care of everyone in his life. It's early, but I'm happy for them. For him.

Late in the night, when Rosalie is asleep, Alice whispers to me from her pillow. "Do you know what that was about?"

I shake my head and she doesn't ask anything else while I wait impatiently from a call or text from Edward. It doesn't come until early in the morning and it's just a few simple lines, with no emotion.

I'm fine, he replies to my slightly-panicked text from earlier in the night. Then, so nonchalantly: My mom called Emmett. She's at the apartment.

I don't know what to say, so I try to call to see if he needs me or my dad or…I don't know what he could possibly need, but I want to help. His phone goes straight to voicemail and I hang up without leaving a message, knowing that I'm going straight to the apartment once Alice and Rose leave in the morning.