A/N: Well, thanks for waiting everyone. Hope this chapter is fine.
Ok so the big dancing scene here has a video link on youtube, pleaseeee check it out: www. youtube. com /watch?v=7yHk64cMjs8
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Go to the link and see the video - thats exactly the dance steps I'm talkin' about, and Selena Gomez is Bella, Drew Seeley is Edward, and just pop in an Ashley Greene Alice beside Selena Gomez in the empty studie, yeah?
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The exhilaration of the moment sent sparks through Bella's body; she felt a strange kind of electricity zip through her and set her muscles on fire.
"Now, it begins," Alice stated slyly.
The speaker thudded out some really poppy music, that was a very Drew Seely-ish song, a cross between Jesse McCartney and a High School Musical ballad.
So Edward started to move. The grace was…startling….
"Space your hands out."
Bella mimicked.
"Now kick, switch step." Edward's legs moves, Bella's legs moved…
"Turn around and give it a shake." Bella turned her hip in a salsa-ish sexy twist. Edward did his own masculine trademark foot shuffle.
"OOOOH!" Bella squealed. "I've always wanted to see that!"
"He serves us dinner with a foot shuffle," Alice rolled her eyes.
Suddenly, the music stopped. They turned to see Edward with his finger on the button, smiling.
"A little stiff, people. Loosen up! One more time."
The music responded to the pressure on the little "play" button.
"Ok, one two three go!"
People arranged themselves once more, the girls pushing out their chests a little.
"Hands out."
Hands out.
"Look to the side, kick, switch legs."
A little confusion on his side; the front girl lost her balance.
"Roll your hips"
Turn, and jiggle.
He improvised further.
"Slide to the right, bob."
Slide to the right and bob.
"Spin on your feet, pause, jump, slide left, slide right."
"Fold your hands, and pump, and pump, and pump."
He continued, the people caught up.
"Look to your left, knees out and in and skip, and pout"
Alice's pout was adorable.
"And flick," he pretended to flick dust off his shoulder, "knees out."
"Slowly now – and left hand back, right hand back, switch step, switch step-"
Lauren and Jessica, their spruced up selves, stepped on each others' toes at the back, but Edward didn't care – he continued as the class copied him.
"Hand out, roll, look left, bob – hand out, roll look left, bob-"
"Spin and skip and turn."
Everyone was panting now, Bella grinning to her fullest, having felt that competitive surge in her heart. Or maybe it was just the sight of Edward's cute butt?
"Ok, well, you all have loosened up, so let me now show you this dance mixed with ball room style."
Edward, being his poppy self went to one end of the mirror thing separating Alice's studio from his, and he started to dance, a poppy ball room movement.
But the eerie thing was that Bella was imitating him – her moves matched his, and she started from the same point at the door, and moved with him from this side of the mirror. Their moves were perfectly symmetrical; both same distance apart from the barrier, both dancing like the other.
But when Edward placed his palms on the barrier, Bella's palms landed the same way, same place. And he looked up, smiling.
Not like he could see her, now, but once more, if you looked from the side, they looked like lovers staring into the other's eyes, panting slightly, palms together.
Bella smiled, her palms shaking slightly, and they went on, and danced to the music.
Edward stopped and turned around, only to smile and grin. Jessica and Lauren tittered slightly.
"So lets do our dance once more, an a one, a two, a one two three four-"
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"Thank you!!! I had so much fun, Alice!! You're an awesome person to hang out with!! That was the best event so far in my seventeen years of existence!!!"
Alice laughed. "You have so much talent! I'm glad I hung out with you. For a "maid" you're not that bad, you know. Want me to come tomorrow?"
Bella considered the idea – it was one of the best things that had happened o her in years – she had an actual friend. She would love the idea of hanging out with her first ever friend, to actual be free and taste the fresh air. But tomorrow was another chore-day, where Rosalie would be grilling her to bits, and tomorrow didn't allow space enough for even a five minute escape.
"I can't, Alice, tomorrow is extra chore-day."
"Aww, that's too bad." She really was upset. But why – didn't she have friends enough to hand out with?
"I'm sorry. But I guess you can hang with some of your friends tomorrow." Bella told Alice in a sincere voice.
"You're really the only one I have, believe it or not." Alice murmured.
"How come?" Bella was confused. "You're rich – rich people always have friends!!"
"But my friends are determined to get close to Edward – they use me."
"Some friends."
"Which is why I like you. You don't want to use me."
"Well you must have guy friends then???"
"I do have this nice guy at school who tries to hang around with me – he's also seventeen, like me, and he kinda fancies me, I can tell. I just don't know how to tell him that I like him too. I mean we're friends and stuff."
"So hang with him tomorrow – tell him that you like him!!"
"But believe it or not, with guys, I'm shy."
"What's his name?"
"Jasper."
"Well just do it. Tell Jasper that you like hi-"
Bella wavered in mid sentence as a scream cut her off-
"BELLAAAAAAAAAAA?????" Rosalie bellowed.
"Shit!!" Bella cursed, and made to climb the ladder to her bedroom window. "I gotta go Alice – I'll see you soon!!"
"Bye!!" Alice whispered, and disappeared off, hiding behind the hedge and taking the path from there.
"Just don't step on the rose buds – they take ages to grow!!" Bella half whispered half yelled to her halo of spikes slightly bobbing along in the middle of the pink and green hedges.
And with that, Bella opened the bedroom door and went to the attic, to pretend she cleaned it and that's where she had been the whole time. She had never felt so alive, so human – always, her thoughts had been that of an overworked donkey, braying with every burden, but today she felt like Bella, the teenage girl, who had made her first friend – the first friend of her existence.
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"Where have you been?"
"Cleaning the attic."
"What about your daily chores??"
"I did them in the morning –the hovering didn't need to be done today – you told the pizza guy who spilt the cheese over the carpet to do it yesterday night."
"Why is there a ladder outside your bedroom window??"
Bella heart missed a beat.
"Because…..I had to open the circular tall attic window which is above by bedroom window."
"Why on earth-?"
"I had to clean it."
"Was it a part of your responsibilities?"
"No, but it was grimy, and the celebrity neighbours were looking at it day before yesterday."
"Then why wasn't it cleaned day before YESTERDAY?????"
"Because I had my daily chores to do."
"ARE YOU EYEBALLING ME, BELLA?"
"No ma'am."
"Good. NOW HOOVER THE LIVING AREA!!"
Bella sighed as Rosalie retreated, and started to hoover the room hesitantly. That was one of the many heart-attack-inducing conversations she had had with Rosalie, and the after effects were sinking into her chest.
Bella's mind never wavered from the dance floor; she was recounting the dance Edward had taught them.
Subconsciously, Bella started to dance with the hoover; pretending the hoover was the male lead, and experimented her ballroom dancing pop steps, her pirouettes and her pointed toe balance jumps. She even moved to the beat of the hoover, and started to full out danced a twosome with the machine.
She twirled and twisted, and slid and bobbed, and spun and leapt and bobbed. Her feet curled and bopped and she spaced out her knees. Her right hand swung and curled, and she danced with the hoover, without a care in the world…
The music filled her head, the music of the dance floor, and Bella started to dance her part of the ballroom pop dance Edward showed against the barrier, her mind fogged with the persistent memories of the epic incident…
And one of Edward's songs filled her mind, and she shook her hips, and imagined the hoover as Edward….
"Its become so hard, for me to breathe……
It's a different part, the way you make me feel….
So come and take my hand….
Come and take my hand….
Come and take my hand, I'll show ya how to dance-"
Someone cleared their throat quite suddenly, and Bella tripped over the wire and fell flat on the floor…
Rosalie pursed her lips, standing at the door, and she had her thin eyebrows into an unfathomable expression.
"What are you doing?" She whispered.
"Er…." Bella struggled to reply. "The magazines tell of a routine…er…a hovering routine….." Bella improvised, "….er….that helps the house clean up ten times better!"
Whoops, Bella realized, wrong thing to say.
"You have been reading my magazines…?????" Outrage coloured Rosalie's words.
"Er…no!! I read it from the….er….yellow pages…..newspaper …. magazine… er….. archive?"
Rosalie took it in with the expression of drinking raw lemon juice, and snapped back.
"You were just dancing. It's now routine."
"But it's guaranteed to clean the house better..!"
"Why are you so…interested?"
"For the celebrity guests."
"I don't know why I asked." Rosalie smirked. "You are a maid after all…."
She turned and went.
Bella turned off the hoover and stored it in its usual place, cursing Rosalie. Looking out the clean window, she looked out to the mansion-like house on the hill in the distance, where Alice would probably be watching TV or having non-chore fun. It was with a heavy heart that Bella thought about the ball; if only God could give her one chance to show her worth to Edward, one chance to show him who she was…..
But her fairytale life made sure of the otherwise.
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