Title: Dance with Me
Rating: T
Summary: A major league baseball player with a bad rep needs to clean his image. He signs on to do a reality dance show. Will he clean his image and have the right kind of chemistry with his partner?
Disclaimer: Twilight belongs to Stephanie Meyer I own nothing.
Comments: Based loosely on the reality t.v. show Dancing with the Stars and because Bella/Edward is my new favorite ship.

Thanks Candy Cullen! She has managed to find time in her busy school schedule to beta for me. :)

May 1st 2008

Edward's POV

Surprisingly we made it through another round. Every Tuesday I'm scared out of my mind. Tuesdays sucks! Well, except if you get saved by the voting audience then it's not so bad.

Our next dances is the Quickstep and the Samba. Once again two completely different styles and a whole set of movements that I'm not accustomed to. Our music was set to "I Love You" by Martina McBride and "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira.

"The Quickstep is going to kick your butt," Bella said with a laugh.

I did not like the sound of that.

"Why?" I asked curiously.

"Because it's the fastest ballroom dance. It's like your sprinting. Oh and I'm totally making you jump."

"Huh?" I asked dumbly.

"We've got our work cut out for us," she sighed. "Tomorrow morning nine a.m. sharp Cullen."

"Oh I like it when you go all bossy on me," I teased.

"Shut up," she said.

That night Bella and I parted ways so we could get a good night's sleep in order to get back into practice mode.

May 2nd 2008

By the time I woke up I padded to the kitchen and grabbed a Gatorade. It probably wasn't the best choice to get at eight in the morning, but I really didn't go grocery shopping and I'm not about to hire someone to do that shit for me. If I wanted to do that I could and I didn't see any reason fit to have other people do shit for me if I could help it.

I placed my drink on the countertop and then went to go find my phone. I remember tossing it aside before I fell asleep so it must be around the bed somewhere. After looking for it for a minute I found it tangled up in the sheets. I put my phone on silent during the night and when I brought it back with me to the kitchen I found I had two missed calls and a text message. All of them were from Jasper.

I ignored the missed calls and read his text. It was short and direct.

Wow, I thought to myself. This is going to be a good day.

I sent Jasper a response and informed him I'd be in the studio with Bella all morning but that by lunch time I'd meet him to talk. After I sent the text I drank the rest of my Gatorade and went to the bathroom to take quick shower to get ready for Bella.

Bella was already at the studio when I arrived. She was seated on the hardwood floor stretching. I took a moment to admire her lithe body and I almost forgot what I was supposed to be doing till Bella started screaming at me.

"Huh?" I said.

"I said are you ready to start? The camera crew won't be here till ten."

"Oh," I said. "Yes, I'm ready." I plopped my duffle bag on the floor and retrieved my shoes.

"Which ones?" I asked.

"Um, let's go for the ballroom first."

"You got it."

The Quickstep kicked my butt. It was so fast! And Bella was still hounding me about my footwork. It was like I couldn't catch a break, but I was determined to push through it and do my best. We practiced the Quickstep for an hour and when we took a break the camera crew came in and set everything up. We put our mic packs on and then Bella had me prance around and work on my frame and posture. Before participating in this show I would have called this a sissy sport or not acknowledged it as a sport at all. It's dancing, right? Wrong! It's so effing hard! There are all these rules and my body is not used to moving and working like this. This ballroom and Latin dancing is tough and it is most definitely a hardcore sport.

After we worked on the Quickstep Bella showed me some basic steps of the Samba. It was supposed to be the 'party dance' and when Bella danced it looked incredible, however, when I danced and tried to perform the steps it looked awkward. There's this bounce in the step and I didn't have it. Yet.

I was trying not to get frustrated and Bella reminded me it was only the first day of rehearsals so that softened my mood.

It was nearing lunch time and I remembered I had to meet up with Jasper. When the camera guys left us to get their own lunch Bella began taking her shoes off and putting away her water bottle.

We hadn't been in girlfriend/boyfriend mode yet. And we couldn't since we basically worked super close together. Bella was adamant in telling me that she wanted to keep our personal life separate from our working relationship. Although, that could be tricky I was determined to do this her way. If Bella believed we could remain professionals while on the show then I believed it too.

As she zipped up her bag the door to our studio burst open.

"Bella!" Alice chirped happily.

"Alice!" I cried. I wasn't expecting her at all and when I was about to ask her why she's here Jasper appeared from the doorway.

"Edward," he greeted me with a nod of his head. I waved and then he went to say hello to Bella.

"So what's up?" I asked.

"Well," Alice said. "Since you and Jasper have a business meeting I thought it would be nice if Bella and I had a girl's day out. And before you say we can't I promise to have her back in an hour. I know you guys are practicing and I will not take away from your rehearsal time."

"That sounds great Alice," I said genuinely pleased that my sister thought about everything.

"So what do you say Bella? Can I take you away from your man for a little?"

Bella blushed and nodded her head. "Yes, Alice. I'd love to have a girl's day out with you."

"Yay!" Alice said giving Bella a bone crushing hug.

Bella looked at me from the corner of her eye and smiled as she squeezed Alice back. I laughed and when Alice let Bella go I took Bella by the waist and leaned my forehead on hers. "Have fun with Alice," I said kissing her forehead. "We'll come back at two?"

"You didn't tell me you had lunch plans!" she said with a laugh. "Is everything alright Edward? This is just a good business lunch thing right?"

I could hear the concern in her voice and I felt bad that I couldn't inform her of the stuff that was going on. Not yet, I silently scolded myself. You can tell her after lunch after everything is set.

"Everything is fine," I assured her. "Don't worry about me. Go have fun with Alice and then we'll talk later, okay?"

"Okay," she sighed. She rose on her tip-toes and gave me a kiss. It was a quick 'goodbye' kiss and I pouted when she and Alice started making their way to the door.

"I miss you already!" I said dramatically.

Bella threw her head back in laughter and blew me a flying kiss.

"So," Jasper said clapping his hands together. "Ready to go to lunch?"

I'm trying to get another chapter out soon. Sorry that this chapter was vague. You'll get some of your questions answered in the next chapter.

Till next time.

Tina