The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #17
Pen Name: RockRaven244
Pairing/Character(s): Edward / Bella
Rating: T
Word Count: 500

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"I love this song!" Alice screams.

Tiffany's voice is playing loudly over the speakers and Alice is singing along … embarrassingly off key.

"Alice," Rose whisper-yells. "Shut up!"

Alice sticks her tongue out at Rose and continues singing.

We walk up to the counter and Jasper Whitlock is flirting with some girls.

Alice stops dancing, her happy vibe wavering just a bit.

Jasper Whitlock, Edward Cullen and Emmett McCarty are best friends, extremely popular, gorgeous, and two years older than us; we've had crushes on them forever.

"Hey," I nudge Alice. "Don't worry about him; you look hot."

Alice smiles and nudges me back.

"Hey Jas, three pairs of size six, please," Alice asks, fluttering her eyelashes.

Jasper looks over at us, stopping when he gets to Alice.

"Hey, Alicat," he smiles and pulls out three pairs of skates.

"Oh my God, he was totally checking you out, Alice. I told you this outfit was hot!"

I roll my eyes.

"Stop rolling your eyes at me, Bella. Maybe if you took my advice, Edward would notice you, too."

"I don't want him to notice me because of my clothes," I shrug. "If he can't like me the way I am, then I don't need him to like me at all."

Rose frowns at me and sits down to put her skates on.

"Don't pay attention to her, Bell," Alice says, standing up and moving her feet back and forth on the skates.

"Come on!"

The disco ball is twirling and people are skating all around me. I laugh and follow her out onto the floor.

I feel someone tug on my hand and I look behind me, seeing Rose. She smiles and squeezes my hand before pulling me to catch up with Alice.

We're skating and laughing and waving at the people flying around us.

The song changes and 'Livin' on a Prayer' comes over the speakers. Rose squeals, really loud and starts singing, pretending her fist is a microphone.

I'm laughing so hard that I lose my balance. I brace myself for the impact but feel myself moving forward with arms wrapped around my waist.

I turn my head to see who caught me and I'm struck dumb by bright green eyes.

"Hey," he says, smiling at me.

"Hey," I smile, but don't really know what else to say because my brain is screaming 'EDWARD CULLEN'S HANDS ARE ON MY WAIST!'

"Thanks for catching me."

He chuckles, "I've been trying to figure out how to catch you for a long time."

I stumble, and this time he goes down with me.

I look over at him and can't help but laugh.

"Bella, will you hang out with me today?"

I stop laughing and look over at him. "Really?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, yeah," I shrug.

He smiles and helps me stand up, his fingers lacing through mine.

I look behind me to see Alice and Rose staring at us with open mouths and it takes everything in me not to squeal.