APOV

"Isabella Swan I swear to fucking God if you do not open this door, and hang up the phone right now I will grab all of the pretty brown hair on your head and rip it out!" I whisper-shouted through the wood of the door, trying to convey my anger to the sneaky bitch while also trying not to disturb dad.

"Hi Rosie! It's Bella." I heard muffled through the wood. I pressed my face even harder into the door so I could hear.

"So you know the whole situation we have going on here and I think it's time we give it a boost...uh huh...uh huh...well I was thinking everyone here in like an hour or so...no no she'll be fine...okay call me back to confirm...see yah."

What?

"BELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Yeah, dad might suspect something is going on. The lock clicked open and she stuck her head out of the door, only to be met by my best laser gaze of death.

"Alice do you mind just checking with your dad if it's okay to have the gang over? I kind of forgot that step..." Bella asked sweetly with an innocent smile. Her right eye was twitching. She was feeling the laser gaze, I was sure of it.

"Uh, not until you fill me the fuck in! What was that? Since when are you a quasi-cupid?" I spat out quickly.

"First of all, stop swearing, second, calm down. You know you want this to happen so just chill out and ask your dad." She stated calmly, and headed back to my room with the cell phone still clutched safely in her hand. I burnt holes in the back of her head with my stare while I shuffled over to my dad's office. I quietly knocked and poked my head in the door way,

"Dad, can the gang come over tonight?" I asked with no emotion in my voice. Take that Bella, I don't have to be excited about this! He looked up from a file he was browsing through and gazed at me for a moment.

"Sure...is everything alright?" He asked with suspicion and a raise of his right eyebrow. I let out a nervous giggle, and at that his face broke into a smile.

"Yeah dad, I'll...survive." I laughed out.

"Alright then sweet pea, have fun. Don't be up all night please!" He called through his closing office door while I sprinted to my room to see if Rose had called back with the details yet. She was scarily quick at planning and organising group events.

When I walked in, Bella was saying goodbye to Rose and clicking shut the phone. I looked at her expectantly while grabbing the seat in front of my vanity.

"What did your dad say?" She asked quickly, not divulging the only information that I wanted, but instead asking more questions. What's with the questions? Why can't I have some answers?

"You can't have any answers until we have permission silly." She replied.

What? Did I say that out loud? Not the word vomit. Always with the word vomit!

"Did I say that out loud?" I asked.

"Word vomit, it was projectile." She stated warily.

"Dammit. Anyways, my dad says that you can have your friends over." I said, over exaggerating the fact that they were her friends to have over.

"Uh, they are your friends too, and perfect! Rose texted Em, who called Jasper, who was already with Edward for their chemistry project, so Edward texted Em, so that he could tell Rose that they will all be here at eight to watch movies. Isn't that great?" Bella recited quickly with a million dollar smile plastered on her face.

Eight. Jasper will be here, at eight!

JASPER WHITLOCK WILL BE HERE AT EIGHT!

"What time is it?" I asked Bella quickly while I ran to my closet to figure out something better to wear then the track suit I currently had on.

"It's... just after seven. You have time, don't worry!" Bella called out exasperatedly and flopped back onto the bed.

"Don't you tell me about time missy! Choosing and outfit for the first out of school hangout is crucial, I could very well spend all night on this! Oh dear...okay..." I fell silent as I leafed through my walk in closet by colour. Blue, pink, yellow, brown, green, violet...hmmm violet, I like that idea. I pulled out a long, loose, violet cardigan with big black buttons, and a pair of light wash skinny jeans. I threw them out of the closet onto the bed and pulled open a drawer to grab a tank top.

"AHA!" I exclaimed as I pulled out the perfect black tank with silver beading around the straps and neckline. I threw that one at Bella too as I emerged from the closet in a huff.

"How is that, is that okay? Look at that please!" I squeaked out before I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. "OH GOD! LOOK AT MY HAIR!" It was all stringy and hanging around my face in clumps from the annoying as hell rain storm outside.

"It's fine! Alice calm down you're going a million miles a minute!" Bella calmly said to me. How could she be calm in a time like this?

"What's fine? The outfit or the hair?" I turned to her quickly, needing confirmation as soon as possible.

"Both, the outfit is great. You know you can dress in a paper bag and still look hot. I have no idea why you think it takes so long for you to pick out an outfit when you can do it in like 20 seconds. Also I see no problem with your hair. You are insane." Bella answered hastily, before I spun to the mirror again.

"Yeah well that outfit is only the first one, be prepared! I'm sorry, but I have to jump in the shower and fix the mop on my head...read this!" I picked up a magazine from my nightstand and threw it at her so that I could jump in the shower.

"Alright..." I heard Bellas slightly annoyed voice as I stalked through the hall and into the bathroom.

I was in and out of the shower faster than I thought possible, but I knew that I didn't have much time left before they got here, I could just... feel it. Like extremely accurately...they would be here in 34 minutes and 14 seconds.

"What the hell..." I said under my breath as I watched little water droplets fall off of my body onto the hall carpet and walked back to my room.

"Huh?" Bella mumbled and looked up from the magazine I had given her earlier.

"Nothing. What time is it?" I asked, and grabbed my previously picked outfit of choice while stepping into my closet to change so Bellas 'virgin eyes' wouldn't have to see my naked flesh.

"It is 7:26! You have 34 minutes left complete the challenge!" Bella yelled to me in an obnoxious announcer's voice.

Holy fucking crap. Thirty four minutes left, just like I thought...that was really creepy. Lucky guess...I guess.

"Kay."I replied distractedly, slipping on my skinnies. I should have time as long as this outfit looks good and I don't have to change it 55 times.

"You look extraordinary."Bella stated and swung her legs off the side of my bed so that she was sitting diagonally behind me in my vanity mirror, where I was currently seated.

"Thanks...I actually like the look of this, which is amazing on a first try. My sense of style is just as epic under pressure as it is on a regular basis. That is comforting." I pointed out to Bella and grabbed the hair dryer. She rolled her eyes at me.

"Anything I can do to help?" She asked quietly with a smile. I pondered this for a moment. What was there for her to do?

"You can go down to the kitchen and start getting out like, chips, drinks, popcorn you know, the usual." I decided. That left more time for me to get ready, and kept Bella busy for the time being.

"Alright!" She chirped out and skipped towards the kitchen to prepare the snacks.

Ding.

I stood in front of the door, staring at it blankly. This is it Alice, first hangout outside of school. I reached out towards the door handle, reading myself for the faces of my friends, and more importantly the face I loved to fucking stare at. Ding.

Impatient little shits.

I pulled open the door with a huge smile, and then I realized that I could look possibly crazy so I toned it down a bit.

"Hey!" I greeted the lot of them.

Rose came in first, towing in Emmett behind her, then Edward stumbled in, while Emmett started to shake his wet hair at me. Usually I would smack Emmett for being childish but I was preoccupied, waiting for my last guest to clear the doorway.

"Hi" I spoke quickly, just as he stepped in.

"Hello Alice. Nice place y'got here." He smiled at me as he took in his surroundings. The others had already moved into the living room, and I could hear that they were being oddly quiet. Listening in. Bitches.

"Oh, thanks! I didn't really have time to tidy with such short notice, so just ignore the mess.." I replied, turning on my heel and leading our way into the living room with the others. It was also easier not to drool over him when I wasn't completely facing him, which was something I had learned over the week.

"Hey come on now, you don't ever need to tidy up for a guy like me." He chuckled out. I shot him a flirtatious smile over my shoulder. He was just so cute!

"Well, I'll have to remember that for the next time we get together," I said as I led him into living room with the others, "you can take a seat in here." my voice faltered while motioning to the couch when I realised how my friends were assembled. Rosalie and Emmett were already sprawled out on the larger couch and Bella sat in the lazyboy chair with Edward between her legs on the floor, which meant Jasper and I were forced to sit together in the loveseat. Well not forced on my part.

Jasper took his place on the loveseat, and I went to the shelf full of DVD's under the T.V.

"What Kind of movie do you guys want to watch?" I asked while fingering through a couple of the well watched chick flicks Rose, Bella and I loved. I picked up Hairspray and let a giggle slip out. I could never imagine Jasper liking a movie like this.

"Action!" called Emmett. No surprise there.

"Comedy?" Bella suggested and the general chorus of the room sounded agreeable, so I picked a few good ones that we could choose from.

"Alright guys the choices are...The Hangover, I Love You Man..." I got cut off right there by Edward.

"Yeah, I Love You Man! I haven't seen that one yet!" Edward explained and nobody argued, I looked over and saw that Jasper was telling Edward how he had wanted to see this one too. This was good, he would be having fun then, this hangout would be worth it! I popped the disk in and nervously took my seat beside Jasper.

"You can help yourself to any snacks or drinks you want," I said to him quietly while the opening credits started. "I would tell this to the others, but they already do it on their own.." I trailed off. I had a sneaking suspicion that Jasper was too much of a gentlemen to ever take something without being offered first. With that said I turned to the screen. I didn't want to talk anymore because honestly, sitting this close, all I wanted to do was smell him.

"Why thank you Alice, you're very kind." He replied, low into my ear. His breath was hot on my neck. I held in my swooning gasp and just smiled at him instead.

"You're very welcome" I breathed out. Was that corny? I feel like it was corny. Dammit.

I tried to snuggle into the couch further, but only found myself getting closer to Jasper as the movie went on. Was this darn thing getting smaller by the minute? It's already a loveseat! I wanted to get comfortable, but I was sitting stiffly, muscles clenched. I was nervous, what if he didn't want to be sitting this close? He noticed me scooting around and just laughed, then put his arm around me.

I think my heart exploded.

I think my heart melted.

I think it's hard for a heart to do both of those things at the same time but holy hell was mine ever. As I snuggled into his side and the whole room laughed at the movie, I couldn't help but feel like I belonged there.