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Winter Dance Fiasco

Part 10

Day 40

The last few days had passed in quiet a blur. The winter dance was in less than two weeks, keeping the energy within students very high.

I hated it.

The winter dance had to be the worst idea I've ever heard. I absolutely hated it. I had nothing against high school dances, but that was back when I was invisible. We had dances all the time in my old boarding school with the neighboring all boys school, but back then nobody liked me enough to actually asked me out. I never minded it that much.

But somehow my worst nightmares has come true. Practically all of the boys in my year level kept eyeing me up, making me feel very uncomfortable. I walked through the entrance this morning with practically all of the jocks smiling at me offering to carry my books.

I tugged on my pigtails uncomfortably as Tyler came up to me and started chatting to me like we were best friends. Then he kept brushing my arm 'accidentally' while I kept staring at him like he was on drugs.

Then as if that wasn't bad enough, I got my first ever invite to the dance. A very popular senior came up to me while I was chatting to Alice in front of my locker and handed me a red rose and asked me to go to the dance with him.

The orange juice I was drinking went down the wrong pipe and I spluttered and coughed all over the popular boy's jacket, which gained me a dirty look and a tsk as the boy, who I recognized as Trent from Bio class, walked away from me like I was some infected loser.

I stared at his retreating back as Alice started giggling uncontrollably. "Is he crazy? Why would he want to go with me?" I asked, staring incredulously at the red rose Trent had given me.

Alice just laughed, "I think the whole world is finally seeing you the way I can see you, which is hot!" she said cheerfully. I cocked one eye brow at her, she just rolled her eyes at me. "Oh don't you look at me like that. You realize that your coming to the dance right?" I gave her a confused look, "I am?" I asked slowly.

I looked as Alice's relaxed expression turned to excitement. "Of course you are! There's no way I'm going to let you miss it! Besides, you're going to have to say yes to one of the boys!" she said, looking at someone behind me.

"Oh yeah? And why do you say that?" I asked sarcastically. She shrugged and whispered in my ears; "Because Mike Newton is headed your way…"

I quickly spun around and to my horror, Alice had been right. I watched as Mike started walking towards me. I looked towards Alice with panicked eyes. "What do I do?!" I asked hurriedly. I kept looking as Mike kept getting closer and closer. Alice just shrugged and didn't say anything. It looked like I was on my own.

I wanted to throttle Alice right there and then but I had no time, Mike was already standing before me, grinning boyishly. I tried to fake a smile, and tried even harder not to grimace as Mike greeted me with a big hug.

I patted his back awkwardly. I could feel a pair of eyes watching me from a distance. I tried to look from the corner of my eyes and nearly had a heart attack when I saw Edward's smirking face.

How dare he look so cute and smirk at me? I had thought to myself. Edward wore a white t-shirt that had the word 'believe' sprayed across it. I warily stared at the word that had been underlined.

I gently pushed Mike away and gave him a sweet smile. From the corner of my eyes I saw Edward's face grow dark. I snorted to myself, and Mike noticed. I quickly fabricated a cover up, "Sorry, I just remembered a joke, so what's up?" I said reeling the conversation towards a different direction.

I heard Alice squeak, I looked at her, about to ask her if she was fine when I saw Jasper heading our way. Alice quickly became alert and exited stage left. The whole time Mike and I just watched.

I could tell that Mike was getting a little curious so I decided to reel him in again. "So were you going to tell me something?" I asked, a little too happily. Mike smiled rather shyly and nodded.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the winter dance with me?" he asked, his voice sounding a little bit too confident. I heard a snigger from the spot where I'm pretty sure Edward stood with Emmet and Rosalie.

I turned red and tried to come up with some excuse. A part of me wanted to say I was sick and dying of some fatal disease but when I heard another snigger I turned towards Edward to find him close to hysterics.

I felt the anger rise in my blood as I shot Edward a glare. I turned towards Mike once more, before I knew it I had opened my mouth without thinking much about the outcome.

"Oh I'm sorry Mike, but I already promised to go with someone else" I said apologetically. I heard the sniggering suddenly stop, I gave Edward a side ways glance and saw that he was no longer smirking.

"Oh" mike sounded dejected. I looked at him and instantly felt guilty. He looked up and tried to smile brightly, "That's okay Bella" he said softly.

Awww

I felt so bad.

"So who are you going with?" he asked cautiously. I said the name that first popped inside my head. "Jacob Black!" I squeaked.

Mike looked both disappointed and surprised. "Jacob Black?" he asked, his eye brows slightly furrowed. I gave him a sad smile, and froze a bit, waiting to see if he believed me. When he smiled again, I felt relief wash over me.

As he walked away another thought came inside my head.

I just stupidly told one of the popular boys that I was going with Jacob Black. Jacob Black who I haven't spoken to ever since we saw each other down at La Push.

I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut!

As Mike disappeared from my view I quickly turned towards where Edward stood. He didn't look too happy.

Well he didn't have the right to look like he was about to explode. I turned and went in search for Alice.

I needed to talk to someone, I needed to tell someone about my stupidity!

.:.

I found Alice in the library loitering about in the classical fiction area. I crept up behind her as she flicked through a copy of 'Pride and Prejudice'. I poked her sides and watched, amused, as she jumped and squealed.

She quickly looked around and found me trying to hold my laughter in. "Bella!" she whined. I just stuck my tongue out. "Yeah well, that's what you get for leaving me alone with Mike Newton!" I said jokingly.

Alice looked at me apologetically. "Aw I'm sorry Bella, you know how I am around Jasper…" she said sadly. I sighed and gave her a comforting hug.

"Alice, you can't keep doing that. Your going to have to face him sooner or later. Besides, I heard on the vine that he's broken up with Cruella" I said, saying the nickname we had for Jasper's girl friend.

The sad thing was, we were both sad, sad souls. We've never even met the girl, so we don't know if she was nice or not. But we both found out that making fun of the anonymous girl was so much funnier, even though we both knew that it was wrong to judge someone before we even met her.

"I doubt that that's even true" she said softly, giving me a small smile, "I've actually seen her Bella, I saw them together two days ago. They looked pretty unbreakable to me" she said. I heard the sound of undoing in her voice, but she quickly caught it and brought back control over her own voice.

I could tell that she was trying hard not to cry. I closed my eyes and gave her an even bigger hug. "Shhh, Alice you know that you don't have to pretend with me" I whispered softly.

Alice started shaking and for once, she let her guard down and let the tears fall. She bit her lips to stop herself from making a sound. We both flopped down on the floor as Alice told me about seeing Jasper and his girlfriend on the mall.

"I was just walking around trying to look for a dress for the dance, you know just in case we do end up going, I was browsing around a shop when I saw him come in. He was flicking his hair the way only he knows how, and Bella you have no idea, my heart did this flickering thing that it always does whenever I saw him" she started, her voice was still shaky, but her words were still understandable.

"When he walked in I thought he was alone, but then this brunette girl walked in and wrapped her arms around Jasper's waist. I just had to get away, but how could I? So I ended up hiding behind some of those horrible wonder bras…Bella it was so terrible!" she said in broken sobs.

"I don't get him you know? I honestly thought that he liked you…" I whispered softly. And that was true, I honestly thought Jasper really liked Alice, unless I imagined all of those little glances he would give Alice, and of course his face after I attacked him.

But it seems like he's got serious boy disease, urgh, just like Edward.

"I don't know how many times I'm going to say this, but it seems like you and I have been repeating this A LOT lately, so I'm going to say it again; Forget him. It might be hard, but he's being very stubborn" I said gently. We just sat on the floor not talking for a bit, when Alice's head shot up.

"What happened with Mike?" she asked. I made an exasperated sound then looked at Alice. "Oh nothing. He just asked me to the dance and I very nicely declined-" I was in mid sentence when Alice broke me off, "What? How did you reject him?!" she asked surprised, "Wait, I haven't finished yet!" I replied.

"Like I was saying, I nicely declined and stupidly fabricated the lie that I'm going to the dance with Jacob Black, which I obviously am NOT. So as you can see, I'm screwed. It's all Edward's fault!" I said all of this very fast, without pausing for a second. I felt light headed after a while as I watched for Alice's reaction.

She started giggling, then started fully laughing. I gave another exasperated sound and clutched my head. Alice stopped laughing. "Wait, how is this Edward's fault?" she asked, sounding a little confused.

So I told her about Edward laughing at me. "Oh Bella, I honestly don't get it. I don't understand how he can pull such reactions out of you! You are so taken in, I don't get it. It's Edward!" Alice said. Well she wouldn't understand now would she?

After all, Edward is her brother. She doesn't see him the way I see him. He's got a mysterious air about him, not to mention a smile that drove me insane.

When I told Alice this, it was clear that she wasn't taken in. "Yeah, well he wouldn't be so mysterious once you've heard him fart" she frowned. I definitely didn't need to hear that. But who cares right? I have to accept the good and the bad in him.

But the problem was that Edward didn't exactly want me the way I wanted him. I felt that suffocating sensation in my heart once again as I tried to push the sorrow down.

If he didn't want me, then that's fine by me. I can find someone else who I can love and will love me in return, Edward is not that great, nope, he really isn't.

Oh god.

I think my nose just grew with every lie that I told.

The Bell went and Alice and I piled out of the library. I headed towards my locker and decided I might as well call Jacob and actually ask him for a favor. I have to go to the dance with him, even if I have to grovel.

I was the first one in the locker bay, as everybody were still piling out of the cafeteria, so I had privacy. I dialed Jacob's number and waited. There was a click and a deep voice greeted me from the other side.

"Hey, Jake, is that you? It's Bella, chief Swan's daughter" I threw in the last bit. Who knows, maybe he's forgotten all about me. I frowned, and hoped to God he hasn't.

"Hey, hey! This is a nice surprise. What's up Bells?" he asked. I smiled to myself and thought of words to say to him.

"Um well, I'm kind of stuck…Mike Newton asked me to the dance and I had to tell him that I was going with someone else, and well…Your name kind of popped up…" I said slowly, blushing slightly.

I heard chuckling on the other side and I started to get just a little bit defensive. "Hey, your name was the first one that came to mind alright!" I said huffily.

He was still chuckling. I started biting my nails nervously. "So what do you want me to do about it?" he asked. So that was it. I took a breath and spoke, "Can you please take me to the dance?" I said in a tiny voice.

There was silence on the other line. Oh god, he's going to reject me. That's what I thought until I heard laughing on the other side. "Of course! I'd love to! Look I have to go, class is starting up again, I'll talk to you soon alright?" he asked. I just said yes, and nodded happily.

"And Bella? Thanks for thinking of me first" he said softly and with that I heard a click and the line went dead. I stared at my phone for a while. I knew that my life just somehow got even more complicated.

I heard footsteps and I quickly turned to find Edward's retreating back.

I've said this before, but maybe it really is time to move on…

I'm just so fed up. Oh well, I got to go. Alice is going to come around here soon. We are going shopping for our dresses. It turned out that Trent had asked her to go with him. She agreed in the conditions that he doesn't make any physical contact with anything on her body other than her hand.

Alice can't stand Trent, but when he asked her, it just so happens that Jasper was standing just a couple of feet away, just within earshot.

Day 41

Surprisingly shopping with Alice hadn't been painful. It was actually fun. It definitely got my mind off of a few things, EX: Edward. But as usual Alice had been very pushy. I didn't have much cash, but I ended up not spending my money at all. Seeing as Alice was the one who kept spending.

I even refused to have her pay for my stuff, but she insisted. And trust me, once you got Alice started, there was no stopping her.

We were walking around looking for dresses for a while. We were in Port Angeles, but I was getting very frustrated. Nothing in the shops seemed to look good on me. While Alice on the other hand looked good in anything she tried on. I gave a frustrated huff and looked to my left and was stunned by how pretty one dress looked.

It was a boob tube corset that had laces going down all through out my spine. The glitter design on the top created dream-like patterns, as the torso went down in to layers of chiffon and satin, mixing two shades of blue together, stopping just below the knees. In my mind that's how I Imagined a fairytale dress would look like.

I must have started to drool when Alice finally noticed where my eyes were directed. "Oh my god Bella, that dress is perfect for you!" she gasped. She ran towards the dress and delicately handled it and gave it to me.

I stood there like an idiot for a while, just staring at the dress. Alice pushed me towards a change room and helped me with the corset.

As soon as she had me laced up, she slid out of the change room and waited on the other side patiently.

I looked at my reflection on the mirror, I was speechless for once.

I walked out of the change room and walked towards Alice. She gasped and started giggling. "Bella! Oh my god! This is your dress! I don't care if it's expensive, I'm buying it for you!" she said. And who was I to argue?

I looked at myself in the mirror. The dress felt like it was made just for me. It even fitted perfectly.

So now I have a dress and a date. Bring it on!

Day 41 (Much later)

Okay, why did I have to speak too soon? Jacob is going to walk out of the dance as soon as he realizes that I can't dance. i tried once, you know take ballet lessons and all, but i ended up with a twisted ankle. The dance studio I use to go to had to kick me out of the class nicely. Making up crap that the dance class was already full.

What do I do?!

Knowing me, I'll probably trip over and create a whole snowball effect where everybody else falls on their butt because of me.

Oh Merde! Merde! Merde!