AN: I do not own Twilight. Any characters, places, events, etc. belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 10
Time continued to pass by peacefully. I told everyone I was going to the dance, but I didn't have date. My father was the most relieved with this news. I let Alice know that she could go all out on my dress, shoes, makeup, hair, whatever she wanted to do. She seemed happy about this, but she was acting very oddly around me. It made me wonder if she knew the truth.
School was rather boring in the time that passed. We had homework, we learned, the same old crap. Newton would give me evil glares whenever Josh and I passed him but we didn't think much of it. After school, we always did our homework and then we would talk and get to know each other better…and kiss. There was always kissing.
Finally came the day of the dance. Josh and I decided that we didn't want to go to the festival during the day, so that gave me time at home to be Alice's dress up doll. All the weirdness seemed to be washed out of her as she got me dressed up.
"Alice, you know
this isn't prom, right?"
"Of course I do! This isn't even
going all out! Prom, oh my. I need to start planning."
I sighed as she continued to do my hair and makeup. She made my hair slightly wavy and for my makeup, she put blue eye shadow on my eyes and a gentle layer of clear gloss on my lips.
"Okay, I think you're going to LOVE what I got you." She ran out of the room and was back almost immediately.
And you know what? I actually did love it.
It was a nice little blue dress with a bow that went around the front. It didn't look too slutty, nor did it look too blah. It was just right and Alice made it even better by bringing a pair of jeans with her to go under the dress. She also brought some blue wedge shoes with her.
"Alice, I love it!"
"Oh! I'm glad! Now…"
When she finished, I thought I looked absolutely beautiful.
"Alice, thank you!" I gave her a giant hug.
"You're welcome! Now, I think you should arrive in the Porsche…"
"Of course, Alice." I laughed as she dragged me downstairs"
"We're leaving! I'm taking her in the Porsche!"
Everyone was downstairs immediately, commenting on how beautiful I looked. I wanted to thank them all, but Alice pulled me out the door and into the Porsche and we were driving within that second.
We arrived to the school almost immediately.
"Thank you, Alice." I got out of the Porsche and shut the door. She was gone within a heartbeat.
I sighed and walked into the gym to begin looking for Josh. I saw lots of people were already here, including Newton, but Josh was no where to be found. After a few minutes of looking, I gave up and came to the conclusion that he wasn't here yet. Almost immediately after I made that conclusion, I felt something grab me around my waist. It scared me, so I jumped a little. After I jumped, I heard him laughing.
"My, a little jumpy are we?" Josh said in a joking tone. I turned around and gave Josh a hug.
"Wow, you look wonderful, Josh." He was wearing a white shirt with a tie and some black pants and black sneakers.
"Well, compared to you, I look like everyone else in the gym." He grinned widely as he took my hand and walked me to the dance floor.
"Wow…I've never been to a dance before with someone else…" We had jumped in right at a slow song, so he placed his hands around my hips and I place my arms around his neck.
"Me neither." I placed my head on his shoulder as we continued to dance. When the song was over, a much The Macarena came on so slow dancing didn't work anymore. I laughed as Josh fumbled over trying to do the hand movements, while I did them flawlessly.
After The Macarena, there were a few more upbeat songs and then someone got up and made an announcement.
"Attention, everyone!" It was Newton who was making the announcement. "If any of you would like to join the pairs dancing contest, please come to the front while the rest of you go to the back."
"A dance contest?" It was Josh who asked the question.
"Yeah! Come on, let's go." I grabbed his hand and dragged him up to the front with me.
"Liz, I…I'm not so sure about this…"
"Oh, stop it. If we're out, we're out. Besides, the world won't end." I was confident that we would do well, even if we didn't win. Besides, this was going to be fun.
Newton glared at us again but stopped when he must have thought of something. Then, he smiled at us as he spoke into the mic again.
"Okay, everyone. Let's see how you all do on this song." He pointed to the girl controlling the music and a salsa song came on. The other pairs seemed frazzled when they heard this song. But Josh and I were pleased. Josh had mentioned something about knowing how to salsa dance once, so I asked him to teach me.
And now, here we were, twirling around on the dance floor. Everyone was cheering, but the other pairs with frowning as they just left and departed to stand with the croud. Eventually, we were the only two dancing. Josh was twirling me all around and we were laughing the entire time. When the song ended, everyone cheered wildly.
"Alright. It seems we have winners!" Newton smiled as he spoke. "The winners are Elizabeth Cullen and Joshua Black!" He clapped too, but then I saw him take something out of his ear…it looked like a Bluetooth or something.
I gave Josh a hug and he kissed me on the forehead.
And then came the loud bang.
"ELIZABETH CULLEN, YOU GET AWAY FROM HIM NOW!" It was my father.
"Dad? What are you doing here?!" I let go of Josh as I screamed across the room at him. He pulled me into a darker part of the gym, due to the fact that he couldn't be in the bright light.
"How could you be at the dance with HIM?! After all I've told you about him?"
"Dad, I told you before, that nothing is his fault and I have nothing to judge him on."
He sighed. "This is not the place to talk about this. You!" He pointed to Josh. "Get over here."
Josh approached us and
then we walked outside.
"Listen here, dog, you stay away from
my daughter. Got it?"
"Dad, don't call him a dog!"
"Elizabeth, his father is a werewolf, eventually HE will be a werewolf. This must be stopped now."
"No, it's not going to be stopped now." It was Josh who spoke. "My father told me that-"
"What did I tell you, son?"
Jacob Black appeared around the corner, frowning.
"I got a call from one of the students saying that my son and the leech were dancing together." He glared at my father and then at me.
"Why are you here, dog?"
"Because I came to get my son. I've already told him before to stay away from her." He pointed to me and glared at my father.
"Oh. We actually agree on something. What d'you know?"
"Shut up, leech. Josh, go tell that Newton boy that you won't be able to help him with homework after school because you're grou-"
"Wait. Your pup is helping Newton with his homework, too?"
Oh shit.
"Josh, you didn't tell me she was-"
And then it both hit them.
"YOU'VE BEEN SEEING EACH OTHER AFTER SCHOOL?!?!!?!?!?!?" They both yelled at the same time.
I sighed as I spoke up.
"Yes. We would have told you the truth if you didn't act like stupid children! All you care about is some damn rivalry that vampires and werewolves have! Am I a full vampire? No. Is Josh a werewolf? No. Besides, he hasn't done anything wrong, I haven't done anything wrong, you don't get it!"
"I get it perfectly, Elizabeth," said my father, "You and this boy are in love, and I won't have it." He grabbed me by the arm and dragged me along to his car.
I looked back at Josh and he looked at me. He mouthed the words 'I love you.' And I mouthed them right back at him.
(Eeek! Hope you all enjoyed that chapter! ;D)
