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Things start to go wrong again for Laura in a couple of chapters. Oh-ho!

Chapter 14

The following morning Edward was right I was completely exhausted, to make things worse Edward wasn't in school and as my leg was still a little awkward Charlie had to drop me off in his Cop car. It was Jessica who I saw first and she was followed close by Mike who noticed me struggling with my bag and took it from my shoulder to help. They were supportive as the day progressed and particularly when tension began to build with Bella turning up at dinner.

"Bella," I smiled as we sat in the cafeteria.

"Hello Laura," she was civil with but I was clearly not forgiven, there was a harsh edge to her voice.

"It's the prom tonight," Jessica squealed filling the silence and making everyone forget the awkwardness between Bella and I. Sometimes you needed someone like Jessica. "Who's going?" There were squeals and descriptions of dresses around the table until it got to me.

"I'm not," I explained.

"What?" Jessica looked shocked.

"I just don't fancy it," I added.

"Not even with Edward?"

"No," I answered ignoring Bella's gaze.

"What about you Bella?" Jessica asked.

"No," she breathed a sigh.

"I heard Taylor was going to ask you today," Jessica revealed, but Bella simply left the table.

The day was dull as I desperately counted down the hours and then the minutes until I could get away and hopefully see Edward. I hadn't been back long when I got a phone call, from Edward asking me to drive to his. It was a bit bizarre, he usually insisted on picking me up. Nonetheless I enjoyed the brief moment of independence and drove straight to his home. When I arrived I was instantly bombarded with Alice and blindfold, and before I'd even had chance to lock the car door she'd got my eyes covered.

"Awesome," she giggled and fortunately grabbed my hand and began leading me in a random direction.

"Alice what on earth?" I demanded.

"You're going to love it all!" she insisted, "There's a step here," she explained as I felt what I presumed was the threshold of the house with my toe. The flooring changed as we moved through what I guessed was the hallway until I realised she wanted me to go up the stairs with the blindfold on.

"Alice what are you doing?" I asked, my eyes were covered as she attempted to escort me up the stairs in the Cullen house. "Couldn't you have covered my eyes after the stairs," I groaned.

"You're not going to trip," she spoke calmly. "I can see you perfectly fine, no blood, at the top of the stairs."

"Right," once upstairs it was a few more steps before I heard a door shut behind us, she removed her hand and I took in the room.

There was a mirror with lights, piles of makeup, hair products; in the corner was a blue dress and a beautiful pair of shoes.

"What?" I span around.

"You're going to the prom," she plonked me carefully on a stool and began to work.

"Does Edward know about this?" I asked.

"Of course, it was his idea," she smiled.

"I sense he was probably persuaded by someone though,"

"Just a little."

It had to be said Alice was good at this makeover thing. The dress was gorgeous and she'd somehow managed to make me look pretty decent too. Edward was considerate with his compliments and before long I was definitely enjoying myself. The rest of the students avoided us due to Rosalie and Emmett's exuberant yet graceful dancing. The only thing that was left for me to do was worry about how I got here and what I was going to do.

"What are we going to do?" I asked Edward as he moved me gracefully around the dance floor.

"What with?"

"Me," I whispered. "I'm not supposed to be here."

"Laura, it is you I've chosen, we've been over this," Edward reached forward to kiss my forehead.

"No, I've accepted that, but how do we move forward from here?"

"In the respect that this world isn't your home," he stated.

"Yes," I answered.

"I can honestly say that I don't know," Edward smiled. "But wherever you go, I go." He twirled me around even quicker to end the conversation, but I was upset. There was no way that Edward was leaving his family to go to my world, even if it was possible, I wouldn't let him, but could I just leave my family?

"Will you smile, just for a few seconds so I take a photo?" Alice snapped, I hadn't even realised we'd stopped dancing. "Oh," Alice's sigh drew my attention away from Edward to the rest of the room. I saw Jacob Black awkwardly shuffling his way across the room.

"Jacob?" I frowned and saw Edward' face tighten.

"Laura could I talk to you for a minute?" Jacob asked, he was focused completely on me oblivious to Edward glaring at him.

"Sure," I slowly moved nearer to the wall and away from everyone dancing. "Billy paid you to do this didn't he?"

"How do you..." Jacob frowned.

"Just go on, make sure he coughs up the money otherwise I'll be down there," I smiled.

"Right, it's a bit weird. He kind of wants you to break up with Edward, I'm supposed to tell you that the Cullens are dangerous."

"Message received," I nodded.

"Massage ignored?" Jacob raised his eyebrows.

"Perhaps," I titled my head. "Make sure you get the money."

"Ok," Jacob paused and then reached out with his arms, we hugged and I suddenly felt strangely attached to Jacob, I hoped I could somehow make sure Bella paid him some attention.

"It was nice seeing you Jake, I'll make sure Bella and I find our way down to La Push at some point." I patted his back, as he straightened out from his hug I saw Edward was beginning to walk towards us.

"Bye Laura." Jake realised his time was up and he turned and left the hall.

"You're far too nice to people," Edward swept me once again into his arms to begin to dance.

"You're far too good to me," I blurted as he reached down and pressed his lips against mine.