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Chapter 7: It All Happened Over Coffee

BPOV

The last thing I remembered before waking up, was dreaming about Edward's and my kiss. That dream was shattered as I heard loud laughter around me. I opened my eyes to see Alice clutching her stomach and Emmett rolling on the floor, both laughing hysterically.

I quickly yanked my comforter over my head, knowing I had said something embarrassing while I was sleeping.

"What did I say?" I mumbled against the covers.

Alice laughed even more, "Oh nothing, just a few 'oh Edward's." She quoted what I said in a dreamy voice.

I wanted to curl up and die right then of embarrassment.

I slowly slid the covers back down to look at the people I, for some unknown reason, called friends.

I glared at them before I spoke. "So, what are you two doing in my room this early, anyways?" I growled.

"Early??" they both shouted.

"It's 9 o'clock!" Alice said.

"We let you sleep in." Emmett added, smiling as if he had done a good deed.

I just groaned as I got out of bed and stumbled into my bathroom to splash cold water on my face. When I came out, I threw on some pajama shorts and saw that they had left the room. I found them both sitting on the couch staring intently at the television, which was displaying the History Channel.

Something was up.

I went towards the kitchen to start breakfast when I heard my phone buzz. I ran to get it and saw a message from Edward.

Wanna get together and go for coffee?

Suddenly, I remembered why today was going to suck. It was interrogation day.

I'll have to check with the others, but maybe around lunch. We all have some morning chores to attend to. I sent back to him quickly.

Sounds great ;) He replied instantaneously.

I smiled at the little smiley on the screen then walked back to the kitchen. I decided to make pancakes topped with strawberries and whip cream to distract them from their questioning.

Once I handed them their plates, they didn't fall for my trap.

"So, Bella, do you want to go first?" Alice asked sweetly.

"Why don't you, since you brought it up." I said, smiling at her.

Emmett just nodded and poked her side to prod the story out of her.

"Ow! Okay, fine. Last night, after you and Edward went upstairs, Emmett, here, left with Roaslie, so just Jasper and I were alone on the couch." she smirked at having told on Emmett before continuing. "About halfway through whatever show we were watching, he turned to me and just stared. It was very odd." she said with a puzzled look from the memory.

I nodded and motioned for her to continue. Emmett moved to the edge of the couch waiting for what she would say next.

"So, anyways, I asked what was up and he just said, 'I didn't realize you'd be so much more beautiful in person.' After that, we just started talking about anything and everything and then I gathered up my courage and asked him out. He said yes, and now we're official. Then I fell asleep on his shoulder." she finished by smiling widely and staring up dreamily at the ceiling.

Emmett sighed next to her, "That wasn't very exciting. So much for getting my hopes up."

"Oh Emmett, not exciting enough? Then, please, do share your more exciting story." I said in a mocking tone.

He blushed. "No guys, it-it's alright. I-I don't need to sh-share," he said stammering.

"Oh, but you do." Alice said with an evil smirk.

He sighed in defeat. "Fine, I'll tell you."

Alice clapped and bounced in her seat excitedly, then she laid her hands neatly on her lap and listened. I just smirked at her behavior.

"Well, Rosalie told me she wanted to show me pictures of her 'baby,' so I went to her room with her. She showed me some pictures of a sweet '68 Mustang that she had been restoring with her dad before he died. We sat on the bed talking about how much she had done and how much she still had left to do. She got me all hot and bothered talking about car parts. Next thing I know, the pictures fell behind the bed. She had me pinned and we were making out. She's an amazing kisser. She does this thing with—"

"Emmett! Eww!" Alice and I interrupted him.

"Okay, that's enough excitement for today." I said, motioning to get up.

"Oh and Edward asked if we want to all meet for coffee in a couple hours." I said trying to distract them.

Again, my plan failed miserably. Alice was always one step ahead. It's like she was psychic.

"Sounds good, but speaking of Edward, what were you two up to last night?" Alice said.

"Yeah, you guys were gone for a while." Emmett added.

"How would you know? You were too bust sucking face with a girl you hardly know!" I said, a bit snappier than I had meant to.

Emmett slouched into the couch and Alice just stared at me menacingly, waiting for me to go on with the story.

"Okay, okay. When we went upstairs, he showed me him room and there was sheet music everywhere. He grabbed a couple of them, then said he wanted to show me something. He took me to the roof and a beautiful, baby grand piano was there. He sat down and played a song that he wrote, for me." I said putting emphasis on the last part.

Alice sighed with a goofy grin and glazed eyes.

"So after he finished playing, we kissed, just a normal kiss, and went back downstairs." I finished, not wanting to go into detail about the most amazing kiss of my life.

Emmett looked bored, but Alice looked overjoyed for me.

"Awww, our little Bella is growing up so fast!" she said, wiping away pretend tears of joy.

I lightly punched her shoulder, laughing.

"Oh, shut up, Alice. Now let's go get ready to meet with everyone at Starbucks." I said smiling and running off to my room.

I heard Alice and Emmett scurry off to their rooms to get ready.

I took a short shower and got ready quickly., throwing on a white button up and some dark skinny jeans. I decided on light makeup and a quick blow-dry of my hair. I slipped on my black flats and went to see if the other two were ready.

I saw Alice running around her room looking for her shoes and Emmett digging through his drawers for a suitable shirt.

Since I was done first, I decided we were taking my car. Before I could even announce that plan, Alice screamed out "shotgun!" from her room. She walked out of her room towards me, smiling.

"I had a feeling you'd be driving, so I decided to stake my claim." She said sheepishly.

I heard Emmett groan as he walked out of his room struggling to get his shirt on the right way.

"Totally unfair. It's like she's psychic or something." he pouted.

"Of course I am silly." she said grinning wildly at him.

When they were both ready to go, I grabbed my keys and small purse and headed to the car.

We arrived at Starbucks only a moment later and I parked in between Edward's Volvo and a bright red BMW M3.

"Wow, nice!" Emmett said staring at the ostentatious car.

I pulled him along by his arm so we could get inside.

I walked straight over to Edward at his table with Rosalie and Jasper. Emmett was practically walking backwards, just so he could continue staring at the car.

"Dude! Did you guys see that car?" Emmett asked them as he sat down.

"Of course I saw it, I own it." Rosalie simply stated.

Emmett's jaw dropped, "Th-that's yours? What about that sweet Mustang?"

"Oh. That's at home." she replied with a smirk.

To break up the car love-fest, Edward spoke up.

"So, shall we actually order something from here?" he said smiling a crooked grin towards me.

I blushed and looked down as I nodded in agreement.

We all walked up to the counter to take our orders. A tall guy, about our age, with curly brown hair and square-rimmed glasses, was standing behind the register looking bored as hell.

When we approached he spoke without even looking up from the paper he was fidgeting with.

"What can I get for you?" the boy, whose name tag read "Stefan," said.

Edward looked to me to order first.

"Oh, well, I'll have a grande Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha." I said.

"Okay, your na—" he said finally looking up. He cut himself off when he got a good look at all of us.

"Her name is Bella." Edward said politely, breaking Stefan's trance. He smiled at him and went on to order, "I'll have a grande Caramel Macchiato, for Edward. There are four more orders."

He stepped back to let Rosalie and Emmett get to the front to order. As soon as Stefan saw Rosalie, he practically started drooling on his register, but then he caught sight of Emmett's arm around Rosalie's waist and snapped his mouth shut.

Stefan took all the orders and then prattled off our order to check if it was right and gave us the total. I started digging through my purse to pull out a five dollar bill, but Edward stopped me and walked to the cash register with his ATM. He paid for all the drinks and we all sat at our table waiting for our drinks.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a very familiar face. I turned to see who it was and was pleasantly surprised. It was Angela Weber and her boyfriend, Ben Cheney. They had gone to school with Alice, Emmett, and me, back in Forks. She had been one of my other best friends. Apparently she had caught sight of me, as well, since she looked over and waved as she go out of her seat to come talk to me. Ben followed close behind.

"Hey Bella! Oh my gosh, Emmett, Alice! How are all of you guys? Who is everybody else?" She said looking at my hand in Edward's. She smiled down at me so I stood up to give her a hug.

"This is my boyfriend, Edward Cullen," I said gesturing to him and he stuck out his hand to shake hers. "And those are his roommates, Jasper and Rosalie Hale. They're twins."

Jasper got up to shake her hand, while Rosalie simply nodded at her and waved.

"Nice to meet everybody. I'm Angela Weber and this is my fiancé Ben Cheney." She said smiling widely.

Alice started clapping like mad and bouncing in her chair.

"Awww, I always knew you guys would end up together! I'm so happy for you guys!" Alice said to them, smiling like crazy. Angela just blushed.

"Why don't you guys pull up some chairs and catch us up on your lives." Emmett said, chuckling.

Angela and Ben sat down in between Alice and me. Angela decided to fill the others in on how we had gone to school together and when we all had met and how Ben and her had started going out.

"So, here we are now, two and a half years later and engaged. We're having the wedding in three years. We wanted to finish college first, but we just wanted to sort of stake a claim on each other, so to speak. He has a silver band to show that he's mine, too." She blushed again and showed us her ring. It was gorgeous, who knew Ben had the money.

"So Ang, what's the four-one-one. Have you seen anybody else from high school? Do you still hang out with anyone?" Alice fired off questions.

"Well, actually, I just saw Jessica, Mike, and Lauren last month at Jessica's birthday party. Jessica got so ticked at Mike. She caught him making out with Lauren, in her own room. Needless to say, Mike had a five finger red mark on his face and Jessica poured her red punch on Lauren's new white blouse before she kicked them both out. Mike and Jessica had been going out at the time. After that he joined some dating site that's always advertised on t.v." She said looking thoughtful.

"eHarmony?" I asked meekly.

"Yeah! That's the one! Wait, how'd you know?" Angela asked, genuinely curious.

"Well, uh, that's how Edward and I met. Alice and Jasper were on the site, too, but they met in Honors English class." I said, blushing.

Angela just chuckled a bit. "Well it's good to see the site works for some people, who deserve it." she said winking at me.

Alice smiled, then suddenly she gasped. We all turned to see what was going on.

"I have an idea! Speaking of birthdays and parties, Bella, your birthday is next Saturday! Let's have a party! I mean, we're in college, we have our own house, it could be fun! Oh, and of course, I'd get to decorate!" Alice chirped.

I groaned. "Alice, please no. I hate parties. Can't we just pretend I'm not growing up?" I said, sighing.

"Actually, that sounds like a fun idea." Edward said next to me. Traitor.

Soon, the whole table agreed to the plan and they set on trying to agree on a theme. I heard things from masquerade, to casino theme, to vampire theme, to, even Barbie theme. That last one made me shudder. I had never really been into Barbies, unless I was cutting their hair or dying it with Kool-aid. Once I made a Barbie-sized pillow and bedspread, but then I just went back to my Hot Wheels.

I was snapped out of my childhood memories by the sound of clapping and squeals from Alice. Apparently they had decided on a theme for my birthday.

"Okay, Bella. Since you like old fashioned things, we've all agreed on an old-fashioned Hollywood costume party! What do you think?" Alice said excitedly.

"Actually, that doesn't sound too bad, so just us eight together then?" I asked, hoping her answer would be yes, but doubting it completely.

"No, you silly, anyone and everyone is invited. In fact, let's invite our lovely barista, what was his name, Stephen, Stefan, whatever. I'm gonna go invite him. It looks like he could use more excitement in his life instead of just video games." She said.

"What's wrong with video games?" Emmett said chuckling. Edward and Jasper high-five'd him.

Alice just glared at them as she got out of her seat and made her way over to the counter.

I could hear their conversation from where I was sitting. I looked to see what was going to happen, hoping he would turn down the invitation.

"Hello there," she paused to re-read his name tag. "Stefan. How would you like to come to a birthday party for my friend Bella over there?" She said smiling and pointing at me.

I waved meekly then looked down blushing and trying to hide in Edward's sweater.

"Uh, I don't know. I might have work. I'd have to request it off two weeks in advance." He said, not sure how to respond to the outgoing little pixie.

"That can be settled, may I speak with your manager?" she asked politely, batting her eyelashes at the boy, who grinned stupidly, while nodding and leaving the counter.

He came back a minute later with a girl that was about the same age as him, about five feet six inches with rosy cheeks and brown wavy hair.

"Hello, I'm the manager here, Izizia, but you can call me Izzy. Can I help you?" the girl asked politely.

"Yes, actually you can. You see, this young man is invited to a party for my dear friend over there and we feel that he should make sure he gets the night off. Is that possible?" Alice tried her puppy dog eyes on the girl and, of course, they worked. Alice always gets her way.

I heard her thank the girl, as she made her way back over to the table next to Jasper. Well now that that's settled, we need to get invitations out and make sure we tell all the people we graduated with, too.

"Oh, come on, is that really necessary? Not all of them, please?" I asked hoping to sway her decision.

"Fine. But at least Mike, Jessica, and Lauren are invited. Mostly because they can provide entertainment." She said smiling wickedly.

I had to agree with her. With as much drama those three could cause, no one would get bored at this God-forsaken party that was being thrown for me, much against my pleas and bargaining. The least I could do was nod my head and go along with it, just like I had with the hundreds of Bella dress-up days and beauty sleepovers.

Now came for the somewhat exciting part. Deciding what old Hollywood icons we would portray at the party. We also had to decide whether or not we would be wearing small Zorro-size masks, what we would be eating, and how we were going to decorate. This all boiled down to one thing.

Alice taking us all shopping. Oh, the horror.

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A/N: So what do I do for my 18th birthday last night? Go to dinner, watch Heroes and work on finishing this chapter. So here it is my lovely readers. Hope you liked it. If you guys wanna see a picture of Angela's ring, I'll post it if I get enough requests for it. If not, I'll just send you the link in a PM. Thanks for reading! Btw, Stefan in here is a guest appearance by my boyfriend. He asked to be in the story. Izizia is my BFF and I put her in just because :D Don't forget to R&R! Oh and check out The Ring by Nollie Marie! It's in my favorites. And last but not least, please vote for my Sexy Edward Contest entry on Jayeliwood's profile poll! :D

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