Never Again, Chapter Six: The Party

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"Bella!" Jazz yelled up the stairs to me again. "Will you get a move on? We're gonna be late!"

I rolled my eyes. We had plenty of time. I put down my straightners and looked in the mirror. Yeah, a Chief of Police's sister would look like this, right?

I wore a classic black cocktail dress, and purple accessories. But I won't bore you by describing my attire. I looked hot though. I'd bought this dress when I was going out with Jake, but he'd never let me go out in it. Nor the shoes.

"You're not going out with me dressed like a high-class hooker." He'd said. Well, now I'd moved on, and so had my wardrobe. I needed to go shopping.

I added a final coat of lip-gloss and then stepped back to admire my finished creation. Yeah, I looked good. It was a shame I had no one to look good for really.

"BELLA!"

"Jesus Christ, Jasper! I'm coming!" I grabbed my purple cardigan and clutch, and exited my room, flicking the light off as I went.

I started to walk down the stairs- carefully in my high heels.

"About freakin' time, Bells! What were you doing up there? Alice is just the…" He trailed off when he saw me. "Oh. Aw, sweetie, you look really-"

"I look stupid, don't I? It's the necklace; it's too much. Ugh, I'll go and get changed!"

Jazz grabbed my arm and stopped me. "You look lovely." He told me.

I felt my cheeks warm slightly. "Thanks," I smiled.

"Come on, there's been a change of plan and we need to pick Alice up on the way."

Alice looked really nice when she eventually emerged from her dressing room half an hour after we got there. Jasper didn't shout at her though. Instead he sat there with a dopey look on his face, grinning at Alice's cuteness as she paraded around in various outfits before picking out the one she had tried on first. It was slightly nauseating, actually.

When we arrived at the party, it was in full swing. A lot of the faces there I recognized; they'd been forced upon me since before Dad died. We made our way around the room, Jazz being congratulated and told how proud his father would be of him, me being told how much I'd grown, how lovely I looked and how proud I must be of my brother over and over again. If I wasn't so trained in these sorts of situations, I would've been seriously pissed by now.

We made our way towards the bar, and were once again stopped.

"Evening, Chief!" our interruption boomed. Ah. Deputy Stevens, from Tacoma.

"Hi there, Deputy," Jazz said, shaking his hand. "Let me introduce you to my girlfriend, Alice, and I'm sure you remember my sister, Bella."

Deputy Stevens kissed the back of Alice's hand, and then turned to look at me.

"Goodness, Bella! Haven't you grown?"

Well, so I'd been told. "It's lovely to see you again, Deputy," I smiled politely. Then something caught my eye. That gorgeous body topped with that strange shade of bronze was stood at the bar. What the hell was he doing here? "If you'll just… excuse me for a second."

Jazz looked at me in confusion, but I gave him a reassuring smile and made my way towards the bar.

I tapped his broad shoulder, and he span around, capturing my eyes in his piercing green ones.

"Hi," I smiled.

"Bella? You came after all?"

"What?" I was pretty confused now. Maybe I was delusional.

"Hey, Bella!" I turned around, and there stood Emmett. "You guys made it, then?"

"Hey, Emmett, uhh…" What the hell was going on?

"You know my brother?" Edward from behind me asked.

Oh. Well, that made sense. Duh. They kinda had the same eyes, though Emmett's obviously didn't have the same effect on me.

I smiled. "Of course I know Emmett! He's my brother's deputy. I didn't know you had a brother, Emmett."

"You're brother? You're brother is Forks' chief of police?"

Emmett and I nodded.

"Oh." Edward said. "Well, it's a small world, isn't it?"

"No," I told him. "Just a small Forks."

We spent the rest of the evening glued at the hip, just pissing about. Edward was really funny to be around. We were outside for most of it, keeping out of the way, but then it started raining. We made our way back inside, me giggling like I was smashed or something. As we neared the doors, we heard music.

We opened the door and stepped inside, and I immediately felt nervous. The room was filled with dancing couples, all off in their own private world. I scanned the room, and saw Jazz and Alice in the corner, swirling around, gazing into each other's eyes. Aww.

"You wanna dance?" Said that velvet voice from behind me.

I turned around, and Edward stood there, that crooked grin on his face, waiting for my reply.

Well, what could I do? I really couldn't turn him down, could I?

So I smiled, my cheeks reddened and I said "Sure."

We wove throughout the couples on the dance floor until he stopped in a space. In the middle. For everyone to see.

I tried not to let that put me off though, and as he turned to face me, it was forgotten.

He put his hands on my hips, and pulled me closer to him, then pulled my arms up to his shoulders.

It was really nice actually, being all pressed up against Edward's body like that, swaying slightly to the beat of the music.

His lips grazed my neck, moving up to my ear.

"You look really pretty tonight," He whispered right into my ear.

"Thank-you," I whispered back.

He pulled his head back and looked at me with those intoxicating, penetrating, vividly green eyes.

"May I kiss you?"

I just nodded. Edward wanted to kiss me. It would be rude not to let him, right?

He leaned forward, and pressed his lips to mine.

It wasn't a proper movie star, see-fireworks-hear-a-choir-of-angels sort of kiss, but it was nice. Pleasant. Sort of…soft. Tender. Caring.

We broke apart eventually, and I was greeted with that grin again.

I closed my eyes and rested my head on his chest. I really shouldn't've done that.

"Bella? You OK?" He wanted to know. Ugh.

I looked at him. "I'm sorry, Edward. I shouldn't've done that."

"What? Bella, I kissed you! What's the problem?"

"I'm sorry. I just… I don't think we should do that again."

"Bella? What's going on?"

I sighed. "Come on. I need to talk to you."

We went into an empty function room, and I told him everything.

Oooooh! Mini-Cliffy!

I've nearly finished Chap7, so that'll be up later today. I just wanted to get this up as soon as.

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