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Bella's POV
"OK enough with the mushy stuff!" Emmett complained "There are some of us that still haven't done anything"
I laughed and spun the bottle and sure enough it landed on Emmett and he did a fist pump.
"Truth or dare, Emmett?" I asked.
"Dare, of course!" he yelled "There's nothing that I won't do"
"Nothing, huh?" Rose smirked and rolled her eyes at him. Emmett's stool was scooted next to Rosalie's chair.
"Yes, nothing" Emmett said while leaning down to be at eye level with her "In fact why don't you come up with the dare sweetie?"
"First of all- don't ever call me sweetie again if you wish to keep your lips attached to your mouth, and second—"
"Oh I'm sure you wish my lips continue being attached to my face, don't you?" Emmett interrupted and smirked at Rose. Shouldn't have done that big man.
"Listen you little shit I have the perfect dare for your big ass to perform but we'll have to wait until the power comes up and we can go outside" Rose said.
"Rosie come on" I said "It's not like we can wait that long."
"No no" Emmett interjected "I'll wait; I really want to see what she has in mind. Let's just save this one and continue with the game."
We agreed and continued playing the silly game for another half hour then we got bored and decided to move to the living room and just relax until we the power came back on.
We spend the next hour just talking among ourselves and getting to know each other. Turns out that Emmett lived on the building next to Rose's so he also got evacuated—hence the coming to stay at Jasper's and Edward's apartment. We all laughed at the idea of never having bumped into each other. Apart from mine's and Edward's polite head nods we had never talked with them, and that is something I'm sure Alice would've been eager to do.
She barely said a word to Rose and me tonight. All her attention was directed towards Jasper, who happened to be doing the same. They sat next to each other on the far couch of the living room, whispering and shamelessly flirting with each other.
I was honestly having a good time and the rest of the guys seem to be having a good time as well. Except for Rosalie, who was keeping to herself. And I didn't miss all the side glances that Emmett kept throwing to her. Something was up but I couldn't quite point my finger at it.
We had been quiet for a couple of minutes now and I was beginning to fall asleep on the love seat and I felt Edward lean into my ear and whisper "Can we talk in the kitchen now?"
I nodded and he stand up offering me his hand and helping me stand as well.
"Where are you going?" Alice asked me. Oh, so she does remember I'm in here.
"We are just going to talk a little bit. We'll be right back" I assured my friend.
"Ok, but if we hear making-out noises again we're coming in" Emmett laughed and Edward just gave him the one finger salute.
He started pulling me towards the kitchen and once in there he sat at the table. I shook my head at him and went to grab two big candles and some matches.
"If you wish for this conversation to be private then I suggest we go to the hall outside the apartment, otherwise they'll hear everything—there's no music or TV noise to cover for us" I explained.
He nodded and we went to sit outside my door. I placed the candles on the floor, took the matches and lightened them up. They provided just enough light for us to see past two foots but it was enough.
I took a deep breath and said "Edward, I—" at the same time that he said "Listen we—"
We both laughed quietly and I motioned for him to go ahead.
"Bella first of all I owe you an apology, it was very rude and forward of me to just kiss you like I did. It was never my intention to offend you or seem disrespectful. I'm sorry for just lounging myself at you that way, however I don't regret it"
"I know what you mean. It all happened very fast but I wouldn't take it back" I hung my head to hide the blush that had taken residency on my face. His index finger pulled my chin up and forced me to look at him.
"I want to do this right." He said "If you're willing to give it a chance it will be my pleasure to start over."
"And what exactly are we giving a chance here?" I said while arching an eyebrow in his direction.
"Um, well… I was thinking that maybe… if you liked… we could… um" he was babbling and it was very cute but I decided to get him off the hook.
"I was kidding Edward" I said and took his hand "I'd love to give it a try"
"I hate that Emmett was the one to tell you and Alice that Jasper and I thought that you were pretty" he said.
I didn't know if I was meant to answer that so I just started getting up to go inside but when I grabbed one of the candles he stopped me by grabbing my wrist "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing?"
"What... Oh god no!" he said "What I meant is that Emmett shouldn't have been the one to say it, that man has no filter I swear"
He stand up and pulled me into a hug "I should be the one telling you that you are beautiful not pretty"
"So you're saying that I'm beautiful and that we're giving this a try" I mumbled into his chest.
"That's exactly what I'm saying" he said and kissed the top of my head. "Now let's get inside, knowing Emmett it won't take long before he comes looking for us."
"Wait. First I want to ask you something" I said "What's the deal with him and Rose?"
"What do you mean?" he had a confused look on his face.
"Well Rosalie isn't one to hold back, I thought she would be the first on nailing guy tonight and all she has been doing is bickering with Emmett."
"Now that you mention it, Emmett has been acting kind of weird. But I'll tell you something he isn't one to give up so he's probably thinking on how to get Rosalie on his good side."
"I think Rosalie is just being stubborn for some reason. I'll find out soon enough" I opened the door and after blowing the candles out we made our way inside.
I was about to enter the living room when I felt two strong arms sneak around my waist and two lips whispering in my ear "So I take it that you already nailed a guy huh?"
Before I could muster up any answer to that he was already gone and sitting on the living room floor next to Emmett. Just as I was entering the room Emmett said "I'm hungry" he proudly announced.
"Yeah me too" Alice said "You guys kind of interrupted dinner. Anyone up for chips and beer?"
We laughed and made our way to the kitchen and with the help of candles we filled the table with all kinds of chips, dips, peanuts and beer.
Alice and Jasper kept feeding each other—if they didn't cut us some slack on the super mushy stuff I was going to throw a fit at them.
Rosalie seemed to be starting to let loose a little bit more, talking with the rest of us—even if she still wasn't all over Emmett. I needed to know what was going on there.
Edward kept his arm on the back of my chair and would occasionally start rubbing absent minded circles on my shoulder with his fingers.
I turned to look at him and was surprised to find his face much closer than what I expected. His eyes were darker and he had a look of concentration on his face his other hand started to inch closer to my face.
What was he doing? We said we were going to take this slow and making out in front of our friends was definitely not part of the deal. His hand kept inching closer and my breath caught on my throat.
Was everybody else noticing as well? Then I remembered that Alice was telling a story so they probably were too involved listening to notice Edward's movements. For now.
I was beginning to take ragged breaths and my heart was pounding its way out of my chest. What was wrong with me? The guy hadn't even kissed me yet and I was thirty seconds away from hyperventilating in my kitchen.
Edward finally reached my face with his hand and whipped some chips dips that happened to be on the side of my mouth.
Was the world freaking kidding me? He was going to just clean my face!
At that moment the lights came back up and apparently my friends happened to notice me at that moment.
"Why are you so flustered Bella?" Alice snickered at me. Five pairs of amused-confused eyes were staring at me.
Before I had the chance to come for an excuse about how I thought that Edward was about to randomly start making out with me the iPod we had been listening to before the power went out starting blasting music from the speakers at full volume.
And of course the song we had been singing when we were on full silly-party-mode on was the one that came on. Joan Jett's Bad Reputation made its appearance on our house.
They guys were shaking their head at us and we were quick to defend our songs.
"Don't mock the black hearts guys" Alice chided.
"Let's see what else you have in here" Jasper said and made his way to the iPod, after scrolling throw it a bit he finally found something "Aha! This is music!"
The familiar guitar notes blasted throw the speakers and by the time the lead singer started singing the six of us were dancing and singing along to the lyrics of the song.
"Welcome to the jungle
We got fun 'n' games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed
Welcome to the jungle
We take it day by day
If you want it you're gonna bleed
But it's the price you pay
And you're a very sexy girl
That's very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights
But you won't get them for free
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
I, I wanna hear you scream
Welcome to the jungle
It gets worse here every day
Ya learn to live like an animal
In the jungle where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
I wanna watch you bleed
And when you're high you never
Ever want to come down, so down, so down, so down YEAH!
You know where you are
You're in the jungle baby
You're gonna die
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shu n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Feel my, my, my serpentine
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n.n, knees, knees
In the jungle
Welcome to the jungle
Watch it bring you to your
It's gonna bring you down!
Ha!"
The song came to an end and we were having a hard time controlling our insane laugher.
"Who's iPod is that?" Edward asked between fits of laugher.
"Um… mine" I admitted "It's the only Guns n' Roses song that I have though"
"Well it is a great song" Emmett said while removing an errant tear that had appeared due to our laugh.
"Well then" Edward said and came to put his arm around my shoulders "that's definitely another thing I like about you" he said looking into my eyes. And cue the blush.
"If any of you tell anybody that I know the lyrics to that song I'll have to kill you" Alice said "I have a reputation to maintain" she said with a straight face and we all burst out laughing again. Alice was more of a girly music type, but Rose had introduces us to that specific song and we were hooked on it.
"Well since the power is back I suggest we head back and see what we can do to salvage our apartment" Jasper said.
"Need any help?" Alice asked him.
"Sure it'll be great if your girls came. If you want, that is"
We agreed and were making our way downstairs when we saw one of the employees sitting at the bottom of the stairs.
"Sorry guys no one goes in or out. Management orders" he said.
"Why?" Edward asked. And the boy pointed downwards and sure enough it was flooded about a foot.
"Management is trying to keep the damage to the minimum so if you down you won't be able to go back up. We're trying to keep the upper floors as clean as possible. Sorry" he was clearly done with the conversation and went back to read whatever car magazine he had been reading.
"Guess you're stuck with us then?" I said.
"It seems" Edward said "If you girls don't mind"
"We don't mind" Alice and me said at the same time a little too loud.
Rosalie laughed at us and said "You two have it bad"
I blushed but looked up when I fell Edward nudge me. "Race you upstairs?" he said with a crooked grin.
I pretended to ponder it and then took off without warning. Rosalie was ahead of me but apart from her the rest of the group followed after me.
All laughing and tripping over ourselves on the narrow stairs. We finally made it into the apartment and were lying on the foyer laughing our asses off.
This was bound to be an interesting night.
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