Romeo and Juliet Chapter 4, a twilight fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters. Those all belong to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 4

BPOV

I walked into the dining room and came face to face with the most gorgeous person I have ever seen. Carlisle was nothing compared to what I assumed was Edward. He had Bronze colored hair standing on end and all over the place. He had perfect bone structure and the most amazing green eyes I have ever seen. And his lips, god his lips were perfect. I could just imagine kissing those lips, feeling them ever so softly against mine, among other places. I couldn't move, couldn't breath and couldn't speak. I felt like I had been staring at him forever when Alice grabbed my arm and pulled me over to my seat. She sat me next to her and across from Edward. It took everything I had just to bring myself back down to earth and focus on what Alice was saying to me.

"Bella this is my twin brother Edward, Edward this is my friend Bella." I had to look ridiculous to him. I just sat there with my mouth part way open staring at him. Finally he spoke first.

"Hello Bella, it's very nice to meet you." He was so polite and perfect there was no way he would be interested in me. I really shouldn't even get my hopes up. Finally I was able to open my mouth.

"Hi." That's it!? Hi that's all I could come up with. God, what was he doing to me? I might not be the most sociable person, but I was never speechless. NEVER! This was going to be a long night.

"Edward, Bella and I were wondering…"

"Whoa, leave me out of this I didn't volunteer him, you did!" Way to go Bella! A whole sentence!

"Ok, fine! Edward, I was wondering if you could help Bella and me on our English project?"

"Sure Alice." God he was hot, and had the sexiest voice I have ever heard. "Anything I can do to help you, and Bella of course." He gave me the sexiest crooked smile I have ever seen, his eyes even seemed to light up when he said my name. Stop it Bella, now you're just making things up!

"Great! We have to recreate a scene from Romeo and Juliet. You are going to play Romeo and Bella will be playing Juliet! We have to go shopping on Saturday to get costumes. If you want to meet us in Seattle we can find something for you to wear."

Was he really going to agree with this? Does he care what scene it is? Does he realize he's going to have to kiss me!? Oh my god! I'm going to have to kiss him! I think I'm going to have a panic attack!

"May I be excused for a minute?"

"Sure dear, are you feeling ok? You're a little pale…"

"Yes Mrs. Cullen, I mean Esme. I'm fine. I just need to use the restroom."

I left the dinning room as quickly as I could; only managing to trip once on the way out. I walked even faster when I heard Emmett's booming laughter. God could this night get any worse!?

EPOV

My mother told me that Alice had a friend over, that she would be staying for dinner tonight and to make sure I was all cleaned up and ready to be downstairs by 6pm . I went up to my room and heard giggling on the other side of Alice's door. I knew my sister's laugh, but the other one I obviously didn't recognize. Although I immediately thought it was cute, I wondered what she looked like. Alice hadn't brought many friends home in the past. I started to wonder what else has changed in the 2 years I've been away. I made it to my room and turned on my CD player, deciding to just relax and work on some homework I'd been given today. I was done fairly quickly considering my last school was academically ahead of Forks High.

"Edward…" my dad said as he walked into my room. "…your mother was wondering if you could help set up the table for dinner?"

"Sure dad, I'll be right down." My mom must like this girl; she never set up the table for dinner. We always just grabbed our own plate and sat down at the table after we had gotten our food. It made me even more curious to meet Alice's friend. I picked up all my books and put them back into my backpack so I'd be all ready to go for school the next day.

I went down stairs and set the table. My dad went to get Emmett and Rosalie from outside. A short while later we were all sitting down waiting for Alice and her friend. I heard Alice's normal way of descending down the stairs, for some reason she thought she had to bounce down them like she was ten again! Then they came around the corner and my heart stopped. Alice's friend was beautiful; she had long brown hair and beautiful brown eyes. She had a great body, curvy in all the right places. She seemed to be a little nervous because Alice had to drag her to her seat, right in front of me! Now I get to stare at this beautiful girl all throughout dinner. Alice introduced her as her friend Bella. Bella, what a beautiful name for such a beautiful girl. She didn't say anything so I spoke first, trying as hard as I could to be calm and polite. I didn't want my voice to shake as I said her name.

"Hello Bella, it's very nice to meet you." She seemed stunned for a moment. God I hope I sounded ok. Finally she started to open her mouth to talk.

"Hi." Her voice was even sexier than her laugh. I just had to find out more about this girl! I started dreaming about her kissable lips, about how soft they would be and how much I just wanted to reach across the table and pull her to me to test my theory. Just as my heartbeat started to race Alice interrupted my fantasy.

"Edward, Bella and I were wondering…"

"Whoa, leave me out of this I didn't volunteer him, you did!" Wow, so defensive. I could only imagine what she was going to ask me to do. I would do anything if Bella was involved.

"Ok, fine! Edward I was wondering if you could help Bella and me on our English project?"

"Sure." I said without even bothering to find out what I would have to do. "Anything I can do to help you and Bella of course." As I said her name I gave her a smile and I swear her eyes got slightly larger.

Romeo and Juliet huh? I wondered what scene we would be recreating. With Bella as Juliet there was no doubt I would be kissing her, I had no problem doing that. I only hoped it would be the balcony scene, it was the most passionate scene in the whole play and I would love to recreate that one with her, with or without a camera. I started to go back to my fantasy when Bella spoke up.

"MayI be excused for a minute?"

"Sure dear, are you feeling ok? You're a little pale…"

"Yes Mrs. Cullen, I mean Esme. I'm fine. I just need to use the restroom."

I watched as Bella got up from her chair and start to walk out of the room. Man I could stare at her coming or going! Both views were amazing! All of a sudden she tripped over something and Emmett just started laughing uncontrollably. I felt the blood rush to my face in anger, how dare he laugh at her!

I felt as if I should do something, she really did look pale and I was wondering if she was about to be sick. Maybe I should take her some ice or something. Whoa, wait a minute Edward, you just met this girl 10 minutes ago, if you act all protective you're gonna freak her out. I just sat there, I didn't know what to do.

"Alice, why don't you go check on her?" That's my mother, always feeling like she needed to look after everyone. "She looks pale, maybe she's sick."

"Ok. I'll be right back." Then Alice got up and danced off towards the stairs to go check on Bella. I wish that were me going to check on her. So I just sat there as everyone was eating their food talking about there day, all I could think about was Bella. I wanted to know everything there was to know about her. Her likes, dislikes, where she was born, if she had a boyfriend. Of course she had a boyfriend, there no way a girl like that could be single but one could hope.

BPOV

I went upstairs to the bathroom. "Whoa!" This isn't a bathroom! It's the size of a bedroom! This bathroom is amazing, the bathtub looks like a mini hot tub! The shower could probably hold 3 or 4 people and the counter, sinks and make-up area is bigger than small kitchen!

I looked at myself in the mirror and understood what Esme said about being pale! It looks like I've seen a ghost! "Ok Bella, breathe, he's just a boy. It's not like you've never seen one before. Of course I've never felt like this about anyone before…."

"I knew it!" Alice burst into the bathroom excitement written all over her face. "You love him don't you!?"

"What!? Alice I just met him! I can't possibly love him!" Can I?

"Bella, look at yourself! You're all flushed and you're talking to yourself. I think you just fell in love at first sight!" I shot an evil glance at Alice. I wish I could prove her wrong, but I don't think I can. I only met Edward 15 minutes ago, how could I be in love with him?

"Come on let's go back downstairs before your parents start to worry." I walked right past Alice without making eye contact. I walked back into the dinning room where everyone was already eating and sat down without saying a word.

Dinner went by without anymore embarrassing mishaps. Everyone was talking about their day and what their plans were for the weekend. I tried to involve myself as much as possible but couldn't concentrate on anything other than Edward. When Esme asked me about my family and what brought me to Forks I could barely answer her. What made it worse was every time I looked up Edward was looking at me. When he caught me staring he would quickly look away. Did I have something in my teeth or something on my face? There was no way he was looking at me for the same reason I was looking at him. When dinner was finally over I offered to help clean up because there was no way I wanted Alice to grill me about my feelings for Edward. I didn't even know about my own feelings for Edward! I couldn't understand them. Of course there was no way Esme would let me clean up. She said I was the guest and I should go enjoy myself with Alice, yeah right.

I've never had this feeling with anyone I've ever dated. I thought I loved Mike. We had been together for 6 months before I finally thought I loved him enough to sleep with him. I put myself out there and I had my heart ripped out of me. I made a promise to myself that I would never give my heart to anyone so quickly again and yet here I was thinking about giving it to Edward. What was happening to me? Had I really just fallen in love with someone whom I just met? Was I starting to believe in love at first sight? If I can't explain it to myself, how could I explain it to Alice!?

"Ok, Spill." Great here we go. Looking at the hesitation on my face she pulled me towards the basement. The basement!? What was she going to do, torture it out of me? "Come on, no one will bother us down here."

As she turned on the lights when we were on the last few steps, I did not expect what I was seeing, a complete game room! With a huge flat screen TV!? This was like every teens fantasy… well except for those sexual ones. Which I could wait to have featuring Edward as the main character…

"Earth to Bella! Man girl, you stare off into space a lot." I turned my attention fully to the giddy girl in front of me. "Ok, now what did you think of when you first saw him?"

I was so wrapped up in my fantasies that I didn't think about what was coming out of my mouth until it was too late. "That he was a Greek god." Oh shit! Did I really just say that to Alice, about her Brother!? She must have understood my stress because she got an even bigger grin and screamed.

"Oh Bella, don't be embarrassed!" She started to finish her thought when we heard footsteps coming down the stairs and we just froze. Oh god, did someone hear my confession about Edward? Please don't let it be him.

"Embarrassed about what?" that was all it took to know exactly who was coming down the stairs.