BPOV

"Alice, how much longer?" I sighed. The boys were out hunting this weekend and I stayed with Alice, Esme and Rosalie to relax and have some girl time. Edward and I had allowed Renesmee to stay at Emily's with Clair before they had left, both of us knowing well that she'd be safe with the werewolves.

Alice flitted to my side with a CD in her hands, rolling her eyes at me.

"Relax, Bella! They'll be home within the next ten minutes. I thought a little music could cheer us up in the meantime."

She inserted the CD into the stereo she had dragged down from her room. My eyes popped open when I caught a glimpse of the title and heard the intro to the song Alice had put on.

"ABBA? I thought you guys hated disco music?"

Alice giggled.

"No, that's just Edward. Come on, sing!" she said as she started dancing.

Half past twelve and I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone. How I hate to spend the evening on my own.

Alice spun around and gestured towards the window.

Autumn winds blowing outside my window as I look around the room- She looked pointedly at us. And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom. She looked toward the window again, longingly.

There's not a soul out there. No one to hear my prayer.

Rosalie and Esme joined in, their minds elsewhere.

Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

My short solo: Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

All: Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

Alice, jumping onto the coffee table: Take me through the darkness to the break of the day.

At this point Alice was really getting into the song, I was swaying to the beat absentmindedly, Esme was nodding her head lightly, smiling, and Rosalie had turned off the TV we had been watching for the past hour.

Esme was pulled onto the table with Alice and shook her carmel hair out of its high ponytail. This was a side of my mother-in-law that I had never seen.

Esme: Movie stars. Find the end of the rainbow with a fortune to win. It's so different from the world I'm living in.

Rose sang now.

Tired of TV- She threw the remote at the TV in saying this, which had now burst into flames before us. Rose sat by the front window with her snow-white cheek resting in her palm. I open the window and I gaze into the night, but there's nothing there to see, no one in sight. There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer.

Alice left Esme dancing on the table, grabbed Rosalie and forced her away from the window. Alice wouldn't let go of her until she had looked away from the window and was moving to the music in some form.

All: Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

Esme: Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

All: Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

Rose: Take me through the darkness to the break of the day.

All: Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight. Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

After Alice was sure Rose wouldn't go anywhere near the window, she yanked me off the couch and spun me around with her, holding my hands tightly.

Suddenly, Alice's eyes glazed over and she smiled widely, twirling away from me.

Alice: There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer.

The front door busted open and the husbands ran to their respective wives. Edward scooped me up in his arms and kissed me fiercely, but quickly. He then set me on the ground again and held my hands in his firmly, dancing with me and twirling me gracefully.

The girls and I sang one last chorus together.

Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight. Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away? Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight. Take me through the darkness to the break of the day. Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight. Gimmie gimmie gimmie a man after midnight.

We continued to dance and laugh together until the others were whisked away to their rooms. As Edward and I ran to our cottage, he promised me we'd pick up Renesmee first thing tomorrow morning.

And those were the last words we spoke that night.