Disclaimer: I'm not Stephanie Meyer therefore I do not own the wonderful Twilight…
Chapter 4
Alice was so exited for dinner tonight. She couldn't stop bouncing up and down about the news that I was going with her brother (even if it was just as friends).
She decided that I needed to look my best for dinner so, she took me to the nearest dress shop.
"Do you see anything you like?" Alice said.
"Umm… I'm not to good at shopping for dresses,"
"Well that's ok because your with the pro! Now we need to narrow down the colors… I'm thinking you would look really good in a blue cocktail dress with some heels that match. What do you think about this one?"
She was holding up a beautiful dark blue dress that came just below the knees.
"Wow, that dress is amazing! I love it!"
"I thought you would now for the shoes. Like I said I think you should wear something with heels, wouldn't they look amazing with it?"
"I really don't think that that is such a good idea. Me in heels would put anyone within a ten-foot radius of me in danger."
"Oh I see…" She looked disappointed. I felt bad for her. I knew this was going to cost me but at least I could try the heels.
"Well, I guess I can try just this once." She immediately brightened up.
"That's great! Lets go find us some shoes!" She drug me off to the section of shoes and started grabbing boxes off shelves.
"Ooo! This is them, they're perfect!" She was holding some black heels that went perfect with the dress. I nodded in agreement and we went to pay.
When we got back to the room it took 2 hours for her to get me ready! It normally only took me like thirty minutes. But, I had to admit I looked pretty good she definitely knew her stuff.
We were supposed to meet up with everyone else at the restaurant. I was exited about meeting my other roommate and everyone else for that matter.
We walked down to Alice's car (since I still didn't have one). She had a really nice yellow Porsche. It fit her perfectly. We got to the restaurant within three minutes.
Once we were inside we went up to the receptionist. the rest of the group was apparently already here so she showed us to their table. I noticed Edward sitting at a table once we rounded the corner. He was sitting with a very pretty blonde girl, a big guy that looked kind of like a teddy bear, and another guy who wasn't quite as big and was very handsome. Not nearly as handsome as Edward though.
Once at the table Alice introduced us "Everyone, this is me and Rosalie's roommate Bella Swan. Bella this is Rosalie," she motioned to the blonde girl, "and this is Jasper my Boyfriend," she pointed to the smaller of the two guys, " and this is Emmett." she finished nudging the big one.
I sat in between Alice and Edward. Everyone seemed very nice and welcoming.
"So Bella you been enjoying the campus life so far?" Emmett asked
"Yeah, it's been fun," I replied.
"Well, you wanna have some more fun? I think we should all sneak into a club after this." He whispered.
"Emmett, we aren't old enough to get into clubs," Rosalie replied for me.
"Well duh! That's why I said sneak! Come on guys it'll be fun! Please?" He was giving us his best puppy dog pout.
"I don't know, what if we get caught?" Asked Edward.
"The worst they can do is put us in jail for like what… a day? And it's not like we're going to drink or anything we would just go to dance and stuff," said Emmett. He apparently really wanted to go.
There was a murmur of "I guess so," and "Ok's". I guess that was it, I was going to sneak in a club.
We decided on a club called After Hours or something like that. Apparently Emmett knew of a back entrance that they never locked.
We were walking down the street toward the club when my clumsiness finally decided to kick in. My heel got caught on the curb and I started falling. I prepared for the impact of the hard concrete, but it never came. Instead I felt a pair of strong arms lock around my middle. I looked up to see my savior. It of course was none other than Edward Cullen.
"Wow, you weren't kidding when you said you fall a lot," he said grinning down at me with a crooked grin.
"Sadly, I wasn't," I said looking down feeling bad for myself.
Suddenly I felt a hand underneath my chin. Edward was lifting my head back up to look at him.
"Don't worry I'll always be here to catch you," he said sincerely.
"Thanks," I said smiling back like a complete idiot. Gosh he probably thinks I belong in a mental hospital.
I couldn't help but feel good at what he said. He used the word always! That means he doesn't want to get rid of me! This is such- Wait I'm getting ahead of myself. He means nothing of it, he probably regrets saying it or something.
We kept on walking down the street. Emmett was leading the way. He suddenly turned down a dark ally type thing. We all followed.
At the end of the ally was a door Emmett approached it acting like James Bond. He was pretending to hold a gun while sliding along the wall. I couldn't help but giggle at the sight.
Emmett opened the door and we appeared in what looked like a storeroom.
It had brooms and mops, stuff like that.
We stepped out of the tiny closet into a big room. The room was lit with multicolored lights coming from just about everywhere. There were lots of people dancing in the middle of the room and there was a DJ at the front.
"We will go get us some drinks," Edward said indicating to him and the other two guys, "You guys go find somewhere to sit,"
They headed off toward the bar while we sat down. They came over a few minutes later with the drinks. Nothing alcoholic I might add. I was drinking a coke and by the looks of it so were everyone else but Alice. She was drinking some kind of pinkish, reddish thing with a cherry.
"Hey Alice, what is that?" I asked.
"A Shirley Temple of course! It's only my favorite drink!" She replied.
Wow that looked good I needed to get one of those next time.
"Who wants to dance?" Rosalie asked
"Me, me, me!" Alice cried. She jumped up and drug Jasper along with her toward the dance floor. Rosalie did the same with Emmett. Which left me and Edward alone.
"You can go dance if you like. Don't feel like you have to stay here with me," I told Edward.
"Don't be silly, I don't want to leave you," He said back.
"That's very kind of you,"
"So, why did you decide to come to Rothsdale?" He asked me.
"I didn't really want to actually," I said, "My mom surprised me three days ago with the news,"
"So you still wish you weren't here?" he said looking a little sad. Gosh he was confusing! Why would he care if I wanted to be here of not?
"No, now I'm glad I came. Everyone is really nice," I said and he immediately looked brighter. "So, what's your favorite part of the school?" I asked him.
"My favorite part would have to be hanging out with those crazy people over there," he tilted his head toward the dance floor as he said it. I turned to look at the "crazy people" who where proving his point at the moment by trying to start a conga line to a rap song. It wasn't catching on like they hoped. I smiled and looked back at Edward.
"Yeah, they do look kind of strange," I joked.
"But, you got to love em'!" he smiled
The rest of the conversation was fun. I enjoyed getting to know Edward better. After about thirty minutes of talking Emmett came over to us. He was trying to get us to come dance.
"Come on guys! It's fun! Just one song? For me?"
"If I get out there someone is bound to get hurt! I can't!" I begged.
"Come on Bella it's ok I'll be beside you the whole time," Edward added. How could I resist him when he used that crooked grin?
"Ok fine! But, when I'm rushed off to the hospital-"
"Which won't happen," Edward interrupted.
"Well, when it does I'm going to blame you guys," I retorted.
With that I was swept off to my doom… the dance floor! Well at least Edward would be there.
We got over there and started dancing, it was actually fun! I hadn't hurt anyone yet so maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't.
There were a lot of people around me most of them were guys. Edward looked like he wanted to strangle this one guy umm… Dallas I think was his name. He was being very obnoxious and rude. I didn't like him one bit.
Once one guy went to far and started grinding up aginced me. That's when Edward snapped. He started yelling at the guy! I mean I agree that it was rude for him to do that but why would Edward care so much about me?
We stayed at the club until about 1:00 in the morning then we decided we had had enough for one night and started heading back.
One Rosalie, Alice, and I were back in our room the questions began.
"Do you like Edward?"
"Do you think he's hot?"
"Do you want to go out with him?"
"Guys, I barely know him yet how am I supposed to answer all those questions!" I told them.
"I know but, did you see the way he protected you from that one guy? He must really like you!" Said Alice.
"Well, that guy was being inconsiderate! Edward just stood up for me as… a friend," I answered.
"Think what you like but, I know you two will end up a couple. I bet you end up giong out with him within the first semester," Rosalie said.
"I'll take that bet! I'm definitely not pretty enough for him to like me…" I said.
"Of Course you are! Don't be silly!" Exclaimed Alice.
"Whatever you say," I said while getting up to go brush my teeth.