Edward wrapped his arm aroung me and I leaned ino him as far as my seat belt would let me. Angela seemed more exuberant than usual, even though it took me a couple of seconds to realize it.

The moment Alice started the engine, she burst.

"Benaskedmeout!" she jumbled out in an excited rush.

"Finally," Edward muttered. I chuckled at him.

"Told you," Alice said to her.

Angela's smile was contagious and soon we were all laughing.

Alice flipped on her turn signal and turned down a road. Forks was so green and uniform that it took us three minutes to realized we had been distracted and had gone the wrong way.

"You shoud've gone left, Alice." Edward taunted her.

"But instead you went right!" Angela said in a sing-songy voice. It took me a moment, but it finally clicked in my brain that she was singing it to the tune of 'Should've Said No' by Taylor Swift.

I smiled wider as Edward's laugh shook me. A few minutes later we pulled into the long Cullen driveway. We all grabbed our books and Edward helped me carry some of my stuff, though I protested the whole way that I was perfectly capable of carrying my own stuff.

Alice instructed us to set it all down in the living room. She had pushed all the furniture out of the way so the room was more spacious.

I could see Carlisle's shape in the kitchen door way, but before he even got the chance to come greet us, Alice shoved Edward toward the stairs. She managed to move him a few inches before he turned around and put his hands on her shoulders, lightly shoving her backwards.

"You. Upstairs."

He rolled his eyes at her.

"I'll get there eventually. You should really have more patience. You know, it's a virtue," he responded.

She glared at him but before she could say anything else to him, Carlisle walked into the room.

"Hey, do I know these strange people that seem to be in my house?" he joked. Angela pushed him, rolling her eyes. It seemed eye rolling was the theme of the night.

"Dad!" Alice practically growled. She thought her dad was obnoxious and dorky-- and he was-- but I liked him. As far as dads went, he was a pretty good one.

"Don't worry, Al, we'll be out of your way. We won't bother you. It'll be like you kids have the house to yourself. But I'm pretty sure Esme wants to say hello before you forbid us to step foot from the other room," Carlisle laughed.

"I'm not that harsh. You're just weird, like now," Alice laughed as well.

"Actually, dad," Edward said, "I would like to introduce you to someone. This is Bella," he motioned towards me, "my girlfriend." He grinned widely and I couldn't help but grin back at him.

"Nice to meet you again, Bella. Did you know Edward talks about you a lot?"

"Okay, my turn. Dad!" Was that a touch of pink I saw on his cheeks?

"Oh, you talk about me?" He ran a hand through his hair and Alice saw her chance and jumped.

"Yeah, all the time. Thinking back on all the times he's talked about you, I've realized, I'm an idiot," Edward interrupted here.

"Thank you for stating the obvious. Moving on to the next topic of conversation..."

"He was always talking to Carlisle about how wonderful you are. Only when I was eavesdropping I didn't know it was you he was talking about... anyway, I should have known. Stupid Alice." She shook her head at her self. She then turned around and flopped onto their big couch next to Angela.

"I guess it was pretty obvious... and here I thought you knew everything, Alice. So much for being observant..."

She stuck out her tongue at him.

"Wow. Mature." I giggled at the two of them. Alice threw a pillow from the couch at him.

He just smiled a 'see my point?' smile.

--

After talking to Esme for a bit-- and blushing through the part about me dating her son-- we spread out our sleeping bags. I pushed mine up against the couch where Edward had sprawled out. Occasionally while we were talking he would brush his hand against my cheek.

About an hour later, Alice decided it was 'girl time' and informed Edward that unless he wanted a make over he would have to leave the room. Needless to say, he headed straight for his room.

Later he came down to eat the pizza that had been ordered, but then he scrambled back upstairs quickly before we attacked him with glitter.

As for girl time... We all gossiped about the objects of our affections until we decided we decided to put on a movie. Over the course of the night we had done the mandatory slumber party make overs and nails, changed into our PJ's and laughed so hard our faces felt like they were going to slipt from smiling so much. The darkness and the late hour made us drowse off to sleep. Well, Alice and Angela did. I was about to close my eyes as well when the stairs creaked. I glanced up to see Edward sneaking down in what must be what he slept in-- shorts and a soft t-shirt.

"I'm just getting a drink!" he assured the room. He squinted at Alice and Angela's forms when they didn't respond and then carefully stepped around them. He wasn't wearing his glasses so I'm sure his vision was blurry.

When got to where I was spread out, he leaned down and whispered in my ear.

"Are they asleep?"

I nodded.

"Good." I sat up and he kissed my cheek. He stood straight up again and made his way to the T.V. After scrunching his eyes at the titles of their DVD selction, he put another movie in and came to sit beside me again.

When he put his warm arm around me, I snuggled into his side. He kissed the top of my head one more time before the characters on the screen became blurs and the darkness lulled us to sleep in each other's arms.