Me: Hello again peoples! I am in a great mood mainly because through out the writing of this chapter I listened to all the Glee albums off my itunes…I love Glee!
Emmett: I totally agree with you! Man that cast is talented!
Edward:…I don't know you people… but if you haven't noticed this is a twilight fanfic…
Emmett: hey they even had an episode where the girls were wearing Team Edward shirts you would think you would like that!
Me: yeah! But enough about Glee, I don't own anything twilight it all belongs to Stephenie Meyer and I hope you like the story so far!
Chapter 7: things are looking up
There is only the two of us; all I can see are the emerald green eyes that have been on my mind for so long. I can feel my face slightly heat up and it appears as though we are getting closer and closer together…
"Oh thank god! It appears that Hell has finally frozen over!"
Alice's voice is what brought me out of my trance. Edward was still seated on the piano bench and I had somehow ended up sitting next to him, and boy were we sitting kind of close (seriously, our legs were touching and my hand was on his thigh, and a very nicely toned thigh it is…). I quickly shot up and looked around the classroom. Everybody was staring at us…and I mean everybody. Mr. Whitlock had a smirk on his face, Alice was dancing around Jasper, Jasper was looking at where my hand had been, and Angela was smirking at me as well! I wanted to sink into the floor and disappear; and I still haven't looked at Edward yet!
"Um…." At the sound of his voice I turned back towards him. A quick glance at his face showed me just how stunned by my question he was. I decided to take pity on him and give him a chance to say no without making it seem like he hurt my feelings (I mean only an hour ago he found out what a loser I was and that I had never been kissed).
"Hey Edward" I started looking at the floor, I could feel my face getting hotter as my blush became more noticeable, "you don't have to go with me if you don't want to, I mean I thought that since everyone else was going together that we could go together so that we wouldn't be the only ones left out. Just as friends you know?" After my rambling I looked at him. He looked a little hurt for some reason and out of the corner of my eye I saw Alice smack herself on the forehead. Before he had a chance to answer the bell rang.
"Well it was nice chatting with you see ya later" I mumbled.
And with that I ran out of the classroom as fast as I could and headed over to the gym. Once there (I only tripped once and thankfully no one saw it) I ran to the girls locker room to get changed. After changing my clothes I stood at my gym locker hitting my head against it, I didn't notice that Rose and Alice had come in until I felt someone slip their arm around my waist and pull me away from my self abuse.
"Shit Bella! Your head is bleeding! Ali, go get her a wet paper towel!" As Alice went to fulfill Rose's order (She used her big sibling tone that every younger sibling knows to obey or else) Rose lead me over to one of the benches in the locker room and made me sit down. "Now what happened since we last saw each other that caused you to hurt yourself?" By that time Alice came back with a damp towel.
"You see Rosie, Bella actually grew a pair and asked our dear brother to the dance on Saturday only to lose them again shortly after asking him." Alice answered for me as she handed me the towel and went to get changed.
"Alice you didn't see his face, he was too shocked to say anything! The idea of going to the dance with me caused him to shut down!" Alice shot me a glare while putting her gym shirt over her head (she can turn into an evil pixie pretty quick if you ask me).
"Bella you can be an idiot sometimes, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. You didn't even give him the chance to answer you!" I was about to say something back but Rose interrupted me.
"Bella, what made you ask him? If I remember correctly from lunch you were very adamant about not going to the stupid dance at all." I could feel my face heat up again as I thought about Edward playing A Whole New World for me and how that was the hottest thing anyone has ever done for me. But I didn't want to admit that to his sisters!
"Hey would you look at the time we should be in the gym by now let's get going." I put a smile on my face and moved to get off the bench. Alice stopped me by smacking something onto my forehead.
"Um…Alice, what was that for?" I complained while rubbing my head.
"You needed a band-aid, duh. As if we would let you get a cut infected that could cause you to call out of going to the dance. Oh and after school you are riding with me so we can go pick up your dress, don't think you are getting out of going." With that Alice left the locker room. I am starting to notice that once she gets an idea in her head she refuses to give up on it.
Rose turned to look at me as we walked out into the gym. "Don't think you're off the hook, what caused you to ask him?"
I sighed, "He played me my favorite song on the piano and I got caught up in the moment." Rose stopped for a moment before she started laughing. "What is so funny?" I could feel my face heat up.
"And you think he doesn't like you? He never does that! That only person he plays by request for is mom and that is only if it's her birthday or Christmas." She told me after she took a breath because she was laughing so hard.
My comeback was cut off when we walked into the gym and saw Emmett and Edward in the far corner of the gym in each other's faces. Jasper was standing in-between the two and it looked as though he was holding each of them apart. Alice was sitting on the bleachers closest to the three of them watching the argument while eating a small bag of popcorn like she was watching a movie. Rose and I hurried over to where Alice was sitting to find out what the hell was going on and I swear I heard Rose mutter "where the hell did she get the popcorn?"
"Rose it doesn't matter where she got it from what matters now is why those two idiots are getting into a fight!"
We made it over to Alice with out incident (I didn't trip!) and she looked up at us from her sitting position with a smile on her face. "Ali, what happened? And where did you get the popcorn?" Leave it to Rose to have her priorities straight.
"Oh nothing really. When I got out of the locker room I ran up to Edward and I told him he should have followed you right after band instead of sitting on his ass like a lost puppy. After I said that I noticed Emmett and Jazzy running out of the locker room after him, apparently Jazzy told your brother bear about you asking Edward out and he went all 'don't you dare hurt her' mode and now Jazzy is trying to keep Emmett from giving Eddie a black eye. What is with you Swans and giving people black eyes?" Alice rolled her eyes and continued, "I tried to help out but after I almost got knocked over I decided to wait for you to explain that there as no wrong doing. Oh and I got the popcorn from the snack machine, we have a sub today so I thought, what the hell."
Rose and I looked from Alice to each other trying to process what the little devil just told us before we went over to the boys to see if we could work damage control. That and everyone else were coming out of the locker rooms and all we needed was for the guys to get into trouble and be suspended (the school has a no tolerance policy). I managed to beat Rose over there and started to pull on Emmett's arm while Rose took over for Jasper to stand in the middle of the two.
"Ed man how could you hit on my sister? You have only known her a little over a week and you already try and make a pass at her, in front of family no less!"
"Emmett that is not what happened, I did not make a pass at your sister and I think she is old enough that if she wants to ask someone to a dance she should be able to! She even mentioned that we would be going as friends because everyone else in the group is paired up!" Emmett stopped struggling against me and Rose and did a quick turn to look at me.
"Bells, is that true? You only asked to go as friends?" The look he was giving me almost broke my heart, he looked like he was trying to keep his cool but one wrong word could send him over the edge. Yes I was pissed that he was trying to keep me from a date, if it was even going to be that. Yes I was pissed that he didn't trust me enough to pick the right kind of guy for me. Will I unleash how pissed I am at him right in the middle of gym class? Hell yes, just not at full force (he will get it when we get home, it may take a lot to piss me off but once I'm mad I tend to stay that way for a while).
"Emmett Jackson Swan you listen to me and you listen good." I wasn't yelling, I wasn't raising my voice, but I was talking to him in the same tone of voice mama Sue uses when Seth or Em do something that they know they shouldn't do. "I did ask Edward to the dance and if I meant it as a friend or more that is my business and my business alone. In a little over a week I am going to be 17 years old and you have no right to tell me or anyone who wants to date me what we can and cannot do. I understand if you mean well but come on! I do not pull this shit when you want to ask someone out. And besides, Edward didn't even give me an answer when I asked him so he may not even want to go with me on Saturday."
"But Bells, you don't know him that well…" I held up my hand cutting him off.
"And you have known him and been his best friend for three years; if he is good enough to be your friend then he is good enough to be mine. And if I want more, which I am not sure if I would want to be or not because we only just meet one another it is up to the two of us and not you, not dad, and not Sam!" (Emmett doesn't need to know that I would love to be much much more with Edward or that I did meet him over a year ago, it would ruin my wonderful argument). I lowered my hand and re crossed my arms waiting for his reply. For a bit he tried to stare me down but after a few more tense moments (that felt like hours) he sighed in defeat.
"Fine."
"Fine? That's it? After everything that is all you have to say?"
"I mean fine you can do whatever you think is best. I am sorry if I overreacted and I made it seem like I didn't trust you." He opened his arms like he wanted a hug, and I almost gave in and hugged him, but I wasn't the only one who needed an apology.
"Oh you're not done yet." I told him lifting an eyebrow. "you need to apologize to Edward for thinking the worst of him and for going off the handle without any real cause."
"Fine." Emmett turned to look at Edward who had positioned himself behind Rose. "Edward I am sorry for how I reacted. You didn't treat me that way when Rosie asked me to the dance so I shouldn't have treated you that way, especially if you two are only going to go as friends. Are we good man?" Emmett held his hand out for Edward to shake.
"Yeah, Em, we're good." They shook hands and that was that. I went over to Em and gave him a big hug but I gave him a look that said we weren't done with our previous conversation. I have half a mind to tell Leah and Sue about his little over reaction but I don't want Rose to have to find herself a new date cause Leah would kill Em.
"Well then that was fun but I think we should do something constructive for the last 20 minutes of class so we at least get some credit for today. Come on Jazzy lets walk around the court and get to know one another." With that Alice hopped off the bleachers and danced her way over to Jasper. Grabbing his arm Jasper let her lead him out among the other students. We watched them walk for a bit before Em turned to me again and gave me a calculated look.
"Hey Bells, why do you have a Hello Kitty band-aid on your forehead?" Damn I almost forgot about that.
"I hit my head on my locker and Alice gave me a band-aid." Before he could comment further Rose took his hand and lead him away muttering something about finding the snack machine (she was still peeved that Alice had popcorn why I will never know).
That left me and Edward alone. In a corner. Alone with Edward in a corner after my brother made a fool of himself and us. Alone together after my failed attempt at asking him on a date. Why does god hate me? Did I do something wrong in a past life? Will I forever be embarrassing myself whenever I am in the presence of this boy? My thoughts of self doubt were interrupted by the boy in question.
"Hey Bella, can I talk to you for a second about earlier? I didn't get a chance to say anything to you after class or before Em went on his rampage." I nodded my head, to nervous to open my mouth without revisiting my lunch and I watched as he ran his hand through his hair in a nervous gesture.
Oh god…here it comes he is going to tell me to get lost. He is going to end our brief friendship and hightail it away from me as fast as he can all thanks to me opening my mouth earlier and thanks to Em going into big brother mode I don't think I can stand the suspense any longer. He should just get it over with.
"I think it would be cool to go with you on Saturday."
There he said it my life is over. All that time wasted thinking about his and his sexy piano self, my life is over…wait what?
"What?" Yep that's my smart reply as I watch Edward walk over to me. He even had that stupid grin on his face that was more like a half smirk.
"I said that I think is would be fun if we went to the dance together. I mean like you said we could go as friends and why should we go alone when we could go together."
"Um…okay then. We can meet up at my house a little before the dance or we can meet up there if you want?" I think my heart is going a mile a minute, I can hear it pounding in my ears and I pray to god that he can't hear it too. And we stand there looking at each other again when we hear the sub's whistle to go and change back into our street clothes for the trip home. On our way to the locker rooms I realized something.
"Hey Edward, you might have to pick my up cause Em is using the truck to take Rose to dinner. I would use dad's or Sue's car but the rest of the boys are going camping and Sue is working and Leah's car is a stick shift." I hope he doesn't think I'm whining.
He just smiled at me, "Sure no problem, I will pick you up around 7:30"
As soon as I got into the locker room Alice and Rose pulled me to the side and started asking me about what Edward and I had talked about. As soon as I said he was taking me to the dance Alice started dancing around squealing (ignoring the stares from the other girls and my ear drums).
"Yay! if we leave right now we can make it to the dress shop and back before 7!"
Great more shopping but at least this time it will be worth it. Things are looking up for me.
Me: I hope this chapter was okay and next chapter is the night of the big dance!
Emmett: *singing* I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
Edward: Emmett are you singing the Glee version of Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked?
Emmett: Why yes I am after our discussion earlier I went into Alice's room and took her CDs
Edward: you are so weird
Me: no Glee is just that awesome! *high fives Emmett*
Edward: okay well till next time I am going to see what I can do about these two.
Me: please let me know what you think f the chapter ;p