Me: Sorry it took me so long to update I have been busy with work and stuff

Emmett: by stuff you mean sitting by the pool reading manga and other books

Me:…yes that is the truth but I only have so many days of summer left before summer classes!

Edward: Yeah Emmett you have been a college student how many times? You know what its like to take what free time you can get!

Emmett: Excuses excuses. What are we going to do with you?

Me: nothing because you are a figment of Stephenie Meyer's imagination along with all things twilight. Sadly I wish you were mine but it was not meant to be… *stares off into space*…

Edward: …okay…on with the story!

Chapter 8:

The gym looked amazing as Edward lead me onto the dance floor, a slow song had come on and he was determined to actually get me to dance (clumsy people and dancing don't mix very well, I tend to step on a lot of toes). He lead me to a spot near Alice and Jasper, who were dancing pretty close for only knowing each other for a week (not even it will be a week on Wednesday), trying to avoid Emmett as much as possible for the night, he might have agreed to let us go to the dance but that didn't mean we wanted to test his control in dealing with his little sis dating. In fact, as Edward started to dance with me he kept his hands securely on my upper back as I kept mine on his shoulders, too nervous to do anything else. We also had this whole awkward silence thing going since he picked me up at my house. So naturally I tried to break the awkward silence that we had going on for most of the night by saying thank you.

"So…it was really sweet of you to come with me tonight, you didn't have to after what happened in gym class." I lowered my head a little bit so he wouldn't notice my blushing face (note to self thank dad for that annoying trait). I felt one of his hands leave my back only to replace itself under my chin to lift my face back to his.

"Of course I had to; if I didn't come with you tonight I would have missed out on Emmett's death glares and the chance to actually hold you in my arms." He smiled that crooked smile at me and I felt my heart turn to mush (yep I had it bad). We started to dance a bit closer to one another as the rest of the gym faded out to the background, I could no longer hear the song that was playing as Edward brought his face closer to mine. I closed my eyes and tilted my head like I have seen in the movies, I was finally going to get my first kiss and my first major crush was the one who was giving it to me, could my night get any better? As he got closer to me I could feel the butterflies in my stomach turn into eagles, this was it, the moment I have waited for, for almost 17 years nothing could ruin this moment…

I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
Come on Barbie, let's go party!

I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation

I am so startled out of my dream that I roll off my bed and onto the floor. I only took me a minute to recollect myself and grab my phone. I did a quick look at my little clock radio and instantly realized who was calling me. There is only one person in the world that would call me at seven in the morning on a Saturday, let alone manage to change the ring tone on my phone without me realizing it.

"Hello Alice, AQUA really? You couldn't find a better ring tone?" I asked her, my voice till a little heavy with sleep. "And how did you manage to change my ring tone? I still can't figure out how to put it on silent!"

"Silly Bella, I did it on Thursday during lunch when you and Rose were trying to stop Emmett and Jasper from having an eating contest. But that is beside the point, why aren't you up yet? You only have less then twelve hours now until Edward picks you up for the dance! There is still so much to do!" Success! I have finally gained the ability to understand Alice speech! The only down side is that it only happens when I first wake up.

"Alice, we are going to a dance, not prom there is no need to take that long to get ready how hard is it to throw on a dress and go?" This was the wrong thing to say, a very wrong thing to say but it was too late.

"Isabella Marie Swan!" How she learned my middle name I will never know "There is more then just throwing on a dress when it comes to getting ready! There is hair and make-up and nails have to be done and pictures to be taken and" off she went on a little tantrum, I pulled the phone away from my ear for a little bit and got myself off my floor and onto my bed, my chances of getting back to sleep were still good if I could get her off the phone within the next ten minutes.

"Alice don't worry about it." I interrupted her little tirade when she started to plan on coming over here and getting me ready, I was in no mood to play Bella-Barbie today (and I just now understand the reason she put that stupid ring tone on my phone, must ask Emmett how to change it). "Leah is staying home today to watch Seth while Em and I are at the dance and everyone else is at work. She is very excited about helping her little sissy get ready for her first dance and I will not let you take this experience away from her."

"Fine you win I will not come over to help you." It made me sad to hear Alice use her defeated voice but there was no way I was going to back down. On the other hand I had a brilliant idea for what she could do with her spare time.

"You know Alice, Rose and Emmett are going to dinner around five this evening and I am sure Rose would love the extra help."

"OMG! You are so right I had forgotten all about that! See ya later Bella!" After she hung up I contemplated texting Rose to warn her but I figured they are sisters and Rose could handle her better then I can any day.

About ten minutes later Seth came running into my room complaining that he was hungry and all thoughts of getting anymore sleep flew out the window. We quickly made our way downstairs; Seth went to the living room to watch cartoons as I went to the kitchen to start on waffles and eggs. The smell of breakfast cooking woke the rest of the house up (they could sleep through a bomb going off but for some reason they can all wake up to the smell of food) and they soon joined either me in the kitchen (dad, mama Sue and Leah) or went and watched Ninja Turtles with Seth (Jake and Emmett, I would have gone too but I was already cooking and mama Sue had work later, dad can't even boil water and Leah really shouldn't be on her feet too much at 8 ½ months). When we all sat down to eat I expected the guys to go back into the living room but I was in for a surprise.

When the last waffle had been eaten dad, Jake and Emmett all put down their forks and turned in their chairs so that they were all looking at me. All I could think abut was thank God Sam wasn't here but he had to work on getting ready for his date later with, he was taking Emily to dinner in PA since her conference in Seattle was canceled (we all hoped this was the dinner where he finally pops the question, it was because of this that the camping trip was called off and they all decided to go into work since Leah is due with in the next couple of weeks and Jake wanted to take time off from work for that instead). Dad was the first one to speak.

"Bells I know that you are going to this dance thing with a boy as friends but there are still some ground rules I would like to cover with you." I did a quick glance at Leah to see her giving me a very sympathetic look and I had a feeling this was going to be a long day already. "Emmett will meet you at the school gym a little after eight and I want you to text me when you get ready to leave to head back to the house. Now Em promised to keep an eye on you but if the boy does anything inappropriate I want you to get away from him and message either me or Em and we will be there to get you in a heart beat."

"If things get uncomfortable at any point and you don't want Charlie or Emmett just pull the fire alarm and I will come and get you with a few of the guys, maybe Embry or Quil." I had to roll my eyes at Jacob's comment, like I was really going to pull the fire alarm, I hope he was only joking but the look on his face said other wise. I was starting to feel sorry for any boy I actually do start dating, I had a lot of big brothers.

"Now boys don't get ahead of the situation, this isn't even a date; they are just going as friends with their other friends." Thank you mama Sue! "You are all over reacting just like you did with Leah when she was younger and Bella is going to the dance with a nice boy whose mother is one of my closest friends. Peter will be there as a chaperone. and if the boy was to pull anything Esme and I would be more then capable of handling it." I know I like to think of Emmett as a brother bear but the real bear in the family is Mama Sue, she is all nice and loving but make a move against one of her cubs and you will wish you were dealing with a real bear.

With that Mama Sue ended the lecture (or advice as Em likes to call it) by gathering the empty plates. She handed them off to Emmett and I to put into the dish washer as the rest of the working adults went to get ready for the day and Leah went to go get Seth cleaned up (he has this thing for syrup and he naturally got it all over himself). Em and I naturally got into a little bit of a water fight before Sue called from the new master that was off the kitchen for us to cut it out (also something about wasting natural resources and raising a bunch of animals). As we were cleaning up the spills we got to talking abut later.

"So are you going to take the Hurricane tonight or is Rose driving?"

"The Hurricane as you like to call it had a bit of a ruff time starting yesterday so Leah said I could borrow her 2005 Kia Rio (A/N I have a blue one!lol) because she has no plans tonight other then watching Seth and helping you get ready for the dance."

"Thanks for warning me about dad this morning by the way I could have done with out the lecture, you are actually going to the dance with a real date and they didn't say anything to you." I smacked him on the arm with my towel and Em actually looked sheepish for a little bit and he got a slight blush on his cheeks.

"Mama Sue and Leah cornered me last week and gave me a bigger lecture then what you got about the proper way to treat a lady and how to act at a nice place for dinner and even gave me the number of the flower shop so I could get her a rose or two." And I thought I had the love bug bad, Emmett was clearly smitten.

"Awe Emmett your going to ask her to be your girl tonight aren't you? Awe you're all grown up and in love, just wait till Sam and Jake hear about th" he promptly covered up my mouth.

"Come on Bells keep it down you think I want the others to know right now, what if she says no?" He looked so sad it broke my heart a little. I took his hand off my mouth (well in reality I licked it and he moved his hand away to wipe it off yelling something about cooties) and gave him a hug.

"It will be okay Em she would have to be crazy to say no to you and I know for a fact that she thinks you hot." He perked up a bit.

"And how would you know that?"

"Yesterday when you took your shirt off on your way to the locker rooms she stood there drooling until Alice and I pulled her away. She might have muttered something about you looking like Kellan Lutz from those Calvin Klein X commercials that you can find on youtube."

"She really said that?"

"Yes she did and she ruined the hot shirtlessness of Mr. Lutz for me because now every time I see him I think of you and no one wants to think about their brother and I am now scared for life." For the rest of the morning Emmett was in his happy place and couldn't wait to meet up with Rose later, who texted me a little after Em and I had our little talk to say thank you for sticking her with Alice, but hey what are friends for?

I spent most of the rest of my Saturday hanging with Leah and Seth watching Disney movies, Seth had to deal with a day with out Sponge Bob, Leah and I were older and we refused to watch a show about a yellow sponge with no brain. Emmett was in and out for most of the day before he got ready for his date around four and left at four thirty telling me that he would be watching "Eddie boy" and I later to make sure there was no hanky panky (lucky me). After Emmett left Leah told me that it was time for me to start getting ready and we headed up stares to my room for hair and make up (again lucky me). As Leah set my hair into the hot rollers I noticed that she would wince every once and a while.

"Hey Leele, are you okay? You have been doing that for a while now?" Leah glanced at me by looking at my small mirror in my room that I was sitting in front of before answering.

"I'm fine Bells the watermelon is just kicking into my ribs its no big deal." My family also likes to down play when something is bothering us. I made a mental note to keep an eye on her and text her throughout the night to make sure she was okay.

As my hair was curling she went ahead and did my make up for me telling me that I had to wear more then just mascara tonight since it was a special occasion. She didn't put too much on and it looked good, just a slightly darker eye shadow and eye liner then what I would normally wear but as she told me, it's a special occasion (and I wanted Edward to see me as pretty other then just ordinary). When Leah started to unravel the hot rollers I noticed her wince again and I told her to go sit down on my bed and I would finish up with my hair, she actually agreed with me told me how to style my hair from the side lines. By the time hair and make up was done it was about six. Leah wanted me to change into the dress Alice forced on me I mean the dress she so kindly gave me on Wednesday (she lied it was not on hold in a store it was on hold in her CLOSET! She claimed to have a feeling that I would go to the dance anyway), so she could get a few pictures of me in it to send to Emily and Aunt Charlotte later tonight or tomorrow. (A/N Bella's dress and hair style are the same as the prom scene in the twilight movie, I know its not very original but I felt that her prom dress in the film looked more like a normal dress).

When I came out of my closet to show Leah my outfit she wasn't on my bed anymore. To say I panicked is an understatement. I searched the other rooms on the second floor and still found no Leah; I couldn't find Seth for that matter either and that worried me just a tiny bit more. I managed to run down the stairs with out falling (second time in a row I might add). I stood in the living room freaking out some more when I heard a noise from the kitchen. I glanced at the clock on the VCR and saw that it read 6:30 and I felt like an idiot. Of course she wouldn't be in my room when I got out, it was dinner time and Seth was very much like dad and Em, he was ruled by his stomach and he would fuss if he doesn't eat on a set schedule. When I walked into the kitchen Leah was at the stove while Seth was standing on a chair next to the counter mixing something in a bowl. He heard me when I walked in.

"Hey Bella! You took to long so Leele and I decided to make dinner! You look pretty." And he went back to his mixing like nothing happened, I love that kid. I walked over to where Leah was standing, the stove wasn't on or anything she was only standing in front of it and holding on to the edge. I got that panicky feeling again in the pit of my stomach.

"Leele maybe you should go sit down in the living room while I help Seth make dinner you aren't looking too good right now and I don't want you to stress yourself any further." She was starting to sweat and her face looked a little pale. "On second thought go lay down for a bit while I call Mama Sue or Jake." Leah shook her head no.

"Bella you go see if you can get the truck started and I am going to call my doctor, I think something's wrong. I keep getting these pains and at first I thought they were Braxton Hicks but now I'm not so sure."

I went to my bag and pulled out my cell phone, I handed it too Leah as I ran out of the house and out to the truck. I got in, put in the key and turned it. The Truck made some kind of grinding noise before it went dead. I took a deep breath and tried again, followed by a third time and a fourth fifth sixth time. Nothing. The truck wouldn't do more then make a noise and then stop. I felt like slamming my head against the steering wheel. I sat for like five minutes before I remembered that we still had family in the area with cars, hell Charlie was a police officer. With that in mind I jumped out of the truck and ran in side to the kitchen.

Seth was sitting happily at the table with a spoon and the peanut butter jar and I couldn't see Leah.

"Hey Seth where did Leah go?"

"She went to the bathroom then to the guest room to get a change of clothes she told me to tell you to call Jake and Daddy." Shit. If that meant what I thought it meant her water broke.

"Seth stay here I will be right back." I didn't wait for a reply as I ran up the stairs, grabbing the cordless phone as I ran through the living room and up the stairs. When I made it to the room Leah stayed in when Jake was at work I saw her hunched over the bed. I ran over to her to make sure she was as okay as she could be before calling the station for dad this is a small town where nothing really happens so I had a good feeling that he would be there. But I was wrong. I got one of the newbies at the station, some kid named Matt, and he told me that dad got called out to a motor cycle accident about 20 min out. I hung up on him and dialed dad's cell where I left a message. I called Sue's phone and got the machine as well, that was to be expected because she was a nurse at the hospital. I tried Jake but only got his voicemail as well.

I was going into panic mode again when I thought of Emmett. He was only about 15 min away at the school and he wouldn't mind me interrupting his date for this. I called his cell phone and after the third ring he picked up…or so I thought.

"Hello person this is Seth."

"Seth…what are you doing on Emmett's cell?"

"Hey Bella! I found it on the counter why are you calling it?"

"Seth hang up the phone we will be down in a moment." With that I hung up the phone and started banging my head against the wall. This couldn't get any worse. Leah was going into labor, the car didn't work no one was answering their phones, I even tried Sam and I had to leave a voice mail, not that he could do much in PA. I wanted to cry but if I started to cry then Seth would cry and a crying six year old is not what we needed right now. I was in the middle of my almost melt down when I heard the doorbell ring and Seth yelling something about getting it. That's when it hit me. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 7:30 and Edward was supposed to be picking me up for the dance at 7:30. And Edward has a car.

"Leah I think I found someone who can give us a lift to the hospital!" Leah lifted her head and nodded before I once again ran down the stairs, only to slip about halfway down and rip the side of my dress as well as scrape my knee but at the moment I didn't care. I heard Seth and Edward run over to me to make sure I was alright and help me up. I allowed Edward to help me up and I gave him a huge hug.

"Edward I need you to do a really really really big favor and I promise I will make it up to you, but I don't think we will be making it to the dance."

Edward looked at me worriedly before nodding his head, "Anything what's wrong?" And I told him about Leah and how we really needed a ride to the hospital. As soon as I was done he was up the stairs in seconds only to return helping Leah down the stairs and to his Volvo. I gave my self a minute to stare at him in his formal wear (he had a dark blue shirt on that matched my dress and made him look hot) before I grabbed Seth, his shoes, and carried him out to Edward's car.

Let's just say that tonight isn't going anywhere close to what I had originally planned.

Me: Well isn't that exciting next chapter will be in Edward's point of view and I hope you all will let me know what you think ;p

Emmett: you want to know what I just realized

Edward: what did you just realize?

Emmett: Me and I have the same nicknames, her name is Emily mine is Emmett and we both use Em and Emy!

Me: that was random…see you all next time.