Good thing that I don't have to be anywhere today, otherwise this would be fatal :P

Anyway, since I didn't want to bother my beta this early in the morning and I also couldn't wait to update again, I just had to upload this chappie without it being beta'ed :/ Please put up with me and my millions of mistakes.

Enjoy reading and I'll be at the bottom :)

Edward Pov

Emmett, Jasper and I trailed slowly to class. The girls had taken off in high speed, mainly because Alice had a hard time controlling her hyper gene.

"So... today is going to be the first time that you dance with Bella. Excited?" Emmett asked me casually.

"Just hoping that she's a lot better than Rose. Good luck with her, by the way," I responded.

Emmett grimaced.

"Seriously, you two shouldn't be so negative. You got paired up with them for a reason, so you guys have nothing worry about," Jasper said.

"Easy for you to say. You got to keep your partner," Emmett grumbled.

"I didn't know that you wanted to continue dancing with Irina. Is there something that you want to tell us?"

Emmett rolled his eyes and shoved him lightly. "Shut up."

We entered the classroom and my eyes almost immediately found Bella.

She by herself on the ground, doing stretches. I couldn't help but notice that she was rather flexible, but that was a given for any ballet dancer.

Yet, there was something different about her movements. Maybe dancing with her wouldn't be so bad.

While Jasper went over to Alice and Rose, Emmett and I got ourselves a spot in the room and started stretching as well.

We didn't talk and just continued until we saw Madam Cope enter.

"Good morning, class," she greeted us like every morning.

"Let's get this show on the road," Emmett sighed, while our classmates chorused their 'Good morning'.

Running my hand through my hair, I followed him to the center of the room.

Alice and Jasper already stood together before Madam Cope even instructed us to get positioned.

These two have been perfectly synchronized ever since the day they started dancing together.

I saw Bella looking around shortly and instead of saying anything to her, I just grabbed her by her arm and pulled her along to stand a little more at the side.

I let go of her as soon as we stood far enough from the next pair, so we wouldn't be colliding with anyone else.

I didn't look at Bella or even talked to her. There was nothing I had to say to her.

Coming to think of it, we never really talked to each other despite the fact that we had mutual friends.

I had just come to the conclusion that she hated me and I was fine with that as long as she wouldn't drag my grades down like Rosalie did.

Madam Cope stood at the front looking at each of us before she started talking," Very well. Since most of you have a new partner, we will do something a little more basic today. In fact, we will be re-starting this entire class- I hope this time I will get better results."

I groaned inwardly. I had already been annoyed with the class at the beginning of the year, because I had enough Pas de Deux experience to cover the basics and now I had to do those again.

At this rate, I was never going to get anything new out of this class. Maybe I should have just asked my mother to transfer me to another course instead of whining about having Rosalie as a partner.

"Now boys, stand behind your partner," Madam Cope instructed.

Doing as she said, I moved to stand behind Bella, leaving little distance between us.

Having her stand so close to my body was weird. I'd never stood around her for any long amount of time, so I was a bit confused by this sort of electrical hum in the space between us.

What the hell was that?

I took a step back when Madam Cope announced that the girls were doing a pirouette.

All the girls in class, immediately went into position. All except Bella. I frowned at that and noticed that her hands were shaking slightly.

Was she nervous?

Looking up at the mirror to see her face, I saw her biting her lip so I decided that she was.

I didn't understand why she was nervous though. If she is indeed an experienced dancer then this should be a piece of cake.

But apparently it wasn't.

Madam Cope counted the girls in and while all of the others spun once with grace, only Bella remained unmoving.

"Ms. Swan, why didn't I see you move?" Madam Cope demanded.

Through the mirror I saw Bella blushing slightly.

"I... uh... sorry," she stuttered, looking around the room only to cast her eyes back at the ground.

"Well, do you mind doing as I asked you to do now?"

Bella bobbed her head hastily.

I wasn't sure what to make of all of this. So far I couldn't say whether or not she was a bad dancer or not, but it was definitely certain that she had a problem with her nerves.

Madam Cope clapped her hands. "Into position."

This time Bella got into position as well and spun around just like everyone else.

Different than the others though, she seemed to have a balance problem and stumbled.

While the others giggled and chuckled at that, I ran both my hands through my hair wondering how the hell I was supposed to work with Bella Swan, if she wasn't even able to do a simple pirouette.

Her second try wasn't much better than the first and I lost all hope of having an actually decent partner.

I would probably have to support her through most of the class.

Just as the thought passed, I stepped closer to Bella. I might as well start helping her out now. There was still a tiny bit of hope left that she might just be too nervous to do it right.

"Don't look at me," I said to her, when I saw that she was about to turn around. "Just do your pirouette."

At first she didn't move and I feared that she was going to be difficult, but then she got into position again, spinning for the third time.

I brought my hands to her waist, not quite touching her. A weird electrical jolt went through my body, which made me want to pull my hands away but I refrained from doing that.

As soon as she stopped turning I rested my hands on her waist, to hold her in place. Without the stumbling her pirouette actually looked good.

"Thank you, Mr. Cullen for demonstrating the next step," Madam Cope said.

I nodded at her and let go of Bella. In the mirror I saw Bella blushing even more than she did before.

It actually looked quite adorable, but I wondered why she would be blushing in the first place. She didn't stumble this time.

I shook my head lightly. Now was hardly the time to think about that.

"I want you all to do the same now and this time I want Ms. Swan to participate."

I repeated my earlier actions when Bella spun around, earning Madam Cope's approval once more.

When she turned her attention to someone else, I saw Bella turning her head slight.

"Thanks," she muttered, her voice barely audible.

What was she thanking me for? I hadn't done anything major, except keeping her off the ground which was basically my job as her partner.

Since I didn't have a response for her, I just shrugged in answer.

"Now I want to see an échappé en pointe- three times and then turn and back into first position. Boys, remember not to hold on too tightly and don't turn her too hard. I don't want any injuries in class."

Processing the instructions quickly, I put my hands back on Bella's waist.

For a moment I wondered if Bella even knew what Madam Cope had just instructed her to do, but when she bend down in a plié, I tossed these thoughts aside.

She came back up in a little jump, which should have resulted in her standing on pointes, but she didn't succeed.

I didn't say anything, but when she messed it up for the second time, I couldn't help but sigh.

She might be better off with the sophomores instead of 'dancing' in this class.

"This is pretty simple, you should be able to do this," I muttered quietly. I was merely voicing my thoughts, so I didn't even intend for her to hear it.

Of course, with us standing so close to each other it was inevitable that she would.

"Well, if you weren't holding me down, I might get somewhere with this," she snapped at me.

Here we go again. This was almost like dancing with Rosalie again, only that she would have told me to do it better.

Out of reflex I wanted to reply but then thought better of it. If Bella thought she could do it better when I loosened my grip, I would do that.

If she messed it up again, I'd have the pleasure of telling her that she should train more before she came to dance with the pros.

It didn't come to that though.

On her third try she mastered the échappé flawlessly and got to the turn fairly quickly.

I didn't know if she realized that she did the little routine faster than anyone else.

When she faced me for a brief moment, I looked at her in slight surprise.

Just who exactly was this Isabella Swan?

One moment she is the worst dancer in class and the next she manages to outshine everyone in one of the most simple exercises.

"Very nice," Madam Cope approved, since she had been watching us closely.

I looked at her and she smiled knowingly at me, before she turned away.

I stepped back from Bella. Alice skipped over to us so I just went over to Jasper.

"Went pretty well for the first time, don't you think?" he asked with a grin.

I shrugged. "It could have been better," I said.

"Or worse. Do I need to remind you of your first class with Rose? You two never hit it off at any point in class."

I threw a quick look over my shoulder and saw Bella talking to Alice.

"Isn't this kind of boring for you? You and Alice already know how to work with each other."

Now it was Jasper's turn to shrug. "I don't really mind. It's probably better for Alice to repeat all this again. She tends to miss things, because she is always in such a hurry."

He looked over at her with a half smile on his face. I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Don't tell me that you have a crush on Alice?" I asked, noticing this dream-like expression on his face. He'd look the exact same way back when he still had this crush on Maria, who was one year above us.

Jasper looked back at me and looked at me in disbelief.

"No way, man. Where did you get that from?"

I raised my eyebrows at him.

"Seriously, I don't have a crush on her. That would be just weird," he continued.

"If you say so..." I replied, not quite believing him.

Jasper noticed, of course.

"Come on, dude. She's almost like your sister and we've been friends for ages. I've known the little pixie ever since I started the work shops here, so it would be just weird if I were to have a crush on her- which I don't. Besides, I'm not a girl so I don't have crushes," he rambled.

"Whatever, Jazz," I waved him off.

"Alright class, you are dismissed," Madam Cope announced just then at the same moment as the bell rang.

Emmett joined us and the three of us headed toward our new class.

"So how did dancing with the Swan go?" Emmett inquired. "Apart from the starting troubles."

"It was okay. How was Rose?"

"Surprisingly good. I mean, she was a bitch, like always, but I seriously don't get what your problem was."

"Emmett, could you please refrain from calling my sister a bitch," Jasper complained, just as we walked into the class of Mr. Banner.

"I'm just stating a fact. It's hardly my fault that she is one," Emmett retorted.

"Hey Em, did you know that Jasper has a crush on Alice," I barged into their conversation, smiling smugly at Jasper.

"What? Seriously? You and the little squirt?"Emmett boomed right away, calling the attention of a few classmates to us.

"Fuck you, Eddie," Jasper said to me with a glare. "And you could just once try to speak at normal volumes, Em."

"So it's true then, huh?" Emmett pressed.

"No, it's not. Edward just made that shit up."

Emmett turned to look at me and we both grinned.

"Getting a little too defensive, don't we?" I teased Jasper.

Jasper glowered at me, but didn't say anything.

"We should tell Alice, she'd get a kick out of that," Emmett said.

"No one is telling anyone anything," Jasper hissed and shoved Emmett away.

Emmett just laughed at that. "Why not? The pixie has been in love with you for ages."

Both Jasper and I whipped our heads around to look at Emmett. "What?"

Emmett looked at us in surprise.

"What, you guys didn't know? It's pretty obvious if you ask me."

"How so?" Jasper asked him, sounding a bit excited.

Emmett and I exchanged a look but didn't say anything about that.

Instead Emmett ticked off a list, "She hates Maria. You should see how she glares at the girl every time they cross paths. Then there is also the fact that she sits next to Jasper, when we eat, most of the time. And she laughs at all of your jokes and sometimes she calls you Jazzy. Not to forget that she always asks where you are whenever you are not around."

"That doesn't prove anything," Jasper said, but looked thoughtful anyway.

"Positions," Mr. Banner called right away when he entered the room.

All of the conversations in the room ended and we got into positions.

During the entire class, Jasper made a slightly unfocused impression.

He stayed like that for most of the Classical Ballet as well until it was time for us to head to lunch.

Normally, we met up with Emmett on the way, since he was in another course, but he wasn't to be found anywhere.

Jasper and I got our trays with food and went over to the table where the girls sat.

I didn't get why we always had to sit with them, but I didn't say anything.

When we approached the table I heard Rose asking, "We're not taking the boys with us, are we?"

Jasper seemed to have heard it as well because he instantly wanted to know what they had planned.

"Shopping," Alice answered him with a wide grin.

I knew for a fact that she was lying, but didn't say anything. She knew that none of us boys ever wanted to accompany them on their shopping trips, so she used that excuse whenever she didn't want us to tag along.

"I don't think that I have time for that today," Jasper claimed, obviously buying the lie. "Take Edward with you."

"I'm busy," I said lamely, not really having to come up with a excuse since I knew they weren't going shopping.

"Too bad," Alice pouted but quickly resumed eating.

"Hey guys, guess what is going to be the event of this week end?" Emmett's voice boomed as he neared the table.

"You learning to speak at normal volumes?" Rosalie guessed sarcastically. If only that was going to happen.

"Nope," Emmett responded, barely paying attention to her.

"What is it? Twinkle-town musical is coming to town?" Bella asked him.

"No, but that would be pretty nice," Emmett mused, probably just humoring her. "Anyway, it's a party. The Venturas are out of town."

I rolled my eyes at that. Leave it to Emmett to be excited about something that he wouldn't even take part in.

"And why would we care about that?" Rosalie asked, sounding bored.

"Err... because every time the Venturas are out of town, their kid throws the most amazing parties?" "And to how many of those parties were you invited?" Jasper inquired further.

Emmett's enthusiasm faded and he looked down. "None," he replied quietly.

"Well that's settled then," Alice commented. "So what are we going to do this week end?""Wait, wait, wait," Bella interfered. "So someone in this town throws the best parties and you're not going?"

She seemed to be genuinely confused about this.

Alice let out a sigh. "It's not like we don't want to, but we won't get into the house. They only let people with invitations in- which would be the whole town, except for the people at the Academy."

Alice had gotten upset about that on several occasions.

"I take it that this person is not a student here?"

"Umm... no."

"Can't we just go there anyway? There has to be a back door or something."

Jasper and I exchanged a look at that, both of us probably somewhat surprised that she would even suggest sneaking in through a non-existent back door.

"It's not that simple. The Venturas live a little outside of town. Do you know why?" Rose continued speaking instead of Alice.

Of course, Bella shook her head.

"Their house is too big to actually fit into this town. It's the biggest mansion around here. There are about three unnecessarily big buildings around here. One is the Academy, which is actually very necessary because it's a school. The other is the Cullen House and of course the Ventura Mansion. We are already privileged to have access to two of these houses."

"So we can't crash the party?" Bella asked, sounding almost disappointed.

"Only if partying with the security guards is what you had in mind."

A frown placed itself on her pretty face and she let the topic go.

She didn't participate in the following discussion about what we were doing this week end.

Judging by her facial expression, she wasn't very impressed with our plan to have movie marathon at my parent's house.

Who knew what she used to do for fun on the week end before she came to Forks. Seeing that she was now here as a punishment, it was safe to assume that she spent a lot of time sneaking in through back doors.

The afternoon classes passed relatively fast. Bella looked like she was in pain when I saw her, which was only to be expected after an entire day of dancing without having the same kind of practice the rest of us had.

When I got to my room, Emmett was already there with his music on full blast.

I turned the stereo down when I passed it and then proceeded to walk to my closet.

"Eddie, you really need to learn to value good music," Emmett said.

I didn't reply to that. What he classified as music, only sounded like unnecessary noise to me.

I quickly changed out of my dancing gear and put on a pair of jeans and a shirt.

"Where's Jasper?" I asked Emmett.

"He left with Peter," Emmett replied. "I'm really starting to think that the kid needs a girlfriend. His back yard parties with Peter are not helping him with his dancing."

"What do you mean?"

I had always known that Peter was not actually the kind of person that Jasper should hang out with, especially since he wasn't even going to school here, but Emmett just made it sound as if the two of them were up to something.

"You don't know? Jeez Eddie, you really need to get out of your own personal bubble, you hardly notice anything going on around you."

I looked at Emmett with furrowed brows.

Emmett just shook his head.

"If you were to pay more attention to your friends, you might actually notice a thing or two."

"I do pay attention. After all, I noticed that Jasper has a crush on Alice," I defended myself.

Emmett got off his bed and clapped me on the back.

"But you miss a lot of other things."

With those cryptic words, he left the room.

I seriously had no idea what he was talking about.

Emmett peeked back into the room. "You could come with me, you know," he told me.

"Where are you going?"

"Felix, Demetri and I want to try to get on the roof."

"On the roof?" I repeated in disbelief.

"Yeah, Jackson swears that he once took Ashley up there and we want to find out how to get up there."

"Well, good luck with that. I don't think that I'm up for any suicidal missions."

Emmett mumbled something like 'boring bastard' and left the room.

Since I now had absolutely nothing to do, I decided to pass my time in one of the music rooms again.

I played almost every song that I knew and my mom once walked in to chastised me for sneaking in but then told me to continue playing, while she sat there and listened.

When it was time for dinner, she shooed me out claiming that I have to get my fix of social activities.

Once again I found myself at a table with the whole group, including Bella.

When Alice let slip that Bella had been invited to the party, Emmett was once again using the full spectrum of his voice.

"You are invited to the party?"

A few people turned to look at him, by the sound of his booming voice but quickly returned their attention to their own things. Everyone was used to Emmett's outbursts by now.

"Yes," Bella sighed, pushing her plate away. She had barely even touched her food.

In the corner of my eye, I saw Rose staring at her plate, not eating either.

Was this some new trend amongst the girls?

Couldn't be, because Alice was eating.

"How come that you are invited?" Emmett pried.

"I've got connections."

"No academy student is ever invited to that party- you are the only one," Emmett stated.

"Not the only one. Leah is invited as well."

"Emmett could you stop being so dramatic? It's just a party," Jasper threw in, seemingly bored with the whole conversation.

"It's not just a party," Emmett and Alice uttered at the same time.

I heard Jasper sigh, while I rolled my eyes at them.

By now, they should be over the fact that they would not be going.

Bella got up, which called Rosalie's attention for the first time.

"Where are you going?"

"Need to make a few calls," Bella stated curtly and then left.

"Now what was that about?" Emmett mumbled.

All of us shrugged.

"Maybe she calls Leah and asks her if we can go to the party as well," Alice gushed excitedly.

"Dream on, Al," Rosalie snorted.

Alice pulled a grimace at the use of one of her nicknames.

"Maybe she just wants to call her friends or her Dad...who knows?" Jasper said offhandedly.

Rose, who had finally decided to take a few bites of her food, only shrugged. Then all of a sudden, her expression fell and she quickly got up and practically ran out of the cafeteria.

"I'm guessing that none of you can explain that either," Emmett mused.

"Umm... no," Jasper said slowly.

Alice looked a bit confused by Rosalie's departure, but didn't say anything.

We continued eating and parted ways a couple of minutes later.

Back in our room, I fell on my bed and pulled out a book to read- which proved to be quite the difficult task with Emmett doing push-ups in the middle of the room.

He couldn't do that without music.

Jasper was complaining about his music being to hasty and that he needed something more 'chillaxing'.

The rest of the evening was quite uneventful and we went to sleep at the same time we always did.

The next day at breakfast was just like every other time all of us sat together. The others were talking, while I mainly just listened.

"You know, we were all worried about you when you left so abruptly yesterday," Alice informed Bella, referring to the previous evening.

"I even came to visit you in your room, but you were sleeping. Did you not feel well?"

"Didn't I say that I needed to make some calls?"

"Yes, but still..."

Bella just shook her head. "I was just tired that's all. You try dancing Ballet again after a year of retirement."

After that we all stayed more or less quiet. Emmett was too busy scarfing his sandwiches down to be actually speaking. Jasper was looking into space in an almost dream-like manner; Alice was writing something in one of her notebooks, which I assumed to be homework.

Bella just seemed to be concentrating on eating, occasionally looking at something in the room.

And Rose was doing what she had been doing for the past days- picking at her food, only taking a bite occasionally.

When it was time for class we all left the table together and made our way to the studio.

Alice didn't seem to be as hyper as she had been the day before. It was actually quite refreshing to have a quiet morning for once.

Like always, we did our stretches before class until Madam Cope entered the room.

I went over to Bella, who looked around as if she was looking for something.

When she saw me standing beside me, she let out a startled little yelp.

I looked at her with raised eyebrows, slightly amused.

She just shook her head and turned to look at Madam Cope, who was already starting to give instructions.

Basically, we were repeating the routine we had to do yesterday.

"You ready?" I asked Bella.

She stared back at me with wide eyes, a mixture of awe and surprise on her face.

What the hell?

When she didn't stop staring, I started to get uncomfortable. She had pretty intense eyes. It was almost as if she was trying to look into my soul.

"What?" I asked self-consciously.

She flinched slightly and then shook her head again, as if she was trying to clear it.

"Nothing. Let's just start."

I sighed, not getting what this was about.

Standing behind her, I waited for Madam Cope's signal.

Bella moved right on time just as fast as she did yesterday. But there was a difference to her movements. They were more fluent- or rather more graceful.

When she turned around and faced me, I looked right at her.

It wasn't even on purpose- my eyes just snapped up to meet her on their own accord.

I had never noticed the unusual depth in her eyes, it was almost scary to have her looking back at me.

It actually made me loosen my grip on her and I probably would have taken a step back if it weren't for the fact that Bella started to fall toward me.

Without having the time to react, I was pushed to the ground.

The impact of hitting the ground was quite unpleasant and it wasn't much better that Bella's weight came down on me as well.

A grunt escaped me, when the air left my lungs for a moment.

Bella immediately scrambled to her feet.

"Shit, I'm so sorry,"she apologized frantically.

With a groan, I sat up and then slowly started to get back on my feet as well.

"What the hell was that?" I barked at her. So far it never happened to me that I landed on the ground because of my dancing partner. Not even Rosalie had accomplished that.

Bella flinched and I immediately felt bad for yelling at her.

"I said that I was sorry- no need to bitch at me," she snapped back.

The guilty feelings were gone almost instantly and I narrowed my eyes at her.

"Are the two of you alright?" Madam Cope asked.

I was still glaring at Bella but nodded anyway.

"Good, make sure that this doesn't happen again."

Knowing that we had to continue with the lesson, I stepped closer to Bella again. I didn't stop glaring at her though, since she did a pretty good job of glaring back at me.

"Whatever that just was, make sure it doesn't happen again," I hissed at her.

"It's not my fault," she retorted.

Cocking an eyebrow at her, I asked, "So who's fault is it? Mine? I wasn't the one who suddenly was incapable of standing."

"No, but you distracted me." She spoke fast, almost making me miss the words.

I distracted her? I didn't even do anything, so how should I have distracted her. All I did was look at her and that couldn't possibly have distracted her.

I was vaguely aware of my mouth opening and close, like I was some kind of fish.

The blush that spread on Bella's cheeks put an end to that, though. I didn't understand why she would be blushing. Coming to think of it... I only ever saw her blush when yesterday during class.

Other than that I don't recall her blushing ever before. It didn't suit her confidant exterior anyway.

Maybe I was the cause of all that blushing. But that was a ridiculous thought. I discarded it right away and payed attention to Madam Cope's words.

"Alright, now I want you to do this but leave out the turn. Instead the ladies will go into arabesque and then I want to see a promenade."

Bella turned back to face the front and got into position. At the count of three she went through the motions once again, in the same fluent manner as before.

I was already fearing a disaster when she went into the arabesque and prepared myself to catch her, but nothing happened.

Quite the contrary, Bella moved her leg up and tilted forward so gracefully that I forgot all about keeping a firm grip on her.

Her body tension was remarkable. I couldn't help but let my eyes trail over her whole body, admiring the beauty in that posture.

"Freeze. I want all of you to stay in that position," Madam Cope called.

I felt how Bella tilted her body a bit more. I adjusted my hands lightly in case she wouldn't be able to hold the pose for long.

"Miss Denali, you need to lift your leg and not stick it out. And Mr. Whitlock, you need to keep your arms straight otherwise you'll be of no use for your partner."

Madam Cope sighed in exasperation.

"Everyone please stop," she instructed.

Bella started to move back up, but was stopped by Madam Cope.

"Everyone except Ms. Swan and Mr. Cullen."

That didn't really surprise me. Bella's arabesque was next to perfect, so it was only to be expected that Madam Cope would use her as an example.

"Now I want you all to look at them. What do you see?"

"Her leg is too far up," Tanya replied almost immediately.

"No, Ms. Denali. Her leg is exactly where it is supposed to be and Mr. Cullen is standing just the way he has to," Madam Cope corrected. "Now, Mr. Cullen, could you please do the promenade before Ms. Swan falls again."

I grinned slightly at the references to the earlier incident.

Holding Bella a little tighter, I started to walk in a small circle. I payed special attention not to mess with Bella's balance while I turned her and she was being very helpful by not even moving a muscle.

"Very nice. That is what I call a beautiful arabesque- the perfect position for a fish dive."

She looked at me with a small smile, probably remembering the one time in the summer workshop last year when I performed that lift perfectly.

Looking at Bella, I knew that it would be easy to do the lift with her. She wasn't as flaily as Rosalie.

I slung my arms around her waist.

Bella turned her head in my direction, just when I wrapped my other arm around the thigh of her working leg. I wasn't sure if I was only imagining it but her body seemed t heat up slightly.

I lifted her off the ground and was happy to see that Bella bend her leg right away. If I didn't know I any better, I would have said that she has been in this for years rather than two days.

"What are you doing?" she hissed at me, being as friendly as she always was.

It didn't deter me though.

I turned my face toward her and tilted her forward, completing the fish dive.

"That's a fish dive," I whispered back to her."I noticed that you have a strong back, so I wondered if it was possible to do with you."

"You could have warned me before you invaded my personal space," I responded, her sweet breath fanning my face.

She didn't sound particularly upset and I smiled at her words.

"There is no personal space in dancing."

Bella's breath caught, which I found to be quite interesting.

Could it be that I was having some kind if effect on her?

That would explain the blushing and the falling.

While Madam Cope spoke in the background, I looked at Bella closely.

I had already established that she was pretty, but I decided in that moment that she was in fact beautiful.

My eyes went to her mouth when she spoke. Plump lips with a beautiful, light pink color.

"Could you please put me back on the ground?" she requested, her voice soft.

Pulling myself out of ma momentarily daze, I nodded and moved back so she could set her foot down in an arabesque again.

I let her go and she got off of her platforms, looking around the room to see everyone staring at us.

"Thank you Mr. Cullen and Ms. Swan for this beautiful demonstration," Madam Cope said, clapping lightly, before she instructed for the whole class to try the earlier routine again.

Bella and I had to participate, which started to get boring since both of us had no problems with it.

Eventually, the bell rang and Madam Cope dismissed us.

"Dude, that was just awesome. You and the little Swan look amazing together," Emmett said to me, once we were on the way to our next class.

"The chemistry between you two is almost insane. For a moment I actually thought you were going to kiss her," Jasper added.

"Don't be ridiculous," I said dismissively. "As if I was ever going to kiss her."

"I just said it looked like...wait... you're kind of defensive," Jasper noted.

"Ooohhh," Emmett added, "You like the little Swan."

I looked at them both with an unmoving face.

"I don't think so," I replied dryly.

That sobered the two of them up.

Throughout the day I heard my performance with Bella being mentioned every now and then. Apparently, we had indeed a good chemistry.

When Jasper and I went to get our food for lunch, we actually heard a few girls saying that I would probably be dancing with Bella at the showcase.

Emmett and the girls were already sitting at the table.

"Jazz! Eddie!" Emmett called, despite the fact that we were almost at the table and could have easily heard him.

"What, Emmett?" I sighed, sensing that he about to say something that didn't interest me even in the slightest.

"Bella, Rose and Alice are going to the party without us," he whined.

Bella and Rosalie rolled their eyes at his antics.

"Seriously, Emmett. Stop crying like you're some kind of giant baby and get over it," Bella said.

"Easy for you to say, you are invited," Emmett retorted.

"How did you two get invited as well?" I asked mainly Alice, but looked at Rosalie as well.

"Bella pulled some strings for us," Alice squealed.

"Only for the two of you? I'm hurt, Bella," Jasper mocked.

"I asked Leah if she could arrange for all of you to come, but Chris wasn't having any of that. She said I could only take two people with me, because she didn't want her party to be flooded with a bunch of prude Academy kids. Her words, not mine," Bella explained swiftly.

"And of course, she chose us," Alice concluded.

Bella looked at her in annoyance.

"I didn't choose you. You just decided that you and Rose would tag along," she corrected.

Alice waved her off and started talking about what she wanted to wear.

"I should wear that dress, I wore last year at the show case," she gushed.

"Alice, have you ever been to these kind of parties?" Rosalie asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, have you ever been at a party hosted by a teenager, who is using the time without their parents."

Alice thought about it for a moment. I already knew the answer.

"No, I don't think so."

"Are you for real?" Bella asked her, sounding surprised.

Alice shrugged. "My parents travel a lot so I spent most of my time here in Forks and there is not much going on here. Especially not when you're an Academy student."

"Well, you don't wear long evening gowns to these." Rosalie shook her head at Alice.

"I guess, we have to get ready together. This sounds like a disaster in the making," Bella muttered waving her hand at Alice.

After lunch my day took on it's regular for- a blur.

Nothing interesting happened and I wondered if my had always been like purgatory.

After school, Emmett and I went to the Gym. He spent most of his time lifting weights- I joined him for a while, but soon I couldn't keep up with him anymore and got on the treadmill instead.

Jasper joined us at some point, but didn't actually work out.

He was content with just watching us, although it seemed to me like he was actually day-dreaming again.

Dinner was spent with Alice annoying the crap out of all of us, because she just couldn't shut up about that stupid party.

I was very grateful when Bella pulled her along to start getting ready.

Emmett, Jasper and I decided to stick to the original plan to spent the night at my parents' house, so we all jumped into my car and drove over to the house.

I was quite the waste that I barely even used my car and when I did, mainly for short distances like driving to the house.

Neither Mom nor Dad were at home, which wasn't much of a surprise.

Emmett and Jasper set up my room for the Game-athon followed by a bunch of action movies, while I tried to hunt down some snacks in the kitchen.

Soon, all of us were settled in front of the TV, torturing the PlayStation and damaging our eye sight.

By the time Emmett made us watch 'Cop Out', I had a serious headache and was already half asleep on the couch.

For some reason though, I stayed awake and managed to watch the first two movies of the Bourne series. When the second movie was over, I noticed that Jasper had fallen asleep on the arm chair and Emmett was snoring loudly on the floor.

I guess that was the end of the movie marathon.

I got off the couch with a yawn and wanted to head to the bathroom to get ready to sleep, but I was interrupted by the shrill ring of my phone.

I had to search through the mess of trash that we had created before I could take the call. Looking briefly at the caller ID, I saw that it was Alice.

For a moment, I heard nothing but loud music and even louder voices.

Then I heard Alice squeal.

"Alice?" I called into the phone, not sure if she would hear me.

"Edward," she screamed in delight. "Why did you call?"

Her words were slurred and she hiccuped a few times.

"I didn't, you were the one who called me. What is going on?"

"Oh nothing. I'm having a lot of fun and I think, I might be in love," she told me, still slurring the words.

Judging by that, I came to the conclusion that she was drunk.

"Alice..." I started, but she interrupted me.

"There is Bella. Edward, I need to hang up. I want to dance with her."

I wanted to protest, but was cut off once more.

This time it wasn't Alice though.

"Edward?" I heard Bella's voice. "Is that you?"

"Yes, would you mind telling me what's going on?"

"Umm... Alice apparently drunk dialed you," she explained.

"She is not even supposed to be drunk. None of you are," I ranted, "You are all under-"

"Yeah, yeah. Could you save that speech for some time later, please. I really have bigger problems right now than dealing with your parental antics," Bella said and then hissed something at someone else, "Where the fuck is Alice? I told you not to let her out of your sight."

"I didn't let her out of my sight. She went into the kitchen," I heard someone respond.

Bella let out something that sounded like an enraged scream and then she got back on the phone.

"Well, I have to stop your cousin from poisoning herself and then I need to check up on Rose, who was puking her guts out a few minutes ago. I have a lot of shit to deal with right now, so bye," she said hastily.

"Wait!" I all but yelled, before she could hang up on me.

"What? I don't have time for you right now," she snapped.

"I'm coming to pick you up, I'll be there in five minutes," I told her and started to go downstairs.

Bella stayed quiet for a moment.

"Okay, I'll get the girls," she then replied and hang up.

I quickly threw on my shoes and grabbed my car keys.

My parents were most likely sleeping by now, so I didn't see the sense in telling them where I was going.

I got into my car and pulled out of our driveway to race through the streets, wanting to get to the Ventura residence as fast as possible.

Once I came closer to the front gates of the property, I heard the loud music coming from the house.

I parked the car in front of the gate and got out of the car to look for the girls.

"Are you invited to this party, kid?"

A huge guy walked up to me, looking at me in question.

"I...uh..."

"He's here to pick us up," I heard Bella say.

I turned around to find her with Alice and Rose- both of them leaning on Bella's shoulder for support.

"Edward," Alice screeched in delight and let go of Bella to stumble toward me.

I caught her before she could hit the ground.

"Whoops, I'm so clumsy," she slurred and then hugged me. "I love you, Eddie."

I was a bit at loss what to do but Bella just waved it off.

"She's been like that for a while now. The good thing is that she didn't start puking yet, so she should be good."

She threw a doubting look at Rosalie, who looked more like she was unconscious.

"I'm not so sure about her though."

"Alright, let's get them in the car," I said and picked Alice up with ease.

It took me various minutes to maneuver the little person into the back seat but eventually I succeeded, while Bella managed to get Rosalie in.

Then we both got in the car as well and I started the way back home.

This time I drove much slower, fearing that the two girls in the back seat might puke.

Bella leaned back in her seat, looking tired.

"How come you are not in such a bad shape?" I asked her, gesturing toward the back.

Bella cast a quick look at the other two before she responded.

"I'm not sober either if that is what you are asking. I'm just better at handling my liquor, which is not that hard. Alice was a first timer and Rose didn't eat. Anyone at that party is in better shape than those two."

I looked briefly at Bella and frowned.

"You shouldn't even be drinking."

"Oh please, who gives a shit about that?"

"I do."

"You also seem to be having a hard time with having fun. Do you even know what that is?"

My grip on the steering wheel tightened and my frown deepened.

"Of course, I know what fun is," I answered, getting irritated with her.

"Really? What do you do for fun?"

"Today, I spent the entire night with Jasper and Emmett, watching movies."

"And other than that? What do you do every other day of the week?"

I actually had to think about that for a moment. I knew that I didn't do much outside of school, but I still had fun every now and then...

"You're taking too long to answer," Bella noted dryly.

"I dance," I blurted out.

She giggled at that, which made me look at her.

Only then I actually noticed the way she looked. Her her was flowing over shoulder in small waves, framing her face.

She wore a make up, but not very much- it actually looked very good on her.

Her blue top only had a halter on the right side, which left her left shoulder bare.

She had beautiful cream-colored skin, that went along great with her top- or rather the other way around.

She basically looked stunning and I wondered how I could have labeled her with an unfitting word like 'beautiful' earlier today.

"Aren't you worried that you are a little too obsessed with dancing?" she asked, looking up at me.

I immediately returned my gaze to the road. I shouldn't have looked away in the first place.

"I'm not obsessed; I'm disciplined. The chances of becoming a professional dancer after our education at the Academy are very slim, so I have to make sure to spent as much time as possible with dancing. I want to be able to dance for living," I explained.

"Why?"

I looked briefly at Bella, slightly confused.

"Why what?"

"Why do you want to be able to dance for living?" she expanded.

Only someone, who wasn't an actual dancer would ask a question like that.

I waited for Alice and Rosalie to start explaining to her that this was what every Ballet dancer wanted, but the soft snores on the back seat told me that they would not be talking any time soon.

"I've been training for it my entire life, that's why," I answered.

While I pulled up to the driveway of my house, I saw Bella shake her head.

"What? Did you never hear of dedication?" I mocked.

I turned of the engine.

Bella turned to look at me with her doe-like, brown eyes.

"It's not that. I just think that you shouldn't lose the love for dance on the way to become a professional. What's the use of reaching your goal, if you don't have any real passion for it?"

She spoke softly, looking at me in a strangely intense way. Then she seemed to snap out of whatever it was she was in.

"Besides, the Ballet business is a bitch. They'll try to break you even before you step foot in it," she added with a smirk and then threw a quick look at the back before she got out of the car.

A/N:All done! I hope that you liked the chapter despite the fact that it was mainly a repeat of last chapter's event just in Eddie's point of view. I had some serious troubles with getting into his head...

By the way, it was really hard to compromise in this chapter. The last time I asked if you thought the Cullens (and friends) should get to enjoy the party as well and the opinions were kind of all over the place... So I had to kind of work with what I was given and it resulted in a drunk Alice and an even drunker Rose ( i know that the word 'drunker' doesn't actually exist) I hope that you don't hate me for that or anything of the sort.

In the next chapter I will write all about the party and then there will be more dancing and who knows what else... if you have any ideas, feel free to pitch them to me... I'll see if I can work with it.

Also, I'm very flattered by the compliments I've gotten :) I'm glad that the dancing that is part of this story can be classified as well-informed, because in reality I don't have much to do with dancing. Well, I'm a big fan of street dance and I know a few dancers and I might be able to bust a couple of moves, but I have absolutely no clue when it comes to Ballet. I'm just watching as many vids as possible and read lots of stuff so I can write about it in a decent manner.

It's good to know that hte effort is worth it :D

Okay, now I ran out of words so I'm going to stop rambling at this point.

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