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"I don't really want to do the whole prom thing," Bella explains as Alice and I sit in her hospital room with her. "I mean my leg is broken."
"It does make sense," I tell her, "but wouldn't you like to spend some time with Edward?"
"Yeah, and I have a dress that would look amazing on you!" Alice exclaims, "come on I know you want to go with Edward." Bella sighs in defeat knowing she won't be able to lie to Alice about this. She looks across us.
"Well, are you two at least going?" She asks us plainly. Alice and I exclaim a slightly sad look. "What?"
"We don't really go to proms," I tell her, "I mean with Jasper being a new vegetarian and a bunch of drunk teenagers he refuses to go to the dance. And I refuse to go without him. The others just have been to so many that they are kind of over them."
"Well, you should go," Bella says, "if I have to then so do you." I chuckle at her.
"I mean I'd love to go but Jasper-"
"He has a lot more control than he used to," Alice says to me, "plus it could be fun to go to."
"You'd never get him to go for it," I tell the pair, "so sorry as much as I'd love to I wouldn't want to go by myself." Alice nods lightly as Bella looks around awkwardly. "But you should still go. I mean I'm sure you'd love to enjoy your prom."
"Right yeah um if Alice can get me a dress then sure," She says. With that Alice and I help her plan for her prom look helping her collect her ideas. Once it's all set Edward takes mine and Alice's place at Bella's side sending us home.
"That blue dress is going to look really nice on her," I say to Alice. She seems to be lost in her thoughts. I sigh dropping the conversation. I change the radio station filling the quiet car. After a couple of moments, she looks over and smiles at me. "Vision?"
"A good one," She says to me, "about Edward and Bella. They'll have a great prom. That's really good. They deserve it."
"Yeah they've had a hard time," I say to her, "after that little incident and the blood." I cringe slightly at the memory. I wanted to help the girl so bad as she bled on the floor of the ballet studio. I couldn't do anything except watch and keep Jasper away. It was hard to keep him away but even harder to not show my own desire to drain the blood of my friend. I shake the memory away. "She's alive that's what matters."
"Right," Alice says nodding. As I pull into the driveway of our home she perks up slightly. "I'm going to get the dress." She practically jumps from my car as I climb out. I chuckle following her inside the house.
"Hey so Is Bella okay?" Emmet asks us as we walk into the living room. I notice he and Rosalie were curled up on the couch together as she reads. Rose rolls her eyes harshly.
"Yeah she's fine," Alice says as Jasper joins us in the room. He moves to wrap his arms around me cheerfully.
"Edward is with her now," I inform them. Alice smiles excitedly at the group.
"He's taking her to prom!" She says cheerfully, "how cute is that?" I feel the tiniest bit jealous of the fact Edward gets to go to a prom with his significant other. I love Jasper more than anything else but the fact I don't get to do things like go to prom with him sucks.
"It's adorable," I say pushing away the jealousy in the hope to avoid my mate's power to know our emotions. I smile lightly at the group. "Alice and I helped her get everything together for her outfit."
"Prom is boring," Rosalie huffs, "Seriously it's the same thing every time."
"It is romantic though," Emmet says. I look away in an attempt to avoid meeting Alice's eyes. "They'll have fun. Besides we don't have to go so you'll enjoy that even more." Rose smiles at him as Jasper nuzzles into my neck.
"It's Bella's first prom," I say to them, "so it's a cute experience for her."
"From what I remember you haven't even been to one," Rose teases. I chuckle hiding the offense in the comment.
"Yeah well it's not my type of thing," I lie as I smile lightly, "I mean too many humans around and the main part is getting wasted on spiked punch that we can't even have." The group chuckles lightly at the comment. "Well I know we've passed these classes hundreds of times over but I don't want to flunk out of this school so I'm going to quickly finish this homework."
"Nerd!" Emmet yells. I roll my eyes as I move away from Jasper.
"You coming?" I ask him. He nods. I slip my hand into his and lead him along the stairs to our room. As I sit on our bed and move through the papers he looks to me with a worried expression.
"Darlin, what's wrong?" He asks me, "you're upset. What happened?"
"It's nothing," I say to him, "useless emotions that's all."
"Emotions aren't useless," He says to me as he stands watching me carefully, "are you sure you don't want to talk about it?"
"I'm sure," I say to him, "it's dumb anyway. You gonna do this homework or not?"
"Actually I think I'm going to rush downstairs my car was acting funny earlier," He says to me. I nod and move to start on my homework. It takes about a total of 40 minutes to finish the piles. I guess it helps since I've been learning the same 10 things since I joined the coven. After I finish the stack I hear a soft knocking at my door.
"Yeah?" I call. The knocking continues. I stand opening the door to see Alice standing at it. "What's up?"
"Jasper needs you downstairs," She tells me, "he wanted me to come get you." I can't help but notice her wicked smile. "He's on the balcony."
"Right," I say to her. She takes my hand practically dragging me to the balcony. Before I can ask her anything she's gone and I'm on the balcony with Jasper three feet ahead of me staring out into the deep woods. "Hey Jas what's going on?" He looks back at me with a slightly nervous smile. I'm taken back at the show of emotion from him. "Love you okay?"
"You wanna go to prom?" He asks me. I sigh.
"Alice," I growl under my breath, "listen it's just a childish thing. We don't have to go I'd rather stay home and watch movies or we can read together. I'm fine-"
"You're lying," He says to me. I look down guiltily. "I know we haven't got to go because of how I am with humans-"
"You are doing so much better," I tell him, "you are getting better every single day."
"I know," He says to me, "And that's exactly why I want to go with you."
"You want to go?" I ask him. He nods.
"Dress up and spend the night dancing with my love," He says, "that sounds amazing to me. So if you want to go then lets go."
"Really?" I ask him excitedly. He nods. "That's amazing." I move to pull him into a tight hug. As I pull back I move connecting my lips to mine. He deepens the kiss as we move in synch. After a couple of moments, I pull back. "Oh, now we need to get everything within three days."
"We've got this," He says pecking my forehead.
And for once we actually were. In the three days, we got our outfits and had everything planned. To make it a bit more traditional though I got ready in Alice's room.
"Here I've got you," Alice says moving to zip my dress up. I smile as I brush at the dress. I look back at her excitedly.
"He and I will be okay with this right?" I ask her. She nods.
"Just go have fun," She says to me. I nod. With that, I move walking down the stairs to meet my mate. I notice him standing with Carlisle and Esme. As he sees me a wide smile covers his face.
"You look absolutely beautiful darlin," He says as I make my way to him. He pulls me in his arms pecking my forehead.
"Thanks, Love," I say to him. We look to Carlisle and Esme with a smile.
"You two are adorable," Esme says smiling at us. Alice runs down snapping pictures of the two of us squealing about how cute we are and such. I smile at them.
"You guys have fun tonight," Alice says to us with a wink. I roll my eyes as Jasper chuckles loudly.
"Don't wait up guys," I say to them. We exchange our goodbyes and then Jasper and I move to his car. We climb in and he looks over to me with a wide smile.
"You do look amazing," He says to me.
"Thanks," I say to him, "and you look so handsome. We are a pretty hot couple." He chuckles as he starts the car. As we drive I sing along cheerfully to our music selection. Once we finally reach the dance we meet up with Bella and Edward.
"So you got him to come?" She asks me. I nod smiling over at my mate.
"Yeah," I say cheerfully, "my first prom. Well, how's my emo adopted brother over here doing?" He scoffs at the comment. Jasper laughs at the comment as I smirk. Even Bella seems to find a kick out of it. "Ed come on you know it was a joke you are only kinda emo."
"Don't you want to get inside?" Edward offers.
"Not when I can be out here bothering you," I say chuckling.
"Darlin we should let them have their moment," Jas says to me. I nod. He leads us into the dance. We start dancing to the upbeat pop music. I see a face of pain cover Jasper's face. But once his eyes met mine he relaxes a bit. Letting himself cut loose as we move together. Finally after an hour of dancing and having fun the music slows down. As we move to adjust to a position to slow dance he smiles looking down at me. "This reminds me of the honeymoon when we went to Pairs and danced under the stars." I smile at the cheesy memory of our honeymoon.
"That was an amazing night," I say to him as we move together, "can you believe it's been so long?"
"And every day I love you more darlin," He says to me. I move connecting my lips to his for a sweet loving kiss. As we break the kiss he pulls me closer to him in the dance. "I love you."
"I love you too."