Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

An Imperfect Life

By Midnight Dreamer

Chapter 02: Dances, Dates, and Accidents

(BPOV)

 The school rented the local Fire hall to hold the dance. Nicole was so excited. She is on the decorations committee. She talked me into helping her out, yippy just what I always wanted to do. So every night this week I spent with her blowing up balloons, hanging streamers, untangling lights, replacing blown out bulbs and hanging lanterns all over the hall. It was on one of these evenings that Nicole brought up the fact that we still hadn’t found dresses for this evil event. If there was anything I hated more then social events; it was shopping! Nicole on the other had loved to shop. She could spend hours shopping.

” Oh come on Bella, we have to find the perfect dress for the dance. Don’t you want everyone to stare at you and tell you how beautiful you are?” she sang as she danced around the dress racks in the local shop.

“Not really! I didn’t even want to go in the first place. If I didn’t feel bad for Davey I wouldn’t even be going. I just didn’t want him to get stuck going alone” I protested as she shoved another dress in to my arms.

So far she managed to stuff at least 30 dresses into my arms for us to try on. I feel like a life size Barbie!  After another ten minutes she finally said that we could head over to the dressing rooms to try on our dresses…. Needless to say that I hadn’t picked any of these off the racks. Once we got to the rooms she handed me half the dresses and told me to go try them on one by one and then come out and show her what each looked like. The first one I tried on was a light beige color with black diagonal stripes on it. I think it looked like a dusty zebra. When I came out of the room she shook her head no and waved me back in. The second dress was lavender and had glitter all over it. I looked like a gaint purple disco ball. Again she waved me back shaking her head. This continued through the first 20 or so dresses she gave me. Then as I was about to give up and say screw the whole thing; I came out wearing the last dress I swore I was trying on, and she gasped.

“Oh my god Bella. That is the perfect dress for you. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it from the beginning we could of saved ourselves so much time” she exclaimed.

Why oh why is it always me. The dress I was wedged into at the moment was a pale peach floor length gown. It was form fitting to the waist and then flowed formlessly to the floor. It reminded me of one of the dresses my mom would wear to one of her dance thingys.

“Are you sure?” I asked questioningly.

” Yes! I am most definitely sure, you should see yourself Bella you are gorgeous” she sighed.

OK so now I have the dress for this stupid dance, hopefully she will let me go home now…. But I would have no such luck.

” Come on Bella we have to get you shoes, and accessories to go with your dress. I know you don’t have anything to go with that. Even though I’m pretty sure if you asked your mom she would gladly lend you something. She has such lovely things” she said looking dreamingly at nothing.

Great that is just what I want to do, ask my mom for help dressing for a dance I don’t really want to go to. Damn you Davey, how come you had to guilt me into this.

I finally got home around 8:30 that night. Emmett of course found my unwillingness to shop hilarious.

” So how did the dress shopping go little sis?” he asked looking about two seconds from bursting into full blown laughter.

“Fine. I got something to wear” I said frustrated about the whole ordeal.

At this point in time he couldn’t hold it in any longer and hit the floor laughing so hard I just wanted to go kick him.

” Ha Ha” I said as if to shake it off.

” Did you get your suit for this intrepid evening?” I asked.

All of a sudden he wasn’t laughing anymore. I wonder what stopped him.

” No one asked me to go” he stated.

“What do you mean no one asked you?” I said looking rather confused. ” I just figured you were going with Amber.”

” No she is going with someone else” he said as if it was no big deal.

” I thought you guys were a couple? She’s always hanging on you at school.” I said as if it wasn’t obvious.

” yeah sure she likes hanging out and leading me on but she has a boyfriend, he is going with her to the dance. I guess he goes to a different school. I thought we had something too” he said looking as if someone just killed his best friend.

” Oh Emmy I am so sorry I just assumed, why don’t you come with me and Davey? I could use the support. You know how much I love social events, particularly dancing” I said halfheartedly.

He looked at me as if I said something funny.

” what?” I asked.

” You really want me to go with you and your date?” he asked as if he didn’t believe I just said it.

” Yes I do Emmett and it is not a date. We are just two friends going together so we don’t have to go alone, even though I had no intentions on going in the first place. That and this way Davey doesn’t get any ideas about me being his girlfriend” I said with a serious look on my face.

“Alright if you insist. But I warn you now you are gonna have to dance with your big brother at least once” he said while wiggling his eyebrows at me.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the gesture.

” OK but only one dance” I replied.

I knew Emmet could dance. Mom made him take dance lesson like the rest of us growing up. He didn’t care for it but Mom told him that it would help with his football skills and the ladies. Which it did, atleast for one of those things; he is so much more stable on his feet then before. He was such a klutz.

” So little sis do I get to see your dress?” he asked smiling at the garment bag I was carrying toward my room.

” Sure Emmett come with me upstairs and I will show you.”

He was always such a child. He may grow tall and age but he will always be a big kid. So I went to my room and fit the dress on tying the satin strings into a bow behind my back. I came out into my room to find Emmett sitting on the edge of my bed.

“Wow! Bella you look awesome. If I didn’t know any better I wouldn’t believe it was you in that dress.”

“Thanks Emmett. I think.”

” No really I’m gonna have to beat the guys off you at the dance Saturday night.”

I couldn’t help but blush at the thought of Emmet beating off my admirers. Yeah right like I had admirers. I am not that good looking, I’m pretty average. I have dark brown eyes, and auburn hair that is wavy and flows to my waist. My complexion is light and I am pretty tall but nothing outlandish. I don’t understand why everyone thinks I’m so pretty. I think I’m perfectly average like everyone else.  I went and changed out of my dress and got ready for bed.

It has been a very long Friday, I  met up with Nicole again to get a bite to eat then helped with the finishing touches on the hall, went to my karate class, and then went to drop dinner off for my Dad at the station. Of course they all knew who I was when I walked through the door with dad’s take out order.

” Hey there Bella, long time no see. How is everything going kiddo?” the desk sergeant asked as I walked past to my dad’s desk.

” Good Sam how is the wife and kids?”

” They are great Bella thanks for asking, I will tell them you said hi.”

I was almost to dad’s desk when his partner Dan came around the corner and almost ran right into me.

” oops, sorry Bella I didn’t see you there. You bringing Charlie some lunch huh?” he said catching the take out container before it hit the floor.

“Yep you know how he forgets to eat when he works late” I told him with a small smile on my face.

Dan was a very good looking man. It’s a shame that he never got married I bet he would make some woman  very happy. Dan has been Charlie’s partner on the force for the last 10 years. He spends every holiday with us, he doesn’t have any family around here. His parents died along time ago and his sister lives in Mississippi. We kind of adopted him as the uncle we never had since our mom and dad are both only children. He is ten years younger then Charlie so he is like his little brother.

” Hey Bells” I heard Charlie call from behind me.

” Oh hey dad. Just dropping you off something to eat. I thought you might be getting hungry.”

“Thanks Bells. Oh your mother wanted me to ask what your plans are for tomorrow?”

” Apparently I got suckered into going to the dance.” I said smiling slightly.

” Oh, your going to the dance! Is your brother going also?” he asked

“Yes dad Emmett is going with me and Davey to the dance. It’s kind of a group thing since none of us have a date, and neither wanted to go alone.” I returned.

” Oh….Okay. That clears that up then. One less thing I have to worry about. Now I can let your mother know we don’t have to worry about whether or not Emmett will burn the house down while we are gone.”

I looked at him all puzzled. He finally caught on that I had no idea what he was talking about and began to explain.

” oh sorry Bells I guess you haven’t been home yet. Your mom and I are going to some dinner party held by the university, all of the staff must attend. So your mother and I won’t be home tomorrow night either.”

“Oh okay, I see how you would be worried about Emmett burning the house down then.” I chuckled. “Well I have to be going, hope you and mom have a good time and remember to drive safe.”

I used his favorite line for whenever me and Emmett went anywhere.

” You too. Don’t let your brother drive if he drinks anything.. I know he drinks when his buddies are around and I would like for both of you to make it home alive tomorrow night.” he stated.

” Yes Dad” I waved him off as I exited the station house shrugging my shoulders.

He always did worry to much about us. That must be the cop in him.

Well Saturday had arrived. Nicole is on her way over to help me get ready. Apparently she doesn’t think I am capable on my own. Emmett was already dressed and ready. He looked great, but I would never tell him that. It would go straight to his head and I would never hear the end of it.

After two hours of being poked, prodded, buffed, shined, polished and whatever else Nicole did to me we were ready. We all went out to the jeep and got in to go pick up Davey. We pulled up outside and beeped. It was about 2 minutes later and the door opened…..I couldn’t believe my eyes. There stood who I think was Davey. His hair cut short into a military type buzz. His glasses had been replaced by contacts, and he had on a black on black suit. He looked hot! (wolf whistling from Emmett and woo who’s from me and Nicole) As he started toward the jeep I think he changed six different shades of red. I’m glad I’m not the only one who could be called a mood ring. He climbed in the back with Nicole. We were off to the nightmare they call a dance. As we pulled into the parking lot I saw that almost the entire student body was there.

“Oh my god” I exclaimed.

” It’s okay Bella just breathe” I heard Davey say as he opened my door for me to get out.

“Thank you. I will remember to do that” I said while trembling at the knees.

“Everything will be fine” Emmett said with a smile on his face as he took my hand and started leading me to the door of the fire hall. Just then Nicole started walking off in another direction.

” Nicole where are you going?” I asked.

She turned to me and said ” I have to meet up with Joey, I guess I forgot to tell you. I told him I would meet him by the main entrance”.

” Oh okay I will see you inside then” I said as if I wasn’t sure about it.

She just smiled and waved as she disappeared into the crowd. As we entered the hall all eyes turned toward us. I wasn’t sure what they were staring at until I saw Davey blush red. They were looking at him. I guess I would too if I didn’t know that he was already a good looking guy to start with. I guess he just took everyone by surprise that’s all. We danced several dances together before Emmett came and cut in.

” May I have this dance?” he asked. As if I could refuse him.

” Sure big Brother just don’t step on my feet” I giggled.

Like he would ever step on my feet. Aside from me he is the most graceful dancer I have ever seen. Next to my mom of course. Charlie doesn’t dance. He has two left feet so he says. We twirled around the floor as if no one else was there. Finally the song ended and it was coming close to the end of the night. I looked around trying to find Davey and spotted him dancing with a freshman girl; who’s name I can’t seem to recall. I know we have gym with her but I can’t put the face to a name. I went over to ask him if he was ready to leave.

” Hey Davey, I hate to interrupt but are you about ready to go?”

“Oh wait..what? Sorry Bella, do you remember Sophie? I nodded. “ And to answer your question no I’m not ready to go just yet.”

” I would be glad to give him a ride home if your ready to leave.” Sophie whispered shyly.

” You would? That’s great.” I said smiling from Davey to Sophie.

Davey winked at me and started dancing with Sophie again. So I made my way back over to Emmett.

” Are you ready to go?” I asked.

” What about Davey and Nicole?” he asked in return.

” Well Davey found a ride home with Sophie and Nicole told me earlier that her and Joey were going back to his place after the dance.” I told him.

” Well then I guess we can go.”

So we left and headed home. Just like dad had said he and mom weren’t home when we got there. So we got changed into some comfy clothes and settled into the couch and watched a movie. I was curled up against Emmett’s side, and he was leaning his head back on the sofa snoring like he always did. That was the last thing I remembered before I passed out next to him.

*****Dream*****

I was in a field full of wild flowers. Everything around me was dripping with moss. The air had a moistness about it. Even the sun seemed to be hazy. A noise to the east end of the field caught my attention. I watched as a boy around my age stepped out of the tree line. I couldn’t see all his features but enough to let me know he was beautiful. He had slightly messy bronze hair that looked like it hadn’t been combed through in days. He had golden eyes that seem to sparkle on their own. He was taller then me but not as tall as Emmett. He was slightly muscular. Not football player big but definitely an athlete. He stood only a few feet from me and smiled the most breathe taking smile. His lip pulled up slightly on the right side and you could see his  perfect white teeth hidden just inside. He took a step towards me and I couldn’t help but step backwards. Something seemed off. Almost threatening. His smile disappeared and he seemed hurt by my rejection. I didn’t understand this for I have never even meet this boy. Then there was another noise from the surrounding trees, and I looked to see what it was. When I turned back the boy was gone. I didn’t even hear him go. That is really strange. Then I heard Emmett calling to me through the trees and ran into the forest to find him.

*****End Dream*****

I woke to hear Emmett calling to me.

“Bella, Bella get up.. What were you dreaming about? You were yelling in your sleep. You were saying don’t go, don’t go…who were you talking to?” Emmett looked worried.

” I don’t know Emmy there was this field and some kid, I have no idea who he is and then he was gone and you were yelling for me. That is all I remember” I said.

Our conversation then was interrupted by a knock on the door. Emmett got up to answer it. I was right behind him as he opened the door to see Dan, my dad’s partner standing there. He looked terrible.

” May I come in?” he asked.

” Sure Dan you know you are welcome anytime” I said in response.

” This is not a social call Bella; I am here on police business” he said in a shallow tone.

At this point I looked at Emmett and he looked just as nervous.

” Come in and have a seat Dan. What can we do for you?” I asked

” Bella, Emmett when was the last time that you saw Charlie and Renee?” he asked

” Yesterday Dan you know that. When I dropped dad’s dinner off” I answered him starting to get worried.

“So neither of you have spoken to them since Friday afternoon?” he said again.

” No. Dan where are you going with this? Just spit it out and quit beating around the bush. Why are you here?” I asked getting angry that he was not getting to the point.

“Easy Bella, I’m just doing my job and getting all the facts.” he said trying to calm me down.

It was getting to be to late for that, once my temper gets going it’s hard to stop.

“Just tell us why you’re here Dan” I said again.

“I sorry to have to tell you that around 3 am this morning your fathers car was found along side highway 110. It appears that a drunk driver ran a red light and collided with Charlie’s car. Your father was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Renee was…was… pronounced dead on the scene” he trailed off.

I couldn’t believe what he was saying. That couldn’t be right, they were at a dinner party. Charlie was always a careful driver, he had to be mistaken. As he began to speak again it was like we were standing in a tunnel and everything was getting darker and he was moving further and further away. I felt Emmett wrap his big arms around me and crush me to his chest. I could tell he was crying. I could feel the tears spilling down over my own face. I was shaking all over. Then nothing.