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  el the direy thoughts had taken, i thought of
  something else.
  ”is on this?” i asked, suddenly suspicious.
  ”rihen chuckled. ”apparently tyler wasn't,
  though.”
  i gritted my teeth. how tyler could be so delusional, i 't imagine.
  at school, where charlie 't interfere, edward and i were
  i for those rare sunny days.
  we were at the sow; rosalie's red vertible i
  the parking lot. the clouds were thin today, a few streaks of sunlight
  esg through far away i.
  he got out and walked arouo open my door. he held out his
  hand.
  i sat stubbornly i, arms folded, feeliwinge of
  smug ith people in formal dress: witnesses. he
  't remove me for the car as he might have if we'd been
  alone.
  he sighed. ”wheo kill you, you're brave as a lion — and
  then wheions dang…” he shook his head.
  i gulped. dang.
  ”bella, i wohing hurt you — not even yourself. i wo go
  of you onise.”
  i thought about that a much better. he could see that in
  my face.
  ”there, now,” he said gently, ”it won't be so bad.” he leaned down and
  ed one arm around my waist. i took his other ha him lift
  me from the car.
  he kept his arm tightly arouing me as i limped toward the
  school.
  ihey held proms in hotel ballrooms. this dahe
  gym, of course. it robably the only room in town big enough for a
  da inside, i giggled. there were actual balloon arches
  and twisted garlands of pastel crepe paper festooning the walls.
  ”this looks like a horror movie waiting to happen,” i snickered.
  ”well,” he muttered as we sloroached the ticket table — he was
  g most of my weight, but i still had to shuffle a
  forward — ”there are more than enough vampires present.”
  i looked at the dance floor; a had formed ihe
  floor, where two couples whirled gracefully. the other dao
  the sides ive them spae waand in
  trast with suce. emmett and jasper were intimidating and
  flawless in classic tuxedos. alice was striking in a bla dress
  with geometric cutouts that bared large triangles of her snowy white
  skin. and rosalie was… well, rosalie. she was beyond belief. her vivid
  scarlet dress was backless, tight to her calves where it flared into a
  wide ruffled train, with a plu. i pitied
  every girl in the room, myself included.
  ”do you wa the doors so you massasuspeg
  townsfolk?” i whispered spiratorially.
  ”and where do you fit into that scheme?” he glared.
  ”oh, i'm with the vampires, of course.”
  he smiled relutly. ”anythi of dang.”
  ”anything.”
  he bought our tickets, theoward the dance fled
  against his arm a.
  ”i've got all night,” he warned.
  eveowed me out to where his family was twirlily —
  if ially uhe present time and music. i watched
  in horror.
  ”edward.” my throat was so dry i anage a whisper. ”i holy
  't dance!” i could feel the panig up i.
  ”don't worry, silly,” he whispered ba.” he put my arms around
  his ned lifted me to slide his feet under mine.
  and then hirling, too.
  ”i feel like i'm five years old,” i laughed after a few minutes of
  effortless waltzing.
  ”you don't look five,” he murmured, pulling me closer for a sed, so
  that my feet were briefly a fround.
  alice caught my eye on a turn and smiled in e — i smiled
  back. i rised to realize that i was ajoying myself… a
  little.
  ”okay, this isn't half bad,” i admitted.
  but edward was staring toward the doors,