I from a Yahoo news page (Info found below) and it was interesting so this story began.
GaryWhy do people kiss under the Mistletoe?
Tamara It's from a Norse was said to be the sacred plant of Frigga, the goddess of love. When her son, Balder, dreamed of his death, Frigga rushed about seeking promises that her son would not die. Unfortunately, Balder's enemy, Loki, tipped an arrow with Mistletoe and gave it to Hoder, the blind god of winter who killed Balder with it. He was brought back to life by his mother when she shed tears that turned into Mistletoe berries, so Frigga kissed everyone who passed under the tree on which it grew. From that time on, anyone who stood under the mistletoe would receive only a kiss; no harm could come to him.
An Anglo-Saxon legend of Freya, goddess of love, said men must kiss any young girl who stood under a sprig of Mistletoe hung from the ceiling. Another custom required all the Mistletoe in the house to be burned on Twelfth Night, or the couples who kissed under it will never marry.
Jimmy lee B. It started way back years ago, there was this really ugly British guy, and no women would kiss him. so he started the rumor and would hold it over the lady's heads and get a kiss, and it has been going on forever. I think? this is a true story, but don't really know.Jack H At this time of year so many people have the common cold, it was seen as a way of spreading the germs around efficiently.

Information I found after trying to figure out when extacly the Twelfth night was.
The Twelfth Night is the twelfth night after Christmas, or January 6, which marks the end of the Christmas season.

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"I love you. It's a poor excuse for what I'm doing, but it's still true."

Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 17, p.366

Mistletoe!

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or any of that Stephenie Meyer does. And I don't own the sites or the quotes of information I borrowed from those sites from above.

Summery: "Why do people kiss under mistletoe?" A cute story that came to me after reading some yahoo news site.

Christmas is coming soon and how I hate this time of year! I can't believe that I got roped into this stupid holiday party again this year, sometimes I think I would be better off if Alice just left me to mope about in my bed. I try every year to get out of her plans but some how she manages to trick me into this. So here I am, hating my life and hating Christmas! … Well ok I really don't hate Christmas just the party that Alice has for the holiday every year and only because of a certain little friend that every guy in the room fawns over. Oh how I wish I could call Bella more than just a friend, I always have ever since she moved here from Phoenix in our freshmen year. Alice instantly gained her friendship as did our big brother Emmet and myself from Bella spending so much time with our family. Jasper, Alice's long term boyfriend, loved Bella like a sister instantly because of Alice where as Jasper's real sister and Emmett's girl friend, Rose couldn't care either way. Alice, Bella and I are in the middle of Junior year now and as I said its December and the party is only a few torturous days away. Alice somehow tricked me into setting up the holiday decorations down stairs, I don't know WHY, she always redid anything she didn't do herself. But then again Alice has always been strange. I guess I really shouldn't complain much because its not Alice's fault that I'm in a horrible mood, it's mine. MINE because I'm too much of a chicken to do anything about Bella only being a friend. But HOW can I do anything when I know that she would never want me? Bella is very popular with every guy in school, not that she would think so. Bella never believes me when I try to tell her she's beautiful or about any of the guys that always ask me or my family if she's dating anyone. So many times that I wished I could say "Yes, ME!" but more fearful that the answer will be yes only she'll be with someone else, someone that wasn't afraid to ask her out.

I sighed. "Alice! Why am I doing this again? I'm not going to the stupid party this year.

"BITE YOUR TONGUE EDWARD CULLEN!" Alice practically screamed in my ear. "You are going you can't just NOT go. Its at YOUR HOUSE!"

"I hate parties and I hate this party so much more Alice. I'm not going, not this year not ever. I'm done ok." I sounded as pathetic as I felt.

"You dear brother say this every year and yet you still show up! Stop complaining and TRY to enjoy it this year and maybe you wouldn't hate it so much. Hey did you make sure to invite Bella?" Alice asked while climbing on Jasper's shoulders to hang the most evil thing I could imagine, Mistletoe!

"You were just talking to her on the phone, why didn't you do it then Alice?" Emmett asked confused.

"Alice its pointless. I'm not doing it! You invite her like everyone else." I turned away from Alice and the others to hang more lights on the stairs and to hide the disappointment on my face.

"Its your job to invite Bella. YOU have to Edward!" Alice told me pointedly and I knew what she meant but she was wrong.

Alice and Jasper are the only ones that know of my first crush now growing love for Bella and where as Jasper mostly left me alone, my nosey pixie of a sister has been trying to get me to 'Man up' as she would call it. Yes sister, love you to. It doesn't matter what she says though, I will not … no I can not ask Bella to the Christmas party. It would only end in a disaster in one of two way, one: I completely embarrass myself because she in fact already has a date or two: she just doesn't want to go with me and my heart with be completely crushed with either of those answers. I watch Bella at school and with the guys there all over her, a few do gain the courage that I don't seem to have. I remember a few times when they would ask her out and she would always turn them down. Bella claimed she had no desire to date right now and that she hated all the attention because she was new to town. She never believed that it had nothing to do with her being new but all to do with how breath-taking she was, everyone could see it except her. I was drowning so deep into my despair that I hadn't heard the door open, let alone notice anyone moving in room until tiny arms wrapping around my waist snapped me from my thoughts. She was holding on as tightly as she could from behind me and I could feel her face, cold from the winter air, pressed into my back.

"STUPID, Mike is so stupid and he did it again. Why can't he just leave me alone?" Bella whined into my back.

A part of my wanted to run, scream and cry where the bigger part of me smiled slightly at her annoyance with him. So I turned in her arms to wrap my arms around her hugging her back in comfort. Mike was one of the few that had asked Bella out before, only unlike so many of the others that had stopped after a few no's, Mike never stopped. She would always say no but he would always find a new time to ask. She hated this but not as much as I did am sure. I couldn't stand Mike before now I hate him forever!

"He did it again huh? I'm sure it'll be ok. He will give up soon" I couldn't tell who I was trying to convince any more but it didn't seem to matter.

"HA! Mike asked her to the party AGAIN! That's 20 Bucks Jazzy!" Emmett's booming voice came from behind Bella as I looked up to glare at him and Jasper.

"That's FUNNY to you Emmett?" Bella asked furiously as she broke free from my embrace to turn and glare at him. "I bet YOU wouldn't find it so funny if Sara came to ask you to the party, Now would you Emmett? AND JASPER! How could you bet with him on this… don't you care how much this is upsetting me?

"OH Of course I do Bella but how was I supposed to know the stupidity level of this Mike kid? Doesn't he understand the meaning of the word no." Jasper said trying to appease Bella.

Rose on the other hand was fuming in front of the huge tree in the corner, where Alice had her streaming ribbons. "WHAT? … What did you just say Bella?"

"OH!… Sorry Rose, you know I didn't mean it like that" Bella quickly rushed for an apology but Rose was stubborn.

Well crap! Yeah Rose has a big head and as hot as she KNOWS she is, she is also the most jealous person you could possibly ever meet in your life. Any time a girl anywhere even glances in Emmett's direction she instantly glares at them, apart from Alice and Bella that is. Emmett has never given her any reason to be so worried and sometimes I wonder why he would put up with her crap all the time. All he ever says is 'Dude she's hot and I think its cute that she loves me so much, maybe when you find a jealous girl you'll understand.' I never tell him that I don't want a jealous girl, I just want Bella no one else will do if I can't be with her.

"OH come on Rose Buds, you remember Sara? She was that little red headed thing you wanted to throw across the room at Prom!" Emmet teased as he wrapped her in his arms and kissed her cheek.

"Rose she's not even in this same state anymore so chill out." I said exasperatedly.

Rose seemed to ignore the rest of the world as soon as Emmett had her in his embrace and after that was over Bella finally returned to face me and asked if I wanted help. We ended up hanging the lights on the walls and down the hall as Alice worked on fixing everything anyone touched, honestly why do we bother? The long hours flew by now that Bella was helping and soon enough the last thing was being fixed to perfection. We were done and Jasper pulled Alice just a little to the right so they both stood directly under one of the many holiday funguses that everyone seemed to adore. I could never understand the reason for the parasite as the symbol for getting a kiss at Christmas time. I had even looked it up one night due to boredom and free internet time at night.

"Oh, now look at that Miss?" Jasper smirked at Alice looking up as if he hadn't done that on purpose. "I believe you owe me a kiss."

She was giggling. "Oh … Well I guess that's true!" Alice said with an unstoppable smile, then bounced on her toes to reach his lips but at the last second she turned to kiss his cheek.

Jasper's face was priceless. "Awww that wasn't …" But before he could finish she twisted again to fully kiss him on the lips.

As the room was quickly turning into a make out scene for any teen party movie, the decorating was completed and I could tell Bella was just as eager for an escape, I grabbed her hand and pulled her out into the kitchen. We were laughing and talking about nothing important as we found ourselves something to eat and drink. Hanging out with Bella was always a highlight for me no matter what we were doing. Even if it was hiding in my kitchen while our friends made out in the other room. I wouldn't say that I wished to join them either, if by some miracle Bella and I were to date I wouldn't act the way my family does. Not that what they do is very bad or anything its just not what I would feel appropriate, Bella deserves so much more then random making out or sloppy-sappy public displays of affection. She is much too innocent and should be treated as such however if I were to steal a kiss I wonder if she would blush? NO! … I can't think about those things. Bella would never say yes to someone like me, to her friend and some pathetic boy that's almost a Senior and never been kissed, not that I'd want to kiss anyone other then her. I should just forget every thought of us being together and focus on being as good a friend to her as I possibly could be. I couldn't help my frown at this thought.

"What's wrong Edward?" Bella asked staring at me from across the table as she sat her glass of water down.

"Its nothing, I was just thinking is all." I said trying to do my best at faking a smile.

She of course wasn't fooled. "You worried about the party again?" Bella asked while raising a delicate eye brow at me.

In truth she wasn't wrong she just didn't fully understand what that meant to me. "Its not exactly what I was thinking but yes. I hate this party and every year Alice tricks me into going. I wish I could hide from her or something." Parties were never my thing.

Bella suddenly stared down into her lap and I could tell she was blushing for some unknown reason. "Well the party scene isn't exactly my thing either Edward. I hate all the attention and mingling Alice forces on me every year." She looked up not quite meeting my gaze, and that explained her blush.

Bella's blush! Its such a beautiful shade and against her usually pale skin she looked like a winter goddess and every year at the Christmas parties, she was a goddess. Dressed to perfection and stunning in every way the only problem was that she wasn't just breath taking to me but to all the other males and some with not so gentlemanly thoughts for addressing such a wonderful creature! Again, I hate the Christmas party! I hate every other guy there!

"I'm sure we will both make it through the night one way or another. After all we always found a way to do so before right? Maybe this year will be different, maybe this year Alice will be too distracted… hmm. You think if I changed all the decorations the night before that she would just cancel the whole things or spend the endless hours re-fixing everything? Or maybe I could hide her dress for the night, Alice without the perfect dress would defiantly cancel the party then." I was rambling but the ideas did seem to make me smile, and Bella was trying hard not to smile with me.

"Edward? You know you would be a very dead man if you even thought and of that again." She tried to scold but ended up laughing by the end.

"OH, Bella darling! How wonderful to see you sweet heart! Are you staying the night helping Alice again?" My mother's voice came from behind me as she must have walked into the kitchen.

"Hello Esme. Yeah we just finished everything a little bit ago though." Bella told her with a smile.

"Well that's great, Alice sure does love her parties. Now have you found that special someone to take you yet?" My mother asked and unknown to anyone my heart dropped through the floor.

"Mom.." I couldn't add anything else cause I secretly wished to know but knew the questioning would bother Bella.

"Oh umm no. I'm not going with anyone again this year Esme." Bella said looking down again.

"That's alright my dear, you just have to be patient. You'll find him someday! OH, Edward! You don't have a date either do you? Why don't you take Bella! I'm sure you two would have a great time together and it might keep unwanted attention from you both as well." Esme suggested without any sign of a question while hugging us both and quickly as she came disappeared again, leaving a very stunned, blushing Bella and wide-eyed mortified me; both embarrassed both for very different reasons.

My mother had practically forcefully set me up with a date with my best friend and long time crush. She basically told me that I was going to take her weather she was willing or not because there was no way Bella would go against anything my mother said. It wasn't in her nature to argue or fight with an adult's decisions or anyone else's for that matter. Bella didn't really fight with anyone. However happy I should have been to have even the slightest chance to take Bella as my own, this was NOT how I wanted things to go. I never wanted the choice to be taken from her or for her to agree because my mother told me to take her.

"Umm.. Bella? … You know you…" I started but was cut off.

"I'd love to Edward." Bella simply said never raising her eyes from the floor and quickly rushed passed me into the next room, leaving me confused and frozen again. I had a date with…

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The next few days past in a total blur, Bella was back at home and we dealt with the last few days of school before winter break. I couldn't tell you anything that happened in any class that didn't have Bella with me and yet all I can say about them is how beautiful she looked because any time she would look my way and see me staring she would blush and look away. I was still unsure as to why she had agreed so easily to my mothers 'request' and a part of me didn't want to care. I have a date with my Christmas Angel!

"The party is only a few hours away, WHERE IS SHE?" Alice complained again for the tenth time in the last five minutes then turned to glare at me. "And why aren't YOU getting ready? I told you Edward. This has to be the best party I have ever had! It has to go perfectly and if you aren't perfect then you will pay!"

"Alice, calm down. Bella said she wasn't coming till noon and its only 9:15." I said although I could some what understand her impatience. "Besides the party is not only hours away its not till tomorrow night."

"OH, you don't know anything about parties and girls and, and, AND OH just go find your suit and lay then out. OK?" Alice was growing very impatient with me.

I guess that's because I have been pacing the floor to the front room for the past hour and a half waiting, with Alice, for Bella to arrive. She was coming to stay the night with Alice so they could save time preparing for the party and also since the party was here Bella thought it unnecessary for me to drive to her house to pick her up for our 'date.' The more I think about it the more I know she only said yes because Esme had asked and Bella wouldn't want to upset her wishes. Not that Esme would have been upset if Bella didn't want to go to the Christmas party with me. Only I would be. But because the pacing and glancing at the clock wasn't going to make Bella come any fast and the fact that Alice looked like she may just go out and crash my cars at this point; I decided it was a good time to go set out my outfit for the party. Maybe after I do that for the third time today I could take a nap and hope that someone wakes me when Bella finally gets here. Ha, with my luck I would end up sleeping straight through everything. Alice would surely kill me then but maybe it would be a good way to let Bella off the hook and she wouldn't feel bad about upsetting Esme. I went up to my room and as I unfolded and refolded the suit again I place it back in the closet to hang until the night of the party. Standing in my room I noticed I barely wasted fifteen minutes doing so and decided that the nap seemed to be the best options I had left. I clawed into bed and laid there thinking about just how wonderful and or horrible this party could turn out, sadly my mind kept thinking that wonderful was just too good to hope for.

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"Alice I'm NOT wearing that!" A heavenly voice yelling from below woke me from my sleeping state.

"OH but Bella it would look the best on you. Its PERFECT!" Alice called back.

"Well this should be interesting." I mumbled to myself as I dragged myself out of bed again, glancing at the clock to read 5:30pm.

As I slowly walked down from the third level of the house, where my room was, all the way to the living room I found Alice and Bella arguing still. It seemed to be something about Bella's outfit Alice wanted her to wear to the party. It was perfect… short, blue and in Bella's opinion the 'not going to happen' kind of dress. I always found it slightly funny that Bella has only ever argued with one person and only with one topic as long as we have known her, and that was with Alice about fashion. Alice loved to shop and play dress up with everyone she could come across but Bella couldn't stand any of the dresses or frilly, lacy, girly things Alice loved. Bella's words not mine, although to a point I have to agree about the girly. Bella dressed nice, well in my opinion anything she wore was beautiful but it wasn't like she dressed like Alice and Rose did. Alice always tried to dress Bella in what she called perfectly fashionable choices but Bella would mostly argue before giving in.

"BELLA! You have to! PLEASE?" Alice whined as I took the last steps of the stairs.

"UHHGG! Alice NO. … OH EDWARD!" Bella called as she saw me enter the room and she ran over to me to hide in my arms. "SAVE me please? … Uhhgg she wants me to wear this THING. I swear it wants to eat me!"

I chuckled. "It wants to eat you?" I teased "Well I'm sure Alice can fix that with her sowing machine.

"Oh don't be such a baby. Its perfect and you know it Bella." Alice said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Its TOO short Alice I'm not wearing it and besides why can't I just wear a nice … less girly outfit?" Bella pleaded.

"Alice why do you even bother with these crazy dresses that you know she hates anyway?" I asked as I held Bella to comfort her.

"Because its perfect! How many times do I have to say that and besides YOU will love it by the end of the night Bella. Trust me on that." Alice the little know-it-all stated confidently.

"FINE! I'll wear the stupid dress but I'm not moving anywhere once I find a chair at the party. No way am I going to walk around in that thing and no way and I even attempting to dance in those death traps you call shoes!" Bella conceded.

"Heals Alice, Really?" I asked. "You know she's a danger to herself as is and you want to put her in heals?"

"Its cruel! She just wants to see me die tomorrow!" Bella whined as she buried her face into my chest.

"Oh get over it. You will be fine and my party will be perfect! My party is always perfect." Alice said as she danced her way out of the room again to probably to go fix the Christmas plans.

"She never gives up does she?" Bella asked as she continued to allow me to hold her a few moments after Alice left.

"It gets to the point you either ignore her or just go with the flow." I answered quite unwilling to move from where we were.

"Well I guess its really not that bad. It is so short though and the heals will give me a reason to stay in one place." Bella laughed after a long while that didn't seem long enough when she pulled away from me to go fix the lights on the tree again.

"Bella? … You know you don't have to go to this party with me just to please Esme?" I said regretting it yet knowing if I didn't I would regret not giving her the choice even more.

"Don't be silly Edward, I don't mind. Besides now I have a good reason I can't go with any of the others that ask me. I'm going with you!" Bella said with a smile over her shoulder for me.

"Oh, ok. I guess your right. Maybe Mike will leave you alone now that you're not just washing your hair or what ever excuse it was you gave him this time." I teased her as I pretended to fix the pillows on the chair.

"Oh I'm sure not even Mike could be dumb enough to fall for something that stupid." Bella commented.

"So you do think he's dumb?" I asked raising an eye brow at her while I sat down on the couch to flip on the TV, some Christmas show was playing.

"Be nice Edward." Bella chided. "He's a sweet kid that is nice enough… he's just umm I don't know? I just don't think it would work between the two of us or maybe its just that I don't want to date … I don't want to date anyone right now."

Bella finally finished what ever it was she was doing to the lights, that I'm sure Alice will come in find and fix again, and she came over to the couch to sit with me. We ended up watching hours of random Christmas shows and holiday episodes of anything we could find for the rest of the night. Even Emmett came in to join us when the Grinch came on, until Alice came back down and dragged Bella up stairs to lay out a plan for tomorrow before the party. Yeah, Alice was crazy and the Christmas party was the worst we ever had to deal with but she was right. Her party was the best in town. Everyone came and had a wonderful time it was a winter wonderland indoors. The perfect place to enjoy the wonders of Christmas with friends and the only problem had ever been that every guy in the room would try to gain Bella's attention, but not this year. This year Bella would have a date so hopefully they would leave her alone and I would have a wish come true. After Bella and Alice went upstairs I tried to watch more shows with Emmett but it wasn't as enjoyable, not that I didn't like spending time with Emmet but Christmas shows were too easy for him to joke about and I could only handle so much of his humor before I would want to kill him. I ended up feeling drained and tired even after the eight hour nap I had earlier today so I went up to go to bed early.

"Going to bed NOW?" Emmett asked incredulously as I got up to leave the room after saying my goodnight.

"I don't really see a reason why I shouldn't. I'm tired and this show has been on twice already." I said and left the room.

"SQUARE! Man, you have no party life." Emmett shouted after me when I reached the stairs.

I didn't party much and Emmett never could understand that but mostly I think he just enjoyed teasing anyone any way he could find. He has an odd humor that most would find crude and immure. From looking at him most people fear him but Emmett couldn't be more gentle though there's nothing I can say about the immure thing unless it came to his attitude about Rose. Rose is the only person that can get that boy to settle down other than mom anyway. I didn't bother returning with a come back of my own it really wasn't worth it with him nor did I have the energy to come up with one that wouldn't sound completely lame so I just continued my journey up stairs and off to bed. I should be better tomorrow night.

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