Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, I'm not S. Meyer, obviously. If I was why would I be writing FanFiction when I could legally get it published on paper?
A/N: So, if you were wondering what the gang went as for Halloween, I'm probably going to do a one-shot on it. But until then: Ashley went as a bumble bee, complete with yellow and black too-too, wings, antennas, black tank top, wings, and black and yellow stripped tights. Seth went as a werewolf and did had Jake, on a dare that Renesmee had made. Nessie went as a vampire, with fake fangs, black and purple cobwebbed dress, and fake blood.
Another A/N: I'm also going to do a one-shot on when Jacob imprints on Renesmee until Bella wakes up and finds out and tries to kill him. I'm also trying to catch up on Seth and Ashley's story, which would greatly appreciate some more reviews and I'm going to change Opposite Ends of the Spectrum (Leah/Embry) from a one-shot to a story about them, which will have all the details about them moving in and Joyce's death and Sue's wedding. But, anyway, enjoy chapter one of In Bloom the third in the Temptations series!
Chapter 1: Blushing And Breath Mints
(Renesmee's p.o.v.)
I sat on the bed in my room while Alice did my hair. She smiled as she fluffed it with mousse and did a very Alice-like twirl behind me on her feet.
She walked over to my bedside table and picked up my iPod. She smiled as she turned on some music and then sat it in the dock.
"Um, Alice I don't have Paparazzi on my iPod…" I looked at her in the mirror.
"You do now," she smiled.
"One second," said Alice as she danced out of the room. I turned to my mom who was sitting beside me.
"How do I look?" I asked slowly. I was dressed in soft light gray skinny jeans that were almost white and a gray tank top with a purple sweater and purple flats, and I hoped Jake liked it.
"You look gorgeous honey," she whispered as she hugged me.
Alice came back into the room with a little blue circle shaped box. At first I didn't know what it was. Then, I looked closer. It was a container of breath mints.
I blushed as Alice handed them to me. Mom just turned her head. I looked up at Alice from my place on the bed, "Alice, there's no way I'm going to need these-"
"Nonsense!" Alice insisted, "I can see the future, you're fifteen. Your hormones are all over the place, the least you can do is kiss him!"
"ALICE!" yelled my dad, "What the hell are you telling my daughter?"
"Shut up Edward!" she yelled, "Unless you know what it's like to be a teenage girl with raging hormones then shut the hell up!"
Dad didn't say anything else.
Alice shoved the mints into my hand and looked insistently at me. Finally I rolled my eyes, "Fine, I will eat one. Will that make you happy?"
"Ecstatic!" said Alice smiling and clapping her hands.
With shaking hands I opened the Listerine Ice Breakers and popped one in my mouth while my stomach did back flips.
"And the finishing touches!" sang Alice as she brought over a peace sign necklace, some purple dangling earrings, and some lipstick.
She hooked the necklace around my neck and I put in my earrings. As Alice finished clamping the necklace I put on my lipstick and smiled in the mirror on my wall. Perfect.
"Renesmee!" yelled my dad from the living room, "Jacob's here!"
My heart accelerated as my mom hugged me and Alice opened my bedroom door that led straight out into the living room.
I walked out and found Jacob standing in the living room with dad glaring at him.
"Hi," I breathed as I walked closer to Jake.
He blushed as he looked me over and smiled. He was wearing some worn Levi's blue jeans and a black t-shirt with some gray Sketchers.
"Hey," he smiled even wider and hugged me as I stood beside him, it would be awkward to kiss in front of dad.
"Yes, that would be very awkward," said dad dryly, "And quite frankly disgusting."
I blushed, yeah shit, the mind reading thing was really going to start to get annoying and awkward from now on.
Dad nodded in agreement. "Curfew is ten thirty, you'll get more time as you show us your responsibility. Being late will not help. If you're not home by curfew, I'll have to expect the worse, and then I'll hunt you down with a crowbar. You guys have a nice time."
Wow, that was one speech dad! Where's the part were you threaten to send me to a convent in Mexico if I do anything you don't like? Dad glared at me for that one, but, surprisingly, didn't say anything. I guess he thought he had made his point, which I guess he had.
"Have fun," whispered mom as she walked us to the door handing me my purse and my cell phone.
"But not too much fun!" yelled my dad as my mom shut the door on us so that dad couldn't further embarrass me.
I blushed and looked up at Jacob. I never realized how sexy he was in moonlight. And this was all mine? I smiled and then blushed, hoping that mom was blocking my mind. And, come to think about it, Jake's too.
Jacob looked down at me, "Hey, um you want to get a bite to eat before we go to the movies? You won't be able to eat there with Seth and Ashley sucking face, it'll make you nauseous."
Mom and dad had negotiated with us that we could go on a date as long as they could chaperone or if we doubled with Seth and his imprint, Ashley. (Like any sound of mind person would we picked the double date with Seth and Ashley.)
I nodded, "Sure. Where are we going?"
He offered me his hand as we walked to the Rabbit. "Um, pizza, if you want."
"Yeah," I agreed as he opened the red door and helped me in. He walked around and got in himself.
We just sat there and looked at each other for a minute until he leaned down and kissed me. We stayed like that, just kissing, for at least fifteen minutes.
Once we separated he smiled at me and buckled my seat belt, "And to think that we can do this whenever we want."
"I'm looking forward to completely abusing that power."
"Really?" he asked and before I could answer he kissed me again. I sighed contently into his lips.
"Come on, your dad is gonna be reading our minds. Let's go," he said with a smile.
I nodded and Jacob pulled off just as I saw in the rearview mirror dad step out onto the porch and grabbed the hose.
I laughed, wow my dad about to spray us with a water hose. That one was unexpected.
Once we were off of the highway Jacob pulled over and my heart started to pound, "So, do you want to…pick up where we left off?"
"Um, actually Jake, I prefer spontaneous, like our first kiss. The more spontaneous the better," I whispered with a blush.
He nodded, "Spontaneous." He was smiling at me, "I can do spontaneous, but until then…wanna listen to the radio?"
"Yeah," I said smiling back, "Radio." I prayed Paparazzi wasn't on, I don't think I could bare it.
But, my luck isn't that good. Paparazzi blared on the radio. I blushed and sank down a little in the seat.
Jacob busted out laughing as he pulled off onto the road. I turned to him, "What's so funny, Jake?"
He wiped his eyes, "Oh nothing…just Leah and Embry made a remix of it where it says 'I'll follow that girl until she's mine.' They were talking about me and you. Embry and Krys brought it over to my place before I came to get you."
I busted out laughing and all of the sudden Jake's lips were crushing into mine. This wasn't the kind of sweet innocent kiss I was used to, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, either. This was a hot passionate making out kind of kiss.
Suddenly Jacob swerved and someone screamed out a few things you don't often hear outside of truck stops and wolf pack get-togethers.
We snatched our faces apart and Jacob pulled over to the side of the road. I slapped him on the shoulder and looked at him like he was insane, "You could have gotten us killed!"
Jacob looked like the slap hadn't fazed him at all. He had a goofy grin on his face that made me want to slap him again, but at the same time kiss him again. "But that was some kiss huh?" he asked dreamily.
I looked down and blushed admitting it, "Yeah, that was awesome."
"And spontaneous," he whispered making a turn.
"And spontaneous," I agreed as he put his arm around my shoulders.
He kissed my cheek, still keeping his eyes on the road, and then turned the Rabbit again.
We were in the Pacific Pizza parking lot, the only pizza place in Forks besides Pizza Hut, which was take-out only. It had ridiculous prices and I almost felt bad about Jacob take me here, but he would just insist anyway.
Once inside we seated ourselves as the sign said and a waitress handed us some menus.
"Anything to drink?" she asked as she smacked on some gum and then stopped, staring at Jacob, and batting her eyelashes like I wasn't even there. She probably thought I was too young for him, that he was a brother or a friend. Either that or she just didn't care.
"Dr. Pepper," we both answered at the same time. The woman jotted it down and walked away.
"So what kind of pizza are you getting Ness?" he asked, still keeping his eyes on the menu, trying to decide for himself.
"Ham and pineapple," I said with a grin, "The same thing I always get Jacob. You know that."
He made a fake gagging face and then smiled, "Why the hell would you get ham and pineapple? Pineapple does not go on pizza Ness."
"Yes, it does," I argued playfully as the waitress brought us our Dr. Peppers and a basket of breadsticks.
"Ready to order?" she asked us.
"A small ham and pineapple pizza," I said with a smile at Jacob's disgusted face before handing my menu to the waitress.
She turned to Jacob and he contemplated for a couple of seconds before settling on a large pizza with extra cheese and everything on it.
The waitress took his menu with a wistful look that he didn't even seem to notice and then walked away.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to stomach you eating that pizza," he said.
"Well, I'll make you a deal."
"I have a feeling I'm in dangerous waters," he said hesitantly but daringly before taking a sip of his Dr. Pepper.
"Just so you'll be quiet I want you to taste my pizza," I paused at the look on his face to let out a giggle, "And every bite you eat you get a kiss."
"I think I might take you up on that offer," he said.
"Oh, I know you'll take me up on that offer," I said with a laugh.
"What can I say? You know me well," he said with a shrug.
The easy banter went on like that until the waitress brought us our pizzas a couple of minutes later.
I picked up the first slice of my pizza and waved it in front of Jacob's face before he gave in a took a bite out of it.
"That's actually really good," he said as he swallowed.
I smiled and leaned over the table. He met me in the middle and we kissed again. I didn't care if people were watching, it felt like we were the only two people in the world.
When we had pulled apart I sat back in my part of the booth, aggravated that Jake and I couldn't fit in the same one.
"That had to be the best pizza experience on the whole entire planet," said Jacob.
"Oh, I know it was," I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes and acting like it was no big deal.
I sighed a little and tapped one of my feet impatiently on the linoleum floors, frowning and thinking.
"What's wrong, Ness?" asked Jacob, reaching his hand across the table and holding onto mine, looking concerned.
"Scoot over Jake," I said, getting up and smoothing out my skinny jeans and unbuttoning my sweater to show of my tight gray tank top as I did so.
"Why?" he asked, though he did as I had asked. He never did get that answer, though, because about five seconds later I was sitting in the same booth, up against his chest.
I scooted back the table and made room for myself, seeing as I was half sitting on Jacob. I smiled up at him and picked up a piece of ham and pineapple pizza, putting it in his mouth.
He leaned down and kissed me, one deep, long kiss.
We got to the movies an hour later to find Seth and Ashley waiting outside for us, looking at the small sign which was dimly lit with a yellowish light that listed our choices of movies on it.
Ashley had rented a house in Forks not far from Seth's because she didn't want to live with Seth just yet. Her exact words had been "Yeah, sure I'm gonna shack up with my boyfriend and then bring my younger siblings and Zoë along, uh-huh". The house was mostly Kyle, Connie, and Zoë's though because she spent just about every night at Seth's and her days at my house.
Ashley grabbed her cell phone out of her pocket as we approached. She smiled as she slid it open, "Hello? Mrs. Cullen? Sure, of course. Yes, yes Ms. Cullen, of course I'll watch them. Yes, yes I'll sit in between them. Ah huh, you have a nice night too."
Ashley hung up the phone muttering, "Well, pretty soon that promise will be shot to hell."
"God," sighed Seth, looking at us, taking a hand from his jeans pocket and running it through his hair, making a disgusted face, "how long have you been making out? I mean, you're like thirty minutes late!"
"Shut up Seth," said Jacob, shoving him brotherly, "I could repeat things that I've seen in your head that would make your girlfriend livid."
Seth blushed, but had a retort all the same, "Ooh, livid, big word huh Jake?"
"Seth," said Ashley, "I thought I told you to keep the thoughts PG-13?"
"Moving along," said Seth quickly, trying to smooth things over, "So Jake and I will go buy the tickets and you two ladies can stand here and talk about lipstick and underwear or whatever it is you talk about."
"Um-hum," said Ashley, looking at Seth superiorly and crossing her arms across her chest. And she did look surperior to Seth, too, in her brown Aeropostale shirt, five inch heels and black skinny jeans.
Jake kissed me quickly, before leaving, having to bend down a good bit and then the guys walked away to go buy tickets, I didn't bother to ask for what movie. I was nervous.
I noticed Ashley smirking and blushed. What had I done now? Had I broken some rule from the first date code of conduct?
"What is it?" I whispered to her, hoping Jake couldn't hear.
"Oh, nothing, just…It's easier to kiss if you wear heels, he won't have to lean down so far anymore." she said, still smiling.
Then, as if on que, Seth walked back with two tickets in his hands. He handed one of them to her and as he did she put her hands on his chest, kissing him.
I'm not going to lie and say that it wasn't awkward for me to have to see my best friends making out with each other, but it just kind of caught me off guard.
I leaned into Jacob whispering, "When are they gonna stop?"
"You guys are such amatures!" sighed Ashley as she backed up from Seth, pushing away from him with his hands on her chest, though she kept them there as she turned to us.
"Yeah," said Seth with a goofy grin, "If you think that's bad… let's just say you ain't seen nothing yet."
Jacob rolled his eyes and wrapped an arm around my shoudlers, probably because I was too short for him to wrap an arm around my waist like Seth did with Ashley. I made a mental note to wear heels on more of our dates.
Ten minutes later, after having stood in line for about seven and walking up the steps to the movie theater, (We always sat in the very top row) we were at our final destination, but we had a bit of predicament with the seating.
Seth and Ashley plopped down as soon as possible, dodging past Jake and I. "Huh, looks like there's only three seats and four of us. Interesting," she turned to Seth, "I'm not getting up, you getting up Seth?"
"Nope, I'm not getting up," said Seth with a barely contained grin.
I looked at my so-called bet friends and whispered, "I hate you guys!"
"No, you don't," said Ashley with another grin up at us.
"It's okay, Ness," whispered Jacob, "I'll sit on the floor. Whatever. I don't want to make you uncomfortable. I'd never pressure you into anything you didn't want to do."
"Awh!" whisered someone below sarcastically, "How sweet! Now how 'bout you two morons shut up and watch the damn movie?"
Jacob was about to say something but I put my hand on his shoulders sending a message through him: NO!
He relaxed and looked at me. I dropped my hand off of his shoulder ans suddenly all of my earlier anxiety returned; how the hell was I supposed to sit in Jacob's lap?
I sat down the popcorn and sour patch kids I had bought about ten minutes ago and motioned for Jake to sit down first.
He did and stared at me. I bit my lip and then, unsurely, eased myself into Jacob's lap. I had sat in Jacob's lap a bizillion times when I was younger, it had stopped when I was ten. Now, it felt good, but a different kind of good. Not like a fatherly good, but a boyfriend-girlfriend kind of good.
Almost involuntarily I stretched up and Jake leaned down gentaly, kissing me with lips like a butterfly's wings which was reminiscent of our first.
We separated and Ashley leaned over to my ear, whispering, "Look, um you're a big girl and I'm your best friend, and I'm not about to chaperone you. So, I'm gonna make out with my boyfriend and you do whatever the hell you want."
After that was said she expertly slid over the arm rest and into Seth's waiting lap. They started kissing and I turned away to look at Jake.
"You could move over now, if you wanted," said Jacob, almost unwillingly. I could see in his eyes that he didn't want me to go, which was convenient because I didn't want me to go either.
"Maybe I don't want to leave," I breathed back, it was so quiet that it couldn't even be classified as a whisper, but he heard and he kissed me.
I was glad there wasn't a test on the movie afterwards. I couldn't even have answered you what genre the movie was; horror, comedy, romance, a mixture; it could have been any of them.
Once we had said our goodbyes to Seth and Ashley, they headed to their car, no doubt going to his house.
Jake and I walked to the Rabbit, hand in hand, the parking lot nearly desserted in the night.
He walked me to the car and as he reached for the handle I stopped him, grabbing his hands with mine. I slowly put them at my hips and then reached up on my tiptoes, throwing my arms around his neck and kissing him.
He pressed against me and I leaned back against the cold metal of the car door letting him kiss me.
After we had kissed for a while something in my mind clicked, and I remembered my curfew.
I squirmed out from Jake, who looked confused as I tried the passenger door to the red Volkswagen unsuccessfully.
"Renesmee what are you doing?" he asked sounding surprised and taking a step back as if he had done something wrong.
"Jacob the keys!" I yelled. He shoved his key ring which had a key to just about everyone in the pack's house, his house, the big house and the cottage, and his car keys.
I knew right away which one was the car key and shoved it in the lock. I yanked the door open and looked at the clock on the dash; 9:55.
"Shit Jacob!" I hissed, crawling in the car, "My curfew! We have five minutes to get home! Oh my God, we've got to get back to Forks!"
Jacob hurried around and jumped in the front seat. Just as he started to drive I slammed the door shut.
This time we didn't talk on the way. We sat there, I stalk still, he pushing and pushing the Rabbit as it groaned in protest to go faster.
Finally we arrived at my house and I jumped out of the car, Jake not far behind me. Dad hadn't been lying, there he was standin in the yard with a fricking crowbar.
"Dad!" I yelled, "I'm only fifteen minutes late! We didn't do anything, you can ask Seth, read our minds, put the crowbar down."
Dad looked at me, and I guess he saw the pure terror in my eyes because he dropped the weapon and stepped back. "Seth will be getting a call later, and I know what he's doing now. So when he's angry, I'm blaming you too."
"Renesmee," he said, "I think t's time you head off to bed sweetie."
"Dad," I pouted, "I wanted to say goodbye to Jake."
"Well, then, by all means say goodbye," said dad, motioning for me to go to Jacob.
"Alone!" I sighed, giving him a pleading look.
"Five minutes," he said, "I'm counting."
He went nside and I took Jacob by his hand, leading him to the most romantic place in the yard. It was a small rose garden that mom and I had planted I between my two windows about a year ago when I was physically ten.
"Renesmee," he said, "I, um fixed your promise bracelet." He handed me the braided piece of jewelry and I took it, running my fingers over the delicately intricate webbing.
"It's beautiful," I sighed as I slipped it onto my wrist. I had always loved this bracelet, but now I loved it even more.
"Oh, and I have a new charm for you," he whispered, "It's a blooming rose, to resmeble how our relationship is in bloom. Don't give me all the credit, either, Rachel helped me with the idea, but I carved it.
I watched him hook it onto my chainlink bracelet with all the other wooden charms he had made for me.
I reached up on my tiptoes and kissed him, my arms wrapped around his neck. Suddenly, someone cleared their throat.
I lowered myself onto my feet and truned my head slowly to look at the owner of the voice, my dad.
"It's been five minutes," said dad, "Time for bed, Nessie. Time for you to leave my house Jacob."
I hugged Jacob and he jogged off to the woods for patrol. Dad held open the door for me and I went to my room.
I dressed in my tank top and shorts and crawled into bed, knowing that I wouldn't sleep but all the same content.
(Ashley's p.o.v.)
By the time Seth and I had gotten to his house I was tired. I yawned as he opened the front door.
He had just moved in and Leah and Embry had just moved out to Embry's childhood home. The creaking of the screen door on it's slightly rusted hinges woke me up a little.
Seth was still in the process of remodeling the Clearwater house. He had already power washed the front porch, trimmed the rose bushes in the back yard that Leah had let go seeing as she was pregnant and re-painted the shutters white. He was still working on re-painting the inside, though, and buying new furniture because Leah and Embry had taken half of their's with them.
I threw the sweater that I had left in Seth's car while we were in the movie theater over the back of his old "video game recliner" and sat my purse down on the wooden coffee table.
I turned around to find Seth waiting for me and I walked into his arms. I put my hands on his chest and leaned onto him, kissing him.
I pulled back a little bit later, placing my arms around his neck and cocking my head slightly, letting my hair fall back.
"Upstairs?" he asked in barely a whisper, his hands on my hips, his eyebrows raised slightly in question.
"Where else?" I asked back. He picked me up and held me tightly, bridal style as we kissed.
I'll never know how Seth walked up the stairs while he kissed me and carried me, but I wasn't about to question him.
He laid me down on the black leather bed, the same one that he had back at his appartment in P.A. It was just the kind of thing you would expect in a bachelor's bedroom, and it was kind of sexy.
He laid down on top of me and kissed me deeper and deeper, our shirts coming off and me unbuckling his belt.
"We need to stop," said Seth, gasping for air as we pulled away from each other, "before we do something we'll regret."
"You're probably right," I agreed, taking his shirt from the foot of the bed and sliding it over my head. We both took of our jeans and our shoes had been lost on the way here.
We both laid down under the cool black sheets, me in just his shirt and my underwear, him in just his boxers.
I laced my fingers through his and we stared up at the glow in the dark stars that I had taped on his cealing, reminiscing of my old house and the glow-in-the-dark stars there.
"I love you Seth," I whispered, scooting close to him.
"I love you too Ashley," he whispered back and I closed my eyes, floating off to pleasant dreams of the pack Halloween party, which was the night I had moved into the little yellow house with my small family.
