Here's the thing. I am a single 25 year old woman. No kids. It had been 3 and a half years since my last serious relationship. I live in Seattle, WA, alone with my dog Zeus, and have been happily single for some time now. I do have the occasional hook up with one of my 'bene-friends', but end up going home alone day after day. Well, recently, I realized that I am TIRED of being single and wanted to start putting myself out there again. When I shared this with Alice, she went ecstatic! she claims to have the perfect guy for me. Apparently Edward is her brother, but I have known Alice for almost 3 years and have never heard of any brother. She told me he is 27, and has been over seas for a while working as a civilian on a military base and his last job was over, so he came home. Last night, Alice made me promise that I would come out to this new club downtown with her and her fiance' Jasper tonight. She said Edward was going and maybe it could be like a double date. I have no idea how she got me to agree, but I did. So here it is, 3pm and I have to be ready for my first ever blind date by 9pm. I called Alice and asked her to come over around 7 o'clock to help me get ready. Alice is my style guru, and very talented in the hair and makeup department.
Since I was done with all my stuff, I had some free time on my hands, and decided to take a nap and rest up for my night out on the town since going out with alice never, EVER ends early. I have never had any trouble falling asleep at the drop of a hat, so I was not suprised to wake up at 6:45 to Alice's ring (labels and love, by fergie) on my cell phone. I picked it up and she said "damn, Bella, open up already!! I've been outside banging on your door for like 10 minutes! you REALLY need to just give me a damn key already, you know?" I didn't say a word. I groaned into the phone and hung up. I got up to let her in. once I had the door open, Alice handed me a redbull, and pushed her way passed me, arms loaded up with bags, no doubt brand new clothes she had planned for us to wear tonight. Alice is, for lack of a better word, a shop-aholic, and never wears the same outfit out twice. Since alice has been my friend, she likes to play what she calls "Bella Barbie" with me as often as she can. Thankfully this isnt too often, since I almost never agree to go out on the town with her anyway. But tonight, I wanted to look good. I had to admit I was excited to meet Edward, and it had been a long time since I went out with my friends and just let go for a while. I needed to have a good time.
I followed Alice down the hallway of my apartment to my bedroom, where she was setting outfits on my bed to choose from. Since we were going to a club, and I most likely would be dancing, I picked out dark blue-almost black skinny jeans, with a red spaghetti strap top that had a low cut to show off a little cleavage, and stopped just above my belly button. I had joined a gym a few months back, and that fact made me thankful today, since I had lost some baby fat and toned up a little, I was no longer uncomfortable showing off a little skin. Alice did my long, wavy chestnut hair in a messy up-do, with a few strands falling down to frame my face. The amount of makeup she put on me was more than I was used to; she gave me dark, smoky eyes, and lipstick to match my top. I topped the outfit off with high heeled black strappy sandals. If I was dancing tonight, my feet were going to be killing me, but I couldn't care less. Looking in the mirror when she was done, I had to admit the end result was amazing. I actually didn't look half bad! "Edward is gonna just fall in love with you, Bella, I know it!" Alice exclaimed, looking in the mirror at us. I looked at her like she was nuts and said, "Alice, are you serious? If your brother fell in love with me after just meeting me today, what would that say about your brother? Love at first sight doesn't exist, as far as I'm concerned. Plus, how can you be soooo sure anyway, you haven't even seen him for over 3 years! Look, I promise to do everything in my power to have fun tonight, because, honestly, I need it, and I promised you I would. Beyind that, girl, we just have to let the cards fall where they may, ok?" "That's all I'm asking you for, honey" Alice said, then she winked at me through the mirror and we cleaned up our mess in the bathroom and got ready to leave for the club.
Knowing we were going to be out all night drinking, we took a cab from my apartment to the club. Since it was opening weekend there, they had rented one of those 4-way spotlights that we could see from a ways away, and when we pulled up out front, it was PACKED!! The line to get in was around the block already, and it was only 9pm! Luckily, Alice's boyfriend's brother Emmett was the bouncer/doorman and let us right in, free of charge. Emmett even hooked us up with drink bracelets so we wouldn't have to pay for anything as long as we were there. So far, tonight was a good night! Jasper was already there, and Edward had texted Alice and told her he was on his way, so we went to the bar to meet Jasper and get drinks. Apparently, people with drink bracelets jump to the head of the line and we got served right away. I didn't want to get drunk tonight, so I ordered a corona like usual, and alice got some friuty concoction, no dount loaded with lots of liquor. Jasper came over to us and lifted Alice up for a hug and a kiss. Alice is like 5 feet nothing, jasper being over 6 feet tall, she just cant reach! When he set her down, I gave Jasper a hug and a kiss on the cheek, and told him, "its good to see you again, Jazz!" He smiled and winked at me and said, "Bella you look georgeous tonight, stay outta trouble, ok?" I just nodded and drank some more of my beer. A song came on that turned out to be a club remix to one of my favorite songs, so I chugged the rest of my beer and grabbed Alice and drug her to the dance floor with me. I used to be so shy about dancing, but when i joined my gym, I also sighed up for a hip-hop dance class and learned a few things, so now it's like a second nature to me to be able to move with the beat of the music.
Alice and I were dancing up against eachother, like girls do in clubs, and I was generally having a good time. The song ended, and Alice went to no doubt go make out with Jazz, so I just stayed where I was and kept dancing. After a couple more songs, I was still dancing, and all of a sudden, I felt hands on my hips. I swear it was like fire, as hot as his hands were on me. The song had a sexy beat to it, so i just went with it and kept dancing with the hands. Whoever was behind me moved in closer and started lightly grinding his hips against mine. I moved with him, leaning back a little and his hands came around my stomach. The scent that came off him was the most deliciously sexy smell I have ever had invade my senses. I turned around and came face to face with who I was still dancing with, and froze.
Standing in front of me was the most beautiful man I had ever laid eyes on. He was about 6'2", had short, bronze colored hair, was lean and completely toned, had this crooked grin on his face that made my knees weak, and the most amazing, intense green eyes I have ever seen. He also happened to be the one man I had ever had a one-night stand with. It actually lasted 2 nights, but still. It had been right after I had caught my long time live-in boyfriend in bed with my then best friend, and kicked him out of my apartment. So that would be almost 3 1/2 years ago now. I had gone out by myself to a club and ended up getting smashed, and bringing this man home with me. It had been the most amazing experience of my life (even still, to date!). We ended up spending the whole weekend holed up together in my apartment. Tony was amazing. We talked, and played, and had the most mind-blowing, earth-shattering sex of my life. When the weekend was over, Tony left, giving me some bullshit line about how he was leaving the country for a while and I probably wouldn't hear from him again. he was sorry, but he had a great weekend. I was left speechless at the door. sort of a 'wham, bam..thank you, maam' that lasted 2 and a half days! I sucked it up, chalked it all up to one night stand bullshit, and let it go. I never told anyone about him, and he was right, I never heard from him again. So what the HELL was he doing here tonight?
By the way he was looking at me once I turned around, it was obvious he recognized me like I did him. I wanted him to be the one to talk first, so I just arched an eyebrow and continued to look up at him. Tony shut his eyes and reopened them real quick, like trying to clear his head, then he said, "Marie? Wow, I honestly never thought I'd get to see you again! I thought I recognized you when you were dancing, but I wasn't sure until just now that it was really you. You are looking as georgeous as ever. How are you? how have you been?" (My middle name is Marie, and since I had never taken a strange man home before, I saw fit way back then to lie. sue me.) A whole string of REALLY not-so-nice things I wanted to say to him ran through my head in a split second's time, but I decided to play nice, for now. I was determined to have a good time tonight, and I was supposed to be on a blind date, after all. I put a smile on my face and said, "Tony, you are looking good yourself. I've been good, actually, really good. I must admit, you are the LAST person on this earth I ever expected to see again. Thanks for the dance. I'm here with friends though, so please excuse me." And with that, I turned my back on him, and walked towards the bar to get another beer and find alice.
I was sure Edward had shown up by now. I did a shot at the bar when I got my 2nd corona, and turned around to see Alice smiling in my face. "Drinking without me already?" I looked at her and rolled my eyes, "No, sweetie, I just needed a shot to clear my head. I just ran into an old friend on the dance floor, and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet." I took a long drink of my corona, and Alice said, "Bella, you promised to have fun tonight! and Edward just texted me and said he got here a few minutes ago, so you can forget about whoever you're stressin about and get to know my brother. I just know you two are perfect for eachother, I'm so glad he came back home!" She stopped talking then and put a huge grin on her face as her eyes fixed on someone coming up behind me. Alice let out a squeal and jumped into the arms of the man behind me and said, "Edward! I am so glad to see you! You look amazing! I'd like you to meet my best friend Bella. Bella, this is my favorite brother in the whole world, Edward." I turned a little and lifted my head up to look at Edward, and I swear my heart stopped and I fucking died right there on the spot. Edward was Tony. oh....my....god.....WTF??
A million things went through my head in that milli-second it took for him to respond. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, BELLA." Edward said to me with that damn sexy grin, taking my hand and lightly brushing his beautiful lips against my knuckles, effectively igniting a fire inside my veins right there on the fucking spot. I took his response to mean that he didn't necessarily want to blab to his sister and my best friend just how well we already knew eachother. I smiled at his gesture, and said, "It's really nice to meet you too, EDWARD. Alice has nothing but nice things to say about you." Then I grabbed my beer off the bar and slammed it down, and ordered another and a shot. I had no idea what to do at this point. Suddenly it occured to me that he hadn't been lying to me when he left my house all that time ago, and the jaded opinion of him I had because of that wasn't really justified after all. I couldn't even be upset about the whole fake name thing. I wondered if Tony was Edward's middle name. Jesus effing Christ! Tony was Alice's BROTHER! Granted, she WAS going out of her way to try her best to set us up, but we already had carnal knowledge of eachother. I would be lying my ass off if I tried to tell myself I didn't want to jump him right there. The problem was I was not sure how Edward wanted to proceed.
Alice grabbed Edward's arm and started dragging him over to Jazz to introduce them. I slammed yet another shot and chugged a little of my beer. I needed to slow down if I wanted to remain somewhat coherant through the rest of the night. I sat down at the bar and tried to make sense of my evening so far. I had never expected to see Tony again for one thing. Like I said, to this day, he is the only person I met at a bar and took home with me, but I swear there was a connection between us during our amazing weekend together. Almost like an electric current running through my veins every time he touched me. The feeling that ran thgough me tonight when I saw him again was exactly the same, and it sort of scared me. But, if I was being logical, Even IF we decided to try to get to know eachother for real, Alice would expect things to go slowly, since we "just met" and all, so that gives me some time to feel him out to see where he stands, ya know? A few minutes later, I felt a scorching hot hand on my shoulder and turned around to see Edward standing there smiling at me. Alice was no where in sight, so I assumed it was ok to speak to him candidly.
I grabbed his hand and led him over to a corner table so we could talk by ourselves, and looked up at him and said, "so, TONY, huh? I guess we're even in that respect, Marie is my middle name. I'd say I was sorry for lying, but I wasn't and am still not the type to bring a strange man home and into my bed, I hope you understand." Edward was looking at me like I said something that suprised him, and said, "Bella, I get it. I'm not that type, either, that was a first for me, too, and I AM sorry I lied to you about my name being Tony. Anthony is my middle name, so it was the first thing I could think of. I know the way I left you that day was shitty, and I've moved back to Seattle now since my over seas job is over. The fact that you're my sister's best friend leads me to believe you and I were meant to meet again. I was hoping maybe you can just forget what happened before and we can start over fresh? I think I'd really, really like to get to know you." I didn't know what to say to him after that, so I just picked up my beer and drank it down. What he just said had me floored. I never imagined he was feeling the way I was. Maybe this COULD work out, after all! The cocktail waitress came by just then and I ordered a water to slow me down a little, and turned back to Edward, flashed my sexiest smile, and said, "Edward, I think I'd really like to get to know you, too. But what happened between us before....I mean.....Honestly, it was the most amazing experience of my life. I'm not going to forget. I can't." I looked right into his eyes as I said it. Edward's eyes were burning into mine, and it seemed to me like he was having some sort of internal battle with himself.
The waitress came back with my water and a beer for Edward. He took a swig, grabbed my hand and pulled me back out to the dance floor. The song playing now was 'Oh, by Ciara'. I fucking love, love, loved this song! I started moving my hips to the beat of the song, and Edward situated himself behind me again, and grabbed onto my hips as he began moving with me. His fingers were touching the bare skin between the top of my jeans and the hem of my shirt, and they re-lit the fire inside me that I swear I hadn't felt since the last time this man had his hands on me 3 years ago. I threw an arm back and wound it around his neck, pushed back into him and ground my hips slowly against his to the beat of the song. I swear I heard Edward groan. He moved his firey hands to my stomach, pulled me closer and leaned down to whisper in my ear, "Bella, you'd better be careful, you will get yourself in trouble grinding on me like that. We don't want my sister to think we have done this before, now do we?" He licked (yes, actually LICKED!!) the side of my ear before he pulled away a little, and I just knew he had that sexy-ass grin back on his face. I turned to him, groaned and bit my lower lip and said, "no, I suppose not, however, I could say the same to you. But we are only dancing, after all, right, Edward?"
This went on for a few more songs. Edward and I kept up our teasing. It almost seemed as if each of us wanted to make the other one crack. At the end of yet another song with a beat and lyrics that made me want to just jump his bones right there on the dance floor, I decided it was time to break away and get another drink at the bar. I was waiting for my beer when Alice came up behind me and started yelling in my ear over the music. "So, I SAW you and my brother dancing, and it looked to me you two are getting along nicely!" I didn't want to tell her everything I was feeling at the moment, her being Edward's sister and all. However, Alice being my best friend, I wanted to give her a little, so I said, "I must admit, Ali, your brother is HOT! I'm actually not too pissed at you for setting me up. I may want to get to know him a little more. If I'm being totally honest with you, I feel this kind of almost PULL towards him, Al. I dont know what it is, but I think I might want to try to find out. It IS kind of weird for me that he is your brother, though. I mean, you're my best friend! What if 'this' doesn't end well?" Alice looked at me and shook her head a little. "Belllllla, I already KNOW how 'this' ends. You two were MADE for eachother, I just KNOW it! I saw it in my head and it was perfect! Trust me, sweetie, It doesn't bother me in the least you are into my brother. That just means that I will see him more, if he's with you, and when you two get married we will be SISTERS!! Can't you just see it, Bella?" And with that, my strange little pixie best friend left me standing there at the bar while she went back to Jasper.
I stood there for a minute, drank the rest of my beer, and let her little soul-mate-meant-for-eachother-nonsense the fuck go. I went into the bathroom to check myself over. Satisfied, I left the bathroom with every intention of finding Edward so we could......talk.......or dance more......or maybe I could just touch him....when I ran straight into him. I stumbled backwards a little. Then Edward's arms went around me. The heat I felt where he was touching me was overwhelming. I looked up into his eyes to see him looking into mine. I said, "so, I talked to Alice, and she LOVES the idea of me and you getting to know eachother better, so...um...I was thinking---" All of a sudden he was kissing me. There was so much passion and un-diluted lust from each of us poured into that kiss, it was truly amazing. It felt like I was literally on fire and drowning at the same time. I didn't know which was was up anymore. I fucking MOANED into his mouth! I couldn't help it, I never ever wanted this feeling to end. It seemed like it could have been DAYS later when we finally broke apart. I opened my eyes slowly, smiling and looking up at him through my eyelashes. Edward fucking SMIRKED at me, then turned his mouth into that grin of his, leaned down and whispered in my ear, "I want to get out of here, BELLA...Please take me home with you. I want to touch you. I want to make you scream again. Please, Please take me home." He wrapped his hands even tighter around my waist, and he freaking LICKED my ear again before proceeding to kiss his way down the side of my neck. On his way back up, I wound my hands in his hair and pulled his mouth to mine for a chaste kiss before I said, "let's go then, EDWARD." and pulling him out of the bar behind me.
After we got outside, I sent Alice a text, letting her know that I had left and would definately call her tomorrow. Edward drove to the club, and since I didn't have my car, I followed him to his and got inside. As soon as Edward was in the car next to me, He leaned over the middle and grabbed my head. I met him halfway and kissed him again. Damn, I could seriously kiss this man forever. Edward growled (yes, growled) into my mouth before pulling away and starting his car.