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Edward kept the conversation light between us as the flight attendants did their little show in the three aisles, pointing out the nearest exits and what to do in case of emergency. The children on the plane were loud and ignoring the women indefinitely, much like the remainder of the passengers. Of course the few who had a fear of flying paid close attention and I, myself, chose to focus on Edward Cullen instead because who knew when I'd ever get to see him again.
"What brings you to Ireland?" He wondered and I focused my thoughts back on our conversation.
"My best friend- the little Alice I had with me when you toppled onto me," I added for good measure and he chuckled once more. "We're both twenty one and we decided we'd go travelling as a way of celebrating it."
"And you chose Ireland- one of the shittiest climates you can get," Edward pressed with a dubious look.
"We love the accents," I shrugged, as if it was an obvious factor. "Dublin looks beautiful and I'm all about the alcohol."
"I can tell by your personality," Edward smiled and I blushed a light shade of pink. He was so smooth and so fucking handsome. I looked back to him and rolled my eyes playfully.
"What about you?" I asked. "What brings you to Ireland?"
"My parents live there," he said and that definitely caught my attention. "I grew up there and moved to America when I turned eighteen. I took the summer months as a kid to stay in Los Angeles with my god parents Charlotte and Ryan Whitlock and when I was finally legal, I moved permanently. That doesn't mean I love coming back to Dublin for a family visit. Home is home."
I nodded along, blocking out the sounds of the pilot over the speaker announcing our departure from Sea-Tac. "I was wondering why your accent was so off on certain words," I smiled. "I couldn't place where you were from entirely."
"Yeah, I shift from state and city throughout the year," Edward said curtly with a tight lipped smile.
"How come?" I wondered, trying to get more out of him.
Just then we started to move onto the runway and if I wasn't so damn scared of taking off on a plane, I probably would have kept up my inquisition. I looked over my seat belt to make sure I was safely strapped in and gripped the arm rests on either side of me, taking deep thorough breaths.
"Scared of flying?" Edward said over the roar of the plane.
"Just the taking off part," I replied loudly.
"You're fine, Bella, planes are safer than cars," Edward soothed me and placed his hand on top of mine over the arm rest. I looked to it in shock but said nothing, too focused on the plane lifting off the ground. I wish I had of brought some candy to soothe the pain of my ears popping. And with the look on Edward's face, I knew he wished it too.
When we were safely in the air and gaining altitude, I began to relax, keeping up my ritual of deep breaths but lessoned my grip on the arm rest, which Edward took as a sign to let me go, much to my dismay. "Thank you," I mumbled, looking at him shyly. "You calmed me down somewhat."
"My pleasure, Bella," Edward smirked, stirring up the butterflies in my stomach that shot a jolt of pleasure throughout my body. Wooh, this man was going to kill me.
When we gained a reasonable height, the air hostesses began to walk around the cabin, checking on children and tending to anyone's needs. Pillows were handed out, even though it was only six o'clock and toys were offered to the limited amount of kids on the flight. I could count barely four children, all over the toddler age, thank god. That meant my trip would be cry free. The co-pilot's voice came over the announcer, shushing everyone around us.
"We've reached our target altitude which means we'll now have a steady flight to the east coast, where we'll recuperate and then hit the water for the remainder of the flight to Dublin, Ireland. Feel free to unbuckle and use the rest rooms located at the top of the cabin. We wish you a pleasurable, safe flight."
I breathed out a sigh of relief and smiled at Edward in delight, earning myself a chuckle on his behalf. "I really need the bathroom," I lied through my teeth. What I really needed was to gossip with Alice who was sitting at the top of the plane with her dear Jasper. I'm surprised I didn't see her running off to the bathroom with him.
"Take your time, I'm not going anywhere for the next nine hours," Edward joked, taking my book from my lap and opening it up to start reading. I giggled like a fucking child and left him with my book, regaining my bearings just in time to reach Alice's seat up front.
"Bella!" was her greeting and I wasted no time getting into details.
"I'm sitting beside the hot guy who stepped on my shoes!" I blurted out, ignoring Jasper beside my best friend. "He's like super-hot and did I mention fucking hot? So sweet and dude, he held my hand during take-off. If that doesn't scream keeper I don't know what does!"
"Uh, Bella," Alice tried to say, darting her eyes to Jasper warningly. I knew she was just trying to save me from embarrassing myself in front of him but I didn't care for a stranger hearing me.
"If you don't end up using that toilet for recreational use then I might have to take it up with Edward"-
"Bella!" Alice cried, her face scrunched up and bright red. Why was she so embarrassed? She loved dirty talk? Alice turned to her golden haired hunk once more and smiled. "Have I introduced you to Jasper Whitlock? Edward's best friend?"
Oh fuck. Oh fucking shitty shit, shit. Foot? Meet mouth.
"I…" I choked on my words, further more seeing Jasper's smug grin plastered on his face. "I'm sorry, I… I didn't know"-
"It's perfectly fine, miss Bella," Jasper drawled with a smirk. "We just made the connection right before you showed up here. Don't worry, I won't tell Edward a thing."
"Thank you," I breathed, still fucking embarrassed about the whole thing. "I should… probably go back to my seat now."
"I think that would be best, Bells," Alice tried to hide her giggles behind her hand but it was merely impossible with how her smile was breaking her face. "I'll come find you later. Love you!"
"Yeah, yeah, love you too," I groaned and tried to ignore their laughter at my tone as I made my way back to Edward. I huffed and slumped in my seat, alerting Edward of my presence who was enveloped in my book. Damn him, I wanted to spend my time reading it instead. I suddenly felt eighteen again rather than twenty one with how I was acting. My brain would always go back to its teenage routes whenever a guy was involved. I think every girl got that way.
"You okay?" He asked in a sweet voice that had me melting.
"Yeah, just… Alice loves embarrassing me," I said cryptically and he laughed.
"Where is she?"
"Up the top with your best friend… By the way, when you mentioned your god parents by the name of Whitlock, I didn't know they had a son. I basically just embarrassed myself in front of him as a first impression!"
Edward stopped short before he broke out into a fit of laughter, making me even more annoyed at the whole situation. "Wait!" Edward chortled and I huffed and puffed, waiting for him to calm down. "You mean to say your best friend got the seat next to Jasper? What a coincidence!"
"I feel like you set this up to personally ruin me," I glared, crossing my arms in annoyance. "You didn't' even get on the plane with him?"
"I was late, remember?" Edward exclaimed.
"Still, you did this on purpose."
"How; I barely know you, Bella," he smiled gently, making my insides feel all funny and gooey.
"You know my name and age and my best friend," I said lamely. "I don't even know that much about you."
"I'm twenty six," Edward sighed and looked at me with amusement.
"You don't act it," my eyes turned into slits.
"Trust me, I can be serious when I mean business, Miss Swan," Edward's smile dropped from his face and his eyes grew cold.
"Very convincing," I said, scared that his warm smile wouldn't return which, thankfully, it did minutes later.
"I'm a very smart businessman. I know when to be kind in situations. I can be very persuasive."
"So you're a businessman?" I steered the conversation away from his persuasive ways. Lord knows what he'd have me doing on this plane.
Edward waved his hand in the air from side to side. "Something like that. I dabble in certain stuff."
"Such as?" I pressed, hoping he'd delve deeper into his life but our conversation was cut short.
"Anything from the trolley?" the blonde hostess from earlier smiled down at us, but her eyes were only for Edward. Who even used that line anyway? What was she, the old woman from Harry Potter on the train to Hogwarts? Please.
"No thank you, we're fine," I emphasised 'we're' for good measure. "Unless you'd like something, Edward?" I turned to him and he was smirking at me, knowing full well what I was doing. I didn't back down though.
"No, babe, I'm fine," he grinned and I flushed a new shade of scarlet. "Thank you though," he looked up to the blonde apologetically. She nodded curtly and moved on to the next row of seats, only this time she didn't bend down so low as to flash her boobs.
"I thought stuff like that only happened in movies," I murmured and Edward laughed once.
"You thought only what happened?"
"Hostess' acting slutty and not fulfilling their jobs," I explained. "She definitely envisioned you guys going at it in the toilets, I'm sure of it."
The man beside Edward turned to look at me with wide eyes and I just shrugged. Edward caught sight of his expression and let out a hearty chuckle, sending a smile of apology just for good measure. "I think she was just being polite, Bella. I appreciate you acting as if we were a couple though. It saves me from doing the dirty work and turning them down."
"I dunno," I bit my lip in thought. "You kinda look like blondes are your type."
"Definitely not," Edward shook his head. "I never had a preference but my girls have always turned out to be brunette."
"Huh," I merely said, finding the cover of my book rather interesting in that moment. "Blue eyes for sure, then."
"I've never looked at a girl long enough to see the colour of her eyes," Edward admitted, forcing me to look back to him. "But yours… your eyes I could get lost in for days."
Oh mother.
I dared to look into his bright green eyes and I had to gulp at what I saw. Sheer lust and desire, pooling from his shining irises that literally screamed at me to obtain. I licked my lips nervously, not failing to see how Edward's eyes flickered down to watch the action and wondered idly if he was thinking of kissing them. "Your eyes aren't all that bad either, Edward," I whispered shyly, ducking my head a little.
His gaze was way too powerful for me to handle. I'd never experienced a moment like this before and definitely not with a guy as good looking as Edward. I was new to all of it. My only sexual experience was when I was eighteen with a guy I had grown up with my whole life. It was nothing special but… here with Edward, his gaze was enough to tell me I'd be in for quite an experience.
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