Trading Yesterday
Chapter 3
JPOV
I can't believe it's been 2 weeks and I haven't been able to see Bella.
I was suppose to go home last weekend and they had baseball tryouts, I was told since I was on scholarship I wouldn't have to try out, but the couch wanted me for varsity, so I'd have to try out and Bella understood. She had to work a long shift at the hospital on Friday and wouldn't get off until early Saturday morning, so she'd be to tired to drive, we settled for video conference and phone calls all weekend, she even picked up some extra time on Sunday at the hospital, since Dr. Cullen was called in on an emergency, then she'd have extra time the next weekend when I came up. Well, that was blown out of the water when I made varsity and coach called a parents meeting for the new team members, it was a weekend long orientation, it would go over our travel plans, away games, what was expected of us, grade wise and respect wise. So I didn't get to see her again that weekend. I knew it was bothering her, but she was being brave and patient for me. I went to talk with my coach to make sure the weekend of Bella's birthday there was nothing going on, I couldn't have that ruined and thankfully nothing was going on. I had cleared it with Carlisle and she wasn't to work that weekend at the hospital either. I had got together with the guys from my old baseball team in high school and had everything planned out for the week, Bella was having a week full of surprises, with me waiting by her truck on Friday.
The weekend was finally here and I was able to go home and see Bella, I arrived at her house and she was asleep on the couch, book in hand, I grabbed the spare key and sat on the couch leaning down to kiss her, she was startled awake and looked so cute. She jumped in my arms and gave me a kiss. "James! I can't believe you're actually here!" she kissed all over my face and hugged me tightly. "I know. It's so good to see you to sweetheart!" I kissed her deeply and hugged her to me, she had no idea how much she meant to me. "Want to go to my house for awhile?" I asked. She smiled and shook her head "Yeah, your dad actually invited us to dinner tonight. So my dad will be there too around 6." she hugged me tighter as she got up. I looked her over and noticed she was skinnier. "Bella. Have you been eating right?" I asked her. "Um, yeah, the same as always, I guess." she smiled. "Then why do you look 10 lbs. smaller, at least?" I questioned. "Maybe because you're so use to seeing all those really well built college women." she winked and ran upstairs.
She came down a few minutes later and I let the subject drop, figuring I'd call some people from school to find out if she was eating and talk to Charlie as well.
We walked out to my car and headed to my house, making it in record time, I led Bella to my room, for some quiet time, I needed to be just me and her, I knew we weren't going to shed clothes and have sex, but I just wanted to hold her and kiss her. I was allowed that much, being cut off cold turkey was hard, but I was not going to lose Bella by cheating on her, I wasn't that kind of guy. I loved Bella to much.
We must have fallen asleep, because we were woke up by a very loud "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING WITH MY DAUGHTER!" from Charlie. And both of us falling off the bed, and then are dads busting out laughing, me almost having a heart attack. "Not funny Charlie." I stood up and shook his hand. "Hey, I couldn't resist, it was perfect." he was still laughing. I looked down to see Bella still sitting on the floor pouting, God, she did that so well. I held out my hand to her and she smiled and took it, standing up and smacked Charlie on the arm, along with my dad and me and stomped out of the room, sitting on the couch, arm and legs crossed lips pouting. "Bella, don't be like that, your dad was just having fun" I smiled and leaned down to kiss her pout away.
BPOV
James was to damn cute. He knew I wasn't mad at him and trying to keep up the charade was harder than I thought. Once he leaned down for the kiss, he smiled "I knew it" he chuckled against my lips and sat up straight. "James Michael Hunter!" I said to him with a wicked grin and he pulled me into his lap tickling me. "Stop it, James, I mean it. STOP! JAMES!" I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. Finally Mr. Hunter and my dad came in and told us dinner was ready, we sat down and ate, our dad cleaned up afterwards so we could spend time together, we went to the media room to snuggle and watch a movie. I couldn't tell you what we watched, we ended up making out hot and heavy that night and went a little further than before, I actually let James touch my boobs, I don't know who moaned more and the touch, me or him he didn't try to take my shirt off or anything, but his hand slowly slid up my shirt and grazed my breast and I moaned, it felt incredible. He rubbed over my nipple and played with it, even pinched it a few times, I felt my panties getting wet and had to stop him "James, we need to stop." he sighed and dropped his head onto my shoulder "Bella, do you feel what you do to me?" he laid on top of me pushing his erection into me. "Yes, James, but I'm just not ready for that step, I'm sorry." I sat up, pushing my hair out of my face and trying to stop the tears from falling. "Sweetheart, what's wrong?" James asked. "You're just going to leave me to and it'll be all my fault because I'm not ready, again. I'm sorry. It's just not something I can hand out, I hope you can understand. And if you decide you need it, please just break up with me and don't go screwing around behind my back at college, I just really couldn't take that kind of rejection. Just be upfront with me, that's all I ask." I was full out sobbing now. James pulled me into his chest and was shushing me, "Bella. I'm not breaking up with you just because you're not ready for sex. I'll wait. Promise." He kissed the top of my head and just held me until I calmed down. My dad came in and luckily the movie was still playing and it was dark in there, so he couldn't see "Bells, I'm headed home, you wanna ride?" he asked. "No thanks, James is giving me one." I smiled. "O.K., see you at home. Night James, drive carefully." he smiled and looked towards me when he walked out. "Wow, no curfew." James smiled. "Well, I am almost 18. I hope he realizes that." I laughed and James hugged me tighter. "So, we're good, right? You understand I'm not going anywhere and I'm not pressuring you into anything." he stressed. "Yes, I understand." I kissed him softly and snuggled into his arms as he stroked my hair.
We had a great weekend, but it was over way to fast, James leaving was hard and I moped Monday in school. Mike tried cheering me up, Alice tried pissing me off, she'd try talking loudly to Jess about Edward and his new girlfriend at Oxford, I guess he'd met her there 3 weeks in and they'd been together since, I'm not saying it didn't hurt, but I didn't let her see it, Mike looked at me and said 'Ouch', I rolled my eyes, "Please, it'll be over before she knows what hit her." he laughed and we continued with the rest of our day.
It was the week of my birthday and I wasn't looking forward to it. James wasn't going to be able to be here this weekend of all weekends, my 18th birthday.
I walked into History on Monday and Mike had a balloon and cupcake on my desk with a note "Sorry I can't be here for the real thing, but I plan on making up for it more than you know. ~ J"
I smiled. "Did he like mail this to you or something?" I asked. "No he gave it to me when he was home a few weeks ago." He smiled. "Thanks Mike, I'll let him know you pulled it off flawless." I smiled. The rest of the week was filled with little surprises and long phone calls every night to James, thanking him for everything. Thursday night started the fight, all my fault of course.
"I can't believe you couldn't just tell your coach you had a family event." I yelled. "Bella. I'm sorry. He wouldn't let me miss practice tomorrow, we have a big game coming up and they're all mandatory. What do you want me to do?" he tried to stay calm. "I- I have to go." I slammed the phone down and turned it off, not sleeping a wink and calling Rose, crying to her. "Bella, it's not the end of the world. It's one birthday and he's done all these little things for you, to show you he cares, right?" she asked. "yeah." I said barely above a whisper. "Then get over it. Go to sleep. Call him tomorrow and apologize for being a bitch." she laughed. I laughed with her and thanked her she then told me that I was coming up there next weekend to finish the wedding plans. They'd delayed getting married until after their freshman year of college due to all the stress of adjusting so they'd get married this summer and we were finalizing everything so all we had to due was wait for the date now. I agreed and she warned me Alice would be there as well, but she'd be staying with Jasper. I sighed relief and she said we could double with her and Emmett if James was up for it. I told her if we were together after tomorrow, we would. She laughed and said everything would be fine. I told her to give Emmett my love and said I'd fill her in on everything in an e-mail tomorrow. I hung up and turned off my phone again and didn't get any sleep again.
I arrived at school just in time for first bell, Mike was all smiles and I rolled my eyes at him "Mike, not today." I growled. "Bells, today is the day!" he smiled and stressed the word the. "Mike!" I growled. He held up his hands in surrender and mumbled something, I rolled my eyes and ignored him, not even wanting to be here, but dad telling me I wasn't allowed to skip today. So I was even more pissed off at that fact. As I was walking to second period, Alice bumped straight into me "Oh, sorry, didn't see you there." she sneered at me. I rolled my eyes and walked around her and headed towards my class. "I heard there was trouble in paradise, I guess he's dumping you too, since you don't put out! What are you waiting for virgin?!?!?" Alice screamed down the hall. That did it, I was pissed. "Alice I've had enough of your shit! You stand by your brother like he's some God damn Saint! Even when he fucking cheated on me with these two sluts, that shows just how good of a fucking friend you actually were and you know nothing about James and I! There is nothing wrong between us, he is not leaving me because I won't sleep with him and he is not cheating on me like your fucking two-timing brother. James loves me, so fuck off Alice and leave me the fuck alone! We're not friends so STOP talking to me!!!" and I walked away. "Bells, that was awesome." Mike came up and put his arm around me. "I'm just so tired of her being a bitch to me every single day. It's bad enough having these doubts in my head that he might leave me because I'm not ready to have sex yet, but to have her throwing shit like that in my face all the time, it finally wore me out, especially after James and I had a fight last night because he can't be here tonight." And I started to cry, Mike pulled me into a hug.
"Bella, James loves you. He's done all these things because he loves you more than anyone or anything, he's never done anything like this for anyone, not even Vicky and they were together forever." he continued as we walked down the towards 3rd period. Finally it was lunch time and our lunch table was decorated in balloons and a cake and a few pizza's. I shook my head and looked at Mike "Again?" I asked. "No. Not everything. The cake, yes, the balloons and the pizza were us." Mike laughed. I hugged everyone and thanked them and we all had pizza and cake, Alice and her bitches stared and gave dirty looks all lunch period.
Finally school was over and I finished all my work, so I had nothing to bring home, Mike walked me to my locker and out to my truck, which was all decorated. I walked over to my truck and James walked around the front, smiling with a bouquet of wild flowers. I ran towards him and he sat the flowers on the hood of the car and opened his arms for me and swung me around. "Hey sweetheart." he kissed my head and hugged me tight. "I thought you couldn't be here." I said crying into his chest and Mike was behind me laughing, "Bells, I wanted to break down and tell you today, but after your fight with Alice, I couldn't." he smiled. "You fought with Alice?" James smiled and held me at arms length. "Yeah" I shrugged. "I don't want to talk about it." I hugged him. "You look like shit babe." he smiled and kissed me. "Let's get you home and cleaned up, we've got a big date tonight. Drop me at my house so I can shower and get ready and I'll pick you up at 6 p.m., there is a package on your bed and that's what you're to wear, don't worry, it'll fit, all of it, Rose helped pick it out so if any of it you don't like, yell at her, please, NOT me." James blushed, kissed me on the cheek and hopped out of the truck waving as he ran up to his house.
I drove home very happy, feeling bad for being a bitch yesterday and wanting to strangle Rose for not saying something to me, I should have known, she was way to understanding last night, she didn't yell or say she was going to kick James' ass once. Damn it! I didn't pick up on it! SHIT!!! I was going to bitch her out when I got home.
I ran up stairs and called her immediately and it went to voice mail "Rosalie Hale-Whitlock, don't think you can avoid me! I'm pissed at you for more than one reason! First off you knew what James had done and had even conspired with him and second, Alice has gotten way out of hand, if you don't reign her in, I won't be able to be in my own brother's wedding, because I won't be able to refrain form killing the little pixie bitch!" I screamed into the phone and hung it up. I ran into the shower, using James' favorite strawberries and crème everything from head to toe, I guess this explains the pedicure and manicure I'd received on Wednesday and everything was a pretty shade of red, not fire engine, more like cherry. I opened the box to see what they had picked out for me and about died, I was so going to kill Rose and if James had seen the undergarments, I was going to die of embarrassment. It was all from Fredrick's of Hollywood. I didn't even know they made fucking clothes. The dress was quite pretty, not too bad, it was a red satin with a black lace overlay and spaghetti straps and sinfully short, not to mention the wrap around red stilettos Rose picked out to go with them, for undergarments she has a pair of red satin thongs and a not saying NO BRA NEEDED!!! I'm so going to kill her next weekend!!! It also stated to do smoky eyes leave my hair down in soft natural waves. I finished getting ready at about 10 minutes until 6 and my dad walked through the door as I hit the last step and stared at me with his jaw slightly dropped. "Um, dad, there's a fly in your mouth." I giggled. "Bells, go get your camera, I've got to take pictures, you look beautiful." he smiled at me. I blushed but ran upstairs to get my camera for him. I sat on the couch to put on my shoes before James got there and dad took a couple of pictures before there was a knock, dad yelled for him to come in, it was James, he walked in and our mouths dropped at the same time, he'd gotten a hair cut, and he had on an all black suit with a red tie. My dad snapped a few pictures of us together an we were off.
We drove to a nice romantic French restaurant with dancing he kept complementing me on my looks all night and how beautiful I looked in that dress I told him I missed his hair. "I had to get it cut anyhow sweetheart. I have an internship interview with the head of the corrections department in Seattle where I can work a dew hours and earn college credit and graduate almost a semester early, won't that be great!" he smiled. "What? When?" I asked excited for him. "Monday afternoon, I'll have a lot of weekends and I know it'll interfere with our time, but it'll be daytimes, since I'm in college, I can't work the overnight, Charlie said you can come and stay, I already talked to him, it's all part of your birthday surprise, you'll be able to actually come and sleep over at my place and if you're not comfortable with that, Emmett and Rose said you're always welcome there ands they're only about 10 minutes from me. Isn't this great!" James smiled again and pulled me to the dance floor. I hugged him close and kissed him passionately, I think I was the happiest woman in the world at this point and time. The dames ended and James stayed with me there, dropping to one knee, a light beaming only on us and I looked at him I started to shake I was so nervous, soft music started to play and James cleared his throat and looked up at me with those baby blues. "Bella. I know we haven't dated very long, but I just know that you're the one I'm meant to be with. I can't go a single day without thinking about you and I'm miserable when you're not around. I hate not being w-with you. I hate arguing with you. I love when you pout, I just love everything about you. What I'm trying to say Bella, is, Will you do me the honor of being with me forever and being my wife? Bella, Will you marry me?" James looked up to me eyes sparkling and one single tear down his cheek. I lifted my thumb to wipe it away and slowly shook my head yes. "I can't hear you Bella, you're making me nervous here." he smiled at me again and some of the patrons laughed. "Yes! Yes James Hunter I will marry you!" he grabbed my left hand and slid my ring on and lifted himself up, kissing me deeply and all of a sudden I'm being squeezed from behind and lifted off the ground "James, you hurt her and so help me God!" It wad Emmett. "Emmett!" I squealed. I turned to see my dad and Rose and Mrs. Clearwater there too, she was holding dads hand. .'!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!
I sent him a look that said we would talk later.
I finished hugging my family and friends, James' dad was there and said I could call him dad now Esme and Carlisle were there, Jasper was there, no Alice, he hugged me and said he was just stopping by, Rose informed him and he wanted to watch the proposal, he even congratulated James, that made me feel good when he shook his hand and of course Mike was there. I punch him in the arm for being a fucking girl, he'd known the longest about this, besides the dad's. The ring was beautiful, when I really looked at it, I turned to James, "This was your moms, wasn't it?" I asked. "Well, kind of. It was my grandmother's and then my mom's, when my dad got it, he added another stone to it, so I did the same thing to it, nothing too big, because I know you don't like big and flashy." he smiled and kissed me again. We all sat down and had a wonderful evening of dinner and dancing. When we were finished with dinner James and I went for a walk on First beach, he wrapped his jacket around me and I slipped off my shoes and we held hands, him kissing mine every so often, no words needed. "How soon do you want to get married?" I asked. I truly had no idea that he was even thinking about this, so I was still in a little state of shock. Well, I'd want it to be at least another year or so. I want you out of high school of course and I'd really like to be out of college, so I'd be working by then, if that's O.K. with you." he smiled. "That's fine by me. I'd like a Spring wedding" I smiled. "Spring? Why?" James questioned. "Because it's a new start. Everything's fresh. It'd be our fresh, new start!" I smiled. "You amaze me you know!" he kissed my head and turned me to him to give me a proper kiss.
"This has been the best birthday ever! I am so sorry for being a bitch last night. Do you forgive me?" I pouted. "Hey, no fair. You pouted." James smiled.
We walked the beach a while longer and then decided to call it a night.
He drove me home and we didn't want to part, he sent his dad a text saying he was at my house and he'd be home later.
We walked over to the sofa and he slipped off his shoes and tie, unbuttoned his shirt and untucked it, laid against the back of the couch and I laid in front of him, we crabbed the big quilt and snuggled into it, his arms wrapping tightly around me, our hands entwined, him kissing the back of my neck, sucking lightly, leaving little marks, I'm sure, maybe a few big ones as well and testing my self control. "Goodnight James, I love you." I snuggled closer, feeling his 'love' for me. "Goodnight Bella, love you too. Sweet dreams baby!" and he kissed me softly before we drifted off to sleep.
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Bella's Outfit and Ring:
.com/Cascading_Lace_Dress/21276,default,?cgid=cl26 (dress)
.com/Wrap_Up_Stiletto/12073,default, (shoes)
.com/Rio_Thong_Panty/53204,default,?cgid=pa9 (panties)
.com/art_deco_platinum_engagement_ (ring) James Added the sapphire ring around.
