Chapter 3 – One year
Friday morning.
Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep. I groaned and rolled over to hit my alarm clock. I flopped back onto my back and closed my eyes. "Babe, get up!" James yelled.
"It's 7:00 in the morning, do you have to yell?" I asked throwing the covers down. I sat up and threw my legs over the edge of the bed. I fixed my purple camisole and stood up. Padding out of our room I looked in the mirror. My hair looked like a haystack and I had makeup smeared on my face. I sighed as I walked into the kitchen and James sat on the couch.
"No I don't have to yell but I'm hungry and you were in our room sleeping, so get in the kitchen and make me some food." He said. I turned to him and crossed my arms. He stood up with his hands open. "Come on babe, you know I was only joking." He said exaggerating while walking towards me. I gave him a disappointed look and sighed, walking the rest of the way toward him.
"I know, I guess I just woke up with a sore neck and a bad mood, I apologize." I said. He came behind me and started massaging my neck telling me it was okay. I relaxed into his touch while wondering if Edward was going to be in class today. We also had this Friday writing class together that James didn't know about yet.
"I'm throwing a party Saturday night okay babe?" James asked.
"It's our anniversary though and I wanted to spend some time together with just us." I whined. He stopped massaging and turned me around. Grabbing my forearms he looked me in the eyes and said,
"We can do something special on Tuesday when neither of us have class, how about that? I'll even plan it all!" It sounded to good to be true but I agreed to it anyway and walked to my room to get dressed.
I pulled on my flowy white and black skirt and slipped it on. I also put on my floral printed colourful bra that James loves in case he had a surprise for me tonight. Then I grabbed my black and white lace camisole and black short sleeved jacket to put on top. I finished off my look with a pair of black flip flops. I walked to the bathroom and put on some natural make up and left my hair curly around my face. I walked back into the living room/kitchen where James sat at the breakfast bar waiting for his breakfast. I shook my head and started cooking him some eggs. While the eggs sat on the stove I got an apple from the fridge. James liked it when I only ate a little, healthy and worked out because he liked, as he called it, my 'tight little body'. I seasoned the eggs and put them on a plate. I turned around and saw James starring at me. "Damn you look hot." He said as I placed the eggs down in front of him. I blushed and walked to the door grabbing my keys.
"I gotta go to class now, I'll be back later." I said, blew him a kiss and locked the door. I climbed in my old red truck and drove to my writing class. Edward and I had compared classes when we had biology together. On Monday we didn't have anything together, Tuesdays we didn't have any classes, Wednesday we had history together, Thursday we had biology together and Fridays we had a writing class together. We also had classes that filled the rest of our days but none that over lapped with each other. Before I knew it I was at the complex our writing was held at and I parked my car. I turned toward my passenger seat and grabbed my book. Knock knock knock. I jumped and sat upright. I leaned my head back against the seat and put my hand against my chest. My head rolled toward the driver side window and saw Edward waving. I opened the door and got out. He looked apologetic as he closed the door behind. He turned around and started to apologise but I held my hand up and told him it was fine, all an innocent mistake.
We walked to our class in an awkward silence together. This was another small class with few people like our biology class. We took a seat beside each other at the back of the room.
"So, Bella, how are you today, other than my scaring you?" Edward asked with a chuckle. "You look very nice by the way. I really like the skirt, and my sister would deffinatly approve." He joked, I smiled.
"I'm good other than my sore neck. How are you?" I replied, he put his pen down and turned to face me.
"I'm very well thank you." I smiled and told him I was glad. "You seem in a very chipper mood today" he said after we talked for a little bit more, I nodded.
"It's James and my 1 year anniversary today and I think he got my something special for it!" I exclaimed, bounding up and down excitedly. He chuckled.
"Haha what is he like? Your boyfriend I mean." He inquired. I told him all about James. I told him about how he looks with his jacket and hair and his clothes. I also explained the activities he likes, mostly biking and partying. I told him about how he gets into fights and how he enjoys working out. I told him some good things and some of the not so good things. Edward sat and listened to me as I explained what I liked and what I didn't. "He sounds like quite the character, I'd like to meet him if that is okay with you? Maybe we could all hang out!" he requested. James probably wouldn't like seeing me with another guy, even though we are not together together. Although maybe he wouldn't be so jealous if he saw we were just lab partners.
"Sure, yeah, that would be cool. He's actually throwing a party this week if you wanted to come meet him then?"
"Yeah that'd be great, when should I be there?"
"Um come around 9pm on Saturday!" we agreed and I gave him directions to my new apartment. The rest of the class went by too slowly, but the rest of the day and my other classes went by even more slowly.
"James, babe? You home?" I called as I walked in the door. I didn't get an answer and I didn't see him in the living room/kitchen. I walked over and knocked on the bathroom door. No answer. I went to our room and pushed the door open. No one in there either. I went back to the kitchen to see if he maybe left a note, no luck. The door opened and I jumped. "James?" I asked, he looked up at me.
"Oh, yeah, sorry babe. I had to pick up your present because I had a last minute change to it." He said and dropped his stuff on the floor and walked over to me. he slapped my ass and told me to get changed because we had reservations at La Belle Italian. I scampered off to my room to get changed. I wore a long purple dress from my closet that hugged my curves perfectly. I paired it with some silver strappy heels and some silver earrings. I walked out and James was gawking at me. Again, I blushed. "That dress fits you perfect babe."
"Thanks" I said, "you clean up will also." I complimented. I walked over and gave him a kiss. He pulled me closer and deepened the kiss. His phone buzzed and he groaned in frustration. We let go to look at his phone. It was only a reminder of our reservations. I giggled and ran to our room to get his present. I ran back out just in time to see him putting a box in the pocket of his jacket.
"What's that" I questioned, trying to reach in his chest pocket as he swatted my hands away. I pouted.
"Don't worry, you'll get to see soon enough." He said and walked out the door. I sighed and followed him out locking the door behind me. We both got in our own sides of his car and rode to the restaurant. It was a quick drive and he grabbed my hand as we walked to the door. "Reservation for 2. James and Isabella" he said and winked at the waitress. Wait what? I didn't have much time to question it because we were being led to our table.
We both sat down and the waitress, Krista, took my drink order, Nestea, and James' order, coke. We looked at our menus for a while. I decided on quesadillas while James got a steak dinner. The conversation flowed easily until our meals came. Mine was delicious and James seemed to be enjoying his because his mouth was barley empty and he was moaning slightly. I decided it was time to bring up Edward wanting to meet James but every time I tried to bring him up, James told me to hold on or to hold my thought. Instead he told me to close my eyes. I closed my eyes and waited. I heard him get up and walk around the table to me. "Don't look" he said and I felt something being placed around my neck. I opened my eyes and looked down. There was a beautiful blue glass necklace around my neck. The pattern had all different shades of blue and different shapes of glass beads.
"Wow. This is beautiful. Thank you James!" I said with tears in my eyes. This is the necklace I mentioned one time a while ago and he remembered it. I also knew it was an expensive necklace. I fingered the necklace for a few minutes admiring its beauty. It had a wonderful sparkle to it. I hadn't even noticed James had sat down when I looked up, "I love it." I said. "Now, your present." I reached behind me and pulled out a box. I handed it to him and he looked confused. "Open it," I urged. He shook the box a little but started opening it. He pulled out the watch and was awestruck. I knew he had wanted the watch. He had been looking at it for a while. But I also knew he knew how expensive it was and he hates it when people spend money on him just as much as I dislike it. Although he didn't complain about the price, so I knew I did a good job. We both admired our presents a while longer until the waitress offered us dessert. We both got a piece of their chocolate cake. It was moist and flavourful.
"So James, what do you think about Edward coming to the party?" I asked. "He wants to meet you and I think it would be good for both of you."
"Edward wants to meet me? He asked skeptically. He took another bite of his dessert and he thought for a while before answering me. "Okay, I want to meet this Edward. Do you guys talk about me?"
"Yeah, he asked about you after I mentioned we got an apartment together." I said.
"And what did you say?"
"Only the good stuff." I replied. "We have a couple of classes together."
"Like what?"
"Well our biology which you already know. Our history and the writing class I had today." We fell into conversation easily after that. We talked about everything from our classes and who we have met to the party we were throwing tomorrow. When our bill came I offered to pay but James snatched it up before I could get my hands on it. We left the waitress and nice tip and started for the door. She wished us a good evening and winked at James. It made me jealous, but there were many girls that threw themselves at James. I should just get use to it. The drive home was silent as we were both lost in our thoughts, but James kept his hand on my thigh the whole way home. James parked the car and we walked up the steps together. It felt like a first date where he was going to walk me to the door, kiss me on the cheek and leave. But instead he unlocked the door and came right in. We both got changed into pajamas and opened a bottle of wine. We snuggled up together on the couch and watched some horror movie that I wasn't really into but they were James favourite kind. He held me tight as i squeezed my eyes through the scary parts and just held me through the not as scary parts. When the movie was done around 10pm I drew us a bath in our nice big Jacuzzi tub. We sat with my back to his chest and took our time in there slowly washing each other and sneaking touches.
We towel dried as we let the plug out of the drain so the water could empty. I had my blue towel around my body as I dried my hair with my green towel. I didn't notice when James came up behind me and all the sudden cupped my towel clad boobs. I melted into him and turned around for a fiery kiss. He put his hands on my ass and I lifted my legs to wrap around his waist. He pushed me against the wall and moved one hand from around my back to palm my breast. My moan was caught by his mouth and we moaned in unison. He moved us from the bathroom to our bedroom. He walked slowly to our bed and laid me down. I watched as he dropped his towel and came to unwrap mine. He gazed down at me in all my naked glory. "Touch me" I choked out of frustration. His hands were immediately on my body. He kissed and nipped and licked a trail all the way down to my aching sex but he wouldn't touch me the one place I wanted it. Needed it. He wanted me to beg for it. Bastard. I thought. "James please" I begged. "Touch me" I tried again. No luck. "I need you inside me." I said and he finally slipped one finger inside me, eventually adding one more, then two. We spent the rest of the night pleasuring each other and finished off by making love.
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