Disclaimer: I own nothing; this is all Stephanie…minus my idea…
"Edward, so help me god if you upset this women," Bella warned as she smiled at Esme and got out of the car. I sighed and got out of the car, went around to the trunk and grabbed our overnight bag while Bella and Esme hugged.
"Edward!" She yelled after I slammed the trunk closed. I smiled and gave her a one arm hug and held the bag in the other hand. Bella was waiting for us by the porch as when we reached it, Bella snuck her way under my arm. I kissed her forehead, a way of apology without words. She looked up at me and smiled lightly, getting that she was forgiven momentarily.
"Carlisle is on the back patio grilling the steaks. Edward, why don't you go back their and help him while Bella helps me in the kitchen?" Esme suggested as I put our bag by the stairs. I nodded and walked to the back patio.
"Dad?" I asked as I walked threw the backdoor. I saw him looking out at the night sky, having gotten dark while we were making our way inside. He looked up at me and smiled.
"How are you, son?" He asked, opening his arms for a hug. I quickly walked over and hugged him. I dodged his question, hoping he wouldn't notice.
"What are we having for dinner?" I asked, looking under the grill hood. I looked up to see Carlisle looking at me funny, but he just shook it off and answered my question, telling me it was steak. I already knew this, but I guess my changing subject skills weren't that good.
After the steaks finished, we moved inside and I had to set the table with the help of Bella, and then we started dinner. The conversation was a tad weird at first, but soon I relaxed and so did Bella, and we had a nice conversation flowing.
That was until Bella made me tense again.
"Carlisle, Esme, you guys are probably wondering why we are deciding to have dinner with you guys and drive all the way out here, right after our finals," she started.
"Oh you know we love having you guys out and it doesn't matter to us why you come," Esme said sweetly.
"We know, but-"
"I think we should clean off the table and get everything done and reconvene in the living room before we finish this conversation," I interjected, much to Bella's disappointment. Esme and Carlisle shared confused, scared glances, and then they nodded and silently started to clean up the table.
I help by rinsing the dishes and Bella put them in the dishwasher. Esme and Carlisle cleared off all the food and put it into tupperware for later. And then after everything was done, we moved into the living room, Carlisle and Esme taking the couch while Bella and I took the love seat.
I looked at Bella wearily and she tried to give me a encouraging smile, but I could tell she was unsure herself.
"Esme, Carlisle, we are taking a trip," Bella said grabbing my hand and holding onto it tightly. Esme and Carlisle looked confusedly at us.
"Across the country and other places like Europe, and this is going to be our final destination," I finished for her.
"But that will take a long time," Carlisle said, calculating it in his head. I nodded.
"We have it planned to be a total of ten months," I said. He looked at me as if I were stupid.
"That will mean taking a year off school," Carlisle said. "Taking a year off med-school is extremely difficult. It's not like you can just pick up where you left off; you have to remember things and earn respect from your teachers. Let me tell you, taking a year of will not impress anyone."
I was not happy with his lecture, but I felt sorry for him on what was to come.
"Carlisle, you haven't heard our reasoning yet," Bella defended. I could tell she wasn't happy with the way he was talking to us. She looked at me for support and I squeezed her hand. "We have just realized that life isn't forever; life is short."
Esme and Carlisle gave us blank stares, completely and utterly confused.
"Mom, Dad, I have cancer. I'm only expected to live for another year, if that." I explained, looking at the floor.
The room stood still, no one talking, no one moving, no one breathing. I looked up to see Esme silently crying. She got up and hugged me tight against her, quietly saying, "My boy, my boy".
Carlisle was in shock, not moving. Bella got up and sat next to him. I just saw that she was crying, and Carlisle had tears in his eyes. She hugged him and he started to cry. She patted his back, rocking them both back and forth.
Esme released me after what seemed like forever but was really just about ten minutes. Bella released Carlisle and he got up, hugging me. I smiled and just then realized I was crying too. We were all quite a bunch of crying idiots.
"Are you going to undergo treatment?" Esme asked, rubbing at her eyes, trying to get rid of tears.
I shook my head. I looked over at Bella and she was looking at the ground.
"We are traveling," she said simply. "We both think it would be better if he experienced the world."
"What? You could live son, or at least live longer if you do treatment," Carlisle said sternly, like it wasn't my choice whether I did the treatment or not.
"Even I did what would it buy me? Another year, maybe? But I would be inside a hospital and die in a hospital, having done nothing but make Bella miss school because she would be at the hospital with me, and making you guys both worry yourselves sick-" I said, but was cut off.
"You don't think we won't be worrying anyway?" Esme asked.
"I know you will, but this way I can spend time with Bella and not be too sick to move for the next year. I can probably make it about nine months without having to be in a hospital constantly, and I plan on traveling that nine months," I explained, looking at the floor.
"You really don't want to try treatment? Miracles do happen," Esme tried. I looked over at Bella and her eyes were glazed over, looking off into space. Her face was void of any emotion.
"No, I think this is the best. I want to live my time to the fullest," I said, looking Esme and Carlisle in the eye. They nodded and looked at the floor. I knew they were trying to find a way to convince me otherwise, but I didn't want to hear about it.
I stood up and hugged both my parents for a minute each, and then grabbed Bella's hand to take her up stairs. I grabbed our bag in one hand and walked up the stairs. She still wasn't looking at me, but she did keep a firm hold on my hand until we reached my room on the third floor.
I opened the door and looked inside to see no much had changed. The walls were a little barer, but the bed, couch, and stereo system were still the exact same as when I left. I dropped our bag on my way to the bed and plopped down on the edge of the bed, taking Bella with me.
She curled up into my side and buried her face in my shoulder. I could feel her wet face through the fabric and I rubbed her back with one hand while wiping my own tears with the other.
"Love, we should probably take a shower," I said in a low voice. She looked up and nodded. She got up slowly, and while I meant for us to take separate showers, she pulled my hand and dragged me up with her.
We make eye contact and her eyes were filled with want, love, and need. I followed her into the bathroom and she dropped my hand to turn on the shower.
She ever-so-slowly started to pull up her shirt, throwing it to the side. When I didn't move, she stepped forward and pulled on my belt buckle. She opened my pants slowly and then pulled them down even slower. I had to hold my breath as she stepped back and pulled off her own jeans. I took my shirt off in a hurry, and quickly took off my boxers and socks with it. Bella was doing the same.
I followed Bella as she entered the shower and our mouths were together before I had even gotten fully into the shower. She put her arms around my neck and pulled herself as close to me as possible.
The kiss was frantic, both of us fighting for dominance. I licked her bottom lip, and she opened her mouth gladly. She pushed her tongue into my mouth, smothering my own. I groaned as I felt her hit the wall, pushing her even more into me.
I felt her smile against the kiss and lighten up the mood of the whole kiss. It was now a playful fight, and she was winning. She circled her hips around my hips and erect member, making me groan loudly. She smiled again and kept on kissing me.
I wrapped my hands around her bottom, pulling her up. She naturally wrapped her legs around my waist. I felt her circle her hips a little more frantically, needing the friction. I smiled.
Slowly, I pushed her into the wall, supporting her weight with my own, and took my hands away from her. I slowly traced them up her sides, feeling her shudder the farther up I went. I traced random circles and patterns around her breast, finally putting all of one in my hands, squeezing it. She moaned, throwing her head back, breaking the kiss.
I kissed down her neck, and back up to right below her ear. I sucked on it, loving the sounds she was emitting. She ground on my stomach, hard. I felt the wetness, and I knew it wasn't from the shower.
I brought my other hand and dragged it down her stomach, and to her center. She moaned in pleasure as I rolled her clit around my fingers, feeling her bundle of nerves. She ground even more as I teased her with my fingers, circling her opening, feeling the wetness.
When she shook with anticipation, grinding my stomach, trying to get my fingers into her so she could feel a release. I teased her some more, making figure eights around her clit and opening. She squirmed and moaned while sounding something along the lines of a squeal. Finally, I shoved three fingers into her, making her cry out. She quickly started pumping my fingers, shifting her hips, trying to find the perfect spot. I found a rhythm opposite of hers, and forced her hips to face upwards by positioning my hand so it pushed up at her clit, making her reaction for face her hips up. She moaned in pleasure.
I pumped her a couple of times and then I got creative with my fingers, twisting them and playing with her clit with my thumb. She did the squeal sound again, biting her lip and throwing her head back. I felt her start to tighten around my fingers, so I added around finger, almost my whole hand inside her, stretching her out of later. She moaned and hit her climax. She shook for a full minute, her juices coming out of her and onto my hand.
I felt her leg weaken around me and I quickly set her down. I kneeled before her as she rested against the shower wall. I grabbed her hips and pulled her around, so she was in the shower's spray, facing the wall but me in between them.
She leaned forward, her arms supporting her against the wall, my head buried in her center. I felt it still pulsing a little as I flicked out at her bundle of nerves. She pushed forward a little at the hips. I put my hands on her hips, keeping her still. I spread her legs with my head, and started my ministrations again.
I first cleaned up the previous wreckage, tasting her sweet juices on my tongue and sliding down my throat. I heard her distinct moan as I sucked on the inside of one of her lips. I smiled and bit down a little, causing another slight buck from her hips.
I licked up her entrance before teasing her a little with my tongue. She was pushing harder with her hips, trying to create friction, and it was getting rougher by the minute. And then, she was grinding my face, panting. I pulled back and looked at her: she had her eyes closed, was biting her bottom lip and looked like she needed a release. She finally looked down at me when my head didn't return.
She saw that I was just watching her and not doing anything and did a frustrated groan. She grabbed one of my hands that was on her hip and placed it in between her folds, right on her entrance. I smiled and took my hand away, interested in what she would do.
She groaned and leaned her back up against the wall. Slowly, she spread her legs and brought her hand down to her. She played with her clit a little before pushing into herself. I smiled and took her hand away. She opened her eyes and looked at me curiously.
I got up off the floor, kissing up her body on the way, and finally caught her lips in a sensual kiss. I brought my knee between her legs, spreading them even further, and the slowly pushed into her. She moaned into my mouth. I brought my hands around again and grabbed her ass. I lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around my waist. Slowly, at first, I pushed in and out of her. She tried to speed up the pace, but I wouldn't allow it.
"Faster," she moaned, over and over again, into my mouth, and then I kissed down her neck, sucking on places and ignoring others. Finally, I pushed in and out faster. The sounds she was emitting got closer together and more frequent. I took a hand off her ass and dragged it along her hips and to her clit, playing with it. She moaned and circled her hips, making me go weak at the knees.
I started to suck on the spot right under her ear and she lost it, climaxing right onto me. She panted and shook, tightening her muscles around me, making me spill into her. Breathing hard, I leaned against her, who was leaning against the wall. She unwrapped her legs slowly and touched the floor.
After catching my breath, I pulled out of her and she started to kiss all around my face. She grabbed the soap, and held it up.
"Your turn," she said, going down to her knees. I groaned, leaned my back against the wall and was instantly hard again as I felt her warm little hands on me.
I woke up next to Bella. She was sound asleep and had a faint smile on her face. I was glad she had tricked me into coming here, even if it meant upsetting my parents and making the trip increasingly difficult.
I stretched and kissed Bella's forehead. She didn't move so I looked over at the clock. 8:09: we needed to get moving to stay on schedule so I shook her awake.
"Bella love, we need to get up," I whispered in her ear, placing soft kisses on her forehead. She yawned and smiled up at me.
"Morning," she said quietly. I smiled back and placed a chaste kiss on her lips.
"We need to get moving," I said.
"Your parents aren't going to want us to leave," Bella said, looking at the wall behind my head. I nodded.
"I don't smell Esme's cooking so maybe we beat them up and if we hurry, we can leave without saying goodbye," I said, burying my head into her neck.
"I don't think it's possible to get up before them. I don't think they slept at all," she said sadly.
"Come on Love, we have a full day of driving ahead of us," I said, ignoring her comment and pulling her up.
We got dressed quickly and walked downstairs quickly, wanting to get on the road. Esme and Carlisle were sitting in the kitchen, coffee cups in their hands. We said quick goodbyes and Esme made me promise to call every other day and Carlisle handed me some printed out pieces of paper with treatment options across the country. I grimaced but took them anyway.
Once we were back on the road, I placed my hand on Bella's thigh and she turned on some music.
No reviews make me as sad as Esme and Carlisle.
