AN: Ok so I officially suck ass…I am sorry that it has been so long since I update but I am going to make it up to you by posting two chapters.
A big big thanks to those for reading/adding
Bearygirl – sorry for making you wait I promise to update quicker from now on.
Berdb – Edward does appear to be a Whoreward and I have a feeling he is going to get a little worse before he gets better but sssshhhh don't tell anyone.
Eternal thanks again to Jess THE Beta – much love
Disclaimer: Don't own Twilight – unfortunately.
Ch 3 - One crowded hour
And for one crowded hour you were the only one in the room,
I sailed around all those bumps in the night to your beacon in the gloom,
I thought I had found my golden September in the middle of that purple june,
But one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin
I was the popular one in high school; I have a job I love and a stable of chicks begging to sit on my knob, why should I give a shit about what Bella Swan thinks? No matter how many times I tried to tell myself this I couldn't stop thinking about her, about the way she makes me feel.
During my lunch break I decided to go and see my mate Eric, Eric went to Forks High with us, he is now a student counsellor and his office is just down the hall from mine. I tell him then entire Bella story, as I finish he sits there and nods, writing shit down.
"Dude seriously, what are you writing?"
"It's for your file." He says obviously.
"You have a file on me?"
"Are you kidding, I'm considering doing a thesis on you, you're the most interesting person I know, in a really fucked up way of course."
"Of course."
"Ok so, let me guess Bella Swan is the first chick to reject you?" I nod, I don't usually have an issue getting chicks, and in fact I have never had that issue...ever. "How does that make you feel?"
"Crap." Eric, nods and writes some more.
"Here it is Edward, not having observed your interactions with Bella and just going on what you have disclosed to me in this session today..."
"This is not a session Eric; I just came to talk to my friend."
"Whatever, it is blatantly obvious that you are having a real issue with rejection. Have you ever been told no?"
"Not really, no."
"So then your issue isn't with Bella herself, it is actually with your ability to deal with rejection, and I'm afraid to say that as Bella is in a relationship with Jasper, you are going to have to deal with that rejection there is nothing you can do about it."
"How do you suggest that I go about that?"
"Perhaps tonight at the bar you grab a can of concrete and harden the fuck up."
"And you call yourself a professional?"
"This isn't a session remember."
"Thanks for listening to me man, I appreciate it. Come down to Em's tonight and we will grab a drink."
"Nah can't tonight, its date night; we got a babysitter so we are going out for dinner."
"Sweet as bro, say Hi to Ang for me." Eric and I hug it out before I head off to get ready for the game.
I check my phone when I see no sign of Emmett at the game. Sure enough Rose is still sick so Jake is going to look after the bar until I finish up here and then I have to head over and relieve him for his date. I don't mind helping Em out; he and Rose have been through a lot in the last few years.
My boys kill it as usual so I am in a great mood when I walk into bar, Jake runs past me almost knocking me to the floor.
"Sorry man, gotta fly, hot date." I wave and return my attention to the bar and begin serving. At about 11 a fight erupts between two drunken dickheads right in front of Bella, she yells at them to stop, to no avail. I put down the pot glass I am filling and run around the other side of the bar, when I get there though I see the most incredible thing.
Bella grabs the soda gun and sprays the two fighters with ice cold lemonade, the fighters are so shocked that it gives me time to grab one as the security guard grabs the other and drag them outside.
"That was really impressive." I say as I join Bella back at the bar.
"It was purely selfish really; I have wanted to do that since I watched Coyote Ugly."
"Mmm, I see. Well consider this your first verbal warning then, you simply cannot be spraying patrons with soda." I say in my best mangers voice, and to my complete shock and horror she giggles. Not a hysterical belly laugh but a giggle, apparently she does have a sense of humour...who knew?
The rest of the shift was uneventful and the last patron left before closing time so I made Bella and I a couple of shots. 7 or 8 shots later and we were both pretty hammered. Bella is sweeping the floor and I am collecting the glasses and bottles when one of my favourite songs ever comes on.
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain
"Ohhh, I love this song." I hear Bella coo from the other side of the room. I put the glasses in my arms on the bar and make my way over to where Bella is dancing with the broom.
"Excuse me, Mr. Broom sir, may I interrupt?" I ask standing behind Bella. She pauses for a moment, I am certain she is about to turn around and tell me to fuck off but instead she drops the broom to the ground turns around slowly to face me. I place my hand out for her to take, she places one hand in mine and the other on my shoulder, using it to space us apart. Obeying her wishes, I place my hand on her hips and then begin moving her around the room.
Just before the chorus, I push her out away from me and then spin her back into me, this time I pull her in close to me and she lets out a giggle.
"This is one the sexiest songs ever, don't you think?" She whispers into my ear.
"For me it would have to be second to cream, that song is sexy as fuck." I whisper back into her ear.
"Mmm agreed." She hums back into me, her head resting on my shoulder, her breathe on my chest. We are barely moving at all now, just holding each other, swaying as the song comes to a close. I want to grab her chin and kiss her more than I have ever wanted anything in my life, but I use what little restraint I posses and I just hold her and smell her hair, which smells so good. God damn it!
As the song finishes The Eagles, Lyin' Eyes begins playing and immediately I drop my hands. I may not be the best bloke going around and I may not have treated women all that well in the past, but I do not sleep with other blokes misuses, well at least not ones I know and have agreed to be in a band with. Bella looks slightly confused by my sudden actions, for a moment she even looks hurt but quickly covers it up with bitch.
I retreat back to the other side of the bar and continue cleaning, it is nearly 4 by the time we are done, I grab some left over post mix and head for the storage room, I grab a box and put it in the doorway leaving it a jar. As I reach to put the last of the boxes away I hear the door shut behind me. I spin instantly to find Bella standing behind me.
"Why did you close the fucking door?" I scream at her, running to the door and pressing desperately on it, sure enough it's locked.
"I'm sorry I was under the impression that what's you did with doors, you open them, you close them, open, close, open, close."
"Yeah well thanks to you we are fucking locked in here."
"What!" She screams dropping the box she is holding and lunging at the door. "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Why the fuck didn't you tell me?"
"Do I look like your fucking boss, how was I supposed to know that Emmett didn't tell you that? I don't work here remember!" She checks her pockets for her phone and comes up empty, just as I had. I moved and sat on a keg, Bella sliding down and sitting with her back to the door.
"Great, so I am stuck in here with you until someone comes and lets us out."
"What you think that I am happy about it?"
"It's probably another one of your plans to get me again."
"What the fuck are you talking about?" I spat at her, this chick is bat shit crazy.
"Please, are you really that much of an asshole that you have forgotten what you did to me at the grad party?"
"What I did to you? Are you fucking kidding me? I remember that very clearly. I remember waiting for you in Em's room for like an hour, that's what I remember."
"What were you planning, were you going to take pictures and then post them around the town, were you going to film it and..."
"Bella, what the fuck are you going on about? I would never have done anything like that, what is wrong with you?"
"Edward, Victoria told me that the only reason you were making out with me was some part of an elaborate plan to humiliate me, so you can stop lying to me, it's just insulting my intelligence. Your good guy act doesn't work on me, I know you, I know..."
"I made out with you because I was fucking in love with you!" I shout stopping her. Her jaw drops open and for the first time in a long time I see the quiet, sweet, kooky girl that I was in love with in high school.
"What? But...Victoria?"
"Victoria was trying to get me to be with her the entire year, don't you think that perhaps when she saw us kissing that she was a little jealous. I would never ever have done anything to hurt you Bella."
"Really?" She asks still in disbelief.
"Yes really." There is a strange awkward silence between us.
"I'm starving; there must be something to eat in this place." She says standing and looking at the shelves. She finds a box of bar nuts on the top shelf, she stands on her tip toes and as she reaches up her lower back is exposed. I stand immediately, moving toward her, I can't stop myself and before I realise it my fingers are lightly tracing the black ink on her skin.
Bella freezes under my touch, she relaxes, her heels touching the ground again.
"What is it?" I ask breathlessly, instead of responding she moves her arms, grabbing each side of her shirt and pulling it up over her head so that she is now standing in just her bra and pants, although there isn't a great deal of skin exposed as her body is covered in tattoos and I mean covered.
I take a step back so that I can see her entire back, my fingers still lingering on her skin. Her entire back is a dragon, I slowly turn her, on her side is a cherry blossom, her right arm has a half sleeve koi fish and her left arm has an incredible picture of a guitar. My fingers trail along the ink, committing what I see to memory.
"That one's a work in progress" She says as my fingers trace the guitar. I notice that around the guitar there are a whole lot of strange signatures.
"What are these?" I ask, I swear one of the signatures looks like it says Dave Grohl.
"People that I adore." She answers simply. I notice that one of the signatures is as plain as day.
"You got Slash's name tattooed on you?"
"Actually he did that himself."
"Are you fucking serious? Slash tattooed his name on your arm?"
"Yep" I stood trying to read the rest of the tattoos, I could only make out a few more names, Caleb Followill, Jared Leto and Lenny Kravitz. I spin her again so that I can look at the tats some more, I am completely fascinated by them, by her.
"So this explains the long sleeves. Em wouldn't care you know. I guess that it's a habit, hiding them I mean, I wouldn't imagine the law firm would love them."
"Umm, yeah...I...umm...keep them hidden." My fingers trace along the branches of the cherry blossom tree taking me up to the side of her bra, her red lace bra that I hadn't paid much attention to before. As my fingers run along the side of her breast, down along her rib her skin becomes covered in goose bumps.
I move to her back looking at the dragon, I run my fingers from bottom to top; it is then that for the first time I notice tiny little stars along her hair line just behind her left ear. As my fingers touch each of the stars a shiver runs down Bella's back and if I was hard already I am rock hard now.
I gently spin her again, my fingers trail from behind her ear along her jaw bone to her lips, I desperately want to touch her lips, the memory of what it felt like kissing her all those years ago suddenly fills my senses and before I can stop myself, I am pressing my lips against hers. My initial thought is to break the kiss but I can't, I can't move at all. At this moment Bella is unresponsive, her lips still and unmoving,
I take the fact that she hasn't slapped me as a sign not to stop, not that I could if I wanted to, I am unsure how to word this without sounding totally lame, it is as if my body is drawn to her, like magnets. I felt this way the last time we kissed. My left hand starts at the base of her spin and slowly moves up until I grab her hair in my hand, she lets out a moan and her lips open slightly.
I feel her hands tugging at the back of my shirt, so I use this opportunity to go further, I lick her bottom lip and instantly she opens her mouth up wider for me. I have to break the kiss to take my shirt off but as soon as it is over my head and I grab both of her legs just below the ass and lift her up, she wraps her legs around my waist as I press her back against the cold wall.
I use one hand to brush the hair off her face, as I look into her eyes, I still can't escape that feeling I had, the feeling that I couldn't stop thinking about for 9 years, the feeling that she belongs to me. That she is mine.
She grabs the back of my hair pulling me toward her, our lips meeting again, this time she is definitely responsive, sucking and biting on my lips and tongue.
Silence suddenly fills the entire room; we both pull back from each other listening. Perhaps the sound system has reached the end of the playlist, nah there is tens of thousands of songs on it.
"Edward! Bella!" I hear Emmett's muffled voice through the door. I instantly release Bella and we both scramble to get our tops.
"Em! In here!" I yell as I bang on the door. A few seconds later the sweet, sweet sound of keys opening a lock fills the room. As the door is pushed open and cold fresh air hits my face, I suddenly realise that what Bella and I were perhaps about to do is now never going to happen and that is made perfectly clear as she barges past me, pushing me into the door.
"Thank god you're here! How did you know we were locked in here?" I ask Em as we walk back into the bar.
"Neighbours called saying that you had left the music on, then when I saw your car still here and the door unlocked I knew you had to still be here."
"Thanks man, you're a life saver."
"No problems, I'll lock up you better get home and get your beauty sleep don't you have to meet Jasper in like 4 hours."
"Oh yeah...Jasper." I feel instantly guilty, I had just made out with my potential band mates girl, that is so not cool. I decide to walk home, I am too drunk to drive and I am hoping the cool air will wash away some of my guilt.
No such luck as I get into bed for a few hours sleep I am still feeling guilty so guilty that I honestly don't know how I am going to face Jasper in a few hours when all I will be thinking about is his girlfriends body pressed against mine. Her tongue in my mouth, her legs wrapped around my waist, her moaning, the smell of her hair and softness of her skin...this is so not helping.
AN: Thanks for reading hope you are enjoying this – I am having fun writing Bella this way.
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I am not going to crap on I need to get the next chapter up.
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