A new chapter at the end of the week, maybe a tradition? :)
The bright sun in my eyes woke me up. I slowly opened my right eye and saw Edward observe my half naked body.
"Good morning, love. Was is a good sleep?"
"Mhm. " I mumbled, a bit confused. "Didn't I fall asleep in the jacuzzi?"
"Yes you did. So I carried you into our bed and together with the warm winds from the ocean you dried up quickly." He smiled and let his hand rest on my stomach giving my goose bumps.
"I'm sorry for being so boring. I promise I'll make it up to you today." So typical of me, falling asleep in the middle of something.
"I'm sure you will." He laughed. "That little devil."
I was about to ask what he meant when I heard someone knock on the door.
"I've ordered up some breakfast for you, you must be hungry. You can eat on the balcony?"
"Yes, that sounds great. Can you open the door so I change into to something more appropriate?" I wasn't used to wearing only a little bikini and longed for a shower and some new cloths.
"It's only Jasper and Alice, they can wait while you pick your cloths and do all the humans things you want." Edward didn't move a muscle and stayed put in the big white bed.
The thought of letting Alice and Jasper wait made my body move. "Okay, I'll hurry up." I took my new suitcase and grasped the first thing that looked like a dress, and some underwear.
I heard Edward laugh while I hurried up to the bathroom. I looked the door and turned on the shower. The hot water made my body ease up to the feelings I felt when Edward held his cold hand on my stomach. I blushed in the shower and laughed at myself for being so sensitive. Soon, I thought.
I took a big towel from the shelf and wrapped my body inside it. I let my hair hang loose and started to dry my body. The loose summer dress showed of my curves in all the right places, and I wrapped my hair in a loose ponytail.
I unlocked the door and walked towards the bedroom and balcony.
"Good morning Bella, sleep well?" Alice's high pitched voice welcomed me out.
"Yes, thanks, you?" I smiled, and Alice too, knowingly that sleep wasn't an option for a vampire.
Edward had already put my breakfast on the table and I was ready to eat, feeling a bit hungry. The sky was cloudy and Alice wore a big sun hat. Edward and Jasper sat under a big blue parasol, away from the sun.
"Mhm, it was great." Alice joked.
I sat down, enjoying the sun and took a glass of orange juice. The juice over here tasted like sun, even better then in Forks. Edward and Jasper looked in some magazines, checking up what happened in the world while we traveled to Greece.
Edward glanced at me. "Taste good?"
"Mhm, like the sun…" He laughed, so did I.
"It doesn't look good, but I trust you. So, what do you think we are up to today?" Edwards eyes sparkled, and I knew he had already made plans for us.
"You tell me. " I teased. "Or Alice perhaps?"
"I know!" Alice almost jumped in her chair, making her big hat fall to the side. She adjusted it and turned to me. "Well, I've rented two motor scooters, the are already here outside waiting four us. Hurry up Bella!"
"Alice, let her eat in her own pace, we have all day you know." Jasper calmed Alice down and me at the same time me.
"I'm done soon, and then you have me the whole day…" Was I glad over that fact? Yes, actually. Even if Alice used to drag me into doing things I normally didn't like, the time with her was fun. And after a couple of hours with her, the reunion with Edward seemed sweeter.
"Great, and I think I know what you should wear today…"
"No, Alice, I can pick for myself." She held her hands up in defense.
"But you don't know where were going today, what to do. I know, and I also know the perfect outfit for the thing. Please Bella?" She tilted her head and pouted her lips.
I growled. "Okay Alice, just this one."
"Of course." She was already on her feet and giggled. I saw in her face, this wasn't the last time she would get what she wanted with my outfits.
"Sometimes she is a bit hard to like." Edward winked at me.
"Yes, but I love her anyways." I smiled back and started to eat the cereals. The view from the balcony was breathtaking and it was hard to concentrate on eating when I had the beautiful panorama in front of me. A large yacht made its way through the small waves together with small fishing boats, all painted in white and blue. It looked like a postcard, but it was real and that reminded me of calling dad. I knew he didn't care what time it was, hearing my voice was all.
"Edward, can I borrow your phone, I want to call Charlie."
Instantly he had a silver phone in his hand, ready to give it to me. "Yes, here you are."
I searched the phonebook for the right number and pressed dial. I heard the signals go through all the way to Forks.
"Hallo?" Charlie's voice were heavy with sleep, and I couldn't help but laugh.
"Dad, its me, Bella. Did I wake you?"
"No, not at all." Charlie was as a bad liar as I was. "Where are you?" it sounded like he already knew and I wondered who told him.
"Greece, and it's wonderful, its almost unbelievable!" I laughed and Edward together with Jasper joined me.
"Sounds like a great place. Never been there as you know but I bet it's fantastic." Charlie swallowed a yawn and I decided to end the short conversation.
"Dad, I can hear that you need some sleep. How about I call you later this week?"
"Yeah, that sounds good. Talk to you later Bells."
"Bye dad!"
"Wait!" Charlie yelled in the phone. "Is Alice there too, she hast left you or anything?"
"Don't worry dad, she is with me all the time." She almost was, anyway. In the other room across the hallway.
"Good, love you Bells, bye."
"Bye." I hung up and gave the phone to Edward.
"Is he being a bit overprotective?" Alice danced over the balcony with some cloths in her arms.
"You know Charlie, that's his thing. He loves me, that's all." Knowing that made my stomach hurt, thinking about me, leaving him in the fall. I couldn't be near him, the chance of me hurting him… I saw Edwards face and decided once again that he was worth it all, and I would never look back as soon as he made me one of them.
"Give me the cloths Alice, I'm done eating." I stretched my arms out to her.
She handed them to me. "Here you are, and you are going to look absolutely adorable in them."
I got up from the chair. "Give a couple of minutes, then I'm ready." I walked towards the bathroom, examining what Alice had chosen for me. Another bikini, this one, blue with small white stars all over and a lighter and short, white see thru dress. She was really into giving me makeovers, and she would never be tired of that.
I changed quickly and got out. I took all my things and gathered them in a bag.
"You really need some sun block. Even if the sky is cloudy the sun here is strong. I'll fix that. " Edward had a bottle in his hands and squeezed out some of its content.
"Yeah you're right, with my luck I'll probably burn." I lifted up my sun dress for him to reach my back.
He started with my shoulders, working his way down my back, my arms. The tingling feeling in my bode grew stronger and I felt a bit unsatisfied when he was done. But I swallowed it and took the bottle to rub the sun block on my legs and stomach. When I was ready I let the dress fall down over my body.
Alice was already carrying a bag and she tapped her foot impatiently, not even Jasper could calm her down.
"I'm done Alice, just let me get my shoes and the we can go." She handed me a pair of white sandals.
I quickly put them on and reached for Edwards hand. "Alice is just worrying because of the clouds, she has already planned the way because of them. We don't want the others to know what we are."
Edwards words reminded me of them, being vampires and the huge risk they've taken by choosing Greece to spend the holiday in.
"I'm sorry." My famous words.
"No, I'm sorry Bella, I'm the one who should apologize. First and foremost, this is a holiday. And the meaning a holiday is to take it slow and enjoy. Not hurrying of to things." Alice tried to say she was sorry and of course I forgave her at once.
"It's okay Alice, lets go!" I put on a smile and dragged Edward behind med as we walked through the hallway and down the stairs.
Mr Tadidis stopped us. "Did you sleep well, miss?" He looked at me.
"Yes, very well. The rooms are beautiful and I already love them!" Mr. Tadidis smiled and waved us goodbye as we walked through the front door of the small hotel.
Outside two scooters were parked next too each other. A blue one and a red one. On the blue one a helmet rested on the saddle and I knew the helmet was for me. I walked to it and grabbed it with my hands. I looked at Edward and I saw in his eyes, the wish of me wearing it tight on my head in case of an accident. Of course with my luck I obeyed. A head is a good thing to have and I quickly put it on. Edwards cold hands adjusted the buckle under my chin so it sat properly.
"Can I drive?" I knew my wish was never to be granted but I tried anyways.
"With your luck and your poor driving? No it's better if I'll drive for now and you can test it out later, okay?" Edward sounded almost nervous and I tried to stick my tongue out under the helmet but it didn't work of course.
Jasper and Alice were already on their scooter and the cloudy sky hid us well. Edward got on ours and I jumped on in the back.
"Are you ready Bella? Hold on tight!"
"Yeah!" Edward started the scooter and we were off. Jasper drove first and showed the way.
People were already up, sweeping their front steep from sand and dust, washing cloths, making food and baking bread. Everywhere we drove the locals greeted with their hands and we waved in response. All of them seemed so nice and carefree, and I laid my head on Edwards back, tilting it so I could see the ocean at all time. The scenery blew my mind all the time and I couldn't believe I really was here, having a dream vacation with some of the best friends I ever had! I wished a second for Angela being here. She was the best human friend I had in real life. But soon I couldn't see her either any more. But as always, it was a small prize to pay for having Edward in my life for eternity.
After being on the scooters for about twenty minutes I saw how we got to the outside of the small village. In the countryside of the small Island Koufonissia the houses were wider apart from each other, and on the meadows surrounding the houses the farmers worked with their donkeys who pulled the wagons filled with different things.
We crossed the Island and Jasper slowed down. I heard the ocean and smelled the salt water. Jasper stopped and Alice jumped of, Edward parked our scooter right next to the other one. Edward helped me of and unbuckled the helmet, he took it of my head and kissed me quickly. I smiled and gave him a hug.
Alice and Jasper had already moved away from us, walking on the small path towards the sea. Edward took my hand and we walked behind them. Alice put her hand around Jaspers back and he laid his hand on her head, lovingly. They stopped and waited for us to joined them.
"This is one of the best sights of the Island, I promise." Edward mumbled in my ear. I didn't mistrust him and smiled.
As we got up on the small ridge I gasped. In front of us, a white sand beach with crystal-clear water and high cliffs embracing the beach.
"You are so right." I let the air out and reminded me of breathing. "I cant believe I'm saying this, but lets swim, now!" The blue water called my name and I was ready to join it.
"It really is breathtaking, and we are lucky enough to have it all to ourselves. It's low season now so we are almost alone on the Island, being tourists." Jaspers southern accent slowed his words down.
"Come on, I wanna get in now." I pushed the other ones and they weren't late to grant my wish. Edward threw my up on his back and we all raced down to the beach.
Alice stopped and put her things in order on the beach, I just threw my dress off and joined Edward and Jasper in the water.
I waded slowly in the blue crystal-clear water, making my human memory remember all the details of this beach and ocean. Edward and Jasper were already further out and Alice joined me by my side.
"Hey Alice, what is this beach called?" Something so beautiful needed a graceful name.
"It's called, Pori Beach." The best beach on the entire Island. It's not only good swimming waters, it's good diving waters too. And since we don't have to breath, well it's very easy to wonder off, looking at all the cute fishes." She took my hand under the water and it didn't feel cold at all. I wondered if it would be the same with Edwards hands.
The hot water caressed and relaxed my body and when the water got to deep Edward and Jasper came to us. As Edward took my hand it felt like he had the same temperature as I did.
"You're not cold at all, that's a different feeling." I breathed out.
"The hot water changes out body temperature, and it's quite nice not giving you goose bumps for once." He helped me up on his back and we started to swim out, further away from the beach.
I could see the fishes under us, in every colour possible. It was stunning.
If you are curious, the Island Koufonissia does exist and the beach in the story to. I think I need to go there, writing the story with seeing the sceneryes in front of me... I think I need a vacation too, soon. The weather in Sweden is bad, it rains every freakin day...!
