Disclaimer: Stephenie owns Twilight and these characters. I just manipulate them for my own – and hopefully your – enjoyment.
So by now you will hopefully have noticed that chapter 3 was a big fuck-up. If you haven't back-tracked to read the newly posted replacement, check it out now. I decided to post on my own, and let's face it, I shouldn't be allowed to do that again. Apparently it makes the most sense to post the final version of a chapter. Who knew?
And now for my next confession – this one's a shorty. Bella doesn't get a POV. She did have one, but on review, it was a repeat of Edward's POV from the last chapter and was messing with the flow. Before you roll your eyes at me, remember, this fic is written a few chapters in advance and I can assure you that in the near future, I'm a lot more onto it. Bear with me, it will get better, I promise!
To make up for all of this malarkey, I'm posting earlier than I promised! I do love you, really...
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EDWARD
We all turned to look at each other, mouths slightly agape. We were each looking at our perfect women; it was like we had placed our orders from a heaven-sent list of perfect women and these three were what popped out.
"Please please PLEASE, let the hot blonde be single" I could hear Emmett muttering under his breath. I glanced toward the blonde and with one look I knew she was right up Emmett's street. Blonde, gorgeous and a smokin' rack, in short, Em's perfect woman.
"I've got dibs on the small but perfect one" Jasper piped up. I looked to her also and realised Jasper had summed her up in one sentence. She was tiny, sitting at least a head shorter than the others at the table and from the girls Jazz has dated before I knew she was exactly his idea of perfect. Pixie features and delicate looking but by no means a pushover, if the tousle she was having with the blonde was anything to go by.
"Well, boys" I said, glancing first at Em's stunned expression then at Jasper's, "let's go and get my stuff back."
They were right behind me as I strolled over to where Sexy Mouth was sitting. On our approach the hot blonde raised her head and sent us a look that, in other circumstances, would have made me hard. Sure she was gorgeous and had an amazing rack but I could not take my eyes off Sexy Mouth. However a quick glance at Em made me realise he was not so lucky, he had an almost pained look on his face and a growing bulge in his pants.
"You must be the guy who swiped Bella's panties" said the hot blonde, while the smaller one stifled a giggle and Sexy Mouth tried not to choke on her pastel yellow cocktail, complete with umbrella.
"Yep, my man Edward here just can't seem to help himself!" Emmett said, before I had a chance to open my mouth. "I'm Emmett" he continued, "this is Jasper, and you know the panty thief is Edward." I inwardly cringed and hoped that the name wouldn't stick.
"I'm Alice" the small one said, "and these are my friends, Rosalie and Bella" pointing to the other two, all the while never taking her eye off Jasper. So, Sexy Mouth was called Bella. I swept my eyes over her and tried to take her all in, well all I could see above the table. Her hair was in a sexy, messy knot on the top of her head with what looked like a chopstick holding it in place, my fingers were itching to pull it out and see all that hair cascade down her back. Her face was perfection, all soft and feminine and that mouth was to die for. A big full lower lip that she was currently biting on, I gulped nosily, fuck I was a goner.
Bella turned to look at me those big brown eyes dazzling me with seemingly out even trying and my throat got all dry, I hoped that she had not caught me drooling. "Here's your stuff" she said in a voice that sounded like she had been holding her breath. She thrust the suitcase at me awkwardly across the table. It looked like she was struggling to hold the case above the table so I motioned to Emmett who was standing on her side of the table and he stepped forward to take it from her.
"Thanks for that, sorry about the mix up. Here's yours." I walked around to where she was seated, dropped it beside her where mine had been before she had thrust it at me, and kind of stood there awkwardly holding my case and trying not to stare at her.
"Would you like to join us for a drink?" the hot blonde purred, asking all of us but looking only at Emmett.
"Sure thing, gorgeous!" Em said, while heading to the table next to us to grab some extra chairs. I'm not sure how he managed to do it without being obvious, but when I sat down I realise Sexy Mouth was on one side of me and the hot blonde was on the other. I glanced around the table and saw that Jazz was sitting between Sexy Mouth and Small But Perfect. I didn't need to look to see that Em was beside the hot blonde. I really needed to get all the names straight, I didn't want to fuck it up by calling Bella Sexy Mouth or give the vibe that I too was after Rosalie by calling her a hot blonde.
Jasper motioned to the waiter: "three beers for us, and same again ladies?" He asked. Good one Jazz, ever the gentleman.
"Actually," Alice interrupted; "we are up to the chocolate martinis" she smiled at the waiter
"What do you mean, up to?" Jasper asked, his eyes never leaving her face through the whole conversation. Shit that boy had it bad. I had never seen him so enthralled by a girl and Alice looked equally as smitten. Lucky fucker. I wished Bella would look at me with that kind of interest. Actually, I wished she would look at me at all.
"Well," Sexy Mouth interrupted, gesturing to the hot blonde – "Rose here thought it would be fun to work our way through the cocktail list over the next two weeks and see which ones we like the best". It didn't escape my notice that she looked at everyone else seated at the table apart from me.
I tried to look at her face while she was talking but my eyes keep slipping to the neckline of her obviously too-big top. Jasper caught me and gave me the "eyes up" look. I reluctantly tore my eyes away from the gentle swell of her breasts before she started to talk again. It was no wonder she didn't look at me if I was continuously ogling her, girls seemed to have a sixth sense about guys checking out their racks. Must pay attention, follow Jaspers advice and keep my eyes up on Bella's gorgeous face. Let's face it - it's not like it was going to be a hardship.
"Earlier today we had a Bahama Mama, an Air Force One, a Banana Daiquiri and were just finishing off these Cosmopolitans while we waited for you to bring back my case" She giggled. This stopped me short; Bella didn't strike me as the giggling type. This was confirmed by the look that the blonde shot her when the giggle escaped.
We all looked at each other and realised that they were drunk, not slurring their words and falling down drunk, but impaired judgement giggly drunk. None of them were particularly big and four (soon to be five) cocktails on a probably empty stomach would have really hit them hard. I raised an eyebrow at my brothers.
"A round of iced waters too, please" Jasper asked as the waiter set our drinks down on the table. Frosted beer bottles and looks of distain for us and martini glasses with creamy brown liquid, swirls of chocolate syrup, chocolate curls and lavish winks for the girls. All three girls gave little squeals of delight as the drinks were set in front of them followed by tiny moans of appreciation after taking a sip. Sexy Mouth confirmed her name as she pulled the cherry garnish off the top of the drink, sucked off the chocolate that was sticking to it then popped it into her mouth. Then with a look of utter bliss on her face, she closed her eyes and chewed while pulling the naked stem out from between those kissable lips. I swallowed a nervous gulp. Fuck, that was hot. I exchanged looks with the guys again, definitely drunk, very hot but drunk. We needed a plan, and quick.
"We were about to head into the restaurant when the panty debacle occurred, would you ladies like to join us?" Emmett asked. Good one Em, I thought, let's get some food into them to soak up all those cocktails.
Sexy Mouth blushed a charming shade of pink, glanced at the others then slowly spoke. "I need to go and put some of my own clothes on first, but we would love to. How about we meet you in the restaurant in 20 minutes?"
"Perfect" I replied, and I wasn't just talking about dinner.
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