Marvelous people of fanfiction, welcome to chapter four of Dorm Dilemma. I might get a little boring in this chapter; I was story-telling in my other story too. Forgive me and I promise I'll add some nice and juicy d-r-a-m-a into the next chapter. Kay?
"BEDWARD?! ELLA?!" Emmett's voice boomed through the small dorm room.
"Speak of the devil…" Edward muttered under his breath.
"…and he shall arrive bearing Chinese with obnoxious nicknames." I finished for him as I got up to help Emmett and Rosalie with the food.
"Like my new name for the roomies?" Emmett grinned cheekily as I grabbed a bag from him. I swatted his arm as I ushered him in the door, Rosalie following.
"Erm, Rose? Do you want to borrow some sweats? And maybe a ponytail holder?" I asked hesitantly. Rosalie staggered in, looking like a drowned rat. The most beautiful person I had ever met, besides my new roommate…wait. BAD BELLA!! THOU SHALT NOT THINK SUCH THINGS ABOUT THOU ROOMATE!! I was in the middle of mentally scolding myself when Rosalie spoke.
"That'd be great. He wouldn't get out of the damn car because of the damn rain. Men." She muttered angrily as she staggered into the bathroom. I tossed her a pair of sweats and an old t-shirt and she shut the door.
Alice and Jasper strolled in later, Jasper playfully shaking his wet hair at Alice. She squealed and danced out of the way, hitting his arm teasingly. I don't know why, but I felt envious. I wanted that. I wanted someone to love, someone who loves me, someone who needs me just as much as I needed them. Yeah right. I thought to myself. You're dreaming again Bella.
Edward grabbed the bag full of ice-cream out of my hands, ignoring my protests.
"I am perfectly capable of carrying-" I was in the middle of defending myself when I tripped over Emmett's foot and went flying. Expecting pain and a whole lot of Chinese to clean up, I was surprised when for the second time that day a pair of strong arms caught me. My heart nearly leapt out of my chest at his simple touch, and I shook my head as I righted myself. Get a grip, Bella. He's just your amazingly wonderfully perfect guy who is 100 percent off limits. Fan-flippin-tastic.
"Told you so." He reminded me smugly, his grin dominating his face. "That's twice today I've had to catch you."
"This wasn't my fault. Mr. Scared-of-Rain over here decided that he would test the gravity around here." I said angrily as I pointed at said man.
"Whoa now. Let's not point fingers…"Emmett said slowly, dropping off when all four of us pointed our fingers at him. Rosalie chose this moment to walk out the door and burst out laughing.
"I leave you alone for five minutes and you get yourself into trouble. What am I going to do with you?" she giggled.
"Kiss me?" he asked hopefully, an innocent expression plastered across his face.
"Nope. That's your punishment. No kisses, or hugs, or any physical contact for the rest of the night." She declared with an evil look in her eyes.
"WHAT?" he cried, panic plain on his face. "Rosie baby, you can't do this to me!"
"Can and will. You need to learn to behave." She scolded sternly.
We finally calmed down enough to grab our boxes of takeout. I was sitting with my leg crossed on my bed with Rosalie, who was laying down on her stomach and snickering at Emmett's pathetic look. He was sitting with Edward on Edward's bed, both of them leaning against the wall. Edward was trying
desperately not to laugh at his brother, and was barely succeeding. Jasper was sitting on the floor, leaning up against Edward's bed. Alice was sitting on his lap sharing his food.
"So Emmett," I asked as I picked at my food. "Might I ask what Plan X is?"
"I'm happy you asked Bella." He answered, setting his takeout box down next to him. He truly did look relieved at a distraction from his punishment.
"Well, one day, Edward, Alice, and I were meeting Jasper at a coffee house near our high school. On our way there we passed these two guys who were leering at Alice. I couldn't just let that slide. So, I slung my arm around her shoulder and flexed at the guys. They ran the other way." He said, clearly reminiscing.
"Well, that's not that funny. Why wouldn't you tell me Edward?" I asked, eyeing him. He was shaking with silent laughter.
"Oh, he's not done," was all he managed to get out before succumbing to the laughter.
"When we got to the coffee house, we had completely forgotten about the guys. We just sat down and got lost in our own little world. Well, I had my arm around Rosalie and Alice was sitting on Jasper's lap, when Edward gets this bug-eyed look. I turned around to see what he was looking at, and who do I see? None other than the two guys who checking out Alice." Emmett chuckled, lost in another time.
"So the one guys like, 'Dude, weren't you with that other hot chick?' Jasper and Rosalie had no idea what was going on, but Edward and Alice did. Man, I thought Ed was gonna pee his pants, he was laughing so hard. Unfortunately, the guy noticed too and was like, 'What's your problem, man?' Seeing a way out, I took another route. 'Don't mess with him man, he's got issues. He just got back from jail.' The two guys got a little freaked out. The first guy goes, 'What'd he do?' I was just winging it, so I had no idea what little Eddie had done. So I thought on my feet. 'He got all crazy cause these two guys were messing with his girlfriend.' I said. The two guys looked at Edward, who was gripping his sides from laughing, and ran the other direction." He told, his booming laughter filling the room.
For a while I couldn't even speak, I was laughing so hard. We were all hyper from the takeout and ice-cream, and by the time we all calmed down, it was 10:30.
"Well, I'm beat." Jasper declared as he got up and stretched out his legs. "C'mon Alice."
"Bye Bella, Edward." She yawned as she staggered out of the room, one arm around Jasper's waist.
"We're off too. Bye Ella and Bedward." Emmett saluted us on our way out, pausing as Rosalie said her goodbyes. We heard the two of them bickering all the way down the hall about his punishment.
"I'll clean up the mess if you want to get ready for bed." Edward offered kindly as he swept a plastic cup in the trash.
"What a gentleman. Thanks." I said as I made my way into the bathroom. I stumbled out ten minutes later, catching my toe on the edge of the door.
"Gosh dangit!" I cried as I held my injured foot and hopped over to my bed.
"You really are clumsy, aren't you?" he asked, as he walked towards the bathroom.
"You have no idea." I answered wryly.
Thirty minutes later, I was fast asleep. I woke up at three-thirty in the morning for some odd reason, and realized that the light by my bed was still on. I blearily opened my eyes to turn it off, when I momentarily looked over towards Edward.
Big mistake.
He slept shirtless.
Oooooh! What's going to happen now? I will try to update soon, but I can't make any promises.