AN: Sorry to let you wait for the chapter for two days. The first day I didn't update, I wrote the One-shot about Emmett+Bella who were doing grocery shopping. I didn't plan it to take so much time to write but when I finished it, it was already 11pm -.- Considering my last chapters took about 4-5 hours (each), I really did not want to write another chapter. (I already uploaded the Oneshot, you can read it if you want)
And yesterday, I had to go to university, drive for about 2h to my home (I'm coming each weekend back to my family in my hometown) and then I was kidnapped by my sister who wanted to watch Pirates of the Carribean 3 XD Yay, that film rocks! (It started in Germany this week)
Anyway, now I've got the time to write on :) The next chapter will be the cause why I wrote this story… /very evil grin/ At first, I wanted it to be a oneshot and now look at what I did: May I present you to chapter 7 ;) ?
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or New Moon, I never will, but I own the idea of this fanfic :) That's more than nothing, isn't it?
Chapter seven – Afternoon
Finally, we arrived at the camping ground. We got out of the car and I stretched my tensed muscles. As I looked around, I gasped. It was a really nice camping ground that was clear. I can't wait to let the adventure begin.
I took a few steps into the small clearing in the woods. Well, 'small' is a relative measurement. It was a lot bigger than Edward's and my meadow, but somehow, it still looked… comfy. There was a huge fireplace in the middle, surrounded by low benches made of logs. Some meters away, there were the small cabins.
Yes, it was a really good idea of Jasper to stay at home. If it were not for the fact that we were alone here, miles away from any civilisation, the small cabins would surely drive him insane. There couldn't be possibly more than a few beds and some closets in it.
I turned around a bit and recognized the two other cabins. One had no windows, I guessed that would be the bathroom-cabin. The other one at its right site had a few windows and benches and tables in front of it. That would surly be the kitchen-cabin.
All around the clearing was forest and I could hear some kind of river behind the trees. Some birds were chirping in mentioned trees.
Two strong and cold arms sneaked around my waist from behind. "You like it?"
"To be true, yes, I do. Until now, that is. I still have to see what the next days will bring…"
Edward shifted my hair to the side of my neck so he could kiss the warm skin under it. He moved his lips up and down my neck and while inhaling my scent he let out a low sigh.
I let out a chuckle. "Edward, I'm pretty sure that someone is watching us right now." The thought made me blush a little.
He brought his lips to my ear and whispered: "In fact, Mike and Tyler are watching. And to tell the truth, they don't like what they see. In fact, I don't like what they think, so maybe we are even now."
That made me a little curious.
"What are they thinking?" I asked in a very low voice.
He let his lips touch my earlap and I could feel a smile creep on his lips.
"Well, they are both thinking in the same direction. Tyler thinks, I'm looking like I want to bite you."
That sent a shiver down my spine. Edward chuckled and tightened his grip on my waist.
"And Mike?"
"Actual, his thoughts are quite amusing. He, too, thinks that I'm looking as if I'm going to bite you. But don't worry, they have no idea what I really am. They just think that I'm kind of... crazy." He let out a low chuckle and I could feel his cold breath flying past my ear. "The funny part is what he thinks that if I would bite you…" He let one of his cold and slender fingers run down my neck with the slightest of pressure, "he would come here and fight me off."
I let out a laugh about that. I thought about the countless times I witnessed his inhuman strength. Mike would definitely have a hard fight if he would try – or a very short one, depending on Edward's mood.
"As if he could actually fight you off." I whispered.
I felt his lips on my neck once more. He kissed the same spot as before, than grinned without any other comment. I could tell that he was thinking about what he could – and maybe even would – do to poor Mike.
Alice interrupted our moment of pure bliss. "Hey you two lovebirds! Earth to Bella and Edward, we need your help here! Do you know how heavy those stupid bags are?"
It was a good thing that Edward was holding me – I really needed his support as I clutched a hand over my mouth and began to shake with laugher. Yeah, poor Alice, the bags will surly weigh a ton to her.
"Oh, stop laughing Bella, that's mean!" I bit on my lower lip to get back my composure.
"Don't bite too hard, love. We both don't want you to bleed, do you?" Edward whispered in my ear.
Most definitely, I did not want to. Just when Edward chose to forget about some boundaries, it was not the time to ruin that by bleeding.
Edward released his iron grip on my waist and took my hand in his. "Come on, lets help little Alice with the heavy bags." He winked at me and I had to smile.
Mike and Tyler were unloading their car, while Angela and Jessica were already getting their things into the girl's cabin. Lauren and Eric were discussing something while standing in front of their opened trunk. I guessed, Lauren forgot to bring something with her, but I wasn't interested in her problems.
As Edward and I reached the car – Alice had parked it in the camping ground's parking lot while my beloved one and I were locked up in our own world – Emmett and Alice were unloading our things from the Volvo's trunk. They had more luggage than I thought they needed.
Alice held one strap of a very heavy looking bag and Edward took the second one. Emmett and I fetched a second bag, Emmett helping me carrying it while holding a third bag in his second hand. Together, we made our way to the girl's cabin. I had to smile a bit. Probably they could have been faster getting the things from the car to the cabin, but I realized that it would look kind of scary if small Alice would run around while carrying lots of heavy bags in her hands. Surprisingly, I didn't trip.
As soon as we reached the cabin's front door, Alice came to a sudden stop when Edward laid his hand on the doorknob.
"Edward, what do you think you're doing?" She asked with a hint of accusation in her voice.
Edward looked a bit taken aback. "Well, I guess, I was going to help you carry your bags into this cabin?" His hand remained on the doorknob.
"Yeah, that's what I mean. Edward, this is a girl's cabin. Do you know what that means?"
Poor Edward, he looked totally dumbfounded. He opened his mouth but before he could say anything, we could hear Jessica and Angela shout from inside the cabin: "Girls only!"
Edward hold in a laugh and had a wide smirk on his face.
"Oh, I'm really sorry, ladies. It was not my intention to upset you." He let go of the bag's strap and held the door open so that Alice and I could go through. His eyes held a glint of humour, but he kept his eyes out of the interior of the cabin. Maybe he did that out of purpose. I could already see the chaos waiting inside for Alice and me. How could two girls make such a mess in such a short time?
Emmett and I put the bags we were holding on the ground, right next to the one Alice had carried together with Edward. I took a chance and peered to Emmett. He had a wide grin on his face while looking down at me. "Good luck in carrying that yourself, Bella."
I shot Alice a pleading glance and she winked back at me.
Edward and Emmett stood in front of the door while Alice and I were carrying our bags into the small cabin, only one bag a time.
"Do you need help, Bella?" Edward asked me as I tripped my way to the last bag.
"No, I have to be capable of carrying a bag on my own, thank you."
I waited for Alice and together, we brought the bag into our home for the weekend. Sure enough, I tripped on the sill and Edward had to catch me.
"Thanks." I murmured and he smiled.
As I regained my balance, he took my hand and brought his lips down on the back of it. After a swift kiss, he gazed deep into my eyes and said: "Glad to be of service, my lady." I blushed furiously as I heard Jessica and Angela – and surprisingly Alice, too – deeply sigh.
"Aw, how cute…" Jessica tried to whisper but I was still able to understand what she said. That made my blush only deeper. Edward smiled one last time into my eyes, then he and Emmett went back to the Volvo to get their stuff out of its trunk.
Alice and I brought the last bag into the cabin and shut the door behind us.
"Oh, Bella, do you have any idea of how lucky you are?" Jessica asked as I unpacked my bags. As I turned around to look at her, I had to take a deep breath. Her eyes were glazed over and the expression on her face told me, she was daydreaming about Edward. My Edward. I did not need to be able to read thoughts to know that.
"Yes, I know how happy I am, Jess." Happier than you can believe.
She got a strange look in her eyes and I got a bit scared. Normally, when she gets this look, her next question was something nobody really wants to answer.
She put her hands on my shoulders. I got the feeling that she did not want me to run away. Oh, no.
"Bella, tell me. How does it feel to kiss him?" Her eyes were sparkling and she bit down on her lower lip, she was full of excitement.
My cheeks turned beet red and I could hear a chuckle like a chime from behind me. Alice. Oh, no, please don't let me have this discussion in front of Edward's sister…
"Jess-"
"No, Bella, please tell me. I have to know." I highly doubted that but nothing was going to stop her now. I could tell from experience. "If his kisses are even half as good as he's looking – and we all know he's looking gorgeous – they must feel like heaven. Come on, tell me!"
Somebody rescue me…?
Alice sat down beside me, pushing me down to sit on the bed. Yes, Alice, you are my hero!
"Yes, Bella, tell us! I want to know, too!"
Did she really say that? I looked totally dumbfounded into her topaz eyes. Her face showed the same excitement as Jessica's.
"Traitor." I hissed while trying to glare at her.
Alice just laughed. "Oh, Bella, I never kissed my brother. And to be honest, I really want to know how his kisses feel, too. Well, I don't want to kiss him myself, but I'm curious!"
"Curiosity killed the cat." I murmured without much thinking.
"Talking from experience?" She asked and winked at me.
She was right, I was one to tell her about curiosity. I mean, if I hadn't asked so many questions when I came to Forks and met Edward, maybe I wouldn't have had so many almost-deadly experiences. But for nothing in the world I would trade my life for a boring normal human life.
I chuckled a bit and Alice knew she had won the argument.
"So?" Jessica was sitting in front of me on the floor, staring into my eyes. Even Angela was sitting next to her now, I could see curiosity on her face as well as on Alice's and Jessica's.
I took a deep breath. Ok, how to describe the indescribable?
"First of all, I have to confirm your opinion. He is a good kisser." Oh, I really hoped he was not going to listen in on this conversation.
Jessica's face lit up, my cue to go on.
"It's hard to describe how it feels if he kisses me. Really hard. I mean – and believe me, I'm not making that up – there is quite nothing comparable to that." I'm kissing a vampire, that could tell everything but they needn't know that.
"I can't compare to anything. But… Well, when he kisses me, it feels like… There are butterflies in my stomach – trust me, a lot of those – and my knees go pudding. But somehow, it feels like as if a lightning crashes through my body at the same time our lips meet. That means, not a violent lightning, just something… I don't know, it's a feeling as if the whole world brakes apart and there's only the two of us."
"Now, that explains a lot." Alice whispered with a smug grin plastered on her face as I took a deep breath.
I glared at her. "Alice, if you are going to tell him, I have to kill you."
She just chuckled and winked at me. "Nah, he won't hear a word from me. But go on!"
I sighed. Jessica didn't say a word the whole time, she practically hang on my lips.
"There's not much more to say, trust me. No word could do justice to the feelings his kisses sent through me."
"So good?" Jessica breathed in a very low voice.
As I thought about one of our latest kisses, I couldn't keep the grin off my face. "And even better." But there will be no way for her ever to find out.
"Wow…" That came from Angela.
"Hey, girls, what's up?" Lauren came into the cabin with her bags. A lot of bags. It looked like she was going on a two week holiday trip and not on a camping trip for three days. She heaved her biggest bag to the only left bed right under one of the windows. You had a nice view into the woods from that window, but somehow, I liked to have the bed in the corner of the room: On the one side was the wall and in the bed next to me, Alice set up her place for the night. I thought, at night it would become pretty boring in here… There wasn't much one could do in a room this small size.
Before Jessica could open her mouth and tell Lauren what we did before she came in, Angela took the chance to change the subject. "Ah, nothing Lauren, we were just talking. How was your drive with Tyler?"
Thank you, Angela. Of all the people in this girl's cabin, Lauren surly was the one I did not want to know what we have been talking about. Her glares still threw daggers in my direction. I wondered, how long a person could be jealous before she snaps?
Thankfully, Lauren took the chance to talk about herself.
"Wonderful!" Her face told otherwise. "We talked a lot about the current tests at school… He's doing pretty good, got the second best grade in the last trig test!"
I turned around and couldn't hide the grin spread on my face as I continued to unpack my bags. Tyler was in the same class as Edward but Lauren would never admit that Edward was better in something than her current boyfriend was. Well, I wasn't sure if Tyler was her boyfriend or not. They were going out sometimes but at other times, they did not even talk to each other for days. It was quit confusing.
She ranted on how they were doing – it seemed they were together again – and how her grades in school were. She only mentioned the grades that were better than mine. Sometimes, it was really hard to keep a nice attitude towards her.
"Girls?" Eric's voice came through the front door. "Can I come in?" He was already pushing down the handle of the door but Angela was in front of the door in a flash, holding it shut.
"NO!" We yelled in unison and broke out in laughter.
"Uhm… Well… I just wanted to ask if you have any idea when we want to make dinner? We need to prepare for that, just so you know."
We looked at each other and then on the big clock above the door. It said, it was already half past six.
"We'll be out in a few minutes, don't worry!" Angela called through the closed door while holding it shut.
Somehow, we had an untold agreement: No boys. Not in the room and not even looking into the cabin.
"We have to do something to keep the boys out." Jessica whispered conspiratorial.
"Hmm… how about a sign on the door?" Alice asked in a low voice matching Jessica's.
Lauren looked from Alice to Angela who was still holding the doorknob. "That would be a start…"
"But we
have to think of something to do at night. I don't really want to
have the boys sneak in here, do you?" Alice continued.
I gave her a
curious look. Did she see something?
"Yeah… Well, we got no key to the cabin. The owner said, the lock is broken and it can't be used. Maybe we could set up some… traps?" Angela asked. I never thought Angela would be the kind of girl who would think of setting up traps. But hey: I thought I wouldn't be the kind of girl who would have fun on a camping trip – and apparently, I had.
After a short silence, Alice cut in. "Good idea. I brought some bells and some balls of thread. We could make some kind of alarm system… I even think, there may still be some meter of rope in the trunk of Edward's Volvo…"
"That's great! But… one question: Why do you bring those things?" Asked Lauren.
Yes, Alice had obviously seen something. She was grinning like a maniac.
"Lauren, this is not my first camping trip. Trust me, boys are capable of many things – and most of them are just plain stupid. It's always good to have an alarm system while trying to sleep somewhere around them."
I had to grin. Now I was sure she had seen something. But I wonder what…?
"Ok, it's set. I'll set up the alarm system tonight when we are back in the cabin. Otherwise, it would ruin the surprise if they are really going to try something. Back to that sign-topic again: Does anyone of you have a huge piece of paper? We need to write our message on something if we won't scratch it in the front door." Alice was in full commando-mode. She really had much fun in planning these things.
"I have one." Said Angela. A few seconds later, she got back from her bag, a big piece of firey red-coloured drawing paper in her one hand, a black marker in her other hand. "This should do the job, I think."
She put the paper and the marker in the floor where we all were sitting by now.
"Angela, you are a genius. But why do you have a red-coloured drawing paper in your bag?" I asked.
"Well, I already thought that this could come in handy… Maybe something like female intuition?" She gave a slight grin in the round and everybody else responded by grinning.
"Ok, what are we going to write on it?" Lauren asked.
A short silence followed as everybody tried to think of something. "Hmmm… Let me think. What about 'Keep out', then, in the next line, 'Girls only – boys beware'?"
"That's great! Not very original, but it will surly do the job." Alice told while grinning like a madman.
It was
settled and Jessica wrote in big black letters what we had just
agreed on.
When she
was finished, she held the sign up so everyone could see it.
Alice had a indefinable look on her face and then she asked: "Can I have it for a second? I have an idea…"
"Sure." Jessica handed the marker and the paper to her.
In Alice's brilliant handwriting, she wrote in the downright corner of the paper: "We will bite if it's needed". I had to grin even wider than before.
"Great." I praised.
Just in that moment, we heard a soft knock on our door. "I am very sorry to interrupt you, ladies, but we wanted to know if you are almost done with whatever you had to do. We seem to need some help to set up the fireplace." Edward's velvety voice called from outside. He was smart enough not to try to open the door. But maybe, he read it from our minds.
"Sure, we're finished!" I called.
Alice took some tape out of her bag and together, we went out of our cabin. Before Edward – or any other male being for that matter – could get a look into our cabin, Alice closed the door behind her. We needed to do something about our windows that was sure. Alice turned around after she left the cabin and taped the sign on the front door.
Edward looked a bit surprised because of the sign, but I could see a glint of humour in his eyes as I walked towards him.
"Hey there." He said as he took me into an embrace. I could feel the stares of the other girls in my back but right now, it didn't matter.
"Hey." I snuggled myself a bit closer to him. It was colder outside than I thought and I knew it wouldn't help with the temperature if I was close to Edward, but somehow, I could forget about the temperatures while I was in his strong arms.
He lifted
my chin with one finger and looked deep into my eyes before he gave
me a kiss. Not a passionate, but nevertheless a breathtaking kiss.
As he
pulled away, he smirked a bit and I knew I looked completely dazed.
"Like lightning, hum?" He winked at me.
Oh, no, he did not really listen in on that discussion, did he? But anyway, he already knew what his kisses could do to me – I mean, which other girl faints sometimes when kissed by her boyfriend?
So I just grinned in return. "You nosy vampire." I winked.
"Of course I am."
He gave me a quick kiss on my forehead and together, we joined the others at the fireplace.
"Ah, good to finally see you, girls." Mike said while gazing to our bright red sign on our door. "Anyway. We want to set up the fireplace but in order to do that, we need wood – obviously. So… Anyone who would volunteer in gathering it? Eric, Emmett, Edward and me are going, but we need a lot of wood if we don't want to go and gather more tomorrow."
Jessica volunteered and somehow, it didn't surprise me.
"Ok… Someone else? Don't worry, we don't bite."
I bit down hard on my lower lip so I would not burst out laughing. Emmett and Edward were both smirking while Alice had the same troubles as I had. But no one else volunteered to go into the woods, so Emmett, Edward, Eric, Mike and Jessica went on their on.
"Ok, let's set up the fireplace! Do you girls need any blankets or something like that? In the kitchen-cabin are some spare blankets to sit on, we could get those… And we need some stuff to eat. I hope, you brought your tins?"
Tyler was clearly happy to play some kind of 'leader' for us poor, helpless and inexperienced girls, but no one said anything against him. We got the blankets, together with some pots out of the kitchen-cabin and brought them to the fireplace. After that, we went back to our own cabin to get our food.
"Alice? What do you do about the 'food question'?" I asked her as nobody else could hear us.
"Don't worry, Bella. I'll just say I ate while we were driving and that I'm still full. And to be honest: With all those smells from that tinned food, even a vampire won't get the biggest appetite…" With that, she winked at me and I had to smile. I wonder how that stuff smells to a vampire?
When we got all the things we needed, we took our places on the low benches and waited for the others to return.
It didn't take long until the first ones were back. Jessica had a quite small amount of wood in her arms, Eric had some more and Emmett… Well, Emmett had enough wood for one night in his arms. Alice and I let out a laugh as we saw the three coming towards us: Jessica was looking perfectly content, while Eric already struggled with the amount of wood in his arms, while Emmett just grinned from ear to ear. I was pretty sure he had used his vampire speed to gather so much wood in such a short time.
Emmett and Tyler set the wood in the low pit, where still the ashes of the last visitor's fire remained.
What did Edward take so long? If Emmett was able to get so much wood in a short time, Edward would be able gather as much in the same time as well, wouldn't he? I got an uneasy feeling in my stomach and Emmett saw me fidgeting with one side of the blanket laying beneath me.
He came to my side and sat down. "Bella, don't worry about Edward. I'm sure he has an excuse to let you wait." He said in a very low voice so only I – and probably Alice – could hear him.
"Yes, I know, Emmett. But what if…" I had to voice my fears, even if Emmett would laugh about that. "What about Mike? If he got… into trouble?" I whispered while looking down to my shoes.
I could see a surprised expression cross Emmett's face out of the corner of my eye but a heartbeat later he was smiling a very warm smile down on me. "Bella, don't worry. If Mike got into 'trouble', trust me, I would be able to smell it. At this time, in a radius of two miles, I can't smell any human bleeding. But why do you have the opinion that Edward couldn't stop himself?"
I had to think about that for a short time. "Don't get me wrong, Emmett. I really trust Edward with everything, but he doesn't like Mike only one bit and the way he's growling while Mike is around me…"
Emmett put a brotherly hand on my shoulder. "Bella, Edward is strong. I don't only mean physically but also mentally. If he'd kill everyone he doesn't like, there wouldn't be many people running around in Forks, trust me. Furthermore, if he can resist you, he can resist killing that boy, too."
I had to smile. Emmett was right – of course he was. I felt stupid that I didn't have enough trust in Edward. What would he think of me if he gets to know that?
Emmett looked at me with a sceptical look and took me into a brotherly hug. "Sometimes it's hard to have a vampire as a boyfriend, isn't it?" He whispered.
"Only if he does something stupid." I smiled a small smile and after Emmett hugged me once more, he released me and looked at me with an amused glint in his eyes.
"Believe me, Bella, Edward knows about your troubles when it comes to Mike. Don't be too hard on yourself thinking that you don't trust my brother."
I gave him a warm smile. In that moment, I made the promise to myself that I would talk to Edward about my fears. Maybe he would get angry with me, but that's way better than to have him get the information from Emmett's mind.
"Everything ok, Bella?" Asked Angela. She was standing some meters away and looked a bit worried.
"Yeah, everything's fine, she's just a bit homesick." Emmett answered instead of me. As I looked at him, he winked. "She hasn't heard anything." He whispered so low that only I could hear it.
"Oh. Bella, if anything's wrong, just come and tell me. My brother is homesick quite often when my family and I are on holidays, I know how that feels."
I gave her a warm smile. Angela was a real friend and Emmett was great in thinking up excuses why I looked a bit worn out – I did not need a mirror to know how I looked.
Right in that moment, some bushes behind us began to rustle. As I turned around, I saw Edward with a huge and even quite evil grin walking towards us. His arms were full of wood, so I was sure that we wouldn't have to wait for the wood to be gathered tomorrow. There was still plenty of wood piled up in the near of the fireplace because of Emmett.
Before I could wonder why Edward was looking that way, a second rustle came from the same woods and Mike stepped out. There were plenty leaves in his hair and his trousers looked quite muddy. He had way less wood in his arms than my beloved one and was staring daggers at Edward from behind. If looks could kill, Edward would drop dead.
Edward
walked past me with a wink of his eye and put his wood down next to
the pile of wood for tomorrow, followed by Mike.
When
Edward sat down right besides me, he was still smirking slightly.
Alice took
a lighter and together with the help of Eric – help she did not
really need – and some other things, the fire was fast inflamed.
"Edward?" I asked as he laid one of his arms around my shoulders and pulled me nearer.
He looked down into my eyes as if he was already expecting the upcoming question. "Hm?"
"Why are you grinning like a madman and Mike looking as if he wants to kill you?"
Edward flashed his white teeth in a grin. "Because he wanted to show you girls that he can do better than I. He wanted to show that he's better than me in gathering wood – apparently, he isn't."
I had to grin myself. That was Mike: Always trying to be better than Edward. But to be honest: Who could win against a vampire?
I have to think a bit more about the next chapter, maybe I won't update tomorrow. I won't promise to update tomorrow but maybe, if I get a stroke of genius this night, I'll be able to do that :) Please tell me, what you think of the chapter and thank you very much for all your reviews )!
(And don't forget: There's that one-shot waiting for you, too... ;) )
