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CHECK YES JULIET
CHAPTER 7
Summer passed way too fast for me and Edward.
Once graduation was over, the six of us started having the summer of our lives. We knew that we weren't parting ways come the end of August, but you kinda just want a summer to go out with a bang, especially the last one before college. We did everything together, and of course did our own separate couple outings, as well as having the occasional girls day and boys night. And after graduation, I knew I didn't have to hide my feelings for Edward. I was able to go out in public around Forks with Edward next to me without fearing my dad would drag my ass back home.
Edward and Charlie still had a strained relationship. My dad was over the fact that Edward was tattooed and pierced, but the straint came from the fact that his little girl was in love and will be moving down to Seattle with said love of her life. We understood that we were not to live together this school year by any means. But that wouldn't stop me from bringing Edward to my dormroom after class or on my days off, and staying with him and the guys, plus Rose and Alice, on weekends. None of his or my stuff was going to be kept at eachother's homes... well, maybe a few things, but nothing drastic like my entire book collection in his room and his guitars in my dorm. One day it will, but I'm satisfied just getting to see him often.
But both Charlie and Edward talked, and they got to know eachother. Renee has me invite the Cullens over on Saturday night dinners, which I will be cooking, but this shows that we're trying to work the kinks out of our past feud. Now Renee and Esme are as thick as thieves, and Carlisle and Charlie like to sit in the living room and watch a baseball game and have a few beers. And while mine and Edward's parents spend time with eachother, we have our own little fun upstairs in my room, though we've never had sex while both our parents are under the same roof.
But yes... summer has passed and it was now the time for the girls and I to move into our dorm. When we had gotten into UW and had to fill out the dorm applications, we inquired about the suite dorms, which could hold up to four roommates. They had a decent sized living area, small kitchenette, its own bathroom and two bedrooms, in which two roommates will share in each. And we got one for the three of us, specifically asking that the three of us will share and we'll take on one other girl. We got lucky when a sweet girl named Angela Weber became our other roommate. Angela and I particularly got along as we exchanged emails throughout the summer, so we all decided that come August, me and Angela would share one room, while Alice and Rose shared the other.
My dad wanted to be the one who will take me down to Seattle, saying he wanted to also help me get my stuff into my dorm and tell me goodbye there. I knew he wasn't ready to let me go just yet, so having this will give him more peace of mind than if I just let Edward help. So I agreed. Edward told me that he and the guys were going to be finishing setting up their apartment anyway, having gradually moving their things in little by little and today would be the day they will finish so me, Rose and Alice could see. We saw the apartment when it was empty, but now we'd see it furnished and decorated, by Esme, of course, and in a palette a guy could handle. According to Edward, he said his mom nailed it.
The guys, Carlisle and Esme would be heading to Seattle along with us girls and our parents, but will separate. We'll meet up with our guys later on. They wanted to let us have our goodbyes with our parents without them barging in. I had a little goodbye in my room in the morning before Edward snuck out and then it was time to start the three hour trek to Seattle with my parents.
Getting there was fine... I kept myself busy with listening to music on my iPhone. And getting everything set up in my half of the room I'd be sharing with Angela was a breeze. It was now just the goodbyes to my parents that was hitting me hard. I didn't know I'd miss them so much that I'd break down, but that's what happened. As soon as the last box was unpacked and my bed was made, my parents stood by the door of my room. My mom was already tearing up and my dad was trying to hold back his emotions. I ran to them and they hugged me tightly. I let out a sob, saying, "I'll miss you both so much."
"We'll miss you, too, sweetie. We're not far and you can always come home whenever you want," Renee said.
"OK," I whispered.
"Work hard, Bells," my dad mumbled. "I know you can do it."
"Thank you, Daddy."
My mom stepped away, wanting to head out to the car before she really broke down in front of me, leaving me and Charlie alone.
"Bella?"
"Yes, Daddy."
"Edward's a good boy. I know you love him and he loves you back. I just want to tell you I do support you and him being together. Make sure you don't get it in your head to start rebelling too much in college. I want you to pass with flying colors and get your degree in four years."
"Of course, Daddy. I love you."
I hugged my dad one more time and I felt him press a kiss to my head. "Love you, too, Bells."
Then my parents were gone. Alice and Rose were finishing setting up their room, having kicked their parents out awhile ago, saying they had it under control and told them they loved them and would miss them. But from the looks of how their room is a total disaster, they did not have it under control. I refused to help because they did it to themselves when they denied having their dads deal with unpacking the heavy stuff and now were struggling to get the TV out of the box. Clothes were everywhere, as were boxes and bags. I just let out a light chuckle and went out into the small living room, deciding to call Edward.
"Hey, baby," he answered on the first ring.
"Hey you. How's living in the apartment?"
"Just finished stacking in all the DVDs on the shelves in the living room. These are the movies we don't mind sharing with eachother, but the ones in our rooms are not to be touched or watched by anyone else without permission and supervision. Mostly these are our deluxe edition movies that are in pristine condition and have the cool special features and shit and don't want them ruined or lost if one of us is not there."
"So you're saying if Emmett wants to watch your Anniversary Edition of Pulp Fiction, he's gotta ask you and you need to be around when he does?"
"You got it, love."
"OK. Anything else?"
"Just unpacked all my clothes and my dad and I set up my Mac. Books and DVDs that are mine I'll settle in a few. The guys and I just finished hooking up the flat screen, getting it on the wall and getting it to work. Jazz and Em are watching baseball and I'm in my room talking with you."
"Well, I'll let you in on a secret."
"What?" he wondered.
"Tell Emmett and Jasper they win the bet," I whisper into the phone.
"Really?"
"Yep. The girls' room is a complete mess and they're trying to get the TV out of the box. They refused to let their parents help, so they said their goodbyes a few hours ago and got to work, though they haven't gotten far." I glanced a look into their room, and sure enough Rose and Alice are slowly and gently tilting the box over to see if they could pull the TV out that way.
"Let me tell them. Hold on."
I waited a minute and then I heard cheers. "I take it they're happy they each won fifty bucks?"
"Yeah. It's money. Who wouldn't be happy?" Edward laughed. "And you... did you get your room all settled, or did you give up and are reluctantly calling asking me to help?"
"Oh no. I don't need help. See, I was smart to take on the help of my dad while my friends weren't. I'm all unpacked... bed made, clothes in drawers and closet, books, movies and a few CDs on shelves. My small TV is hooked up on my dresser and now I'm just bored. I'm calling to tell you about the bet being over, and that I miss you and love you and want you to come over. I kinda want to christen my bed before Angela gets here. She's coming tomorrow because she's from Florida and she had to have all her stuff driven here and will be catching a flight herself to arrive.
"So yeah... wanna come over?" I asked seductively.
I heard Edward groan into the speaker. "Yeah, baby. I'll be there in thirty."
"I'll be waiting. I won't break the news to them. Let Emmett and Jasper surprise them. But I'll keep you in the know on their progress. So far..." I glanced into their room. "TV is now out of the box, as well as the wall unit, and now they're trying to figure out the instructions. Tell the guys they need to bring their tools. I wonder when the girls are gonna figure out they need tools to get the unit up."
"Wanna make a bet of our own?"
"Sure... what's the wager?"
"Not money, but the way you can entice me when we have our weekends together."
"I'm listening."
"If I win, starting every Friday afternoon when you're done with class and you come to my place, given that we're not heading up to Forks, I expect you to be naked the entire time you're here. Except when we hang out with everyone... no one gets to see you naked except me. But once you're in my room, you strip and stay like that until Sunday night when you have to head back to your dorm."
"Interesting wager. I'll take it. And if I win, I get to torture you with lingerie. But you can't take it off of me until I hear you pleading for me to let you touch me. That means I stay in the lingerie and you can't touch me until you're practically in tears because you want to fuck me. I get to touch you all I want, get to kiss you, suck you and fuck you, but you can't touch my body, rip off the lingerie, or hold my head as I suck you off until you're pleading. Real pleading. Not the 'please, baby, let me fuck you' kind of plead. I want you to be almost in tears, on your knees, reaching for me, but not touching. Got it?"
"Will that be every weekend we spend together?" he asked in a high pitched voice. Just knowing this must be torture.
"No, babe. I wouldn't inflict that much torture on you. One weekend, from the minute I step in on Friday to minute I leave on Sunday. And I will use this card on you when I can convince everyone to leave us be for a weekend, because that would be mean of me to not let you hold my hand and touch me when we were out in public."
I heard him sigh in relief. "That would be complete torture, baby, if that was every weekend. My wager isn't as bad as yours. Can I also make another point for our wagers?"
"Sure, Edward."
"Only good for one year."
"Why?"
"Well... most likely by next year we'll be moving into our own place, so when we live alone with eachother, I get to have you every night and can demand you to be naked with me all the time when we're not in school or at work. And you can pull this kind of torture on me whenever you want, as well. But let this be a game we play while you're living in the dorms this year."
"OK, Edward. I could do that. I would love to already be living with you, but it is kinda early for us."
"Yeah. By next year, we'll have known eachother for a year and a half, and then we can decide again if we want to live with eachother then."
"Mmhmm. So back to the bet... I bet that in the next seven minutes they'll realize they need tools."
"I say twelve. Set a timer after we hang up."
"Yep. See you in a few."
We hang up and I automatically set up the stopwatch on my phone. I keep an eye on the girls as I time. I also tried not to look at my phone while I watched them try and set up the wall unit. Then I hear Rose exclaim, "Dammit Ali! We need a fucking screwdriver or power drill or something. There's no way to get these things to attach to eachother unless we have fucking tools. I press 'Stop' on my phone and see that it's been fourteen minutes and forty-one seconds. Wow... time flew. And it also meant Edward won. His time was the closest. Guess he's gonna be having me naked every other weekend for the rest of the school year.
I wonder how it applies to breaks.
Ten minutes later, there's a knock on the door. The girls were preoccupied with their room, having given up on the TV and wall unit and were now just folding their clothes and putting them away, so they didn't hear the knock. I knew it had to be the guys.
"Hey," I said as I let them in. Edward came in last and gave me a passionate kiss hello.
"I missed you, baby."
"I missed you, too."
"Bella!" Alice screamed, coming out of hers and Rose's room. "You called the guys on us?!"
"Yeah! You both owe them fifty bucks because you gave up on trying to set up everything in your room. And I also called them for reinforcement 'cause I could see that you didn't realize tools were needed."
"Fine," Alice said, pouting with her arms crossed over her chest. I laughed and shook my head, watching Emmett and Jasper greet their girls hello before getting to work on the wall unit. I grabbed Edward's hand and led him into my room, closing and locking the door behind me.
"So... you won."
"Really?"
I sighed heavily, wrapping my arms around his neck "Fourteen minutes and forty-one seconds; your guess was closer than mine."
"So naked time every other weekend then?" he asked, wiggling his eyebrows.
"Yes."
I pecked a kiss to his mouth, which then led to making out, which then resulted in us fucking on my bed.
"Are you ready for college?" Edward whispered to me as we laid side by side – well, more like me laying practically on top of him because my bed was twin sized.
"Yeah... sort of. I don't know what I really want to do yet, so the first year shouldn't be bad because it's a bunch of liberal arts courses."
"You'll know when you know."
I kissed him and laid my head on his chest, hearing his steady heartbeat.
"Bella..."
"Yes, Edward."
"I need to tell you something."
"What? It's nothing bad, is it?" I wondered, shooting up and looking him in the eyes.
Edward just laughed and rubbed his hands up and down my arms. "No... it's a good something. I promise."
"Alright... tell me."
"I'm applying to school."
"Really?"
"Yep... University of Washington's School of Music for this spring. Of course, I still gotta follow standard curriculum, but I want to major in Music, so I'll take a bunch of music courses as well as liberal arts."
"Maybe we'll be classmates," I said with a flirtatious smile, leaning more into him.
"Partners on projects, perhaps?"
"Or lab partners. I didn't sign up for a Science course this semester."
"Absolutely... partners in everything. I love you, Bella."
"I love you, too, Edward. Always."
I straddled his hips and took him into me, me rocking my body over his, his hands gripping my thighs as he pounded himself into me. Not too long after, I was screaming his name out in ecstasy and collapsing on him.
~CHECK YES JULIET~
College took some time getting adjusting to. Not the fact of taking care of myself or making sure I get to class on time, 'cause I've been doing that for a while now, but the workload took some time.
I don't remember getting syllabi in the beginning of a school year in high school, but they do in college. It tells us the plan of how the class will be directed, from what the lesson plans were to the homework assignments and projects we were to turn in, with the dates of when they were due, as well as test dates. It was a little weird knowing that I was being told I had a small research paper due by the end of the semester now. It even told us what the research paper had to be done on and a grading rubric. I loved knowing that I was being told everything ahead of time, and not last minute. And I had three and a half months till it was due, but that doesn't mean I have the right to slack off because of its due date. But that also doesn't mean I'll get started on it right now either.
The first week wasn't bad. Basically I went in for maybe half the class time because it was distributions of syllabi and just talking about what the class will entail to us. We also had this week to get all out text books. Yeah, we learned a lesson or two in my classes, but it was a pretty damn good week and I was ready for college.
The next several weeks were OK... now was the time I was studying a lot and doing a lot of homework, including getting started on the research paper. I actually had to turn down going to Forks one weekend because I had a midterm Monday and I needed to study extra hard because that one class was hard for a liberal arts course. But then again it was a political science course, and I don't like politics. I try not to get involved with them and will just do my part as a citizen and vote, whether I follow the campaign trails or not.
The sexy time weekends with me being naked all weekend with Edward, except from when we spent a few hours with our friends, did not get halted because of homework or projects. And damn those weekends were amazing. It may be weird that I'm just laying around Edward's room naked all the time, but I don't care. I get to have my man whenever I want and I don't have to worry about being caught by parents. Edward did let me do my one time torture on him, which was my plan had I won the bet weeks ago when I started college, and Edward said he never wanted to go through it again, even if I did get him off twice. He just can't resist touching me.
Finally, it was December and I survived my first semester of college. I had completed all my finals, turned in my research paper for my History class and passed. They weren't all A's, but the lowest grade I got was a B-, which was for the political science class. My GPA dropped a tiny bit, but I would think it's standard that GPAs drop a bit the first semester because it's a hard adjustment from high school to college; the workload is way different, you're tempted to just party and slack off because you're an adult and you don't have your parents breathing down your back, and the fact that this is your life now and that you're just a few years away from stepping into the cruel job world and totally on your own.
I was just so glad I had my own support system, between me and the girls because we were actual college students, and that I had Edward because he truly believes in me and believes I'll get through. He's always been there when I just needed to cry on his shoulder because of all the pressure and be there for me to hug and kiss me in congratulations because I did well on the exams I took. He was the best boyfriend ever and I loved him so much.
Since I was done and received my grades, it was time that I moved my stuff out of the dorm Rose, Alice and I shared. Luckily we were granted the chance to have the suite dorm again next semester. Maybe not the exact same one, but no single, communal bathroom sharing dorms ever. All I know was that it was a bitch to remove the wall unit holding the flat screen in Rose and Alice's room. Edward and I were so glad not to be Emmett and Jasper at that time because all they did was endure screeching from their girlfriends to be careful and to not drop the TV. Edward helped me pack up my things to bring over to his and the guys' apartment until we had to drive back up to Forks for winter break.
My parents were asking me to spend the winter break there and not in Seattle. They say it's because they wanted to see me. But I know the real reason. It's not that I wouldn't have any place to go, but because I had a place to stay – Edward's. They didn't trust me spending that time with him because they had a feeling of what will be happening – not that it hasn't stopped us. We've been having sex for over six months now. And I do plan on moving in with Edward come next fall. I wanted to live with him. The first year was because we'd only been together for a few months, but by this coming fall semester, I'll be almost twenty and I'd be with Edward for a year and a half, which is the average time I'd say when couples moved in with eachother.
I know I'd be ready to live with him by September.
The girls were still packing up with the guys' help, so I just told them I'd see them later at the apartment. They huffed out that I was abandoning them, but I wasn't. They had to have a lot of stuff and I was wise to keep it to a minimum, and I wasn't gonna be helping them get their stuff down and out when they got it there themselves.
I still needed to say goodbye to Angela, my roommate in this suite. After meeting her, I knew we'd be great friends. And I knew she'd get along with the rest of us, including the guys. Angela Weber was pierced and tattooed, but was like Edward in the sense that she looked like a dangerous person who had no intention of abiding my rules, but was a real good girl and very smart and talented. She was into photography and from the pictures I saw in her portfolio, she was amazing and she'd get really far.
I knew she'd be down on the quad taking pics of the snow falling. She told me it was her favorite spot on campus – there was a lot going on, and with the weather, it'd be perfect for photos. With that, Edward and I got my stuff packed into his car and we made our way toward that part of campus. After having Angela catch up with Edward for a minute or two, we said our goodbyes until the end of January when we resumed school. Angela and I were gonna be roommates again with Rose and Alice, so this wasn't really goodbye.
Edward decided that because it was Saturday and Christmas was Tuesday this year, that we'd drive up to Forks tomorrow afternoon, just so Edward and I could get one last night together before I had to be in Forks all break long. Not that it will stop Edward from visiting on weekends and keep him from sneaking into my room to sleep next to me. I don't know how I'm gonna survive being three hours away from Edward when I got too used to him living barely twenty minutes away from campus.
At least we got to spend Christmas together – our first Christmas. And New Years. But a whole month of just seeing eachother on weekends was gonna suck.
But those weekends were amazing. It only got to show how much I loved Edward and he loved me, and that we were meant to be together.
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