A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long to update. Life got in the way. Thank you all for your reviews. Happy reading!!
"It's about time!" Emmett shouts as we walk in the room.
"I'm sorry. You could've started without us." I apologize.
"I wasn't talking about eating. I was talking about you two. We were all wondering when you two were going to hook up."
I could feel the blood rising in my face.
I look up at Edward to find that gorgeous smile and he looked calm.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said trying to sound innocent.
"PA-LEEZ Bella, we all saw it our first day." Rosalie said.
"Saw what?" It was Edward questioning her. Probably just trying to turn my face into a tomato.
"That you two are perfect for each other, of course."
Edward gave my hand a squeeze and led me to the bar stool at the end of the enormous counter.
"Pepperoni or cheese?" He asked.
"Both please."
I'm not sure why but that got me a little grin out of Edward.
He served me dinner and we all sat and ate and talked about school.
When we were done, we all changed into our bathing suits and headed to the indoor swimming pool.
I still couldn't believe how big this house was. I didn't think anything like this existed in Forks.
The boys were already in the pool by the time us girls showed up.
They stopped what they were doing, hopped out of the pool, and each walked to their girl and started kissing her.
It almost looked planned.
Edward wrapped his arms around my bare back and buried his face in my hair.
I know that I shouldn't feel this comfortable being almost naked with him, but I was.
Edward took a step back and looked at me from head to toe. Okay, now I'm uncomfortable. But it calmed me right back down when he breathed out a sexy "WOW!"
I opened my mouth to speak but was cut off by Rosalie's screams for help.
Emmett had picked her up and was heading toward the pool.
"HELP ME!!" She screamed, mid-air, before splashing into the pool.
When he came to the surface, Emmett cannon balled right next to her, soaking her again. Emmett surfaced, and looked in our direction.
"You're turn guys!" He said to Jasper and Edward.
"You wouldn't" I said backing away from him.
I quickly looked at Alice, but Jasper already had a hold of her.
I turned and ran back into the house and hid behind the couch in the living room.
"Here kitty kitty!" I heard Edward say. I was trying to stay as quiet as I could, but I was having a hard time holding in my giggles.
When he found me – which didn't take long – I almost got around him, but he caught me and pulled me into a tight hug.
"Why are you running from me? Aren't you getting in the water?" He whispered in my ear.
"Yes I'm getting in the water, but I'm not going to be thrown in."
"How about we jump in together then?"
"You're not trying to trick me are you?"
"No" he said with a grin.
"Promise?"
"I promise. Let's go see where everyone is, and do our best to get them all wet."
Hand in hand, we snuck back to the pool. Edward stuck his head in to assess the situation.
"This is perfect." He said while rubbing his hands together like an evil genius. "They're all right in the middle. Emmett and Rosalie are making out and Jasper and Alice are trying not to."
He grabbed my hand "On three" he said, then gave me a quick kiss.
"One…..two…..three!"
On three, we ran hand in hand into the room and jumped in.
Even under water I could hear Rosalie and Alice's screams.
I barely made it to the surface and took a breath when Emmett dunked me back under. I knew better than to come back up anywhere near him, so, still submerged, I swam as far away as my lungs would allow me. I only hoped it was far enough.
I came up gasping for air. I was halfway across the pool now, away from danger.
Jasper and Edward were just coming up for air. Jasper, having apparently attacked Edward while Emmett attacked me.
I made my way to the edge of the pool, still trying to catch my breath, and leaned my head back on the edge.
The water felt so good. It was just the right temperature.
Edward swam over to me with a gleam in his eyes.
"That was fun." He breathed.
It wasn't until then that I fully took in the sight of Edward half naked. We were still in the water so I couldn't assess the bottom half, but his chest was just as perfect as the rest of him. Clothes didn't do him justice. His arms were chiseled, and he had an amazing six pack. I had noticed it earlier, but was to quickly distracted to appreciate it.
Edward wrapped his arms around my waste and pulled me to him, wrapping my legs around his waste.
"Did I tell you how beautiful you are?"
"Nope" I say a little embarrassed. Nobody but my father has ever told me that I'm beautiful.
"You're beautiful."
"Thank you."
We stood there silent for a moment, just looking into each others eyes.
"Did I tell you how blind you are?" I ask, teasing him.
"WHAT?" He said angrily pushing me back a little so my legs were no longer wrapped around him.
"What is that supposed to mean?" To say that he was upset wouldn't even begin to touch the emotion that I saw in his eyes.
"Nothing. I'm sorry Edward," I start to apologize "but look at you and then look at me."
"I am looking at you…"
"And I'm just a plain Jane, and you, well, you look like a magazine ad." I say cutting him off.
"Stop it Bella! I never want to hear you say anything like that again. You obviously don't see yourself very clearly. You're an amazing, intelligent, witty, beautiful woman and I don't deserve you. So please, if you feel anything for me at all you'll never say that you aren't all of those things."
"Okay" I say timidly,
He let out a big sigh but didn't move.
"I didn't mean to upset you," I said, as I closed the space between him, and cupped his face in my hands, but the anger remained in his eyes.
"Tell me what I have to do to show you how sorry I am?" I begged.
He thought for a moment.
"Tell me that I'm the luckiest man alive, because you're mine."
"WHAT? That's ridiculous."
"Say it, or I'm going to stay upset. Oh and say it like you mean it."
"If I say it will you forgive me?"
He nodded his head.
I took a deep breath, gathering up all the confidence I had, and tried to be convincing.
"You'retheluckiestmanalive." I said in a jumbled sentence.
Edward raised an eyebrow like he wasn't convinced.
I started over "You, Edward Cullen, are the luckiest man alive, because I, Bella Swan, am ALL yours."
I wasn't convinced, but apparently he was.
He grabbed me and started kissing me with more passion than I'd ever felt. He moved us over to the side of the pool so my back was pressed up against the cold surface. The contrast between the cold pool wall on my back, and his warm body on my chest, was amazing. My hands caressed his face, then his chest, memorizing every line.
His hands ran up and down my back and settled on my hips. His hands on my bare skin was heaven. I never wanted him to let me go. But because oxygen is necessary to live we had to break apart.
Edward buried his face in my neck. "I'm falling in love with you, Isabella Swan. Falling hard." He whispered.
Oh baby! Did he just really say that? Emmett must have drown me, and now I'm in heaven, because I didn't think he could ever feel the same way for me that I do for him.
I grabbed his face and pushed him off my neck so he could look at me.
"Just falling?" I teased "That's odd, because I've completely fallen." I smile, then whisper in his ear "I love you."
It felt so good to say it. To release it. To have him know, and not freak out.
It was him that grabbed my face this time, to make me look at him. The look in his eyes was no longer hurt or angry. It was love.
He kissed me again before we were interrupted.
"Hey you two love birds" Emmett yells "Get out so we can watch a movie." Man he can be obnoxious.
Edward and I let go of each other, and relentlessly got out of the pool and headed into the house.
