CHAPTER FIVE – POLES APART
EDWARD POV
"I did not sign up to be the fucking mule!" I grunted.
"Relax bro were here now" Emmett smiled.
I must admit the spot was alright but it was still in the middle of fucking nowhere!
"Grab this" Emmett said hovering over the backseat of the jeep.
He pasted me our things which included: bags, fold down chairs and a couple crates of beer. I had already packed my things I brought from the store in the jeep last night when I was ordered to go and retrieve Bella's stuff.
I let out a little smile as I remembered her talking about having a shower because it just reminded me of what I did in the shower the night before.
Edward you dirty mother fucker! My subconscious scolded me. As if I had got embarrassed at the thought of wanking over Bella and why the fuck was I getting embarrassed about it now. What the fuck is wrong with me!
I had no idea of what Bella's situation was; but I wasn't stupid. It didn't take a fucking genius to figure out that her so called boyfriend used her as a punching bag.
"What!" Alice screamed when I got home last night after taking Bella's stuff to Emmett's.
I had regretfully informed Alice about the nice bruise that was forming around her friend's eye last night.
"Take me to her house!" She commanded.
"No"
"Edward" She pouted following me around the kitchen.
I grabbed a pack of cookies out the cupboard and a bottle of water out the fridge.
"Edward I need to see if she's alright"
"She fine"
I never understood why girls stay with guys like that.
"How is she fine?"
I rolled my eyes and began munching on the cookies.
"What happened?"
I shrugged and continued chewing.
"Was anybody else there? Why didn't she call me?"
"Fuck sake Alice what's with the twenty questions?" I growled tossing the cookies on the counter.
"I need to know she's alright"
"It's her own fault anyway staying with a guy like that!" I snapped.
"She's not with him anymore you jackass"
Thinking about it more carefully now I bet her good for nothing boyfriend, Ex or whatever must have been that fucking dog that I encountered in the schools parking lot.
"She broke up with him over a month ago but he won't leave her alone"
That would explain the mess in her bedroom and the bruise on her face. He could have possibly showed up at her house and there was a struggle. Regardless of my assumptions I didn't want to get dragged into this shit, it was not my place and I didn't care anyway.
"Edward, please take me to see her?" she begged.
"Alice it's late, I'm tired we have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning" I said climbing up the stairs.
"For god sake Edward cant you think of anything past your own selfish little existence" She said following me up the stairs to my room.
"Alice just leave me alone!"
I was about to shut my bedroom door but the pain on Alice's face somehow shot through to my solid chest right into my frozen heart.
"Look, she was fine. I went and got her stuff we even had a bit of a laugh. She said she was going into the shower and she would see you tomorrow morning"
I watched as relief slightly danced away from her face.
"What did you laugh about?"
I didn't want to tell her about the mess in the bedroom. I only made it out as a joke because I didn't want to make Bella feel uncomfortable. Again I had no idea about Bella's situation or any idea of what she must have gone through so maybe she deserved a break from Alice's questions and scolding.
"It doesn't matter and Alice can you do me a favour?"
"What"
"When you see her tomorrow, don't ask her about it or give her a hard time"
She looked at me gone out like I had just told her I was a transvestite or something.
"What? Why?"
"You're a lot to handle Alice and annoying as fuck. Leave her alone and don't question her, if she wants to tell you then let her"
"Ok, what's with the whole 'I give a shit and have an opinion' thing going on" She asked moving away from me like I had the plague or something.
"What can I say I'm just thinking past the point of my own selfish little existence" I smiled to her before I closed the door.
"Dude you haven't even had a sniff of weed yet and you're zoning out"
"What" I said snapping out of my thoughts.
"I said grab these crates" He said handing me the beer.
Emmett and I were packed up to high heaven with shit. I didn't fancy making more than one trip back to the jeep. We could have moved the jeep closer to the camp if it wasn't for the fallen tree truck lying in the dirt road.
Fucking tree!
"God I've seen bad cabbages with happier faces then yours" Emmett laughed.
"Fuck off" I said stomping away.
"Hey if I let you hold his will you please cheer the fuck up" He said waving a little blue zipper bag with a kitten on.
"Cute" I smiled taking the bag of weed off him.
I didn't even want to know where he got the bag from I was more concerned about its contents.
"What took you guys so long" Alice beamed as we entered the camp.
As if she could be this happy being stuck in the middle of nowhere! I dropped the things and paced the beer crates down carefully by the camp fire; that shit was my lifeline.
"Bella we can put our tent up here" Alice beamed pointing to a patch of grass. "Edward you can put yours over there"
"I'll find my own space thank you very fucking much" I snorted grabbing my belongings including my tent and sleeping bag.
"Where are you going?" She asked as I walked away from the camp.
I ignored her and walked a short distance outside the circle of trees. I didn't want to go out too far just a couple of strides out so I had my own privacy.
It had taken me a good twenty minutes to finish putting my tent up. My tent was only a one man tent but it was big enough so I could stand up in it even though I had to bend my head slightly. The tent consisted of two compartments, one was small I shall say bedroom and this compartment which was a hallway that lead to the tent entrance.
I placed my sleeping bag, blanket and pillow inside the bedroom then zipped it up concealing it away. I unpacked my stuff neatly inside the corner of the hallway which included the bottle of Jack Daniels, Emmett's bag of weed and the rest of the stuff I brought from the store. Happy with my man cave or shall I say tent I headed back out the tent and zipped it up. I lit up a smoke before returning to camp.
Ten seconds later I was getting daggers from Alice who was struggling with one of the poles from her tent. I merely smirked and made my way to the camp fire. I fished out a collapsible chair from our belongings and unfolded it.
I sat down and grabbed a well earned beer from one of the crates. I ripped the cap off with my teeth and slowly swigged as I discarded my cigarette.
"Are you going to help or not!" Alice glared.
"I am helping" I smirked.
"And how exactly are you doing that?"
"Well, I'm sending out good thoughts" I chuckled.
Emmett seemed to be still working on his tent in a different spot within the camp so he wasn't going to be any help.
"Look you're doing it wrong" Bella said pointing to the poles in Alice's hands "That pole goes into that hole"
I nearly choked on my beer; all I heard was pole and hole in the same sentence.
"That's it a little harder" she said.
Fuck me listening to her talk like that made my cock twitch. I watched as she took a firm grip onto the pole then she tried and fix it onto the other one.
Fuck!
I could feel my cock beginning to grow as I watched her hand slide up and down the pole. God I wanted my cock to be that fucking pole right now! My imagination went into overdrive as I imagined her grabbing my cock. I imagined her bent over a log somewhere deep in the woods and I was fucking her from behind. I imagined her sexy, naked body bouncing on top of me whilst I was sat in this chair.
My cock was throbbing and it was becoming too painful because it was restricted under my jeans. I closed my eyes and took a long sip of beer to somehow try and not think about her or about all the dirty disgusting things I wanted to do to her.
"If it gets stuck then give it a jiggle"
Beer spurted up my nose causing it to burn like a mother fucker. I discarded my beer and leaned forward to catch my breath because I was chocking so much. In between going into a delusional world full of fucking white spots due to lack of oxygen Alice had handed me some tissue. I coughed into it and wiped my mouth, nose and tears away which had formed in my eyes.
"Serves you right for not helping us" She laughed walking back to the tent.
Fucking Alice!
I was kind of thankfully for this little embarrassing moment because at least my fucking hard on had disappeared. I caught Bella looking this way but I tore my gaze away from her. I had no idea why but for the first time ever I felt really embarrassed. What the fuck was this girl doing to me!
There tent was beginning to take shape, no thanks to Alice though. Bella seemed to know what she was doing moving quickly and efficiently to the next piece; maybe she was used to the outdoors? I thought to myself.
"I can't do it!" Alice huffed and threw the pole down onto the floor then folded her arms.
I rolled my eyes at her childish behaviour.
"Don't worry Alice I can do it" Bella reassured her.
With a heavy sigh I stood up and strode over there.
"Just move!" I snapped grabbing the poles off the floor.
I fixed them with ease and Alice stuck her tongue out at me.
"Go and make yourself useful and make some lunch"
"Fine" she huffed walking away.
"Grab the top of that would you" I said to Bella
"Ok"
We started to thread the poles trough the fabric of the tent.
"Make sure your ground sheet is down before we flip this over"
"Ok"
My, my Bella seemed to take instructions rather well. Then my mind started to wonder to other things Stop it! I shouted to myself.
Bella quickly spread out the ground sheet then started to grab the tent that was now secure with all the poles.
"Ready, Go" I said flipping the tent the right side up.
This tent had two bedrooms. There was a hallway down the middle with a bedroom compartment either side of the tent. My mind again wondered as to which side Bella was going to have.
Stop it Edward! My subconscious shouted again.
Bella and I made our way back to the campfire. It was basically a load of wood surrounded by a ring of rocks and pebbles to contain the fire which wasn't even lit yet.
"Emmett" Alice shouted as I grabbed the rest of the chairs and opened them out. "Can you find some fire wood?"
I didn't see or hear Emmett answer I was already sat down at this point. I grabbed a beer from the crate and handed one to Bella who was also sitting down.
"No thank you"
"Come on live a little" I said giving her a cheeky grin.
She shook her head, blushed and looked away. God don't this girl know how to have any fun?
"Leave her alone Edward she doesn't want it!" Alice snapped.
"Alright it's not like I'm ramming it down her fucking throat" I snapped back.
I ripped the cap off with my teeth again and chugged half the bottle down. There was an uncomfortable silence as Alice began to make sandwiches for everybody.
"You will ruin your teeth you know" Bella perked up after what felt like forever.
"What?"
"If you continue to open bottles the way you do" She informed me.
I couldn't help but smile as I placed the bottle to my lips.
"Well we wouldn't want that then would we? I mean think of all the things I could do with my teeth?" I smirked.
She bit her bottom lip and blushed looking down. God I wanted to bite that lip! I slowly leaned in so I knew that only she could hear me.
"Think of all the places I could bite to" I whispered.
She blushed ferociously and for some reason squeezed her thighs shut. That movement was surprising to me; did I have an effect on her? This was new and possibly exciting!
"Edward here's your lunch" Alice said shoving a plastic plate into my lap.
I smirked as I tore my gaze away from Bella who not for a second made any attempt of making eye contact with me.
Did I make her uncomfortable, probably? Did she like it, possibly?
"Is this enough?" Emmett said dropping some wood a few feet away from the camp fire.
"Yes" Alice squealed. "Sit, here" She continued shoving a mountain of sandwiches on Emmett's plate.
Emmett sat down next to me and I passed him a beer from the crate.
"Thanks, err dude?" He said looking at the cap.
I took it back and just as I was about to rip it off with my teeth I reached into one of the essential bags Alice had packed and pulled out a bottle opener. I couldn't help but grin to Bella showing her my set of teeth when I popped the cap off using the opener. A small smile escaped her lips as she bit into her sandwich then blushed again.
I passed Emmett his beer and opened another one for myself before chucking the bottle opener back in the bag.
"Do you guys want to go looking for these caves and stuff your cousin was talking about?" Alice asked in between bites.
"Yeah I don't know where about it is but I was told to go north-west from here" Emmett answered whilst chewing.
I managed to eat two sandwiches and a packet of chips Alice brought before I was full. Emmett on the other hand was still going.
"Meet you guys back here in ten minutes Bella and I just have to unpack, oh and the towels are just in one of those bags" Alice informed us.
"Why would we need towels?" Bella enquired.
"Just encase we find that waterfall" Alice squealed.
I could see the terror on Bella's face as they made their way back to their tent. I was quite excited now and I hoped we actually did find this waterfall because the words skinny dip came to mind.
Ten minutes later I was back at the camp fire waiting for the others. I had gone back to my tent and grabbed a pair of swimming shorts just encase and I wrapped a towel around my neck. I had changed into fresh clothes which consisted of a pair of black jeans and a grey long sleeved jumper. I accompanied my outfit with my army boots and leather jacket. I was happy at least that there was no sight of rain clouds and it wasn't all that cold either.
Emmett came out of his tent wearing knee length shorts, a stringed vest so you could see his bulging biceps and half his chest and he had his baseball cap backwards on his head.
"What the fuck are them?" I laughed pointing to the flip flops on his feet.
"What?" He said throwing a towel around his shoulder.
"Were in the middle of the fucking woods and your wearing flip flops"
"Shut it man there comfy, the grounds not that boggy anyway"
I rolled my eyes and lit up a smoke when I heard giggles coming from the girl's tent.
"Come on man!" Emmett shouted.
Alice and Bella made an appearance zipping their tent shut behind them. For a split second I felt a bit upset that Bella hadn't walked out of there dressed in a bikini but then again neither did Alice. Alice was dressed in jeans with wellingtons accompanied by a grey jacket and Bella had opted for grey sweat pants and an over sized sweater. I must admit even in her relaxing slob look attire she looked as sexy as hell.
"Ready?"Emmett smirked.
"Yes lead the way" Alice giggled making sure to pack and bring a little supply bag with us.
We walked for a good forty five minutes until we came to an opening in the trees. We would have made it here sooner but nobody had thought to pack a compass so we had to try and use the GPS on our phones; not that they helped anyway. Bella's mobile was ancient and it didn't even have internet access. Emmett's phone was sitting nestled in the glove compartment in the jeep and Alice had regretfully left her phone on the kitchen side early this morning; so that left mine.
My internet and signal strength were both shit but with a lot of patience we managed to calculate which way was north-west. Having used my phone for so long here and using it this morning in the jeep to listen to music the battery only had one bar left.
Bella had finished putting some red tape to another tree before she joined us. It was a brilliant idea actually that Misses smart pants came up with. Every now and then she would put a bit of red tape around a tree so if we managed to get lost we could find our way back to camp. Not that we couldn't have found it anyway it was pretty much a straight walk up over the hill but with the amount of trees and the uneven rocky terrain it would be so easy to make a wrong turn out here.
"Oh my god it's beautiful!" Alice squealed.
We walked into an opening and I must admit it was amazing. It looked almost like a canyon and we were standing at the bottom of it. Huge mountains of rock surrounded us which were covered in lush green forests and green moss. There was a gushing waterfall that ended into what was a small type of lake underneath it.
There was a wall of rocks by the far side of the lake that sculpted up as high as the mountains that surrounded us. The rock formation around the wall hovered over the lake just below the waterfall and it made it look like a perfect spot for diving. There were wild flowers growing everywhere and so many different types of trees to look at this place was breathtakingly beautiful.
I glanced towards Bella whose eyes were lost taking in all this beauty around her.
"Yes I agree" I said to Alice whilst looking at Bella. "Beautiful"
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