A/N: This chapter has an advisory warning, while its not full on M, it's definitely got some suggestive fluff.
A few songs included in this chapter that I listened to while writing. I felt they gave this chapter the atmosphere I pictured in my head. You may listen to the suggested songs or chose your own, whatever is best for you!
Songs in this chapter:
Ric Flair Drip -Offset
ZEKE -Kodak Black
I Do- Cardi B
Breakup with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored -Ariana Grande (I want to note that while this song is not released in October of 2018, I still like it and feel it set a mood I wanted, so whatever)
She stood at the threshold of her door, adjusting her headband that had little ears on them. I took her momentary distraction to take in the full sight before me. From the bottom-up, Bella wore white platform shoes and white garter stockings that stopped mid-thigh. A small portion of her thighs were visible between the top of the stockings and a sinfully short baby pink skirt that covered more of her belly than it did her lower half. Her midriff was exposed, giving view of her small body. I wondered how her soft her skin there must feel. Her pink bra top took the most effort to look away from. Her breasts pushed together to form beautiful mounds of cleavage that would have any man drooling. They nearly had me drooling. Her long, wavy hair hung, as usual, around her shoulders. On her head, she'd finally adjusted her furry white ear headband to her liking and smiled at me. She wore sultry eye makeup, a glossy pink lip, and pink makeup at the tip of her nose as her lamb nose. It took me a minute to remember where I was and that I'd been openly ogling her. Jesus Christ, she's a fucking knockout.
"Like it?" She asked almost in a purr. Was it me imagining the way she said that? I struggled to form a response more than just opening and closing my mouth 3 times. Alice stepped in to answer for me, thankfully.
"Oh. My. God! Bella holy shit, you're so hot!" Alice screamed in delight. I couldn't have said it better myself, Alice. Bella blushed, shifting her left leg in front of her right, which exposed more of the exposed skin of her thigh. I actually had to pry to my eyes away from the sight, as to not look like a complete creep.
"Thanks! I'm a lamb. Baaa." Bella joked, making her best sheep impression. "You're a total babe, Alice. Damn that dress!"
"Oh this? This is just my church attire." Alice grinned widely, running her hands down her body. Bella and Alice laughed together before the attention was suddenly turned to me. I wish it wasn't.
"Oh, Edward you look so handsome." Bella said gently, kind of like how you'd speak to a kid. I grimaced.
"Thanks."
Alice snuggled up to my right arm, pinching my makeup covered cheek.
"He's so cute, isn't he?" Alice laughed. I pulled away and swatted lightly at her in return.
"Alright that's enough. Can we get this over with please?" I sighed. Bella and Alice both "tsk'd" me, before agreeing and moving towards the door.
"Where are we going again?" Alice asked as we made our way down the hall towards the elevator.
"The frat house on 18th. Kappa sigma, I think? It's Jake's house. The entire block is having parties but this one's supposed to be the craziest." Bella replied, checking her phone quickly for the time before shoving it back into her small purse.
When we stepped outside the dorm building doors, a cold breeze hit us. Bella and Alice shivered, but didn't make a move to turn around to go grab a jacket.
"Aren't you guys cold?" I asked, watching the goosebumps on their arms rise. They looked at me with one raised eyebrow like I was an idiot.
"Hoes don't get cold." Bella replied as if it was obvious. I was dumbstruck with confusion at what the hell that meant.
We arrived by taxi to the frat house. It was 11:45pm on a Wednesday night but no one cared. Drunk people were lying on the lawn, some vomiting, some sleeping, some…. procreating. The inside was lit up with variously changing colors and covered in a thick cloud I can only image was cigarette smoke. The music was so intensely loud, I could hear it from inside the taxi. Beside me, both Bella and Alice smoothed their hair and adjusted their outfits.
"Ready?" Alice asked me, looping her arm with mine. I sighed, nodding my head. I so badly didn't want to be here, but I knew it meant a lot to Alice, who probably didn't want to be 3rd wheeling with Bella and Jacob all night.
Alice smiled gratefully while she followed Bella and led me along. Making our way up to the door, I immediately differentiated the scent of cigarette smoke from marijuana smoke. It was a disgusting mixture of both, but the weed that hung in the air was the heaviest. I held my breath as Alice guided me through the sea of bodies that surrounded us. It seemed like every girl here wore next to nothing as their costumes. Sexy kitties, nurses, and witches everywhere. I even saw a girl with absolutely no top on at all. I wonder what the hell that costume was supposed to be. A loud, thumping bass rattled the house while rap came too quickly for me to understand. It was not my kind of music by any means, but I know it was what a lot of my peers liked to listen to. (Ric Flair Drip -Offset) The music was surprisingly loud all throughout the house and I wondered then what kind of sound system they had installed. Was it separate speakers in each room all synched up or just one overhead sound system?
Alice pulled on my arm harder, which I took as a signal to keep moving. I obliged, moving again through the crowd instead of getting distracted looking for hidden speakers. Bella led us to the main living room that was on the right side of the house. It was packed with people and the scent of alcohol. The scent hit my nose like a freight train, making me nauseous. Bella spotted Jacob laughing as he sat on the arm of one of the couches with some guys, I'm assuming were his frat brothers. Bella made her way over to him, immediately wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning forward to expose the bottom of her ass beneath her skirt. He smiled back at her, wrapping his right arm around her waist and turning back to his conversation.
I think any question I had of whether or not they were sleeping together was answered just then. A pain of jealousy ran through me, but I can't say I was surprised. Alice seemed to shake off the shock faster than me as she led me over to a ping pong table covered in alcohol and cups.
She looked at me in the red flashing lights and mouthed 'do you want a drink?' to which I shook my head in disgust. She looked at me pleadingly and proceeded to try to speak but it was too loud to hear her.
"What?" I tried to scream at her. I'm assuming she read my lips, as she mouthed back what looked like 'please'. I shook my head again, holding my hands up. She rolled her eyes, turning the table to pour herself a shot of tequila.
When she handed me a shot as well, I took the glass from her just to set it back down on the table. Alice took her shot without noticing that I hadn't taken mine. She gagged briefly and made a look of utter disgust. She looked at the table and quickly grabbed a lemon slice to suck on. When she recovered, she grabbed a plastic solo cup and filled it with whatever the red juice in the punch bowl on the table was.
I looked around for a spot to park myself for the next few hours while the girls had fun. There were people absolutely everywhere and I feared I'd have to go outside to find anywhere to sit, but it was chilly outside, so I didn't exactly want to do that.
The song changed again, this time some kind of tropical sounding rap song (ZEKE -Kodak Black). Alice sipped on her drink as she took my arm again and led me to the other side of the house where everyone was dancing. I glanced behind me to get another look at Bella who was laughing with Jacob and his friends as they handed her something.
Alice tried her best to get me to dance with her, but after realizing I wouldn't budge, she gave up and decided to dance on her own. I leaned against the wall between a couple that were dry humping and a girl who was throwing up into a potted plant. This is great.
I watched Alice for a little while but found great entertainment in observing the rest of the room instead. I watched a couple across the room scream at each other for 5 minutes before making up and sucking each other's faces mere moments later. I watched a guy get punched in the nose, and promptly spray blood all over the floor, after he was caught making out with some guy's girlfriend. An hour must have passed, it felt like 20 or 30 minutes that I hadn't seen Alice on the dance floor. I panicked for a minute as I scanned the crowd for her. I left my spot against the wall to walk through the crowd in search of her. I found Bella first, who collided with me. She looked up, and after recognizing me, burst into a fit of giggles.
"Bella have you seen-?" I tried to say but failed due to the ear-splitting intensity of the music around us. She obviously didn't hear me as she instead proceeded to wrap her arms around my neck like she had to Jacob earlier. She leaned closer to my face as she tried to speak into my ear. The strong scent of alcohol and marijuana seeped from her breath, making me pull my face back a bit.
"Edward." Was all I could make out of what she was saying. I looked at her face, watching as her pupils focused and unfocused on me and her pink lips struggled to drag in air. She was wasted as hell. Great. I looked around the room again for Alice, wondering if she was also drunk, but didn't spot her. I wrapped my arm around Bella, pulling her with me as I made my way out of the room and towards the front door where I could sit her on the staircase. I set her gently on the second step, careful not to let her sit in the puddle of green liquid at the base of the stairs. It was still alarmingly loud in the front of the house, but not as loud as the room we'd previously been in.
"Bella are you okay? How much did you have to drink?" I yelled over the music, crouching down to look at her face. She smiled goofily, eyes closed as she wiggled her head and body with the rhythm of the music.
"I write my own name on the checks, pussy so good I say my own name during sex…" Bella belted, continuing with more words I couldn't understand. (I Do- Cardi B)
"What?" I yelled, confused. She didn't reply, instead continuing to sing lazily. I assumed she was singing along to the song currently playing in the house and decided not to try to decipher what she said any further.
"Okay uh…" I stood up, trying to decide the best way to handle the situation I was currently in. Bella was impaired, Jacob was no where in sight, as well as Alice. I needed to at least find her and make sure she got back to our dorm safely. Bella was looking at me from under her eyelashes, singing something I couldn't hear. Her torso was swaying back and forth tantalizingly. She brought her left hand up to her neck before dragging her fingers down to her cleavage. I watched as she hooked her fingers under the top of her bra and pulled them back and forth teasingly. She bit her lip with a smile as she cupped her covered breast with the same hand. I immediately became aware of my hitched breathing and racing heart but just as quickly had to remind myself Bella was intoxicated and anything she was doing right now was because of the drugs and alcohol she consumed. Not to mention she was with Jacob. I wouldn't take advantage of Bella like that, so I forced myself to look away.
"Bella, we have to find Alice." I told her, pulling my phone out of my back pocket. I quickly searched for the number to a taxi service and saved the number so I could call it when we had Alice. Bella stood and stumbled but caught herself on the handrail as a drunk couple ran up the stairs, hand in hand.
"I'm sure she's fiiiiiine." Bella slurred, offering her hand to me. I took it but didn't expect her to try pulling me up the stairs. (Breakup with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored -Ariana Grande)
"Bella." I said sternly, pulling her back. She laughed, lifting my arm above her head and spinning under it, coming to a stop with her back against my chest. She looked at me over her shoulder. With my hand that she had still clasped in hers, she pulled our hands down the front of her body, allowing me to feel the silky-smooth skin of her midriff that I'd been wondering about earlier this evening. I tried to pry my hand away when she moved us past her stomach.
"Bella please, you're drunk. Let's just get you and Alice home, okay?" I scolded, desperately wishing I would just shut up and let Bella do to me what she wanted. Bella shook her head against my chest, swaying her body against me.
This shit always happen to me, why can't we just play for keeps? Mm-mm. Practically on my knees…
Bella dropped to a crouch as she pressed harder against me. The back of her head was against my crotch now and I really couldn't control the reaction my body had then. Fuck's sake what the hell is happening. I tried pulling Bella up by her arms, but she instead burst into a fit of giggles on the floor, dangerously close to that green mystery puddle. I gathered her hair before it came in contact with the puddle and tried to gently lift her up. She grabbed the front of my t-shirt, pulling me close to her face. She had a gorgeous smile as she whispered in my ear.
"You can hit it in the morning like it's yours."
I swear I felt my soul leave my body. Where the hell was Jacob and why was he not watching over Bella? I couldn't keep this up.
I struggled to hook my arm under Bella's when someone grabbed Bella's other arm and helped me lift her to her feet. I looked at the person, whom I didn't recognize but was extremely grateful for. He was a tall and skinny guy, wearing a cowboy costume. His shaggy blonde hair poked out from under his cowboy hat. Once Bella was on her feet, she fell against me, closing her eyes. I sighed in relief, looking at the stranger to tell him how grateful I was when I noticed Alice hanging behind him, chugging a drink from her cup.
"Alice! Where have you been?" I said with relief evident in my voice. She pulled the cup from her lips, looking at me with a weird look in her eye.
"Eddie! Oh my gosh I've been shlooking for you everywhere." She slurred, giggling after realizing her misspoken word. "I mean looking." Also, to answer my earlier question, yes, Alice was also drunk somewhere.
I looked at the stranger again, who was smiling at Alice.
"Hey, thanks for the help, I really appreciate it." I told him, taking his hand for a shake.
"No problem. Anything for Alice's friends." He replied, taking Alice's free hand. She blushed and smiled at him. He didn't seem drunk at all, yet Alice was pretty clearly inebriated. I was suspicious of his intentions but before I could voice my concerns, His hand left Alice's.
"You should get going, hon. I'll call you tomorrow." He kissed her on the cheek, pushing her gently by the small of her back, towards me.
"Okay Jazzy." Alice swooned, biting her lip at him. He looked at me then.
"Do you need any help with them?"
I looked at Bella who was now wide awake again and trying to put her hand under my t-shirt and Alice who was wobbling in place, barely standing.
"Actually, yes. Thank you." I replied to him, as I pulled Bella's hand from my stomach and hitched her higher up against me so I could carry her out of the house. He grabbed Alice around her waist and led her outside along with me. I pulled my phone out and quickly called that taxi company. They would arrive in 5 minutes. We all sat on the curb as we waited for the cab.
Outside, it was noticeably colder than when we first got there. Both Bella and Alice groaned in discomfort. Jasper removed the coat of his costume, some cow leather jacket, and draped it over Alice's shoulders. I did the same with my stupid vampire cloak/cape thing, for Bella. It was a thin, cheap piece of fabric however, and did nothing to keep Bella warm. She shivered hard, leaning into my side and burying her face against my chest. Her right leg hooked over mine tightly. Once again, my body reacted, and my breathing suddenly came in jagged breaths. I so badly wanted to pull those white stockings down and reveal those long legs.
"You good, partner?" The stranger to my right asked, watching me with amusement on his face. I cleared my throat out of embarrassment, nodding in reply.
"I'm Jasper Whitlock." He said, pulling Alice into his side tight.
"Edward Cullen." I replied, "Nice to meet you."
"Likewise."
"So, do you know Alice, or did you just meet tonight?" I asked. Bella rubbed her lips against my chest, sending electric shocks throughout my body. I tried my best to ignore it as I continued my conversation with Jasper.
"We're in art and design class together." Jasper replied, "We've spoken briefly before but I saw her dancing alone tonight and saw my opportunity to get to talk to her again."
I nodded, taking in the information. A yellow cab pulled up just then, cutting our conversation. I lifted Bella up with me and opened the door of the backseat.
"Watch your head, Bella." I said softly as I tried to gently guide her into the taxi. She climbed clumsily into the back on all fours. Luckily for me, the cape I'd given her covered her behind and anything I might've seen beneath her short skirt. Bella climbed to the farthest seat and kicked her shoes off. Jasper moved around me to help Alice into the back, however, he helped her get her body in first, then her head so she wouldn't flash him anything under her dress. I'm not sure why I didn't think of that. Alice smiled dozily at Jasper, waving goodbye as he shut the door.
"Thank you, you saved me a lot of hassle." I told him as I opened the passenger side door and climbed in.
"No problem! Get home safe now." He smiled. Once the taxi driver pulled away from the house, I began telling him to head towards campus when the sound of gagging and the putrid stench of vomit interrupted me.
