Previously: Curling up beside his naked form, he wrapped me into his warm arms, kissing my forehead before telling me he loved for for the hundred time tonight; and we both fell into a peaceful sleep.


Chapter Eight

-BPOV-

My eyes fluttered open to the sound of light snoring in my ear. Pulling back enough, I laid their still wrapped in Paul's arms and watched his sleeping form. His features were much softer at this moment than I have ever seen them. He looked almost, child-like. I let my pointer finger trace his jawline and around the edge of his lips. He started to mumble so I pulled my hand away from his face; his brow came together and there was a slight wrinkle between his eyebrows. I smoothed the line away with my thumb. When I looked over at the nightstand, the clock read twelve am. I knew we were up pretty late last night but we really needed to head out, both of us had patrol today. Gently, I kisses his forehead; but, no response besides a small smile. I kissed his lips next, lingering longer than I normally would. His grip on me tightened and his lips began to move against mine.

"Mmm," he hummed against my lips. "Good morning."

"Good morning to you too, honey." I replied by deepening the kiss. Our tongues twisted and curled together for a few minutes before I pulled away. I ran my thumb over his bottom lip, kissing him once more, "Honey, we need to get ready to go on patrol. Sam warned us about being late."

Paul groaned and rolled away from me. That is when I noticed he was standing at attention. Gravity working against him, making his erection bob back and almost touched his belly button. I felt myself grow wet just from the sight of him. Suddenly his body went completely still and he sniffed the air. Looked down at himself, his cheeks flushed and he pulled the sheet up to cover himself.

"So, last night did happen..." he mumbled to himself, barely a whisper.

I giggled beside him and his eyes shot straight to mine. "What did you think it was a dream?"

"I just... oh thank god that wasn't a dream. Because, that would have been just cruel."

I giggled again and pulled the sheet down from his body. I loved looking at him. He was honestly the most beautiful man I have ever seen. Vampires included. He beats them all. Paul watched me as I crawled to his side of the bed, slowly I straddled his waist. Leaning down, I kissed his lips passionately. His hands went straight to my hips and pushed me down against his hard member. We both groaned into each others mouths at the contact. Breaking the kiss to catch his breath, Paul laid kisses down my neck and nibbled at the spot where my shoulder and neck connect.

"Bella. Baby. Could we try something?" he asked between kisses.

I purred at the feel of his lips on my skin. "Like what?"

In an instant, he had me flipped onto my back with him resting between my legs. "You have to trust me and promise not to move too much, okay?" I nodded. "Just hold as still as possible because I really don't want to slip and penetrate, we both know we are not exactly ready for that just yet."

Carefully he positioned himself so his entire length was between my folds and resting against my sensitive bundle. Wrapping his arms around my shoulders, he brought me as close to his body as possible in this position. Slowly, he thrust his hips forward creating the most amazing sensation. We held each other looking into one another eyes, foreheads touching, breathing in each others scent, the entire time as Paul brought both of us to the most amazing climaxes. It was the closest way for us to make love without actually doing so. And I couldn't have been happier that Paul agreed with me that we weren't ready for the whole thing just yet.

Patrol was horrid today. After are 'love making' this morning, we ending up an hour late to patrol and both Jared and Sam were not happy with us. The other bad part was that neither one of us could keep our thoughts... innocent; poor Collin got a mind full of things he is just way to young to even see. Though, Jake and Embry found it completely hilarious; saying that we have scarred the poor boy for life. After the torture Paul and I put on Collin, I took over the last two hours of his shift.

After patrol was over we switched off; Sam made Paul and I come over and explain why Collin refused to even talk and when he actually looked at him or Emily that his face would flush, then his shoes became the most interesting this in the world. I felt even worse than before after that. To say Sam was happy about my new sex life, was a complete and utter lie. He was furious. It came down to Sam screaming at Paul for taking away my innocence, Paul yelled right back that I was of age and perfectly able to make my own decisions, Emily held me on the sofa as I cried and tried to get them to stop... then Sam did an all time low, he called Charlie.

Charlie made it to La Push in record time.

I had seen Charlie mad before but he was absolutely pissed. I didn't even get to plead my case to him. He just assumed that Paul took me home after prom and had his way with me; which is not actually a lie because he did, but we were being responsible and Paul didn't cross any boundaries that I didn't want him to. Of course, Charlie had come straight from the station, so his hand was on his gun the entire time. The more Charlie and Sam screamed at Paul, the more purple Charlie's face got. I started to worry that the vein on his forehead was going to burst. Finally. I couldn't take it anymore.

"Everyone, shut up!" I screamed.

The guys all stopped and looked at me, mouths agape and eyes wide. I guess I surprised them, they normally don't see me yelling or angry about anything.

"You all are acting like children." I hissed. "Yes, Paul and I spent the night together last night but we did not have sex, technically."

Charlie eyed both me and Paul. "What do you mean you 'technically' didn't have sex?" He asked, venom clear in his voice. "Either you did or you didn't."

I shook my head. "There are other ways to be intimate with a person without having sex, dad."

Charlie's face were a deep crimson. "Oh... of course." he stuttered, clearly embarrassed by the subject.

"Like I told you once before when Paul came into my life, I am a virgin and plan to stay one for awhile." my own cheeks grew warm at my confession in front of everyone.

Charlie nodded.

After a few minutes of silence from everyone, Sam spoke up. "Right, um, Bella – Paul. You both need to go apologize to Collin. By the way he was acting earlier I am sure he saw some things that he really didn't need to see."

We both hung our head, ashamed.

Heading straight to Collin's house, I was going to beg him to forgive us. I stopped short with my apology when I noticed Brady and Seth Clearwater on his front porch. Seth wasn't suppose to be around any of us. We knew that he would probably be joining us at some point but we are hoping that since the Cullen family had left, that he wouldn't be affected by this curse. Walking up to the porch, all three of the boys eyed us. Collin's face instantly flushed and Brady gave him a look that said, 'what the hell?'.

I dropped Paul's hand at the bottom step and walked up the small three steps to the porch. "Collin, could I talk to you for a minute hon?" Collin nodded his head and followed me around the side of the house to their small back yard and he took a seat on a little read swing-set. I sat down beside him in the other swing and kicked at the dusky patch that had formed from years of kicking off. Looking over to him I smiled. "I just wanted to apologize for earlier. I swear, I never meant to let those things slip and I know that you shouldn't have seen things like that. I am really sorry, Collin."

He laughed quietly and his cheeks were slightly flushed again. "It's okay Bells. I know you didn't mean to. I was just.. um shocked, I guess."

"You're not mad at me?" I asked.

"Of course not. You're the big sister I always wanted. I could never be mad at you Bells." he smiled his blinding pearly whites.

I got up from the swing and pulled him into a hug. "Oh thank god. I thought you were going to hate me after that."

Collin patted my back. "Nope, you're still my sister. I have just seen a different side of you." he chuckled.

I groaned.

The next two months passed without much excitement. Prom at Paul's school was fun. Although, I could have lived without all the glares girls were throwing my way. Graduation came and I had to sit through mine without my Paul because his was the same day. Charlie and Paul's parents got together and set up a huge party for the both of us. I was surprised that his parents, mainly his father, wanted anything to do with me. The party was amazing but I was sad that Renee and Phil couldn't make it with Phil in the middle of training for his new team, however, they did chip in with Charlie to buy me a new car after my truck finally gave out. It was a sad day to see the beast take its final few feet. Charlie and Jacob picked out the new car for me. A JEEP Patriot. I love it! At first I honestly didn't want anyone to touch it because I didn't want fingerprints on it shiny black paint but the pack and their puppy dog pouts, killed me.

We did run into anymore of the Cullen coven or any nomads. Sure, I was a little freaked out that Laurent had actually come back to Forks and was about to feed on a human; the last I had heard of him was he was living in Alaska with another vegetarian coven. It just made Sam go into a rant about how it would be possible for any of the Cullens, even Carlisle, could slip at any moment. I didn't think so but kept my mouth shut, not wanting to have that conversation again. Paul and I backed up on our physical relationship some, not wanting to slip with thoughts around the pack, neither of us wanting another screaming match or visit from Charlie.

I had received a letter in the mail a couple weeks back; no return address, no name signed, just a simple acceptance letter for UW, stating that my entire ride was paid in full due to a scholarship that was given in my name. I didn't need a name of the letter to tell me who it was really from. Calling Alice was actually a hard thing to do, mainly because if she had anything to do with the scholarship, I didn't want to hurt her feelings. When I explained to her the letter and everything, her end of the phone erupted with several growls. Now of the Cullens knew that it was being sent to me, except Alice of course, but it was all Edward because he wanted me to 'have a normal human life'; as if I could if I wanted to.

When I told Charlie about it, he was somewhat happy that I could go to college if I wanted to. I wanted to but with the pack and everything, I didn't think I would have time to actually be able to enjoy college life. We discussed it, along with the entire pack; Sam said if I wanted to go to college, I had every right to. But, there was one major thing holding me back from wanting to go. My Paul. If I would have decided to go that would have meant spending four whole days away from him. I couldn't do it. So, we compromised. I was set to start taking online courses in the fall, nothing major just basic courses needed to graduate.

I could say that my life seemed to be going pretty well right now.

I sighed and flopped back onto the couch in Paul's living room. "What do you want to do today honey?" I asked, looking up at his smiling face.

"Hmm, I could think of a few things." he waggled his eyebrows at me.

"Horn dog!" I giggled, smacking him with a pillow. "Men..." I muttered to myself, teasing him. "Only thinking with their other heads."

Paul growled and next thing I knew he was on top of me, tickling my ribs. I screamed, trying to get him to stop but it was no use. I was laughing so hard that I was crying and Paul just kept on going.

"Okay! Okay! I give!" I shrieked. "Uncle!"

"Oh no Bells, last time you tried to get away you ran to big bad Sam. Too bad he isn't here to save ya." he chuckled. His fingers still tickling my ribs in earnest.

I squealed when he put my pressure into his tickling. "Okay, if you don't stop I swear I am going to pee my pants!"

He shook his head. "Like I would fall for that."

I groaned between laughs. "I am serious! I have to pee! Please honey!"

Paul pulled back when he saw the look on my face and I darted start to the bathroom to relief myself. After I finished I began to clean up the towels and clothes we have left lay around the bathroom and bedroom this past week. Loading them into a basket as I walked through the house and put them in the wash. I made us some mac n cheese and hot dogs for lunch, fixing two bowls I took them into the living room with some sodas and we sat and watched TV as we ate. I had just started to run the water to wash up the dishes when the phone rang.

"What!?" Paul shouted. There was a pause. "Okay, we are on our way!" Paul appeared in the door way of the kitchen panic and worry written all over his face. "We have to go Bella, turn the water off. Come on!"

I turned back to the sink and shut off the faucet and pulled the plug on in the sink. "What's wrong?" I asked as Paul ushered me out the front door.

"Harry had a heart attack."

AN: So, sorry for the ones who don't like lemons but it wasn't very graphic. I also skipped ahead a couple months in the story again. Another filler to help lead up to the drama and action. Hope you like the story so far. I am trying my best to write these chapters out but around three this morning I pulled a Bella. Broke my right wrist. Fun, I know. So, I will try to update as much as my sore wrist will allow. See you all next time.

XoXo - Jen