Authors Note:
Well, here it is, finally another chapter! Review Please!
Songs:
Far More—The Honorary Title, Losing Touch—The Killers, Hurricane—Something Corporate
Disclaimer: I dont own twilight, or edward..even though i wish i did.
Hurricane
Edwards POV
"Oh shit," Emmett said as he moved the curtain to look out the window.
The storm had gotten worse over the past few hours; at this point going out side was the last thing on everyone's mind.
The wind howled and cried as it ripped through the trees and beat against the house—shaking it.
I felt Bella shiver next to me so I pulled her closer and rubbed my hand up and down her arm in attempts to soothe her.
"It's going to be fine," I whispered in her ear so no one else could hear. "It's just a storm, nothing to be worried about."
She looked up at me, her brown eyes wide. "How do you know? You can't be positive."
"Well, I do know that New Jersey has never had a deadly storm, and I doubt today will be that day."
"You don't know my luck—just because I'm here means that this storm will be bad," she murmured under her breath.
I couldn't help but chuckle at her logic—but she gave me a death glare, so I immediately stopped.
Just for her I wished that this storm wouldn't be bad—but there was something inside me saying that it would be.
"Why don't we watch some television," Rose suggested, and that sounded perfect at the moment.
She picked up the remote and started clicking the power button, and a frown immediately formed on her lips—but she kept clicking.
Jasper cleared his throat, "Um, Rose, I don't think it's going to work—no matter how many times you try."
"Shut up! I just wanted to make sure…" she mumbled out the last part. I could tell that this storm was getting to everyone.
"Of course you did Rosie," Emmett said trying to soothe her, while taking the remote from her hand and placing it on the side table.
"Alright, we can't just sit here and torture ourselves by waiting for this storm to get worse." Alice announced, "We have to do something fun to get our minds off of it."
There was a chorus of 'mhms' around the room agreeing with her.
"But-but what is there to do that's fun?" Bella asked beside me, still shaking slightly.
At Bella's words everyone got silent and considered things to do.
"Board Games!" Emmett shouted with a big smile on his face.
I smirked at him. "Emmett not that board games wouldn't be a great idea…but where do you propose we get them?"
"Uhh…did no one bring board games?" Everyone in the room shook their heads.
"Well, this sucks! Who goes on vacation and doesn't bring a good board game to play?" He asked.
"Obviously you, since you didn't bring any either genius." Jasper said under his breath.
Everyone laughed and this and Emmett huffed and fell back down onto the couch.
"Cards?" Rose proposed.
"No, I'm horrible at cards. If we play cards I will still be thinking about the storm, and I will be depressed because I'm loosing." Bella announced while pouting.
I chuckled at her and she scowled at me, but I kissed her forehead and whispered in her ear, "One day I'll teach you how to play cards and you'll be able to beat everyone in this room."
She looked at me skeptically with an eyebrow raised. "Oh really, you think your that good of a teacher?"
"I know I'm that good of a teacher." I said with my head held high. "I once won over a thousand dollars at a poker game." I mentioned matter of factly.
Bella looked at me with her mouth wide open in amazement. "A thousand dollars? The only time I ever played poker I lost about three hundred dollars, and that kind of ended my card career."
I couldn't help it I burst out laughing because she looked so adorable with her little pout.
"I'm sorry love, you're just too adorable for your own good."
Her eyes widened in shock after what I said. "What?" I asked.
"Nothing, you just…" she looked at me with confused eyes, but she composed herself, "Never mind it wasn't important." She said and smiled sweetly at me.
Bella's POV
Did he really not know what he just said? I swear, I've never met someone who was perceptive yet oblivious at the same time.
But I wasn't going to be the one to bring it up…plus, I didn't even know what we were really.
All this uncertainty drove me crazy, so I decided to just ignore it and go with the flow.
"I got it!" Alice announced with a big smile on her face.
She raced into the kitchen and all I heard was the opening and closing of cabinets along with the clanking of bottles.
I looked up at Edward with worried eyes, "I'm scared…whatever she is planning seems dangerous with all the noise she's making."
He chuckled at my logic. "We won't know until she comes back but…it does sound a little dangerous…" his voice trailing off at the end as he considered what Alice could be plotting, his arm tightening around me unconsciously.
I smiled slightly; I loved when he would get protective of me, even in silly situations like this.
I heard the last cabinet close as Alice came back into the room with six shot glasses and a bottle of tequila.
I let out a loud groan at what I saw. "So your plan is to get us drunk? I could have thought of that."
She rolled her eyes at me. "No, that's not my plan…well not my whole plan. We are going to play a game called have you ever."
"Have I ever…what?" I inquired skeptically.
"Just have you ever," she sighed dramatically. "Basically, we go around in a circle and each person comes up with a have you ever, for example…" she was broken off by Emmett.
"Have you ever streaked in the girls dorm at your college!" Jasper and Edward burst out in laughter at this.
"Oh—oh my god! That was probably the funniest thing of my life…" Jasper managed to get out, despite that fact that he was gasping for breath.
"Remember, remember when he fell!" Edward mentioned while tears were streaming down his face; my whole body was shaking because of the vibrations his laughing was giving off.
"Completely wiped out in the middle of the hallway," Jasper added on.
"I still have the pictures." Edward sighed, finally calmed down. "I will never forget that."
By this time Emmett's faced wasn't very pleased and Rose was smirking at him. "You are so immature," she said, but we all knew she thought it was a little funny.
"Anyway!" Alice began again, "so, someone comes up with a have you ever, and if you have you take a shot…and I guess we'll play until the bottles gone."
She smiled expectantly, "So who wants to play?"
There was a chorus of 'alrights' around the room, except from Edward and I.
He looked at me, his eye brows raised, giving me the option to say no—but everyone else looked excited and there was truly nothing else to do. "Fine," I drawled out dramatically, "I'll play."
We all gathered around the table in the family room, sitting of the floor—Edward on one side of me and Alice on the other.
My knee was shaking, a nervous habit, even though I wasn't sure what I was nervous about—probably just the questions that were going to be asked.
Edward must have sensed my uneasiness and he put his hand on my knee in a comforting manner, and I immediately calmed.
"Are you okay?" He asked, his eyes concerned. My heart fluttered, would I ever get used to looking into his eyes?
I bit my lip and nodded. "I'm fine, I just hate not knowing what questions they're going to ask…and I'm wondering how drunk I'm going to get tonight."
He smiled reassuringly, "Well, if you don't want to play anymore at any point you don't have to you know."
I sighed. "I know, Alice might get pissed, but she'll get over it." I laughed, and he joined in with me.
"Yeah, I'm sure she'd forgive you eventually." Then he smiled crookedly at me as the glasses were set in front of each of us, filled to the rim with tequila. This was going to be a long night.
"I'll go first," Alice, announced, bouncing slightly; I could feel the excitement radiating off her, it frightened me.
"Hmm, have you ever peed in a pool?' We all looked at her like she was crazy, this was definitely not the question I was expecting.
"Alice, what kind of question is that?" Rose demanded.
She looked sheepish. "I thought we could start off with simpler questions, they'll get better later in the game."
We shrugged at her logic and everyone took the shot. "Wow, we are disgusting people," Jasper said after each of us admitted to peeing in a pool.
We all laughed, "Whoever says they haven't is a liar, I'm pretty sure it's a right of passage." Emmett reasoned.
"Ew," I said. "I just hope we all don't still do that…or else I'm not getting into a pool with any of you any time soon."
The game continued like this for a while, innocent questions that really held no significant but were fun to ask nonetheless. I had already had three shots the first twenty minutes of the game.
"Have you ever had sex?" Emmett was the first one to dive into the sexual questions. Surprisingly everyone except Alice and Jasper took the shot.
All the guys looked at Alice with raised eyebrows, "What?" she asked slightly tipsy, "I'm a lady," she giggled and kissed Jasper on the cheek, "and he's my southern gentleman."
Jasper blushed slightly at hr statement which made me laughed. I put my hand over my heart, "You two are perfect for each other."
"Know what shocks me more than Alice and Jasper being virgins?" Emmett stood up with the empty glass in his hand. "The fact that little Bella here isn't." He grinned mischievously at me.
I groaned and put my hands on my face; I could feel the blush creeping up. "I was young and stupid." I tried to defend myself, but failing miserably because of Rose's next statement.
"Wasn't it last year Bella?"
"N—oh wait, was it, I—hmm…" I continued to ponder her question. Maybe I should stop drinking, this thought popped into my head—but it disappeared as soon as it came.
"My turn!" Rose announced happily. "Have you ever had a one night stand?"
Embarrassingly enough only Emmett and I took this shot. Emmett started howling laughter, "I would have never expected this kind of inappropriate behavior from you Isabella."
"It was just that one time, I don't even remember his name which kills me," I said. "It is tortured me for months."
"We even hunted the campus for Bella's mystery one night stand—but we never found him." Alice announced sadly.
But I had zoned her out, the alcohol was getting to me…one or two more and it would be a repeat of mystery sex night.
I laid my head down on the table and noticed Edward smiling at me, and he began running his fingers through my hair comfortingly.
Edward had remained silent through most of the game, taking the shots as they came—he must have a high tolerance for alcohol.
He leaned down and whispered in my ear, "You're beautiful, you know that right?"
I blushed and shook my head in disagreement; I knew that I was far from beautiful.
"You're wrong," I could feel his hot sweet breathe on my neck, and every nerve in my body was on fire. I wanted him—I needed him. "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen."
He began leaving a trail on kisses down my neck and onto my collarbone. My breathing was becoming erratic.
All I wanted to do was grab his face and bring his lips to mine—hold him so close to me that not even a pin would be able to be placed in between us.
But Alice's disappointed voice brought me out of my trance—leaving me hot and bothered in the process.
"The tequila is all gone." She pouted and Jasper brought her closer to him. "What do we do now?"
"Well, it's midnight now, so I'm thinking bed would be good for now." Edward said.
He looked down at me for a moment after he said this with a strong emotion in his eyes—was lit lust, or something more? I couldn't tell.
"That's sounds good," I agreed. "I'm exhausted, and I think I need a bottle of water—I'd rather not wake up with a hang over tomorrow."
"I'll go get one for you okay?" Edward offered.
"Thanks," I smiled at him, and he gave me a chaste kiss before heading to the kitchen.
I heard the wind howling outside, and that brought back memories of the storm. I walked to the window and stared out—the sky was an ominous green color, but it surprisingly looked calm even though the wind was ripping through the trees.
Wow, I thought. Alice's game really had worked. I didn't think about the storm the entire time.
I continued to look out the window until Edward returned. "You ready?" He asked standing near the bottom of the stairs.
I turned and looked at him, smiling as he smiled at me. "Yeah I a--…" But I was cut off by a loud crash and shards of glass flying into the room as the window besides me shattered.
I screamed as the glass broke the surface of my skin, and I crumpled to the ground hoping to avoid any more that could be flying my way.
I could hear the others in the room screaming as the debris flew throughout the room; but the only voice I could focus on was Edward's as he came sprinting towards me.
"Bella? Bella, are you okay?" His frantic voice was practically drowned out by the violent screams of the wind, as objects flew throughout the room.
I felt a searing pain in my arms and my back where the glass at hit me most but I managed to whimper out that I was fine.
I lifted my eyes up to him and saw that his hair was blowing every where and that his eyes where narrowed at me; but despite my pathetic lie about how I was fine he picked me up and rushed us out of the room up the stairs to where everyone else was.
Everyone was panting and Alice and Rose's eyes were red as if they were crying. At once everyone asked how I was, and Edward answered for me.
"She should be fine, I'm going to check how bad her cuts are."
"How are you guys?" I asked. They replied that they were fine, just a few scratches here and there.
"Everyone try and stay away from the windows—but we should be fine since were upstairs—I doubt anything will break the windows on the second floor." Jasper announced and everyone agreed that it would be best to avoid windows as much as possible.
"Let's go to the bathroom," Edward said once everyone had retreated to their rooms. "I have to look at your cuts."
"Alright," I whispered.
He stood me up in the middle of the bathroom, and requested that I take off my top and pants so he could get a better look at me.
I was a little uncomfortable but I knew that it was best. He removed the glass that was still embedded into my skin, and soothed me when I would whimper in pain because some of them were in deep.
Then he cleaned them out and announced that for the most part I was fine.
"There are just two spots—one on your back, and one on your arm, where I think you need stitches."
I bit my lip and nodded at him. "Okay."
"We really should go to the hospital now, but its impossible, so I'm going to cover them up as best I can."
He put the bandages on tenderly and kissed the areas that contained cuts—then when he was finished he carried me bridal style over to the bed.
I could feel how much he cared for me when he handled me this delicately, like I was a doll; that only made me want him more.
He came back over to me with a pair of my pajamas in his hands. "Thank you," I told him with as much passion as I could muster. "No one has ever taken care of me like you just did."
I went up to kneel on my knees so I was look him in the eyes. "You deserve to be taken care of like that Bella."
He lifted his hand up to my cheek and dragged it down my arm where he let it rest at my waist.
My breath was coming out in gasps—I reached up both my arms and put them around his neck, bringing him closer.
I saw lust fill his eyes as he closed the distance between us—his mouth devouring mine. My vision was fuzzy but I didn't care—I needed to be close to him like this.
His lips released mine as they went trailing down my body—allowing me to breath for a second before I reached for his face and brought it back up to mine—bringing him as close to me as I could.
Both of his hands grabbed my waist brought me down onto the bed where he laid on top he me—allowing me to feel each muscle and line of his body.
I reach for the bottom of his shirt and lifted it off of him, and let my hands trail down his perfect body—causing him to shiver at my touch. I smiled, knowing that I could cause him to react like this.
He brought my mouth back to his violently and all I could hear was the howling of the wind and our breathing.
My legs wrapped around his waist and my hands moved towards his belt, but something must have registered in his mind as to where I wanted this to go.
His hands gently restrained mine and he began to untangle himself from me—but he still remind very close; leaving light kisses across my face.
"No Bella, not tonight…" He whispered softly, leaving more kisses across my shoulder bone.
"But—" I panted out.
"Not when we are both drunk, and most definitely not when you need stitches."
"I'm not drunk," I complained. He raised his eyebrows. "Well I'm not that drunk." I pouted and he kissed it away.
"I know, but I want it to be more special…I want you to remember who I am in the morning…" He chuckled and I huffed in annoyance.
"Don't you want it to be special?" He let his noise trail across my cheek.
"Yes," I sighed in contentment.
I felt him smile against my lips, "Good, cause I want it to be to. Sleep now, you've had a long day."
With that he pulled the covers over us and held me close—I'd never felt more at peace that I did in that moment.
As I drifted to sleep I heard him whisper, "Goodnight, love." There it was again, but this time I didn't question it. I embraced it and fell into a peaceful sleep.
Authors Note 2:
Wow, that's been my longest chapter in a while haha. Tell me what you thought and I will try my best to update quicker.
Review please, they keep me writing and I love to see what you have to say.
Oh and did everyone else pick up their copy of the Twilight DVD? I've watched it 4 times since I got it hahah.
