The Twilight Twenty-Five

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Prompt: # 16

Pen Name: twilly | Pairing/Character(s): Edward/Bella | Rating: M | Word Count: 371

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Stripper

As soon as I heard the bathroom door click, I tapped the call button and brought the phone to my ear. "Jasper."

"Dude. You struck out with the new girl already?" I heard the smugness in his voice.

"Dude. She's fucking stripping," I replied lowly so she couldn't hear.

"WHAT?" I heard the rustle of him jumping to his feet. "Seriously? And she's letting you watch?"

"She wants me to help."

"No way."

"Totally fucking serious."

"Lucky bastard." I smiled to myself, hearing his smugness replaced with awe.

"Come see for yourself."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Bring Em. She said the more the merrier."

"No fucking way."

"Better hurry before she changes her mind."

"I gotta wake Em's lazy ass up. We'll be there in fifteen."

I slid my phone back in my pocket just as Bella walked back into the room. We stood shoulder to shoulder, staring at the wall for a moment.

I swallowed the last dregs of my coffee. "Do you have any more of those," I asked, pointing to the red, palm-sized tool laying on a box beside me.

"Yeah, I bought like three, why?"

"My buddies, Jasper and Emmett, are on their way to help."

Her eyes brightened, and she bounced on her toes. I tried not to watch as her boobs bounced under her tank top too. "Really?"

I nodded, trying hard to keep my eyes on hers.

"That'll be great! If we get this section done before they get here, two of us can work on steaming and scraping while the other two score the next section."

We picked up the tools and went back to sweeping random arcs on the wall, leaving pinprick holes in their wake.

As attractive as I thought she was before, seeing her smile and laugh as her ponytail swung with her vigorous movements made her absolutely adorable. I hoped the guys would be as charmed by her when they realized we were stripping walls instead of Bella. As if I'd let them see her naked. Suckers.

"I really appreciate this, Edward. It would take me forever by myself," she said, still scoring circles into the paper. "I don't know what they were thinking. Who wallpapers an entire room with maps?"

No poles in my stripper flash. ;) Well, except maybe Edward's, but we'll all just pretend we can't see that.

Thank you so much for reading!

And thanks to Geeky for looking it over for me. She totally peeked at Edward's pole, js