A/N: Hello my devoted readers!! I have some good news… I'll be able to get back to my writing come Monday! I have 3 full days where I can write away!!
OMC!! I've done this chapter all in ONE person's POV. I think that's a first!!
Hope you like what you read…
Drink and Drunk.
(Bella POV)
The three of us made our way down to the dance floor; I slowed our progress down a little by my stumbling, Rose managed to catch me twice. "Alice and her stupid shoes" I muttered under my breath, knowing that they'd both probably hear me even over the music. We headed into the throng of pulsing bodies and joined in; we went deep to what felt like the middle and started dancing together to a familiar song. I couldn't remember the last time I went out dancing with my girls, what with the flat hunting and fixing it all up we hadn't had the time.
I concentrated on the music as I moved, letting the music seep into me and relax me.
The song ended only to be replaced by mine, Rose and Alice's favourite song for when we were together, and old classic that always made us freak out when it got played, Rapture by iio. The three of us shrieked at the sound of the intro of the song, jumping up and down in our excitement. Our enthusiastic response to the song managed to attract a group of about five guys all the way at the edge of the dance floor. I looked down at my feet and felt myself blushing at us being able to attract their attention from way over here, we must have been loud.
We danced together to 'our song' and I closed my eyes listening to the lyrics and beats. A minute or two later I felt someone behind me. I couldn't see them, but I could sense them being there, from the agitated feeling running through me I knew that they were a bit to close to me that I'd like. I'd always been quite particular about my personal space and if anyone invaded it I tended to get anxious, like I was starting to get now.
I opened my eyes to see that Alice, Rose and I were loosely surrounded by the five guys that'd noticed us from the edge of the room earlier, looking at Alice and Rose I knew they weren't happy about being caged either. I tried to think of a way for us to leave without a fuss, but the only thing I could think of was trying to physically hurt them to get away, but they'd outnumber and overpower us three easily. Being in the very middle of the dance floor made us less visible too, no one would be able to hear us protesting if these guys tried anything on. I looked up towards the roof of the club, as if I was expecting the answer to the little pickle we were in to be written there, complete with step by step instructions. My eyes got distracted as I looked up by a pair of bright green eyes which turned slowly to a charred green in rage.
I smiled, knowing that we girls would soon be saved by our knights in sexy armour as I watched them making their way towards the stairs. The guys around us take our pleasured smiles the wrong way and advanced on us, closing the space around us. I felt one of them who was stood close behind me place his hand on my hip as he stepped even closer to try and grind up against me. Where the hell were our knights? I screamed in my head, my hands balled up into fists ready to swing a punch if the dip-stick decided to do anything stupider than he was already doing. I closed my eyes and shuddered from the feeling.
The stupid git is hand and repulsive body abruptly got torn away from me and were replaced by two warm, strong, familiar, welcoming arms; they wrapped their way securely around my waist, holding me possessively from behind, securing me in their hold. I heard a low angry growl deep from Edwards's throat, and felt it vibrating from his chest though into my body, sending shivers in its wake.
I saw to my right that Jasper was walking his way towards Alice with open arms, Alice turned to the creeps and poked her tongue out to them before jumping into Jasper's hold. "My hero" I heard her giggle from his arms as she then kissed him on the side of the neck and rested her head on his shoulder, grinning madly, but calm none the less.
Emmett made his way to Rose and simply placed his arm around her shoulder saying "Hey Bambi" while she moved closer to him, with a smug look on her face and greeted him with a "Hi Peaches", both smiling at each other. Emmett turned his attention to the five 'men'. Him being so muscled and with a threatening look on his face as a signal of warning was enough to scare the idiots away from us, they made their way with their faces plastered with frowns and scowls looking down in disappointment.
The six of us burst out in relief and laughter as Rose proudly stated "We showed them punks who's boss" at which us girls cracked into smiles and giggles.
Emmett turned to Rose saying "Um… we showed them actually" at which he flexed both his arms, pointing to his biceps "me and these guns" I laughed so hard at his seriousness that tears formed in my eyes and Edward had the job of holding me up from the laughter that was almost buckling my legs.
After calming myself down enough to collect my senses I noticed that Alice and Jasper were dancing together, not dancing to the music that was playing, but to their own little tune. Alice was still in Jaspers arms as he swayed them both back and forth slowly.
Emmett and Rose were busy dancing together to the pounding beats, now that I was steady on my feet, Edward let go of his hold on me and pulled me toward Emmett and Rose to join in with the dancing.
As I got closer to Emmett I saw him playing about and dancing like a lunatic and so I joined in with him, having a laugh at doing silly moves like holding my nose and pretending I was swimming underwater while he mimed that he was stuck in a box, making the both of us fall against each other in fits of giggles.
Rose butted in to mine and Emmett's little performance and declared that she would show us how to really dance "Someone needs to show you amateurs how it's really done". I stepped back to let Emmett and Rose dance away in their own mini dance-off, Edward, Jasper, Alice and I stood beside them as we watched them pull some original moves.
"Okay lovely dancing people, I'm going off for a break, so here's a slower tune for you all to sway along to" the DJ announced as he changed the music to a slower, calmer soothing song.
Alice and Jasper who had already been swaying slowly together carried on as they were. Jasper was running his hand slowly up and down Alice's back in a soothing motion while Alice's arms were wrapped around his neck, her eyes closed and I could just see that she was trailing soft kisses up and down his throat. They looked so perfect together, like out of a fairytale or from a modelling billboard. They were such contrasts what with Jasper and his blond hair, tall figure and quiet nature while Alice was dark haired, petite and talkative.
Emmett's voice bought my attention to him and Rose, he was stood before Rose, one arm behind his back as he bowed, the other hand outstretched before him, waiting for her to place her hand in his as he asked "May I have this dance m'lady?" I expected Rose to laugh and grab hold of his hand, but she didn't. Her cheeks blushed in embarrassment as she placed her hand in his, whispering "Sure Peaches". I stood watching them begin to dance slowly, with Rose's hands resting on his shoulders, and his large hands holding her waist, a small gap in between them. I saw Emmett breaking the awkward tension between them with a joke and saw them laughing together as they broke into an animated conversation.
Something warm brushed across my hand as I watched Emmett and Rose poking fun at each other. I looked down to see Edwards hand brushing along mine again, making my hand feel as if it was burning when his hand was is in contact with mine and then turned to ice in its absence. He took hold of my hand in his and bought it up to his lips, brushing them against the back of my hand in a feather light kiss, I smiled at his gentlemanly gesture while as he released my hand. I wrapped both arms around his waist, pulling him closer against me, while he held me tightly to him with his arms. I rested my head on his shoulder while I felt him rest his chin on my shoulder and heard him sigh in what seemed like contentment. Being held in Edwards arms I felt warm and comfortable, almost dream like. Every part of my body that was under Edwards touch felt as if it was on fire, as though my blood was boiling under his touch and spreading like hot molten lava through my veins, running it's way as if down the side of a volcano, spreading through me to alight the rest of my limbs. The way my body was already so attuned to his amazed me, scared me because I knew it was unstoppable, the attraction between the both of us was too strong now for me to even try to pretend that he didn't feel the same way too. It was clear to me through his touch, which sparked through his skin and under mine to the hot, lusty gazes I caught in his eyes each time he looked at me.
The song ended much too soon and the DJ returned to play a beat blasting song. Feeling a little drained by the events I decided to make my way back up stairs and get a drink, Edward agreed to join me and so did the others. Rose announced that she'd head to the bar with me and Alice instantly climbed down from Jasper to join us. The boys were sent on their way to get a table while us girls would play the hunters and scavenge some drinks.
"I know which cocktail I'm getting" Alice announced after quickly scanning the menu over in a matter of seconds and handing it over to me to look through.
"We should get a few shots too, we could play a game" Rose smiled from beside me as Alice tried to get the bar tender's attention.
"Are these barmen blind?" she spat out from beside us. I looked up to see the bar swarming with customers fighting to get served and point it out to her. "That's no excuse, were hot, we get to be served first, it's like the unwritten rule of bartending".
I laughed at her little rant but after seeing Rose and Alice look sternly at me, I knew they meant business. "I'm sure we can get at least one bar tender's attention…" Rose smirked and Alice caught on at her meaning, leaving me high and dry to wonder what they're talking about. Alice turned to face Rose and me with a plan of action, at which we both obeyed.
We did as were told and the three of us lined up before the bar. Alice who was kneeling on a bar stool to my left had undone an extra button on her shirt which now showed an ample amount of cleavage, Rose who was stood to my right was standing tall, her chest pushed out and her back arched. I was left to stand in between them both, resting my arms on the bar as I leant forward, showing off my chest to the passing barmen.
The effect was immediate as four barmen battled their way to serve us, the three of us shared sly grins as we saw them making their way over to us as fast as they could.
The lucky lad that had the pleasure to serve us was called 'Duncan' from what his name tag read. He was tall and not bad looking, his skin was bronzed from what I guessed a newly returned tropical holiday. His hair was raven black and I noticed he had quite a cute smile too.
"Hi Duncan" I tried to smile seductively at him, not sure that I'd really accomplished it or not. He's cute my slightly drunken mind decided to chime in, I shook my head, trying to remember what drink I wanted to order "can I get a… College Fuck please?" I asked him, my face reflecting a look of pure innocence as I watched him smile playfully at my questioning him for a 'college fuck'.
"Sure… I take it you mean the cocktail… your not a college student are you?" he asked with laughter gleaming in his eyes as he started mixing the spirits for the drink.
Shocked by his playing along I stuttered out "N-no, I'm not a student" I felt a slight blush creep to my cheeks and I looked down. Stupid Bella acting the flirt only to be met with the definition of 'flirt' I thought to myself.
"Can I get you anything else?" he asked after finishing making the first pitcher, accentuating the word 'anything' in a provocative way.
"Yes actually…" I decided to have some fun, seeing as I was single and he was willing to play along "I'll have The Drunken Elf too please"
"Looks like you already got one of those" he chuckled, nodding his head over toward Alice; I laughed at his quick wittiness and heard Rose and Alice laughing along too.
Once he'd finished mixing the second cocktail he asked "I'm guessing you want something else from me?" lifting his eyebrow in question while his lips twitched from restraining a smile.
"Hmm… you're right… clever boy" I spoke softly, making him lean closer to me before I said "Now, Hop Skip and Strip please".
Duncan leant back, shaking his head in fake disgrace at my order as the four of us smiled; he headed to the other end of the bar to grab a bottle while I got spun around by a pair or arms.
"You little minx!" Rose giggled, standing right before me, pretending to look at me in disappointment.
"What? All I did was order a few drinks" I mumbled, looking down, pretending to be ashamed and defending my actions like a child.
"There you go ma'am" Duncan said as he placed the third pitcher before me.
"Thanks Duncan!" Alice chirped up from beside me "can we get six shots of Vodka, six of Jack Daniels and six shots of Apple Sourz… oh and straws please" she added as he gave her a confused look. He was probably trying to figure out who was with us or if we were apart of the Alcohol Anonymous group who had gone wild after a heavy session of therapy, he shrugged to himself and went off to complete our order without question.
"Who's got our free drinks passes?" I asked as I watched Duncan filling up the shot glasses with the spirits.
"Um… the guys do" Rose replied muttering something under her breath before she turned to face the boys who were sat at the same table as before. Unsurprisingly they were looking at us and so the three of us began waving them over… we were lazy bitches who couldn't be bothered to walk all the way over and back again and then back over to the table a second time. Edward, Emmett and Jasper instantly got up and made their way towards us, the three of them with worry carved on their faces.
"What is it? Is that stupid bartender perving all over you?" Emmett asked Rose slightly franticly as he stood beside her, shooting a murderous glare towards Duncan's back.
"Your button's come undone Alice" I heard Jasper say while he pointed at her exposed chest.
"Woops" Alice pretended to be all modest and clapped her hand over her chest, she fumbled with the buttons and from what I could tell she was pretending that she couldn't do it up "Jasper… could you help me?" she asked quietly looking down at her shirt and heaving a long exasperated sigh as if in defeat.
"Of course" he whispered, leaning over Alice's tiny figure, I noticed him looking over at Duncan and for once he looked a little menacing, not something I expected from him. He did the button of her shirt up with ease before picking her up and placing her to sit back on the barstool, his arm resting around her waist.
"Hey pretty lady, what did you want us guys for? Is the bartender really bothering you at all?" Edward asked, he was stood just behind me and I could feel the warmth of his body just reaching mine.
"No, we just needed the passes for the drinks" I mumbled a bit quietly, hoping he wouldn't have heard and that he would take a step closer to me.
"Sorry, what was that you said? I didn't catch it over the music" he whispered into my ear, a tickling sensation making my body shiver. I leant back a little to see how close he'd moved forward only to feel my back pressing lightly against his chest.
"We just needed the passes for the drinks" I told him as he rested his head on my shoulder, like he'd done when we danced. From the way his face was directed towards, I was guessing he was watching Duncan.
"Is that it? You had us guys freaking out" Couldn't on of you have come and gotten them from us? Tutt tutt Bella" he jested and I felt his hands resting on the sides of my waist "perhaps I should punish you a little?" he squeezed his fingers against my sides, making me squirm and he chuckled.
"Meany" I whispered slightly breathless as Duncan came back with a tray loaded with shots.
"There you go ladies" he smiled as he placed the tray down before me, his smile faltered as he saw the guys standing with us, each of them with an arm around us. "How are you paying?" he asked me directly, with a smile back on his lips.
"Here" Edward passed him two passes while Jasper and Emmett passed them theirs too. Duncan looked them over before saying "Cool" and handing them back to the guys before adding "enjoy the drinks".
He turned to leave but then spun back around and held his hand out to me. I smiled and took his hand, expecting to shake hands with him but he pulled it up to his lips. He kissed the back of my hand first and then ran his lips lightly over my knuckles making the hairs on the back of my arms and neck stand up. He smiled devilishly before turning away and going off to serve another customer.
I stood still wrapped in Edward's arms slightly frozen. My hand which had been outstretched dropped in slow motion to my side as I took a deep breath to try and snap out of the daze I was in. My legs had gotten wobbly and my heart was strumming wildly in my chest, I was sure Edward would be able to feel it thumping through my back and against his chest.
"Lets do this ladies" Rose laughed as she picked up the tray that was loaded with the shots and lead the way back to the table. Jasper and Emmett picked up a pitcher and straws each as they made their way after Rose, with Alice skipping in their trail.
Edward dropped his hands from my sides and grabbed hold of the pitcher and straws. "Come on Bella" he muttered as he turned to make his way to the table. I shook my head, trying to get the feeling of Duncan's kiss from my body and mind, stupid bartender playing stupid games. He only did that to play with my mind and to annoy Edward, I'm sure Duncan didn't miss the protective hold Edward had on me.
I got to the table and sat in the same seat as before, Rose had lain out the shots for us all so that everyone had one of each lined up before them.
"Let's play a game!!" Alice squealed from where she was sat, at the head of the table yet again. Everyone had taken the same seats from earlier in the evening I noticed.
"Strip poker!" Emmett practically shouted from where he was sat, excitement covering his face.
Rose slapped the back of his head "We're in the middle of a club and we have no cards dumb-ass" she laughed and shook her head at him as he rubbed away the sting from the slap and muttered "Fine".
"How about we play…" Alice stopped to tap her index finger against her lips as she thought of a game to play. She squealed yet again which meant she'd got an idea and rushed to say "We should play the 'Have you ever' game!"
All of us looked around at each other questioningly, not knowing what the game was and what it involved.
"Explain…" Edward muttered in a slightly bored voice from beside me. He looked a little down… I hoped he wasn't mad at me for flirting with Duncan. It wasn't like Edward and I were going out together and I wasn't in any danger from Duncan, so he didn't really have any reason to be angry with me. I hung my head down, confused at why he had reacted that way.
Alice began explaining the rules to us "Okay, I'll ask us all three questions, we all have to close our eyes as I ask them and are only allowed to open them once the three questions are up. The questions are answered either yes or no, you drink a shot if the answer is yes, leave the shot if the answer is no. Clear?" she finished off with a dangerous looking twinkle in her crazy peepers. We all nodded, all understanding the rules. "Eyes closed" she ordered and the game began.
"First Question is… have you ever kisses a member of the same sex?" I could hear a few of the shot glasses being dropped back on the table top once the question had been asked, before the next one got asked.
"Are you attracted to someone at this table?" at hearing her question I immediately went for the shot glass, I thought I could hear all six of the glasses being put back down on the table in response to the question.
"Last one… Should we all go to out to watch a movie together tomorrow night?" she finished off with a little giggle, after a few seconds she then said "Okay, open eyes".
I blinked my eyes open slowly and looked around at everyone's shot glasses; I noticed that Jasper and Rose both had one shot glass still filled.
"Bella?! You kissed a girl? Spill it!" Rose said in an incredulous voice from opposite me.
I hung my head down, vaguely remembering the events; I could hear Edward chuckling from beside me. I looked up and said "Yes I did, I was very very drunk and was… vulnerable" I muttered, I could feel my face was ablaze with my frantic blushing and I looked back down at my lap.
I then heard Rose asking Alice "You kissed a girl Ali? When?"
"Um… it was a few years ago, I was a little drunk and the idea popped into my head and I got curious so I kissed the nearest girl I saw… happening to be Bella" she added and giggled.
"No way… that's so hot" I heard Emmett whispering from the other side of the table followed by the sound of the second slap of the night, no doubt coming from Rose. My blush which was had just calmed down a bit raged itself in full force.
Jasper spoke next asking "You… kissed a guy Edward?" Emphasising the word 'you' in disbelief. I couldn't help feeling the same; I'd never have thought Edward would have done such a thing.
I could feel Edward shifting from beside me, shrugging before he said "I was visiting a few friends at University when I got drunk, some guys started playing gay chicken and they told me to have a go. I backed out of all of them before I was told I'd have to go up against the 'pro'. So I thought fuck it, I wont be back here again so I went against him and he backed out of the kiss first" he looked up to see all of our eyes staring at him in awe. He took a sip of the cocktail that I'd ordered before adding "What? Emmett did it too" before he hung his head as I had done earlier.
Emmett chuckled, probably from the memory. "Yeah, I got dared to do it, so I did. You know how I don't like to lose, and I didn't" he said in a casual tone before pointing at Rose and Jasper "you two haven't done it before?" a slightly surprised look came over his face as he looked at Rose.
"No I haven't" Jasper simply stated before taking a drink of the cocktail Alice had ordered.
"What? You think just because I'm blond and busty that I'd kiss a girl? You know I'm not like those hussies!" Rose raged beside Emmett, while he cowered back a bit from her, hanging his head down and rubbing the back of his neck.
"Sorry Bambi" he said before grabbing hold of her hand and running his thumb back and forth against the back of her hand.
"We're quits Peaches" she said quietly as he let go of her hand and she leant against his side. He put his arm around her and rubbed his hand up and down her arm.
He must have known that he'd really upset her, and I could see from how Rose was looking at her hands that her eyes were shining from unshed tears. She was always being stereotyped as the dumb blond or as a tart and it must have come as a blow to her self esteem to have Emmett do it to her, especially after how he knew about how she suffered the same torture as she grew up.
"So what movie should we watch?" I asked, trying to break the awkward silence around the table.
"I reckon we should just see what's on when we get there, I haven't been to the movies in ages so I'm not sure what they have" Jasper replied as he downed his last shot.
"What's the name of this cocktail?" Edward whispered into my ear. I jumped from the feeling of sparks running through me from his nearness "It tastes really good, much better than my choice"
"College Fuck" I shuttered out quietly beside him.
Edward choked on the drink; once he'd recovered he cleared his throat and said "Sorry, what's its name?"
I laughed at how I managed to break his composed self by saying one little word.
"The name of the cocktail is "College Fuck" nice isn't it" I said as I drank some of the cocktail through the straw.
"Um… yeah… nice" he stuttered out and looked up at Jasper "What cocktail did you get?"
"The Drunken Elf" he laughed out, taking a look at Alice who was looking like a very merry little pixie. She kept swaying a little in her seat as she drank away at the pitcher.
"Yummy Yummy says my tummy" she said then she stopped and looked around. "Hey, that was funny!!" she giggled; pointing at herself "Did you hear me Jazzy?" she laughed and almost toppled off her chair again.
"Come here" he whispered calmly to her as he picked her up with ease and set her on his lap, rubbing her back while she sighed in relief and rested her had on his chest, playing with the hem of his top in her hand.
She turned to look at Jasper, her eyes were probably having trouble on concentrating on one of him and ignoring the other two that she could probably see with her drunken vision "I love you" she said. I could see that she had a serious face while she'd said it, mixed with deep thought and confusion.
Jasper stared down at her, a small but unsure smile on his lips as he rocked her slowly and rhythmically. He kissed her on the forehead before she turned back and rested her head on his chest, closing her eyes slowly.
Alice is drunk I thought to myself as I drank some more of the cocktail, noticing that Edward and I had almost finished it between us.
Emmett and Rose were finishing off their pitcher, Emmett still had a comforting arm around Rose's shoulder as I heard them talking about cars and stuff. Rose was telling him that her dream car would be the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, but that she loved the BMW that she had at the moment.
I could feel the effects of the alcohol hitting me now. I felt like my eyesight had a few seconds delay with when my head moved. I felt tired too; I always got a bit sleepy after drinking and tonight was no exception. I yawned and Edward must have caught my action because he asked "Do you want to go home now?"
I nodded my head, I didn't feel like drinking anymore and I knew it'd take most of tomorrow for me to recover. Edward announced to everyone that the both of us were going home, Alice had fallen asleep in Jasper's arms and he agreed he'd come with us. Emmett and Rose got up from the table too, and were all made our way out.
A/N: woooohoooo!! Club scene/s done!
Rapture by iio- It was probably the first club-ish song I ever loved and me and the twin loves it to death. If you dont know it, go youtube it- if you don't like it, you basically have no taste in good music (i jest i jest lol)
Have you ever game- I just made that one up, I don't know if there is a proper drinking game like that out there named differently..?
Gay chicken- Now this I know is real! I went to visit my friend who's at University, and encountered a game of gay chicken between a few guys. Technically… I didn't see it- I was busy working out how to play some music on a laptop while under the influence of beer, but I heard about it later…
A little bit of Welsh for you who want to learn... (don't ask "how do you pronounce that" because I'm not that good with my descriptive writing!!)
"Rwyn hoffi coffi" = I like coffee.
"Mae yr haul allan" = The sun is out.
"Da iawn" = Well done.