Bella
I awoke the next morning to Garrett whispering in my ear, how much he loved me, needed me and now wanted me, a very pleasant experience I must say. I realised he was still firmly encased in my body and must have been all night, wow, there's dedication for you. I slowly rotated my hips while clenching my inner muscles, this gave a new meaning to pelvic floor exercises, it didn't take long for both of us to be ensnared by the passion we had for each other and once more I was flying through my own personal high.
Nothing could ruin this day, then I remembered school! Still almost done only a few more weeks and this hell was over forever. I sent Garrett up to the big house or I'd never get out of here and he wanted to talk to Jasper anyway, about my shield and doing some serious work on it, as Jasper had plenty knowledge of handling gifted vampires, one gifted human should be no problem for him. I was all ready to go when I realised I would be alone today as the sun was shining, Alice texted saying they would be there for lunch as the sun would be gone then.
I felt the tension right away as I jumped from the cab of our new baby, called 'Beauty', an in-joke as 'Thing' had been the Beast. I smiled to everyone and headed for homeroom, "Well Bella! Who'd you have to sleep with to get the new 4x4?" Lauren spat at me, "What Lauren! Are you such a lousy lay that guys don't buy you anything?" I snarked back at her dropping into a seat beside Angie. "God will they never grow up?" I asked her quietly and she shrugged, shaking her head no!
That at least shut her up until lunch, I think she thought because I was no longer dating Edward that they would not be my friends or defend me. Not that I really needed them to, I was no longer the sad pathetic Bella who started here last year. I was in the lunch queue for her next attack and she obviously didn't realise the Cullens were back, "So Bella! Who are you sleeping with now? First Edward, then Jake, is it still what's his name? Of course, you would have had to move on since Jake went and killed himself! Probably to get away from you! So who's turn is it now? Hey Mike the way she's getting through them, you might stand a chance, yet!" she yelled loud enough for the whole cafeteria to hear, they collectively held their breath and rumbles of disgust went round the room.
Jess was sniggering beside her until she saw Edward and Alice coming up behind Lauren and she hurriedly sat down, "Listen to me, you bleached blonde bimbo! I don't give a rat's arse what you say or think about me! I can see at least fifteen of you conquests in this room alone, but funnily you're single once again! You really must be shit in bed cause they never come back for a repeat do they, Lauren?" I said in a cool disdainful voice as I turned to walk away.
"Oh and boys, if I were you guys I'd be making a trip to the free clinic! Just to be on the safe side, you know!" I said sitting down at our table and Lauren just stood there as everyone burst into applause. She was livid and I saw her coming at me hand raised when Angie and Alice stepped in front of her. "Enough Miss Mallory! My office now!" the headmaster's voice rang out.
The rest of the day was quiet and rumours that Lauren had been suspended for the callous remarks about Jake, a couple of the catering staff who heard her were from the rez and they were infuriated. I was beyond glad when the final bell rang and headed out when I heard Mike "So Bella when is it my turn?" he asked cockily as he swaggered over to me, well I think that's what he was trying to do. "When hell freezes over Mike , Do I look like I would take Lauren's sloppy seconds?" I replied but kept walking out the door.
He was stupid enough to grab my arm as I saw Garrett leaning on our shiny new vehicle, god he's spectacular. I looked at his hand and growled "Get your hand off of me Mike! Now!" He let go right away stunned by my anger. "See that Mike?" I pointed to Garret who was now heading towards us "That's a man, not an immature school boy! Why on earth would I want you, when I get to have that several times a day? Please, I've got more respect for my body!" I spat at him and Garrett stopped and threw back his head laughing, everyone was staring in awe at him.
Mike stood red-faced as Garrett picked me up and kissed the ever loving shit out of me, "God I love you, woman!" He said as our lips parted and everyone around us heard him clearly "I can't wait to make you my wife, Little Swan, you're spectacular!" he said laughing and threw me over his shoulder "Now if you will all excuse us, I need to take this woman home and make love to her all night long!" with that said he strode over and open the passenger door of 'Beauty' and slide me in. I was so happy, he had staked his claim in front of everyone and I was ecstatic, this was my mate, my heart, my lover.
Garrett
God I'll be glad when Little Swan finishes high school, they are so god damn immature, I always forget how old she is because she's so grown up for her young age, so it's a shock having to deal with her peers as they are just children, playing at being grownups. We're on our way to her dad's house to see him, as we can't go to the rez. I really like the Chief and he has gotten a new lease on life since becoming Leah's imprint.
That's one of the reasons were going, to help pack up the rest of his stuff, he's permanently moving to the rez. My trust bought his house from him, Bella won't need it and if he's starting a new family he'll need the money. So it's now a cross between a halfway house and a children's home, called Swan House. The receptionist from the high school Mrs Cope is moving in to run the place as a live-in caretaker, she lost her husband recently and wanted a fresh start so it's perfect. Sue Clearwater is still helping the three girls with their education and they will live there till they go to college.
We decided to have it renovated and an extension put on giving it a couple of rooms more, so that will get under way in a couple of weeks when school finishes. The social services are happy with this development and will liaise with Charlie in regards to the girls and the house in future as I made him the facility coordinator so to speak, but the money will come from Jenks in Seattle, as we will be leaving soon.
That's the thing with any and all vampire businesses we always need a human face to front operations. We also had the forest tree line pulled back from the house and daylight spotlights fitted to light up the place at night, just in case any stray vampires pass by and catch a whiff of any old scents left behind, the lights trigger a recording of Jasper's voice stating that the town of Forks is under the protection of not only The Major, but the local tribe of shape shifters and suggesting they move on or be hunted down and exterminated. Also the wolves said they would add it into their patrols as well, once we left, so that's a worry off our minds.
Bella
The rest of the week flew by, Lauren was suspended and likely to miss the finals, therefore would have to repeat the year. Mike kept his distance and refused to look at or talk to me, but it rebounded on him as everyone else just ignored him for his childish behaviour, some people never grow up. The weekend was almost upon us and the teachers were loading homework on top of us as if it were going out of fashion. But all of the senior year had managed to give the search for the children's families a few hours of the time and we were slowly picking through the American and Canadian missing child databases.
At last, it's Friday, Garrett and I were setting off for Seattle in a couple of hours, for a weekend alone. I know we spend our night together in the cottage, but there are always constant interruptions or phone calls, texts, the Cullen's don't do privacy and for an only child, it's wearing on the nerves. That's one of the main reasons for not staying with them in the future, they have no concept of personal space, it's starting to get Garrett down too, we don't butt into their time alone with their mate's, so why can't they reciprocate. Ah, speaking of mates, he comes my sexy other half now, god I just feel like pinching myself every time I see him, cause I'm sure this is all a dream I've had, nah, my imagination's not that good.
"Ready to roll Little Swan?" he purrs to me, I nod and wrap my arms around his waist just hugging him to me, "A whole weekend alone, angel! Just you and me, I can't wait!" I see my bags in the back of 'Beauty' and I raise my eyebrows, "Couldn't stop myself! Sorry!" he tells me and I laugh and hug him again. We drop by the station on our way out of town, to say bye to Charlie and he tells us to have a really great time and enjoy the peace and quiet while we can, yup, like father like daughter, he doesn't really do big crowds either, god knows how he'll cope on the rez! Knowing him the way I do, he'll already have set out the boundaries, god help them if the overstep the mark, he might shoot them knowing they'll heal quick anyway.
When we arrived at our hotel in Seattle, we got cleaned up and I changed before we headed out to get me something to eat. As always Garrett chose wisely, an open-air bistro, with a buffet, so it wasn't obvious he wasn't eating too. We sat and watched the sunset as I ate and he fed me dessert from the plate in front of him, just like normal lovers do and I sighed he was perfect and he was mine. We strolled along a couple of side streets on the way back to our hotel, just window shopping and laughing at the fashions and other things that took our fancy.
Until we looked into an antique shop window and there it was! Gleaming up at me was the most beautiful ring I'd ever seen. I was just staring at it, "They open at nine Little Swan, we'll come back in the morning and you can try it on angel!" He knew without me saying a word! That was our ring! "Yes please!" I sighed and he turned me round and kissed me reverently and I could feel the tears leaking from the corners of my eyes, it was just perfect.