A/N – Ok, I went to post this last night, but since FF was down for maintenance, this was the soonest I could get it done. Enjoy the product of my insomnia!
** I do not own the characters etc… all belong to SM. Thanks – The Management**
Bella POV
The sun was pouring in my still open window and the heat on my back woke me from my comfortable sleep. I looked groggily at my alarm clock and noticed it was almost 11am. Edward was still fast asleep and I didn't want to disturb him, so I just lay beside him, playing with his soft hair and watching him sleep. Unfortunately I didn't get a lot of time to sit and enjoy this, as a few minutes later he stirred and woke up.
"Were you staring at me?" he asked as he rubbed his eyes. Fuck, I was busted.
"Maybe," I answered cryptically. He leaned forward to give me a little kiss on the cheek and then pulled the blankets from his chest as he sat up. When he moved, he ended up pulling the blanket from my bra covered chest and he got all flustered.
"Shit, I'm sorry," he said as he handed the entire blanket to me, wanting to cover me up.
"Edward, calm down, they're just tits" I said casually as I tossed the blanket at the end of the bed and stood up. "When did you get all nervous about my chest? After all, only 8 hours ago your hands were all over them" I chuckled. He seemed to get over his embarrassment pretty quickly though because next thing I knew he was right behind me, caressing my satin covered breasts again.
He leaned forward and kissed my neck softly before whispering in my ear "So Bella, what's on the agenda today?"
I was tempted to just push him on my bed and have my way with him when I suddenly realized it was Thursday and I had to work in 2 hours. "Fuck" I muttered angrily.
"I have to head to work in 2 hours" I mumbled as I moved around the room, eager to find my t-shirt from yesterday. I pulled it over my head and peeked out the window to make sure Charlie was gone. "Let's go have some breakfast, Charlie's gone" I said as I grabbed his hand and led him downstairs to the kitchen. I rummaged through the fridge to find something for us to eat, with no luck. Luckily, Edward didn't mind the cereal that I offered him. We sat in silence for a bit as we ate our Lucky Charms.
"So where do you work?" he asked. I glanced up at him and he had a curiously sneaky expression on his face.
"I work down at the library. I am basically the staff slave. I don't make great money, but it looked great on my college applications and when it's dead boring in there, I can read anything I want." He seemed taken aback by my answer. "Uh, hello... English lit major over here" I reminded him jokingly.
After we had finished breakfast, he gave me a quick kiss goodbye and headed out down the street on foot. I assumed he must have hidden the Volvo somewhere down Deacon St. I glanced at the clock again and then ran upstairs to get ready for work.
The afternoon in the library dragged on so slowly I thought I might die of boredom. Alice had texted me 10 times since I arrived, reminding me how nice the weather was and that I should be out enjoying it with her. She even told me I should just quit since I already got into college. "Tempting," I texted back to her. Little did I know that something even more tempting would cross my path a few hours later.
My supervisor, Emme, had me re-shelving all sorts of dusty old books in the back stacks, after some kids had knocked them off the shelves during an apparent fight late yesterday.
"Seriously, who fights in a fucking library," I mumbled to myself quietly as I shoved some old medical textbook back on the shelf. I hadn't heard any noise or voices in the stacks in over an hour, so I was taken aback when I thought I heard a voice calling my name. I looked around the various rows, but saw no one, so I went back to my task at hand.
When I came across a book about the history of Forks, I sat down in one of the small plastic chairs and started to scan through it for anything interesting. All of a sudden, I felt a hand sweep my hair from under my neck and a soft set of lips sprinkle kisses down the nape of my neck to my shoulders.
"Emmett Cullen, what have I told you about kissing me in public?" I joked as I turned around and stood up. Edward was not pleased. "Seriously, I was joking. Do you even have a sense of humor?" I asked as I continued laughing.
Edward grabbed my hand and led me back through some of the older, and albeit dustier, shelving sections of the library. I shouldn't have been surprised that he knew his way around this place, but I knew I hadn't kicked him out. I would have remembered that. Once we reached the very back wall, he grabbed the back of my neck and kissed me passionately. I opened my mouth slowly, to invite his tongue in and he followed my lead eagerly. Before I knew it, he had grasped my ass in his hands and was lifting me up, so I wrapped my legs around his waist to hold me in position.
His gentle lips then began kissing down my neck, stopping every so often to give a soft lick. Once he had almost gotten to my exposed cleavage, he moved the collar of my shirt to expose more of my breast and began sucking just above my heart as though his life depended on it. I grasped his hair excitedly, gripping but trying not to pull too hard. I moaned gently as he kept sucking on my bare chest. His free hand moved stealthily down my thigh, until it was located just above my eager warmth. He pressed his palm down firmly and began moving it in small circles, applying more pressure with each pass of his hand. I was squirming in pleasure under his hand when I finally felt his lips free themselves from my chest.
He pushed me up against the wall again and started fumbling with the zipper on my shorts when we were both interrupted by an angry female voice.
"Bella Swan, what on earth are you doing back here?" yelled Emme from behind Edward. It was too late; I had been busted breaking the cardinal rule of the library, no sex in the stacks. Ok, so it wasn't the cardinal rule, but it was fucking stupid and I knew it. Thankfully, this time Edward didn't move, like he had when Charlie busted us in the kitchen. He simply lowered me to the ground, after I released my legs from around him, and held my hand protectively.
Emme looked up at me with disappointment in her eyes. Probably because she knew she had to fire me and then she would have to re-organize the stacks herself. "Sorry Emme" I panted, out of breath from Edward's touches. "Let's just make this easy on both of us, I quit." I said enthusiastically as I straightened out my t-shirt, grabbed Edwards hand again and walked out of the library, grabbing my purse from the front office as I left.
"Wow, that felt good," I said as we stumbled into the parking lot.
"The kissing or the quitting?" he asked curiously as he stood against the side of my truck, running his fingers through his hair.
"Both" I explained as I reached up and kissed him again.
"Now what are we gonna do?" He asked curiously. I shrugged my shoulders and looked down at the time on my cell phone. It was only 6pm. Dinner time. Charlie was definitely home by now, enjoying some of the lasagna I had made on Tuesday. I left a note on the fridge for him to reheat it tonight for dinner. Charlie was always a sucker for my lasagna.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm fucking starving. Let's take the Volvo for a ride and find something good to eat. We can't go back to my place, so I'm up for suggestions. You can bring me back later to pick up the truck." I said casually. At least I had offered a suggestion; he had just stared at me with a blank look on his face, and then reached over and slid the neckline of my shirt over my chest slightly to reveal a dark red mark just above my left breast.
"I think that's my best work yet" he said as he examined my huge hickey in the light of the parking lot.
"Edward" I shrieked at him. "How the fuck am I supposed to explain this to Charlie?"
"Just tell him your friend did it" he laughed as he grabbed my hand and led me towards the Volvo.
Edward POV
I couldn't help myself. When I saw Bella wrapped around my waist and pressed against the wall in the library, all I wanted to do was suck on her neck and leave a little 'love mark' behind. Ok, so I wanted to leave a big glaring hickey so that everyone that saw it would know she was taken. But then I saw the swell of her left breast and I couldn't resist. Sure, she might have to put a band-aid on it, then again, she might be just as proud of it as I was.
We drove back to Port Angeles, the site of our first date, to enjoy another quiet meal. This time dinner, because according to Bella, dinner is where the magic happens. Unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to get into any of the fancy restaurants due to Bella's casual clothes, so I figured she would be happy with some burger joint, and I was right.
We ate our sloppy cheeseburgers and fries while chatting casually about any topic that came to our minds. I reached my hand over to move her shirt a bit, to get another glimpse at the mark I had left. It was just as dark as before. Good job I congratulated myself.
"Seriously Edward, I'm going to have to wear turtlenecks for the rest of the summer thanks to this," she said as she rubbed the hickey with her index finger. "Charlie won't get at all suspicious" she added sarcastically.
"Bella, it's no big deal. Tell him it's a bruise, he doesn't seem like the type to pry, so he'll probably forget all about it. If I had done it somewhere more obvious like your neck, then you couldn't claim it was a bruise, but I would be just as proud. Why don't we head back to the car so I can put one on your neck too?" I asked excitedly, even being as confident as to reach my hand into my pocket for my car keys.
"Nice try Cullen" she said as she finished with her milkshake. I offered her the chance to take a walk down towards the ferries with me, but Bella decided we should head back to Forks before Charlie got too suspicious.
She scanned through my iPod during the entire car ride home and once she found an entire playlist that she could actually enjoy, she placed the iPod back in the center console and reached her hand over, to hold mine. I intertwined my fingers with hers and heard her release a soft sigh.
"So, now what am I supposed to do? I'm unemployed, so I have a lot of free time on my hands. Any suggestions?" she asked as she stared out the window and into the darkness.
"Well, I'm always unemployed, so we could hang out. There's also Alice and Rose. Haven't you been neglecting your girlfriend duties since we started spending time together? There must be a lingerie filled slumber party that you girls need to have right? Please, let there be a lingerie filled slumber party!" I joked.
"Thanks for reminding me, Alice wanted me to go shopping with her. She also wanted me to go out with her and Jasper to a movie or something. I might have to take her up on those offers now." She added casually. We pulled into the parking lot just before 9. Bella should have been finishing work at this point, so Charlie won't be suspicious at all when she gets home in a few minutes.
I got out of the car and walked over to the truck with her. "Do I get to come over again tonight?" I asked, as I licked the length of her neck softly. I heard her moan slightly, and wondered if that was a yes. I cocked my eyebrow quizzically to her to find out her answer.
"Yes" she panted, before putting her key in the ignition and starting her beast of a truck. "How about two hours from now?" She asked loudly, over the roar of the engine.
"Perfect" I said as I reached up and pulled on the neck of her shirty again to examine my handiwork. I kissed it gently and then got back into my Volvo to head back to my own house. It seemed like it had been so long since I had graced the Cullen house with my presence. I'm sure Esme would be eager to have me back, even if only for two hours. When I left Bella's place this morning, I drove back to my thinking spot to contemplate what the hell I was going to do. After 5 hours, I still had no answers, so I came back to town to see her again, hoping it would give me all the answers I needed. Still no luck.
"Edward Cullen, how nice of you to show up" said Alice, as I walked in the front door and threw my keys and wallet on the front table.
"Alice Cullen, how nice of you to annoy the shit out of me the moment I walk in the house" I snapped sarcastically. She crossed her arms and stamped angrily up the stairs to her room. I walked into the kitchen and my parents were both there, doing the dishes together. "Hey" I announced as I walked into the room and grabbed a soda from the fridge.
"Where the hell have you been?" Esme asked curiously. I shrugged my shoulders and hopped up onto the island counter behind them.
"I just got back from dinner in Port Angeles, nothing exciting" I lied. They chatted casually to me about the weekend and how they hoped we could all have dinner, as a family, sometime this week.
"Emmett hasn't been around lately either," said Carlisle as he put a plate away in the cupboard. "It seems he and Rosalie Hale have started some little thing and he's always with her. So Edward, do you have your own Rosalie?" asked Carlisle as he cocked his eyebrow up curiously. I do that exact same face.
"If I say yes, can we leave it alone for now?" I asked hopefully.
"Sure, but we want to meet her eventually" said Esme as she handed Carlisle another plate to dry.
"I promise if it gets to that point, you can meet her" I said, as I grabbed a bag of Doritos from the cupboard and headed upstairs to talk to Alice. I knocked on her door and expected her to yell at me when she opened it. Instead, she not only let me in, but started talking first.
"Don't hurt Bella" she said as she looked down at the bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and helped herself to a handful. "She's had enough shit happen to her since last summer; she doesn't need her heart broken too." I nodded my head in agreement and sat down on her area rug in the center of her room. I decided to try to open up to Alice a bit, since she was over protective of Bella and could hopefully give me some real advice.
"Alice, I promise I will do my best to not hurt her." I offered. "I have one small problem though. She's not like all the other girls."
"No shit moron" she yelled at me.
"No, I mean, I don't just see her as someone to have sex with. Sure, I'd like to have sex with her, but I enjoy her company almost as much as I enjoy kissing her. I've never been or felt this way around anyone. It's so damned confusing" I muttered anxiously. I looked up at Alice and the smile on her face was the largest I had seen since Jasper arrived at the campground last weekend.
"You really like her huh?" she asked. I just nodded my head. "Well, good luck. I hope you are not being a prick to her like all the other girls" I shook my head and reached in the bag for some more chips.
"I can't explain it Alice. When I'm around Bella, it's like I got a lobotomy and I am actually a nice guy. What the fuck is with that?" I asked, hoping for a sincere answer.
"You are such a bitch Edward. You are totally falling for her and you don't even notice" she laughed as she pushed hard me on the shoulder so that I fell back against her rug.
"So help me god Alice, if you tell anyone about this, even Jasper, you will live to regret it" I threatened as I stood to leave the room. I stopped at the door and turned back around to face Alice again. "Thanks baby sister"