Hey, so there have been a few reviews requesting that the chapters be a little bit longer, so I trying my best to start making them longer. Hopefully it won't disappoint. Unfortunately, Tanya's torture comes into play a little later on in the story, so you guys are going to have to wait a little bit. I'm trying to rush through some chapters because I know I'm gonna have a lot of fun plotting and writing Alice's plans for Tanya, lol. Also, keep in mind that this story is rated M, so if you don't like reading any mature content, then you can skip this chapter, but you will miss out on something that's a little important later on in the story. Anyways, thanks for the reviews, I'm glad you guys like the story and enjoy this next chapter.
Favor.
"I understand where your coming from Edward, I do. I just think that this trip would be good for you" Elizabeth spoke to a very stressed looking Edward whose response was a roll of the eyes.
I was in Elizabeth's room, waiting for her to tell me what she needed done next when she had called Edward into the room. Apparently, she'd been putting together a weekend get-away for Edward, much to his and my dismay. My guess was that she was trying to do something nice for him before she told him what she was really planning for his future. Unbeknownst to her, I'd beaten her to the punch days ago.
Edwards's eyes flashed at me as I was leaning against the wall next to the door. "I don't think now is the best time for me to go somewhere" he told his mother.
Elizabeth was sitting at her vanity, adjusting her hair and make-up while Edward stood a little ways behind her. "And why not?" she asked, looking at him through the mirror.
He sighed. "I've already got plans for the weekend" he told her.
He wasn't lying. He did have plans. With me. Elizabeth doesn't make me work on weekends unless she really needs me. Edward usually fakes that he's going to Emmett's or Jasper's for the weekend and then he comes to my apartment.
"Oh? Doing what? Playing silly video games with Emmett and Jasper?" she asked, clearly not hiding the fact that she thought he was being childish.
Edward ran his hand through his hair and snuck another quick and unnoticed-by-Elizabeth glance at me. "No. I'm doing…other stuff" he said, unable to come up with a good believable lie.
Edward was a perfect liar, but not to his mother. He could do it, he just didn't like it. He worried too much that she would know he was lying and then hate him for it. That was a huge part of the reason he was so hesitant to tell Elizabeth about our relationship. He didn't want her to hate us.
"Like what?" Elizabeth asked, stopping what she was doing and turning half way around in her seat to look at him.
Edward shifted uncomfortably. "Like stuff that you wouldn't want to know I'm doing" he said, surprising her.
I almost laughed at that one. If there was one topic Elizabeth avoided like the plague, it was sex. I think she knows that Edward's not a virgin anymore, but she likes to pretend otherwise.
Elizabeth's face turned a light shade of red and she turned back around in her chair, resuming what she was doing.
"I wish you wouldn't say things like that. Especially when Bella's around. She doesn't need to hear that" Elizabeth said, rubbing some foundation on her face.
Edward looked at me with his crooked smile. "I'm sure she's heard worse, haven't you Bella?" he asked.
He had a playful look in his eyes and I knew that if he could, he would state the fact that I was the cause of him no longer being a virgin.
I blushed, even though Elizabeth would never pick up on what Edward could have said. "Much worse" I responded.
Elizabeth sighed. "Still. It's not very gentlemanly of you to say such things"
Edward continued to stare at me. His lips started to move, but no sound came out. I quickly became aware of what he was doing and began reading his lips. "The things I would do to you aren't very gentlemanly either" he mouthed, finishing it with my favorite mischievous grin.
I bit my lip to hide my smile.
"My apologies, Bella" he said out loud for the sake of his mother.
She would never have dropped the topic if he hadn't of apologized for his "rude" behavior.
"That's better" Elizabeth said, moving on to eye-shadow.
I didn't really know why she wore make-up. Even at her age, she was a beautiful woman. And the make-up had nothing to do with it. If anything, it took away from her beauty.
"Now, about the trip. I really think you should take it. You could take someone with you if you like, if that would make you take it" Elizabeth pressed.
Edward walked over to his mother and bent down slightly to put his arms around her shoulders from behind her. "Mom, I know your just trying to help me relax a bit, but I'm fine. Really. I'll take the trip someday. Just, now isn't a good time" he said.
She placed her hands on his arms to hold him there and smiled half-heartedly at his reflection in the mirror. "I guess your right. Who knows, maybe we can turn it into a mother-son trip, hmm?"
Edward smiled and nodded his head. The phone started ringing then and since Elizabeth had one sitting on her vanity, she reached over to answer it.
"Hello?" she asked. Her smiled widened. "Alright. Just one minute" She clicked the hold button on the phone and hung up. "I'm going to take this in the other room. Bella, if you could, I need something to wear for interviewing could-be new employees, would you please pick out something nice?" she asked to which I nodded.
Edward smiled and reached his head around to kiss his mother's cheek. "I love you mom. And I'd love to go on a mother-son trip with you" he told her as her face lit up.
She squeezed his arms with her hands. "I love you too, son" she said before she let go of his arms and he released her. She then stood up and left the room, closing the door behind her.
Edward then turned to me and leaned against his mothers chair and crossed his arms, his eyes returning to their playful selves. I pushed myself off of the wall and approached him.
"You know" I started when I'd reached him. I slid my arms around his waist inside of his open army green jacket and under his black t-shirt. "You should've taken that trip. We could have gone away together without her wondering where you were" I said in a hopefully seductive voice.
He smiled that crooked smile and placed his hands on both sides of my face. "I'll be vacationing with you weather we're at some remote resort or just at your apartment" he said as one of his hands started to move, tracing a line from my face, down my neck and to my collarbone. "Hell, I'd start the vacation right now if my mother wasn't in the other room. I've been craving to hear you moan my name all day" he said, his voice already becoming a bit husky.
I moved my head toward him and started to place gentle kisses on his neck as his muscles tightened. "You'll have to show me some of those ungentlemanly things you mentioned earlier. You've got me quite curious" I said in between kisses.
I felt him shiver slightly and was pleased that I had this affect on him just by kissing his neck. I stopped kissing him and looked up at him. He had his eyes closed and looked like he was trying hard to focus on something.
"Bella, your making it very hard for me to resist tearing your clothes off and taking you in my mother's bedroom" he whispered, his voice holding some seriousness.
I gave a small laugh. "You started this" I reminded him as his eyes opened and he grinned down at me.
"Not the point" he stated.
I decided to tease him a bit more. "Anyway, I have an outfit to pick out" I said as I took my hands away from him and made my way to the closet.
I opened Elizabeth's closet and surveyed what she had. She had everything from dresses to pant-suits, plus a wall of shoes and other accessories. As I was mentally putting together outfits, I felt two very familiar arms wrap around my waist from behind me followed by a set of warm lips on my neck.
He pulled me closer to his body and moved his lips agonizingly slow from my neck to my shoulder, letting the strap to my tank-top hang loosely off of my arm. I leaned my head back to rest on his shoulder, enjoying the feeling of his touch. Slowly, his hands made their way under my shirt and moved up my stomach to my chest where he began messaging my breasts.
"Edward, you need to behave. Elizabeth could walk in at any moment" I warned him, but my voice was barely audible. I didn't want him to stop anymore then he did.
"Must I?" He asked, pulling his hands out of my shirt and running them along my arms, making me shiver.
"Maybe if we're quick" I barely got the words out and he already had turned me around and was crushing my mouth with his.
He steered us toward a wall and backed me up against it. His hands seemed to be everywhere all at once and it felt amazing. I threw my arms around his neck and jumped, putting my legs around his waist and feeling his hands grab my hips to hold me there. He pushed me up against the wall a little harder so I wouldn't fall and then his hands moved down my legs to the bottom of my jean mini-skirt. He slid his hands up my skirt and just as his fingers reached the top of my underwear, getting ready to pull them down; my cell phone went off in my pocket.
Edward groaned, pulling his lips away from mine. "Don't answer it" he told me.
I reached into my pocket and pulled it out, looking at the caller ID. "It's Emmett" I said, flipping it open.
Emmett didn't like talking on the phone so I knew this would be short. Plus it was payback for mouthing sex related things to me and making me blush while his mother was present.
"Hey Em" I said with my breathless voice.
"Hey Bells, I need you to do me a favor" he said with a hopeful voice.
Like I said, straight to the point.
"Sure, what do you need?" I asked.
He was silent for a moment. "Meet me at the mall in twenty minutes and I'll explain everything, okay?" he asked.
I glanced at Edward who was waiting patiently for me to get off the phone. I knew if I told Emmett no, Edward and I would continue what we were doing and most likely get caught. So instead I agreed, deciding I would make it up to Edward later tonight. Emmett thanked me and then we hung up.
I sighed. "I have to go" I told him.
His face fell. "I don't want you to"
I smiled and took his face in my hands. I pulled his lips to mine once, then twice and then a third time. "Come over tonight. We'll pick up right from where we left off. I'll even let you have me against the wall if that's how you want it" I promised him.
He chuckled. "Okay, I'll see you then" he said as he backed away and put me on my feet.
I kissed him once more. "I love you, Edward Anthony Masen"
He smiled. "I love you too, Isabella Marie Swan"
I turned and assembled a quick outfit for Elizabeth and laid it on her bed. I told Edward a quick goodbye and he said he would tell Elizabeth where I'd gone. Then I left and made my way to go meet Emmett for god only knows what.
I ended up taking a cab to get to the mall and sure enough, when I got there, Emmett was waiting. I hoped he hadn't been waiting long. The cab-driver had decided to take the scenic root in order to get more money out of me. Sneaky little things. It was for reasons like that I wished I had my own car.
"Sorry I took so long, but you know how most cab drivers are" I apologized to him once I'd gotten close enough for him to hear me.
He smiled and pulled me into a one-armed hug. "I'm sure that wasn't the only thing keeping you" he teased, leaving his arm around my shoulders as we entered the mall.
"What do you mean?" I asked curiously. How could he possibly know what I was doing when he called?
He laughed and gave my shoulders a squeeze. "Please Bella, your lips are swollen, the strap to your tank-top is hanging off your shoulder, your hair's messed up and you were pretty out of breath when I called" he explained as I blushed and adjusted the strap to my tank-top. "Honestly, Elizabeth must be literally the most unobservant person in the world to still be clueless about you and Edward" he added.
I laughed. "We usually don't do anything when we're in the same house with her. Usually I try to treat him like a pariah and he does the same to me" I told him.
Emmett shook his head. "You guys just need to tell her and get it over with"
I shrugged. "We will eventually. Until then, we have something else planned entirely" I said, my eyes lighting up as I recalled the many horrors Alice planned to unleash on Tanya as soon as I got Elizabeth to agree to choosing her.
"Like what?" Emmett asked curiously as we continued walking aimlessly around the mall.
"It's a long story, but Alice is going to tell you, Rose and Jasper all about it soon enough" I promised him.
He rolled his eyes. "Of course" but he smiled to show he was kidding.
Like Emmett could ever really be mad at me. He was like an older brother to me. We hardly ever fought. I playfully hit his chest with the back of my hand and he just laughed. Then he stopped walking and I looked at where we were.
We were in front of a jewelry shop.
Emmett looked from the store to my face to catch my reaction. Then he smiled. "Have you figured out why I needed your help yet?" he asked.
I looked from Emmett to the store and then back at Emmett again. "Emmett, are you…?" I asked, too excited and slightly shocked to finish my sentence.
There was only one reason why you would ever find Emmett in a jewelry store. As weird as it sounded, Rosalie didn't like Emmett to buy her jewelry. She once said it made her feel like she was just using him, so for Emmett to be here meant it was for something special.
"I'm gonna ask Rose to marry me. But I don't know which ring she would like" he started. "I asked you because obviously I couldn't ask Rose and Alice wouldn't be able to keep it a secret. Plus she would pick out something way over the top"
I smiled and grabbed his hand, pulling him into the store. We were walking around surveying all of the rings, looking for the one that would be perfect for Rose when I saw it. It was the most beautiful ring I'd ever seen. It was just a simple silver band with only one emerald colored diamond sitting in the middle. I loved it because it matched the color of Edward's eyes whenever he smiled.
Emmett stopped just beside me. "Did you find one?" he asked.
I nodded. "But I don't think it'd have the same significance for Rosalie, though" I laughed.
"Why not?" he asked curiously.
"The green matches Edward's eyes when he's happy. I don't think you want Rosalie thinking of Edward's eyes the moment you pop the question" I teased.
He laughed. "Your probably right" he agreed. "It's a very beautiful ring though" he added.
I nodded. "I know if I was being proposed to, this is the ring I would want" I admitted.
Emmett put his arm around my shoulders again and gave me a small squeeze. Then I noticed a ring sitting three away from my dream one. It suited Rosalie perfectly. It had a gold band and had a ruby red diamond in the middle with two smaller diamonds on either side. It was elegant and beautiful which was Rosalie's very description.
"There" I said, pointing to the ring. "That one is perfect" I told him.
He smiled and nodded. "I think your right. Thanks Bells" he said, kissing the top of my head.
"No problem, Em" I said as I smiled up at him.
I became a bit confused when he started to guide me out of the store without the ring we'd picked.
Emmett caught my confused expression. "I don't have the money right now. I figured we could pick it out, see how much it's gonna cost and then I'll come by tomorrow and pick it up" he explained.
I nodded my understanding. "Hey, can we go to the food court? I'm starved" I asked as he laughed and agreed.
I always loved hanging out with Emmett. He was seriously like the brother I never had. Plus I thought it was so cool how he wanted my help choosing something as special as an engagement ring for Rosalie.
I briefly wondered why suddenly everyone wanted me to make all of the important decisions in their lives, but then realized that it didn't matter. With Emmett, I got to know the one thing he hadn't told anybody yet and with Edward, I got to pick a girl I wouldn't even have to worry about. Or at least I hoped.