Bella
I was wide awake at 6 a.m. the next day, my mind racing with what I was going to say to Jason. Should I tell him about Edward or just tell him it was over? Either way I couldn't keep on pretending anymore. It had just hit me like a ton of bricks last night and suddenly I knew.
I finally jumped out of bed at 7:30, deciding that I couldn't wait any longer, it couldn't wait any longer. I had to tell him now.
"Hello?" Jason's voice sounded completely awake too, which I thought was a little strange.
"Hey do you want to go out to breakfast?" I tried to mask the sadness in my voice but I knew it was there.
"Yeah sure. I'll meet you in fifteen minutes." He hung up the phone without saying goodbye. Does he know something's wrong?
I didn't bother dressing; I just hopped in my truck in my pajamas and drove down to the diner. He showed up a few minutes after me and just sat in his truck for a moment. He looked conflicted, like he was arguing with himself.
I smiled and got up from my booth as he entered. He wrapped me up in his arms, but it was a half-assed hug. The dark circles under his eyes told me that he hadn't slept well, if at all.
"So what's up?" He said as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"Jason..." I started, not sure what to say next.
"Actually Bella I need to say something." He put his hand up and stopped me from going on. "I'm leaving." He looked down at his hands.
"Oh! Well...where are you going?"
"My dad got me a job....a really, really good job. It's in Philadelphia Bella." He looked up at me, his mouth in a hard line.
"So far away..." I whispered. "When are you leaving?"
"A week from tomorrow."
"Wow." I mouthed. I wasn't expecting this, at all. "Well I'm really happy for you and I'll miss you." I tried to smile.
"That's the thing." He grabbed my hands. "I want you to come with me."
I blinked a few times, trying to take in what he'd just said.
"Don't you think that's a little...extreme?" I stuttered, pulling my hands back from his. "I mean we've only been dating for less than a month and now you're asking me to move across the country with you. It's insane!" I yelled. Everyone else in the diner scowled at me.
"What's the point of staying here? You have nothing left for you here Bella, come with me." I couldn't tell if he was mad or just really upset, but his eyes were stern and almost cold.
"I...can't." My voice broke slightly.
He stood up from the booth and started towards the door. "You can. You just won't." He pushed the door open and walked out. I took a few moments to process everything, sitting in shock, before I raced out to him.
"What the hell does that mean?" I yelled at him.
"It's him isn't it? That's why?" He shook his head at me as he got into his truck. "I saw his truck Bella."
"What are you talking about?" I screamed.
"Forget it. We're done!" He slammed his door and squealed out of the parking lot, leaving me dazed and confused as to what just happened. How did he break up with me when I came here to break up with him? And what was the whole truck comment about?
The old man sitting on the bench shook his head disapprovingly at me as I walked back to my truck. "Shut it Earl..." I sneered.
I got home and went straight to my room. My brain was exhausted from whatever had just happened and I just wanted to sleep forever. What the hell had gotten into Jason? He never acted like that.
I woke to the sound of a loud bang. I didn't know where it was or what was causing it, but it was loud as hell. I looked out the window and saw the dark clouds headed our way. The rain was pouring down so hard I could barely see the barn across the yard. I wiped my eyes and walked to the window. There were already puddles all around the yard and in the driveway. It must have been raining for a while. My truck was the only car in the driveway, everyone must be gone.
I started down the stairs to get something to eat. It was nearly 5 p.m. and I hadn't eaten anything all day. I jumped as I reached the bottom of the stairs. There was loud banging again, but it was different this time. It was short and deliberate, definitely not lightning. I walked over to the door and peeked my head out. Edward was hammering some boards to the windows.
"What's going on? Where is everyone?" I looked out around the yard. "And where is your truck?"
"There's a big storm coming so I'm boarding up the windows." He held up another board and nailed it into place. His muscles flexed with every hit. I could see it underneath his dark blue t-shirt. "Charlie, Emmett and Jasper went into town a couple of hours ago to get some supplies at the tractor store. Alice and Rose went shopping for the day." He looked up at the sky. "But by the looks of it, it's a pretty shitty day to go shopping." He looked down at his feet for a moment before going back to work.
"And your truck?"
He walked towards the next window.
"Edward where is your damn truck!?" I screamed. He still didn't answer. I finally knew what Jason was talking about. His truck. He'd seen his truck. "Were you spying on me last night?" I edged forward. "Were you?"
He finally turned his eyes to me and started to speak, but the shrill of the phone interrupted him. I huffed and ran inside to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Bells, it's Dad." He sounded worried. "Is Edward still there with you?"
"Yes."
"Okay good. Sweetie the storm's getting pretty bad here in town. They've closed the roads out to the house for the night because they're flooded. Is he still boarding up the windows?"
"Yeah he's just finishing up now. What are you guys going to do?"
"Well we got a hold of the girls and we're all going to stay at Billy's for the night. We'll be out there first thing tomorrow morning. You two stay inside or head to the basement if it gets really bad. Now let me talk to Edward."
"Okay just a minute." I walked outside and motioned for Edward. He ran up and inside the house.
"Charlie?....Okay....Okay...Yeah I understand. Bye." He hung up the phone.
"Bella I need you to get some things together and put them in the basement just in case. Get the flashlights, batteries, the radio and some water. Maybe a blanket or two. I'm going to go do some things in the barn and I'll be right back." He started out across the yard.
I ran inside and started collecting the things he said, throwing them into a bag. Edward was moving the tractors back out of the barn and into the open field. Once he was done he jumped down and released all the animals into the pasture behind the barn. I ran across the yard as the lightning flashed brilliantly across the sky. Edward had started stalking slowly back to the house.
"Edward what are we doing?" I yelled.
"Preparing for the storm you dumbass."
"I don't mean that. I mean what are...we...doing?" He stopped in front of me and ran his fingers through his dripping wet hair before putting his hand on his hips.
"It looks like you're very happy doing Jason. There is no we." He started back towards the house, but I reached out and grabbed his arm.
"You were right!" I said softly.
"What?" He spun back to me.
"You were right!" I screamed. I took a step towards him. "I thought about you the entire time. There wasn't one moment last night that you weren't in my head, taunting me. Every time I looked at him I saw you."
"Did you tell him that?" He scowled.
"I was going to this morning, but he broke up with me instead."
His shoulders heaved up and down as he breathed hard through his nose. The raindrops were hitting his shoulders so hard that they plinked off like he was made of marble. His mouth was slightly open, the rainwater running down his face.
"Dammit Edward say something!" I wiped my hair away from my face.
"I love you." He said as he spit some rainwater out of his mouth.
Moisture started forming at the corners of my eyes, and very wet and warm tears replaced the cold raindrops running down my face.
"I love you too."
He put his face in his hands and dropped to his knees in front of me, sobs escaping from his lips. I walked over and stood in front of him, running my fingers through his hair. I bent down and kissed his head as he wrapped his arms around my waist and pushed his forehead gently into my stomach.
"I love you too..." I said again.
He started placing urgent kisses on my stomach and worked his way up along my chest, standing up and finally placing his lips on mine. I jumped up into his arms, locking my legs around him and pushing my hips into his.
His hands ran up and down my back and through my hair as we stumbled up the porch. His hands fumbled for a moment with the screen door, but he eventually got it open and we were finally inside away from the rain.
Edward
My fingers reached for the hem of her shirt, but it was stuck to her body, sopping wet from the rain. "What the fuck?" I mumbled against her lips as I tried to pull it over her head. She laughed slightly into my open mouth at my frustration.
"A little anxious?" She smiled.
"Well after two years...yes." I finally managed to get it over her head. Her fingers reached for my jean buttons, undoing them slowly as she bent down in front of me. I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair as she pulled them down to my ankles. She kissed my stomach, right above the top of my boxers and looked up at me from underneath her should be illegally long eyelashes.
"God I missed you..." I whispered as I pulled her mouth up to mine. I slid her pajama pants easily off her and she stepped towards me, hitching one leg up around my hip.
"I missed you too. But sweetie stop talking." She pressed her lips roughly to mine.
My eyes glanced towards my bedroom and the stairs up to hers.
"No right here." She yanked my boxers down to the floor.
I held her face gently in my hands and kissed her. She pulled me in closer, causing us to stumble back into the kitchen table. The glasses and plates that were sitting on it crashed to the floor, breaking into a million pieces. I lifted her up onto the edge of the table and crawled on top of her, praying that the table would hold our weight.
She pulled my head closer to her, ducking to the side and whispering in my ear. "Do you remember what you said before?"
I pulled back with a confused look on my face.
"You promised me you'd make me scream..." She raised an eyebrow at me.
I smiled and ducked back down to her neck, running my tongue along her collarbone and down the middle of her chest, pausing briefly to take my time to run along the indents of her ribs.
Her breathing sped up and started escaping in small whimpers as my fingers slipped under her underwear and pulled them down. I backed away and pulled them slowly down her legs, massaging her things on my way down. After they were free from her legs I hiked her leg straight up, placing it on my shoulder. She gasped slightly at my sudden movement.
I smirked and stepped closer to her, warranting another sigh. She ran her fingers through her hair and bit down hard on her lip.
"Look at me…" I said seriously. Her eyes shot up to mine. I locked them there as I slid forward, crushing myself to her.
She let out a sigh as I started moving forwards and backwards, the table squeaking with our movements. She grabbed at the edges of the table to brace herself. Her other leg wrapped around the back of my leg, pulling me closer.
I heard the cracking of the table, even over the loud thunder and the pattering of the rain on the roof. With one final thrust, we crashed to the floor, panting and trying to catch our breath.
She started laughing quietly after a few minutes. "How the hell are we going to explain all this to Charlie?" She looked from side to side at the damage we'd caused to the kitchen.
"My room for the next round?" I said.
She nodded and I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder, all too eager to cross the ten paces to my bedroom door.
Bella
I woke up sometime during the night, unsure of what time it was, or where I was, or what my name was. It was that mind-blowing. I'd be surprised if I could add two and two together. I was in one of Edward's button down shirts and a pair of his boxers. He slept next to me, his arm draped across my waist.
I took a moment to just watch him. I started hating myself for all the time we've missed out on. It just seemed so…insignificant now. I was going to spend the rest of my life making that up to him.
A sound outside caught my ear and I shifted in the bed so I could look outside. It was still black as hell outside. I turned to see what time it was. 5 a.m. It shouldn't still be this dark out. I softly picked Edward's arm up and got out of bed, walking over to the window.
There was an eerie silence over the whole place. Like the calm before the storm. Then I heard it. Like a train coming straight towards us. Each time the lightning flashed across the sky I could make out the dark wall out over the field. It was getting closer each time.
"Edward!" I screamed, turning back towards the bed. I shook him awake and tried to pull him out of bed.
"What are you doing?" He said, still groggy from sleep.
"We have to get to the basement now!" I tried pulling him towards the door.
He took one look outside and bolted out his door, pulling me along.
"Where were the fucking sirens?!" He screamed as we reached the kitchen.
We had forgotten all the debris we'd left in the kitchen. I tripped over a leg of the kitchen table and fell forward into the shards of glass. I caught a glimpse of the blood running down my arms before Edward picked me up and carried me downstairs, slamming the basement door behind us.
I was trembling from fear and the sobs that were coming from me by the time we made it down the stairs. He set me down on my feet and pulled out one of the blankets I'd set aside earlier. He laid it out on the cold cement.
"Sit down babe. We're gonna be fine."
I did as he said, squinting to try and see the injuries on my arms. He grabbed a flashlight and grabbed my arms, pulling them towards him. He opened one of the water bottles and threw it over the gashes.
"You've got some glass stuck in here, stay still." He held the light in one hand and started gently picking the large chunks of glass out of my arms. After he was convinced he gotten them all he pulled his shirt over his head and ripped it clear in half, wrapping each piece around my arms for makeshift bandages. He pulled me close, rocking me back and forth and rubbing my back.
It sounded like the world was crashing down all around us. I've never heard anything so loud in my life. I was terrified. He grabbed the other blanket and wrapped it around us as the sounds of shattered glass echoed around us. He angled his body so I was trapped between him and the cement wall, pulling the blanket over our heads.
"Baby look at me…" He whispered, pulling my chin towards him. "We're going to be fine. I won't let anything happen to you okay?"
"Okay…" I said softly, sniffling a little bit. He gently kissed my cheek.
It was gone as quickly as it had come. We knew when the sunshine started streaking through the windows that it was over. Edward slowly dropped the blanket from around us and peeked his head out.
"Okay I think it's over." He pulled me up onto my feet and we started towards the stairs.
I gasped when we reached the top. The house was a complete disaster. Every single window I could see was broken, the curtains either twisted or completely off the wall. A large tree branch was through our big living room window and I could see our porch swing settled clear across the yard.
"Shit…" Edward mumbled, taking in the sight. "Be careful of the glass Bella…" He pointed out the glass as I took a step towards the front door. I blinked a few times staring at the place where our barn used to stand. It was nothing but a pile of wood now. It was gone.
"Where is my truck?" I said, looking around for my truck.
Edward joined me on the porch and searched the yard. He pointed out towards the ditch out front. My truck was flipped over and covered in mud.
My hand flew to my mouth as I surveyed the scene. The fields were completely flooded, and our animals were nowhere to be found. Charlie's dream was gone in an instant. Tears started escaping down my cheek.
"Hey none of that matters Bella." He took my face in his hands and wiped away my tears. "I'm holding the most important thing of my life in my hands right now. And that's all I need. We'll get everything else back."
My dad's truck pulled in just then, Emmett's following closely behind. The look on their faces explained everything. They were absolutely devastated by the sight in front of them.
A/N: Okay so you probably now realize why I said that the lemony goodness was made from concentrate and not real juice. It is physically impossible for me to write smut. I start laughing hysterically when I try and then I just feel awkward. But I have been pushing my limits lately so I did the best I could. Do not burn me at the stake. I go for sexy, not smutty. It's all I can do. haha. Secondly I hope the reunion was worth the wait. Please please please review! It makes me feel good to know what you guys think and plus it motivates me to write better and faster. So get on it! They're almost as good as breaking in the kitchen table with Edward. Almost... ; )
