Author's note: THANKS for the great reviews for the latest chapter. Warning! This chapter is a bit steamy at times. Here we go.
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BPOV
The next day we were all a beautiful mess. Rose was in a constantly happy mood, which was very disconcerting as she usually was the epitome of cool, and Alice was even giddier than usual and spent more time with her phone at her ear than without it. I shouldn't talk though, I was just as bad as them, if not worse. Edward had done a number on me with that kiss and I wasn't completely sure I would be able to kiss another man ever again. Not that I'd ever want to now that I knew what Edward's kisses felt like. I would be ever grateful to Alice for ratting us out to Jasper; the instant we had agreed to go out, she had called him and told him where we would be and to meet us there. The little weasel had gotten away easily since I was far too happy to give her a hard time.
We had decided on a group movie night the Sunday after our first kiss – and our second and third as well – and that the guys would pick one movie and the girls would pick one. Us girls had gone with the evil move and decided on The Notebook, a movie the boys would surely suffer through. We went through all the motions; popping popcorn, fluffing pillows, dimming the lights. When it was about ten minutes to go before they were supposed to come over, we were all done and had nothing better to do than just sit and be nervous together.
I was kind of dreading seeing Edward again, really bad self-confidence combined with a broken heart in the past had that effect. But when I thought back on how he held my hand in the cab home the night before, and how he followed me to the door to softly kiss me good night, and how he, along with Emmett and Jasper, stood and waited until they saw that we were safely inside our apartment before heading home themselves. My insides seemed to be as light as air at the memories, and a newfound need to be near him right away soared through me. I could see that Alice and even Rose were thinking along the same line as I was; they looked very impatient and excited. When the doorbell finally rang, we all jumped up stiffly and stared at each other. Then we broke into laughter at how weirdly we were behaving. Rose and I followed Alice into the hallway and looked on as she opened the front door.
There he stood, the man who had turned me into a complete wreck. He was looking like a Greek god, leaning against the stair rail outside the apartment with his arms folded across his broad chest. I almost winced when he looked up and met my eyes. There was nothing else, Emmett wasn't teasing Rose, Jasper wasn't caressing Alice's cheek. In my mind, they weren't even there. Edward was consuming me and it was almost scary how good it felt.
"Hello," he said, his face breaking into the smile of an angel. I had always thought it was weird to call a man beautiful, but here I was, eating my words. Edward was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.
"Hi," I breathed. I crossed the distance and stood before him, blushing lightly at how obvious I was being. I wanted him to kiss me again.
He understood what I wanted, and gave me a wicked smile before leaning down and gently kissing my throat. I shivered and put my hands on the back of his neck, twirling his glorious hair between my fingers. When I tugged at it a little, he moved his lips up my throat, across my jaw line and then they found my mouth. We both made a small sound at the same time, and laughed silently into each other's mouths. When his tongue asked for it, I granted it access to the whole of my mouth. He took full advantage of it, and before I knew it I was so dizzy that I was having a hard time just standing on my own. He noticed my predicament and broke the kiss, chuckling silently.
"Having trouble, Bella?" he asked smugly, keeping me upright by pressing my body against his, supporting almost all of my weight with one arm.
"The best kind," I grinned and kissed him again. That was when Emmett appeared right next to us. I shrieked into Edward's mouth in fright, and startled him so much that he abruptly let me go, sending me to the floor.
"Ow," I whined as Edward apologized profusely and helped me up. I rubbed my sore butt gingerly and saw Edward smack Emmett in the arm.
"Stop it," he growled. Emmett looked up at the ceiling, grinning like a maniac.
"Sure thing," he said jovially, his eyes still glued to the ceiling. "I was just sent out here to let you know that we want to start watching a movie and that the neighbors are two minutes away from calling the police on you."
Edward and I glanced at each other and almost laughed out loud.
"Oh," Emmett continued. "And that if they don't, we will."
Edward chuckled now and put his arm around me. "It certainly sounds like we have no choice but to be sociable."
"Aw, crap," I said in an over exaggerated whine.
When we entered the living room, Emmett lifted Rose from the couch, sat down and then put a fuming Rose on his lap. "I am not a doll, you big jerk!" she roared.
Emmett put a finger over her lips, stopping her rant. Rose almost growled at him, but didn't object when Emmett entwined his hands with hers and rested them on her lap. She sank into him and sighed contentedly. Alice and Jasper looked on from their placement on the floor. They were lying down, Jasper was spooning Alice and running his fingers up and down her arm.
I smiled at all of them and took my place next to Edward on the couch. I was suddenly feeling a bit shy, though I did my best not to show him that. He took my hand and started running his thumb over it, smiling at me. I smiled back at him, squeezed his hand and then I turned to the others. "Which movie are we going to see first?"
"Yeah, which movie did you pick, guys?" Alice asked curiously, sitting up. Jasper turned over on his back and Alice automatically lifted her legs and rested them on his stomach. He rubbed her shin without even realizing it. The ease that seemed to exist between them startled me. They looked like they'd been together for years and not mere days. I wasn't even sure that they were completely and officially together yet.
"A war movie," Emmett said eagerly.
I saw Edward and Jasper exchanging a glance and then quickly look away, both biting their lips to keep from laughing. Beginning to get suspicious, I asked, "What is the movie called?"
"Pearl Harbor," Edward said casually, keeping a straight face.
We girls were totally in on the joke now; Emmett probably didn't know that it was more of a love story than a war movie. He would be sorely disappointed to see that there only is a war going on about a third of the movie.
Rose grinned. "We picked a sappy girl movie for you guys to enjoy, so why don't we begin with yours? So you can build up you manliness some before the crying." She flipped up the DVD cover to show the guys just how much romance there would be.
"The Notebook?" Jasper asked, actually sounding excited. We all stared at him blankly. "It's a pretty good movie," he said quietly, blushing.
Edward and Emmett were shaking their heads slowly. "Dude," Emmett said reproachfully.
Jasper huffed. "Whatever, Orchid Boy."
"If you call me that one more time, Jasper, I swear to God," Emmett snapped while the rest of us laughed merrily and Jasper shrugged. Emmett seemed to give up the fight; he sank back into the couch and grabbed a tighter hold of Rosalie. "Just tell me if you need some tissues," he growled, glaring at Jasper who quickly stopped laughing.
"Are we watching the movie or not?" Rose sighed.
"Of course we are!" Alice sang and jumped up. She looked down at her feet and realized that she was standing on Jasper's stomach. He started laughing so hard that Alice jumped up and down. It was one of the funniest sights I had ever seen and I sagged against Edward's shoulder, getting his shirt all wet with my tears of laughter. He leaned his cheek on the top of my head and laughed with me, squeezing my hand.
When things had calmed down again, Alice grabbed the Pearl Harbor DVD and popped it in.
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Emmett had grudgingly forgiven us after the mind blowing confession that he had actually liked it, even though he thought Kate Beckinsale should have gotten together with Josh Hartnett right away and sent Ben Affleck packing. All of us girls heartily agreed while Jasper and Edward looked slightly scared.
"Let's just watch the next movie now," Edward sighed impatiently, apparently forgetting all about the genre it was.
It was really funny to watch Jasper as he watched The Notebook; he looked like he could feel every feeling and empathize with every single word Noah and Allie said. When they were sad, he looked like the world was ending – when they were happy, he looked like he'd won the lottery. I had never really noticed just how good-looking Jasper was, but I noticed that when he smiled he was almost as beautiful as Edward. That's a big almost, but still.
Rose was a bit more physical in her admiration. "That Ryan Gosling needs to call me," she purred.
Emmett glared at her. "I could take him," he mumbled.
"So could I," Rose sighed lovingly at the screen.
While all this was going on, Edward was slowly making me insane. We were covered by a big blanket Alice used sometime to cover the floor when she danced, and off to the end of the couch. One of his arms was wrapped around my shoulders, and his fingertips were playing across my shoulder. The other arm was on one of my thighs, slowly stroking small circles on my skin. As if that wasn't enough, his face was so close to mine that he sometimes took the opportunity to blow some warm air into my ear and making me shiver.
If he didn't stop it, I was going to take him right there on the couch in front of everyone. Instead of this ludicrous plan, I started to form a different one. The fact was that I was going to get him in my room. What happened there, I had no idea, but I knew that I wanted to get him in there alone with me. When I felt his teeth grazing my earlobe, something in me snapped.
"I'm going to go look for something," I said in a low voice. "Why don't you take a trip to the bathroom?"
He looked at me in utter bewilderment for a second and then his face just looked completely shocked. "Okay," he said in a very weak voice. I nodded, patted his knee and stood up.
No one but Alice acknowledged my movement. She looked at me in confusion, but when I gave a slight nod in Edward's direction, she grinned and gave me a small thumbs up. I glanced at Edward as I left the room and saw that his gaze was following me. My heart was thundering in my chest when I walked through the hallway and into my room. I leant against the closed door for a moment, trying to calm myself down, and then I saw how messy my room was. I quickly started to gather some dirty clothes and old magazines that were strewn across the open space, and threw them into my small bathroom. The room had just begun to look respectable when I heard a tiny knock on the door. I almost chuckled; it was so Edward to knock when I had practically tried to seduce him to come to my room. When I opened the door, he was looking at the floor. His gaze went up to meet mine, and the sight of him there made me completely numb. He was leaning against the doorframe, his hands in the pockets of his jeans, and he was looking at me from under those long eyelashes.
"Can I come in?" he asked quietly. The question startled me. I just nodded and moved so he could get past me. When he did, he let his fingers drag lightly across my stomach, and I could feel my stomach muscles tense.
He walked further into the room and looked at the different movie posters I had framed across my walls. He stopped at one in particular and chuckled. "The Little Mermaid?" he asked incredulously.
"And what is so wrong with that movie?" I teased him. "It's one of the greatest love stories of our time."
"Yes, you're right," he said as he turned around to look at me with humor in his eyes. "It almost rivals Romeo and Juliet."
"It blows Romeo and Juliet out of the water," I giggled. "Too depressing."
He laughed and put a soft hand against my cheek. "You're absurd, Bella."
"Thanks," I beamed at him.
The air seemed to change between us as his face turned serious. He lightly dragged his thumb over my lip and I kissed it reflexively. I saw his eyes widen a bit at my gesture. Not wanting to wait anymore, I put my hand on the back of his neck and pushed him to me. His lips met mine in a very fiery way and I almost immediately opened my mouth to let his tongue in. Nothing had ever felt better or more right than this did. It was like we were meant to stand there in my quite shabby room, just kissing and touching and feeling each other. His hands moved up and down my arms, but I grabbed his wrists and placed his hands on my hips. He let them rest there and kissed me even harder. I started to move, making him walk backwards, and just as I had predicted; the back of his knees hit the edge of my bed and we fell.
I landed on top of him, and we managed to not even break the kiss. Things were starting to get a little crazy, he felt so good beneath me and I wanted nothing more than to touch him. I broke away from him slightly.
"Sit," I said in a rough voice, and he did as I said. I sat with him, my legs on either side of his lap. I grabbed the edge of his shirt and pulled it off him, revealing the most perfect male chest I'd ever seen. My first instinct was to bend forward and kiss him just beneath his throat. He let his head hang back limply as I kissed my way across his chest. After a minute, he stopped me by pulling my chin up to kiss me.
"My turn," he said in a very raspy voice that made me almost shiver.
I complied, quickly pulling off my tank top. I was wearing a simple black bra, but he seemed totally mesmerized by it. His fingers touched my throat and moved lower and lower, almost grazing the tip of the bra.
I couldn't take anymore, so I kissed him roughly, pushing his back onto the bed again. Our tongues continued their battle for dominance as I realized that I was making the most embarrassing noises. Edward seemed to like them though, he kissed me harder for every sound I made.
"Wait," he suddenly said into my mouth.
I made a negative sound. Nothing was going to keep me from kissing this beautiful man.
"Bella, wait," he said in an almost breathless voice, pushing me away gently. He suddenly stood up and kept me on my feet with his hands on my upper arms.
"What?" I asked in confusion. My lips were very swollen and I knew I was blushing.
"It's too much too soon," he said, but his eyes were heavy with lust. I realized that he was being responsible. He wanted us to know each other better before taking such a huge step.
"Okay," I said fairly. "I get it." I decided to tease him a little, though. "You're just trying to protect your virtue, I get it."
He snorted with laughter and ruffled my hair a little. "Completely absurd," he murmured. "Now put your shirt on or I'll not be virtuous much longer."
The looks we got when we got back to the living room were priceless. The only one who didn't understand what we'd been doing was apparently Jasper.
"Guys," he said in a broken voice, and I could swear I saw a tear on his cheek. "You just missed the scene where Allie gets back with Noah. I'll replay it for you, you can't miss it."
Alice sighed and took the remote from him. "We've seen the entire movie twice, Jasper. We know how it goes."
Edward and I laughed and sat back down on the couch. We had just relaxed into our previous positions when Emmett leant towards us.
"Dude," he stage-whispered to Edward. "You've got lipgloss all over your neck."
Edward's eyes widened and he rubbed a hand across his throat frantically.
"You actually don't," Emmett continued gleefully, "but now I know you could have."
Edward threw a pillow at him.
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Author's note: OMG steamy!
These two are killing me. Like literally. They are too hot for me. This is the last you'll hear from me because Edward and Bella have killed me with their smooches.
No, I'm just playing. I'll update soon. REVIEW, my lambs.