A/N: I Hope you enjoy this little chapter. It was actually going to be much longer, but since I didn't update this weekend as planned, I wanted to get something out ASAP! The next chapter is almost finished and should be posted by Friday.

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The song for this chapter is:

This Kiss - by Faith Hill

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight, and all the characters. However, my Bella can take Edward to her hotel room and...

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Enough of this crazy stuff! Just shut up and post the chapter already…

** BM **

Chapter Twelve – Oh, God, He Was Perfect.

BPOV

This was truly a magical night. My 'Mountain Man' had cleaned up nicely, thank you very much, and, oh, God, he was perfect! He had cut the over-long hair from that morning, and trimmed his beard until it was little longer than a week-old stubble, but the overall effect was, to say the least, mind-blowing. The first moment I saw him fully, I had been struck again by his resemblance to Robert from all those years ago. Then he opened his mouth and spoke and all thoughts of Robert disappeared and Edward Masen took his place.

We danced. He could dance! Alice had said we would dance together, and he could dance! I had never enjoyed a Viennese Waltz more than I did tonight. Our steps flowed together as if we had been dancing together for years. Oh, God, he was so perfect.

We talked and talked, about everything and nothing. I wanted to know everything about him and I wanted to know it now! I was as honest with him as I could be without jeopardizing my family. I couldn't let him know the truth about us, not now, not yet. I had to get to know him first, and let him get to know me.

We danced again, this time a more modern dance. I had never danced this type of dance in public; however, I had danced with Alice, Rose, Jazz and Em at home. I had taught this dance to Em and Jazz so they could dance with the girls. I had never danced it with a real partner before, because I had never had a real partner. Now I did. Edward was my partner. And it felt so RIGHT! Why did it feel so right? I chose not to worry about the answer to that question and just enjoy myself. For once, little Bella Cullen was going to throw caution to the wind and just enjoy herself.

And I did. I wanted to dance with Edward. I wanted to feel his body against mine. I wanted to make him want me. Alice and Rose had often joked about how powerful lust was in vampires, but I had never experienced it first hand, so I had often scoffed at them about it. Well, that scoffing was coming back to bite me in the rear in a big way! I wanted Edward.

As the music of Flo Rida's Right Round played, I felt more and more of myself getting drawn into the music and under the spell cast by Edward Masen. Just looking at him made my vampire juices flow. I never knew until that night that it was the nature of a vampire to be seductive. I had never wanted to be seductive to anyone before. But tonight, I wanted to seduce Edward Masen.

I let the music dictate my actions and I relished the feel of his thigh between my legs. I felt, and reveled in, his hard body pressed against my hip. I knew, somehow instinctively, that I turned him on. I took a breath of him. Yes, I could smell him. He was turned on! Me, yes me, little Bella Cullen, could turn on a man like Edward Masen. Oh, God, he was perfect!

I turned my back to him, pressing my hips against him as I sank to the floor swaying my hips to the music, and swaying them more as I pressed my way back up his body, catching and holding his eyes with mine. I let my arms come up and back to encircle his neck, willing his mouth closer to my own. Yes, vampires were seductive creatures, and I wanted my man!

I knew he was going to kiss me a second before I felt his lips on mine. I held my breath, suddenly fearful of what I might accidentally do to him if I lost control. I felt his lips close on mine and time stood still. His lips were impossibly hot against my cool ones and I felt them move against mine, taking possession of my heart as surely as he possessed my lips. My eyes closed and I allowed myself to feel. It felt wonderful, the perfect ending to a perfect dance. Suddenly I felt as if I were the seduced rather than the seducer. I slowly broke the kiss, pulling back so my eyes could once again meet his. He wanted me. I could see it in his eyes.

I felt someone at my right side, taking my arm, and pulling me along. I turned as Rosalie started dragging me toward our table. I looked at Edward and saw that Alice had his arm, towing him along too.

They made us sit, and then Alice said, "Now, if you will excuse us, we will take care of two little problems for you," she said. I followed the direction of her thumb over her shoulder and saw Jasper and Emmett. They were glaring at Edward in a way that did not bode well for him surviving the next two minutes, let alone long enough to escape the club.

Alice turned to Edward and continued. "You'll have to excuse them, Edward, seeing Bella with a guy is a new experience for them." She turned back to me and said, "Bella, we should probably leave soon, just to be safe. Sorry, honey. Come Rosalie." Alice and Rosalie moved across the dance floor and intercepted Emmett and Jasper, grabbed their arms and practically dragged them to the other side of the room, out of eyesight of myself and Edward.

I was mortified! What had come over those two? I had never been so embarrassed in my life, or my death for that matter. If I could have still blushed, I would have been ten different shades of red right now. Instead I gathered my courage and looked at Edward and said, "I am so sorry about that, Edward. Please forgive them. Jasper and Emmett are very protective of me. They really mean no harm."

Yeah, leave it to my perfect man to say the perfect thing to reassure me. "That's okay, really it is. It's kind of good to know you got two guys like that looking out for you." I couldn't help smiling at him. Oh God, he was perfect!

I saw something flash in his eyes and he asked, "Do you live here in Seattle?" I suddenly realized that through all our talking we had not gotten around to the basics, as in address and phone number.

"No, actually we just moved here from Alaska. We live in a small town about two hours from here. We're just visiting Seattle." I need to get his phone number!

"Really? Me too. Jake and I decided to stay the night here after our three-month hike before going home." I lost all train of thought as he looked at me with those emerald eyes and continued, "And I'm so glad we did."

I was lost, adrift on an emerald sea, where the only things that existed were Edward and me. I saw him shake his head slightly and heard him ask, "Where are you staying in town?"

I had to think a moment, get my wits about me, and then I answered, "The Fairmont Olympic."

I saw a look of disbelief enter Edwards emerald eyes and he shook his head slightly before giving me his crooked grin. "You're not going to believe this," he began, and then stopped, just shaking his head.

I looked into his face. What was he saying? Then something in his eyes told me everything I needed to know, and I started shaking my head slightly, side-to-side, and said, "No, no, this is just too much." I looked at him closely, looking for the joke. "Don't tell me you're staying there too?"

A serious expression filled his face and he said, "Well, okay, I won't tell you, then." But the grin teasing about the corners of his mouth soon won and that crooked grin was again in place. "Does it seem to you as if Fate really wanted us to meet?"

Fate? Fate had never been my friend, and I had had many brushes with him in the past. I looked at Edward as I answered, "I never put much faith in Fate. He always seemed to be taunting me." Maybe this time, I thought, Fate would let me win. "But if that's what brought us together, then I will never doubt him again."

Oh, God, he was perfect! I watched as his head moved toward me and I knew what was going to happen. My senses were so attuned to him now that I could almost anticipate his every move. He was going to kiss me again. I dropped my gaze to his lips. Oh, yes, I wanted him to kiss me again. As his lips neared mine, I held my breath, and then…

Words can not describe what kissing Edward was like. The kiss on the dance floor had been just a warm up to this one. I had anticipated this one and I was ready. I felt the electricity enter my body as his lips met mine. They felt just as hot against my cool ones as before, and they moved with such passion, I felt I was on fire. I swear, if it could have, my cold, dead heart would have restarted when his lips touched mine.

The heat of his mouth moved through my body like a living thing, touching me in places I though long since dead, concentrating the heat and pooling it between my legs. I had never felt this sensation before. Passion was a new experience for me, but I welcomed the feeling because it came with Edward.

I had been kissed only once before, and that had been such a brief, chaste kiss on the eve of Robert's departure. It scarcely compared with this one. I felt Edward's blazingly hot tongue brush against my cool lips and I surrendered, opening them to him, welcoming the taste of his tongue in my mouth.

"Bella!" The interruption of Alice's voice caused us to jump slightly, and we pulling apart slowly.

She bent down, making sure she was looking me in the eye, and said, "I'm really, really sorry, sweetie, but I think we need to go now." She gave me THE LOOK. "I really think we need to go now!"

Oh, damn! What were those two doing now? Which one was on his way over to kill my perfect man?! "Emmett or Jasper?" I asked Alice, looking her straight in the eye, letting her see my anger bubbling under the surface.

"Both," she answered. Damn! Damn! Double-damn!

"Oh, God," I said in a low, exasperated voice to Alice before I turned to Edward. "I am so sorry Edward. I really must go." The last thing I wanted to do in this world right now was leave Edward. But for his safety, and if my anger didn't cool soon, Emmett and Jasper's too, I knew I had to leave. I stood up, gathered my things from the table and prepared to follow Alice, my reluctance to leave evident in the gaze I gave him.

"When will I see you again?" He asked quickly.

Oh, my, I still didn't have his phone number or his address. But wait, there was more than one way to skin a cat, and I was an expert at skinning cats, mountain lions to be exact. We would show Emmett and Jasper. I looked straight into his eyes and gave him a conspiratorial smile and mouthed the words "Six Twenty-three. One hour." Then I winked at him.

I saw confusion on his face for a few moments before understanding entered his eyes. He gave me a grin in return and a small nod of his head. YES! He understood!

I allowed Alice to drag me across the dance floor toward the exit, but I couldn't help myself and I turned to smile at Edward twice before we made it to the door. Then his beautiful face was gone.

Oh, God, he was perfect!

I allowed myself one last thought of him before I turned on Em and Jazz, who were being led out by a determined Rosalie. We were in the parking lot now and I wrenched my arm from Alice's grip and stopped stock still beside the Jeep.

"Rosalie, you're driving!" They could tell by my tone that I meant business.

"But, it's my…" Emmett began, but I cut him off with one look.

"Don't. You. Dare." I looked at him and Jazz, letting them see the anger I had kept in check for the last few minutes. "Alice, you sit up front with Rose. I need to have a little talk with my dear brothers."

"Just remember, please be gentle. Rose and I will be the ones putting the pieces back together when you tear them apart." Alice said, only partly jokingly, as she climbed into the front passenger seat.

"Yeah, we don't mind if you rip them a new one, as long as you leave certain parts of them intact, if you get my drift." Rose quipped before hopping into the driver's seat.

"Don't worry, girls, I'll only make them wish I would tear them apart," I said with a somewhat evil smile on my lips.

I turned to the two guys, grabbed them each by the front of their shirts and bodily threw them into the backseat of the Jeep. They landed with two resounding thuds before I jumped in behind them. This should be interesting.

Rose had pulled out of the parking lot and had turned onto the main highway toward our hotel before I had composed myself enough to speak to them without shouting.

"Just what in the HELL did you two think you were doing?" I was livid, and they knew it.

"What are you so mad for? We were just protecting our sister's honor." Oh, no, Emmett, you did not just say that!

"What do you mean, my HONOR!?" I was very nearly shouting. "I was just dancing and talking with a great guy."

"Yeah, with a guy you just met tonight, and then you do a little dirty dancing with him and he's kissing you! And in public, I might add!" This time it was Jasper.

"Jazz, this is not 1860 anymore, and I am not some sixteen-year-old who needs rescuing." I glared at him, too mad to think straight at that moment. "I am one hundred fifty-nine years old and it's about time I got a little action, too, don't you think?"

Jasper and Emmett looked as if their favorite pet had suddenly grown teeth and attacked them. If I hadn't been so mad, I might have seen the humor in the situation.

"But he had no business touching you that way! For all we know he could be a wacko who escaped from prison and killed seven co-eds and chopped up their bodies and buried them in a landfill … somewhere." Emmett's rambling was getting more ridiculous the longer he talked.

I shook my head slowly from side to side, looking at him as if he was the wacko one and said, "WHAT?" I took a deep breath and continued.

"Will you just listen to yourself?" I questioned them. The deep breath seemed to calm me somewhat and then I heard the voice of reason coming from the front passenger seat.

"Bella, they don't know about him. Give them a break, will ya?" Leave it to Alice to be the voice of reason.

"Why don't you all three just calm down, and Bella, tell them about Edward… and Robert."

"Who's Robert?" Em and Jazz spoke together.

I suddenly realized that Jasper and Emmett had seen the situation in a completely different light than Alice and Rose, because they didn't know the story of my "Mountain Man" and Robert Pattinson. So I told them.

They listened intently as I led them through the entire saga, from 1918, to the three years of self-confinement, to eighty-four years of loneliness, to the convenience store this morning, to my unexpected meeting tonight. I told them everything, and I could see the pain in their face for my ordeal and struggle to survive after Robert left. I could see their joy at my finding Edward, and then their shame at putting me through the hasty retreat tonight.

"Oh, hell, baby sister, I'm so sorry," Jasper put his arms around me as he apologized for his actions tonight.

"Yeah, we didn't mean to mess things up for you tonight," Emmett joined in, reaching out to give me his own hug. "But how were we supposed to know he was the one? We can't read minds you know."

"I know, Em, I know." I hugged them both, putting an arm around each of them. "But this guy is special. I really want him to be a part of my life."

"We know, baby sister," Jasper replied. "But I hope you realize that he is a human. How will you keep him from discovering that you're a vampire?" He gave me one of those looks, the look only a real brother can give his sister. "And, more importantly, do you want to keep it from him? You won't have much of a future together if you don't tell him."

"I know Jazz," I whispered, unable to keep the tinge of agony from my voice and my eyes as I raised them to look at him. "I know I will eventually have to tell him the truth, but not now. Not now! I want to get to know him first, let him get to know me. Then, when the time is right, I know I'll have to tell him."

"Well, what about after he finds out?" Rose spoke for the first time from the driver's seat. "What do you think the Volturi will do to him if they find out he knows our secret? You do realize that they will come after him."

"Well," I started, "For one thing, I hope they don't find out. And for another thing, Aro has a lot of respect for my abilities. He won't challenge me unless he has to. I just have to make sure he doesn't see Edward as a threat."

"I can tell you that as far as I can see, I don't see any trouble from the Volturi over Edward." Alice again spoke. "That might change at any time, especially as they don't know about him yet, but I should be able to see anything they might plan and at least give us fair warning."

Our conversation ended on that note as we pulled up to the hotel. The valet took the car and we hurried up to our rooms.

I entered my room and reached for my blackberry to check the time. Oh, my, forty-five minutes and counting. I need to talk to Rose and Alice so I called to them in a normal tone, even though they were in their rooms already. I knew they would hear me and come immediately.

As they appeared from their respective rooms, I moved to the stereo on the table in the corner, and turned the music on and slightly louder than necessary. I need to be able to talk to them without the boys overhearing. I quickly told them of my planned rendezvous with Edward and I desperately need their advice.

Again, we were giggling like three teen-agers anticipating sneaking out of our bedroom windows to meet our boyfriends. They knew I had never been alone in a bedroom with a man before, at least not a man I was sexually attracted to. They explained to me what to expect. I made them to promise to be ready to rescue Edward if I lost control and attempted to... well, kill him at the height of passion. They assured me they would keep one ear attuned to any sign of danger.

They helped me select something to wear, something pretty without being too much. It was, after all, my first 'date' with Edward. And, no, I told them, I did not plan to have sex with him on our first date. Rose looked disappointed, but Alice just said, "I know," and smiled at me.

I finally decided on a set of pink, silk, lounging pajamas that, for some strange reason, Alice had decided to pack. She just smiled as she brought them out and answered my astonished look with, "It always pays to be prepared." You gotta love Alice!

I had never been as nervous in my entire existence as I watched the minutes tick by on my blackberry. Two minutes and counting. Alice and Rose had retreated to their own bedrooms five minutes ago after kissing me for good luck and promising to keep the boys "very busy" for the rest of the night.

One minute and counting.

EPOV

"Hey, what's the big idea?" Jake was thoroughly pissed, and I had to admit, he had good reason. "Did you not see, I had two, count 'em, two, lovely ladies just vying for my attention, until you show up and drag me off."

"Geez, hell, man, I'm sorry, but we have to go!" I tried to explain to him has we crossed the parking lot to my car.

"Well, where the hell's the fire? Why did we have to leave right this minute? Couldn't we have stayed just a little longer?" Jake was starting to whine a little.

"Ah, come on Jake, work with me. I promise I'll make it up to you somehow. I will, Bro."

"Yeah, yeah, we'll see." He was still a little ticked off, and I honestly couldn't blame him. If the situation was reversed, I'd be plenty out of sorts too.

"But, seriously, why the hasty departure? Did the 'dream girl' have a husband or something?" Jake was beginning to come around. He was starting to crack jokes again.

"Well, she did have something, that's for sure. But she also had two overzealous brothers, who didn't take too kindly to me kissing their sister after just meeting her." I explained, ending with a soft chuckle.

"You mean those two guys she was with were her brothers? The linebacker and the male model?" Jake used the nicknames we had given Bella's two brothers when we had first seen them and sized them up.

"The same." I answered.

"So what's the problem, are they after you or something?" Jake gave a short snort of laughter. "Do I need to protect you from the big, bad brothers?" He laughed outright at this.

"Very funny, but no, they left before we did."

"So what's your hurry to leave? I was having a really good time, and it was only gonna get better." Jake's bad mood was returning.

"I told you I'd make it up to you, and I will. Sometime." I would promise him anything at this point, I just had to get back to the hotel. I glanced at my watch… Fifty minutes and counting.

"So…. You're in a hurry because….?" Jake questioned with the persistency of a bull dog with his teeth in a good bone.

"Well, I've kind of got to meet someone at the hotel." I told him, not wanting to tell him the whole story.

"And who, pray tell, are you meeting at the hotel at," he glanced at his watch, "one-thirty in the morning?"

"Well… it seems that … Bellasstayinginthesamehotel."

Jake opened his mouth to speak, and then closed it, before opening it again and pausing, before stating in an incredulous voice, "Did you just say she's staying in the same hotel?"

I didn't say anything, just kept my eyes on the road.

"You've got to be kidding me." Jake turned fully in his seat to look at me. "Please tell me you're kidding."

"Nope!" I said, popping my 'p' slightly as I replied.

"Hell, man, this is something right out of Ripley's Believe It or Not!"

"I've been thinking I was in the Twilight Zone myself all night." I replied, sounding more serious than I had actually intended.

"Damn, Bro, you were really meant to meet this girl. I mean, the cards were stacked, hell, the whole damn deck, was stacked against you from the start!" Jake couldn't keep the 'freaked-out' tone out of his voice.

"All I know is she's the most amazing girl I've ever met. I could talk to her for hours and not get tired of hearing what she has to say. I could just sit and look at her and never get bored with what I saw. She's one of a kind, that's for sure." I know I spoke with a touch of awe in my voice, but I couldn't help it.

"Bro, you have got it Bad, with a capital 'B'! But if she's what makes you happy, then I'm all for it, man." Jake was a true friend.

We had arrived at the hotel and I handed my keys to the valet before entering with Jake. I looked at my watch as we waited for the elevator to take us to our floor. Forty-two minutes and counting.

I just thought of something, and I turned to Jake and said, "You got your room pass card?"

When he nodded, I said, "Good, you go on up, I need to do something down here first."

He gave me a puzzled look as he boarded the elevator and the doors closed. I headed to the concierge desk, hoping someone was still on duty. I had a request and they already assured me they were at my beck and call. Sure enough, there was someone at the desk. I quickly made my request and was assured, once again, to "Leave it to me, Mr. Masen." So, I again, left it to them, and returned to the elevator to go to my room.

Thirty-seven minutes and counting.

Twenty-two minutes later, I was still agonizing about what to wear. Emo Edward was very near the surface, when Jake suddenly brought me up short. "Edward, she's just a girl, for shit's sake. What would you wear if you were going out with a girl back home?"

"Well, how the hell should I know? I've never met a girl in the middle of the night in her hotel room! How the hell should I know what to wear?" I was becoming more stressed by the second.

"Okay, that's it then!" Jake said abruptly. "It's the middle of the fucking night. Wear something you would be comfortable wearing in the middle of the night!"

He walked to the dresser, opened a drawer and pulled out a navy tee-shirt and a pair of navy and green plaid sleep pants and threw them at me.

"Here, put these on. They'll be fine. I promise."

"You mean I should just show up at her hotel room door wearing my pajamas? She'll think I'm planning to spend the night… or something..." I let my voice trail off.

"And what did you think you were gonna do, meeting her at her hotel room at two o'clock in the morning? Have tea and crumpets and call it a day?" Jake was just being stupid now.

He continued, "It will be fine. It's not like she'll meet you at the door wearing an evening gown expecting you to take her to the prom. It's the middle of the night. More than likely, she'll be dressed comfortably too."

"Okay, okay, I'll wear the PJs, but if she runs me off for being an idiot, I'll come back down here and murder you in your sleep."

I glanced at my watch. Damn! I only had ten minutes left. I quickly dressed in my sleepwear, slipped a pair of sandals on my feet and waited for the time to pass.

Five minutes and counting.

There was a discrete knock at the door, and I opened it. There stood the concierge with my requested item. Damn, they were good! I gave him a generous tip, and waved so-long to Jake as I pocketed my room pass card and my blackberry.

Well, here goes nothing. Or something. Or everything.

I walked toward the elevator just as the door down the hall opened and two tall, leggy blondes walked out of their room, each wearing bikinis under their open hotel-provided robes and carrying towels. We waited at the elevators together, me going up to the sixth floor, them going down to the basement and the in-door pool, they told me as they invited me to join them. I respectfully declined their offer, but it did give me an idea.

Their elevator arrived first, and they disappeared inside with a small wave to me. I immediately pulled my blackberry from my pocket and punched in Jake's number. He answered and I said, "I'll make this short and sweet, so listen close. Grab your swim trunks and head down to the indoor pool. You won't regret it. And we're even." I punched the end button, and boarded the elevator, to be whisked to the sixth floor.

One minute and counting…

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UPDATE 5-14-09: The next chapter gets a little 'heated', and therefore, I have changed the rating of this story to "M".

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