Room For Rent – Chapter 12
A/N: Thank you to all the reviewers. I also want to give a quick shout out to the Members of my website, thank so much for your advice and input into the story. You have no idea how much I appreciate your feedback. My goal is to find out what the readers like and try my best to incorporate that into the story. As you all have been waiting for in this chapter you will have the "Edward and Shamira Break Up" and "Edward and Bella's FIRST KISS. With that all being said please if anyone goes to twilighted (dot) net please visit the link I started and maybe leave a comment. I find the Twilighted sight a bit confusing and I'm trying to figure it out. Those of you who are waiting for an update for "Opposites Attract Alternate Chapters please bare with me I am waiting for my BETA to get back to me. As you may or may not know I don't have a Beta for this story so if there is anyone out there who wants to take stab at it send me the chapters and I'll check them out. Sorry for the long A/N now here's the chapter.
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BPOV
I woke up feeling very content and happy. It had been weeks since I woke up feeling like this. After breaking up with James I was consumed by sadness and loneliness. Edward was the sweetest most caring person I have ever known. He always tried to cheer me up and he would hold me when I needed him to. It was like he could read my mind and knew exactly what to do to make me feel better. Initially when I broke up with James I didn't think it would hurt this much seeing as how I wasn't happy and all but I was wrong. I couldn't deny the feelings I had for James and how badly it hurt to see him in pain when those words left my mouth 'it's over'. I felt like such an evil person for hurting him. It wasn't his fault that we weren't going anywhere, it was no one's fault it just wasn't meant to be.
Now if you remember I finally realized I was falling in love with Edward. Now things couldn't get any more complicated if they were written out on some fan fiction page by some obsessed reader. Edward was in a 'relationship' with Shamira. The most complicating part of it was that I actually liked her. She was nice and always polite to everyone. Hell she even brought him soup when he was sick with a cold. Of course he didn't need it because I had already made him some and was taking care of him but still the fact that she thought of it just made it that much more difficult to hate her. Don't get me wrong I still loathed the bitch like I'm sure most of you do but she was there and obviously going to be here in our lives at least until March. Or so I thought.
Anyway, right I was waking up so I pushed my arms against what I thought was the bed to lift myself up and start my day. I heard a strange noise and my bed started to move.
"Uggh." I looked down at my bed and it was not a bed at all. Edward was lying beneath me sound asleep. My hands were pressed against his chest and I quickly darted my eyes up and down our bodies to make sure I wasn't dreaming. We were clothes and it was of course not a dream because in my dreams we were always naked. I sighed to myself and rested my head back on his chest. I took a deep breath and inhaled everything that was Edward. His arms tightened around me and I felt his lower body shift.
That is when I felt IT. Against my right thigh pressed the massive girth and length of Edward Cullen. I instinctively rubbed my leg up and down the length to get a better idea of what he was working with and holy freaking shit he was large enough to scare any virgin into a convent. I could tell right away that he was larger than James. My fears started running through my mind and my internal freak out started. How could anything that size fit inside of me. It had to be impossible. I couldn't understand how it would fit let alone move back and forth and around inside of me. Rose and Alice suggested I watch a porno so I could get these fears settled and put to rest. I just couldn't do it. Mom passed away before the talk and well the 1 year I had with my dad he never brought anything up. All that I knew about sex was from Rose, Jasper, Jake and gossip at the diner and the media.
I closed my eyes and tried to will myself back to sleep but it never came. I decided it was time to get up even if it meant waking Edward up. I could feel my body rising and falling with each breath that he took. His strong arms were still wrapped around me. I wiggled my legs a little to see if I could rise up on them when I felt a tingling in my core. I pressed again and oh my god. It wasn't a dream. Well it wasn't entirely not a dream. I could feel a hard part of Edward's body pressed into the center of my body pushing against my folds. I knew immediately that I had a serious case of camel toe. I thought about the previous night and how Edward came to bed with me at my invitation of course and falling asleep on his chest and oh my. The dream I had last night while consumed by his scent left me acting out my own personal porno in my mind. I shifted my hips forward to get more contact and I immediately felt the pleasure of being pressed against him. His body started to shift and his leg pulled up between my legs forcing my small body to slide down his leg and onto his torso.
"Woe, hey there good morning." Edward chuckled as he caught me with his arms before my head hit the headboard.
"Morning." I replied and scrambled from the bed and darted into the bathroom. I didn't want him to see the possible puddle of fluids that probably leaked through my panties.
Once in the bathroom I glanced down and sure enough I had a pussy wedgey. Oh my god this was mortifying. I tugged my shorts down and settling on the toilet. While peeing I inspected my shorts or rather Edward's boxers. Ha I was wearing his boxers could this get any funnier. Of course they were soaked in the center where I had been pressed against him. I so hope that he didn't have a wet spot on his pajama pants. Oh god what if he thought I peed on him. Oh crap this was going to be awkward. I jumped in the shower after stripping and finished my morning routine. I emerged from the bathroom tightly wrapped in my robe and towel drying my hair.
I looked around my room and it was Edward free. I let out a sigh of relief of not having to face him just yet. I dressed quickly and made my way downstairs to see who was up. Anna was watching morning cartoons on the sofa still in her Pajamas and Edward was at the dining room table fully dressed and eating a bowl of cereal. Jasper was in the kitchen making coffee.
"Pancakes and strawberries" Anna said when I came to sit next to her. Wow she was almost as bossy as me.
"Yes. Mam." I saluted her and got up to go make her breakfast. I gave her a kiss on the top of her head and she smiled up at me.
"Please, and Thank you." She said looking up at me innocently. Ha see I knew she had some manners in there somewhere.
"That's better." I told her.
I avoided Edward because I wasn't sure if what I thought happened really did happen or if it was all in my dream. After I finished making Anna's breakfast I joined her in the living room for cartoons. There was a knock on the front door and I glanced around the living room and no one was there. I got up to answer the door and I was a little sad to see Shamira, Edward's girlfriend standing there. She looked beautiful like always and had a huge smile on her face. I wanted so much to hate her but she was so nice I just couldn't do it.
"Hi, Bella how are you doing this morning?" She asked as I let her in to the house.
"I'm good and you?" I was always polite to her even though my first instinct was to scratch her eyes out.
"Couldn't be better, is Edward ready?" She asked as she took a seat on the sofa and smiled down at Anna.
"I'm not sure, he was eating breakfast a few minutes ago but he must have gone upstairs do you want me to get him?" I asked.
"Oh, no that's ok I'll go find him. You know I've never seen his room." Shamira said with a smile on her face. I wanted to scream no don't go up there as she started for the stairs but I couldn't do it. It wasn't my business.
"Oh ok well uh have a good day." I offered and proceeded to clean up our breakfast mess.
After she was gone and I was done cleaning up I took Anna upstairs to help her get dressed and ready for her day. We were going to visit her grandparents and see how Mr. Dwyer was recovering from his surgery. Edward and Jasper were both gone when Anna and I made it downstairs to the living room. I sighed to myself as I thought about what Edward was doing right at this moment with HER. I tried to keep my sadness to myself I didn't want Anna to catch on to my sour mood.
"So are you excited to see your Pop and Gran?" I asked Anna as we walked to the car.
"Yes, I want some of her braided bread." Anna was jumping up and down getting excited about seeing her grandparents again.
"Is that the bread that you eat on Friday nights?" I asked.
"Uh huh the flat bread we eat for Passover cause it don't have the yeast." Anna was explaining to me all of the different foods she ate at her grandparents house.
Phil, my stepfather was Jewish and his parents are more religious than he and my mother were. They were not happy when Phil married my divorced single mother. Phil never tried to push my mother into being religious or converting to being Jewish but I could always tell he missed the traditions. I wanted Anna to spend time with her grandparents so that she could learn about her heritage and her family's traditions. When grandpa Dwyer got sick and had to have surgery and go through Kemo it was difficult for Anna to visit them as often as she once had. She missed out on some of her favorite holidays. I would have done the traditions myself but I was too busy with keeping the diner running and taking care of Anna that I didn't have the time or energy left to put into learning about the Jewish holidays.
We finally arrived in Pikesville, Maryland in the small suburbs. Anna immediately ran from the car and up the steps and began to pound on the door with her small fist. I could hear their little yapper dog barking from inside of the house. I gathered up our things from the car and the card that Anna had made for her Pop and trudged up the walkway still trying to get Edward out of my mind.
We stayed at the grandparents for a while and promised to visit again soon. We did have some of the braided bread which I learned was called Challah bread. I was going to have to ask Gran Dwyer how to make it and maybe add it to the menu at the diner. I know that it worked good for French toast. We got back home around 4pm and decided to have dinner at the diner instead of me cooking. After dinner we were planning on playing slumber party and eating junk food. I even promised to paint her toenails and do her hair.
We got home and the house was empty. Jasper was at the diner for her shift and Edward was, well just not home. I didn't want to think about where he was or what he was doing so I threw myself into full on slumber party mode and baked some brownies to go with our ice-cream.
We settled ourselves on the living room floor around the coffee table and I started to paint Anna's fingernails while we watched High School Musical 1. I had reluctantly promised to watch all 3. In the middle of the 1st movie Edward came home looking a little upset. He plopped himself on the sofa and started watching the movie with us.
"What's wrong grumpy?" Anna asked him as she wiggled her hands and feet in the air to dry her nails.
"Nothing just not having a good day. So you two are doing make-overs or something?" He asked trying to change the subject.
"No we are playing slumber party do you want to play with us? Sissy can do your nails too." Anna offered trying to cheer him up.
"Um.. I think I'll pass on the nails but I'll hang out and watch the movies with you." Edward was always so sweet to her.
I wanted to drag him upstairs and find out what was bothering him but Anna and I had plans and Edward was just going to have to wait. At around 7pm the house phone rang and I got up to answer it leaving Edward to fend off the Brush and Ribbons that Anna was trying to put in his hair.
"Pleeeeeease Edward I promise you can take them out when the movies over. I won't tell I promise pweeease." She was begging him to let her do his hair.
"Fine, on one condition." He offered.
"Ok what is it?" She asked skeptically. I tuned them out and answered the phone. I knew that he would give in to her eventually, everyone always did.
"Hello?" I answered the phone and heard a yapper dog barking.
"Oh hi Bella this is Grand I'm glad I caught you at home I wanted to talk to you if you have the time." It was Phil's mother and she never called after 6pm so I knew that it must be important and I immediately thought that Pop was back in the hospital.
"Is everything ok? Is Pop alright?" I asked panicking.
"Oh yes yes dear everything things is fine it's better than fine he's doing great, you saw him today he is almost back to his normal self. That's what I wanted to talk to you about."
"Oh thank goodness I was worried there for a minute can you hold on for a minute I'm going to take the call in the kitchen." I walked into the kitchen after glancing at Edward who now had 2 tiny barrettes in his bangs.
"Ok Gran I'm all yours what can I do for you." I offered. They had always been good to me even though I wasn't their granddaughter even before Anna was born.
"Well as you know Pop is doing much better and we haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with Anna these past couple of years and I know that things were tough on you two for a while and I am just so sorry that we weren't able to help out more with Pop being sick and all." She sounded sad and worried.
"Grand don't be sorry we made out ok and everyone is happy and healthy that's all that matters." I tried to reassure her and relieve some of her guilt.
"Well Bella after seeing Anna today we realized how much we are missing, she is growing up so fast and pretty soon she's going to be an adult and you are still young and should be starting your life and dating and going to college not raising a child. We want Anna to come and live with us so that you can start your life." I was more than shocked by her suggestion.
I immediately felt my knees weaken and give out as I sunk to the kitchen floor and set the phone down. They wanted to take her away from me. I have been her only parent for the past 3 years and they are trying to just take her away. How could they possible think this was a good idea?
I slowly picked up the phone and tried to get control over myself. I had to be the adult I knew I was. I was no longer the scared 16 ½ year old who lost her parents. I was now a 20 year old woman.
"Mrs. Dwyer this is not something I wish to discuss over the phone or this late at night. If you and Mr. Dwyer would like to come to dinner on Sunday I will be more than willing to talk things over after dinner." I couldn't call her grandma or gran, not when she was threatening to take away my sole purpose for living.
"Ok, Bella I understand that you might not understand that it is the best option right now so Grandpa and I will be there on Sunday, please tell Anna goodnight and that we love her." With that we hung up and I wiped at my tear stains face.
I needed to regain my composure; I didn't want Anna knowing I was upset and ruin her night. I turned around to face the living room and I saw Edward standing there with barrettes and ribbons all over his hair. His face looked sad and full of concern. I was still sad and upset but I couldn't help the fit of laughter that followed. I burst out laughing and gripped my sides to hold them together. I couldn't keep my eyes off of the sight in front of me Edward with all of his handsome god like good looks was standing there with pink, purple and yellow ribbons and bows all over his hair.
Edward cocked his head to the side and stared at me shocked probably by my sudden mood change. I continued to giggle and hold my sides as Edward stood there dumbfounded and confused.
"Yo-your h-hair." I got out through fits of laughter.
Edward's face turned bright pink and his hands went straight to his hair pulling out the offending girly accessories. Just as he was finished Anna came bouncing into the kitchen with her Fisher Price digital camera.
"Hey, I didn't take the picture yet no fair." She whined slash yelled at Edward.
"Sorry" He stuttered out and gave her a sympathetic look.
"It's ok, can we do your face mask now?" Anna asked pouting up at him.
I couldn't keep in the laugh when I saw the look of horror on Edward's face as he gave in to my sister and took her hand as they walked back into the living room. I finished recollecting myself and put Gran and Pop Dwyer out of my mind. I would deal with them later, right now I had a slumber party to get through. The sight before me when I reached the living room was more than hilarious and I burst into another fit of giggles and laughter. Edward was sitting on the floor Indian style while Anna had a spatula and was spreading peanut butter on his face.
"Anna? Are you sure this is the right stuff? Alice always mixes up a bunch of stuff." Edward asked skeptically.
After hearing my laughter Edward turned to look up at me pleading with his eyes for me to save him. I just shrugged my shoulders and plopped down on the sofa to watch Anna torture him. After his face was completely covered with peanut butter I went to the kitchen to grab some graham crackers and Hershey bars. I settled on the sofa in front of Edward who had his cell-phone out and was setting an alarm.
"What are you doing?" I asked curiously.
"She said I had to leave it on for 20 minutes and not a minute longer so I'm setting my alarm." He stated confidently. Oh she was getting him good.
"Where is she?" I asked.
"She went upstairs to get her story book, I think she's getting tired."
"Yeah we've been pretty busy today. Hey I wanted to apologize about last night…." As I was in the middle of my apology to Edward Anna entered the living room dragging her feet and carrying a book. I glanced at Edward who was avoiding my eyes and was blushing furiously.
"Hey munchkin did you really tell him 20 minutes with the peanut butter?" I asked catching her in her prank on him.
"Um… well maybe." Anna was looking down at her feet and fiddling with her book. She looked up at Edward apologetically and he looked at her and smiled. I knew he wasn't mad, he was just playing along with her. I swore he had a soft spot for her and would do anything she said.
"You have been spending way too much time with Rose and Em. Now let's get him cleaned up and then we'll read your story and you can head to bed."
"Ok." Anna huffed and plopped down next to me on the sofa. Edward was still sitting in front of us and I proceeded to wipe the peanut butter off of his face with the graham crackers and made smores with peanut butter instead of marshmallows.
EPOV
After leaving with Shamira that morning I wasn't expecting to end up with peanut butter all over my face by the end of the night. However that is exactly where I found myself. My face was covered with peanut butter and my Bella was dragging graham crackers across my cheeks and forehead and making peanut butter and Hershey smores like sandwiches. Hence to say it's kind of hard to still be upset about my break up with Shamira when my face is covered with peanut butter and Bella's face is lit up with bright laughter. I would have covered my entire body with peanut butter if it made her smile and laugh like that. Wow now my mind was wondering to places I am pretty sure it shouldn't be.
Anyway I should probably fill you in on the break up huh? Well after Shamira picked me up we got back to her house and well we did what we usually do. As soon as we hit her bedroom clothes were being ripped off and we were kissing forcefully. It was different than it usually was. I was more into it and still had visions of Bella humping my hip bone running through my mind. Once the condom was on and I was thrusting into her she was moaning and screaming my name. I felt my release building rapidly and as I thrust into her I did the unthinkable.
"Oh god Bella." I screamed as I shot mu release into the condom.
Hence to say that Shamira wasn't very happy with that outburst and I don't blame her. I would have been pissed is she called out someone else's name. I mean I don't love her and that's not why I would have been pissed it was just that we were supposed to be monogamous. She immediately got pissed off at me and insisted that I was cheating on her with Bella.
"We had an arrangement Edward, I can't believe you did this. How long have you been fucking her huh?" Shamira was screaming at me now and I felt like complete shit.
"I didn't cheat on you I'm sorry it just slipped out. I haven't even ever kissed her." I tried to defend myself.
"Don't give me that shit Edward and try using those eyes to get you out of this I see how you look at her and how she drools over you. It's so obvious I'm just surprised I didn't realize it sooner. God I'm such an idiot." She was talking to herself now while throwing her clothes on and glaring at me.
"Shamira I didn't cheat on you and I'm sorry but I won't deny I have feelings for her and I am honestly sorry that I was thinking about her I'm so sorry." I was trying to salvage any part of the situation but it was pretty much pointless.
"Look Edward I know we weren't supposed to expect anything to develop between us and I'm ok with that but I at least expected you to be faithful while we were together." She sounded like a teacher scolding me now.
I hung my head and started getting dressed after I disposed of the full condom. I was sitting on her bed tying my shoes when she finally decided to speak to me again. I felt her fingers under my chin pulling my face up to look at her. I felt horrible and I knew it was over. I was trying my hardest not to cry like a fucking bitch but I felt the tear fall across my cheek when my face was lifted up.
"Edward, you are a great guy, sweet, charming, funny, sincere, smart and sensitive. I know that you have feelings for her and I should have broke it off when I saw that. I'm not going to say I'm not a little hurt but I understand and I hope that one day she realizes how lucky she is to have you. I hope that one day the both of you will end up together. I think it's best if we don't see each other again after today. And please don't beat yourself up about it ok I know you and you are going to sulk, instead why don't you try and concentrate on school and I promise everything will work itself out in the end." Shamira gave me a sweet kiss on my forehead before walking me out to her front door.
I spent the rest of the day wondering around the campus and the neighborhood. I grabbed a quick lunch and then spent the rest of my evening in the bookstore just getting lost in world of literature and listening to the CDs. I ignored the girls and women that smiled at me and flirted. I was in no mood to deal with them right now. I know she said not to sulk but it was me and that's exactly what I did. I felt horrible for calling out Bella's name in the middle of fucking Shamira. I mean who does that shit? Only a complete ass does that.
After grabbing a burrito from Chipotle and walking home I found my mind drifting to the first day Bella and I spent together at the burrito place. I smiled a bit as I thought of her and then my mind drifted to last night and what happened. She called out my name in the middle of her orgasm. I couldn't help the swelling of my heart as I thought that maybe she thought of me as more than a brother or just a best friend. Maybe she found me attractive or sexy like other women did. Bella wasn't most women though and I had no idea what she was thinking.
As I walked into the house and saw Anna and Bella spread out in the living room hanging out playing slumber party it lifted my spirits a little. After hanging out with them and getting suckered into getting my hair done and peanut butter smeared all over my face I couldn't help but laugh at how I ended up here. I looked up into Bella's eyes as she was reading "The little engine that could" to Anna and I and felt a warmth spread through my chest and a smile spread across my face. And yes I'll admit I like sitting here on the floor listening to her read stories. I was still whipping my ace with the damp paper towel that Bella gave me and chewing on my last chocolate peanut butter graham crack sandwich when I heard Anna's light snoring. Bella set the book down and gently lifted Anna up and took her upstairs to bed.
I got up and started cleaning up our mess and washed my face at the sink with soap. I moved the coffee table back in place and put away the left over peanut butter, chocolate and crackers. I got a glass of milk and was drinking it when Bella came into the kitchen and started washing her hands.
"Hey Edward why were you so sad or upset when you first got home? Is everything alright?" She asked while facing away from me.
"Shamira and I broke up." I replied dryly not really wanting to have to explain why we broke.
Bella's head whipped around and her hair swung through the air sending her beautiful, delicious scent across the room to fill my lungs. I wanted nothing more than to sweep her up and set her on the kitchen counter and kiss her.
"Oh. Are you ok do you want to talk about it?" She offered. And I would have thought she was a mind reader because she pulled herself up on the kitchen counter and swung her legs back and forth while looking at me expectantly.
"No it's ok it just was time I guess." I looked down at my glass of milk and saw that it was empty.
I walked over to the sink to wash it and set it in the drainer. As I turned around I was face to face with Bella sitting on the counter. Her small hands reached out to grasp my shoulders and she pulled me into a hug. I knew she was trying to comfort me because she thought I was upset but she had no idea what she was doing to me.
"I'm sorry Edward I know you really liked her." She said reassuringly.
I felt her release the hug and I pulled away a bit but I stayed standing there with her knees resting on the outside of my hips. I looked down at my body resting in between her knees and my mind was swimming with lustful possibilities. I then felt her soft hand cup my cheek and I looked up to see her big brown eyes looking into my green ones. My heart was beating erratically and I felt the electricity shooting through my body from her touch.
The next thing that happened took me completely off guard. Bella leaned closer to me and I instinctively closed my eyes to enjoy her touch and smell more vividly. My eye snapped open when I felt her soft lips press against the corner of my mouth. My entire body melted into her touch and I took a step closer resting my hands on the counter on either side of her hips. I didn't trust myself to touch her right now. Her wet tongue slid from between her lips and licked the corner of my mouth lightly and she sat back up and looked into my eyes.
"You missed some peanut butter." She smiled at me and I couldn't help the cheesy grin that spread across my blushing face.
I took a chance and lead in closer to Bella's face so that our noses were barely touching. I could feel her eyes burning into my lips as she stared down at them. I saw her tongue run slowly across her lips and I couldn't help the moan that escaped my lips.
*giggle*
Bella giggled and turned away from me hopping down from the counter and proceeding into the living room. I stood there for a moment a little dumfounded as to why we didn't kiss again. I was like a dog on a leash as I followed her into the living room where she was turning out lights and cleaning up. I wasn't sure what was going to happen but whatever it was it was definitely not what I was expecting. I got home expecting to wallow in my misery and sulk myself to sleep.
I never expected for the one thing I wanted more than anything to actually happen. I kept replaying the kiss over and over in my head and I caught myself when my lips were moving against air. I shook my head to try and concentrate on reality and not reliving our first kiss over and over in my head. At least I hope it was just our first kiss.
I followed Bella upstairs and she stopped at her room and turned to me. I was now standing behind her waiting expectantly like a stupid dog waiting for a treat.
"Well um thanks for hanging out with us tonight. Goodnight Edward." Bella then cupped my face in her small hands and stood up on her tip toes which still wasn't enough. I leaned down to accommodate her. Her lips lightly touched mine quickly and then she was back down to her 5'2" height staring up at me. I looked down at her smiling face and once again had the cheesiest grin plastered on mine.
"Goodnight Edward." Bella opened her door and slipped in shutting it behind her. I stood there for a minute or maybe five wondering what just happened. I figured that it was probably the end of the evening since she didn't come back out and I was still standing there in the hallway like a fool.
"Goodnight Bella." I said softly as I turned to walk to the 3rd floor and go to my room.
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I woke up the next morning and realized it was a the first Sunday when I had absolutely nothing to do. I didn't have Shamira to hang out with anymore and I could smell the bread baking already so that mean that Bella was at the diner and Anna was at the neighbors across the street. What was I going to do today? I decided to call my brother since he was in town visiting Rosalie. Maybe he would want to hang out with me. I sure could use some advice about women right now.
After getting showered and dress in some jeans, a t-shirt and a JHU sweatshirt I gave the old big brother a ring.
"Yo dis is Em figure it out."
"Hey Em this is your brother call me back I need some advice about women." I knew that would get him to call me back.
I hung up the phone and checked my e-mail, MySpace and facebook pages to see how people were doing from back home. There were the usual people getting married and rumors and gossip on everyone's updates. I surfed through some websites for school and checked out this site that James told me about where you could watch surgeries. It was some pretty interesting stuff and I was almost engrossed in it when my phone rang. I didn't have to look at the caller ID to know it was Emmett as "Pretty fly for a white guy" by the offspring echoed from my phone.
"Hey Em are you still in Baltimore?" I asked when I answered the phone.
"What is up my brother?"
"Are you busy today? Did you want to hang out?"
"So, women problems huh? This wouldn't by any chance have anything to do with a certain petite brunette with a cute little waitress outfit would it?
"God Em would you just come get me and then I'll tell you everything."
"Alright let me get Rose to pick you up I'm still don't know my way around and I don't have my jeep here hold on a sec."
I heard some muffled noises and a female giggle and then Em was back on the phone.
"Ok we'll meet you at the diner in 10 minutes, we're going to grab lunch and then we can hang out while Rose goes to the spa."
"Alright I'll see you soon."
Ten minutes later I was sitting in a booth waiting for Emmett and Rosalie to join me. Bella was of course busy at the diner and swamped with her regulars. There were a lot of people who came on every Sunday like clockwork. Bella was behind the counter pouring coffee and talking to a group of Firefighters that came in after their shift every week. I could hear them from my booth and I didn't like one word that came out of their mouths.
"So, Bella I hear you and the doc are history?" Hero # 1 asked.
"Wow good gossip travels fast in this neighborhood doesn't it?" Bella always had a quick response to anything anyone said.
"When are you going to let me take you out to dinner?" Hero # 2 asked.
"You really want to take me out to a restaurant for dinner. You sure know a way to a girl's heart. Of course I would love to go out to a restaurant for dinner with you AFTER SPENDING 9 HOURS AT A RESTAURAUNT ALL DAY." Bella ruffled his hair and swayed her way into the kitchen to grab an order.
"Dude you can't ask Bella out?" Hero # 3 stated.
"Why not she's hot and single?" Hero # 2 asked.
"Because you just can't, she's got her sister to take care of and Bella just doesn't date anyone. Before the doctor she hadn't been on a date since I've known her. I still can't believe she went out with him." Hero # 3 said.
"Yeah well I bet you $50 I can tap that before anyone else can." Hero # 2 offered.
I felt the blood in my veins start to boil and I was seeing red while listening to him bet on Bella's virtue. I couldn't help but feel like a complete ass because I wanted nothing more than to do the same thing with her but I would never make a bet about it and I wanted to fall in love with her before we did that but still it was not a good thing to be thinking about.
"Don't talk about her like that. If the Chief was still alive you wouldn't dare say anything like that about her." Hero # 3 said. I was starting to like # 3 he was a good guy.
"Wait a sec, you have thing for her don't you?" # 2 asked curiously.
"Look I'm just saying I don't like how you're talking about her ok." # 3 replied
"Hey guys you ready for some more coffee?" Bella's voice was chipper and happy as she poured them more coffee.
"Thanks Bella, how have you been, you know with the break up and all? You know if you need someone to talk to or you just want to hang out you can call me." # 3 offered shyly. I was starting to not like # 3.
"Aww, thanks Jeff, I really appreciate it but I'm fine, it was just time you know. You guys let me know if you need anything ok I'll be checking on some tables ok." Bella walked away and started with some tables. I couldn't help but smile at how she avoided their advances and wasn't interested at all.
"What the hell made you so happy? Oh that's right you're getting laid now right." Emmett was now here obviously
"Uh yeah thanks Em and that's over by the way." I told him.
"What really? Damn she was hot, I thought for sure you would stick with her until she left. So what flavor are you going after now? Maybe a little chocolate, or some caramel, oh I know you want the vanilla don't you." Emmett was never very sensitive about sex, mostly just crude.
"Owe damn what was that for?" He asked Rosalie after she smacked him in the back of the head.
"Women aren't flavors you moron." Rosalie screeched at him.
Emmett looked up at her from his seat across from me and gave her the signature Cullen crooked grin and cocked his head to the side. I saw her face instantly soften and her lips pulled up into a grin.
"Babe I'm sorry you have to give me a little time I'm not used to being in love like this." After he spoke those words Rosalie leaned in and gave him a long passionate kiss before leaving to go talk to Bella.
Emmett turned to me with a huge cheesy grin that I am sure mirrored the one I had after Bella kissed me last night.
"So Bro how I can I help?" He offered.
I glanced around the diner to make sure that Bella wasn't within hearing distance of us and proceeded to recant everything that happened within the past 24 hours to Emmett. His face changed from different expressions during each change of events. Our food came and we finished eating while I continued with my update.
"Hmmm. We are going to have to shoot some hoops to get into guy mode to figure this out." Emmett suggested. I could almost see and hear the gears turning SLOWLY in my brother thick skull as he tried to come up with a solution to my little situation.
As we were about to leave I walked over to say goodbye to Bella who was at the register helping a guest. I stood to the side and waited for her silently. Rose had already left for her hair and nail appointments. After the customer was gone Bella turned to me with a smile on her face.
"Hi, so you hanging out with Em today? Brother bonding and all?" She asked.
"Yeah I figured he could use some time away from Rosalie he's getting too soft and I still have to get him back for his influence on Anna and teaching her to prank me." Bella laughed when I said that.
"Well have fun and I'll see you later tonight maybe we can watch a movie or something." Bella offered. I jumped for joy on the inside, she wanted to spend time with me.
"Ok that sounds good." I gave her a quick hug and pulled away.
Bella wasn't done yet and what she did next only shocked and confused me more. Bella once again cupped my face in her hands and gently pulled me down and stood on her tip toes. She brought my face close to hers and she kissed me lightly on the lips and then the cheek before walking away and waving goodbye. I stood up shocked and confused staring at her with a huge grin like the big dumb idiot I am.
"Dude close your mouth you look like an idiot." Emmett suggested as he yanked my arm and pulled me out of the diner.
"What was that shit? When did she start kissing you? Have you talked to her about what's going on? What else have you two done?" Emmett was shooting questions at me faster than Alice would have.
I stumbled along the sidewalk as he pulled me still lost in my Bubble from my 3rd and 4th kiss from Bella. I had no idea why she just all of a sudden decided she wanted to kiss me. She never said anything about liking me and I was more than confused about what we were doing.
Emmett and I played Basketball for about 3 hours at the JHU gym and went to one of the sports bars for lunch. We talked about my situation and Emmett assured me that Bella was definitely into me. I still wasn't convinced. I mean Jasper said that Bella and him were just friends and that he had kissed her so why was our situation any different? There were so many questions swimming around in my mind.
"You should either do 1 of 2 things. You wither man up and take the lead which you probably won't do because you are you and Kiss and tell her how you feel or you could just relax and take whatever she is willing to give you and wait for her to make a move and tell you about her feelings. I know you Edward and you are probably going to sit back and wait around like always. You did the same thing with Tanya and look how that ended up. You should tell her how you feel I am almost sure she feels the same way. I saw how she looked at you. You also need to tell her that you called out her name while you were fucking another woman. Chicks get a kick out of that." Emmett always had advice but I could never tell if it was good or not.
He always had a girl and was never single for long but I don't think I could do any of the things he does. I of course decided to wait and see what Bella would do. I was ok with just going along with her and accepting whatever she offered. So I got back to the house in time for Sunday dinner at the diner. Emmett went home with Rose to shower and change and would meet everyone at the diner. I showered and changed my clothes.
I got to the diner and a lot of people were already in the private room talking amongst themselves. There was Leah, Jake, Jasper, Rose, Emmett, Anna and I think Anna's grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer. Bella was counting down one of the waitresses and waved hello to me. I gave her a bright smile because I was so happy to see her. She returned the smile but I saw sadness in her eyes.
All during dinner everyone chatted with one another and Anna had to tell all about how she got me last night with the Peanut butter facial and barrettes in my hair. Emmett was laughing hysterically at me. I couldn't help but blush at being duped by a 6 year old first grader. I didn't mind being laughed at especially after seeing the smile that Anna and Bella had on their faces as they laughed and giggled.
After dinner and ice-cream everyone started to leave one by one and it was now Jake, Anna, Bella, Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer and myself. Bella looked very serious and Anna was having fun with her grandparents. Jake had just walked Leah up to his apartment and was helping me clean up. Bella was pacing around looking at Anna and the grandparents biting her lip. I could tell that something was wrong and I immediately remembered her phone call last night before she saw me and my hair do. I could feel a lump forming in my throat as I watched her pace around the room. I walked over to her and wrapped my arm around her shoulders and pulled her into a hug. I felt her arms wrap around me and she buried her face against my chest.
"What's wrong?" I asked softly in her ear.
"It's ok I'll tell you later." She smiled up at me and released me from our hug.
"Jake would you mind taking Anna upstairs and helping her get ready for bed?" Bella asked Jake.
"Yeah sure no problem. Come on shrimp time for bed." Jake picked Anna up after letting her say goodnight to her grandparents and swung her over his shoulders. Anna was squealing with laughter and giggling the entire time they walked out the door.
I turned to take some dishes into the kitchen and set up the dish washer leaving Bella in the private room with the grandparents. It took me about 15 minutes to finish up and then I made my way back through the diner turning off lights and making sure everything was turned off. I stood outside of the door to the private room not sure if it was ok to come back or not and I overheard them talking.
"Bella please try and see things from where we are coming from. It's a lot for you to handle and we just want to help you. We aren't trying to take her away from you." Mrs. Dwyer said.
"What do you mean you're not trying to take her away, that's exactly what you are saying. You want her to come live with you fulltime. I've been raising her for the past 3 years and we have a family here. I have friends here that help us and we have a routine. She's happy here with me. She's all I have left and you want to take her away." I could hear in Bella's voice how she was fighting back the tears and it was breaking my heart.
"Bella please calm down. I know that losing your mom and dad and Phil was very hard on the two of you and we are so sorry that we couldn't help more. I'm in remission now and I'm working again we want to help more and get to know our granddaughter before it's too late. You have done a great job with her better than anyone could have." Mr. Dwyer said.
"Bella we want her to learn about her heritage and teach her the traditions and have a Bar-Mitzvah and go to Hebrew school. She is all we have left of our only son. You know that we love you like you were our own grandchild please let us work something out." Mrs. Dwyer
"You can't just take her away completely. I'm willing to work out a compromise because I know she misses you and she wants to learn about her Jewish heritage but you can't just take her. Look it's late and I don't have the energy to deal with this right now. Can we talk about this tomorrow while she's at school?" Bella asked.
"Alright I understand and I'm sure that we can come to some sort of compromise. We don't want to take her away we just want to make sure that BOTH of you can have a good happy life. You are young Bella you shouldn't be tied down with a child. You should be out there dating and going to school or working getting married not stuck at home with a child. You were a good kid and you didn't get pregnant and make any mistakes you were just thrust into this horrible situation by a twist of fate." Mrs. Dwyer was holding back a sob and I'm sure she was thinking of her son Phil.
"Honey we love you please try and think this over ok. I'll see you tomorrow for lunch. Try and get some rest." Mrs. Dwyer said.
I was still standing by the door kind of oblivious to the fact that I was eavesdropping on a very private family conversation. Mr. Dwyer walked through the door and almost walked right into me.
"Oh. Excuse me Edward I didn't see you there. How have you been son?" He asked.
"Good Sir I've been good." I answered.
"I know that you and Bella are close, could you maybe keep an eye on her tonight she is pretty upset?" Mr. Dwyer asked.
"Of course I'm here for whatever she needs." I reassured him as Mrs. Dwyer came through the door and linked her arm with her husband.
"Goodnight Edward." Mrs. Dwyer said.
"Goodnight." I replied as I locked the diner front door behind them.
I walked back to the door to the private room and listened before I entered and I could hear Bella's sobs right away. I stepped through the door and she was sitting at a booth curled up in the corner crying into her hands. My heart sunk right there. I rushed over to sit next to her and pulled her into me and just held her. I felt her arms circle around my neck and she buried her face into my neck. I felt warm wet tears drip onto my exposed skin. I just held her while she cried and squeezed her tight. I felt her phone buzz against us from her pocket and carefully took it out.
"Hello?"I answered.
"Oh hey Carter. *haha* Anna is fast asleep and Leah keeps calling are you guys going to be much longer?" Jake asked. I couldn't stand that he called me Carter, like the rich doctor from ER. I sighed in disgust.
"We'll be right there is Jasper home?" I asked.
"Yeah he's here in his room on the phone with the pixie." Jake had a nickname for everyone and Alice was a pixie.
"Ask him to keep an ear out for Anna if she gets up and we'll be there in a few. Thanks Jake." I hung up the phone not waiting for a response.
I felt Bella calm down a bit and look up at me. Her face was flushed from crying and her eye lashes were clumped together in the most adorable way from the wet tears. I pulled her out of the booth and into a hug as I led us out of the diner. I took her keys and set the alarm and locked up. Once we were in the house we found Jasper on the sofa still talking to Alice and Jake was gone. He saw that she was upset and quietly went back to his room. I turned out the lights and locked the door and held Bella's hand and took her to her room. After she was changed and in bed I went to leave and she finally spoke.
"Please don't go?" Bella asked. I couldn't deny her anything so I told her I would be right back.
I went up to my room and changed into some flannel pants and a t-shirt before brushing my teeth. I got back to her room and she was crying again and curled up in her bed in a fetal position. I turned off her light and shut the door. I climbed into bed with her and she immediately climbed on top of me and wrapped her arms around my neck and started to cry and sob. She started mumbling stuff I couldn't understand. There were words like 'mine' and 'take her from me' and 'she's all I have'. It was breaking my heart to see her like this. I scooted my back farther up on the pillow against the headboard so I was sitting up a bit and I could hold her better.
I tried my best not to think about the fact that her legs were spread wide apart and straddling my waist. I tried not to think about how perfectly her body fit snuggled against mine. And believe me I tried not to think about her hot soft lips pressed against my bare skin as she sobbed into my neck. But I am a guy and she is the woman who has captured my heart so I did notice all of those things. I kept my hands to myself and wrapped them tight around her and rubbed my hands up and down her back and smoothed her hair away from her face.
Eventually she stopped crying and started to hiccup against me. I patted her back and comforted her until she stopped. I reached to her nightstand and got her tissues to blow her nose and threw the used ones into the can. When she was done and calmed down she rested her cheek against my now soaked t-shirt. She sat up a little and the sight of her straddling my waist and sitting up looking down at me made my member twitch a little and I was chanting in my head 'please don't get hard now, please don't get hard now' over and over in my mind.
"It's wet. Take it off." Those were the only five words she spoke as she tugged on the hem of my t-shirt and tried to drag it up my torso.
I sat up slowly and shrugged my shirt off and rested back against the pillow and headboard. Bella reached for the pillow that was next to us and put it behind my head. I scooted down a bit to get comfortable and once I stopped she plopped herself back down on my bare chest and pulled the covers up over us. The feel of her arms curled up on my chest and her cheek pressed against my chest was sending sparks through my entire body. I tried my hard 'no pun intended' to not get hard but it was impossible with the position I found us in.
I shifted a bit and gripped her hips to pull her up my body so she wouldn't feel it and then rested my arms around her and at the small of her back and her shoulders. She sighed contently against me and I felt her soft lips place a kiss in the middle of my chest. I mentally shook my head and thought that maybe it was just my imagination but then she did it again but a little higher. I laid there frozen while she slowly places soft sweet warm kisses up my chest and neck stopping at my jaw.
Bella's small hands trailed up my body and rested at the back of my neck and she began to lightly run her fingers through my hair. I stifled a groan and bit my lip to keep back my hormones. Bella's lips started to press into my skin and trail up my jaw and to my chin. I looked into her eyes but they were closed so I closed mine and enjoyed the sensation of her lips on my skin. I felt her warm breath spread across my lips right before her bottom lip settled on the thin line where my two lips met. Her top lip rested above my top lip and I felt her lips squeeze together and pull gently on my upper lip. I couldn't help my lips from responding to her invitation and I moved my lips to do the same. We were pressed against one another and our lips were gently sucking and nipping against one another. We kissed softly like that for several minutes and it was pure innocent heaven. There wasn't anything sexual about it or passionate. It was sweet and loving. I couldn't get enough of her and my hands snaked up her body and rested in her hair pulling her closer and pushing our lips together more firmly. Bella pulled away and peppered my lips with kisses before settling her cheek back down on my chest and wrapping her arms around my shoulders.
"Goodnight Edward. Thank you." She said softly.
I assumed that that was the end of our kisses so I settled my mind and calmed my body mentally and tried to go to sleep.
"Goodnight Bella, You're Welcome." I kissed the top of her head and tightened my arms around her and we drifted off to sleep…