I KNOW! You all hate me! I'm sooooo sorry! I just didn't know where I was headed with this story, and I didn't want to post something that was so terrible, it was burning my eyes out! But, I loosely know where I'm going and that's good enough for now!

I am definitely going to finish writing the story. I don't know how much longer it will be, but I still have to get everything into the story and then resolved!

Oh, and you all should check out theotherbella's stories! They're soooo amazing! She's under my favorite authors, so check her out!

Anyway...on with the story.

14.

"But you have to admit," Alice said as she pulled the bag of popcorn out of the microwave and began to pour it into a bowl, "That he is one fine specimen, right? Right. So, I would say yes, you know, if he ever asked me to hang out."

"Alice! I'm not going to do that to Edward. I don't even know James," I sighed. After we had gotten back to the hotel, she had booted up Jasper's laptop and showed me James' website and some mucho sexy pictures. I'm not going to lie, that boy has skills!

She laughed melodically. "I'm not telling you to have sex with him, Bella! I'm just saying that he seems like a really nice man and that you shouldn't put off hanging out with him because you have Edward. That would be like me not talking to any other man because I have Jasper. Honey, it's not like. Girls and guys can be friends," she said with mock sincerity.

"I never said that couldn't be, Al. And I never said I wasn't going to be friends with him. And when did we come to the conclusion that I was going to hang out with him? He doesn't have my number."

"Oh, it's a small town here, Bella, I'm sure you'll run into him somewhere. Now come on." She picked up the bowl of popcorn and headed over to her and Jasper's room.

Before our car had broken down, Edward had called and informed me that tonight he would be taking me out to dinner and now Alice wanted to help me choose out the best outfit for this night.

I sighed and after grabbing two Diet Cokes from the table, I followed her in. She gratefully accepted the soda and pointed to a pile of new dresses that we had bought today.

"I'm not objecting to doing this," I told her as I pulled of my shirt and pants, "But you already saw me in them."

"When I saw you in them, I wasn't thinking about you wearing them to a formal dinner with Edward."

"Alice, I hate to break it to you, but it isn't that big of a deal." I slipped on the first dress on the pile. It was a black one. Very short and clubby. "It's just dinner, and I know that Edward won't mind me wearing any dress."

"But you should dress up. Eh, next one."

I threw it off and tossed it on to her head before grabbing the next one. It went on like this for the next few dresses until I got to the perfect one. It was absolutely gorgeous. It fell just below the knee and was a dark blue, with ruffles flowing through it casually. It was strapless and zipped up the side.

"This is it," I said, smiling into the mirror.

"Oh. My. God, Bella! You look so beautiful." She smiled at me. "Take it off and go take a shower. I need to blow dry your hair and curl it! Have you ever had your hair curled before?"

"When I was six?" I said, forming it into a question.

"Good! That means that Edward won't have ever seen you look this gorgeous. I bet he won't even make it out to the car." She didn't hide her smirk and I just rushed out to the bathroom, getting in the shower quickly.

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Alice finished curling my last piece up hair and let it fall against my back. "Hold still," she commanded. I coughed and wheezed as she covered every inch of my hair with hair spray.

She squealed loudly and I opened my eyes. "Edward is seriously going to flip, Bella. I bet he's never been with a woman as beautiful as you are. Every male is going to be jealous of Edward."

"As they should be," I responded with a curt nod.

My eyes went wide with Alice's as we heard the hotel door opening.

"Honey, I'm home!" Jasper called and I heard Edward chuckle.

"Bella, go hide in the bathroom. I'll make sure Edward doesn't see you until he's ready to leave."

I giggled at Alice, but ran into their bathroom, grabbing my heels as I went. I slipped them on excitedly glanced in the mirror, doing a double take at how I looked. Alice had been so right about doing the curls. I bit my lip and found a small clip on the counter. I slipped it into my hair, making it into a half ponytail.

After placing a bit of Alice's mascara and grey eye shadow onto my eyelids, I smiled at myself in the mirror. I honestly looked the best that I had ever looked. Ever.

This was going to be Edward and my first date together as a couple. I squealed a bit in my head. My stomach was filled with butterflies and my heart was pounding twenty times faster than it should.

The door opened and I almost let out a scream of excitement. "Alice," I sighed.

"Excited?" she asked, raising a skeptical eyebrow. I shook my head quickly. "Liar. Of course you are."

She sat down on the toilet lid and stared at her feet, gnawing at her bottom lip.

I laughed. "What is it?"

She looked up and smiled. "This is your first date with, Edward, right?" I nodded my head and smiled largely. "But you've known each other for a while now?"

I nodded again saying, "Yeah, about nine years. Why?"

Alice hesitated.

"Ali, spit it out. I can't take the suspense."

She didn't even crack a smile. "Do you—Do you want Jasper and I to…disappear tonight?" A flush filled her cheeks and she asked it and once I realized what she was saying, mine did, too.

"Oh, shit, Alice. I don't know—I don't think that we will—it's our first date."

"I know. But like you said, you've known each other for almost ten years! You're twenty-two, he's twenty-three. When was the last time you got laid?"

I looked down. "Four years ago. In college. But Edward doesn't know," I said quickly. "Don't tell him."

"I won't," she promised. "Bella, I'm sure he's had sex with a few girls himself. It won't be anything knew to you two. But seriously, if you want us out, you know, just in case, let me know." She paused. "You know, we're just going to leave for the night. Leave you two alone."

"You don't need to do that."

"But we are. So…"

There was a light tap on the door. "Alice," Edward's deep voice rumbled. "I need Bella now."

I gave Alice a look, raising both my eyebrows and shook my head. "If you think that's best," I said, ending the discussion and walking to the door, flinging it open and practically running into Edward. He caught my arm and kissed my lips immediately making me forget Alice and my discussion.

"Come on," he said, moving away. "Let's go." He placed his hand on the small of my back and led me out to a different rental car than the one Alice and I had been in. He held the door open for me and then went around to the driver's side.

"You look gorgeous, Bella."

"Thanks," I muttered, blushing at the compliment. "You don't look half bad yourself." And he didn't. He was wearing black slacks with a belt and a white button up shirt, tucked into his pants.

He chuckled and pulled on to the street.

"Bella," he said after a minute of comfortable silence, "You think this is a good idea, right?"

"What? Eating dinner?"

"No, us."

Oh. Was that something that was generally brought up on first dates? Why was it being brought up? "Yeah. Don't you?"

"Of course," he answered, "I just didn't want you to feel like you were being forced into anything."

I just about died. "Edward… I think that if anyone should feel guilty about forcing the other into this. It would be me and my insane kissing skills." Whoa! Where had that come from?

He smiled and pulled into a small parking lot for a tiny little restaurant. "It's so cute," I commented, staring at the cursive lettering of the name. Edward held his hand out for me to help me out of the car and tugged me back lightly when I began walking toward it.

"Not yet," murmured Edward. "I have something for you. It's not much, but—I hope you like it."

"You didn't have to get me—"

Edward pulled out a long velvet container from one of his pockets and held it in front of me. He opened in the lid and there laid the cutest, most charming charm bracelet I had ever seen. There were at least a dozen charms hooked to the silver chain.

"I just put some charms I thought you would like on there," he said. He removed it from the box and threw it on to my seat before closing the door. "Here." I held out my wrist and he attached it. I shook my wrist around smiling at the jingly noise.

"It's really sweet, Edward." My hand found its way to his cheek and a leaned up to kiss his other one.

"Aw, shucks," Edward said, blushing on cue and waving his hand in the air like he was embarrassed.

"You really should have gotten a job in acting," I joked as we walked into the restaurant. "You would have been really good."

"Cullen," he told the maitre'd.

"Right this way, sir."

After sitting us down, the maitre'd took our wine order and placed the menus down on the table. I glanced around the rest of the place curiously and noticed that it wasn't crowded at all. According to my watch, it was just after six fifteen. It was a bit odd.

"It's a small town, Bella," Edward said, noticing me.

I smiled and a waiter came back with the bottle of wine and two glasses before taking our orders.

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"A toast," I said, raising my third—or fourth, I had lost count—glass of wine. "A toast to us."

"To us," Edward replied in a deeper voice than usual, causing me to giggle as we clanked our glasses together.

The waiter came back and said, "Sir," while placing the check on to the table. Edward whipped out his wallet and placed his debit in the folder.

Once it was returned, Edward stood up and took my hand, helping me up and then wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling me toward him. I felt his lips connect with my head and I leaned my head up to meet his lips.

He groaned as I deepened the kiss. "Let's get to the hotel," he muttered. I opened my eyes. His eyes were a darker green than usual and they were narrowed a bit.

Edward half carried me out to the car and then placed me carefully into my seat before running around to the other side and turning the car on immediately. His hand gripped my upper thigh tightly the whole way back to the hotel, sometimes moving the fabric of the dress upward and groaning.

"Good," he muttered to himself.

"What?" I asked. He ignored me and came around to my side. Without letting me even attempt to get out, he whisked me up into his arms bridal style. I opened my mouth to say something, but his stopped me. I moaned softly and he groaned in response, slamming his foot at the car. The door closed with a slam.

Our lips never parted as he brought us into the house and I was thankful that the old couple that was usually at the counter in front wasn't there. We made it all the way up to our room and Edward threw me onto the bed before heading over to close and lock the door.

My heart was beyond erratic as I watched Edward throw his shirt off on his way to me. He leapt up on to the bed and crawled over me. His lips went to my neck where he placed open mouthed kisses.

I dug my fingers threw his bronze hair and pulled him closer to me, my legs going around his ways. Edward groaned and wiggled his hips against me. My hands moved down from his hair toward his belt. I gripped it tight in my hands and had it off and flying across the room in a matter of seconds.

His lips left my neck and I felt myself sigh heavily at the loss of contact. Edward's hands were everywhere, roaming my body until they reached the zipper of my dress. My lungs stopped working and I had to actually think breathe in, breathe out.

He slid the dress down my body, kissing the available skin as he went down. I pulled on his hair trying to bring him back up so I could kiss him. Our lips met and I shiver spread down my spine.

Edward's hands went roaming and unlatched my strapless bra from the back and pulled it off. He moaned, removing his lips from mine and moving down my exposed skin to my right breast. He took my nipple into his mouth and sucked gently, causing my back to arch into him and my head to go spinning. My fingers tangled once again in his silky locks, pressing him closer.

"Edward," I whispered.

He worked his way up to my neck and then down back to my other breast, repeating what he had done to the other.

"Y-You're killing me!" I squealed. He chuckled against me sending ripples all the way down to my toes.

I became coherent enough to bring my hands back to his pants and begin to unbutton them. If Edward and I were really going to do this, I wasn't up for much foreplay. I just wanted to go straight home!

Unbuttoning his pants was hopefully going to be the hardest part of the night. I bit my lip and thankfully through my fumbling got it undone and unzipped. I pulled my hands back up and used my feet to slide his pants off his hips and down his legs so that he was left only in his black, silk boxers.

A huge shudder passed through me as Edward pressed his hardness against my center.

I growled, "No playing," and flipped him over so that I was on top. I used my teeth to grab hold of the waist of his boxers and pull them down, hoping I looked sexy while doing it.

Beep…beep…beep.

"Fuck," Edward cursed. I groaned loudly and got up off him so he could go around to answer his phone.

"Hello?" he answered, clearly aggravated. "Shit, Jazz. Yeah, we're at the hotel…Yes, yes you did…." He looked up at me and rolled his green eyes. I smiled, but it didn't reach my eyes. The mood had definitely left me tonight. I didn't both listening to the rest of Edward's conversation, just sighed heavily and walked to the bathroom to take a bath.

I slammed the door shut and locked it. I really wasn't trying to block Edward out; I just was not in a good mood any longer, clearly. It was stupid, I guess, to think that Alice had decided to leave us alone for a while tonight. I had told her not to stay away, after all. There was no way that they would have known.

After sliding into the warm bathwater, I closed my eyes and wondered when Edward and I would actually do it.

So... There it was. My first attempt at "lemons." Sorry if you all hate me for not letting them go all the way. I was going to do that, but I thought that would be weird and it's my first time writing stuff like this...ever.

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Abby