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It Will Rain

By: EJJCullen

I continued to sit, sipping my wine, watching Isabella place ornaments on the now full tree. There were just a handful of ornaments left in the box and Alice disappeared quietly a few minutes ago. My mom and dad were off to the side stacking empty boxes up on the coffee table and engaged in a private conversation exchanged in soft whispers.

"Well," my father said, breaking the silence in the room. "We are off to bed, I assume we will see you two in the morning for breakfast."

My eyes drifted to Isabella's. She met my anxious stare with a small smile that created tiny crinkles in the corner of her eyes before gently nodding her response to my parents. They slipped out of the room without another word leaving Isabella and I in utter silence in the living room that now glowed with the soft light from the tree.

Isabella continued to place the last few ornaments as I gazed at her noting the reflections of the burgundy and gold as they bounced off the shiny ornaments landing on her hair, shoulders and cheeks. She looked beautiful and I was stunned into silence as I placed my wine glass down on the table next to me and slowly rose to my feet. In a few steps I was behind her as she reached up to dangle an ornament on the last remaining empty spot.

"Thank you." I whispered into her ear as I ran my nose along the shell and dropped a kiss on her neck.

"For what?" She asked, tilting her head to the side, opening her neck further up to me.

"For being here and for blending so smoothly into my family. I forgot how easy it used to be." I said, thinking back on all the shared holidays and events where Isabella seamlessly became an honorary member of our family.

"No problem." She moaned quietly as her eyes slid shut and my mouth continued to explore her neck, shoulders and jaw line.

"Are you ready to call it a night?" I asked, pulling her close to me, wrapping my arms tightly around her middle and breathing her in.

"Yes, just give me a moment." She said, opening her eyes and staring at the tree in awe. "I tried to recreate a tree like this the Christmas after we broke up." I stared at her as she confessed this to me. "It didn't come close though." Her eyes were a little glassy as she dropped her eyes from the tree to the floor in front of her.

"I missed you so much Edward," she said turning in my arms to face me. "Every day I thought of you and wanted to just run home to you." I pulled her tightly into a hug. "I knew that you would take me back at first. My dad would beg me to come home to you when I would call. He told me how badly I hurt you. I stopped calling after a while because it hurt so much to know that I was doing that to you. I thought I was being brave, starting over, but really I was a big coward. I didn't know how to face you and then the time just slipped away. But when I saw you sitting in the bathroom at the Halloween party I felt like I couldn't catch my breath. You always did that to me, still do that to me." Her lips met mine as we kissed languidly sharing our hurt and our fears. We never talked about the future, I couldn't do that with her. I was too afraid to start laying out plans for fear that she would disappear again.

Breaking apart to catch our breath, foreheads resting together, our eyes met and she continued her confessions. "I love you, you know that, right?" I nodded, my eyes never leaving hers. "I promise never to leave again."

"Come on," I said, "let's head to bed." I towed her behind me as we climbed the stairs leading to my bedroom. She paused as we approached the guest bedroom and I tugged lightly on her hand pulling her towards my door.

"Are you sure?" she asked as I opened my door, gesturing for her to enter.

"Without a doubt." I said, meaning so much more than just her spending the night in my room.

We took our time brushing out teeth and readying for bed, I was in my sleep pants laying on my bed turning my cell phone off when she flicked the light out in the bathroom before hesitantly walking towards my bed. I lifted the covers allowing her to slip in next to me before wrapping my arms around her and pulling her to me. As we lay down, her cheek pressed into my bare chest, we both hummed in content slipping easily into sleep.

I woke hours later hearing her moan softly in her sleep. Glancing at the clock on my bedside table the red numerals reading shortly after 4am I turned on my side gently nudging Isabella onto her back. She moaned once more pulling in a deep breath as my eyes zeroed in on the sheer camisole she was wearing to sleep in that had slipped off her shoulder in sleep revealing the nipple of her right breast.

My hand was instantly drawn to it and as I gently squeezed, her chest rose pushing her more firmly in my hand and her eyes fluttered open. She smiled up at me before pushing up slightly to capture my lips. My right hand continued its exploration as my left fell to her waist pulling her flush against me. Her hips undulated into me urging me on until I dropped my mouth to her chest and nudged my thighs in between hers.

I slowly peeled the rest of her camisole down leaving her chest open to me as I brought my hips down to meet hers. Her moans increased as her breathing sped and each breathy exhale shot right down to my throbbing cock as it met her heated center.

"I need you." I whispered into the dark as I shifted from one breast to the other.

She moaned again as her heels dragged up the outsides of my legs until the reached the top of my sleep pants. Her feet squeezed my hips slightly before she dipped her toes into the waist band of my pants and slowly pulled them lower. I raised myself up onto my elbows allowing her to slip my pants off me completely. Completely bare, I sat up kneeling between her open legs and pulled her shorts from her lean legs. I ran my hands up her thighs to her hips and squeezed her gently as my thumb lowered towards her clit. Pressing her firmly with the pad of my thumb she gasped bringing her lower lip into her mouth, biting it hard, here eyes dancing with desire.

With one hand still on her hip I gently rolled her onto her stomach while her eyes never left mine. Spreading her thighs wider with my own I lowered myself to her dropping kisses to her shoulder. I grasped my cock, ran it teasingly slow along her wet and throbbing center before slowly easing myself into her, filling her completely. I stilled dropping my elbows to either side of her shoulders so I was not weighing completely on her. I slowly pulled back and pushed in deeply as she panted beneath me.

"I love the way you feel wrapped around me." I whispered into her ear. "I'll never tire of this feeling, being inside you." My hips continued to drive into her slowly, not wanting this feeling to end.

Her breathy moans increased as I continued to love her with my body and whisper into her ear just how good she made me feel. Soon she lifted her ass slightly allowing me to drive more deeply into her and the tell tale signs of her impeding orgasm appeared. Grabbing her hands in mine, twining our fingers together my movements sped up.

"Your almost there, aren't you?" I teased knowingly. "I can feel you tightening around me. God that feels amazing, you're going to make me cum so hard." I bit lightly into her shoulder as I thrust harder. I felt her fall over the edge as her walls clamped down onto me bringing me over as well. I came hard, panting heavily, her name falling from my lips.

As I leaned back slowly pulling myself off of her she tightened her grip on my fingers saying "wait, just stay like this for a minute."

I dropped some more kisses along her shoulder up to her ear as our breathing slowly returned to normal and I felt myself softening within her. Pulling out of her I rolled to my side pulling her with me, spooning her as we both drifted back off to sleep.

"Whoa!" I heard Alice shout as she pulled my bedroom door closed after barging in to find Isabella and I naked and tangled together fast asleep. My eyes burst open hearing her and catching her smirk as she pulled the door closed followed by a loud knock and a 'breakfast is ready' shout.

I gently shook Isabella waking her with promises of breakfast and coffee. We took our time dressing before finally making our way down to the kitchen for breakfast. My parents were already seated with Alice at the kitchen table. My father hid his smirk behind the morning paper while my mother grinned from ear to ear.

"Did you sleep well?" My mother asked as Isabella and I sat down across from a bouncing Alice.

"Uh, yeah, slept great." I said reaching for the stack of pancakes.

"So since you're sleeping together, does that mean your back together?" Alice burst out.

"Alice!" My mother and I shouted at the same time. As my father snickered, still hiding behind his newspaper.

"Were kind of living together." I announced.

"Edward!" Isabella groaned turning pink in the cheeks and dropping her head into her hands.

"About time." My mother said as she lifted a plate of bacon towards me. My father slowly lowered the newspaper revealing his smiling face and shot me a wink.

"Come on," He said, "We've known since Thanksgiving that things had changed between you two. We're just happy things are finally falling into place."

Isabella looked up at him carefully, and he smiled reassuringly at her. She smiled in return as I passed the bacon to her and we continued on with our breakfast happily.