I woke up feeling like death. I am never, ever drinking again. I had a pounding headache and felt like throwing up as soon as I woke up. I pulled the gold duvet off of me and tried to stand up, but as soon as I did my stomach heaved and I ran to the bathroom and kneeled over the toilet.
"Bella?" Edward asked at the door to the bathroom. He sounded stressed.
"I'm fine; you don't need to see this." I mumbled between heaves. He ignored me and came over and leaned over me, holding my hair back. I pulled away from him and closed the lid and flushed the toilet. I sat down on the lid with my face in my hands.
"I feel like death." I mumbled and Edward let out his musical laugh.
"Yeah, hangovers feel like that. You get used to it after a while."
"I am never, ever, drinking again." I vowed.
I got up and went to go rinse out my mouth and wash my face. I leaned against the countertop and Edward reached behind me; into the medicine cabinet.
"Here, drink this," Edward held out a small cap full of Pepto Bismol and I happily tipped back the pink liquid hoping it would calm my stomach.
"Common, let's get you to bed, or else you'll spend all day in the bathroom." He took the small cap from my fingers and helped me to my feet. I let him lead me to the bedroom and tuck me into bed.
"I'll just go get you a glass of water." He said awkwardly and practically ran from the room. I rolled over and pick up a couple of pictures that were just sitting there. The first one was of him, Alice and Jasper, and Rosalie and Emmet, and who I assumed was Michael. The second one was of him blowing out candles on a birthday cake. And the last one was a formal family picture. I marveled at how happy everyone looked in all three of the pictures and wondered why we don't have any family pictures that looked remotely like that.
Edward cleared his throat at the door and I tucked the pictures under the duvet with me, hoping he didn't notice I was looking at his personal things. He walked over and placed the tall glass of water on the night stand and walked over to the other side and I felt the bed tip as he sat down.
"So what do you remember from last night?" He asked. "Or were you so out of it that you don't remember a single thing?" He laughed after he said that last part, but it sounded forced and strained, but maybe that was just me.
I rolled over to face him. I remembered bits and pieces but not everything.
"I remember bits and pieces." I said and rolled over to face him.
"Well what do you remember?" He asked again and ran his hand through his hair, tightly pulling at the bronze strands.
"Why do you keep asking me? Did something happen that I should remember?" I asked and wondered why he was being so persistent.
"No, no, nothing of consequence happened, I'm just wondering what you remember." He said quickly and shrugged.
"Well I remember drinking a lot of wine, uhm, talking to Alice and promising her that I'd let her dress me up. I remember sitting next to you, and I remember bits and pieces from the movie. Everything is coming up blank after the movies finished."
He just gave me one slow nod. His brow was creased slightly and he was sort of stiff.
"I'm gonna ask this one more time Edward, is there anything I need to know that happened last night? And I want an answer this time." I sat up and pressed my back against the wooden headbord and folded my arms across my chest.
"Well um." He stalled and I gave him a pointed look. He opened his mouth to continue but someone knocked at the door.
"Come in." He yelled completely ignoring me now.
"Hey." Alice said as she waltzed into the room and took a seat on Edwards's leather sofa. She gave me a peculiar look when she saw me wrapped up in Edwards blanket in Edwards's bed.
"How's the hangover?" She asked and pulled her knees up to her chest.
"Horrible. Never, ever drinking again." I groaned.
"Well I assume it's your first time, so you'll get used to it after a while." She laughed her tinkling laugh as she repeated Edwards's words from earlier.
"So I hear." I muttered dryly.
"Everyone went home." She said to Edward and picked at her manicured finger nails.
"So why didn't you go home with Jasper?"
"Because I wanted to keep Isabella here company. It can't be fun hanging out with you all the time." She winked at me and smirked at him.
"Ha ha. Very funny." He rolled his eyes. "I'm going to go shower or something." He said and shot me a look that clearly said 'will you be okay with her?'I gave him one small nod and he left the room and I was left with Alice and an awkward silence.
"Don't worry about Jasper and Rosalie." She blurted out randomly. "Jasper's just not..good with people I guess. And Rosalie is just too self-centered to care about someone other than herself. It's a miracle she even cares about Emmett, she's a bitch but I guess she has a soft side." She prattled on, and on in one breath. Goddamn this girl can talk. She had the energy of a classroom full of hyperactive children.
"Uhm. Okay." I said awkwardly. She gave me a soft smile and I relaxed somewhat.
"Are you and Edward like a...thing now?" She asked and I immediately regretted agreeing to come over because I knew people would start to assume stuff. I sighed.
"No we're not a couple, Alice." Even though Edward wanted there to be an us.
"So how did you and Edward meet? Well, obviously I know you guys met in school but how?" She asked and her brow creased.
"Well uhm. We got partnered for a Science project and I guess we got along. We had a lot in common." I lied through my teeth. I wasn't the greatest liar but she seemed to believe me.
"I hate to ask this but he used to bully you. Correct?" I nodded and wondered where she was taking this conversation. "How'd you um, get over that?"
"I don't know. I just did. I saw what he was like when he wasn't being a douche." I shrugged and cracked a tiny smile for her benefit.
"I'd like to meet Edward when he's not being a dick." She snorted and a tiny laugh escaped my lips.
"On another note, you need to let me give you a complete makeover sometime. Not that you aren't pretty without makeup. Just it'll be fun. I mean your skin is so beautiful." She gushed. She looked like a child in a candy store for the first time. Her eyes lit up immediately.
"Sure, Alice, whatever you want." I said to appease her. Her lips pulled away from her teeth and she started to beam at me. She suddenly looked her pink, glittery watch and sighed.
"I have to get going. I told Jasper I'd be over at his house soon. It was nice getting to know you, Bella." She got up off the couch and came over and gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. She slipped on her black sunglasses before exiting the room. I pulled out the pictures I had hidden under the duvet and looked at them again.
"That one was taken at Christmas dinner." Edward said; he was leaning against the door his hair still wet from his shower.
"I-I didn't mean to snoop." I said and placed the pictures back down on the nightstand.
"It's fine." He said and walked over and sat down beside me again.
"So how's everything with your Mom?"
"Fine as can be. She's not being as much of a bitch anymore, but I'm not sure how long that's going to last." I sighed.
"Can we just drop the subject now? Please."
"Of course."
"So how's Tanya and her pack of skanks?" I asked randomly trying to make conversation and he snorted.
"She blows up my phone every once in a while, but she leaves me alone for the most part." He said and I immediately felt relieved for some reason. He ran his hands through his almost dry hair now and sighed.
"Is something wrong?"
"Bella...something did happen last night, and I don't feel right keeping it from you." He sighed and ran his hand through his hair for the umpteenth time. I sat up straighter against the headboard and gave him my full attention.
"Well. Um. You kissed me last night." He said and faced me to try and gauge my reaction.
Memories from last night came rushing back to me. How I had straddled him. How I had placed my hands on his face. Pressed my lips to his. How he put his hands on my waist. I remembered how I felt: my heart crashing against my ribs, the tingling feeling in my toes, the bubbly feeling in my stomach. How I had said I liked him, and how I noticed his eyes light up at the statement. I wanted to feel like that again. I wanted to feel like that now.
"Oh."
"Yeah." He said awkwardly.
"Kiss me." I blurted suddenly and wondered if there was a filter between my brain and my mouth.
"What?" He asked incredulously.
"Kiss me?" My demand came out as a question this time.
He didn't need me to say it again before he closed the distance between our lips and he kissed me. I hesitantly moved my lips with his; not knowing what exactly to do. He grabbed at my hips and pulled a little bit so I would l lay down. He had one leg between mine and he stroked my cheek before burying his hands in my hair and firmly holding my head in place so he could press his lips firmer to mine. His hands slowly snaked up and under my shirt. My hands slowly made it up to his and I gently pushed him; signaling that I needed more time.
"Time." I gasped. I didn't expect he would grope me which sort of made me freak out because I didn't know what he expected of me.
"Fine." He rolled off me and tried to adjust the situation his pants as he sat up. He glanced at me and noticed that I noticed and a blush creeped into my cheeks. He sighed and pulled me to his chest where he whispered, I like you.
A/N: Okay, first of all, sorry for no update for almost 2 weeks now. I'm just so busy with school and some issues I have to deal with and stuff. Thanks for reading, and reviewing. Thank you to my beta for pre-reading. Until next time.
Forever Yours, -SweetestBitch