Welcome to my Life
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A/N: This chapter uses explicit nouns. It borders a bit along the Mature rating, but I trust you all with the knowledge that this is really rated teen, and has suggestive themes.
Chapter 21
We spent all night giggling and laughing and talking. The more they talked about it, the more that I actually warmed up to their ideas. Edward was such a prude, and the idea of 'toys' would make him blush if he could.
I fell asleep around 2:43 am. When my dreaming started, I instantly knew it was different now somehow than my other dreams.
I was standing back, third perspective, and watched my life play before my eyes:
-Charlie and Renee had given birth to me,
- Their marriage falling apart,
-Renee leaving me with Charlie and ran after someone who caught her eye,
-Charlie getting depressed because he actually loved her and she ran off; left with a burden that constantly reminded him of his lost wife,
-me growing up and going to Grandma Marie's to escape the melancholy environment that Charlie created,
-Gran dying and leaving me her entire secret fortune that nobody knew she had,
-Renee coming back at the news of the death of Gran and money,
-Renee leaving again because of the courts telling her the details: 20th birthday and strictly for Isabella Marie Swan and no other,
-Charlie beating me to appease Renee,
-me growing up in the harsh abusive environment,
-watching myself become more and more closed to the world and become colder to my environment,
-me meeting Edward in the hallway; remembering how pompous I thought him and his family to be,
-him saving me from the highway to Port Angels that night, wrestling me to his car, seeing the light in his eyes that made the sun look dim (comparing him to when I saw him on the first day),
-him taking me to Port Angels to protect me and get to know me regardless of my cold exterior,
- him trying to make my life at least bearable, consoling me and loving me like a brother
-spending a wondrous summer with his family,
-Charlie beating me and me crawling into my truck, making my way to Forks and calling Edward for help
-Charlie coming into the hospital room after Carlisle told me that I was living with them now, that I couldn't live with someone so abusive
-Charlie's threats to sick Renee on me
-Edward losing his temper on Charlie, pinning him to the hospital wall with Carlisle in the room, threatening him back
-us going back to the Cullen house, now my house too, them revealing that their family is vampire
-Edward and I falling in love,
It was so chilling to watch it like this, but I realized how full of life I seemed now, and now much I actually liked life, I was getting married to a magnificent man who loved me farther beyond my comprehension and a family who loved me like he did. It was nice to be so close to someone, or someones', but so happy.
I woke up content with sunshine coming through the window and the winter birds singing happily from the fresh dusting of newly fallen snow.
I finally cleared my head enough to notice that many of the girls didn't move out of the room most of the night.
Alice and Irina were looking through a magazine, and by the girly giggles they were giving off I didn't want to know what the magazine was for.
Rosalie and a couple of the other girls were going through a large bag of makeup and manicure tools.
Alice's head snapped up to me and gave me a grin.
"Esme is downstairs with Tanya making you breakfast, if you were looking for the missing and unaccountable peoples."
I nodded my head and made my way downstairs. I sat down as Esme put a plate of food down in front of me, not too long after me the rest of the girls came downstairs too. The look on Alice's face made me cringe.
"Not Bella Barbie!" I cried out in horror.
"Yes Bella Barbie! We need to get you presentable and ready to kill before the guys get home and Edward steals you from us."
"But those torture sessions make rogue killer vampires seem like kittens!"
"Don't let Edward hear you saying that. I might not get to see you ever again."
"Maybe I will tell him, maybe I won't, and I actually like spending time with you when we're not shopping or playing Bella Barbie."
"You know you love me!" Alice squealed happily. "Let's get you ready!"
"Ok, I guess I can go with minimum fuss, I'm tired of his ego and confidence. I want to see him once in a situation where he doesn't know what to do or is caught by surprise. This is going to be fun."
About three and a half hours later, Alice saw in a vision that they boys were due home in ten minutes. In order to not let them onto what we have planned, we situated ourselves in the livingroom surrounded by pillows, magazines, food for me, and a chick-flick playing on the tv.
"You won't regret this, Bella." Alice said a bit too loud. I assume that the boys were in hearing range now.
I sighed dramatically. "How can I not? There's almost twelve of you and one of me, plus, you're vampires and I'm human. If I go easily I can reduce the pain factor exponentially."
"Regret what?" A soft, velvet said from the livingroom doorway, leaning on the frame and looking at us curiously.
"I finally gave in to Alice, Edward." I said sadly. His eyebrows arched up in confusion.
"If you can't figure it out, you're denser than I thought."
"It doesn't help my concentration that all of the girls are singing the same thing in their heads, it's like surround sound. There's no room for my own thought processes."
I just rolled my eyes. Melodramatic Edward. Alice signalled Esme, without letting the boys catch on, to the second stage: 'Operation Laundry Toys'.
"It's you boys' turn to do the laundry, Edward, and I suggest that the quicker that you get it done the quicker you can get on to other things." Esme said and looked directly at me. Apparently Edward had the same idea, because he raced off calling Jasper and Emmett's names. Carlisle was already at work, lucky him. He got a job at the local hospital in Denali as a doctor/surgeon.
EmPOV
"Aw, man! We've got to do the laundry?" I whined to Edward as soon as he told me. This isn't fair! How am I supposed to beat Jasper's high score in Halo when I have chores to do?
"The faster we get this done the quicker we can go back to our activities." Edward forcefully persuaded me. Jasper was already gathering the laundry from upstairs and bringing it into the basement. Why did he get the good job? Rooting through the girls' rooms with a reason, it's ultimately sneaky!
We made our way to the basement and started to sort the laundry into loads, according to Edward. Why do you need to do separate loads for colors, whites and darks? It seems like doing too much unnecessary work.
Anyway, like I was saying, I was sorting the laundry into piles, when a light thump alerts me to something falling out of the clothes and onto the floor. I look down and can't believe my eyes. It doesn't look like any of Rosalie's, I would definitely recognize it. It has to be either Alice's or Bella's, but innocent Bella?
"Uh, guys, look here." I said in a shocked voice. Jasper looked my way first and his expression mirrored my own. Utter disbelief and shock. It can't be Alice's, or else he would not look so shocked. Edward wasn't looking, probably thinking that it's one of my pranks again.
"Edward, look, really. It's not a prank. It belongs to one of the girls."
He rolled his eyes and reluctantly looked at me, then to where my gaze was staring. His eyes widened in disbelief and shock.
"It belongs to one of the girls, and it's not Rosalie's, I would recognize it, and you two wouldn't be seeing it if it was."
"It's not Alice's, that's for sure. Edward?" Jasper said accusingly. My lips twitched, and I fought back a flood of laughs. This was Bella's? How would Eddie the prude take it? I could see his carefully cultivated façade rising so that we don't see what he was really feeling. He picked it up carefully and stared at it, it seemed that if he looked at it long enough that it would behold its secrets. No such luck. With his other hand he motioned us up the stairs behind him.
We came into the livingroom and the girls were chatting animatedly in a tight group, much too low for us to hear. Edward stared at Bella expectantly; she just looked up at him with a confused expression. He rolled his eyes, I laughed. He held up my 'discovery' for the girls to see, most of the group burst out into laughter, some were snickering and crying they were laughing so hard.
"Emmett says that it isn't his, Jasper denies all knowledge of this belonging to Alice, and we won't even go there with Esme, dear Bella, love, what is this?"
She looked ready to blush, but to my surprise she didn't. Definite guilt on her part.
"You know what it is, Edward. It's a dildo." She almost snickered when she said it.
His expression hardened and he glared at her.
"Obviously. I meant what was it doing downstairs in the laundry?"
What Bella said next surprised me the most out of my long life in existence.
"It must have fell in with my laundry when I was cleaning my room yesterday." She said and shrugged it off. Alice and Rosalie were laughing so hard and rolling on the ground that it shook the house. They must have had something to do with this. Bella's too innocent.
Edward threw it at her and pinched the bridge of his nose, then ran his hand through his hair.
"Bella." He growled.
"Edward." She growled back, mockingly, and burst into laughter. She got up and walked provocatively over to Edward. It seemed more like something that Rosalie would do, not Bella. Something was definitely up, especially with that sneaky glint in her eyes.
Back to BPOV
Alice and Rosalie told me not to be shy or embarrassed about sexual things anymore if I wanted any chance to get to Edward. He obviously looked very uncomfortable with the 'toy' in his hands, imagining that it was mine, and likely used. Ha, as if, it went straight from the package and into the laundry. It was still fun to see him visibly squirm about the thought.
He threw it at me! He had the nerve to throw it at me!
"Bella." he growled, frustrated.
"Edward." I growled back, mocking his tone. As hard as I tried not to laugh, I couldn't take his expression. I burst out into laughter and jumped up, then started making my way over to him. His eyes narrowed, trying to calculate for my moves as if it was a chess game with Alice. Too bad he can't read my mind like Alice's to predict the move. My next move will be one that he won't predict, I assure him, and he won't forget this for a while. Time for payback to Eddie for making me marry him. Don't get me wrong, I do want to marry him, but I also think that he's fighting dirty. He'll transform me, but he wants marriage, and in order for me to marry him I want to have a 'human experience' before I'm transformed. In order for him to give me that 'human experience' he wants me to marry him because he says he's more reluctant than me to give me what we bargained for. He always gets his way, and I want to show him who Isabella Swan/Cullen really is.
"Oh, Edward!" I moaned quietly in his ear like the girls showed me during the slumber party, "You know that I need something to satisfy me when you leave at night to go hunting."
His head turned to me and stared at me with astonishment at my false admittance.
"Isabella…" came his strangled reply, half air and half tortured moan.
(He he, I'm cruel for stopping here, but maybe you'll review faster if I cut off here. You know, as a little hint, I'm using my review count per chapter as a basis for updating, so the more you guys review the quicker the next chapter in Operation: Seductive-Bella will be posted. ;) )