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BPOV:
I couldn't believe the day I had with my friends. It was yet another perfect day in paradise. I was not surprised that I managed to hurt myself but it was worth it to spend the entire day in Edward's arms. He had carried me effortlessly throughout the day.
Today had been exactly what I needed after what happened yesterday. I had spent the day laughing and having fun with my friends. They had made it so easy to forget.
Now, as we approached our rooms all of the events that I had pushed out of my mind came rushing back. I would have to deal with this sooner or later. All of my muscles tensed as we came to the door. Edward, feeling my reaction, began rubbing soothing circles on my legs. I tightened my grip around his shoulders as Emmett opened the door.
I was relieved to find that the room was spotless. Everything was in its proper place again and any trace of Jacob was gone.
"Well Sam had said that they would clean up," I heard Alice say.
"Yeah, I'm just glad we didn't have to do it," Emmett responded.
Alice disappeared into the bedroom as Edward helped me slide off of his back.
"How's your ankle?" he asked.
"It's-," but I was interrupted by Alice's voice before I could finish.
"Get out of here!" I heard her shriek. Jasper sprinted into the bedroom and we all followed after him.
"What's wrong?" Jasper asked but quickly found his answer at the sight of a very distraught Jacob sitting on my bed. Jasper quickly pulled Alice back towards him and away from Jacob.
"You're ballsy, I'll give you that," Emmett said in a menacing tone as he approached Jacob. Jacob held his hands up in a peaceful gesture before he spoke.
"Whoa, slow down and let me explain before you kill me. I was not the one who messed up your room," he began explaining.
"Really? Then who was it?" Edward asked sarcastically beside me.
"My friend Embry thought it would be a good idea," Jacob responded weakly.
"Sure," Rose said coldly as she inched toward Jacob. Emmett wrapped one of his large hands around her arm, restraining her. "That's a weak excuse. Now get the fu-," but Edward stopped her before she could continue.
"Rose, why don't you take Alice and Bella next door," he suggested.
"No way am I leaving," she stated. Emmett turned her around and placed his hand on her cheek,
"Rosie, can you please just go next door. We've got this." I almost laughed as Emmett called her Rosie. I knew he was the only person who would ever get away with it. We were quickly ushered out of the room and into the guys' room. As soon as the guys left the room Alice and Rose attached their ears to the wall.
"You guys," I began but was quickly cut off by Alice.
"Shh! It's hard enough to hear through the wall!" I laughed lightly as my best friends attempted to eavesdrop. I felt oddly safe in the boys' room. I knew Edward, Emmett and Jasper would never let anything happen to us.
"Ugh," Rose called out after a few minutes of listening, "I can't make out what they're saying." She came over to the bed I was sitting on and flopped down next to me. "I should be over there."
"Oh, come on Rosie," I joked.
"Don't ever call me that," she said firmly.
"You let Emmett call you it," Alice chirped after she took her place on the bed on my other side.
"With the way that boy kisses he could call me Chuck if he wanted to," Rose sighed with a dreamy look in her eyes. We all started laughing at that.
When we quieted down Alice and I said in unison, "Yeah, I know what you mean," which sent us into another round of giggles.
I was only brought out of my laughter when Alice's foot brushed against my ankle reminding me of the pain in it.
"Ouch," I whined softly.
"Oh yeah. Let's get you some ice, Bella," Alice called out as she went to the freezer, put some ice in a bag, and returned placing it on my ankle. It felt worlds better.
"Thanks, Alice," I said as the boys walked back into the room. Alice and Rose jumped up to greet them as Edward came to sit by me on the bed.
"How's the ankle?" he asked, clearly not wanting to tell me about what happened next door.
"That is not important right now. Tell me what happened," I demanded.
"We scared him out of his wits," Emmett called from the opposite bed where him and Rose were snuggled.
"Details," Alice called from her position on Jasper's bed where she lay in his arms. I leaned back and rested my head on Edward's chest. The events of today were finally catching up with my body and I was beginning to feel tired but I refused to sleep without finding out what happened.
"Why don't you go to sleep, love?" Edward whispered into my ear.
"I'm not tired," I lied. He looked at me knowingly and wrapped his arms around me. The comfort of his arms beckoned unconsciousness to come and was only intensified when he began humming in my ear. I propped myself on one elbow and placed a hand on his chest.
"No way, cheater. Tell me what happened." He smiled at my words.
"Emmett wants to tell the story," he said. I turned to look at Emmett.
"What happened?" all three of us girls asked at the same time.
"Well," Emmett began with a smile of remembrance on his lips, "We let him tell his side of the story first. Edward made us do that part. Then we just roughed him up a bit," his smile grew wider. Jasper laughed quietly.
"More information would be really good," Alice whined.
"I pretty much had to tear Edward and Emmett away from Jacob so they wouldn't kill him," Jasper explained.
"We would have stopped eventually," Edward defended.
"You guys!" I exclaimed. I was furious with Jacob but I would have preferred if they could have just scared him a bit.
"Don't worry, Bella. He'll live," Jasper assured me.
"Actually," Emmett began, "He got it worse than Mike did."
"Whatever happened to Mike anyway?" Rose asked indifferently.
"Ha!" Emmett boomed. "We had fun with him. All we did was sit him in a chair and threaten him before he started crying."
"You're forgetting the best part, Emmett," Edward reminded him.
"Oh yeah. Before we even got to the real threats the little chicken peed himself." At first all of us girls just stared between each other, mouths agape, but we quickly began laughing until our sides hurt and tears were streaming down our faces.
"That is great," Alice finally managed to get out between laughs. We continued talking for a while about Mike and Jacob until all of started getting tired. We dispersed around the room to get ready for bed.
"Our big, strong men have had quite the day," Rose joked.
"Yes, I quite think its time to tuck them in for bed," I finished. I gently pushed Edward down onto the bed and brought the covers up to his chest. I kissed him on the forehead and turned to walk away. I hadn't even made it one step when he grabbed my hand and pulled me onto the bed on top of him.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked playfully.
"You need your rest Edward," I said with mock seriousness. "I think we've established that I'm a bit of a distraction for you." I squealed quietly as he pulled me to his side and pulled the cover around me.
"You are one distraction I do not mind," he responded. I craned my neck up and our lips met in a sweet kiss.
"Goodnight, love," he said once he pulled away. I mumbled the same thing back and had no time to know if he heard me before I feel into unconsciousness.
EPOV:
I awoke to the most glorious sight of my Bella in my arms. She looked so peaceful in her sleep, untouched by the worries of life, that I never wanted to wake her.
After yesterdays events I felt much better about Bella being on this ship. I'm sure Jacob would make no attempts to contact her ever again. I knew she would be safe for the remainder of this trip.
That brought me to a whole new thought. The cruise would be over soon. I couldn't stand the idea of not seeing Bella everyday and spending all of my time with her. Once we get back to New York who knows where life will take us.
It doesn't matter, I thought. My life is wherever Bella is.
I was pulled out of my thoughts a moment later when Bella began waking up. I was becoming accustomed to her sleeping habits and could tell when she was just turning and when she was waking up. She moaned lightly and stretched as I waited for her chocolate pools to open. Finally, her eyes fluttered open and a warm groggy smile spread across her face.
"Morning, Edward," she said quietly.
"Good morning, beautiful. How's your ankle?" I asked. I waited as I felt her rotate it.
"Feels great."
"Good," I sighed while puling her closer to me. "What should we do today?" I asked her.
"We should shut up and let Emmett go back to sleep," Emmett suggested loudly from his bed. I laughed and whispered an idea into Bella's ear. She got out of bed quietly and stood next to Emmett's bed. She jumped on the bed on all fours and beginning bouncing up and down.
"What are you doing?" he growled in response. She quickly made her way back over to our bed and snuggled into the safety of my arms.
"Not so much fun, huh Emmett?" I asked playfully.
"Yeah, whatever," he grumbled as he got out of bed, not able to go back to sleep.
"Thanks a bunch, Bella" Rose called out sarcastically, her face half buried in the pillow.
"No problem," she said with a giggle. By this time Alice and Jasper had woken up from all the commotion.
"Tonight's the captains dinner," Alice called out sleepily.
"Oh, yeah," a more alert Rose responded.
"Ugh," Bella whispered quietly.
"What's wrong, Bella?"
"Nothing, that just means hours of Alice torturing me with her beauty products." She made a face of disgust to go along with her statement.
"I wish I could help but there is no winning against Alice," I said truthfully. For such a little thing she was extremely powerful.
"I know," Bella sighed, defeated.
"We have to start getting ready soon," Alice declared. I checked the clock next to my bed.
"Alice, it's only 10 o'clock in the morning. The dinner isn't until 6." She couldn't be serious?
"Edward, you don't understand what it takes to look as good as we do," she replied.
"Bella always looks amazing," I stated truthfully. She kissed my cheek while we received a chorus of 'awws' from our friends.
"Shut up," she mumbled into my chest.
"Seriously Alice," Emmett began as he lay back down with Rose, "how much prep time are we talking here?"
"Seriously Emmett, we need to get started by 1 at the latest," she answered. We spent our last couple of free hours together in bed just talking and laughing before Alice claimed it was time for the girls to get ready. Emmett, Jasper and I entered the girls' room first and checked it out before we let them enter. When it was deemed safe we kissed our respective partners and went to our rooms to get ready. Well, Emmett and Jasper got ready first while I sat in our living room with the door open listening for the girls' room and then I got ready.
Alice, not trusting our own taste for the evening, had arranged for some suits to be brought up to our room. I picked a black suit, white dress shirt, and black tie. My hair wouldn't cooperate, like always, so it ended up in a messy disarray.
By breath caught in my throat when Bella stepped into the doorway. Her hair flowed in large free curls around her face which had the slightest amount of makeup applied to it. She wore a deep red, floor length dress with a plunging neckline accentuated by crystal ribboning under her bust line in an x formation.
"Wow," I breathed. I couldn't seem to think of a word that would describe Bella adequately in this moment. I leaned down to whisper into her ear, "There are no words to describe how amazing you look right now, love." I pulled back to find an enormous smile on her face. I extended my arm to her, elbow bent and she looped her own through it.
"Shall we?" I asked brightly.
"We shall," she responded as we walked forward leading us into another perfect evening.
a/n: so jacob has been taken care of. it's really up to you to decide if you believe him or not. sadly though, the cruise is almost over. one more island i think and then back to new york. but next chapter at the captains dinner should be fun!
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