A/N: So I find myself not wanting this story to end. How about another fluff chapter? Sometimes when there are song lyrics in fan fics, I skip over them. So you have my permission to skip over the song lyrics if you want. I just didn't know how to tell the story well without putting them in here.
Disclaimer: I did not make up the characters myself.
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Chapter 21 – Good Vibrations
That night I tossed and turned with nightmares. I dreamed that Alice and I were driving in my new SUV being followed by a black truck. I dreamed I was kissing Edward, but then Edward turned into Jacob, and Jacob turned in to James. I started screaming in my dream, but I couldn't run away.
"Bella Bella wake up! Wake up it's a dream." I felt someone shaking me. I opened my eyes and saw Edward's frightened eyes staring at me.
"Oh, it was just a dream," I panted. "I'm fine Edward."
"Don't scare me like that," he said laying back relieved.
"What time is it?" I asked noticing the light from outside starting to grow in the room.
"Just past seven."
"I don't want to face them," I groaned. "As fun as our revenge was, I'm still furious."
"It was going too far for sure, but I have to admit in the end I kind of enjoyed it all," he said he turned to the side and propped himself up on one elbow. "The more I think about it, the more I like the joke." He grinned at me and traced my bottom lip with his finger.
My heart beat picked up and I felt heat rising in my face. "Stop it," I whined and buried my head in the pillow. "I've been embarrassed enough for one life time."
Edward chuckled lightly. "Bella, I think all of this could have been less humiliating for both of us if we could have just talked about things. The two of us together could possibly make the worst couple in the world."
He's going to break up with me.
"Stop biting your lip Bella. I don't mean that literally. I mean you and I are both not used to being in a relationship. I should have already talked to you about my feelings about sex, and you should have told me about your concerns instead of trying to seduce me."
Are you trying to seduce me right now, because it's working.
"You're right. I can't believe I even thought I was capable of doing that." I closed my eyes at the memory.
"Trust me, you were very capable. I came very close to throwing all my plans out the window when I saw you starting to take your shirt off," he smirked.
How about if we see what I do when you take your shirt off.
I just smiled and looked away still feeling embarrassed, but not the kind of embarrassed that makes you want to die. It was the kind of embarrassed that feels kind of fun and exciting, and you don't really mind feeling it.
"So Bella, I feel like we still need to talk about it." Edward said more seriously.
Did I miss something? I was too busy thinking about our honeymoon.
"Talk about what?"
"Sex."
"Oh." Before I realized what I was doing, I started fanning myself with my hand.
"I'm still, um, curious. How you feel about what I told you? I hope you're not disappointed or angry with me. I would deny you nothing, but it's kind of a big deal to me."
Well it made me want to jump your body even more.
"Well for one, I think lying in bed might be a really stupid place for us to be having this conversation. Secondly, I think we are pretty much on the same page. Alice and I mad a pact the first year we met to guard our carnal treasures. Third, I think you understand that I don't have a lot of experience with all of this, so I am still getting used to enjoying what I have of you so far. I'm not in a hurry for more." I was impressed with how much more confident and comfortable I was getting not only with Edward, but also with myself.
"I'm enjoying this as well." Edward said as he leaned over and started to kiss me.
Well I wasn't in a hurry till you started doing that.
"Edward! Boundaries!" I giggled.
"What, I couldn't help myself. Hearing you say the words carnal treasure drove me over the edge," he laughed.
I just rolled my eyes, but was dancing with excitement on the inside.
"I still don't know how to act today. Should I just act like nothing happened and forgive everyone? Should I pout? Should I put laxatives in Alice's breakfast?"
"Well do you still feel mad?" Edward asked.
"I am mostly just mad at Alice. She should have known better than to humiliate me like that. I have never been able to stay mad at her for long though. I'm used to her going overboard, and its one of the things I like best about her, unless I'm her victim that is."
"Well, the laxatives might humiliate her in front of Jasper," Edward pointed out. "I think you're above that though. I have a feeling the guilt trip you will heap upon her will be punishment enough."
"True, I am an expert at guilt trips," I admitted.
"What do you think we should do today? I think everyone is starting to get a little bored, and we don't need to be entertained by more practical jokes," Edward stated.
"When I was a kid, I loved putting on shows for my family. We could do a show, like a play or something!" I said excitedly.
"Mmmm, sounds fun." Edward said sarcastically.
"Jerk. Oh how about a talent show? We could take turns performing for each other!"
"Now that could be fun. I'm not sure I want to see what Emmett would consider his talents to be though."
"Good point, but let's risk it. I know! I know! We could sing a duet!"
"No thanks, I've heard you sing." He ducked predicting accurately that a pillow was about to go flying.
"Fine, Alice will sing with me. She owes me."
"I can't wait to see this play out." Edward said kissing me on the forehead before he stood up. "I'm going to go get dressed and then I'll get the breakfast stuff out."
"OK, it looks like such a nice day outside, I think I'm going to go sit out front and write in my journal until for a little bit until everyone else wakes up."
I changed into jeans and one of Edward's sweatshirts. It was cold outside in the mornings at this altitude. I grabbed my journal and my favorite pen and went outside. I sat on the front steps and started to write about my feelings for Edward and my irritation with Alice. I even wrote a couple of poems that I was sure I would rip out and throw away when I reread them later. My hand started to cramp up, so I shook it out and stretched a little bit. When I looked up, I thought I could just make out an outline of a black truck parked on the main road through the trees in the distance. I gasped and dropped my pen. I bent over and picked it up, and when I looked again the truck was gone. I shook my self realizing I was probably just still on edge after having nightmares.
Over breakfast, Edward and I presented our talent show idea to the group. Jasper looked at us like we had lost our minds, Rosalie groaned, and of course Emmett and Alice could hardly hold in their excitement.
"Oh oh Bella, we can do our duet!" Alice bounced in her seat.
"Planning on it," I said trying to forget that I hated her.
"Rose baby, you can do some of your cheerleading stunts from college. I'm sure everybody would love to see how flexible you are." Emmett winked at her before laughing.
"I was thinking I could demonstrate some of my self defense moves on your groin," Rosalie growled in response.
"Perfect," I nodded at Rose approvingly. "OK so it's settled. Everyone will have until four o'clock to get ready, and we will perform it down in the basement."
After breakfast, Emmett pulled the guys aside. I heard a lot of protests, but it seemed that Jasper and Edward gave into Emmett's pleading in the end. Edward went down to the basement giving strict orders to the rest of us to stay out. Jasper went to the office area off the living room and started looking at books. Rose started doing her nails, and Alice and I argued over who got to be Ewan McGregor and who got to be Nicole Kidman. I got started on my guilt trip and forced Alice to be the man, although we put our own special spin on the song to accommodate it.
After lunch, Emmett ordered the girls to go outside and pulled the guys down to the basement with him. Alice and I didn't need to practice. We had done this routine a million times. After Rose printed off some music from the computer, she said she was ready too. We sat around lazily and relaxed, until late afternoon when Alice I made a stage downstairs. Right at four, we called everybody else down.
Alice and I offered to go first. I had put on Alice's hooker boots, a short skirt, and a lacy top. Not something I would normally be caught dead in, but it was my costume. Alice changed into Jasper's brown slacks and a too big white button up shirt with a tie. We looked completely ridiculous and we loved it.
"Love is a many splendid thing. Love lifts us up where we belong." Alice said facing me before breaking into song. "All you need is love."
"Please, don't start that again." I said walking away from her on the stage. The song continued until we got to the part where we adapted some of the lyrics for ourselves.
"I was made for loving you baby, you were made for loving me." This is where Alice started dancing as the tempo picked up.
"The only way of loving me baby, is to buy a car for me." I sang and winked at Edward.
"Just one night, give me just one night."
"There's no way, cause I'm not gay."
We went on with singing the song and dancing around dramatically. I'm sure we sounded terrible, but we didn't care. Finally it was the grand finale.
We sang together so loudly I worried glass would shatter, "We could be heroes, forever and ever, we could be heroes, forever and ever, we can be heroes..."
I finished the song, "How wonderful life is, now you're in, the world..."
As I finished the words Alice dipped me and kissed me on the lips. We broke apart laughing hysterically at ourselves, and then we turned to see the three guys staring at us with their mouths hanging open.
"Dude, they just kissed!" Emmett bellowed before jumping to his feet applauding. Everyone laughed and the four of them clapped for us as we left the make shift stage high fiving each other.
"We're next!" Emmett jumped up. Edward and Jasper just groaned before standing.
Emmett hooked up his ipod to some speakers and introduced the three of them as Emmie Em and the funky bunch. The three of us girls squealed as they started to lip sync to Good Vibrations originally sung by freaky underwear model rapper turned actor man of my lustful dreams Mark Wahlberg. Emmett was into the song rapping the lead, Jasper lip synced the female back up voice, and Edward did the back up rapping parts. Jasper and Edward did their thing, but the look on their faces told us they just wanted to disappear.
Emmett mouthed, "Yeah. Can you feel it baby? I can too. Come on swing it. Come on swing it…. 1-2-3 - Now we come to the pay off."
At that moment they all froze, looked at each other, nodded, smiled, pulled off their shirts, and threw them at us. We screamed and laughed loudly ogling them.
You're giving me some good vibrations Edward!!
"It's such a good vibration. It's such a sweet sensation. It's such a good vibration. It's such a sweet sensation." The three men all mouthed together doing some ridiculous hip thrusts.
We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe when the song ended. I blushed as I handed Edward his shirt. He put it on and sat down next to me looking equally embarrassed.
Jasper put his shirt on, took a book from under his chair, and returned to the stage. He looked at Alice with smoldering eyes and read,
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient sleepless eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death."
He looked up from the book and looked straight at Alice. She grabbed my arm, like she needed help staying upright. He walked to her, sat down, took her other hand in his and kissed it. We all sat there silent and stunned like we were invading a very private moment between the two of them.
"Well, great. That is going to be hard to follow." Rosalie stood, went to Edward, and whispered in his ear. He nodded and stood going to the piano that was just off the stage. He started to play, and Rose sang a slow song with a beautiful voice that could easily
make her famous.
She's beautiful and she can sing. God is not fair.
"He and I had something beautiful
But so dysfunctional, it couldn't last
I loved him so but I let him go
'Cause I knew he'd never love me back
He's disappearing
Fading suddenly
I'm so close to being yours
Won't you stay with me
Please
I only know that I am
Better where you are
I only know that I am
Better where you are
I only know that I belong
Where you are
I'm better near to you.
Yeah, I'm better near to you."
Her song reminded me of Edward and I, and I could feel tears starting to form in my eyes. She finished and smiled at me when she returned to her seat. I smiled back, applauding knowing this was her way of reaching out to me. I accepted it gratefully.
Edward didn't move from the piano, but turned to us and announced, "Bella's Lullaby."
This time I couldn't hold back the tears as I heard the most beautiful melody coming from the fingers of the man I loved. The song started out softly, but grew more passionate in the middle. Edward looked over his shoulder at me at one point and gave me a smile that made my heart ache with adoration for him. I had tears running down my face when the song ended.
"Rose honey, I'm sorry. I didn't know this was a let's see who can impress your girlfriend the most contest," Emmett interrupted my thoughts giving Edward and Jasper death stares.
"Oh baby, you can impress me later," she purred at him and winked.
I stood and walked to the piano. "Thank you, it was beautiful. Did you really write that?"
"Yes, and you inspired it my love," he said lovingly. We exchanged a few more mushy remarks before Edward said, "You know, I have to admit, my idea for a talent show worked out pretty well."
I slapped his arm, "Your idea - right."
We were all back upstairs when Edward's phone rang. I was excited when he looked at the caller ID and said it was chief Masen. I was sure they must have found James.
"Hey guys, I'm glad you haven't run into any trouble so far," the chief said on speaker phone again. "I called the local police where you are and informed them of the situation just in case. I also wanted to warn all of you not to use any Shamrock bank cards. Victoria might have access to those accounts and can see where you've spent your money. Have any of you used one since you've been in the mountains?"
Rosalie, Edward, Emmett all answered no.
"Good," the chief continued. "Call me if anything comes up, and keep your eyes out for anything suspicious."
"Will do chief. Let us know if you hear anything." Emmett answered.
We all split into couples for the rest of the night. I was glad I didn't have to be around Emmett trying to impress Rosalie. I could tell he was still feeling like his show had been inadequate compared to the other guys. I had to admit though; his performance was my second favorite of the night.
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A/N- Footnotes: Bella and Alice's song is another one from Moulin Rouge. I actually sing that duet with my friends all the time. Sorry if I'm torturing you! Emmett's song is by Marky Mark aka Mark Wahlbert, Rosalie's song is by A Fine Frenzy, Jasper's poem is by John Keats, and Edward wrote his song himself. I have no idea what is going to happen next in this story… whish me luck!