Ch26 Revisiting the past
A/n: There are a few minor mentions of a slash situations in flashbacks below. JSYK.
I've had this chapter planned for a while...I hope you enjoy it and it brings something new to the table for you, the reader.
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EmPOV
The guys had no idea what I had in store for them tonight, which is exactly how I wanted it. After everything that the six of us had been through together over the past couple of years, I had a point to prove.
I loved all these kids like siblings, so I had to make sure that their hearts were truly in the right places. I couldn't have another fiasco like we'd already endured. Because to be honest, I wasn't sure that any of us would survive it intact.
I rented a limo since I knew that I would be in no condition to drive after where we were going. I fully intended to partake of as much alcohol as possible to make it through tonight.
"Rosie, come on, we have to go. The limo is here and I don't want to be late." I whined for the hundredth time.
"We'll see how fast you get around when you have a watermelon shoved up your ass, fucker." Rosie snapped at me. I don't know how she thought she had a watermelon up her cooch, but she was starting to show, a lot. I patted myself on the back, definitely going to be a linebacker, I thought to myself and smiled.
"Baby, you are beautiful already, now let's go." I demanded.
She huffed and stamped her foot but picked up her bag, "Let's go." Her eyes glared at me before she turned and waited for me to get the door.
Rose and the girls were going out to dinner while I took the boys on our little field trip. Thankfully, Bella agreed to drive them so I didn't have to worry about my wife and baby because Bella was one of the most reliable people I knew. She would make sure that Rosalie didn't overdo it.
"Are you sure this is a good idea, Emmett?" Rose asked softly after we'd sat down in the back of the limo.
"Rose, the fact that you have doubts about it is enough to confirm that it IS the right thing to do. I can't have Alice and Bella risk getting hurt any further. Besides, wouldn't you rather they figure it out now, rather than later when there is more at stake?" I asked with a quirked brow.
"I'm just worried about them. They all still seem a little fragile and this might be too big of a push." Her eyes welled with tears.
I pulled her into my side and kissed her temple before I wiped away her tears that had yet to fall. "Rosalie, I think they'll be fine. I have a sneaky suspicion that things will be better than ever after tonight." I held her gaze to let her know that I was serious. But, my added 'I hope' to the end of my thoughts.
We pulled up to Edward and Bella's house and waited to get out.
"Please be careful tonight, Em. I need you in one piece when you come home, alright?" Rose said with a bit of fear in her voice as she wrapped her arms around me.
"I promise, I'll be just fine." I said before I leaned down to kiss her.
"Get a room." Edward's voice broke us from our kiss with a chuckle.
"Nope, don't need one." I joked, "She's already knocked up." I rubbed her belly, which drove her insane because I truly had a hard time keeping my hands off of it.
She slapped my hand away. "Stop it, Emmett!" I chuckled and turned to greet Edward with a man half-hug and then picked Bella up for a bear hug, Emmett-style.
She laughed, "Put me down, Em. I'm not a toy doll." She tried to mock hit with her tiny fists. I loved her all feisty like this.
"Fine, fine, Bells. You look great tonight, by the way." I said as I eyed her in her tight jeans and high heels.
"Thanks," She blushed and looked at Edward with a gleam of something in her eyes.
They gravitated towards one another and before I knew it were in a full on make out session while Rose and I stood there and watched.
I cleared my throat, "Get a room." My booming voice joked.
Edward hesitantly pulled back from Bella's embrace, "Well, if you insist," he grabbed Bella's hand to lead them back in the house. I reached for his shoulder and pulled him back towards me.
"Nice try horny boy, but you are going out with me tonight, say good-bye to that hot little wife of yours." I instructed as they made googley eyes at each other. Shit, it was like these two were newlyweds all over again.
"Good-bye, hot little sexy wife," Edward growled as Bella blushed and eye fucked him right back. He hissed and Rosalie grabbed Bella's hand to pull her into the house.
"Bye baby, be safe." Bella said over her shoulder before Rose shut the front door. We were standing on the front porch watching the door close.
"Damn." Edward muttered.
"Fuck." I said and tugged Edward behind me into the limo.
Finally he snapped back to reality, "A limo, Emmett? What the fuck do we need a limo for?" He eyed me curiously as he climbed in.
"Because I said so." I replied and grabbed us both a beer from the cooler. I handed him one and opened mine to take a long pull off of it. I needed to calm down a bit before we got Jasper so I could have my speech prepared.
"Where are we going that we're going to need a limo to drive us around, Emmett?" Edward's voice suddenly got very serious.
"All in good time, E. Just wait 'til we pick up Jasper, then I'll explain it all." I told him and took another swig off the bottle in my hands.
"You are up to something." He eyed me curiously.
"I am." I confirmed.
"Hmmm." He said before he took a drink off his own bottle, his eyes narrowed at me.
"You and Bella seem to be doing well." I quickly changed the subject.
He smiled that million dollar smile at me, and discreetly tried to adjust himself. "We are." His voice was like a horny teenager in lust.
I laughed. "Little Eddie's back in the game then, huh?" I gave him a shove on the shoulder.
"Fuck, Em. It's like our honeymoon all over again." He beamed and shook his head.
"Just wait until you knock her up, Rose has been like a dog in heat for weeks now." I said through a laugh only to see his face go stone cold sober.
I was confused. I knew that Edward was ready for kids but something told me there was a problem by his reaction.
"She wants to wait, so I'm trying to be patient. It's been a pretty rough issue between us, but we're working on it." He confessed and looked out the window.
Shit, this wasn't how I wanted our evening to start. I needed to fix this quick as we were almost to Alice's place to pick up Jasper.
"Edward, when the time is right, it'll happen. But damn, for now, just enjoy all that hot sex you seem to be getting." I hoped that would lighten his mood a bit.
"I know, Emmett. And, trust me, I'm enjoying every minute of it. But, it doesn't stop the desire to have a baby with my wife." His mood was still somber as we came to a stop outside Alice's condo.
"Edward, look at me." I said and waited until his eyes met mine. "That woman loves you beyond reason and when she's ready, it'll happen. The two of you have been through hell and back. This is just a matter of time. Things will work out just as they are supposed to, watch and see." I tried to sound like the reasonable big brother, because I had always thought of Edward as the little brother I never had.
"I know, Emmett. I just have to learn patience." He said with a small smile that didn't quite feel genuine.
Just then the limo door opened and I got out to go and retrieve Jasper. "Come on, Edward, let's get this party started." I said as I reached in and yanked his arm to get him out of the limo.
I knocked on the door but I could hear something just on the other side of it so I opened it to find Alice wrapped around Jasper, her feet locked together around his ass and them locked in a heated kiss.
"What is with all these dramatic good-bye's tonight?" I said as I rubbed my face.
Edward was laughing behind me with his face over his eyes, but he peeked through them to watch this play out.
Both Jasper and Alice moaned as their lips pulled away from the others. "You guys are early." Jasper whined.
"No, we're right on time, Casanova." I said and put my hands on my hips.
"Alice, you are going to be late and you really do not want to keep a hungry, pregnant Rosalie waiting." I stated with a gruff voice.
She slid down Jasper's body to stand on her own two feet while she wiped her lips. Their eyes never left the others. Sheesh, this was like a bad cheap porno.
"Shut it McCarty. I'll get there on time." Alice said as she finally looked at me. "Oh, hi Edward." She said with a little wave of her fingers.
"Hi, Pipsqueak." Edward said with a chuckle as he got an evil glare from Alice.
"Have fun, baby." Jasper said before he leaned over to kiss her again. She wrapped her arms around his neck again.
"Oh no you don't." I said before I pulled Jasper away from her, and left her standing there in a huff. "He'll be back later." I pushed Jasper towards the open door as Edward had already stepped out on to the porch.
"Emmett," Alice's voice was different as I turned to her, "please take care of him." Her eyes were soft and pleading as she looked at me.
"Of course, Tink." I said before I closed the door behind me.
The guys were loading into the limo when I made it down the porch. Here goes nothing, I thought to myself.
EPOV
Watching Jasper and Alice make out was kind of surreal. I had never seen either of them affectionate with anyone else, so it was weird. But, they both seemed so happy, so that made me feel happy for them both.
I don't remember ever seeing Jasper as at peace as he looks right now, that's for sure.
"Beer?" I asked him as I got myself another from the cooler.
"Sure." He replied and took the one I offered.
Emmett got it and grabbed himself another beer and we were off to who knows where.
"So, what's up Em?" Jasper asked before taking a pull off his bottle.
"Let's do a shot first." He said and pulled a bottle of Jagermeister from the cabinet with some shot glasses.
"No thanks, Emmett. I know how you are with the Jager. I don't feel like calling my dad to bail me out tonight." I joked as he frowned at me.
"That was one time, E. And, Rose would have my balls if something like that happened again." He got this sour look on his face as he remembered the night we all got thrown into jail for starting a bar fight.
"Thank goodness I missed that one." Jasper piped in.
It took me a minute to catch on to what he'd said but then I remembered that was definitely a time when he wasn't around. I felt bad for all the years we'd missed out on.
"Be glad." I replied and tried to change the subject. "Now, Emmett, I demand to know where we are going and what you are up to."
He took a deep breath and then looked back and forth between me and Jasper.
"I know that the two of you have had a rough time and well, with your history...I just wanted to prove to myself and to each of you that you aren't still gay." he said the last part in a rush of words.
Jasper and I just sat there, dumbfounded.
"What the fuck, Emmett?" I screeched.
"Dude, not cool." Jasper replied.
"We're going to Over The Rainbow. I have to see for myself and for the safety of the women that I love that neither of you are still interested in switch hitting." Emmett said, stoically.
Rage flew through me at what he was attempting to do. He was testing me. He was putting me and Jasper into a lion's den of old hurts and memories.
"Emmett, man, I gotta say, this isn't cool." Jasper's voice was full of fury, as well.
"This is something we've worked through, Emmett. And, truthfully, none of your business." I said angrily.
"Look, be mad at me all you want. But, we are doing this. If at the end of the night you don't wind up together or with some other guy, well then I guess you've both proved me wrong. Because if either of you were to change your minds and hurt those two women again, I'll have to rip you both new assholes." Emmett said with a force of his own anger.
We all kind of bowed up and then looked away from one another.
I knew that I had no feelings like that towards Jasper any longer. I mean, I will always love Jasper, he was such a huge part of my past. But, I didn't feel that way about him anymore. Nor did I desire to feel that way about any man again. If I were truly gay, Jasper would have been it for me. I can't imagine having had all those emotions and the chemistry like we had with anyone but him.
"That's not who I am anymore." I said to no one in particular.
"I'm in love with Alice. No offense Edward, but I simply don't feel that way about you anymore." Jasper replied.
"Good to know, now, let's just prove it, shall we?" Emmett said and took a shot.
We pulled up to the gay bar, Over The Rainbow and I felt a huge knot form in my stomach. There was not a doubt in my mind about my feelings for Bella and the ones I had laid to rest with Jasper. But, I worried about how Bella might perceive this evening's activities because we had talked about this. Well, about my sexuality specifically. She was worried that I might still have tendencies toward men that she would never be able to fulfill.
Maybe, I could use this evening to prove to her, through my actions that it was just a phase and my insane attraction to Jasper that had taken me down that path sexually.
"Let's get this over with." I said to Jasper and Emmett.
"This isn't really necessary, Edward. You and I know where we stand with each other." Jasper stated as we stood next to each other outside the limo.
"I know, Jasper. But, if Emmett needs to better understand that and if it will help Bella and Alice see that we truly mean what we've said, then we should do this." I hoped he heard what I meant.
He nodded at me and Emmett led the way inside.
We walked into the dark lit club and were assaulted by the blaring music and smoked filled room. My mind immediately flashed back to the first time that Jasper and I came here on a Saturday night.
"Jasper, I'm nervous." I whispered into his ear as he pulled my arms around his waist and lead me through the bar.
He turned his face towards me, "I'm right here, nothings going to happen." He said before he placed a kiss on my cheek.
I gripped him tighter when we stopped at a table to sit down. "We'll have a few drinks, dance a little bit then go home." He leaned in to kiss me and I forgot about where we were and why.
We got drunk, we danced, half naked and sweaty. We made out in the bathroom. He gave me head in the car on the way home. We went back to my apartment and fucked all night long.
That night seemed like a lifetime ago. Because at the moment, I really wished Bella were here so I could dance with her.
When we had met, Bella was shy and reserved. She refused to dance, even in private until I started giving her 'dancing' lessons. Now, she had no problem getting her freak on with me on the dance floor.
Hearing Jennifer Lopez' 'Get on the floor' blasting through the sound system made my body ache to be near hers as we moved to the beat together. I had truly missed our weekly visits to the dance club, and it made me wonder if she would be up for going tomorrow night.
I pulled out my phone to text her, but Emmett snatched it from my hands. "Nope, no texting the little lady." He said with harsh stare and slipped my phone into his back pocket.
"Fuck you, Emmett. I can text my wife if I want to. Now, give me back my phone." I demanded as a half-naked young man approached our table to take our drink order.
He didn't look a day over sixteen and it kind of made me feel like a pervert to be standing there with him in nothing but a pair of lycra shorts.
"Shots." We all said in unison and laughed.
"Six Jager shots and six beers." Emmett ordered. Sounded good to me so I nodded.
I saw Jasper as he tried to sneak his phone from his pocket under the table so I snatched it from him. He shot me a look of death. "Nope, if I can't then you can't." I teased and handed his phone to Emmett.
"I miss Alice." He leaned over and yelled into my ear, so I could hear him over the music.
"I know, I feel the same way." I yelled back into his ear. I wondered what my wife was doing and if she knew that I was here, at this bar.
We pulled back and nodded to one another as Emmett continued to eye us both. He acted like he was just waiting for us to start making out or something.
The only person I wanted to touch and kiss and fuck was across town having a pleasant dinner with the girls.
I think Jasper was feeling the same way.
JPOV
A few years ago, this would have been my scene. I would have been ecstatic to be here with Edward by my side. But now, I just wanted to get home to Alice. I wanted to feel her body sweaty and hot against mine as I ground my dick against her ass as we danced.
I get why Emmett was doing this, but I knew a long time ago that after Edward, no man would ever fulfill that side of me again. He had been it for me as far as men go. And, after the last time we were together was such a fiasco, I had let him go. My heart no longer held that love for him like it had for so long. I know that I will always love Edward, but I'm not in love with him any longer.
My heart was so full of Alice, there wasn't room for anyone else. I think Edward felt the same towards Bella. He looked downright miserable to be here.
I remembered that first night I brought him here. He was so nervous and scared.
"Relax babe," I said as I pulled him between my legs and ran my hands up and down his back. He leaned into me and his smell assaulted my nose.
I instantly grew hard and pushed my body against his. My dick couldn't get enough of his body and he moaned into my mouth when I kissed him.
"Let's go dance." I said before I dragged him out onto the dance floor. Our bodies were hot and sweaty as we danced for what felt like hours.
Our hands roamed freely and our dicks assaulted the other as we bumped and grinded to the music.
Later that night, we fucked like we were rabbits. Neither of us able to get satisfied 'til the other was completely exhausted.
"Are you two going to dance, or what?" Emmett asked over the music.
"No, I don't think so." I yelled back.
Edward just shook his head in response.
Just then this huge man in leather pants and no shirt walked up behind Emmett and leaned down to speak in his ear. Emmett tensed and his eyes grew wide as Edward and I tried to hide our laughter.
This bull had a thing for Emmett apparently, as he'd already sent a few drinks to our table for him.
"No thank you. I'm not gay." Emmett all but screamed as about half of the room turned to see where the noise was coming from. Edward and I couldn't hold the guffaws in any longer and cracked the hell up.
The big guy sat down and introduced himself as Jake as he continued to make eyes at Em.
"What are you doing here if you aren't gay?" He questioned before throwing back a shot that had been sitting on the table.
"I brought them here to prove that they aren't gay anymore." Emmett started to slur as he spoke which told me we wouldn't be here much longer.
This Jake guy turned and eyed Edward and I before he nodded at each of us. "Why do they have to prove it to you? They don't look gay to me."
I tried to hold back more laughter. I mean really unless you are a flamer, which neither Edward and I ever were, how does one look or not look 'gay'?
"We're bisexual." Edward quickly announced to the table and left me shocked.
I turned and studied his face for a second. He shrugged and leaned over to speak in my ear.
"I'm not going to pretend to be something I'm not, even for this idiot. Besides, to deny it would cheapen what you and I had and I'm not going to do that. Not to you, not me and certainly not to Bella or Alice."
He sat back up and took a shot while I sat there, stunned.
If only he could have said something like that me years ago, things could have been so different.
I leaned over to him, "Thank you, Edward. I really appreciate that."
We both turned back to the table after sharing a quick moment where our eyes locked and what we had in the past flashed for us both. We knew that it was gone and over, but we'd always appreciate who and what we'd been for each other. We had both moved past that point where it was an issue between us, but for those around us who had been affected by the aftermath, we still obviously had a lot to prove.
Edward nudged me and said, "I think it's time to go." I had to agree as this Jake guy now had Emmett off the stool and had started to grind on Emmett from behind with his hands on Em's hips.
"Let's go big guy, the night out is over." Edward said and grabbed one of his biceps while I grabbed the other one.
"Hey, where do you two think you are taking him. He wanted to dance." Jake said as he stood to full height.
Shit, this guy had to be about six foot seven at least.
"Um, he has to get home to his very pregnant wife and he's apparently too drunk to remember that he's in a gay bar." I quipped as we started to drag a now nearly passed out Emmett through the bar.
We got him to the limo and agreed that we should probably take him home first since Rosalie wouldn't be able to get him into the house by herself.
I searched his back pockets for our phones and quickly called Alice to let her know of our plan. She agreed to meet us all there as they had just finished their meal.
"So, that was interesting." Edward said as we enjoyed the ride home while Emmett snored on the seat across from us.
"Yeah." I replied.
"I meant what I said, Jasper." Edward said as we made eye contact.
"I believe you, Edward." I said quietly.
It was quiet the rest of the way to Emmett and Rosalie's house.
I think we both knew that we'd always mean something to one another but that we had grown past the feelings that we thought we'd had, we'd moved on in our lives and become different people.
Personally, my life was better now than it had ever been and I loved it.
Until we stopped in the driveway and Rosalie opened the door screaming, "Emmett Arthur McCarty, get your drunk ass out of that limo right now."
None of us could contain our laughter now, even Alice and Bella were laughing as they stood behind Rosalie.
This was what life was about now.
It was perfect.
A/n: Ahhh...I love Emmett...and I really love making Jake gay;)
I know that some of you will be offended by the whole "gay" issue. But, let me get on my soapbox before you start reaming me out. I am bisexual. However, I don't live my life with a woman or a man for that fact. While I have enjoyed sex with a woman in the past, hell, I was even in a strictly fem/fem relationship for a while, it's not how I see my life living out. I am writing this from my own perspective, nothing else.
Just because I have had sexual relations with a female in the past doesn't mean I have to ever have it again in the future. There are times I crave it, yes, but it doesn't rule my life and it's a sexual desire not a must have.
I am in NO WAY attempting to belittle or demean anyone else's sexual desires or lifestyles. As I stated, I am simply writing this from MY OWN EXPERIENCE. Just because I classify myself as Bisexual doesn't mean that I can't live a completely heterosexual life for the rest of my days. I have and always will appreciate a woman's body.
Soapbox over.
Only one more regular chapter and then we start the Epilogues... wipes a tear...sighs.