Chapter 28
Sex and cops…
As Halloween approached so did our intended wedding date which brought along my nerves that apparently not only I noticed. "What's got you so wound up, baby?" Edward asked the weekend before the Halloween party at Jasper and Alice's house. We were laying snuggled in his chair as Fast Five played in the background. We were having a Fast marathon to finish off our lazy day inside since it was chilly and rainy outside.
I shrugged as I burrowed deeper into his chest. "I don't know." I admitted quietly, so softly I wasn't sure he heard me until he responded to me a few moments later.
"Is it the upcoming party, our trip in December, or just wedding jitters?" He asked as he cupped the side of my face gently.
I shrugged again. "I don't think it's wedding jitters because just the thought of marrying you puts a smile on my face."
"Baby, you can be happy about the wedding and still be nervous about it."
I nodded as his grip tightened around my waist. "I don't know. I've been thinking that maybe instead of going to Forks for Christmas after Virginia we can just head on down to Florida."
"Is that what you want to do? Go see Phil, Tarah, and Sarah? Go visit your mother's grave?" He asked quietly as he stroked my back gently.
I nodded against his chest. "Yeah, maybe. I have thought a lot about it ever since I got that letter in the mail. If she offered up her medical records to verify that she wasn't lying then how can I hold her medical condition against her? She did what she thought was best when she realized she had left me behind with Charlie."
"That's up to you, baby. I will support whatever decision you make, always."
"I know, Edward, and I love you for that. Maybe I can go make Phil and the girls' first Christmas without Renee a little better by listening to all their stories of her. I can see what kind of mother she was capable of being." I whispered quietly.
"Sounds like a plan, baby. I'm glad it wasn't wedding jitters, I can't wait to marry you in a month."
"Me either, it's like a dream come true." I whispered as I shifted on his lap so that I was straddling his hips with my knees pressing into the back of the chair.
He growled as he levered us up from the recliner so suddenly that I wrapped my arms and legs around his waist tightly. "I'll show you a dream come true." He said as he headed for the bedroom.
I laughed as he tossed us onto the bed in a flurry of arms and legs. "Please do." I begged as I sunk my fingers into his hair tugging his head down to mine.
I contacted Phil the next morning letting him know of our possible plans and he was elated to have both Edward and I.
Dear Phil,
How would you feel about Edward and I coming to visit for Christmas and New Year's? I have given it a lot of thought and initially I was very angry, as I explained in my last email, but now that I've had a bit of time to think things over I would like to come for a visit. This is the first Christmas and New Year's for Tarah and Sarah without their mother and maybe I can help them deal with that by listening to their stories of our mother and their childhood. Let me know if you are okay with us visiting.
Thanks, Bella
It was less than ten minutes later that I got a response from Phil so I quickly opened it, anxious to get our plans finalized so we could tell our parents.
Dear Bella,
The girls and I would love to have both you and Edward here for the holidays. I have watched you grow up through photographs so it would be nice to put an actual person to the pictures. Renee has always showed the pictures she got from your father to me and the girls and we would sit and come up with a scenario that would go with the pictures. I'm sure they would love to regal you with stories if you will do the same. You and Edward are more than welcome to stay here. I can ask the girls to sleep together so you can have one of their rooms during your stay.
Sincerely,
Phil, Tarah, and Sarah
After I got the 'okay' email from Phil I set about making our travel plans for the Christmas holidays. I would be on Christmas vacation from December 12th to January 6th so we could leave for Virginia after my last final on the 12th and stay in Virginia until the 22nd before going on down to Florida. I had played with the idea of renting a car for the trips south but when I realized how long the drives would be versus the flights I went with us flying down and just renting a car when we got in each state. I also rented us a hotel room for Florida so that we wouldn't put anybody out of their beds for the holidays and also so that we could have a place to escape to.
"Well that's all set." I told Edward as I closed the lid on my computer sliding it off my lap.
He smiled at me as he tapped on his computer before pulling his headphones off setting them aside. "Are we driving or flying?" He asked opening his arms for me.
I scrunched my nose up. "Flying. It's over a nine hour drive just to Virginia." I told him as I slipped off the couch and into his lap in his chair.
He laughed as he pulled me close. "Flying it is, then. Hotel in Florida or staying with Phil and the twins?"
I groaned as I burrowed into his chest. "He said he could put one of the girls in with the other and we could have their room but I booked us a hotel suite for our stay."
"Good choice. I'm sure this trip is going to be hard on all of you but it would be even worse if everybody didn't have a place that they could let off some steam. Have you decided on our costumes for the Halloween party yet?"
"I've narrowed it down to either Fred and Wilma Flintstone or Popeye and Olive Oyl. Do you have a preference?" I asked him sweetly.
He laughed. "So basically I get a choice to wear either a dress or a pair of jeans? Can I wear shorts underneath Fred's 'dress'?" He asked using his fingers for quotation marks.
Honestly I could care less if he wore jeans or shorts as long as he was comfortable enough to have a good time. "I don't care, babe, that's up to you."
"Okay, I think Fred and Wilma are sexier than Popeye and Olive Oyl. Are you okay being Wilma to my Fred?"
I nodded. "Yeah that's fine but we need to go get our costumes today before we can't find them and are stuck with something else. Feel like getting out today?"
"That's fine by me. Give me half an hour to finish up this section and then we can go, okay?" He said as he kissed me on the side of the head.
"Okay. Love you, handsome." I said as I pecked his lips gently.
"Love you too, beautiful." He said as he helped me from his lap.
*~*~*~*J2FT1*~*~*~*
Searching for our costumes was a whole new experience that would forever be cemented in my memories and I couldn't resist taking pictures for when our memories began to wane. Seeing Edward wearing the orange and black Flintstone dress with no shoes was a sight to be seen. "How sexy is this?" Edward asked as he stepped through the dressing room curtains with a flourish.
I had to slap my hand over my mouth to keep my giggles from coming out in the middle of the fairly packed shop.
"Wow, Edward, that is some outfit!" Emmett said as he spotted Edward 'modeling' the Fred Flintstone costume.
Edward shot a glare at him which caused him to shut his trap because he was going as the lamb to Rosalie's Mary. "You've got no room to talk, lamb chop." Edward retorted causing us all to laugh so loudly the sales clerk glared at us.
"Behave you two." Rosalie said as she walked out in her shepherdess dress.
I got my 'Wilma' outfit which earned a whistle and wolfish grin from Edward when I let him have a small preview of it.
The outfits sat in our closet until the night of the party when we slipped into them. Edward had been adamant that he be able to wear his regular shorts or at least a pair of basketball shorts underneath the Fred outfit which was fine because his man parts were for my eyes only. "You ready?" I called into the bedroom as I slipped my last earring into place completing the outfit.
"Yep, let's go do this thing. Are Rose and Em meeting us there or what?"
"Meeting us there." I told him as I flipped off the bathroom light meeting him in the bedroom. "You look pretty amazing there, handsome."
He wiggled his eyebrows at me in an exaggerated manner which caused me to laugh. "You are the one that looks amazing. You make Wilma look good."
I just laughed as I slipped my feet into my flat sandals. Edward had opted to go with flip flops instead of going barefoot while I had chosen a pair of simple white sandals to go with my miniscule dress. "Thanks, babe." I told him as I kissed him gently on the cheek.
"My pleasure." He said as he ran his finger across the bare skin at my waist which caused me to shiver in anticipation. "It can be your pleasure to, you know?"
I nodded as I shoved him away. "You can play with me after the party. This is a big step for all of us." I reminded him gently.
He groaned and nodded as he held my jacket out for me to slip into because it was Rhode Island and the end of October which did not go well with small or drafty outfits. "I know and I think it will be fun, at least the alcohol may numb some of the awkwardness." Edward said as he tugged on his own jacket.
Walking into Alice and Jasper's house almost an hour later was a humbling experience. They had bought a fixer up almost two months ago with their inheritances and had pretty much renovated the whole thing so that they could sell it and make a profit when they both got out of college and settled somewhere closer to Washington. Apparently they got bit by the renovation bug while they helped all of us redo Charlie's attic this past summer and it looked amazing. "Bella! Edward!" Alice squealed from somewhere on the other side of the sea of bodies that were in their living room.
"Alice! Where are you?" I called back as we all pushed through the bodies that were dancing to the music coming from everywhere it seemed like.
"I'm right here!" She chirped as she popped up in front of us suddenly. "Wow, Bella, you look amazing!" She said as she gave me a gentle hug.
I smiled as I assessed her outfit while she ribbed Edward for his dress and Emmett for being a head to toe lamb. "Are you catwoman?" I asked as I flicked her tail that I caught sight of when she gave Rose a hug.
She nodded. "Yep, and Jazzy is Superman." She said with a light bounce in her step.
"Jasper's wearing tights?" Emmett asked suddenly with a smile on his face replacing the frown he had been carrying around.
"Yep, he sure is. Come on, he's in the kitchen playing bartender at the moment." She said turning around and leading us further into the house.
She sashayed up to Jasper as he handed a cup to a sexy nurse. "Nice outfit there, Jasper." Edward said slinging his arm around my shoulder.
"Shut up, Edward. At least I'm not wearing a dress." Jasper said giving Edward a light nudge in the arm. "You look good, Bells. Excited about the wedding in a few weeks?" He asked changing the subject because it seemed like none of the guys were exactly wearing manly outfits.
We stood around the kitchen chatting about kids, our upcoming wedding, the renovations, our upcoming Christmas vacation plans, and everything else we could think of until the urge to dance took us all over and we headed back into the living room. "Eddie, is that you?" A woman asked from beside where we were dancing. I felt Edward tense up in my arms because we were dancing so closely together. I turned in his arms to face the voice that had spoken and came face to face with a short woman with cropped blonde hair and bigger boobs than I had ever in my life seen before. She had to be shorter than Alice and had bigger boobs than Rosalie, Alice, and I put together.
"Hi Jane." Edward said in a cool voice as he held firmly onto me. "Nice to see you again. Jane this is my fiancée Bella. This is really awkward but this is my ex-girlfriend, Jane." He said doing the introductions that were indeed awkward.
I watched as Jane digested Edward's introduction. Her eyes went kind of big and her jaw dropped a little bit. "Fiancée, huh? When's the big day?" She asked quietly.
I stepped in because I didn't want people, beside the few that were gonna be there, to know our exact wedding date. "Shortly after Thanksgiving." I told her sweetly as I held on to Edward's waist tightly.
"That's soon then. Congratulations. He's a great catch." She said with an odd twinkle in her eye and an equally odd tone in her voice.
I nodded. "He is. I've known him most of my life, so you don't have to tell me what a great catch he is." I told her as I laid my head against Edward's shoulder as he placed a kiss to the top of my head.
"You're the one that he couldn't have?" She asked in a shocked voice.
"Yep, I finally realized what I was missing." I told her as I tipped my face up wanting a kiss from my soul mate.
She nodded seemingly defeated. "That's great. Congratulations, again." She said with a defeated nod before turning around and walking off.
"Beautifully handled, baby. She can be a little crazy when she doesn't get her way." Edward said with a shake of his head almost as if shaking it clear of an unwanted memory.
I pulled back a little bit. "Was that one of the few girlfriends you ever had?" I asked curiously.
He smiled sheepishly and nodded. "Yeah, I never expected to see her again." He said yet again shaking his head.
"I figured as much. She has some amazing assets." I told him cheekily.
He tugged me against him playfully kissing me gently on the lips. "Those must be recently purchased because she didn't have those when we were together. She was a sweet farm girl from Kansas who missed her family as much as I missed mine." He said sweetly.
I pushed back from his chest and glared at him playfully. "So you were checking out said assets, huh?"
He just laughed tugging me back into his arms. "They were kind of hard to miss and your assets are the only ones I'm interested in checking out these days. You are killing me with the little innocent act while wearing this provocative outfit." He said pressing his hips against mine.
My eyes went large at the feeling of his prominent erection. "Wow, I had no idea." I breathed softly as I slid one of my hands around his neck while the other slid lower between our bodies until I cupped his erection in my palm. His basketball shorts and the Fred costume offered very little resistance to his persistence. "You ready to get out of here?" I whispered as I rubbed my palm over his hardness.
He nodded as his eyes became smoldering with intense passion. "Yes."
We quickly grabbed our jackets from Jasper and Alice's guest bedroom and made a beeline for the front door. We hurried quickly to Edward's Volvo hand in hand laughing the whole way.
"You guys leaving already?"
We both froze mid step and Edward pulled me back against his chest as we whirled to face the person who spoke to us. "Jesus, Jasper, you scared the daylights out of me." I said as I set eyes on the blue and red superman costume he had on.
He held his hands up in apology as he stepped onto the stepping stones and into the light of the yard. "Sorry, I was just taking a breather from all the sexual energy in the house." He said shaking his head.
I looked guiltily at Edward as he pressed his hips against mine.
"Oh not you guys too." Jasper groaned shaking his head at us.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Sorry Jazz."
He shook his head again. "Don't apologize, I'm happy for you two. Get out of here and go defile something." He said just as I spotted Alice heading our way.
"Jazzy, what are you doing out here?"
Edward shook hands with Jasper but kept his lower half hidden. "It was fun, brother, you two enjoy the rest of your party." He said before tugging me over to the car helping me into the passenger seat. We had each only had one beer and that was almost two hours and many sweaty dances ago.
I got bored as Edward drove back towards our apartment so my hands started having a mind of their own and satisfying my boredom. "Isabella, what are you doing?" Edward asked as I unclipped my seatbelt turning sideways in my seat.
I just smiled at him as I placed my right hand on his thigh and my left on his shoulder. "Nothing." I said cheekily as I leaned over the console placing an open mouthed kiss against the side of his neck causing him to tense up and groan.
"I'm trying to get us home safely but I can't concentrate with you touching me…." He whispered trailing off as my hand slid under the edge of the Fred costume dancing my fingers lightly up his thigh getting closer and closer to his prominent erection. "…like that." He finished just as I heard him sigh and flip the blinker on.
Nothing was going to deter me from my mission. I wanted him and I couldn't wait until we got home. Just thinking about his erection rubbing up against me at the party has my tiny thong soaked through and through. I could just imagine what his face would look like when he saw how tiny my undergarments were considering I never wore thongs because I didn't like them. "I trust you." I breathed into his ear before nipping it lightly as my right hand dipped under the waistband of his basketball shorts and boxer briefs.
I wasn't aware of my surrounding but the sudden jolt of the car coming to a stop caused me to open my eyes and meet his. "You drive me crazy." He said shoving the car into park before sinking his fingers into my hair tugging my lips to meet his. "I love you." He whispered when we broke for air.
I smirked at him as I reached over him searching for the lever to the seat to send him backwards. "Ditto, my love, ditto." I whispered as I crawled over his now sprawled out body. I tugged his 'dress' upwards and his shorts downward to free his erection that I was craving beyond belief. "Ready?" I asked him as I wrapped my hands around him causing him to groan.
"We have to be quick." He said as he tugged my dress up groaning at my miniscule white lace thong. "Which shouldn't be a problem." He said as he tugged me into place slamming me down onto him causing us both to groan aloud.
I leaned forward gripping his hair tightly in my hands as I moved my lower body quickly over his. "I needed this. God, I wanted you so badly." I whispered against his lips as I rotated my hips causing him to buck up into me.
"Ditto, baby, ditto." He said as he pushed me until I was sitting up. I felt him shifting underneath me and suddenly felt his knees and legs against my back. "Ready?" He asked as he pressed his feet into the seat raising his hips lightly. "Hands on the roof so I don't hurt your head like last time."
I nodded putting my hands on the roof above my head. "God, am I ever." I said as he started pounding into me making my blood boil over and erupt into fireworks.
After a few frantic minutes I felt him stiffen beneath me as he tugged me back down over him. "Jesus, Bella." He panted once he regained use of his voice.
I just chuckled as I kissed his throat. I wasn't capable of speaking just yet.
We lay there for a few minutes until blue and red lights interrupted our after love making glow. "Oh my God!" I screeched as I scrambled back into my seat tugging my dress down as Edward frantically straightened his seat and clothes. Luckily we were decent enough when the officer tapped on the window. Edward looked at me with a mock irritated look as he rolled down the window.
"Evening, officer." Edward said politely as I opened the glove compartment searching for the proof of insurance and registration I knew the officer was going to ask for.
"Evening. Everything okay, here?" He asked as he peered into the car. "Can I see your license, insurance, and registration please?"
We both nodded as I handed him the insurance card and registration slip. "I was feeling a little nauseous so we pulled over in case I needed to throw up." I told him with a sincere look on my face.
"Oh, well I hope you get to feeling better, ma'am." He said as Edward handed him both of our licenses that were stowed in his wallet. "I'm just gonna go run these real quick."
"Okay." Edward and I both said as the cop left to go back to his car. "Quick thinking there, Isabella." Edward said as he reached over stroking my face softly. "I do love you."
I just smiled as I leaned onto his touch. "I love you too. From now until forever."
"Absolutely." He said as the officer appeared back at the window handing Edward back all of his paperwork.
"You both have an impeccable driving record." He said looking between us both.
I chuckled. "That's the hazards of being a sheriff's daughter." I told the cop sweetly.
He nodded in understanding. "I wish all children would think like that. I am going to let you off with a warning since I don't smell alcohol on you or in the car. It is illegal to park idling on the shoulder of the road, though. Ma'am hope you get to feeling much better and sir take good care of her. You two have a great night."
"Thank you, sir. You have a goodnight too." Edward said shaking the cop's hand before rolling up the window easing back onto the road.
I smiled as I fastened my seatbelt back into place. "That would have been awkward explaining to Charlie." I told him with a huge smile on my face.
"No worse than explaining why Jasper and I were arguing over you so loudly that he was called to intervene."
I sighed leaning my head over on his shoulder. "I bet. Thank you for standing up for me even though I had no clue about it until last Christmas." I said softly.
"That's my job, baby. Always has been and always will be." He said just as softly as he placed a sweet kiss to the top of my head.
