Chapter Thirty-six: Going Home

AN: Most of this is pure fluff, but I wanted to get them out of the woods for the moment. Hope you enjoy the end of the chapter. I don't know when I'll get a chance to write more, I've got a couple of parties to go too. I have entirely too many friends' whose birthday is this month.

Characters belong to Stepenie Meyers

BPOV

Dreaming, I must be dreaming. This was a nightmare. Why were all these girls standing here? We'd just gotten back from camping and were walking back to the boy's house when I saw several girls standing outside. I recognized three of them, the rest I was sure I'd never seen before. They looked angry. At me.

The leader was the strawberry blonde Tanya. She said "So Edward, are you tired of this little girl yet? Look around, you have had all of us and could still have us. All you have to do is let that girl go, let her be another one of your fuck buddies. See what you are missing?" She gestured about all of them and leaning forward showed off her cleavage.

Turning my face to Edward I watched his own turn angry. "Leave me and Bella alone. I found the person I want. Now do yourselves a favor and do the same." That wasn't the response I expected from him, especially when this was a dream. Surely he'd leave me for them. When I looked back at the other girls they all looked furious.

Then I noticed they all turned into bright blue flames that never consumed them as they came closer to me. I could smell the smoke coming off of them. No wait… that smoke was too strong a smell for a dream. Why was my body shaking?

"Bella, Bella, wake up. You need to wake up now." Edward was practically yelling at me. He couldn't be telling me to wake up, he was right here with me. "I'm serious Bella, get up." Then I felt my body being turned over and hit the floor. That woke me up powerfully.

"What? What's going on, Edward?" I asked. Then I could smell it, the smoke from my dream wasn't a dream.

Edward went to our bag and hurriedly threw clothes at me pulling his own on. He walked out of the tent first and when I followed I saw his family outside looking around. They couldn't see the fire, but we could all smell the smoke. Then we saw a flash of lightening and the sky lit up. The fire was off in the distance and looked like someone was trying to put it out, but it was still in the same forest we were in.

"Start packing up your stuff, quickly. We can't leave any traces of being here, so make sure you get everything before we leave." Emmett was commanding. "Hurry."

Breaking everything down and repacking it in the jeep didn't take very long, but in our hurry none of it was organized. It looked like we were leaving with more stuff than we came with.

Emmett scanned the campsite thoroughly before we all climbed in the jeep and took off. "Well, I guess our trip was cut short. Hope you all got some sleep. Aren't you glad I told you to go to bed early?" He said to us, I swear I could see him smirking at me in the rearview mirror.

I'd forgotten about the rough ride up here and going back was not helping, I felt nauseous. My ass that was starting to feel better hurt every time we hit a bump. I know I couldn't keep the pain off my face. I saw Edward take off his harness and turn around searching through our stuff, coming up with a blanket. He folded this and took the harness off me and pushed it under my ass before putting his own harness back on. It was a relief to my ass, but still wasn't comfortable. I didn't think I would have made an hour of sitting down on the rough dirt road otherwise.

Putting my own harness back on I whispered "Thank you."

He smiled at me and said "Finally, a real thank you." I rolled my eyes at that probably ruining it.

We were all yawning not quite awake, but who could sleep on this road? It was hard to just stay seated.

"Hey Jasper can you turn on some music? Please none of that rap crap that Emmett likes, it's too early in the morning for me to deal with that." Alice told Jasper. I wondered what time in the morning it was.

Jasper turned the music on and immediately started singing a song I'd never heard. Big surprise there, most of the songs they listened to I'd never heard. I think I liked Jasper's voice over the guy that was singing, even though both of them had sort of raspy voices.

"Alice, who is this?" I whispered to her, trying not to interrupt.

"Marc Broussard's song called Home. Isn't it great?" She asked me, smiling. I got the feeling she liked Jasper singing this song more than I did.

"Yeah it's a good song." I replied back and most of all it wasn't irritating. I was with Alice; it was too early in the morning for some music.

"Oh man, now I'm hungry" I heard Alice say. What? Where did that come from? It seemed completely random. "Guess where I wanna go, I'll give you three chances."

Jasper laughed at her "I know where. Voodoo donuts."

Alice said "Right on the first try. How'd you know?"

Jasper turned his head and looked at us, "Because that song says something about New Orleans and voodoo is common there and then I thought Alice is always hungry, so where would her brain go? That's what I came up with." Wow, I don't think I would've gone down that route to figure Alice out.

She clapped her hands and said "Yep that's what I want. I need me some sugar." I rolled my eyes at her. This girl did not need sugar. She already acted like she was on speed half the time.

I didn't think I'd be able to eat that, I wished they'd stop talking about food before I threw up. I was sure Emmett wouldn't appreciate it and neither would Rosalie being directly in front of me.

"Okay guys stop talking about food now, you are making me hungry. We've got a while before we even get out of this forest and I need gas before getting back to town." Emmett said. Thank you for ending the food conversation.

Finally we got to smoother road and that was such a relief I started to relax as the nausea went away. I felt eyes looking closely at me. Facing Edward he said "Do you feel better now? You were looking green." I wondered how long he'd watched me look like that.

"Yeah I'm better." I told him and reached out a hand to his. I would've kissed him, but wasn't sure I was that much better yet. I was certain throwing up on him would've killed the mood permanently.

Emmett pulled into a truck stop as it was the only place with gas open at this hour. Emmett got out and told the attendant how much gas he wanted as the man pumped the gas for us. I didn't think I'd ever get used to that. We pumped our own gas in Washington and I'm sure in most other states as well, if not all of them.

"Edward let's get out, I need to stretch my legs and get off my butt." I told him trying to shove him out the door. All of us got out and walked around a while.

I saw a man and woman approach the attendant. They both looked homeless and in desperate need of a shower. The only reason I didn't think they were is that both of them had clothes and camping gear of quality origin. They must have been hiking up the coast. I knew some people did that here. The man asked "Do you have showers here?"

The attendant answered "Yeah, they are nine dollars each if you aren't buying fuel." Which clearly they weren't.

The man and woman both flashed brilliant white smiles and thanked him walking into the truck stop. Yeah definitely not homeless, but I wondered how long they'd been out there.

"Alright everyone back in the jeep. Let's go, let's go." Emmett said impatiently. I groaned, I didn't want to sit back down, but got in anyway.

"Emmett don't forget Voodoo donuts. I'm starving." I heard Alice say from beside me.

"How could I forget? I'm hungry too." He said back. "The original one, right?" He asked her.

"Of course." Alice said "Besides I think it's the only one open at this hour, it's three-thirty in the morning." No wonder I was tired. I was a little worried what these people were going to be like after consuming that much sugar and lack of sleep on top of it.

Pulling up as close as we could get to the donut shop, it looked more like a nightclub from the outside. The place was crowded. When we walked in, I was overwhelmed. I had no idea what to expect, this wasn't a normal donut shop. "Alice what the hell am I supposed to get here? I don't even know what most of this stuff is." I asked her.

She grinned at me and said "Don't worry about it, I'll order for you." When she came back to me I had to laugh. The donut looked just like a voodoo doll, complete with a pin it's stomach, I think the pin was a pretzel.

"So who is that going to be?" Edward asked me. "I hope it's not me."

"At the current moment, I think this is gonna be Emmett." At that I bit his head off.

Edward laughed and said "Yeah he does deserve that."

I looked around the shop, you could get married here it said. Who the hell would want too? That seemed insane.

Leaving the place I noticed Alice dancing around, now completely awake. Yikes! Did I want to sit next to her? Doing it anyway, I regretted it. She talked and talked and talked. No one else could even answer her. I could feel Edward trying to get my attention on the other side with his hand on my thigh, but Alice was insistent. I couldn't look away from her or she'd constantly poke me trying to get my attention. She was worse than a kid.

Getting back to the guy's house we got out and instead of unpacking stumbled to the house exhausted. I pulled Edward's face down to mine, feeling the stubble there from our isolation. Kissing his soft lips gently first, I then turned to walk across the street, back to my dorm.

"Where do you think you're going?" I heard Edward ask me as his arm snaked around my waist and held me tight to him.

"My room. I need a hot shower and a soft bed." I replied. I wasn't even sure I could put one foot in front of the other or if I'd make it back to my dorm. I didn't want to go back to their house, I was afraid if I did Edward would feel like I was suffocating him.

He sighed and said "Bella, we have both of those things here. Don't leave now."

Defeated I said "Okay." I was sure I needed real sleep and I probably wouldn't get it here.

Going inside the house and up the stairs I wasn't sure if I needed sleep or a shower more. Smelling myself, I decided a shower. We all smelled like smoke, I knew I wouldn't sleep with that smell.

Edward shut the door behind us. "Shower first?" He asked me. I nodded.

Removing our own clothes we walked into the bathroom. I was so tired. I could barely keep my eyes open. Stepping into the shower, Edward turned the warm water on. My stuff was still here that Alice had left. Running water over each of our bodies first, I picked up my shampoo bottle. I nearly dropped the thing as my eyes kept closing. I wanted to stay awake. Who could sleep when Edward was naked in front of them? He took the bottle from my hands and washed my hair for me. It felt so much like a massage, I think I did fall asleep standing up.

Soapy hands went over the rest of my body, waking me back up. It sent a thrill through me as I was being touched everywhere. Opening my eyes his looked amused. "I didn't think you were ever going to wake up Bella." He said.

I rubbed my hands over my eyes trying to remove the grit and fully wake up. Edward removed them from my face and kissed my lips thoroughly. That woke me up. I took the soap from him and said "Turn around." When he did I started washing his shoulders, back, butt, legs before stepping close to him and put my head on his shoulder blade. Moving my arms around him I washed his arms and chest before moving lower. When I touched him there he spun around to face me and I nearly lost my balance, surprised. Catching me, he looked intensely into my eyes and his lips crashed into mine. He pulled my body closer to his, so that I felt all of him.

EPOV

How did I get so lucky to have this beautiful girl in my shower with me? I never thought someone like her would want to be with someone like me. I was just too dirty. Which is what made her run from me in the first place. I knew it couldn't be easy for her to feel like she's in competition with other girls. Silly girl, there is no competition.

I heard her moan as my lips found the soft skin of her neck. Both hands on her back I brought one in front of us to caress her breast and I heard a guttural moan from Bella. I tried not to laugh at the noise she made. It made me feel good to know I could make her do that. "Bella, I love the noise you make when I touch you." I told her. When I said that I could feel her get even wetter below as I was so close to her. Any closer and I'd be in her. This was probably not a good position to be in at the moment so I pulled back and heard her protest.

Nuzzling her breasts I kissed all around them, biding my time until I got to her nipples. Bringing both hands forward I went over the nipples with my thumbs watching them harden beneath them. I moved my lips over them and sucked them softly, before licking them. Bella gasped and her legs opened wider for me.

Kissing down her stomach I crouched down and started sucking her thighs before going to her wet sex. I licked her core there making her moan louder. Her hands made it to my hair like usual to pull me closer to her. Did she have shampoo in them? She was trying to wash my hair now? She was crazy sometimes, but she was my crazy.

Bella tasted so good, I could never get enough of her. I had no idea what I'd been missing with the other girls. I licked her inside and started tonguing her wet sex. I brought one hand to rub her core while the other held her thigh bringing her close to me.

I didn't let her climax yet and instead stood up. Rinsing my body under the shower, I then turned her so she could do the same. I wanted to have sex in the shower eventually, but her balance wasn't good and if I picked her up I knew I'd be slamming her ass into the tile, which I knew she couldn't handle right now. I had another idea anyway.

Grabbing a towel I patted her body down, then my own. Helping Bella out of the shower, she looked a little confused. I then grabbed a couple of thick towels and folding them I laid them on the bathroom counter. Picking Bella up I placed her on them. Yeah this was good. Standing in front of Bella I could see her from the front and also the back with the mirror behind her.

I kissed her mouth again and grabbing a condom out of one of the drawers there I rolled it over me. Pulling her hips close to me so she was on the edge of the counter I pushed into her making her cry out. Thrusting inside her I watched as her head tilted back and her breathing became ragged. Leaning down I kissed her throat sucking the skin there.

Bella leaned her body back even further and shoved her breasts in my face. I kissed each one, nibbling the nipples with my teeth lightly there. She leaned back on her elbows and pulled her feet up to edge of the counter so she was exposing more of herself to me. Even in this position she was still tight. "Fuck, Edward you feel so good." Bella whispered hoarsely.

Continuing my thrusts inside her I saw one of her hands move to her core and watched her rub it. For some reason that made me more turned on. As her hand sped up I did the same with my thrusting until we both came.

We were both sweaty and exhausted as I leaned down to her and kissed her lips pushing my tongue between them as they parted for me. Her hands moved around my neck and her lips found my shoulder sucking the muscle there.

Completely pulling out of her I threw the condom away. Bella still hadn't moved. She looked on the verge of sleep again. Picking her up I carried her to my bed and pulled the covers down.

Laying her down I looked at her wondering how I could be so lucky before crawling in beside her. Wrapping my arms around her I pulled her close to me, spooning her. Kissing her neck and shoulder I could hear her even breathing that told me she was asleep. Whispering in her ear I told her "Bella, I love you." I did love her more than anyone else. Reaching down I pulled the covers back up over us and drifted off into peaceful sleep.

AN: This morning I woke up to a fire-truck right outside my bedroom. I wanted to laugh since I started writing this story last night and I mentioned fire. I have no idea why they were here though. No fires or accidents or anything else as far as I can tell.

That's a good song if you don't know it. The reason I didn't put the lyrics here is because I didn't think they added anything to the chapter.

Yes, Voodoo Donuts is a real place in Portland. You can google it. They've got some crazy combinations of things. Not a place you'd want to eat at everyday though.