Hey every one! 2:30 am on a school night, and it's hell week for my play, typos are my fault sry! This one goes to Irritable Grizzzly (she knows why)
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"Bella why-" Edward began when we pulled apart, but I silenced him, holding a finger to his lips.
"Because I wanted this moment to be perfect, I would never forgive myself if I gave up even one moment of this, of us, for a puerile bet, which I might not even lose, Alice looked pretty weak down there." I said with a smile, "Edward, I want to be with you in every possible way, that's all that matters to me." At this his lips curled up into a smile under my fingers.
"Well, what's done is done." He said taking my fingers from his lips and pressing a kiss to the inside of my palm. He inhaled deeply, his eyes drifting close. When they opened he just looked at me before pulling me into him and kissing me. I could feel it in my toes as I kissed him back, everything we had missed out on in the past week was made up in that one kiss. Finally we pulled apart, or foreheads resting on the others, eyes closed as we listened to the rapid breaths we were both taking. I smiled, as I opened my eyes to find him watching me,
"I love you." Edward whispered.
"And I you." I whispered back.
"Ready to tell them you caved?" He asked with a smirk as he leaned back.
"Hey, this is all your fault." I said with a smile.
"My fault?" He asked with a laugh, I nodded.
"How?"
"Well, you brought me up here, alone, with the view, and the fire works, and the close proximity, and the perfection. This lands in your lap buddy." I said poking a playfully accusatory finger into his chest.
"If it means I can do this," He took my hand from his chest and pulled me in yet again,
"Whenever I want, than I will be more that will to abide by your reasoning."
"So, do we have to go down just yet?" I asked, pushing out my lower lip a little bit and pouting slightly. He laughed before pulling me into him for a hug.
"Of course not my Bella."
We laid down on the roof for a while, watching the stars above until we heard Esme call us for dessert.
"I don't want to go." I said as I snuggled myself further into his side.
"Hey, I made that dessert down there." He said, I sat up looking down at him,
"What did you make?" I asked,
"Chocolate soufflé." He said nonchalantly, as if it were the same as whipping up a pb+j.
"You never cease to amazing me Mr. Cullen." I said with a smile. He grinned pushing himself up on his elbows.
"Good." He said before leaning forward and pressing a soft kiss to my lips.
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"Oh my God!" Rosalie said dumbfounded as Edward and I walked back outside together.
"Rosalie Hale, I know we taught you better than to take the Lord's name in vain." Margaret scolded. She and Esme were seated in their spots at the table, Carlisle, Charlie, and Charles were no where to be found.
"She kissed him!" Jasper, Alice, Rosalie and Emmett all stared at me wide eyed. While Esme and Margaret were smiling at each other knowingly.
"That's not all she did I bet." Emmett laughed. I felt my cheeks darken even though we hadn't actually done anything.
"Leave the poor girl alone Emmett," Esme scolded coming to my rescue, "She's gone through enough hasn't she?"
"It wasn't that bad." Emmett said rolling his eyes.
"Oh please, don't act like I don't know about your and Rosalie's hands on relationship, you two couldn't last a day, let alone a week." Esme scoffed, Emmett in order to regain his pride
"Hey ma, wanna bet?"
"No!" Rosalie, Edward, and I shouted at once. Emmett just grinned.
"You guys go and grab your dessert. Also, there is heavy cream, chocolate sauce and strawberries in the fridge if you guys want to do whip cream and toppings as well. Margaret and I will go get the boys." Esme suggested as she and Margaret got up and headed inside.
"Come on kiddleywinks, you heard the woman." Alice said jumping up from the table and dragging Jasper into the house with her. Rosalie, Emmett, Edward and I followed her in.
"Rose, Bella and I can make the whip cream, you guys can slice the strawberries." Alice instructed grabbing an oversized bowl and the egg beaters while Rosalie grabbed the sugar and I got the heavy cream.
"But I love making whipped cream." Emmett whined.
"Tough. Now grab a knife and start slicing." Alice said forcefully, Emmett pouted but joined his brothers.
A few minutes in I felt something thwack against the skin of my neck, I reached up to pull a piece of strawberry off my skin.
"Hey!" I said turning to the boys, Emmett was smiling sheepishly, Edward was biting back a grin and Jasper just continued slicing.
"Sorry I was aiming for Alice." Emmett apologized with a smile. Alice glared at him and we all turned back to our tasks. Then out of nowhere, Alice picked up the spoon and flung a hunk of whipped cream at the boys. Edward and Jasper dove out of the way, causing the whipped cream to splatter all over the cabinet behind them and on Emmett who had not been quick enough.
"Why you evil little pixie!" Emmett said walking over to her, a menacing look on his face, holding a spoonful of chocolate sauce they had also been working on. At the last moment, Rosalie stepped in front of Alice, knowing Emmett wouldn't dream of attacking her, only her movements were to late and Emmett didn't have time to stop. A dollop of chocolate sauce landed right on her hair line and dribbled down the front of her face. The entire kitchen froze. Not thinking of anything other than defending Rosalie, while everyone was awaiting her reaction, I dumped my hand in the bowl of whipped cream.
"Hey Emmett!" I called before hurling a glob of cream at him, unfortunately he ducked, and my well aimed attack soared past him to cream an unsuspecting Edward in the neck. I clapped my clean hand over my mouth in shock and I went over to him,
"Edward, I'm-" Before I could get out an apology a handful of chopped strawberries were being squashed into my hair. My jaw dropped. I took my still whipped cream covered hand and without thinking I rubbed it right into his hair. I heard Alice and Rosalie crack up with laughter behind me. Edward glared down at me, until he glanced over my shoulder and smirked
"Jasper, don't you dare!" Alice warned, I spun around to see Jasper coming at me with the bottle of chocolate sauce,
"No!" I squealed, but Edward's arms locked around me while his partner squirted the bottle of chocolate sauce at me, chocolate dripping down my front.
"Oh, it's on." Alice said from behind me, and so began the war. Chocolate sauce, whipped cream and strawberries began flying through the air. From what I could tell, it was Alice Rosalie and I against Edward, Emmett and Jasper. The girls on one side of the island and the boys on the other. I looked over at my team mates. Each was covered in chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and chunks of strawberries. Alice was clutching the bowl of whipped cream as Rosalie and I reached in and lobbed scoops of it across the kitchen to the boys side. They retaliated with chocolate sauce and bits of red fruit.
"Kids is everything-" Esme started to ask as she entered the kitchen with Margaret, before freezing in her track to view the shambled state of her kitchen. We all froze as we watched her jaw dropped a little. I could only imagine what she was seeing, three crouching boys on one end of the island and three pairs of girl's eyes on the other end peeking out over the countertop. All of this in the middle of her kitchen once spotless kitchen, which was now covered in multiple layers of syrupy filth.
"Front and center now!" We all stood up to gather in front of a fuming Esme.
"Just out of curiosity, who will be cleaning this up?" She asked eyeing us.
"We will." We answered collectively.
"Good answer." She said before carefully crossing the kitchen to grab the untouched soufflé and plates, turning to us,
"Exactly as you found it." She said before leaving with Margaret. Once she was gone we all looked at each other, and we burst out laughing, knowing exactly what everyone else was thinking, Let's do that again.
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July passed by quickly and uneventfully, filled with days of relaxing on the beach with Edward and everyone else, just lazy peaceful days, with the exception of the night Carlisle and Esme were away and the power went out at the Cullen's.
Flashback:
A flash of lightening went off and I jumped slightly.
"Scared Bella?" Emmett asked with a smile.
"No." I lied, although I knew he knew I was lying.
"Good, so then we can tell ghost stories." He said, but before I could protest, he began one about a monster out in the middle of nowhere and how he would lure young men and women out to his estate by putting boobie traps out on the road. As the story progressed I huddled myself deeper into Edward's side.
"They looked around quietly, desperately searching for a way out, when all of a sudden, AHHH!" Emmett yelled to give the story more umph, only, as he did the power went out, causing me to let out a blood curdling scream.
"Jesus Christ! What was that?" I heard Emmett ask.
"Bella." Jasper answered, and even in the dark I could tell he was smirking.
"Bella, are you all right?" Edward's concerned voice drifted through the darkness.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, just a little scared is all."
"A little?" I heard Emmett asked sarcastically.
"Come on guys, knock it off, Emmett just go and get the flashlights." Alice's voice rang out. I heard Emmett stand up and my eyes began to adjust. I could just make out the outline of things when Emmett flicked on the flash light, which happened to be one of the megawatt ones used by firefighters.
"Now why don't you guys gather up some candles while I see what I can do about the power." He said as he passed Edward the second flashlight. We managed to find a decent amount of candles and had begun lighting them when Emmett came back.
"No luck, everywhere is out from the looks of it." He told us all.
"Oh well, I think we're good here. Care to lend a hand, we just have a few more to go." Alice asked. Emmett took a patch of matches and began lighting the leftover candles. I wasn't paying complete attention and I was still a little shaken by the storm, so when I backed into something rather large I let out another scream.
"Okay, that's it, we need to loosen Bella up." Emmett said pointing at me.
"Who's up for a game of never have I ever?" He asked since we had finished lighting the candles. I looked at him puzzled.
"Oooh, yay!" Alice said clapping her hands together, "Wait, interesting or not?" She asked Emmet which confused me even more.
"Well, Bella what do you say, you up for give alcohol another try?" Emmett asked me.
"You don't have to if you don't want to." Edward informed me. But I figured, (ooc) why not, might even help get my mind off the storm raging outside.
"Sure, lets do interesting." I said, Alice nodded before grabbing a lit candle and walking into the kitchen.
"I still don't get what we're playing?" I asked, as I helped to light the last of the candles.
"Never have I ever, someone says something that they've never done, and if you have done it, you take a shot." Emmett explained.
"Don't worry Bella, you'll be fine with us. I promise I won't let James kiss you." Edward teased as Alice returned with shot glasses and a bottle of vodka.
"Haha, very funny." I said with a smirk as we gathered around the coffee table, seated on the floor. Alice passed out the shot glasses while Jasper filled them halfway.
"Okay, I'll start." Emmett said once Alice and Jasper finished.
"Never have I ever worn women's underwear." Rosalie, Alice, and I all took a shot. The liquid stung as it slid down my throat but I managed not to cough.
"So do you get it Bella?" Emmett asked, I nodded, "Good, Alice you're next."
"Never have I ever hooked up with someone in the middle of health class, that was being taught by my father." She said with a smile, Emmett grinned reminiscently before he and Rosalie both down another shot.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yep." Emmett said, "10th grade health, the school requested that Carlisle teach it one day, and well I thought it would be really funny if I kissed Rose in the middle of his lesson while his back was turned. The entire class began to laugh and cheer, and to this day Carlisle has no idea why." He finished with a laugh.
"Jasper's turn." Rosalie informed us as he refilled the empty shot glasses.
"Never have I ever gone skinny dipping with other people." Jasper said, this time I was the only one to take a shot. Everyone stared at me.
"What? I was 14 and well, it doesn't matter. Alice your turn." I said trying to pass over the subject.
"Wait a minute, Bella, finish the story." Emmett I let out a sigh and realized we wouldn't be able to go on,
"I was 14 and it was with this kid Jacob, he's my best friend and it was dark out so no biggie. Now Alice, go." I said quickly, as I felt Edward tense up beside me.
"Never have I ever made a bet not to touch my boyfriend." She said smiling at me.
"Haha Alice very funny." I said as I down a shot. The game went on like this, I became a little loopy after my fourth and by the time it was my turn again, it started to show.
"Your turn Bella." Emmett said, due to my alcohol consumption and everyone using up the good ones I said the first thing that came to mind,
"Never I ever tried to kill myyysef." I slurred.
"Bella, please we aren't all mental cases. Rosie, it's to you." Emmett said, nodding at his fiancee. Rosalie went to take her turn but before she could speak, the clacking of an empty glass on the wooden table stopped us all. Our eyes shot to Alice and her empty shot glass, Jasper's were the only ones not to. He just stared at the table, as if, he was guilty.
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