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storyline - "Air"

prompt - data


The cab of the truck felt a little empty.

Bella was in school. I'd grown used to her sitting beside me, quietly looking at the passing scenery as we climbed up into the hills where the building site sat. My house wasn't in quite a prestigious area as my parent's, but it was a beautiful neighborhood. Trees, shade, sun.

So instead of her quiet smile and thoughtful glances I had just quiet and thoughtful. The guys were already at the house, working. I pulled in behind Emmett and jumped out, snatching the bag of doughnuts and muffins I'd bought from the bakery on my way up.

"How's it going, boss?"

I rolled my eyes at Tony and tossed him the bag. "Have breakfast."

"Thanks man…" His voice faded as I left the room, glancing around t the little things, the details. We were almost done now; by the time Bella got out of school for the summer she and I would probably be able to move in.

I walked in to the kitchen. Emmett was there, just finishing installing the doors on the cabinets. "Hey."

"Hey, Edward." He glanced briefly over his shoulder and nodded before returning to his task. "Just about done here."

"Yeah, I can see that. Looks good."

"The countertop looks good. I'm glad you put it in the other room though. It's nice…shouldn't be hidden in here," Emmett commented, brushing off his hands as he straightened up.

"I thought so too," I agreed. The counter top I'd worked so hard on, carving designs and varnishing, was now one of the features on what would be the TV room. It was a really spacious room, and I wanted to have a built in bar, something for entertaining. In the end I'd gone ahead and installed a regular granite countertop in the kitchen.

I observed him for a moment more, watching him tighten screws and test how the doors open and shut.

"All right. I'll be outside."

"Okay," he said.


Bella followed me in to the house. It was silent; everyone had gone home hours before.

We seemed to spend more time here than at my other house lately, even though the other one still had all the comforts of an actual home.

"Wow," she breathed, setting her bag down by the door. "Every time I come something's different. Are you guys done? It looks done."

"No, but almost. I finished the windows today."

She nodded, her hands in her back pockets as she wandered around.

I remembered the first time we met. She'd had make up on, and nice clothes; nothing overdone or slutty, just sexy. I'd been attracted to her right away.

Looking at her now, I realized I was even more attracted to her; fresh face, ponytail, sweatshirt. I'd been in love before Bella, but never quite like I was with Bella. She spoke my language and I spoke hers.

The sun was setting, filling the house with red gold light. The electrician had just been by, and had begun doing the wiring but it would be another couple of days before we had electricity.

"Come here," I said, taking her hand. We walked into my empty bedroom…our empty bedroom… where there was a blanket on the floor.

She looked up at me, her cheeks slightly red. "What's this?"

I smiled and sat down to unlace my boots.

She sat on the blanket, toed her sneakers off, and laid back.

"I love when you do things like this," she remarked.

"I know," I said, joining her. "I…missed you today."

"You did?" Her whisper was rounded by a smile.

"I did."

Late spring, and the day had been sunny and cool. Night was always chilly though. I took my jacket off, and my shirt, and she took her sweater off, and her shirt, and we met in the middle, her chest soft on mine.

I leaned over her and kissed her, touching my thumb to the pulse point in her neck. "I love you, Bella."

"I love you, too" she sighed, her hands locking behind my head, her fingers ticking through my hair.

Pulling away a little, I took her in: her warm brown eyes burnt gold from the sun filtering through the trees and into our window. Her lips, a little open. The slopes and curves of her breasts, still in her bra, moving with her breathing. She didn't even have to use words; the data was precise, obvious.

I knew she loved me.

"What?" she asked, smiling a little.

I shook my head and lowered my hand to pull down the zipper of her jeans. "Just realizing things."

Her voice got dreamy. "What sorts of things?" She lifted her hips so I could pull her pants off.

"The way you love me is all over you. It makes me love you more."

She rolled onto her back and arched, slipping her hands behind to unclasp her bra. "You surprise me still."

We were both naked now. I ran my hand over her skin, down her thigh and then up, sliding my hand high between her legs. "Good surprises?"

"Yeah."

She got on to her knees suddenly, and moved languidly down my body, her hair dragging across my chest and stomach. She took me in her mouth and I tangled my fingers in her hair, careful not to guide her, wanting her to do it the way she wanted.

Before long the heat of her mouth and the touch of her tongue, the sucking and the sounds and the sighs had me past the point of being able to stop.

"I'm gonna come, Bella," I heard myself moan, hurtling toward orgasm.

She popped off just long enough to tell me she knew and then continued working me until I came in her mouth.

She went to the bathroom while I recovered, one hand thrown across my face like it could protect me from the brightness of all that felt good, all that was good.

I felt her next to me then, and before she could speak I kissed her hard, thrusting my fingers into where she was already wet and already mine.


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