Chapter Fifty-three: Living Arrangements

AN: I know it's been a while since I updated this story, I promise I didn't fall off the face of the earth. I have how I want this story to go, but I've been struggling with the details. The characters have remained silent for me here, until now when I NEED to be sleeping. ARGH! Not to mention I've got the flu right now, so I hope things come out right. Looks like it's going to be a fairly happy chapter, yeah. The last was a little angsty.

Characters belong to Stephenie Meyer, except Jenny, she's all mine.

BPOV

Sounds and feelings assaulted my senses as I stirred awake. I could both feel and hear several things simultaneously. My stomach growled loudly after skipping dinner. My body felt like little electric shocks had gone all over it. Edward was eating me out. My broken arm felt like it weighed a hundred pounds. Wait. What the fuck? Edward was doing what? Jerking my leg I felt him smile against me. No, I hadn't imagined that, that is what he was doing. "Edward, I was trying to sleep. What are you doing?" I asked him, trying not to moan at the sensation as I was kind of pissed off at him for doing that while I was sleeping.

Looking up at me he chuckled and said "I've been trying to wake you up for a while. Do you know I've been kissing your body for at least thirty minutes?" Then he pulled himself up looking at me with his green eyes filled with want, need and lust. "I want you Bella, please." He said pleadingly and inwardly I danced around, I was glad he was back.

With my left hand I brought his head closer to mine. Licking his lips I tasted myself on them before slipping my tongue between them. His hands moved down to my waist and slowly ran upwards towards my breasts. Breaking away from our kiss he kissed my neck, my collarbone. He worked his mouth between my breasts and took a long lick there making my heart skip a beat and my body to shudder in pleasure. Moaning I arched my back up to get closer to him, but I ended up wincing in pain when I put pressure on my broken arm. Edward looked at me then and seeming to decide something he moved his own pillow close to mine and raised both my arms up. My broken arm laid on his pillow and now neither one were in the way. I got the feeling he preferred it this way anyway. He went back to nuzzling and kissing me between my breasts while his thumbs circled my nipples. I was sure my moans woke up the entire house.

Then Edward moved down my stomach his tongue dipping into my belly button causing me to gasp. I wanted him so much. I moved my hand down to put it in his hair just to have him put it back telling me to stay. His lips found my inner thighs and sucked and nibbled on them lightly at first then harder. I no longer felt the pain in arm, all I could feel was the pleasure he was giving me. His tongue took one long last lick of my sex before he got on his knees. Seeing him like that in all his naked glory was incredible. I was certain most guys didn't look as good as him. "Please..." I begged. He grinned widely at me and tore open the condom package that was beside him. I watched fascinated while he rolled it on. My Edward was back.

Edward came up to my mouth again and kissed me gently until I picked up the pace, gentle isn't what I wanted right now. He'd worked me into a frenzy before I was even awake and I needed him now. "Come on Edward. Please fuck me." Then I looked at him pointedly and said "Hard." He chuckled at me and kissed my neck.

"Whatever you want Bella." He said right as he knelt between my legs and pushed them wide apart. Edward plunged into me and I felt high. His hands slipped underneath me gripping my ass in his two hands tilting me up closer to him. I tried to meet his thrusts with my hips as much as I could without moving my arms. It felt so good to have him inside me, all of our insecurities forgotten for the moment. He thrust into me hard and fast like I asked him too. It didn't take him long to get off, but I still hadn't. I really needed my hands. Moving my left one down Edward shook his head at me. "No. I'll do that." He was still inside me softened, but inside. He didn't pull out at all as he placed his fingers over my core and rubbed over it. At one point he took it between his thumb and forefinger and rolled it going over the top with his thumb. I knew I shouted in ecstasy loudly then. My stomach clenched and my body exploded at the sensation. With my own legs trembling Edward got off of me and threw the condom away. Laying back down next to me he kissed my forehead and put an arm around my waist before letting his head fall to my chest.

After a while my stomach started it's grumble again, I'd forgotten I was hungry. Edward laughed at me and said "Hungry?"

"Yeah I am. Let's go down to the kitchen." I said in answer.

Finding a tank top and shorts Edward helped me into them and then he got dressed himself. Going downstairs in the dark he held onto my left hand keeping me from falling. Everyone must have gone to bed already. When we passed by the living room though I saw Jenny there asleep on the couch. She was alone. I wondered why no one stayed with her this time. Where were Eric and Tyler for that matter? I didn't want her running into them.

Walking into the kitchen I sat down at the table as Edward made me a sandwich to eat as we didn't want to make too much noise. Handing it to me and a glass of juice he said "Eat up."

I laughed at him and said "Aren't you going to eat?"

His crooked grin smiled at me as he said "No thanks, I've already eaten." As he said that his hand lingered over my crotch.

With my injured arm I smacked his hand away. We both said "Ouch." Then we burst into laughter. We tried to stifle it quickly though as Jenny was in the other room.

Taking a bite of my sandwich I moaned it was that good. Damn, I was hungry. Edward chuckled at me.

Then Edward picked up my arm and looking at it asked "What's the sea turtle for?"

Looking down at my arm I said "Oh. Well when we were at the beach Jenny and I saw a sea turtle sandcastle." He looked at me confused as to why that was significant. "She said that's the first time she felt truly comfortable around me and didn't have to hide pieces of herself. I am the first person she's felt that for since she was... raped...." I finished that off quietly, it hurt to think about. "Anyway, I think she's starting to feel more comfortable around everyone else too. Well except maybe you, but then again you haven't been yourself." I said saddened at the thought.

Edward pinched the bridge of his nose then looked down saying "I know. I'll try harder, okay? I still feel like shit though, so don't expect a miracle."

Putting my good arm around him I said "I know. You know I love you though, no matter what?"

He smiled at me and said "You only show me everyday." Then he kissed my lips softly.

Hearing noise from the living room we got up and saw Jenny thrashing on the couch, I thought she might fall off. Sitting down on the end of the couch I moved her head to lay against my chest and held here there. She eventually calmed down and stopped thrashing around. How had she managed being on her own for so long if only someone else could calm her? It didn't make sense. Maybe she didn't know, maybe she just continued with her nightmares. I heard her quietly murmur "Thank you." I didn't think she was awake, so I wasn't sure what the thank you was for. Edward sat down on the chair and we waited until morning came.

The light shone through the window's when Jenny awoke. Edward and I had just sat there not talking, not disturbing her the rest of the night. She blinked and looked at the room in confusion. She looked so innocent my heart was on fire that anyone could hurt her. I was fucking pissed, more so than I had been before. To me it felt like someone had abused my puppy.

Jenny sat on the couch rubbing the sleep from her eyes before looking shyly at us. This time she kept her head down, but at least looked up at Edward giving him a small smile. He smiled softly at her. "Good morning Jenny." I said to her and she smiled at me. "Are you going to class with me and Alice this morning?" I asked her hoping she'd say yes. She needed to get out of this house.

"Yeah I'm going." She said and then brightened. "Do you think Lauren and Jessica will be there? I wonder if they got their stuff replaced." Then she laughed, a real laugh, not a halfhearted one.

"I don't know. I'm sure they know me and Alice had something to do with it though, even if they can't prove it. I hope they don't try anything." I told her worried.

She looked at me and said "They won't. I'll make sure of it." How the hell was she going to manage that? "Trust me. Don't ask." Edward looked on at our conversation, I was sure he was trying to figure out what Jenny meant too.

Then a loud, boisterous sound hit the room reverberating off the walls. Emmett bellowed out "Hey guys, meet downstairs in the living room in ten minutes. Family meeting." What? Jenny and I looked at each other and both got up to leave when Emmett walked into the room. "Where are you going?" He asked us.

Glancing at each other again I turned to look at Emmett and said "Family meeting? We aren't exactly family."

He snorted at us and said "Sit your asses back down. You sure as hell are part of this family." Right then I felt the overwhelming power of love course through me. It was beautiful. I was closer to all of these people than my own family. They weren't going anywhere, they'd be there for me no matter what. I was sure they'd be there for Jenny too as long as she wanted them to be.

Edward looked at Emmett and said "What is this all about?"

"Not until everyone comes down, I don't want to repeat myself over and over." Emmett said and sat down in the other chair.

Moving to sit in Edward's lap so others would have room I curled up there leaning my head against his chest. He wrapped his arms gently around me being careful of my broken arm and kissed the top of my head. I looked up at him and kissed his lips chastely before turning my head to wait for the others.

Finally everyone filed in and Emmett called the so called 'meeting' to order. How ridiculous. Did people really have family meetings? I supposed with a family this large that they probably had to. "Okay, I have something I want to say and I want you guys to think about it before saying no. You don't have to decide today." Emmett started. Okay... cut the suspense, what did he want?

"I think the girls should move in here." Emmett said and the look on my face I knew was shock as well as the rest of the people in the room. Jenny fidgeted not knowing why she was even in the room. The room was silent, you could hear a clock ticking. It was the only sound.

"Okay now that you are all stunned speechless let me get the rest of what I want to say out." Emmett said. "I want to kick Eric and Tyler out. Those guys are dicks. Jenny can stay in one of their rooms and we can find someone else better to live with if you want someone else to occupy the other room."

Jenny's eyes went wide in shock or wonder I didn't know. Then Emmett looked at her and said "I know this might be too much for you, but it's obvious you sleep better with people around. I don't know how you've slept at all in a dorm room alone." The he turned and looked at the room at large and said "This might be too soon for some of you, but I think the girls would be safer here and we'd be happier knowing where they were. It's not like we need this house to be like a frat house anymore. Besides I'm sure Alice will still want to party." He laughed at the end of that and Alice glared at him.

"Emmett, what? I just decorated this house as well as mine and Bella's room. Are you nuts?" Alice shot at him. Rosalie seemed to think he looked insane as well.

Emmett rolled his eyes at her and said "Things can be replaced."

"Living together? All of us? Are you sure you really want that?" Rosalie asked him.

"Some of us have lived together before, I don't see what the big deal is." Emmett countered. I did, my father would kill me. "Listen, just think about it, okay? We can wait until next semester if you want too, but I'd feel better if you were all here. It would ease my mind anyway." Emmett said. So far no one else had said a word. Why hadn't he talked to the other guys about this first? Idiot.

"That's all I have to say. Just think about it, okay?" Emmett asked already having planted the seed in all our minds. That was probably his intention.

No one seemed to want to discuss it at all today so we went our separate ways. Alice, Jenny and I headed to our literature class. When we got outside the door Jenny said "You don't know me today, alright? I'm going to sit alone. You can talk to me after class." Alice and I looked at her confused and she said "Just go."

Heading to our seats we sat down and waited, what was going on? Jenny came in a few minutes later and dropped her books where she usually sat. Then we watched as she strode up to Lauren and Jessica confidently. Alice and I looked at each other both of asking with our eyes where the confidence came from. Then we saw Jenny lean down to speak to them as our ears strained to hear. All we could make out was her voice claiming she took their purses. They both looked at her angrily and wanted to cry murder, but Jenny didn't let them. Her voice hissed out "Little bitches, you deserve everything you got and everything coming to you. I still haven't forgotten your hand in what happened to me, even if you were drunk." Alice and I looked at each other our eyes wide. What was that all about? When did Jenny decide to stand up for herself? No, she didn't stand up for herself, she stood up for us. She fought for us, not herself. When would she get the courage for herself? I wasn't sure it would ever come, but this was progress. I was ecstatic.

At the end of class we were reminded that we had a group project due in this class in a few weeks. I groaned forgetting that was on the syllabus she gave us the first day. At least we got to pick out our own groups. I already knew Alice, Jenny and me would be in it.

As soon as we walked outside we found Jenny waiting for us with a wide grin on her face. She was proud of herself too. Alice and I beamed back at her. Before leaving them we all agreed to do our project together. I headed to my next class with Angela to give her the good news. She was happy about it as well, but was a little distracted. I assumed it was at Emmett's declaration that we should all move in together.

Class flew by and I found myself seated next to Edward in science class. This class I needed more notes on and I couldn't take them. "Here, use this." Edward told me and handed me a tape recorder. Then he said "I'll make copies of my notes too if you want them."

Smiling gratefully at him I said "Thank you." Then I turned to pay attention to the lecture. It would be better if I could retain this by listening since I was obviously going to have a hard time writing, especially quickly.

Leaving the class Edward followed behind me. He was checking out my ass I knew and I grinned. Out in the hallway he leaned into me and breathed "Let's skip out of here. I just want to be with you." My heartbeat quickened at his words and I wanted nothing more than to forget the world.

Alice and Jasper interrupted us though. Sighing in frustration Edward ran a hand through his hair. "You are going to class, mister." Alice said to him. To me she said "You are coming to eat lunch with me and then we have Tai Chi class. If you still wanted self defense class then you still want this. Come on, I know it's helping you." I groaned. No, right now I wanted to be with Edward. Jasper looked on amused at us.

Then Alice grabbed my left arm forcefully and dragged my away from Edward. I was sure my feet weren't moving, that they were being dragged across the floor. I did my best pout. Edward laughed at us.

"Bella, let's go. Stop this silliness and walk on your own two feet." Alice said to me and headed to one of the campus restaurants. She still didn't let go of my arm though, afraid I'd run back. I probably would have.

We ate lunch quickly. Alice and Jasper did talk about living together a little bit, but neither of them had come to a conclusion on the matter.

Then Alice dragged me out to class. It was a beautiful day, so we got to enjoy the outdoors, the grass cool underneath our feet. Today I tried doing the moves as best I could, moving through them even with my arm broken. I was proud of myself. I didn't fall today or trip or do anything else stupid in the class. Alice patted me on the back happily and said. "I told you it helped." I smiled and nodded at her. I still wasn't ready to admit she was right out loud.

We got to our dorm room and laid down on our beds. Alice was looking at the ceiling when she said "I'll miss this place if we move. I like living with just another girl."

Laughing at her I said "I'm sure you do, but we barely live here, do we?"

Then Alice shot up out of bed and said "I want to have a slumber party."

"Um... Alice didn't we just have one of those? At the beach house, remember?" I asked her wondering why she'd want to do that again now.

Rolling her eyes at me she said "No, I meant a real slumber party, just girls."

I laughed at her and asked "Where would we have this party at Alice?"

"Right here in our room. Oh, I'm so excited." Alice said bouncing on the bed now. "The guys can live without us for one night."

"Alice, are you ever not in the mood to party?" I asked her actually curious.

She grinned at me and said "Nope." I wondered what kind of torture she'd subject us too this time.

AN: I'm doing a happy little dance at finally having gotten this chapter written. I just wish I wasn't sick while writing it.