Crush Chapter Fifty-five: Moving Along

AN: Thanks guy for being patient with me. I know this story is taking longer to get out, but when the characters don't speak to me... I don't like forcing it out, it never is as good when I do that. The last few chapters have definitely been forced. Guess what? Edward decided he'd talk to me this time, it's about time. I wasn't sure he ever would since I am writing two other stories with him in it, one of them isn't published yet and won't be until I'm much further along, so I don't get stuck like I did with this one.

I hope you enjoy this one, it's much happier. Happy Thanksgiving!

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

EPOV

Bella, my Bella, she was my everything. I'd do anything for her and here she was in my arms. My beautiful girl, she loved me, she trusted me, she wanted me. I smoothed her hair away from her back and ran my other hand over the creamy skin. Bella sighed in pleasure and mumbled "I love you."

Kissing the top of her head I replied "I love you too, so much." She tried to snuggle closer to me at that, but couldn't. I smiled at her, she was already laying on top of me in her favorite place. This was always weird to me, I didn't think it could possibly be that comfortable. When she came over this morning and we'd had sex she fell asleep in this position faster than I could get the condom removed, I'd had to carefully maneuver that away and in the trash without waking her. It was a feat, that's for sure. I still didn't know what it was all about, to me she seemed upset.

Rolling her over I placed her gently on her back and looked at her body, her body that she had so freely given to me and only me. The tears that tried to pool in my eyes shocked the hell out of me. She was still the only girl capable of making me cry, just by being who she was. She was my lover, and to some extent, my best friend.

Leaning over her I kissed her lips gently, waking her. She smiled softly and opened her eyes to look at me. Her left hand came up to trace my jaw, her thumb over my lower lip. I grabbed her hand and kissed the palm of it before kissing her neck, sucking the soft skin into my mouth. Her moan was guttural and quiet for her. My lips traced down her neck, to her collarbone and between her breasts. My hands cupped her breasts, feeling the weight of them as my thumbs made circles over her nipples, raising them. Kissing her soft, smooth skin around her left breast I worked my way inwards until my tongue met her nipple. I flicked my tongue over it, then took it into my mouth feeling it pucker and harden even more under it's localized attention. Her left hand found itself in my hair tugging at it as I continued my slow torture and moved over to the other side.

My right hand traveled down her body, her stomach, her sides until it reached where I wanted to touch her the most. The skin was soft between her thighs, as my finger reached between her folds I could feel it's silky texture. I needed to feel it on my tongue. Kissing lower and lower, trying not to rush I finally made it to my goal and licked a line at her slit and tasted her, felt the silkiness. My tongue licked her core before sucking it into my mouth, between my teeth, feeling it swell in desire and want. Her head tilted back and she let out one of the loud moans I was so used to hearing. "Edward, please..." Looking up at her she was staring at me and smiled and breathed "Please..." again.

Kneeling between her legs I reached over and grabbed a condom out of the bedside table drawer. She opened herself further to me and I looked down at her, her beauty, her complete trust. Rolling the condom over my erection I pushed into her sex slowly, just enjoying the warm, tight, wet feeling of her. Bella's legs wrapped around my waist and gently rocked with me as her left hand pulled my head down to hers again. She captured my lips between her teeth gently nibbling before sucking on my lips. Parting my lips for her, her tongue snaked into my mouth and touched and caressed and moved against my tongue in a slow dance, slower than we'd ever done before. Pulling away from her for air I breathed "Bella... you are my life now." She was, to be here, to be with her, it felt like home. How could someone feel that way in such a short amount of time? I probably never would know, I just knew that I felt it.

Placing my hands on her hips I started to pull in and out of her, my thrusts picked up speed after a while and her pants accompanied with the feeling of being inside her were my undoing. I couldn't hold off any longer and let go. She smiled at me, her warm brown eyes shining. Pulling out of her I paid close attention to her core with my thumb as my mouth moved to her nipples and I tugged at them gently at first with my teeth. A little bit harder, a little more forceful and she came crying out my name. It was the most beautiful sound to my ears.

Deciding to get up and take a shower I asked Bella if she wanted to join me. "No, I'm too comfortable right here right now. I want to take a bath anyway."

"Bella... if you take a bath promise me you won't fall asleep again. I can't take you drowning again." I admonished.

She snorted at me and said "It was one time, Edward. I'm not as sleepy this time either, so I think it'll be all right." She seemed to think I was overreacting. I didn't. I still remembered seeing her under the water, not breathing.

"Okay, but I'm going to come check on you a few times if you take too long." I told her and heard her huff as I stepped into the bathroom.

When I got out of the shower and got dressed I sat on the bed beside Bella for a few minutes before going downstairs. Bella looked at me with sadness in her eyes and I asked "What's wrong?" Did I do something? I didn't think so, not today.

Bella sniffled and said "Jenny... she told us what happened to her." I put my arms around her and pulled her close as she cried. Then wiping the tears away she asked me "Do you want me to tell you?" No, I really didn't. I never wanted to know something like that, it was sad and depressing. Then again, if Jenny did move in here I didn't want to make a stupid mistake by not knowing. Coming to the conclusion that I had to know, even if I didn't want to know, I nodded my head. Bella related the story to me and I almost couldn't breathe. What the fuck had those people done? What were they thinking? How many other people had they done that to and gotten away with it? I was shaking in fury.

Taking some calming breaths I tried to get the shakiness under control before I went downstairs. Who knew who would be there. Leaving Bella to her bath with a strict 'don't fall asleep' I went down the stairs and to the kitchen where I could hear talking. Alice and Jenny were sitting at the kitchen table deep in discussion when Alice looked up at me. She looked... excited. She was up to something, as usual. I said "Hey, Alice, Jenny." Alice nodded to me and Jenny kept her head bowed as her face flushed, but her eyes did make an attempt to look at my face. I went and grabbed some food to make a sandwich out of the fridge, I was starving.

"Where's your other half?" I asked Alice. She was here, but I knew he wasn't, he hadn't been here all morning either.

"Oh, he's with Ben and Angela, helping them." Alice explained.

"Helping them with what?" I asked her curious.

Alice shrugged at me and said "You'll find out soon enough." I knew I wouldn't get anymore out of her.

"So Edward, we are moving in soon." Alice stated, my head snapped up and I looked at her. Bella and I hadn't even discussed Emmett's decision to ask them to move in. I wasn't sure she even wanted too.

Alice's eyes were bright and she was bouncing in her seat and said "Don't worry, we won't cramp your style." I raised a brow at her. "Jenny is going to have a room, Rosalie is going to have a room, and Bella and I are still going to share a room. She was my roommate first, and besides she loves me more than you." In my head I couldn't figure out how this was going to work out, we didn't have that many rooms with all the people currently here. "Isn't that right, Bella? You love me more than my little brother." Alice's eyes had flickered towards the door as she said this. My head turned and I saw Bella, dressed and bathed. Damn, that was one fast bath then, I guess she didn't want me coming to check on her.

"Yep, that's right. Alice, you know you will always be my favorite Cullen. No matter what Edward here does, you and I are going to be together forever." Bella teased and patted Alice on the head at which she narrowed her eyes at Bella.

"No need to be condescending, Bella." Alice said.

"I wasn't, it's the truth." She replied. Jenny seemed amused at their interaction. I knew she watched people constantly, even if they didn't know it.

Then Alice brightened and said "Guess what? Jenny is going to go see her parents during fall break. She hasn't seen them in two years, so it's about time." I wondered if Jenny was anything like she was before, or if her parents would notice massive changes in her. I hoped we could all help bring her out a little bit more than she already had.

Bella said "That's great, you should go spend time with your family. I'm sure they miss you." Bella looked saddened by that. Did she miss her family that much?

Then Alice said "Bella, your truck won't be finished before fall break and you can stay here in this house if you want, but I was really hoping you'd come home with us."

Looking back and forth between both Alice and myself Bella gulped and said "And meet your parents?"

Alice nodded and said "Yeah, that's the idea. They want to meet the woman that turned Edward here into a monogamist." Then she laughed. Bella turned bright red and I was mad that Alice would say something like that to her, even if it was true. "Come on, Bella, my parents don't bite, much. Besides I think they'd love you." Bella sighed and nodded her head, she seemed to know she couldn't fight Alice on this. She might fight me, but not Alice.

Emmett came into the kitchen and ruffled Alice's hair and hugged Jenny. Jenny didn't pull away from him, she actually hugged him back. He seemed to make her feel safe. Maybe that's why Rosalie had been drawn to him too. Of course, he'd already dealt with Rosalie and even though he'd been an idiot sticking his foot in his mouth he seemed to have matured quite a bit over this situation. "Ready to move in with us crazy people?" Emmett asked Jenny, she just laughed at him.

After a while we had all gotten something to eat and were sitting at the table when Ben, Angela and Jasper walked in. Ben and Angela were holding hands and looked excited and happy. "Guess what, guys? We're moving out. We're going to get an apartment together." Angela said to the room.

"What?" Emmett shouted. "I didn't tell you I wanted you to move out, Ben. I never wanted to kick you out of here. What about our band?"

Ben rolled his eyes at Emmett and said "We've been thinking about moving in together for a while now and then you brought it up and we decided now was as good a time as any. As for the band, I'm moving out of the house, not the country. We'll still play."

Alice squealed and said "I knew it. What did I tell you Jenny? You laughed at me for buying all that stuff for your room today. You should know by now that I know everything." Jenny's eyes were wide in awe.

Ignoring Alice, Ben said "We can still practice here or at the bar." I almost wished I could quit the band. It wasn't fun anymore, not like it used to be. It seemed to be a nuisance now. If it wasn't for the money we made going to the hospital I would have quit already.

"Jazz, let's help Ben move his stuff out, so I can turn his room into Jenny's." Alice said excitedly.

"Whoa, slow down, Alice. You are going to have to wait, they can't move into their apartment until next weekend." Jasper told Alice, she pouted.

Ben laughed and said "Oh, it's all right. We can start packing up my stuff and Alice can fix the room. I think I can handle sleeping on the couch for a week." Alice looked excited and took off towards Ben's room. Jenny followed along with Ben and Angela and Jasper.

Emmett asked Bella "So are you going to move in?" Bella shrugged, she didn't know.

"Yeah, you are moving in. According to Alice anyway and whatever she says, goes." I told her, Bella and Emmett both laughed. "Although you and her will be sharing the same room. I suspect she wants to bring all the new stuff from your dorm here and that's all that's really about." I told them laughing. Emmett shook his head.

Rosalie wandered into the kitchen a little later and said "Hey Bella, I want you to come with me to the shop sometime soon and see your truck."

Bella rolled her eyes at Rosalie and said "Rosalie, I don't know how I'd know the difference. I couldn't tell you what all the parts were in the first place." I knew if Bella would listen Rosalie would be more than happy to share the information with her, which I doubted highly.

"I'll show you. I have some colors I want you to look at though, surely you can tell me what color you want." Rosalie said bitingly after Bella's eye roll at her.

"Rose... let's go and leave them alone. I want some alone time with you to myself." Emmett said and smacked Rosalie on the ass. Great, more of that when the girls moved in was coming, I knew it.

Bella sighed and leaned into my shoulder and said "I feel like today has been a whirlwind and I didn't even do much. What's that all about?"

Pulling her close to me I said "Because it was, moving is a big change. Moving in with several people is probably an even bigger change to you."

Bella groaned and said "What am I going to tell Charlie? I don't think my mom will mind, but my dad? He's going to freak."

"Well, you aren't technically moving in with me, you are moving in with Alice. I doubt things will change that much, except you'll be away from the girls from the dorms." I told her, I wanted her out of there whether or not she lived with me. I never felt that she was safe there, not given what had happened to her there already.

"Yeah... maybe if I told Charlie all that stuff he might not mind." Bella said and then snorted saying "Yeah right, he'll want me to move home right away if he knew all that stuff."

"Would it help if I met him? I mean if you have to endure meeting the parents, then I probably should too." I told her.

Looking up at me Bella said "It might. Do you have any problems with next weekend?"

"No, why? I can drive us up there." I replied.

"This Thursday is my birthday and I thought it would be a nice surprise for him to actually get to see me for it." She said, I couldn't deny her that. We were going.

Alice popped her head in the doorway and said "I'm coming along too. He needs to meet the person you are really going to be living with." I could hear Bella grumbling about Alice and her peppiness and being in the car that long with someone like that. Maybe if Jasper came too it'd keep her calm, but I doubted he'd even want to.