Hey! So, surprise! This is the second up date in two or three days. It would have been up sooner but I got up to page twelve and decided to read what I currently had. I didn't like that I had skipped so much and was writing everything so briefly. I decided to write a little bit more on one part and then suddenly I had another mini-drama. So, I missed the eight pm deadline that I had given to ttyyytt but you have a much better chapter. For all those that wanted them to get a little more imitate with each other, that starts in this chapter. No, no lemons yet. I think that there will be some more towards the end of the story, but there are probably still a few chapters to go. I wrote one lemon for my other story 'A Second Chance' and if you asked me the whole thing sucked. There will be a sequel, but I have not started to plan that yet. There might be some breaking dawn features but no babies, there will never be a baby in my story. No weird Bella becomes pregnant or becomes half human and gets pregnant. I though that the baby in Breaking Dawn kind of ruined the story. I mean, yer it was good but could have been better.
This will probably be the last update until I go to Thailand, I doubt that I can get another chapter written with all of the school work that I have got to do until I go.
So enjoy and review! Reviews are better then Rosalie getting told off in the middle of Forks High school, as you will soon find out.
"So why do you want to change?" Mrs. Cope, the secretary asked. I had already been here for the past ten minutes and the bell for the first class had already rung. From was going to be over soon.
"There are a few different reasons."
"Mr. Varner isn't the reason is he, because he would just be the teacher of the new class too."
"Oh, Mr. Varner is fine. Some of the other boys in the class are the problem."
She straightened up in her chair. "Edward, if somebody is saying hurtful things to you, you must tell me – "
"Oh it's nothing like that. Mike is just being a bit spiteful. There was an incident last month and ever since the boy has been childish. "
"Alright, I can arrange the change." And with a few more clicks on the computer I was in Bella's trigonometry class. She printed off the new time table and I went to the first class. I skidded into the class room and handed the teacher the note that explained why I was late, started towards my row happy with the Bella situation, before skidding to a stop halfway to my desk. I sat at the right hand corner at the back row, by myself on the two person desk. Everybody else already had a partner, except for me, and that was how everybody kept things. Jessica had sat next to me a few times before I started to date Bella, but had quickly started to sit with Angela again after that. But today, for some reason, she was sitting on the left hand side, right next to where I usually sit, with an unusually low cut t shirt for a town like this (unless you want to get hypothermia) and more make up than a hooker from New York.
What the fuck?
I looked around the class, my head swiveling round uselessly for somebody that she was trying to impress, like Mike Newton or somebody new that I had failed to hear about, but saw nobody new, just everybody starting at me giving me a look that clearly said 'why are you just standing there looking like a dumb ass?'. Trying to not look like a dumb ass, I walked slowly towards the desk, what used to be my desk, but what hopefully would not be my desk for much longer – particularly if Jessica continued to sit here.
Why didn't you change to Bella's english class to?
Because that stupid Ryan kid transferred there.
Do you think that we could pay him to change classes?
Are you really asking your internal monologue a question when you are the internal monologue?
The other half of my internal monologue decided not to answer that question, trying to keep some respect. I sat next to Jessica Stanley, sitting as far away as I could without leaning over the desk, and started to write the notes.
"Edward." I heard her voice ask, but kept my eyes steadfast on my book.
"Edward." The voice was louder now, and I decided not to bother ignoring her anymore. She would not stop.
"Yes Jessica."
"I was wondering if you wanted to do something tonight?" My eyes popped open and then towards her in shock. Was she freaking serious?
"Excuse me?"
She bent over towards me, trying to show over what was barely hidden by her shirt. One of her hands came towards my shoulder and I leant back. She frowned slightly but my actions didn't seem to deter her.
"I wanted to know," She tried to sound seductive, and I guess that she may of succeeded had I not been desperately in love with Bella. "If you wanted to get together tonight."
"I have plans."
"With who?" She demanded, this news stopping her hand.
"Bella."
"So?"
"So my girl friend that I love very much and I have plans that I would like to keep."
She didn't seem phased. "What about tomorrow?"
I stared at her blankly. Had she hit her head or something last night, or was she always like this? "I have plans with Bella tomorrow night too."
"Well Bella can learn to share."
"No, I think that she's fine like she is." I smiled at her and tuned back to the book, trying to copy the notes from the board.
"Why? She can't have you every night; you need to have other people in your life."
"She really can."
"What, do you let her control you or something?"
"No, but I would."
"Why!" She demanded.
"Because I love her."
She sighed heavily, as if the information was of great shock to her, and found this exhausting to talk about.
"Alright, so not today or tomorrow night but what about – "
"Jessica!"
"What Edward?" She looked up at me.
"I can assure you that I will be busy every day and night for the rest of my life."
"The rest of your life?" She snorted.
"Yes, the rest of my life." I nodded slowly for her, as if this was one of the most obvious things in the world. Which, admittedly, it was in the top five, but I couldn't really expect Jessica to understand the connection that Bella and I had.
"You want to be with Bella for the rest of your life? What, do you want to marry Bella Cullen." She snorted. Again, in the top five, I had decided this when we were in Phoenix, but then again, Jessica couldn't not be expected to know this.
"If she will have me." I said with all seriousness. She stared at me blankly for a moment, before raising an eyebrow. I really hope that Bella didn't hear me, kinda, she wasn't meant to know about this. Alice probably did though, the little pixie better not tell her.
"You're serious."
"Yes." She made some sort of chocking noise that did not sound healthy. "So a date with you would not be a smart thing to do when dating the girl that I intend to marry." I grinned at her before turning back to the book that I was writing in. Jessica gathered her books quickly as soon as the bell went and I grinned lightly in satisfaction.
Masen: 1 Stanley: 0
I met Bella in the history class and smiled brightly at her, just happy to be with her.
"How was english?" She asked me.
"Frustrating and amusing." She gave me a curious look and cocked her eyebrow. I told her what had happened with Jessica, only editing a little bit, and was shocked by the furious expression on her face when she looked at the front row where Jessica was sitting. "Bella?"
"How dare she!" Bella hissed. My eyes widened, I hadn't expected her to be this angry. Actually, I had expected to laugh quietly and then kiss me on the cheek, that was what she usually did. I was the one that got all angry whenever someone made an advance on her.
"Bella it's alright." I put my arm around her shoulder, scooting the chairs closer together.
"No! What she did was not alright, how dare she think that she can touch my mate!" Bella hissed.
Her mate. I had only heard myself being referenced to as Bella's mate a handful of times. She usually just said her partner or something like that. I hadn't really thought about why she did not call me her mate all the time like the others did, maybe she thought that the term would make me uncomfortable. Well, it didn't make me uncomfortable, I liked it. I really like it actually. And just like that, I knew what I had to do to calm her. I scooted the chairs even closer together so that they touched and practically put her on my lap. I wrapped my arms around her and kissed the spot just in front of her ear.
"Don't worry about her Bella. I am your mate, not hers." I whispered into her ear. She relaxed slightly in my embrace and her glare started to lack fire. "Your mate Bella, yours." I kissed her again. She let out the breath that she had been holding and leaned into me. She closed her eyes and turned her hear around to face me. She skimmed her nose across my check before she met my lips.
"My mate." She whispered against them before kissing me. She pulled away after a few moments and breathlessly leaned her forehead against mine.
"You referred to yourself as my mate." She said.
"That's because I am." I said easily. I liked the terminology.
"You don't mind that word?" She looked like she as bracing herself.
"No, I actually like the word."
"But it's a vampire term." We were still whispering so we were in no trouble of being heard. The class was still being noisy because the teacher was not here yet.
"Well you are a vampire love. And, if everything goes to plan, I will be to someday soon." I grinned. She closed her eyes again and smiled, somewhat wistfully, then kissed me lightly again.
"You still haven't spoken to everybody yet."
"There is only Esme, Rosalie and Emmett to go. I am sure that they will be happy to speak to me, except for Rosalie." Congratulations
"That true." Bella nodded. I noticed then that the people sitting at the table around us were staring at us, still talking, some probably about us and some probably pretending that they were not staring at us. I turned back to look at Bella. "How about you come back to my place toady after school and we can talk to Esme?"
"Alright then."
"Mr. Masen could you please tell me why Miss. Cullen is sitting on your lap?" The history teacher asked us.
"She was feeling ill sir." I said without missing a beat.
"I thought that I might pass out, I feel odd." Bella rested her head against my shoulder.
"Do you need to go to the sick bay?" Mr. Ericson asked Bella.
"No Sir."
"Then get back to your seat thankyou Miss. Cullen." Mr. Ericson nodded to her before starting to write on the board again. Bella sighed but sat back on the seat. After history I went to my Spanish class, wishing desperately that I had chosen to do french instead.
That's what you get for not listening to your mother. She had wanted me to learn French, something about being a romantic language.
The only plus side was that I got to do trigonometry with Bella.
I made me way through the door, saying goodbye to Bella and seeing that Jessica, who was sitting next to Angela, was glaring at Bella. When she saw that I was looking at her, she glared, then smiled, then turned back to the front of the classroom. Thoroughly confused, I went to the teacher and handed her the slip saying that I had changed my class. I took s seat on the other side of Ben, who was sitting on the two person desk next to Angela and Jessica's, glad that he was here. I liked Ben, even if the guy was totally clueless. Angela obviously liked him, and he quite clearly adored her. The only people that couldn't see what the felt for each other were the two of them.
The teacher wrote up the conjunctions on the board and told us to work together in teams of four to match up the conjunctions.
"Do you two want to be a team with the two of us?" Angela asked us with a pleading glint in her eyes. I got the feeling that Angela didn't like Jessica very much.
"Alright." Ben said immediately, with a smile on his boyish face, before looking over at me seeming to say 'please'. I nodded with a smile. We picked up our chairs to carry them over to the girls desk, as half the class did. Over the noise, Ben could not be heard speaking to me. "Sorry about that, I forgot about what happened this morning in english."
Ben sat on the desk next to me in english, again with Angela. "It's alright, you and Angela make up for Jessica." He grinned at me.
Ben put his chair opposite Jessica, which allowed me to sit opposite Angela. I threw him a grateful smile and decided that I had to do something to make up for the generosity that he was displaying.
We worked together to try to unjumble the conjunctions and Jessica would either completely avoid me or try to touch me again. Angela, trying tactfully to break the tension that was radiating from me, started to talk about a movie that had just been released to the movie theater. Ben, realizing what she was trying to do, immediately jumped into the conversation.
"Apparently it's tipped to get an Oscar or a Golden Globe or something like that for best movie of the year." Angela said.
"That's what I never got, how can they decide what the best movie of the year is when the movie has only just come out, or when it's nowhere near the end of the yer yet?" I chimed in.
"Or when they saw 'the best album of the year.'." Ben grinned.
"Exactly! None of that stuff makes any sense unless it is actually at the end of the year."
"I would still like to see it though." Angela said happily.
"Yer me too." Ben said.
Score! Opportunity here, advance with attack, operation Ben + Angela ago!
"Well, maybe you two could go together." I said quietly, in the most nonchalant voice that I could, trying to keep the slime off of my face. The three of them froze. Angela and Ben were still looking at each other, and Jessica slowly looked up from her work to stare first at me and then to look at the other two.
"Umm.." Angela began to stutter. I shot a look at Ben, who was still frozen. I met his gaze and rose my eyebrows. He nodded determinedly, swallowed thickly, and then looked Angela straight in the eye.
"Would you like to go with me?"
Angela looked up at him and started to blush. I grinned and looked back at me work.
"I….well, yer, I would like that." My grin got even bigger.
Mission complete. Status – successful. Jasper would be proud. They started to make plans about when they would go and decided on a viewing that night.
I left the classroom feeling much happier than I had when I had started the lesson but only part of that was due to my success with Ben and Angela . Bella met me at the door of the class room and we start to trigonometry. I gave the teacher the note and took a seat next to Bella on the right hand side of the front row of the classroom.
The lesson went quickly, but this class was a bit further ahead in the course than I was so I got extra homework.
The others were already at the table by the time that we got there, they were all sitting, talking quietly with their trays of props in front of them.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Bella asked them as we sat the trays on the table and I pulled the chair out for Bella.
"Just planning a hunting trip, we haven't been on a long one for about a month." Emmett said joyously, probably thinking about the possibility of hunting a bear. However, I was dreading the coming separation. I tried not to let them see that, knowing that I could not hide from Jasper, and focused on eating the cafeteria food in front of me.
"When we thinking about ditching on Friday, going up to Alaska and then being back on Monday morning by the time that we have to go to school so that you and lover boy and still be together."
Bella bit her lip. "Do we have to be gone that long?" She asked, and my heart soared. She still wanted to stay with me.
"Yes."
"Alright, do I have to stay that long?"
"Yes." Jasper said this time.
"She won't." Alice giggled.
"Bella!" Emmett groaned.
"I can stay until Sunday, I want to be back by midday."
Rosalie scoffed.
"What Rosalie?" Bella asked.
"The way that you talk, you would think that you would die from spending an extra 18 hours away from each other."
"Your mate can hunt with you, you two do not have to be separated like we do. And I know that you two don't like being separated."
"But Edward is not a vampire." I think that that was the first time that she has even said my name.
"But I am, remember?"
"And I don't like being separated either." I chimed in. They all stopped talking and turned to look at me.
"You don't?" Emmett asked me. Emmett and Rosalie looked quite shocked.
"No, why is that such a shock?"
"What the human feels can't be the same as what we feel." Rosalie scoffed.
"You think that just because I am human that I can not miss her like you miss Emmett?"
"That's exactly what I mean, we don't just miss our mates, it's so much more than that."
"I know that. It's like part of you is missing. I can't breather properly when she is not near me. It's more than just missing her. There is this….pulling sensation if she is not next to me."
They were all staring at me in shock.
"What?" I asked them.
"Bella obviously told the human." Rosalie said, sticking her nose in the air and shoving away from the table. "There is no way that the human can feel the same that we can. Bella probably doesn't feel the same way that we do." She stood up and walked away from the table. But Bella stopped her. I looked next to me, shocked. I had not seen her get up. But she was grapping Rosalie on the upper arm, so tight that she would have broken my arm, with her lip pulled back over teeth and her eyes black a flint. A part of me was glad that she was facing the wall, and that there was nobody between us and the wall. She looked like a vampire now, and that was bound to draw attention.
"How dare you!" She hissed at her sister. "How dare you say that about how I feel about him! You don't know anything. You are just so jealous of him and of everybody else that the fact that he might feel as strongly for me as Emmett does for you! That we feel stronger about each other then you and Emmett do! I have put up with you for to long Rosalie! I have dealt with you for years but I won't deal with you insulting him!" She hissed. With that Bella grabbed my hand and pulled me from the cafeteria, still fuming, towards my car.
She stopped when we got to the car and waited by the passenger side door with her arms folded across her chest waiting for me to unlock the car for her. But I didn't. Instead I dropped the backpacks that I had thought to pick up when we left and wrapped my arms around her. She buried her head in my chest and started to sob, but I wasn't sure if she was sad or angry. Either way, that didn't matter. I pulled her tighter to me, wishing for the thousandth time that I was as strong as her. I made soothing sounds and told her that I loved her because I didn't know what else to do. I told her that Rosalie just didn't understand, though I too was furious at her because she constantly questioned our relationship. She calmed after a few moments and asked me to take her away.
I opened the door for her and got in the other side, starting up the engine and pulling away from the school.
"Do you want to go back to your house?" I asked her, breaking the quiet.
"No, let's go to the meadow." She said just as quietly as I had.
I took her instructions and eventually we wounded up at the forest where there were a bunch of trails. She didn't take me up on of those though. She led me away from them and we walked for in silence.
"Do you want to talk about what happened?" I asked her whilst squeezing her hand.
"No. Not yet."
"Alright then."
I don't know how long we tracked for but eventually we got to the meadow. The place was still beautiful and the tall grass was still swaying in the light wind. She led me to the middle of the meadow and sat. I sat next to her and leaned back. The grass was only slightly wet but I had a jacket with me to put on later. She laid next to me and curled into my body resting her head on my chest. I wrapped my arm round her secularly, one hand underneath and supporting my head, hoping that she would start to talk soon.
"I can't believe that she said that." She muttered after a few moments.
"About you or about me?"
"About both, about us."
"She just doesn't understand love, She doesn't think that what we have can be 'vampire quality'," I rolled my eyes. "just because I am human. But that doesn't matter. I love you more than anyone has ever loved anybody." I kissed her forehead. She rolled over onto her stomach and folded her arms together on my chest before resting her head on them.
"Liar." She said, grinning softly. She leant up to kiss me lightly on the lips and I almost moaned at the contact. "I love you more."
"Doubt that." I said, knowing that full well, vampire or not, that what I was saying was true.
She leant up to kiss me again but I didn't let her pull away so quickly this time. I took my arm from under my hand and wrapped it round her waist, pulling her on top of me. She didn't object and moved easily, something that I wouldn't have been able to do if she did not want me to. She moaned quietly and my hormone filled body reacted to that, my mind quickly snapping off as I felt the need to do something, anything, just to get her closer to me. I pulled her tighter to me and rolled over so that I was on top of her, supporting my weight on my arms. She put her arms around my neck and tightened them in my hair, making me bring my face even closer to hers. But I was getting dizzy, I needed to breathe. I pulled my mouth away from her lips but kissed across her jaw, and up her cheek as I tried to gulp in breaths of air.
She was moaning underneath me and the sounds spurred me on, I had to be doing something right if she was reacting like this. I could feel myself getting hard and tried to make a mental to try not to let her feel. I ran my tongue over her top lip and she moaned, before opening her mouth to me. I lightly touched my tongue to hers, instantly moaning into her mouth, she gripped me tighter and whimpered, before pushing me back off of her.
I looked at her, thoroughly confused for a few moments, afraid that I had done something that she did not want to do, that I had forced her to do something that she did not want to do. I pulled back voluntary in horror, about to open my mouth to apologize when I realized what I had done. I, the soft, warm human with the delectable blood that sung so sweetly to the woman in front of me, had not only just kissed her with the open mouth, but had stuck my tongue in her mouth.
You dumb shit.
Her eyes were blacker than I had ever seen before and she was staring at me with a battle waging in her eyes.
"Bella?" I said quietly, not sure if I should move or not yet.
"I am alright, just stay, but just do not move." She said seriously. She started to breathe through her mouth again and slowly started to breathe through her nose. I didn't move for ten minutes while she started to breathe comfortable again, her eyes starting to turn but to the gold that I loved and she started to smile again. "You can move now." She giggled, running her hand through my hair.
"I am so sorry, Bella, I completely forgot about the thirst - ."
"Edward," She giggled, continuing to run her fingers through my hair. "don't worry at all, if anything, I think that this helped."
"I think that being….closer….to you might get easier now." She stared at me, then grinned madly. "And I didn't bite you! I didn't even want to, just the scent was to much!' She leaned up to press a light kiss to my shocked lips. She laughed again but looked suddenly smug.
"What?"
"I can kiss you like that and not even want to bite you, not that I had any doubt, but I must really love you." She grinned up at me and kissed me again.
Bella didn't go back to the Cullen house that night. We went back to my house from the meadow just before five. She called Alice on the way back to the house and asked her to bring some clothes for the next day over. Alice was there by the time that we got there looking sadder than I had ever seen her. I opened the door for Bella, took the bad off of Alice and watched as they embraced like the sisters that they really were. I knew then that everything would be alright, even if things between Rosalie and Bella were a bit rocky right now.
"I can't see how long it will take for you to come back." Alice said.
"I can not be near Rosalie right now, not after what she just did."
"I know, and she was out of line. You know how she is, how she feels about….everything. She will come around, and I can see everything back to normal, I just do not know when."
"Neither do I Alice, neither do I." Bella muttered.
Alice started to walk away and Bella walked towards me. She turned, waved to the both of us, turned forwards, turned forwards, turned back towards us and said "And Esme and Carlisle send their love, they are both going to stay home tomorrow and expect the two of you at lunch time, and they said to say that the two of you are not in trouble.". She waved at us again and then kept on walked through the forest and went in the direction towards the house.
Bella and I did the homework for the day and then watched television for a little while. I started to cook just before my mother got home.
"I have new!" My mother thrilled as she walked through the door. I stopped cutting immediately and turned to watch her bounce through the door with raised eyebrows. She was showing so much enthusiasm, this had to be good news.
"Bella dear, how are you?" She wrapped her arms round Bella's waist and kissed her on the cheek. Then she came over and did the same thing to me.
"Hey mum, what is the news?"
"I got promoted!" She smiled brightly, opening her arms as if expecting applause.
"What! Really! Oh mum congratulations!" I hugged her tightly, kissing her cheek. I knew how much she loved her job, she took it so seriously and to be promoted after only working for so short a time at this branch must make her so happy.
"They said that they loved what I was doing and the amount of work that I put into each case!"
"Oh Elizabeth that is so wonderful, congratulations!" Bella said as she hugged my mother.
Over dinner mother told us everything about the new job. One of the parts of the job, the part that she was hesitant to tell me about, was that she would have to travel to other parts of the state for a few days at a time to do the work. Bella said that I could stay with her whenever mother went away, and that immediately severed any issues with that aspect of the job.
We didn't even need to pretend that I was going to take Bella back to the house because mother went to bed before the usual time that I took her back to the house.
We went up to my bedroom and practically made out until midnight, we only had to stop a few times when things got to heated. We decided that I should try to avoid going into her mouth because of the venom and the sharp teeth but that it was perfectly safe for her to come into mine.
I slept peacefully wrapped round her with her running her little fingers through my hair.
At school the next day we were greeted by Jasper and Alice, they said that Emmett wanted to be there to but that Rosalie would not let her husband near either of us. They said to congratulate my mother for them and Alice winked at me, saying that Ben would be very enthusiastic to greet me in English. I assumed that this had something to do with their date last night. The planning seemed so long ago, though realistically everything happened less than twenty four hours ago.
The lessons passed quickly as I thought about what would happen at lunch time when the two of us went back to the Cullen house and spoke to Esme and Carlisle.
At the beginning of lunch we went straight to the forest where I jumped onto Bella's back, and she ran me back to the house. They were already outside standing and waiting for us on the porch when we got there. As soon as I was put back on the ground Esme rushed over and hugged Bella in a tight embrace.
"Oh Bella dear, I am so sorry about what happened. But you just must come back, alright, you to need to talk about what happened." She looked as if she might start to cry.
"Honestly mum, everything will be alright, Alice has seen that much, but we just don't know when."
Carlisle came over to hug his daughter whilst Esme hugged me, apologizing for her daughters behaviour. "She absolutely should not have questioned your love for Bella! Even the other humans can see it!"
We went and sat inside at the dining room table where there was lunch for me on a plate on the right hand side. I ate quickly as they talked about everything that had happened. They kept on saying things like "Rosalie just does not understand." And more than once the jealousy that Rosalie seemed to hold for me was brought up.
"You continue to say that Rosalie is jealous or me, but I do not understand why she would be." I said after a while.
"Part of the reason why Rosalie makes fun of the humans so much is because she wants to be one so much. She would give anything to be human again and she would probably even give up Emmett." Carlisle said.
"She would give up Emmett!" I questioned them, shocked.
"Yes, and we all know that, even Emmett. I know that that saddens my son and Rosalie must to but they never speak about that. Rosalie wants children and as a vampire she can not. She would do anything to get them."
"But I thought that she loved Emmett." I said, the sudden fury making me flush. How dare she say that my feelings for Bella were not strong enough when she would give up Emmett! "Wait, was that what you meant the other day, when you said that we might feel stronger for each other than Rosalie and Emmett?" I asked directly to Bella.
"Yer."
We went back to school after that to be sure that we would not miss any other classes.
Time was going quickly that I could hardly keep a track anymore. Bella didn't go back to the house for another week and didn't stay for the day until the Saturday after that. She did not go on the hunting trip that Emmett had planned either and stuck to hunting either by herself or with one of the others. Whenever either Rosalie or Bella went to a room the other one left, we could not even have lunch together anymore and things were still quite tense.
Before I knew what had happened, a month had passed and I was staying over at the Cullens because my mother had to go to Tacoma for the week. We were only going to stay the night at the Cullen's, the rest of the time we would be staying at my place.
The time that I spent with Bella was blissful, I could not believe that I never wanted to move to this place. I loved her more and more everyday and often found myself over whelmed. Bella said that she felt like that to, that she thought that this had something to do with her being a vampire but I thought that even if we were both humans that things would still be like this. But I knew how happy it made her when she found out that I felt that way to though she still believed that she loved me more than I loved her.
Over the next three and a half months my mother went away another three times. The days started to pass quickly, to quickly for my liking for every moment was precious. There were tests and studying and family dinners with my mother and spending the nights with the Cullens, and of course the constant sleep over's that Bella and I had almost every night. She only didn't come if she had to hunt. Our relationship didn't advance so much physically, which I was fine with, though my body disagreed with my mind far too often much to my embarrassment and Bella's, though she would never admit, enjoyment. I don't know why my situations were so enjoyable to her, I think that she just liked knowing that she had a great affect on me, as if my pulsing blood and beating heart were not enough for her. Though our physical relationship didn't advance to much we grew closer than before, I knew almost everything about her and she defiantly knew everything about me, there was just so much more to her.
Before we knew what was happening, Rosalie was picking out a dress for the graduation ceremonies the next day and Esme was deciding whether or not to add the disgusting yellow graduation caps the to frame that held all of the past graduation caps. They were very old, some of them at least, but none of them looked as hideous. They looked like somebody mixed yellow paint and puke together. Rosalie had eyed hers with distaste and dropped them on the couch when she got home the days that they got them, and Alice had screamed when she saw what she would have to wear the next year. I was over at the Cullens and sitting with the men of the family. Emmett was telling us about the honeymoon that Rosalie had insisted upon and they were giving him suggestions on where to go. She wanted to go back to Paris, Emmett wanted to see Africa and they both wanted to go to Asia. They never booked the flights to far in advance, never knowing when they would want to leave a certain place. I didn't want to know why, but thought that that had nothing to do with the scenery.
"Hey baby, getting any further along on the plans?" Rosalie sang as she strutted into the living room. She totally ignored me as usual but I was used to that.
"Good, what about the dress finding."
"Don't know why you bother, the thing will be off as soon as – "
"Shut up Jasper." Rosalie snapped. "I think that I found the right one." Her eyes softened as she talked to Emmett and sat on her husbands lap. I took this as my queue to go to find Bella. I told them so before walked quickly from the room and up the stairs.
"In here Edward." I heard Alice call from her bedroom as I walked past. I stopped and looked at the door, before turning back and opening it and walking inside. Alice was sitting in the middle of the bed a looked up to smile at me before changing the song with the remote.
"Hey Alice."
"Hey."
"Alright so what about this one?" Bella asked. I turned my head towards the door and my breath caught in my throat, she was so beautiful. Not just beautiful, but sexy. She was wearing a midnight blue dress that just made the half way point on her thighs. It was tight and hugged all of her curves and the colour went wonderfully with her complexion and her hair. Her light golden eyes flickered over at me and stared transfixed at my face as if she was seeing the beautiful thing, before she looked away looking embarrassed.
"Yer, that's the one." Alice giggled, not oblivious to my totally obvious ogling.
"Alright, just let me go and get changed then we can get one for you." Bella went back to the bathroom.
"Why are we finding clothes?"
"Rosalie wants to go to Seattle to go clubbing after the graduation tomorrow so we are all going to go." I raised my eyebrows. "I got some stuff for you too, they are in Bella's room, the shirt matches with her dress."
"If you knew what one I was going to wear than why didn't you just tell me!" Bella exclaimed from the bathroom.
"Because this way was just so much more fun."
"Do you want to come Edward, we don't have to go." Bella told me as she walked from the bathroom to sit next to me on the bed.
"No we should go." I told her back. I defiantly wanted to go, especially if she was going to be wearing that dress again.
"You still got your fake ID?" I nodded. "Alright, we can ask your mum if you can stay over and than we can go to Seattle."
"She will say yes, it's just a good thing that they graduate on a Friday." Alice muttered, looking at a magazine.
"Are we going to stay in Seattle for the night or come back here?" They both looked up at me.
"Well we were going to come back here." Alice said, starting to smile brightly.
"But we should stay up here, make a night of it." They looked at each other in excitement. "Is that alright guys?" They waited for a moment before starting to squeal. I took that as a yes. "Alright, lets go and ask your mum, it's a Thursday night anyways, you need to get home."
"Ah yes, the tacos." I groaned as I got up off the bed. Bella had been invited over for dinner tonight and had accepted. We walked hand in hand back towards the front door and said goodbye to the others before I started the car (gladly opening the door for her and still enjoying the way that she responded ). She hummed along to the songs that were on the radio .
"Hey mum." I called as we walked through the door. She came bustling from the kitchen and gave us both a hug, asking us how our day was as she went back to the kitchen to continue to cook.
We ate mostly in silence, not knowing what to say but being comfortable all the same. I looked over at Bella after we had finished, asking her with my eyes if I should ask my mother yet. She nodded her face, a beautiful smile lighting up her pretty face. I shook myself mentally before she could see that I was, once again, in complete awe of her beauty.
"Mum?" I spoke softly as I got up to stat gathering the plates. Bella got up as well and put her napkin, that was full of food, on the plate before taking the two that I carried and taking them to the bin.
"Yes Dear?" She hadn't said my name in more than a month. I internally sighed, but now was not the time to mope.
"You know how Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie are graduating tomorrow?" She nodded her head quickly. She had wanted to come to the graduation ceremony but had to work. "Well after the even they are all going up to some fancy restaurant in Seattle to celebrate and they invited me to go with them."
"How late will you be back?" She didn't seem opposed.
"We were thinking about just spending the night up there, instead of driving back."
My mother looked thoughtful for a few moments before nodding her head. "Esme and Carlisle are defiantly alright with this?"
"Yes." We chimed together.
"Alright then, but just remember to call me when you get there."
"Of course mum." She smiled gently at us both before she hugged us both goodnight, saying that she was going up to bed.
"Well that went well." I said as I wrapped my arms round Bella's cold waist. I all but purred in content.
"Yes," She whispered against my neck as she wrapped her arms round my neck. I pulled her closer to my, a subconscious reaction. "now all that we have to do is survive the ceremony." I looked at her. "Emmett always makes a big deal of things, Rosalie gets pissy at him, Jasper tries to calm everybody and for some reason Esme and Carlisle get all proud, no matter how many times that we graduate." We both chuckled.
"Your family is crazy."
"Yer but we love them all the more for it." There was no denying that.
We went up to bed and, like every night, she held me while I slept and hummed in my ear until her dream self could take me away.
True to her word, the family was completely crazy the next day. The normal classes were canceled and the ceremony was not compulsory, plus didn't start till twelve. However, at ten Bella and I went back to her house to find Emmett whining on the second story, though he could be heard from the living room even with the insensitive hearing of a human. Rosalie started to scream at him before yelling at Alice to get the new eye shadow back. Alice, how had been comforting Jasper and usually jumped at the chance to dress anybody up scrambled from the couch to fetch whatever Rosalie wanted. Esme was apparently in Rosalie's room and Carlisle was sitting in the living room looking happy. Jasper was just sitting on the couch all but pulling out his hair. I smiled sympathetically at him as he mouthed the words 'help me' at me. I smothered my chuckle as my love sighed.
She shock her head and went over to Jasper. I sat next to him and put my hand carefully on his shoulder, not wanting to take him by surprise. He relaxed noticeably and sighed when he felt my happy and amused vibes.
"Thankyou, now just stay like that." He smiled happily.
"So are you ready to go?" I said as I looked him over. Her was wearing all black. A black dress shirt that was tucked into black pants, and of course slightly worn black converses. I was surprised that Alice let her husband wear that, though he seemed to get away with dressing much more casually than the others. I think that she secretly loved the way that he dressed.
"I've been ready since eight. All that I needed to do was shower because I was covered in dirt."
"Do I even want to know?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Probably not." He grinned.
"- I don't even want to go, plus the gowns are so ugly and then Rose will be up- " Emmett's voice was drowned out by the crack of thunder that suddenly shot thru the sky like a cameras flash, "Plus we could be playing baseball!" Emmett exclaimed.
"Do you not remember what happened the last time that we played that game?" Bella asked her brother.
"There are no nomads round this tome though."
"So Emmett is like this every time that you graduate?" I asked Jasper quietly.
"Yer," Jasper sighed. "and minute now he will start to complain about how boring the ceremonies are."
"-plus they just go on and on!" Emmett could be heard as he walked back up the stairs.
"Only an hour till we get to go." Jasper groaned at my words and buried his head in the seat cushion. Carlisle chuckled at his 'oldest' son and continued to read the paper.
At eleven thirty we were all loaded into the cars and speeding towards town and the local high school. Everybody seemed to already be there because there were latterly no cars. Usually you would pass one or two but this time the town looked deserted. I wondered briefly if everyone in town came to these sort of things.
My question was answered shortly after.
We had difficulty finding a car park and had to park on the street, walking through the wet grass to get to the hall, Rosalie and Alice in their three inch heels and bitching the whole way there. I attempted not to laugh at Jasper, who looked like he was about to take a snap at one of them. Alice must of sensed her husbands discomfort and stopped almost at once, Rosalie, however, was nowhere near as attentive and continued to whine about the nasty mud that was ruined her shoes an the smell of the human food. There was a party or something like that after the ceremony. Emmett didn't seem to be hearing a word that was said, gazing absent mindedly up at the trees and the sky. Obviously Emmett had become quite good at blocking whatever was going on around him. I sighed wistfully, wishing that I too had mastered that particular skill.
"Rosalie." Jasper threatened. Emmett turned to the other vampire and raised an eyebrow, silently saying 'did you really just say that to her?' Did he want to defend Rose, or was he wondering what was going thru his brothers head when he threatened Rosalie.
"What Jasper?" She snapped, turning her gaze onto her brother.
"Stop moaning about – "
"Oh look they are calling your name! You three had better hurry along now!" Esme quickly intervened. I looked over to the hall where the principal was organizing the students into alphabetical order. Everybody else seemed to be there and I was marveling at how a family of vampires with super speed managed to be late.
"Come on, we better go get our seats or there will be none left. " Bella sighed.
There were no seats left, so, we stood for the whole ceremony, the Cullens a little bit too still and me a little bit to not-still.
The A's and the B's were called and when they got to the end of the C's and called 'Emmett Cullen' there was the usual hooting and clapping from people that you have probably never spoken to and Emmett strutted on to the stage, got the certificate and bowed to the audience, who laughed appreciatively. Esme, who had started to all but dry sob at the sight of her son on the stage managed to laugh appreciatively at her son's antics. Carlisle sighed but clapped before putting his arm round his wife to comfort her.
Jasper Hale walked calmly onto the stage and shook the principals hand. He permitted himself a grin when he looked at Emmett, who was hollering and all but screaming 'that's my brother! Yer!' and clapping obscenely loud. Rosalie Hale strutted onto the stage just after her twin and grinned at the audience, obviously loving the attention.
"Ah Rosalie, at least she didn't do that little flirty wave thing this time." Alice sighed mockingly, as if she were remembering some great event. Bella giggled along side her sister. I threw them a questioning look.
"She usually does this little wave thing and ever body wolf whistles for her. When the days of sexism were over and she managed to get away with doing so she did the wave on a daily basis." Bella rolled her eyes. This wave thing seemed like a very Rosalie thing to do. For somebody that constantly worried about her family being noticed or somebody finding out about their secret she was probably the one that garnered the most attention on purpose.
"That's my woman!" Emmett could be heard over the crowd. Well, she garnered almost the most attention on purpose.
They were announced the graduating class and then they al threw their yellow caps up into the air. The humans were hugging each other and one brave girl even hugged Emmett when Rosalie wasn't looking. He accepted her hug and hugged her back happily.
"I can't wait till we get to Seattle." Alice chirped suddenly. Bella looked at her curiously whilst I looked at the students a families that were leaving the area. "We are going to have such a great time."
"So we should get there as soon as possible." Rosalie said as she walked up to us. Emmett and Jasper, who walked over to his wife and scooped her up into his arms, trailed along behind her. Esme consecutively pulled each one of them into a hug, congratulating them.
"Lets get back to the house." Jasper said looking wearily over at the teachers. They had started to move the chairs towards the side of the hall and they were starting to set up the tables that the food would be placed on for those that were going to stay. The others nodded their agreement and we headed back to the cars. I don't know what I had been expecting, because I had never been to a graduation before, but I was a little disappointed at how uneventful the whole thing had been. I suppose that with about one hundred people graduating they wouldn't make such a big deal, but I had expected a much longer ceremonies. That part I wasn't at all upset about. I never seemed to enjoy the big celebrations that other people that I knew liked. Wedding and family reunions and all that never had much of a draw to me and I was always happy to get them over and done with as soon as I could. My mother hand always complained that I had always complained about going to the functions and what not that they would drag me along to when we lived at Chicago, before das had died. Towards the end of Edward Sr.'s life I had often avoided having to go to the parties. But then dad died and I got dragged along again. This ' formal get together ' had been a breath of fresh air compared to the other ones that I had been to and I was glad that my own graduation would be so much simpler than anticipated. I wondered if this was another reason that the Cullens stayed in small towns. There were less people that lived here and less people that visited, which would give them less of a chance of being spotted by somebody that already knew them, risking exposure.
"So what hotel are we staying at?" Carlisle asked Bella as we were driving back home.
"No idea." Bella shrugged, squeezing my hand as she looked back over at me. Only Alice seemed to know the name of the accommodation, and the name of the club, though I was less concerned about that particular aspect of the night. "I think that only Alice knows that."
"Which means that the accommodation will be five star – " Carlisle smirked.
"With a wonderful menu," Said Esme.
"With wonderful soft beds that we won't use." Bella laughed.
"Except for Edward." Esme said.
"Oh! Alice's picky-ness finally serves a purpose." Carlisle laughed.
"What do you mean?" I asked curious, but also somehow knowing. As I said, I always seemed to be somehow intone with other peoples thoughts.
"She always checks over every little detail from the menu, to the spa even sometimes to how close the kitchen is to the room so that we don't have to smell the food or what feathers the donna and pillows are made up of. We never really understood why, except for the kitchen thing, but at least now we have somebody that can actually use her research." Carlisle grinned over at me using the mirror.
I didn't bother to get out of the car when we got home. The others darted from the cars and up the stairs to get the bags and were back after a minute, and then we were speeding off towards Seattle.
The Fairmont Hotel and Resort was spectacular. Only a few blocks away from the Seattle art museum we got a great view of the city, I was looking forward to what it would look like in the night. Thanks to the Cullens maniac driving we were in the city by four though we had to slow because of the traffic. To say that I was surprised when Esme, of all people, started to complain about the lack of speed, would have been the understatement of the century. I didn't know if she and Carlisle would be joining us tonight, because in all honesty I could not imagine them in a club grinding against each other, but what did I know? The receptionist greeted us in a strictly professional voice, flaunting a fake smile that practically screamed that she had better things to do then be here. The Cullens, or Alice, had reserved one of the Cascade suites for each of the couples.
The rooms were huge, with blazing fire places in the living rooms and huge beds with numerous fluffy pillows. Absentmindedly I wondered if Alice had researched the billow brand of this hotel.
I dumped the bags in the bedroom and sat on the comfortable, almost groaning at the feel. Carlisle's car seats were comfortable, sure, but that was nothing compared to this. I let myself fall back onto the bed and grinned at Bella as I saw her flash into the room.
"Having fun?" She grinned, raising an eyebrow.
"I would be having more if you were over here to." I chuckled, holding up my arms signaling that I wanted her to come over to my. She walked slowly, sensually, though I didn't think that she meant to, over towards the bad, to me. I sat up and wrapped my arms round her waist as soon as she was close enough and then pulled her back onto the bed with me.
I turned to face her on the bed and she mimicked my position, we were so close that out noses were touching. Looking into her golden eyes, I felt myself get lost, or as Bella joyously called it, 'dazzled'. She had discovered that I was somewhat like the other humans that had a shred of self reservation and could be dazzled when she had made me run into a wall because my mind still wasn't working properly.
"So, we still have a few hours before we have to get ready, what do you want to do?' I asked her brushing my lips against her once, twice.
"Well, we could go down to the gym," I raised an eyebrow, what could Bella do at a gym? ",they have a steam room and stuff like that down there."
"Alright," I shrugged, first getting off the bed then pulling Bella off after me. "but I didn't bring my swimmers."
"Alice packed some for you." That didn't surprise me. I told Bella so and she just laughed, telling me that it shouldn't, and that Alice usually packed their bags for them anyways.
Why I though that this was I good idea, I have no idea. The whole situation is Bella's fault. Not only was she the one that suggested the steam room, but she can make me do anything. So now, here I was sitting in the steam room of the hotel completely uncomfortable with a blissfully unaware Bella tucked into my side with my arms over her shoulder.
After Bella had convinced me to go to the gym and the steam room with her we had gotten up and gotten dresses before going to the recreation area. The gym was practically empty with only a few people roaming about but Bella appeared to know were she was going. She led me past the treadmills and the weights, past the door to the pool and into the room where the steam room and other aromatherapy things were. She went into the connecting female dressing room to put her bag in one of the lockers and I looked round curiously.
I don't know if you have ever been in a steam room, but if you go in one and you are not wet then you feel really weird. So, I used the shower next to the steam room first then went to wait for Bella in the steam room. I don't know what I was expecting her to be wearing, because she has put clothes over the swimmers that she had put on up in the room, but the revealing two piece that she was wearing was not what I was expecting, and did absolutely nothing to help my current situation. If that two piece wasn't enough, the fact that she had used the shower after I had and was now dripping wet, pulling her long hair over her shoulder as she walked in, was my undoing. She noted my stunned expression with a look of confusion and pure innocence before settling herself into my side while I attempted to rearrange myself and tried to think of the most disturbing or monotones thing possible.
Baseball, baseball hat, piano keys, Emmett, Oh! Emmett, Emmett works, alright…..Emmett in a two piece, Emmett in the two piece that Bella is wearing. Alright, there we go.
I sighed in relief and Bella looked up at me obviously bewildered by my confusing reactions. I just smiled at her and brought her closer to me.
I had just stepped out of the shower, and it was nearing eight o'clock. Alice had come to talk to us an hour earlier and told us that she wanted to be on the way to the club by nine. Bella made me have first shower saying that by the time that I ordered food, got the food delivered and then ate she could already be ready.
"Hey, I left the menu of the bedside table, room 718." She said as she slipped past me into the bathroom, leaving me to get dressed in the room. I got dressed in to black dress pants and a midnight blue button up shirt to match the colour of Bella's dress. I rolled the sleeves up to my elbows and took a look at the menu, finally deciding to get the spaghetti. I placed my order with the bored hotel employee and amused myself with watching Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End. I was up to the part where they go to Singapore when the water in the shower stopped and twenty minutes later there was a knock on the door. I went and answered the door, took the food off of the delivery boy and got some money from my wallet to tip him. I heard the bathroom door open but paid that no attention, I knew that once I looked at her I would not be able to look away. Apparently, the delivery boy was in the same situation. I looked back up at the boy to hand him the money to see the boy staring over my shoulder, mouth open and eyes wide.
Don't look, don't look, don't look, don't look.
"Umm?" I questioned him, giving the boy a look that clearly said ' get your eyes off my girl fucker '.
The pervert boy snapped his eyes over to me, blinked fast a few times and swallowed repeatedly before stretching out his hand . I put the money there then slammed the door in the guys face.
"You alright?" Bella asked me.
"Yer but that guy just – " And then I couldn't talk. Bella was dressed and had her make-up on, and, if possible, she looked even sexier and even more beautiful than she had the first time that I saw her in the dress. Now don't get me wrong. Bella is beautiful in anything, she can be wearing this….material, really there was no point to even attempt to call this a dress, or jeans and a t-shirt. I think that I actually the t-shirt, that was Bella just being Bella. But this, this was a new extreme. The dress seemed much shorter than I remembered and with the smoky eyes thing that she had done with the make up she practically oozed lust. Did the woman want me to combust?
"Edward?" Bella asked shyly, looking bashful, like she would be blushing if she could. I made some kind of strangled noise in response, resembling a nearly dead animal that had just been run over. She seemed to be genuinely concerned now, though I suppose that she didn't get people chocking at the sight of her everyday no matter how beautiful that she was. She took two steps towards me in her two inch heels and I snapped out of my retrieve.
"Bella you look…."
She smiled shyly, looking up at me from under her lashes and a bit my lip trying to hold in the groan.
"Come, eat, we need to get going soon and I don't want Alice to rip you apart."
"Alright," I nodded dumbly, slowly walking towards the bed, unable to take my eyes off of her before realizing that I was now acting like the horny teenage boy that I always said that I would never be, but shit she was making this hard on me, no double meaning intended. I ate silently wile Bella sat reading on the bed next to me, glancing up occasionally to gaze at me or to watch the movie. When I was done I put the lid back on the tray and put them by the door. I freshened up and sat next to Bella on the bed and wrapping my arms round her, trying not to notice exactly just how much skin that I could feel.
"Looking forward to tonight?" I asked her at ten to nine.
"Yes," She grinned up at me. "We haven't been to a club in years." We were interrupted by a loud banging on the door, that was more than likely coming from an annoyingly small pixie on the other side.
"Alice, it isn't even nine o'clock yet." I told her as I opened the door.
"Yes," She said back. "But you two are ready now, and so is everybody else." Alice looked stunning in a jade green satin dress that had a bow just underneath her chest and went to about mid-thigh with black three inch pumps.
"Let's go." Bella said as she walked past me with a clutch in her hand, grabbing my hand with her free one. Just down the hall the other 'children' of the family were waiting for us. Jasper and Emmett were dressed similarly to me, but Jasper was wearing a green shirt and Emmett a black which was Alice's doing no doubt. Rosalie was wearing a reveling, tight, short dress that was, ironically, blood red and black pumps.
"What about Esme and Carlisle?" I asked them.
"They decided not to come, they have something else planned for their night." Jasper shrugged, taking Alice into his arms.
"Let's go!" Alice squealed, she was starting to vibrate. Rosalie strode past us without a backwards glance, her icy demeanor never taking a break. Emmett walked after her and winked at me as they passed. Alice, still squealing slightly pulled Jasper along behind them. Te amount of patience necessary to be married to her was astounding and made my respect for Jasper heighten. Bella chuckled at her sister's antics and we walked together, hand in hand, after them.
It seemed that Alice had gone all out; she had even hired a limo to take us to the club. Carefully trying not to think about the last time that I had been in a limo, I climbed in after the others and closed the door behind me. The driver took of immediately and the car filled with chatter immediately, with the soft base of one of Rosalie's dance songs filling the car quietly.
"So you ever been to a club Edward?" Emmett asked me casually as he leaned back on the seat, one arm thrown over Rosalie's shoulder.
"Nope, underage, remember?"
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Emmett, we appreciate the fact that you had little to no morals in your time as a human but Edward is a good boy, a law abiding citizen. We have influenced him enough by taking him now, don't try to take any his innocence anymore than that." Jasper said teasingly.
"Take away his innocence?" Emmett said with a screwed up face. "You make me sound like I am trying to sleep with the kid or something like that."
Jasper snorted in laughter and I rolled my eyes.
"Ohh, Bella is jealous!" Alice giggled. I looked at Bella and saw that she was glaring at her brothers, and now at her sister.
"Am not." She sniffed.
"Are to."
"Am not!"
"And here I thought that we were all responsible seventy plus year olds." Rosalie said dryly.
"Yes but Alice there takes joy in acting like a child." Emmett said poshly, earning a glare from his wife.
"Coming from the giant child." Jasper rolled his eyes.
"What – "
"Is that where we are going to?" I asked openly, hoping to break up the almost definite fight that was about to happen.
There were people lined up on the street and I could already here the loud music coming from inside.
Alice squealed quietly again. "I can take that as a yes then." I chuckled. The driver pulled up in front of the place and everybody turned around to look at us. I wasn't to surprised, I would probably turn to look if somebody turned up in a limo.
Rosalie strutted out, obviously loving the attention that she was getting and after somebody wolf whistled at her Emmett followed her, growling. Jasper led Alice out and I followed, offering my hand to help Bella. I could feel the eyes following us as we walked towards the front of the line and I wondered why we were pushing in, looks or not that shouldn't be allowed.
"My name is Alice Cullen, we are on the list." Alice told the bouncer, a huge guy with tattoos all over the top of his arms. The guy checked the list, nodded and let us through.
I could here the people behind us whispering 'Cullen, have you heard of a Cullen?' 'Maybe….'
I just wrapped my arm tighter round Bella's waist.
Alright, So, just a few little side notes, the last time that Edward had been in a limo was at his dad's funeral. Review please! Reviews are better than Edward with a hard one.