Oh-happy-read: Okay, I'm getting so many wonderful reviews! Thanx to all who reviewed! Um… let's see oh yeah, I'm not Stephenie Meyer and I don't have a body switching machine so I don't own Twilight or Mr. Perfect (Edward), so don't get mad if the story sucks! This part contains a lot of fluff, so fluff-o-phobics beware! Onward ho!
Chapter 4
"How could I leave one so tempting alone?" Edward kissed my lips hard, lifting me off the floor completely while doing it.
My whole body shook from the lack of air. I needed to breathe! I screamed at him in my mind to let me go, the only time in my whole entire life that I would even think about asking him that. Somehow, he seemed to sense it and broke from the kiss. I gasped for air, once it was in my lungs, I felt so much better.
"Why don't you tell me next time when you can't breathe?"" he laughed and rubbed my back, careful not to ruin my dress.
"Yeah, like I could talk through that! Not that I'm complaining," I sighed and took in some more air.
His eyes reflected sorrow, whether from something I said or from something he thought.
"What is it?" I stepped away from his hand, and grabbed it, "What did I say?"
Edward gently pulled his hand out of mine, but circled my waist with his arms, "Nothing Bella, if we keep messing around, we'll be late."
"Okay," I shrugged, realizing we were going somewhere.
More importantly, I was going somewhere in this. Leading me downstairs without carrying me, I only barely tripped once. Of course Edward was there to catch me before I could even go up in the air, so I was fine. Thank goodness for that! I figured that if Edward didn't exist, I would have been long dead and buried right now. This thought made plastered a frown on my once smiling face.
"Bella?" Edward stopped at the front door and turned me to him.
Instantly when I saw his face, my frown disappeared.
"Well?" I faked a joyful face.
"Never mind, let's go," he opened the door and picked me up.
We bypassed the Volvo and continued on to another car. It was a beautiful green, different in that way. A Porsche, it was tiny. I liked it, secretly I wished it to be mine. Edward sat me down in the driver's seat. Astonishing, he never ceases to amaze me. I looked up at him questioningly.
"Your letting me-"
"Yes, your driving. Why? Don't ask, but buckle up heaven forbid," he closed the door and speeded to the passenger side.
I did as I was told, then I stroked the wheel, "I don't even know where we're going!"
"I'll give you directions, I'm here Bella," just him saying that made me feel so much better.
I turned the key and I could hardly tell if the car started.
"Is it on?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
He glanced at me then broke out into a laughing spree.
"Of course it's on! Can't you hear it?" he must have been joking, the car was so silent, "Bella, stopping being so cute and let's go!"
I found in fact that the car was on and backed out of the drive way. Not wanting to crash, I kept my eyes where they needed to be. On the road.
He drummed his long fingers on my leg, as if there was music on, "Do you know the way to Port Angles?"
"Yes," I turned to the road I need to take.
"Well then, keeping going till we get there," he murmured and sighed, "I would say if I was driving we would have already been there by now."
"Oh shhh," I took one hand off the wheel and put a finger to my mouth.
Peering over at him, I couldn't help but giggle, "I love your face."
"Is that all you love?" he smiled his heart stopping smile.
"No," I shook my head, "I love the way you talk, the way you walk, my Edward-o."
His laughter filled the car, sounding like noon bells from a church, "Oh Bella."
I joined him, by now we were half way there.
"What else?" Edward asked.
"How you love me, when your near me, I feel as if it's my birthday, Christmas, Halloween," I chuckled at the reality of that, "and all the other special event's rolled into every millisecond I have with you."
I heard his breath catch, and felt I said too much.
"Oops," I bit my lip, afraid I got him angry.
"You have nothing to worry about, Bella dear. I love it when you ramble," he touched my cheek with his lips.
Remembering we were in a car and I was driving, I glued my eyes to the ever present road.
Coping him from just moment ago I said, "What else?"
He got it.
"Your smile, your eyes. The way you move," his face brightened at that one, "When all else is lost, you come back."
"Huh?" I shifted in the seat.
"I thought I had lost you, but here you sit," he ran a chilly finger down the length of my neck.
I tilted my head, "But," then I sighed, "that wasn't all my doing. It was yours too."
Quickly, he a gave me a smirk and all was quiet. We reached town limits and I slowed down.
"Where to now?" I stopped at a stop sign.
"Hold on, pull into this parking lot," he motioned for me to turn.
I did and when I turned off the engine, flipped out his cell phone again.
He dialed a number and put it up to his ear, I whispered, "Edward?"
Edward was quiet for a second, then, "Hello, I would like to check on my reservation to your restaurant," he waited for them to asked something, "Cullen, two," silence, "Yes, and the special thing that I requested to have done?" quiet yet again, "Wonderful, thank you."
He hung up the phone. In a hurried motion, he slipped the phone back into his pocket and waited for traffic to lighten up.
"Go ahead and start the car up again Bella," he waved a car by.
It still made no noise when I turned the key, at least none that I could hear. I took it that the car was on and got back onto the street.
"Until you reach the fourth stop light, keep going forward. Then take a left, can you remember that?" I asked, glancing out the window.
"Yes, are we going to lunch?" I ran through the green light on the second one.
Edward threw his hands in the air, careful not to hit the roof of the car, "You found me out!"
"It's a miracle!" I put on hand on the side of my face and faked a look of surprise.
Chuckling, he came close and whispered in my ear, "I love you, Bella."
"Really? I never would have guessed it! How do you figure?" I scanned the area for the turn off and found it, "I love you, too."
The turn let to a long drive, going deep in and leading all around. We were on it for about ten minutes until a big brick building stopped us. It was old building, with it's bricks black and dirty. I turned off the car and didn't understand why he had told me to take this road.
"I can't go any farther, how do I turn around?" I peered out of the windshield at the door of the building.
It looked like one of those speak eases I heard about from the '20's. I told that to him.
"No it doesn't. I was alive-dead, whatever during that and this is certainly not one of them," Edward got out of the car and stood at the front of it waiting for me.
And he didn't help me because…? Getting out of the car without tripping was hard, because it was so dark in the alley were we were. As soon as the car door shut, there we no lights, I gulped and stuck my hands out in front of me to try and feel where I was going. Stone arms drew me closer, I stopped and let him pick me up.
"Is this some kind of a joke?" my teeth were chattering because I was nervous.
I kissed my neck as he walked and I felt at ease.
A stone finger twisted some of my hair, "Here we are."
If my senses were right, and they weren't always trust me, I thought we were by the door.
"We're going in there?" I cried.
"Are you at all hungry?" he asked, I shook my head, knowing he could see it in the dark.
My stomach answered with a growl too.
"Like I said before, here we are," he grumbled and pushed against the door to get it open, but without a lot of force.
Inside the dirty looking building was an elegant palace. Chandeliers and candles were everywhere, making it seem as the place didn't have electricity. The ceiling was high and vaulted, almost like a cathedral. It held shadows all the way up. Deep red wallpaper, it was deeper than blood, covered the walls. A dark haired, tall man was waiting by a front desk. He was pale, but I could tell right away he wasn't a vampire, he was like me, human. Though not normal, because he eyes were fixed on me as he smiled when we entered. Or maybe he was normal, since almost every guy seemed to be attracted to me, not that I noticed with Edward around.
"Do you like it?" Edward set me down on the marble floor and took my hand as we walked over to the dark haired guy.
I smiled, "I have no clue where we are and yet I love it," then reached up to kiss his cheek.
Winking he stopped to looked at the guy, "Cullen."
"Right this way sir," the dark haired man nodded, then looked to me, "my lady," he bowed a deep bow, almost touching the floor.
I blushed and we followed him through different rooms. The first room that we walked through was beautiful, different from the place we entered. It was dark, not as many candles, with a pumpkin colored paint on the walls. The floor there was dark hard wood. No windows either. Small square tables were littered through the large room. No one seemed to be in there, but the closer I looked, I saw a few tables were occupied with men and women. Next, a medium colored yellow, looking like mustard. I hoped that we wouldn't be stopping in there, there were mean looking men sitting at long tables, with shifty eyes. Scooting closer to Edward, we came to another room.
This was the place that I could live in. High ceilings like the entrance, except a huge bay window engulfed the far sided wall. There in front of the window was a round table, with a light green table cloth and a vase of white flowers. I didn't notice it before, but the whole room was swathed in white flowers, every kind you could imagine. White roses, carnations, tulips, pansies, wild white violets, rare white lilacs. The flower that was everywhere even more than the others was beautiful white freesia. With the window and the bright flowers, plus the key-lime pie green wallpaper, the room was gorgeous!
"Edward!" I gasped and clung to him with all my might.
"Are you okay?" his arms pried mine from him, holding me back.
"This is so…" I paused, "I can even think of the right word! I love it! Thank you Edward!" I jumped back to him and hugged him tight.
Edward chuckled, "I'm mighty glad you like it Bella, now let's get you something to eat!"
As I went to the table, I realized the dark haired guys as gone.
"Who was-"
"The mater-d," he went over and pulled out the comfiest looking chair I've ever seen.
I stood there stunned, unable to move. The sun was shining through the window and he was sparkling. What if someone saw him? He and his family would be found out!
"Your skin, Edward! What are we going to do?" I breathed heavy, afraid of what might happen.
He shrugged his shoulders, "I got it covered."
"No you don't, your not covered, duh!" I through my hands up in the air, he was over next to my in a flash.
"I know that, I wasn't speaking literally, come on and sit down," Edward had the me in the chair before I knew he did.
It was even more comfortable then I had thought. I bounced up and down a few times before turning my attention back to Edward.
"Uh," I thought, "How are we going to explain your…skin?"
"Your not and they don't actually care. This is a sort of haven if you will for the non-mortals," he laughed at me, "This is my favorite place to come and look at the sea," he motioned for me to look out the window.
The view was spectacular, the gray waters of the cold ocean threw waves against some of the rocks. Kind of like First Beach, I loved it. The sun shone carefree on the opaque waters, we were like on some sort of cliff the way it was over looking the water. My mouth dropped and I giggled with my mouth open.
I couldn't help but stare at it's beauty, "Holy crow!"
"Oh Bella, food for the human time," he sung in a sing song voice that made my hearty stop.
"If you say so," I grumbled and removed my wide eyes from the window to Edward's shininess, "Is there a menu?"
"Yes, we need one for a human, though. I strongly doubt that you're a cannibal," he waved a piece of cardstock with words on it in front of my face.
Before he could stop me, I snatched it out of his shimmering hands.
"Bella, you don't want to read that," he warned, eyes sad and slightly ashamed.
I winked at him, thinking him to be joking. Looking down a the menu I just stole from him, I read:
Blood: (served in a bottle)
Baby A pos. O pos. O neg.
Teen girl A pos. O pos. O neg.
Teen boy A pos. O pos. O neg.
Toddler A pos. O pos. O neg.
I gasped and looked up. His eyes now burned with regret and hatred.
"Bella, I told you," he reached over and took my hand.
I let the paper drop to the floor, "I know, gosh I'm stupid."
"No, your not, you mine," he whispered, using his smoldering eyes, then he called in a clear voice, "Waiter!"
Promptly, an old white haired man with wrinkles and a gentle smile came into the room from an unseen door.
"Yes?" he asked, glancing at Edward, them resting his gaze on me.
"Can we please have your human menu?" Edward kept my hand in his.
The old man turned his head sideways a little then nodded, "Of course, anything else?"
"Lemonade please," I hadn't realized I'd spoken until Edward and the waiter both gave me a funny look, I blushed, "Thank you."
"No problem," he waved his hand and a little girl came out carry a tray, with a flute glass of lemonade and a different looking menu. She had black curly hair and was pale skinned. Her eyes were blue and pained, she was wearing a white dress that looked at me with a adorable expression.
"Here you go, ma'am," she smiled at me cutely, raising the tray so it was over her head and at the fingertips of the waiter.
"Thank you, honey," I grinned at her pretty face and heard Edward growl.
I felt his hand stiffen over top mine, "Bella, turn back to me."
"Why?" I asked him, but doing as he commanded, "She's so sweet!"
He tapped his head as the waited handed me the new menu.
"Oh," I didn't know what that meant, but took the menu and looked it over.
"Do you need any time to figure out what you would like?" the waiter clasped his hands together in front of him.
"No, I got it," Edward's growl cycled through my head, "I'll have the grilled lemon chicken with wild rice and snow peas."
"Lovely choice," he seized the menu from my hands and bumped the girl on the back and walked back out the way they came.
As soon as they were gone, Edward moved his chair closer to mine, actually it was directly next to mine.
"Why did you growl?"
"The girl wants to do something to you, I'm afraid it's very…inappropriate to say. I'll just keep a closer watch on you."
"She seemed so nice and small, how could she do anything?"
"That girl, isn't human."
"Oh."
The flowers smelled so good, I breathing in their scent, I closed my eyes. It was the best smell I've ever smelled, besides Edward. To which his smell nothing could compare. Anyway, when I opened up my eyes again, Edward had his face in front of mine and his eyes were scrutinizing me. Not in a bad way, in a way that made my heart beat faster and breathing go shorter.
"Bella," Edward put both of his hands on either side of my face and came so close his nose was touching mine, "You're the most delectable creature I've ever seen, met, heard, smell, etc."
I leaned in and kissed him full on the lips, he deepened the kiss. We were like that for who knows how long until I sensed someone else was in the room with us. Turning with a start, I almost fell off the chair.
Is it good? Mostly fluff, I know, but it's a hard habit to break! Yah for fluff! It will get a lot better once you read the later chapters. Um… so will you do me a favor and review! I love to read any and all reviews! Thanx and review!