Bella had had to drag herself out of her shared shower with Kate. The two had done little more than making out and teasing touches but she was keyed up beyond belief by the end of it. She threw on a pair of clean shorts and an extra top that she kept in her soccer bag. Kate slid back into her jeans and top from earlier and tossed her wet hair over her shoulder as she put her shoes back on her feet.
Bella bit her lip before stepping towards the blonde again and gained no protest from Kate when she recaptured the vampire's lips yet again. The human's phone buzzed from its place in her bag and Bella tore her mouth away from Kate long enough to check it and groan in response (partially from the message she'd received and partially from the way Kate's mouth was currently dancing up and down Bella's neck).
"What, darling?" Kate asked, though she didn't stop her ministrations on her mate's neck.
"I have to go. My dad is going to Skype me in five minutes," Bella gasped out as Kate found a particularly sensitive spot.
"You're never going to make it across campus in that little bit of time," Kate mumbled against soft skin and didn't seem too concerned with letting her mate leave any time soon.
"I'm going to run," Bella said as she finally found the will power to pull away, "I need to, I'm all worked up," She said saucily as she shouldered her bag and took off out of the room. Kate just laughed in response, "Bye!"
0~0~0
Bella opened her laptop just in time to answer a Skype call from Jacob. She was breathing a little harder than normal as she greeted him and he looked at her curiously, "What's up, Bella?" He asked with a raised eyebrow and she shrugged.
"Ran here from practice," She said simply and threw in a smile for good measure, "Where's Charlie?" Jacob moved out of view and Charlie took a seat where he had been just before and greeted his daughter.
Charlie and Bella talked for a while before he made some excuse about being an old man and handed her back over to Jacob who had been joined by a few more of the tribe. They made small talk until Charlie left and then Jacob looked at her point blank and asked, "So what were you really doing before you answered this call?"
She smirked, "I told you, I ran across campus," She said and lifted one of her shoulders in a nonchalant way, "Practice ran late, so I took a shower in the locker rooms and skipped lunch with the girls."
"Really?" Quinn piped up from the left and Bella glanced at him and just nodded, "Because you've got one hell of a hickey there." Bella felt her heart sink and her eyes widen.
"Got cha," Jacob said and followed up with, "So who was in the shower with you?" He asked with a laugh, "Hope you're not bringing boys into the girls' locker room, Bells."
Bella felt her blood boil at Jacob's teasing and the fact that he was looking so smug right now, "Oh, don't worry, Jacob," She said his name with venom in her tone, "I definitely didn't bring any boy into the locker room shower with me." She sat back and crossed her arms over her chest while she fixed him with a look.
"Oh shit!" One of the boys exclaimed while Jacob continued to just look confused, "She had a girl in the shower with her!" He continued and all the boys started howling with laughter and nudging and shoving Jacob around while he turned more and more red.
"Bella," He said as he regained some composure, "You can't be serious," He continued, and she smirked at him.
"I am. And I'm going to go call her now," She ended the call through his protests and closed her laptop as he tried to call her back. "Asshole," She mumbled as she picked up her phone to see what Kate was up to.
0~0~0
When their next away game rolled around, it was no surprise that Kate stayed in town for the night rather than leaving the girls with Mrs. Collier again. Everyone was super excited to have CK around and they'd invited her out with them, but she'd declined saying that she was old and was going to stay in and read or watch a terribly over-priced movie. The girls had groaned but eventually gotten over it.
Bella wanted nothing more than to stay in with Kate, but she knew that there was no way that she was going to get out of going out with the girls and that it would look super suspicious if she and Kate were the only two who didn't go out.
She went out for food and games at Dave and Busters with everyone before they split up to go their separate ways for the night. JP made eye contact with Bella and gave her a soft smile, "You know you don't have to come, La-La. We know it can't be easy to go back out again," She said and Bella guessed that the girl must have read her expression as being nervous rather than as scheming to find a way to leave.
She pursed her lips to look like she was really thinking about it before asking, "Really?" JP just nodded, "Maybe next time?" She asked hesitantly and JP smiled brightly at her and directed their Uber driver to swing back by their hotel to drop Bella off.
Bella made her way upstairs and was stepping out of the elevator when she almost ran into someone, "Sorry," She mumbled and heard her favorite laugh, "Oh," She said and giggled when she thought about what had just happened.
"I got a text from a very concerned JP asking that I please not let you be alone all night," Kate said with a smirk and knowing tone, "How'd you pull that one off?" She asked as she threw an arm over Bella's shoulders and started to walk the two of them down the hallway.
"JP thought I was upset about having to go out again but in reality, she just read my face wrong because I totally just wanted to come back here and hang out with you," Bella finished quietly and didn't make eye contact with Kate.
"Is that right?" Kate asked coyly and Bella just smirked and nodded as she stepped into Kate's room behind the vampire.
