Author's Note: I published You Are 17, Act Like It as a one shot, but the reviews and also seeing it recommended by someone I didn't know in a Twilight group on Facebook made me really happy and I wanted to play with it some more. So, surprise! Let's have a few more chapters. I can't promise they will be the last because writing lemons is so much fun.
EPOV
As much as my entire being hated to leave Bella's side, it was necessary at least go home to shower and change clothes, and especially to make sure I wasn't around when Charlie woke up. Alice had a vision on the way home that indicated that I absolutely should not hide in Bella's closet like we had considered if Charlie were to wake up and come to question her.
Making sure my love was totally covered by her clothing and quilt and that there was no evidence of our lovemaking in her room, other than the sweet, flushed smile that she still wore in her sleep and the delectable lingering scent that no one else would recognize, I left a love note in her toiletry bag, a place Charlie wouldn't look, telling her how much I loved her and making sure she knew how to find me when she was ready before leaping out her window.
Assuming that Alice probably saw what was happening last night in a vision, I expected returning home to be a little awkward. My brothers, however, never did anything little or simply awkward. They all heard my footsteps approaching, and everyone blocked their thoughts, even Esme.
Some of them were reciting poetry or Spanish vocabulary, others were picturing themselves naked. Regardless, all of my family had learned how to keep me from their thoughts over the years, at least for a little while.
I expected that I would have a lot of apologizing to do to all of them and feared the worst about their anger with me when the door opened before my hand even reached it.
"SUPRISE!" Emmett and Jasper shouted.
It was sensory overload at first. The normally minimalist living room was absolutely covered in balloons and streamers. Several members of my family sprayed me with cans of foul-smelling Silly String as a few more blew little party horns.
There was a large banner hung above my piano that said, "Congratulations on your manhood!"
I wanted to feel embarrassed, but in reality, just lost my mind laughing, doubling over with laughter, unable to even look at any of them. Jasper laughed too, enjoying the high off of my emotional state, which he quickly spread around the room.
Carlisle was the first to approach me a minute or so later, wrapping his arm around me. "We're so proud of you, son. Welcome home." he said seriously, but there was an underlying chuckle in his thoughts.
I looked up at my family, trying to calm down, but Esme's delighted expression just made me crack up laughing even harder. Leave it to them to be proud of something like premarital teenage sex.
Emmett came to shake my hand and looked at me, silently, just watching me laugh. "You don't want to shake that one." I said, causing him to grin from ear to ear and slap me on the back so hard it echoed.
"Didn't think you had it in you, kid."
"Eww, go shower!" Rosalie added.
"I still want to kill you for pulling your little stunt in Volterra." Alice said. "But I'm glad you decided to loosen up some. Did you have a good night?" She was smiling gently, and I wiped my eyes out of habit from laughter, although vampires couldn't cry.
"You should know. You obviously saw it."
"I saw way more of you last night or this morning than I ever wanted to." she said with a shake of her head.
"Please, allow me to apologize to each of you for the way I acted and the past few months. I'm really sorry that I didn't trust your opinions and put you through so much trouble. Bella really handed me my ass last night-"
"I'll say she did!" Emmett stage whispered, causing me to laugh again. It felt so good to be home.
"Before that, Em. She made me realize just how much I've hurt everyone, and I can never apologize enough for what an awful sibling and son I've been. I am sorry."
"We forgive you. But don't ever do that to us again!" Esme said.
"Yes, mom."
"Now, are you being safe?" She giggled, but it was mortifying.
"Mom!" I turned my head away in shame and that was when I noticed that some of the balloons were not balloons at all, but inflated condoms of all colors and sizes.
If I could have, I would have blushed furiously. I couldn't stop laughing though, being in such a good mood. "Which one of you had to go to the store and buy all of these?"
"Me!" Emmett shouted. "Never knew there were so many flavors! Maybe you two can-"
"No."
"We already put a bunch in your room!" He laughed. Even Rosalie was smiling at me for a change.
We're happy to see you so happy, brother. She thought.
"I'm going to go shower." I shook my head and walked upstairs.
It's nearly impossible to scare or startle a vampire, but I about jumped out of my skin when my eyes focused on the sight greeting me in my bedroom. "Very funny, you two!"
There was a large breasted blow-up doll hanging from the ceiling in some sort of swing-like sex contraption, of course surrounded by more condoms tied like balloons. "Emmett, come get your girlfriend out of my bedroom!" They all cracked up downstairs, even Carlisle and Esme.
I stripped naked and happily took a hot shower. It was sad to wash Bella's delightful scent off of me, but I couldn't remember when my last shower was. It was important to try to be more normal for her, hoping that with a cleaned-up appearance and a recent hunt, she would be more at ease.
"Brother." Alice said, walking into the bathroom. Making me nearly jump again.
"What the hell are you doing in here?!"
"Oh relax, I saw way more than I ever wanted to last night. I'm not going to look, anyhow." Her thoughts showed me exactly what she had seen last night, including a delightful glimpse of Bella's round bottom and me enjoying her hands on my cock. Speaking of the devil, it started to rise again just from the reminder, and it took a lot of effort to focus my thoughts and emotions elsewhere. I certainly wouldn't want Jasper to know I was feeling that way with his wife in the room with me.
I was so glad when she started talking again, changing the subject. "I've sat out some new clothes for you on your couch. You need to go hunt. She will be a lot less worried about you if your eyes are golden when you see her later. Also, Carlisle is going to call Charlie in a couple of hours and see if he can convince him to let Bella come be grounded here with us, getting the house fit for us to move back in and doing all of the schoolwork we missed while we were out. I think he'll go for it, especially if I beg. He still loves me."
"I don't deserve you, Alice. Thank you."
Finishing my shower quickly after that, careful to not let my thoughts wander as I cleaned myself up, I dressed and then jumped out of my window to hunt, making quick work of a couple of deer and starting to head home, not wanting to miss a precious second with Bella when she arrived.
A brief lapse in my mental control brought the images from the night before back in full vampire clarity, every movement, every moan. I couldn't stop thinking about how amazing it felt to be with Bella in that way, how we fit together perfectly. I had never dreamed in a century that my mate was out there, nor that she would feel so amazing, taking me to an ecstasy that I didn't deserve, but was so glad to discover.
My erection pressed firmly against my jeans and there was no way I could be sane around my family, so consumed was my mind with the thoughts of Bella and our lovemaking. I climbed to the top of a tall tree, making sure there were no thoughts around me, and unzipped my pants, taking my hardened member into my right hand. I had never done this before. There was never the urge or compulsion that most men normally felt. Yet another thing that had been missing in my life before finding my mate.
In my human time, touching yourself in such a way was seen as disgusting and sinful. Being around other's thoughts for so long had convinced me that it was completely normal and even healthy. Besides, it was the only way that my attention might be able to focus on anything but the feel of my mate's warmth and softness.
I started stroking myself firmly with my hand and let my thoughts drift, remembering how Bella's nipples had pebbled under my touch, how her breath caught in her throat when my fingers touched her swollen sweet spot, how her arousal smelled and even tasted. I was grateful for the clarity of my memory as it replayed the night before, suppressing a low, guttural moan that wanted to cry free as my release shot out of me and made my entire body relax in a sudden wave of happiness and pleasure.
I thought that this unspeakable act would offer me some relief, but as amazing as it felt, my entire being still needed more. It wasn't her. It wasn't what I needed, my mate.
Carlisle was on the phone with Charlie when I walked in the house, trying to keep my emotions in check so Jasper wouldn't know what happened in the woods. He only offered me a grin when I walked in, carefully concentrating on only his next chess move against Emmett, who was wiggling his eyebrows and making inappropriate gestures with his hand around his nipple.
"I agree, Charlie. He has a flair for the dramatic, but he really loves her. She has changed him so much.
No, he's grounded too. So is Alice. At least through the end of the year.
Yes, teenagers are quite the handful. And you only have one of them!
Of course, Esme and I won't let them out of our sight. Thankfully, their siblings were able to get their coursework for them and were thoughtful enough to pick up extras for Bella.
I know. I wish he hadn't told her those things when we left. I had no idea. I will have a stern talk with him as soon as we hang up. He'll have me to answer to if he hurts your precious girl again. She's too good for him." Sorry, Edward. He thought. But I just smiled at him. Whatever helped me see Bella again, and kiss Bella, and touch Bella was alright with me.
Carlisle turning you on that much? Jasper laughed in his thoughts. I quickly tuned him out and turned my attention, at least the majority of it, to a video game, something with a lot of action and shooting.
