Love Bite by Here's To

by Stuckinmichigan

Bella gets a little too rough during a play fight with Alice, which has some unexpected consequences. But in hindsight, she really should have known that vampires would consider biting a turn on.

20. Chapter 19

Chapter 19

I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT OR CHARACTERS

The adrenaline high wore off five minutes later, and left Bella shaky and worried instead of enraged and powerful.

Yet surprisingly, she did not see Alice for the rest of the day. It was disconcerting, really. She half expected to see Alice the moment she stepped foot outside the bathroom, just because of the girl's incredible knack to show up out of the blue when Bella was in trouble.

Not that she was actually in trouble. Cassie was down and out, and no threat, as she'd come to find out.

Still. The principle of the matter remained. Whenever Bella experienced anything even remotely violent in nature, Alice was bound to appear at her side. This time she didn't, and at the very least Bella expected to see her girl at some point during the day and talk to her about all of it, but…

Nope.

Alice was not in any of the remaining classes they had together, and after questioning Edward, he told her the pixie had gone home. Bewildered and slightly wounded, she asked why and if Alice knew about her altercation with Cassie. Of course Edward knew already after picking it up from her prominent thoughts, and he wholeheartedly disapproved and tried to tell her that so repeatedly that she almost hit him too, but eventually he told her that he didn't know.

Apparently after he told Alice about her altercation with Leah, both Emmett and Rosalie had to drag her off campus to keep her from seeking the Quileute girl out to pulverize her.

That soothed most of Bella's worries, but she still wished Alice were there instead. She desperately wanted to talk about what Leah had told her, and figure out if the girl really genuinely knew that they were vampires, and ask what the hell was up with the La Push girl's eyes.

Leah had called them all werewolves…Or shape shifters. Something like that. Bella had thought they'd been joking, but now she wasn't so sure. Naturally she tried to tell herself that werewolves couldn't possibly exist, but then she remembered she'd thought the same thing about vampires, so she refused to rule anything out, especially because it seemed to fit so well.

Jake, Embry, and Quil had all seemed pretty pissed with her for bringing it up, and her eyes kept flashing that bright yellow, and when she got mad she really got mad, as if any second she might explode. '

Possibly into a wolf.

Badgering Edward about it got her nothing but his brooding look, which annoyed her to no end. She got the same result from Emmett, and knew better than to bother with Rosalie. Eventually she gave up and worried more about whether or not she was going to be busted for busting Cassie.

She spent the rest of the day bouncing her knee and cradling her bruised hand, waiting for the inevitable moment for the principal or someone to yank her out of class and give her the obligatory suspension for fighting, but it never happened, which boggled her mind.

Cassie must be keeping it on the down low, for whatever reason. Probably so she could plot her revenge…And it must be so embarrassing for her to tell anyone that the lesbo freak she was always picking on had bloodied her lip and made her cry like a little girl.

Damn, as bad as a tiny part of Bella felt about it, she had to admit.

Putting Cassie on her ass was so satisfying.

So all she could really do was wonder how Cassie was going to deal with her busted lip, if she was going to get in trouble, werewolves, vampires, and always, always Alice.

When the bell rang, Bella was the first one out the door, and she was already hitting the speed dial for Alice's number when she trotted out of the school, eager to hear her voice. It was still ringing when she walked into the parking lot and saw Alice reclined against her car, waiting for her.

Despite everything, Bella smiled when she saw her. Alice was draped in a stylish white leather jacket with complementary blue leather riding gloves, leaned back against her yellow Lamborghini and looking so out of place in dreary Forks, Washington. But when she saw Bella, she lit up, and it was all the brunette could do to keep from bolting across the parking lot like an idiot to her.

She settled for a fast walk, and the first thing Alice did when she reached her was to pull her into a tight hug and squeeze her close. All the worries of the day melted away the moment she inhaled Alice's scent and hugged her neck, swaying slightly as the vampire nuzzled her affectionately.

"Rough day?" Alice said when they broke apart, both of them ignoring the familiar stares of their peers.

"You have no idea," Bella replied, basking in Alice's deep golden gaze. She looked as if she'd fed quite recently, and it only made her eyes look bigger and brighter.

"I think I have an idea at the very least," Alice frowned, and Bella noticed the tension in her shoulders.

"Yeah, I guess you do," Bella amended, and shrugged her backpack higher on her shoulder as Alice stared into her eyes with a hard look. Clearly her break from the school day hadn't done much for her anger over Leah, and Bella wisely decided not to bring that up first thing.

She debated bringing up Cassie too, but decided that she really didn't want to get into the heavy stuff and ruin the slight mood elevator seeing Alice had given her. There would be time for that later. It could at least wait until they got home.

"So where did you run off to?" she inquired instead.

"To blow off some steam," Alice shrugged noncommittally, though Bella easily read the fierce protectiveness brooding beneath the surfaces of her irises. "Rose and Emmett wouldn't let me kill Leah, so I found something else to kill."

This confirmed her theory that Alice had been hunting recently, but Bella shifted uncertainly on her feet at the way she put it, and Alice winced at her own lack of tact.

"Oh, wow. Sorry, that came out really morbid," the vampire winced, but Bella shrugged it off.

It was not like Alice to say things like that, but the girl's instincts must have been sorely tested at this point.

"It's no biggie. I'm just glad you didn't really murder her. That definitely wouldn't have been good," Bella said. "And that you didn't completely ditch me and leave me without a ride."

"As if I would ever!" Alice scoffed, and Bella couldn't help but grin at the offense in her tone.

Okay, yes, Leah had blown up on her today and put worries in her head about werewolves and vampires and all that nonsensical nonsense, and she'd technically gotten into a fist fight (beat down), but…

When it came to Alice, somehow, she always felt better.

"Good. Because Emmett still hasn't fixed my baby," Bella reminded her playfully, but Alice pouted.

"I know! He's taking forever. I'm sorry," Alice groaned, and Bella just chuckled at the undying remorse Alice felt for damaging her truck so badly. It had been quite some time since her truck had disappeared into the depths of the Cullen garage, and Alice had been giving her a ride to school ever since. Even Charlie couldn't believe that the Cullen boy was still 'fine tuning' it forever, as she'd used as an excuse when her father began questioning her about where her vehicle was.

"And hey, I thought I was your baby now," Alice added, her pout slipping into genuine puppy dog eyes that Bella was absolutely helpless to.

It was ridiculous really, how quickly she melted at that look.

Gosh, Alice was so cute. And Alice wanting to be her baby made her heart flutter. What was she so stressed about again?

"Oh right, sorry. Of course you're my baby Alice," Bella grinned, and laughed when the girl beamed.

"Damn right I am."

"Don't tell me you're getting jealous of my truck now, too," Bella rolled her eyes jokingly, and Alice glared at her.

"I'm so not."

Bella stared at her, and Alice shifted, avoiding her eyes.

"Alright. Maybe just a little," Alice acquiesced, and giggled when Bella laughed again. "I can't help it though! Even without my instincts, I'm crazy about you, baby doll."

Baby doll.

Bella fought not to swoon at the pet name. She never thought she'd be the kind of girl who got all mushy over pet names, but here she was, blushing about it like wild.

"I thought you didn't like that word," Bella tilted her head, and Alice paused for a moment.

"I don't. But when it comes to you, it's true," the pixie shrugged slightly, and Bella softened.

"You don't have to be Alice. No one means more to me than you. I'm yours," Bella told her honestly. Alice's expression shifted to match hers, and they shared a tender smile.

"You're mine. And I'm yours," Alice echoed.

There was a heavy pause, and then without thinking about it, they both leaned forward. Bella remembered at the last second that they were at school, in a crowded parking lot, surrounded by their peers.

And also realized that she didn't care.

The kiss was short and sweet, but it still left her lips tingling and her heart racing when Alice rocked back on her toes. Her hand flew to her mouth.

"Oh my gosh, Bells, I'm so sorry. I forgot-I didn't mean to-"

Bella looked around and saw only a few people glancing over at them, and she was happily surprised to find how much she really just didn't give a fuck anymore.

After today, with everything with Leah and Cassie, she just couldn't care.

Let them look, she thought. Let them see. I don't care anymore. I love Alice, she loves me, and I don't give a damn what anyone else thinks anymore. They don't matter. No one else matters but her. And damn it, if I want to kiss my girlfriend, I'm going to do it. I didn't punch Cassie for nothing. So there.

"It's fine Alice. Forget them. I don't care," Bella declared. Alice's eyebrows rose, and she hesitated before a wide smile crossed her face.

"Yeah?" she said.

"Yeah," Bella grinned.

"You're sure?"

"Completely."

"And what about her?" Alice said in a hard voice, and jerked her head to the side. Bella looked over to see Leah staring at them from across the parking lot, too far away for her facial expression to be read.

Bella hesitated, and then she just sighed.

"I don't care about her either, Alice. She acted like a total bitch, and that's not cool. So fuck Leah," Bella stated with total conviction, refusing to feel even slightly bad that Leah might have seen them kiss.

That's what she got for acting like that. Flinging food everywhere, soaking Bella's jacket with milk. If it had not been for her immature hissy fit, Bella wouldn't have even gone into the bathroom and met up with Cassie. Plus, she called Alice a slut. So yeah. Leah could piss right off. She may have seemed cool, but Bella was starting to see that she had a serious temper issue, and overstepped her boundaries.

"Good," Alice smiled a little though it didn't reach her eyes, and then gestured to her car. "We should probably get going. Esme is taking everyone out for a while, but I passed, so we'll have the house to ourselves. We still have a lot to talk about."

Bella nodded, and they both got into the car. Before they pulled out of the parking lot, Alice dotted a kiss to her cheek, and somehow that tiny gesture of affection wiped away any trace of her bad mood, and they held hands the whole way to the Cullen household.

"And I swear to God if Leah ever so much as blinks in your general direction again, I'm going to hurt her."

Bella stared at Alice from her reclined position on Alice's bed, amused and bemused as the vampire paced back and forth next to her, still going on and on about all the ways and reasons she wanted to 'hurt' Leah Clearwater. Her instincts were clearly flaring back up.

This had been going on since they walked in the door, about twenty minutes ago. As funny, heartwarming and sexy as it was to see Alice huff and puff over her with protectiveness and possessiveness, it was starting to get a little ridiculous.

"God, she's such a bitch, reacting like that, as if she had any right to-"

Bella bounced her knee, only half listening, mostly watching the way Alice bristled as her eyes sparkled passionately. Outside it was thundering and raining as it usually did in Forks, but Bella still felt all warm and fuzzy as she watched her tiny yet not so harmless girlfriend growl and grumble.

"Alice!" she finally interrupted when the pixie opened her mouth to continue.

The vampire stopped mid stride.

"Stop it. You're going to wear a trench into your floor. Come over here and sit down," Bella commanded, stifling her grin at the glower on Alice's face. It would not do for Alice to see how cute Bella thought she was when she was all worked up.

"Fine," Alice huffed.

So cute.

The vampire walked over and plopped down unceremoniously in her lap, making Bella yelp and sit up abruptly as Alice snickered at her. She recovered quickly, then eagerly wrapped her arms around the girl and dotted a soothing kiss to her cheek, disliking the tension she could still feel in Alice's muscles. It took two more before Alice relaxed, and turned to catch the third kiss with her lips.

As many times as they'd kissed, it still sent Bella soaring every time. As hard and eventful as the day had been, somehow Alice managed to make it all better, even when she hadn't really done anything to do so.

"Relax. It's okay. I'm okay, Alice. That's not even the worst of what happened to me today," Bella told her, rubbing absentmindedly at the vampire's hip.

Then she froze, realizing her slip up.

Crap. Does she know about Cassie or not? Edward never found out. I wanted to break that too her easier…

"No, I suppose it's not," Alice replied softly, and caught the hand on her hip. Bella blinked as Alice pulled her hand up between them and gazed down on the slight discoloration of her knuckles with knowing eyes.

Uh oh.

Those were Alice's worried eyes, which pointed in the direction of a yes, she did know.

"You-Do you know about what happened with me and Cassie?" she asked uncertainly, deciding to just go for it, and Alice sighed.

"Yes," she said simply, and Bella bit her bottom lip when Alice brought her hand up to her mouth and softly brushed her lips over the bruise on her hand. Her lips were cool and Bella fell for her just a little more at the tender gesture.

"How? You left before that. And you don't sound very upset," Bella pointed out.

"I saw it in my visions when I was being dragged away," Alice admitted. "I almost made a scene trying to get away from Rose and Emmett."

Ah. So she'd had a little time to come to terms with Bella being physically attacked. Still, she'd been expecting a more angry reaction than that, considering Alice's track record.

"Oh," Bella said, and blushed when Alice shifted on her lap and turned to straddle her, facing her fully.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart," Alice murmured, cupping her face gently. "But…Would it be very terrible of me to say that I'm kind of glad it happened?"

Huh?

This was a total 180 from the murderous intentions Alice had displayed over Leah, and Leah hadn't even hit her.

Just got her soaked in milk and talked some shit, which was annoying at the most.

"You're glad I punched Cassie Streeter?" Bella cocked her head in confusion, trying to focus with Alice's thumbs tracing figure eight patterns on her cheekbones.

"Yes," Alice replied. "I know that sounds awful. Don't get me wrong, I hate that she put her hands on you or dared say such horrible things to you, and I wish you didn't have to but…It was kind of a good thing, wasn't it? She deserved it, and she needed it. It showed her you're not one to be messed with, and by the way, I'm very impressed by that right straight of yours."

"I guess," Bella said skeptically, but couldn't help but preen at Alice's compliment, which Alice of course noticed. She smirked a little before growing serious again.

"What I'm trying to say is, as much as it makes me want to rip her head off, I'm glad that you stood up for yourself. Naturally I want to fight all your battles for you, Bells, and I never want you to get hurt. But there are some things we just have to do for ourselves. This was one of yours."

Oh. I guess that makes sense. Bella hadn't thought about it in that light before.

"Not to mention the way it's made you stand with your chin a little higher," Alice went on, dropping her hands to Bella's shoulders to rub at them, which made her eyes droop in contentment and delight.

Magic hands, those were.

"You're stronger for this. I can see it. And you definitely showed it when you weren't afraid to kiss me in the parking lot. So as much as the vampire in me would prefer Cassie six feet under for touching you, I'm proud of you. I feel like it was a good thing."

"I understand you," Bella murmured, lowering her hands to Alice's waist and leaning back into the headboard to enjoy the pseudo massage Alice was giving her shoulders. She partly comprehended what Alice was actually saying, and partly just enjoyed the sound of her voice, the feel of her company, her presence.

Love, is what it was, simple as that. How could she not have known from the beginning that this was what it was?

"Leah, on the other hand," Alice's voice hardened, and Bella snorted, rolling her eyes and smiling. "Is an entirely different story. She's a whole lot more dangerous than Cassie Streeter, and if she had actually put her hands on you…"

Bella shivered at the way Alice growled quietly and trailed away, clearly still pissed about it. The pixie's hands tightened slightly on the muscles connecting her shoulders to her neck and Bella tensed, enjoying the sensation.

If Alice didn't stop touching her soon, she was going to lose the ability to converse.

A whole lot more dangerous? She wondered though. And could that be…Because she's a werewolf? That still sounds completely crazy though. But so did vampires…And now I'm dating one. Ugh, this is stupid. I should just ask Alice. But Edward kept shutting me down every time I did…Still, he always does that.

That was another way Alice and Edward were complete opposites. Edward always tried to 'protect' her by keeping her in the dark, and Alice always gave her everything, refusing to treat her like an incapable child that would somehow be shattered by the truth. It was certainly something Bella appreciated about the girl.

"And why is that?" she probed, though she had that gut feeling that she already knew the answer.

Which was an absolutely terrifying thought.

If she tells me they're real I'm going to lose freaking my mind. At least vampires kind of make sense. Werewolves are just flat out ridiculous.

"Didn't she tell you?" Alice paused, giving her a surprised look. "I could have sworn Edward said she did."

"Uh…"

She told me something alright. But I can't really believe it, Bella thought, and hesitated.

"Bella," Alice said slowly, and sat back on her lap. That look on her face was only confirming what Bella really didn't want to believe. The thought of werewolves being real too was downright frightening.

As if vampires weren't already enough to handle.

Namely Victoria. And the Volturi. Oh, and that minor issue of the girl she'd socked today, Cassie.

The last thing Bella needed was to add Leah to her list of inane, crazy, and downright unreal shit she had to deal with.

"She um-She said something about the Quileutes being…Er…Werewolves?" Bella stuttered, her voice kind of squeaky in disbelief.

There was a heavy pause, and then Alice nodded. Bella's eyes widened and she ran a hand through her hair.

"You're serious?" Bella gawked, feeling a numb sense of shock beat out any sort of denial.

"Unfortunately," Alice sighed.

Bella could only stare, speechless and trying to process.

She's not messing with me, is she?

Nope, Alice was not, if the sincere look on her face was anything to go by.

Holy shit.

Werewolves were real, too.

Seeing Bella's more than mildly dumbstruck expression, Alice went to elaborate. "Okay, hear me out. I know it sounds crazy, but yes, the Quileutes are a tribe of shapeshifters. They're not werewolves in the traditional sense. They're more like…Overgrown dogs. Mutts, really."

"Yeah. That's what Leah said too. Without the mutt part, but…Yeah. Wow," Bella repeated, rubbing at the back of her neck. She did not miss the recurring anger in Alice's voice. She wondered if vampires and werewolves actually did have that unexplainable instinctive rivalry, and if that really did explain the hatred between the Cullens and the Quileutes.

Or Alice might just be filled with jealousy.

Damn…I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but…I mean, damn! Bella thought. First vampires, and now werewolves. What is my life coming to? What's next? Fairies and elves in the woods?

Alice watched her for a moment, apparently gauging her reaction.

"You seem to be taking this fairly well," she finally commented.

"Yeah, well…If vampires can be real, why not werewolves?" Bella shrugged with much less apathy than she felt. She must have been a better actress than she thought if Alice thought she was taking this well. She was internally freaking out, and struggling to keep her cool.

Werewolves, tigers, and bears, oh my! She thought sarcastically. Did my parents drop me on my head when I was little or something? Jeez…None of this even seems real. Well, none of it except Alice.

"Right. Still. This is kind of a big deal. I'm pretty sure you don't actually believe it. You probably won't, either, unless you ever see one of them shift, which I hope to God never happens because they're unpredictable and wild when they do…That's why I'm so mad that she acted like that around you. It would have been seriously bad news if she went literal bitch mode in front of everybody. They're supposed to keep their existence a secret according to their tribe elders as much as we are according to the Volturi, which is why I'm surprised she even told you…"

Alice looked pensive for a moment, before she scowled as Bella continued to silently attempt to process this new information.

It wasn't working. Her brain was having a hard time filing the existence of werewolves in the 'fact' category, considering it'd been in the 'myth' category all her life. She pictured Leah transforming into a massive, snarling, salivating beast, and wrinkled her nose at how unrealistic it seemed. How would that even work?

Alice noticed.

"You still don't really believe it, do you?" Alice chuckled.

"Yes. I mean, sort of," Bella responded uncertainly, brow furrowed, and Alice laughed.

"Well, you always have been pretty good with weird," she said, and Bella couldn't help but smirk, sensing an opportunity despite the seriousness of their current conversation.

"Of course I have. I'd have to be to deal with you, wouldn't I?" the brunette joked, which made Alice's jaw drop.

"You did not just call me weird."

"What else would I call you but the truth?" Bella retorted, which made Alice let out a noise of protest.

"Well, ain't that just the pot calling the kettle black, Ms. Arizona? You still have that cactus collection from back home?" Alice drawled in an exaggerated southern accent, which made Bella laugh.

"No, and they were not a collection. They were presents from my mother, and we do not talk like that in Arizona, thank you," Bella snorted.

"Oh, well, excuuuuse me," Alice put her hands up, still keeping up the accent despite it. "I guess it's not the cactuses that make you weird. It must just be you being you."

"Yeah right!" Bella giggled, and slapped Alice's arm playfully, which made the vampire smirk.

"Down girl. You're not gonna beat me up too, are ya Tiger?" Alice taunted, which made Bella narrow her eyes at her.

Very slowly, and very deliberately, Bella leaned in and flicked Alice right on the tip of her cute button nose.

The challenge that lit up in the twinkle of those honey colored eyes made Bella's breath hitch.

"Now you've done it," Alice growled, and Bella bit her lip, contemplating if she should start begging for forgiveness.

Alas, it was too late.

Bella shrieked as Alice lunged for her and began to tickle her, fingers darting in between her ribs as she simultaneously blew a raspberry into the side of her neck.

"Oh my god-No, s-stop! Alice!" Bella squealed, kicking out as Alice flattened out on top of her and pinned her wrists to the pillows with one hand while mercilessly continuing to tickle her with the other.

"Not so tough now, are ya?" Alice cried over her yelps as Bella writhed beneath her. "You know the magic word! Say it and I'll stop!"

"No!"

"Say it! Say Uncle!"

"Never!"

Alice's fingers flew up and down her sides, over her tummy, driving her freaking nuts. Bella fought and struggled, but she knew it was useless as she laughed and laughed and laughed.

Suddenly, Bella felt a wicked sense of déjà vu and she gasped as it struck her, an almost physically visual flashback claiming her vision.

Bella grit her teeth, swearing under what little breath she had left.

Oh god, she couldn't take it. Alice was going to kill her by tickling.

She had to do something, anything but say Uncle.

A spark of insanity flashed inside her head, an instinctive attack that Bella really should have thought through a little more. She had no weapons as her nails were obviously useless, digging into the space between Alice's shoulder blades worthlessly.

So without warning, the brunette sank her teeth hard into the spot where Alice's neck met her shoulder, her teeth scraping along soft skin that was draped over muscle as hard as granite.

"Alice!" Bella gasped for air, arching. "Alice, please."

Alice froze at the desperate tone of her voice. Bella's chest heaved as the vampire went still atop her, and the grip on her wrists went slack. It was silent except for the sound of the rain outside, as Bella tried to catch her breath, the position so familiar, too familiar.

This is how it all started, Bella thought, staring up at the ceiling as Alice slowly drew back and sat up on her lap. This is how it all began…

But it wasn't, not really.

Bella shifted on to her elbows, blushing and mildly embarrassed at her outburst as Alice easily picked up on the shift of her mood and the reason for it. Bella could see it on her face, the way Alice was remembering exactly what Bella was remembering.

But she was interpreting it in the entirely wrong way. That wasn't exactly fair though. Bella wasn't sure how to interpret what she was feeling either, but for some reason, it was not a frightened or bad one…In fact, she felt kind of good.

"I'm sorry," Alice whispered, and wrung her hands, staring down at Bella with guilt in her eyes.

"Don't be," Bella said instantly, breathless.

We didn't start there, when I first bit her, Bella thought, her heart picking up its pace. We started the moment we met. We clicked, and the rest was just…Inevitable.

"Did I scare you?" Alice inquired anxiously, sounding far too miserable for Bella's tastes.

"No. Not a bit. You never do. You never have," Bella reassured her quickly and made sure to meet the girl's eyes to really convey the sincerity of it. "I just…It was so…Familiar. Déjà vu, you know?"

"I know," Alice murmured, and Bella sat up with Alice in her lap, trying to ease her breathing as the vampire sighed when their foreheads met. "But it's not. It's different this time…Everything is different now…You know that, right? Because I love you, and I will never lose control like that around you again, I swear."

"I know," Bella murmured, and brushed their noses together, breathing in deeply as she tried to calm down. "I know Alice. You don't know how much I know it. I love you too."

"I just can't stand the thought of you being afraid of me…" Alice whispered.

"Then it's a good thing you're about as scary as a daffodil," Bella teased her softly, and Alice gave her a weak grin.

They were quiet for a long moment, and despite all her efforts, Bella still felt so…Alive. Her heart was pounding from being tickled, from Alice's touch, from the weight of her in her lap. Her belly felt warm and tight, and she knew there was no fear inside her.

She gazed deep into Alice's pupils, lips pursed, and wondered if Alice understood the intensity behind the look the way that Bella felt it deep inside her soul.

"You're not gonna bite me again, are ya Tiger?" Alice whispered against her lips, and smiled so that her nose crinkled and her eyes twinkled.

So beautiful. She's so beautiful, and so, so…

Bella shook her head slowly, pulling her lower lip between her teeth when Alice's eyes flickered down to her mouth. She felt a thrill rush up her spine when Alice growled, and moved to lock their lips in what would undoubtedly be a heated kiss that Bella somehow knew would lead to more-

A crack of thunder rang out, and with a zip of surging electricity, the power went out, and they were plunged into darkness.

"Son of a bitch!" Bella swore, and flopped back when Alice promptly began giggling at her, the mood dashed.

Even if the mood was killed, Bella could still feel it racing through her. She was turned on, and Alice was so close but always so far, and…

Damn it!

"Well isn't that just completely convenient?" Alice snickered, apparently much less distraught at the interruption of their moment. "Hang on Bells, I've got it."

Bella was more than disappointed when she felt Alice's weight disappear from her lap, and heard the vampire dart throughout the house, presumably in search of a new light source.

My hormones are getting out of control, she thought unhappily, uncomfortably aware of the slickness between her thighs. How does she do this to me? Just from being with me. Nobody ever makes me feel like her, like this…Goddamn, stupid storm. Ugh. Why does it always have to storm in Forks?

A few moments later, she heard a muffled noise as Alice zipped back into the room. She then watched as one, two, three, then in the blink of an eye a dozen or more candles flickered to life throughout the room as Alice placed and lit them. She watched, impressed, as Alice blurred around, tossed an armful of logs into the fireplace and quickly got them burning.

That was another perk of having richer than rich parents. A huge room, complete with its own fireplace.

In less than thirty seconds, Alice's bedroom was filled with the dim, soft glow from the candles, and the lovely warm saffron firelight that began to radiate out of the fireplace.

"Wow," Bella whistled, flipping right side up and looking over at her girlfriend, who crouched by the fire, stoking it with the poker until it began to crackle and jump higher, till it was a healthy leaping dance of flames. She swallowed and had to physically exert the effort not to stare at the curve of Alice's ass in her designer jeans. "Where did you even find that many candles?"

"We always keep an emergency set around. Our power usually doesn't go out, so Esme and Emmett haven't gotten around to buying a generator yet. So for now we're stuck with this," Alice replied loftily, standing and turning to face Bella again. "C'mere. It's going to get cold pretty quick with the power out. I can't have you freezing on me."

Bella stood and walked over at Alice's motioning hand, and did not say her thoughts aloud, that even though Alice's skin was probably as cool as the air outside, she still somehow always made Bella hotter than any fire ever could.

She watched as Alice walked over to her bed and ripped the thick duvet free, flung it out on the floor in front of the crackling fire and then grabbed an armful of her numerously fluffy pillows before dumping them unceremoniously down as well.

She then reached out, grabbed Bella by the waist, and dropped them both to the duvet, so that Bella yelped and ended up in her lap this time.

"Now, where were we?" Alice murmured against her lips, voice silky smooth and eyes lidded.

"Right about here," Bella said back breathlessly, and kissed her with no further words, unable to resist those heart shaped lips a second longer.

Alice groaned into her mouth, and it did not take long before their tongues met.

Just like that, the mood came rushing back.

Like the fire building in the fireplace, Bella felt the slow burn Alice had been stoking in her core for so long begin to crackle higher, heat filling her with every icy cool brush of Alice's skin on hers. She cupped the back of Alice's head and couldn't stop the soft, hungry little whimper she let out. The sound of it made Alice's chest rumble against hers, and Bella shivered in delight.

It was funny almost, how long that promise of slow they'd made lasted.

That is to say, it did not last long at all.

As they kissed, Bella's heat melted into her underwear, and she wanted, needed like she never had before. The heat of the fireplace on her left side, Alice's cool soft lips against hers, the texture and taste of her tongue, the tickle of the carpet on her knees, the sound of the rain and thunder outside…

It all really hit her, and Bella rocked forward on Alice's lap, rising up as Alice tilted her head up to keep their mouths together and moaned, that sweet, high pitched moan that always drove Bella wild.

Bella was wanting.

She was wanting more.

More than just lips, more of Alice, all of her.

"Ugh, Bella-" Alice hissed and broke them apart as Bella sank back down onto her lap and moved her hips again, unmeaning to but naturally following the wanting as she immediately went for Alice's sensitive neck. She laid wet, hot kisses up and down the length of it, finding a particularly sensitive patch of skin right up under the vampire's jaw line. When she suckled at it, Alice gasped in a way that set her heart pounding even harder.

Alice pushed forward and Bella's back hit the floor without warning. She felt the thud of it jar into her bones, teasing her libido and she whimpered as Alice draped over her, locked them up together in all the soft nooks and crooks and places that their bodies could fit; and damn, did they fit so well.

Jesus!

Bella moaned hungrily when Alice's mouth smothered hers with another growl. When she inhaled, Alice exhaled, and when Bella breathed, Alice breathed as their tongues got all tangled up and the vampire began to roll her hips between Bella's.

Oh my god.

"Alice!" Bella gasped, tilting her head back so that it hit the floor with a thunk at the feeling of Alice…

Well, dry humping her.

It was so hot, and erotic, and the way Alice moved her hips so fluidly, like a dancer, grinding into Bella's core through her jeans…

And there were two cold hands sneaking up the front of her shirt, sliding over the hot skin of her trembling stomach, over her ribcage, swiftly, deliberately, until they cupped both of her breasts…

She didn't know why it was always Alice that went to feel her up first, and always went for her breasts. Probably because she was the top, and more forward than Bella, but either way, Bella certainly wasn't complaining.

Again, that knowing sensation that this was somehow going to be more than anything else before flowed through Bella, and she felt no fear of it, only an indubitable rightness.

Because it was Alice, and so everything about it had to be right, was meant to be…And it felt so fucking good.

"God," Bella groaned, arching into Alice's touch, and shuddered as she bucked up to meet Alice's hips. Alice purred and captured her mouth again, squeezing her into her palms until Bella's eyes rolled back.

It was incredible how quickly they switched each other on, how easy it was to get each other going. And Bella loved to touch Alice as much as she loved to be touched by her. So she swept her hands down Alice's hypersensitive back, loved the way she squirmed at her touch, before grabbing a hold of the vampire's ass and yanking her into herself.

The noise Alice released into her mouth at that was not human, and Bella felt the sudden slip of her naked breasts falling out of her bra cups and into the pixie's hands properly. It was so quick that she was stunned and the ache between her thighs gave such a hungry, desperate throb that she cried out into Alice's mouth.

This was her mistake.

"No!" Alice gasped and jerked back, her hands releasing Bella as she went still, stopping the motion of her hips.

No! Bella's mind cried, for an entirely different reason.

"Slow," Alice breathed, chest heaving even though she didn't need to breathe. When Bella peeled her eyes open, she could see how dark Alice's eyes had become, the part of her lips, the way her shirt was crooked…

She was not the only one worked up until it hurt. Bella could feel it pulsating in her sex, and she was so wet that when she shifted she could feel how slippery her folds had become, which only made her even hotter.

"Alice," Bella whispered, voice raspy. "Alice…"

"Slowly. We said slow…We have to slow down," Alice murmured down at her, and Bella experienced such a profound rush of irritation and wrongness that it literally cut through her.

"Why?" Bella demanded and sat up, forcing Alice to scoot back onto her thighs. "Why do we have to stop Alice? Why do we have to go so slowly?"

"Because," Alice frowned, seemingly perplexed. Both of them were breathing hard, and Bella had never wanted or loved anyone so much in her whole life. "We…That's…We're not supposed to…"

Alice was literally floundering for words, and Bella was actually aroused by the fact that Alice was so flustered.

There is no reason, Bella realized. I'm not afraid. This is how it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be me and her…

"Not supposed to what, Alice? Not supposed to love each other?" Bella groused, fisting the carpet.

"No!" Alice scoffed, affronted. "Bella, we just can't rush into this. We have to take our time. Sex is so special, and I don't want to ruin it by-"

"This doesn't feel rushed to me," Bella argued, though with no anger, just frustration that was both emotional and sexual. "It feels right. Everything with you always feels right to me."

"You're missing the point," Alice said exasperatedly, her voice still husky despite her protests.

"No, you are," Bella huffed. "I'm not-We're not rushing into this. I love you, you love me, and I don't need any more time. I want you, and I'm ready. Aren't you?"

"Bella, we only really got together a short while ago. We just need to wait…"

"What are you waiting for?"

Alice seemed absolutely stumped by this question, and she squirmed uncertainly at the ferocity in Bella's eyes. Bella was not lying, or speaking out of some misguided teenage horniness. It was not something she had simply decided on the spot, or could ever second guess.

What she felt for Alice was real. It was real, and it wasn't going anywhere. What was the point of waiting purely for the sake of waiting? Because that's what was expected of them? That didn't make any sense. You were supposed to make love to someone when you were both ready, not wait for some bullshit grace period.

And they weren't rushing into this. Their whole relationship had been a slow burn into what it was now, building momentum until they clashed together and understood the way they really felt, how it was supposed to be between them. It was not like they'd met two weeks ago and declared their undying love for each other within days of that. It had been almost a full year of spending every second they could with each other, going through more than most 'official' couples went through in an entire relationship.

Slow was not what they needed. They'd been going slow for far too long, and Bella wanted to pick up the pace, to experience what they had fully and not partially. She was tired of holding back with Alice, especially when there wasn't really a reason too. (Her libido might have had something to do with it, but not much.)

She just didn't understand the point of fighting this, of kissing Alice and getting all worked up and holding themselves back for no reason. The fire in her belly was as much a part of her as the fire in her heart, and Bella just knew the way you are supposed to know that she was ready for Alice, ready for everything, not just part of it.

Well…There was a teeny tiny part of her that whined about not being ready. She had never had sex with a girl, and the only ideas she had about it were from internet research, which was sketchy at best. She'd briefly dabbled in lesbian porn, and learned quickly how fake and useless that was. (But…She also learned how little of an issue she had with the thought of touching another girl. The thought of going down on another girl actually excited her, which was definitely fortunate.)

Some websites were actually helpful, but still, the whole thing was foreign.

She wasn't a virgin or anything. She'd lost that to a guy named Scottie who used to be her best friend back in Arizona, so that wasn't an issue. All of these things felt like minor details that didn't really mean much to Bella.

She was ready for this, for Alice.

None of that really bothered her. It was Alice, so it all had to work out fine. That's just how it worked between them.

"I don't really know. It's just what you're supposed to do in a relationship, right? Don't rush right into the sex…" Alice mumbled.

"Does this feel rushed to you? Because it feels absolutely perfect to me. Everything is perfect when you're with me, Alice. We've always shared everything with each other, since the moment we met. We never held back, never had to, so why should this be any different? I don't want just part of you. I want all of you, and I want you to have all of me. And there is nothing wrong with that…"

"It's not like I don't want to. Bella, I need it. I have to hunt twice as often because of you, did you know that? Just to stop the aching inside, the yearning," Alice admitted, sounding increasingly desperate. Bella heard the way her voice was weakening, and it spurred her on even further.

"Alice…I can stop the ache. You don't have to yearn from afar. I'm right here. All you have to do…Is take me."

Alice rumbled at that, her brass eyes darkening another shade. Their lips hovered so closely, and when Alice spoke again, Bella knew she'd won, and that it was a victory for both of them for her to have gotten them over that hurdle.

"Why am I being educated about sex by an eighteen year old?" Alice sighed, eyelashes fluttering as her eyes glanced down at Bella's lips.

"Because you're a weenie," Bella said fondly, and kissed her.

The excitement she felt soared in that flying sensation Alice provoked in her, and she groaned as the vampire pushed her slowly by the shoulders until her head hit a particularly thick pillow as Alice laid her out again.

"Are you sure?" Alice groaned between kisses, her hands pressing down on Bella's stomach. "Are you really sure?"

"Completely," Bella whimpered, trying to kiss her deeper, but Alice gave her quick pecks instead that drove her crazy.

"Do you trust me?" Alice murmured against her mouth, the tips of her fingers hooking on the end of Bella's shirt, stilling for just a moment.

Yes, she thought in exasperation, but saw the vulnerability in Alice's darkening eyes. They were almost the shade of the blackening wood popping in the fireplace, and the sight of them made her stomach twist.

"With my whole heart," Bella replied helplessly, sincerely, and Alice took a deep breath.

"Do you love me?"

Bella softened, and when she spoke, she made sure to look right into Alice's eyes to make damn sure she knew she was being genuine, without a doubt.

"With everything I have."

Alice beamed, ebony eyes twinkling, and then pushed Bella's shirt up without another word. She sat up instinctively to help get out of it, and when it hit the floor, the brief moment of embarrassment she experienced was erased the second Alice's hungry eyes locked on her.

Alice seemed to be roused at the loss of her first piece of clothing, and it was so erotic to see her desire take over. The vampire dove for her, and before Bella realized what was happening, there were lips and tongue and even teeth on her skin, everywhere.

Alice was everywhere at once, and she felt the snap of her bra coming off, felt it slip down her arms, and for the first time, she was fully bared breast wise to her friend in a way that was seriously more than platonic locker room showers.

The exhilaration destroyed any hint of insecurity, because it was Alice, and Alice could never judge her, or hurt her.

"Beautiful," she heard Alice groan as she dug her head back into the pillow and trembled with soft gasps as the vampire peppered kisses down between them, and cupped them in the smooth grace of her palms. "So beautiful…"

You are. You're beautiful, Alice, Bella thought, and her mind turned to mush as Alice's head slipped lower and she was squeezed with exquisite pressure in slender fingers.

"If you want this," Alice whispered, and trailed her lips down the valley between her breasts. "If you're ready, I'm ready. I told you Bella, I told you baby, that I'm going to worship you…Every. Inch. Of your perfection."

Alice's voice was a husky scream at her sanity and Bella melted as she gushed into her underwear the moment Alice took her right nipple into the cool heaven of her mouth.

Oh fuck.

Bella mewled a foreign noise and arched her back, her fingers tangling in Alice's hair as the girl suckled at her hungrily, with a sweetness that was firm enough to make her legs part. Little jolts of pleasure raced to her clit. Alice's tongue flicked over the bud that was now rock hard, stiffer than Bella had ever felt it under her own ministrations, and then the vampire switched over and gave her other breast the same attention.

I'm dead. I'm dying. I'm gone.

Bella trembled as Alice purred around her breasts, ran her hands over her ribs, all over her body, and then kissed back up her to her mouth only when Bella was literally soaking through her underwear and panting for more.

When Alice's tongue plunged back into her mouth, Bella realized through the haze of her bomb rushing arousal that she was being fairly complacent, completely inactive, and that actually sent a thrill of panic through her.

"Alice," Bella groaned when Alice hooked her fingers into the waistband of her jeans. She could feel them scratching on her legs and wanted them off, hated the constriction. "It's your turn."

Bella surged up and Alice stiffened in surprise, but when the brunette grabbed for her cami and shoved it up with movements that were not rushed, but paced with the eagerness and want they both felt, the vampire quickly realized what she was trying to do and shrugged out of it.

She wasn't wearing a bra, and when her small, perfect fucking breasts bounced into view, Bella actually salivated.

If she'd been in the right state of mind, she might have laughed.

How could she ever have thought she was straight?

How the hell could anybody be straight when things like those existed?

Things like Alice, and her tits, and her flat stomach with the faint definition of her abs, the shameless blaze in her smoldering black eyes…

"Come here," Bella demanded, and though she had no idea what she was really doing, she followed her instincts, and buried her face into Alice's chest, latching onto her skin and sucking and kissing and licking until Alice let loose a guttural, vampiric rumble and fisted her hair in her hand.

Alice seemed to like what she was doing at least. She could tell by the way pheromones poured into the air around her, saturating it in Alice and her godly scent. They were an aphrodisiac, urging her on. She could taste Alice in the oxygen she breathed, surrounded by her.

"Bella," she groaned and Bella moaned at the sound of that lovely voice.

She knew what Alice wanted, and when she took one of those pert little pink buds between her lips, the way Alice arched into her and clutched at the base of her skull made her feel the wetness of her sex overflow.

God, god, god. She tastes so good!

She could have stayed there forever, basking between Alice's perky mounds, but the vampire had other plans.

Some very nice plans.

Bella felt Alice pull her off with deliberate but gentle force way too soon, and when her head hit the pillows again, Alice solved the rest of their clothes problem in the blink of an eye.

Bella blinked and gasped when she felt a rough yank on both of hips, heard a slight ripping sound, and then felt the toasty air created by the fire on her naked legs.

And her exposed sex.

Alright, that one was a little more embarrassing. Especially because she was fucking dripping.

Bell had never been so wet in her life. When she looked down, she saw Alice rip her own beloved pair of designer jeans open, caught a flash of electric blue panties disappearing, and then the vampire was back on her, all over her.

Bliss.

Pure, naked bliss.

Alice's front slid over hers, breasts pressed together, and their legs tangled after Alice finished kicking the ruins of her jeans away. Bella cried out as the girl effortlessly settled in between her thighs and began to roll those ballerina hips of her again.

Her brain snapped off, and everything turned into this primal slurry of hunger and heat and ice as she throbbed in the most intimate of areas.

It was so much different without clothes in the way.

"Oh, Alice," Bella whimpered. "Fuck, Alice."

Alice growled and locked their mouths up, and kissed her so furiously, so deeply that she felt herself sink back into the silk of the duvet, rise up into the silk of Alice's skin. The way Alice got them moving then was so base that Bella spasmed and struggled to keep herself together when the vampire was so easily breaking her apart.

I love her, I love her, I love her.

Her hips followed after Alice's, rocking up when Alice rolled down, and Bella actually felt her aching, slippery sex slide against the base of her abs when she pushed down. The desperate noise of pleasure she let out at that made Alice drive down harder as Bella mindlessly ran her hands down every inch of that sensitive, bowing back, drowning in all the flawless marble skin.

She's so beautiful. So fucking gorgeous, and I can't-I can't-

"Alice," Bella moaned. "Please."

She did not know what she was begging for.

But Alice did.

And it was more.

"Shh," Alice hissed against her lips and kissed her chin. "Let me take care of you. Let me give you everything you deserve, and more, because I love you…I love you so much Bella…And now I'm going to show you how much."

Her words set Bella on fire. Her body radiated with it, and only Alice's cool touch could soothe her.

Alice slid away from the grasp of her lips and it made Bella frantic, but then that heavenly mouth was dragging down her collarbone, pausing to lavish her breasts briefly, and then down, down, down.

Down.

Oh my sweet Jesus Christ, Bella's eyes widened as she watched and felt Alice kiss down to her hip bones and nip at them with her front teeth until they jumped. Her thighs were trembling when Alice ran her hands over them, and her heart leapt straight into her throat when that silky head of hair dropped just a bit lower.

And then skipped by where Bella needed her the most.

Bella exhaled a heavy breath as Alice kissed down the insides of her thighs, and she was parted for her, everything was open and revealed, the evidence of her arousal, but Alice ignored it, fucking ignored that throbbing spot, refused to even acknowledge it, and layered the lengths of her legs with kisses and suckles, leaving marks, bruises, love bites.

"Please," Bella whimpered again, helplessly, shamelessly. Who wouldn't beg? How could she not?

"Mm, Bells, Bella, my sweet Isabella," Alice purred, her black eyes flickering up at the plea. "You smell so…Delicious."

Bella's ear drums shuddered at that voice, Alice's voice. Her high voice was all low and rasping, until her gut was being pulled by merely the sound of it.

"You smell…Good enough to eat, huh?"

Bella didn't know whether she wanted to laugh or cry at the wink and grin Alice shot her at the cliché line, but she ended up doing this weird triad of both mixed with a shocked, high pitched cry when Alice, with no further ado, leaned in and licked her.

Alice's cool, lithe tongue slipped between her slick folds at the base of her entrance, and dragged up swiftly, lovingly, and the dexterous tip flicked off of her pulsing clit with such precision that Bella came.

She actually came, right then and there, fisting the duvet in both hands and crying out Alice's name.

Alice just-With her mouth-Down there!

"Alice! Alice!"

She felt the vampire's hands wrap around her hips and press down firmly on her lower stomach, easily pinning her ass back down even as Bella quaked, spasming and cumming and searching fruitlessly for breath. Alice did not skip a beat, and before Bella could even realize what was happening to her, that she was already climaxing, Alice's tongue was going back for more.

Again and again Alice licked her, the same way, all over her, flattening her tongue against every sensitive, sweet spot, and flashing over her bundle of nerves at the end of every stroke. And Bella fucking lost it.

God-Shit-Fuck-Damn-

Bella slammed the back of her head into the pillow and arched, clutching at the blanket beneath her as she scrunched her stomach up and stared at the ceiling with her mouth hanging open. A litany of noises she'd never known she was even capable of falling out of her mouth, and she closed her thighs around Alice's apple cheekbones to somehow alleviate the powerful pulsating ache coursing through the muscles of her cunt.

"Alice-Alice-"

It was all she could do to get the girl's name out as the coil in her stomach snapped back tight again, gearing up for more as Alice growled into her, sending delicious vibrations through her. When the pixie's tongue dipped into her, tasting the inside of her, Bella's hips bucked, and she felt that cool tongue pierce her until her eyebrows scrunched up and Alice moaned into her.

"You taste so fucking good, Bella," Alice groaned. "So fucking good."

Without warning, Alice shifted up and drew her clit into her mouth. The suction made her eyes roll back as more ungodly noises rolled out of her throat, and Alice pampered the nub ruthlessly, until Bella actually sobbed and flung her hands out, reaching for something better than that stupid duvet to ground herself.

Oh hell, oh God, Bella thought desperately. It feels so good.

Her hands found purchase on Alice's hair, and the slip of silky chopped locks under her fingers was divine. She clung, probably too tightly, and Alice growled into her again, so loudly that Bella whimpered and let go.

She made better do by grabbing onto both of Alice's hands with her own, and felt the way they locked together effortlessly. Their fingers laced, and Bella arched, seeing stars as that knot turned into a boiling, building escalation of heat that threatened to spill out of her sex at any second, if only Alice didn't stop.

But she did.

Alice released her clit, and kissed it once before she slid back up smoothly, too fast for a human.

"No, don't stop!" Bella cried. "Alice, please-"

"Shh," Alice hushed her. "I've got you baby. I've got you Bella."

Alice took one of her hands and swiftly pinned her arm behind her head. She shook out the other one from Bella's tight grip and lowered it between her thighs, where her fingers slipped into the melt she'd left aching there.

Bella's breath hitched as she realized what was about to happen, and Alice kissed her at the same moment that she plunged two fingers into her swollen, tight passage.

Bella almost swallowed her fucking tongue. (Which would have been a shame, really. She was going to need that later, if she had any hope of giving Alice back even a smidgen of what she was getting.)

"Fuck!" Bella swore aloud, ripping her mouth from Alice's and flinging it to the side as the vampire began to fuck her, make love to her walls with the slip and slide of her pistoning fingers. Bella could feel every inch of them, the drag of each individual knuckle, the curve and flex of her joints, the ice of her skin against the heat of her pulsating walls.

"Like that, baby?" Alice whispered against her ear. "Like this?"

Bella gasped and arched, her hips jerking to chase the rhythm of Alice's diving fingers that hit spots inside her she didn't even know she had. She looked up and saw Alice's eyes less than an inch from her own, felt the brush of the bridges of their noses, saw the flames from the fire dancing in her burning coal irises, saw the length of her bright white extended fangs.

Bella grunted, and licked her, a natural, affectionate move she never even planned. It's not like she could really plan or think at all, anyway, but she did it. Her tongue darted out and flicked across Alice's mouth, and Alice snarled at her.

Bella cried out at the noise, in arousal, not fear. Alice's fingers hooked into her, curving into a spot on the front wall of her core that wrenched her right to the edge, hanging on the precipice. She jerked her head to the side as some primal instinct soared through her, and sank her teeth into the softness of the pillow, tasted the fabric of the case, just to keep from screaming in ecstasy.

"Oh god, I should have known you'd be a fucking pillow biter," Alice hissed, and latched onto her pulse point, sucking at it fervently as her fingers began to plunge in and out faster, raking over nerves. "That's it baby. Come on, Bella, give it to me. Finish, break all over my fingers. Go ahead, I've got you. You can let it go, Bella. Let it go baby. Bella, let it go."

Damn, her voice, her words.

It was Bella's undoing.

She did what Alice said, as if she ever had any choice. She let it go.

All her tight, tensing muscles snapped taut as she gave into the pull at her lower gut as Alice pressed down hard on her lower belly and made her give in with the pressure, the rake of her thumb over her clit, the stab of her fingers.

The orgasm Bella felt rushed up on her was so powerful that it was like nothing she'd ever felt or expected, and her thighs spread wide as her back twisted, and everything blurred together.

Her walls collapsed on Alice's fingers and she bucked into them, released the pillow so she could let out this high pitched whistle of air that might have been a scream, and came, and came and came. Alice's tongue got into her mouth and she clung to her hips, raked her nails down her back, squirmed, writhed, fell apart totally.

When the ecstasy pumping through her sex finally slowed to these delicious, rolling aches of pleasure that Alice soothed by taking her slick hand and rubbing slowly over the outsides of her folds, Bella finally slumped, breathless, clinging to her.

She moaned softly, weakly as Alice kissed her, still with hunger, but gentler, almost comfortingly. The brush of her palm brought Bella down easy, so she could enjoy every last bit of her orgasm. Bella's hair stuck to the side of her neck with sweat, and her thighs were still quivering, but she finally managed to gulp down air and meet Alice's gaze.

The intimacy there made her breath hitch all over again, and for a moment, they just stared into each other's eyes and basked in each other.

God damn, Bella thought, swallowing hard. I love her so much. I love her so much. Why would we ever wait to do this? To share this with her…This is how it's supposed to be. Me and her. Together. In every way…

"So…" Alice murmured sweetly and brushed a stray strand of hair out of her face as Bella panted. Bella stared up at her with adoration in her eyes, listening with every brain cell Alice hadn't already shattered.

"Am I good or what?"

Bella furrowed her brow as Alice broke into this huge, full blown smirk. It was only the twinkle in her eye that gave her away, and Bella could not stop the ear to ear grin on her own face.

They both exploded into a fit of giggles that made Bella feel high from the combined post coital rush, and she laughed, exalting in Alice's joyful, playful personality.

"That's the first thing you say to me after our first time?" Bella giggled and poked her side, eyes glazed and probably dreamier than she meant them to be. "You are an egomaniac."

She was completely starstruck, awed by Alice's sexual prowess. She'd never expected that level out of the girl, though she knew it would be good. Alice was just that kind of person who was so confident in herself, and so experienced, that of course it would be.

But that was a whole 'nother level.

Telling her that, however, was a supremely bad idea. No use giving her not so humble girlfriend a big head.

"A maniac for you," Alice said fondly, and dotted an affectionate kiss to her lips. They both snorted at her cheesy line, and kissed again because they both knew it totally worked on Bella anyway.

Somehow the sweet kiss quickly deepened into something much steamier, and Bella was completely aware of Alice's hand resting on the inside of her thigh with slick fingers.

If she can do that for me…Shit, how am I ever going to compare? She wondered uncertainly, languidly running her tongue over Alice's when the girl shifted against her, humming quietly.

I've got to try. At least that. I have to give her something. Anything to return the mind blowing experience she just gave me, she thought determinedly, sliding her hands down to Alice's lower back, feeling the smooth muscles.

Slowly, she got a handful of Alice's perfect ass, and felt Alice groan into her mouth. With her other hand, she hesitantly ran it down over her hip, and dipped it shakily toward the inside of Alice's thighs. The pheromones Alice had been producing had dissipated when they slowed down, but Bella felt them come rushing back quickly, making it a little harder to breathe, to think.

"Mmf-Wait, Bella," Alice mumbled and pulled away. "You don't have to-I'm okay…"

"Alice," Bella said with a warning in her voice. "Don't even."

Alice stared down at her and hesitated.

"It's your first time, baby doll. I just wanted this to be about you. You've never done this before, so I didn't want to put the pressure on you…I'm alright, really, I don't need-"

Alice was lying through her pearly white teeth. She was a vampire, and as phenomenal as her control was, Bella could see how far her pupils had dilated, the primordial hunger swirling inside them. She'd hunted today, but there was no trace of gold in her big beautiful eyes.

Alice was turned on, undoubtedly. It delighted Bella that Alice was to the point with arousal that she could actually feel her hand shaking on her thigh, see her chest rising and falling faster than even a human's. It only further steeled her resolve.

"Alice…" Bella murmured, and with a surge of inspiration, reached down and grabbed the hand still on her thigh. Slowly, she brought it up, and Alice let her. She brought Alice's fingers right up to her lips, and with only a moment's pause, she took them into her mouth.

Alice hissed immediately, and Bella was careful to keep her teeth off of the vampire's skin. The last thing she wanted was to deal with that nonsense, but she did run her tongue between them as she stared right into Alice's eyes and sucked off her own cum, tasting herself as Alice's lips parted and her fangs dipped.

She'd tasted herself before, out of curiosity, and she didn't mind her own taste really. It was nothing special, but not terrible either. Alice said she tasted fucking good though, so that was all that mattered.

And proving a point.

"Oh my god, Bella," Alice groaned. "That's so…Hot."

Bella grinned a little, and slowly drew Alice's fingers back out of her mouth with a decisive pop.

"Let me do this, Alice. I may not know what I'm doing…And honestly, I'm probably going to suck. But I want to do this for you. You can show me how to do this right. You can lead me, and I want to. Please, Alice. Don't you trust me?"

"Of course I trust you," Alice answered vehemently, eyes flashing.

Honestly, part of Bella really was thinking with her libido, and wanted to touch Alice, all over her perfect little body. The rest of her was extremely determined to give as good as she got, for Alice, because she loved her, and she deserved it.

She definitely deserved it. Bella's insides were still quivering from her orgasms.

This should have been my first time, she thought. Alice should have been my first. She made me feel beautiful, sexy, loved, and freaking amazing.

Even if Alice wasn't her first time over all, she was still her first time with a girl…And by the way Bella felt about her, she could certainly be the last she ever had.

And she could die happy with that, really.

As long as she let Bella return the favor, damn it.

Alice rolled her head on her shoulders and took a deep breath. She held it, and did not let it out again.

"Do you love me?" Bella inquired, though she knew the answer.

She was still trying to prove her point here.

"Yes. To hell and heaven and back again," Alice hissed, and kissed her firmly, a little roughly, so that Bella moaned into her mouth.

It took a lot of effort to regain her senses after that one.

"Then let me do this."

Alice gave in.

"Okay…Yes. Do it, Bella. Touch me."

With pleasure.

When Bella moved her hand between Alice's legs again, the vampire only hovered over her, elbows on either side of the human's head and shaking slightly. The tremor of her muscles excited Bella, and when she hesitantly brushed her fingers over Alice's sex, she felt them tingle from the tips all the way to the hairs on the back of her neck.

Alice was cool and soft like silk, and Bella felt the copious amounts of wetness pooled between her thighs.

Alice was soaked.

Aroused beyond belief at the thought, Bella bit her lip and gazed up at her lover. Alice had closed her eyes and was not breathing, but Bella could see her fangs peeking out from under her upper lip. For some reason they turned her on as much as anything else, and she reverently ran her fingers over Alice, watching her every reaction.

You can do this, she told herself when Alice's lips parted further, and so did her legs. She wants you too. So just…Do what feels right. Do what she did to you.

Snort.

As if she could ever match Alice.

Make her feel good. Just make it feel good. I can do that much, can't I? Can't I?

Awkwardly, Bella continued to languidly stroke her from below, feeling the texture of her, getting a thrill from being able to touch Alice here. She wasn't sure how to proceed, but natural feminine instinct led her to Alice's clit.

Some of the websites she'd visited had told her that verbal communication during bed play was essential; if she wasn't sure how Alice liked to be touched, she should just…Ask her.

And talking to Alice had never been an issue for her.

"How do you…How-"

Okay, maybe this was different. Saying something so…Lewd was not usually Bella's forte, but when Alice's eyes popped open and bore into hers, throbbing with hunger that needed to be fulfilled, a yearning and an ache Bella had told her she could take care of, she womaned the fuck up and did it.

"How do you play with yourself?"

Alice's upper lip curled back and her eyes flashed at the question. Bella gulped, and though she'd already cum hard at least twice (Or was it three times? She couldn't tell) she still felt a twinge of arousal. When Alice spoke, her voice was high and husky.

"Jesus, Bella…Circles. Start with circles."

Bella did as she was told, and brought her fingers up to the hard nub nestled in the softness of Alice's folds. The feel of it when it rolled beneath them as she began to circle Alice's clit slowly was somehow erotic, but it was Alice's light whimper that really got to her.

"Yeah-Like that…Faster. And tighter circles-D-Don't be afraid to press down…Ugh."

Alice's hips lifted in delight as Bella followed her orders eagerly, adjusting her movements to Alice's specifications to get the most out of her pleasure.

"Like that Bella…Just like that," Alice moaned and began to rock her hips to chase her massaging fingers. Bella licked her lips hungrily.

God she's so pretty, she thought, mesmerized by the furrow appearing in Alice's brow.

She'd put that there. She was the one making Alice feel good, and she loved it. She never wanted to stop doing it. She wanted to give her more, the more she obviously needed, that she'd given to Bella before.

Bella sped up, circling the bundle of nerves faster so that Alice made this quiet whimpering noise that turned her on.

More, she thought. I have to give her more. I want to give it all back to her. Come on Alice. I can do this for you. I swear…

Without being prompted, Bella suddenly slipped her hand downward, and precariously, gingerly slipped a finger into Alice.

Oh my god.

Bella was inside her. She was inside of Alice, in the most intimate part of her. Alice gasped at the intrusion, as Bella froze in awe. Alice was cool inside as well as outside, and her walls were tight on the lone digit Bella had pushed up to the last knuckle in her. Her outsides were silk, and her insides were velvet.

Bella felt her whole hand tingle, and struck by a sudden fervor, she began to move her finger, instinctively pumping it.

"F-Fuck," Alice gasped again, and bucked her hips. "Bella…"

Alice moaning her name was the best fucking thing on the planet, she was sure of it. She wanted to hear it again and again.

Still unsure of what exactly to do, but having this instinctual guidance telling her what to do, Bella did her damnedest to mimic the way Alice had moved inside of her. She curved her finger, feeling it slip deeper. When Alice let loose one of her high pitched noises, she did it again, and this time she hooked it so that it caught on something that made Alice cry out.

"Yes," Alice groaned, and Bella stared up at her gorgeous face to see it twisting up in pleasure. "Like that baby. Just like that Bella. More. More."

More. I have to give her more.

Bella felt this unfathomable, powerful urge to make Alice climax. It coursed through her veins, and with a grunt of effort, she shot up and flipped them. Alice snarled and but Bella was used to the animalistic noise of aggression, and reveled in it as she darted in to kiss her and slipped another finger into Alice's core.

Together they made Alice tighter around her fingers, and the stretch and give made Bella dizzy with need and want. Fresh wetness coated her thighs as she bore down on Alice, heart pounding, mind racing.

Alice's hard, rough noise quickly transformed into a mewl, and she dug her fingers into Bella's hips, bucking her own upward.

"Oh, oh, oh," Alice moaned, mouth hanging open. "Oh god, Bella-Yes. Faster. God, Bella, faster."

Bella obeyed, working her wrist a bit clumsily but intuitively, following Alice's rhythm, anything that made the pleasure in her eyes intensify.

I'm doing it. I can do this. God, for her, I'm going to make her feel the best I can. Come on Alice. Give into me. Give it all to me.

Bella's brow furrowed with concentration, and she worked into Alice faster. She could literally feel slick, cool walls working to clamp down on her fingers, so tightly that it almost hurt. Alice's insides were as strong as her outsides, and Bella loved it.

She was trying her hardest, she really was. She moved into Alice the way she usually moved into herself, mixing it with what she'd felt Alice do to her, with what seemed to make Alice moan the loudest.

Every sweet moan spurred her on, and she felt Alice's fingernails rake along the back of her neck. The slight sting made her gasp.

"God Bella…You're a natural baby," Alice praised her, and arched her back. "I'm not-I can't-"

Alice couldn't speak. Words were failing her, and Bella was elated.

"But you're thinking too much," Alice hissed, and heaved up to snatch Bella's head and yank it down so that she could speak directly to her ear.

"Stop thinking so much and fuck me, because I can take it. I promise I can take whatever you can give me, Bella, so you better give it all to me."

Ah.

Words were not failing Alice, and Bella whimpered, slacking off for a second as the muscles of her arm burned and Alice's words cut into her libido.

And then Bella locked her jaw, and with total determination, she did as Alice wanted. She stopped holding back, stopped analyzing everything she was doing, and just slammed into her. Alice yelped at the roughness, and then growled in delight, loving it.

It was almost like she'd forgotten Alice was a vampire, and now she remembered that Alice could take every ounce of strength she might put behind the thrusts of her digits. So Bella gave her everything, everything she could, following instinct over whatever little skill she might have.

She drove her fingers into Alice again and again, hard and fast, making damn sure to hit that one spot that made Alice cry out every single time. She found it, she memorized it, burned it into her mind, and knew she'd never miss it again.

"Yes, yes, yes-Bella!"

Come on, come on, come on. Alice, baby, come on!

Bella felt their bodies slide together, slick with her sweat, the heat from the fireplace almost sweltering now as she really went to work, rolling her shoulder, pumping her fingers, twisting her wrist, anything she could until she thought her whole arm was going to fall off.

She couldn't push Alice over the edge. The vampire was obviously close, and Bella was dying to finish her. Alice was bucking into her, but she needed one last thing…What? What the fuck could she do? She was doing everything she could-

Oh wait.

Bella swung her thumb around and pressed down on Alice's clit, mentally slapping herself for her stupidity, and watched in fascination and amazement as Alice crunched her abs and bowed her back up in this perfect little arch as her heart shaped lips opened in ecstasy.

"Bella!"

It came on so suddenly.

Alice's thighs closed on her wrist and her inner walls gave this wickedly strong spasm, contracting wildly around her fingers so hard that she felt them jam together. The vampire let loose a gut wrenching snarl that tapered off into a high, high pitched mewl of bliss as she trapped Bella's hand between her legs and squeezed with everything she had.

Bella felt her wrist flare as Alice arched so far up, and gasped in awe as she watched her orgasm. She didn't even feel the pain, too focused on watching Alice fall apart around her, and it seemed to go on forever, for only a split second.

Alice's stomach was trembling when she fell back to earth and finally let go of the vice grip on Bella's wrist. Her legs slipped apart and Bella pulled her fingers out, her arm aching from effort. Her wrist was hurting, but she ignored it in favor of leaning down to hesitantly kiss Alice as the girl panted for air she didn't need.

"God damn Bella," Alice gasped against her mouth, swiping her hand through Bella's hair as the human fell into her, exhausted but pleased with herself.

I did it, she thought in wonderment. It may not have been pretty, or even good, but I did it.

For a long time they just lay there together. Bella was nestled up into her side and Alice's hand played absentmindedly with her hair, until she felt like a lazy cat that wanted nothing more than to curl up and go to sleep. She rested her chin on the girl's collarbone as Alice purred and tilted her head back into the pillows.

She seemed pretty content, but Bella was not entirely sure she'd done everything right. Towards the end there, she felt like she'd gone a little pussy crazy or something (she kicked herself for that thought) and hoped she hadn't gone overboard or tried too hard or something equally embarrassingly awful.

"Was that…Was that okay?" she inquired insecurely.

Alice stirred from her daze, and turned to Bella with heavy lidded eyes and raised eyebrows.

"Are you kidding me?" Alice said.

Bella winced, fearing the worst.

"That was incredible."

Blinking, Bella sat up a little and draped an arm over Alice's middle, resting her hand on her chest.

"What? Really?" she tilted her head in disbelief. "But I-"

"Bella, baby, for a first timer, that was phenomenal. Sweetheart, you're a natural. Could you not tell by my reaction?" Alice chuckled, smoothing back her hair and gazing at her fondly.

Bella pursed her lips, and cocked her head the other way, thinking about it. It made Alice grin at her until her nose crinkled.

"Don't look so surprised with yourself. You take direction so easily, and then you just-You just went for it. And it worked. I mean…Damn."

Alice giggled, and the sound of it made a slow smirk split Bella's face.

Did I? Well…Hell yeah. Yes! I didn't suck! In fact, I was good!

"Oh no, don't you start. Egomania is my thing," Alice admonished at the slightly smug expression on Bella's face.

"Sorry," Bella said, not sorry at all, and they both grinned at each other.

They spent a few minutes just gazing at each other, enjoying each other. They snuggled up, and Bella loved how affectionate Alice became, purring and petting her, bundling her up in her arms to kiss at her skin and lips chastely.

When Alice went for her hand, however, to kiss it, and maybe lick off the fluids shining on them in the firelight like Bella had, Bella winced in pain.

"Ow!"

"Shit, Bella, did I hurt you?" Alice sat up a little and cradled her hand tenderly. "I'm so sorry-I trusted my control, I didn't think I was hurting you. Are you okay? Can you move it at all? Is it broken? Can you bend your fingers?"

Bella laughed at the rapid fire worried questions, and shook her head.

"Alice, stop. I'm fine. It's just a little sore. I don't even think you sprained it. And my fingers are doing just fine. They just need to be cleaned off," Bella reassured her.

Alice hesitated, but then she smirked and said, "Oh, really?"

Sensing Alice's intentions, Bella beat her to it, and licked the wetness of her fingers before the vampire could.

Alice paused at that, and gave her a curious look.

"Sorry…It's just, you got a taste, and I didn't," Bella shrugged, and was stunned at the coy way she did it.

Alice tasted fantastic, by the way. She tasted sweet, and faintly salty, like ice water. The vague hint of berries tantalized her taste buds, and Bella had to resist the urge to go for the source right then and there.

Alice had pulled out the sex kitten in her, apparently, and she liked the way Alice's eyes flashed at her for it.

"Yeah? Well I'm sure we can remedy that sometime in the near future," Alice drawled sultrily, and leaned forward to kiss her.

Bella honestly thought she could probably go another round, but Alice drew back far too quickly.

"But," Alice sighed regretfully. "The family will be home soon, and we need to air this place out. Plus, I need to breathe something besides your intoxicating scent for a minute. Even my control only goes so far, baby doll."

Bella pouted a little, but it was mostly for show.

"Yeah, this fire is super romantic and everything, but I'm really hot," Bella replied. "And if you make a joke about that I'm going to hit you."

Alice smirked but mimed zipping her lips, and Bella shuffled to sit upright. She briefly considered covering herself up, but seriously, after what they just did?

Nah. Alice could look all she wanted, and look Alice did.

But only if Bella got to look back.

Which she did.

They admired each other for a moment, and then laughed at each other for doing it. Alice's plan for airing the room out happened to be nothing more than opening the balcony door and letting in the cool, fresh scent of the quietly falling rain. The thunder and lightning was mostly through, and Alice stepped out under the awning into the open air. She took several huge gulps of Bella-less air from outside, and stood there for a few minutes. When she turned around, Bella walked over with the sheet from the bed and lifted it so Alice could slip under it with her.

They sat on the couch out there for a while, and Bella had never felt so at peace with the world, watching the rain splash on the tree tops, cooling her overheated body against Alice's, as they enjoyed one of their quiet moods together, not needing to say a word.

They'd said it all already, with their bodies, so she just rested her head on Alice's shoulder and breathed her in.

Whatever happened today, Alice made it go away. Whatever might happen tomorrow, Alice would be there to get her through it. Everything was fine, it was all perfect. Everything would be okay.

"Hey, sweetheart, we've gotta get up. As much as I'd love to stay here with you forever, the family will be home in about twenty minutes," Alice lilted out, breaking their trance. Bella stirred, having been close to dozing off on Alice's shoulder.

"Do we have to?" she mumbled, nuzzling Alice's neck.

"Afraid so," Alice murmured, and kissed her cheekbone. "I forgot to tell you that Carlisle finally finished his testing on Rosalie, so this weekend you're going to come over and talk about it. So unless you want to make things twice as awkward with her by being here when she gets home and finds out what we've been doing, you might want to get your cute butt up and get dressed."

Bella shot straight up, alarmed.

"You're serious? How is she going to know?" she panicked.

Rosalie making fun of her as she undoubtedly would for their lovemaking was not something she was interested in seeing.

"Bella…Honey, you smell fantastic. They're all probably going to smell you before they even get a foot in the door."

Oh god.

No, no, no.

"Shit!" Bella yelped, scrambling to her feet. "How long do we have? Why didn't you tell me that?"

"We've got about seven minutes, so you might want to hurry so I can get you home," Alice laughed, obviously nowhere near as bothered at the thought that her family was going to know immediately that they'd being doing the horizontal electric slide, and would smell all of Bella's arousal-

Ugh!

"Wait-You're taking me home?" Bella froze, halfway back into the room. "But…We just…"

Alice stood up and kissed her firmly on the mouth.

"I'm taking you home so I can spend the night with you after making love with you, of course. What? You didn't think I was going to pull a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am or something, did you?"

Bella floundered, because yes, she'd been afraid Alice was going to take her home and leave her there when emotionally she really needed her after something as intense and raw as sex.

But of course, she was freaking out over nothing. As if Alice would ever.

"I would never do that, Bella. I'm not stupid. I'm going to take you home, and then go hunt so I can come back and snuggle you all night. So hop to it, sweet cheeks."

Alice winked, slapped her playfully on the ass, and darted past her. Blushing, Bella glared after her, but it was useless to even try to pretend to be upset with the vampire.

Even the thought of having to deal with Rosalie this weekend was not enough to deter the lovey dovey afterglow she still basked in, so she just smiled and hurried after Alice.