Disclaimer: I do own a copy of Twilight; however, I don't own the actual rights to said book … :(
Hey guys- I hope you all had an awesome Breaking Dawn-release weekend! I know I did! Totally dressed up and went to Borders for a Midnight release party! Then finished the book within 24 hours … I was planning on pulling an all-nighter, but only managed to stay up to 5 :-( So if you want to talk about the book – feel free to message me! (Don't post it as a review though … don't want any spoilers for those who haven't finished!) ANYWAYS … continuing with the story …
Chapter 27: Welcome Back to Reality
EPOV
She is trying to kill me, that is the only explanation. I thought to myself as I stared at Bella sleeping next to me. It had not been more then a minute ago that we were kissing passionately… and now she was asleep. How was that fair? I sat up slowly, so that I was resting on one arm and looked over at her. She looked so peaceful, her lips curled into a small smile, a light blush coloring her cheeks, her brown hair cascading around her face and onto the pillow.
"Bella?" I said quietly, while pushing her hair from her face, "Oh Bella"
I heard her moan and mumble something as she shifted so that her body was again facing mine, her eyes were still closed.
"Bella, are you awake?" I said, knowing full well there was no way she was truly asleep.
Her eyes didn't flutter, as she tried not to acknowledge my voice, but I didn't miss her lips twitch into a bigger smile.
"Bella, I know you're awake," I told her.
She didn't move at all.
Ok, so this is how she wants to play. I thought, smiling evilly.
"Alright Bella, you want to play this game?" I said huskily, brushing her hair back behind her ear as my mouth moved towards it. "Don't move." I whispered into her ear, feeling her shiver as my breath hit her sensitive skin.
I moved my mouth down to her neck, slowly, tracing my path with my finger gently. My lips instantly, almost instinctively, found her weak spot on her neck and I blew on it followed by a quick kiss.
I quickly glanced up at her face just in time to see her eyes tighten and her teeth lock. I grinned.
Knowing I was effecting her much the same way she just had me, I made my way back up her neck, and her cheek, all the way up to her ear, leaving a trail of kisses the entire time.
"It's a shame you are asleep for all this," I murmured into her ear. In response she stiffened as her hands darted to the sheets and gripped them as if her life depended on it.
I placed my hands gently on either side of her face, moving my thumb in small circles on her cheeks- I heard her sigh.
Time to go in for the kill I thought to myself and slowly dipped my head to her face, kissing her forehead, then her eyelids, moving my way down to her nose, then, skipping over her lips, my own touched just below hers.
I opened my eyes to see her dark chocolate irises staring back at me intently. I couldn't control the smile that was creeping up on my face as she freed her hands from the sheets she was holding, laced them in my hair and kissed me deeply.
"You're awake," I mumbled against her lips.
"You're impossible," she responded, lowing her lips towards mine again. This time, however; I turned my head so her lips hit my cheek.
She looked at me questioningly, "Bella," I said quietly, she gazed into my eyes.
"Yes?"
"Goodnight" I said, and followed her actions from moments before.
"EDWARD!" she shouted and hit me on the arm, "You… you suck" she stuttered.
I merely chuckled as she slowly got out of bed and headed towards the bathroom, "Don't use all the cold water, love." I said quietly.
"Hmph," was her simple reply as she shut the bathroom door loudly and turned on the shower.
I shook my head, knowing full well that this was just the beginning of our little … war as I glanced over at the clock.
Its red blinking numbers bounced back at me reading: 2:39. I groaned, knowing now I would get, at the most, less then two and a half hours of sleep. I hit myself with a pillow; flipped over to get more comfortable and slowly drifted off to sleep listening to the steady flow of water coming from the bathroom.
"Beep, beep, beep"
I groaned, and tried to find the source of the sound, still half asleep, eyes closed. My hand brushed against something soft and wet.
"It might help if you open your eyes," Bella's voice told me.
"Ugh," I groaned again, but opened my eyes and quickly turned off the alarm clock. "Early." I muttered, flipping back on my side and closing my eyes.
"Oh, no way Edward." Bella said, quickly ripping the sheets off the bed, letting the cold air of the room wake me. "We have to leave in twenty minutes, mister."
I opened my eyes and looked up at her, already fully dressed, "How are you already wide awake?"
"I never went to sleep, a cold shower woke me up and I've been reading ever since, figure I'll get some Z's on the way back." She shrugged as I recalled the night's events. I looked at her warily, not sure if she was mad. "Don't worry… I'm not mad at you." She said, as if reading my mind, "Who was I kidding to play that kind of game with you… of course you'd win." She sighed, but still had a certain spark in her eye – that spark made me nervous.
"I love you," I said, kissing her quickly.
She rolled her eyes, "Yea, yea, I guess I love you too … even if you cheat and then when I try to get revenge you still win."
I simply kissed her again and went to the bathroom to take a shower and get changed, the entire time wondering what that spark meant. Was she planning some sort of revenge? What would it entail? When would it happen? Where? Enough questions went through my head to drive me crazy, but instead I focused on just getting ready.
Fifteen minutes later we were outside my parents house, having said our goodbyes the night before, we were set to leave right away.
"Meet up with you back at the dorms," Jasper told us, holding a sleeping Alice in his arms.
"Alright, man, have a safe trip." I said, opening the passenger door for him so he could place Alice in the seat.
"You too," he replied, closing the door softly and walking around to the driver's door.
I quickly walked towards my Volvo and opened the passenger door for a zombie-looking Bella, "Thanks," she said as she slipped into the seat, immediately pulling out a pillow from the back seat and propping it against the door and window.
I walked slowly over to my door and got situated behind the wheel, "Mind if we stop by Starbucks real quick?" I asked Bella.
Bella shook her head and muttered something along the lines of, "Go head."
I couldn't help but smile as I watched her quickly fall asleep, hair still damp from her previous shower.
Twenty minutes and two cups of coffee later I was wide awake, driving down the highway back towards real life. Not that the past three days hadn't been real, but looking back at them- they seemed more fantasy then anything else. The only thing that kept me from classifying them as a complex dream was the girl sleeping a mere four feet from me, proof that the perfect girl I'd spent the last few days with did in fact exist.
It took a good couple of hours, and another coffee stop followed shortly thereafter by a bathroom break, before I finally pulled up in front of Bella's dorm room.
"Bella," I said as gently as I could, "Bella, love, we are back."
Her eyes fluttered open, meeting mine instantly, "I slept that entire time?"
"Well, you were quiet tired," I mused, "Want me to help you bring your bag up to your room?"
She glanced back at her bag and shook her head, "Nah, I'm alright. I'm probably just going to head on up and sleep for a couple more hours. I don't have any classes' today- thank god."
"Alright, well call me when you're up and we'll plan something, okay?" I told her as I closed the distance between our lips.
It was a short, sweet kiss, "I love you." She said as she climbed out of the car and got her bag.
"I love you, too" I replied, watching to make sure she got into her hall fine. Once I was convinced that she was fine, I drove off to park the car and to unpack myself.
I walked into my room to see Jasper sprawled out across his bed, dark circles under his eyes. "Long night?" I asked him as I threw my bag into a corner and climbed into my bed.
"You have no idea," he muttered, "Totally worth it though." He smiled mischievously at me, "How about you? You look like death walking."
"Thanks man," I said sarcastically, "Last night was … interesting." I said, fumbling for the right choice of words.
"Interesting?" Jasper asked, clearly I'd sparked his interest.
"Let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if Bella and Alice were cooking up an evil revenge plan for me right now."
"Ouch, what'd screw up this time, Masen?" he joked.
"Nothing…" I said, not necessarily avoiding the question, but I knew it'd lead to a long conversation and all I wanted to do was sleep.
I closed my eyes and Jasper seemed to get the hint as we were both asleep within the minute.
I awoke to my phone's text tone a couple hours later. Not fully rested, but not as dead tired as I was before I decided to get up and check it, expecting it to be from Bella.
Emmett: Outside house - 10 minutes.
I looked at time sent, 4:20 on the dot, and then glanced at the clock next to my bed, 4:24 … we had six minutes.
"Jasper! Jasper, man, wake up." I said, throwing a pillow at him and I ran my hands through my hair and threw on a pair of tennis shoes.
"Woah, dude, what's up?" he asked, seeing my frantic movement.
"Check your phone." I said, as I tossed his shoes to him and made my way to the door.
"Aw, man, can't they cut us a break?" he wined but put on his shoes without hesitation and ran out the door to the frat house.
We got there with a minute to spare.
"Ah, long time no see," Emmett said, walking back and forth on the house's porch.
We all muttered our "hey's" and "hi's."
"I trust you all had a splendid weekend away from campus," he continued, "I know I quite enjoyed myself."
"Rosalie" someone coughed behind him, resulting in Emmett turning around to one of his brothers and throwing an evil glare.
"Yes, I'm sure Rosalie enjoyed herself quite well, too." Emmett said, "In fact I can assure you she did." Snickers passed throughout the crowd, "Back onto topic though, men- or I guess boys- it has time to assign you to your second task. Now, now, don't worry this task doesn't involve any outdoor activity, and definitely no cold weather." A collective sigh of relief could be heard, "You, my little rushies, are in charge of planning the most killer party ever! Of course, that involves cleaning the house, inviting the right people, and of course by people I mean girls, and getting the appropriate music and beverages. Bonus points to any creativity you through into the mix. And let's just say … we'll have the date be this" he tapped his chin as if thinking hard about it, "Friday, sound good?"
"Friday?" I voice next to me asked.
"Will that be a problem?" Emmett asked, eyebrow raised.
"Umm, no of-of course not" he stuttered then added, "Sir"
Emmett nodded, "Well what are you all standing around for then? Better start planning!" Emmett said laughing as he walked back into the house, "Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima" he said and then disappeared behind the doors.
I turned towards my fellow future-brothers and saw each of their panicked faces.
Ah, yes, I thought, And we're back to reality.
I sighed, already missing the carefree days with Bella, and joined in the conversation and plan making for what was hopefully to be to be a killer party.
A/N: Hey guys! Not much to talk about down here … but I just wanted to give a shout out to all the Harry Potter fans out there who also love Twilight! My sister (Just Call Me Mrs Lupin) is just starting a James-Lily fanfiction called "The Seventh Year". I can assure you it will be amazing! She's a better writer then me … even though she's younger. –sigh- How unfair is the world? HA! ANYWAYS – I'll post a link on my homepage, check it out. And as always – please review for my story! Thanks!