Unfaithful

Chapter Eight: Return to Forks

Bella Swan

I sat in the passenger seat of Emmett's car as he drove us back to Forks, neither of us saying a word, both unable or perhaps just unwilling to speak to the other. It had happened, we had crossed the line together which ended our fun night with me allowing Emmett to bring his hand beneath my top and feel my breast. His winnings were still stuffed into my bra this very second but I doubted very much that he was going to be asking me to hand them over anytime soon. We hadn't kissed and yet it felt worse than if we had, I had in some measurable way cheated on Edward tonight.

I don't know who I was tonight, the girl I seemed to become in Emmett's presence was not me, I didn't even recognise her. I had watched Emmett closely tonight, watch the sweat course down his chiselled muscles and delighted in it. I needed to stop lying to myself, it was clear now that a small part of me had grown to look at Emmett in this light, I was attracted to him and I shouldn't be. I shouldn't have gone out with him tonight, I had risked everything over a small crush.

A crush upon my boyfriend's brother! I should be ashamed of myself!

What would Rosalie think of me if she found out? If she didn't hate me before she would most defiantly hate me now. I couldn't imagine if Edward told me he had cheated, or allowed a girl to do the same thing to him as I had done to Emmett tonight. Every time I closed my eyes I relived the moment I leapt into his arms, like it was a daily habit or something, remembering the ease he had caught me with and how despite our partners he had kept me in his arms, with my legs wrapped around him like Rosalie.

What had happened back there was a mistake and now he wasn't talking to me, Emmett wouldn't even look at me and I completely understood why. I was the one to act out first, I had pushed him into doing what he had done, Emmett was perfectly happy tonight after winning his match and then I had done what I had done and he fell silent afterwards.

I just wanted to get home as soon as possible and forget everything about this night. I just had to pray now that Emmett kept his mouth shut to Edward and Rosalie. I needed to find some way of making things right again, nothing about me felt right, I felt like I was in someone's else's body, an idiot's body who makes moves on her boyfriends brother, that type of idiot.

"About tonight-"

"You were unbelievably sexy back there"

Emmett's words stop my train of thought and suddenly all I could was his voice and nothing more. My heart was bursting in my chest and I found myself holding my breath again, a nervous habit he seemed to bring out in me.

"So fucking sexy" Emmett said shaking his head both hands gripping the steering wheel as he took us over a hundred miles an hour.

We'd be back in Forks soon enough and come tomorrow he'd regret saying such things, I knew it already even if he didn't.

This whole thing had been a big mistake.