A/N: Like I said in the last chapter, this is the second part of what was supposed to be one update. Hope you like it!
BPOV
Early Sunday morning, 2:09 a.m.
If there's anything I love, it's the feeling of alcohol in my veins and loud music pulsing through my body and the taste of Edward on my lips.
Yum…
Saturday night, 10:56 p.m.…
"Hurry up Rose!" Alice said impatiently at Rose who was rushing to put on her sandals. She and Emmett had decided to dip their feet into the water seconds before the rest of us got to them and told them that it was time to start the party.
"Sorry, but I couldn't help it!" She whined as she strapped the second sandal on, Emmett grinned like a dumbass and said nothing. "Let's go!" Rosalie said getting up and dusting herself off.
"Are you fucking crazy?" Alice exclaimed, loosing it. Rosalie stared at her like someone had slapped and spit in her face for good measure. "We all have to prep up for such an important moment!" Alice said furiously going through her bag looking for her make up.
"Don't I look good?" Rosalie said looking at Emmett who leaped on that train without a second thought.
"Fuck yeah!" He said, fist pumping the air, I totally rolled my eyes at this and decided to open my own bag and check that everything was were it was supposed to be.
"You don't need make up," I heard a low, husky voice whisper in my ear, I bit my lip willing myself not to turn around and ignore the voice, "you look perfect just the way you are right now." I knew Edward would never actually say that to me unless he meant it as a brother to sister kind of thing, so I kept on applying some make up.
Edward had moved on to stand by the waves, staring at the vast, now-black ocean. I wanted to run to him and hug him from behind but something told me that it wasn't a good time, besides the fact that I had told myself I wouldn't be sucked into his vacuum tonight.
Too many years and sighs had been wasted waiting for him, and even though I yearned for him, I wasn't sure if it was love or lust. I turned back to my friends, who were now ready to go meet the press. "Edward!" Alice called her twin brother, "let's go!" She turned around and bounced to where the paparazzi were and the people were posing and showing off the camera.
"Coming." He said coming up to the dry sand where everyone was standing and went off to get rid of the extra sand in the outside showers by the bathrooms. We followed and after getting cleaned up again, we decided it was indeed time to walk the red carpet.
It wasn't the Academy Awards, or the Emmys but at least it was something. The good thing was that this red carpet was thirty or forty feet long so I knew I wasn't going to stand there for a whole lot of time.
Rosalie ran up to me and reassured me what she had said when we first arrived to First Beach and I promised her I would remember. Alice, (of course) was the first one to make an entrance and the paparazzi went off, not necessarily because she was Angelina Jolie, but because little Alice was gorgeous. "Ms. Cullen, turn this way!", "look over here!", "who are you wearing?"
Jasper trailed her, he waved and grinned at the cameras with his easy going attitude. Alice on the other hand, was pulling out all the stops, she knew how to work her body, the red carpet and the paparazzi.
"My turn." Rosalie said putting on her model face and made sure that the VS logo in her tote was slightly obvious that way, corporate could grin when the pictures were shown in the media world. "Rosalie turn this way!" The camera men yelled trying to get the perfect shot of the new Victoria's Secret Angel. "Who are you wearing?" A chubby, female reporter asked her as she threw the microphone in Rosalie's face. Rosalie went up to her and brightly said, "Victoria's Secret of course!" With that, she went on the carpet, surpassing Alice who was being interviewed by a fashion magazine reporter.
Emmett sent me a little salute to say that he was going, I stared at him go and wave just like Jasper had done, who now was also being interviewed by a very hot looking reporter.
I bit my lip realizing that if I didn't step in now, I would never do it. "Ready?" Edward said, putting his hand in my lower back while whispering in my ear. I ignored the butterflies and electric shocks I was getting from his touch and whisper. "No." I said, biting my lip even harder.
"Bella, there's nothing to it. Smile, wave, say 'hello' and that's it." He said, trying to make me feel better. Against my better judgment, he was achieving his goal. "Ok," I said prepping myself up for disaster, "I'm going." I took a step forward and immediately felt the light bulbs go off, I smiled and put my hand on my hip as I posed for the first time in a long time.
"Bella!" They yelled, "Bella, over here, Bella, over here!" I posed a little, walked up a couple of feet, and posed again. Everything was a blur. I couldn't make out any of the people that were taking photos of me, nor did I recognize any of the people that were ahead of me or behind me. To me they all looked the same. Half way, I felt someone pull me to them, only to realize that it was Rosalie who had her arm around Alice. "Let's pose together!" She said, wrapping her arm around my waist. I smiled genuinly and looked at the cameras feeling more relaxed. The cameras went off when the paparazzi realized the three of us were together. Rose and Alice told me they had to give some more interviews when a male reported caught my eye. I walked over to him as he put a tape recorder dear my face.
"Robert Lane, Los Angeles Times. How are you, Ms. Swan?" I smiled, and took in his very handsome face and baby blues.
"Very well thank you." He took the tape recorder closer to himself to ask the question, "tell me, what brings you here?"
"Well, besides the fact that I love Midnight, this is my neck of the woods."
"Really?" He was surprised at my answer, "yes, really. I used to come to this beach every now and then when I was younger. Of course I don't do it as often but I'm so happy I'm here."
"I hate to ask this question, but my female readers probably want to know. Who are you wearing?"
"In honor of my best friend, Rosalie Hale, I'm wearing all Victoria's Secret tonight."
"You're best friends with the new Angel?" He sounded somewhat surprised.
"Yes, we actually met a couple years ago, in college." I said, giving him a little background story.
"And I assume you're friends with Alice Cullen?"
"Most definitely. Didn't you see us posing together just now?" I laughed, he grinned even more.
"Tell me, as a fellow journalist, what's up your sleeve? Any more ground-breaking exposés?" I grinned at him, and he returned the same cheeky grin.
"As a fellow journalist you know that one cannot tell another colleague what they have up their sleeves until it's published." I winked and noticed that Edward was next to me giving his own interview to none other than People Magazine.
I turned back to Robert Lane who noticed what I had noticed and wrapped things up, "well we'll just have to wait and see than. Thanks for stopping."
"My pleasure." I sent him another grin as he turned off his tape recorder. "Thanks, Ms. Swan." He said, this time dropping his journalist tone and sounding more relaxed but also much more flirtatious. "Call me Bella, and you're welcome. Always there to help out a colleague."
"You still work for the Seattle Times?" He asked, trying to have a somewhat-private conversation with me around all the craziness.
"Yes, actually. Still there and very happy."
"I'm going to Portland for a story, but afterwards I'm free. Maybe I'll come back to your neck of the woods and have a cup of coffee maybe?"
Ooohhh I was liking this…
I tried not to sound too excited so I just grinned and answered with a simple, "sure, I'd love that." With that I went back to middle of the carpet and with a very satisfied feeling, started posing for the cameras. Suddenly I felt another hand drag me to them, only to realize this time it was Edward.
"Smile, People wants their "Most Beautiful People" attendees to have a photo op together." He said looking towards the direction where he had been not so long ago. I molded into his body subconsciously and put my hands on his shoulders, while he wrapped his around my waist.
Suddenly the light bulbs went off in a frenzy, and I vaguely thought that maybe a more famous person had arrived and was standing near us. "Whooo!" Some paparazzi cheered, "give her a kiss!" I heard someone yell, I wanted to see who they were talking to when all of a sudden I felt Edward's lips on my cheek. I tried not to look surprised or pull away because then the paparazzi would have a field day, so I just smiled and tried to look like it was a normal thing for Edward to give me a peck in the cheek.
After a moment, he let me go, but kept his hand in my lower back as he led me through the rest of the carpet. I didn't oppose because, as much as I didn't want to be sucked into his vacuum anymore, he still made my body and heart sing. We would stop every so often and pose for the press, but we finally reached the end of the carpet only to have to answer more questions.
"What the hell was that?" Emmett asked, staring at us as we stepped off the carpet and on to the actual bonfire party. Just like I had predicted, there were torches, white cabanas, various bonfires, and a whole lot of twinkling fairy lights all over the stretch of the beach. You could make out people that were already dancing and drinking not so far off from where we were.
"People wanted a photo op, you guys forget that we kinda have a contract with the magazine. When people see those photos they're gonna flock to buy our issue." Edward said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"That's why you gave her a peck in the cheek?" Jasper grinned, standing behind a weird-looking Alice.
"Hey, I was only giving them what they wanted." Everyone laughed but I just stared at the white sand that was underneath my sandals. "Ugh," I said pulling away from Edward and finding the perfect topic-changer, "I don't want to get sand in my shoes."
"Oh my god, you're right!" Alice said grabbing Jasper's arm and bending down to take off her sandals. Once she did she stuffed them in her tote. Soon afterwards, Alice, Rose and myself were barefooted but Rose clicked her tongue."
"What is it?" Alice asked, looking down at herself.
"Why wear a bikini if you're not going to show it off?" She had a point, although immediately I saw the guys' faces drop to the floor with images possibly flooding their pervy minds.
"Holy shit, you're right!' Alice said taking off her cover up. Let me say something, if Jasper was totally shocked when Alice opened her apartment door earlier that evening, he was totally flabbergasted when Alice pulled off her thin cover up dress to show off her bikini.
"Aren't you guys going to do the same?" Alice asked us putting her cover up in the tote like she had done with the sandals. How she managed to fit so much crap in there, was a mystery to all of us. Rose laughed a bit, noticed the attention Jasper was giving a blasé Alice, so she decided to do the same with Emmett.
She practically ripped off her turquoise/clover dress to reveal her skimpy sea green ensemble. I could have sworn I heard Emmett groan in some kind of pain…
"Bella, aren't you going to take yours off?" Rose asked, a glint in her eye.
"I don't know…" I said, remembering how huge my boobs looked in that bikini.
"Oh come on, don't be the sore thumb." Alice egged me on, clearly having an ulterior motive to her desire to see me in a bikini.
Actually, the guys were the ones with the desire to see me in a bikini, and not necessarily Alice by the way they looked right then….
"Ok." I said taking off my cover up, only to hear gasps and moans from the guys.
"Fuck, Bella. If I wasn't interested in someone else, I would totally want you." Emmett said without thinking. Rosalie huffed and walked off towards the party, head sticking out.
After putting my dress away I ran to Rosalie, while Alice told the guys to hurry up and have some fun. I didn't look at Edward's reaction in case I lost my resolve to forget him, so I acted as if he wasn't even there. We ran off to one of the many open bars, noticing that not only were the Cullen siblings and Jasper watching us, but also most of the male population in the bonfire party.
"Wait you guys!" Emmett said behind us, I wasn't going to wait for anyone. I wanted to have some fun, and possibly forget everything in a blur of music, alcohol and general craziness.
The good thing, as I later found out, but that we forgot to mention to Edward, Rosalie and Emmett, was that Charlie was gone on a week-long fishing vacation upstate, with one of his other friends, Harry Clearwater and none other than Billy Black who had left everything to the tribe elders.
When I asked Jacob why he hadn't told us before, he confessed that he wanted to spend a little more time with me, to which Jasper and Alice both annoyingly answered back but I embarrassingly kept quiet. When Jacob brought us back, we decided to cancel the reservations so we called the hotel using the business card Jasper had taken from the main desk. We would all stay over at Charlie's, I just hoped he wouldn't mind when I told him about my impromptu plans.
The girls and I reached the bar and ordered pineapple juice with whiskey for Rosalie, a Cosmo for Alice and a Sex on the Beach for me. Alice and Rosalie made fun of my chose because of the fact that we were on the beach. I just grinned and sipped my drink, hoping the alcohol would kick in soon.
The guys reached us but they also had opted to take off some clothing too. They had taken off their shirts and were now only wearing their different colored board shorts, and donning their very sculpted chests. I allowed myself a peek at Edward's hot fucking body. Who in turn was sending me little looks as he ordered his own drink. Straight whiskey on the rocks.
Mmm… so manly….
"Don't forget you guys," Rose said over the loud party music that was starting to get louder, "the first four rounds are on Edward!"
"Fuck yeah!" Emmett said, booming while drinking his second tequila shot. I finished my drink and asked for a piña colada with an extra two shots of tequila.
"Damn, Bella, you're not gonna stop tonight huh?" Edward said, coming over to me as everyone else decided if to have a round of shots or go to the dance floor and go crazy.
"You know it. Tonight, I'm going to let my hair down and not care about anything but my unlimited alcohol consumption." I said, taking another sip of my drink, I was starting to feel the alcohol because unlike my friends, my tolerance for alcohol was very small.
After what was considered to be Edward's last round, I offered the next four in my alcohol induced mirth. I drank another PC, than ordered two triple shots of tequila, a straight whiskey like Edward and downed them like it was water.
I started to slur my words but I didn't care, I was having the time of my life. Alice dragged me to the floor to the beat of a very sexually explicit rap song in which she, Rose and I started to grind against each other. A bunch of guys surrounded us and as soon as they got rowdy, Emmett, Jasper and Edward pulled us away to a cabana they had rented for the night.
The girls and I laughed out loud as our assess hit the soft ivory cushions as the guys closed the cabana with its off-white cloth. "Why the fuck did you do that?" Rose exclaimed, trying to stand up but slumping down when Alice tried to use her as a balance beam.
"You…you guys…" Emmett slurred, "are fucking wasted."
"Look-look who's talkin'!" Alice piped up, standing up and putting her hands in her hips only to fall back laughing even harder.
"I-I-I-" Edward stuttered trying to say something, but Rose interrupted him, "I spy with my little eye, a very hot guy!" She said biting her lip and looking at Emmett who grinned goofily.
"Shhh!" Edward said to Rose, annoyed that she interrupted him, "I think we should go."
"Fuck that!" I said getting up in the cushion and looking down at him, "I'm staying to dance and drink some more!" I could hear the music blaring from the outside and started to dance to music. Alice and Rose cheered and followed suit. The guys stared at us with hooded eyes, clearly forgetting what we had been talking about two seconds before.
"Ok, ok. We'll stay," Jasper said shaking his head vaguely, "but let's go outside and dance."
"Ok!" Alice said throwing herself at him, as he caught her he grinned and walked her out. "I want another drink!" Rose said doing the same with Emmett, he more than happily obliged.
"You don't want-you don't want to go?" Edward asked as I still stood on the cushions, "no, I want to stay here." I said bending down and realizing that his lips looked so red and delicious I wanted to taste them.
"You want to stay here?" He asked, his eyes turning into a very dark shade of green, instead of his bright viridian.
"Yeah, I want to stay here…" I said feeling how my sex started to get wet, "don't you want to stay here?"
"Yeah, I want to stay here…" He whispered looking at my lips and licking his own. I bit my lips and threw myself at him, not being able to take any more. His fast reflexes took me in as I wrapped my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck. His lips met mine and in a fury we were fighting for dominance. As he and I kissed he twirled me around and he took my place sitting in the cushions while he balanced me in his lap.
Our lips molded and crashed as we kissed passionately, teeth and tongues all in the mix. My hands flew to his hair which I ran my hands through and moaned when I realized that his hair was just as soft as I had imagined.
"So fucking hot..." he whispered, taking my lower lip in between his teeth and biting slightly. I groaned in response and started to feel his growing erection near my center.
"You think so?" I asked between pants and wet kisses, he growled and moaned in response to my question. "Ugh…" I managed to let out as he moved to my neck and his hands rubbed up and down my sides eventually ending in my ass. He squeezed and hummed murmuring something about firmness and impatience to have me from behind.
In my alcohol blur I grinned and asked, "you wanna fuck me, Edward?"
"Fuck yeah baby…" he said grinding his rock-hard erection against my very wet, bikini clad center.
I grinned and took his lips again, once again kissing him with an animalistic fervor. This time we started to bounce up and down as if we were indeed fucking cowgirl style. I moaned and groaned to his hisses and "fucks" that came out of his hot mouth.
As we found a rhythm to our humping, I ventured on to his neck leaving wet, open kisses and taking his Adam's apple between my teeth, earning me a "fuck, yeah…" from Edward. I realized that Edward loved playing "vampire and victim" as much as I loved it.
I grinned mischievously… interesting….
Then a better idea popped into my head… "Ok, I want to go dance now." I said getting up suddenly and running out leaving Edward looking like a fish out of water. I knew I would pay for that dirty play but I needed to get away from him eventually, otherwise he and I would possibly end up doing something we would both love but eventually regret. Besides the fact that if I was going to fuck Edward Cullen, I didn't want to be piss drunk.
EPOV
What the fuck was that? I thought to myself as I realized that Bella had run out on me, leaving me with the biggest hard on any man could ever get from such a hot specimen. I groaned as my mind tried to find different ways to get back at her for leaving me high and dry.
Hmmm…. I thought trying hard to really think aside from the massive amounts of alcohol I had consumed in the last two hours. I needed to get back at her for her sudden departure so I decided to play it cool for now and let her sweat. I knew that eventually would get back at her-
"Have you seen Bella?" Someone rushed into the cabana, interrupting my thoughts of revenge only to realize that it had been that Jacob guy. Immediately I tensed up and thought of different ways to answer back, all ranging from "fuck off, she's mine" to "she ran out after an intense make out session with me". But even through all of the hotness that was Bella's body and the alcohol, my logic beat out my jealousy.
"No," I said simply, "why do you ask?"
"Because," I could tell his own gears where working furiously, "she promised me a drink." He said, a "take that" grin on his face. I sent him a knowing smile and got up slowly. "Really?" I was happy that he considered me a rival, otherwise he wouldn't of said what he said and the way he said it.
"Yes, before you got here actually," bitch please.
"Well, than you better go find her, because from what I know we're about to leave soon." I said standing up, squaring him off. "Really?" He said arching a stupid eyebrow.
"Yes really." He turned away and stopped mid track, "do you think Bella would mind having breakfast with me?" He was risking it.
"I think so, because she might have promised you a drink, but she showed me that she might have breakfast with me." I looked at him in his stupid dark brown eyes, while dropping my hands to my sides, showing off the raging erection I was still sporting while grinning like a very satisfied lion out on the hunt.
He swallowed hard and looked up at me, then suddenly he ran out like a scared Chihuahua possibly in search for Bella.
Fuck yeah baby, got you now you little fucker.
Damn… it felt good to be king of the jungle.
A/N: Who doesn't love a cocky Edward? I sure as hell love him. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this update and please drop a review! Good night or rather good morning, afternoon or evening cuz I don't know where you live! For those who are wondering, right now its 12:08 a.m. L.A. time so technically it's a good morning to my fellow Pacific timers! 'til next time, love you lots ;)
