Sorry that this took so long guys but I just could get it to come out right for a while, although it is a hell of a lot longer than the other two chaps so hopefully I'm forgiven.
SM owns everything. I own nothing………..yet.
Bpov
As soon as Edward introduced me to his sister Alice I was suddenly pushed backwards into the car by the little pixie pouncing on me. Arms and legs wrapped around my neck and waist.
"Hi! It's so good to meet you! We're gonna be great friends, I know it! OMG we have to go shopping! And clubbing! I could dress you! I gotta call Rose and Emmet and Jaz they could come too! And Edward of course! Argh! This is gonna be so much fun, I can't wa-" She was squealing in my ear super-speed, getting louder and louder as she went until Edward grabbed her by the waist with one arm and held her there, her feet dangling just below his knees. God it's hot how strong he is "EDWARD!" she squealed at the top of her lungs as she thrashed around in her brothers grip. "Put me down NOW or I swear to god I will not hesitate to kick you in your balls dearest brother"
He was smiling at me apologetically as she was saying this until she got to the part about kicking him in his boys were his eyes got really wide. Alice lifted her left leg ready to follow through when suddenly Edward simultaneously dropped his sister and cupped himself to prevent any further attack. Alice just stood there, hands on her hips, smirking at his cowering form.
Straightening up, he glared at his sister causing his brow to furrow and a beautiful pout to appear on his full pink lips. "What the hell Alice! All I was trying to do was save Bella from your psycho rant! She doesn't know you like the rest of us do so you have to calm the fuck down for now until she's used to your crazy, hyperactive self" At this Alice merely shrugged, unfazed by her brothers insult. Edward huffed and turned to me smiling sheepishly. "I'm sorry about my sister Bella, she tends to be a little over friendly at times"
I returned his smile to show him it was fine. "Don't worry about it, it's nice to meet someone so openly friendly" I smiled at Alice who smiled back before turning to Edward and giving him a smug look.
"See brother of mine, Bella wasn't freaked out. Your just jealous that I got to rub against her and you didn't" She stated matter-of-factly.
My face immediately turned crimson and I chanced a peak at Edward to see his reaction to his sisters implication. As I was raising my eyes I felt sure I would see a look of disgust or a look that said "your kidding me right" on his beautiful face but instead I was met by his blazing green eyes glancing at me warily. There were no traces of disgust, he just looked guilty and sheepish. His pale cheeks stained a light pink. When our eyes met he gave me an innocent yet slightly guilty smile. The sort of smile a child would give his mother when he new he had done something wrong but was playing innocent with the big puppy dog eyes.
Suddenly Alice spoke, effectively breaking the awkward silence that had fallen between us after her last comment. "Are we gonna get in the car sometime today or should I call jasper to pick me up while you to go back to awkward 12 year olds and tell each other how swell you think each other are?" Alice asked with her eyebrows raised.
Well she's bold
Edward just sent her a death glare before saying in a tone that implied they will be having words later. "Get in the car tinkerbell" Unlocking the car he opened the door for me with a sweet smile. "Don't mind her" He spoke quietly.
"Ha! Tinkerbell my ass, I could kick your ass any day Eddie" She cheerfully stated as she slid in the back seat.
"You wish short stuff! And don't call me Eddie"
I was just silently sat in the front passenger seat, listening to their brother-sister bickering trying desperately to hold in my laughter. I had a firm grip on each side of the seat and my teeth were clamped down onto my bottom lip.
"Don't go mocking my height now brother, we both know that you are no match for me in my quest for revenge" She warned him.
By now Edward had started the car and was making his way out of the car park.
"That's only because you fight dirty! Mum still thinks I'm gay after you planted that gay porn in my room! She keeps on saying "we're hear for you hunny. You can tell us anything" every time I see her!"
The look on his face had me bursting out in fits of laughter. He looked so young, innocent and hurt glaring at his sister in the rear view mirror. It was priceless! Honestly I tried to hold it in but I couldn't any more. I look over to see both Edward and Alice looking at me in confusion and but with humour in their eyes and it just made me laugh harder. My eyes were watering and I was clutching at my stomach which was aching from my unrelenting laughter. Through my watery eyes I saw Alice also cracking up and Edward trying his hardest to keep a straight face but was sporting a grin none the less and was rapidly blinking back tears in his effort to see the road and hopefully keep us alive.
"Hey what's so funny?" Edward laughed.
"It's…just….I can….picture……your face when…..your mum…..was……ha…..asking if….y-you were ….GAY!!!" I struggled out breathless in between my laughter.
"It's not funny! My own mother has been trying to set me up on dates with guys!"
Well that wasn't a good way to stop my laughter.
"I'm sorry Edward, I didn't mean to laugh" I smiled once I got my laughter under control but a slight giggle made it's way out at the end.
"Yeh yeh I'm sure." He mocked, with a crooked grin. "So where to brown eyes"
My traitor blush heated my face. He'd given me a nick name.
"Oh crap" I quickly looked at the time on the dash and saw that I had ten minutes till I was due to start my shift at the book store. "Um do you know where Jenson's open book is?" I looked at Edward.
His beautiful brown furrowed as he searched his mind for recognition. Finally it smoothed out into a look of mild contempt which told me he knew.
"That's like five blocks from the diner, right?" He asked me with trepidation as if the question would offend me. Or perhaps it was him hoping that he was wrong, it's not the most appealing of places to put it mildly.
"Uh… yeh that's right." I whispered looking down at my lap.
"So Bella" Alice began. "Did you grow up in New York?"
As happy as I was to have a distraction, this was not a topic I wanted to discuss at any cost.
"N-no, I'm originally from a small town in Washington." I replied reluctantly. This could easily start going in the wrong direction. "How about you two?" I hopefully tried to divert the questions away from myself.
"We're from Chicago although our family moves around a lot" she replied happily.
"Oh really. Where have you lived?"
This was good, maybe I could keep her talking for the rest of the journey.
"Oh we've lived all over!" She replied before listing off the places on her small fingers. "Tennessee, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Montréal, and London. I don't count Paris because we were only there for a few weeks"
I was in awe. "Oh my gosh! Seriously? You've lived in all those places?" She just nodded her head in acknowledgment. "Jesus. I've always wanted to go to England." I huffed slightly. "I've never even been out of the USA. The only states I've ever entered are Washington, Oregon and New York" I laughed humourlessly.
"Really?" Alice asked. She was far to surprised about something so trivial, I was sure plenty of people hadn't travelled.
"Um.. yeah"
"Well we'll have to change that" She mused tapping her perfectly manicured index finger on her chin thoughtfully. "Ooh we could go to our summer house in California!! That would be so much fun!" She began clapping excitedly.
I didn't even know these people and they were inviting me to their summer home. It's not like they aren't nice people because they are but over the past few years I've found it extremely hard to trust people but these two have made it so easy. It's not that I trust them per se, because I couldn't honestly say that I did having only known then for less than a day. Well less than an hour in Alice's case. But there was something about their open friendliness and pleasant smiles that lured me in which I new could potentially have dreadful consequences. My brain was screaming 'Stay away! Don't get to close! They can hurt you!' but my heart was saying 'You can trust them. They aren't Jake. Give them a chance, you deserve a chance for a normal life'. I decided that for now I would let things play out but remain cautious none the less.
Seeing the look on my face Edward decided to intervene. "Ali we've only just met, give her a chance to see we're not deranged lunatics first will you" He spoke with a smile and rolled his eyes at me as if to say 'sorry about her'.
"Jeez Edward lighten up, Bella and I are gonna be great friends so why bother waiting, when I know I'm gonna ask her eventually anyway" She stated as if it were the most simple thing in the world. "So Bella what do you say? Do you wanna go to Californ-i-a with us?" She pronounced 'California' in to three different words and grinned at me.
Hell yes! I wanted to go but I new I couldn't. I also new that there is no way I could tell them the reasons why, so I had to come up with a valid excuse ASAP.
"Um…" I looked up into the hopeful faces of not just Alice but of Edward also and I hated myself for having to say 'no' but that was the only option. "I would love to Alice-" Suddenly she started squealing and clapping and muttering to herself about having to ask some people - Rose, Emmett and Jasper I think she said their names were- to come as well and then about having to go shopping for new summer clothes and something about a road trip. That's when I stopped her. "Alice! Alice!" She stopped chattering and looked at me. "I would love to but I can't. I'm sorry but I can't afford to go with you to California and even if I could I still have jobs that I can't just quit during the summer and then expect them to hire me back next year." She looked truly sad, her mouth in a pout and her blue eyes so big and round that you just wanted to hug her. "I really am sorry Alice, I wish that I could go with you guys I really do but I can't see a way around my responsibilities here." Still nobody said anything and it was starting to make me feel really guilty. "I'm sure you'll all have a good time anyway without me. You better send me a postcard" I tried to make me voice light but I came out sounding a lot less cheerful than I hoped for. "I'm sorry" I said one last time and looked at my lap.
"Bella there's no reason for you to apologise. We completely understand." Edward tried to make me feel better. If only he new it wasn't just because of those reasons that I couldn't go. That it was because my whole life is controlled by someone else and I have to choice in the matter. Then he might realise why I was so sorry that I couldn't go with them. God I wish I could go with them, to finally be free again. This was no time to wallow in self pity so I forced myself to look up into his green pools and smiled sadly at him.
"Thank you" I told him. "I really do wish I could come with you though" I said sincerely. Then I realised how that sounded.
Oh shit!
I saw his pink cheeks and the amused smirk on his face and I felt mine instantly turn crimson.
Oh my god! Could I embarrass myself any more? JESUS WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO?
I looked behind me at Alice and she was squeezing her lips together to keep the laughter in.
"I-I didn't m-mean it like that, I meant to California not to come as in coming when having sex with you. Not that sex with you would be bad. Oh shit I didn't mean to say that. I meant that I really do wish I could go on vacation with both of you and your friends. I really didn't mean it in the sexual sense I swear I didn't -" I new I was rambling and in the process making a complete fool out of myself.
Apparently it is possible to make more of an ass out of myself.
Thankfully Edward stopped me before I started describing the mechanics of sex and how you orgasm then explaining the different between that and the vacation to California.
"Bella" He said with a smile and a soft chuckle. "We know what you meant, there's really no need to explain yourself" He chuckled again.
I was mortified.
"Oh Bella" Alice giggled. "I'm so happy I met you, your so much fun" She giggled again. "I really do wish I could come with you though" The pixie imitated me. "Not that sex with you would be bad. Oh shit I didn't mean to say that." She was full out clutching her sides, tears rolling down her cheeks laughing at me.
I hid my face in my hands and sunk down in my seat absolutely humiliated at what I had said to these more or less strangers.
"Are we there yet?" I asked hoping I could run into work and forget about this whole mess.
"We're just pulling up brown eyes" Edward informed me.
I looked up and sure enough Edward was just pulling his car into a small side street so that I could jump out. He quickly put the car in neutral and jumped out, meeting me as I was climbing out of the passenger side. He extended his hand to help me out. I must admit I was a little shocked at his act of chivalry but gratefully accepted his hand none the less. The moment our skin touched the spark from earlier when he introduced himself to me was still there but now it felt like it had transformed into a slow warmth that travelled through out my body instead of the blazing fire that was the result of our first hand shake. I smiled at the feeling.
Once I was stood up and the car door was closed he released my hand.
Looking up into his god like face I spoke. "Thank you for the lift Edward. I guess I'll see you in our next class" I suddenly wondered whether he would even want to see me again, even if it was just for class.
"It was no problem Bella" He didn't move towards his car or say good bye so I started to walk away waving as I went.
"Oh Bella" Edward spoke as his jogged forward and grabbed my wrist, turning me around.
"Yes Edward?"
He leaned for ward so he could whisper in my ear. "I would love to come with you too" His nose grazed purposefully along the shell of my ear before he pulled back and started backing up towards his car with a massive grin plastered across his face. "I'll see you tomorrow brown eyes" He winked at me.
He winked at me!! What the hell was that supposed to mean?
I just stood there mouth agape and staring as he got in the car and drove off. I eventually managed to snap myself out of my Edward induced haze and trudged into work. My mind replaying what had just happened over and over in my mind. How his large hand had wrapped itself around my wrist. How he smelt of soap, laundry powder, his own spicy scent and the undeniable smell of boy. How his voice was husky as he spoke the words that made my legs go weak. How his warm breathe had tickled my skin as he grazed his nose over my ear.
I was in trouble.
Epov
I drove off while Bella stood on the side walk like she had just seen a ghost. I hoped I hadn't gone to far with the 'I would love to come with you too', I just couldn't help myself. When she had made the slip in her explanation of the innuendo she inadvertently spoke, the slip when she said 'Not that sex with you would be bad' I couldn't get the thought of us together out of my head. I know it was probably a massive mistake to say what I said but even if she didn't mean to say it and even if it wasn't true I wanted her to know that I was more than willing to cater to her needs.
"What did you do to Bella?" Alice snapped me out of my reverie.
"What? Oh nothing"
"You can't lie to me Edward. What did you say to her?" Her eyes pierced into mine as I glanced over at her.
"It's none of your business Ali" I told her, trying to come off annoyed when really I was just embarrassed at the thought of having to repeat what I said to Bella to my baby sister.
"So you did say something to her" I just stared out the windscreen ignoring her. "From how close you were, the look on her face when we drove away and from the last conversation we had before she left I'm betting it was something sex related. Am I right?" I continued to ignore her. "Ha! I new it I was right!! You like Bella!!"
I decided that it was no use ignoring Alice so I gave in with a sigh. "Yes I like Bella okay! Will you shut up about it now?" I asked hopefully but I new what my answer would be anyway.
"Hell no! not until you tell me what you said to her"
"Alice I don't wanna say can you please just drop it?" I pleaded with her.
"No" Was her simple answer. Demon pixie.
"Fine" I gritted out. "I said 'I would love to come with you too'. There are you happy now?" I growled.
"Yes!" She laughed. "I can't believe you said that. Seriously?"
"Yeah I did. Do you think it will have scared her?" I was really worried that I would have made her think I was the kind of guy who only wanted a quick fuck.
"I really don't know. Sorry" Well she was a great help.
I pulled into my parking space at our apartment block and after locking my car we made our way to the elevator. "Your gonna tell everyone aren't you Ali" I stated rather than questioned.
"Yep" She smiled at me as if she wasn't feeding me to the wolves. "I'm sorry bro but this is just to good to keep to my self."
Alice, Emmett and I shared the penthouse, our parents had bought it for us when we told them that we all wanted to go to the same university. Emmett was a year older than me and I a year older than Alice, so for two years Em had a smaller apartment, but now that me and Alice have moved to New York our parents surprised us with the penthouse suite of the same building Emmett was already living in with his girlfriend Rosalie. I was supposed to have moved in with my brother a year ago but I opted to take a year out and go travelling instead and I honestly can say it was the best decision I could have made. I was not interested in school particularly, even though I was always the in the top five of all my classes in high school, I just couldn't handle going straight into education again, I wanted to do something other than school work for at least a year. I wanted to be set free and explore - to actually live.
I must admit our apartment was pretty amazing. Walking out of the elevator and straight into the living area sat my brother and his girlfriend on the loveseat, Alice hopped over to one of the sofas to her boyfriend Jasper who also lived with us. Overall there were five bedrooms but as everyone was coupled up apart from me that left two free rooms. One was kept as a guest room but the other was converted into a cross between a games room and a gym, which us guys often got shoved into when Rose and Alice wanted a 'Girls night' not that you ever heard us complaining, we got the best of both worlds - we got to miss the chick flick and the tears but we got the beers, the foosball and the pacman. That's right we have pacman.
The whole apartment was open plan with the main wall of the building completely made of glass so we got an amazing view of the city as we were on the top floor. The kitchen was state of the art with all stainless steel appliances. We had various different areas in the main living space; we had an area with three sofas and a large flat screen TV on the wall, a huge glass dinner table with black leather seat surrounding it, another circle of sofas and comfy armchairs and a bean bag, in the corner was a smaller table which held a phone, fax machine, computer and printer, my piano was sitting in the corner next to the glass wall and last but not least we had the pool table and bar.
Next to the kitchen there was a floating black staircase that led upstairs to the bedrooms. The second floor was a sort of balcony as you could look over the waist high glass railing into the living area. The upstairs was an 'L' shape with three of the bedrooms directly opposite the staircase and the other two to the right of it. My room was the last room on the right, connecting with the same wall of glass as downstairs. Each of the rooms had its own en suite with another bathroom downstairs. Along the landing upstairs sat various armchairs, bookshelves and at the very end to the left was a winding staircase which led to the roof garden where we had a Jacuzzi tub big enough for ten people, I know a Jacuzzi in New York - weird. That's Alice for you. Two sun loungers, Again weird I know. And a small patio with a barbeque and a wooden table and chairs.
Although I loved this apartment I couldn't help but feel very spoiled. My family had always been wealthy so I never really thought about it. We weren't the type of rich family to go around throwing our money in peoples faces just for the sake of it, we tried to blend in with everybody else and hope that they wouldn't see us differently because of said money. After meeting Bella today and seeing how she had to hold down two jobs and school while I lived in a luxury apartment for free made me feel so…..guilty I guess. I could say that I will go and find a job and pay my own way but that would be pointless; the apartment is ours, the bills get paid for out of our family account and if I did get a job I would be getting more money that I didn't need while someone else who did need the money would have to go without. There was no way around it but I guess I should just be thankful that I m so lucky to have all those things.
Sighing I dropped my bag down by the door and made my way over to my family and roommates. Better to get it over with sooner rather than later. Just as I sat down Alice spoke.
"Edwards got a crush" She said in a sing song voice.
They all turned to look at me.
"Really Eddie boy? It's about time you saw something you liked, I was beginning to think you actually were gay." I groaned and wiped my hand over my face. "Wait! It's not a guy is it? I mean that's cool and everything but if you are playing for the other team I would like to know before I start walking around in my birthday suit again. Sorry Ed but your just not my type" Emmett was often walking around the apartment in the nude or his underwear.
I hate my family
Everyone except Emmett and me were laughing now.
"Em I'm NOT gay and even if I were you're my brother dude! Jeez! And my name is Edward not Eddie"
"Oh well that's good. So who's the lucky lady" He asked me.
"Her names Bella" Alice answered before I could. "She's really nice. Edward's in the same class as her and he offered to give her a ride to work and I was just being friendly but Edward was all like 'don't scare Bella. I was only trying to save her from you psycho rant. Sorry about my sister Bella she's crazy. I want to give you an orgasm Bella'" I groaned.
"Alice I did not say that" I defended myself.
"No you just told her you want to make her come"
"You what!!" Rosalie asked in shock.
"It's not as bad as it sounds" I justified.
"Dude you actually said that?!" Jasper raised his eyebrows at me.
"Well yeah but there's a valid explanation why I said it. We were in the car-" I was suddenly cut off by Alice who it would seem wanted to tell the story.
"And me and Edward were having a little argument and I reminded him that I am better at getting revenge aka the gay porn I hid under his bed." Everyone nodded their heads in remembrance. "Then Bella started cracking up and we got on to the topic of travelling and she said she's never been out of the country and has only ever been in the states of Washington, Oregon and New York so I said we should all go to our summer home in California"
"Oh my god we should that would be so fun" Rosalie interrupted.
"I know! But we'd have to go shopping for new clothes and I was thinking we could go on a road trip there and back! And we could-"
"Guys! Can we get back to the story?" Emmett said.
"Oh right sorry" Alice giggled. "But then she said she couldn't because she wouldn't be able to afford it and that she has work and couldn't get the summer off" Alice pouted. "Then she started apologising and kept on saying that she really wished she could go. Edward told her she didn't need to apologise and she replied with" Alice grinned. "'Thank you. I really wish I could come with you though' while looking at Edward, who blushed by the way"
"Thanks for that Alice" I replied sarcastically.
Every one was laughing now including me even though I tried not to, but just the memory of Bella's face set me off.
"When she realised what she had said she tried to explain that she didn't mean it sexually and she said something like 'I meant to California not to come as in coming when having sex with you. Not that sex with you would be bad. Oh shit I didn't mean to say that.' her face was priceless." Alice fell on the floor laughing.
"Dude I've gotta meet this chick! She sounds hilarious!" Emmett punched me in the arm.
"Fuck off Em! I'm not going to bring her here so you can laugh at her!" She was a kind, smart, beautiful woman and I was not going to let them laugh at her.
"Chill out! I only meant that she sounds cute" he defended himself.
"She's not cute Em, she's sweet and kind, clever, shy, innocent and so beautiful" I realised to late that I had said to much.
"Shit Edward how long have you known this girl" Jasper asked.
"Well I met her this morning before I went to class"
"Edward we should invite her over to meet everyone!" Alice suggested. "You guys will love her"
"You know we never did get to the reason why Edward told her he wanted to fuck her" Rose answered casually.
"Rose I did not say I wanted to fuck her"
Oh god what if she thinks I only want to fuck her!
Rose just shrugged and waved a hand as if to say 'same thing'
"Well Edward got out and helped her out of the car like the gentleman he is" I rolled my eyes and Emmett snickered. "She thanked him for the ride and went to leave but lover boy ran over to her and grabbed her wrist and whispered something in her ear which I'm guessing was the bit about wanting to come with her and then walked back to the car. She was just stood there mouth open like a fish, eyes all huge and she looked like she might fall over when we drove off which makes me think he might have done something more" She finished looking at me suspiciously with her eyebrows raised expectantly.
Letting out a sigh, I knew there was no point in denying it with Alice around. "I may have rubbed my nose along her ear and breathed down her neck"
Once again Alice started clapping and jumping up and down in her seat. "Jaz and I are going to ride with you tomorrow Edward so I can invite Bella over or maybe we could go shopping" Alice mused.
"Or we could go to that new club that opened last week" Rose suggested.
"That's a great idea Rose! And I'll invite her over here so we can get ready together."
"But when are Rose and me going to meet this Bella?" Emmett whined.
"Why don't you both follow us to wherever it is Edwards going to see her"
"Ali I don't know if this is a good idea. You saw how shy she is. What's she going to be like when the five of us stroll in"
"It'll be fine Edward" She waved a hand at me dismissively. "She already loves me, and can't keep her eyes off you." She shrugged. "She'll be fine"
I made my way upstairs and to my bedroom. I lay down on my bed, closed my eyes and think of my brown eyed beauty and what tomorrow might bring. I knew it was going to be a long day.
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