Hey everyone, I know it's been quite a while. At least by now I hope you don't expect me to upload quickly. I wish I could, but unfortunately I'm extremely lazy. I tend to write these chapters in notebooks; well, in many notebooks. Then, they lay about and I tend to dislike what I've already accomplished. The only way I get things done these days is if it's three in the morning and I open up a blank document and begin writing. Well; enough about this. Happy reading (:

I watched distantly as lazy white clouds passed through my view of the car window, my eyes automatically trying to find familiar shapes in them. Try as I might, my mind was still half asleep. As soon as I would find a shape, my mind would let it go.

The clear blue sky above me seemed to promise good fortune, and wonderful weather. With my mind still in a foggy haze from my sleep; I turned my head to face Edward. His eyes were intent of the road, but I knew it wasn't what his attention was on.

My eyes crossed as I tried to concentrate on his face; my mind instantly forgetting what I was doing looking at his face in the first place. I pulled a chilly hand across my twitching eyes as I pushed myself to sit up. It seemed that Edward had somehow leaned over me once I had fallen asleep and lowered my seat so I could lay down.

The world around me swirled as I struggled to pull the car seat back into a sitting position. The small lever on the right side of my seat seemed to weigh a ton, and my fingers couldn't seem to understand how to grasp correctly. I was relieved to find Edward bending over me to pull the lever himself.

As he was sitting back upright, Edward's cool breathe rolled past my face. My mind instantly cleared and my grogginess evaporated.

For a short while I had forgotten why we were even in the car. Sudden realization flooded over me. I rapidly pulled down the passenger mirror and examined my appearance. My pale skin didn't contrast well with the yellow sundress I was wearing and my hair was an utter rat's nest. I busied myself with pulling my hands through my hair, trying to replace it to its' original style.

I heard a chuckle to the left of me. A cool hand enclosed my left one as it was being raised to rake through my hair again. Edward pulled my hand to his lips and gave my knuckles small kisses.

"You look beautiful my dear."

I rolled my eyes. If I were wearing a cardboard box he would still say that.

I tried to look outside the car, but I had to squint my eyes to look outside the windshield. Once we had left Forks it seemed the weather had gotten a lot clearer. I was so used to the usual gloom of Forks that the clear sunshine hurt my eyes.

"Where are we now?" I asked, giving up trying to find road signs.

"We should be there in about five to ten minutes."

I relaxed back into my seat and took a deep breath. The air here was warmer too, making my forehead sweaty. I pushed a tuft of hair out of my eyes out of annoyance, and then decided to plan how I was going to carry out the rest of this attempt.

"Bella, Bella?"

My neck snapped up, my heart skipping a beat. Had I fallen asleep again!?

Edward laughed beside me, the kind of laugh that raised my spirits and made me forget what I was thinking about.

"Did I scare you?" he asked, a crooked grin spreading across his face.

I giggled and tried not to smile,

"For once."

"Well finally." he said in a playful scowl as he pulled the car into a parking space and parked.

Now I could look around outside the car for Edward had parked under a lone tree, oddly growing in the middle of the parking lot. In front of us was a red sand stone building, and to our right was Mount Baker.

I hadn't expected the volcano to be so close to the springs, but it was a great surprise.

As we began walking to the red sand stone building, promptly named "Red Stone Springs", my hands began to sweat. I was fully aware that the back of my legs were slick with sweat from the car ride, and my hair was frizzing up. My mind raced with the thoughts of what I wanted to do here, and from some lasting effects from my brief sleep in the car. I tried finding a sort of strategy to what I wanted to do; how I would play it out. I wanted to get into the bathing suit and get into a spring as fast as I could with Edward.

Bathing suit! Where was my bathing suit?

I came to a quick stop, looking rapidly to my hands. My eyes were wide and my mind reeled; trying to think of the bright red bathing suit I had received from Alice. The last time I had seen it I had pushed it between the passenger door and myself.

"Bella?" a disconnected voice called.

I looked back to see if the bathing suit might have fallen out of the car and onto the pavement. Edward's was the only car in the whole lot, which I found odd, so to look at the Volvo and see that there was no bright red bathing suit lying there wasn't hard to do. My fingers began to grow numb, and my breathing accelerated.

Did Edward have it?

Was my surprise ruined?

I hated being over reactive.

"Bella, please breathe. What's wrong?" Edward's alarmed voice rang through my ears.

My tunnel vision which had been set on the ground was slowly returning, why was my vision fuzzy? My head was pounding as if it was under great pressure.

"Ed, Edward?"

Edward pressed one of his cool hands to my forehead while he kept me standing by with the other one by pushing against my left shoulder.

"Bella, why did you hyperventilate?" he asked, worry streaking his eyes. His rich, golden eyes drew me in and soon my head stopped pounding and my heartbeat slowed. Usually his actions flustered me, but oddly when I was panicked it all calmed me.

"I hyperventilated?" I asked, looking down at myself as if my appearances could tell me why.

"Yes. You stopped suddenly while we were walking; you looked to the Volvo and to your hands. Then your eyes grew big and you began to hyperventilate. Why were you so panicked suddenly?"

His grip on my shoulder grew stronger and I knew he was going insane not being able just to delve into my mind and know what he wanted to.

I decided to not tell the truth.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because the sun? I'm not used to so much sunlight since I moved to Forks. I might have heat stroke."

I knew this was extremely untruthful, to the point that I wasn't sure Edward would buy it either. Heat stroke did not make you hyperventilate. After living in Arizona my whole life I was well acquainted with Mr. Heat stroke. Although, I honestly missed the pure sunlight. In Arizona it was part of my daily life. In Forks it was a rare miracle.

"Oh, that must be it. Let's get inside quickly."

I wasn't surprised when Edward swung my legs out from underneath me and found myself in his arms. He was briskly walking towards the entrance to the "Red Stone Springs". I could feel the tension in his body telling me that he was using all his self control not to run inhumanly fast to the doors.

I looked at our church clothes and decided we looked completely out of place. Edward looked like he should be on a business wear runway and I should be in a southern church communion. I played with my nails with my arms around Edward's neck. I honestly felt completely fine now, but it was odd. If I had been hyperventilating, shouldn't I feel some kind of after math? I chalked it up to Edward's effect on my body and busied myself with my nails again. I noticed the shine my bare nails had in the sunshine.

Then three things suddenly dawned on me.

"Edward, you're sparkling!" I half shouted, kicking my legs in Edward's arms trying to show him the urgency.

"Oh, I guess I am." He answered nonchalantly, shrugging it off.

I looked at him in disbelieve,

"You aren't concerned!?" I asked with shock.

"Bella, we're the only ones in the parking lot, the windows of that building are tinted, your body is blocking most of the view of me, and not many people know vampires sparkle, yet exist." He stated matter of factually.

I countered him with my next question.

"Where's my bathing suit?" I asked, my eyes slits with suspicion.

Edward laughed whole heartedly at me and grinned, revealing his teeth.

All his teeth.

He pointed to a bulge in his pocket that made me blush at first, but then I noticed the red cloth sticking out of the top of his pocket.

"Why do you have it?"

"I noticed it and thought I would hold onto it so you wouldn't lose it."

I looked at him with a look that told him instantly that I didn't buy what he was saying.

Edward rolled his neck and slowed his pace. We were still a considerable length from the building and I was started to wonder if we were ever going to get to it.

"Ok, I was curious." He said, an innocence in his voice instantly made me forgive him; no matter how embarrassing it was. I held my hand out for it, then pushed it down into my pocket.

I knew he was going to have trouble with this last question. I unwound my arms from his neck and crossed them the best I could across my chest.

"How'd you know where we were going?"

I noticed his almost inconspicuous stutter when confronted with this question, my lip began to curl.

"Well I just figured because you told me to go to Mount Baker, and.."

"Edward, tell me the truth."

He sighed and hung his head. I knew he couldn't easily lie to me when I demanded the truth from him.

"I was passing Alice's room and I could tell she was excited about something so I decided to see what she was excited about. I didn't know that she knew where.."

"Oh Edward!" I said angrily, I knew it was a wasted effort. I couldn't stay mad with Edward.

"It's not like I wanted to know. But that's all I know, I promise."

This relaxed me, knowing that Edward didn't know my intentions on being here. To him it was probably just a small vacation I had planned for him.

"Do you have a.."

"Why all the questions love?" Edward said as we reached the buildings double doors. He set me down on the pavement and watched with a keen eye as I wobbled on my feet for a quick moment.

"I just wanted to know if you had a bathing suit." I whispered innocently as Edward reached for a door handle and pulled with ease.

"Well when you were still upstairs Jasper passed me in the living room and handed me a pair of trunks. Told me Alice had said I would need them."

Cool air poured around me as I walked ahead of Edward through the doors. It was a great relief since I was sweating profusely. Being in Edward's arms while he carried me had cooled me down considerably, but even he just couldn't beat good ole air conditioning.

"Feelings better now?" Edward asked as he walked in the door behind me.

"Much." I said with a smile.

I tried to look around the pristine waiting room, but my eyes were squinting thanks to the change in lighting.

Ahead of us was a girl sitting behind a white desk. The girl was wearing all white. Her brown hair was standing out drastically contrasted to her pure white polo shirt. Her name plate read Rachael, and she was staring ahead to me with a great smile on her face. Then, did I realize she was smiling at Edward.

Annoyed, I looked to my left and right. Rather bland furniture dotted the pale orange room. The air was the perfect temperature and smelled slightly like a dying fire.

Edward and I walked up to Rachael's desk; I made a point to reach for Edward's hand.

"Good morning, can I help you today?" Rachael asked in an overly perky voice, her pearly whites flashing.

Edward looked to me,

"Go ahead."

I cleared my throat and looked at Rachael,

"Yes, I would like to two for the hot spring."

Next to me Edward was gazing about uncomfortably. He knew, as I did, that Rachael was staring at him and he didn't have the heart to ask her not to.

"Okay, and would you like a complimentary sauna room today sir?"

My face soured; I turned to face Edward who looked slightly bewildered.

"Would you like a sauna love?" Edward asked with an uneasy smile on his face.

"Yes." I answered through tight lips, this felt so unusual. I usually never got angry with anyone.

"Okay, your total today will be $24.42 for two in the springs." Rachael spoke with her annoyingly perky voice.

I watched with wild anger flowing through me as Edward took his wallet from his pocket and paid for the bill. While Edward was returning his wallet to his pocket, I noticed Rachael's eyes linger on his crotch. When Rachael offered us eggshell white robes and towels, I ripped them from her hands. Then, I pulled Edward towards a doorway to my left marked "Changing Rooms".

I could feel my face warm with anger and my brows furrowed with contained rage.

"Love, please slow down." Edward whispered, gently pulling on my hand. I hadn't notice I had been half running.

Inside the dressing room I was livid.

Was this how Edward felt whenever he got angry?

I took a few deep breathes as I studied an abstract picture between two changing stalls. The dressing room consisted of nine or so stalls and a doorway marked, "Sauna Rooms & Springs". Each stall was colored a bright orange that reminded me of a sunset. An upbeat piano solo was playing above my head and it seemed to calm me some.

Edward watched me with distant eyes. The painting in front of me was a mix of blue and greens, and seemed to calm me further. All I could think about was making Rachael's perfect smile a not so perfect one as I rung my hands together. For some reason my anger was unbelievable today.

I took another glance at the encouraging painting, and put a smile on my face. I turned to face Edward who was like a statue; he was standing so very still as he stared at me intently.

I winked and escaped into the nearest stall, suddenly embarrassed by my irrational behavior so far today. Maybe my searing hormones were affecting my unused anger too.

I pulled the bright red suit out of my bulging pocket. As I was doing so, I heard the stall next to me quietly open and close.

What was wrong with Edward?

He usually found my outbursts simply hilarious, this time he had been passive. I shook the mystery from my mind; I wasn't going to let this ruin my buzz.

I wiggled out of my sundress and underwear, and then tentatively pulled the bottoms of the suit up to my hips. The stretch material hugged my features perfectly. I silently rejoiced inside.

I tied the top around my neck and stood back to examine myself in the full length mirror to my right, ready to find all the imperfections.

I stared in awe at my reflection in the mirror.

My reflection was of course overly pale due to my bad relationship with the outdoors. I rarely revealed even my upper thoughts, and this was showing way more than that. My chest looked perky and full compared to its' usually hidden away self. My naval seemed like a foreign world to as my finger trickled down my flat stomach to my curved hips.

My legs didn't look chicken like, but toned. My hair fell around my face as I leaned to get a better look.

"Love, are you ready?" Edward's voice wafted from outside my door.

My body broke out in a cold sweat and my new found confidence was gone.

Would Edward accept this new body image, or would he reject it?

"Love?" Edward asked.

"R...Ready." I couldn't help but stutter as I hurriedly balled my clothes up and slipped on my robe to help hide my body.

I slowly opened my door, trying to drag the moment out. I tried not to look at Edward; I didn't want to see his expression.

Suddenly arms were around my body and Edward's lips were pressed on mine. The kiss caught me by surprise. My fingers wildly twisted in Edward's cotton soft hair. He walked me backwards into the wall opposite the changing stalls and pressed against.

Our tongues fought furiously and I felt I was going to faint. Edward's left hand traveled from my hip to my thigh. He wrapped his hand around my upper thigh and pulled it around his side. My heart was beating so fast I was worried the whole world could hear.

Edward pulled his face from mine and stared intently into my eyes. My expression was bewildered and my breathing was ragged. He was also breathing heavy, even though he didn't need to breathe at all. Adrenaline rushed through my body like wildfire.

"You are so sexy when you're possessive." Edward said in a husky voice.

I was surprised with Edward, I'd never heard him say the word sexy before.

He chuckled and took my hand,

"Let's go check out the sauna."

I him like a lost dog with wide eyes.

What was I getting myself into this time?

So yeah, this was probably a horrible chapter. But I needed to get this out before I leave this week. I know for a fact that I won't be updating for the next three weeks. Sorry:/ But I will be writing, so I'll be prepared when I return. The location in this chapter is a real volcano in Washington, and there are public springs. Although, the name of the business is my own. Hope you enjoyed, and please forgive me for the wait(: Thanks for reading!