Chapter 4

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Songs:

"Sweet Dreams" Eurythmics

"Fantasy" Mariah Carey

"Lovefool" The Cardigans

BPOV

"Bella, what's wrong? Are you okay," Edward-fucking-Cullen asked me. Maybe I am still sleeping, I thought to myself as I wrapped the sheet around my body.

I slowly moved closer to him and pinched him on his forearm.

"Ouch!" he exclaimed. "What did you do that for?" he asked, rubbing the spot where I'd pinched him. I could already see a small red welt forming.

"I was checking to see if I was awake or if this was all a dream," I said him softly. I couldn't even look him in the eyes. I let myself be swept off my feet by the literal man of my dreams. What was I supposed to say to him now?

"Bella, you're supposed to pinch yourself to see if you are dreaming," Edward laughed a little. I looked up and saw his questioning eyes peering back at mine.

I shifted back and forth on my feet, uncomfortable with his ongoing scrutiny of me. I'd never had a one night stand ... and never thought I would. For my first one night stand to be with someone like this God-like figure, someone who would never want someone like me, someone ordinary, for more than one night.

"Edward, I..." I couldn't find the words that I wanted to say to him. I was unbelievably embarrassed that I let myself get so carried away with him. I closed my eyes, and images of the night before played before me. Holy shit. The things that he could do with his mouth should be illegal. I felt the blush as it began to cover me from head to toe.

"I wish I could read your mind, Bella," Edward said. Even those simple words oozed sex, and I felt my blush intensify. "I would love to know what you are thinking about right now."

Edward had moved to the side of the bed. He was barely covered and was still VERY aroused. His abs were a tantalizingly sculpted six pack, and there was that amazing V with a slight dusting of bronze hair that led to his... Fuck me. I could feel the excitement building in me, so I bit my bottom lip in an attempt to get my now raging libido under control. Here I was not only in the same room as Edward Cullen, but he was staring at me like he wanted to eat me alive.

"I don't know what to say to you, Edward." I heard my voice quiver a little. I honestly wasn't sure if that was from nerves, embarrassment or the fact that I wanted him to have his way with me until I couldn't see or walk straight.

"You didn't have problems talking to me last night," Edward said as he moved to sit along the edge of the bed. If I didn't know any better, he almost sounded like my words hurt him. Edward stood up covering himself with the sheet. He reached his hand towards me and he softly ran the back of his index finger down the apple of my cheek to my lips. That gentle gesture left me trembling.

I blew out the breath that I didn't realize I was holding and stepped away from him.

"Edward, I don't do this." I swept my arm out towards the bed while my other hand kept a death grip on the sheet to keep it from slipping. "I have never slept with a guy the same night I met them. As a matter of fact, you're only the third guy that I've ever slept with. I know that this didn't mean anything to you. I mean, you've probably been with hundreds of women, while I can count the number of guys I've slept with on one hand. I'll just get out of your hair and let you go about your business. I'm sure you've got places to go and people to do... I mean people to see."

I started looking around the room for my clothes and they were nowhere to be found. I thought seriously about going Greek and making a toga from this sheet and wearing it home. I had never felt as awkward as I did at this very moment.

I began to feel claustrophobic. I had to get out of here now before I made an even bigger ass of myself. As I moved towards the bedroom door, I felt Edward move closer to me. He was so close that I could feel the heat radiating from his body and engulfing my own. Suddenly a realization struck me that there was something more that I felt. It was like there was some type of invisible bond tying us together and I knew it would physically hurt to break it. I shook my head trying to clear the thoughts that were muddling my brain. It was impossible for me to have any type of connection to this man. I didn't know him other than what I had seen and read over the years. He was Edward Cullen, and I was...well just plain old Bella Swan.

Edward's breath washed over the nape of my neck. "Bella," he whispered to me.

I turned and was nose to nose with him. I ran my tongue across my lips. Was it me or was it getting hotter in here by the second? "Edward, I'm not... As much as every fiber of my being wants to latch my legs around your waist and let you have your very deliciously wicked way with me, I can't. Sex is something that should mean something more than just fun. There should be an exclusive relationship between two people who care deeply about each other. People who have a connection."

As soon as I said the words, I wished things were different. That connection that I thought I imagined earlier, I wanted that with him so badly I could taste it. I wanted to be Aladdin with his magic lamp that I could rub and make all of my wildest dreams actually come true. Dreams like Edward wanting to really be with me and not caring that I was his Bella and he was my Edward, no one else's.

"Hasn't anyone told you that you shouldn't believe everything you read, Bella?" Edward's voice froze me in my tracks. He was so intense, his eyes almost hypnotic, slowly putting me under his spell. We were so close that our breath mingled together, but he didn't touch me with his body. He didn't have to. Some kind of magnetic pull kept me rooted in place. "Obviously, I'm not a virgin and haven't been for a while." Edward smiled that notoriously crooked smile that caused his dimples to jump out and shout, Look at me. Look at me.

"I can definitely promise you that I haven't been with hundreds of women, Bella. Most of the women you have seen me pictured with over the years were nothing more than friends or actresses that I shared the screen with. Everyone always wants something from the me they perceive me to be, Edward, the actor. No one ever wants Edward Cullen, the person, the guy who likes to go to a bar and chill with friends and have a beer, or hang out at home by the pool and read a good book or go to a concert and rock out. Underneath all the glamour and glitz that seems to follow me is a person. I'm just like you, Bella. I just happened to pick a job where my face is plastered for everyone to see."

He stopped to take a deep breath and the look that appeared in his eyes made my heart begin to beat frantically. "I didn't go to the bar last night looking for an easy lay, Bella. There was something about you from the moment I saw found you in that crowded bar, and I had to know you. There was no other option for me. If you had been married or dating someone I could have accepted that and would have been blessed to have spent even a few moments with you. If you don't want to sleep with me again, I can accept that. I would never pressure anyone to do anything that they didn't want to do. I would gladly spend hours just sitting on the couch watching you vegetate. Would you consider just spending time with me getting to know the real Edward?"

His words touched part of me that I didn't know existed. They were words that any girl would want to hear, but I was always the cautious one who looked both ways at least twice before crossing the street.

"Edward, you could have anyone in the world? Why me?"

"Bella, don't you see?"

"No, Edward, I really don't. I have never been one that stands out in a crowd. There isn't anything particularly remarkable about me." That asshat Jake had made it abundantly clear that there wasn't anything special about me by sleeping with someone fir six of the months that we'd been together.

"You obviously don't see yourself as clearly as I see you, Bella," Edward said as he moved a step closer to me. "Would you let me take you out tonight? Please?" The way his eyes reached into my soul there was only one answer that I could give him. I couldn't find my voice, but I nodded my head. I reached down to pinch my own arm and flinched at the pain.

Edward laughed, and I smiled at him. "Well, Edward, if this is a dream, I don't want to wake up anytime soon."

APOV

After we had our wickedly delicious ways with each other in the VIP room, Jasper took me back to the suite at his hotel. We christened nearly every room, and I ached in just all the right places. I sighed as I ran my fingers across my still swollen lips.

The last few hours had been the things dreams were made of. I closed my eyes and I could feel Jasper's lips as they whispered over every inch of my body. His magnificent hands stroked all of my curves. Until last night, I had never known that the back of my knee was an erogenous zone. I quickly discovered how much of a hot zone my knee was when his calloused fingers whispered across the sensitive skin at the back of my leg. When his tongue stroked my overly heated flesh, I felt myself closer to the eruption of my orgasm. I knew that once he was inside of me that it would be more than I could hope for and even better than my wildest imagination. He worshipped me like no one ever had.

Jasper hadn't wanted me to go, he'd pleaded me to stay with him, but I knew I needed some time to wrap my mind around everything that had happened. Not only had I actually met Jasper Whitlock, he'd come to know me in ways that no one else ever had. My stomach fluttered wildly in anticipation of seeing him again. I knew that Jasper was starting his tour with Double Vision tonight, and he was scheduled for three sold-out shows in New York City at Madison Square Garden before the tour headed to other major cities like Chicago, Miami, Seattle and Las Vegas.

Did I want to see him again? Yes, definitely yes! My body was ready for him to play it again like he does the harmonica when he's on stage. Did I worry about what he would do when he was on the road away from me? If I was perfectly honest with myself ... absolutely. He hooked up with me the night we met. He could very well have a girl in every city he visited. Of course, I was the one who instigated it last night. He said he would have been happy to talk to me instead of screwing me on every horizontal surface in his hotel room.

Before he saw me to my door, at his insistence, Jasper made plans to see me tonight. I was so nervous, and I was fidgeting like I had ants in my pants. Was tonight going to be the last time that I ever saw him? I hoped not. I really wanted to spend more time with him. Hopefully, he wanted to spend more than tonight with me. I heard keys jingling in the lock and made one decision. Since I wasn't sure how things were going to play out, I was going to do something I had never done before. I wasn't going to share what happened with my best friend.

I heard the door close and looked over to see a very disheveled Bella.

"Well, well, well," I told her. "Looks like someone is doing the walk of shame for the first time ever." I watched as she pulled a classic Bella move and began to blush furiously.

Bella tucked a strand of loose hair behind her ear and threw herself on the couch beside me.

"At least I'm not an expert on the walk of shame like someone else that I know," Bella said with a grin on her face as her hand nudged my arm.

"Ha ha, Bella. Just because I like to have a little fun doesn't mean that I'm a total slut. I do have standards." I smiled back at her. If only she knew what had happened, more like who happened, to me last night. I nudged her back. "So, tell me about this mystery guy that kept you out all night long."

I could see her internal debate on whether or not she was going to spill the beans to me. I knew that she had been so wrapped up in Edward Cullen last night that there was absolutely no way that she would know that I'd met Jasper. I also knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that she did not know I had seen her and Edward together.

Bella sighed and rested her head on the back of the couch. "Alice, you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Her eyes were closed, and I was betting if I could see inside her mind that I would have been very proud of my girl.

"Come on, Bella. You look more relaxed than I've seen you look, well, ever! Someone obviously made you feel much, much better." My knee bumped hers. "Who was it?"

"Edward Cullen," Bella told me with a nearly inaudible whisper.

"You slept with Edward Cullen?" I asked. This was going to be fun to get her to share this moment with me. We had only dreamt of this for years. It almost made me feel guilty that I wasn't telling her about Jasper.

"Honestly, Alice, there wasn't a hell of a lot of sleeping that went on last night. I still can't believe everything that happened. When I woke up this morning, I thought that I had dreamt it all. Imagine my surprise when I woke up to his glorious cock against me. It was a little shocking."

I laughed, "Bella, only you would think that a night of wild, unadulterated sex was a dream. Didn't your body tell you otherwise?" I smirked at her.

"God, I am lucky that I can walk straight. Edward has skills that should be illegal. The things he can do with his mouth alone... I have never experienced anything like that, ever." She looked at me with a starry-eyed expression on her face. Suddenly, she looked at me and she knew. "You weren't worried about me at all when I walked through the door without telling you I was going to be gone all night and with whom. You fucking knew, didn't you?"

"Who, me?" I batted my eyelashes at her and she swatted at me until we were both giggling. "Yes, I did know. When I headed to the bar to get a drink, I saw you two together. Looked pretty cozy to me, so I left you to it."

"I never thought I would do what I did last night, you know? Imagine how you would feel if you had the same experience with Jasper." Starry eyes came back as she envisioned her dream man. I felt like I might be getting starry eyed myself by imagining my man. "In all seriousness, Alice, I'm not someone who just sleeps around for my jollies, you know? At first, it all felt so cheap and sordid. When I finally gave him a chance to talk, the things he said to me, I was a gooey into a puddle on the floor when he finished. He was so sweet and even asked to take me out tonight."

"Are you going to go with him?" Bella nodded. "Where is he taking you?"

"He wouldn't say and told me to dress casually. I still can't believe it."

"Believe it, Bella. Would you see him after tonight if he asked you?"

"In a New York minute," she said with a laugh. I hoped by the end of the night that I would have more of the answers that my over-thinking mind was craving.

BPOV

I hated leaving Alice alone, but she insisted that she had some things to do around the house. I dressed carefully in a pair of button fly Levi's and a tank top. I grabbed my denim jacket just in case I needed it and put on my ankle dress boots. Casual, but sexy, I thought as I looked in the mirror.

When I heard the knock on the door at 6:30, my stomach felt like it was in my throat. I opened the door, and Edward was so sexy that he took my breath away. He was wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses, jeans and a t-shirt that showed off his well-defined upper body. He had on a black leather jacket that gave off that bad boy vibe. I bit my lip to help hold back the moan that was threatening to escape my lips.

Edward leaned in and kissed me on the cheek, very near the corner of my mouth.

"You look incredible, Bella," Edward said in my ear. "I've got something for you." He looked at me with that brilliant smile. Oh, he had something I wanted all right.

Edward surprised me by handing me a beautiful bouquet of assorted carnations. I brought them to my nose inhaling their magnificent scent.

"Thank you, Edward. They're beautiful. Let me put them in some water." He followed me to the kitchen as I pulled a vase from under the sink and filled it with water.

"You've got a nice place, Bella. Where's your roommate?"

"She went out for some groceries while I was getting ready. I would love for you to meet Alice. She's incredible."

"Well, I happen to think that her roommate is pretty incredible," Edward told me and I felt myself blush. His fingers brushed a lock of hair from my face, and I found myself leaning into his touch. We both sighed at the same time.

I turned and arranged the flowers in the vase to try to calm my increasing nerves. "These really are incredible flowers," I said to him as I looked at him over my shoulder. "Why did you decide on carnations?"

"Simple, Bella. They mean that I am fascinated by you. I can't wait to find out everything about you. I am hoping tonight is the first of many opportunities for that to happen," Edward told me. He held out his hand to me. "Are you ready? Your chariot awaits" he said with an exaggerated bow toward the door.

When our hands touched, I felt that connection again, like I had this morning. "I'm ready. Where are we going?" I asked as we left my apartment.

"I thought we could go to a concert tonight. How do you feel about seeing the opening show of Double Vision's new tour?" I looked at him with surprise on my face.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yes, I love their music. I always try to hit a show when I am anywhere near a town where they are playing."

"Alice is going to die when she finds out where we went tonight. I wish she could have come too. The concert sold out before she had a chance to buy tickets."

"I'm sorry. If I had known, I could have gotten her a ticket," Edward said.

"You couldn't have known without me telling you, Edward. She will totally understand, eventually anyway." I laughed.

I shouldn't have been surprised when Edward handed me a laminated lanyard for VIP access, including backstage entrance.

He didn't let go of my hand as we walked through the throngs of people backstage. "I can't believe all of these people. Are they all fans?" I asked him.

"You wouldn't believe how many people it takes behind the scenes to put on the show we are going to see out there soon. There is someone that I want you to meet before we go to our seats."

It was like a maze with all the twists, turns and corridors we went through. I was so glad that I was with Edward because I knew that I would never find my way out of here on my own.

Edward stopped by a door with a huge security guard in front of it. They gave high-fives to each other.

"Hey, Edward. Long time, no see, man." The burly man told him.

"I know Sam. It's been a busy time for me lately. Is he busy?" Edward nodded to the door.

"Nah, man. He's just been chilling back there. You know, J," Sam told him. "Who is this fine lady you've brought with you tonight?" I felt another blush creeping up on me. I wasn't used to people complimenting me, and this guy looked like he could easily break me in two with one hand if the mood struck.

"Sam, this is my girl, Bella. Bella, this is Sam. We've known each other for years. I keep trying to hire him away from his scoundrel boss, but he just won't cave." Both men laughed.

"Edward, you know that I would love to be with you, but this guy would fall apart without me from keeping the women off of him." Sam opened the door for us, and Edward pulled me into the room behind him.

"Bella, I'd like to introduce you to my very good friend, Jasper Whitlock and his friend..." Edward looked toward Jasper by my eyes were riveted to the person at Jasper's side.

"Alice?"

A/N: *Sighs* I want an Edward or Jasper to say mushy, sweet things to me. One can only dream...

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