Hello once again...
Have to toss a shout out to my awesome beta Sassyvampmama, without her you all would know just how useless I am when it comes to comas, and all that needed stuff .And another to Emmy for the great picture idea for this month.. Couldn't have picked a better one myself…
DISLAIMER: yeah still own nutten.. Just the plot..
oh but when I could do with Emmett if he was mine for even a day…
"Fuck, it smells good in here." Once again the shivers his voice always caused flowed down my back.
"Well, I promised you lasagna, didn't I?"
"You are so perfect." I felt his arms around my waist as he picked me up and hugged me from behind.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know; 'you're gonna make some man a great wife one of these days'." I laughed as I pulled the dish from the oven and placed it on the stovetop. He mumbled something under his breath that I didn't quite catch, so I just shrugged it off.
"I picked up a couple scary movies from Jared's today." he said as he walked out of the kitchen. "Want to veg and hand out candy with me tonight?"
"That sounds great, but I already have plans with Ang. Anyway, don't you have a hot date or something? I mean it is Halloween and all." I shrugged as I put the garlic bread into the oven.
"Nope, no date." I looked over my shoulder to see him leaned up against the wall staring at my ass.
"Up here, Casanova." I rolled my eyes as he smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Really, the great Mr. McCarty is staying in when he can be out hooking up with scantily clad women. Is the world coming to an end?" He merely shrugged his shoulders and pushed off the wall.
"There are more important things." He said nonchalantly. I stared after him as he flopped onto the couch and flipped on the TV. "So… what are you two ladies up to tonight?"
"Going to a costume party." I chewed nervously on my bottom lip, hoping to God this stupid little experiment didn't blow up in my face.
"Ben is letting Ang out of his sight?" He chuckled at the thought and shook his head.
"No, he's going too; he even picked out their matching costumes. Something called a Blood Elf, from that World of Warcraft game that he plays." Emmett laughed even harder and I heard him slap is leg.
"Please tell me they are coming here to pick you up, I have to see this. So just the three of you are going or is Jess gonna be your date tonight?"
"Actually no, Jess has a date with that Jasper guy that you ran off last month." I looked over and I swear he had a smirk on his face over that little bit of information. "Ben's twin brother is in town, so Ang asked me to pair up with him so we didn't feel out of place."
"Twin?" he turned around and looked at me for a minute. "You have got to be joking me, there are two Ben's in this world?"
"Ben's a good guy Em, you know that." I stood staring down at him with my fist on my hip tapping my foot. "How many times has that guy come over here and fixed your laptop when you've fucked it up?" He couldn't say anything to that so he held his hands up in surrender.
"I'm not saying that at all. The man is great; I could even see hanging out with him once in a while. I was just shocked that he had a twin. Are they identical?"
"I have no clue Em; I haven't even seen a picture of him. I just know that he transferred from here to Julliard two years ago and is in their music program. He's some sort of Piano prodigy." I shrugged and went back to get the bread from the oven.
"So, the computer geek is going as the Blood elf, what are you and piano man going to go as?"
"Don't know yet. Ang dropped off the bag right before you got home; I just haven't had time to look at it." I took the lasagna to the table and smiled at him. "You've got clean up tonight, I have to get ready to go right after we eat." He nodded as he sat down across from me. Dinner, as always, consisted of us bitching about our teachers and all the homework they decided we needed to do over our weekend.
"What time are you gonna leave?" he asked as he scrubbed the casserole dish after putting all our leftovers in the fridge.
"They should be here in about thirty minutes. I need to go get ready, you ok here? I tried to clean up most of it while I cooked." He waved his suds covered hand in the air in a clear sign on dismissal.
"Go get ready, I'm fine." I nodded and went to my room my stomach filled with butterflies.
"You can do this." I said to myself as I picked up the tiny plastic bag, my Bluetooth, and cell phone and scurried into the bathroom locking the door behind me.
"Is he pissed yet?"
"Hello to you too Ang." I kept my voice low as I played with the radio on the counter that Emmett had to have in the bathroom. Finally finding one of my stations I turned up the volume so my conversation would not be heard.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hello Bella, did you have a nice dinner and all that shit?" I laughed as I imagined her waving her arms in the air and the look of exasperation on her pretty little face.
"It was very nice thank you; I added Italian sausage, veal, and ground pork to the meat sauce this time, and Emmett had five helpings."
"Ugh, why the hell didn't we have dinner with you tonight? You have an orgasm on a plate while I ate over cooked dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and dried out tater tots." I shuttered as I laughed and pulled out my neglected bag of cosmetics. "Remember what I showed you, right? Light on the makeup, we don't want you looking like a streetwalker, just a little more sexy than normal." I snorted as I looked at my plain Jane face in the mirror.
"Oh yeah, I can so see the 'sexy'. I still think your smoking something and not sharing Ang. So not cool and here I thought we were friends." I said sarcastically.
"Next project is your fucking self-esteem. But I have a feeling Emmett will help immensely with that one."
"Sure, sure. Ok so light make-up, hair pulled into a low, lose pony. Anything else?" I cringed as I held up the shiny patent-leather red death traps. "I still think I'm going to end up spending most of the night in the ER with these so called shoes, Ang."
"Shut up. I have everything worked out, trust me." I shook my head and sighed.
"I do."
"Ok, now go get your sexy on and we will be there in thirty. You moved your trench coat out of your room right?"
"Yeah." I took a deep breath and released it slowly.
"This is going to work Bells. You are going to see what everyone else has over the last few weeks. The boy is head-over-heels for you; you're just too oblivious to see it."
"Sure, sure; Ang, whatever you say" I swear I could hear her rolling her eyes.
"I'm really going the have to slap Jake when I finally meet him. I swear that is the most annoying thing in the world." I laughed at her outburst, and at the idea of 5 foot 8 Angela slapping my 6 foot 6 best friend.
"I would pay to see that. I'll call him tomorrow to see when he can come and visit."
"You do that and tell him to be ready for me."
"Already have, many times over. Poor boy was devastated when I told him you were married."
"Really now? Well, if he still looks as good as he did in that picture you have on your wall I may just have to ask Ben if he is willing to share."
"Somehow Ang, I just don't see that happening." I looked at myself once more to make sure I had completed the proper look on my make-up. "Remember you already kyboshed his first choice, you know he's going to do the same with you."
"Oh please, like he even has a chance to meet Ashley Green, let alone get her to sleep with him."
"That's the best thing about fantasies Ang, anything can happen. Kind of like yours regarding the star quarterback slash campus man-whore being willing to give up the skanks for the slightly snarky, yet quite English major. "
"That's far from fantasy sweetie, and I love you enough to prove it to you."
CK~CK~CK~CK
I was startled out of my gawking in the mirror by the sound of the doorbell.
"Bells, door." I rolled my eyes and huffed as I turned the radio down.
"Wow Em, very astute of you. Do you think you could take one minute out of your very busy TV time and get it for me. I'm almost done getting ready." I crossed my fingers and held my breath as I listened for the door to open.
"HI, I'm here to pick up Bella." The unfamiliar voice had a musical sound to it while still having a husky deepness that made you take notice.
"Who are you?" Emmett's voice, deeper than normal, barked out harshly.
"I'm Edward, Ben's brother, and Bella's date for the night. Ang is having some problems with part of her costume so she sent me up. Is Bella ready?"
"You're Ben's twin brother?" I giggled as I heard the shock in Emmett's voice. "You look nothing like him." I hurriedly covered my mouth so that my laugh couldn't be heard.
"What? Oh yeah, the twin thing. He takes after our dad, and I look more like our mother." I could just imagine the shrug of Edwards's shoulders.
So yeah, I might've lied just a little when I told Em that I have never seen a picture of Edward. I have seen many over the last month during our little planning sessions. He was far from what the normal person would think when they thought of a piano prodigy or even the twin brother of the skinny, messy-haired, coke-bottle-glasses-wearing computer geek that Angela married.
Edward looked more like the guy on the cover of GQ, right down to the designer shoes on his perfect feet. His 6 foot 2, lightly muscled swimmers body, though not what I would normally go for, was rather nice to look at. Then add to that his bright green eyes that virtually sparkled when he flashed his crooked smile and caramel brown hair with the most perfect red highlights that somehow always looked like he just walk out the bedroom after amassing sex. Yeah in another life, one where Emmett didn't exist, I would be on that boy in an instant.
"Bells, your date's here." I could hear the growl in his voice at the word date and felt my stomach flutter.
"Be out in a minute." I placed my hat on my head and fastened it with bobby pins before taking another deep calming breath and opened the door, only to see Emmett towering over me. His face was priceless as he took several minutes to gaze over my body.
"Wow," he muttered under his breath as he took in my costume once more, only this time his perusal was much, much slower. The navy blue sailors dress was a size too small, accenting my chest in a way that made my poor little B cups look so much more enticing. The skirt showed off about four inches of smooth white skin before meeting up with the matching white thigh highs with little red bows, and just barely covered my new white ruffled panties. I looked down at my feet and shivered as I remembered that I really had to walk in the red heels that took my normal 5 foot 3 height to a new 5 foot 7. Like I had said to Ang, 'We'd better call the ER and tell them to have a bed waiting for me'.
"Do I look ok?" I asked as I twirled in a circle like Angela told me to praying to God that I didn't wind up on my ass.
"Oh yeah." he said just low enough that I had to strain to hear him.
"Good. Ok, I'm off then. Don't wait up for me." Short, sweet; make him come to you. I remembered Angela telling me something like that earlier today. I placed my hand on his chest to push him out of the doorway so that I could get to my 'date' for the night.
"You're really not going out like that, are you?" I turned and glared at him.
"You said I looked ok, did you lie to me?" he looked cringed as he shook his head and swallowed thickly.
"No bells, you look fucking hot. But I really in good conscience can't let you leave this house in that, it's really…" I waited for a minute for him to find the right word and almost laughed when his blue eyes lit up and a mischievous smile filled his face. "cold…" He nodded proudly, like he had just answered the hardest question the world. "Yeah, it's really cold outside, so maybe you should go put a sweatshirt on or something. Oh, and a pair of sweats too, don't want you catching a cold."
"I have my trench coat, I'll be fine, and we're going to be inside all night anyway." I rolled my eyes and moved away from him seeing Edward fighting to keep his laughter in check. "Edward, it's so great to finally meet you." I walked up to him and gave him a hug, smiling even more as I heard a distant growl coming from behind me.
"That boy has got it bad. I'm going to have so much fun with this." Edward whispered into my ear as he placed one hand on my ass and squeezed. I watched in shock as he wagged his brows at Emmett, causing another not-so quite growl to sound from behind me.
"You look so good." I said to Edward as I pulled back and took in his own sailor suit, his of course having a bit more material then mine, but still too small for his frame. The low v neck showing off the promise of light chest hair, pulled tight over his muscled chest and stomach even showing a hint of a six pack.
"Not half as good as you. Dang, Ben said you were cute but he didn't mention how incredibly sexy you were." My mouth literally dropped as he ran his finger down my cheek and over my lower lip.
"Pull it back a little Edward." I hissed under my breath.
"So, you play piano at Julliard, huh Eddie?" Emmett growled as stepped between Edward and I, forcibly shoving me behind his back.
"Yep, full scholarship." Edward looked around Emmett's broad shoulders and winked. "Ready to get going Bella?" I nodded and went to walk around my human wall but was stopped by his hand on my hip.
"And just where are you going tonight?" Emmett's voice was harsh and he leaned closer to Edward. Edward shrugged and smirked at Emmett.
"The Alpha Delta Phi Halloween party." His voice was smug.
"That's invitation only you know?" I finally got around Emmett and saw a smug smile in place. Edward pulled out an invitation from his jacket pocket and waved it in the air.
"I was a brother before I transferred to Julliard. And since Juilliard doesn't follow the whole fraternity hoopla, and I am still very well liked, I get invited to all the parties." Not to mention that his father donates thousands to Columbia University and still pays for all the home improvements for the Alpha Delta Phi house. Oh, and did I forget to mention that his father and his father's-father and his father's-father's-father was Alpha Delta Phi?
"Oh." Emmett looked at me for a second and I could swear he looked like he was in pain. He walked over to our coat closet and pulled out my trench coat before I could even ask. I was even more stunned as he helped me put it on and then proceeded to button every single last button.
"Ummmm… thank you?" I questioned more than asked, the look of confusion clearly covered my face.
"It's really cold out tonight, don't need you getting sick." He shrugged. "Have fun tonight… Isabella." Then turned away and flopped back onto the couch.
"O…..kay?" I turned to look at Edward, who was wearing a smirk, and shook my head. He wrapped his arms around my shoulders and led me out the door. Right as I was about to open the door to leave Angela came barreling thought it.
"Got to pee, see you down in the car." She yelled over her shoulder as she ran to the bathroom. Edward and I laughed as we closed the door, but not before I got one more good look at Emmett, who was angrily glaring at Edward and trying to shove his finger through his poor cell-phones keypad.
CK~CK~CK~CK
Ten minutes later Ang came skipping to the car, her face lit up like a frick'n Christmas tree.
"We are going to have so much fun tonight!" she squealed as she slid into her seat and showing off a pair of hot pink panties, since the skirt of her costume had a slit that went from knee to throat. "Your performance is needed for a bit longer tonight, Edward." I felt Edward sling his arm over my shoulder and shrug.
"I already had a feeling it would be the minute I saw the look on that boy's face." He chuckled and shook his head. "I even talked to the guys and told them the plan, well my guys at least, since Emmett knows most of them. They are all on board." I looked between Edward and Angela and held up my hands in surrender.
"What the hell is going on? I thought that once that whole 'hey, I've got a date and I'm dressed as a super-slut for Halloween' thing was done I was going be dropped off at the library so I could do some more research."
"Change of plans my dear, change of plans." Edward cooed as he ran his nose up my neck and placed a light kiss to my ear.
"Emmett did exactly what I expected. He was on the phone with one of his buddies and more or less told him to get his ass over there and get him because they were going to that, quote-unquote 'fucking Alpha Delta Phi party'." And yes she did use the stupid little finger quotes. "Stage one of our little experiment has been completed, now on to stage two."