While You Loved Me
Author's Note: My internet was acting up last night and this afternoon or else I would have posted this earlier today. This chapter will be a bit of a short one because let's face it, the summer is only so long.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything…sad but true.
Chapter 3
Junior's POV
Over the course of the summer Emmett and Bella were inseparable. They didn't agree on much, and they argued all the time. They were constantly challenging each other but after all the fighting was done, they always agreed on one thing and that was that they loved each other with a passion that neither of them had ever experienced before in their lives.
Bella met Emmett's father, Emmett Sr. and learned that when Emmett was a child he had a really bad stutter and in order to calm it enough so that he could be understood his father had him start reading poetry out loud. While his father was a Robert Frost fan, Emmett enjoyed reading Whitman. Bella had fun that night, listening to Emmett read poetry on the porch and enjoying a dinner with him and his father of breakfast foods. It was a simple evening.
Bella and Emmett enjoyed many simple evenings with Emmett Sr. but it was soon time for Emmett to meet Bella's parents, Charlie and Renee. Emmett wasn't sure what to expect when Bella asked him to dress nicely to have brunch with her family and their associates. He felt anything but comfortable amongst the high society people that liked to associate with Bella's rich parents, and Bella's mother didn't make things easier.
"So, Emmett, what is it that you do for a living?" Renee, Bella's mother, asked once everyone sat down for lunch.
"I actually work on the same dairy farm that Jasper does, ma'am." Emmett replied smoothly.
"What does work like that pay?" one of the Swan's friends asked.
"It pays 50 cents an hour, sir." Emmett replied.
"And how do you expect to provide for my daughter with that salary, Mr. McCarty?" Renee asked.
"I have quite a bit saved up already, and I will continue to work to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads." Emmett replied and Bella squeezed his hand under the table reassuringly. Bella was just as uncomfortable with her mother's questioning and snobby attitude toward Emmett.
"And what are your intentions this fall?" Charlie, Bella's father asked. It was a simple enough question to answer. Emmett felt more comfortable talking to Charlie than he ever did Renee.
"This fall, I will be taking on a job at my cousin's construction company in Memphis." He replied, smiling at Bella who returned his smile.
"How will that work with Isabella attending Sarah Lawrence this fall in New York?" Renee asked and Emmett saw Bella shoot her mother a death glare out of the corner of his eye.
"I'm sorry, Sarah Lawrence?" Emmett asked, turning toward Bella and raising an eyebrow.
"I just got my acceptance letter today, I was going to tell you when we decided if that was where I was going to go." Bella said with an apologetic smile.
"Of course you will, Isabella. That was the plan, after all." Renee said as if it were the final answer.
The rest of the time spent with Bella's parents was a tense time for the two of them, but not another word was said about Bella's plans to go to New York that fall. After that day, they continued to spend time together and despite the future of their relationship they continued to fall even deeper in love.
A week before Bella was supposed to leave to go back to Atlanta, she went to see Emmett. As soon as she saw Emmett she kissed him passionately, desperate for some time alone with him. She didn't tell her parents where she was going, nor did they know that she had left the house that night. Emmett quickly swept Bella up into his arms and headed toward his truck.
"Where are we going?" Bella asked.
"My special place." He replied with a grin.
"And where is this special place?" Bella asked.
"A couple of miles up the road in Calhoun." He said continuing to drive until they pulled into an old rundown plantation house. "This is Pinhook Plantation, it's been abandoned for decades. I was planning to buy it one day and restore it to its' former glory."
"I like that idea. But don't I get a say in any of it?" Bella asked, following Emmett inside the decrepit house.
"Of course, baby. What would you like me to do?" he asked kissing her cheek sweetly.
"I want a red door and blue shudders." She said excitedly "And a big porch that wraps around the entire house."
"Ok, I can do that" he said kissing her again.
"OH! And I want a room on the second floor overlooking the river so I can paint." She said with a smile.
"I like the sound of that, baby." He said with a grin as they entered the house.
Emmett lit candles as Bella took a seat at an old and out of tune grand piano sitting in the grand room of the estate and began to play a beautiful classical tune from memory. Emmett walked up behind her while she was into the music and kissed her neck as she played. Bella giggled.
"How am I supposed to play Chop Sticks with you doing that?" she asked breathlessly as Emmett continued kissing her neck.
"You are so beautiful." Emmett whispered in her ear. Bella turned to look at Emmett with her back to the piano and he kissed her passionately. "I love you so much, Bells."
"I love you too, Em." Bella moaned into his kiss. They continued to kiss passionately, the sounds of their passion being played on the piano as Bella's back is pushed into the keys. "Make love to me, Emmett." She whispered and Emmett looked into her eyes as if asking if she were sure and saw all the passion and certainty she had in the moment in her brown orbs.
Getting up off of the piano bench, Emmett laid a blanket down on the floor of the decrepit old house and watched Bella from across the blanket as she took her shoes off. He nervously kicked his shoes and socks off before she slowly took off her stockings. Emmett slid off his pants as she let her skirt drop to the floor and unbuttoned her blouse nervously. Emmett threw his shirt over his head and stood before her in only his boxers, taking in the sight of Bella in only her undergarments. Emmett had never seen someone as beautiful as Bella was in that moment. Bella made quick work of her bra and panties and got down on the blanket on her knees facing Emmett. Emmett did the same and leaned in to kissed her with all the passion and love that he had for her, laying her down on the blanket with him above her.
"I love you" he whispered to her between kisses.
"I love you too" Bella whispered back to him.
Emmett continued to kiss her passionately as he positioned himself at her opening. Just as he was about to make love to Bella for the first time a car pulled up and the headlights shined through the windows of the house. Jasper burst through the door on a mission and both Bella and Emmett covered themselves with the extra sheet that Emmett had brought.
"JAZZ! GET THE HELL OUT MAN!" Emmett yelled to his best friend.
"I'm Sorry, I'm sorry!" Jasper said averting his eyes from the couple laying covered only in a sheet on the floor of the house.
"What is it, man?" Emmett asked, frustrated that they were interrupted during their first time together.
"It's Bella's folks, man! They are flipping out…got every cop in town lookin' for her." Jasper said and Bella groaned, clearly furious at her parents for their interruption.
Bella and Emmett both got dressed quickly and raced back to Bella's family's vacation home. Charlie and Renee were waiting in the front room when they stormed through the door. Judging by the looks on their faces, both Bella and Emmett knew that this was not going to end well for them.
Author's Note: I may add again tonight or tomorrow if I finish the next chapter which will be the showdown with Bella's parents. Leave me a review if you would like and thank you all again for adding me to your favorites and alerts.