A guest reviewer has pointed out that my timeline doesn't really match up. I wasn't really paying much attention to dates etc when I first started writing this fic. I said that Edward was away from Carlisle and Esme for around fifty years, but if we are going with canon then that would make this set in the 1970's/1980's. I have set it around the same time as the original story, so mid 2000's so its actually been more like seventy or eighty years. Sorry for any confusion about that. I could say that my story isn't completely following canon etc but I'll just hold my hands up and say that's all on me and just not really paying close enough attention to the dates. I have gone back and edited my mistakes in the earlier chapters so new readers won't be confused.
This is a fairly short chapter. Please don't hate me when you get to the end!
"I'm bored," Alice whined, throwing her magazine down with a pout.
All of us younger vampires were sat around the living room, engrossed in quiet tasks. Bella was reading and I was sitting with her back to my chest, playing with her hair and just revelling in being close to her. Rosalie was painting her nails. Emmett was watching a basketball game on TV and Jasper was reading the newspaper. Carlisle was at work as usual and Esme was painting in her studio.
We all looked up, chuckling at our sisters child-like expression.
"What do you want to do, sweetheart?" Jasper asked, crossing the room and sitting down beside her.
"I don't know, but I wanna get out of the house," she replied, still pouting.
"It's sunny so it'd have to be somewhere away from humans," I pointed out.
"Ohh, let's go swimming!" Rosalie exclaimed.
"Yes!" Alice shrieked, "Please?" She looked around the room at the rest of us, though she could already see that we were going to give in. How we were supposed to resist when she looked at us with those puppy dog eyes was beyond me. We all nodded, rolling our eyes at her.
We all headed up to our rooms to get ready. I groaned as I watched Bella pull her tiny, dark blue bikini out of the drawer. How on earth was I supposed to resist her in that while my family were around?
"Sorry, baby, it's my only bathing costume," she smirked, as she headed into the bathroom to change, knowing that if she tried to change in front of me, we wouldn't be going anywhere.
I quickly pulled on my swimming shorts and a t-shirt, before throwing a few towels into a bag to take with us. I heard the bathroom door open and turned around to see Bella emerging, looking amazing in extremely short, white, denim shorts and a blue tank top, that matched the bikini I could see poking out from underneath her top.
"God, Bella," I groaned, "You're driving me crazy already." I walked towards her, ready to lift her up and kiss her deeply.
Edward Cullen! I heard Alice call in her mind, Don't you dare! We are going out!
"Sorry, Alice," I muttered, pulling Bella in for a chaste kiss instead, "I'll be good!"
Bella took my hand, chuckling at my interaction with Alice, even though she couldn't hear Alice's side, and pulled me towards the door, grabbing the bag on the way. Everyone was waiting for us when we got downstairs and soon we were all running through the forest towards a remote pool.
When we got there, Emmett immediately pulled his t-shirt off and cannonballed into the pool, spraying us all with water. The girls shrieked, yelling at him, but he couldn't care less as he laughed loudly in the water.
"You getting in, beautiful girl?" I asked Bella.
"Not yet," she replied, laying a towel down beside Alice and Rosalie, "I'm gonna lie here and enjoy the sun for a while."
She then began to pull her tank top over her head, revealing a large amount of her beautiful alabaster skin along with that sinful bikini top. I watched as the sunlight hit her skin, sending reflections of light everywhere. I couldn't take my eyes off her as she pulled her shorts down her long legs, revealing the tiny scrap of material that constituted her bikini bottom.
Immediately, I jumped into the water not even taking the time to remove my t-shirt. I had to hide the reaction I was having to Bella in that bikini and I definitely needed cooling down. Unfortunately, Emmett and Jasper were all too aware of my predicament and were laughing their heads off at me from the other side of the pool.
"Shut it!" I hissed at them, trying to calm myself down, making sure to keep my eyes off Bella.
The girls lay by the pool, soaking up the sunshine, chatting about clothes and gossiping about the celebrities from their magazines, while my brothers and I messed around in the water. We jumped into the water, trying to see who could make the biggest splash, though the girls quickly put a stop to that when they got soaked by Emmett. Emmett tried to push my head under the water, but his mind gave him away a split second before he acted, giving me time to move and dunk him instead. That started a full on war between us boys, wrestling, fighting and dunking each other in the water.
After a while, the girls joined us in the water. I made sure to look away as Bella stood up to get into the water, so I wouldn't have the same problem as earlier. However, as soon as she was in the water she swam over to me, wrapping her arms around my neck and pressing her body against mine. Jasper sensed my lust and quickly hit me with what felt like a bucket of cold water over my head. I nodded my thanks at him.
"Let's play shoulder wars," Emmett suggested, before quickly explaining the game to me since I had never played. It seemed simple enough – the girls would sit on our shoulders and try to knock the others into the water.
There was a lot of laughter from all of us as the girls wrestled from on top of our shoulders. Bella managed to knock Alice into the water, but was beaten by Rosalie who quickly knocked her off my shoulders.
I pulled her up into my arms as soon as she came spluttering out of the water and she wrapped her legs around my waist. From that point, I was a goner, my length hardening instantly as her core pressed against me.
Jasper, struggling to cope with the lust I was emitting, pushed it out towards the others and soon they were all taking off into the forest for some alone time.
Bella groaned as I began to grind my erection into her centre. She looked around realising everyone had gone and quickly pressed her lips to mine, her tongue gliding along my lips seeking entrance. Our tongues tangled together as I continued grinding into her.
"God, Bella, this bikini," I moaned, as I pulled back to look at her through the water, "The things it does to me to see you in this bikini."
I began kissing along her neck and down her shoulders, as my hands glided around her body to cup her breasts in my hands. Her nipples were already very hard, poking through the material of her bikini top and she threw her head back as my thumbs rubbed lightly over them. I pulled gently on the tie of her top, removing it from her body and throwing it out of the water to land near the towels on the rocks at the side of the pool. I was determined that bikini was going to survive.
Lifting her up out of the water slightly, I latched my mouth over one of her puckered peak, sucking lightly and swirling my tongue around it. My hand continued to cup her other breast, gently pinching her nipple as she writhed over my erection causing me to groan over her nipple.
I slowly moved her through the water, sitting her on a small rocky ledge just under the water as the side of the pool, before carefully removing her bottoms and throwing them to join the top. I kissed her quickly before dipping my head under the water, spreading her legs and pressing kisses along her thighs from her knees towards her apex.
Not needing to breathe definitely had its perks, as I made my way closer to her sex. I pressed my lips gently to her clit, eliciting an extremely erotic sound from her. Pulling her hips so she was sitting at the very edge of the ledge, I delved my tongue into her core and circled my thumb around her sensitive bundle of nerves.
Bella was writhing around, splashing water as I continued my ministrations. I could tell she was getting close and as soon as I sucked her clit into my mouth, she exploded, shouting a string of profanities.
Quickly removing my shorts, I pulled her towards me as she wrapped her legs around my waist. I entered her swiftly, unable to control myself any longer. I thrust into her over and over, using one hand to hold her up as the other caressed her breasts, until we were both getting close. As I felt myself ready to let go, I moved my hand down to where we were joined, pressing lightly on her bundle of nerves until she was screaming my name. I soon joined her, tumbling over the edge, her name falling from my lips.
Somehow, we arrived back at the house before the rest of our siblings and found Esme enjoying the peace of the empty house. She was, however, happy to see us back and instantly asked me to play for her, which of course I obliged.
I began by playing Esme's song, which made her face light up and I wondered how I had stayed away from her for so long. Bella settled down on the sofa beside Esme with the book she had been reading earlier, curling her legs up under her.
I quickly transitioned into Bella's lullaby, her eyes looking up to catch my gaze as she heard the beginning of the song. Her eyes lit up as she listened to the song written just for her, love filling her eyes as she watched me.
When Bella's lullaby finished I moved on to continue working on a song I had begun composing. It was inspired by finding my family again. It was much more upbeat than Esme's or Bella's songs as it incorporated the whole family. I wanted to try to incorporate something from everyone's personality into the song – Carlisle's compassion, Esme's love, Alice's excitement, Jasper's calm, Emmett's silliness and Rose's tenacity – which was proving to be more difficult that I thought.
After a while, I gave up, having made a little progress and stood up from the piano stool. Bella was still completely engrossed in her book so I left her in peace, following Esme into the kitchen
"You're happy," Esme commented. It wasn't a question, it was an observation.
"I really am," I told her, "For the first time since Carlisle changed me, my life feels complete. I don't mean to sound ungrateful for our life before I left." Esme nodded to show she understood and encouraged me to continue. "I love you and Carlisle both very much, but in my life before I always felt that something was missing."
"I thought that hunting humans would help fill that void," I told her, opening up about my time away more than I ever had to anyone other than Bella, "But it didn't. In fact, it just made the void worse because I no longer had you and Carlisle to love me."
"We never stopped loving you, dear," she said, wrapping me up in an amazing motherly hug, "There wasn't a day went by that we didn't think about you or talk about you. We had a room for you, a piano for you in every house we've lived in over the years in the hope that you would return."
"Thanks, mom," I said, trying hard to hold back the sobs, "It really means a lot to me that you did that. I worried that too much time had passed, that I had done too much to be forgiven, but Bella helped me see that if we loved each other, there was nothing we couldn't forgive."
"She's a wise woman," Esme chuckled and I heard a small giggle from Bella in the other room, clearly listening but giving us our space to talk things out.
"That she is," I said, for both Esme and Bella's benefit, "My life has changed so much since I found her in that alley. I dread to think how different my life would be now, if she hadn't stumbled and our eyes hadn't met."
"Your connection is very strong," Esme commented, "You said it hurts to be away from her?"
"Yes," I replied, "Even just being away from her for a few hours feels like there's a hole in my chest. It was the same for her even as a human. You and Carlisle spend a lot of time apart. It's not like that for you?"
"No," she answered, "Don't get me wrong, I hate being away from him, but it doesn't hurt. If I could I'd spend every moment with him, but he loves his job so much and he's so good at it. He can save lives that no other doctor can because of his enhanced senses. I love that he cares so much about humans that he's willing to give up his time to help them."
We both looked up at the sound of my siblings approaching the house. Esme leaned in close to me, whispering, "You will always be our son. Nothing could ever change that. Now you have brought me another beautiful daughter to love." Bella walked into the kitchen to join us, just as Esme pulled us both in for a hug.
"Don't tell the rest, but you two are my favourites," she said with a wink, which was met with a chorus of objections as the others walked through the back door.
It was a few weeks before Thanksgiving when I dragged Bella out hunting, mainly just to get her alone for a while. I loved being with the family, but after having Bella to myself for months, I was struggling with never having her to myself.
We took off through the woods, running hand in hand, enjoying the peace and quiet for a while. I smelt the scent of some grizzly bears to the north and took off in their direction. We still hadn't managed to get any bears yet as Emmett always beat us to them, and knowing what a sore loser he is, we usually just let him have them anyway.
I nodded to Bella and we spilt up approaching the clearing the bears were in from opposite sides. I spotted Bella through the trees, her eyes dark as she watched the bears. Catching her eye, I nodded again and we both pounced, swiftly taking down a bear each. I kept my eyes on Bella as my teeth sunk through the fur on the bears neck. She was stunning as she drank from her prey, her eyes never leaving mine. I could feel the desire rising within me and my focus was no longer on the warm blood running down my throat, but on the beautiful woman in front of me.
I swallowed the last of the blood, dropping the carcass carelessly at my feet, before stalking towards Bella who had also finished. My eyes were drawn to the lines of red running down her chin, dripping onto the tops of her breasts. I could no longer hold myself back, closing the distance between us in an instant, my tongue darting out to lick the blood from her chest.
"Oh, God," I groaned at the taste of the blood mixed with her delicious flavour, "I need you."
"Yes, baby," she breathed, "Take me, I'm yours."
With that I removed her clothes as carefully as my control would allow, knowing that we had to return to a house full of vampires and we needed some clothes intact for that. Once both of our clothes were gone, I lifted her up, her legs wrapping around me as I pressed her back into a tree. Her hands fisted in my hair as she attacked my mouth with hers. Finding her entrance, already slick with her arousal, I thrust my length deep into her. She gasped as I filled her, her head falling forward onto my shoulder. Driving in and out, hitting the perfect stop inside her, it wasn't long before she was clenching around me and screaming out my name.
"God, you're stunning when you come," I whispered, pulling out of her long enough to bend her over a nearby rock, before pushing back into her. In this position, I was able to enter her even deeper than before. I ran my hands up her body, cupping her breasts and pinching her nipples, as I drove into her over and over until I couldn't hold back any longer. I reached my hand down, circling her clit with my fingers, as I pulsed into her, biting down lightly on her neck. The feeling on my teeth on her neck triggered her orgasm, her hips pushing back into me as she let out a string of swear words.
We quickly dressed and disposed of our kills, before wandering at a human pace back towards the house, when I heard some unfamiliar minds closing in on us. Pulling Bella behind me quickly, I crouched ready to defend my mate.
Sorry guys! As I warned at the beginning, please don't hate me. I haven't been as quick as usual at updated this story because life has been getting in the way, but I promise to try my hardest not to keep you all waiting too long on the next chapter. Just two more chapters and an epilogue to go.
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