A/N: I'm so sorry it took me so long to post this but my Boyfriend managed to brake my glasses some how but it's finally here. YAY! So any way this is from Edward's and Jasper's P.O.V. so I hope you like it. I sort of know where I'm going with it now so I can tell you that within the next three chapters Edward and Bella will finally be getting together, YAY! Again I don't own and please could you guys let me know what you think, maybe some suggestions as well. I'm open to any surjection's.
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Isabella C
Surprise
Edward's P.O.V.
Ugh I couldn't be awake, it was too soon. Heck it was only just starting to get light out side. I don't know haw Carlisle dose it. Bella and I hadn't gotten back till gone twelve last night after spending all day at the office going over the plains for the London Project trying to figure out what to do about it. It was only when we got back and I bitched about it that she informed me that twelve was early compared to the time her and Carlisle normally finished up.
Sighing I turned to look at the clock next to my bed and I couldn't suppress the groan that escaped. Five thirty. This couldn't be happening. To soon to be awake and I had been in the middle of such a good dream. Unlike the last two weeks I had, had a normal dream. Well sort of.
To my dismay my dream had retained something from the last dream that plagued me. But she had tasted sooo good. Her warm, sweet blood flowing over my parted lips as I gulped it down. She had loved it, crying out for more as I thrust into her, always telling me she loved me even if I was killing her. But what had taken me by surprise had been the matching wedding bands on our fingers, it seemed she had given her self to me in every possible way and I had taken it all without a second's hesitation.
The sound of some one shuffling outside my door drew me back to reality. She couldn't be up already. As quickly as I could I fell out of bed, the cold morning air stinging my naked body as I rummaged for me sleep pants.
After a frantic five minuets I found them flung over the back of my bathroom door, in plane sight but somehow I had managed to miss them. Once they where hanging loosely on my hips I headed out my door and toward the living room. No way was there already people hear.
As I walked down the hall I could hear the faint mumbles of at least three different people. I knew she hadn't brought any one home with her as we had come back together. My eye widened as I thought of what it could be.
Robbers.
Franticly I looked around for some sort of weapon to defend my home and the women I loved but like the neat freak I was the hall way was empty. Instantly I was glad of the self defense classes Emmet had made me tack after high school. Slowly I poked my head around the corner to look into the dinning room.
"Not there Jasper, above the TV"
Alice's voice cut through my thoughts of robbers as I took in the seen in front of me. Alice was standing by the sofa, hands on her tiny hips scowling at Jasper who was balancing on the TV stand trying to attach some kind of banner to the wall.
"Edward!"
My head shot up as Alice ran to me, Jasper's head whipping round to look at me. I was so taken by the look of shock on Jasper's face that I didn't realize that Alice was hugging me till her grip tightened around my waist.
"Alice you're crushing me"
I breathed out as I pushed her away from me, her deep blue eyes taking in my appearance as she backed away slightly. It wasn't until I heard laughter that I looked up. Emmet and Rosalie had come out from the kitchen, both staring at me as if I had some profanity tattooed on my head. But it wasn't ether of them laughing it was Jacob.
My eyes narrowed as he just stood there laughing at me, his rustic good looks even more noticeable than normal as his eyes crinkled his body shaking.
"Dude you look like you just spent the night going at it like a rabbit"
My eyes widened as I spun around to look at the mirror that was hanging on the wall next to me. Sure enough, my cheeks where flushed, my hair more ruffled than normal and even though I looked shocked I still managed to look pleased and…satisfied.
Nervously I ran a shaky hand through my hair, attempting to flatten it but on succeeding in making it stick up more. Jacob's laughter was still ringing in my ears and angrily I turned to gluer at him, my arms folding over my bear chest.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
My question was directed at all of them but I never took my eyes off of Jacob. Slowly he arched one of his dark eyebrows at me, a smirk spreading across his lips as he folded his arms across his chest, mimicking my pose.
"It's Bella's birthday silly"
Alice's voice cut through the internal battle I was fight, trying to figure out some smart yet taunting comet to throw at Jake. My eyes widened in shock as Alice's words sunk in. it was her birthday and I had known nothing about it.
Haw had this most important detail escaped all of our conversations over the last two weeks. We had talked about everything from school to friends, hobbies to dreams. I had even told her that when I was younger I had wanted to be a pianist and she in turn had told me of her desire to become an English teacher. But when I had asked why she had never persuaded it she had simply turned the question back on me, wanting to know where my piano was.
Haw the hell had I never asked this most simple but most important question. Alice seemed to understand my shock as she shook her head and running back toward the kitchen dragging me behind her. Jasper jumped down from the TV stand his eyes never leaving mine as he walked slowly and calmly to where the rest of us stood.
Alice let go of my hand and turned back to her bag. Franticly she dug around looking for something. My eyes darted from all of them till they landed on Rosalie. I was just about to look back at Alice when I saw a flash of brown. Before I could comment on it Alice was back in front of me, a long black box in her hands.
Slowly I caressed the black leather of the box before looking up at Alice in question. Her blue eyes twinkled knowingly as she slowly nodded her head. Jasper had come up behind her, wrapping his skinny yet muscled arms around her tiny waist, pulling her tight against him, placing a light kiss on her cheek. All the while his deep green eyes never leaving mine.
Haw I longed to be abele to do that with Bella. To hold her so close and never let her go. To really feel her against my skin and not fell like I was breaking some unspoken rule. I wanted to see her smile the way Alice did just from this small show of affection. Soon. I promised my self. Soon I would have her all to my self and I would love her like no other man had. Sighing I slowly opened the box and I gasped in shock.
"Alice I…"
I couldn't get the words out; they seemed to get stuck in my throat. Alice nodded slowly at me and my eyes fell to the open box in my hands. Slowly my fingers caressed the white gold chain that lay pined on ever side on the deep blue velvet. I knew it was white gold because I had seen it before, so many times around my mother's neck. Slowly I looked back at Alice in confusion.
"It took me forever to get Carlisle to tell me where he had got it from but when I told him why I wanted it, he practically dragged me there. Oh and by the way you owe me"
I couldn't stop my self from wondering if it was because Carlisle had found out that it was for his lovely Bella that he had been so excited about it. It hurt to know that he loved her so much to give up a secret he had kept for over twenty five years but then again so was elated that like Carlisle I would be giving the love of my life something that would show her how much I loved her. And I could but hope that like Esme she would where it every day for the rest of her life.
*
The sun had finally cleared the sky line of Seattle and Bella was sitting on the large white sofa a large smile on her perfectly pail lips. Jasper and Alice sat on ether side of her and even though I hate to admit it, at this very moment in time I Edward Cullen was, for the first time in my life, jealous of my older brother.
Jasper had his right arm thrown around Bella's shoulder, holding her close against his side. Her head was tucked under his chin, his head resting on hers. Both where smiling as she thanked him for the charm bracelet that he had given her. She seemed ecstatic about the small delicate charms that hung from the silver chain, but most of all about the Cinderella castle.
"Oh Jasper its lovely"
"Well a princess needs a castle. Lets just hope prince charming isn't to far behind huh"
Bella's blush spread over her cheeks and down her neck at Jasper's words, burying her head even more into his chest. Every one laughed at her reaction, well all but me. Jasper's eyes where locked on mine as he spoke, a delicate blond eyebrow razed as he said about prince charming.
When it came to Jasper I had told him everything about my dream girl, well everything but the fact that it was Bella. I had gone into so much detail about how she looked before I found out she was really that I had little to no doubt that Jasper had put two and two together and figured it out himself. But if he had he hadn't made it clear that he did.
"Mine next"
Jacob's voice cut through my wondering thought and my head snapped to his. Every one was smiling at him like chestier cats, except for me and Bella. Bella was looking at him in confusion and I was just glaring at him, desperately trying to make him burst into flames just by thinking it.
He had already given her a present, a very rear and old copy of Rome and Juliet, and I was still yet to give her mine. The long box was burning a hole in my jeans pocket and I was so desperate to give it to her, yet I had waited to last in hope that I could get her alone and explain the reason behind it, but yet again Mr. Magnificent had got in my way, stepping in before I could even open my mouth.
All eyes followed him as he jumped off from the table he had been perched on and headed toward the apartment door. His smile never faltering as he extended his hand out toward the door handle. He griped it firmly and pulled it open stepping behind it as he did.
"Claudia!"
He had out done me once again
Jasper's P.O.V.
She was beautiful. Utterly and unnaturally mesmerizing. Her deep, electric blue eyes sparkling in the sun light. Her pail white skin almost calling out to be touched and caressed. Her milk chocolate hair looked so smooth and soft that I just longed to run my fingers through it.
I wasn't the only one who felt this way and I knew it. Even Rosalie and Alice had gushed about her beauty after we had met up with her a few days ago. The worse part had to be that she was completely and utterly oblivious to it. To her she was nothing more than plain.
"Claudia!"
I hadn't even noticed Bella had moved till Claudia had ran into the room throwing her arms around her friend as they meet half way. There arms where wrapped quite tightly around each other, there head resting on each other shoulders, there hair hiding there faces from us.
Finally they broke apart but still never letting go of one another. Both where smiling, whilst Bella had tears falling from her chocolate brawn eyes. Even though they no words passed threw there lips it seemed that a silent conversation was passing between the two girls.
The room was buzzing with emotion. Everything from anguish to bliss. It felt like love was surrounding me, caressing my very soul and I itched to pull Alice against me, pressing my lips against her perfectly lush one and never stop kissing her. I needed to show her that I loved her and needed her in every sense of the word.
"Every one this is Claudia"
Bella's voice was light and full of mirth, (A/N: amusement or laughter), as she spun around to face us, dragging the girl around with her. The smiles on there faces so infectious that I couldn't help but smile back at her.
I had used to think that we where pail but next to Claudia, poor Bell looked tanned. Now that they where standing next to one another the differences between them where crystal clear. No offense to Claudia but she looked like she had just stepped out of Hollywood's latest vampire flick, she didn't look real and the fact that she was wearing all black didn't help.
"Hello"
That was all she could get out before Alice rushed at the poor, unsuspecting girl, throwing her arms around her in a tight hug but Claudia hugged her back just as enthusiastically, her smile widening if at all possible. Her thick English accent had been so smooth and seductive. I know this sounds wrong but if I wasn't in love with Alice, hell I would be over he like my life depended on it.
Rosalie and Jacob had joined the three girls now and all were talking really fast. It seemed that the girls excitement was catching, but I didn't miss the looks of longing Jacob was constantly sending Claudia when the thought no one was looking.
"Who is she?"
Ah yes that's right. Edward didn't know and to him it probably seemed like he was losing Bella a little bit more. When Edward had first started having his dreams he had told me practically everything and it only took me a few hours to put two and two together.
When I had figured it out I couldn't help but laugh. Alice had been trying to set Bella and Edward up ever since Bella and I had broken up. Yes Bella and I had dated after we first met all those years ago but we had only lasted a few months before we called it of, deciding we where better of as friends.
Some how Edward had always managed to disappear when ever we had Bella over and when we did get the two of them in the same house they always seemed to just miss each other. And then the accident happened and Bella just seemed to run away from any form of relationship. Slowly I turned my head to look at my sad looking brother.
"A friend, a writer, a sister a…"
Edward cut me of with a low growled and I couldn't help but laugh. I loved taunting him; he always got wound up so easily. Slowly I shock my head as I attempted to explain haw they knew each other without giving too much away.
"They where best friends when they lived in Forks. Bella, Claudia, her twin brother and older sister where practically inseparable. But there was an…accident and Claudia and her sister got shipped over to England to some boarding school"
I had falter as I tried to think of what to say. I couldn't tell him as it wasn't mime to tell but he needed to know why her and Bella where so close. He still looked slightly confused but less on edge now. Maybe he knew that he hadn't lost her at all as Claudia had always had this part of Bella.
"Claudia has only just finished university and came back to Seattle to have her third book I think it is, published. As far as I know it's the first time she has been back for more than a day since she left seven years ago"
That was all I could tell him and I think he knew that as he nodded his head, his bronze hair falling in front of his eyes slightly. I had to laugh again. It was impossible not to. Most people would think that Alice was Bella's best friend but the truth was that I am.
Alice was he closest female friend but I was her best friend. In the ten years I have known Bella it never failed to amaze me at how much she saw. It was no secret to me that she at least lusted after Edward. Only a few weeks ago she had told me, quite to my horror that she had caught Edward coming out of his room after a shower, towel wrapped low around his hips, hair dripping wet and in front of his face slightly. What had shocked me most was that she took her usual nick name for him and altered it slight.
'The God Like Cullen'
If only she was paying attention now she would have another Edward fantasy pose to add to her ever growing collection. Naturally I had been quite disturbed when she had started getting lost in her fantasies and had run Alice, explaining everything from Bella's lust for Edward, to his recurring dreams that he had been having of her even before he had met her. Alice had been over the moon, if not a little disappointed that she had, had nothing to do with the two falling for each other.
Looking up I noticed every one was staring at me. As quickly as I could I regained control and strode across the room to wrap my arms around Alice once again. I kissed her cheek sweetly before whispering in her ear, the whole time keeping my eyes locked on Edward's.
"Some one's going to need a shove in the right direction"
She followed my gave to Edward and smiled wickedly before pulling away from me and whispering something in Claudia's ear. Claudia's eyes widened in realization, her eyes snapping to Edward before she leaned into Rosalie, whispering in her ear. All four of us now where looking at my younger brother all four of us smiling wickedly at him. Poor Edward didn't have a chance.
*
It was getting dark out side and we had yet to stop the 'party'. Edward, Bella, Claudia and Alice where all standing in the kitchen talking about Claudia's new book and how Bella had made her way into it some how. Bella was sitting on the counter top, whilst Edward was leaning against her side, his head resting on her shoulder, her hand absent mindedly running through his hair. They looked happy, content to stay that way for a long time. Alice and Claudia where leaning on the counter opposite. All where smiling and by looks of it in deep conversation.
Jacob, Emmet and I where still on the sofa and Jacob was still staring at Claudia as if she was the single most beautiful thing in the world. Occasionally she would glance over at him, smiling sweetly when there eyes met.
I had asked Jacob if there was something between the two of them and all he would say was that it had been a long seven years away from most important things in his life. He had left it at that and me torn between him meaning Bella or Claudia. A shrill ringing cut through the air and every one turned to watch Claudia as she pulled a tine cell phone out of her front pocket, her hips arching forward as she did so.
"Hello?"
In the last few hours I had grown so used to her voice that her accent just seemed normal now. Her perfectly arched eyebrows fell as she frowned pushing away from the counter as she did so, straitening her back as she did so.
"It is"
Her voice was professional and serious as she replied to the obviously asked question. Everything was quite now as Jacob had turned the music down where she had answered the phone. Without warning Claudia's eyes widened and the phone slipped from her hand, hitting the floor with a loud crash and splintering into tiny little pieces.
Slowly her head turned to Bella, there eyes locking. Tears where now falling from her bluer then blue eyes, a look of complete panic replacing the shock. Her mouth opened and closed a few times before she managed to force the words out.
"He's awake"
With that Bella pushed Edward away from her and jumped down, running to her friend. Her arms wrapped around her as Claudia fell to the floor, pulling Bella down with her. The mood shifted instantly and all I could feel was sorrow. The party was defantly over.
