Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I turned back to Alice,

"Alice, that's Jacob Black!" She stopped snickering and looked dead serious.

"What is he doing on our perfect cruise?" Emmet looked like he was thinking hard,

"Maybe he wanted to go on a cruise?" He finally said

"Good one." Jasper rolled his eyes. When I looked at Edward he was smiling and humming to himself, later he told me what he was humming;

Jacob Black,

Stepped on a crack,

Broke his mother's back,

I threw him in a sack,

It was black, black, black.

He was never found

Jacob looked up and first saw all the Cullens and glowered. Then he saw me, and the puss called his face softened. He waved at my, I just sort of sunk in my chair. I was embarrassed he came, but why? After we were finished eating we went to the help desk to get our room,

"Excuse me mam" Edward said politely,

"Yes dear?" The receptionist was about 20 years old but was still turned on by a 17 year old. She looked up and I saw her eyes glitter.

"Could you tell us where our room is? The name would be Cullen."

"Sure." She just kept staring at him. Edward raised his eyebrows,

"Please?" She snapped out of her daze and looked in our file,

"Cullen is on floor 5 room 21." She stupidly smiled at him,

"And what about the name Black?" came blurting out of my mouth. I widened my eyes and looked up at Edward he gave me a reassuring smiling telling me it was okay to ask.

"Black," She said,

"Black is on… floor 8, but I'm not permitted to tell you which room" She talked business with me,

"Do you think you could just make an exception?" he smiled, his smile flashed her, dazed her, and she was under his spell,

"Room 3" She smiled up at him dumbfounded.

"Thank you, you've been a great help," He said, he grabbed my hand and we walked away. Once we found our room I was already tired, I flopped on the bed.

"It's only 4:00" He said to me, it almost seemed like he was complaining. No, not Edward, he would never complain to me. He blew delicately on my neck, his fingers softly combing my hair. There was a knock at the door,

"Yes?" I called,

"It's Alice, the ships about to take off, did you guys want to see." At this point I felt too lazy to get up, but this was a once and a life time chance, so why be lazy?

"Sure," I called back through the door,

"We'll be out in a minute." Moments like this with Edward, I never want to be over, but they have to be interrupted somehow.

Edward and I were standing at the front of the boat holding hands and looking out at the endless ocean. Edward seemed kind of mad that we hadn't left Seattle by now. We'd been on the boat for 2 hours already and we hadn't moved I heard him mutter,

"If I were driving this boat we would be in Hawaii right now." I had gotten used to his fast mutterings under his breathe I said to him,

"Well, one, we're not going to Hawaii, and two you must give people time to board. You are so patient." I joked,

"I know" he grinned and draped his arm around my waist. As we looked out beyond the ocean I heard Emmet talking to Rosalie,

"Oh come on! I didn't like Titanic in the first place!" Obviously we were causing a scene, so I discretely took his hand from my waist and held it in my own hand. Behind me I heard a low growl, it was Jasper,

"Get away from her you dog" He almost laughed at Jake's face and then almost hovered over me.

"Oh don't count on it." Jacob said behind his hived face, he was trying to act tough, but the pimple ghetto was not helping.

"You don't want to make a scene on a cruise boat do you?" Rosalie asked. Jacob turned to her,

"Do you?" He challenged. Alice was still in the corner giggling at his face.

"Why don't you take care of your face so we can take you seriously first." Jasper laughed.

"That's a burn!" Emmet hooted. During all of this I was hiding behind Edward to keep from laughing or taking sides, but the Cullens knew I was really on their side. The boat finally took off and a jerk hit me into Edward's solid back, not that he felt it or anything. Jake, obviously embarrassed about his face said to Edward,

"This takes us off amends." He walked away as "coolly" as he could. Emmet was nearly rolling on the deck laughing,

"Duuudde! He totally needs a dermatologist!" I had to giggle at that.

"He was picking flowers for me, trying to get a second chance, so be nice! He means well." Though I'm not sure I believed myself. I looked up at Edward,

"I think it would just be nice if I went and talked to him or something." Edward was not totally comfortable with this,

"How do you know he didn't bring any of his buddies?"

"Trust me, with that face I know." I said to him.

"Fine. 5 minutes okay?" He limited,

"Yeah, sure. Meet you back at the room."

I made my way around the moving cruise ship trying to find the right part of 8. 8-3 I kept thinking to myself. After getting lost on the same floor 4 times, aggravated with myself I found it. I knocked on the door,

"Who is it?"

"Um…" I answered. I wasn't sure if I wanted to use the room service gimmick or just say Bella. He knew it was Bella. He opened the door,

"I've been humiliated enough. What do you want?" at that moment I actually felt bad for him, but I knew I couldn't fall into his trap.

"I just wanted to apologize about them back there." He rolled his bubbled eyes,

"Yeah sure."

"Why are you here anyways?" I asked,

"Same reason you are, I needed a vacation." It seemed he was avoiding something.

"You needed a vacation, decided you needed a cruise, and just coincidentally went on the same Alaskan cruise as me?" I said incredulously.

"I thought you knew I was coming." He said

Again with the people thinking I knew stuff. I know nothing! I thought.

"How would I know that?" I asked after a pause.

"Well-"

"There you are Bella! Alice said breathlessly,

"I've been looking everywhere! You have to come see this, its amazing." I was puzzled,

"Alice I'm kind of talking to-uh!" Before could finish my sentence she was dragging me down the hall.

"We'll talk later," I nearly yelled to the baffled blow fish. Then I looked at Alice who was perfectly calm, and apparently had nothing to show me,

"What was that for?" I asked impatiently. She pointed to her watch,

"5 minutes." she said business-woman-like. I rolled my eyes,

"He's not going to hurt me or anything!" I whined. She shrugged her shoulders,

"I don't make the rules" she said referring to Edward.

Later after dinner Edward and I were laying on the couch in our King and Queen suite.

"Are we going to have a honeymoon?" I asked him.

"Why wouldn't we?" He said not dazed by this question at all.

"Where are we going to go?" He thought for a minute,

"It's your choice." I kissed the hand he was holding on my stomach.

"There are so many choices.." I said,

"Hawaii? No, too much sun. Greece? Still, sun. Caribbean, nope. Damn, you stuck me with the hard choice." I complained. He smiled,

"Anywhere we go, I'll be happy because you'll be there." The butterflies in my stomach came to life.

"Damn." he said,

"That is the one thing I am going to miss when you're a vampire, I can feel how you feel. It's so hard to explain."

The next morning at breakfast after I gorged all my food and watched the Cullens fork theirs around their plate, I saw Jake again, Sitting at the same table.

I thought you knew I was coming had been running through my head all night. How should I have known he was coming? Did he think he told me at the park? Because he definitely didn't. Should Charlie have told me? No, he'd be too excited that would've been the first thing he said walking into the door.

"Edward," I said. He looked up from his plate of smashed pancakes with curious eyes,

"Jake said that… he thought I knew he was coming. Did you tell him that we were going or something?" He frowned,

"Why would I tell the dog that?" I shrugged,

"Can I just go talk to him and figure out what he meant for a couple minutes, without a timer." He sighed,

"We'll be watching though." I smiled and patted his hand on the table. I walked over to Jake,

"Hey, we never finished our conversation." I said. He was trying to drink orange juice but his efforts were fruitless (no pun intended,) the juice was more on his shirt and face that in his mouth. He put down his cup,

"Right we didn't. He was trying to wipe his face and I could hear Emmet laughing from across the room.

"Have you had any fun on this trip so far?" I asked curiously.

"Not really, I don't have anybody to share it with." I could see behind the blistered eyes of his he was trying to make his puppy eyes. I knew the Cullens were listening so I had to be careful as to what I said.

"Oh, well I'm sorry" I said,

"Yesterday, when you said "I thought you knew I was coming" how did you think I would know?" he frowned,

"Well Charlie bought me the tickets."