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Alice was chopping vegetables when a piece fell on the floor, like a ninja looking for pirates gold, she swooped it up and popped it in her mouth, only to be caught by a staring Bella.

Her girlfriend slowly stood up, and walked her way over to the smaller woman, staring at her the entire time, as if in a trance.

When the brunette stood before her, she was a little bit creeped but, it was overrun by their closeness. Alice could feel herself being caught within the same haze just by the sheer proximity of having Bella near her.

Alice finished chewing the last piece of carrot and the spoke, "What? Five second ru…" but, before she could finish that sentence, she was engulfed by a kiss so forceful that it almost knocked her into last week.

She felt herself get pushed backwards against the sink, but she didn't care. She was too involved with the welcomed assault upon her lips and persons.

They broke for air and Bella looked at her with hooded eyes, only seeing her, with nothing but love and accepting her as the woman she was.

"I want you," Bella whispered and then began to nuzzle the crook of her neck.

Alice moaned quietly, "N-Now?" she asked.

Her girlfriend started to tug at the bottom of her holed and ratty t-shirt that she'd had since college, trying and failing to feel the flesh beneath.

"Yes," was the determined response, Alice tightened her hold and could feel herself getting lost.

"I-Is this because I just ate something off the floor? Because if that's the case, I would have…" another kiss stopped her rambling, it also helped to anchor her.

"No, it's because I am so enamoured by you, Mary Alice Brandon Cullen. You and only you."

Bella stopped her ministrations and looked at Alice in the eyes, searching for something. It only took a moment but, she found it when the smaller woman fluttered her eyelids up and down just the once.

Bella felt her heart melt and, in return, Alice let herself melt with Bella for the rest of the night.

"You have a tattoo?" Alice asked Bella, half wondering how she was able to speak at all after the night's events and, half wanting to scream 'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED', to the first passer-by.

They were draped across the bed in a tangled heap of limbs, linen and love.

Bella half-smiled, very much worn out, she wasn't an athlete but, she definitely felt like an Olympian, "Yeah," she replied and then moved so that the smaller woman could get a better look at it.

Alice recognised the black image instantly adorned on her girlfriends right shoulder and then sidled up next to her, feeling exceedingly affectionate and needy at the moment. Not that either of them really minded though.

"I never knew, you don't seem the type," Alice commented knowing that she'd get a rise, she started to draw random patterns where her fingers lay.

Bella feigned outrage, but didn't move, "What does that mean? I'm totally badass, I drink and I smoke."

Alice raised an eyebrow, "You haven't had a drink since we were in Forks and you unconsciously quit smoking because of me during that time. Oh yeah real badass baby."

The brunette just stuck her tongue out playfully and, it took everything within Alice to not put Bella's tongue to better use.

"Why a camera?" Alice remembering the tattoo on her girlfriend.

Bella started to play with the edges of Alice's slightly damp hair, "Ashley was a photographer. She used to take pictures of everything, not like, food or anything, just, people, places, strangers. I got into more fights than I can remember because people were wondering what a crazy woman was doing taking pictures of kids in parks. Sometimes, it was annoying but then, I'd remember that it was her passion that, she was a passionate person and she just, wanted to be engulfed by it all the time." Bella took a moment to inhale Alice's scent to remind herself where she was and who she was with and then, she continued, "She used to say to me, all images tell a story that can never be taken away because they are crystalized in that one moment where someone wanted to capture it forever."

Alice smiled, whenever her girlfriend remembered something about Ashley, it always felt like Bella was revealing something about herself too. Contrary to belief and, as strange as it may be to some, Alice actually found it quite humbling.

"She was a smart woman," Alice stated.

Bella could do nothing but nod her head in agreement, it was getting easier and then, a thought came to her.

"You're not jealous or weird about me having this are you?" she questioned.

Alice shook her head, "No, I think it's lovely."

They continued in their embrace for a few moments until Alice broke the silence, "Hypothetically, if I had said no, what would you have done?"

Bella scrunched her face in thought, "I think I have a hand scourer here somewhere."

The smaller woman grimaced, "That's gross."

"Yeah but, you love me," Bella chuckled.

Alice raised herself on an elbow, completely ignoring modesty, "Really now?" she challenged playfully.

In response, her girlfriend mirrored her position but kept their legs entangled, "Yeap, you admitted it quite a few times tonight, I think the people in the next street know it now."

Alice feigned anger, "Well, you called me God a few times, does that make it true?"

Bella shrugged, "Goddess has too many syllables."

After that sentence, Alice couldn't get fake angry even if she tried. She suddenly straddled Bella, not caring about the surprised squawk or her own fatigue.

"Then, I guess it's true that I love you then," she whispered, pinning Bella to the bed.

"Really now?" The brunette asked echoing the earlier challenge posed, she made no moves to break free, she didn't want to, she knew she was safe.

Alice nodded her head, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," she answered and then, without waiting for a response, she pressed her lips on Bella five times, on five different parts of her body, in five seconds.

Forehead.

Lips.

Clavicle.

Shoulder.

Heart.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Love can come instantly, it can come in days, months, years, whatever the human conception of time may be, but, here's the thing, it is felt for a fucking lifetime.

And those five seconds, Bella fell in love Alice all over again.

I know it's short but, I didn't fancy writing a sex scene nor did I want to leave Bella and Alice hanging for too long, way too much sexual tension in the air. And, I guess it was to also show that sometimes, big and wondrous feelings can permeate from the smallest and most mysterious circumstances. Anyway, thank you for reading.