Chapter 23: Love Bite

Bella's (POV)

My day was going great, my birthday and my parents were all coming together. We were all happy and enjoying each other.

My phone rang and it was my best friend, Jake. I looked at Edward, to kind of ask if I should answer my phone. He smiled and nodded for me to go ahead and answer it.

"Hello, Jake, what's up?" I had asked.

"Nothing much Bells, can you come down and spend some time with me in La Push tomorrow?" Jacob asked.

I really wanted to spend some time with Jake, I missed my friend. I smiled and looked at Edward and my mom and dad and then I answered Jacob.

"Sounds great Jake, my dad and mom want to come down too and spend some time with your dad and Sue," I told him. Then we made plans for me to be there around ten in the morning. "Bye Jake, see ya then."

"Bye Bells, I can't wait, I love you," Jake said and then the line went dead. I rolled my eyes and thought, 'Jake will be Jake.'

The rest of the afternoon went by pretty normally, seeing that my mom and dad just spent the day with my boyfriend and his vampire family.

Edward and I drove my parents home (our home, I like the sound of that) then went for a drive.

"Love, how would you like to go to our special place? The meadow," Edward asked. All I could think about was being alone with Edward, with no little pixie or other ears listening.

"Yeah, I have something we can do when we get there," I told him. Then his crooked smile, my smile, spread across his face.

"Bella, you will be the death of me, do you know that?" he asked.

"So Edward, you don't want to?" Then I smiled at him and grabbed his hand.

We made it to the meadow in no time. Edward helped me out of the car; put me on his back, and off he ran. Just as beautiful as I remember. I couldn't wait to be in his arms and bed again. So to speak.

"Is that all you think about love?" Edward asked with a smile on his face.

"I think of other things too Edward, but you're always what's on my mind first," I answered him back.

Then he grabbed me, wrapped his arms around me, and we were in a bed of flowers in the blink of an eye. "So, you do want me?" I asked giggling.

"As if you ever have to ask, Bella, I love you" he whispered. Then his lips met mine with such force that I knew how much he meant every word he had said.

Our kiss grew deeper and hungrier as we pulled closer and closer into each other. Edward only pulled back in enough for me to breath.

Then I thought of something, that I wanted to do just as much as making love to Edward. I bit my lip, wondering if I should ask, but I wanted this and it'll make us closer, more like one person.

"Edward, is there any way that you, I mean, you as in vampires, can be cut so that your blood could flow out?" He looked at me oddly but nodded yes. "Edward, if I ask you to do that and I do that too then we can share blood. I taste yours and you taste mine." I said shyly. Not wanting to meet Edward's eyes, I turned and looked to the side. He held his weight on one arm and pulled my face to his before he spoke.

"Bella, I'm not so sure that would be wise. I love you and I have been very careful not to harm you, but if you offer me your blood, I might not be able to stop. It would kill me if I didn't have you, even more so if it was by my own hands."

"No, Edward, I trust you. I know you can stop and that somehow this act will make us stronger." He gave me another look with so much love; he hates to tell me no for anything but, I could see the worry in his eyes, in his mind.

"Think about it Edward, I can wait, I love you, too," I told him as I reached up and kissed his neck. He shivered from my touch. I love that about him, he's the cold one but yet I'm the one sending chills down him, in a good way.

"Bella, I'll try, but you have to understand that we have to be very careful, alright?" I looked up and smiled him.

"Can we do it now, before we make love Edward?"

"Alright, love, will the smell of blood make you sick?" he asked. I just shook my head, not sure of what his blood would smell like.

He ran back to his car, got a small pocket knife, and handed it to me. "Use this on your finger and I'll use my teeth on mine." Edward said.

So he bit into his finger and his phone started to ring but we let it go. My phone started to ring also, "Alice," we said. But we didn't answer it or her.

Now was Bella and Edward's time, right here, right now. I cut a small slice into my finger and I held my hand to him as he held his out to me.

We smiled at each other then we both put our fingers into each other's mouths. I was sure I wouldn't like it but I did. I started to suck on his finger harder. But Edward was soft and easy with mine.

Then just as softly as he started, he stopped. "Bella, you should stop now also, there's venom in my blood and too much can harm you. It'll change you. Do you want that?"

I looked up at him and kissed his finger then his hand, all the way up to his mouth. "Edward, make love to me, please," I whispered.

"Always, love, always." Edward whispered back.

"I knew you could handle it, Edward. I feel so much closer to you now." I told him. "Edward, I trust you with my life."

Then Edward pulled me closer and we became one. I don't even know how to describe what it's like making love to Edward, but I could tell you this, it was something along the line of holding on to something so tight and thinking that you are going to fall then at the last moment being pulled back to walk on the clouds.

Wonderful, no, it's way more than wonderful. We just laid there, our bodies wrapped around each other. The sun was setting now and I would have to go home soon, but I didn't want to leave this place.

Whether it I meant the meadow or Edward's arms, either way was true. "Bella, I should get ready to take you home, Charlie and Renee is waiting. As much as I don't want to let you go." Edward told me then he kissed my hair.

"Can you spend the night with me again?" I had asked Edward and he smiled and said, "Yes, I would never miss it, love, but I have to go talk to Alice first. I have to wait till your mom and dad are a sleep anyway," He added and kissed my nose.

We got dressed and headed back to my house. He walked me to the door and we kissed good night, well till later. "I love you, Bella"

"I love you, too, Edward."

I watched him walk to his car at human speed just in case Charlie or Mom was watching. I blew him one last kiss and he drove off.

I went inside and was looking for my mom or my dad. The TV was on and popcorn was on the table, but no parents.

I went into the kitchen, still no parents. I looked outside to make sure Dad's cruiser was there and it was. Then I heard my mom, what is she saying?

I ran up the stairs as fast as I could without hurting myself too badly.

"Charlie, please, I need you." What could my mom be doing to talk to my dad like that? Now as an almost adult, I should have known. I knocked on my dad's bedroom door because my mom had been sleeping in my room.

"Renee, I love you, I never stopped." I heard my dad say. They didn't answer so I knocked again. Still no answer but then my mom screamed and I opened the door and wished I hadn't.

"Get out Bella/Bells!" they both yelled. Oh. My. God. I need to go and wash out my eyes. I just walked in on my mom and dad together. Yeah, really together, they were having sex.

I ran in to the bathroom, half laughing and half crying. I grabbed a towel and turned on the shower. I climbed in and let the hot water wash away this almost perfect day. Okay, all perfect except, well seeing them, yuck.

I can't wait to tell Edward. I washed my hair and body with my strawberry shampoo and body wash. Brushed my teeth and climbed into my pajamas.

When I opened the bathroom door, my mom stood there waiting on me. "Bella, can we talk?" she had asked.

I smiled and followed her down stairs; thank God not into my dad's bedroom.

"Sit," was all she said.

I sat down and looked at her then at my dad, who was still blushing three shades of red.

"Bella, we have found our way back to each other," my mom said.

"Bells, we want you to be happy and I would like to know if you would care if your mother and I got back together and remarried?" Dad asked and then smiled like a teenager in love at my mother.

"If that's what you both want, I'm happy for you guys," I told them and then we all hugged. "Does this mean, I get my room back now?" I asked with a smile. They both nodded yes, kissed my cheek, and went back upstairs to their room.

I turned off all the downstairs lights and head off to my room. I opened my window so that Edward would know I was in there tonight and from now on.

Tomorrow, I will spend with Jake, so I need to get my fill Edward tonight. Believe me, I did, well almost; I could never truly get enough of Edward, no matter how many times we became one.

After, we talked for a while; I needed to know why Alice was calling both Edward and my cell phone.

"Edward, I love you," I whispered. Then I asked him about Alice and her perfect time to call.

"Bella, she wants me to talk you out of spending that day with Jacob Black tomorrow. She doesn't see you when you're with him. She doesn't see you at all after that. No future at all, Bella, do you know what that means?" He asked me.

"Not really, Edward, but I'll always come back to you and besides, my mom and dad will be there too," I told him

We kissed one last time that night and he held me and hummed me to sleep.

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Thanks for reading. The next chapter will be about the day she goes and spends with Jacob down in La Push. Till next time. I tried not to be to cliff hanger-ish this time. Thanks to Strawberry9212 for all that she does.