Chapter 24: day trip to La Push
Bella (POV)
I fell asleep in Edward's arms, my Edward. When I woke up, Edward was sitting in the rocking chair that sat in the corner of my bedroom.
"What's wrong, Edward? I'll be safe today, I promise." I told him. It was like I could almost read his mind. He smiled at me but it wasn't his crooked smile.
"I was just wanting you, that's all," he said looking a little shy. Edward never looks shy so I was a little worried about him.
"I can hear your parent's thoughts and they are still asleep," he said looking at me with a slightly bigger smile on his face. I knew what he wanted and I wanted it just as badly, if not more.
"I need you, Edward, as much as I want you," I told him. Edward was over on my bed in the blink of an eye. He was hovering over me and started to kiss my neck up to my jaw line.
"Edward, can we-" I bit my lip but went forward with my question anyway. I stuttered, "E-Edward, can we trade blood again? I felt so close to you, almost empowered by it," I whispered to him.
"Love, I would give you anything that is within my power to you. I'm stronger than I thought I was. Earlier went alright so I don't see why not." Edward answered me with his crooked smile that I loved so much.
He looked into my eyes and then he bit down on his finger to make a small cut and I used a letter opener that was on my desk. I pushed my finger to make the blood flow smoothly.
I watched as Edward's eyes turned a little darker at the smell of my fresh blood. "Are you still alright, Edward?" I asked. He nodded. "Edward, can we make love and trade blood at the same time?"
I knew I was pushing my luck but the thought of him and I as one, blood, body, and soul, almost pushed me over the edge myself.
"Anything, love," he said with a new huskiness to his soft velvety voice. "You, I love you, Bella?" Edward said almost as a question rather than as a statement.
I took a quick intake of breath and we became one as in body, our souls were linked, I can feel it. That only leaves us the blood, so I lifted my hand and put my finger to his mouth and he did the same to me.
I started by kissing it softly then I felt the hunger in me take over and I started to pull it further into my mouth and suck on it harder. He thought my blood called to him, his blood set my very being on fire.
The fire was a good fire. I was feeling the highest I have ever soared before. I was on the edge of desire, walking straight into ecstasy.
"Edward, are you alright? You can have more of my blood, I'm alright," I said with a smile on my face.
"No Bella, I've taken enough and so have you, for now. We're playing with something that neither of us knows the outcome to," Edward whispered to me.
Then we were kissing the most passionate kiss I had ever had in my whole life. The love between us was undoubtedly strong. "Love, I have to stop for now," he said as he tried to pull away.
I grabbed a hold on him and for a brief second I held him close to me. Then he was able to pull away.
He must have seen the hurt in my eyes, but he didn't have time to speak, I heard them, my mom and dad was up and my mom was coming to check on me
I wrapped my blankets around me and tried to even out my breathing so she wouldn't think anything was going on in here. She didn't know Edward was here but as ditsy as my mother is, she's still very smart.
I rolled over and buried my face in my pillow, blushing. What if she had walked in on me like I had them earlier tonight?
I heard Edward laugh lightly from under my bed, but I just thought that, I didn't say it out loud.
Did Edward just, hear my mind? No, there's no way, he has never been able to hear my mind.
I started thinking about how much I loved him and how he made me feel. Just to test out my theory.
"Bella, love, could you please stop saying that, your mom will hear you and, it makes me want you even more," Edward said softly from under my bed.
I whispered, "I didn't say it Edward, I thought it." I heard him gasp. Then I heard my parent's bedroom door close and lock.
I looked up and there sat Edward looking at me. "What?" I thought.
"Bella, I can hear some of your thoughts. Maybe it's because we are together in every way possible, love." I looked into his eyes and kissed him again. He wrapped his arms around me and I drifted back to sleep in his arms.
Morning came in no time at all. I woke up and Edward was still wrapped around me. He kissed my nose and told me that my parents were waking up and he should go. I didn't want him to, of course.
"I love you more than anything, Edward Cullen," I thought to myself to see if he could still hear me. He looked at me and made me promise to be safe today and be on guard.
"By the way, love, you are my everything, too," Edward said to me then his crooked smile spread across his beautiful face. "I'll see you at twilight, dinner with my parents remember?" he added.
Then he smiled and said, "Maybe you can spend the night with Alice tonight so I can make love to you all night long."
I almost fell to the floor but somehow caught myself. I looked at Edward and he looked at me. "Maybe you should talk to Carlisle about this," I told him.
He nodded, kissed me good and hard, "Remember, that," he said, as he jumped out my window and ran into the woods
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"Bells, you hungry? Your mom fixed us some breakfast, if you are brave enough to eat it," Charlie said as he knocked on my door. "Bells, can I come in?"
"Sure, dad." I guess so; I was showered and dressed for the day in La Push. "What's wrong, dad?" I asked him.
"Bells, you know that I love you, right?" I started to answer him but he held up one finger telling me to hold on.
"I want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt you, right? Well, I would like to ask you if you cared if I marred your mother again. I love her, I always have. Beside Bells, you're almost all grown up and will be falling in love someday."
I had to stop him there, "Dad, I love you and mom and if you and she are happy then, so am I. Secondly, I'm in love, dad! Edward is my life, dad, I am going to be with him forever," I told him, without him knowing that forever was really forever.
My days as human Bella are numbered, I've accepted that. If my mom and dad are together and happy then it'll make walking away from them easier. I pushed that thought out of my mind for now.
I got up, hugged my dad, and told him, "Let's go and try to eat mom's breakfast." Then he and I were both laughing as we walked down the stairs.
We drove down to La Push in my truck, the sun was out today, so Jake and I should be able to go to the beach.
Renee and Sue were going to have lunch and catch up and Charlie and Billy was going to go fishing. Jake and I were just going to be best friends and do whatever best friends do.
When we pulled in, Jacob ran out and helped me out of the bed of my truck, I had let Charlie drive.
I don't know but I still could feel Edward's blood running in my veins and the strength was still there.
Jacob hugged me, but pulled away and looked me over. "What is it, Jake?" I asked him. Then I noticed that he kinda smelled funny. Not earthy but kind of like a dog that you would have given a bath to.
"Bells, let's go for a walk, we need to talk," Jake said with a tone in his voice that sounded a little hurt and a little angry both at the same time.
"First Beach?" I asked. He took my hand and was pulling me almost, but I didn't fall, not even once.
"What's going on here, Bells? Did the leech of yours bite you? You smell sickly sweet like they do, it's faint but it's still there," Jacob said.
"No Jake, he didn't bite me! Edward would never hurt me in any way," I shot back. "Anyways, who are you to say I smell funny? Have you been giving dogs bathes around here or something? Maybe we should swim, to get the smell off," I added.
Jacob smiled and asked me if I wanted to go down to the cliffs and dive off. He said all the kids in La Push did it and how fun it was.
I didn't want to be a baby but that kinda sounded scary. But I smiled, put on a brave face, and nodded yes. So we walked back to his house and climbed into his rabbit and headed for the cliff.
"Bells, you know you don't have to do this," Jake said to me.
"I know, how hard could it be, right?" I asked as I bit my lip. Edward wouldn't like me doing this, this isn't being safe, but Edward also thought being around Jake wasn't safe.
That was almost as bad as Jacob saying Edward would hurt me, because Jake never would either. We rode to the dirt road on the edge of La Push in quiet.
When we got there, a group of what I take as Jacob's friends were already there. "Bells, this is Sam, Paul, and Embry," he said. I smiled at them and nodded a hello.
"JAKE, WHY WOULD YOU BRING HER HERE?!" The one he named as Paul asked, yelling at Jake and me.
"Chill, Paul, Bells and I just wanted to go for a swim, and I thought this would be fun. Besides, what she and I do is none of your business!" Jake yelled back. I was looking over the edge of the cliff as they fought with each other, and there was no way I was going to jump from this high.\
"J-Jake," I said with a stutter, "I'm not going to jump from here, I'll kill myself." They were not listening to me. Paul looked so mad; he ripped right out of his skin and into a giant wolf. Jacob did the same saying that he would not let Paul hurt me.
I was a little scared, they started at each other. Then I heard someone say that I was a leech lover and that I shouldn't be here. They even said I smelled like one of them. The only thing was no one had said a word out loud.
I could hear someone thoughts, it had to be Paul, Sam, or Embry, Jacob would never be so cruel to me or about me.
The two big wolves was rolling around and biting each other. I saw Embry running at me and Sam trying to pull Jake and Paul apart, but neither got to their target in time.
Jacob wolf and Paul wolf had rolled over to me and me being the clumsy "danger magnet," they hit me and I went flying off the edge of the cliff and into the cold water below.
I tried to yell but nothing came out. The water was pulling me under and I was losing the fight for air. That was when I hear Edward's voice, "Love, fight, Carlisle thinks that we're interlinked now that we've shared blood, Bella, I feel you. You need me and I'm there with you, I'm in your blood
I thought maybe I was dying and or I was going crazy but from deep down came an overwhelming power and I fought, harder than I ever had in my whole life. My Edward wanted me to fight; he needed us to be together as much I did.
I swam hard and came to the top of the water, Embry was there reaching for me. "Bella, give me your hand," He called. I reached for him and he pulled me the rest of the way out of the water.
I looked around, unsure of how I felt. "Bella, maybe you should lay down, you almost drowned," Sam said to me. I just looked at him and told him I was fine. I looked around and found Jacob sitting on the rocks about a foot away.
He looked like he had killed his dog. He knew that it was his and Paul's fault that I had fallen in the first place. I could see it written all over his face and I could faintly hear it in his mind.
What's happening to me? Was I getting some of Edward's powers of mind reading? No, that can't be, but I heard him, he sent his mind to me. That's why I kept fighting, he told me I was strong enough and I was.
"I have to go, Jake, now!" I said.
I got up and started to walk to his car. He tried to hug me but I pulled away. "I'm so sorry, Bells, I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I didn't mean to hurt you; I still love you, Bells." Jacob said to me.
He didn't look at me at all on the drive back to his house, I didn't speak nor did he. I was watching him and could see how bad he felt about that whole thing. I got out of his car when he had made it back to his house.
"Jacob, I know this is hard for you, I also know that you would never hurt me on purpose and I forgive you, but and this is a big but, I'm in love with Edward, that'll never change. When the time is right, and someday it will come, I want him to bite me. I don't want to be without him, or he me. We're going to spend forever together, is that clear?" I said in a calm but firm voice.
"You will always be my best friend and that will not change, but you have to understand." I added.
"Bells, I can never let him bite you. If he, or any of them do then the treaty is broken and I will kill him, all of them," Jacob said to me in a voice so filled with hate that I felt the tears start to roll down my face.
"So be it, Jacob," that was all I said, then I took off running to the border so Alice could see me. I also sent my mind to Edward asking for him to pick me up. I wasn't sure how it worked or if it would but I had to get away, away from La Push and away from Jacob Black.
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