4
MEETING EMMA
In the morning the maid came in and told me my bath was prepared, it was a large bath tub and I insisted Aro come in with me.
"I've never made love in a bathtub before," I teased, "Will you humor me," I asked Aro in my most sensual voice and beckoned to him with my finger and my dazzling smile.
He came to me and we tried different ways of having sex before we found a way we were most comfortable with and we were laughing at some of our more futile attempts. The maid flitted around the rooms tidying up, drying up spilled water, thanks to us. I was in a happy, ecstatic mood.
I spoke from the tub, "Emma," she looked at me, "Please don't mind us we're possibly embarrassing you and we don't mean to," I said giggling at Aro's touch, he was playful too.
"That's alright Milady, I'm not embarrassed, but I thought you might be," she said smiling.
"I'm never embarrassed to make love," Aro raised his eyebrows.
"Never?" he asked.
"No, never, Edward and I make love all the time and we are too busy making love to care about who sees us." I said smiling.
"Just like you walk about naked all the time too," Aro said.
"Until I married Edward, I would have never dared to be naked in front of anyone, except Alice, that is,'
"Why did Alice have that privilege, aren't you wondering the same thing, Emma?' he included her in the conversation.
"I dare say," she said smiling.
"When James beat me up and I had all those broken bones, Alice helped me take showers after I came home from the hospital, I didn't want my Dad to help me of course.
"I'm sure you're wondering about so many things, Emma, like why am I making love with this very beautiful, wonderful, caring man, with whom my wonderful, beautiful, sensitive, unselfish, angel husband left me with?" I wanted to clarify.
"It's none of my business, Milady.
"But it is your business to know, I want you to know and even the world to know, except my mother that is, the two men afore mentioned, I love very much, my angel husband gave Aro to me as a gift, so long as he treats me well and he is treating me well," I proclaimed loudly, and Aro hugged me.
"You seem so young, Milady?" Emma seemed afraid to ask.
"I'm eighteen and proud of it, I love being eighteen," I said gaily.
"At this point, I felt Aro slide into me and he held my breasts with his hands, I wriggled a little to get more comfortable "Here we go again Emma," I said.
"Do you want me to leave," she asked,
"No of course not, I want to talk to you, if it's alright with Aro," I said.
After a few more antics we managed to make love fairly indiscreetly while Emma remained and she laughed at us, even giving us a few suggestions with our encouragement.
"Well thank you Emma," Aro said laughing, "But I think we'll do the shower or the bed next time."
"What fun is that?" I asked laughing.
"With you, I think anything is fun," he joked.
As we climbed out of the tub and Emma helped me dry off,
I asked, "Aro, are you going to bend your rules and let Emma be my friend, please, please?" I put my arms up to his shoulders and tried to kiss him but I couldn't reach his face so I had to make do with his chest.
"I suppose Edward has to put up with this too?" he asked.
"Why of course," I said as I gave him an appealing look.
"We'll see," was his short answer.
Emma busied herself, picking up the towels and emptying and cleaning the bathtub, while Aro picked me up and stood me on a stool, so I could bend down and kiss his face.
"I think you'd better go to our bed, Carlisle will be here soon and he'll want to examine you, my love," Aro said.
He swung me out to our room but I wasn't ready to lie down yet, I walked around and found the photograph of me in a frame. He came over to me wrapping his arms around me and kissing my hair as I picked up the photograph and looked at it. It was the picture with me wearing only the blue gown and it was obvious to me I wore nothing underneath, I gasped at how I looked.
"What's wrong," he asked.
"I look naked," I said.
"It appears to me you are wearing a very becoming blue gown, young lady," he said smiling.
"But you don't understand what's underneath," I said shocked.
"My guess is your beautiful naked body is underneath,' he smiled again.
"Is it obvious to you?" I asked.
"What man would think otherwise?" he said kissing my shoulder.
I replaced the photo and he turned me towards him.
"I'm going to dress you in an equally becoming red gown on Saturday; you will be the belle of the ball and dance with me," he said kissing me on my lips.
"I'm not a very good dancer, Edward has been teaching me," I said.
"Edward said you do quite well," he said, "And I'm sure he's right."
"Do you have a piano somewhere here?" I asked.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, why do you ask?" he looked curious.
"I need to practice, Edward is teaching me to play."
"Do you play as well as you dance?" he asked.
"Well that depends on whether you think I dance well, if you do think that, then no I don't play as well as I dance," I said hoping what I said was understandable.
"So if you don't dance well, then your playing is up to par," he said.
"Yes, that's about right," I concluded.
Aro went to his closet, and picked out one of his many robes, which he wore over some conventional clothing; today is dress up day," he said.
"May I brush your hair?" I said shyly.
He handed me the brush and he sat down in front of me as I brushed through his hair which I loved; it was so long and straight and very sleek.
"Now let me brush yours," he said and we traded places.
After brushing my hair he ran his fingers through, then standing me up, he turned me to face him, moving his hands over my body, "I suppose an angel sent you to me," he said.
"My angel did," I answered.
Aro shooed me into bed just as Carlisle arrived with Vicente. Carlisle greeted me, while Aro spoke to Vicente in Italian. Carlisle also spoke Italian, which I realized I should have suspected as he spent several years here, and thanked Vicente in his own language. I decided I needed to learn Italian if I was going to spend much time here. Vicente left and Aro stayed with us, while Carlisle examined me.
"Have you been resting?" he asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"Has Aro been treating you well, so far?" and he winked at me.
Of course he knows, I'm sleeping in Aro's bed, "Yes Carlisle, he's treating me very well."
He turned to Aro, "Edward made you aware of the trauma, she recently experienced?" he asked.
"Yes of course and even Bella herself has spoken about it to Marcus and me," Aro replied.
"I just wanted to make sure it didn't bother her too much to have sex with you, Edward said the two of them were fine." I couldn't believe this was my father in law talking about me having sex with another man, in a matter of fact way.
"Sex with Bella has been beautiful, she is a very sensual young lady," I rolled my eyes, "She was nervous at first but because she was fearful Edward would not approve, now she's fine. Also she was afraid I would abuse her as my brother had done; she knows now that I love her and wouldn't harm her, Aro said.
"Isn't that true, Bella?" Aro addressed me.
"Yes," I said shyly.
Aro came over to me, pulling the sheet from my breast; "She now has my mark, I'm proud to say, I conquered her,"
Carlisle laughed.
"If you will excuse me I have some business to attend to and will leave the two of you to get reacquainted. Bella I will send Vicente for you later, stay here until then. Carlisle I'm sure you can find your way around." He swept out of the room then.
"Bella, you understand that Edward is very ok with this and so are the rest of us. We talked about this at length because Aro called us after receiving your photograph and made clear his attentions; he has wanted you from the moment he first saw you as a human. We knew you would succumb to his charm very quickly, especially if Edward encouraged it. In the vampire world this is normal practice and you are not doing anything wrong. You must enjoy Aro as you do Edward, do you love him?" he asked.
"Yes Carlisle but I don't understand why I gave into him so quickly, am I so oversexed that I would allow more than one man to have me?"
"Bella, Aro is very charming and he would have you eventually, you would have submitted after a certain amount gentle pressuring. He isn't human as you know and he has been around many, many, years, knowing how to talk to women, breath on them, search their eyes. He did all that didn't he?" Carlisle smiled.
"Yes, and he made me love him at that moment, he is so tender and gentle with me, not the same as Edward but he loves me just as much," I said, relieved I could talk this over with someone, "He isn't jealous when I talk about Edward, he seems to encourage it and he suggests things like, maybe Edward and he could teach me certain things; I feel overwhelmed and I know my mother would never approve of this," I said.
"Your mother need never know of this and at some point in time you won't have to worry about what your mother thinks, as you know. Do you realize Aro will never tire of you in the same way that Edward will never tire of you, so they are yours for the duration of time and you belong to them? You are very fortunate to have two such loving suitors.
"Doesn't sharing mates become complicated?" I asked.
"It can, but Edward will never want anyone else and Aro has already played the field. You came to him at a time when he only needs one person to make him happy and you are the one. He's an old man longing for someone young to give him a breath of fresh air. Rest assured; we did discuss this with him to be certain of his intentions. He will teach you many things, far more than even Edward can and we are pleased with the match. Edward is beaming that of all the male vampires there are, it was Aro, royalty in the world of vampires, who chose you. You are a fortunate young lady," Carlisle kissed my cheek and I hugged him.
"Your family is so wonderful to me, I have one more question, Edward is there, and Aro is here, will there ever be a chance they will want to share me closer?" I asked.
"It's very possible, I know Aro wants Edward to come here and you might be able to entice him. I imagine it could be a very amicable relationship. Two suitors in one bed…, he left that hanging.
"I recalled something Aro said about being enough room for two inside me, I thought he was joking.
The conversation with Carlisle greatly relieved my mind and I felt very peaceful lying in bed. Carlisle told me I must continue to rest and obey all the rules laid down by Aro because they were for my own protection. He said Edward missed me but wasn't pining for me because he was greatly involved in school and plenty of other business obligations. The study group looked forward to seeing me after Christmas, William and Maggie missed me and little Jenny too. They all thought I had gone away to recuperate after my abduction. Jacob and Michelle are happy and she is starting to 'pop out.' Nothing has been resolved with Jenny but she seemed in good spirits. Alice wants to call me but Edward wanted to wait until I had accepted Aro and felt better about myself. Carlisle assured me that she and Edward would be calling soon, after the good report. Alice received the E-mail I had passed on from Renee and she was planning everything and would talk to Renee and Charlie and send them the plane tickets. Above all do NOT worry about anything.