Author's Note: Thank you for those who have reviewed. It means a lot to me. There is another note at the bottom….
Chapter 10 – It Never Got this Good
Early the next morning, Bella found herself waking up within a warm cocoon. It only took her a moment before she realized that the warm cocoon was not only but Edward curled around her from behind. She found herself let out a quiet snort of laughter when she realized that Edward's left hand was wrapped around her right breast. The most comical part of it all was that by the soft snores coming from behind her, she knew he was still deeply asleep, so his groping most likely was a subconscious action on his part.
Wishing to see his face, Bella gently turned herself around in his arms, only causing him to pull her closer. Carefully examining his face, Bella could not help but admire his strong features and handsome face. And she couldn't forget the amazing green eyes that were currently hidden behind his eyelids. Without consciously thinking about her actions, she reached up and gently stroked his cheekbone. It was only after she witnessed Edward's eyelids flutter that she realized she could have awoken him.
Slowly, his eyes opened to settle his emerald eyes on Bella's face. A lazy smile formed on his face before he whispered, "Good morning Beautiful."
A blush spread through Bella's cheeks as she heard Edward's endearment, causing his smile to widen. "I love your blush," he commented, stroking a finger down her cheek. This comment, however, only served to make her blush deepen in the color.
In response, however, Bella leaned up to give Edward a peck on the lips, not wishing to take it any farther due to her fear that her morning breath was not so attractive. So when Edward attempted to deepen the kiss, she pulled back suddenly.
"What's wrong?" he frowned.
"Morning breath," was her answer.
"I don't care." And with that statement, Edward crushed his lips to hers and immediately asked permission to enter her mouth with a sweep of his tongue across her lower lip. Despite her self-consciousness about the state of her mouth's scent and taste, Bella willingly opened her mouth to let Edward's tongue dance with her own. Before long, the once gentle kiss turned more passionate, and they found themselves with Bella on her back and Edward half lying on her, just like the previous evening. Once again, Edward's hand found her breast and slowly started sliding down her torso. This time, however, his mouth followed as well, planting tiny kisses and nips all over her abdomen. Bella let out a gasp of surprise and pleasure when his mouth and tongue found the waist of her shorts. Edward placed his hands on her hips, and slowly slid two fingers between the waist of the shorts and her skin.
Hesitantly, he looked up to see Bella's head thrown back in pleasure and anticipation. "May I?" he hoarsely whispered. All Bella could do was nod.
But just as Edward barely moved her shorts off of her hips, there was a loud banging at the door.
"Ignore it," Bella gasped.
Eagerly, Edward took heed of Bella's demand and planted a kiss right over her center through her shorts and panties. Unfortunately, her moan was pushed to background noise as Alice's voice yelled through the door.
"I know you're in there! I can hear you!"
Defeated, Edward rested his forehead on Bella's lower abdomen as Bella muttered, "Seriously," under her breath with her arm over eyes. After all, she was 99% sure Edward was about to go down on her, and seeing how talented his tongue was while kissing her, she could only imagine how magical it would be below.
"Come on! We have appointments at the spa in a half hour!" Alice's annoying voice called through the door along with knocking.
Angrily, Bella scooted herself out of bed and put Edward's shirt on. She muttered under her breath all the way to the door, and when she opened it to Alice's smiling face, she snapped, "What?!?"
Even though Bella was blocking the opening between the door and door frame, Alice easily pushed herself in calling out, "Edward, if you are naked, you better get yourself covered because I'm coming in." Turning towards Bella, who was now standing with her arms crossed over her chest, she stated again, "We have spa appointments in a half hour, and you need to get ready!"
"What spa appointments?" her friend scowled.
"The ones I told about you yesterday." Alice rolled her eyes as if to say, "Duh!"
"You didn't tell me about any appointments."
Alice scoffed, "Yes I did."
"No you didn't. When did you supposedly tell me these plans?"
"When you were gazing wistfully at Edward over the table at dinner last night."
"I was not gazing wistfully at anybody last night."
"Yes you were. Anyway, whatever quarrel you guys were having yesterday has obviously been resolved," Alice winked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Bella tried to feign innocence.
Once again, Alice rolled her eyes. "You know exactly what I'm talking about. We could hear you two all the way down the hall."
Bella's face flushed with embarrassment at what Alice related. She knew that they didn't exactly try to keep their vocalizations at a minimum, but she didn't think they were that loud.
"Anyway, I have to go get ready. You, missy," Alice glared at Bella, "need to be ready in twenty minutes flat. I'll drag you out of here naked if I have to."
Throughout the conversation between the women, Edward had just sat in bed comfortably with an amused smirk decorating his face. When Bella turned around still with a scowl on her face, he let out a little laugh while holding out his arms to her. "Come here, baby."
Bella willingly did as he suggested, laying herself so that she rested her head on his chest, directly over his heart.
"I take it you don't want to go to the spa."
"Not at all," she whispered, placing a chaste kiss on his chest over his heart.
Although it was a relatively innocent kiss, Edward couldn't help but react to the first time Bella placed her lips on a part of his body that wasn't his face or neck. He tightened his hold around her waist before leaning down and intimately whispering in her ear, "You can always stay here. We can lock everybody outside."
"Mmm," Bella expressed her pleasure at the idea. "You don't know how much I'd love to do that, but…"
"…But you don't want to risk Alice's wrath."
"Not at all." Bella sighed before sitting up again. "I guess I better get ready. I have no doubt that Alice would make good on her promise."
Although Edward had no desire but to keep his arms firmly around Bella, he let her go, but not before caressing her stomach under her… his… shirt. And as he watched Bella make her way to the bathroom, he could not help but grin in joy at the new found intimacy with a woman he knew he was falling in love with.
"So Bella," Rosalie looked slyly at her friend. "Is there anything exciting you would like to share with us?"
Alice looked eagerly towards Bella, hoping that she would relate to whatever happened between Edward and her friend. Bella could immediately see that Alice was dying inside to ask the question all morning, but for some reason, held back.
It was early afternoon, and the women had undergone all kinds of pampering; from Swedish massages to relaxing facials. Since these activities had the three ladies separated for most of the morning, Bella enjoyed a morning without any interrogation. Surprisingly, lunch passed without even a hint of what Rose and Alice heard the night before. But soon after, as the ladies sat right in a row with each of their feet relaxing in a warm bath, Rose finally asked the question that Bella knew was to come.
Bella pretended to contemplate Rose's question with a finger to her chin. "Hmm. Let me think." She paused for good measure. "No."
"Come on!" Rose complained. "We obviously know something happened. Did you get a little somethin' somethin'?"
Bella rolled her eyes, and finally decided she may as well give a little of what they were looking for. Sighing, she said, "Yes, I got a little 'somethin' somethin''" with an added emphasis of the term Rose used.
"Did you sleep with him?" Alice was practically bouncing in her seat.
"If you mean sleep with him in the most literal sense, yes, we slept in the same bed." Bella was purposely avoiding the question, knowing Rose wanted them Edward and Bella to act like they did have sex.
This time, it was Alice's turn to roll her eyes. "You know what I mean."
Bella glanced at Rose through the corner of her eye. Rose wanted Bella to confess to having sex with Edward, but since something did happen between them, Bella did not necessarily believe she had to lie. With her bottom lip firmly between her teeth, she made her decision. "No we didn't have sex. We just…" Bella didn't know how to finish. What they did almost seemed juvenile; like they were back in high school and needed to get off without having any type of sex, oral or otherwise.
"What?" Alice was bouncing even more. "Oral?"
"No."
Both Rose and Alice looked at Bella, confused.
"Hands?" Rose asked.
"Nope."
Rose let out an annoyed sigh. "Then what did you do?"
Bella could feel her cheeks become warm. "Well, all we really did was make out. But we both…" she trailed off, before finishing, "finished."
Alice squealed. "You dry humped!"
"Shh!" Bella laid a hand on her friend's arm. "You don't need to announce it to the whole spa."
"So wait," Rose interrupted. "Did clothes even come off?"
"Some, but that's all I'm telling you," Bella responded. "I already feel bad that I disclosed this much. It's between Edward and myself."
"Oh come on," Alice scoffed. "You know what the guys are discussing right now, don't you? They can be just as bad as us."
Bella shook her head. "No, I trust Edward. I don't think he's the type to kiss and tell."
"I'm not telling you."
"Come on! I tell you about Rose and me."
"No, Emmett."
"Please?"
"No!"
"I'm dying here!"
"I don't care!"
On the other side of the chalet, on top of a slope, stood the men were congregated as Emmett interrogated Edward about the events the evening before. Unfortunately for Emmett, Edward was not budging with the information. Jasper, on the other hand, decided to stay out of the conversation, desiring not to upset his friend.
"At least tell me if you two fucked."
Edward rolled his eyes. "No, Emmett. We did not fuck."
"Fine, Pussy" Emmett sighed. "Did you make love?"
"No, but that's all I'm telling you."
"Please!" Emmett's voice had a whiney tone.
"No! Goodbye Emmett!" And with that, Edward started down the slope, away from Emmett and his whining.
The sound of the door closing startled Bella out of her nap. After the three friends underwent pedicures, manicures, and waxing, all three decided to return to their rooms for naps before dinner. Even though the time at the spa was relaxing, it was so much so that the ladies needed rest.
Without opening her eyes, Bella sensed that Edward had crawled into bed behind her, wrapping his arms around her torso and settling his hands on her abdomen under the shirt.
This shocked Bella so that she was fully awake. Trying to jerk away from Edward, she exclaimed, "Your hands are cold!"
He only snickered and tightened his hold so that Bella couldn't get away. "That's why I put my hands there. I needed to warm them."
"But they're cold!"
To appease her, Edward removed his hands from the skin of her abdomen and replaced them above the fabric of her shirt. However, it did not stop him from chuckling as he nuzzled his nose against her neck.
"How was your day at the spa?" he asked after a moment of silence.
"Good. I received plenty of pampering."
"Hmm. Like what?'
"You know. The usual. A massage, facial, pedicure and a manicure… and waxing." Bella turned in his arms to look slyly at her bed companion. After what almost happened earlier in the morning, Bella could not help but want for them to continue to where they had left off.
Edward, who was now visualizing exactly where Bella got waxed, raised an eyebrow. "Really?"
"Yep." Bella smiled while pulling her bottom lip between her teeth.
"Where?" Edward found his hands sliding down to Bella's derriere.
"You know. The usual." Bella wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling herself even closer than they already were.
"Hmm. Can I see?" With his not-so-innocent question, he pulled her closer, letting her feel his arousal.
"Do you want to?"
All Edward could do was nod his head eagerly which reminded Bella of a little boy that just got offered a cookie. She laughed quietly.
"Well what are you waiting for?"
Before she could even blink, Edward had her shirt off and her bra unhooked. "Thank you, Lord," he muttered before connecting his lips to hers in a mind blowing kiss while pulling her bra fully off and attaching a hand to her breast, pinching her nipple.
"Edward," Bella whimpered against his lips while pulling at the hem of his shirt. "I need this off." Without a thought, Edward acquiesced to her desire and leaned away just long enough to pull his shirt off before pulling Bella back to him. At the sensation of both naked chests pressed together, they let out simultaneous moans, both trying to get as close to each other as possible.
"You don't know what you do to me," Edward breathed before moving his lips to Bella's neck and down to her collarbone.
"Oh, I think I have an idea," she whispered, gripping his back and unconsciously digging her nails into his skin; not that he minded.
As Edward nipped and licked his way between Bella's breasts, her hands replaced themselves into his hair, making Edward hum in contentment. When he reached the waist of her pants once again, her hips bucked up, giving Edward the opportunity to pull her pants off of her hips and down her legs. Bella immediately felt the need to try to cover herself, but when she looked up to see a kneeling Edward looking down at her with a look of appreciation, she immediately relaxed under his gaze.
"You're so beautiful," he whispered as he grazed his hands up her legs, feeling the newly waxed smooth skin. His gaze traveled down her body to land on her bare pussy. His hands reached her hips, and he lowered himself down and finally made contact with the part that Bella desperately desired to feel him. It only took one nudge of his nose against her clit to make her arch in the bed.
At her reaction, Edward smirked before wrapping his lips around where his nose was. Her reaction this time was a loud groan. As he continued to lip and suck at her, her hips began to gyrate and her legs wrapped around his neck, desperately trying to get closer to what giving her some pleasure. But when she felt his tongue move down to enter her, she couldn't help but cry out.
"So wet," Edward breathed against her as two fingers replaced his tongue, which went back to her clit. With one more lick, Bella screamed as she clenched around his fingers with her orgasm.
"Come up here," she gripped his hair and pulled gently on his hair. He willingly obliged, sliding up her body until his lips met hers in a searing kiss.
As she tasted herself on his lips and tongue, Bella could not help but wonder what she was doing. She was by no means a prude, but she was very careful with home she became intimate. It was a general rule that she and her boyfriends become emotionally intimate before their relationship turned to sex, and here she was with a man she had barely known a week going somewhere that took a month or more for a man to earn the privilege.
A rather sizable part of her psyche, however, told her that within a week, she became more comfortable with Edward than she ever had with any of her past boyfriends. As their kisses quickened, she knew she did not – and could not – regret anything she did with Edward.
In that moment, Bella did not even make a conscious decision to push Edward onto his back and straddle him. Immediately, she lowered herself so that she was rubbing herself on his dick that was still covered with his pants.
"Oh Bella," he panted. "I want you so much."
Leaning down, she whispered against his lips, "Then take me."
Just as quickly she had straddled him, Edward flipped her so that he was now on top. "That has to be," kiss, "the sexiest," kiss, "thing I've," kiss "ever heard." He was now grinding hard against her, but she was having none of that. Flexing her knees, she caught her toe around his pants and began to slide them down.
"Get these off now."
Edward quickly rolled off of her just long enough to remove his pants and boxers, and within ten seconds he was back on her, the tip of his cock teasing her clit. "You're sure?"
Bella looked directly into his eyes, now nearly black with desire. "I've never been so sure of anything in my life."
Without another word, he slid inside easily, both gasping at the surge of electricity they felt from their heads down to their toes. It was a connection that neither one felt before, and both stilled in order to enjoy it.
"Bella," he whispered, not knowing any appropriate words to explain how he felt. But with one look in the eyes of his lover, he knew that what he felt was shared with her.
Slowly, Bella began thrusting her hips up, hoping that Edward caught on. He did, and soon, they established a slow and steady rhythm, neither wanting to rush the experience. There had been times in the past when neither necessarily wanted to continue to gaze into their lovers' eyes, but both found that they couldn't tear their eyes away from the others. The only sounds between them were those made by their physical connection both below and at their lips, and the occasional pants and moans that escaped their lips.
They began to move faster, their skin covered by a sheen of sweat, as the coils within them began to tighten and compress.
"Bella," Edward panted. "I can't hold out much longer."
Bella tightened her legs that around his waist, kneading her hells into Edward's backside, urging him closer.
"I'm close."
"Good." Their pace picked up even more, their skin slapping with each thrust until without warning, Bella came, crying out Edward's name.
The sound of his name from his lips and the clenching of her tight wet walls was enough to send Edward into a spiral, yelling out her name with each pulse of his orgasm.
His thrusts slowed, and in exhaustion, he slid off of her to her side, pulling her close. Both missed the union, but knew that Edward's strength could only last so long. They only had enough energy to lightly stroke each other's backs while sharing kisses every now and then.
Slowly, they both drifted off, wrapped up in each other.
They never did make it to dinner that night.
Author's Note: So, I originally wasn't going to have them have sex until New Year's Eve - the night before everybody goes home, but they both told me they would like at least three days of sex. I couldn't deny them.
Also - I didn't write in any birth control. That's because to me, writing in about condoms is as sexy as really interrupting sex to put one on. No, she's not going to get pregnant. No, neither has an STI. And yes, they used some sort of BC. Use your imagination.
And finally, there will only be either one longer chapter or two shorter chapters left of the story, plus an epilogue. *sigh* I'm sad it's coming to an end.