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Dinner was so much fun....hard to believe that sitting here with this group of people whom I had never said more than 5 words to before last night could be so comfortable. And that is just what it was, comfortable. We joked, we chatted, we ate. The food was wonderful, they had been right to say Emmett was a great grill chef.
After dinner, Rosalie sat a few different white boxes onto the table. Each one was full of leftover dessert items from the party. The guys devoured the brownies and got out ice cream, too. Alice and Bella had cheese cake, and Rosalie and I shared the last piece of chocolate cake. Or, as Edward dubbed it, "chocolate cake" since we had both made a grab for it. Once we realized there was only one piece left, we decided we could share.
"Oh my God....this cake is sooo good," Rosalie said, licking her lips. "Isn't this the best chocolate cake you have ever tasted? We have to remember this place for birthdays and stuff, Allie. Seriously, I could just lie down and take a bath in this cake."
Jasper looked at his sister like she was suddenly sprouting 3 heads. Emmett had his mouth open, I'm sure forming a mental picture of Rose covered in chocolate cake. Edward looked very uncomfortable.
"Snap out of it!", Alice yelled at the guys. "Geesh, can't a girl like chocolate?" She laughed and patted Rosalie's shoulders, and said, "You know Ro, maybe you should give the guys at school a shot and try dating? It would take care of this whole chocolate obsession."
"Oh yeah, like Mike Newton or Tyler Crowley know how to make me happy? No offense to Mike, Carolyn," she said suddenly, looking at me.
"No offense taken, but Mike is. He and Jessica Stanley are together now, last I heard," I told her, smiling. "Besides, I might just join you in that chocolate cake bath tub!" I laughed and laughed at Emmett's expression. He literally looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head.
So, we finished eating and joking about what else everyone would like to take a bath in. Emmett said he thought strawberry jelly might be fun. Bella and Edward said nothing other than bubbles, and Alice and Jasper were just staring at one another, possible thinking of their own little bath scenario?
The food was gone, and the boxes were empty. We all cleaned up together and I told Emmett I was going to call my Dad since it was about 7PM. He asked me if I wanted to use the upstairs room again for some quiet, and I said sure. He carried me up the steps again, and we walked into the same room. "What do you use this room for, Emmett? The big TV downstairs seems to be popular for you guys, who usually watches up here?" I asked.
"Usually this is where Carlisle and Esme watch stuff when we're gaming or watching sports. But lots of times, they'll do stuff down there with us, not necessarily watching what we are, but they don't really use this room very often," he said. He walked over to the couch and sat down, turning on the TV. "Is it OK if I see what's on while you talk to your Dad?"
"Sure, that's fine!" I said, as I sat down next to him and opened up my cell phone. I closed it back up and turned to him, smiling.
"Hey," he said, and then he leaned down and kissed me. His hands held my face and he smiled and laughed.
I pulled back a little, and looked at him. "What?", I asked.
"Sorry, I just got that picture in my head of you in a bath tub with nothing but pieces of chocolate cake scattered over you. It just looked so good, I had to smile," he said.
"Oh, well, I didn't say it down there, but you would be in the tub, too. Or at least in the bathroom, watching me. Or, umm, well, whatever....", I said as I kissed him again.
We kissed for a few more minutes and his hands traveled down to my shoulders, my arms, slightly brushing over my breasts. His breathing was a bit more loud now, and his kisses were deeper. He tasted amazing. A mix of chocolate and mint.
"Care, you'd probably better make your phone call now. I want to be able to kiss you some more and not be interrupted by your Dad calling you, you know?" he said, in between kissing my neck and ears.
"OK, yeah... OK, that means you have to stop, Em. I can't concentrate on talking to my Dad if you're nibbling on my ears like that." But, wow....I did not want him to stop. I needed to call my Dad and do it quickly. I wondered if my Dad would notice my voice sounded odd from all of this kissing?
Emmett pulled away from me a little bit, just enough that we were not touching. He gave me a half smile and said something about not realizing that he had such an effect on me. I dialed the phone and gave him a light punch on his arm and said, "Jerk."
I talked to my Dad and got him up to date on stuff here. He already knew about the weather and he himself was snowed in at a hotel near the Seattle airport. He said most likely they would be able to fly tomorrow. He was due home Friday around lunchtime, and then Monday I started back to school. We talked for a bit I was glad he didn't ask to talk to either Dr. or Mrs. Cullen again, since they weren't there anyways. I hung up after saying good night and I sat my phone down on the small table at the end of the couch.
As I was putting the phone down, Emmett grabbed me, pushing me down onto my back. He covered my face and mouth with kisses, and then started to kiss my neck. I returned his kisses with small moans escaping from me now and then. His mouth was so hot on my skin, and I could feel him pressing against my stomach, his hardness already there.
He leaned over and laid down next to me, in between the back of the couch and me. He had one arm wrapped around me to keep me from falling off. He sighed into my neck and said, "Carolyn, I'm so glad you are here right now. I've now spent almost 24 hours with you. I can't imagine how it's going to be when real life starts back up and I can't just lay here with you whenever we want."
"I know, Em. How do you want to handle this at school? Are we...", I didn't really know what to say to finish that thought. Were we boyfriend and girlfriend? Were we just friends?
"We're together, of course. I mean, that's what I want. How I want to to be. I want the whole world to know. " He looked hurt. Hurt and confused.
"Oh Emmett....I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you think I didn't want people to know about us! I just didn't know how you felt. I haven't been there in a while and wasn't sure if you had dated anyone and didn't want it to be weird or anything for you." I immediately leaned up and touched his face and pulled him to me again, kissing him on the mouth and tasting him again.
"There's no one else, Care. There's no one else. Just you, OK?" he asked me, so sweetly, so sincerely. I couldn't think of a better answer than to kiss him again, so I did.
He pulled back again and said, "OK, now that we have that understood, I have a question for you, OK?". He looked kind of nervous, like he wasn't sure how to ask whatever it was.
"You can ask me anything", I said as I brushed his cheek with my hand.
"Last night when we made love, I told you how sorry I was about not using any protection. And I was and am sorry, I mean that is the Golden Rule of sex and all. But you said it was taken care of, and I don't really understand what exactly that means. You told me you were a virgin...and I have stuff here....I just... Ugh, this is so hard, I feel like I'm saying this all wrong."
I sighed and looked down. "I was a virgin until last night with you, Emmett. When I said it was all taken care of, I meant that birth control isn't an issue. " I looked up to his eyes again and continued, " In the accident, you know I fractured and broke a few bones". He nodded and rubbed my arm again. "Well, I also had to have surgery to remove my uterus. I was bleeding internally and that was because a bone fragment had punctured my uterus and it wasn't repairable. So, there won't be anyway possible for me to ever become pregnant. That's what I meant. Not a lot of people know that part, I'm not even sure if Mike knows. "
He kissed me again and I felt wetness on my cheeks. I had started to cry just a little bit while I told him all of that, and he was kissing my tears away. "I'm so sorry, Care. I didn't even think it would be something like that. I didn't mean to upset you. Forgive me, please?" he asked, all the while covering my face with kisses and murmuring into my face.
I held his face in my hands and answered him. "Yes, of course, there's nothing to forgive. You didn't know. And I'm not upset, it just is difficult to say out loud, you know? I've kind of accepted it all, but telling people that, it's hard."
Suddenly he sat up a little bit and asked, tensely, "I didn't hurt you last night, did I? When we were together, I mean. I don't want to ever hurt you, Carolyn."
I smiled and laughed. "No, you did not do anything to hurt me. I enjoyed every minute and I am absolutely fine. No pain anywhere, I promise."
He sighed and relaxed and hugged me again. "I just got worried all of a sudden. Thinking about what we did and how I wasn't exactly gentle and..."
I decided the only way to make him really understand that I was OK and that I wanted nothing more than a repeat of the previous night was to do one thing. I asked him to sit up and I repositioned myself so that I was sitting on his lap, straddling him. His eyes popped open and he looked shocked. I looked him in the eyes and said, "Emmett, I will promise you that if you do anything that physically hurts me, I will tell you. OK?"
He nodded.
"But right now, I want to ask you something. Do you think we need to go back downstairs and make an appearance or could we stay up here for a while and not be missed by your family?"
He nodded again, as I slowly leaned forward and pressed myself into his body. I kissed him again and said, "OK. So we'll go downstairs and then later..." I started to say.
"No, I mean, we don't have to go downstairs. It's really quiet. If I know my brothers they are probably in different parts of the house doing or thinking about doing the same things we are", he said, holding my hips and pressing me into him harder. He kissed me back, with more force this time. "And I don't think I can walk downstairs with you right now, not when you're sitting on my lap and looking so beautiful."
He reached down and pulled my sweater and shirt up over my head together. He leaned in and kissed my neck and moved down towards my breasts. He left a trail of kisses down to the edge of the silky material, and then used his tongue to trace the outline of my bra. I could feel my nipples hardening immediately as his hot breath touched the skin there. And then, just as quickly, he stopped and pulled away.
"What?",I asked, confused.....
"Umm, just thought of something. We tried the couch situation last night, and while that was great, maybe you'd want to try a bed?", he said. He was so cute, he was blushing and caressing my shoulders and asking me if I wanted to make love on a bed instead of a couch.
"Oh! Well, that is a good point. Sine I hope to be with you all night, maybe a bed would be better...", I answered him, rubbing his face and thinking how much I was in love with him.
"OK, my room is down the hall....let's go."
"Let me put on my shirt really quick. I wouldn't want to shock anyone who is innocently walking down the hall!" I said, laughing.
"Oh, yeah...probably a good idea, " Emmett said, as he reached down and grabbed my shirt and detangled it from my sweater. He handed it to me and I quickly put it on.
We got up and opened the door, and right there outside the doorway was my duffle bag. Someone had dropped it off there while we'd been inside. "Alice", we both said together, and then laughed.
He grabbed my bag and took me by the hand and we walked down the hall to the end. His room was the last door on the right.