Prompt: flower

We're on Saturday's prompt, and honestly, I'll probably be a day behind until it's finished the end of this month. Still unbeta'd.

EPOV

"Just one thing before you go," Bella says, and she's right there with her hand on my shirt.

She's here, with me. With me. Kissing me. These lips, god her lips, they're perfect. The way she moves, with me, into me. She's perfect. I want my mouth on hers all night. I want my hands all over her. I'm holding her face, and I want to roam her body, see what it feels like, see what she does if I touch her where I want to touch her, but I don't. Her fingers in my hair, thumbs on my jaw and she kisses me on the corners of my mouth but I move my head so I'm kissing her full-on again. I love her. I love her so much I can't breathe, and I want her, but I can't. Not yet, not yet. She tastes so good, her tongue against mine and her lips. I love these lips. I want to see her body, touch her skin, taste it, feel it. I want her and I move closer, press up against her, pin her against the door. I don't care if anyone sees us because I've waited. I've waited for this for too long. This is how it's supposed to be, what it's supposed to feel like. She's the one, my one. We're needy, then we slow down then we're kissing again like we can't get enough, because we can't. She's not letting me go, I can't let her go, but I have to. I have to. So I slow down again, move back a little, try to stop, not too hard though, and we're kissing again. She slows down this time, lips soft and teasing against mine, her hands on my chest, my stomach and back up to my neck. I want her hands all over me, I want her to touch me… but we slow the kiss even more. Lightly, I kiss her cheeks, her eyelids, her jaw, her lips one more time and then there's space between us…we catch our breath, and I press my forehead against hers.

I kiss her again.

My heart is a jackhammer inside my chest. How am I supposed to leave? I can't pull away from her. But it's late and she's tired.

"Edward," she says. And I know. In her breathy voice, I know it's time. I wipe her bottom lip with my thumb.

"Not yet." I hold on to her a while longer. I love you. I won't say it aloud because I can't stay. When I do she's going to know just how much. Soon.

She smiles, sweet and lazy. "Better than chocolate," she says, and I smile back.

I press my palm against her door, touch her hair with my other hand, dazed but not satisfied because I want more of her. "Yeah?"

"Mmhm."

Bella stretches her neck, and I meet her halfway. Her lips are a little swollen and red, so we're gentle this time. "I could do this all night," I say.

"But you should go," she says, finishing my thought.

"I want to see you tomorrow. If you can't it's okay—I'll suffer until Monday."

Bella takes in a long breath, gripping the bottom of my shirt. "We might have to wait until then," she says. "I want to see you, too. I wish…stay with me? Out here for a while?"

I nod. Because if we go inside… "Okay."

Bella motions for me to sit in the oversized wicker chair that's in the corner of the porch right next to a bunch of mismatched potted flowers. She tells me she'll be right back and slips inside the house. She's flipped off the porch light as she comes out and her hands are full with a blanket and glass of water.

"Too warm?" she asks, holding out the blanket. I shake my head. She sets the water down, and we fold ourselves into the chair. Bella's head is tucked under my chin, and I fix the blanket so it covers mostly all of her and she yawns.

"Sleepy?"

"Mmm."

"Close your eyes," I say, and kiss the top of her head, drag my fingers up and down her arm.

At some point, we've fallen asleep and it could've been for five minutes or five hours. My neck and back are stiff, I'm guessing the amount of time is somewhere in between since it's still dark. Bella is out cold, snoring lightly.

Before I wake her, I tighten my arms around her and brush my lips against her hair.

"Hey," I whisper. She doesn't move, instead she snuggles further in to me and I let my head fall back, wondering if this is what it's going to be like with her first thing in the mornings or in the middle of the nights, and I know it's going to be a while from now until then, but I can't help but think about it. I still want it now, though.

I try to adjust her so she a) doesn't feel how much I want her, and/or but mostly and b) doesn't crush me if she moves the wrong way. "Bella, honey, time to get up," I say.

Groggy Bella is kind of comical. Her face is scrunched up, confused and she blinks a few times before she recognizes where she is. Her mouth draws up into a slow smile. "Hi," she says.

"Hi."

"You slept with me."

"I did."

"Did you call me honey?"

I smile.

"I had a dream about you," she says.

"Oh yeah? Was it good?"

She laughs to herself, nodding as she sits up, brushing out her hair with her fingers. "Thirsty?" I down half the water then hand her back the glass, which she finishes in under two seconds. "I wonder what time it is," she says, looking out as I stand, stretch, and crack my neck.

"Don't know. Late. Or early."

Bella takes my hand and leads me back to the chair. We end up talking, kissing, and talking some more until the sky lightens but before the sun rises. That time of day when everything is still, like the world just stops, takes a second to just breathe.

So, I wait for that shift to come, when the world starts up again before I tell Bella that I'll call her later. Because after being with her for all these hours, I now know that to have ended it any sooner would have been a tragedy.

a/n: Sorry to not give more of what's going on with him than this, but I couldn't throw the guy back into the reality of the other things he has going on right now. He's just too happy. However, there are only 6 prompts left this month, and if needed I might throw an extra EPOV in there somewhere if it helps the story move along to where it needs to be.

On another note, Untouchable was nom'd for FOTW over at The Lemonade Stand! Woo! (thank you, again miss obsmama) Lots of pretty fantastic stories are in the running, so head on over if you're so inclined.

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