Thank you to everyone for your reviews for the last chapter. You surpassed my goal of 20 quite quickly and made me so happy. I really did plan to have this chapter out last weekend, but got news of a good friend's death and it just threw me. But enough about me. Let's get to the story.
Oh, before I forget. My dear reader, youngandmature, asked whether Edward or Emmett was the best sex Bella has had. It's a tough call. At this point, I'm going to have to say Emmett. Just for the mere fact that she only got a personal appearance by Edward's junk once. And she has been with Emmett for years and getting it good and hard quite frequently.
Chapter 5
BPOV
"B. I really think you need to slow down." Emmett put his hand around my wrist before I could tip back my next shot.
"Fuck that. I had a shitty day and you are going to let me forget all about it by drinking myself stupid." I narrowed my eyes at him daring him to deny me liquor. "What kind of fucking bar owner are you, telling me I should stop drinking?" I scoffed.
"One that wants to take care of his best friend." He raised his eyebrows at me. "Plus, you don't pay for your drinks, so cutting you off is actually good for business." He turned to my bar companion and began to have some kind of freaky silent conversation with her with just his eyes.
"I don't know what to tell you big guy." Alice shrugged. "The movie peeps, as Bella calls them, came into the shop and she freaked out. It was some sort of freaky reunion that she seemed to enjoy at first, then got all sulky and ended up telling Marvin to go fuck himself by the end of the meeting." I couldn't stop the laughter that burst loudly from my lips.
"Okay. As wonderful as I think it is that you said that to Marvin, I need you to tell me what happened today." Em leaned down to my eyelevel. "You haven't had a freak out like this in years and I need to know what is causing it to be able to help you."
"You are the bestest friend of girl could have, my sweet Emmett." I gushed. "How come no one has taken you away from me, yet? You are such a fucking catch." He gave me a huge smile. "Not to mention you have a fucking huge cock."
"Damn it woman. Inside voice!" Alice smacked me on the back of the head, while looking at all the people who were apparently staring at us now. Oopsie. Forgot that I get a little loud when I get alcohol in my system.
"Alright." Em stood up straight. "Here's the deal. You are on water and coffee for the rest of the night. The kids are with Demetri tonight, right?" I nodded.
"Yep, they wanted to spend the night to be able to get an early start for the trip to the zoo tomorrow with Uncle Cauis and Aunt Demetri." I confirmed and tried to sneak the bottle of tequila back in my direction, only to be thwarted in my mission by a little pixie.
"Fine." I huffed and crossed my arms over my chest. I gave Emmett a sly smile when I saw his eyes dart to my chest at this action. "Wanna go to your office, Em?" I smirked, thinking he would easily give in.
"As much as I want to say fuck yes to that, don't change the fucking subject. I need a recap of your day from the moment I left the shop." He put his large hand over mine and I knew he wouldn't let this shit go, so I heaved a heavy sigh and let it all out.
"After you left, I took a look around the shop and realized that I live in some kind of fucked up world. I mean seriously, how many places can you find an evil little pixie lesbian with her face in some chick's crotch, while a horny pervert watches and tells the pixie how much he wants her to ride him like there's no tomorrow? And while the pixie is trying to get a meet and greet set up between her tongue and the chick's pink taco, the chick does everything in her power to get the attention of a huge Indian trying to become invisible." I shook my head and then realized I shouldn't do that with the amount of alcohol in my system. "Anyway, so my point is my life is one crazy scene out of some stoner movie. And at the moment that I came to that realization, DMX comes through the speakers, so I started getting down to the music."
Emmett cut me off with a wave of his hand. "I'm going to have to ask you to get to the point already. If we keep going at this rate, the kids will be graduating college by the time I find out what happened." I rolled my eyes at him.
"Whatever. As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted." I glared at him. "I was getting down with my bad self, dancing my heart out, when the movie peeps showed up. There was a huge ass group of people standing in the doorway to the shop watching me show off my mad dance skillz. That's skillz with a z because I'm so fucking badass."
"Holy shit woman! Fuck this. I'm taking over the story." Alice yelled at me. I shrugged because I thought I was doing a pretty good job relaying the events of my day, but if she thinks she can do better, then so be it. I'll just put my head down for a second.
"So, Bella embarrasses herself in front of all of the people from the studio. It was just the crew and the director. The director, this scary looking gorilla of a man, introduces himself as Felix and they chat a bit while waiting for the stars of the movies to make their entrance. Apparently they were being diva douchebags extraordinaires, so they were taking their sweet ass time coming in the shop.
The door finally opens and some fuckhot blonde comes barging through the crowd, introduces herself and then one of the actors greets Bella. And it was someone she knows."
"Fuck." I snapped my head up when I heard Emmett swear. His eyes were wide as he looked at me. I shook my head.
"It was Jasper." I smiled, thinking of my Jazz.
"As in high school Jasper?" Em questioned.
"Yep, as in Most Likely to be a Movie Star Jasper." I confirmed.
"Oh man. I thought you were going to say it was…." Em shot a look at Alice. "some other actor." Alice didn't notice that he seemed relieved and went on to finish the story.
"Yeah, yeah. We'll get back to the Jasper thing later. I will need to get more information on him. He's on my list of men I would go straight for. Well, at least bi. If there is such thing as a pretty peen, I bet he has one." Alice looked off dreamily and I just put my head back down, waiting for her to continue.
"Okay. Enough of that. So after the little reunion, the guy who is apparently the lead actor in the movie decides he has been ignored long enough and makes his presence known." Alice pauses for dramatic effect, I'm sure. "And it seems our dear sweet Bella knows this one, too."
"Well, fuck." Emmett exclaims.
"Yeah, that's what Bella said when she saw him. And by him I mean Edward Cullen." Alice whispered the last part, I'm sure to make sure anyone that could hear our conversation wouldn't hear that part.
Flashback
"Hello Bella." Edward said.
"Well fuck." I whispered.
"Don't tell me you two know each other, also." Rosalie said, exasperated.
"Um. Yes. We knew each other briefly a few years ago." Edward said, not taking his eyes off me.
"5 years, 11 months ago if you want to get technical." I said through clenched teeth, narrowing my eyes at him. I broke our stare down and turned to Rosalie and Felix, who was now standing next to her. "I'm sorry, but I will be unable to work on this movie. I am sure Alice, Marvin, and Jacob will be happy to help, but I am going to be declining the offer."
Rosalie looked at me in shock, before turning to Marvin and back to me. "That is not a possibility. Marvin signed a contract stating that all employees of this shop would be at our disposal for the movie and we specifically want you because your work is exactly what we are looking for."
I groaned, shot Marvin a look to let him know he may want to sleep with one eye open.
"Will I be able to do my work without any contact with the actors?" I questioned, hopeful for a positive answer.
"I'm afraid not. You will be creating quick a few details tattoos for their characters and will need to work with them to make sure the artwork fits exactly it should. Plus, we'll need you to be available during filming to make any corrections or fix anything that gets messed up during shooting." Rosalie answered, obviously feeling like I was not looking forward to this experience at all.
"Fine. Let's talk about what you want and get everyone out of my shop as soon as possible." I huffed and went to grab my sketch pad. "And is it really necessary to have the entire fucking crew here?" I waved toward the people still standing in my doorway. "I would hate to lose business because of all the freaks blocking the entrance my customers use."
After a few minutes, it was decided the crew would not be needed and I was left sitting in our lounge area with Rosalie, Felix, Marvin, Jasper and the douche bag. While we were getting situated, I heard Tanya exclaim loudly that she wanted to get her slit pierced. I knew this was deliberate and she was hoping to get the attention of the 2 actors in the shop, but couldn't help but smile when I saw the bounce in Alice's step as she led Tanya to the back room.
We discussed the tattoos that would be needed for the characters for the next 2 hours. I would be designing full sleeves for Jasper, along with a back piece and a few random designs for his legs. Asshole would be getting basically a full body tattoo, which meant I would have to spend a ton of time with him and I was pissed. I tried to tell them I thought it would be better if he just had one little tattoo, but they didn't agree with that.
"So what is this movie about anyway?" I asked to get some ideas on things to include in the tattoos.
"Well, the main character, Anthony, is a rising rock star. He gets stressed out from his hectic schedule and decides to take some time off. He meets a girl while he is on the break and falls in love with her. He realizes that he loves her too much to allow her to be part of his crazy life and leaves her." Rosalie got all excited about the next part of the story. "After a few months, he realizes his life is nothing without her and decides he needs to be with her, only to find he has no way to contact her. The rest of the movie deals with him trying to find her and the things he does to get her attention."
"Does he ever find her?" I was surprised I actually wanted to know the answer. It sounded like a silly little love story, but I was still interested in the outcome.
"You'll have to go see the movie to find out." Cocksucker answered. I glowered at him, but it seemed that everyone shared the opinion, nobody offering me the answer to my question.
"Awesome. Are you done here?" I stood, trying to show that I was over the whole thing and looked at Marvin.
"Um yeah. I'll just take care of getting the timeline set up and I'll get with you about it later." Apparently, Marvin isn't as much of a moron as I make him out to be in my head because he knew not to push me at this point.
"Oh, hey. Can I talk to you for a second?" Fuckface asked, jumping up from his seat. "I mean, I just want to tell you some ideas I had." He looked around at everyone, obviously checking to see if they noticed how weird he was acting.
"Five minutes." I turned on my heel and made my way to my office. I wasn't sure what he was planning on saying, but I knew we needed some privacy. I walked straight to my desk upon entering my office and waiting for him to join me. He shut the door and sat in the one of the seats on the opposite side of me.
"So…" He began.
"So." I mocked. Really. We fuck, have kids together, which he has never acknowledged and he starts this conversation with 'so'? I rolled my eyes. "Say what you need to say. Clock's ticking."
"Um. Okay." He gave me an odd expression that I didn't care enough to evaluate. "I was wondering if we could get together some time."
"No." I answered immediately, not needing any time to think about it. I stared at him, watching the shock and confusion on his face as he processed my answer.
"Oh. Okay." He looked around the room before settling back on me. "I'm confused. Was I the only one that felt that connection?" He asked me, tilting his head to the side. I couldn't control the anger that bubbled up inside of me.
"Get the fuck out." I pointed to the door and turned to my computer to show him he was dismissed.
End Flashback
"I mean, how fucking dare he!" I exclaimed, slamming my hand on the bar. "Thinking he can come back into my life after everything he put me through and expect a booty call." I scoffed. "What an ass."
"Wait!" Alice interrupted my rant by snapping her fingers in my face. "Did you just say what I think you said?"
Well fuck.
"What do you think I just said?" Nice job! Always good to answer a question with a question when trying to deflect.
"I think you just said that Edward hotass Cullen is yo' baby daddy." She narrowed her eyes at me.
"No. My twins do not have a father. Check their birth certificate." I replied to her, but saw that she wasn't going to back down. And I could see the lightbulb going off in her head while she thought about the twin's looks and compared to Captain Dick. "But, fine. Yes, he was the sperm donor."
"And by sperm donor, you mean, he injected it himself, right?" She grinned, happy to finally know this part of my story. I had always told her I didn't want to talk about how the twins came about and she was always willing to wait. The wait was finally over for her and I could tell she was ecstatic.
"Yes, we fucked. He left. I tried to tell him about the kids and he ignored all of my letters." I summarized since she knew most of the story anyway.
"Did he mention the kids at all?" Emmett finally joined the conversation.
"No. He only asked about our connection. I was so pissed that he would talk about that and not something like 'how are the kids I helped you conceive'." I reached for a shot glass and was pleased to find that I was not stopped.
Emmett looked to be deep in thought and didn't even try to stop me from taking the bottle of tequila from his hands. Success was mine!
I took a quick shot, not knowing when he would snap out of whatever he was in and saw him began to open his mouth to speak. Unfortunately, he was cut off by someone yelling out his old nickname.
"Glory hole!"
I turned to see Jasper making his way up to the bar, with a few people trailing behind him. Alice mumbled something about wanting to see his pretty peen and Emmett laughed loudly.
"Hey Jazz Hands!" Em reached over the bar and the two did the stupid handshake they made up in high school. "Bella was just telling me that she saw you today." They both looked at me and I just held up my shot glass, hoping they would realize I wasn't in the mood to talk. I had some drinking to do.
"Yeah. It was a huge surprise. I was shocked to find out the girl that passed out at just the mention of needles and blood is now a tattoo artist." Jasper looked at me. "I guess a lot has changed, huh."
"Like you wouldn't believe." I agreed and sighed, then realized my glass was empty and the bottle had been taken away from me again. "What the fuck, Em. This glass must be broken. There is no alcohol in it!" I shoved the shot glass in his face and he shook his head.
"I'm serious this time. No more Bella. You are going to be hurting in the morning." He looked at me pointedly and I knew there was no arguing. I was too tired to argue anyway. I put my head back down on the bar and Alice started stroking my hair.
"Oh hey man. I want to introduce you to my buddy." I heard Jasper talking to someone, who I assumed was Emmett, so I didn't bother lifting my head. That would require too much effort. "Em, this is my good friend Edward Cullen. Edward, this is my best friend from high school, Emmett. And you already met Bella and Alice at the shop." That got me to lift my head up. I glared at the new comer.
"What are you, following me?" I sneered.
"Um." Asshat looked between me and Jasper, then turned his attention to Emmett. "It's nice to meet you." He extended his hand, to which Emmett looked at, but did not reach for. That's my loyal Em!
"Yeah." Emmett looked at Fuckface and I could tell he was trying to kill him with his mind. I don't think it was working because it just seemed to make him look at Em like he was crazy.
"Fuck. I gotta pee." I let my lady-like qualities be known to all in a 20 foot radius. I tried to get off the stool, but it seemed to be on some kind of tilt-a-whirl and I couldn't get off the ride. "Alice, help me off this thing. Emmett, I think you need to fix the screws on this thing." I held onto Alice as she carefully got me to my feet.
"Need help in there?" Alice asked, keeping an arm on my shoulder.
"You just want a peak at the kitty." I grinned at her and winked. "Maybe later sweet tits." I waved everyone off and showed them that I could walk perfectly fine and didn't need help. Well, it would have been fine if I didn't run into a chair and table that jumped in front of me.
I did my thing in the bathroom and splashed some water on my face. I was at that perfect point of drinking where I was buzzed, not walking quite right, but still coherent and knew what was happening around me. It's a great feeling.
I just finished up drying my face when the door to the bathroom opened. I turned and saw Angel face. Well shit that wasn't an insult. Maybe I have had more to drink than I thought.
"Wrong bathroom. And I know for a fact you are not a woman, so get out of here." I shooed him off, but he didn't budge.
"I don't understand." He looked like he was in pain and I was confused by his mannerisms and the way he looked at me.
"What's there to understand? This is the ladies' room. You are not a lady. Fuck off." I threw my hands up and sighed heavily. He is really thick.
"That's not what I meant Bella." MMmmmm…say my name again. Only this time, moan it and include the words Fuck yes.
God fucking damn it. I did not just think that.
"I thought you felt it too." He took at step to me and I wanted to scratch my head while pondering what he was talking about.
"You'll have to stop with being cryptic." I responded and took a step back, only to run into the bathroom counter.
He proceeded to slowly walk toward me, until we were chest to chest, or rather chest to eye level and my eyes were so happy about their view.
"We had a connection. I know you felt that. How could you not?" He ran a hand through his hair. "I just need you to tell me I'm not crazy." I sighed. I may hate him, but I couldn't deny that there was a connection between us.
"Of course I felt it." I confirmed, but put a hand up when I saw him start to speak again. "But, it's been a long fucking time and you have done, or I guess not done, too much for that connection to mean anything. And I refuse to be your fuck buddy or some kind of hook up while you are in town."
"That's not what I want, Bella." He huffed.
"What do you want, then?" I asked him, getting irritated that he wasn't getting to the point. He began mumbling something to himself and rubbed the heels of his hands into his eyes.
"I want to feel that connection again." He looked me straight in the eyes. "I need to feel it again."
"I'm sorry. But it's too late. You had your chance." I shook my head and made to walk around him in order to leave. I was halted by a hand on my wrist.
"No." I looked up to see a determined look in his eyes before he turned me to fully face him and crashed his lips to mine.
A/N: Hi pretty people!
Thank you to my lovely beta, smmiskimen, for checking over this chapter and forgiving drunken Bella for her poor grammar/English.
So, here's the deal. I had not planned on doing EPOV at all for this story. But, there seems to be a bit of a desire to read what he has been up to for all this time. I'm going to leave it up to you guys. Next chapter will be EPOV and may give you guys some answers...if you give me some love and review. And I will guarantee that it will be out before Christmas as my gift to you. So, the ball is in your court.