A/N: Yes, another update. Now that 'Follow Through' is completed, I will be devoting more time to this lovely story. Thanks again for all the wonderful reviews, and everyone needs to calm down about the Columbia thing. Let's just let our lovebirds travel through Europe, even though I do mention it in this chapter.
Naomitron – thanks for the lovely review, and please feel free to promote any of my stories. I never have enough time for that stuff. I just do it because I enjoy writing.
Ohm and mmwalker, you are way off with your thoughts about Paris, although yes it will be very romantic. Remember, these are first year college students, no engagements in the near future. But always remember that I live for a happy ending! LOL
BPOV
Tuesday morning couldn't come fast enough for me because I was dying to know exactly what Edward had planned for us. Based on all the previous events he had planned, I figured it would probably be very relaxed and romantic. We had a quick breakfast that morning and he packed a bag for us to take with some towels, sunscreen, both of our iPods, my camera and stuff like that.
"I thought you said we weren't going to the beach until Thursday?" I asked curiously as I watched him pull his swim trunks from his backpack and shove them into our small bag. "Should I get my bathing suit?"
"Yeah, pull it out and make sure you dress comfortably. Bring your sneakers and some shorts, maybe even a light sweater. I don't know," he said in frustration as he wandered around the room tugging on his hair gently. He was nervous, probably because he wanted to make everything perfect, not that it really mattered to me.
I stepped into our private bathroom to shower and then quickly dressed in a tight fitting white t-shirt and a pair of denim shorts. I didn't really have a light sweater, so I tossed a long sleeved t-shirt of Edwards into the bag and hoped that would suffice for whatever reason. I was sitting on our small couch waiting patiently for Edward when he came from the bathroom after his shower, just as frustrated as before. "You need to relax baby."
"I will relax when we get there," he said cryptically as he tossed on some knee length khaki shorts and a grey t-shirt. He slipped on his sneakers and looked at me expectantly. "Are you ready my lady?" I nodded my head and grabbed his hand as he led me from the room, clutching our bag of essentials. We stepped outside the hostel and flagged down a cab. Instead of telling the driver the address, Edward gave him a piece of paper with a small map on it and asked him to go there.
"You are so fricking sneaky Edward Cullen," I said as I squeezed his hand and he kissed me gently.
"It takes a lot of effort to surprise you Bella, so I hope you appreciate it, because I can't return it." I looked at him in confusion and decided to just relax in the back of the cab while I could. It took almost half an hour before we reached the southwestern edge of country, with the Ionian Sea directly in front of us. We pulled into a small harbor where Edward paid the cab driver handsomely before he grabbed my hand, which was holding onto our bag, and pulled me towards a decent sized sailboat.
"You did not get us a boat?" I yelled out incredulously.
"It's only for a today. Don't worry, it cost about the same as your lingerie," he said with a grin as he pulled me towards the dock where the boat sat. There was a man and woman waiting on board for us, both of them spoke perfect English and were extremely polite.
"Welcome aboard, The Angel, Mr. Cullen and Ms. Swan," said the captain with a polite nod. "I'm Erik, the captain and this is Elana. If you need anything today, please see either of us. Lunch will be served at twelve hundred hours and dinner will be at eighteen hundred hours. We should be back in the dock just before twenty two hundred hours. Do you have any questions right now?"
I glanced over at Edward and he had the biggest smile on his face. "No, I think that's it Erik. Bella and I will be down below until we're out onto the sea a bit more, and please call me Edward." He was so formal with the boat captain; it was actually turning me on. Elana helped us down to the cabin and showed us around quickly before she headed back to join Erik. After she had left, I looked around the boat in utter disbelief.
"This thing is huge," I said to Edward, feeling slightly uneasy about everything. "You spent way more than three hundred bucks on this thing, didn't you?"
"Does it really matter Bella? I was going to go sailing before you came into my life, so it's not a big deal. If anything, we've saved a bunch of money by not sailing through all of the Greek islands like I wanted to. We're just going for a day trip and some swimming," he said as he sat down on a nearby couch and pulled me onto his lap. "Sometimes I want to spoil you. Guys do enjoy spoiling the women they love you know."
"I know, I just don't want you do crazy expensive things like this. You know I would have been happy in a canoe with you, not an 80 foot sailboat," I told him honestly as he tightened his grip on my waist and I kissed him gently on the lips.
"You know, they won't bother us for a while. I can even lock the door and we can demonstrate our love for one another," said Edward with a mischievous grin. His hand immediately slid up underneath my t-shirt and began to massage my bra covered breast. I involuntarily threw my head back lightly in pleasure before remembering where I was.
"We are so not having sex on a boat," I replied as I swatted his hand away.
"Why not? We did it on a train," sighed Edward as he moved his hand to my thigh and started rubbing it slowly.
"We didn't do it on a train, we did everything but actual sex on the train," I corrected him. "Anyways, I kinda wanted to slip on my tiny white bikini and lay on the deck. Don't you want to rub lotion all over my body?" I stood from his lap and pulled my shirt off over my head and reached in my bag for my bathing suit. Edward was behind me almost immediately, his hands moving all over my bare stomach.
"Why can't I just rub myself all over your body?" He really was pretty damned irresistible, and when I turned around to face him, looking right into his sad puppy dog eyes he pulled out the big guns and started to pout. I sucked his bottom lip into my mouth and stopped fighting it. I pulled down his shorts and started to stroke his already hard shaft with my hand as he moaned gently from my movement. Before I even had a chance to comprehend it all, I was bent over the couch in the cabin of the boat, while Edward was buried deep inside me. There was no foreplay, no kissing and no declarations of love, but I loved it nonetheless. We tried to be as quiet as we could, but when I came I knew I yelled in pleasure a little too loudly than I should have. Luckily for me, Edward was twice as loud. He kissed me sweetly on the lips and then followed it up with a smack on my bare ass as I tried to pull my bathing suit on.
"Dick," I told him sarcastically as he walked away to get his swim trunks from the bag we had brought with us.
"Bella, you didn't complain one bit," he said confidently as he pulled his shorts on and came back over towards me, looking very guilty. "And don't think we won't be doing that again today," he whispered into my ear as I sighed breathlessly. Edward had this innate ability to turn me into mush and he knew it. It was only about ten minutes later when Erik called down from the top of the boat that we were almost in open water. Edward grabbed my camera, the sunscreen and our towels and helped me up to the top of the boat where Elana and Erik both had curious smiles on their faces. I blushed, but did my best to ignore them as Erik told us if we wanted to lie in the sun, the best part was on the bow of the boat, where it was relatively flat.
Edward grabbed my hand and led me towards the front of the boat, where it was indeed very flat. He laid our towels down and I slowly eased myself onto it, feeling a little uncomfortable being on the boat. I immediately felt warm as we sat there, so I pulled out the lotion and gently rubbed it all over Edward. There was no way in hell I was ruining this day with a damned sunburn, I told myself as I handed him the lotion so that he could make sure I was covered.
"Erik and Elana keep looking at us," commented Edward as he made me roll onto my stomach so that he could cover my back and legs with the sunscreen.
"Perhaps it's because they heard you fucking me in the cabin Edward? You weren't exactly quiet," I said with a laugh as I rolled back onto my back when he was finished. "They're probably just jealous. If they heard me at all, then they obviously know how talented you are."
"Bella, you can't say stuff like that and expect me not to ravish you right here," exclaimed Edward in frustration.
"Ok fine, I take it all back, you can't fuck worth a shit," I said with a grin as Edward leaned forward and kissed me fervently. "Ok, you're good."
We spent the next hour laying on our towels in the sun as Erik steered the boat further into open waters, which was a dazzling blue color and looked very inviting. "I feel like I'm in that song by The Lonely Island, you know the one where they sing about being on a boat," laughed Edward as I looked at him in utter confusion.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"There's a song by a group called 'The Lonely Island' and they sing this really funny song called 'I'm on a boat'. I think they are a bunch of guys from Saturday Night Live, anyways, it's hilarious and they sing all these funny lyrics about being on a boat. When we get back to the hostel, we're looking it up on YouTube," he explained happily. I propped myself up on my elbows and looked over at Edward. He was lying on his back, facing the clear blue sky and his eyes were closed. He had a small smile on his lips and he looked very content. For an instant I felt at home with him, and then my head went back to where it always did, Columbia, and a terrible feeling of foreboding washed over me. I was definitely fucked when I told him, and not in a good way.
EPOV
I honestly didn't think this day could get any better, I thought to myself as I lay on the boat and looked over at Bella, who looked happy. She didn't give me nearly as much trouble as I had expected when she saw the boat and realized we were going sailing for the day. She even fucked me down in the cabin only an hour earlier. Everything was perfect, absolutely wonderful. Part of me kept wondering when the other shoe was going to drop. Everything couldn't last like this forever, could it? I shook the thought from my head and decided to do my best to focus on today only.
I reached over and grabbed Bella's camera and took a few quick photos of her in her indecent bikini. Those were definitely getting framed and put beside my bed in my new place. She just laughed at me as I laid closer to her and took a quick photo of the two of us. It probably turned out shitty, but I didn't care, I would have Elana take a better one later in the day.
"Mr. Cullen, lunch will be ready in about an hour, is that alright?" asked Erik as I nodded my head eagerly. I was kind of getting hungry; I guessed my morning workout was probably to blame for that.
"What's for lunch?" asked Bella curiously as she turned onto her side and her breasts were practically calling my name, begging for me to touch them. I ran my fingers through my hair and tried to remember her question.
"Um, I think its chicken souvlaki or something equally Greek. I know there's a salad with kalamata olives and some sort of bread. I really didn't ask when I booked the boat, I just asked for Greek food," I said as I shrugged my shoulders.
"So, when do we get to go swimming?" asked Bella curiously as she batted her eyelashes at me. I turned onto my stomach and yelled back at Erik the same question. He informed us that we could go now if we wanted to. "Sounds good to me." I watched carefully as Bella stood from the towel and picked it up, taking it with her to the back of the boat where Erik was waiting. He had slowed the boat considerably and was about to drop the anchor when I stood up and lost my balance. I managed to compose myself before Bella saw me, but when I went to join her, she was laughing happily at the incident.
"You do realize that you are going to pay for laughing at me right?" I laughed as I put my arms around her and we waited patiently for Erik to give us the thumbs up. We only had to wait a few minutes, and the moment he said we were good to go, I swept Bella up in my arms and jumped into the water with her. I had thought about tossing her in by herself, but she probably would have been so pissed that she would cut me off from sex for a while, and I didn't think I could handle that.
"You suck Edward Cullen," shrieked Bella when she resurfaced from the water, pushing her hair back from her face. I stayed put, treading water around her as she tried to swim away from me. Erik and Elana had gone down into the cabin, so it was just the two of us.
"You like it when I suck Bella Swan," I replied sarcastically as she pushed away from me and swam further away from the boat, with me following close behind. "Slow down Bella," I called out to her a few moments later. She stopped and laid herself back in the water, floating on top. She looked relaxed and gorgeous, but I wasn't surprised. When I finally caught up with her, she repositioned herself so that she was upright in the water and I wrapped my hands around her waist, pulling her close to me. "Care for a repeat of Copenhagen?" I asked nervously as I ran my finger along the inner seam of her bikini bottom. I was about to move my finger under the white fabric when Bella tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. Erik was standing on the deck trying to get our attention.
"He has bad timing, but I bet lunch is ready," sighed Bella as she kissed my lips and then swam back to the boat quickly. I wasn't as fast as her, because I spent the entire time trying to force my hard on to go away. I watched intently as Bella climbed the ladder onto the boat and quickly wrapped herself in a towel as Erik helped her sit down for lunch on the back deck. A few minutes later, I joined them and we had an awesome lunch, with everything I had mentioned to Bella earlier. Apparently my memory was better than I thought.
Once lunch was over, Erik pulled up the anchor and we set sail again. Bella and I decided to go and lay on the bow of the boat and before either of us knew it, we were asleep in each other's arms. I woke up a little while later and when I moved slightly, Bella shot up, her eyes wide in shock. "What's wrong?" I asked anxiously. She looked petrified.
"Nothing, bad dream is all. Can we go swimming again?" she asked tentatively and I turned back towards Erik who agreed that we could anchor again soon to go swimming.
"Are you sure you're okay?" I asked as I stroked her long damp hair off of her shoulders and down her back.
"Yeah, nothing a little swimming with you won't cure." She was lying, I could tell because she wasn't looking me in the eye. I didn't want to push the subject because we had been having an excellent day thus far, but I wasn't going to let it slide that she had lied. Something was definitely bothering her and I was going to get to the bottom of it eventually.
We ended up having some awesome hamburgers for dinner and Erik and Elana joined us at our insistence. They were actually pretty interesting and funny. They were dating, which made me laugh even more when they told us.
"You two must have been together since grade school right?" asked Elana of Bella and I. I watched with a grin as Bella threw her head back and was laughing so loud she was practically howling. When she had stopped, she took a quick bite of her burger and stared at me for a response.
"Actually, we met about a month ago in New York City. We were both travelling through Europe for two months, and decided to do it together. We met on June 23rd and what's today… July 25th or something right?" I answered anxiously.
"So you guys are in love and dating, but you've only known each other a month?" asked Erik as he raised an eye brow in curiosity and ate a bit of his salad.
"Yeah," I said with a sigh. "Unfortunately, we when we both go back to America we're going to have to do the long distance thing for a while, but I love her enough to try." Elana looked over at me sympathetically, but with a big smile.
"See, that's love right there," she commented as she picked up her plate and headed down to the cabin to start cleaning up. I glanced over at Bella and she was focused on finishing her dinner, she looked like she hadn't even heard the rest of the conversation.
It was just before ten when we reached the dock, our boat trip finally over. Bella claimed she had enjoyed everything, but I was still worried about her dream. We thanked Erik and Elana for their hospitality and I gave him an additional tip for all of his help. He was very grateful and wished us a great life together, as I grabbed our bag and Bella stopped for a moment to put on a long sleeved t-shirt. I wrapped my arms around her to keep her from getting cold as we walked over to our cab that was waiting for us, which Elana had called for us on her cell phone.
"Is this mine?" I asked as I pulled at the fabric of the shirt she was wearing.
"Maybe," she laughed as she slid into the back seat of the car and I sat beside her. I gave the address to the cab driver as Bella snuggled up beside me and laid her head on my shoulder. "Today was awesome Edward."
"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. It's not every day you can go sailing and swimming in the Greek Isles," I said with a smirk. I was glad I had given Bella this memory, because if we ever did split up, she would always remember today, and how much I loved her.