Sorry for the late update, I know it's still Wednesday but it is almost 8 at night my time. I have been suffering from a migraine all day today and no amount of medication seems to be helping it any.

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyers owns Twilight, not I.

I hope everyone enjoys this chapter.

Chapter 9

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

EPOV

It was bittersweet walking into the fire house seeing as this is the last time I will be walking in here as a full time fire fighter for the Houston Fire Department. Em, Jazz, and I had put in our notice on the first day of February and the chief was very understanding and asked us to finish out the next 2 sets of shifts so we could help acquaint the new guys with the rest of the team. We willingly agreed and were now getting ready to start our final shift.

I was waiting outside for Em and Jazz because we decided that we would walk into this final shift together and support each other as we ended one major part of all our lives and embark on new paths.

I dropped my duffel bag that I had brought to gather all my bullshit that had accumulated over the years in my locker. I leaned back against the brick wall of the fire station and put one booted foot against the wall and pulled out my phone to text Bella.

Happy Valentine's Day, Love. Again. –Edward

Thanks. AGAIN! LOL. –Bella

I chuckled because we had celebrated Valentine's Day together yesterday and last night but little did she know she had a day full of surprises coming her way today.

I hope you have a great day at school today! Try to not kill Jane or her parents at the meeting. Gotta go, Baby. I love you, Isabella. You are my entire world. -Edward.

I pocketed my phone after I sent the message because I saw Jazz and Em pull into the parking lot. They both walked up to me, each with duffel bags hanging from their shoulders. "Ready to finish this day out, Bro?" Em asked when he was within shouting distance.

I nodded and pushed off the wall grabbing my bag so we could walk in together. "Jazz, how is the new job treating you?" I asked him as we climbed the stairs to the living quarters above.

He groaned and dragged his body along behind us. He had started working at the new firm last week on his days off. "I love it, but I will love it even more when I don't have to juggle both jobs." He said as we pushed open the doors.

I couldn't respond because the rest of our team was standing around hootin and hollerin and throwin confetti at us. I guess we were having a going away party before we left. They all slapped us on the shoulders as we walked back towards the sleeping quarters to drop off our bags. When we returned to the front room our station, the chief and truck chief were standing there waiting on us. "What's up Chief and Chief?" I asked them.

"We wanted to give you a going away present from the entire team." Station Chief Anderson said as he looked at the three of us standing there.

"Well, what is it?" the ever impatient Emmett asked.

Truck Chief Cooper answered him with a slight chuckle. "We as a whole would like to let you gentlemen go a day early so that you can spend this romantic day with your ladies instead of with a whole shit load of smelly sweaty men." He said and I had to do a double take to think I had heard him right.

"You heard right, Edward. Get your shit and get out of my station." Cooper said with a shove on my shoulder.

It didn't take us long at all to get our shit and get out of there and back to our women. I stopped mid packing to send Bella a quick text.

After your meeting, can you get a mysterious stomach ache or migraine? –Edward

She texted back immediately.

Why would I do that? Just to sit around my house all day while you are at the station. Bella

Because Baby, I will be waiting in your bed. Naked. And Ready. We got let go early. –Edward

DEAL, Barman. C u soon! –Bella

I chuckled and hurriedly packed the rest of my shit and met up with the guys in the front room to say my round of goodbyes before leaving.

BPOV

I was dreading today for several reasons. The first being that it was mine and Edward's first Valentine's day together and he had to work at the fire station all day. Even though we had an amazing night last night, I was still kind of disappointed that we weren't spending the actual day together. I felt a wonderful ache between my legs when we had crawled from the bed this morning. We had spent the night making love and doing it again this morning as the sun came up all around us.

The second reason being that Jane Volturi is claiming that I am treating her unfairly in my classroom and her parents had requested a meeting with me and the Headmaster. That little ungrateful witch made me hate my job sometimes. I was so tempted to just walk out of that place some days but I stayed because I really did love teaching and she would be out of my hair at the end of the year. I just had three months or so left.

I screamed in joy when Edward had texted me that they had been let off early and that he wanted me to play hooky with him. Angela and Bree came running into my room worried that something was wrong with me.

"Bella, are you okay?" Angela asked as she skidded to a halt in front of my desk.

Bree didn't stop there, she ran around behind my desk and started running her hands over my body, checking for signs of injury. "Babe, are you okay?" She asked from behind me.

I chuckled at both of them. "Oh I'm a lot better now but I will be fantastic when I get a sudden migraine and go home to my sexy as sin Barman." I told them quietly.

Angela busted out laughing and Bree groaned and removed her hands from me. "When are you gonna dump that sexy man and give me a shot?" She asked as she plopped her ass on top of my desk.

I just shook my head and patted her on the knee. "When the sun starts rotating the other way." I told her.

"Aren't they supposed to work today?" Angela asked as she wrapped her arms around me in a gentle hug.

I nodded. "They were supposed to but I guess they aren't and Edward asked me to meet him at home ASAP." I explained to her just as the first warning bell signaled.

They scurried back to their classrooms with a smile and a wave shot my way as some early stragglers entered my classroom.

Once the final bell rang and Jane still wasn't here, I became a little worried. Alec was here though, so maybe that was a good sign. "Alec, where is Jane?" I asked him once everybody had their stuff settled on their desks.

"She is coming in with mom and dad in a little bit. I just wanted to let you know that I am on your side and that she deserves whatever punishment is coming her way. I think you are a great teacher, Ms. B." He said with a shy smile sent my way.

"Thank you for the support Alec, but I can handle your sister and your parents Buddy." I told him as I faced the rest of the students. "Who read the pages required for today's lecture?" I asked them and smiled at the show of hands.

I became engrossed in the lecture and was shocked when the TA knocked on my door to relieve me so I could go to the meeting with Jane and her parents. "Guys, please finish reading the chapter and discuss it with your group. I expect a mini report from each group on your thoughts tomorrow. I will see you then." I told them as I made my way to the door to let the TA in.

I approached Jessica and gave her the instructions of what the students were supposed to be doing before making my way down the hall to the headmaster's office.

I smoothed down my red skirt that I had worn today in both appreciation of the holiday and because it was a confidence boosting outfit all while being teacher appropriate. It made my ass look amazing though. I had paired it with a red/white flowery top and a black tank top underneath. And the heels that Alice had deemed as perfect only helped to enhance my ass in this skirt.

I strolled into Headmaster Clark's office with my head held high and my folder of all of Jane's work as well as Alec's work to show proof that even though the tests/worksheets were different, they were the same questions just in a different order.

By the time the meeting was over with, I didn't have to feign having a headache because the levels that Jane screeched was headache inducing.

I begged off the rest of the day and the headmaster let me leave without question after having listened to Jane screech and scream for almost 2 hours about the unfairness of everything under the moon. I popped some pain killers on my way out of the school so the slight pounding in my head would go away hopefully before I got home.

I smiled when I pulled into my driveway and saw Edward's Volvo sitting there because I knew that he was just inside those walls waiting on me. My headache was no more.

I grabbed my bag and headed inside so that we could spend the remainder of Valentine's Day together, hopefully in each other's arms. I eased the door open hoping to surprise Edward. When I didn't hear the TV going or any sounds at all coming from inside my house I opened the door even further in curiosity and a slight tinge of worry.

I quietly shut the door and kicked off my heels before peaking into the living room and not seeing anything, I slowly started to climb the stairs heading towards my bedroom.

When I was about halfway up the stairs I heard Edward's light snores coming from down the hallway. I smiled slightly because last night had obviously worn him out, too and he had probably fallen asleep waiting on me to get through with my meeting. I tiptoed into the room and smiled at what I saw. My beautiful boyfriend was lying on my bed covered by my throw blanket that I keep on the foot of the bed. His hands were behind his head and a single perfect red rose was lying in the middle of his chest.

I smiled as a wicked idea popped into my head. I slowly and quietly tugged the blanket off of him and groaned when I saw that he was naked as the day he was born, but that would work in my favor. When the blanket was completely off of him I tossed it to the ground and climbed on the bed slowly so as not to wake him up.

I settled in between his legs leaning forward to place a soft kiss to his hardened member and smirked when it jerked and he further spread his legs, giving me more room to work. I wrapped his member in my hand and leaned down to take his head into my mouth sucking gently.

EPOV

Once I had gotten to Bella's house, I realized just how tired I was from the night before. I fought off sleep as I stripped off my clothes and tugged the throw blanket up over me but it eventually won out and I succumbed to sleep.

I was having the most amazing dream ever. It almost seemed like it was and I moaned at the sensations wracking through my body. "Oh god." I groaned aloud and moved my hand down to rearrange my stiff cock that was close to exploding from a dream.

I jerked my eyes open when my hand encountered a head full of hair. I looked down and saw the most magnificent sight ever. Bella. With my cock in her mouth.

I groaned as she winked at me but never broke her rhythm of suction and humming. I threaded my fingers through her hair and helped her movements like she liked me to do. I held her head and pumped into her mouth a few times before pulling her off. "God, I love you woman." I told her as I hauled her up my body.

She giggled as she straddled my hips and her sinful red skirt bunched around her hips. "I love you too, Barman." She said as she rolled her hips over my cock coating him in her juices.

I groaned and clamped my hands on her hips. "Baby, I'm gonna explode if you don't slow down." I warned her.

She grinned evilly. "That was kind of the point. You weren't supposed to wake up until you were cumming." She told me saucily as she rolled her hips again.

I quickly flipped her over so that I was now in control. "I loved waking up to see you enjoying yourself so much, but I like for us to come together." I told her seriously as I latched my mouth to hers causing her to groan.

I pressed my hardness into hers. When I broke for air, I raised up on my knees. "Isabella, where are your panties?" I asked her as I ran my hands up her thighs to her promise land.

"I took them off before I began pleasuring you, Barman. We were going to cum together."

I shook my head and groaned at my stupidity for interrupting her. "I'm sorry, Baby." I told her as I leaned ran my hands up under her shirts and helped her tug them off.

"Oh, you are going to make it up to me, aren't you?"

I nodded and began doing just that.

Monday, March 5, 2012

"This order is seven cases short, Raul." I told my liquor supplier as we recounted the cases that he had just hauled into the storeroom.

"I don't know how this happened, Edward. I told that idiot James to count them three times before we left." Raul explained as he wrote on his clipboard.

"Why didn't you count them yourself?" I asked him, irritated at this new turn of events. Raul had been my delivery man since I had first opened these doors and we had never had any trouble before today.

"I was on the phone with my wife; she is at the hospital with our daughter." He explained softly with a tear in his eye.

"I'm sorry, Raul, how are they doing?" I asked him knowing that it had to be tough on him. His daughter was only 15 and she had suffered such a traumatic event in her short life. Our fire station had been called to the scene and it had broken my heart when I saw that it was Raul's family that we were dealing with.

Some idiot had broken into their home, beat Raul and his wife into unconsciousness, raped and beat up Clarissa, then set the house on fire with them all still inside. Luckily their neighbors had seen the idiot running out of the house and immediately called 911. That wasn't the worst of it.

Clarissa found out a few weeks later after the accident that she was pregnant and their family was Catholic and didn't believe in abortion so she was carrying the Baby.

"They are doing okay; Clarissa went into labor early this morning, so my Kathy is keeping me updated hourly so I can be there in time for the birth of our grandchild." He said with the hint of a sad smile.

I clapped him on the shoulder. "Congratulations to all of you. Please just fix this mix up. I need those cases before the weekend, okay?" I told him, steering the conversation back to business.

He nodded. "I will get it all straightened out, Edward, but I won't be delivering to you for the next few weeks." He told me as he handed me the clipboard to sign.

I furrowed my eye brows together in confusion and irritation. "Why not?" I asked him as I looked over the corrections he made on the order form.

"Going to take a few weeks off to help with Clarissa and the Baby." He explained.

I nodded in understanding. "So who is taking over the route until you get back?"

"James is taking it over temporarily starting tomorrow." He said and I groaned because if this delivery was any indication of his capabilities I was not going to be a happy and satisfied customer at all.

"Okay, please just make sure that he understands the importance of the correctness of my orders, okay Raul?"

He nodded and made his way out with clipboard in hand.

I began moving the cases to their designated spots on the shelves in the storeroom when there was a knock on the outside door. "Yo, Boss, you in here?" Seth called as he pushed open the door.

"Why do you ask that every Monday, when you know I am in here doing inventory, Seth?" I asked him in irritation.

He shrugged his shoulders and came on in the door. "Want some help?" He asked as he stood there watching me lift the heavy cases and put them on their appropriate shelves.

"I damned well don't want you just standing around doing nothing." I snapped and almost immediately regretted the tone I had taken with him.

Ever since I had quit the fire station, I had become extremely irritated around my staff and I needed to fix that because it wasn't their fault that I had nothing to occupy my time with. "I'm sorry, Seth. Let's leave this for a bit and go have a chat." I told him, clapping him on the shoulder to convey my apology.

He nodded. "Everything okay, Edward?" He asked as we sat on two stools at the bar.

I groaned and laid my head on the bar. "I don't know, Seth. I just don't know anymore." I mumbled under my breath.

"Are you having regrets or second thoughts about quitting the station?" He asked and I immediately snapped my head up off the bar.

"Absolutely not. I won't have Bella sitting at home worrying about me every time I go to work, but I'm bored." I told him honestly.

He just laughed. "You don't say. You only rearrange the storeroom and your office every couple days and this place has never been as clean as it is right now." He laughed and I nodded.

"I just don't know what to do with myself during the daytime while Bella's at school." I told him as I looked over my pride and joy and smiled a little at all that I had accomplished in the past couple years.

"What do you want to do, Edward?"

I shrugged my shoulders in irritation because that was part of the problem. "I don't know I never really took the time to think about it because I was content with my lot in life until Bella came along and changed what I wanted out of life. Before her I never wanted a family and now that's all I can seem to think about; having a family and future with her."

"Have you ever thought of opening another club? Maybe on the other side of town or even in another city since this one pretty much runs itself?" He suggested.

I almost immediately knew what I wanted to do now, all thanks to Seth. I smiled broadly at him. "Thanks for the talk, Buddy, you ever think about going into psychology? You would make a great therapist." I told him as I jumped off the barstool and made my way back to the store room.

He followed me and we worked in silence for a little bit before I broke it. "Hey Seth, we need to call an employee meeting in the next few days, okay? Can you pass along the word that I would like to talk to everybody on Friday before we open?" I asked him as we finished stocking the last few cases of alcohol.

"Sure thing, Buddy." He said as he passed by me and headed to the front of the club and I headed out back.

BPOV

The weeks since Valentine's Day had been both amazing and frustrating all at the same time. I could tell that Edward was getting restless unless I was around and I didn't know what to do about it. Every time I approached him about it, he would just smile and distract me, somehow claiming he was fine. I wanted to take him somewhere when spring break rolled around, but I just couldn't figure out where to go. I currently had brochures spread out on my desk in front of me on destination vacations. Venice. St. Croix. Hawaii. Paris. Santorini. Greece. I just had to narrow it down and pick one.

I groaned in frustration because they all looked amazing in the brochures and I didn't want to pick the wrong one for us. I groaned again and laid my head down against the desk because I had been at this for almost a week now and still couldn't make a decision.

"What's up, Baby girl?"

I snapped my head up and looked at Bree as she strolled into my room and hopped up on my desk. "Trying to narrow down a spring break vacation and I need to do it today so that I can book the flight, hotel, and rental car before nothing is available." I told her as I lay my head back across my arms and laid them down on the desk.

"Isn't it usually the guy that surprises the girl?"

I nodded. "Who says I have to be like other girls and wait for the boy to surprise me?" I asked.

She just chuckled. "True Baby, true. So what's the problem with picking one?" She asked as she tugged a few brochures out from under my arms.

"I want it to be perfect." I said in frustration.

"Why don't we number each of them, put strips of paper with numbers on them in a bowl and you just pick one?" She suggested like the elementary teacher that she was.

"Hey that will work, won't it?" I raised my head in anticipation of finally picking one. Bree smiled and snatched her pen out of her hair and went to number the brochures and I went to tearing strips of paper and numbering them.

Once I had the strips numbered, I looked around for something to put them in when Bree dramatically flipped the fedora off her auburn curls and laid it on my desk. "Here you go, Beautiful. Use this." I just chuckled at her and dumped the numbers inside of it.

She mixed them up and I closed my eyes sticking my hand in Bree's hat and drawing out our vacation destination for spring break.

When I walked into Breaking Dawn that afternoon I had a slight pep in my step over finally settling my surprise destination vacation. "Edward?" I hollered out when I didn't see him behind the bar.

"Back here, Baby." He called out from his downstairs office.

I had only been in there a couple of times as he usually worked upstairs in his condo. I walked into the room that wasn't much bigger than a closet and saw him perusing his laptop. "Whatcha lookin at, Barman?" I asked him as I draped my arms over his shoulders and rested my head beside his.

He had a map of Texas pulled up and was looking at some sort of statistics, his area of expertise not mine. "Statistics of businesses in other towns in Texas." He explained never breaking his gaze from the computer.

"Okay, Mr. Business Major, why exactly are you looking at other Texas towns when we live in Houston?" I asked him as I moved away from him and hopped up on his desk beside his laptop.

He finally looked up at me and shut the lid on the computer to explain to me. "Because I want to open a second club somewhere in Texas, and I was scoping out places to do that." He explained as he rolled his chair so that my legs were spread and positioned on either side of his hips.

"Really?" I asked excited for him.

He nodded. "There is just one thing I'm concerned about, though." He muttered quietly, almost too quietly for me to hear.

"What are you concerned about?" I asked him as I reached forward and ran my hands through his hair.

"Being separated from you." He said as he laid his head in my lap and wrapped his arms around my hips.

"Why would we be separated?" I asked him quietly as I ran my fingers through his hair gently soothing him.

"Because I will need to be on location to see the new club get its roots." He explained quietly.

"Again I ask, why would we be separated? Do you not want me to come with you?" I asked him nervous of his answer.

He jerked his head up at the uncertainty in my voice. "Don't be absurd. Of course I want you to come with me, but what about school? I wasn't going to do this until probably August or September because we have travel plans this summer to Forks."

I nodded. "I can always switch schools, Barman. I have bitched enough about teaching at a private school, I wouldn't mind the change back to public schools." I told him.

He smiled so broadly I thought his face was going to split open. "You would do that for me?" He asked quietly and I just nodded.

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