This is short, again, but I thought that it had just the right amount of romance and humor. The next chapter will be a few days. I know what's going to happen, but I have to get caught up with school again
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I hope you guys enjoy this chapterr. I have to go cry because of mathematics now.
(I am also reading a new book - Breathe my Name by R.A. someone. can't remember. anyone read it? I like it so far)
Chapter Eleven: Overreaction
Alice pulled the bread from the oven. Jasper hung up from another cake order. Rosalie finished furiously beating a bowl of batter. By hand.
She was just as furious and as upset as me.
I sighed, and leaned onto the counter, the cookie dough sinking into my elbows, as I was leaning on it, the cookie cutters in my hands imprinting their shape into my skin because of how strongly I held them. I stared ahead at the door to my deck and the waves that rolled by aimlessly in the darkness. It got dark at four, that was hours ago.
"Bella, you're going to have to throw half of that out if you don't get your dirty elbows out of it," Alice scolded, smacking my head as I walked by. She and Jasper had been back from their honeymoon for a week now. Since they'd returned we'd been working non stop to get everything ready for all of the late Christmas parties.
"Your elbows are the most temperature sensitive part of your body, Al," I said cockily, standing upright an forcing off parts of the dough into the garbage. "That's why you use them to test the bathwater for babies. Look, a pieceful use of information for you when you knock her up, Jazz." The man blushed and Rose laughed loudly, finally pleased that the depressed-girls-in-amazing-relationships finally got one up on sickeningly-sweet-married-couple. I rolled out my dough again and finally attacked it furiously with my various festive cutters-- trees, snowmen, snowflakes, angels. Circles that I'd decorate into ornaments once I broke out the icing, sugar, and sprinkles. This, was going to be the batch of Christmas cookies to take all batches of Christmas cookies. I could feel it.
Okay. So, perhaps I was letting my fury at not being able to be with Edward leak into the work environment. Rosalie was doing it too. She took that spatula to the bowl like she was hacking away at whatever fellow decided to put America and England so far apart. It was a thought that had been tempting for me as well.
"I think you two need to stop moping about these 'chaps' and find some more locally accesible guys," Alice asked simply.
"NO!" Rosalie and I yelled at the same time, jumping towards Alice. She cringed and held onto the countertop for dear life. When she realised we weren't going to hurt her she continued with the hors d'oeuvre's she was making.
"Alice, you don't understand what it is about these guys that makes them so much better than anyone in America-- no offense, Jazz," Rose added, patting his shoulder.
"None taken," he said with a smile and a shrug, doodling out a sketch for a cake.
"But Emmett... he's interested in the same things as me," Rose began, a dreamy look in her eye. "He see's the real me, not just my looks, but the girl who likes getting greasy under the hood of an old wreck, taking things and tweaking them until they're better. He gets excited when he's near me, when he learns something new about me, and he's such a nice guy. And he's so gorgeous. That accent? Phew! But even that is just a bonus to how wonderfully funny and... amazing he is!" Alice and I were watching her with a smile.
"And the sex!" Rose exclaimed, pushing the bundt cake into the oven. "I haven't had that in a month and it's absolutely maddening, because he's the best I've ever had. I'm willing to wait for whatever to see him again, because no one will ever meet up to him in my eyes." I think there was a look of horror on my face. Alice and Jasper snickered.
"We don't have that problem, do we dear?" Jasper asked, snaking his arm around her chest and kissing the top of her head. I gagged. The phone rang.
"Bella, you at least should go out and find someone new, I can imagine it's been a lot longer for you in terms of any sexual relationships." Alice sniggered. I shot her a glare and picked up the phone.
"I don't want anyone else but Edward, Al. He's it. I know it. The things he does to me, just by looking at me, it makes my body feel so different and complete. And he's so charming, and funny, and sweet, and smart, and strong and caring and... beautiful! But... I know, that I don't need -- want!-- anyone else but him. He is absolutely perfect for me, and I won't find anyone else who can compare, so don't even think about making me try." The three of them watched me with awe. I looked down at my hand, to find the phone there. I looked at it, confused for a moment, before I remembered that it picked up on it's own once it was picked up from the bed.
"Oh! Hello?" I asked, slamming it to my ear.
"You love me," a nasaly voice called out, followed by a chuckle. I found myself smiling and blushing, cradling the phone between my elbow and ear, picking up my cookies and placing them on a tray.
"I do," I told him. "Very, very much so." Edward sighed happily.
"You know," he began cheerfully. I heard a deep voice mumble something in the background. "Katie was telling me about this movie she saw. It was about this English fellow who moved to America to be with some girl he'd fallen in love with while she was on vacation!" I laughed and cut out more cookies, Rose watching me for any indication that Emmett was mentioned.
"Oh really?" I said happiy. "Sounds like a good movie!"
"Rather confusing, actually," he said seriously. I heard a familiar voice say 'left,' in the background.
"That Emmett?"I asked, watching Rose's eyes light up.
"Yeah, he's moving some furniture," Edward explaining. "Anyway. When he gets to America she decides she doesn't like him anymore, so he's left there, all alone, with no one. Except for some university class he teaches. In America, that is."
"If you moved here just to be with me I would not let you get away," I murmured.
"Good," Edward said in a deeper tone. "In anycase, this guy meets a really amazing girl on the internet! Of all places," I rolled my eyes. He was picking out everything he could related to us. "And she's a really wonderful girl, but it's actually her mother doing it. And, eventually, he falls in love with the girls' mother, and the girl falls in love with her best guy friend."
"If you moved here just to be with me I wouldn't give you time to meet anyone else," I whispered passionately. I could hear the smile in his voice as he whispered; "Good."
"And, lucky you I have no guy friends except Jasper and he's married." Edward laughed happily.
"God, I miss you so much, Bella," he murmured over Emmett saying something else behind him. "I love you so much, you know that right?" I nodded, though he couldn't see, tears forming in my eyes.
"I know," I breathed. "I love you too. I want to see you again. So badly."
"I know, love. I'm working on it, believe me. We won't be apart for so long." It was what he told me many times before. We were trying to find away to actually be together for a longer time, but it was proving to be difficult. I sniffed and wiped the tears from my cheeks.
"I have to get back to work," I mumbled, looking at all of my friends gathered around the food. "I love you, Edward," I told him.
"I know, Bella. I love you too," he said. I hung up the phone, staring at the bright green screen as it faded away, and I couldn't stop the tears that were flowing from my eyes. I sobbed heavily, sniffing loudly as Alice and Rose (crying herself) ran up to me to hold me. Jasper moved behind me and rubbed my back.
"I miss him so much!" I exclaimed. "I just want to see him again so badly, is that too much to ask? I love him. I love him, I love him, I love him. I want to marry him and have kids with him, and I want to pack everything up and go to him, right now." I sobbed, tears streaking furiously down my cheeks. Alice and Jasper were smiling at me amusedly and Rosalie pulled away to smile weakly at me, tears in her eyes as well.
"I love you too," a velvety smooth, oh-so-familiar voice said. I froze. Rosalie screamed and ran past me. Alice and Jasper were laughing happily. I turned and was in complete shock of what stood before me.
Holding Tom Sawyer tenderly in his arms and scratching his ears softly was my one true love; Edward Cullen. I screamed. Edward grinned at me beautifully and set the cat on the floor while I ran to him and jumped into his arms, holding myself tightly against his neck. He held onto me so tightly, his breath was warm on my shoulder. My legs were wrapped around his waist an I leaned back, studying the gorgeous smile and the twinkle in his emerald eyes. I pressed myself to him in a very needed and very happy kiss. We smiled against each others' lips and I pulled away from him, to see the smile on his face.
My heart was soaring. I was ecstatic, squealing as I hugged him tightly after he'd set me down on my feet. Behind him I saw Rose and Emmett in similar positions, just pulling away from one another. Alice and Jasper were laughing loudly behind us and I turned to look at them.
Jasper stood behind Alice and cleared his throat with a deep 'Ahem!' Alice turned, screamed and jumped onto him, kissing him sillily. We all laughed and I leaned into Edward's chest, feeling perfectly at home, and perfectly whole. I wiped the tears away from my cheeks.
"Why are you here?!" Rose and I exclaimed at once. The guys laughed heartily. Edward placed a gently kiss on my cheeks.
"We live here," he said simply. My eyes probably bulged. My mouth did drop open, Rosalie squealed again.
"What do you mean!?" I hollered. Alice and Jasper shook hands with the guys before picking up their jackets and leaving. Emmett and Rose slipped outside soon after to head back to Rose's house.
"I mean," Edward began slowly, wrapping his arm around my shoulder as I showed him around the house. "That I have moved to your town, as it is required of me by my job. They opened the office here, Emmett and I are permanent residents now." I shot my head towards him, my eyes wide. Was he serious? Because that would be just so cruel to say that to me.
"Edward, are you joking?" he grinned widely and shook his head. I started jumping and squealing, making the cat rush out of the room. Edward laughed happily at me before he grabbed my arms and pushed me against the wall, pressing into me fiercly before taking my lips in his own. I was so shocked that I moaned into him, running my hands through his hair. Edward's body was touching me in every place imaginable and he groaned when I opened our mouths and met his tongue with my own, tasting what I had missed for so long.
It set us both over the edge.
I didn't bother with the buttons on his shirt, I pushed it over his head as he untied the apron from my back. I jumped up and wrapped my legs around him as he hurriedly moved into my bedroom. My peasant skirt pulled off easily and I started working on his belt while he admire me in nought but underpants and a t-shirt. I left the belt in his pants as I unzipped them and roughly pulled them down to his knees. He chuckled and stood up again to kick them off. I sat up and pulled off the shirt myself. Edward froze, staring at me in a daze. I grinned and but my lip, standing up and holding firmly onto his shoulders. I leaned forward and barely let my lips brush against his.
Edward let out a shuddering breath and pushed me into the mattress, kissing me furiously. My heart was beating wildly as his hands ran up my sides and I smiled. This was exactly where I wanted to be, the happiest I could be.
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