An hour had passed and still they hadn't come out of their bedroom which was next to Alice and Jasper's and facing mine and Edward's. They hadn't been shouting either so everything seemed to be going fine from where we were sitting. I just hope it stays that way for all our sake's, I thought. It was now 7:00am which was the time me or Edward usually woke Jake and Nessie up but we figured since Nessie was up later than usual, we would let her sleep for another while and then we thought Jake wouldn't mind the extra sleep either. For the past hour we had talked about their night and what they got up too and they seemed to enjoy themselves so that was good, I was glad they had a good night, then Esme said,
"I'm going to get washed and dressed into fresh clothes and when I'm done I'll start on Jake's breakfast. I also arranged for us to go swimming with the dolphins today just to let you all know now incase you go making plans."
Nessie would love swimming with the dolphins and from what happened yesterday on the boat Jake would look forward to it too but of course the most excited person of us all would have to be Alice. Her face lit up when Esme announced this.
"I cannot believe I'm finally going swimming with dolphins. You don't know how long I've waited for this and it's finally going to happen." Alice said clapping her hands in excitement. She got up of her seat and took Jasper's hand. "Ok, everyone go get washed and dressed, the sooner we get ready, the sooner we get to the dolphins," She said dragging Jasper by the hand into their bedroom on the right hand side next to Carlisle and Esme's and Emmett and Rosalie's room.
I laughed at Alice and how she just reminded me of a baby, or no actually because even Nessie wouldn't be as excited as that, "Well, I guess we better do what she say's, we can't keep Alice from her dolphins now, can we?"
"Absolutely not," Carlisle agreed. We all giggled then got up of the sofa. Carlisle walked down the hallway into his bedroom which was situated the farthest away. It was a straight walk into their room. Edward and I walked into our bedroom which was on the left hand side closest to the living area. This was the first time I noticed where each bedroom was because I had only really been in mine and Edward's, and Jake and Nessie's room which we didn't need to use the main door to get into because of the door in our room leading into theirs. Nessie was lying fast asleep in our double bed, she was barely recognizable. She was so beautiful, even sleeping.
I wasn't quite sure what you were supposed to wear when you went swimming with dolphins so I decided to ask Edward and hope he had a better idea about it than me, "What are you wearing?"
"Just a pair of shorts but I'll wear a top until we get there,"
"Ok," I answered. I like this holiday, I get to see Edward topless all the time which rarely happens but then yet again with a face as beautiful as his, he doesn't need to take his top off. Edward was already poking about his side of the wardrobe and I hadn't even as much as opened my side yet. I pulled the slide robe over to reveal all my clothes sitting on each shelf. I took out a pair of denim shorts, a white boobtube top and a pair of white sandals. I skimmed through my sets of bikinis and picked out a beautiful light blue designer bikini. When I looked behind me Edward was coming out of the bathroom dressed already. I just shook my head in his direction in disbelief, vampire or no vampire I could never get ready so quickly. He laughed at me and as I walked past him headed for the bathroom he said,
"Don't take too long now, Bella, love," He smirked.
I looked behind me and with a smug grin on my face said, "Don't hold your breath," but obviously it didn't matter if he did or not. "Will you wake Nessie and Jake for me, please?, because you know I might take a little long getting ready," I finished with a sarcastic tone in my voice and my smug grin reappearing.
"Yes, no problem, love, I'll wake them for you, wouldn't want them missing the whole day waiting on you getting ready," He laughed and walked into Nessie and Jake's room to wake Jake first before I got a chance to reply.
I was determined now to get ready faster than usual to wipe the grin of Edward's face. I lifted my toothbrush from the rack and squirted toothpaste onto it and quickly brushed my teeth. I got washed and put on my bikini. I heard Edward and Jake through the bathroom wall waking up Nessie. I put my shorts and top on over it and slid my sandals onto my feet. I wasn't in the mood to put a whole lot of make-up on especially since we were getting into the water anyway so I didn't see the point. Instead I just decided to put on waterproof mascara and eyeliner and I was ready. I race out of the bathroom and they were already gone. I piled my clothes I had just worn onto an extra shelf which I was going to use for 'dirty' clothes even though they weren't dirty. I ran out of the bedroom into the living area. Everyone was already in the living area. They were all dressed except for Nessie and Jake who had just woken up. Esme was putting Jake's breakfast out on a plate for him which looked more like a meal for 3 than for 1. Emmett and Rosalie seemed Ok judging by the way he had his arm around her. I sat down beside Edward and said,
"Ha, I was ready in 4 minutes and I'm usually ready in 5 minutes, I was a minute quicker."
Edward laughed at me and replied, "Congratulations, but something tells me you wanted to get dressed quicker to prove to me you could."
"Then that something tells you right," I laughed. Edward smirked and kissed my forehead.
Esme called Nessie, "Nessie," she said, "Do you want any breakfast?" Esme has always offered Nessie food whenever she got the chance to try to get her diet between blood and food balanced.
"Can I have a slice of toast, Please?" Nessie asked.
"Yes, sweetie."
Edward and I looked at Nessie who went back to playing with Jake then we looked at one another.
"That was a bit of a surprise," I smiled.
"Sure was, but I'm glad, It's nice to see her eating food for a change," Edward smiled.
"Jake, Nessie, Breakfast is out," Esme called. She already had the extra food made incase Jake wanted more so she only had to put Nessie's toast onto a plate.
Jake got off the sofa with Nessie still in his arms and went over to the table. He sat her down on the chair and tucked into his food. Nessie nibbled on her toast laughing now and then at how much Jake scoffed down.
"Ohh, yea, Jacob, Nessie couldn't get asleep last night because you were snoring," Edward laughed but Nessie was quick to defend Jacob.
"It wasn't just Jake, Daddy, It was too warm too," She added.
"Of course, it was sweetie," Edward smiled. Jake laughed at Nessie coming to his defense and said,
"It's alright Ness, but you always get asleep even when I'm snoring,"
I answered just as Nessie was about to speak, "Yea, Jake that's because she usually gets to sleep before you start snoring."
"Ohh," Jake realized, "Well that's okay then, for a minute there I thought it was because I was snoring louder,"
My eyes grew wider and I couldn't keep my laughter in anymore. Edward, Nessie and I laughed, Jake looked at us confused. "What?" He said.
"Jake, you have been snoring louder.......you should have heard you last night.......one minute the room was quiet.......and next your snores filled the room out of nowhere." I revealed as best I could manage.
Jake blushed a little and said, "Well, What can I say, I am wolf, you know." He tried to use that as an excuse but it wasn't fooling any of us.
"Sure, Sure," Edward, Nessie and I laughed impersonating him.
"Hey, stop using my sayings, you don't do them properly."
I rolled my eyes at Jake. How could you not do it properly after listening to Jake say it over and over through the years? It was a habit we have all inherited because of him. Nessie came over to Edward and me and sat down beside us.
"Hey, sweetie, did you eat your breakfast." I asked hopeful.
"Yes, Momma, I ate it all up," She smiled proud of herself.
Edward smiled and congratulated her, "Good girl, Ness."
"Nessie, Do you wanna go get dressed?" I asked with too much curiosity in my voice.
"Why, Are we going somewhere?" She replied suspicious.
I didn't want to tell her yet, so I decided to say, "Yes, we are going somewhere, all of us but it's a surprise."
She folded her arms and said, "Ahh I don't like surprises,"
"You and your Mum both," Edward smirked looking at me.
Nessie smiled and said, "Why do you not like surprises either Momma?"
"I don't mind them so much now because after I met Edward there were so many surprises, it was ridiculous, I had to get used to them so don't worry about it you'll get used to it too soon," I defended myself.
"Ness, Guess what we are doing today," Alice shouted.
Edward and I interjected before Alice told her, wanting to keep it a surprise,"Ssh, don't tell her, It's a surprise,"
"Ohh, Ok,"
"That's not fair," Nessie complained.
"Well the quicker you go get dressed the less time you have to wait to know what it is," I realized making what I said sound confusing but It wasn't confusing enough because Nessie understood.
"Ok" She said and pounced off the seat. She ran into her bedroom to get dressed.
"I'm gonna go after her and tell her to put on a swimsuit too," I said to Edward, He nodded his head.
I left the seat and walked after Nessie into her room. I knocked on the door, and she shouted, "Come in." I entered her room and she was picking her clothes out from her wardrobe.
"Ness, don't forget to put a swimsuit on under your clothes," I reminded her. She turned and looked at me with a confused expression on her face.
"Ok," She said, "Ohh come on Momma, tell me," I looked into her beautiful and looked away as fast as I could because I knew I would give in.
I quickly recovered and said, "No, you'll just have to wait and see." She let out a sigh and asked,
"Does Jake know what it is?"
"No, Jake doesn't know and we're not going to tell him either," I comforted her.
"Good," She smiled.
"Ok, I'll leave you to get dressed," I said and left her bedroom closing the door behind me. Jake was giving his empty plate to Esme who said she would do the dishes. He went and sat beside Edward.
"So are you going to tell me what we are doing today?" He asked Edward.
I walked over to them both and sat on Edward's lap who was about to answer Jake but I quickly interrupted before he got a word out.
"No, Jake you'll just have to wait and see too because I told Nessie we wouldn't tell you," I grinned.
"Damn it,"
Alice interrupted our conversation and said, "Jake, When Nessie is ready, Hurry up and get dressed, I can't stand waiting much longer."
Edward took his eyes off me and turned to look at Alice and said, "Give over, Alice, How do you think Nessie is coping with the suspense, at least you know what we're doing,"
"Well, I would rather have waited until everyone was actually ready before I got told then I wouldn't have to keep my excitement hidden" She hit back.
"Excitement? Jasper, Control your wife's emotions," Edward smirked looking at Alice though talking to Jasper.
Alice said, "Jasper, Don't you-" She was cut off, Jasper was controlling Alice's emotions. Alice's face turned to look at Jasper in shock.
"Jasper, I can't believe you just tampered with my emotions," She raged.
Jasper didn't know what to say or what to do. "I'm sorry, Alice, It was a little frustrating though, your emotions were all over the place," He explained.
Nessie came prancing out of her room wearing a little blue vest top, a pair of white shorts and her little flip-flops. I got up of Edward's lap and sat close beside him. He put his arm around me.
"Right on time, Ness," Edward laughed. Jake got up of the seat and walked into the bedroom.
"Why?, What happened?" Nessie wondered. She came and jumped onto the seat, I put her on my lap.
"It's nothing to worry about Ness," Edward grinned aware of Alice glaring at him.
Alice seemed to have calmed down again, she said to Nessie, "This is going to be so much fun, Ness." The excitement was returning to her voice. Jasper was about to control her emotions again. Alice put her hand up in front of Jasper's face and said, "Don't even think about it, you dare and I promise you, I won't talk to you" She warned. Jasper rolled his eyes and everyone started laughing. Esme and Carlisle came and joined us all on the couch. Carlisle had offered to help Esme with the dishes.
Jake returned from the bedroom already dressed.
"Hurray, Finally, Come on," Alice screeched jumping from the seat, grabbing Jasper's hand and running out the door. Edward, Nessie, Jake and I giggled and we all followed behind. We didn't go down the stairs this time, instead we got on the elevator because it was open and Alice figured it would be quicker. She was determined to use any route to get there quicker. Alice pressed the ground floor button when we were all inside the elevator.
"Jeez, this must be something good," Jake laughed of Alice's reaction.
The elevator doors opened and Alice grabbed Jasper's hand and darted for the front doors. Esme and Carlisle left the key of the suite with Claudia, the receptionist. We followed on behind Alice. I had one of Nessie's hands and Jacob had the other. Edward was holding a bag which Nessie's arm bands was in and he had the sheet of directions to where the swimming with dolphin's was.
"Where do we go?" Alice shouted.
"Left and then take the first right," Edward shouted back.
Nessie wasn't walking anymore, she was skipping but still held our hands.
"Are we nearly there?" She asked, excitement running through her.
Edward laughed and said, "Yes, Nessie, we are nearly here," We turned left where Edward had directed.
"Ohh, Can't we run? The first right is way down there?" She complained.
"Come on, then," Edward challenged.
"Yay," Nessie smiled.
She jumped into Jake's arms who started running. Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle and Esme ran with them. I smirked at Edward and laughed, "Your going down," He smirked back and smiled showing his beautiful teeth before saying,
"Sorry love, I'm afraid I'm going to have to beat you today,"
"Edward, If only you could dream," I laughed. "Ready, Set.....Go......" I ran down the lane and Edward was right beside me. I smiled moving closer to him, I pushed him out of the way and ran faster.
"Ohh, You want to play like that then," I heard him say. I turned around and saw him catching up with me and increased my speed. Suddenly I felt arm's wrap around me and lift me up,
"Edward, put me down," I yelled.
He laughed and said, "Not until I win,"
"Is that right?" I replied. I tickled him on the neck and he let me down on my feet again. I ran as soon as my feet touched the ground, and I was nearly there. Edward zoomed past me out of nowhere. I pushed myself further and I nearly caught up on him. He turned the corner so I leaped into the air and landed on his back. We were nearly there. I could see the others in the distance. My legs were starting to slip, I was struggling to hold onto Edward and he was running at 80mph.
"Uh, Oh," I said as my body slipped off Edward's back. I nearly fell on the ground but Edward stopped and grabbed my hands throwing me back onto his back.
"Thanks," I said and put my head on his shoulders in relief. "That was close,"
"Bella, Are you Okay? You nearly give me a 'heart attack', Are you trying to kill me?"
"I'm Ok, Sorry," I said.
He stopped and we slowed down to a walk. He put me on my feet again and I said, "Well you won because you would've if you hadn't have stopped to save me,"
Edward stopped walking and stood in front of me. He took my face in his hands. "Bella, I don't care about the stupid race, you could have been hurt!"
"Umm, Edward, vampire remember?" I said.
"It doesn't matter Bella, Do you not think I feel badly enough that you nearly fell never mind actually falling?" He asked.
"You can't blame yourself for this, I shouldn't have jumped onto your back in the first place," I told him.
"Yes, but I lifted you up first," Edward replied.
"But I pushed you first," I said.
"But pushing doesn't involve being off your feet," He hit back.
"Edward, That's besides the point and you know it," I said getting annoyed now. I sighed and said in a calm voice, "Look, let's just forget about it, I didn't get hurt and I don't want to argue with you, Edward." I tried to finish this debate.
"I don't want to argue with you either Bella, but I feel more.....over-protective of you now than I ever have before after what happened" He said referring to me getting hurt during the fight. His eyes turned serious, "I know that if you would've hurt yourself, It wouldn't have been as serious as that but I've nearly lost you so much times, you can understand why I'm always that extra bit aware."
I didn't know what else to say but, "I'm sorry." Edward pulled me into a hug and I clung onto not wanting to let go, though I did.
"Come on, Alice is getting frustrated and Nessie is getting excited and they can't get in because I have the tickets," He laughed.
We walked over to the others and Alice said, "Can't you two leave your long conversations for a time that doesn't involve all of us waiting on you both."
"Calm down Alice" Carlisle said before Edward was about to make a remark.
Edward gave the man at the counter all our tickets, he was a vampire. He was tall and muscly, had blonde hair and had bright green contacts in.
"Follow me," He said and lead us outside. We gathered around him and listened to what he said, "Ok, so you don't need life-jackets because the dolphins are trained and if anything was to happen then they will save you."
"We're swimming with dolphins?" Nessie squealed in excitement guessing what the surprise was.
We all giggled at her and she said, "Wow, No wonder why you were so excited, Aunt Alice"
"Come on you," Edward laughed lifting Nessie up and taking my hand.
The man, whose name I did not know, blew his whistle three times and suddenly the dolphins came swimming into sight and Jake recognized one of them.
"Ok, so I think Nessie should be with someone even if she isn't at risk, I just want someone to be with her." I voiced.
Jake was the first to answer and he didn't need to think about it, "I'll take Nessie" He said. "As long as we get the dolphin we already know," He laughed.
"Deal," I smiled.
"Come on, Ness" Jake said taking Nessie off Edward and putting her on the dolphin they knew. Everyone except me and Edward were already in their swimsuits because they got changed while me and Edward were talking. Jake jumped into the water and Alice already got her dolphin. She was in the water too.
"Are you coming?" Edward asked.
"Yes," I replied and walked into the hut. Everyone's clothes was folded into neat piles. I took of my shorts and my top and folded them neatly on top of one another and Edward took off his top and put it on top of my clothes. We walked back outside where two dolphins were waiting on us. I jumped into the water and Edward followed. The dolphins swam over to me and Edward. I held onto my dolphin's dorsal fin while Edward held onto his dolphin's dorsal fin. The dolphin swam away from the harbor and out to where everyone else was and it was far away. I think it was 100 metres out but for some reason I wasn't worried, I was just having a good time. We were directing the dolphins to where we wanted them to go, we were in the middle of playing a game. If one dolphin was on they had to tip another dolphin to make them be on. It was like tag only with dolphins, so that made it dolphin tag and we were really enjoying ourselves. Alice was having so much fun and Nessie hadn't stopped laughing and giggling. Jake and Nessie's dolphin tipped Edward's dolphin and Edward's dolphin was going after me and my dolphin. I directed my dolphin left so it wouldn't get caught and Emmett's dolphin got caught instead. We had all been caught now at least once. We had been with the dolphins now for 1 hour and 45 minutes and our allowed time was two hours.
"We have 15 minutes left, I'm going to stop playing now because I want to go further out and just let the dolphin swim where it wants to for the rest of the time," I announced to everyone.
"I want to keep playing," Nessie and Jake laughed.
"So do I," agreed Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and Alice.
"Carlisle and I are going to stop and head back to the harbor, I want you all back though in 15 minutes," Esme said. "Though I'm sure the man wouldn't mind if you took an extra 5 minutes or so if I paid him for the extra time but no longer," Esme informed us all.
"Ok," We answered.
I directed my dolphin out further into the ocean and she obeyed.
"I'm going to stop too and go with Bella," I heard Edward say following behind me. His dolphin swam faster to be even with my dolphin. I think my dolphin and Edward's dolphin are good friends because since we've had them they have barely been away from one another. The dolphins swam gracefully through the water in their own direction. Then, at the same time, they took a dive out of the water and back in again leading us under water still holding onto their fins. It was beautiful under the water, fish swam about freely and there were a lot of plants. Then a baby dolphin swam our way and our dolphins both rubbed their faces on the baby dolphins face. That's when I realized that our dolphins were more than just friends and in fact had a family. The baby dolphin was actually their calve. Our dolphins went back up and out of the water. Their calve followed them.
"This is surreal," I said to Edward.
"Everything that happens now in my life is surreal," He laughed. He reached his hand out for the baby dolphin and it smiled at him. "Wow," He said.
"What?" I asked.
"I can it's mind" He realized.
"What did it say?"
"It said when do I get my Mummy and Daddy back again?"
"Aww" I laughed.
Edward turned to face the dolphin and said, "You can come with us if you want, we are going back home," The dolphin said something in dolphin language.
"What did it say?" I asked.
"Thank you," Edward laughed.
All three dolphins turned around and began to swim back to the harbor. They dived in and out of the water a couple of times clapping their hands while doing this. We landed in the water again and the dolphins just swam for the rest of the time until we finally reached our destination.
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