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Chapter Five: Beach
Carlisle led the way to the beach, with Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Micah in Emmett's car with him and Alice and me in her car with all my stuff from the week packed into her trunk. I couldn't keep my eyes off Carlisle's back as we drove, he looked so good on his bike. I just wanted to tell Alice to pull up next to him so I could coerce him into getting in the car, but I knew I would just have to wait to talk to him once we were at the beach. My mind was already hatching several different plans on how we would possibly escape the group and get off by ourselves. I mapped out each of them, and each one had its own disastrous ending.
I would just have to figure something out on the fly, which was never something I could do well. The only ones we really had to be careful about were Emmett and Rosalie, not that Rose would tell Emmett. Rose was much like a big sister to me, and I had no doubts of her loyalty. That and she didn't want Emmett to go to jail for killing Carlisle any more than I did. If Emmett found out however, that would be a much different story. He would, in all likelihood throw Carlisle off a cliff then drag me home and demand that I be grounded for an eternity, just thinking that this could work.
Alice, for my benefit I was sure, parked between Emmett's car and Carlisle's bike so that I was right next to Carlisle as he pulled off his helmet and hopped off his bike. He took of his jacket and threw it over the handle bars before discretely opening my car door for me as everyone piled out of Emmett's car. I hopped out and looked around at the deserted, except for a few surfers, beach. It didn't really make sense for it to be deserted, as it was still pretty hot out, but it suited us just fine as we headed down to set up blankets.
Carlisle pealed off his t-shirt as soon as he hit the sand, revealing his chiseled chest, not ridiculously bulky but defined, making me stop in my tracks. He was utterly model like as he stood there watching me, his swim trunks hanging low on his hips and the sun hitting his hair just right. I had to swallow back drool.
He grinned a little at me as I took a deep breath and walked with him over to the blanket where Rosalie, always playing mother, was getting everything settled. The boys all decided to join Carlisle shirtless, and I looked over at Alice, who was discreetly eyeing Jasper up and down. I chuckled a little to myself as I stripped off my own jeans and t-shirt, showing off my bikini.
Alice took sunscreen out of her bag as soon as she had gotten down to her own bathing suit, and was spreading it all over. She offered me the bottle and I shook my head, I already had I good base tan, I would be fine.
"Suit yourself," said Alice and I smiled as I watched Emmett lead Rose into the breaking waves, and she handed me the bottle, "Can you get my back?"
"Jasper," I said as I handed it to him, "Can you?"
He nodded as Alice gave me a glare that could kill and I smiled mischievously as he started to rub the cream into Alice's back. She'd thank me later, and I looked over at Carlisle who nodded towards the water, he was all sweaty from a mixture of the heat and having to wear his jacket on his bike. I nodded and we silently went with Micah running towards the water to join Rosalie and Emmett.
"You are pure evil," Emmett said as we got to floating near them.
"What?" I said as Rose chuckled.
"You seriously didn't see Jasper's face when he was talking to her back at the condo?" She asked and I shook my head, oh no, did he not like her? Did he think she was annoying or something?
"No," I said, a nervous expression coming over my face and Carlisle smiled at me reassuringly.
"Bella," he said, "He likes her, that's all."
"Oh, good, she likes him," I said and Emmett scowled.
"Bella," he whined, "You shouldn't play matchmaker with those too, he's twenty years old."
I had to bite back a laugh, as I was sure Carlisle had to too.
"She's eighteen," I said defensively, really if he didn't like a two year age difference for someone who wasn't his baby sister, Carlisle and I were screwed.
"She's still in high school," Emmett retorted as we all swam over a wave, skillfully avoiding being swept up into it.
"That doesn't seem to be bothering them," said Carlisle as he shook all the water out of his hair and we all looked back to the shore.
Jasper and Alice were walking, rather closely towards the water, beaming at each other. I took the moment that everyone was looking over at them to look over at Carlisle, who seemed to be in the same mindset. He swam over so he was next to me to quickly kiss my cheek while Emmett had his back turned, watching Alice and Jasper, mumbling something incomprehensible to my ears.
"You look amazing in that bikini, my sweet," He whispered into my ear, before swimming a little away and Emmett turned around.
It took me a minute to realize that Rose was glaring at Carlisle and I in turn as Alice and Jasper swam out. Clearly she wasn't as ok with us as Micah, who was simply picking up clumps of sea weed and chucking them at random people while Alice shrieked. A few minutes of Rose's glaring and she turned to Emmett.
"Hey, babe," she said to him and he dropped the seaweed he was about to through at Micah to look at her, "Can you go back and cover the food? I don't want the seagulls to get it."
"Can you get the football?" Carlisle asked, clearly just wanting to make him take longer, "It's in the trunk of your car, I believe."
"Sure," said Emmett as he turned, putting his back to a wave so he could body surf into the shore.
"What the hell do you two think you're doing?" said Rose glaring at Carlisle and I as Emmett reached shore and started towards the blanket, "And I know you all know what I'm talking about."
"Good going, Carlisle," said Micah.
"Way too risky," said Jasper.
"He didn't see," said Carlisle, realizing that Rosalie was pissed, and looking at me to make sure I wasn't.
"Carlisle!" said Rose, "You're his best friend, do you realize how wrong this is? And Bella!"
"Rosalie," I said calmly as I felt Carlisle's hand rest on the small of my back under the water and his lips pressing to the top of my head under cover from the shore by a wave.
"No," she said, "You realize this might just about kill him?"
"Or just you, Carlisle," said Jasper snidely, causing Alice to chuckle and Carlisle to roll his eyes.
"Not a joke, guys," said Rose, "Do you two realize what you're doing? Even if Emmett never finds out, I know you both and I love you both, but seriously? How are you even looking him in the face?"
"Rose, calm down," said Carlisle, as I felt his strong arms wrap around me, Emmett was too far off to see anything now.
"Carlisle!" She said angrily, "Can you seriously tell me if you lose your best friend over this you'd be ok because it was worth it because she's your soul mate or whatever."
"No," said Carlisle and I looked around at him, "Because that sounds ridiculous. I can however promise you that I will be pissed if Emmett doesn't want to hang around with me anymore, but I'll understand. I can promise that I will never hurt Bella. I couldn't. I just want to have the chance to love her."
"Naw," said Alice and I turned my head to look up into Carlisle's gorgeous eyes.
The looking lasted about a second before he attached his lips to mine, pulling away reluctantly as Jasper cleared his throat. We looked around and Carlisle let go of me, and I whimper slightly at the loss of contact as he swam a little ways away. I looked to the shore, and noticed that Emmett was on his way back from the car, looking much like an ant on the horizon.
"Fine," said Rose, exasperated, "But eventually you're going to have to tell him…"
"We know," I said, rolling my eyes as Emmett threw the football to Jasper from the water's edge, who jumped out of the water to catch it.
Jasper then threw it to Carlisle as Emmett swam back out and rejoined the group. To make it seamless, Micah started talking about something mindlessly and we all pretended to be listening intently as he droned on, allowing Emmett to come in halfway through a conversation.
"So, Bella," said Micah as he passed it to me, and I caught it with ease, and passed it to Carlisle, more than a little wobbly, "You ready to go back to high school after hanging around with us for a week?"
"Must be quite a different experience," said Jasper as he gently passed the ball over to Alice.
"It is, and no, Micah, I'm not," I said.
"Wonder why," said Micah with a teasing smile as Alice then tried to throw it to Carlisle, it was sloppy, but he caught it and sent it over to Rose.
"You have to come back and visit," said Jasper.
"Of course," I said then looked mischievously over at Emmett, "Every weekend."
"Sure," He said, "You'll just be on the futon."
"Fine," I replied, that was almost too easy, Carlisle would most definitely be able to come see me that way.
"You can have my room," Carlisle piped up as he spun the football in the water, "I'll take the futon."
"Oh, that'll drive Jessica nuts," said Micah happily.
"Why would she know?" Rosalie asked.
"We would let it slip," said Jasper, as if it were obvious, and we all laughed as he added, "For the pure enjoyment of her suffering."
"When are you going to get a girlfriend, Carlisle?" said Emmett as soon as the laughter died down, "The sooner you do, the sooner you have a better excuse than you just don't like her."
The whole group of us went silent.
"I don't know," said Carlisle, trying to play it off, as Emmett's attention went to passing the ball to Jasper, "Gotta find one that'll keep me in line."
Carlisle winked at me casually as he added that last bit. We headed back in for lunch after a few minutes. After lunch I could hear the hallelujah chorus as Emmett and Rosalie headed off for a walk on the beach. The minute they went around the corner, past the rocks, and out of view, I scooted over on the blanket and into Carlisle's arms.
He pressed his lips right to mine, like he had been just dying to the entire time we were eating lunch. He put arm around my back and held onto the back of my hip as I leaned into him, and he kissed the side of my head.
We stayed in that position while we talked to the boys and Alice. Well, we talked to Micah while there was a ridiculous amount of flirting going on between Jasper and Alice. They were oblivious to their surroundings, and Micah cracked a few jokes about asking me if I had any other friends. I told him it usually didn't work out three times, and he laughed, agreeing.
I was so comfortable wrapped up in Carlisle's arms as we laid down on the blanket, though forcefully staying awake. He kissed my neck as he whispered in my ear, making me smile as his hot breath hit my ear.
"Red Alert," said Micah as we split and scooted back over so there was about a foot between us.
Going back to school and being separate from Carlisle was going to suck. I just hoped that I would be able to manage not seeing him for a week or more without blowing my brains out. He said good bye to me casually hugging me as I went around hugging everyone, and he snuck a kiss while Emmett wasn't looking before opening the car door for me. Once I was in the car however, he hopped on his bike and rode away, leaving me to pry Alice away from Jasper so we could go home.