My first update in 2010. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters. I also don't own the lyrics of the songs mentioned below.
You came from heaven shining
Breath of God still flows from you
The beating heart inside me
Crumbled at this once I knew
'Amazing' by Janelle
My plan in giving Bella a relaxing vacation was doing well. While her work was killing her slowly, I managed to plan our trip. I had the guts to call my mom and borrow our summer house in Florida. She was hesitant at first when I mentioned that I was taking Bella there. I was about to hang up on her when she sighed deeply and agreed. She said it was one way to make up to me for everything she did.
Or didn't do.
Mother told me Emmett had spare keys to each and every property we own since they gave him the keys when they visited the city back in December. She said I could get it from him and to call the housekeeper and inform him that we will be coming. Mrs. Cope, our housekeeper, will be stocking the kitchen with food and getting our laundry every two days.
I informed my mother that we will be staying there for five days and should be arriving in a week. I thanked her for allowing us to come and stay at the summer house but I wasn't ready for what she replied to me.
"I will do anything to have you back in my life. I love you, Mary Allison."
I didn't expect her to show any kind of affection to me but she did, much to my utter surpise. It wasn't even a simple 'sure'. And that would do for me. But it was an all out 'I love you, Mary Allison'. Perhaps my mother did change after all.
I did everything I needed to do before we leave on Wednesday. I went to Emmett's and got the keys, called Mrs. Cope and arranged the plane tickets for me and Bella. I had to keep it all from Bella so as to surprise my girlfriend. She'll just have to know when we get to the airport.
Nessie was going to be in charge with handling ABD along with my cashier while I'm gone. I told Nessie not to bother me with work unless there's a problem with the designs or with the custom orders. Other than that, my phone is off limits.
"The winter collection will arrive on Friday. Please be sure to keep it in storage until I get back. We will have the final fittings on Monday. Call the models and tell them to come here for their first winter photoshoot." I clearly said to Nessie as she typed orders in her PDA.
"Oh, Alice. Franco called. He said you'll have the runway for the new collection the same night Klein's doing theirs. He said you have competition since they have half naked models." Nessie told me with a smirk.
I took a deep breath and said, "Okay, we have to have bigger publicity. The show will be in four weeks. We have plenty of time. Call Ruben and ask for a meeting with me on Tuesday. We shoot a commercial of the models in my clothes-" I rambled anything that came into my mind. It was a chaos. Calvin Klein was way bigger name than I am but I had to give my clothes a shot. I was onto something there until Nessie interrupted me.
"I have a greater idea." Nessie gave me a smile that went up to her ears. I motioned for her to go on and kept listening as she told me her idea. "Why don't you have an appointment with that photographer, Lawrence De Luca?"
"Laurent De Luca"
"Yeah, him. Anyway. Have him take pictures of you and Bella in your clothes. That first photoshoot was hot by the way. And I can assure you it will sell to people. They will want to watch your show with you and Bella in it. ABD will be a huge hit with the hottest couple of the century. Forget CK's shirtless models. You will knock 'em boxer models dead."
I thought of her idea. It wasn't bad actually. I had to think of it first and ask Bella if she was up to it since she has so much work to do. I couldn't ask her to do it if she was packed with shoot after shoot.
I told Nessie that I would think about it and inform her when I get back. I gave her a few more instructions then went to the apartment to pack.
Since Bella wasn't able to go home until late tonight, I had to pack her stuff. It wasn't that hard since we share clothes. I had two suitcases filled when I heard Bella come in. I was zipping our luggage when she came into our room.
"You're not leaving me, are you?" She asked me in a panicked voice. She was starting to sheke and I had to stop it before it get worse. I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms.
"I'm not, silly. Yes, I'm leaving." I pulled away from her then crashed my mouth into hers. Our lips molded together as our tongues dominated each other's mouths. "And I'm taking you with me." I said against her lips in between heated kisses.
Bella pulled away from me but didn't detach her lips to my skin. She trailed kisses on my jaw, down my neck then my shoulders.
"Oh yeah? Where are we going?" It was hard to talk to her since Bella's hands were now squeezing my breasts as she kept on kissing my chest preparing to go down onto them.
I let out a moan and tangled my fingers into her hair. I pushed her head lower then Bella sucked my cloth covered left breast. I was only wearing a thin spaghetti strap shirt without bra so I can feel the wetness of Bella's licks even with my shirt on.
Bella pulled me closer to her as she gave the other boob the same treatment she gave the other one. I was walking backwards in the direction of the bed while guiding Bella as she was still sucking my breast before I fell onto the bed with Bella on top of me.
Her hands were at the end of my shirt going beneath it then allowing it to caress my stomach. Her mouth was on mine again. When she managed to remove my shirt, her mouth went for my neck, marking it as hers with a hickey as she sucked it. I didn't mind one bit as I would have done the same thing if I were on top of her.
"Where are we going baby?" She asked out of our heated moment. She was eyeing me now. Stopping her kisses for a moment.
"You have to wait and see tomorrow when we get to the airport."
"Airport? It's not out of the country is it? What the hell Alice?! Why did you spend so much money on me." She started getting up from me as she talked my ears out with money and airplane tickets and that I shouldn't have to.
"Bella, listen to me." I pulled her down to me again and cupped her face with my hands. I gave her a kiss on the lips before I started explaining. "First of all, we're not going out of the country. Second, I didn't spend that much money. I only spend it on the tickets. And third," I looked into her eyes and held it with my own. I tried to give off how I felt towards her. I loved this woman so much, I would do anything for her. I felt Bella relax into my gaze and gave a smile to her before continuing. "I love you. And I'm worried that you're too much tired with your work. So, I planned a five days vacation for the two of us. No modeling, no designs, no photoshoots. Just you and me. Oh, and the bed too." She gave me a smirk then kissed me gently.
"I love you too"
We made love that night. How many rounds you might ask? That, I didn't know. We kept on going at it until I noticed the clock that we only have a few hours before we leave for the airport. We slept for about 3 hours then we woke up at around 8:00 to have a light breakfast before going to the airport.
When we got to the JFK, there were no paparazzi thank God. Replacing them were people buzzing whispers as they noticed us. It was annoying as hell when you just wanted to go inside the airport and out of this cold weather but Bella and I wanted to keep our faces for the public as it is our job so we agreed to pose for snapshots and sign autographs.
Apparently, someone informed the paparazzi that we were there. Thankfully before it got out of hand, the airport security pulled us inside the airport as they kept the photographers outside.
When we had the chance to seat and wait for our flight after settling everything, I pulled out my sketchpad and started drawing. I pushed my big Gucci sunglasses at the top of my head then sketched my new idea. Bella was beside me, playing a game of race car on her PSP.
When I finished my dress, I glanced up at Bella and caught her staring at me.
"What?" I asked her.
"Nothing. I just love watching you sketch. It's adorable how you're hand just glides on the paper or how your forhead srucnhes downward when your thinking or how you bite your lip when your drawing the curves." She said, inching closer towards me. I was about to kiss her inviting red lips when suddenly, a flash interrupted us.
I can feel Bella starting to lose it again. I didn't know how a paparazzi can pass through the guards but unsurprisingly, they did. Bella's hands was starting to clench and unclench. I looked around and saw who had interrupted us. Across from our seats was a teenage girl, about sixteen years old, clutching a camera in her hands.
"Bella look. It's not a paparazzi." I pointed my finger to the girl as Bella looked at the girl and gave her a dazzling smile. She loved her fans. Bella wouldn't do anything drastic to a fan much less to a teenage girl.
"She's so lucky she's not a fucking paparazzi." She pulled me to her as she draped her arm over my shoulder. I leaned my head onto her shoulder and closed my eyes for a while.
"Bella?"
"Hmm?"
"Can I ask you a favor?"
"What is it love?" I felt her hand went up to my hair then started stroking it.
"I know it seems unfair to you that you don't have enough breaks from your photoshoots and I know you're tired. And we don't have much alone time—"
"Just spit it out, Alice," She interrupted me. I sat straight and looked into her eyes. "What is it? You know you can ask me anything."
"Can you model for me? I mean for ABD?" I asked her. I shouldn't be nervous but I was. I didn't know why though. I was afraid of her answer. If she said yes, she wouldn't have much sleeping time anymore. If she said no, it was fine with me but I was afraid my feelings would get hurt. It was selfish of me but it's still the truth.
"Do you remember when I told you I'll help you with ABD?" I nodded, remebering those months ago when we were talking about pursuing my career as a fashion designer. "Well, I mean it. I would help you in any way baby. Of course, I would model for you."
"Are you sure? I mean you already have a schedule and I know your week's already full. My show is four weeks from now. We'll need the pictures in about two and a half weeks. I know, I know, I'm being unreasonable but we need to shoot it next week."
"Alice, it's fine really. I have a photoshoot on Monday until late Tuesday. I'm free the rest of the week so whenever you want is all right with me."
"Are you sure?" I repeated.
"I am." She kissed my head then said, "You are my life. Whatever you want I'll give it to you."
My girlfriend was the best, no man or woman can beat her. Bella was selfless. She wasn't a cold-hearted bastard like most of the men who was with me.
"Thank you." I said as I softly gave her a peck.
"Anytime."
After a while of holding onto each other, our flight was all ready to leave.
"Florida?"
"Yep."
"Why there?"
"Because we have a beach house there. No neigbors for miles. It's like a private getaway. I told you right, only you and me."
When we boarded the plane, I continued with my sketching while Bella listened to her iPod. She joked about giving the mile high club a go signal but we realized our position would be a little difficult with the size of that room. So, it was a no go for that one.
When the captain told us we were about to land, I woke Bella up who took a short nap against my shoulder. I hated waking her up since I know she was tired all the time. Add the sleepless night we had last night, it was hard for me to wake her up.
We got our bags in the baggage claim then looked for Ricky. Ricky was Mrs. Cope's son. He was one of Emmett's playmates when we were visiting here when we were still little kids.
I finally saw Ricky waiting with his hands inside his pockets. I waved over to him then walked over.
"Ricky!" I exclaimed then hugged him. I haven't seen him in years and it was good to since he was like a brother to me.
"Alice. It's nice to see you again."
"Rick, this is my girlfriend Bella. Bella this is my childhood friend and the house keeper's son, Ricky." I introduced them. Ricky held a hand then Bella took it.
"Nice to meet the one and only who took Alice's heart from me indefinitely." He said to her. I rolled my eyes at him. He didn't change a bit. Still a jerk.
From when we were kids, he told me he had a crush on me. When we got older Ricky kept on telling me still but I only looked at him as a brother.
"Well in that case, nice to meet you too." Thankfully Bella played back. He smirked at her then winked at me.
"Just lead us to the car Ricky boy."
"Yes ma'am."
We got into the car then drove off to the house. Ricky and I catch up on some news here. I had a few friends here in Florida, most of his friends as well. He told me that some of them already have families, some engaged and some going strong. He also told me that he's with one of our friends, Miranda, and he's planning on asking her to marry him anytime soon. I told him to go for it and congratualtions in advance.
When we got to the house, I informed Ricky that we didn't need a driver for our entire stay here. He can just leave the keys for when we decided to go out. But I doubt Bella and I would leave the bed much less the house. The kitchen was fully stocked and the beach was our backyard. So, there's no real reason for us to leave.
I thanked Ricky then hugged him again. He said he would come back early Sunday morning to drive us to the airport for our trip home.
"Ready?" I asked Bella as we stood at the front of the house.
"Yeah." I led her to the front door then unlocked it. The moment the door opened, Bella quickly pulled me inside, closed the door then pushed me against the door. Clothes were flying in no time at all.
Yeah, this was a great idea.
Review please!
I just want to clear things up. James is so out of this story. He will not have an appearance again since he already told Bella that he was done with her bullshit ways. The only demons in this story are the girls' insecurities, trust and don't forget the paparazzi. Maybe a little problem from the family but nothing too serious.
LMU
