"I don't know… It's dumb and weird." I bit my lip and kissed the back of his hand. "Maybe later. I'm tired."
"Oh stop, we both know you aren't about to sleep."
"I don't think we both know that, because I'm gonna sleep."
"You can't sleep during daylight." He rolled his eyes and pinched my hip. "Tell me, I'm sure it can't be that weird."
"You'd be shocked."
"I don't think I would be."
"What, in your opinion would be the weirdest reason? I bet mine is stranger."
"Um… If you were taking mental measurements of the circumference of my lips so that you could put it into some weird formula to find out how wide my neck is, in case you want to make me a necklace..." He furrowed his eyebrows. "Or hang me…"
"This is awkward because that was pretty much dead on." I lied and he rolled his eyes.
"Tell me."
"I don't want to."
"I'll give you another kiss."
"Okay." I puckered up and closed my eyes, sighing when his soft lips brushed mine. He sighed too, the air ghosting down my neck as he moved away from my lips.
"Now tell me."
"No."
"But I kissed you."
"It was much appreciated, thanks, babe." I winked and he reached over my torso and tickled my sides. My hips bucked off of the bed and I batted his hand away.
"Now you have to tell me though, because we made a deal."
"First of all, I thought you were just offering, and second I'm sure this can be considered prostitution in like five states." Edward glared at me and sat up, moving away from me. I pouted and he swung his legs over the edge of the bed.
"What are you doing?"
"Leaving."
"What? Why?" I sat up too and crawled to the end of the bed on my knees.
"You're being unreasonable." He shrugged and left the room, leaving the door open so I could see him tugging on his coat.
"Don't leave," I held out my arm as if to hug him. "Come back to Mama." He bit his lip to keep from smiling, but his eyes were a complete tell all. He waved and picked up his phone from the coffee table.
"See ya' at work tomorrow, baby." He said walking towards the door. I listened as the door opened and waited to see if it ever closed. He wouldn't be upset enough about my not telling him, to leave me. The door shut and it was silent for thirty seconds before I scrambled to my feet, realizing he really left. I darted around my sparse furniture and jumped into the nearest pair of shoes, pulling on my jacket.
I yanked open my door and slammed it behind me as I took off toward the elevator. I watched the numbers light up as it came to the ninth floor from the first, telling me he'd gone all the way down. I darted into the elevator as soon as the doors opened and rapidly pushed the lobby button. After waiting about a minute in the elevator I shot through the doors and out of the hall, into the rain.
Edward was just getting in his car, shaking out his wet hair when I approached him.
"I wanted to see if I had feelings for you that were past friendship." I said loudly, so that I could be heard over the pelting rain. He looked up at me curiously with furrowed eyebrows before he stepped out and gestured for me to get into the car. I was about to climb over to the passenger seat when he shut the driver's door and walked around the car, his image drowned because of the rain on the windshield.
He sat in the car and slammed his door shut, reaching in the back of the car and grabbing two towels. "And?" He asked, draping a towel over my neck and the other over his. I couldn't read him and that worried me. The look he gave me was one I hadn't seen many times before, but when I did see it, the next thing out of his mouth always shocked me. It was almost inhumanly neutral.
"Well… I do." I bit my lip and he broke out into a smile. "But that kind of means nothing if I'm the only one that feels that way." I said softly as I stared down at my hands. He reached over the console and grabbed my chin, tilting my head up to look at him. He was grinning so brightly that the corners of his eyes crinkled. I involuntarily smiled too, just because seeing him look so happy made me inexplicably overjoyed as well.
"What?" I whispered, just a tiny bit confused. I didn't know whether his smile was because of my being head over heels for him or because my love would beunrequited and that gave him some sick my unexplainable happiness, I was still nervous as fuck. My heart was thudding against my chest and I felt extremely warm, even though it was so cold that the water on me was turning to icicles against my skin.
"Why in the world would you think you were the only one that felt that way?" He asked, leaning toward me. My smile tried vainly to widen, because I was just that happy. I leaned into him too, letting him use the towel around my neck to dry my cheek. I cupped my hand over his on my cheek.
"Really?" I whispered, letting out a gush of air I didn't know I'd been holding.
"Well, I'd be stupid to not have been crazy over you, Bella. Stupid or dead. Obviously I'm niether." He chuckled, drying off the other cheek. I smiled realizing he was taking care of me first, even though water was streaming from his hair down his face. I turned my head slightly to kiss his wrist before grabbing his own towel. He wrinkled his nose adorably as I ran the towel through his hair and then down his face.
"Jeeze, baby, don't break the face. I think we would both miss it if you injure it." He smirked and I ran the towel up his cheeks to dry his ears, giving them a little tug as I did. I giggled as he crossed his eyes and grimaced, before rubbing my own towel over my face harder.
"Truce, truce!" I squealed, dropping his towel into his lap.
"What's wrong, baby? I was just making sure you were nice and dry." He said widening his eyes innocently as he released my towel. "God, you're gorgeous." He sighed, tapping my chin. I rolled my eyes at the sincerity in his voice. There was no way I looked even close to attractive after that rain. I may look like a drowned rat, but not gorgeous.
"Don't roll your eyes, it's true." He said leaning over to press a kiss to my cheek. "So… Are we going to make this a thing?"
"Sorry I don't commit on the first date." I said, sucking air in through my teeth and wincing. "Sucks to suck."
"Sucks to suck? What are we? In high school?" I shoved his shoulder and he chuckled. "Seriously, though…"
I bit my lip and tried to quell my excitement. "Eh, maybe. I'll need to think about it. Maybe have one last romp with some of my booty calls before I commit."
"You know, I was actually thinking about that too…"See, I was joking but it became a little less funny when he reached into the console between us and pulled out a little, leather bound book. I plucked the book from his fingers and flipped through the pages. I pursed my lips when I realized this was his agenda that he had me copy word from word. I lowered the book to see him silently snickering at me.
"That's not funny… I was about to say…" I said tossing the book back to him. He laughed and mindlessly flipped through it as his eyes bore into mine.
"That's what you get for being a smartass, babe." He chuckled before sobering up quickly. "So that's it?" He asked. "We're a couple now…" He wrinkled his nose at me and I shoved his shoulder.
"Let's just say we're lovers now. I think that sounds better, more risqué." I suggested and he nodded.
"Can we make out now?" He asked juvenilely, I pursed my lips. I just wanted to be completely sure about a few things, then we could make out to our hearts content.
"Wait, we're exclusive, right?" He rolled his eyes and nodded and I lifted an eyebrow. "I just wanted to make sure. I've made that mistake before."
"True… When are we going to tell our parents?" He asked, leaning in closer to me.
"We can tell your parents whenever. My parents… we should probably wait on. You know how my mom is." He nodded and kissed my cheek.
"I do." He slid his fingers into my wet hair and I bit my lip. "If you keep doing that, I won't be able to kiss you." I immediately released my lip and leaned towards him, kissing him passionately. I felt my entire body shoot off like a live wire and I'd never felt better."I'm glad you finally came to your senses." He teased. "Now I can kiss you whenever I want." He said, his smile lighting up the car.
"Whenever." I agreed, placing kisses on his jaw and down his neck. My left hand rested on his thigh and he pushed it up just a little higher.
"Even when I piss you off?" He asked, his eyes glinting jovially. I bit the inside of my cheek and narrowed my eyes as I trailed the tip of my finger over his cock through his pants.
"Why don't you try not to piss me off?" I asked with a roll of my eyes.
"Because you're hot when you're angry, and you're so easy to piss off." He smirked and kissed me again, resting his hand on my hip. I rolled my eyes and he slid his hand under my shirt.
"Well, you aren't spectacular in the patience department are you?" I asked pushing his hand down. I inwardly snickered at my hypocrisy as I palmed him over his jeans.
"Bella, I have amazing patience, but I really just want to touch you now…" He groaned, sliding his hand back up my shirt, and cupping my breast with a lifted an eyebrow. "We got past this upstairs anyway." He said leaning into me and meeting my lips again.
"You're lucky I love you, or you'd be missing a hand right now." I whispered against his soft mouth. He smiled in response and I arched into his hand as he trailed his thumb over my nipple. "Come upstairs." I whispered, pulling back from him. He nodded and was out of his door before I got mine open. As soon as I stepped out of the car he lifted me off of my feet, I shrieked and immediately wrapped my legs around his waist.
"You remember when I was talking about my various kisses earlier?" I nodded and his eyes twinkled happily, despite the downpour soaking both of us. "I think kisses in the rain are my best." I chuckled and cupped his face in my hands, pulling his lips to mine.
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