Stephenie Meyer owns all things Twilight, lucky woman. If I owned Edward the many things I would do with him.
I'm a fucking idiot, that's all there is to it. Why the hell didn't I speak up when Bella was talking about just being friends last night? It was completely stupid of me not to interject and tell her right then and there, but fuck I was stunned. Now instead of stealing a few moments to kiss her and whisper sweet nothings in her ear, which I am almost positive we'd be doing right now if I had just grown a pair and fucking told her, we're sitting in this conference room, not looking at each other, and working on the campaign. I need to figure out a way to fix this mess I have gotten myself into. I have to have her, she's everything I ever…
"Earth to Edward." Jasper's hand is waving obnoxiously in front of my face and I really just want to punch him for bringing me out of my thoughts. I was making a plan to fix my situation with Bella, okay not really in the plan forming stage yet, but I was getting there until that motherfucker interrupted me.
"Sorry Jazz, just thinking." I apologize, because really I should be paying attention to work and not other things right now. Bella is not other things, look at her dress today, it should be illegal to look that delectable at work. She has on this beige dress that sort of gathers at her waist creating the most luscious silhouette on her beautiful body. It's like the dress was made for her and her alone.
"Yeah, and I think I have a pretty good idea what, or should I say whom, you were thinking about, however, now is not the time. Let's get back to this thing we call work, shall we?"
"You're right, let's get back to it." I say with a sigh.
The day dragged on with nothing overly exciting happening. We all worked diligently, took lunch breaks, coffee breaks and of course bathroom breaks. We decided that today we would all go home at 5 seeing as we were just about finished with everything and we all deserved a little reprieve from working these grueling hours. I made it home, ordered some Chinese from my favorite restaurant and decided to take a nice hot shower while I waited for my food. I kept thinking about the conversation I had with Bella the night before and was trying to come up with ways to fix this "Let's be friends" mess I seemed to get myself into. First things first I decided was I needed to speak to my father about a possible relationship with Bella, if in fact that's what she wants. Counting your chickens before they're hatched aren't you Cullen?
I went to bed soon after I had cleaned up my mess from dinner. All the thoughts of how to fix my current predicament with Bella led to thoughts of kissing Bella, which then led to thoughts of…well I guess I don't need to tell you what thoughts of kissing Bella led to. Yeah, it was going to be another morning of stripping my sheets.
Bella is running her hand through my hair while she's kissing me, while my hands are busy under her dress. I have two fingers in her tight, wet pussy pumping in and out as well as curling to hit her g spot. My thumb is massaging her clit causing her to make the best sounds I have ever heard. Her kisses become lighter as she's panting harder and harder as she nears her release. Her eyes are closed tight enjoying the pleasure I'm giving her. She tilts her head back allowing me to suck, lick and bite her neck. "Edward, oh god. OH GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!! EDWWWWAAAAAARRRRDDDD!!!!" Bella screams as orgasms around my fingers and she comes all over my hand. I slip my fingers from her and bring them to my lips and suck her juices off them. Bella's eyes are fixed on my mouth. "Edward, that was…so fucking hot. I want to taste myself on you." Then she kisses me fiercely, shoving her tongue into my mouth. "Mmmmm, so good." She moans.
"Yes, that was very, very good." I groan and then go in for another kiss. Bella lowers her hand to my raging hard on and unbuttons my pants, then starts to lower the zipper…
Everyone knows I'm in
over my head
over my head
With eight seconds left in over time
She's on your mind
She's on your mind
What the fuck?!?! Stupid alarm clock, once again waking me up just as it's about to get good and with that fucking song. Yes, I am in over my head and of course Bella's on my mind, but really, do I need the fucking reminder while I am having a sex dream about the girl? Just bringing you back to reality Cullen.
Forty five minutes later I was in my Range Rover and on my way to ork. I pulled into the garage, parked and went up to the office. Walking in the conference room the only person in the room was Bella. She greeted me with a hello and a smile and started walking towards me. I couldn't help but take in her appearance today as she walked towards me. She was swaying her hips as she walked and it was obvious that she was taking me in as well. I took some time to admire the view starting at the top, she was wearing a silk, blue and sleeveless top with a black bow at the neck, it made her skin just glow. Blue is definitely my favorite color on Bella. Raking my eyes downward she had on these fitting black pants. Once I reached the shoes I gasped. The boots, oh god those boots, they just scream "Naughty Girl". I wanna see her in those boots and nothing else. FUCK ME!!!! My pants have tightened and Bella definitely noticed. She stopped in front on me and licked her lips. I pinched myself, because honestly I thought I was dreaming, this had to be a dream. Ow, that fucking hurt. Okay, so I'm not dreaming. Yes, I fucking pinched myself, so what! You would too if the woman you dream about starts walking towards you like she usually only does in your dreams.
"Good Morning Edward. How was your evening?" she asked.
Why is it every single time this woman talks to me I find it hard to make a coherent sentence?
"Uh…G-good Morning Bella. It was uneventful. Just got some much needed rest, how was yours?" I have to admit I was a little surprised myself that I was able to form actual words.
"Oh, it was really good." She paused for a moment, looked at my still tight pants and spoke again. "I'm looking forward to dinner with your family tomorrow night. Esme seems really great and I can't wait to finally meet her." If there was any topic that she could have brought up to make my cock shrivel it would be my mother.
Just as I was about to comment on family dinners at the Cullen house Jasper, Angela and Tyler walked in, effectively ending our personal conversation.
"I was just on my way out to get a cup of coffee, Edward, would you like one?" Bella asked.
"Oh, thanks Bella. I was going to get set up in here and do the same thing, but if you don't mind I take it with…" I was about to tell her how I like my coffee, but she beat me to it.
"Cream, no sugar. I got it. And I don't mind at all Edward." She knows how I take my coffee, interesting. Sure, I know how she takes hers, but let's face it I'm obsessed with her. Obsessed is an understatement. Before I could thank her or ask her how she knew that she was already half way to the break room. Of course looking behind me I caught a glimpse of her walking and of course I checked out her delectable ass.
"Dude, quit checking out her ass." Emmett! Fuck!
"Wh…I wasn't." I stuttered, what the hell was I supposed to say to that?
"Whatever dude. I can't say I blame you; Bella's got a fine ass. Not as fine as Rosalie's, but fine none the less." He stated like it was fact, which it was, except for the part where Rosalie's was better. Of course now he was staring at Bella's ass. I had to put a stop to that RIGHT NOW! Mine!
"Is there something you needed Emmett?"
"Well, let's see." He looks up and is tapping his index finger on his chin, just like he did in his office a few days ago.
"Em! Serioiusly, I have I a lot of work to do here and don't have time for your bullshit. What did you want? Or did you just come over here to torture me?"
"Geez Eddie, what's got your panties in a wad? Are you doing too much battling with the purple-headed yogurt slinger?" He then laughs at his own joke.
I let out a chuckle and shake my head. Where he comes up with this shit I have no idea, but that one was pretty funny.
"Okay, okay. I know you're busy so I'll get to the point. We're going out tonight. And before you tell me that you have to work until late I already know that and we're going out later. Rose and Alice said they'd get Bella to come and Jazz is already in so you're coming. You've been putting in too many hours, even dad said something. Plus we need a night out to get ready for family dinner tomorrow." I relented pretty easily seeing as Bella was going. This was a perfect opportunity for me to let her know that I wanted to be more than just friends with her.
Emmett went back to work just as Bella was walking back with my coffee. I thanked her and we got straight to work. Things seemed to be going well as we worked. I kept catching Bella looking at me every so often and when she came over to ask me a question or talk to me about something she lightly grazed my hand with hers. I had to wonder where all the flirtation was coming from seeing as she told me just a couple of days ago that she just wanted to be friends.
Bella told me that Rose and Alice did rope her into going out with them tonight as well and that even though they would be coupling with Em and Jazz that the two of us could have our own fun. I could think of things to do with her that would be great fun, of course I'd rather being doing them with her in my bedroom, or hers, or up against a wall or…well you get the idea.
By the time we called it quits for the night we had finished up the board for half of the campaign and were well on our way to getting the second half completed. Have I mentioned how awesome my fucking team is? I walked with Jazz and Bella down to the garage and we each said we'd see each other in about an hour at the club. I needed a shower desperately before heading out.
An hour later I was standing at the bar with my brothers nursing our first beers and waiting for the girls. We started talking about work and the girls of course. I kept my mouth shut when it came to talk about them seeing as I don't need Em on my case about Bella, Jasper is enough.
"Things are going really great with Alice. I think she's the perfect woman and I can't believe I only met her a week ago. It seems like longer." Jazz stated.
"Fuck man, when did you turn into such a fucking girl?" Emmett asked, more like bellowed. He had already finished his first beer and was well on his way to finishing his second. He drinks, he gets loud!
"Shut the fuck up Em. I had to listen to you go on and on about Rosalie today at lunch and how she's so perfect so I don't want to fucking hear it from you."
"Guys, enough. You're both fucking pussies so let's just dropped it." I yelled at both of them, which earned me a nasty look and a punch in both arms. "Ow, fuck!" That really hurt, I mean have you seen Emmett, the man is a bear.
"Hey Eddie, when are you gonna finally tap that?" Emmett asked me. I shot him a dirty look, because I ABSOLUTELY hate when he calls me Eddie and he fucking knows it.
"What are you talking about Em?" I am truly confused as to what or who I'm supposed to be tapping.
"Bella! Fuck man get with the program. You can't just keep buffing the banana, that shit will make you blind, and I've seen you gawking at her. Just wondering when you're gonna grow a pair and finally tap that." He took another sip of his now third beer and like the mature adult I am I smacked him upside his head as he was tilting the bottle back so he got beer all over his face. HA!!
"Not cool man." He whined as he got a napkin to clean himself off with.
"Ah, just let Rose lick it off for you." Jasper laughed at him and gave him a swift pat on the back.
"Soooo? What's the plan then Eddie? I know you've liked her for a while; I'm not as clueless as you two douche nozzles think I am." Emmett exclaimed. Jazz just rolled his eyes and I let out a loud sigh, closed my eyes and rubbed the back of my neck.
"Fuck. Well…I don't really have a plan." That's a lie. I have a plan to show her how I feel tonight, but my brothers don't need to know that.
Emmett huffed in frustration, he clearly doesn't believe me. "Whatever Eddie, you always have a plan, but if you don't want to tell us then fine." He whined like a petulant child. Emmett suddenly looked over to the entrance of the club and it looks like his eyes are about to pop out. Jasper lightly smacks me in the chest and motions his head to the door and that's when I fucking stopped breathing. Walking in were the girls all looking like something out of a rock video and I swear every man in that place had their eyes glued to them. Rosalie was wearing white jeans that looked like they were painted on with the black top and some black and silver heels. Alice was in a form fitting light pink dress that hit her right under her knee and some white fuck me heels. Jasper looked REALLY happy. I think Emmett's drooling. Then there was Bella, I swear that woman was created just for me, everything she does or wears gives me a massive hard on, and if I didn't have those recurring wet dreams and didn't regularly charm the snake in the shower I would have a serious case of blue balls. Bella is in a skin tight pair of black pants, just like Rosalie's pants they look painted on. I bet her ass looks fucking fantastic in those pants. Her top is a tank top corset looking thing and fucking me she's wearing those boots she had on at the office today. Yeah, I'm rock hard already. It's going to be a long night.
Rose and Alice were instantly all over Jazz and Emmett and Bella just sat next to me looking somewhat uncomfortable. I decided now would be a good time to start my plan. I leaned down to whisper in Bella's ear. "You look beautiful tonight Bella." I heard her let out a small gasp and then she blushed. Bella looked up at me through her eyelashes and I let out a gasp of my own. She really is the most beautiful woman I have ever laid eyes on.
"Thank you Edward, you don't look too bad yourself." I was wearing a pair of dark wash jeans, a short sleeve button up shirt and my black converse. It's definitely more casual then she's ever seen me wear, usually I am in suits when I see Bella.
"Why thank you Bella." I responded with a wink. She blushed again. "Can I get you a drink?"
"Sure, I'll have a dirty martini." I turned around to grab the bartender and in no time at all I was handing her the martini she wanted. She thanked me and started sipping her drink. As I'm working up the nerve to talk to her the girls decide to go dance. No guys allowed. Of course not five minutes after being out there a group of guys gather around them so Jazz and Em go to them to shoo the guys away. I stay back at the bar to watch Bella and figure out my next move. Should I go dance with her? Should I wait for her to come back to talk to me? You're over thinking things. Decision made, I put down my beer and made my way to my group to join the dancing. Bella sees me walking towards her and starts dancing seductively while never taking her eyes off me. I'm standing in front of her with my hands on her hips and her hands are on my hips. Our eyes are locked and we start moving to the beat of the music.
I've never been a huge fan of Justin Timberlake, but this song just fits perfectly.
And now I walk around without a care
She's got me hooked
It just ain't fair, but I...
I'm love stoned and I could swear
That she knows
Think that she knows, oh, oh
She knows, she knows, oh, oh
During the song we were getting closer and closer until there was no space between us. I looked down and she looked up at me, our lips getting closer and closer to each other. Our mouths were but a whisper apart. Almost there, just a little closer.
"EDDIEEEEE!!!!!" Fucking Emmett!
"Fuck" Bella and I both whispered. I looked at her the same time she looked at me and we both started laughing.
"Yo, Eddie, there you guys are. Hey, so Rosie and I are leaving and I think Jasper and Alice already took off." Emmett bellowed.
I looked at Bella and she was talking to Rosalie. I couldn't make out what they were saying, but they gave each other a hug goodbye and came back to us. Rosalie wrapped her arms around Emmett's waist and kissed him on the neck.
"Alright, so we'll see you tomorrow at mom and dads. Have a good rest of the night you two." Emmett winked at Bella and punched me in the arm.
"Yeah, see ya Emmett. Bye Rosalie, it was nice to see you again." I replied.
The girls hugged again and once they were gone I turned my attention back to Bella.
"Okay, so…"
"Did you want to…"
We both spoke at the same time.
"Go ahead." I said to her. Always the gentleman Cullen, quite staring at her tits.
"I was just going to say that I should get going." I couldn't hide the disappointment in my voice or my eyes when I looked at her. "What were you going to say?" she asked me.
"Yeah, I was going to say the same thing." Looking at her it almost seemed like she didn't want to leave either. "Shall we?" I gestured to the door and followed her out of the club.
Bella stopped at her car, looking in her purse for her keys then pulled them out once she found them. "Thanks for the dance Edward. I had a lot of fun."
"I did too. Thank you for the dance. I haven't had that much fun in a while…So I guess…I'll uh…see you tomorrow?" Stuttering again Cullen? Geez! She leaned into me, put her hands on my shoulders and kissed my cheek. The kiss lingered a little longer then a friend would probably do, but I just relished in it. I took in her scent and kissed her on the cheek as well.
"Yes, see you tomorrow. Bye Edward." Bella got into her car and drove away.
Saturday morning I woke up and somehow managed to not have a sex dream about Bella. How the fuck that happened I have no idea because last night was…spectacular. Dancing with her so close was heaven, then she kissed my check, it felt amazing. I went about my morning as usual, went to get coffee at Starbucks and had a muffin for breakfast. I sat there for hours just reading the paper and drinking my latte. Once I got home I decided to head out to the gym, nothing clears my mind like a good workout.
Two hours in the gym and I was going home to get ready for dinner with my family. I was thinking about what happened last night at the club and dancing so close with Bella and of course that caused me to become hard. I was wondering how tonight was going to go with my mom trying to play matchmaker. What is Bella going to do? Is she going to try and get to know this guy or does she want to continue from where we were interrupted last night. Please let her want to continue last night.
I pulled up to my parent's house and noticed that I was the first one there. That's great, gives me time to talk to my dad about Bella. I have to say I am nervous about having this talk with my dad. I know I want Bella, but the company has rules to not date other coworkers and although I agree that things can get messy at work if the relationships don't work out I think Bella and I are meant to be. Tonight is the night. I have to talk to him and since no-one is here it's going to be now. With my resolve in place I opened the door to the house I used to call home.
The first thing that hit me was the smell of my mom's cooking. No doubt she's going all out since the girls are coming over; she has a tendency to go a little overboard. I followed the smells of my moms cooking to the kitchen and I can see her standing over the island chopping vegetables. "Hey mom." I greet her with a hug and a kiss on the cheek and also sneak a bite of already chopped carrot.
"Hey there sweetie. How are you doing?" she responds, but doesn't stop chopping.
"Good, things are going great at work. We're almost done with the Black campaign and I think it's going to be exactly what the client needs."
"That's great." She stopped chopping and looked at me with a big smile on her face. I could tell something was up from the look I was getting from her. "So Edward, are you seeing anyone special that maybe you want to tell your old mom about?" And there we go. Already starting in on the 'are you seeing anyone special' crap.
"No mom. Hey is dad around, I actually need to talk to him?" I ask her and hopefully steer her away from the topic of relationships.
"He's upstairs in the study honey. Go on up and talk to him. I'll call you when everyone else gets here." She gives me a kiss on the cheek and I take off up the stairs to go talk to my dad.
Once up the stairs I hear music coming from the study and I know my dad is in there relaxing and probably drinking scotch. Stepping into the study I see my father and notice that I was right, he's got a scotch in his hand. I greet him and walk further in and take a seat across from him on the couch.
"Hello there Edward. Glad to see you could make it tonight. You're mother has been bugging me that you haven't called or been around that much. You need to call more often son, otherwise I am the one that hears about it."
"I know, I know. I'll make more of an effort." Now time to get to the real reason I came in here. "Dad, I wanted to talk to you about something." I start off.
He puts down his drink and gives me his full attention. "Alright, son. What's going on? Is everything okay?"
I can tell he's worried so I immediately put his mind at ease. "No, yeah, everything is just fine. I wanted to talk to you about the policy at work of dating other coworkers."
What happens next takes me by surprise. He starts laughing, hard. Really not the reaction I was expecting.
"What's so funny?" I ask him.
"Nothing son. Well not nothing, I just had a similar conversation with someone else just yesterday and I find it amusing that I am having this conversation again with you. Anyways, continue." He says once his laughter dies down.
I quirk an eyebrow at him, but continue anyway. "Ooook. So basically I am interested in someone in the office and I think that maybe this person might be the one for me. I know you have this policy in place for a good reason, but I really think that if I could just have the chance to get to know this woman better that this could be it for me."
"Alright Edward. First I need to know if you've already started a relationship with this woman." He asked.
"No, I wanted to come to you first before I moved forward with things."
"Good to know. Well I think I have a fairly good idea as to who this is and since she won't be here too much longer I see no reason why you can't go ahead and try to get to know her better."
His answer shocks the hell out of me. Where the hell is Bella going?
"What do you mean she won't be here much longer?"
"Edward, her position at the company was just temporary, you had to know this. I appreciate you coming to me…" I have to cut him off because I am utterly confused.
"What? Temporary? I don't understand. She's been here for almost 4 months; I never got any indication from anyone that she was only here temporarily." Now I can see the confusion in my father's face. Are we not talking about the same woman? And if we're not who the hell is he talking about?
"Wait son, I'm confused." Obviously.
"Me too."
"Who are we talking about?" I wonder if the revelation is going to change his mind.
"Bella. Who are you talking about?" I just have to know the curiosity is killing me.
"Tanya." Who?
"Who is Tanya dad?" I honestly don't think I know a Tanya.
"My secretary, you know the strawberry blond that the temp agency sent over to replace Bella while she was helping you." OH, it all makes sense now. She was flirting with me that one time I went to his office and I have noticed her watching me when I happen to see her. She's not bad to look at, but I've never even had a real conversation with the woman and… she's not Bella.
"Ah, yes, okay. I don't really know her nor have I talked to her other then polite introductions the last time I came to your office. Why would you think I was talking about her?"
"She came into my office yesterday and wanted to have this same conversation, but she was interested in you. I'm sorry, it just seemed like you two had been getting to know each other the way she was telling it." My father was silent for a few moments and I was curious as to what he was thinking. Was he going to tell me that I couldn't see Bella? Before I could let negative scenarios consume me he started talking again.
"Let me ask you this son. Have you and Bella discussed this situation? This working together and seeing each other at the same time? Seeing that much of another person can be somewhat stressful." Although he makes a good point, I don't really see that being an issue with Bella around.
He's probably going to think I'm a complete fucking idiot when I tell him that I only have an inkling of how Bella feels about me, but I haven't even talked to her or asked her out or anything. Yeah, I'm being presumptuous, but I am pretty sure that she feels something for me, why else would she constantly be flirting with me.
"Um, actually dad we haven't really talked about anything yet."
He raised an eyebrow at me. "I think you should have that talk Edward. You two may want this now, but what happens…"
I cut him off again before he could continue. "I actually am not 100 percent positive that she even has feelings for me yet. We're danced at a club together and flirted a bit, but that's really the extent of it thus far. I just wanted to talk to you before I went ahead with anything." I stated. I chose not to look at him just yet, knowing the look I would be getting would be one of shock and more than likely amazement that we haven't even talked about a possible relationship yet. I didn't have to wait long for him to respond. He cleared his throat to get my attention and I slowly lifted my head to look at him.
"Well, Edward I have to tell you that I very impressed right now. You've grown up a lot son. I half expected you to tell me that you and Bella had been seeing each other for a while and were just talking to me about this before you got caught. I must warn you though; that if you are just looking for a quick fuck with Bella and it ends badly I am going to be very disappointed. Bella is a great asset to our company and I wouldn't want anything to jeopardize her job." He looked at me probably expecting me to admit that that was all Bella was to me, but I wasn't having that.
"Look dad, I understand where you're coming from, but I can assure you that if I just wanted a quick fuck I would have jumped at the mention of Tanya wanting something to happen between us. I can assure you that this possible thing with Bella is more than that. I don't want her job put in jeopardy any more then you do. I would never forgive myself if something happened to her." I stated simply. He had to know where I stood on this otherwise he would never give in.
He stared and swirled his drink around before taking a gulp of the amber fluid, then set the empty glass down on the table before looking back up at me.
"Alright." Was all he said. Alright? That's all I get is an alright? That's not an answer. Alright could mean any number of things. Alright, let me get this straight. Alright, here's the thing. Alright, I just don't think this is a good idea. Alright, go ahead. What the fuck does alright mean?
"Alright what?" I asked. The silence was fucking killing me. I needed to know what the alright meant before I lost my shit completely.
"Alright, I give you my blessing. But Edward, I swear to you if this ends badly and Bella leaves us because of you I will be VERY unhappy." I couldn't contain the smile. He was telling me that it was okay to see Bella even though we worked together and technically is was against policy. "Once you two get things…worked out you'll have to fill out a disclosure form in HR notifying the company of your relationship." He finished. I nodded in agreement just as my mother called us down. Apparently some of our guests have arrived.
My father and I made our way downstairs and I stopped short when I saw Bella. GOD she was beautiful. She was wearing a grey sleeveless dress with a band above her waist, accentuating her figure perfectly. Her hair is down with curls bouncing down her back hitting her right below her shoulder blades. Her make-up was subtle and just brought out her natural beauty. My father nudged me, noticing how entranced I was with Bella, to try and get me to move. "Edward, close your mouth before you catch a fly." He said with a chuckle. Was my mouth open? I shut it. Yep, guess it was open. Shit, I hope no-one else noticed I was practically drooling.
Without even thinking I headed towards Bella to go say hello, however before I could make it to her my mother stepped in front of me to some guy that was standing next to her. Who the hell is this guy?
"Bella, it's so good to finally meet you dear. I am so glad you could make it tonight. Here let me take your coat." My mother greeted her and promptly took her coat and handed it to me to hang up in the hall closet.
"It's wonderful to finally meet you as well. Thank you for having me Mrs. Cullen." Bella replied as she shot me a quick glance.
"Please, call me Esme dear." The douche cleared his throat next to my mother. "Oh my goodness, how rude of me. Seth, please meet Bella Swan, she works for Carlisle as his assistant. Bella, this is Seth. He is an accountant at a very prestigious accounting firm in Seattle and also the son of one of my clients. Lovely people."
Bella shook the douche's hand and smiled at him. "Pleasure to meet you Seth."
He took his time taking in her appearance, if he kept that up all night I was going to have to rip is eyes out. "The pleasure is mine Bella." He said as he took her hand and kissed the top of it. WHAT. A. DOUCHE!!! Okay, so I know nothing about the guy, but the way he is acting makes him a douche in my book.
Jasper and Alice soon arrived and of course my mother was ecstatic to say the least. She already loved Alice from all the phone conversations they've had in the week that Jasper has been dating her. You would think they'd known each other for years the way they went on.
Twenty minutes later Emmett came in with a very nervous looking Rosalie. After a few introductions Bella had Rosalie in a hug and was whispering what I could only assume was comforting words into her ear since as soon as the girls separated Rosalie looked a lot more comfortable.
As my mother was finishing up making dinner in the kitchen the rest of us went into the living room to talk. I took a seat in one of the chairs my parents had in the space and started talking to Alice and Jasper. She was telling me all about her love for fashion and how she was trying to break into fashion design. Alice is working for a designer here in Seattle while trying to make a name for herself.
"She's very talented." Jasper said as he looked at her adoringly.
"Aw, thanks baby!" She replied and gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek. I had to admit they made a very nice couple and I was really feeling a bit of jealousy come over me at the sight of them. I wanted something like that for myself and I really wanted it with Bella.
I looked over to where Bella was seated on the couch with a glass of wine in her hand. She was talking to Seth about work and I smiled when I heard her talking about how much she was enjoying working on the Black campaign. She had a natural gift for it and I was happy that she liked it so much. Seth interrupted her to talk about his work and she tried to seem interested, although I could tell by the look on her face that she was anything but. Who would want to listen to someone go on and on about accounting anyway. BLECH!! As he was talking to her I noticed him place his hand on her exposed knee and although she didn't seem to mind too much it had me seeing red. I was about to walk over to them to interrupt his inappropriate groping when Emmett stopped me to talk.
"You up for some basketball tomorrow morning man?" He asked.
"Hmm?" I was still staring at that douche's hand on my Bella.
"Edward." He said again, trying to get my attention, but I just ignored him.
"EDWARD!" He practically screamed at me. No-one else seemed to notice, how I have no idea, my brother wasn't exactly quiet on a normal day.
"What?!" I was getting a little frustrated with him at this point. Couldn't he see that I was trying to bore a hole into the back of Seth's head?
He huffed and shook his head before responding. "I asked if you were up for a game of basketball tomorrow morning asshole."
"Yeah, that sounds good Em. What time?"
"How about 10?" He responded.
"Sounds good." Deciding it would be better for me to converse with my brother rather than shoot daggers at Seth's head I continued. "So how are things with Rosalie and you going big brother?" I asked because I was genuinely interested. I hadn't seen Emmett stay with one girl this long. Yes it had only been a week, but he's the love em and leave em type. His relationships tend to last up until he's got his clothes back on and making his way out the door.
"It's going really good man. She's awesome. She doesn't take any of my shit and surprisingly I like it. I'm so used to girls letting me get my way all the time it's sort of refreshing to have one call me on my crap and serve it right back, ya know?"
I nodded in agreement. It's true; women usually let Emmett get away with pretty much everything. Rosalie really didn't seem like the type to take his crap and I was glad. He needs a strong woman to put him in his place every once in a while and the same seemed to be true for her. It looked like they really balanced each other out. I was really happy for both of my brothers and I hoped that sometime soon I could be that happy too.
I really wanted to talk to Bella, but that idiot was still going on about his stupid fucking job, but his hand was no longer on Bella's knee. She seemed to be enjoying the conversation now much to my dismay. I would have gladly saved her from him if she needed it.
My mother came into the living room and told us that dinner was ready and we should be seated. I went into the kitchen to help her bring some of the delicious smelling food out to the table. Once everything was out I took a seat between Alice and Emmett. I was directly across from Bella who was sitting next to Seth, of course, and Rosalie. Bella looked at me as soon as I sat down and gave me a small smile, to which I smiled back and gave her a wink. She blushed as she usually did, it was too adorable and made me smile wider, which seemed to make her blush even more.
"Thank you all for being here this evening. I have to say that I am thrilled to be meeting you beautiful girls my sons seem so infatuated with. Now if Edward can just meet a nice girl to bring home I will be all the more thrilled." My mother said. I rolled my eyes of course at the absurdity. Soon mom, soon. You hope. Yeah, yeah, shut up voice! "And Bella, I am so happy to finally meet you. I feel like I know you so well already with the amount of time we've spoken on the phone. Carlisle told me you were a lovely girl, but I have to say that you are stunning, better then I imagined actually." She continued. I chanced a look at Bella and she was blushing again and muttered a thank you to my mother for her kind words.
Dinner conversation never dulled at any point as my father, brothers and I talked about work and some upcoming campaigns that we are trying to land and Seth seemed interested in the business so we included him in on the conversation. I have to say he was a pretty smart guy. We touched on other topics of conversation such as sports and Seth seemed to know a lot about basketball. He said his company had really good seats to the Seattle Super Sonics games and sometimes he got some tickets and invited us to attend when he did, we all readily agreed. He actually seemed like a really good guy and if it weren't for the fact that he was clearly going after Bella I think we might be friends.
The girls all seemed to be off on their own conversations a lot of the time talking about books, movies and shopping. Who knew women liked shopping so much. Smartass. My mom, Rosalie, Alice and Bella all seemed to be getting along really well and made plans to go see the next George Clooney movie together. What is it with woman and George Clooney, seriously?
All the girls helped my mom clear the table and clean up in the kitchen, even through her protests that it wasn't necessary. I could tell that she really liked all three of them already.
The men went into the living room and had a few beers and chatted some more.
"Your mother seems quite taken with your girls. I think you boys have chosen well. They are lovely." My dad started.
"They are." Jazz and Emmett said at the same time.
Seth and I merely nodded in agreement.
"So Edward, when are you going to bring a girl home for us to meet?" Jasper, Emmett and Seth all turned to look at me after my father's question. I just glared at them, they all knew, except for Seth, who I was interested in and I wondered what the motive was for asking me that question in front of the guy mom had invited over to set Bella up with. It was a little uncomfortable to say the least. Seth actually did seem like a good guy and although I didn't like the idea of him dating Bella I didn't want to make him uncomfortable with my admission that I had wanted something more with Bella.
After taking a drink from my beer and rubbing my hand over my face I decided to give them a vague but honest answer. "I don't know dad, maybe when the right girl agrees to meet you." The fucker winked at me. What was with him tonight, really? I don't think I've ever seen him wink as much as he has tonight in my entire life. It was a bit unnerving.
"Edward, did I hear you say you've met someone? Who is she? When do I get to meet her?" I hadn't realized the women came in during my answer so I groaned and put my head in my hands.
"Mother, can we not get into this right now, please?"
Bella just furrowed her brow at me. I couldn't really tell by her expression but she looked a little…jealous…disappointed. Like I said, I couldn't really make out the expression on her face. When she noticed me looking at her she smoothed out her expression and took a seat next to Seth. Alice took up residence on Jasper's lap and Rosalie sat on the arm of the chair Emmett was sitting on and wrapped her arms around his neck.
My mother mentioned that she wanted to play a game of Uno, said she just found the game at the local grocery store and hadn't played in years. We all did a collective groan, but once the game started we all were having a really good time. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. Emmett was having a hard time understanding the rules of the game or so he said every time he tried to cheat. I wasn't buying the whole 'I don't get it' line and would tell him so. Rosalie started calling him a buffoon in the most loving way possible which caused my mother to break into a fit of giggles. My father was getting really aggravated because he kept getting hit with the lose your turn cards or collect four when he was just about to go out. A few times he had one card left and forgot to yell out UNO and he was told to draw four more cards as was the rules to the game. He finally gave up on playing and sat on the couch to pout, drink his scotch and watch everyone else play after the 4thgame.
We were all drinking and buzzed and having a great time. Bella and Alice were talking and giggling quite a lot throughout the night and I wondered what they were talking about, but once I saw Alice gesture towards Seth and I, I decided I didn't want to know. It was getting rather late and Jazz and Alice decided to call it night. Emmett and Rosalie agreed and everyone got up to say their goodbyes.
"It was lovely meeting you Rosalie. Please call me this week and we'll do lunch. You too Alice." My mother told them as she gave them both a tight hug.
"I guess I should get going too. Thank you so much for a wonderful evening Carlisle and Esme. I can't remember the last time I had that much fun." Bella gave my dad a hug and whispered something in his ear, he nodded to her. My mother then came up and gave her a hug.
"Our pleasure sweetie. You are welcome over anytime."
"Bella, can I walk you to your car?" Seth's voice came from behind me. Bella nodded and grabbed her coat.
We escorted them to the door and Bella turned to give us a wave goodbye before going to her car with Seth close behind her. I wanted to peek out the window to watch what they were doing but decided it would be too stalkerish of me so I just went and sulked on the couch. My mother's voice brought me out of my funk.
"So Bella and Seth seemed to get along really well. I noticed her giving him her phone number." My mom stated after they had left. It was a long 2 hours. I didn't once get a chance to talk to Bella, her attention was taken by either Seth or Alice, Rosalie and my mother every time I looked. I guess my conversation with her was going to have to wait. I just hope I wasn't going to be too late, she did seem to like Seth.
"Yes, they did seem to be talking a great deal this evening. He's a nice kid Esme, but I wouldn't get my hopes up for a love connection." My dad told her and gave me a sly wink. Again with the winking
"OH, and why is that dear?" my mother asked curiously.
"Just a feeling I have is all." My father replied. Thankfully my mother just scoffed at him and dropped the subject. No need to tell my mom my intentions toward Bella. She'd get way too excited and I'd never hear the end of it.
I got up off the couch and went to say goodbye to my parents and got into my Aston Martin. I hardly ever got to drive it because it needed open road so I could appreciate the purr of the engine, but going to my parent's house was always a perfect opportunity to drive it. My dad usually took it out for a little bit while I was there. Not that his car was anything to sneeze at. He recently bought a Bentley Continental GT Speed in Granite. It's a fine piece of machinery and suits him perfectly.
I made it home in record time and immediately hopped in the shower to relax. I was really tired so I made it quick, I didn't especially need a shower since I had had 2 already today, but the hot spray just relaxes me and helps me clear my head.
I got out of the shower after a few minutes, dried off and pulled on a pair of pajama pants. Once I slipped into bed and my head hit the pillow my last thought before sleep took me was that I would talk to Bella soon. I didn't want to waste any time I had with her. I really feel like we are meant to be together, I just hope she feels the same way.
A/N: Okay so songs in this chapter are Over My Head by The Fray and Love Stoned/ I think she knows by Justin Timberlake. Thanks for reading this chapter and please review.