Rose and I woke sprawled across her large king sized bed to the ringing of her phone. Rose groaned and reached groggily to answer it. "Hello? Oh, hi, Emmett. Yeah, Bella and I were asleep. Who cares if it's noon? Yeah, we have plans today, sorry. Later? No, I should be free then. Okay, talk to you later, babe."
I stared at her as she hung up the phone.
"What?" she asked.
"You called him babe!" I gaped.
"So?" she replied defensively. "I can do that!"
"But you never do that!"
"So?"
I shook my head. "Never mind. We should get dressed and go." We got up and took turns going through the shower and changing, and then we hopped into Rose's BMW and headed for the mall. We pulled into the parking lot and got out, then made a beeline for the lingerie shop.
"Remember what I said, Bella, no blue stuff. You're branching out," Rose said. I shot her a petulant look, and she ignored me. We walked between the rows of silk and satin, lace, mesh, and even a few latex pieces, fingered things we thought would look nice, and pulled things that we'd like to try on.
"Could I interest you in this?" came a voice over my shoulder. I jumped and spun around. A salesgirl was behind me, and she held out a matching bustier and panty set, in a stunning blood red. I fell in love with it instantly. It was a silk and satin bustier, complete with boning, a little bit of lace around the low-cut bust, and a small bow between the breasts. The accompanying boyshorts were the same silky fabric, but had lace down the hips.
"That looks absolutely fabulous," I breathed as I reached out for it. She pulled it away.
"Let's go try it on, then!"
Rose and I left the shop with a variety of pieces, she, a leather camouflage corset, a blue silk underbust corset, a sheer leopard print baby doll/thong set, and a black and hot pink lace up chemise. I came away with the red set, a white silk with black lace bra and panty set, a black silk robe, a bondage-esque teddy, and a simple white satin corset and thong that lifted my breasts very nicely. We were both very happy with our purchases.
"I'm surprised you picked out all that by yourself!" Rose said happily.
"The salesgirl picked out the red one," I replied.
"Well, she picked really well on that one," she said. "It looked great!"
"She was staring at me funny," I complained.
"Does that really matter, Bella?" she asked with a sigh.
"No," I replied. "But she isn't someone I'd necessarily just want to see me in my undergarments."
"Hey, babe," I heard as I answered my phone.
"Oh, hi Edward," I replied with a smile. "What are you up to?"
"I just wanted to let you know that we're going to have a guy's night, tonight, watch some movies, order take out, just have some testosterone time. Maybe you and the girls can do something, too," he said. I heard the smile in his voice. "Have I told you how glad I am that you're friends with my sister?"
"Nope!" I replied as I pulled myself out of the BMW. "But I'm happy I'm friends with your sister." I grabbed my bags from the trunk.
"Well, I'll talk to you later, maybe give you a call between whatever we're doing. Unless you'll be busy," he said, slightly uncertain. I rolled my eyes.
"I'm sure I can take five minutes to talk to you, Edward."
"Yeah, well, I guess I'll talk to you later, then."
"Alright, have fun," I said with a smile. He said goodbye, and I followed Rose into the elevator of our apartment building.
"What was that all about?"
"Apparently the guys are having a guy's night," I said offhandedly as I reached for my keys. Rose frowned.
"That's strange, Emmett hasn't said anything to me about it." I looked up.
"He hasn't?"
"No, which is really weird. We've been texting a lot."
I set my bags down on our squishy blue and yellow polka dot chair and put my hands on my hips. I looked at Rose in her pink skinny jeans, white shirt, and blue purse, her pretty, honest face, and then at the clock. "Well, I won't jump to any conclusions. Let's invite Alice over for dinner," I suggested.
"Sounds good," she said with a slight frown. "I still don't know why he wouldn't tell me."
"Maybe he figured that I just tell you?" I suggested as I washed my hands in the stainless steel sink that was in the island of our kitchen. "I think we have some ham in the fridge, if you want to call Alice." I listened to Rose call Alice as I pulled the ham out of the fridge and cut the strings.
"Yeah, you feel like coming over? Bella and I are cooking. Okay, we'll see you in a bit, then. That'd be great, thanks!" She hung up. "Alice has some left over fruit salad that she's bringing. She's the only one that eats it."
"I'm not the biggest fan of fruit salad," I said as I wrinkled my nose.
"Neither am I. But I guess I should eat some anyway..."
"Yes, you should," came a voice from our doorway. Rose and I whipped around. "Oh, don't worry about it. I had a feeling that I should be here tonight, so I came over right away. I got Rose's call in the elevator," she said as she placed the yellow bowl of pink fluffy mush on the table. "What are we making?"
"I was going to slice up ham for salads," I said. "I think Rose was going to hard boil the eggs. If you want to shred lettuce, that would be nice." We all got to work, and when I was done slicing the ham, I moved onto grating the cheese. Alice sliced some carrots, and I pulled some croutons out of the pantry. "Are you almost done with the eggs, Rose?"
"I have to chill and crumble them," she said. "We can talk while they do that, or something."
"I think something's up with the guys," Alice said suddenly. We looked at her. "Jasper hasn't called me at all today, and he hasn't been answering my texts. I went to his house and he wasn't there."
"Emmett hasn't talked to me, either."
"Edward said that they were having a guys' night...but I think they'd have told us if that were actually the case," I said. "I'm glad I'm not the only one who's worry."
"No, I've been worried all day," Alice said as she sat on the couch. I curled up on the squishy chair after moving my lingerie bags, and Rose sat on the opposite end of the couch. "This isn't like them. Like any of them. Usually they're good about telling people where they're going."
"Edward sounded really strange when he called," I said softly. "I thought he was hiding something. But what wouldn't he want me to know?"
"You could try calling him again," Rose said. "I called Emmett three or four times today."
"But we're not even officially dating," I said. "What if he's found someone else? Someone better?"
"Bella, if my brother thinks he's found someone better, I'll go naked for the next year. And make sure he does, too."
"But Alice, really."
"No, Bella, Alice is right. Edward is completely infatuated with you," Rose said seriously. "I haven't seen him not looking at you."
"You haven't? But there's a lot of times when we're together."
"And he's always looking at you," she sighed. "I mean, really, Bella, he's ALWAYS looking at you."
"I'm actually a little jealous sometimes," Alice chimed in as she cracked open a bottle of wine. "Don't get me wrong, I love Jasper, and I love everything that he does for me, but sometimes I want the absolute devotion that Edward has for you."
"You think it's absolute devotion?" I quoted back.
"Bella, that kid would do anything for you." We all sighed and Rose got up to finish the salads. Alice and I picked out a movie, Limitless, and sank back into the couch. Rose handed us forks and salads, then set the dressings on the coffee table. "Ooh, I'm glad you picked this! I am in love with Bradley Cooper," she gushed. We all grinned and drowned our lettuce before digging in. We were most of the way through the movie, our dishes in the sink and a new bottle of wine open, when there was a knock on the door. I paused it as Alice got up to open the door. She opened it and shrieked. We leaned around her and gasped. The boys stood there, looking sexy as hell, like strippers.
Emmett was a football player, in tiny shorts, shoulder pads, knee high socks, tennis shoes, and face paint. He was also holding a football. Japser was a cowboy, of course, it only made sense with his accent, wearing chaps and jeans, a hat, and a holster, which had a revolver that he pulled out and swung around his finger with a grin. And Edward was a fireman, complete with fireman's pants, suspenders, and helmet. He carried a length of hose in one hand as he hooked the fingers of the other in his suspenders. I blushed hotly, and I could see Rose and Alice were as well.
"Well howdy, ladies," Jasper drawled as he backed us into the apartment, pointing his (fake) gun at us. "We're gonna have to ask ya'll to take your seats for the show." He indicated that we should sit on the couch, ans we hurried over, giggling, and grabbed our wine off the coffee table.
"Would you look at that, they're half drunk," Emmett grinned. "Makes our jobs a whole lot easier."
"It takes more than that to get us drunk, baby," Rose chirped from her place on the couch as she eyed her man.
"Then I guess we'd better get started," Edward said, dark eyes locked onto mine. Emmett slid a CD into out stereo and 3OH!3's My First Kiss blared through the speakers. Alice, Rose and I glanced at each other quickly before the guys brought our attention back to them. Edward and Jasper ran their hands down each other's bare chests while Emmett made some endzone moves behind them. Then he came up and wrapped arms around their waists and pulled them apart. They then started dancing my themselves, and coming closer to us. But we weren't allowed to touch unless they touched us first. And they weren't doing that any time soon.
Jasper stepped up on the table and swung his hips back and forth, eying Alice the whole time. Emmett turned and rolled his hips at Rose, giving her a wonderful view of his ass. Edward leaned over me and stroked his hand down his chest, then reached out towards my face, but didn't touch me. Thankfully our couch was large enough that we were separated far enough that it felt like we wall had our own chairs. Jasper and Emmett leaned over their girls as well, and they all made as if they were going to kiss us. They had obviously choreographed this, because they all leaned forward, straddled us, and rolled their hips in our faces. I leaned back with a hot blush and kept my hands in my lap. I saw that Alice and Rose were having a lot harder times keeping their hands to themselves. Edward smirked down at me, his sexy lips pulled up at the corner.
Suddenly he was in my lap, pressing himself against my stomach as he leaned over me, mouth hovering over mine before he leaned back with another sexy grin and ground himself against me. I could hear Alice next to me, squeaking with delight, and the muttered dirty words coming from Rose. I blushed as I looked up at the redhead above me, and he ran his hands down my arms, and continued his gyrations against my lap. His hands moved from my arms to lightly moving up my chest, before he wrapped one hand around the back of my neck and propped himself against the back of the couch with his other one. His breath was warm on my face, and I leaned up to him. He pushed me back and shook his head.
"Naughty, naughty, Isabella, where's the fire?" he chuckled. I blushed, but didn't pull away. He leaned in again and pressed a light kiss to the side of my mouth, still pressing against my stomach. I let out a breath and he moved to the other side. I let out a soft whine and he chuckled, then finally dropped his lips to mine. His tongue brushed my lips and I opened for him, his tongue slipped past mine and into my mouth, slipping along my tongue and running lightly across my teeth. The music came to an end and all three guys pulled away with matching smirks. Emmett had Roses red lipstick smeared all over his mouth and Jasper's lip was bleeding. I'm assuming that Alice bit him.
I was definitely excited, more so than I should have been, I think, for having had my half naked boyfriend grinding against me in front of my two closest friends, who also had their half naked boyfriends all over them as well. Oh well, life experiences.