Chapter Ten, Power trip.
Edwards POV
When I woke up, I lay very still as I could feel the weight of someone lying on me, then the memory of last night came flooding back to me. I opened my eyes to see the most beautiful creature on the planet sleeping peacefully with her head on my arm, her arm was resting over me as well as one of her legs. I was completely in awe of her. How could I be so lucky as to deserve what she had given me? Making love to her was well beyond anything I could have imagined. I know I had rushed her into this relationship, but honestly, I didn't think I could go another day without making her mine. I'd have to be a completely brain dead idiot to ever think about letting her go, I would do anything for her, be anything for her, she was the air in my lungs and the blood in my veins, she was my everything.
Her eye's opened slowly and I stared into the melted chocolate depths of them, I couldn't stop myself from leaning forward and pressing my lips to hers.
"Good morning beautiful." I whispered, though the word seemed very inadequate to me.
Then I heard someone out in the hall and by the expression of panic on Bella's face she heard it too. It was probably just my father coming home from his early morning shift at the hospital, but I closed my eyes to make like I was sleeping. I knew my father wouldn't say anything, he always said I was exactly like he had been as a teen and he obviously expected this to happen otherwise he wouldn't have given me the box of condoms the other night.
I heard him chuckle as he pulled the door closed. "That's my boy." He said.
I couldn't help but laugh and Bella laughed too, both our bodies shook with laughter and the shaking made her leg rub against my morning wood. That was all it took for my staying power, I pulled her further on top of me, I had to have her again and I had to have her now, she didn't attempt to stop me. It felt like it was my birthday when it was her that reached over to her nightstand and pulled another condom from the packet and then she put it on. Dear god it felt so good when she touched me.
"Are you trying to tell me something?" I asked.
She giggled and then placed her finger on my lips, "Shush, I am experimenting with being brave." She said, but having her on top of me excited me too much and I'm embarrassed to admit I couldn't make it last past ten minutes, but it was early and we had the whole day ahead of us.
There was too much activity downstairs with the others using the bathroom so I waited for Bella to use my shower before I went in.
"I'd better sneak these sheets down to the laundry whilst you are in the shower then." She said, stripping the sheets off.
"I wont be long." I said, she kissed me before I left her room.
~F~
Once I had showered and dressed I went back to Bella's room, she was fighting back a smile.
"What?" I asked.
"I took the sheets to the laundry." She said.
"And?"
"I bumped into Rose and Alice in the laundry room, they had to wash their sheets too." She said, then she started giggling.
"Damn, I was hoping to beat them." I admitted.
"Oh, you did, did you?" She said, stretching up to put her arms around my neck, "I hadn't realised it was a competition." She said, her eyes narrowing. I helped lift her up so that she wouldn't hurt herself by stretching.
"It wasn't, believe me the only people I was thinking about were you and me. So explain how we beat them." I said wondering what she meant.
"It seems that Emm and Jazz followed the rules last night, but they got up real early this morning, just so no rules were broken." She said and then she kissed me, which distracted me from whatever it was that I was about to say.
"Come on," I said smiling, "you need to eat something, to keep your energy up." I said still holding her up. I carried her out of the room that way and I didn't put her down until we were in the living room, I just couldn't keep my hands off her.
I took Bella's hand and we walked into the kitchen together, Emm was sitting by Rose and he was kissing her neck, Alice was sitting next to Jazz but her legs were over his lap.
"You all look very cosy." I said, they all just grinned, but no one spoke. Dad was reading the paper, until Emm stole the sports section.
Mom started putting food on the table and again Bella gave me most of hers, breakfast was a very quiet affair until Mom spoke.
"Your father told me something very interesting this morning," she said and she glared straight at me, but as everyone was still eating no one spoke. "It would seem that although most of you took notice of the curfew last night... but those that did just got up extra early this morning." She paused. "So Jasper... I am assuming that you will be moving in to Alice's room today? Rose, I'm guessing that Emm will be moving you in with him?" She paused again and turned slowly to look at me. "And Bella will be moving in permanently with you?"
The table was silent and all our eyes were on our plates, everyone of us was red faced, even Bella, she had not put make up on her cheeks today and I could feel the heat coming from her face.
"You are definitely your fathers children, I don't know what made me think that any of you would wait." Mom said, then she sighed. "Oh and girls thanks for doing the laundry this morning. Well as all the single beds have now been stripped, I guess that there isn't much for me to do today as you will all be moving things around in the bedrooms. I will be in my office if anyone needs me, but keep the noise down your father will be off to bed in a while." No one spoke until Mom had gone from the kitchen and we heard her office door close.
"Guess who we're playing Friday in the final." Emmett said from behind the sports section of the paper.
"Who?" Jazz asked.
Emmett's face appeared over the paper with the most demonic grin I've ever seen.
"No way." I said and Emm nodded, I laughed.
"The Quilayute's." Emm confirmed. "Ha, wonder where the games gonna be, if its in La Push I so want to be there when they explain to coach that his best players can't go."
"What do you mean?" Jazz asked.
"There have always been Cullen's in Forks and the legend goes that our ancestors and some of the Quillayutes got trapped on James Island and couldn't get off for a month. There was no food on the island so they were starving, apparently only the Cullen's survived and that was because they ate the Quillayutes." I explained. "So no Cullen's have been allowed in La Push since." I had not been looking forward to Bella finding out about this, I wasn't sure how she would react.
"Just how long ago was that supposed to have happened?" Bella asked.
"The early seventeen nineties I think." I said.
"And they are still holding a grudge against you? After what like ten generations?" Bella laughed, "what? They think you might get hungry during the game and start snacking on their team mascot?"
"There is slightly more to it than that." Dad said, I sighed not wanting to reveal this part.
"Well, there wasn't any drinking water on the island and the legend goes that they drained their blood to drink, so they refer to us as the blood drinkers. I explained.
"What?" Rose, Bella and Jazz all said and they were all laughing.
"Well I guess they should be even more nervous now then." Rose said.
"Why's that?" Emm asked.
"The Cullen Coven has grown." She said with and evil grin.
Emm grinned at her. "Damn I knew there was a reason I love you." He said kissing her... loudly.
"Cool." Bella said smiling up at me, "so, I not only get to marry a super sexy guy, I get the added bonus of him being a vampire." She said.
"What's cool about that?" I asked slightly shock at how well she was taking this.
"Only a vampire can love you forever." She said, stretching up to kiss my cheek.
I leaned down to kiss her back, "Forever." I promised. I had to smile, I couldn't have hoped for her to take this better.
Emm laughed, "I wonder if Black will turn up."
"Well if he does, he'll probably be in a wheel chair." I said.
"And if he's not... I'll put him in one." Emm said, Jazz nodded in approval.
"Emmett you need to watch what you're doing at this game, there are going to be a lot of scouts at this game, if you want a free ride through collage, you are really going to have to work hard at this game." Dad warned Emm. "That goes for you too Jasper, you need this game to show them just how good you are, so no heroics from either of you, we have done nothing to the Quillayutes, the problem they have is their own fear." Dad tried to reason.
"They have been scared of us for a reason, they wont even use the hospital because Dad works there. So we will bleed them dry on the field, I'm talking total wipe out, no mercy, not even a field goal. We need to tell the rest of the team how they have banned us from La Push because of our ancestors. And now after two centuries of banishment we will regain our dignity and we will do it in full view of all the Quillayutes and all of Forks." Emm said, that had to be the best pep talk I'd heard him make, he held his clenched fists up for Jazz and I to knuckle bump him. "Hey, come on let's get moving, we have football practice at 2." He said and we all got up and went to do the one job that couldn't have come soon enough for me, but heck this was months faster that I could have hoped.
Most of Bella's things were still in her box and her new clothes were still in the bags from yesterday. So there wasn't much to do, I did remember to empty the trash can in her room. The last thing I wanted was for my Mom to find the used condoms in the trash, the thought made me shiver uncomfortably, I took the bag out to the trash myself. I made Bella sit on my bed whilst I carried her things through. I went to my night stand and got her necklace out of the jeweller's bag, she held her hair up whilst I fastened it and seeing her neck exposed I couldn't help but kiss it. I picked her up and lay her on my, I mean our bed. I had to smile at the way that sounded in my head 'our,' awesome word, I lay down on top of her and kissed along her jaw.
I heard my dad cough at the door, "when your mother told you to make the move, I'm not sure that's the one she had in mind son." He said.
"Sorry Dad." I said grinning, Bella looked up at him, she was biting her lip again.
"Don't be, carry on son, I saw nothing... Sorry Bella." He added and he walked away chuckling to himself.
I put the new CD 'We've all been there' by Alex Band, that I had bought yesterday, into my CD player by the bed, I skipped straight to track six. 'I will not back down' and I dedicated it to Bella. I watched her face as she listened to the words, she frowned at the first line 'I let you down', but as the song progressed she began to smile, lighting up her face.
I let you down but I'll make it up to you somehow
In time you'll see it's true
If my will is strong
And I know that as these days go on
You'll find I'll get to you
If it's the last thing that I do
Every step you take, I'll be a second behind
Every move you make, I'll be the thorn in your side
And know you can't fight this now
I will not back down
I'm the sky, the stars, the moon, the setting sun
I'm the feeling inside you when you're coming undone
You know you can't fight this now
I will not back down
Some say I'm cruel
But nobody knows what I feel for you
My love, you're the only one, yeah
Do you understand?
Every step you take, I'll be a second behind
Every move you make, I'll be the thorn in your side
And know you can't fight this now
(Alex Band)
By the end of the song she was singing, okay miming more like, along with the chorus, the look she gave me made me feel unbelievable and I knew that she felt the same way. The love was written right across her face, she wrapped her arms and legs around me, I could literally feel her euphoria.
"I love you," I whispered against her lips, she whimpered in response before she whispered back.
"I love you."
We kissed passionately, listening to the songs, she kissed down my throat and I could feel her lips quivering against my neck as she sang along to the chorus of track eight.
"I will never, ever, ever let you go... you know." She whispered.
Her words filled my heart and I could feel it swelling inside of me, filling my chest, I was happier than I had ever been in my life and I knew I would never feel any differently about her than I did in that moment. She was the one thing that completed me, filled the gap that I had never understood, that part of my life that never made any sense. Now that she was part of my life, I understood what it meant, there was never any doubt in my mind that she was the one, my forever.
"If I continue up these stairs will I find you doing something you shouldn't be doing or something you should?" Mom called.
Bella and I stopped kissing immediately and I got up and off the bed quickly and carefully pulling her with me.
"Now we were in the middle of making room in my closet were we not?" I said and we both rushed to the closet, I started pulling clothes out of a draw, there is plenty of room for you to hang some of your new things up there." I said pointing to the hanging space and Bella started pulling her new clothes out of the bags and hanging them up.
"What's this doing here?" She asked, then added, "It must be Rose's and got put in the wrong bag." She said, putting the pink dress back in the bag.
"No, its yours." I said taking it back from the bag and hanging it up."
"What?" She asked shocked.
"Alice got it for you, for the dance." I explained.
"Oh well... firstly... WHAT?! Secondly I'm not going to the dance and thirdly even if you drug, kidnap, blindfold and gag me... I'm still not wearing pink, like EVER!"
"Bella..." I started to say but she pushed me up against the wall of the closet and stretched up to put her hand over my mouth to stop me. I had never known her be so forceful, I kind of liked it.
"No Edward, I might be a lot of things but I do not and never will wear pink. Do. You. Understand me?" She asked, but she never moved her hand from my mouth, so I nodded, "Not EVER!" She added and I nodded again, "good, now kindly remove it, so Alice can take it back and get a refund."
"Don't you mean replacement?" I mumbled against her hand.
"Don't make me hurt you." She threatened.
"Like you could." I said when she dropped her hand to my chest.
Then she moved her hand lower and pulled down my zipper and undid my pants, so obviously I started to get excited, she slowly moved her hand inside and ignored the erection she had given me and grabbed hold of my balls
"Oh I think I could." Was all she said, she licked her lips in such a way that I had to grab a hold of her and lower her to the floor and I lay down on top of her as I went to kiss her she bit on my lip, and didn't let go. "No. Dance!" She said, though it wasn't easy to tell she was still biting on my lip and the way she was squeezing my balls was highly distracting.
"No dance, go it." I said.
"Promise." I think she said, she squeezed harder.
"PROMISE." I gasped.
"Good, now that's all clear," she said releasing my lip and my balls.
"Wow dominatrix, where did that come from?" I asked.
"Pink has a very adverse effect on me." She said, "that doubled with the threat of dancing just pushed me over the edge, sorry." She said.
"Are you?" I asked.
"What?"
"Are you sorry?" I asked.
She stared at my face thinking through her answer carefully. "Not really, that was quite a power trip, I quite enjoyed it."
"I would have too if you hadn't squeezed quite so hard." I admitted, grinning. She rolled her eyes at me.
"Well at least you know now that I can stand up to you." She said grinning back, but she bit her lip, that seemed to be the extent of her confidence.
Honestly I was pleased to see that she could stand up for herself, if anything more so with me. She would not be walked over I was happy to see, she would most definitely not let me get away with anything. She was becoming more confident around me which was wonderful, well last night I had most definitely gone to sleep with the girl and woken up with the woman.
"No dress?" I asked.
"No!" She said.
"And no dance?" I asked again.
"No!" She said again.
"You have to give me something." I said.
"I don't have to give you anything." She said scowling at me.
I pushed my hips into hers, making her whimper, I smiled and whispered. "Please?" Into her neck and I kissed her throat.
"Okay," She acquiesced, her voice all breathy, "the dance is after the game on Friday, right?" She asked.
"Yes." I said against her jaw as I kissed along it to her ear.
"Rose, Emm, Jazz and Alice will all be at the dance?" She asked, but her breath was starting to come in gasps as I kissed the indentation under her ear.
"Yes," I whispered against her ear.
"And your..." she paused and whimpered again as I rubbed my hard cock against her. "Dad will be... uh... work, ing." She gasped.
"Yes, he'll have to leave right after the game." I said still unsure where she was going with this questioning, but please about the way she was reacting to my touch.
"And your Mom will be busy getting things ready for the engagement party?"
"For our engagement party... yes, probably." I said.
"So we will practically have the place to ourselves?" She asked.
"Yes." I answered and I could feel my eyes widening along with the smile on my face, which grew bigger watching her face and seeing that she was trying hard not to smile.
"So if I promise to, I don't know, maybe take a shower with you, I might even dance half naked around the room with you, if you hold me up that is." She said.
"Yes?" I said eager now for her to continue.
"Well, wouldn't that be better than going to the dance?" She asked.
"Hmm, you promise to take a shower with me?" I asked her, she nodded, "and dance naked around this room with me?" I asked.
"Mostly naked." She amended.
"You promise?" I asked her to confirm.
"I promise." She said.
"Then you have a deal." I said, I kissed her lips, elated at the idea of showering with her, it had become almost a fantasy over the last few days. It was definitely a much better option than the dance, so I couldn't wait until Friday, or even sooner if I got the chance.
I jumped to my feet when I heard Mom coming up the stairs and I pulled Bella up with me and quickly did up my pants, Bella stood in front of me so that Mom couldn't see the bulge in my pants, I was still excited at the idea of being in the shower with Bella.
"Right you two." Mom said as she walked in.
I stared wide eyed at her and waited to hear what was coming.
"You are both still very young and I know you feel you are old enough, but you are younger than your father and I were and we were too young." She paused and took a deep breath, "I am not telling you not to get married and I wouldn't even try to stop you doing anything else. I am just asking that whatever you do." She took another deep breath, "please don't bring children into your life... just make sure you take precautions please? If you run out, I will make sure there is always a good supply in the main bathroom downstairs. Don't get me wrong I don't regret having you, I just want you all to have a chance at living and having fun before you settle down, so wait until after collage before having children." She said.
I didn't know what to say, it was always Dad who spoke to me about this sort of thing, It was much harder with Mom, but I need not have worried as Bella answered in a way that shocked me, yes she shocked me, but in the most wonderful and loving way.
"Don't worry Mom." She said walking over and hugging my Mom. I watched my Mom's face light up as she smiled warmly at Bella's calling her Mom. "We have no plans to make you a Grandmother for a good few years." They both laughed and Mom hugged her back.
"Going on the fact that my offspring are all their fathers children, now might be a good time to buy shares in Durex." She said laughing as she walked back out of the room.
Once Mom had gone I turned to Bella my head scrambling with which question to ask her first.
"You called her Mom." I said.
"You don't mind do you?" She asked worried.
"Mind? Not at all, it was wonderful, but you don't have too call her that." I said.
"I know that, but it felt right to say it and, she is really isn't she?" She said.
I laughed, "Yes she is," and I pulled her to me and leant down to kiss her.
"So you do want children then?" I asked.
"Not children specifically, but your children, yes I do... eventually, why... don't you?" she suddenly became nervous when she said the last part.
I lifted her chin slowly back up and I leant down to lean my forehead to hers. "Bella, I would like nothing better than for you to be the mother of my children, but like you say, eventually, we need to practise the making them part a lot first." I said.
"Mom and Dad are being very open minded about this living arrangement... are they normally like this?" Bella asked.
"Well nothing like this has happened before, but it is most unexpected, I know that I can usually get away with a lot but they have been much more understanding, especially Mom, thinking about it she has been acting very odd lately. She is only just getting over being ill, she was getting sick for months, maybe that's why." I suggested.
~F~
After clearing some room in my closet and on my bookshelves Bella put her things out, but no one would really be able to tell that this was her room too. I will have to go and search online later and do some shopping of my own, just a few things to make this place look like she lived in it. There was still several hours to go before lunch, so I had an idea to fill the time, well I had two, but I was guessing she would still be a little too sore for the other option.
"Would you like to come for a walk before lunch." I asked.
"I'd like that, I need to move, I'm still having difficulty walking, I guess its a good thing that my pain pills are also muscle relaxants, that does seem to be helping." She said blushing.
I found myself biting on my lip embarrassed, a nasty habit I seemed to of gotten from her. "I'm sorry." I said.
"I'm not," she said and we both laughed, those were our first words to each other only in reverse. "If it gets too much for you, I can always carry you." I assured her.
"Okay." She said smiling and kissing my still red cheek, thinking about it I was reminded that her cheeks were red, aside from the bruise.
"I was just wondering, is there a reason that you have not put your cover up make up on today?" I asked.
"Well I haven't really had time yet, but I was trying the cream that... Mom," she paused wondering if she should call Mom, Mom when talking to me. "Gave me." She explained.
I smiled to show I was happy to hear her say that. "Well its starting to yellow up already, so it should be gone in a day or two." I assured her, She smiled and took my hand and pulled me from the room and down the stairs.
I loved walking through the forest around our home but having Bella with me to share the experience just made it so much better. I had my arm around her waist and my hand inside the top of her jeans, she in-turn had her arm around me with her hand in my back pocket.
"Bella?" I asked after walking in silence for a long while.
"Yes?" She said, looking up at me smiling happily.
"What would you like as an engagement gift from me?" I asked.
"I already have the two most important gifts, you and the ring, I don't need anything else and I certainly don't want you spending anymore money on me." She insisted and started to frown.
"I know that but there must be something that you really want." I said.
"Look Edward," she said, it still thrilled me to hear my name through her lips. "I only ever wanted you and material things don't matter to me, I have never had much and I really don't need anything." She tried to insist.
"I just think there should be something in our room that represents that you live there too." I said.
"Like what exactly?" She asked.
"I don't know that's why I asked you, but I was wondering, you want to be a writer don't you?" I asked.
"Yeees." She said slowly.
"So how about I get you a desk, new bookshelves and a decent laptop, or would you prefer a computer?" I asked.
"No... that's too much." She tried to argue.
"I'll take that as a yes." I said pulling her around in front of me and lifting her up.
"Edward no." She said but I kissed her to stop her arguing.
"We can go online later and you can pick out some new books too." I said, but quickly kissed her again before she objected.
~F~
Later the six of us set off for school in Emm's Jeep, Rose sat in the front next to Emm, not a great idea as he spent more time watching her than he did the road. I knew he'd liked her from the moment he saw her, much the same as I had with Bella and Alice had with Jazz. It was obvious that he was besotted with her. It was an odd feeling seeing my siblings so happy, it made my own euphoric mood that much more intense. Jazz sat in the back with Alice in his lap and I sat next to him with Bella in my lap, I had my arms wrapped around her, holding her close. It felt odd the feelings inside me, knowing I was off to football practice and Bella being there to watch me. I had to admit I was more than proud to show her off as mine, but honestly I'd much rather have her to myself.
I wasn't sure I'd be much use, just walking away from her to go into the shower this morning left a gaping great hole inside of me. So walking away and concentrating on playing football was going to be a challenge. I knew that she'd be safe, that the psycho was gone and that Black wasn't around. But even with her sitting with the girls whilst they practised their cheers, it still didn't feel safe enough, not unless I was with her. Though that could just be because of all the guys in Forks, in school and even on the team who wanted her. Since seeing us together after the game, I was pretty sure that everyone knew she was mine now enough to stay away from her, I was sure. Except for Newton, he'd seen us together on Friday, but he wasn't at the game or the after party, but someone would have said something to him. Forks was a small town after all and it must be big news that the Hales were all dating the Cullen's. Wait until they hear we are all living together, that will start some major gossip and as for us all getting married so soon, well, that will keep the gossips happy for years, the stories about the Hales and the Cullen's will be legendary.
Emm, Rose and Jazz would all being well, be off to college in the fall and away from the gossip, though I wasn't sure how Alice would cope with that. If Jazz has to go far away, she'll probably drop out of school if I know anything, but Dad wont let that happen, he'd probably pay for Jazz to go to Seattle just to keep Alice happy.
When we arrived at school the coach and most of the team were already there, I kept my arms around Bella and she held me tightly. I leant down a few time and kissed the top of her head, just to be doubly sure that everyone knew she was mine.
"Hi Bella." Tyler said, "Edward." He added, more as an after thought than to be polite.
"Come on Bella." Alice said grabbing her hand and trying to pull her away from me, I slapped Alice's hand away. I turned Bella around and leaned down to kiss her before she went off with Alice. I had to smile when she threw her arms around my neck and threw herself into the kiss, half the guys whistled or coughed.
"Cullen, put Swan down so we can get on the field." Coach said.
I felt the tear as we separated and she walked away from me, she turned and judging by the expression on her face it was obvious that she had felt it too.
Practice seemed quite uneventful until about an hour had passed. The cheerleaders were making a lot more noise than usual and the team stopped what they were doing to run over and see what was happening. As I knew Bella was over there I ran suddenly panicked over the where the commotion was. I could see clearly that Jessica Stanley was in the middle of it all and she had blood on her face. Clearly she had been fighting as three other cheerleaders where holding her back, I looked to see who she had picked a fight with this time and my heart almost stopped. Rose and Alice were helping Bella to her feet.
A/N oh, no not again, I seem to be developing a habit of getting Bella beat up :/