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Chapter Forty One
Bella
The hot tub was almost ready and when Hunter turned it on and I saw all the bubbles I knew I had to try it but of course I had nothing to wear. Would the others go in naked? I had no idea how much nakedness meant to them but Edward had once said something about not taking notice of nakedness like we humans did, females who were mated were out of bounds and no one took any notice but there were at least two unmated males in our party and I for one had no wish to see either of them naked!
I was wondering how to broach the subject when Hunter turned to me,
"You might want to get down there before Alice takes the best of the swimwear Bella."
I smiled feeling relieved and nodded but Jasper held on to my arm,
"We can wait until Alice and Jay have finished, there's no rush."
What he meant to say was I'm not letting Bella go down there with Jay!
"Are you coming in Jasper?"
He smiled at me but shook his head,
"I'll be watching don't worry."
"Oh, why not?"
I was disappointed and I knew I sounded it.
"Come on, I won't feel so self conscious if you are in there too."
"Don't you worry girl, I'll make sure you aren't lonely."
I laughed at Peters joke but Jasper didn't appear to be amused, he glared at Peter and almost dragged me downstairs,
"Come on lets see what we can find."
Alice came out of one of the cabins wearing, well almost wearing, a bikini, followed by a flushed Jay wearing swim shorts. He had a good body, pale and sculpted like all vampires and I guess I spent a second too long looking at him because Jasper started restively and we went into the room they had vacated. There was a selection of swimwear on the bed but it was all for the guys, the only thing left for me was a bikini that was as skimpy as Alice's and I blushed.
Jasper
I didn't want to go in the water because it meant stripping off and showing my myriad scars. What would Bella think of them when compared to Jay's almost perfectly unblemished torso or even the other guys. I was concerned I might scare her and that was the last thing I wanted to do but at the same time I didn't like the thought of her in the water with all the guys, who knew what might happen.
Deciding that having her see them now rather than during our first sexual encounter was probably a good idea I grabbed some shorts as she went reluctantly into the bathroom to change. I found Bella's coyness appealing but I really wanted to see her naked, to taste her, to feel her, and most importantly to make love to her before I exploded.
"I'll be a few minutes, you go up Jasper and I'll join you."
I could feel the embarrassment and knew she was uncomfortable with the only bikini left for her. I'd never seen Bella in less than shorts and a tee and I imagined what she would look like in it making myself stiffer than ever and I had a job calming myself enough to put the shorts on looking at my reflection in the mirror self consciously. For years my scars hadn't bothered me, Alice had seen them and accepted them and before her I hadn't cared what women thought of them, they were just a part of me.
The others were already in the hot tub all except Darius who sat on deck tapping away. Hunter was in there and I wondered what he was wearing, he hadn't come down to my knowledge. He stood up to alter the rate of bubbles and I saw he was wearing a pair of shorts much like my own except the legs coming from his weren't covered in scars nor the torso either, still there was nothing I could do about them so I stepped in between Peter and Alice with Jay on the far side of her keeping his distance from Peter I decided.
The atmosphere was slightly tense in the tub but once I sat down they started talking once more. Then there was a sudden hush and all eyes turned to look as Bella walked out on deck wearing virtually nothing. Her breasts were barely covered by the top and the bottoms were cut so high they showed all of her leg up to the hip. She was the most exciting and sexy thing I had ever seen and I gasped as she walked to me and stepped in steadying herself with a warm soft hand on my shoulder.
"Now that is a bikini!"
I glared at Peter who held up his hands in surrender and I was relieved when she sat down by my side hiding most of her charms in the water. For a while we sat chattering then Peter disappeared from view and the next moment Alice squealed as she was dragged off her seat into the center.
Bella
If I hadn't been so keen to try out the hot tub I wouldn't have dreamed of wearing something like this, it hardly covered anything and I hated my naked body but I had no choice. Besides everyone would be watching Alice so I wouldn't get stares or so I thought. However when I came out on deck everyone looked and I wanted to run back downstairs and hide in our cabin but that would merely give Peter something to tease me about so I summoned all my courage and joined them in the water. It was heavenly and I snuggled up to Jasper as we chatted.
It was the first time I'd seen Jasper wearing so little and his sculpted chest and fine muscles had me weak at the knees. As he turned the underwater lights in the tub showed up some of the scars I had heard of but never expected to see. They were like crescent shapes covering his neck, shoulders, chest, and both arms almost to the wrist. I remembered the pain when James bit me and wondered how he had survived so many, even as a vampire. I think he expected me to pull away as I made them out but they were just another part of his life and I kissed a cluster on one shoulder. He tensed slightly but then I heard a sigh of contentment, now he knew they wouldn't frighten me.
Everything was fine at first, his hand rested on my thigh stroking it gently which made me breathless but the others were talking enough that it didn't matter. His hand was venturing higher and making me feel a little uncomfortable when Peter attacked Alice. As she splashed about in the center I felt a cold hand wrap around my ankle and squealed. What happened after that I didn't see. There was a roar of anger and the water boiled over. I found myself face down in the water with a body over the top of me and I wondered if someone were trying to drown me.
Darius
Everything seemed fine and I was about to go back down when I heard first Alice, then Bella squeal and while Alice's meant nothing the same couldn't be said for Bella. I almost threw my laptop to the deck and turned just in time to see The Major hurl himself at Jay who had just surfaced by the look of things. I leaped in on top of him while Hunter tried to protect Bella from the effects of a fight in such a confined space. Peter joined me and we dragged The Major bodily from the hot tub still shouting threats at Jay who looked bewildered.
"I never touched Bella, I was trying to get Peter to release Alice"
"LIAR!"
The Major sounded like a mad man and Peter looked at me,
"Lets get him out of here before Hunter let's Bella up and we'd better be quick or she'll drown."
I nodded and we wrestled him to the side of the boat before diving in still hanging on for dear life as he continued screaming threats at Jay. As we started towing him away into the lake, Peter tried to explain,
"Fuck Major listen to me. I grabbed Bella not Jay. Now calm down before I rip your fucking legs off."