"Nice car." Bella said as she sat down.
"Thanks. I just got it."
"And here I was thinking that you were some sort of hobo."
"You thought you were screwing a hobo? You really are deplorable." I turned the joke on her. She tried to glare at me, but just ended up laughing. Bella relaxed in the leather seat and I watched her from the corner of my eye as I drove. She was still tired, but that shower seemed to rejuvenate her. She still had her post-coitous glow.
"I love this new car smell." She mumbled with her eyes closed.
"It smells a bit too new in my opinion. We'll just have to have sex in it later to change that."
"Is sex the only thing you think about?" Bella joked, but I could feel that she was genuinely asking.
"I'm a man who wants very few things. I told you who I was right from the start. I'm a shallow man who's only good for two things, fighting and fucking." I didn't want to talk about this, but changing the subject would be too blatant. Bella bit her plump bottom lip.
"I find that hard to believe. I liked you before we had sex. You're a bit rough around the edges, but you're a good man." I gripped the steering wheel tightly, trying to hold back my anger.
"Isn't that the dream of every woman? Finding a man that she can fix?" Bella opened her eyes and looked over at me.
"Do you think I'm trying to 'fix' you?" Bella asked while making quotation marks. I bit my tongue to hold in my acidic comment so I could actually consider her question.
"No, you're not, but you are changing me." And I hated that fact. I liked how I was before, unrestrained and of a single mind.
"Well I'm changing too and it scares me and I have a feeling that I've changed a lot more than you have, and I'm not just talking about my virginity." I kept my eyes focused ahead on the road, not wanting to respond. She had changed more than me. "Jasper, I like that you get angry when people get in your way, but please don't direct it at me. My body is strong, but my emotions are vulnerable, especially when it comes to you." I held back a growl of frustration.
"I'm not used to this, trying to restrain myself." Bella placed her hand over one of my own which was strangling the steering wheel.
"I know." Bella paused and I felt her emotions lighten. "I wasn't used to sex, but I've grown to rather like it because of you." I couldn't hold back my prideful grin.
"You only like it? Well shit I was hoping to hear you profess your love to my dick before the weekend was over." I matched her playful tone. She rolled her eyes.
"The weekend has only just started. We still have time for that."
Had to add a bit of seriousness to it.
