Chapter 56:

The plane landed on the mainland and a helicopter took us the rest of the way to Isle Esme.

The island was about a mile offshore, a small tropical paradise. It was a tight fit with all of us in the helicopter and very loud with the roar of the rotors overhead. Bella and Leah were crowding at the windows and I confess I was curious to see the place from air as well.

We were flying over the island right now. The majority of the terrain was covered in a tropical rain forest, a vast cluster of bright green palmtrees and vines and a broad carpet of ferns and other plantlife. Several sides of the island terminated in sheer cliffs with a long beach along one edge. The sand was almost pure white and the waves that lapped at it surged from a sea that was a brilliant crystal blue. There was a villa on the beach, a grand estate with brown terracotta roofs baking in the sun, and on the roof was a helipad.

Down by the helipad there were three figures waiting. One of them was a blonde man in a loose white suit that rippled in the wind of the approaching helicopter. Carlisle, I presumed. The other adult was a woman who was perhaps his wife, wearing a blowsy blue dress and her caramel colored hair in curls. The final figure was a girl with short black hair, pixie style. She was wearing a pale yellow sundress and she was using a hand over her eyes as a visor from the sun. The skirt of her dress whipped around her legs and she was almost bouncing from excitement.

Bella had her nose puttied to the windowglass and when she saw the girl she suddenly spun back to me.

"That's Alice!" she shouted over the noise in the small helicopter. "Oh my god, she's gonna freak when she sees me!"

I smiled and she quickly went back to the window. Leah was beside her and she was quietly in awe over the villa and private island. Tanya and the others were buckled to seats about the helicopter and Tanya gave me a smile as if she thought I might need a little encouragement. Perhaps I did because I wasn't much looking forward to meeting these people again.

The helicopter was beginning to touch down, the entire contraption shuddering and rocking as it made contact with the asphalt on the roof. The rotor was already beginning to wind down. Everyone was unbuckling their seatbelts and the pilot was coming around outside to open the door.

The hatch lifted up and the pilot stepped back, still somewhat in awe of his attractive all-female cargo. Tanya paused to thank him for the flight politely and Carmen did as well. Bella meanwhile was the first out of the helicopter followed by Leah and Kate. The blonde man and the woman and the blackhaired girl were coming forward, their clothes and hair rustling in the wind of the slowing rotor, and stood for a moment to allow the whirling blades to stop.

Bella had a hand on top of her hair to keep it from fluttering everywhere and she was grinning at the girl. The girl was grinning in return, oddly unshocked to find this old friend among even older friends, and when it was safe to approach she made a quick dash forward and threw her arms around Bella.

"Bella, oh my god!" she said excitedly. "It's been so long!"

Bella laughed in surprise and returned the hug. I raised my brows, somewhat surprised as well, and everyone else smiled.

The rotors were almost at a stop now and the wind had died down. Bella was still chuckling at the greeting and patting her old friend's back.

"Hi, Alice," she said.

The girl named Alice released the hug, still grinning, and looked her over eagerly. "Wow, look at you," she said. "You're so beautiful, and your eyes…your eyes are…"

She seemed to notice for the first time they were red. Her smile faltered slightly and she looked at the rest of us. We all had red eyes. She chuckled, in surprise, and took a step back.

"Oh," she said. "All you guys are…"

The woman with caramel colored haired had noticed as well and she kept a slight distance. The blonde man had shook hands with the pilot and the pilot was climbing back into the helicopter.

The blonde man then turned to us with a warm smile of welcome.

"Greetings, everyone," he said. "Welcome to Isle Esme. Bella, I hope you don't mind, but I told Alice in advance that you were coming. She could tell I was hiding something and she wouldn't stop pestering me till I revealed it."

Bella smiled and I could tell she was very pleasantly surprised at the lack of awkwardness. "It's fine. It's great to see you guys again."

She turned back to Alice and Alice had recovered enough from her shock to once again throw her arms around Bella.

"Yeah, you too," she said. "Gosh, it's been so long, hasn't it?"

Bella smiled and hugged her back for a while. I watched them with a smile of my own. So far I seemed to have gone mostly unnoticed aside from a glance or two. Perhaps she didn't recognize me.

The blackhaired girl released the hug and gave the rest of her old friends a smile as well.

"So long since I've seen any of you," she added. "Lot's changed, huh? I knew you guys liked a bit of girl time, but wow."

She was looking at Claire and Leah, a slight smirk on her lips. Leah grinned and offered a hand.

"Hey," she said. "I'm Leah."

Alice giggled and shook it. "Yeah, I know. Tanya told us all about you. Must take a special woman to drag Kate all the way over the fence."

Kate giggled and took Leah's arm. "Don't worry, we both straddle the fence quite comfortably," she said, then she gave the blonde man a wink. "Hi, Carlisle."

Carlisle smiled and looked down modestly. Leah grinned at him hugely.

Bella rolled her eyes at all this but I had to smile. The man named Carlisle was quite easily the most beautiful man I had ever seen. Radiant in the sunlight with blonde hair and fine features, calm and aristocratic, a visage positively resplendent with male handsomeness. Even Claire, the full blown lifer-lesbian of the group, went a little doey in the eyes when she looked at him. Tanya was smiling at him too and so was Carmen and the group all but heaved a collective sigh.

Meanwhile, the woman with caramel colored hair cleared her throat and gave us a glare. His wife, I suppose.

Alice laughed and turned to Claire.

"And you must be Claire, right?" she asked. "I'm so glad Irena's finally found someone."

Claire glanced to Irena for permission and then she offered a hand to Alice. Alice shook it but Claire offered no greeting aside from a polite smile, ever the perfect submissive.

Finally the blackhaired girl turned to me. She had known I was there but this was the time first she acknowledged me. I offered her a smile of my own, grateful for her friendliness to my mate, but I didn't think it appropriate to offer a hand as well.

"Well," I said. "I don't suppose anyone told you about me, did they?"

"No," she said with a tiny frown. "They didn't."

I smiled and glanced at Bella. Bella smiled as well, enjoying her old friend's reaction. The woman with caramel colored hair was partly glaring at me, standing by her husband for safety perhaps, and I turned back to the girl.

"Well," I said again. "My name's Victoria."

The girl nodded tersely. "I know, I remember you."

"And I remember you too," I returned with a smirk. "Your family was playing baseball in a thunderstorm when we first met. You were pitching, if I recall. And quite adorable in that ballcap."

An odd look passed over her, confusion, surprise, a quirk of a smile. Her face was pale and doll-like and incredibly pretty. I let my eyes rake over her seductively.

Meanwhile the silence became a little awkward. No one quite knew how to proceed until the woman with caramel colored hair cleared her throat once more and came forward.

"Well, why don't we come inside," she said. "I'll show you to your rooms and after you get changed and settled you can come meet everyone."

Tanya smiled at her. "Thank you, Esme."

Esme nodded, glancing warily at me, and then led us away from the helipad as the blades of the helicopter once again began to wind up for takeoff.

The interior of the estate was cool and bright and opulent as the villa of some columbian druglord. The floors were white marble, the statues and columns as well, and all of it sparkling in the sunlight that fell through the tall goldframed windows. The foyer was broad enough for an entire house and there were two marble staircases that wound upwards with golden banisters. You could smell the sea breeze and you could hear the calls of seagulls in the distance.

The group was a little stilted to begin with but soon Carmen and the woman named Esme had fallen into conversation about how clean and spotless everything was, Carmen greatly impressed, Esme greatly complimented. Tanya was sharing details of the trip with Carlisle, the two of them rather alike, soft and serene, beautiful beyond realism, Carlisle in a white suit and Tanya in a white dress, like angels of opposing gender. Claire was close to Irena's side and she looked like she might've been more comfortable on all fours and a leash, glancing about, a mouse-like look in her eyes.

Alice had taken Bella's arm and I was trailing along behind them, content to let them have their little reunion. The girl had impressed me with her ability to almost completely overlook everyone's red eyes and the fact that her old friends had taken an old enemy into their coven. She mostly just seemed happy to see everyone and willing to wait till later for everything else. She struck me as a very sweet kind of girl and as I walked along behind her and observed the swish of her hips against the fabric of her skirt I could see that Bella had been completely right about her ass. It was quite astounding.

We were going up one of the broad marble staircases now, slowly, taking in the view of the foyer. Kate was carrying a small overnight bag for Leah and Leah was gazing about at the white and gold magnificence she found herself in with a grin that was huge and bright.

"Holy fuck," she said, not particularly minding her language. "This place is even better than the mansion in Seattle."

Our host, Esme, glanced back at her. "We've arranged rooms for you all in the southeast wing. I'm sure you'll be quite comfortable."

Leah grinned and continued up the stairs with Kate.

Bella was looking around too but she seemed less concerned with the décor and more about bumping into any other members of the coven. Alice was still holding her arm and Bella whispered to her a question.

"Edward's not around, is he?" she asked.

Alice shook her head, a little sadly. "No, we don't see too much of him lately. I'm so sorry for how he left you, Bella. I kept telling him it was a mistake, but…"

She trailed off apologetically. Bella only nodded. She didn't seem to care about any of that. She was just relieved she wouldn't be seeing Edward just yet. I was as well. We were all off to such a nice start. It would be a shame to ruin it.

Soon we were going down a corridor. Along one wall was a row of doors. The doors were tall and white with gold inlay and gold doorhandles. Along the other side was a row of windows. The windows were all open to admit the warm sea breeze and out there you could see the rear of the estate. There was a courtyard with fountains and lanes that were paved with clean red bricks and colourful flowerbeds basked in the sun. A swimming pool with crystal blue water shimmered down there as well and there was also a clay tennis court. On the court there was a man and a woman, the man large and darkhaired, the woman tall and blonde, and they were whacking a ball back and forth over the net in blurs of speed. You could hear the pop of the ball even at this distance. I suppose they were two more members of the coven that we would meet later.

Our rooms were all in a row. Bella had been assigned a room to herself but no one raised any objection when I entered with her and turned to thank our host. Carlisle was very gracious, as Tanya had predicted, but the woman named Esme did seem to be quite disapproving. She had no reply for my gratitude and even gave me a little glare. I suppose her ire was somewhat understandable. All she knew was that I had once tried to kill Bella, who at the time had been the girlfriend of her son. She reminded me of Carmen when we first met and like Carmen perhaps I'd be able to loosen her up a little eventually. Alice was reluctant to let Bella go so soon but it was only appropriate. She backed out the room with the others and gave her old friend promises to come see her soon.

The room was spacious, like a luxurious hotel suite. The bed was made and it had a grand canopy with gold bedpillars and white silk sheets and pillows that had white satin pillowcases. Bella and I had only one suitcase that I set on the bed. It mostly contained sextoys, in particular the machine I had gotten her for christmas. She had become quite fond of it. Luckily it was fully rechargeable. Aside from us only Leah and Claire had packed any bags, mostly to make sure they would have the human toiletries they required.

Beyond the bed were a set of glassdoors that opened onto a balcony. Bella opened them and looked out. The view faced the ocean and the ocean was blue and vast and calm as a vat of molten cobalt as it shimmered and heaved in the sun.

Bella looked out at the view and then sighed and smiled as she turned back to me.

"Well," she said. "Here we are. I guess we can consider this a kind of honeymoon, huh?"

I laughed and gave her a shrug. "A bit of an awkward one, perhaps, but sure."

Bella smiled and wrapped her arms around me. I hugged her back there on the balcony, holding her, my mate, my precious Bella. The wind moved over us and stirred our hair, cool and scented with the sea. Bella held me for a long moment and finally sighed and released me.

"Sorry to drag you into all this mess, Vicky," she said. "Being here is probably more uncomfortable for you than it is for me. I know you probably never wanted to see these people again."

"Well, it's not entirely your fault," I told her with a smile. "Tanya was the one who insisted."

She chuckled softly at that and lifted on her toes to give me a kiss.

After taking the view for a little bit we went back into the room. The room had an ensuite bathroom that was white tile with gold fixtures, faucets, taps. The shower was a wide glass cubicle in the corner and there was plenty of room for both of us, soaping ourselves up and taking turns to lean and rinse under the water, chatting about how grand the villa was and how surprised we were about the relatively warm greeting. Bella was very pleased about Alice and already scheming to get into her panties. From what we had seen already I'm sure the girl would be an easy conquest, married or not.

Bella laughed as she worked the shampoo into her hair.

"I have a weird feeling about her," she said, referring to Alice. "For some reason I don't think she'll be all that freaked out anymore. I used to think she'd be horrified, but now that I've seen her…"

"She does seem very sweet."

"What about her ass, though? Did I tell you, or what?"

I laughed in agreement and she grinned, fingers in her lathered hair, elbows up, breasts wet and exposed on her chest. She leaned to rinse out her hair and I leaned to rinse out mine as well.

"I really was surprised, though," she said. "I mean, she hardly even batted an eyelid when she saw our eyes were red. She was even really cool to you. But I guess she was always like that. I think she'll really like you when she gets to know you. Flattering her helps. She almost giggled when you said she looked cute in a ballcap. Did you really remember her?"

"Oh, yes," I said. "I remember a blonde girl as well."

"That's Rosalie. She's an ice cold bitch."

"Well, I'm sure I can warm her up when I see her."

"Hope so, she's hot as hell too."

I giggled and reached to turn off the water.

Together we emerged from the shower, dripping onto the tiles, and I handed her a towel from a rack of them on the wall. The rack was a solid gold rod and the towels were terrycloth. We dried off and wrung out our hair and then we wrapped the towels around ourselves and went back into the room to find some clothes.

There was a dresser with a mirror and I leaned against a bedpost as Bella opened one of the drawers and bent to peer inside. She had bent at the hip and the towel she was wearing had rose up to reveal a bit of her butt and a tiny peek of pussy. Her legs were long and white and I was lost in a happy stare when there was a knock on the door.

The door opened a little bit and the girl named Alice popped her head in.

"Hey, um—oh," she said.

She had caught a glimpse of Bella's ass.

Bella straightened up and turned with a smile as if she hadn't been aware of what she was displaying. I smiled at the cute intruder and noticed the flash of attraction in her round amber eyes. The girl cleared her throat and tried not to be too embarrassed.

"Sorry, am I interrupting?" she asked, not coming in.

Bella had a pair of panties in her hand and she waved them easily. "No, no, no," she said. "Come in. What's up? Everything okay?"

Alice came in, glancing once at me, and then smiled at Bella and wrapped her arms around Bella's neck. The embrace took Bella by surprise but only for a moment. A grin moved over her mouth and she gave me a look over the girl's shoulder. I smirked and knew what she was thinking.

Alice gave her squeeze and a little moan of affection and then released her.

"Just wanted to hug you again," she said. "It really is so great to see you. You have no idea how much I missed you. It killed me not being able to call or even text. I was afraid you'd think that I didn't care about you."

Bella smiled at her pleasantly. "I know you care, Alice."

I heard the tone of her voice with a smile. It was a predator tone; soft and silky. Unassuming. This was a different Bella from the one they'd left in Forks. This Bella didn't care about apologies or feelings. All this Bella cared about was getting under her skirt.

The girl named Alice was staring at Bella and that smile on her mouth only became brighter.

"But wow, I just can't get over it," she said. "I feel like I might actually faint from shock."

Bella smirked and folded her arms loosely, the pair of panties still in her hand. "What part shocks you the most? The fact that I'm a vampire, that I feed from humans, that my mate is a woman, or that my mate is this woman in particular?"

She nodded at me. I was still leaning on the bedpillar and now I came over to join the conversation. The blackhaired girl looked at me but she seemed to have enough trust in Bella and her leader Carlisle to smile at me as well before laughing.

"All of it," she said.

I returned her smile and spoke in my own predator tone full of softness and politeness. "I understand how shocked you must be, Ms…Cullen?"

"Alice is fine."

I let my smirk sharpen just a little. "Alice, then," I purred. "I understand how shocked you must be, Alice, but the most important fact is that Bella has never been happier in her life. If you can accept that, everything else will come easy."

The girl nodded once or twice and then she smiled.

"I guess you're right," she said.

I smiled at her. Bella smiled at her as well. We were wearing nothing but soft white terrycloth towels wrapped around our naked bodies. Our hair was damp and stringy. Our shoulders were completely bare. Our legs.

The silence grew with Bella and I smiling and staring at this adorable girl named Alice until Alice finally became awkward and giggled.

"Well, I'd better go," she said, backing away toward the door. "I just wanted to…"

"No, wait," Bella said quickly, grabbing her hand. "It's been so long since I've seen you, don't rush off now. Stay a little bit."

"Oh, but—are you sure?"

Alice was at looking our towels but Bella seemed not to care. She gave me a smirk and I almost had to laugh. We hadn't been on the island an hour and she already wanted to scratch a name off her list.

She was leading the girl over to the bed and I leaned back against the dresser to watch them.

"Yeah, come on, sit down," she said. "You must have so many questions. I can't tell you how much it means to me that you're cool with us, Alice. It must've been such a surprise to see Vicky on that helicopter."

Alice giggled. "Vicky, huh?"

Bella giggled too. "That's what I call her, yeah."

They were sitting on the edge of the bed and the girl gave me a glance, an appraising flicker of yellow eyes, up and down over my legs and body and wet red hair, and she seemed to approve. Physically, at least.

Bella was holding Alice's hand, staring at her with red eyes, and she only let her stare soften when Alice turned back to her. There was another small moment of silence, Bella petting Alice's hand, and then the girl spoke.

"So, um," she said. "How the fuck did you guys ever hook up, anyway?"

Bella chuckled at the bluntness of the question. "It's a long story."

"And I want to hear it," Alice said with assurance. "First. Before anyone."

Bella smiled at her and tilted her head slightly. "Are you sure? It's kind of freaky."

"I'll bet," Alice said with a giggle. "I had no idea you were into girls."

"I didn't either," Bella said softly, smiling, staring at her old friend. "Until Vicky raped me."

The baldness of that disclaimer stunned even me.

Alice was just shocked. Her mouth slowly dropped open. Her pale face seemed to pale even more. Her eyes went wide and she looked back and forth between us as she tugged her hand away from Bella's.

"What?" she asked, as if she hadn't heard properly.

Bella let her smile stretch into a grin. "You guys left Forks but Vicky didn't. She stalked me for a while and then one day she paid me a visit after school. Her intention was to kill me, but first…"

Alice covered her mouth with a hand. "Oh my god."

Bella giggled, thoroughly enjoying her old friend's innocent reactions. "I tried to resist, of course, but it was no good. She made me take off my clothes. She touched me. Kissed me. Gently but overwhelmingly. She kept whispering and telling me what to do. Teasing me for how my body responded."

"Oh my god," Alice said, genuinely distraught. "I'm so sorry, Bella."

Bella laughed and took her hand again and began petting it.

"Don't be," she said. "I liked it."

Alice's mouth dropped open again but she didn't tug her hand away this time. She turned to look at me where I was leaning against the dresser and now I unleaned and came over to the bed slowly.

"I can be very effective when I rape a girl," I whispered, sitting down beside her.

All three of us were now on the edge of the bed, Bella and I clad in nothing but towels and Alice between us in nothing but a flimsy yellow sundress with perhaps a pair of panties underneath. She was perfectly still. Like a statue. You could almost feel the electricity crackling off her. She was facing Bella and staring at her in disbelief and Bella smiled and continued petting her hand.

"I've changed a lot since you knew me, Alice," she said.

Alice finally swallowed a lump in her throat. "I know, but…how?"

Alice glanced backward at me and back at Bella. Bella smirked and gave a small shrug of a bare shoulder.

"Even after she raped me, she couldn't bring herself to kill me," she said. "I was too delicious not to savor for a while. So instead she kidnapped me and bought to a motel room."

The girl blinked innocently. "What happened there?"

"What do you think?" Bella returned with a smirk.

The girl froze all over again and ran a hand through her short hair. She looked back at me, sitting just there behind her, just a little too close, but there was no anger or disapproval in her face. Just shock and perhaps a hint of excitement.

Bella patted her hand to draw her attention back.

"I don't mind telling you, Alice, because you've already shown me how much you care about me," she said. "The others, though, I don't know. I don't think they should know about any of this. This kind of thing should be private. Especially from people who might not understand. But you…"

Bella smiled down at the hand that she held in her lap and she gave it an affectionate caress before looking up.

"…you were always my friend," she said. "I feel like I can trust you."

Alice nodded awkwardly. "Yes, of course, but…"

She glanced back at me, shaking her head, and back at Bella.

"But how?" she asked. "How did you fall in love?"

Bella smirked and looked past Alice at me. "How could I not? Think about it, Alice. How much choice did I have? Every night she would tie me to the bed and lick my body to orgasm after orgasm. How much could I honestly endure before I gave up and became hers?"

"And you don't have a problem with that?" Alice asked in shock.

Bella smiled and gave an innocent shrug of a bare shoulder. "Not in the least."

A stunned laugh came out of Alice. She couldn't believe anything she was hearing but I was impressed at how she refrained from any judgements. I placed my hands on her shoulders and felt her shiver imperceptibly. I leaned to her ear, staring at my mate over her shoulder.

"She's adorable, isn't she?" I whispered to the girl. "No wonder I could never kill her. Instead all I wanted to do was keep her and continue to lick her delicious pussy forever."

Alice didn't move. Very quietly I could hear the click of her throat as she swallowed. Bella smiled at her and continued to hold her hand.

"I know it's fucked up, Alice, but we're really no different from any other couple," she said. "In the end, it's just a matter of attraction. She liked me and I liked her. Together we liked each other. In violent and unconventional ways, perhaps, but who is anyone to judge? Hm?"

Alice nodded shakily. "I guess."

Bella laughed at her and looked down and looked up again. "I'll give you some time before I tell you the rest of it. It gets worse, trust me. But you have to promise not to tell anyone else. You're the only one I trust. I don't want to deal with everyone else's bullshit."

"Of course," Alice assured. "I won't say anything unless you do."

Bella beamed at her and lifted a hand to cup her cheek. "Thank you, Alice," she said. "I'm so glad we can still be friends."

Alice smiled tentatively. "Me too."

Bella continued to smile for a moment and then the smile tilted upward slightly.

"Although, I have to admit," she said. "I was hoping we could be a little more than friends as well…"

Bella leaned forward slowly. Toward her lips.

Alice drew back—into me.

"B-Bella," she said. "I'm married."

Bella smirked from an inch away from Alice's mouth.

"I know," she said. "And I don't care."

Alice opened her mouth to protest but Bella closed the distance and all that came out was a moan.

A sweet aroma of pheromones had been beginning to swirl around us. I was nuzzling the girl's neck. She smelled of lavender and lilac and she was very delicate. I could hear their kiss deepen, wet sounds of mingled tongues. I kissed at the girl's neck, softly, gently. She made little squirms of protest and excitement. My hands were on her shoulders. Caressing the smooth skin there. The straps of her dress were thin and I slipped them away gently. The dress fell from her breasts. No bra underneath. Just smallish globes of perfect perkiness. Bella already had one of those mounds in her hand and now I covered that hand with my own.

Soon we were sharing her mouth, the girl tilting her head back and offering me her lips with a bland look in her yellow eyes. I kissed her passionately, caressing her throat, pushing my tongue into her mouth. She accepted it all without question, willing to just go with it. Her arousal was strong in the air, wafting up from her lap, much stronger than mine or my mate's. Clearly she had never done anything like this before. Not with two women at once. Alice was leaning back against me with her dress around her waist and Bella was fondling her breasts and licking at the stiff little nipples and soon she was pulling the girl's panties from under her skirt.

The panties were white and they hit the floor soundlessly. Alice had broken the kiss to watch and she opened her legs with a look of amazement on her stunned face at how wanton her old friend had become. Her vagina was wet and pink, a tiny little slit down there that needed attention. Bella smirked at her and inserted two fingers and pumped them gently and then she bent and buried her face between her thighs and licked at the erect little nub down there.

Alice orgasmed very swiftly, careful not to moan too loudly, and that was only the beginning. Bella teased her about how delicious she was and said I should try her as well. I smiled at the girl and asked if she wouldn't mind if I ate her vagina just a little bit and she smiled shyly in the afterglow of orgasm and told me to go ahead. Bella was already removing the rest of her dress, pulling it down and away from her body before tossing it over the edge of the bed, and Alice was shifting backward on the mattress until she was against the headboard. From there she opened her legs, her yellow eyes alight with mischief, and beckoned me forward by smiling at me and applying a stroke or two to her vagina. I had to admit it did look quite delectable. I smirked and crawled over and lowered my head and began licking at her wetness.

Soon she had orgasmed again and by now she had loosened up enough to reciprocate. Bella and I were shedding our towels, revealing our naked bodies. Alice kept grinning and glancing at the door, as if afraid of being interrupted but excited as well. The idea of cheating and being naughty seemed to turn her on even more and I had a feeling she was capable of quite a bit more. By the time our vacation was over the poor girl might just have to come with us.

Alice soon had one of my nipples in her mouth and she was sucking on it eagerly. The other nipple had been claimed by Bella. They kept smirking and glancing at each other and soon I was on my back with my legs open and they were taking turns licking my vagina, long laps of their tongues. I watched them and moaned and stroked their hair with each hand, both heads so similar, dark and cute, only one of them short haired and the other long haired. They licked me to an orgasm that made my spine arch off the mattress and then it was Bella's turn. Bella and Alice got started together while I watched and Alice confessed that she had always wanted to do Bella, even back in Forks. She had Bella's breasts in her hands, squeezing them with cute child-like excitement, and Bella smiled and kissed her with confidence and made her moan with her tongue. I joined in to apply my own tongue into a different hole and soon the girl was orgasming again.

After about an hour of licking each other the girl suddenly jumped up and realized she had go. She hopped off the bed, still wet between her legs, and scrabbled for her panties.

"Oh god," she said, beaming with a grin. "I can't believe I just did that."

Bella and I were lounging on the bed, watching her as she stepped into her underwear and pulled them up and wriggled into them cutely. Bella's red eyes roamed over her legs and she licked her lips.

"But wasn't it fun?" she asked seductively.

Alice gave her a look and giggled and then grabbed up her dress off the floor.

"Yeah," she said. "It was."

I watched her with a smirk as she pulled the dress over her head. "I'm glad we could become better acquainted, Ms Cullen," I said. "Or Alice, shall I say. Bella speaks very highly of you and I was eager to share her affection."

The dress dropped down over her body like a curtain to close the show and she grinned at us as she straightened it up.

"You two are crazy," she said.

Bella laughed breezily. "You haven't seen nothing yet."

Alice shook her head with a smile and slipped on her shoes and scampered for the door, brushing at her hair with her fingers, trying to compose herself. "Okay, I'll see you guys later. I better shower quickly. Oh god, how am I gonna tell Jasper?"

She had opened the door but now she paused and looked back. Bella and I were still lounging there in the bed, naked, loosely embraced, legs long and folded and sublime with sexiness. Alice shook her head in amazement and laughed.

"Wow," she said.

Then she ducked out the door and closed it behind her.

Bella heaved a satisfied sigh and looked at me proudly. I smiled and also heaved a sigh.

"Well," I said. "It seems you were right about her. She's lovely."

Bella grinned and pushed me onto my back and straddled my hips. "Maybe it won't be so bad here after all, huh?"

I lay there with my red hair spread under my head and smiled up at her. The canopy of the bed was unfamiliar and there was another person's scent smeared all over our bodies and I could hear the strange sound of the ocean in the background. Everything different and yet here on top of me was my mate. Bella. The one constant in my life and the only thing I needed to be happy anywhere.

I smiled up at her and cupped her face.

"Maybe not," I said.

Bella returned the smile and then she leaned and pressed her mouth to mine.

AN: Alice fell pretty easily, huh? I couldn't resist, lol. I thought it was fitting. Even in the novels it seemed like it was Alice who missed Bella the most. I figured she would be so excited that she would be able to accept anything and Bella would be so excited she would want to tell her everything. Of all the Cullens I think it's Alice who has the most potential to be corrupted. ;)

I have to admit, I hated describing how handsome Carlisle was, especially when Claire went starry eyed. It's such a crappy cliché, the man who's so sexy even the lesbian stares. Ugh. Give me a break, lol.

Speaking of which, this was the first chapter with an actual named male character. Bit disappointed about that, but I suppose that's what happens when you write around the canon. Should've made the story a little more AU and pretended the Cullens and even James didn't exist. Oh well, we'll see if we can make the most of it, lol.

Male characters do make it a bit tricky, though. Bella and Vicky specialize in corruption, but obviously they can't do that to the boys. That's why in this chapter I thought it was a good idea for Bella to suggest that she wants to keep her darker activities secret. Which makes sense, since it's her own private preferences. There's no reason to share them with anyone she doesn't trust.

Edward's a different matter, but don't worry, I have a couple ideas. New chapter soon. ;)