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Prelude	By : belladonnacullen Category: Twilight Series > Het > Bella/Edward Views: 5838 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Author's Note: When converting my files over to text for this site, try as I might, I can't make italics happen. So some of this may get a little confusing since the thoughts Edward hears are supposed to be in italics. Sorry!! I'm open to any suggestions for fixing this. Thanks for reading!
I dashed up to my room with Bella in my arms, and leapt onto the leather couch. It was pushed against the wall to make space for the bed. I held her body close to mine and looked down to see her smiling up at me. "So much for sneaking in," Bella giggled, still blushing.
"They ran up to the house quite fast, and for some reason I couldn't hear their thoughts." I would have to consider their silent approach later, right now I didnÕt want my attention diverted. Cradling Bella in my arms like this brought back memories of that first day I had her here in my room. It was one of my favorite memories.
"The first time I brought you here I didn't know how to be with you, or what exactly I wanted to do with you. I was just happy to hold you and not kill you." I reeled at my choice of words. I had become so unguarded with Bella that I was letting too much slip. Did I really say that I was happy simply for not ending her life? I looked down to see if I frightened her. But Bella's eyes were glowing and her lips were slightly parted.
"Do you know what you want to do with me now?"
Images of Bella and I stream through my mind, one after the other. Ideas that I never would have considered, that I once thought were impossible, I was now impatient for. "Yes, I have a very good idea. After we're married, I'll have you here. I'll show you what I want to do." I could see it already in my mind and it was like a new force had taken hold of me. I was afraid I would loose control and I pulled away. Did I scare Bella? Because frankly, I'd scared myself a bit.
I smiled a little in an attempt to soften my words and glanced nervously at my love. Bella's eyes were wide and warm and her heart was thumping steadily. She wasn't scared. She never is. She pulled herself closer to me, stroking the back of my neck. Her touch set all of my senses on fire and I actually saw colors before my eyes: blues and oranges.
"What about now? You made a promise about endings the other night. We cut things short in the meadow."
"Bella." I couldn't keep my mouth from hers, I wanted to feel the way her slightly swollen lips would mold themselves against my unyielding mouth. I kissed her and I immediately wanted more. I had to remind myself with every second to hold myself back, not to lay her down and throw myself on top of her. I braced myself and pulled my mouth from hers and buried my face in her hair instead. I took a deep breath and used her scent to steady my nerves.
"I also made a promise today. I promised to be good."
"Well, we're obviously going to have to break one of those promises." She smiled seductively up at me and her heart fluttered, and it was like dawn breaking over the horizon. I knew that I would have to find I way to be with her, because otherwise I would do it without thinking. I had to touch her, I had to possess her; I had to find a way inside of her.
I was rocked with an overwhelming sensation of love and desire. There was no separating one from the other. My emotional and my physical draw to Bella were completely interlaced one with the other. It was still hard to believe that one physical sensation, the desire to drink, had been replaced so completely with the desire to touch her, to feel her, to take her and love her. I felt like I needed a beating heart of my own right now in order to steady myself, and to help channel this energy. Instead, I felt the overwhelming force of my love and my lust push itself out through my skin and through my eyes. My body was quivering with desire and I knew my eyes were on fire.
Suddenly, a flood of thoughts hit me. "They're OK! They're coming back. Jazz is coming home. Two days!" It was Alice. I realized that she must have had a wall up for some time now. Over these weeks I'd heard less and less from her mind. It was gradual and I had been preoccupied, but now it was like a dam had broken.
"They'll be back in time. He'll be here. He's OK! They're all OK!" There were some other thoughts I tried to block out, but Alice was practically shouting them.
"What is it?" Bella saw that I was distracted. I sighed and tried to tuck her skirt around her more securely.
Alice ran to the door and burst into the room.
"They're coming! They're coming!" Alice squealed with delight. She pranced over to us and jumped onto the couch, careful not to pounce on Bella. She gave us both an enormous hug.
"Who, the British?" Bella chuckled.
"Jasper's coming home! They'll all be here. They get in the night before the wedding. It's all working out!" A smile took up all of Alice's small face. Her teeth were flashing and her eyes were bright. She smiled back and forth between the two of us. But then the situation in the room seemed to dawn on Alice. It didn't take a vampire to see that there was something more going on here than a quiet talk on the couch.
She jumped up. "Oh, sorry, I was just so excited." She backed up a little, turned toward the door, but then swung around back to face Bella and I.
"Oh Bella, I forgot, I'm supposed to be helping you." Alice walked back to us and pulled Bella to her feet. "Just go jump in the shower, I'll throw your things in the wash." Alice scrunched her nose in disapproval as she picked at Bella's damp and dirty cardigan.
"I'll throw them in the trash is more like it. Was she pretending to be a librarian?"
"I'll have something for you to change into when you get out," Alice assured Bella.
"Thanks. That sounds great." Bella turned to look at me longingly, a little startled at the abrupt change in circumstance.
"Go, go. Edward will be here when you get out. I promise." Alice shooed Bella out the door.
"Well, I should be going," Alice thought.
"To get Bella something to wear?"
"Maybe she would be more comfortable in something of her own?"
"Aren't you planning on washing, or trashing her clothes?"
"I know there is something of hers in your closet."
I pursed my lips together and tried to look menacing. But I wasn't certain if I could scare a rabbit these days. "Alice, about that privacy you promised us."
"Edward, I've never seen her in it. I can't help knowing you bought it. Am I supposed to keep shopping trips out of my mind now too? Really, that's asking a bit too much."
"But..."
"Edward, I'll take care of the honeymoon. Tonight is your last night together before the wedding. Give it to her now."
"Our last night?"
"Bella doesn't know yet. Renee is going to ask to stay over at Charlie's place. She wants to make the most of the time she has with Bella."
"She might never see Renee again." Guilt was now nipping at the edges of my joy. I hated that I was taking Bella away from her family.
"You'll want her to spend as much time with Renee as possible. So we're giving you tonight. I'm stopping by Charlie's house with Carlisle and Esme. I'll get something for Bella to wear tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?"
Alice ignored my question and turned to go. But I knew I had to stop her. I'd been working on something for her for weeks. Now that her gift was out of Seth's hands I knew that it wouldn't be a surprise much longer.
"Alice, wait. There's something I wanted to give you as thanks for all of your hard work this month."
I savored the look of surprise on her face.
"I had Seth Clearwater help so that you wouldn't be able to see," I explained. I didn't want her to think that she was losing her touch. "I tried getting into your brain to figure out what you might want."
I noticed the expression on Alice's face change from surprised delight to one of alarm. "Edward!"
"But you've been very hard to read lately."
"Thank God!"
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. You were saying?"
I cast a suspicious glance at her out of the corner of my eye, but proceeded anyway. "The only thing I could find out at first is that you wanted to go to Italy with Jasper. And well..."
"Oh Edward, thank you!" She could see it now. Alice flung her arms around my neck and kissed my cheek. "I get a tent and everything?"
"Yes, you'll show your own line at fashion week in Milan next summer. The label is set up; they're just waiting for your designs. You might consider taking Seth on in some capacity, he's really taken a shine to the business end of it all. I think he may have even picked up some Italian in the process."
Alice flooded my mind with visions of patterns, fabrics and models walking down runways.
"That's not all. Lately it seemed like your dreams of Italy fell by the wayside. I got the impression that what you really wanted more than anything was to go to the desert with Jasper."
The smile fell from Alice's face. "Oh, right."
"It seemed odd to me, but I'm not one to judge another's desires. Here are tickets for a cruise on the Nile in February. It turns out that it's quite easy to secure a private cruise during the rainy season."
"Thanks... but I don't know how much Jasper's going to like this one." Alice cast a brave face in my direction.
"He'll like it as long as he's there with you."
A more genuine smile returned and Alice's eyes twinkled. "I'm just so happy he's coming home. We've never been apart for this long."
I had been giving Alice wide berth lately. There was so much she wanted to keep secret regarding the wedding, and there was the privacy she was trying to provide for Bella and I. I had taken her at her word when she dismissed my inquiries about Emmett, Rose and Jasper. "He's been away too long. What kept them Alice?"
"Edward?" It was Carlisle. His voice was raised a little louder than usual.
Relief flooded over Alice's features.
"I guess Carlisle needs you. Get the chemise. I'll bring it in to Bella, unless you want to bring it to her," Alice grinned.
I heard water hit the tiles in the shower and thought of Bella nude, water streaming over her warm pink skin, her scent hanging heavy in the steamy air. I struggled to control the feelings stirring within myself.
"Right, I'll get that for you, Alice." I took the small box from a top shelf in my closet and with another thought I took out my bathrobe. I knew Bella would want something else to wear, no matter Alice's intentions. I handed them both to Alice and she rolled her eyes.
"Oh, you two." With that she skipped toward the bathroom.
I listened in on Carlisle and Esme's thoughts as I made my way down to the dining room. Carlisle was contemplating anatomical dissection, and Esme was contrasting the merits of granite vs. travertine. A sinking feeling crept into my mind. I hadnÕt been paying enough attention to my family these past weeks. I was sure they were keeping something from me.
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