Unexpectedly Chapter 16 Teaser II

Here is another teaser from Unexpectedly Chapter 16: The Goodbye a.k.a. smoocha-cheesy-kissy-fluff-a-thon.

I should be updating the full chapter on Fanfiction.net tomorrow and also Twilighted.net closely following. Enjoy until then!

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“I think… I think I am ready…for more,” she said after a while, with added determination. Then she seemed hesitant about what to say next. “I just want… to love you.”

She saw Edward put this together slowly in his mind, and then she saw actual tears come to his eyes. Edward had been brought up to think that he was never allowed to cry – that wasn’t manly – no matter what happened to him. He was supposed to remain strong and composed. But he had sat up and turned his back to Bella now, and it seemed that he was breathing slowly and deeply for a very long time.

And then he picked her up and she held on tightly to his broad shoulders. He lay her down tenderly again. He looked into her eyes as she looked lovingly back into his, which made him say, without thinking, “Isabella, tell me what you want me to do. Even if it’s impossible, I’ll do it. I swear it. Tell me.”

All the words that Bella wanted to say were lodged inside of her, as if just before the entrance to her mouth. Her eyes spilled tears, which Edward dabbed off with his fingers, as if he could ruin a priceless painting by touching it too roughly.

Then Bella turned her face up to look at him, her eyes wide and almost ochre in the setting sunlight that was passing through the window of Edward’s bedroom. She then shut her eyes and then pursed her lips slightly. She wanted to kiss him again. Edward groaned.

“If I start now, I’m afraid that I will lose control. I know how much you have progressed, Isabella – I have seen it with my own eyes. But it’s only been two months since you have started experiencing life, love. I can’t take advantage of you. I won’t let myself.”

Her eyes willed him on. Her body willed him on. She traced the hemline of his collar on his shirt and bit her lip. It was suggestive in the most modest way, but completely irresistible. She followed her finger slowly with her eyes, and then she looked back at him.

“I can’t…”

She gazed at him with pleading eyes – the eyes that had lured him in on the day he had first met her; the same eyes that had carried so much pain and disorientation which now only contained longing and love. If she could have spoken at that moment, he was sure that she would have told him that she loved him and would do anything for him, and that he should do that same.

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Unexpectedly Chapter 16 Teaser

Beware: this is a pretty steamy teaser. And yes, this is from the right story.
Have fun!

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Then there was the awkward silence again. Both of them returned back to their meals, but Bella was no longer hungry. In fact, she felt a little bit queasy. It frustrated her copiously that she couldn’t reciprocate what Edward had just said, so she fought furiously with her mind to let herself at least show him that she felt the same way.

She put her fork down which made a clank sound so loud that Edward paused mid-mouthful. He chewed the remaining food in his mouth as he watched Bella, wide-eyed, getting up from her chair and looking at him intently with her large brown eyes. For one second, he could have sworn that they were almost lustful, but he knew that they were definitely determined, anyhow. The thought of her excited him, and the electric current that they both regularly felt made a return with a full-forced impact. Edward sat still waiting for the shock.

Bella leaned towards him, her hair falling in front of her, which would have formed a curtain if Edward hadn’t impulsively tucked her hair behind her ears. They both stared at each other; love, adoration and yes, it was definitely lust, Edward had decided, radiated between them. Edward wanted to hold Bella so tight to him and never let go, but his arms were not moving from her face yet. As she leaned closer, he grasped her jaw gently and let his thumb trace her nose, down to her lips, to sweep lightly across her chin and jaw line before pausing to look into her eyes. She was the most beautiful girl, no woman, he had ever seen.

“You’re beautiful,” he whispered as he made the final closure between his and her lips.

A kiss had never been so sweet. Bella had been pretty sure that no kiss could have beaten the ones they had shared already, even if there were few. However, this knocked them all off the chart. Their lips moved together as if made for each other. She sucked onto his bottom lip, while he nibbled lightly on her top lip. Soon, she was sitting on his lap, straddling him so that they could reach a higher level of contact, as if kissing finally wasn’t enough.

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Woah, woah, woah.

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Lots of love! ES

Unexpectedly Chapter 15 Teaser II

I wanted to post the full chapter tonight but I am almost dead with exhaustion and because I live in the UK, there is a time difference and I can't stay awake that long to get the chapter back from the beta and edit it (trust me, I'm trying) so here is another sneak preview of what is to come.

Bella sighed after she had sent the message but in her view, there was nothing else she could do.
How could she leave her father after everything they had been through together? Obviously her heart and her mind belonged to Edward, but she couldn’t allow herself to be so egocentric. She knew that her father would have never left her in any clause, so she gave herself no sanction to do the same.

She cried that night into her pillow, almost hating her devotion to her father that allowed Edward’s lone departure. In a way, she felt selfish again, knowing that Edward had felt alone and that when they were together, she had helped to wipe that poignant emotion away. She felt melancholy as she remembered his pained look on the first day that she had met him when he had come into Crumbs, and then compared it to the look on his face after he had kissed her. She saw how contented she made him feel, and she knew that he made her feel exactly the same.

As she wept into her pillow, she regarded the bracelet that Edward had given her and she cried even harder. Why did everything with her have to be so distressing and complicated? For the first time since she had met Edward, she just wanted to be normal.

That night she dreamed of Edward Cullen. She dreamed of his touch and nothing else.


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The full chapter will be posted when I wake up. Lots of love.
Edie

Unexpectedly Chapter 15 Teaser

Hola people! Sorry I've taken so long with this stuff; I've been to Bulgaria, Spain and Geneva this month - I've literally had no time! I did write some in Geneva though and I am back now, and have got 2 chapters on hand. So I thought I would publish a teaser for chapter 15 before I whack up the whole thing after I've got it from the beta.

Enjoy! :)

Transparent thoughts were running through his head at an almost unthinkable speed. There didn’t seem to be any logical reasoning behind his current behaviour, yet irrational thoughts and premonitions were still transpiring. How was it that one person could make him act like this, despite his seeming repute for being conscientious, caring and completely based on reason?

It was stupid, well, he was being stupid – at present, anyway. His character seemed to be surprising himself at every turn since four months ago when he had found Rose in his bedroom in flagrante. However, the text message had been the most unanticipated so far, even for him. He couldn’t even tell whether his mind had even meant it or whether he had just become so desperate because he feared a loss. It wasn’t a loss like a twenty dollar bill or even a lost investment – it was a loss of his solace; a loss of one of the only things that was urging him to keep on going.

He had Honey, and of course that meant the world to him, but Bella brought him a different kind of sanctuary and succour to his life. Edward had always lived for Honey, but Honey a part of his family life with Rose. Although the association to his estranged wife didn’t make a difference to his unconditional love for his daughter, he found that his extraordinary relationship with Bella was almost something he could call his own: his personal delicate discovery.

Perhaps asking her to come to Seattle was completely unfounded, of course it was, but he was desperate. After that alarmingly terrifying conversation with her father, he became scared. All of a sudden, he was no longer the well renowned attorney with a confident facade and a brilliant persona; he was a scared little boy with no direction. Where was he supposed to go from here? It seemed specious to stay in Forks after a stern word with the Chief of Police, so Seattle seemed the perfect option. But was it right to leave Bella?

At first, yes, he had thought it would have been the best option: to leave her there before her feelings, like his, grew any more powerful or unfathomable. She could have made a clean start; she had only just turned eighteen, after all. Someone at that age would have treated it as a learning curve or a strange anecdote to use in a few years when recounting past mistakes. However, Bella was different. She was unlike anyone he had ever met and that, to him, was what made him send the text message. She was too exceptional to just leave behind.

Conceivably, it wasn’t the best way to let her know that, despite the world being at odds against them, what with her father added onto the list with Rose, her lawyers and of course the terrible excuse for a human being, Irina. On the other hand, it was probably an accurate manifestation of how serious Edward felt about this girl. It was strange how they could both feel this way so quickly and so suddenly. But how can anyone really explain the connection they feel to the person that they love? It just happens, Edward thought, and it just did.

He waited for Bella’s response as he drove up to Seattle, relishing the long roads of nothing that were calming his psyche. He wasn’t sure of how he wanted to respond; he just wanted to let her know that he was still going to be there for her, if she would let him.

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I'll put up the rest of the chapter on FanFiction.net as soon as I am done making the edits.
Lots of love,
Edie

Non E/B: "What Happen's at Charlie's Wedding" by Velvetbutterfly

When I want to start a fic, like most other people in the fandom, I veer towards AH Edward/Bella. I don’t know what it is, but it’s just natural. It’s like human instinct. Sort of. However, that soon became a little bit repetitive and even though yes, I still love E/B stories and I know that all of mine are E/B, I must admit that the last time I looked for a fic, I was looking for a different pairing (Oh my God! Not Edward and Bella? Are you crazy!?)

So I have decided that from now on, I am going to try and find as many good NON BELLA/EDWARD stories and read and review them for everyone. I already have a few on my mind so far and I want to spread the love. But there was one that I had to share with you straight away because I even loved this in my Bella/Edward days.

"What Happen's At Charlie's Wedding" by velvetbutterfly




FF.net
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5211175/1/What_Happens_At_Charlies_Wedding

Twilighted.net
http://www.twilighted.net/viewstory.php?sid=5917


Review:

When I came across this story, I was intrigued by the Carlisle/Bella pairing. After watching Twilight and New Moon, there was no doubt that Peter Facinelli who plays Carlisle, was what some consider a DILF (Dad I’d Like to Fuck). There have been many story attempts where Edward is the older man (yes, I am a victim of writing older Edward – God love him) but I simply could not imagine Edward being Bella’s father’s age. As in the same age as Charlie (Eww! Gross!) Therefore with this fic I found that Carlisle was the perfect character to base the forty year-old best man that twenty-three year-old Bella falls for in “What Happens at Charlie’s Wedding.”

The Carlisle/Bella relationship begins with Bella and her best friend Alice returning to Forks for Bella’s father, Charlie’s wedding to the beautiful Esme. Carlisle is Esme’s brother in this fic, so he stays in Forks to be Charlie’s best man and there for his sister on her big day.

Carlisle is the sexy surgeon, of course, and Bella is the hot young 23 year old newly single after escaping the love-rat James (standard). The immediate sexual tension heats up rapidly between the two, and before they know it, it turns into a secret passionate relationship.

However, it’s not just fluff-filled lemons with the hot surgeon, oh no. As the actual wedding draws closer, Carlisle’s son, Edward, and his friend Jasper also travel to Forks and surprise, surprise, Edward also becomes infatuated with Bella and pursues her until no end. And then, one beings to wonder whether it will turn out as a Carlisle/Bella story after all, or just another E/B escapade.

Despite the awesome smut and fluff that VB provides us, there is something else in the storyline which really drew me in and separates this fic from most of the others I’ve read. That is the father/son relationship between Carlisle and Edward. There’s evident hate on Edward’s part towards Carlisle because of the absence of his mother, and Edward’s attraction to Bella isn’t all what it seems. There are unresolved family issues between them that are absolutely heartbreaking and the emotions that are captured her are fantastic – a father’s unconditional love for his son, the malicious ploys and lies told by Edward just to get his father’s attention, and of course, the mature-for-her-age Bella’s support for the man that she ends up loving (but which one?)

I found this story completely fulfilling to read. It was a (hot!) emotional rollercoaster throughout and I really found myself becoming closer to the characters. I enjoyed the excitement of never knowing what was going to happen next, which is something that I do find rare in stories nowadays, not just in fan fiction. The only thing that irritated me with the story was the slow updates, but it’s okay now because it is complete!

So if you want to read something different other than your E/B story, something intense, something thoroughly enjoyable, then I suggest that you read this straightaway.

Unexpectedly Chapter 14 Teaser

The sun was shining brightly through her window for once, there seemed to be birds singing a morning song, and everything seemed different; because today was different. Bella pulled her covers from her, swung her legs over to the side of her bed, stood up and smiled.

Today was her eighteenth birthday.

She looked at her alarm clock to see that it was 9.00 AM already, which was a little confusing as on every other birthday, Charlie had woken up before he had gone to the station so that he could wish her a happy birthday and give her a gift. However, she then noted her truck in the drive and assumed that was her present this year, despite being given it for graduation.

The last few days had been tough with Charlie. It was now Friday and they hadn’t really spoken much in the week at all. Suddenly, Charlie was spending more time in La Push with Harry Clearwater and sometimes coming back after Bella had retired to bed. It wasn’t completely unusual as she was used to spending time apart from Charlie as he was on the police force and was on call 24/7. This week, for some reason that she couldn’t work out, Charlie had been somewhat distant.

She brushed it off as just a coincidence though, and concentrated on her upcoming birthday – the big one-eight. She saw that there was a piece of paper left on her bed before she headed down for breakfast. It was from Charlie.

Didn’t want to wake you. I’ll be back at 4.00 today. Don’t do anything stupid, Bella.

Stupid? Her? She frowned as she tried to decipher what her father had meant by it. He had never been concerned about what she was doing while he was work, so his words were a little curious, but Bella had been used to Charlie’s weird mood in the week, so again, she passed it off – even the fact that he hadn’t even said “happy birthday”. She had more important things to worry about.

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Update tomorrow, hopefully.
Edie xxx

Jasper's Naughty Girls

I have been rec'd on this website for "Unexpectedly". Check it out! Their site looks pretty cool, too. Gotta love some Jasper!

http://jaspersnaughtygirls.blogspot.com/2010/06/cullen818-fic-rec-unexpectedly.html?zx=72ec2819365604d8