FYH Chapter 3

Chapter 3

New Buddies and Old Friends

EPOV:
As we lay in bed that night naked and completely tangled up in each other we discussed where we were going to travel to next. Several options were bantered about until I grabbed Bella, moving her so that she was straddling me, and exclaimed that I had the perfect destination.
"You liked camping at the zoo, right?" she nodded. "And I have always wanted to go camping for real." She nodded again. "Then let's head to the Grand Canyon. I think that I read online once that there are places where you can take these river rafting tours. Let's do it, please!"
She considered that for a minute before she leaned down and kissed me on the nose. "Let's do it." She exclaimed. She reached over to grab her laptop off the nightstand effectively putting her boobs right in my face. Well, I couldn't have them right there and not do anything about it. So our research was temporarily put on hold while we tended to more important tasks.
When we did finally get to researching the Grand Canyon we found out that there was a tour that would take us on a rafting adventure for eighteen days. We would start at Lee's Ferry and end at Diamond Creek. We decided that we would call and make a reservation first thing in the morning.
The next day we ran to Wal-Mart before hitting the road. While there I needed to refill my prescriptions for my meds and inhaler. I hadn't needed either for a couple of years but I didn't want to end up in the middle of nowhere having an attack without them and without being able to get proper medical care either.
I also decided spur of the minute to send some pictures to my family. I did love them and did not want them to worry about me. I thought that if I let them see that I was happy and having a great time that might not be so upset when I was finally ready to call them. I just wasn't there yet. I knew that we had a lot of issues to work through when I got home. I also picked up a new journal. I thought that if I was going to go into the wilderness for eighteen days I might be inspired to write again. Being in the calmness of nature was always when I was able to write the most. And write the best in my opinion.
We had tried to avoid delaying our departure by ordering breakfast up to our room in an attempt to save time. But then Bella called Angela and I spent a good hour on the phone being thoroughly interrogated by Angela and her fiancé Ben. They were really nice people even if Angela did scare me at first. The first thing she said to me was "Who the hell do you think you are and what the hell do you think you're doing with Bella? If you think you'll get your hands on her money…" That was as far as she got before Bella told her to shut up because I was a trust fund baby and therefore had no reason to want her money. They were living in Seattle where they were attending school together. They weren't officially living together, as Angela's father is a minister, but Bella assured me that Angela is spending more nights at Ben's than her own dorm room. Bella was lucky to have these two people who care so much about her. They were right to be leery of me at first. I was a stranger to them. I could have been a con-artist or a serial killer for all they knew. It took awhile but I finally convinced Ben that none of my intentions towards Bella included raping, murdering, or robbing her. I was just a naïve boy trying to break free of his family's tight grip. I was hopeful that eventually one day we would be friends.
It was already noon when we got on the road so we were not going to get to The Grand Canyon until late tonight. As absurd as it sounds we decided to use the path that would take us North, back up California to Los Angeles before turning East into Arizona. The other route would have taken us directly into Phoenix and I definitely did not want to do that. So we were going to be retracing our steps. We would have to get a hotel for a couple of nights as our rafting adventure wasn't starting until the morning after next. I was so excited. Rafting all day and camping under the stars with Bella at night. It was going to be wonderful.
We stopped in Kingman, Arizona to eat at a place Mad Dog's Dog House. It was an interesting little sports bar where we met some nice locals who frequented the bar; Tia and Benjamin, they were so incredible to watch. I think that man would move the earth and water if it meant protecting Tia. We also met some Harley riders that were passing through like us. Seth, Paul, Leah, Sam and Sam's fiancée Emily were spending the summer traveling route 66. We started by moving tables together. We may not be riding a Harley but we were still bikers and we were welcomed into the group with open arms. Literally. I don't think that I had ever been hugged by a man that I wasn't related to before. Tonight I was hugged by 3 men. Our new friends order a couple pitchers of beer and we gladly joined them. After we ate Seth and I decided to play some pool. Before long the whole group ended up at the pool tables and several more pitchers of beer were ordered. Bella playing pool was an extreme exercise in self control. Why did she have to wear those tight little jeans today? And the way that she was bending over that table! We were going to have to find away to recreate that soon. Maybe when we finally settle down I will make sure that we have a pool table in our home. Strip billiard sounds like a hell of a lot of fun right now. We drank a little too much and stayed a little too late, so we ended up getting a motel room and would head out the next day. The motel was seedy and a little gross. But it was within walking distance of the bar at that was the most important selling point at the moment. We weren't completely inebriated but still never even entertained the idea of getting on the bike and driving, but I don't think that we would have gotten far anyway; none of us could walk very well at this point. When we finally got to the room we barely made it through the door before we were ripping each other's clothes off.
The ride the next day ended up being pretty strained. I couldn't help myself though, I was just having fun. It was just too tempting sitting behind her with my arms wrapped around her waist not to move my hands up and play with her breasts or move my hands down and massage her thighs. But what really pissed her off was when I tried to slip one of my hands into her pants between her legs. She pulled over and started yelling at me about how dangerous and foolish that was. Not to mention how being on a bike everyone would see everything and think she's some kind of whore. I felt so low after that. I just apologized and suggested we get going again.
BPOV:
I should not have yelled at him like that, he was so excited and so happy and he didn't mean any harm. But it was so distracting and I was trying to drive and yet, it was I that caused him harm with my temper and the callous words that flowed out of my mouth. Now he was quiet. Every time I asked him a question I had to ask twice, and even then he only gave a yes or no answer. And I wasn't even asking yes or no questions. I had hurt his feelings. I eventually gave up and got lost in my own thoughts. I had always hated the girls at school who thought it was appropriate to allow their boyfriends to fondle and grope them in full public view. I wasn't completely dead set against PDA, but I was when to that extreme. Kissing, hugging, and holding hands in public is one thing, especially if it's kept at least pg-13. But the girls from school would practically have sex with their boyfriends' right there in the cafeteria. It was rumored that a few would go down on their boyfriends under the tables. Ugh.
It was the reason that I lost my first boyfriend. The only boyfriend I'd ever had. It wasn't like I was a prude or anything. I had sex with him. I went down on him several times. I thought that we were happy. But apparently he was not. He had an exhibitionist streak that I just couldn't satisfy. It first started when he asked me to give him head while he was driving me home one night. I refused saying that it was improper and dangerous. Yeah, the same thing I said to Edward. He didn't answer my calls for three days that time. Then a couple months later we were at a bonfire at the beach with some of our friends. He wanted me to follow him in the trees and have sex with him. I again refused. My mother had drilled into my head the saying, "what you do in public you do 10 times worse in private." He was however able to talk this freshman, Courtney, into going into the woods with him. Not only did he cheat on me but he humiliated me in front our friends. I got him back though. They were so distracted that they didn't notice me sneaking up on them. I took their pants and threw them into the bonfire and then had a friend drive me home. It was talk of the small town that we lived in, how they had to go home with no pants on. My temper does tend to get the best of me, but I have my principles and I won't back down from them.
By the time we pulled up to the El Tovar Hotel where we were staying at we hadn't spoken in almost two hours. I did this and I had to be the one the fix it, and fast. It was getting close to dinner time and I thought that we would just order room service and stay in for the night. We needed to talk and it was better to do so alone and in private.
As soon as we finished eating Edward got up from the table and flopped down on the bed flipping through TV stations. I sighed and walked over to the bed and lay down next to him. He still wasn't speaking to me and this had to stop.
"Edward, I am sorry for what I said. I shouldn't have lost my temper like that. I love you." I looked up at him and he was looking at me, also a first since we got here. "I don't want to lose you." I added in a whisper.
"You aren't going to lose me, sweetheart. You were right, it was foolish and dangerous and I am sorry that I embarrassed you. But you have to realize that my mother has said those exact words to me repeatedly for years. But she never apologized for it."
I gasped, "Oh God, Edward! I never meant to treat you like that. I'll never do it again. I promise. But really what got into you? What was with all the groping?"
He rolled over and nuzzled my neck. "What got into me Bella? You did. You were sitting up against me and whenever you'd move you'd rub right against my cock and I was so hard and just wanted to fuck you right there on the bike on the side of the highway. Why did it upset you like it did? I mean we kissed and held each other at the beach and you didn't seem to mind." I explained about Jacob and my feeling of extreme PDA and he apologized for being inappropriate."
"You have no reason to apologize, Edward; you didn't deserve to get yelled at like that. Isn't there anything that I could do to make it up to you?" I said looking up through my lashes.
"Well, you could kiss me."
"Kiss you here?" I said, smiling and kissing on his forehead.
"Lower." Then I kissed his nose.
"Lower" I kissed lips.
"Lower" I moved to his neck.
"Lower" I moved to his chest
"Lower" I moved to his stomach.
"Lower" he whispered. I smirked and moved to kiss his cock over his pants.
"Under the clothes, Bella, I want to feel your lips touch my skin."
So I slowly undid his pants and pulled him out and kissed the tip, giving it a little lick making him hiss. Then started to put him away and he grabbed my hand to stop me.
"Please Bella!" I smiled at him.
"Well, if you're going to beg me..." And I took him completely in my mouth as his hand moved to my hair. I love the sounds that he makes when we are together like this. He makes me feel sexy, wanted, desired, cherished. And the way that he caressed my hair while I worked on him was so gentle and loving. Jacob had never made me feel loved like Edward does. When I was done we spent a long time just holding each other and kissing, slowly undressing each other until we were completely naked and tangled in each other. He loved my breasts for some reason and insisted on spending a lot of time showing them attention. I didn't get it, I never thought that they were very large or anything special, but he said that they were perfect, just like everything else about me. Our lovemaking continued to be slow and loving and as always completely amazing. There was no need to rush tonight; this was not about getting a release. It was purely about being loved. It was about the love that we felt for each other that could not be communicated in words because there simply were no words to describe our love for each other. It was like I had known him for years rather than a few days I fell asleep that night completely wrapped up in Edward and happier than I have ever been.
A/N
First I want to thank AnUnbrokenHorse aka RushtonElf for betaing this for me, I appreciate it greatly.
OK. I tried to write a lemon or lime whatever that ended up being and I got closer. It wasn't a complete fade to black. It wasn't easy for me, but please be honest with me about it, about if it was alright or not. I know it wasn't very detailed but I tried. I know there was some angst here, but I made sure that it was resolved. I will try to never leave things unsettled at the end of a chapter, if I can help it. This is the second time I wrote this chapter. The first edition is now chapter 5. This chapter took off on me in directions that I never intended it to. I know this is short but I didn't want to get into all the river rafting and camping stuff yet. See ya'll in a week…there may be a family POV. They are starting to yell at me that they feel neglected!
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