Bella laughed, hand moving to Alice's head so that she could comb her fingers through her short hair.
"Wouldn't it be easier if you just took it off?" Bella asked.
Alice lifted her head and stared at Bella for a second. Then, she smiled and reached for the bottom of Bella's shirt, ready to pull it up when a knock sounded at the door.
It was hard to tell whose groan was more annoyed.
"Coming," Alice called, sliding off of the bed and onto her feet, really wishing she meant it in a completely different way as she approached the door.
"This is weird," Bella said popping a strawberry into her mouth, her heart beating erratically as Alice stared at her mouth, which was now red with strawberry juice, and licked her lips.
"What is?" Alice asked.
Her eyes were still focused on Bella's mouth, watching her as she chewed.
"You, watching me eat," Bella responded after she swallowed, watching Alice's eyes as they tracked her hand as it moved towards the small bowl of strawberries again.
"I've seen you eat before," Alice commented, do doubt referring to the numerous times she had been over at Bella's house around dinner time.
"Yeah," Bella admitted, "but it wasn't quite like this. Usually you're talking to Charlie, and a game is on in the background, and you're shifting food around your plate before pretending you're not hungry," she continued. "Usually there are distractions. Now, you're just sitting there. Watching me," she finished, breathing out the last few words.
"I could," Alice began looking around the room, "go for a walk or something, if it's really bothering you.”
Immediately, Bella reached across the small table, grasping Alice's hand.
"I don't want you to go," she breathed out, seeing Alice's posture relax at her words. "I guess I just don't understand what the fascination is," she continued, leaning back once more, popping another strawberry into her mouth.
"I don't know really," Alice said softly. "How to explain it," she continued shaking her head a little. "It's just so … normal. In a way it feels … really intimate. It's basic, it's primal. You need food, you enjoy it. Your eyelids flutter, you moan, your heart quickens in anticipation of the next bite," she went on softly, her eyes focused on Bella. "It's soft, sweet, it's … nice," she sighed. "I like seeing you so happy, so … content. Feeding is very different for me.”
"You get pleasure out of it too, don't you?" Bella asked, putting her fork down for a moment, wanting to concentrate fully on what Alice was saying. Alice was much more open about her nature than Edward, but even she didn't talk much about it.
"Yes," Alice said, her eyes fluttering as her voice lowered for a second. "But it's very different," she continued sighing. "It's violent. There's no savoring, there's nothing soft or sweet, or terribly nice about it. We kill," she said forcing herself to met Bella's eyes. "They may be animals, but we still attack them, tear into their flesh with our teeth, bleeding them dry as they struggle beneath us, twitching, as the life slowly drains from them. It's not Sweet Tart Strawberry Salad," Alice went on shaking her head. "Not even close.”
"You have to," Bella said softly, taking Alice's hand in hers again.
"Yes," Alice said, forcing a small smile onto her face. "But it's not beautiful. It's not something to be shared. We don't even like hunting with each other," she continued. "It's terrible, to look up and see a blood covered demonic face looking back at you, knowing that it mirrors your own," she said shivering slightly.
"The boys," Bella began, but Alice shook her head.
"They go together, they hunt on the same grounds, but they separate, go their own way to feed on their own," Alice said, knowing what Bella was going to ask. "There're no family dinners for us.”
Bella stroked the back of Alice's hand with her thumb, hoping that the motion and the warmth of her hand would comfort her lover.
"I'm stuffed," Bella said a few minutes later, releasing Alice's hand as she leaned back in her chair.
"You haven't finished your champagne," Alice said looking at the half empty glass. She knew that most of it would go waste since she couldn't drink any of it, but she still wanted Bella to be able to enjoy it.
"I've had enough," Bella said smiling. "I want to be able to remember tonight," she said standing up and moving around the table to stand beside Alice. She then lowered herself into Alice's lap, smiling as Alice wrapped her hands around her waist, easily able to support her. "Besides, you don't need to get me drunk, there's a one-hundred percent chance of you getting lucky tonight," she informed Alice before she leaned down to kiss her lips.
Alice smiled up at her when Bella pulled back. "Do you mean I didn't need to buy you dinner?" she asked.
Bella shook her head, still smiling.
"Hmm," Alice hummed, her hand moving up and down along Bella's thigh. "Maybe I should have just taken you to the Have-a-Nap.”
Bella laughed and swatted Alice lightly on the arm.
"You said a one-hundred percent chance," Alice reminded her grinning.
"Oh, I know," Bella responded, smiling complacently. "That was just foreplay.”
"Oh, really?" Alice asked; her voice rising at the end of her question as a dark eyebrow arched high.
Bella nodded.
"In that case, I think I should help you work off dinner," Alice said standing, cradling Bella easily in her arms.
And with that, she made her way towards the bed.
Alice laughed happily, relaxing against the mattress as Bella rolled on top of her and immediately began to make short work of her clothes.
She could have easily overpowered the brunette and taken control of the situation, but she didn't mind being manhandled by Bella, and she knew that the brunette had been anxious to get her hands on her for a while.
"We have all night, and all morning … and all afternoon, you know," Alice said smiling, angling her head down so she could see the length of her body as Bella dragged her pants down impatiently.
Bella paused for a moment, sparing a second to look up at Alice's face, and then she returned to removing her pants, dropping them on the ground like a hot potato a few seconds after she went back to work.
"That's nice," Bella muttered distractedly, not really paying attention to what Alice was saying now that her girlfriend was finally naked.
Bella shifted upwards, and pressed her lips against Alice's cool thigh before she slowly kissed her way up to her hip. As she approached the apex of Alice's legs, she dragged her nose over the thin fabric of her lover's panties, inhaling deeply as she did.
As she sighed contently, Bella noticed that Alice had on a very nice (and probably very expensive) black lace V thong and she realized that Alice had probably been planning to put on a little show for her. Her haste to get her lover undressed had nixed that plan, but as Alice's scent washed over her and Bella's eyes fluttered closed while a shiver worked its way through her body, she really couldn't be that upset about missing the show.
Bella moaned and pressed her face more firmly against Alice, breathing in deeply once more, liquid heat pooling between her own legs as she did.
Alice sighed, and leaned back, her fingers moving to stroke Bella's hair.
It was still early in their lovemaking and she was still fully in control of herself, and she wanted to be able to enjoy the feel of Bella's silky hair running through her fingers while she could. Honestly, she didn't think she'd be able to keep it up long. She was quite as anxious to be touched by Bella as Bella was to touch her. But she was able to enjoy the gentle touch at the moment, and she would take for as long as she could because she knew that once she got too excited she wouldn't be able to risk it anymore.
Bella groaned and forced herself to kiss her way up Alice's stomach and between her breasts to her lips. The scent of Alice's arousal still lingered in her nostrils, and when she pressed her lips against the raven-haired beauties, she did so forcefully, hungrily, kissing Alice as if her very life depended on their lips moving together, and Alice's tongue being in her mouth.
Bella trembled against Alice's body, finally tearing her lips away from her mouth minutes after they first started kissing. She kissed her way down Alice's throat, her teeth nipping at Alice's smooth skin between licks and kisses.
"I want you so bad," Bella moaned, pressing the length of her body against Alice, rubbing against her helplessly, desperate to feel Alice, to be connected to her. "I'm so fucking hot," Bell murmured, shifting against Alice, wishing for a second that she had stopped long enough to take off more of her clothes when she had been disrobing Alice. But, she had wanted to get her girlfriend naked too much, and now that Alice was naked and arching beneath her she couldn't be bothered to tear herself away from her long enough to take off her own clothes. "Jesus," Bella whimpered, as Alice's leg rubbed against her own, before the raven-haired beauty wrapped her leg around Bella's waist and bucked up into her body. "So sexy … so fucking sexy," she sighed as her hand moved to Alice's thigh and began to stroke it roughly with her fingers.
Alice bit down hard on her lip as Bella's heated words registered with her. Bella very rarely swore, in fact the only times she ever heard the brunette swear was when they were in bed together and Bella was extremely aroused. Bella didn't swear every time they made love, but sometimes, on occasion, desire would turn Bella into quite the potty mouth. And when that happened, when Bella would heatedly whisper and moan swear words as she touched her it never failed to make Alice gush.
Alice purred, and then growled. Bella's desperate touch, her words, and the taste of blood from her own lip making were driving her crazy. She wanted to reach out, she wanted to grab Bella's hand and direct it straight between her legs. She wanted to bend forward two of Bella's fingers and then shove the other three inside of herself as hard as possible. She wanted to ride Bella's fingers until she couldn't see, or hear, or feel anything except for Bella inside of her; she wanted to ride her until she came, flooding Bella's fingers with her pleasure as Bella's name feel from her lips again and again.