FreshSqueezedLemons

Bella woke up suddenly to someone tapping on her bedroom door. She squinted her eyes open, testing the light before she totally committed to waking up. With her purple curtains still drawn, the light streaming through was muted enough that it was safe to fully open her eyes and peek sideways at her alarm clock. It was only 7am.

"It's Saturday! Come back later." Bella groaned as she pulled her warm comforter up over her head and curled up tightly in the fetal position hoping the mystery knocker would disappear.

"But, it's your birthday!" a giggling voice answered. Bella heard a squeak from the direction of her bedroom door and before she could peek her head up out of the covers, somebody was pouncing on her bed and straddling her. "Wakey, wakey you sexy beotch."

Bella's guest pulled the comforter down and pressed a hard, wet pair of lips down on her forehead. "Mornin' Sook." Bella said looking up at her best girlfriend in the entire world. "While it's great that after 6 years you haven't forgotten my birthday, you seem to have forgotten I need my beauty sleep." Bella tugged back the blanket and once again attempted to duck beneath it.

"Nonsense." Sookie laughed. "You're hot. It's a fact, I Googled it. So wake up already! Don't make me come in there after you." Sookie pulled the blanket free of Bella's grip and jumped down off the bed exposing Bella and her smooth, bare legs. She had worn one of Edwards old t-shirts that barely covered her ass to bed. "Okay, I'm up. What's the deal?" Bella swung her legs over the side of her bed and rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hand. Her head bobbed as she shook the last bit of sleepiness from her brain and stood up to hug her best friend.

"Get dressed baby girl, Eddie's waiting with your dad downstairs to take us up to his parent's lake house for the night. We wanna get going so we can get up there and partay!" Sookie said as she started pulling open Bella's dresser drawers and began tossing socks, panties and bras out onto the now empty bed. "Alice and Tara are meeting us up there this afternoon with Sam and Mike. I cannot believe we are going to have the place to ourselves. Seriously no parental units. Its going to be awesome! Jason totally supplied us with booze. We're good to go!"

Smiling, Bella left Sookie to the packing and went into the bathroom. She peed, brushed her teeth, and then decided that a quick shower was indeed necessary before she sat in a car for four hours with those two lunatics. She had known Sookie and Edward since the sixth grade when she moved to Roscoe, Illinois with her dad Charlie, a police officer. Bella's mom had passed away the year before after a long battle with Lymphoma and left Charlie with very little knowledge in the ways of raising a girl entering puberty. Charlie had no family to turn to in their small town outside of Milwaukee and he decided to put in for a transfer at the station so that he could live closer to his sister Renee and all her womanly knowledge. When he finally got the transfer, the new school year had already started. Bella was anxious on her first day of school as any kid would be when her teacher seated her between a smiling blonde girl and a bronze haired young boy. To Bella, it seemed like from the day they met, the three were inseperable.
 
She finished up in the shower and grabbed a towel to wrap tightly around her. She stepped out of the tub, ran a comb through her hair, and padded back into her bedroom where Sookie had been joined by Edward.

"Come on Edward, out! I need to change." Bella demanded.

Edward perched on the edge of Bella's desk and crossed his arms, "No thanks, I'm good." he said and gave her the once over.

"Stop being a creep." Sookie said as she tossed Bella a clean pair of panties. Edward watched them fly across the room and land in Bella's outstretched hands. Bella stepped her legs into them and quickly pulled them up underneath her towel. Sookie twirled a matching bra around her index finger and crossed over the bed to stand behind Bella. Bella raised her arms up and let her best friend wrap the bra around the front of her and fasten it in the back. She stuck her arms through the straps and expertly manuvered it under her towel denying Edward even the slightest peek at a nipple. The girls loved teasing him more and more as they grew older and tired of playing games like "Truth or Dare" and "7 Minutes in Heaven". Naively, they failed to realized that even the suggestion of Bella naked under that towel had Edward fighting off a stiffy.

"Pfft, whatever. You girls are no fun." Edward brushed cooly past the two and out the door into the hallway. Sookie shut the door as Bella dropped her towel to slip on a pair of cut off jean shorts and a tank top. She slipped into a worn pair of flip flops and finished packing her backpack with the clothes Sookie had piled onto her bed.

"I still can't believe you made me wake up so early on a Saturday. And on my birthday. A girl should at least get 9:00 on her birthday." Bella sarcastically complained. "I mean, the beach house isn't going anywhere."

"Well, we have to make a little pick up on the way and Hoyt ended up having to work this morning. So we have to meet up with him before he heads out to the job site. Trust me, I'd still be in bed if he'd have had the "E" before curfew last night." Sookie explained. Bella felt her blood pumping faster beneath her skin. She'd only done ecstasy a couple times with Sookie in the past year and since then, she thought about it all the time. She loved the way it made her feel, all calm and happy and horny. She'd begged Sookie to get more from her brother's friend numerous times but unfortunatley Sookie's responsible side held her back. She's said it was only for special occasions and apparently Bella's 18th birthday warrented such a celebration. Finished packing, the girls left Bella's room and headed downstairs where Edward was once again sucking up to Charlie.

"I'll make sure the girls are safe out there in the woods Chief Swan. My folks haven't seen any wild animals come close to the cabin since last fall but you can't be too careful." Edward was saying as he sat across the kitchen table from Bella's dad.

"Hey, it's the birthday girl!" Charlie said as he saw the two girls round the corner into the kitchen. "I would have woken you but I've seen what you're like before the sun fully rises."

"Haha dad, you are just too funny." Bella rolled her eyes at Sookie who was grinning from ear to ear. Charlie grabbed a gift that was sitting on the table and stood to hand it to his daughter.

"Happy Birthday Bells." he said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and kissed the top of her head. "Eighteen. I can't believe it."

Bella unwrapped her gift. "A new camera, sweet dad! Thanks!"

"Yeah, great gift Chief." Sookie complimented. "Can't wait to blackmail you with those pictures tomorrow Bella!"

"Well, we should get going." Edward chimed in.

"You kids have fun. And be good." Charlie added. This would be the first time they would be going to the beach house unsupervised. Charlie knew that if anyone should be nervous it should be Edward's parents but having spent 15 years on the police force left him cynical even if Bella had never gotten so much as a detention. He had already spoken with the other parents and was reassured that things were going to be fine.

Bella kissed her dad on the cheek and felt the familiar scratch of his mustache on her face. "Love ya dad. See you tomorrow." She called as she headed toward the front door and out to Edward's black Volvo.

Edward wasn't sure what he was so nervous about as he drove his two best friends out to Hoyt's shabby appointment. He'd bought plenty of drugs before, he'd even done them with Bella and Sookie before. Maybe it was seeing Bella fresh out of the shower this morning, the towel pressing her breasts together and her hair dripping down her back. Maybe it was the way Sookie helped Bella slip her bra on discreetly and the image it created in his mind Sookie standing behind Bella, wrapping her arms around her and cupping her breasts. Maybe it was the idea of Bella and Sookie finally spending the night with him, alone, at his parents summer home, doing "E".

"Fuck! This is going to be great. I can't believe our parents all agreed to this. If they only knew the kind of shit we were planning." Edward laughed.
 
Sookie turned around to face Bella who was sprawled out in the back seat. "Oh hell yeah! Happy Birthday Bella!" The girls giggled the whole way to Hoyt's. After the transaction was complete, the mood in the car shifted a bit and it ended up being a pretty quiet ride. Something about having drugs, and a trunk full of booze put them a bit on edge as they made their way north to the Cullen's lake house in Eagle River, WI. When they finally turned off the highway, it was nearly noon and the sun was blazing.  Edward drove his car up the hidden drive in the woods until he reached the clearing where his parent's beautiful log cabin sat at the edge of Catfish Lake.

"I gotta piss!" Sookie yelled running from the car toward the cabin. She found the hide-a-key in its usual spot under a wooden moose near the door and bolted into the house leaving Bella and Edward to unload the car.

Bella got out of the car slowly and stretched her arms out above her head. Her tank top rose, exposing her pale creamy skin.

"It's got to be tonight. I have to tell her how I feel." Edward though to himself as he drank her bare skin. He imagined looping his finger inside the band of her shorts and running them back and forth between her hip bones, tickling her and making goose bumps rise on her skin. He knew that deep down it was more than lust. That he wanted more than just her body. Bella had been his best friend for years. She was funny and smart and he knew she cared about him. In a few months, she would be moving to Chicago with Sookie to begin college and he was stuck spending a year at the local community college to get his grades up. He knew if he let her go off to culinary school without at least telling her how he felt about her that he'd regret it and she'd end up falling for some douchebag.

"Earth to Edward." Bella had caught him staring at her. "It's five o'clock somewhere. Lets unpack and hit the beach!"