New Solstice

"Every once in a while, we feel totally at peace, completely oblivious to the rest of the world. Only thinking about our lives and our constant day to day activities; never really seeing any change. But once what seems impossible comes along, we sometimes scare or shy away from it. Even if we are the impossible ourselves."

-Lauren Griffith

Bliss

Bella

Seventy-five years, eight months, sixteen days, seven hours, thirteen minutes and twenty-four seconds is how long it has been since I married the most miraculous man on earth. Even in vampire years, it seems as though it was a lifetime ago. Almost a dream…Had I not had the 'man' in question sitting beside me, I still would have thought so…

Ah. He's looking at me again.

It was hard following the chatter carrying around our table. Even with Alice going on about an upcoming hunting trip to Canada, planned by Carlisle, and the constant breeze of human aroma going around in Forks high school's tiny cafeteria, Edward's eyes seemed to hold me and completely block everything else out. At least Alice's talking anyways. But looking at Edward's perfect features reminded me of a different face. A similar one to his with chocolate brown eyes and rosy cheeks. Renesmee, our daughter, was gone on her second honey moon with my friend, slash, son- in- law, slash, former almost love interest, Jacob Black. Even though the imprint that he had on my daughter was old news, and even though he could have imprinted with any of the other millions of girls on this planet but chose mine, and though their marriage happened only thirty years after I had her… I still seemed to have slightly mixed feelings about their relationship. Of course, every time I brought this up to Edward his reply would always be the same…

"They're not much different from us once you think about it love. In some ways I imprinted on you. We just call it love at first sight."

And of course, every time, I knew he was right. But it still didn't shake the feelings I had…

"Bella! Bella!!" Alice pulled me from my pensive state. "Jamie Collin is looking at you again." She whispered giggling.

Uh-oh.

I heard Edward growl beside me, giving Jamie an overly murderous glare, sending the boy twisting completely around in his seat, trembling slightly.

"Really, I don't see what the problem would be if we just told everyone that we are already married. They all think we're dating anyways." Edward growled.

I giggled at him. Edward seemed to be under the slightest impression that because we were in the same school where a certain vampire and former human fell in love, that it might have a chance of happening to me. Again. The idea was preposterous, almost laughable, and barely worth mentioning.

However, even though I knew I had all the love he could possibly produce for me apart from his daughter and family, everyone, female and sometimes male, was an enemy. A rival of sorts. Edward, and especially Emmett, would never let me lived down the time I hissed at a poor girl in France for looking at him longer than five seconds while we were attending college there. After he apologized to her saying that I was actually 'sneezing' from allergies (yeah right), he told me that she was just waiting for him move over so she could get a better look at Emmett. She had a thing for muscular men.

Emmett wouldn't stop laughing at me.

"It's only natural Edward" Alice chided.

"Yeah!" Exclaimed Emmett "Besides, I don't mind when guys stare at Rose. I don't even hiss at them." He added as he threw me a grin. I rolled my eyes.

"Emmett" Edward started "you loveit when the boys here stare at Rosalie! Every time they do you rub it in their faces by kissing her or huggi… hmmm" Edward suddenly stopped talking then abruptly (well, almost abruptly. He was moving at human pace, but it was quickly enough for humans to think it was abrupt…) took me in his arms and kissed me square on the lips. Then, what seemed reluctantly, pulled back slowly and gazed at me. I quickly turned back around just in time to see poor Jamie's horror and grief stricken face mash into a frown and twist back in his seat.

Everyone at our table began laughing. Even Jasper looked like he would be gasping for air if he could. Edward smiled, looking as though he'd just won the Noble Peace Prize for an excellent service to the United States. I couldn't help but grin.

Rosalie, still laughing and smiling, began to stand up next to Alice. Everyone else followed one eighteenth of a second later. It was time to go to our next class. Lunch would be over in about thirty three seconds. We all picked up our trays of untouched or otherwise played with human food and threw it away in the trash besides the door then proceeded outside. Once we were out of human sight and sound Emmett jumped twelve feet in the air then landed on Jasper's back.

"Emmett! Stop behaving like such a child!" Rosalie complained. But you could still hear the small endearment that she tried to keep out of her voice.

Emmett laughed and smiled, looking more like the kid his personality was inclined to, and continued to do handstands on Jasper's shoulders. Alice shrieked a laugh then summer salted into the air and landed on Emmett's feet.

I was about to join, but Edward, fast as lightning, pulled me to the side of the school continuing where we left off before Jamie's stares had interrupted.

Everything in my life (or non-life) was bliss. But somehow I felt as though something was coming. I didn't know what or why, or if it was good or bad; but at the moment, I didn't care.