Hey guys, I would like to tell you that I rewrote this and the next chapter, it was a little "Dry" so to speak. The same thing happens, but with more details, so if you already read this chapter you can skip it. This starts exactly where eclipse left off, it is mainly in Bella's POV. Thank you to all my wonderful reviewers. Happy 2008

Edward was trying to hide the fact that he was excited. We were in the Volvo, he had ran me to the car faster than usual, and I couldn't help but think of what was going to happen when I told Charlie. I was so glad that Edward was by my side. When he got to the house Edward grabbed my hand and looked into my eyes, I felt like I was falling into them.

"It'll be fine, trust me."

I looked at him disbelievingly. He scrunched his nose up in response.

"I had Alice look into it, trust me, it will be fine. Just relax."

Knowing that Alice saw something good made me fell better, but only a little, I knew that Edward has been known to edit things.

As soon as I unbuckled my seatbelt my door opened, I jumped. Edward laughed at my reaction and helped me out of the car. I opened the front door and leaded Edward into the kitchen.

"Dad?"

I jumped when I heard the sounds of a big moving van across the street. This place was normally so quite. I heard Charlie coming down the stairs and I pondered how I was going to break this to him. Edward squeezed my hand for reinsurance.

"Hi Bella, I just got home from fishing, you should have seen the big fish I reeled in, I was this close to getting him into the boat when he escaped "

He showed me how close he was with his fingers.

"Wow dad that would have been a great catch!"

I said falsely excited for him, he has said that every week he has gone fishing.

"What did you want to say to me Bells?"

Ugh, I couldn't put it off any longer. I sighed.

"Dad, I need to talk to you about something very important." I paused. "Can we sit down?"

He shook his head yes and went over to sit on the chair, I sat next to Edward on the couch. Charlie looked at me confused.

"Charlie, dad, I wanted to tell you that Edward has asked for my hand in marriage."

His jaw dropped, I felt like I was going to die.

"I'm not here to ask you if that would be okay, I'm here to ask you for your blessing. I already told him yes."

His eyes were about to pop out of his face, I looked at Edward scared.

"You what?"

This time Edward spoke up.

"I love your daughter very much and I cant wait to spend the rest of my life with her, I would appreciate it very much if you would walk her down the aisle."

He turned his head to look at Edward.

"You'll take care of her right? You'll take care of my little girl?"

Edward looked at me gingerly.

"Yes I will, I will never hurt her again, and I will spend the rest of my life making up for when I did."

Charlie looked at me again.

"What about school?"

"I am still going to Alaska for school."

He gave me a hug, tears will spilling out now.

"You need to call your mom."

Shoot, I forgot about my mom. I wiped my eyes and went over to the phone to call Renée. It was then that I realized that this was practically suicide, she is going to be so mad. I felt the room spin, my eyes water even more, and my tongue swell. I started dialing the numbers. I was thinking about hanging up as she answered.

"Hello?"

"Hi mom, it's Bella."

"Oh, hey, what's up?"

"Mom, I just wanted to know if you could possibly come here for my wedding night."

"What?" Her voice was quite, almost whisper like. I cleared my throat.

"Mom, I would like to know if you would come to see me take Edwards hand in marriage."

"Is this a joke?"

"No mom, It's not. Edward and I are getting married."

"Bella, it would be very stupid of you to go through with this."

I was suddenly angry.

"No, it wouldn't be stupid, I love Edward and I want you come support me when I become his officially."

She started to cry, and I felt so bad.

"I'm sorry mom. Its just, I want you to be happy for me, it's a happy thing that happening."

She laughed half-heartedly.

"I know bells. I am happy, but I cant help but think what ifs"

"I love him mom."

"When is it?"

"August 13th. Are you coming?"

"Oh Bella honey, Ill be there. Of course I will"

"I'm glad Mom, I got to go, Ill call you tomorrow."

"Ok love."

I hung up and turned to face Edward.

"It went better than I thought it would, I expected her to fight more."

He looked at me and laughed before wiping a tear off my cheek with his thumb.

"I told you it would be fine. Come on, Alice wants you over there."

I told Charlie that I was going over to Edwards and I would be back later. Even though I didn't want to admit it, this was too good to be true. I was going to have my love for eternity. I actually felt quite faint.

After we were at his house Edward turned the car off and looked at me.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

I felt the ring like it weighted 300 pounds, my hand was starting to shake. I couldn't help it, next thing I knew I was crying. Edward looked at me worriedly and shifted me into his lap.

"Bella, baby, please tell me what's hurting you so?"

I couldn't help but laugh at myself, I was being so silly.

"Nothing, it's just too good to be true. I am going to be yours, officially, for ever. It's not so much sad as happy. I love you so much Edward. I really do."

He chuckled at me and I felt so stupid for a moment. I blushed and looked down.

He pushed my tilted my chin up with his fingers till I was looking straight into his beautiful, inhuman, god like eyes.

"Bella, I'm the one who has it too good to be true. Bella do you realize that I am a monster in most peoples eyes? I am so lucky that you, my sweet, did not turn away from me. I am so lucky that you are willing to give up so much to be mine. I have a hard time believing that you aren't going to see me one day and realize that im no good for you, because Bella, I am no good for you, but you don't know how happy I am to know that you still love me anyway."

He bushed off my tears with his thumb and kissed me. It was breath taking when he kissed me. At the same time my lungs are aching for air my heart and body are aching for him. Words can't explain it properly, it's so amazing.

I sighed when he broke the kiss. I grabbed his hand as we got out of the Volvo and walked up to the house.

"Time to get this done with, I hope it won't be too bad."

He smiled and looked down at me.

"Don't worry, Alice doesn't have too much planed for you. It will be over before you know it."

Alice opened the door when we reached the fist step going up to the porch. She probably saw us coming.

I felt Edward squeeze my hand for encouragement as I entered their breathtaking house. Alice had done each room with different color schemes. Probably to help me pick out the best one for the wedding. Oh, how I loved Alice, she did everything she could do and more. I was so happy that I would know her forever.

She looked at me excitedly before saying "well, I just wanted to make it easier on you to pick out the colors that we will be using. This is very important so I want you to actually think about this. I already know what you will pick, but this is your wedding and I want you to figure it out for yourself."

I could tell she wanted me to be happy, I could tell she knew that even though I don't admit it I wanted this wedding to be perfect. She wanted it to be perfect on my own accord, not hers. I loved her so much right now. I just walked up to her and gave her a hug. She was startled, but then she calmed down and returned it. It was like hugging a rock, but by now I was used to it.

"What was that for?"

"Being so great."

She sighed, took my free hand (my other was still in Edwards'), and led me into the first room. It was navy blue and silver.

"Its pretty!" I said, thinking about my vintage lace gown.

"Lets see the other rooms before you pick."

The next room was deep purple and dark red, it reminded me of blood.

"What do you think?"

"Alice, it's nice, but do I really want everything around me too look like your next meal?"

Edward stifled a laugh and Alice growled. I blushed. I hope Alice wasn't mad at me.

"Okay Bella, I wasn't crazy about that one either anyway."

Finally she took me into the last room and my I couldn't believe my eyes. It was such a beautiful combination of colors. A very light mint green, an aquamarine, white, and some topaz accents. This would do.

"Alice, I love it. Edward what do you think?"

"Very pretty, it will work wonderfully."

He was looking at my face and I was still staring at the colors. This will do. This will do quite fine. Alice smiled to herself and announced quietly that she knew I would like it.

"Thank you Alice, I love it. Is that it for tonight?"

She looked at me and nodded, and then thought for a minute before saying "roses?"

Looking at Edward I decided that yes, I wanted roses. They are as beautiful and yet familiar, just like my fiancé.

After telling her that I did like the idea of roses we left the house to return to Charlie's. Alice told me to come back tomorrow and we would go decide what cake we want and who would cater.

When I got home there were a two people I have never met before in my kitchen. One was a girl that looked to be about 15, she was short, blonde, blue eyed, and pretty. The other one was probably her mother; she had chocolate hair, brown eyes, and very young looking for her age. They were sitting at my table eating a piece of pizza. I looked around for Charlie, he wasn't sitting at the table with them.

The young blonde spoke up, "Hi, I'm Erica, and this is my mom Linda, we just moved in across the street. Your dads in the bathroom, you must be Bella? Your dad was telling us all about you."

She spoke really fast and it reminded me of Alice. Edward just stood there wile I replied. "Hi, nice to meet you. Yes, I am Bella, and this is my boyfriend Edward." Edward leaned in to shake her hand wile she stared at him. Oh, great, another person that doesn't think I'm good enough for him. I looked at Edward and he raised his eyebrows at me. Then, all of sudden Erica gasped and Edward looked very strangely at her. I excused myself and Edward and went upstairs.

Once we were in my room I turned to Edward. "What was she thinking?"

"At fist she thought you were very pretty, and then she looked at me and thought I was handsome, and then she thought that we made the perfect couple."

I was happy that she thought nicely about me, I almost let the subject drop, but then I remembered what I really wanted to know

"Why did she gasp? Why did you look at her like that?"

"She knew Bella, she understood what I was." He laughed. "Then she started singing 'I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves'"

"How did she know?"

"I'm not sure"

Just then we heard a knock on the door.

"Bella, is this your room? I was hoping I could talk to you, sorry if I'm interrupting anything."

I walked over to the door and let her in.

"No, you weren't interrupting anything. I actually wanted to talk to you too."

Edward laughed and I gave him a look.

"Edward, could you give us a minute?"

He turned and walked out of the room.

"What's up?"

"I just wanted to know if you knew about your boyfriend."

"Yeah I do, but what I wanted to know was how you knew."

"When two years ago, when I lived in Pennsylvania I met a two vampires, they were tracking a girl and got a false lead. I ran into them, quite literally, and they wanted to kill me. The male, James, decided against it, but wanted to turn me. Knowing a few things about vampires I decided that I didn't want to be stuck thirteen forever, I also have a strong hate relationship with blood. After they told their story I manipulated them with another false lead because I knew the girl didn't do anything to deserve to die. They told me about powers vampires have and that's how I knew to block my mind from Edward."

"How did you do that, give them I false lead I mean."

"I thought of a way to put them on another false trail and then put the plan into action."

"Oh. What were you thinking about that made Edward laugh a few minutes ago?"

"Ninety nine bottles of bear on the wall."

I smirked, thinking about how I might like this girl. Then I realized what she had said, she had given James a false lead, she didn't even know me and she helped save my life. I got up and gave her a hug; I just might miss her when I leave. She gave me a strange look.

"You attempted to save my life, I was the girl James was looking for. You helped me by giving him that false lead. Thank you."

Just then Edward asked if he could come in yet. When he was in I could tell that Erica was telling him what we talked about. He had a smile on his face.

"Thank you; you don't know how grateful I am. You helped save my Bella from James . If you hadn't done what you did he would have gotten to her before we were ready for him."

He turned to me, "Bella, if you don't mind I need to talk to Alice."

Erica looked shocked. "There are more of you! Can I meet her please, please, please?"

I could help but laugh when I thought of how much Erica reminded me of Alice. I looked at Edward and he looked back at me. "I don't see any problem with it. Also, could you please think of something else, I don't want to have to get down to one bottle."

She laughed and said that she guessed that there was nothing wrong with letting him read her thoughts for a little wile.

When we got down to the bottom of the steps Erica asked her mom if it would be okay to go and meet my other friend, her mom said that it was okay as long as she took her cell phone and called her if she needed anything. Edward seemed to be happy that I found someone normal that I could actually enjoy.

When we got outside and headed for Edwards Volvo Erica stopped.

"That's yours?"

Edward laughed, "yeah, I wanted to get Bella a fast car but for some reason she refuses to let me."

She thought for a minute before replying. "She probably doesn't want fancy things, she has you instead, and that's probably good enough for her."

I stared at her amazed, we only knew each other for around an hour and she already knew things that others didn't know. She was very smart for her age. Then I realized that I didn't know how old she was.

"How old are you Erica?"

"I just turned 15, I already graduated, I was cyber schooled, and I worked during the summer so I could get out faster."

"Wow."

Erica didn't seem to notice how fast we were driving until we got to the house.

"That was fast, how fast were we going?"

"Around 120 mph."

"Cool."

She looked at the house, then back to Edward.

"Edward, how many of them live here?"

"Seven including me, but don't worry Alice already warned them to be on their best behavior."

"Physic?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, mmmkay."

She looked at me, and then headed up the steps.

"Let's do this."

Alice opened the door before we got to the top step. Erica smiled at her, and Alice grinned back.