AN: I do not own Twilight. Any characters, places, events, etc. belong to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 1

"Josh! Can you bring me that text book on the kitchen counter?!"

"Sure thing, love."

It had been nearly 7 years since I had met Joshua Black, and they've been the most wonderful years of my entire life. I couldn't go one second without thinking of him, let alone being next to him. He loved me just as much, if not more.

"Here you go." He set the book onto my lap and then gave me a long, deep kiss. It was one of those kisses you'd see in a Disney movie…or maybe in a movie where someone had to leave for a long time.

"Thank you." I wasn't sure what I was thanking him for more...the book or the kiss?

"Guess what I have, Elizabeth."

I turned around and saw him holding an envelope with a check in it and he was wearing a huge grin.

"An envelope with paper in it?" I giggled softly, but then Josh's grin grew wider.

"This is the check that will officially tell the bank, and anyone else who I happen to scream it at on the way home, that we own our house."

"That's the last payment on our house?! Oh my God, Josh!" I leaped off of the couch and gave him a huge hug. Josh had gotten so much taller because of the werewolf thing, so it was a bit harder to give him a huge hug. Luckily, he could still give me one.

"Yep! And I'm not going to wait for it to get mailed itself. I am going to drive up to the bank right now and then I'm going to drive home to the house that will officially be ours." He grabbed the car keys and kissed me on the forehead before he headed out the door.

"I love you!" I shouted out the door.

"Love you more!" He shouted back as he drove off.

Yes, it's true. Josh and I bought a house together a year after we were out of high school. My parents insisted on paying it off right away for me, but I told them that we wanted to pay it off ourselves. Of course, they always sent a little bit of money every month to help out a bit. We found a place that's between the reservation and my family's house nearly equally, and of course we still go to our meadow every once in a while. But things are a lot busier nowadays.

We still live in Forks, though I'm dying to get out of this place. Who knows when we'll get out?

Josh has a job at the Forks car wash. He's co-manager, but even then it's not the most glamorous or highest paying job out there. My job is getting money sent to us from my parents and going to online-college.

I wished I could be going to real college, but Josh still has his duties as a werewolf and apparently the world will end if he's not there when they need him. It made me so angry when I would get a call from those damn werewolves asking for Josh and they would always hang up if I answered. It was absolutely childish. Josh knew how much I hated it, and everyday when we woke up, he told me that someday we'll have the biggest house in the biggest city in the entire world. I didn't need the biggest house in the world, but I looked forward to at least moving to a big city in this country.

Josh and I have yet to get married. We talk about it every once in awhile and my parents are always trying to discuss it with him whenever they get the chance. I think they're just being impatient little vampires. I mean, they were married right out of high school, while we decided to take our times with things.

The whole werewolf thing didn't help us at all. It seemed like they always needed Josh. Whenever he had to leave, I could see the sadness in his eyes because he had to leave me at home alone. But I would always tell him not to worry, because most of the time I had homework or something school related to do. Even when he would only be gone for five minutes, I would miss him.

My parents made me promise them that when we did move to a big city, that we would let them pay off our house or buy it for us. I promised, knowing that houses elsewhere would be much more expensive than our house in Forks. Everyday we saw them; they would show me that they had a bank account set up especially for our city-house, our wedding and anything else that we could possibly need. They even told me that when I had a baby, that Alice wanted to do all of the shopping for it. It was going to be impossible to tell Alice no.

Yes, we have no child yet. Neither of us really desires for a child right now, and our parents breathing down our necks about it doesn't help. We still need to concentrate on marriage first, and the other ten million things that we still need to get figured out as well.

It's truly amazing that after all this time together; we still love each other as much as we do. I only hope that someday we will be able to make our relationship even stronger than it is now. Whether that be marriage, a baby, moving to the city, who knows. All I know is that I love Joshua Black and he loves me, Elizabeth Cullen.

As I worked on my school-work, the phone began to ring. I picked it up and sighed, because I knew who it was likely to be.

"Hello?" The tone of my voice was a bit sarcastic, but how else was I supposed to pick up the phone with those stupid werewolves calling all the time.

"Elizabeth, is something wrong?!" Oh! It was my mother!

"No, not at all!" The tone in my voice changed immediately. "How are you, Mom?"

"I'm doing fine. I just wanted to call and say congratulations!" Of course she would already know about our house being all paid off, due to my family's special 'gifts'.

"Thanks, Mom. I can't believe that it's actually ours now. It seems like we just moved in." Even though we didn't have tons of stuff, we still had boxes lying around in one of the rooms of stuff we hadn't bothered unpacking. We had never planned to live in the house too long, so we found it unnecessary to unpack everything.

"I think we need to celebrate. Don't you?"

"I suppose we could. I don't think we have anything going on this evening. I'll check with Josh when he-" Just as I spoke, he walked into the house. "Well, he's actually home now."

"Great! How about if we take you out to dinner tonight?" My mom seemed overly excited about the whole ordeal.

"Uhm, sure! We'll come over around six thirt-"

"NONSENSE! We'll come pick you up. I love you, dear!" Click.

I hung up the phone and sighed.

"Who was that, Liz?" Josh shut the door behind him and tossed his keys onto the counter.

"My mom. She wants to take us out for dinner to celebrate." I set the phone on the table I was working at and got up to give Josh a kiss. When I turned around, Josh surprised me by already standing there and gave me the kiss I was going to give to him.

"Well, okay then. If they insist." He pulled away smiling and then rustled up my hair a bit. Josh plopped himself down on the couch and let out a long, relieved sigh. "God, it feels good to have this place paid off."

I jumped over the couch back and plopped down onto him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and smiled. Our moment together in each other's arms was ruined when the phone rang. Josh picked it up and groaned when he hung up.

"I'm sorry…they need me."

I let out a disgusted sigh as I sat up to let him go. Before he left, he kissed me on my forehead and made me a promise.

"Someday we'll get out of this town, away from all of them, and we can be together without the interruptions of the outside world. I promise."

"Just please be back before 6:30."

He nodded as he left our house. As much as I loved Josh, it pained me to know that he had other commitments, probably commitments more important than those he had to me. And even as close as we were to each other, those commitments only tore us apart.

(Sequel time! I wrote this chapter the next day after I finished Dreaming Again! I'm so addicted to this story, the characters…plus I already have a few ideas lined up for this story. I'm also going to do my best to keep these chapters a bit longer than those of DA, but no promises! I hope you all enjoy I'm In Love With You as much as you did with Dreaming Again!)