AN: This is a loosely based on the song "18th Floor Balcony" by Blue October. YouTube it if you're not familiar. Its super sweet. I'm still new, so please review and help a girl out. Thanks.

I closed my eyes and I smiled. I knew this was it for me. She was it for me. After watching Carlisle during the first few days after meeting Esme, or Rose and Emmett, I knew I was acting just like them. Just like a vampire who found their mate. My eyes followed her hand while she took notes in Biology. The smooth motion when she wrote cells versus the hesitation when she wrote molecule names. I would match her breathing when she sat in the same room as me. It wasn't too far fetched to say every dead cell in me turned to her like magnetic north.

Is this happening to me? Finally? I know Esme worried about me the most, but each of my family had spent some amount of time wondering why I didn't have a mate. I have to admit I worried too. I worried my abilities would always keep me arms length from everyone. Who would want their significant other to know every single thought they had for forever? Even Alice and Jasper had ways of giving privacy to each other when they needed it. As important as companionship is, we all need something that is only our own. And I just took all that away from somebody in a relationship.

Not with Bella. My Bella.

My breath in her hair while she slept. Although I didn't have REM sleep or beta brain waves, I considered this time sleep for me too. Sleep to rest, to absorb the days events and reflect on tomorrow. Reflect on forever. If I had taken this time when I met Bella, I would have known this was it from the start. Instead of closing my arms, I would have opened them wide.

We talked mom's and dad's, family histories and getting to know questions. I put my heart in her hands before she knew I was hers. I wanted all to see, this has finally happened to me.

I knelt on the side of the bed while she slept. I raised my hand to her, and said "I'm yours for the taking. For the keeping, hopefully." I sat in her chair and closed my eyes. I'm trying to keep her in me, to take home and keep while we were apart today.

When her head rests on my stomach, I knew we would run into forever together.