Bella's POV
"I Love you" I whispered.
"Not more than I love you" He said in his soft velvet voice while stroking his perfect arm across my bare back. I could never get used to his touch, it never fails to send shivers down my spine even if we have the same temperature now.
His kiss broke my reverie. He passionately kissed my lips which I returned with equal enthusiasm. At times like this, I was grateful for having been changed into a vampire. I don't know how much of this my human body could take. I'm sure by now my heart would have been mistaken for helicopter blades taking off and my face would have been the same colour as an apple. His lips moved down to my neck. I tilted my head to my right to allow him to continue. He kissed my neck hungrily, moving down to my collar bone and then to the back of my ear. He skimmed his nose to my jaw line inhaling my scent. His lips felt like a brush of cold wind which left a trail of electricity. When his lips were inches away from mine, I quickly pulled his face to mine to kiss him. I crushed my body to his, wrapping my pale and slender legs to his thigh and throwing my arms around his neck while locking my fingers to his bronze hair. He laughed at my eagerness but didn't do anything to stop me. I always had to remind myself that I was stronger than him and that I should be more careful with him, but he didn't seem to care.
After a moment of sheer bliss, I lay in his stone marble chest while Edward was stroking my hair. I propped myself up on one elbow and stared at the perfect body of my husband. Time had not changed him (mainly because we were immortal and are frozen in our state which hindered our body from aging). My eyes traced over his pale complexion, his muscular chest and arms, the hard-square of his jaw, his straight nose and angular cheekbones, his soft curved lips,-twisted into that crooked smile I love-and last but not the least, his eyes which are now butterscotch gold after hunting last night. It still dazzles me when I stare into his eyes, I even lose coherency around him when he tries to dazzle me to give in to what he wants. All-in-all it was a picture of a god. I still can't believe that He's mine forever and I am his forever too. How did I deserve such a wonderful creature?
"Bella love, what are you thinking?" Edward asked. He was always curious to what I was thinking since I'm the only one that was immune to his power.
I laid back into his chest and pushed my shield away from me to let him know what I was thinking. I had better control of my shield now, I've been practicing with Edward this last few weeks and I was able to push the shield away from myself for more than 10 minutes. He smiled as he read my thoughts, he always loved it when I shared my mind with him.
"Bella, when will you see yourself clearly? Truly, you are the most beautiful person in this whole universe, both inside and out. It is I who doesn't deserve you."
I rolled my eyes at the impossibility but didn't say anything anymore, I didn't want to ruin this happy moment for him. The sun was beginning to rise. Today was our first day in West coast high school. We moved to Hampton, after the Volturi incident, for its weather and for the short drive it would take back to Forks in case anything comes up. Me, Alice and Edward would go as sophomores while Rosalie, Jasper and Emmett were juniors. Our public story was that Carlisle and Esme are our foster parents. I was adopted by Esme, who was my aunt that took me in when my parents died, along with Rosalie and Jasper who were pretending to be twins. Carlisle adopted Edward, Alice and Emmett who later on adopted Nessie (there was really no use in resisting this nickname), we would be using the same cover-up story we used on Charlie, that she was Edward's niece and that she has no other closest relative other than Edward. When Carlisle and Esme met, they fell in love and decided to get married, apparently because they shared the interest in fostering teens. I would go by my maiden name while Rosalie and Jasper would go by Hale and the rest would be Cullens.
The sun broke through the curtains of our room, sending rays of light to our skin which were now throwing off sparkles around the room.
"Momma" I heard Nessie's voice call out to me while she was approaching our room. Edward and I leaped from the bed and ran at vampire speed to the huge closet Alice has built for us. I quickly found a dark blue long sleeved blouse and skinny jeans. When I came back to our room, Edward was already sitting on the edge of our bed wearing an indigo polo shirt and jeans.
Renesmee opened our door and peeked right in. When she saw Edward, she immediately danced towards him. "Daddy!" She leaped towards him gracefully and was caught by Edward's muscular arms. He tackled her playfully, tickling her in the stomach on the bed. I watched as Nessie was laughing and squealing, she looks exactly like her father with the shape of her face, her chin, her cheekbones and her bronze colored-hair. She got her rosy cheeks and eyes from me-chocolate brown from when I was human- and her curls from my father. It always frightens me when I look into her future, she was still aging so rapidly-she had the body of a 4-year old and a mind of a ten-year old even though she's only 6 months old. Though I was assured that everything would be perfectly fine and she would reach full maturity after seven years, I still couldn't help to feel sad that I'm going to miss most of her childhood. Like this moment for example, I'm going to miss her playing with Edward and carrying her in my arms. Not to mention the fact that when she reaches full maturity I would be handing her to Jake for keeping (since he imprinted on her.). I pushed the thought aside for now and put on a brave face.
"Momma!" she screamed as I seated myself next to her. I pulled her into my arms, and seated her on my lap. She rested her hand on my cheek and I saw her say good morning in my mind.
I smiled at her. "Good Morning to you too sweetie."
She touched my cheek again and I could feel the sadness radiating out of her at the thought of us going to school for the day and leaving her here. "I'm going to miss you too baby but Mommy and Daddy have to go to school to pretend we're normal."
"But I want to go to school to." She whined in her high-soprano voice apparently not bothering to communicate with her gift.
"Nessie, now is not the right time, you're still aging too fast and people might notice." Edward explained to her. She pouted and a crease between her eyebrows appeared.
"Think about it this way, you get to spend the whole day with Jacob and Grandma Esme and Grandpa Carlisle," She smiled at the thought. "And when we get home Auntie Alice and Auntie Rosalie can play dress up with you, and if you're a good little girl I might even give you some Hershey's chocolate" Her grin widened and her eyes sparkled with excitement at my announcement. I smiled at her, she prefers animal blood over human food but when it comes to chocolate, she practically can eat as much as Jacob, that's why we kept all our chocolates safely hidden.
"Okay, Mommy I promise" She smiled at me, her perfect teeth showing.
"Come on, let's go the bathroom and take your bath." I said. She let out a groan. I chuckled. She always hates it when she has to take a bath. I carried her into the bathroom without giving her any chance to escape.
After I gave Nessie her bath, we went to her closet, it was two-thirds of the size our closet, courtesy of Alice, apparently she has a new guinea pig Barbie but she still insists on what I should wear and was constantly disappointed at my lack of interest for clothing. I picked up a frilly lavender dress and white flats. After that I made my way back to our bedroom and strapped on my white peep-toe high heels and put on some blush-to avoid looking so pale- and silver dangling earrings. I figured why not dress for the second time I'm going through my first-day of high school. At least it would keep Alice off my back.
Edward and Renesmee were waiting for me by the living room. I walked over to them and took Edward's hand in mine. "You look beautiful today Mrs. Cullen" Edward complimented. I looked down, embarrassed, this would be one of the times I would have blushed.
"Of course she is, she's my momma" Nessie argued. I bent down on my knees and kissed her on the forehead.
"Thank you sweetie" I said.
We made our way to the main Cullen house where the others were. We decided to live separately from them to give us more privacy. Our house was only a couple of meters from the main house so we decided to be in no hurry to get there. We were walking at a leisurely pace, with Nessie between us and holding our hands as we swayed them.
We went through the back door and was greeted by Emmett.
"Hey you two what took you so long? It's not like you slept late last night." He guffawed. I can't believe him, after I fairly won the bet we made at our arm wrestling match he still can't stop commenting about my personal sex life with his brother which is kind of annoying if you ask me.
Edward shot him a death glare and growled. "Shut up Emmett, You had an agreement with Bella remember? Or do you want Bella to beat you again to remind you?"
Emmett smiled at the idea showing his set of teeth and dimples. "Sure, how bout this afternoon after school?"
"You're on" I answered. Emmett just doesn't know when to give up. He's like the brother I've always wanted, he's the person I go to whenever I needed to escape boredom. I love him as my brother though he annoys the hell out of me.
Just then Jacob came bursting into the room. Nessie squealed and let go of our hands and danced to Jake's open arms. We decided that Jacob should come along with us since he can't live without Renesmee. Esme built him a small house of his own a couple of yards in the forest, since Rosalie insisted on getting rid of the dog smell (they never really got over their annoyance over the other since Nessie's birth).
"Hey Ness, how was your sleep?" Jake asked Renesmee. Nessie touched his cheek to answer him. All of a sudden Jake burst out laughing.
"Jake what is it? Why are you laughing?" I asked him, curious to what Renesmee showed to him that made him laugh this hard. Somehow, I knew I'm going to regret this question. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward lips twitched, as if he was holding out a grin.
"Oh nothing" He managed to say between his laughter. "She's just telling me that she kept hearing noises and things racking last night." I was right, I was going to regret it. Emmett joined him in laughter and I silenced them both with a glare.
"Hey guys!" Alice called as she descended from the stairs. "Bella I'm so glad to see you finally take fashion seriously!"
I rolled my eyes at her. Silly Alice.
Nessie squealed and jumped off Jacob's arm to hug her aunt. "Aunt Ali!" she danced towards Alice and embraced her. She touched her cheek and an even bigger smile lit up her face.
"Of course we can play dress-up, you're my favourite niece in the whole world! I just wish your mother is this enthusiastic about clothes." She smiled mischievously at me. I stuck my tongue out to her.
"Okay, enough about fashion, we're going to be late if we don't hurry." Edward butted in. I smiled at him gratefully and he winked at me. Rose and Jasper came down the stairs and we rushed towards the garage after saying good-bye to Renesmee. I placed my wedding ring in another finger to avoid any rumors in the school and got in Edward's Volvo while Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper took Rose's BMW. The drive to school was short, Edward had his one hand at the wheel while the other was intertwined with mine.
"I love you Mrs. Cullen" He looked up at me with his dazzling and hypnotic eyes. I was stunned. How does he do that? Instead of responding, I leaned towards him and kissed him on the lips since I was in no shape to form a coherent sentence. He chuckled at my response. "You really shouldn't distract me like that love, especially when I'm driving"
I laughed at what he said. "Somehow I find it hard to believe that you would lose your concentration on driving since you don't even look at where you're going".
"True" He murmured flashing me my favourite smile and kissed my hand. The rest of the drive was quiet after that.