Chapter 2:

Bella POV:

"Good morning to all you sleepy heads!" I heard Emmet call from downstairs.
"good morning dear, sorry about Emmet, he is a bit excited about the presents. How was your sleep?" he asked while walking over to my side.
" I can't say that I slept well, but it was better than yesterday." I replied, kissing him gently on his lips. He looked troubled with my answer, he was keeping something away from me, but it's Christmas so I will deal with it later. "Could I have a human minute?"
"Of course, he kissed me one last time before I got into the bathroom where the blue dress I wanted to wear today was hanging neatly on the door. I love Alice, I wanted his present to be perfect. I hummed a familiar melody one last time while I got ready for the day.

"Good morning everyone!" I said cheerfully walking down the stair, waiting for the moment I will fall and my dearest will catch me at the bottom, but it never happened, I saw the confusion on Edward's face as well. When I reached the bottom I hugged him and whispered merry Christmas in his ear. He kissed me and then we made our way to the tree.

Emmet was already as excited as a dog so he and Rosalie went first. By the time he finished opening his presents he was so happy, he could jump up in the air and do five somersaults before landing on the ground. Next were Alice and Jasper, while Alice did her best to look surprised Jasper let in the feelings of the others making him even happier. Carlisle and Esme didn't want any gifts, they were just happy to have a loving family so that meant that I was next. I really didn't want anything but since I couldn't do anything to stop them I just had to accept my presents.

"Open ours first!" Emmet cried his eyes so big, I quickly unwrapped the beautiful golden wrapping to find three plays which were written by Shakespeare. I had read all of them but the last of my copies was so old some of the words were rubbed off.
"Thank you so much… I love it!" then it was Jasper's and Alice's present.
"Do you like it?" A high pitched voice sang musically. I looked at the book and found that it was a music book, like the one's Edward has for his compositions, but the pages of this one were golden and beautiful. I knew that Alice knows about my present for Edward and I also knew that she won't destroy it.
"We know that one of your favorite things is your lullaby, and we thought that in this book Edward can write you more songs." I felt the tears running down my cheeks and finally when I could get the words to come out of my mouth i said "thank you so much, and Edward you have to promise me to write me more songs in this book… please?"



"It would be more than my pleasure." He said and kissed me gently. I now got my present from Carlisle ad Esme, it was a play also written by Shakespeare with his own dedication and signature.
"I can't take this"
"sure you can, it means a lot more to you then it does for us and you will have much better significance for it than just putting it in the library." Esme debated my point. I knew i had to accept it, and that I love it so much so I just said thank you and then stared at the love f my life.
"Love, I know you didn't want me to get you anything but I got something anyway and for you information I pay a lot of money."
"You better not have." He gave me a box wrapped beautifully in gold wrapping paper with the words 'I love you' written over and over again in his beautiful elegant script. I opened it slowly cherishing every moment. The first thing I saw was a picture of him and me cuddling in our meadow and then I saw it. He made a locket and carved our picture into the front. The locket was heart shaped and on the back the words 'love' and 'forever' where carved beautifully. I finally opened the locket when I saw tears starting to slowly roll down my cheeks once again. Inside the locket was half of a broken heart I looked at Edward confused when I saw a locket just as beautiful as mine around his neck. I realized that inside his locket was the other half. On my heart the letter E was enscripted. I took it out, examining it from every side when I notices that on the other side of the inside of the locket the following phrase was written.

'Take care of my heart, I left it with you.'

At that moment I burst into tears and started hugging and kissing him, after all of this he turned to me and asked.
"Do you like it?"
"Oh yes! I love it and I will never ever take it off! Now help me put it on!" I kissed him again as I gave him the necklace. "Thank you" I whispered, kissing him again.

"Get a room!" Emmet shrieked.
"Now it's your turn!" Alice screamed, knowing she was talking to Edward now, she grabbed his arm and carried him towards the tree.

Edward smiled and laughed as he received his gifts, my one was going to be second last, so I could bring him to our room where Alice's present would be, the new piano.

"Honey, now what did you get me?" He asked, his eyes as big as a puppy's.
"I didn't spend a cent; I know you have everything so it was a bit hard to find the right thing… I hope you like it." I handed him a huge box, he opened the box and inside was a letter.



Edward POV:

My dear and only love, Edward,

You don't know just how hard it was for me to find the right thing to get you, nothing I thought of was ever going to be enough to describe the love I feel for you…
I hope you like my present, love and kisses…

Bella.
P.S. Go upstairs to our room I'll be waiting there, (How didn't you notice I left?) and do me a favor and say thank you to Alice. xoxo

I looked around me and no one was there. I ran upstairs as fast as I could, and there she was. My angel… Who on earth was I to deserve such a wonderful gift? It didn't matter because I could hear her lullaby playing in the background, that was when I noticed that it was my Bella playing I just listened my heart filled with content.

Bella POV:

I started playing my lullaby that I've been learning for the past few weeks, I played it nowhere near as good as he did but it's the thought that counts right? And then I started singing the words I wrote for my lullaby, the beautiful voice I discovered not so long ago filled the room. And far too soon it was over. I looked at Edward, he was shocked!

"Bella, why didn't you tell me? Why on Earth would you keep that wonderful, wonderful voice a secret? Oh Bella you will be the death of me, you really are…" I knew that if tears could come out of his eyes they would.
"Honestly Edward, I didn't know until a few weeks ago when I decided to make it your present."
"I believe you…" he kissed me and turned to face Alice. "Thank you, it is beautiful."

I was finally in bed and for the first time in so long I had a good night sleep, well except for that dream.