Walking into the Lounge, he looked at the young girl behind the greeting stand. "Reservation under Cullen. Table for eleven. Nine are still on the way." He stated gently to the woman, causing her to grin brightly at him, as she quickly led him to a separate room altogether.
I had to suppress a growl. She had no right to look at Edward like that.
Edward pulled open my seat for me. Smiling at him, I slid in carefully.
He caught my glare at the woman, and smiled gently at me, taking my hand in his. She however, was oblivious to how close she had come to death, as she turned around and headed back to her station.
"The others should be here shortly. Alice is driving." He stated, slipping into his seat next to me. "Just hope she doesn't hit anyone this time."
Upon hearing this, my head shot up from the menu, "What do you mean this time? She's hit someone before!"
"Not Her. Her car," Edward emphasized, "It was on auto drive. Wasn't it, Alice?"
Upon asking, Alice opened the door to their privet room, leading in their family. "Hardly. Emmett drove today, actually."
Smiling, she took the seat next to Jasper, who sat beside myself. It didn't go unnoticed that Rosalie made sure she was as far from me as possible. It made me sad to think she still resented me so, even though Edward and I have been going out for so long.
Soon, the others arrived as well, dripping wet from another unpredictable downpour.
Ever since I moved here, its been hard for me to figure out what day it would rain, and how hard. It was depressing really.
Well it would have been, if not for Edward.
"Sorry it took us so long. Traffic was murder coming out of that theater." Angela said, smiling widely at us, as she pulled her drenched hair out of the ponytail so it would dry quicker.
"Yes, after all, not all of us drove out with one of the stars," Jessica muttered darkly under her breath.
Edward glared at her for a while. I had to distract him before someone ended up being ripped to shreds.
Grabbing the menus from the center of the table, I took one for myself and Edward, whom reluctantly turned his attention to the lists of foods on the piece of laminated paper.
I glanced down at the price column and my eyes bulged. Looking up, I realized not only had I seen the sky high prices, so did the other humans at the table.
My voice shrilled, as my eyes narrowed at Edward, whispering harshly, "Edward…thirty dollars a plate?! None of us can pay for this!"
Edward, once again shot me a perfect smile, flashing his sharp white teeth broadly. "I am, not you." He stated, loud enough for everyone to hear him.
Jessica quickly grabbed for her water glass, its long handle cool against her shaking hand. "YOU'RE WHAT!"
"He's paying," Emmett said, calmly, as he looked around at the humans sitting at their table. Their reaction amused him; he had to stifle a snicker from erupting from his lips.
"We'll pay half. It's the least we can do," Mike insisted, pulling out his wallet.
Edward turned a dark look to the boy whom sat two seats away from me, ignoring Jacob Black, whose arm rested lazily across the back of my chair.
Quickly he reached across the table, grabbing Mike's arm. "Newton," he hissed with a strong venom, his voice anchoring Edwards and his own hatred for the pitiful human. If only he knew what he was up against for my affections, would he then still try to seduce me to be his?
"Put the damn money away. If any one will be covering it, it'll be on me."
A sharp look crossed Mike's face, as he ripped his hand indignantly from Jacob's grasp, before massaging the injured flesh.
Alice giggled softly, looking between Edward and Jacob, before her laugh became even louder, erupting into a melodically echo in such a small, quaint place to eat.
A young women, around her late teens to early-twenties stood behind Edward, and was smiling down at him with a friendly gaze.
Her face was young, unnaturally white, but it had a tint of orange yellow to it, and her eyes slanted slightly on her round face. Her body was of a strong build, and did not look like she would break like so many these days did.
She wasn't perfect, but I'd be lying to myself if I didn't say she was extremely lovely.
"Hello, I'll be your waitress this evening, my name's-" the black haired girl said, smiling profusely at the large group, as she held a tray filled with an order of pastas.
Hearing the voice, Edward inquired, still facing Bella, "Tanya?"
The waitresses golden green eyes widened as she unceremoniously dropped the tray, the dishes shattering and mingling with one another, "Edward!" Quickly, the girl looked around the table, noticing Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Jasper as well.
Suddenly, she looked over her shoulder and realized she had to clean up the mess that scattered across the floor. "Hey listen, I got to go finish up my shift. I'll come over after you're done, okay?"
She glanced at me, and gave an even stronger smile, as Edward agreed, before turning back around.
Tanya quickly picked up the broken china with a rag, hurrying into the kitchen to reorder the slip up.
"Who was that? Your other girlfriend?" Mike asked, in disgust. It didn't seem to anger Edward as much as it should have.
Smiling, Edward took my hand in his stone ones. I noticed that the silver band with a single heart diamond showed through his fingers, as if he was elegantly displaying his ownership over me. "Actually, that's why you're all invited here tonight."
Suddenly his fingers twined between mine, and lifted our hands so that the whole table could see the ring on my left hand. "We're planning on getting married three weeks into senior summer vacation."
Jessica, Lauren and Angela all simultaneously dropped their glasses, their eyes wide.
I turned my attention to my right. Jacob looked like he was about to burst (which maybe he was) and Mike looked like he might just shoot someone.
"Gees, Edward, could you be any more blunt?" I joked, jabbing him in his granite chest. True, it did nothing, but I only meant it for the show of things.
Edward laughed, and caught my hand in his and kissed the back of my fingers.
Glancing over my shoulder, I saw that Jacob looked like he was about to get sick; he stood quickly, and rushed from the room, causing Jessica to send a worried glance up around the table.
"He'll be fine, Jess. I'll talk to him later."
Yes, I'd talk to him, the only problem is, would he talk to me.
Shaking that off my mind, I noticed that Tanya was back, standing with a sly smile on her face behind us once more, "So what can I get you all?"
"I'll have the vegetable linguini," I said smoothly, trying to better the satiny sound of the woman.
"Two," Edward replied, "And two more waters."
"I'll have that also." Mike glared at Edward once more for good measure.
Oh boy, not this again.
Angela looked up shyly from the menu, having hidden her head within it for the past 10 minutes of awkwardness. "I'll have the cheese ravioli with marinara."
Jessica and Lauren nodded at the same time, agreeing instantaneously on their choice of a meal, "Angel hair with garlic sauce."
Alice and Jasper asked for something light, and somehow, I didn't think of two orders of meat stuffed pasta in clear vinegar-spice sauce would be their top choice.
Rosalie, unable to pass in front of all these humans, I presumed, asked for a cal zone, and Emmett just passed, saying his stomach was still in knots from all the adrenaline.
Nodding, she scribbled down the order, before swiftly walking back to the kitchen.
Suddenly a strong possessive feeling came over me, much like it had when we first arrived here last year.
Port Angeles seemed to be our favorite place to go when Forks became too boring. And for Jacob, it seemed that my house used to be the same escape.
Shaking my head, my arm slithered against my will around Edwards, pulling him closer to me, getting myself a strange look from several people at the table, as I glared at the still-swinging door to the kitchen.
I didn't care, he was mine. I wasn't going to give him up to some past love of his.
'All venom of possession runs in all the rivers,' I thought sourly, as Edward looked down at me. I smiled, reassuring myself more then him, before sending one more glare towards the kitchen, then turning back to the conversation on hand being shredded to pieces.
"Oh it'll be so lovely!" Jessica said, exasperated, as she sighed.
"Of course you're all invited," Edward said politely, readable only to me and his family he'd much rather they not be there at all.
Edward looked at Emmett and then to Jasper, whom immediately smiled, nodding.
"Sure, bro, I'll be your man." Emmett flashed me a bigger smile as I looked slightly confused at the conservation of words, before it sunk in. Best man.
"Angela? Jessica? Would you be my maids of honors?"
They both nodded furiously, as they smiled in excitement, "Of course Bella!"
The conversation began to turn over to what would we wear, when we'd go shopping for dresses, that sort of thing.
"Esme said she'd fit us and make us dresses. She has so much time on her hands, and she doesn't really mind." I said, politely. I'd have to thank Esme later for that.
"Oh that's nice. Do you know what color our dresses are going to be?" Jessica stated, sounding nothing like the statement I made was anywhere near pleasant.
"Amber and ocher."
I didn't miss the smile that passed Edwards lips. We'd once discussed the topic of my favorite colors and gems and stones and flowers. At that time, it had been amber, the lovely color of his eyes, and I'm sure he remembers as well.
Of course it wouldn't surprise him that I would want to be reminded of it, even though I was about to spend the rest of eternity with him, staring into his ever changing eyes.
I returned his smile, but it was soon loss to the chaos inside my mind.
I was suddenly reminded of the story of Cupid and Psyche, the god and the human.
The most beautiful god of them all, and the most mediocre women of the day.
Cupid fell in love with a mortal woman, against the rules of the gods. In retaliation, said gods took away Cupid's wings, letting him fall down to Earth where the woman was damned to walk the rest of eternity with him, forever, but yet could not look upon his face without injuring her love in someway. And if she ever did, he was to leave her, to walk alone for the rest of time.
Until one day, in the dead of night, when she snuck into his room to have a peak, and-
No, I will not compare them to us. I shall always be able to stare into his amber eyes, knowing that he will always love me.
And into his ocher eyes knowing how easily he could have killed me that first time in Biology.
I glanced at him once more before stifling a loud yawn. It was hard to cover up with such good ears surrounding me.
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They all heard.
Of course they did, they were all in tune to my every motion, even Rosalie, which was, in her case, a first.
Our food arrived shortly, and I noticed how lightly they all ate, especially Edward. I suddenly was over come with a feeling of sickness myself, at how they were punishing themselves for the sake of these humans.
Jessica, of course, only noticed Edward, as he was directly across the table from her, "Feeling alright, Edward?"
Her worry for his well-being disgusted me to no end.
"He'll be alright, he's just been sick as of late." I gave an understanding look in his directions. "It's alright, we'll take it home, that way you can finish it off later."
That way you could sneak it into my container tonight, or else throw it away, where none of these humans can question you for doing it.
Edward slowly slid his arm around my waist as I continued eating, his head resting on my shoulder.
I paid it less attention, then I should have, I guess, because everyone gawked except for his family.
"You better not get what he's got, we have another weekend planned for this week!" Angela stated, in mutual worry.
"And you don't have that many sick days left at the shop, either Bell." Mike said, solemnly. I could only think it was remorseful, since I did not hold him like that when Jacob, he and I went on that one date with the third wheel.
Because I don't worry about petty things like sickness with Edward.
Only the other humans, like Mike and Eric and Tyler.
I quickly finished, waiting for the others to finish so we could pay for the bill and leave.
Looking towards the vampire at my neck, I turned slightly, stroking his head lightly, as I ran my fingers through his hair.
"That's nice…" he murmured softly, "Your so warm, Bella."
I giggled softly, pulling my hand gently from his hair.
"Please don't stop," he mumbled, causing me to laugh lightly, as I moved my hand back to its previous occupation.
I noticed the remorseful look that Tanya passed to Edward as she came to our table, "Can I get you anything else?"
"Yes, you can bring us some tins, please." I sounded proper. Edward must be rubbing off on me.
"Right away," she said, turning swiftly around, her long ebony hair sweeping across her back with the movement.
'Seductress,' I hissed in my mind, as she walked out of sight, once more disappearing behind that damned door.
"Bella, maybe you should get Edward to Charlie's to lay down for a little while. I'll drive over to your house after we're done here with your food and then I'll take him home," Alice suggested softly, putting a hidden meaning in her words, which only we would understand.
Nodding, I helped Edward up from his seat, playing it up that he actually needed my help getting up from a chair.
"Come on," I said gently as I grabbed my purse from the table, pulling out a double set of his car keys. "I'll drive."
Silently we slipped out of the restaurant, seemingly unnoticed.
I quickly started the car up, turning on the heater to warm the Volvo up. I've always hated driving with a cold steering wheel.
I pulled out into the winding road, as I saw out of the corner of my eye, Edward leaning his head back against the headrest.
"So this is what happens every time you eat our food, huh?" He nodded mutely.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I was the one who did this to myself."
A long pause washed over us, before I stated, "But you did it for me, even still. So I'm sorry you had to."
"I did it for my family too. As they did the same for me and the others as well."
We soon reached Charlie's; I pulled into the driveway swiftly.
It seemed I'd taken to Edward's style of driving: 3 times the speed limit, or else as fast as the car could go if it could not go that speed.
Reaching across his lap, I unlocked his door out of habit, since my truck had come out before auto locks had been placed inside the vehicles, before getting out of the car, Edward at my side in a minute.
Slowly, we made our way up into the house, hand in hand, entering the small house where Charlie and I occupied.
I'll be honest, it was too small for my Renee, which is probably one of the reasons why she left Forks.
It was too small for her. The town, the people, this house, Charlie….
Who would ever believe I'd find my soul mate in such a small town.
Not only my soul mate, but my best friend, my first love.
And he had my heart in his hands.
Edward's mighty arm wrapped around my waist, lifting me as he sat himself on the couch, laying me on top of him, so that I was curled against him.
And I have to be honest. It was the best feeling I've ever had, being this close to him, knowing that I'd saved him, made him stronger, with just my very presence.
But the threat of death still remained.
I felt the weight of his hand touch my side, as he held me carefully.
How I wished he could just do what he'd like to. Without all this restraint.
I hated seeing him caught between what he wanted to do, and what he was afraid would hurt me at all. If I got hurt even slightly, he blamed himself immediately.
Well at least soon all that restraint would be gone. Then I'd have him completely, and not just his worry.
I leaned over to his face, kissing his cheek. He flinched away from me, as his hand reached up to his mouth.
He quickly moved me from his lap, as he rushed to the bathroom.
Worried, I stood, rushing after him into the bathroom.
He was on his knees, back arched and his head over the toilet as dry heave racked his body.
Slowly, yet deliberately, I kneeled beside his back, reaching tentatively out to his forehead, pulling back his hair out of his face, as I stroked my fingers through his hair soothingly.
He eased only slightly in my ministrations.
I didn't expect it to work.
But it had, if only the slightest bit. The hacking still continued, however, until, suddenly a large portion of his dinner went into the bowl, and them it slowly decreased in intensity.
Suddenly, I found myself on the floor, senses flooding my with the feeling of another on top of me.
Gazing up I found Edwards eyes, as he leaned into my arms, his hips between my legs, and his chest flat to mine; his hands were there, too, on my arms and my shoulders.
"Edward, what are you doing?" I asked, exasperated, as his head lowered down to place butterfly kisses to my exposed collar bone, thanks to my dipped shirt I had chosen to wear at the concert. The last one I had from my life in Phoenix.
My favorite shirt from Phoenix, which is why it had lasted the fit I had with Charlie about sending me back to Florida to live with Renee.
He laid his cheek on my partially exposed breast, gazing up at me with that solid look, speaking volumes through only a longing glance.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled, sitting up as he began to stand, "I shouldn't have do-"
His words were silenced, as I shoved my tongue deep into his mouth, my hands in his brown hair, as I pulled his face harder to mine.
I didn't want him to apologize.
I wanted him to do what he pleased, what he needed to, without the fear of hurting me, or worse, killing me.
And I, more than anything else, wanted him.
I wanted him to be mine now and forever, so that no one could ever make him change his mind about whether or not he loved me.
I wanted this to be the dawning of a new day, the rising of Forever.
Alright loves. Sarra is extremely sorry about making her fans wait. I do however would like to say that the first half of this chapter was written before New Moon was released. I was actually just trying to figure out how the rest of the chapter was going to turn out before I typed it all out to decide it wasn't good enough for my readers, and scrapped the whole thing in a rash anger.
Tomorrow is homecoming, so I was in a generous mood, so I decided to put some revelation at the end about Bella.
This chapter of the story is also in dedication to two very special people to me at the moment. My younger color guard sister, Tereasa, and my long time savior, Kiki. You two make my love of the world so unbelievably colorful, that I have found time and pleasure to share such beauty with the world. This is your birthday present Katherine, so quit buggering me about flying up to visit you, I don't have time, its marching season.
I also decided that Tanya and her sisters probably would have fallen for Edward as well when they first met him. Since they love men and seduce them, I thought "Hey, perfect way to get Bella more anxious of Edwards love for her."
I decided that this should take place after New Moon, now that I've read it, I suggest, if you have yet to read New Moon, that you should read it before you read the remainder of my story, or else, more then just Edwards proposal will be ruined for your reading experience.
I will also start doing QA in my closers now, since it has been requested of me, asked by you, the faithful readers….
Q Why is Edward in the spotlight of the band?
A I was listening to the song by Hawk Nelson, and it's how I imagined Edwards voice to sound. It also said he was musical in Twilight so I thought, "Hey, why not make a band out of the Cullen's." In rock bands, also, marriages are hurried through a lot of times, before one party changes their minds, so I was thinking that it would be a good way to explain why they're going to get married in about 3-4 months, when it normally would take over a year to plan the wedding.
Q What happened to Renee and Phil and Charlie? Do they know that Bella's getting married?
A In my storyline, they are all in their respective places, until a week before the wedding. Renee is not to hot about getting married so early on in a relationship and so young. But she knows that Edward loves her daughter, so she's not completely against it. Bella, Edward and Renee will have a small part over the phone in the next two chapters. Charlie still does not like Edward because of what happened in New Moon. He does not support Edward and Bella getting married, but what can he do? Bella is 18 when she started her senior year, so she can legally just leave with Edward and then never come back. But of course, Charlie loves his daughter and doesn't want to chase her away because of what Edward has proposed. So, he's going to let it happen, but he won't allow his daughter to get hurt, and if which does happen, he will put his foot down and probably have Edward arrested. Phil really doesn't have a part in my story, which I'm not too disappointed in. I really don't like him that much so he'll remain a 4th person. (What I refer to as the mentioned but not in the action character, ie: Paul from Sam's gang, Phil, the 2 Volturi vampire women Aro and Caius's mates for sake of this storyline, and since they are not so far named, they will be named and then later I will change the names if the true names are ever revealed we never met, ect.
Q Why did you describe Tanya like an Eskimo?
A For some reason, I thought about the natives that used to live on the coast line and kill whales, and for some reason that image stuck in my mind, because the blood would be wasted, unless someone drank it, i.e.: Tanya and her sisters. They also live up in Alaska, so the thought of describing her as some skinny fan girl Mary sue that waltzes in and steals Edward. It doesn't work that way. She has to be a strong person to waver the faith Bella has in Edward or her possessiveness over him. Tanya is here for the soul purpose of acting as a rough patch for Bella to get over. Like Jacob is a rough patch for Edward to get over. Since jealousy runs both ways, it will bring them closer together without anything happening. She also is like a reflection is happening to Edward every time she talks to Jacob. But they will both eventually realize that while these outside parties like them, it's not wavering the relationship.
Q What happened to Edward at the end?
A He got sick from the food. Vampires can't digest food so the only way to get rid of it is to throw up, and it sent Edward into a gag reflex. Much like if you eat a bug or something sick, it unsettles your stomach and then you vomit. But, vomit has a lot of acids and fluids in it, and all fluids in the vampires dry out in the change. So he has to dry heave it all the way back up. The extra water he ordered is to help him regurgitate it back out of his body easier. But pasta is really starchy, so it probably clumped in his stomach, which is why he heaved at first with nothing coming forth until a few minutes passed. It was coming up is esophagus.
He also spun around and pinned her to bathroom floor, since she was pretty much on top of him when he was before the toilet.
I will hold a contest for what the two Volturi women's names and appearances should be. I would like a reason behind the name, and winners will be announced and will have the name and character description in my story. This is the part where you can get a part in my story. I do ask however, that you put thought into this, and that you also state whether you want it to be Caius's mate or Aro's.
Well, I'm going to thank you all for reading, and also that I am proud to have so many faithful readers. Once more I am sorry for the wait, but I had to finish the chapter as previously said, and I was sure you'd rather a well-written chapter then rushed crap.
I am already writing chapter 3 and 4, and I plan to have chapter 3 written out in its rough draft by next Sunday.
Well, once again thank you for reading, review and I shall love you forever.