Three long days inched by slowly, every second lasting hours. I no longer was aware of my screaming or surroundings, all I felt was the pain, but as I slowly felt my racing heart slow and come to a final stop, my pain ebbed away like a tide from the beach.
I sat up slowly, shaking. Edward, head in hands, saw my movement and began interrogating me, "Bella, can you hear me? Are you okay?"
I surprised myself by saying, "Actually, I feel great! It's you I am worried about." It looked as if Edward was going to laugh, but the seriousness came back to him. "Bella… You are one of us now. You will never be human again." Edward sounded heartbroken, "I'll never get to see you blush again." He murmured under his breath forgetting that I was now a vampire with very good hearing. Trying to make the situation a mite better. I stood on my head with a newfound balance and let the, what I knew was the last of, my blood in my body rush to my head. Edward laughed. Too bad that I would lose that blood within a year."
"Bella, you never cease to amaze me with your clever mind," Edward was still laughing, and the happiness on his face made me happy, but then I remembered and shrieked.
"Bella, what is it?" Edward sounded alarmed.
"I need a mirror."
"Your beautiful."
"Edward!"
"Come on Bella let's get you back to my house, but first…. Isabella Marie Swan…" Edward got down on one knee, "will you marry me?"
I was caught by surprise and my breath caught in my throat, not that it mattered. I breathed the word, "Yes."
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Sorry it took so long. I had a bad case of writers block!
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