Two Years Later

Why was I here, I thought. My hands had been tied when it came to coming to the wedding, but the reception, couldn't I have just skipped it?

"Ladies and Gentleman," I heard the DJ announce, he was the best friend to the bride. "May I present to you Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cullen."

Everybody stood excited to see the newlyweds, I just stayed where I was. I wanted to cry, I was here against my will, I had protested to Alice all damn day, but she reminded me that I was here for Edward, that I'd be a good girl until after the reception that I could go back to being California and not think about this day ever again.

I scowled at Alice who was standing in front of me. She just smiled. Like she knew a secret that she was bouncing to tell somebody. Okay, so she did know a big secret. Edward and I had had a rendezvoused a few months ago, we started talking about the future and the past, and one thing lead to another and we'd ended up, well, it had been the best night of my life. I'd told Alice about what had happened and it's consequences just a few days ago, now I had to deliver the news to Edward, I'd chickened out before the wedding, so I'd have to do it after, and this secret well it could blow everything up.

Of course it would be bad, if one event had happened differently two years ago. I remembered it clearly:

"You kissed this bimbo," Terri asked.

"Terri, it's not what you think," Edward tried to smooth things over. He always tried to keep the peace. He keep his arms tightly around me.

"No," I said, breaking my silence, if I wanted something I'd have to work for it. "It's exactly like what you think, he kissed me and I kissed him back and enjoyed every minute of it. So did he!"

Terri's jaw dropped, but I wasn't done.

"And, I still love him." I heard a gasp through the audience. Alice and Rosalie looked like they could bust with pride, Emmett and Jasper where getting closer to me, in case something happened they'd be able to be in the middle of it. "I have loved Edward Cullen for eleven years, not a day went by that I didn't think of him. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've loved him since I first met him."

I waited, for Edward to say something, I'd just made a very public announcement, and now, well, he was hesitant. Then I saw his eyes, they where burning with lust for me. He couldn't talk due to his lust for me. I blinked than turned and kissed him. One that let every man and women in this place know that Edward was mine.

"I love you," he said loud enough for me and Terri to hear. Terri went crazy, but I was already kissing Edward again. Emmett and Jasper took care of Terri, they escorted her outside and told her they'd ship her stuff to her.

"So, Mrs. Cullen," I jumped, I wasn't use to the name yet. I smiled, it was my husband, Edward. "Are you ready for our first dance as man and wife?" I saw Alice looking at us. I shook my head, he knew I hated dancing. "Oh, to bad, Alice will kill us if we don't, she's been planning this day for years and years and years. Since we first meet I think."

I smiled and kissed him. He bent me backwards as we kissed and I giggled. Then he let me up from the dip and we started our first slow dance as man and wife. I only stepped on his feet a few times. He didn't flinch. I sure loved him.

"You know Mrs. Cullen, I could get use to this," Edward chuckled in my hair.

"Get use to what?"

"Holding you." It was now or never, that pesky consequence came between us again.

"Well, I could get use to it as well, but," I was cut off by the end of the song.

We where herded to the table by Alice where the best man and matron of honor speeches where given. Emmett first.

"So, I wanted to do something funny, but Rose said she'd kill me, so I'm going to be serious," everybody laughed, we'd never heard Emmett be serious. "Edward, my little brother, we really thought you'd be the first to get married, so Alice and I are both surprised when you didn't. We both figured you'd been married twelve years ago, of course we always figured Bella would be the girl. Then we thought maybe you two had worked out your differences senior year, you where constantly sneaking out to see her, you think we didn't know, remember who your sister is. Anyways, we thought maybe the wedding would be shortly after senior year, than we heard Bella got into film school on the west coast while you where going to the east coast for NASCAR, than you came home crying, Alice and I knew what had happened, you'd finally had your heart stomped on, a good thing for you. You became one of the best drivers out there, I had a feeling it was because of Bella, you where trying to prove to her that you could be the best at something. Then you brought home that women, so the plan was hatched, get you and Bella back together, it worked and here we are, so congrats little bro, the entire family is so proud that you finally got your shit together."

Rosalie got up and marched over to Emmett and smacked him. "That's for cussing in front of the kids," Rosalie mumbled. Everybody laughed.

"Welcome to the family Bella," Alice said after Rosalie had set back down. "Have you told him yet? Am I allowed to say it yet?" I shook my head. "Dang."

"Oh, give me a second," I said to her. Then I leaned into Edward's ear and whispered, "I'm pregnant, congrats daddy."

I felt a smile cross Edwards face. A smile that rivaled my own. I nodded to Alice and she started jumping up and down.

"Congratulations go to Mommy Bella and Daddy Edward, who in just seven months will have a bouncing bundle of joy. About time to get things right Edward. This entire room, or most of us, I can confidently say have been rooting for you since day one, and I don't mean in racing, I mean in love, little brother, love makes us so much better, look at Rose and Emmett, I never thought I'd hear a serious thought come from our older brother's mouth, but today, he proves us wrong. Look at me and Jazz, I'm a less annoying form of your older twin sister."

"You stop being annoying," Edward whispered, I snickered. Alice glared at him, but continued.

"Anyways, Bella's love changed you senior year, you didn't realize it but everybody who knew you then, noticed a difference, you actually cared about something other than yourself. You stopped hitting on every girl that came through the door of Forks High, and when you looked at Bella, your eyes lit up like they where on fire, emerald fires is what I use to call that look. Anyways, congratulations, to both of you on so much, you deserve so much and you're finally getting it all!"

"To Bella and Edward Cullen," the entire room cheered. I smiled as Edward kissed my cheek, it had taken almost thirteen years to get my happily ever after, thirteen is a long time to pine for somebody and lose them, only to find them again and fear that you are going to lose them all over again. This time I didn't lose him, I gain something so much better, a family.

Just if your wondering, Terri did show up a year after the reunion disaster, at one of Edward's biggest races, I was in the pit area waiting with held breath until the race ended, she sauntered up to me and actually apologized. Said she was sorry she ever tried to be me and replace me in his life, she'd known for months that he only loved me, he talked in his sleep, that's why she was so possessive when she meet me. Terri said she was dating a new guy, completely not in the racing circuit. He had recently asked her to marry him. They where getting married later this summer.

My show, well, Lifetime picked it up and has introduced many up and coming young actresses, and Edward did make an appearance, well, more than one, he's playing the ten year old's real father, what kid wouldn't be lucky to have Edward as a father. Our kid will be blessed big time.

My life is perfect, what can I say, oh, that's it, this is the beginning of the best years of my life.