The Twilight 25: Round 8

by k8ln713

Round 8! Flash fiction round using 25 prompts. 300-500 words (though mostly in the high 400s to 500 words). Mixed ratings of T & M (mostly rated M 'cause that's what we like!) Mostly Edward/Bella with a few of the other characters. Check out the prompts used at the twilight25 dot com/round-eight/prompts.

4. Prompt 4 - Band instruments on stage

The Twilight Twenty-Five
thetwilight25 dot com

Prompt: #4 – Band instruments on stage
Pen Name: k8ln713
Pairing/Character(s): Bella/Edward
Rating: M
Word Count: 493

Photo prompts can be found here:
thetwilight25 dot com/round-eight/prompts

It was the last show of the tour. Nine months we were traveling. We traveled all around the US and it was our first tour overseas. The six of us got to see the world by doing what we love most – playing music.

The love we all got from the fans was indescribable. I can't tell you how fast my heart beat in my chest. It felt as if it was going to rise up out of my throat. And at the end of each show, I cried happy tears because I appreciated the love we received from the crowd, and I'd tell them that.

I was the lead singer of our band, with Edward, my boyfriend, on lead guitar, Alice on keyboards, Jasper on guitar, Rosalie on bass, and Emmett on drums. We've been a band since senior year of high school, and then, when we were juniors in college, we were offered a record deal and have been recording and touring ever since.

We've made a name for ourselves in the last four years. It's been great. Now we just need a much deserved break after touring for nine months. While it's been great being with my friends, five months in a tour bus, with the occasional stay in a nicer hotel, wasn't that nice – your nerves almost fucking blow because you're confined in this one space, especially when Emmett takes his daily trip to the bathroom. While touring internationally, we had space because of hotel rooms, but still… after four months of that, I really started to miss my bed back home in Seattle.

Fans were really concerned when they discovered that we were all couples. Alice and Jasper had known they were soul mates since before we started the band and were together the longest. Rose and Emmett started to date around the time we were discovered, and it was an on-again-off-again kind of relationship until Emmett took the plunge and proposed to Rose one night at dinner, just completely out of the blue. They've been married two years and were going to try for a baby once we returned home.

Edward and I only started our relationship. We were best friends the longest and denied the feeling we had for each other, but one night last year… one thing led to another, we had sex and have been inseparable since. We were the talk for months because of it, but we ignored it all and just were happy to finally be together. It's been six months now and we're still going strong.

We played our last show and I was just about to bid our goodbyes until next time when Edward took the mic and announced he had something to say. More like needed to ask.

He got down on one knee and asked, "Will you marry me, Bella?"

The crowd started cheering, screaming for me to accept.

I didn't need it though; I knew the answer.

"Yes!"