I woke up in an unfamiliar yet very comfortable bed. I sat up in the bed and took in my surroundings; it looked like I was in a hotel. I looked around the big room for Edward but he wasn't anywhere in sight, I got up off the bed and looked around the whole room but he wasn't there. I ended up back in the big bedroom and sat on the bed. Did he leave me? Did he finally realize that Tanya was the one for him and he just left me here? My heart sped up and I started to hyperventilate. I heard a loud gasp and then suddenly I was being hugged by cold arms.

"Bella! Are you alright? Are you hurt? Did you have a nightmare?" He took my face in both of his hands and gently wiped away the tears with the pads of his thumbs.

"Bella, love, please tell me what's wrong!"

" I-It's nothing..I just over reacted. I thought you had left me again.'' I whispered into his chest. I didn't have to look at his face to see how he felt.

"Never, will I ever leave you again. Don't you trust me Bella?''

What a silly question to ask.

"Of course I trust you. I just don't want to lose you.'' I whispered against his chest.

We sat there on the bed for what seems like hours. I was cuddled to his chest, he would pull me tighter to himself but I wasn't complaining. During the moment of silence a couple of questions popped into my head that I needed to ask.

"Um, Edward, I need to ask you a couple of questions..'' I said to him and pulled back to look at his face.

''What ever it is you can ask me love'' his voice sounded like melted honey and it distracted me for a minute. I quickly cleared my head and asked my first question.

"First of all where are we? I mean I know we are in a hotel but where?''

"Well, are still in Port Angeles. And as for the hotel we are at the Olympic Lodge.''

The Olympic Lodge. The most expensive hotel in all of Port Angeles

"Edward! I told you to take me home not to the most expensive hotel in Port Angeles!" I whined

Edward grinned.

"Bella, it's not expensive. And I didn't want to take you home and let you deal with Tanya. Just let everything cool down for a bit and then we'll go back home." He said calmly

"Okay. Second, what about school? Are we officially dropping out ?" I joked

"No, and we've only missed 4 days of school. It's not a big deal. We could say that I went to visit Rose and Emmett at college and you went to visit your mother in Florida. No one has to know anything about our...situation." It looked like he had it all planned out.

"You've thought of this before haven't you?" I asked my eyes narrowing slightly.

He chuckled and nodded. And my stomach growled. I laughed

"Edward you didn't pack a tooth brush by any chance did you.'' I asked laughing

"Actually…" With that he left the room and was back in an instant.

"Alice stopped by today. She dropped a bag of your things while you were sleeping" He handed me a pink duffle bag.

Well. At least you can tell Alice packed my stuff from the pink duffle bag. I sighed and walked into the bathroom. I brushed my teeth being fast and through, yanked the hair brush through my hair trying to untangle the mess. I looked through the bag hoping to find my comfy old sweats- what was I saying, fashion diva Alice packed my bag. I settled for a baby pink tank top and what looked like designer jeans. I walked out of the bathroom and into the sitting area. There on the coffee table was my breakfast, or maybe it was food to feed a whole village. On the table there was a large bowl of cut up fruit, bacon, cereal, and Frisbee sized cinnamon buns oh and a huge omelet. I do not eat that much.

"Edward, there's enough food here to feed a damn village.''

"You don't need to eat all of it Bella. I ordered it while you were asleep and I didn't want to wake you up and ask what you wanted so I ordered what seemed acceptable for a breakfast.'' He flashed my favorite crooked smile. Damn, he knew I couldn't resist that smile. I suppressed a groan and sat down on the floor, not knowing what to eat first. My stomach growled in response to the smell of the bacon and omelet so I grabbed those first. I hadn't even made a dent in the food and I was full. I walked over and sat down with Edward on the sofa; he crushed me gently to his chest and I sighed.

"It's nice having some alone time, just you and me." He said gazing into my eyes. It was like I could see his soul.

I sighed into his chest and snuggled closer.

"So, what do you want to do today? We could go use the pool; it's the middle of the day no one will be there yet. Or we could just stay here.'' He said.

It had been a while since I went swimming, last time I almost drowned and the life guard had to give me CPR. And another time when I went snorkeling the mouth piece got lodged behind my teeth and the life guard had to pry my mouth open. I blushed at the memories.

"Why are you blushing? What's wrong?''

"Hmm? Nothing just thinking about the last time I went swimming as a kid.''

"I'm guessing it didn't go well.'' He said chuckling

"You guessed right.'' I said laughing.

"Care to tell me what happened" He asked.

"It's kind of embarrassing." My cheeks grew redder.

"Please?" He said unleashing the full force of his eyes on me.

"Okay last time I went snorkeling the mouth piece came off and it got lodged behind my teeth and then the life guard had to pry my mouth open. And then the other time I went swimming I almost drowned and then the life guard had to give me CPR.'' I rushed out quickly

"Oh, Bella, stuff like that could only happen to you.'' He said chuckling

"Hmpf. But I want to go swimming. I know you'll save me if I'm about to drown. But there is one problem, I don't have a bathing suit.'' I said.

"You should check the duffle bag again; Alice would have packed something of the sorts." He said grinning.

"Okay. We'll then I'll go change and be right back.'' I said and got up and went to the bathroom where I left the duffle bag. I quickly rifled through the clothes and I found a dark blue bikini. The top had ruffles and a small black bow in the middle and the bottoms were just simple blue with strings on the side. It looked a bit small. I've never really worn a bikini before; it was strictly one piece suits when I would go to beach. I put on the bikini and looked in the mirror. It wasn't that bad actually. I looked in the bag and found a tee-shirt and I slipped that on over the bikini top and stepped out and walked into the sitting area. Edward was standing there in red swim trunks, he heard me walk over and he turned to face me.

"Ready to go love?" He asked me.

"Yeah." I said staring at his bare chest.

Together we walked hand in hand down to the hotel's indoor pool.

During the elavator ride down to the first floor, there was a little girl who looked to be about four years old standing next to who I guess was her older sister.

She shly waved at Edward who to my suprise waved back at her and offered her one of my favorite crooked smiles.

It was a side of him I've never seen before, I never would have thought that Edward Cullen could be so... cute with children. I never really thought of him as the children loving type, even if he didn't like children after witnessing what just happened you never would have thought otherwise.

When it was our stop to get off Edward smiled at the little girl, a good-bye gesture, and we exicted the lift.

"Well that was, interesting." I mumbled to him as we walked down the hallway towards the pool.

"What was interesting?" He asked, completley oblivious to what just happened.

"I never pictured you as a children person." I shrugged.

He chuckled before squeezing my hand. "When have I ever told you I have a hatred towards children? I happen to like them actually love."

I was learning more about him every day. "I never thought you hated kids, it's just I never would have thought you would be so comfortable and relaxed with them."

He chuckled again and squeezed my hand. "There's a lot you don't know about my past Bella. Before I was changed I always dreamed of having a family, it was sort of my big dream besides joining the army."

I walked in shock at what he just said, never in a million years would I have ever thought that Edward Cullen would want children one day.

I gained up enough courage and asked him; " So would you ever want kids with me one day?"

He sighed as he let go of my hand to get the room key out of his swim short's back pocket.

"Bella you know that could never happen, it's just not physically possible." He explained while sliding the room key into the pool door lock.

"But lets just say it was possible, would you want kids with me?" I tried again.

He stopped as he was about to open the door and placed his hands on either side of my face.

"Bella, things were...different when I was human, a whole lot less of complications. Life was simpilar back then from now, especially being what I am now. If I wasn't what I am now yes, I would of course want kids with you, but it isn't that way. You understand right?"

I nodded my head but didn't answer him.

He sighed and placed a kiss on my forehead. "Do you still want to go swimming, I promise I won't let you drown." He smirked.

I smiled and tangled my hand back into his. "Yeah, but you have to promise to make sure I don't drown."

He chuckled before opening the door that led into the pool.

"Bella, it's my job to protect you."

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Swimming with Edward was interesting? Fun? There wasn't really a word I could think of that would describe this but it was something..maybe it was fun and interesting. He didn't let me drown, or slip. Which was a good thing. But we did have fun; we acted like little kids; splashing and goofing around. I've never seen Edward let loose like this before. Tomorrow I would be in a car going back to Forks. Back to the Cullens' home. Back to face Tanya. I snuggled deeper into Edwards' arms and went into a deep sleep while he hummed my lullaby.

Hey, people. Sorry for no update..well we updated today! So review? Like? Anything? Pleaseeee. We'll try to get back to a more regular posting basis but both of us have being going through some bumps and complications right now so bear with us if we don't update. I'm planning on getting Tanya to call Bella some bad names in the next chapter..any suggestions? Please help because I'm coming up blank Until next time –Ashleen and Carly