Alec and I skipped school the rest of the day, which probably wasn't going to make the best impression, but who the hell cares? We visited my father's grave, and stood just in front of his marble toomstone. Below his name, it said mine.

In Also Loving Memory of

His Daughter,

Isabella Marie Swan

Who Disappeared and Was

Never Found.

A Great Friend, Student,

And Daughter.

Let Both Their Souls Rest in Piece.

"Bella?"

"Hm?"

"Do you...like me?" Alec said quietly after a while's silence, me leaning on him as I gazed at my father's grave.

I turned my body to face him, both of us inches apart, and gave him a look of surprise.

"Of course. What do you mean?"

"I mean...do you love me?" He said in such a rush that it was almost hard to tell what he said. His eyes...my, his eyes. They were soft and adoring, but also slighty cautious.

"I love you, Alec, you know that," I replied. "You're the only family I have."

"No...Bella, I..." He blew a long breath, and then his expression changed into confidence, and he looked into my eyes levely. "Bella, my dear Bella, I love you. Not just as a sister, but as something more. I've felt it for a while now, and I think you might have been feeling it, too." He pulled something out from his back pocket, and it was a ring. A ring with a simple silver band, with a beautiful amethyst jem in the middle, surrounded by other little jems. I stared at it in wonder.

"Oh, Alec..." My eyes would have filled with tears if they could. He got down on one knee.

"Isabella Swan Adler, I have loved you ever since I changed you, only a little at first, but this love grew, and I realize that I want more, and I have come to you, on one knee. Bella, will you be my mate?" He looked into my eyes searchingly with adoration and love.

I couldn't respond fast enough.

"Oh, Alec, of course I will! I love you!" As the realization came to me, I felt to happy that I wanted to shout it over the mountain tops and never stop. "Alexes Volturi Luck, I love you!" I pounced on him, sending us both to the ground laughing and kissing. It felt so right.

He sat up, and I giggled. "Come back down here!" I pulled him back down, and he laughed, holding the ring above us, against the rainy sky. The amethyst jems twinkled, and Alec kissed my temple, sliding the ring on my left ring finger. "To match your eyes..." He whispered lovingly.

For a while we laid down on the patchy grass as we gazed at the ring and each other, and eventually we sat up, hands entwined. We walked home like this, human speed, enjoying the moment. We got to our home soon enough, and we made it to my bedroom, since it was much cleaner than his. We sat down on the queen sized bed.

"We're mates now," Alec said casually, teasing with a tress of my hair. I couldn't stop smiling at him. "We don't have to get married until you're ready." He knew my distaste for marriage.

"Yeah, well, I don't think I'll marry you until we relocate and you change your name to Adler. 'Luck' is probably the worst choice you've ever made," I said teasingly, thinking how something that I had just been thinking of this afternoon amusingly could actually come true under the completely new - and wonderful - sercumstances.

"Alec Adler," he said, testing it out. "I like it." He then was kissing me hard and passionately, and I was kissing him back.

(A.N.) Insert curtains blowing here! Well, you can now confirm that I do write chapters every several months! This story, even though it's a fanfic, still has hope of not dying. I feel I'm doing pretty well, actually.

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