Chapter 7

I stared at Edward for a long hard moment. How could I forget that it was our anniversary? And better yet, why would he do our 4 and half one?

"Um, Edward sweetie, I'm amazed that you remembered, but I thought we would celebrate our 6 month anniversary?"

"Oh, we will, but after Jacob's appearance, I'm sorry, jealousy got the best of me. But it's not just that, I've wanted to celebrate our relationship for a long time, and I just couldn't wait any longer." He smiled sweetly at me, making me unable to be mad at the fact that he did this out of spite for Jacob. Partly.

"Edward, this is really sweet, but…" I sighed as before I finished my sentence, "Don't you think that you shouldn't be doing this because Jacob came and you want to prove to me that you love me more than he loves me. I know that you love me more than him, and I know that you know that I love you more than him. So why do we have to stage everything and act like this is something that needs to be done. We should celebrate because we want to and we love each other, not as a competition."

He sighed as if I was right, which I knew I was. "You're right, but I do want to celebrate with you."

"You get to all you want, you have me, you know that I want to be with you forever and always, what's the problem?"

"Yeah, and that makes me happier than any newlywed in the world, except other celebratory ways." He turned away from me slightly and blushed a little. This made me laugh.

"Are you…ah, are you blushing? Wow, this is serious." I started to laugh, a small snort escaped from my nose. I laughed even harder. Then Edward surprised me by taking my legs out from under me, and carrying me over his right shoulder.

"Edward. Edward put me down." I said in between laughs and giggles. He didn't though; he just opened the bathroom door and charged into the bedroom. When he got to the massive king size bed, he flung me on the down comforter. Making me laugh even harder.

"Edward, what are you doing?"

"I want you." He stated simply, it was as if he was telling me that he wanted me to go to the store. He it was just out of the blue almost.

"Okay, you have me." I was getting a little confused, why was he acting so strange.

"You remember what Dr. Henning thought we were doing…uh, something else from what we were actually….doing?" He looked embarrassed bringing up the incident with the Dr. I blushed to. Then it hit me. Wow, I'm slow.

"Oh, you want that." I moved my position under Edward so that could sit up and run my hands through my hair. He sat next to me and spoke.

"Not just that, I want you. I don't want it from any other girl except for you."

"I could say the same thing, except a guy for me." I smiled up at him, but then my expression turned serious again. "But, I don't think that I'm ready like you are. I mean, I want you, but I don't know if I can do it."

"Have you never…" He trailed off at the end, embarrassed for me to finish the question.

"Have you?" I wasn't going to answer this question as long as possible, I was afraid of what Edward's answer was more than his reaction to mine.

"Uh, I asked you first." Hmm, so he was avoiding it like I was. I unwound myself from Edward's grasp and headed for the nightstand. I opened the first drawer and found what I was looking for. I opened the package and snapped the object in half, I put the two broken pieces to make them look even, I then went to Edward and stood in front of him. He had a look of confusion on his face.

"Shortest stick has to answer the question first." He smirked at me and grabbed a broken toothpick. He lifted his up and frowned, he had the shortest. I held mine up in victory, and then soon stopped smiling because I remembered that not only do I still have to answer the question, but I had to hear Edward's answer. And I don't know if I should be scared, or jealous.

He cleared his throat nervously and blushed. He took a deep breath and answered quickly. "Okay, it was about 10 months ago, her name was Jessica and I regret it. I didn't even like her, she was trying to get me drunk, which happened, and I wish it never happened. I always wanted my first to be with someone that I truly loved and am in love with, not for the fun of it. I should have never gone to that party." He hung his head down in shame and I lifted his chin up with my fingers.

"Hey, don't put yourself down, people make mistakes and you move on with your life. I don't judge you. Besides," I braced myself for what I was about to say. "I don't want you thinking about that for my first time." He smiled weakly while Edward grinned like a goof.

"Now, it's no guarantee that it will be today…or the next…or the next, but we will try, someday, in the near future, wh-"

"Okay Bella, I get it, when you're ready, I can wait as long as you want, unless you want to wait until you're pruny and old, that's where I have to draw the line." He smiled at me as he tightened his grip on my lower back. I laughed as he spun me around.

"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I don't even want to wait that long."

"Good." He kissed me on the forehead and let me go.

"Where are you going?"

"Oh, me, Emmett and Jasper are going to the gym to work-out." He pursed his lips, I don't think he realized how utterly sexy he looked when he did that. "Do you wanna come?"

I contemplated that for a minute, do I really want to go and get dogged by Emmett for not being able to lift weights? But then again, I can see Edward working out with his amazing muscles that puff out and it didn't sound so bad after all. I pursed my lips like Edward and for half a second, wondered if he thought the same towards me when I did this. "Okay. Let me get ready."

20 minutes later, all of us were on our way to the local fitness center, we could see out through the window a bunch of body builders lifting 50 pound weights each, and we could see women and a few non-body builder men running on the treadmill and the bicycles, watching TV to keep themselves entertained.

While me, Alice and Rose made our way to the treadmills, the guys made their way to the weights. Emmett walked over to the weight section like he owned it, walking all cocky and what not. He picked up 50 pound weights and placed them on the bar for bench-press, then he added 25 pounds each, then 10 pounds, then 5 pounds. All together he was benching 165 on each side, all together 330 pounds, oh this should be interesting. He laid down on the black leather and got ready to pick up the rod. Edward and Jasper quickly got behind him and spotted, just in case he failed at his attempt to show-off. He inhaled and exhaled deeply before the rusted metal rod was lifted above his head. He held it there for a few seconds before lowering it to his chest. He took a deep intake and then lifted it again; I could see his face turning a little red from here at the treadmills. Alice, Rose and I laughed as Emmett kept on lifting and straining to keep his reputation from falling with the weights, his face was purple from the amount of pressure he was exerting on himself. He did 10 reps of 10 and switched places with Jasper who very smartly took about 50 pounds off of each side. He was strong, but not as much as Emmett, but he was smarter than Emmett and he would rather hurt his reputation than a limb. He did the same reps though and soon switched places with Edward. Edward did his set and sat up from the seat.

I didn't realize that I had been staring at them like an idiot until Edward waved at me and chuckled. I smiled and waved back at him, but as I leaned up against the treadmill, my hand hit the button that made it go faster. I was now running in place, flailing my arms and stumbling all over the place. I tried to stop the speed, but I only made it worse. Huh? You'd think that this would never happen in real life, and only in TV, but no! I was now the main character in a comedy TV show, who got all caught up in drooling over the boy she liked and was now in a funny, but horrible predicament to where I get hurt. Well, Edward, Alice and Rose…and Jasper and Emmett, all gave me confused and concerned looks as I struggled to survive the death trap. But I soon failed because I tripped on my shoe lace, which caused my face to land in perfect contact with the extremely fast moving tread. I slid down feeling the black tarp burning my cheek, and with thud and high pitched screech, I fell onto the ground groaning. Alice, Rose and Edward rushed to my side in a matter of seconds.

"Oh my gosh Bella! Are you okay?" Alice asked, kneeling beside me.

"Define okay." I said, sarcasm being the main part in the sentence.

"Well are you bleeding?" she said as Edward helped me up.

"Don't think so, although I already know bruises are on their way. And my face hurts."

"Well that's because you have a huge red mark across your cheek." Rose explained while turning my head to the side to see better.

"I thought I felt something burning." I said as I fluttered my eyelids, the room started spinning uncontrollably and I kept on stumbling, even though I was standing still.

"Bella, honey, are you okay?" Edward said as he grabbed my elbow, steadying me so I wouldn't fall.

"Yeah, just stop spinning me."

"Bella, I'm not doing anything." I could hear his voice fill up thick with concern.

"Really? Then why won't the room st-sto-"That's when everything went black. The last thing I felt were a set of arms around me before my head fell back again and I went into unconsciousness.


I woke up with a bright light shining through the window.

I sighed and lifted myself into a sitting position. Edward moved to sit next to me.

"I fainted didn't I?" I said in a monotone voice, feeling stupid.

"Well, I can't blame you, you did kinda face plant into the gourd, hit your head pretty hard. But you've only been out for a few hours or so." He smiled as he came up and kissed me.

"I feel the knot in my head. Ow." I grabbed my head a little too hard. Just then Alice and Jasper came in.

"Yay, Bella's up." Alice sang as she made her way towards me, Jasper trailing behind.

"Hey Bella, how you feeling?" Jasper asked as he came up to my bed.

"Better. So what did I miss?"

"Nothing special, but do you want to go out tonight? This guy named Mike Newton is having a party on his apartment roof, everyone is going."

"Yeah sure, sounds like fun." I smiled; Alice was just about to say something before I cut her off. "And yes, you can dress me."

"You know me all too well." She smiled before turning around to leave.

"Where are Emmett and Rose?" I asked, realizing that they weren't here.

"Oh, they went on a lunch date. They'll be back in a little bit." Jasper answered for me.

"Oh, cool." I said before they left to leave me and Edward.

"Speaking of date." Edward started, turning to me again, "How would you like to go on one with me, we actually haven't gone on one by ourselves, I would like to."

"That would be nice." I smiled at him as I gave him a hug; he held me and sighed contently.

"How about tomorrow night? It will be fun."

"Okay." I laughed at him. At that point, I remembered that I needed to tell him about Jacob, but then again, I can always tell him later.

"So, have you thought about what we talked about this morning?" Edward asked.

"Uh, yeah." I sighed.

"And…?" he pressed.

"…." I took in a deep breath and closed my eyes. I don't know why I was scared, but I knew that whatever I said, Edward would understand. But I know I loved him more than anyone in the entire world and I knew that I would have him for forever so why wait. Right?

"Yes." I was done being the innocent, shy girl. I was in college, had a beyond gorgeous boyfriend, and I was ready. Whether my gut told me otherwise, I was.

Edward had the biggest smile across his face before he attacked me with kisses.

K so, it's finally here, haven't felt the need to update in forever ….I wonder why? Maybe it's because I would like reviews please! (:

This chapter was extremely short and you can go ahead and say that it was boring; I think it is too, I had writer's block for this chapter. I needed inspiration and came up short. But please review or PM to tell what you think of this chapter or the others. Please!

I'm thinking about possibly ending this story in the next couple of chapters, but I am going to start a new story in the next few months so watch out for that. (:

The next chapter is the party and date, and maybe some other things. (: