A/N

Wow I got to say thanks for all the responses! That's crazy, you guys are awesome really. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and added me to their favorites. Sorry it took a couple days longer than expected, you can all threaten Verizon for that, seriously send them hate mail for me. Now this chapter is emotional, cute, and hot. That's right there's a slight lemon in this chapter also and I hope you all enjoy it. As for the emotional part, don't worry. I dislike the whole self loathing 'I'm not good enough for you' thing I read a lot about but I had to throw some drama in here. Okay I hope you all enjoy this emotional roller coaster of a chapter. Also I posted pics of outfits, cars, beds things of that nature in my profile so feel free to check them out.

EPOV

Shit! Is she being serious? What the hell do I do? If I go in there, there is no stopping me, the monster will be let loose.

"Edwaaaard" Bella beckoned my name in a singing voice.

"Yes Bella? Did you need me to get Alice or Rose for you?" I managed to squeak out. What's wrong with you? GET IN THERE YOU IDIOT!

"I thought you wanted to see this on?" she asked. I couldn't help but noticed the confident tone in her voice. Am I in the freaking Twilight Zone or something?

"I…um…you…um…really?" I stuttered. Way to seem confident Cullen. You are losing the upper hand here. Get your ass in there! Move your legs you pansy!

I let my inner voices get the best of me and somehow managed to put one foot in front of the other and started walking. I felt like I was walking on death row. My footsteps made loud thuds to my ears. What was a 2 second walk to the door seemed like an eternity. I inhaled a deep, ragged breath and gently pushed the door open.

"Well what do you think?" she asked.

There stood Bella, with that navy blue negligee on, OVER HER CLOTHES!

I stood still, completely shell shocked, with my mouth hanging wide open. I cannot believe she tricked me like that! Evil, sexy, naughty woman.

After a minute of me just standing there staring at her, fully clothed with that thing over top of her, she spoke up again.

"What did you think I was actually going to show you this, and only this?" she asked with her hands on her hips.

The emotions running through me were incredible. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, angry, baffled, and turned on all at the same time.

"Of course not?" it came out sounding like a question. This game was getting to be ridiculous. She tricked me into thinking that I would actually get to see her in that, and I actually believed her. I was actually going in there to look at her in that. What happened to gentlemen Edward? I felt ashamed of myself. She stood there with her hands still on her hips and I felt as if she was going to slap me in the face at any time. I deserved it. I need to clear my head.

"I'm sorry Bella, I don't feel well again" I mumbled, avoiding eye contact with her. "I have to go. I'll tell Alice to take you home" I stated and started walking away. I turned around and saw her still standing in the door of the dressing room with, what was that, a sad look on her face? "I'm sorry" I said softly again and turned to leave.

All the happiness I have been feeling for the past two days all but disappeared as I walked away from my angel. No not your angel. She doesn't want you. She's too good for you, you just proved that to yourself.

I hung my head lower than I ever have and found Alice and Rose with their arms full of lingerie.

"Alice I don't feel well, could you please take Bella home for me?" I asked quietly.

"What's wrong Edward? What happened?" she asked concerned. You can't put anything past Alice.

"Nothing Alice, I just don't feel well, please?" I asked again. I was on the verge breaking down.

"Edward don't do this. What's wrong?" she pleaded. She looked so sad for me and that made me more ashamed of myself.

"She doesn't deserve me" I whispered and walked as quickly as I could without actually running out of the store.

I made it to my car and quickly drove off to clear my head.

BPOV

What the hell just happened? He just ran off looking so ashamed, so fragile. My Adonis should never look like that.

I felt like I wanted to run after him and hold him and never let go. I wanted to cry and before I could even think twice about it, those traitor tears started to spill from my stinging eyes.

I all but tore that stupid negligee off and sat on the bench in the dressing room, crying into my palms.

He didn't want me. Why would he want me? He was probably disgusted with how I was acting like some whore.

A knock at the door broke me out of my self loathing thoughts for a minute.

"Bella? Sweetie, what's going on?" Alice asked sweetly from outside the door.

"Nothing, everything's fine" I lied. "I'll be out in a minute."

I smoothed my hair down, and tried to compose myself as much as possible. Of course he wouldn't want plain, boring, me. I sighed and opened the door.

"Bella please tell me what happened. Why did Edward all but run out of here looking like he was about to cry? And why do you look like you actually have been crying?" she asked putting her small arms around my shoulders.

Edward looked like he was about to cry? Why was he so sad?

"I'm not sure what exactly happened. I'm so confused right now" I said shaking my head.

"Just start from the beginning" she said rubbing my shoulder. Rose came in and sat down on the other side of me as I started telling them what had all happened, starting with last night all into today at school up until now.

"I know it was kind of mean to trick him like that. It's not that I didn't want to show him, I thought we were just teasing each other. I didn't think he that he actually thought I was going to show him. I knew this was too good to be true" I said glumly.

"Oh Bella" Alice and Rose both said simultaneously.

"First of all Bella, whatever you're thinking, stop it. You and Edward do belong together and I know for a fact that he cares for you deeply and wants to be apart of your life. So don't you dare think he's too good for you" she said sternly.

"I can't help it. It's the truth" I said shrugging my shoulders.

"God you two really do belong together!" Rose yelled making me and Alice jump.

"He thinks you're too good for him, you think he's too good for you. Geez you guys are living in one big freaking soap opera here! You both need to get over your self loathing crap and just be happy with each other. Forget about these stupid teasing games you guys are pulling on each other and tell each other how you feel" she said.

I sat there shocked and apparently Alice was shocked too. He thinks he's too good for me? How could he think that?

"Rose is right Bella. You need to tell him how you feel before he shuts down even more and it's too late. You're the best thing that's ever happened to him and honestly I've never seen him so happy like he has been these past couple days. You both deserve to be happy" she smiled.

"But I don't understand why was he so upset?" I asked.

"Bella, Edward has always been a gentlemen. The Edward you have just described to us is not the Edward we know. Not that it's a bad thing per say, but Edward isn't really experienced in this type of situation. He probably misinterpreted the signals and thought you didn't want him" Alice stated.

It all came crashing down on me. The way I said 'did you actually think you were going to see me in this', the way I stood with my hands on my hips, the way I stared at him. Oh my god. He thought I hated him. I did give him mixed signals. I was teasing and he thought I was actually mad at him. He thought I tricked him, to show him I didn't want him. How could I have been so utterly stupid!

"I have to talk to him. I have to tell him I don't hate him, that I was just teasing" I said getting up.

"Good for you" Rose said patting my shoulders.

"Oh Bella, I'm so happy for you. You'll see it will all work out" Alice said clasping her hands together.

"Wait you guys what if he doesn't want to talk to me? I don't even know where he went" I said.

"Bella of course he wants to talk to you, he's in love with you, and I know exactly where he is" Alice said.

"Okay I'm going to go pay for these and then we're off, we'll have to come back next week" Alice said and I groaned.

"Bella let me give you a piece of advice okay?" Rose asked. I nodded and waited for her to continue. Of course I'd take advice from Rosalie who wouldn't?

"You have to be subtle with Edward. He's not use to this at all. Like Alice said the Edward you've experienced is not the Edward we know. Hell I'm shocked at the stuff you told me. Some of those things he did are things I would expect Emmett to do. Which is good sign for you" she said smirking.

"How is that a good sign for me?" I asked, not following her logic.

"Well that means that it didn't take you very long to bring out this other side in Edward. We all want him to be happy, and he's been happy with you. It's been two days and the Debbie Downer, moping Edward we all knew was suddenly transformed into happy, fun, free Edward" she stated.

"He really does love you, you're apart of the family now, and it's up to you to fix this" she said hugging me.

I nodded at her and we walked off to the car to go find Edward, wherever he was.

EPOV

I sat on the bench in front of my piano in my room. My sanctuary. I let my fingers dance across the keys and I started to play. I closed my eyes as I poured all my emotions out in the form of music. It started off soft almost like a lullaby. As I was playing I remembered the first time I saw Bella at the restaurant. Her beauty captivated me instantly. I continued to play as I went through all my memories I had of Bella. I didn't even hear the music anymore, I was barely aware I was still playing.

I remembered most notably last night In this very spot. Me playing for her. I wanted to go back to that moment. I wanted to feel her perched beside me again as I played for her. I could almost feel her warmth next me and my heart clenched for her. My fingers stilled but eyes stayed closed. I was seeing her through the darkness of my closed eyes and I never wanted to open them for fear of never seeing her again.

"Edward" she sighed.

"Bella" I sighed back at her.

I could almost hear her. I thought I was losing my mind until I felt her tiny arms around me.

My eyes shot open and realized she was actually sitting beside me, hugging me, her cheek resting on my shoulder. I turned so I was facing her and she buried her face in my chest. I placed my arms around her and buried my face in her hair. Please let this be real.

"I'm sorry" I heard her mumble. Sorry? What the hell was she sorry for? I pulled away from her to look into her eyes. The were red, and puffy from crying, but she was as beautiful as ever.

"What are you apologizing for?" I asked incredulously.

"Edward I'm sorry for tricking you like that, honestly I don't know what I was thinking I was just messing around and I'm sorry for sending you mixed signals" she said. My heart clenched even more when she said mixed signals. I was wrong all along, she was just kidding around from the beginning. She never felt anything for me.

She must have noticed the broken hearted look on my face.

"Oh god, no Edward that's not what I meant. Arrgh I keep saying the wrong things. Okay here it goes" she said inhaling a breath.

"What I meant by the mixed signals comment was that I'm not mad at you, I apologize for tricking you and making you think that I was mad at you. Honestly I didn't even realize how it looked, that wasn't my intention at all. I was just teasing you, like you had teased me, and with that being said I'm calling a truce to this teasing war" she said extending her hand towards me. I chuckled at her, shook her hand and said truce back to her.

"Okay now that that's all cleared up, there's something else I want to tell you" she said. Uh oh what now?

"I know that we have only known each other for a short amount of time but I can't help the way I feel about you and what happened today just made me realize it even more. It broke my heart to see you so sad. You deserve nothing but happiness and I never want to see that look on your face again. All I wanted to do was run after you and tell you how much I love you" she said blushing.

She loves me? She loves me!

She was about to say something else but I silenced her. I put my hands on her face and brought her towards me. I crashed my lips into hers not as gently as I was going for, but I couldn't help all the emotion flowing through me. After her initial shock wore off, her lips molded in to mine. She relaxed into me and I wound my right hand into her silky hair. As soon as my hand found her hair, both her hands were in mine, massaging my scalp. I moaned slightly as she continued to massage my scalp.

I licked her bottom lip and she gasped a little bit so I took the opportunity and shoved my tongue into her depths. There were no words to describe how she tasted. It was like tasting ambrosia, the food for the Gods. My tongue tangled with hers and we both moaned at the feeling. Her tongue was like pure velvet against mine. Her mouth was so warm and inviting I thought I might just die from the pleasure. My imagination held nothing against the real thing. Reminding myself that we needed to breath I reluctantly pulled away from her.

If I thought she looked beautiful before I was wrong she looked like a pure goddess right now. Her eyes were half lidded, her pink lips were slightly swollen and her mouth was still partly open.

"Breathe Bella" I whispered.

That brought her out of her daze. She took a big intake of breath and opened her eyes to look at me. Her eyes were glazed over and I saw that familiar sparkle to them.

"Edward that was.." she attempted to say.

"Amazing, mind blowing, incredible" I said. No words could accurately describe our kiss.

"Those are understatements" she said giggling.

"Bella, love I'm sorry for acting like that" I said softly shaking my head.

She silenced me with a chaste kiss.

"No more apologizes, no more games, lets just be us" she stated.

I pulled her into my chest and drank her presence in. She sighed into my chest as I caressed her back and rested my chin onto her head.

"I love you too" I whispered to her.

She pulled back and looked into my eyes as I stroked her cheeks.

"I love you more than words can ever describe. I never want to be without you. You give meaning to my life" I said.

A tear spilled from her eye and I kissed it away immediately.

"Oh Edward" she sighed. "Promise me you'll never walk away like that again, no matter what, always talk to me" she said.

"I promise. Now that I have you I'm never letting you go, ever" I said and pulled her into my embrace again.

We held each other for I don't know how long until there was a knock at the door. I pulled away from Bella but kept one arm draped around her shoulder.

"Come in" I shouted not willing to get up away from Bella.

Alice peeked in and once she took in our position she started bouncing up and down.

"I'm so happy for you guys" she shrieked.

"Inside voice Ali" I said smirking at her. She smirked back at me knowing I was messing around with her.

"Was there something you needed Alice?" I asked.

"Oh right. I need your keys so I can load up your car with Bella's things" she asked.

"Ugh Alice can I just grab that stuff tomorrow after work, I really don't feel like lugging all that into my house tonight" Bella groaned.

"Bella you will not be lugging anything into your house, I will be lugging all your stuff into your house for you" I stated simply.

I threw Alice my keys and she bounced out of my room. Honestly I have no idea where that girl gets all of her energy from. She needs to bottle some of that up and sell it.

"Thank you" she said giving me another chaste kiss.

"Anytime" I replied.

"Hey I have an idea why don't you take me home soon, we'll unload all that baggage and I'll cook you dinner and we can watch a movie" she said.

"Sounds perfect, but you don't have to cook me dinner, love" I said.

"It's only fair, you've cooked for me, now let me return the favor" she said matter of factly.

I sighed. There was obviously no arguing with her, not that I wanted to, I just wanted to take of her.

"Okay how about a compromise. You can help" she stated.

"Gladly" I replied.

We walked downstairs and I retrieved my keys back from Alice and told her about our plans for the night. She grinned at me and told us to have a good night and that she would see us at work tomorrow.

When we arrived at Bella's she went to unlock her front door as I opened the trunk to get the bags. Holy crap! How many stores did they go in?

Bella came back to the car and noticed my expression.

"I told you, they're crazy!" she said throwing her hands in the air.

"How many stores did you guys go in?" I asked grabbing some of the bags

"Two. Two stores, and your crazy pixie sister is supposedly dragging my ass back to the mall next week because we left early! The clothes she got me from one store surpass my entire wardrobe, why I need to go shopping again is beyond me" she ranted.

"I can't believe I'm volunteering this but, I'll go and save you from the wrath of Alice. It is kind of my fault that you're getting dragged into another shop trip" I shrugged.

She looked at me and gave me a big smile, one that I wanted to see plastered on her face all the time.

I grabbed as many bags as I could and made my way into her house.

"Where do you want these, love?" I asked not knowing where her bedroom was. I've never even been inside her house.

"In my room please" she said from behind me.

"Um and which door is your room? I haven't been inside your house yet" I asked.

"Oh yeah I guess you haven't. First door on the right" she said.

I opened the door and stepped into her room. Her room was beautiful. She had pale yellow walls with light blue lace curtains in her window. Her bed, which sat at the far side of the room, had a square oak frame with a large square headboard. It was draped in blue and yellow striped style bedding. She had a huge oak bookcase on the opposite side of her room filled with tons of books, some looking like they were first editions maybe. On the right side of that sat her desk which was covered in papers and her laptop. All in all this bedroom was Bella, very warm and inviting and beautiful.

I smiled at her and set the bags down beside her bed. She looked even more beautiful in her room. The sun was starting to set which cast off a bright orange glow through the curtains. There my Bella stood in front of me, her chocolate brown hair, shining, glowing from the orange. Her skin almost sparkled and my breath hitched.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You just look so damn beautiful standing there, with the sun shining in on you. You really are an angel" I said smiling. She blushed immediately of course and I had to restrain myself from jumping her.

"Edward you don't have to keep saying stuff like that you know" she said looking down at the floor.

"You really don't see yourself clearly you know that?" I said making my way over to her. "And yes I do have to keep saying stuff like that because I want to and you deserve to be told how beautiful you are every second of every day" I said lifting her chin up to kiss her gently.

Her lips molded into mine perfectly and she wound her hands in my hair again. All too soon she pulled away from me before I could deepen the kiss.

"We should probably get the rest of the bags before we get too carried away" she said breathlessly.

"There's more?" I asked incredulously.

"Just a few. I'm scared to actually look to see what they bought me" she groaned.

"Weren't you with them when they bought everything?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well while I was talking to Rose, Alice took it upon herself to gather up and pay for all the lingerie her and Rose picked out for me, and I never got a chance to see any of it or try it on. So I'm scared of what they picked out" she said with a shiver.

I chuckled at her. "I'll protect you" I whispered.

"Come on lover boy" she said taking my hand and pulling me out the door back towards the car.

"Lover boy? Is that my new nickname now?" I asked smirking at her.

"For now" she said with a giggle.

I grabbed the rest of the bags out of the car and made my way back to her bedroom. She had about 4 bags from Victoria's Secret and I couldn't help but wonder what my devious little sister bought for her.

I set the rest of the bags down with the others and plopped down on her bed.

"Wow that was my workout for the day" I chuckled.

She came and laid down next to me, our feet dangling off the bed as we lay on our backs staring at the ceiling. I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous being alone with her, on her bed. Her hand found mine and I welcomed it. I shifted my head to the right to find her looking in my eyes, smiling. I smiled back at her.

"Comfy?" she asked.

"Very. I don't want to get up" I said pulling her closer towards me. At that point her stomach rumbled and she blushed.

"Well looks like we have to get up and get you fed" I said sitting up.

"What's on the menu chef swan?" I asked as we made our way into the kitchen.

"Um shit, I really hadn't thought about it" she mumbled.

"Well lets take a look at what you have" I said opening her refrigerator.

She came over beside me and pushed me out of the way.

"Hey!" I yelled.

"I promised to make you dinner, now you sit down" she said pulling out the chair and pushing me into it. Hmm I like feisty Bella.

"You also promised that I could help" I retorted.

"I said you could help. I didn't say you could help cook" she said with that evil smirk.

"You can do the dishes lover boy" she giggled.

"You are a dangerous creature you know that?" I asked shocked. Damn she got me.

She giggled even more started pulling stuff out of the cupboards.

I watched, entranced as she flitted around the kitchen, grabbing random things. Honestly I couldn't care less what she made, I was enjoying myself watching her bend and stretch to grab things. I'm glad she tricked me into just sitting here.

She gathered up all the ingredients and made her way over the stove. She bent over to grab a pot and I couldn't help but stare openly at her perfect round ass. Yes that's my thing. I Edward Cullen am an ass man and Bella had the most perfect ass I have ever seen, and that was just with jeans on!

"Enjoying the view?" she asked looking over her shoulder.

"Immensely" I said smirking back at her.

She blushed and straightened up to get back to work. I couldn't just sit there anymore so I made my way over towards her. I wrapped my arms around her waist and rested my chin on her shoulder.

"What are you making?" I whispered in her ear which caused her shiver.

"It's a surprise" she said.

"Should I be worried?" I asked.

She laughed a little bit and shook her head. I peeked over her shoulder to get a better view and she gently jabbed me in the stomach.

"No peeking" she said sternly.

"Yes Ma'am" I said and kissed her cheek. After kissing her cheek I couldn't help myself. I pressed my lips to her and started kissing up and down her neck, earning a moan from her.

"You're dinner's going to burn if you keep that up" she said breathlessly.

"Let it. We'll order in" I said. Screw the food. I want Bella for dinner.

"Edward please?" she whimpered. Ugh her and that word. How could I deny her anything.

"Fine. I'll behave" I pouted.

"Why don't you go pick out a movie while I finish up. There's not a whole lot to pick from, but I'm sure you'll find something" she said.

I pulled away from her but not before getting in one last kiss on her cheek and made my way into her living room.

Her living room had a very homey feel to it. She had a brown suede couch set up right in front of her entertainment stand which held her generous sized television. I noticed the pictures that sat on the mantle of her fireplace in the far corner of the room and made my way over to get a better look at them.

The first one I noticed was Bella as a little baby. She had to have been the most adorable child I have ever seen. She laid there in the hospital crib in a little pink onesie. Her cheeks were pink and I let out a little chuckle. Her brown eyes sparkled and her head was already covered in a little bit of chocolate hair. What amazed me most though was how peaceful she was. She wasn't fussing, or crying. She was lying there looking like she was so content.

The second picture was one of her when she was about the age of 3 years old. She was with a woman with the same color hair as Bella's but it was shorter and a man with black hair and a mustache. I'm assuming these were her parents before they split up. Bella sat perched on her fathers lap and her mother was bent down to meet the camera at eye level. All were smiling but her father was smiling the widest. I remembered Bella telling me all about Charlie and Renee's relationship last night. After all those years Charlie still loved Renee.

The last picture was of Charlie in his police uniform. My heart clenched for Bella as I realized how hard it must have been for her to lose a parent. I couldn't imagine my life without Carlisle or Esme. After staring at the photographs for a couple minutes I realized I had yet to pick out a movie.

I made my way over to where her dvds were set up and began to browse through. She was right. She didn't have too many movies, but the ones she had were all incredibly great movies. I didn't have to look too hard to find the one I wanted to watch and it didn't surprise me that she had this movie.

I made my way back to the kitchen and found Bella swaying her tiny hips while stirring something that made my mouth water. I wasn't sure if my mouth was watering because of the intoxicating aroma coming from the pot, or the intoxicating presence of Bella swaying her hips back and forth.

"Find anything good?" she asked not taking her gaze away from the stove. How did she know I was watching her?

"Definitely" I answered still staring at her hips.

She turned around to find me staring at her and giggled.

"The movie, Edward. Did you find something?" she asked again.

"I did. I'm not surprised you have it. You have excellent taste, I just didn't know you were a fan" I said still not letting on to what movie I picked.

"You're not going to tell me are you?" she asked raising and eyebrow.

"Nope you'll just have to be patient and wait my love" I said making my way over to her.

I placed a kiss on her cheek and stood behind her again while she focused her attention back on whatever she was cooking.

"Mmm smells good. What is it?" I asked.

"You'll just have to be patient and wait my love" she mimicked back at me.

I chuckled at her and gave her a swat on the butt. She let out a little yelp and then giggled. I went back to my seat at the tiny table in her kitchen.

"Can I please help with something?" I begged.

"Fine. You can set the table if you want" she huffed.

"Thank you" I said getting up to look in her cupboards.

"Plates and such are on the left, silverware is in the drawer on the right" she said pointing to where she was talking about.

I found everything with ease and set the table up. I couldn't hide the smile as I thought of how normal this seemed for us. Less than three days ago I didn't even know this angel, now here I am setting the table for us as if we were an old married couple, and that idea alone made me the happiest man in the universe.

"Do you find setting the table that fun, or are you thinking of something else?" she asked.

"Just thinking how lucky I am. How much my life has changed in two days. How happy I am" I said back to her while locking onto those beautiful brown orbs.

"My thoughts exactly" she murmured with a smile.

She got everything together and started to serve up dinner. I looked down at the plate and raised and eyebrow.

"What is this?" I said breathing in the delectable aroma

"It's called chicken carbonara. It's chicken with bucatini pasta in a bacon and parmesan cream sauce, topped with breadcrumbs" she said twirling some pasta on her fork.

Wow. When she said she was making me dinner I thought she was going to be making me burgers or something like that. This was a cuisine.

I twirled some pasta onto my fork and stuck a piece of the chicken and brought it to my lips. The flavor was unlike anything I have ever tasted. It was succulent, delicious, absolutely delectable! The only ever food I have had that tasted this magnificent was my sauce, and even then I'm not so sure my sauce could top this.

"Oh my god Bella, this is fantastic! No fantastic is an understatement. There are no words for this creation. Where did you learn to cook this?" I asked in shock.

"Family recipe" she shrugged as if it were nothing. "I told you I could cook" she said smirking.

"Yes you did, but you did not tell me that you were a better cook than I" I said.

"Please Edward! I am not a better cook than you. Emeril is not even a better cook than you" she said shaking her head.

"You have got to teach me how to make this" I said diving back into my food.

"I guess that would be acceptable, but remember this is a family recipe, so keep it on the down low" she said smiling.

"My lips are sealed, so to speak" I said stuffing my face with yet another bite. She giggled and continued to eat her food as well.

We fell into a comfortable silence as we savored our food. I made sure to chew my food 32 times so I could properly savor the taste. As I came upon the last bite I let out an audible sigh. I wasn't exactly still hungry but I wanted more of this.

"Maybe you shouldn't teach me how to make this" I said. She raised an eyebrow at me and waited for a response.

"I think if I know how to make this I'll probably gain a hundred pounds from eating this everyday" I said.

She laughed more loudly than normal and I raised both my eyebrows at her. Not that I didn't love the sound of her laughing, I just wondered why she thought it was that funny.

"I'm sorry. I just tried to picture you overweight and couldn't. I really don't think that's possible" she said shaking her head.

"Actually when I was a little boy I was chubby" I said in all honesty. I wasn't a fat kid, but I had a little pudge. Apparently the baby fat decided to stick on me until I hit puberty.

"Are you serious?" she asked shocked.

"Yes. I wasn't fat, but I wasn't slender like I am now. Apparently the baby fat hung on to me until I hit puberty" I said voicing my thoughts.

"That's so adorable" she said.

"How is that adorable?" I asked curiously. Seriously would I ever be able to read her?

"Cute little pudgy Edward. How could that not be adorable?" she giggled.

"You my dear are too adorable" I said to her.

"I'm going to have to ask your mom for some photos" she smirked.

"Are you serious? You want to see what I looked like when I was a pudgy kid?" I asked seriously.

"Yes. In fact I would like to see every photo there is of you." she said with a smile.

"Fine, but I get to see every photo of you as well" I smirked.

"Ugh you don't want to see those. Nothing special" she said with honesty in her voice.

"Nothing special! You really do not see yourself clearly at all. My heart nearly dropped to my stomach when I saw that baby picture of you" I said loudly.

"What baby picture?" she asked curiously.

"The ones on your mantle. You were the most adorable baby I have ever seen. I said it once and I'm going to keep saying it. You really are an angel" I said.

A tear trickled down her cheek and I arose from my chair to take her face in my hands. I kissed her tears away and pulled back to look her in the eyes.

"What's wrong?" I asked wondering if I had upset her.

"Nothing. These are happy tears. I just.. I'm so happy I found you" she whispered.

"Trust me when I say that the feeling is more than mutual my love" I whispered back.

We sat there for a few more moments and then pulled away from each other to clean up. She started placing the dishes in the sink and I grabbed her hand to pull her away.

"What?" she asked.

"If I remember correctly you said my job was to wash the dishes. Now sit that fantastic little butt of yours down and rest while I do this, please" I said and gave her another swat on the ass.

"You're so stubborn" she huffed.

"Not as stubborn as you, love" I said making a kissing face at her.

I hurriedly washed up and dried all the dishes before putting them back in there proper places. I turned around for the first time in minutes to find Bella staring at me.

"What?" I asked

"Nothing I just love watching you. You move so skillfully it makes me jealous a little bit" she said. I had to chuckle at her.

"Well feel free to ogle me as much as you want, as long as I can ogle you as much as I want" I said crookedly smiling at her.

Her face flushed red and her eyes gazed over. Ugh if only I could read her mind.

"Shall we?" I asked extending my hand to hers to lead her towards the living room.

"What are we watching?" she asked as she plopped down on the couch.

I didn't answer. All I did was cozy up next to her and hit play. She let out a little gasp when she found out what movie I had chosen. Across the universe.

"This is my favorite movie" she said matter of factly.

"I didn't realize you were a Beatles fan" I said.

"Yes. Huge Beatle fan as a matter of fact. My dad was a huge fan and got me into listening to them. I remember when I was little my father use to sing Beatles songs to my mother and they would dance to some of them" she smiled.

"You miss him a lot, don't you?" I asked

"Yes. Even though we weren't extremely close. I wasn't very fond of Forks, but I use to love coming here to spend time with Charlie. It made me sad to think of him here all by himself" she said looking over at his picture on the mantle.

"Even though I never knew your father I would bet that he really loved and appreciated you coming here to spend time with him. I'm sure he would be very proud of you right now" I said pulling her closer to me.

"Thank you. You don't understand how much that means to me" she whispered to me through her tears.

I brought her chin up with my index finger and looked into her eyes.

"I love you, Isabella Swan" I said and then captured her lips.

"I love you, Edward Cullen" she murmured against my lips.

I pulled away and we smiled at each other before returning our attention back to the movie.

"What's your favorite Beatles song?" she asked

"Hmm it's hard to say. I love so many of them" I answered.

"Name a couple"

"All my loving, I've just seen a face, Because, Something, Help!, Let it be, Eight days a week" I counted off.

"Eight days a week is my favorite" she gasped.

"Really?"

"It was my dads favorite, so it easily became my favorite" she smiled.

We continued to watch the movie, happily singing through all the songs together. When the part came on where they went to Mr. Kites circus we both looked at each other.

"Mind if I fast forward a bit?" she asked.

"Not at all. I guess you have to be high out of you mind to get this part" I chuckled.

I sat angled to the right with her laying on my chest with her knees curled up. I had my right arm draped around her tiny frame while my left hand played with her right hand on my chest. I had never been so comfortable in my entire life and was really dreading having to go home.

I saw her smile widen a little bit when they started singing Hey Jude.

"This is one of my favorite parts as well" I whispered.

"Really?" she asked intrigued.

"Yes it's nice. It's a happy ending even though it's not the end of the movie. It gives you hope that there's a happy ending for Jude and Lucy" I said.

She kissed my chest and even though it was clothed I still felt the burning on my skin.

The movie ended and I saw her try to stifle a yawn.

"Tired angel?" I asked.

"Yes, I suppose I am" she sighed.

"Well it has been a very tiring day" I chuckled.

"Yes it has been, but it's been the best day of my life" she said sweetly.

"Mine as well" I sighed.

"I don't want you to leave" she sighed.

"I don't have to, if you don't want me to" I said trying to hide my eagerness and also nervousness.

She got up and grabbed my hand and led me to her bedroom. My heart started thumping and I was almost sure she could hear it. I was nervous. I tended to lose my control around Bella and I didn't want to push her into anything she didn't want yet. Hell I don't even know what I want yet, but I think with everything moving so fast so quickly that sex should hold off. Not long though. I'm not sure I have that much self control.

"What are you thinking?" she asked.

"I'm thinking we should maybe talk about a few things" I said sitting down on her bed. She took a seat next to me and I suddenly got nervous again.

"What? What's wrong?" she asked worried.

"Oh nothings wrong, I just thought we should discuss um us, here, in the bedroom" I sputtered out nervously.

"Oh. Ohh" she said catching on to what I was referring to.

"I'm not trying to presume something is going to happen or anything like that. It's just that I kind of lose control when I'm with you and I don't want to push you into something you don't want to do" I said hurriedly.

"Edward I love you and like you said before all the feelings are mutual" she smiled.

My eyes widened at what she had just told me. Bella lost control when she was with me? She wanted me just as I wanted her?

"Oh" I said dumbly. Oh Edward? You're hopeless.

"But" she started. But? No buts, well maybe her butt. What the hell is wrong with me? " I think we should wait just a little while. I mean this is all so fast. Not that I don't want to, because god knows I want to, it's just that I've never been with anyone before and I don't want to rush this. I love you with all my heart and I want it to be special for the both of us, not hurried because we can't control ourselves" she breathed out.

I let out a whoosh as she told me what she was thinking. I was relieved that she felt the same way I did. I wanted everything to be perfect for her. Perfect for us.

I smiled at her and cupped her cheeks.

"Love, I feel the exact same way. I want our first time and our first times to be perfect for the both us. Not rushed" I smiled at her.

"I love it when you call me that" she breathed out.

"What?" I asked.

"Love. You keep calling me that. You even called me that before you told me you loved me" she said.

"Well I love you that you love that I call you love" I chuckled at her. She giggled and wrapped her arms around me and I did the same.

"I wonder what Alice and Rose bought for me" she said.

She got up and grabbed the bags from Victoria's Secret and dumped them onto the bed. I felt like a kid at Christmas. There were thongs, and boy shorts, and lace, and baby dolls everywhere!

"Love, if wear that to bed you can kiss my self control goodbye" I said pointing to the negligee that she wore for me earlier.

"Well we wouldn't want that to happen would we? Actually.." she trailed off.

"Bella" I warned. She giggled and started putting her stuff away.

"I was just seeing if they actually got something comfortable for me to wear to bed" she shrugged.

I noticed a pair of powder blue capri sweatpants laying amongst the pile along with a matching tank top.

"Here love, I think they did buy you something" I said holding up the matching sweats.

"Great, then I'm going to go change" she said taking them from my hand.

"Make yourself comfortable" she said before walking out the door.

I was suddenly plagued by a dilemma. I had nothing to wear. I normally just stripped down to my underwear but how would she react to that? I can't sleep in these tight jeans and I doubt she has anything for me to wear.

"You didn't exactly take my advice" she said coming back into the room in those adorable sweats.

"What advice?" I asked.

"I told you to make yourself comfortable. If anything you did the opposite. You look quite uncomfortable. What's wrong?" she asked.

"Oh um yeah I normally just sleep in my underwear and I wasn't sure if you were okay with that or not. I can't sleep in these jeans and I doubt you have anything big enough for me" I was rambling.

"Edward sleep how you normally sleep. I want you to be comfortable and I really don't mind if you sleep in your underwear" she said raising her eyebrows.

I chuckled at her eagerness to get me somewhat naked. Were we not just discussing how we wanted to wait? I'm about to throw that idea out the window.

I placed my hands at the hem of the shirt ready to pull it above my head when her hands covered mine.

"Would you mind terribly if I did that?" she asked sheepishly.

"By all means, love" I said. As if I minded if she undressed me. Okay calm down Edward not a good time to sport an erection buddy.

Instead of taking the hem of the shirt she forced her hands underneath my shirt and gently started to rub my stomach muscles. I let out and a soft groan as she continued to explore my stomach. She is absolutely trying to kill me.

She removed her hands and my body felt the loss of her touching me. I felt cold despite the fact I had a shirt on and just seconds ago my body was hot.

This time she grasped the hem of the shirt and tugged it upwards. I lifted my arms to help her ease the wretched fabric off of me and she let out a gasp as she eyed me shirtless for the first time.

She let her hands wander from my collarbone down to my navel and back up again. My body shuddered at her and I felt my stomach tighten up. She ran her finger from collarbone to collarbone and then she placed both hands over my pecs and started moving them in a circular motion. My body was fighting extremely hard not to get seriously aroused at what she was doing. She sighed and placed a kiss over my heart.

"You're perfect. A god amongst men" she breathed out.

"You do wonders for my ego, you know that?" I chuckled.

"Are you sure you were once chubby?" she giggled.

"Yes. I'm sure I didn't make up getting teased by kids for being chubby" I laughed.

She gasped and pulled away from me and I saw something flicker in her eyes. She was angry.

"Kids made fun of you?" she asked perplexed. I just nodded at her. It really didn't matter to me anymore.

"That's insane!" she shouted. She was really angry about this?

"Do they still live around here?" she asked.

"Um I think some do, maybe. I don't really remember Bella that was a long time ago and once I got to high school I wasn't teased anymore" I reminded her.

"Well I have half the mind to find those assholes and give them a piece of my mind" she muttered. I just started laughing at her.

"You find this humorous?" she asked still angry.

"I find your absurdity humorous. Bella that was ages ago and like I said they didn't pick on me anymore when I was in high school. Quite the opposite really, they all tried to kiss my ass. I was never one to have many friends. I liked to keep to myself despite the fact I could've probably had tons of friends" I shrugged.

"I don't understand why you're so upset by this" I questioned.

"I guess I'm just territorial. The thought of someone picking on you is just beyond me" she shrugged.

"I love you" I said. I didn't know what else to say to her. It was utterly absurd she should get so mad about this, but also utterly adorable. She felt the need to protect me, and I felt that need for her also. I put myself in her shoes for a moment and I thought about someone picking on Bella and understood immediately why she was angry.

I kissed the top of her head and went back to the present. I was still standing there with my shirt off. Just one more obstacle in my way.

I put my hand to down to the top of my jeans and froze. Shit! Shit. Shit. Shit! I completely forgot what I was wearing underneath my jeans. Of all fucking things I would wear. Dammit! I really have to do laundry more often. Bella being insanely observant, noticed my hesitation.

"What's wrong now?" she asked.

"I forgot what I was wearing" I breathed out. She raised a very curious eyebrow at me.

"Please don't tell me you're wearing a speedo" she laughed.

"God no! It's just that I need to do laundry and the only clean pair of underwear I had just happens to be a gag from Emmett" I grumbled out and she laughed a little bit louder.

"Alright lets see" she said motioning her finger for me to undo my pants.

I blew out a breath and mumbled fine and pulled the button through the whole and unzipped my pants. I blew out another louder breath and threw my pants down my legs and stood there awkwardly with my arms crossed. Just as I suspected she busted out laughing hysterically. I buried my face in my hands and blushed more than I ever have in my entire life as she continued to laugh at me standing here in my gray boxer briefs that say 'little devil' on them with a picture of cartoon devil on the crotch. At least I wasn't hard anymore, that would've been even worse.

"Emmett bought those for you?" she said in between laughs.

"Are you done?" I asked sounding a little annoyed.

"I'm sorry" she giggled. "Sorry. Really I'm done" she promised.

"Yes Emmett bought these as a gag gift and I ran out of clean underwear" I mumbled. God how embarrassing! The first time a woman has ever seen me in my underwear and she laughs hysterically at me. Not the reaction I was hoping for. Sigh.

"Why would Emmett buy these for you?" she asked honestly curious.

"Emmett likes to brag about his…um…size and he thinks just because I'm his little brother, that he's larger than me. So he bought these as a gag gift" I said awkwardly.

"Aw don't be embarrassed my little devil" she chuckled out.

"Oh no! Lover boy is one thing do not start calling me little devil" I said horrified. I would never live this down. "And if you don't stop teasing me I'll just have to show you how not little this devil is" I said raising and eyebrow. Oh that got her.

She gasped and her face flushed red. Ha! Good. She wants to tease me, I'll show her.

"I love it when you blush" I whispered running my index finger along her cheek.

Her breath grew more ragged and she shuddered when my finger ran along her cheekbone.

"Why don't we lay down" I said in a husky tone.

I led her over to the bed and threw the covers back so we could settle in.

"What side do you want?" I asked.

"Right" she breathed out.

"Good I prefer the left" I smirked.

I got in and slid over to the left side and held out my arms for her to join me.

She got in and snuggled up towards me. She laid her head on my chest and put her right hand on my stomach right above my navel. I draped my right arm across her shoulder and pulled her closer to me. She started to move her hand around in little circular patterns and my breath hitched a little bit. I guess she took notice to that and she started to get a little braver. She took her index finger and swept it from hipbone to hipbone and I groaned.

"Bella you have no idea how good that feels" I moaned. She continued her movements and I couldn't control the inevitable reaction.

"Bella you have to stop that" I breathed out raggedly.

"Why? You just said so yourself that it feels good" she said.

"Exactly. You think to highly of my self control and if you don't stop, our agreement will go right out the window" I said.

"Just because we agreed not have sex yet doesn't mean we can't do other things" she mumbled out. I could feel her blush on my chest and I stopped breathing. Was she saying what I think she's saying?

I tilted her chin up off my chest and crushed my lips on hers. After her initial shock wore off she tried to scoot up towards my face more so she could have better access to my lips. I rolled her over trying to make it easier for us to kiss and found this position much more compromising.

She gasped when she realized our change in positions and I took the opportunity to let my tongue in her mouth. We both groaned at the contact of our velvety tongues tangling together and I became harder hearing her groan. I involuntarily bucked my hips and moaned loudly into my mouth.

She let her legs part and fall to either side of mine and I settled right in between her. I growled as my hardness came in contact with her heat and I felt my stomach fiercely tighten.

She gasped at the contact of feeling my erection against her hot center and bucked against me.

"God Bella" I groaned out. I let my lips fall to her neck realizing she needed to breathe. I sucked on her sensitive skin right below her ear and she bucked into me again. I let my tongue dart out to taste her skin and she whimpered. I placed open mouth kisses from her ear, down to her throat and back up again as she continued bucking her hips into mine.

"Bella" I meant for it to sound like a warning but it came out as a groan.

I placed my hands on her hips to still them and she eyed me curiously.

"Edward you're driving me crazy here" she gasped out. She's right. We didn't have to have sex but we could do many other things until then and what better time to start than now.

"You have too many clothes on" I growled at her and her expression changed from hurt back to aroused in a second.

She went to grab her tank top but I grabbed her hands to stop.

"I would very much like to do that part, love" I said.

I started mimicking her from early when she had taken my shirt off. I let my hands caress her smooth flat stomach before I started lifting her tank top further up her body. I nearly had a heart attack when I pulled her tank top up over her chest. She wasn't wearing a bra! How could I have not known that earlier? Her beautiful breasts exposed to me and only me for the first time made me harder than ever. She was beautiful, glorious, magnificent! Her sweet, pink nipples puckered for me and I moaned. She blushed and looked away from me and I realized she was probably embarrassed.

"Bella you are the most stunning creature I have ever laid eyes on. Please do not hide that beautiful face from me angel" I said to her. She smiled and returned her gaze back to me.

I pulled the tank top all the way off of her and kissed her sweetly before descending back down to my target area.

I trailed my kisses from her lips, down her chin gently nipping on it, then all the way down her throat until I got to her breastbone. I looked up at her seeing if this was okay and her eyes told me that it was indeed.

I kissed the top of her left breast and then let my tongue dart out to taste her. She gasped and tangled her hand in my hair, urging me on.

I flicked my tongue against her semi hard nipple and it hardened fully as I tasted her. Good God she tasted amazing. More amazing than anything I have ever tasted in my life. Jesus if her nipple tasted this good I can't even imagine tasting her sweet juices. I moaned at the thought and she moaned along with me as she felt the vibrations from my mouth.

I brought my left hand up to her right breast that was being neglected and started massaging it while still sucking on her left nipple. She was gasping and tugging at my hair while trying to buck her hips into mine to create friction. I twisted and pulled at her right nipple while I gently nipped at her left one.

"Edward please. I need more please" she gasped out.

I reluctantly pulled away from her sweet breasts and let both my hands curl around the hem of her sweatpants. I looked at her once more to make sure this was okay with her and she nodded at me.

I pulled them down her perfectly toned, smooth legs and got impossibly harder. She was wearing a pair of navy blue lace boy shorts that hung to her perfectly.

"I am very partial to this color on your skin you know" I said smirking up at her.

"I'll keep that in mind" she smiled back at me and wiggled her hips a little bit.

"You will be the death of me" I said matter of factly. Seriously I think I might just die from this erection. All of the blood in my body was flowing to one place and if I didn't get a release soon I feared I might just explode, and not in the good way I wanted to.

"What a way to go" she murmured.

I made my way back up her body and nestled back in between her legs. We both groaned louder than ever at this new contact. I felt how wet and warm she was through the lacey fabric and she bucked against me. Ugh so good. More!

"Definitely not little" she gasped out. I smirked against her neck and continue my assault upwards until I reached her lips.

We fell into a steady rhythm. I ground into her and she ground back into me. Our sounds of moaning and calling each others names filled the room.

"Unghh Bella you feel so good. So hot. So wet" I moaned out.

She whimpered and started grinding her hips into me wildly. She was reaching her release as was I, but I'll be damned if I cum first.

"Oh god Edward, yes!" she called.

She was tugging at my hair fiercely, almost to the point where she was pulling it out. Screw it I don't care. This feels too good. She dropped her hands from my head to my back and dug her nails into my flesh. So. Fucking. Good! All too soon she stopped digging her nails into my back and let them wander down to my ass. She clutched it, hard, and then pulled me against her. Fuck. She was desperate for a release and so was I.

We both started grinding against each other harder and faster and I was hanging on by a thread. Have. To. Make. Her. Cum. First.

I bent my head down and flicked my tongue out against her nipple again and she arched her back towards me. Shit I can't hold out anymore.

"Cum for me Bella" I breathed out and then I bit down on her nipple, gently but that was enough.

"Edward!" she screamed and arched her back more as she came. I felt her juices drench her panties and I felt the hot cum soak through my boxers. Fuck me! The sight of her cumming was the most intoxicating vision I have ever seen before and at that, I let go also.

"Fuck Bella" I groaned out as I felt my hot cum spill out from me.

I slowed my movements as we came down from our highs and then stilled my hips as our breathing evened out.

I rolled off of her for fear of crushing her to death as my arms turned to jello.

"Wow" she breathed out.

"Again with the understatements" I chuckled.

"Well it's hard to express how you feel when there are no words in the universe to describe it" she said.

"I love you my angel, more than you will ever understand" I said to her pulling her up to lie on my chest.

"I love you too, Edward" she said yawning into my chest.

I chuckled at her and stroked her hair willing her to sleep.

"You are my life now" I whispered to her before I fell into the best sleep I've ever had before.

A/N

Wow, so that was a long chapter huh? I hope I did the little lemon well. Give me your opinions. Also I had to throw in that little quote from the trailer at the end. Speaking of the trailer…wow! How many times have you watched it? LOL. I realized I said that the club scene would be in this chapter and obviously it isn't. It WILL be in the next chapter, which I will hopefully get out in the next couple weeks. Another thing, the dinner Bella made for Edward is a real dish at Olive Garden except for it has shrimp in it also. It's extremely good and you should try it if you get the chance. Lastly I threw in Across the Universe because it is one of my favorite movies and I am a huge Beatles fan. That is why the story is called eight days a week. It is one of many favorites but as I was listening one day the story just popped into my head and I ran with it. There will probably be more Beatles references along the way so get use to it and please do not flame saying The Beatles suck and what not. I value the fact that everyone has their own opinions but there's no need to criticize someone for liking certain things. Okay that being said please review and thank you very much for reading!