A/N Thanks as always to those of you who review/favorite/alert this story. It means the world to me. I'm floating on cloud nine at the moment because my hubby finally sat down and read this story the other day and really liked it. Yes, he picks on me horrible for being a Twork (Twilight dork as he likes to call me lol) but loves me enough that he would read my story and actually liked it too. Yay!

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And as always...A huge shout out goes to meh beta Dragonfly336 who totally kicks ass and literally tells me where all my puncuation must go...lol. Otherwise, this story would just be one huge run on sentence and we can't have that ya know...lol. Well, hope you enjoy this next chapter. It's chapter 9 only in EPOV! So enjoy!

Chapter 10 The Dance: Take Two

EPOV

I'm standing in the flower shop with my mom because I know I want to get Bella flowers for tonight, but I just don't know where to start. Not only is it the homecoming dance, but it also happens to be one month since we made it official. All I have to say is that Bella moving to Forks is the best thing that has happened to me, ever! I knew the first week we started dating that I was in love with her. I just thought it was way too soon to tell her that. So, I kept it to myself. There have been times, though, when I have wanted to say it so bad, but stopped myself. I'm just afraid that she isn't going to feel the same way. I can't imagine the pain I would endure, if she just flat-out laughed in my face and walked away from me. No, I would rather keep that shit to myself and save myself the embarrassment.

"How about these, sweetheart?" my mom says holding up a beautiful bouquet of red roses.

"No. That's almost too cliché. I want something different and something that's going to look beautiful on her."

"Oh! So you want to do something more like a corsage then?" I knew my mom would point me in the right direction.

"Yeah. I guess I do."

We wander over to a fridge that has some really pretty corsages in them. That's when the florist comes over.

"Can I help you find anything specific?" I notice that his name is Bob. Bob the Florist...OK Bob, let's see what ya got.

"My girlfriend and I are going to the homecoming dance tonight and I wanted to get her something beautiful. Oh, and my sister said that she is wearing purple."

"Is she pretty special to you son?" He asks. I can't help the goofy smile that spreads across my face.

"Yeah, she is," I look over to my mom just then and say, "I'm going to tell her I love her tonight, Mom."

She just gasps. Oh no, now I'm going to get 'the talk' on the way home for sure. But when I look over at her, she looks more like she is going to cry, than she is worried. It's almost like she's proud of me.

"I have just the thing for you then," Bob says as he takes out a plastic box with a beautiful white flower in it. "This is a single Cymbidium Orchid wrist corsage. It will make your special someone feel like you are her Prince Charming and she is your Cinderella." I like the sound of that. Besides, it's beautiful, just like Bella...I smile.

"It's perfect. I'll take it."

"Excellent. Will this be all then?"

"Yes. I think we are all set," I say. I can still feel the goofy grin on my face. I pay for the corsage and go to walk out the door when Bob calls to me.

"Good luck tonight."

"Thanks. I need it."

On the car ride home, I see my mom look over at me from the corner of my eye. She looks like she wants to say something but then stops. She does this a couple of times. I decide that I will put her out of her misery.

"Mom, did you have something you want to say to me?"

"Actually yes, I do. I just don't know how to say it."

"Just say what's on your mind mom." We are pulling into the driveway. She turns off the car and takes a deep breath. She has tears in her eyes.

"Mom? Is everything OK?"

"My baby is all grown up," she says in a whisper. Oh, herewe go. I smile at her.

"You didn't think we were all going to stay little forever, did you?"

"Well, no. But it just seems like yesterday that I was holding you in my arms, and now look at you. You are about to tell the girl that you are seeing that you love her." She tries to hold back a sob but is unsuccessful. She gets out of the car. I follow, grab her hand and pull her into a tight hug.

"Mom, I love you. Thank you so much for coming with me today. I'm sorry that I'm growing up way too fast for you." This makes her laugh a little.

"Thank you honey, for letting me share that with you. You made a good choice in the flower for Bella." She steps away and starts heading for the house, then stops and turns back around, "Not only did you make the perfect decision in the corsage, but you also chose the perfect girl."

"Thank you, Mom. I think so too."

I notice that it's almost 5 o'clock and decide that I should start getting ready. I take care of the three S's. I change into my black slacks and black shirt with a purple tie.

"Lookin' snazzy there, Cullen,"Emmett says from the doorway of my room. I smile.

"Thanks Em. So do you. Are ya sure you really are going stag man? You look to good to be doing that." He just laughs.

"Yeah, well, I figure some chick there probably came by herself and will be looking for the Em-Ster for a night she will never forget."

"Don't flatter yourself, Emmett."

"Well, fine. Be that way then," and he leaves me to continue getting ready.

We arrive at Bella's house so we can pick up the girls. Alice decided that she was going to play dress up with Bella tonight. I just hope she doesn't freak her out too much. We are greeted by Charlie when we get to the door.

"Hey boys. Lookin' snazzy," he says with a click of his tongue and doing a weird gun thing with his hands. I try to stifle a chuckle. I am about to say 'thank you' but I catch the sight of the most gorgeous creature coming down the stairs. Oh, Alice. I'm forever in your debt!

I can barely get out the words 'you look amazing' as I give her the corsage. Which she loves. After a few pictures and a few really interesting things that spew from Chief Swan's mouth about 'being safe' and 'other things better be in one piece when she gets home' and sweating a bit after those conversations, we leave for the dance.

In the car, I make sure Bella is clear that I have no expectations from her, whatsoever. Everything still remains the same as the first day we started dating. I'm not going to force her to do anything that she doesn't want to do. A real man waits for the OK to do things like that. I do know one thing though, it's going to be one epic night when it does happen.

We arrive at the dance and sit down for a bit. Then Alice drags Bella to the dance floor. After watching the two of them dance for a few minutes, I couldn't take it anymore. I had to be next to Bella. I know she is only up on the dance floor, but I missed her being close by.

After our nice semi-intimate dance, I tell her that I will be right back. I have been planning this for days. I heard this song on the radio by a group called Metric that just fit us to a tee. I loved it so much that I made it into Bella's ringtone. I go up to the DJ and ask him if he has that song.

"Yeah, man. No problem. I will play that next for ya."

"Thanks, Dude. You are my hero right now." The DJ just laughs and shakes his head. I swear I even hear him say something about 'young love' but I could have been just hearing things.

I get back to Bella and I don't have to wait that much longer, when the DJ keeps his promise. As the song plays, I sing the lyrics to Bella. It's the first time she has ever heard me sing. Someday I will take her down to my favorite spot in the house. Down in the basement, there is a baby grand piano that I love to play when I get stressed out or just like to mill around on for fun.

As I'm singing to her, I start to get that choked up feeling and my voice cracks here and there with emotion. Bella doesn't seem to notice. I lean down so we are cheek to cheek and continue to sing until the end of the song. I feel like the time is right for me to say what I have always wanted to tell her. Once the song ends, I take her face in my hands, take a deep breath and let it out...

"I love you." Wow! I feel better now that I said that. I watch as I see Bella's eyes go wide and a few tears fall.

"You...um...you what?"

"I love you, Isabella Swan. I have loved you since that first day we spent together. I can't imagine my life without you." She covers her mouth and more tears spill over her face. I hear her sob. Oh God! This isn't how it was supposed to be. "Hey. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you. Let's pretend this didn't happen, OK?" I have to admit. I'm a wounded puppy dog right now. Just then she grabs my face and pulls me down close to her, so that I'm looking into her chocolate brown pools for eyes.

"Say it again."

"I'm sorry?" She giggles.

"No. The part where you told me you loved me." I let out the breath that I didn't know I was holding and smile.

"I love you." And just at that moment, I hear the most beautiful words spill from her lips.

"I love you too, Edward Cullen. I have loved you since the first day we met."

I'm so happy to hear these words, that I pick her up off the floor and spin her around, then kiss her with so much passion that somebody would need a hose to pry us apart. We finally come up for air and when we do, Bella looks at me with these eyes and I know she is up to something. Gosh, to be a mind reader right now.

"Can we go somewhere, other than here?" Bella asks.

"Sure love. Anywhere you would like to go."

"Out to the car, where we can be alone?"

Oh shit. Calm down, Cullen. She probably just wants to get away from the crowd.

"Sure. Lead the way."

We walk out to the car and sit in the back seat. I don't know what she is planning, but I'm hoping it's not what I'm thinking it is. I certainly don't want our first time to be in the back of a car. I shut the door and look her in the eye and take her head in my hands.

"What are you thinking in that pretty little head of yours right now?" She just smiles and bits her bottom lip. Damn that's sexy.

"I thought we could...ya know...snog in the privacy of the car instead of worrying that somebody was going to catch us." I snort.

"Um...I'm sorry but did you just say snog?"

"Yeah...ya know...making out. It's an English term." I can't help but laugh to the point that I have tears running down my face.

"Ha! Snog. That's almost as good as the day that I told Alice what a scrotum was. She went around the house going scrotum, scrotum, scrotum because that was her new favorite word. Snog is now my new favorite word." She laughs along with me.

"Oh just shut up." Bella grabs my head and yanks it down to her so that we can snog. Haha. Snog.

FUN FACTS TIME!

So the scrotum story...yeah, that really happened to me. My sister, my cousin (who is a boy mind you), and I were playing Scatigories one day. I think my cousin and I were like 13/14 years old and my sister was 11/12 years old. We rolled the letter 'S' and one of the category's was 'Part of the Body' so...my cousin puts down scrotum (I may have too but can't remember for sure). My sister goes, "What's a scrotum?" My cousin and I just looked at each other and laughed. So he proceeded to tell my sister what a scrotum was ( I will spare you all the details as I'm sure you know by now what a scrotum is..you silly pervs you **giggle**). So after she found out what it was, she laughed her ass off, then went around the house for days going scrotum, scrotum, scrotum. Scrotum is my new favorite word. It's such a funny word, scrotum...lol. Still to this day, I mention that too her and she will go "Ha! Scrotum." and that's the end of it. Mind you...she is almost 29 and has a kid of her own now...lol. Good times...lol.

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