Wow. Chapter 10 is finally here. It kind of feels like I'm flying through all these chapters. Lol. Well, now its on with the story.

When we got to the lobby, everyone but Jasper and Edward was there. Rose was wearing a scarlet dress with a plunging neckline that reached her belly-button and revealed her snowy-white skin. Esme was wearing a gold, shimmery dress that draped over her figure nicely and Amanda was wearing an adorable light purple dress with sequins at the top. When I was in mid-thought, I felt familiar arms wrap around me.

I looked up and smiled when he greeted me with a small kiss. We all walked outside, where it was starting to get dark after the cloudy day. Carlisle had gotten a limo for everyone to use so we would all arrive on time for the ball. On our way, Amanda was telling us everything about her, like what her favorite animal was, which I think might have had a double meaning to, and her favorite flower. She chatted the whole way there and Rose just sat there and smiled at her sister.

I wasn't sure what to expect when we got to the place where the ball was to be held. I asked Edward where it was being held and he simply said it was to be a secret. I sat back in my seat between Edward and Alice, who at the time was in deep conversation with Jasper. Everyone was so happy. I think this was the most that I had ever seen Rose smile in the few years that I had known the Cullens.

We arrived a little after 6:30 and when we got I could see that it was a huge palace. I felt kinda intimidated but that soon vanished and I sent a thankful smile to Jasper who nodded back and smiled with a smile of his own. Edward grabbed my hand and then we ventured with the rest of the family up the stairs that led up to the palace.

When we got to the ball room I could tell that there were a lot of vampires, which made me nervous but Alice assured me that I would be just fine and that the Denali clan was here as well, so there were more than enough civil vampires here plus some of the Italian vampires.

Not even two minutes of being there, Tanya ran up and hugged Edward and gave him a kiss on the cheek which kind of upset me. When Tanya noticed me, she shook my hand and went back to ignoring me. I got upset and walked off. I went outside in the back where they had a big water fountain and sat on the edge. I cried for a minute until I heard some heels on the flagstone walkway by the fountain.

I looked up and saw Rose coming and took a seat next to me. She just held me there for a minute and let me cry. I think what hurt me was that Edward didn't even try to come after me and that it was Rose that came to see how I was feeling.

I pulled away so that I wouldn't get my make-up on her dress. I sat up and pulled my clutch towards me and took out the mirror I had put in there. Apparently I had on water-proof make-up, but I had to re-do the foundation which Rose did for me and also reapplied everything else and I still looked as flawless as I had before.

We sat there for a few minutes and chatted and then she changed the subject to why I was here.

"Tanya" I said and I knew she would understand.

"I hate that bitch. And Edward didn't even come after you. Man what a dick" She said putting her hair behind her shoulder.

"Yeah. I think that's why I'm upset. But I think I also left so I wouldn't ruin the night for Jasper, I mean he always does so much for me and I don't want to ruin it for him" I said fiddling with the closure of my clutch.

Rose just stared at me and helped me up so we could go back inside where until now I hadn't realized it was kinda cold outside. When we got up the stairs I saw Emmett and Jasper waiting for us. They both gave me a big and a peck on the cheek. I really hadn't expected that and turned a bright tomato red which Emmett found extremely funny. Jasper laughed along with Emmett and said that I didn't have to worry about ruining his night because family comes first. We walked back and Alice was dancing with Amanda and Carlisle and Esme were spinning as graceful as dancers. Edward was standing and waiting for me with a pained expression and ran towards me hugging me to his perfect stone-cold chest.

"I'm sorry" he said kissing me.

I was still kind of upset about earlier and part of me didn't want to be around him considering he should have come after me, which he didn't, instead of his sister came after me. But the other part would always love him and want him like I usually did.

When he said he was sorry I just nodded my head and then he pulled back and looked at, no studied, my face.

"I love you so much Bella. Nothing or no one can change that and I swear that I'm not going anywhere away from you again tonight" he said taking me hands and kissed my wedding ring.

"Would you prefer if we went back?" He asked gently.

I thought for a minute and nodded. "Yes" I replied simply.

We went to say our goodbye's. Alice looked a little upset that we didn't stay long, but let us go. She kissed my cheek and told me to be at her room by 7 so we could get ready to go. Jasper hugged me and told me everything would be alright and gave me another peck on the cheek. I think this is starting to be a tradition, the same thing happened when we reached Rose and Emmett and Amanda. Amanda just hugged me, which I was okay with. Esme and Carlise just told us that they would see us in the morning.

We left but then Edward steered us to a coffee shop nearby. I decided to get a mocha to go and Edward ordered some mochiatto thing to go and then he called a cab to come pick us up. The cab came by the time I had finished half of the large mocha Edward got me. He read off the address to the driver who took off and dropped us off and told us to have a good evening. Edward paid him and then we got out.

When we got to our hotel room he decided to call and order some food for me. I went to the bathroom to get out of the dress and shoes and also to wash off the make-up and threw on some short shorts and a tank top. When I walked out Edward was sitting on the couch with his tux jacket draped over the side of the couch. I joined him on the couch and leaned my head on his shoulder.

After a while my food came and it smelled amazing. Edward ordered me some lasagna, which I ate quickly not realizing how hungry I really was. When I was done I threw the plate away and the rest of the garbage. I got up and went to go brush my teeth really fast but still being thorough. When I returned Edward was looking through the on demand movies and then told me to pick a movie. I looked through and selected one titled Knocked Up. It was pretty funny, although Edward didn't like the drugs, which I didn't either, he thought it was a pretty good movie.

During the end of the movie Edward moved me to his lap and started to kiss my neck. I froze and tried to sit still. Edward didn't usually kiss me on the neck especially after the whole James thing a few years ago. It's not that I don't like when he does but I don't want to make it hard for him to be around me.

When the movie was over he had started to kiss me everywhere and I had a feeling of what he was thinking. I kissed him back eagerly and just when I thought I might have gone to far and thought he would pull back, he didn't. He just kept going and then he carried me to the bed. He got frustrated after a while with our clothes and ripped them off. I don't think he was like this even on our honeymoon. I wonder if he's trying to make up for earlier.

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When he finally rolled off a couple hours later, he turned my probably permanent red face towards him and gave me a huge kiss. Yep, I think he was making up for earlier and everything was forgiven. He cuddled himself up to me and then I fell asleep.

The next morning I was a little sore but nothing a few Tylenol couldn't fix. I picked up my robe and went to look at the time, considering the clock in the bedroom disappeared. When I went to foyer of the hotel room it said that it was about quarter after 6 which meant that I had time to get into the shower.

I turned the water on and I let the water undo some of the knots in my back from last night's fun. I showered quickly but making sure I was 100% clean. I turned off the water and dried off. When I went back into the bedroom I had some clothes neatly folded on the bed with instructions to come across the hall when I was finished reading and getting dressed.

I dressed quickly into the thin, white long-sleeved shirt and put a bright blue, almost a turquoise colored short sleeved shirt on with a pair of white jeans and my pumas from home. The second I was done I grabbed my purse and went over to Alice and Jasper's room. I knocked and Jasper opened the door with a smile on his face, but there was something about that smile that I didn't like, like Alice planning something very, very scary.

I walked into the foyer and sat down on the soft couch and then Alice tackled me.

"OW! Alice, what in the hell are you doin?" I asked getting up from the floor.

"heehee. I wanted to surprise you. Anyways, we got to get a move on so we don't miss our plane." She said picking me up and throwing me over her shoulder just as easily as Emmett would have.

Jasper smiled and walked to the bedroom where I could hear him unzipping his bag, probably to change his clothes before we had to leave.

Alice gave me a couple of silver bangles and a necklace. Alice dried my hair and straightened it and then she pulled my bangs up and made a little bump and stuck it in place with a few bobby pins and loosely braided the rest of my hair into pigtails. She did my make-up and stood back to take a look and then decided I would look better with a pair of turquoise heels and pulled them out of her bag.

After she was done with me she shooed me out so she could finish getting ready and I was okay with that because I wanted to sit down on the comfy couch. When I walked out to the foyer Emmett, Rose and Amanda were sitting across from Jasper so I decided to go sit by him.

"Hey squirt" Emmett said smiling and hugging Amanda.

"Hey" I said sitting on the couch and watching Emmett and Rose.

I wasn't sure when we were supposed to head towards the airport but I wasn't worried. I really did miss the States and I really want to see Charlie and maybe seeing about having my mom come up soon.

After chatting with the rest of the family for a while, we started to get our bags by the door that way we could just call down to the front desk and have a bellhop take them down.

The plane was to leave by 11 and at about 10:30 we left to go towards the airport. Alice decided last minute she would rather have me in the car with her than Jasper and both of the boys seemed okay with that and then the conversation was over with. Alice and I left a little early so we could go get one last mocha from the coffee shop down the street. While in the coffee shop, I thought I should get a muffin that way I would have something to eat before getting on the plane.

When we arrived at the airport, it was 10 minutes till the departure. We went through security and our bags were checked and tagged and then we met up with everyone else and prepared to board the plane.