Heh. Sorry for the long wait, I think this chapter could be better but oh well.

EPOV

My love's concert just ended and now we were walking backstage to see her. The hallway was filled with her sweet freesia scent floating around. I looked down at the backstage pass in my hand, Bella was smiling her beautiful smile but it didn't reach her eyes.

"Relax Edward." Jasper said.

"Don't worry. I got your back." Alice said tapping her forehead.

"I get my clumsy little sister back!" Emmett said cheerfully.

"Maybe I can make amends with her." Rose said quietly. We all turned to smile at her. Wow she's being completely serious not even sarcastic for once… Jasper thought. I chuckled. We reached the door that had her name on it. I took a deep breath and smelled a scent that was familiar other than Bella's freesia scent.

"Tanya." I hissed softly. My siblings turned to look at me. Alice looked at me questioningly as did everyone else.

"Don't you smell her?" I asked. They breathed in the air surrounding us and scrunched their noses.

"You're right." Rosalie said. My eyes widened in alarm, what if Tanya was here to kill Bella? She always had feelings for me.

Apparently everyone else had the same idea and began to walk quickly as possible while staying within a human pace. We got to the front of the line or the end of the hallway, the scent of freesia getting stronger. There were two rather strong looking men (for humans) standing there, security guards I thought to myself.

"Passes." The one with dark hair said. I held my pass out to him. He looked at it and nodded, "Enjoy speaking to Miss Bella." He said.

I approached the wooden door and heard my Bella's beautiful laughter. I reached for the doorknob when Alice stopped me.

"Let us go in first." She said.

"But-" I began to protest.

Alice glared at me, and I stopped and stepped back. Sometimes she could be rather frightening for someone of her height. Alice threw the door open. I peered in from behind her and saw Bella's shocked expression.

"HI BELLA!" Alice screamed excitedly. Bella's look of shock quickly turned into a look of happiness as Alice ran to her at vampire speed and threw her arms around Bella to hug her.

"ImissedyousomuchIdidntwantoleavebutEdwardsaidwehadto." she said quickly and in one breath. Bella looked at her bewildered and looked away when she felt another pair of arms hug her tightly, knocking the breath out of her once again.

"Em-mett-can't-bre-ath." she said.

"Sorry." He said and smiled sheepishly.

"Hello Bella." Rosalie said quietly. Bella looked at Rosalie surprised but smiled warmly.

"Hi Rosalie." she said happily. Rose smiled. I'm so glad she isn't mad at me. she thought.

She looked up at Jasper who simply and politely said, "Hello Bella." and hugged her briefly. I looked around the room looking for the strawberry blonde hair of Tanya and couldn't find her. Weird. I thought to myself as I continued to watch my family and my love.

BPOV

I saw all of the Cullen's except for the one my heart ached to see. "Where is he?" I asked quietly. Their topaz eyes turned to the door. My eyes followed as well and all I saw was an empty doorframe. I frowned, he really doesn't miss me.

Two familiarly cold hands covered my eyes. I gasped in surprise and tried to move my head. "Silly Bella." His smooth musical and velvety voice murmured in my ear, his cool intoxicating breath making me weak. Only one person could do this to me.

"Edward." I whispered and the hands were removed from my eyes. His hands caressed my cheek, holding my cheek gently but firmly keeping my brown eyes on his topaz ones. His topaz eyes glimmering with happiness but held traces of remorse and regret. He regrets coming here and is happy to see me depressed.

I tried to look away from his eyes but his hand held me in place. "Bella." He said a small smile on his face. Tears began to fill my eyes as I tried my hardest to keep them in. Edward noticed and asked seemingly concerned, "Are you okay?"

"No," I said. He frowned. "Why did you come back?" I asked, my burning curiosity getting the better of me.

"Because I still love you," he said simply. The tears couldn't stay in anymore, they streamed down my face and Edward's fingers brushed them away. I pushed myself away from Edward's hands, shifting further away from him. He put his hands down, hurt.

"No, you don't love me! You told me you didn't and that's why you left! Damn it stop lying to me!" I screamed through my sobs that wracked my body. I heard soft gasps somewhere but ignored them.

Edward's face cringed in pain as he shut his eyes. "I had to be a good actor. How could you believe the lie and not the truth!" he asked.

"What!? You admit it! You did lie to me every single day!"

"No, Bella. I left to protect you; my family and I were endangering you by staying in Forks. I had to tell you that I didn't love you! I thought that it would take days maybe weeks to convince you to let me go but it didn't," he paused to look at me.

"It hurt me so much to stay away from you everyday, every moment, every second, I almost came back to Forks but I didn't. I thought you would move on and be happy even though I would be in pain for the rest of eternity. I just thought I did what was right!" Edward sobbed into his hands. He looked into my eyes and I got lost again. Raw emotion emitting from his eyes, pure love radiating.

"So you're saying you love me and you thought leaving was the right thing." He nodded hesitantly, waiting for an outburst.

"So you love me?" I asked again. He nodded. I couldn't be sure if he was telling the truth or not.

"Say it to me." I whispered.

"I love you with all of my being Bella. If you disappeared from this world I would kill myself just so I could be with you. You are the moon to my dark night, before you came into my life there was nothing, just darkness and I wished for each day to come and go. But then you came into my life and everything lit up, I saw the world differently and I couldn't wait for the next day to begin and I wished that time would slow. So what I'm trying to say is that you are the most important thing in my life, I couldn't stop loving you even if I tried."

Tears filled my eyes as I listened to him finish. He always described everything perfectly and this time was no different. His eyes and his voice were filled with so much love he couldn't be lying. His cold fingers brushed my tears away.

I smiled. "I love you Edward. I could never describe my feelings for as beautifully as you did."

"And I love you none the less." He replied. He broke out into a full blown grin and he brought his lips to mine slowly. A shock flowed through me like the first time we touched. I felt complete again as our lips moved together in sync. The kiss was soft and sweet, portraying the love we felt for each other. He broke away taking in unneeded breaths, the icy coolness of his lips lingering on mine.

"FINALLY!" Alice exclaimed as she ran back in, hugging me fiercely again. "Maybe he'll stop moping around the house and actually do something so we don't have to shove blood down his throat."

I scrunched my face in confusion. "What?" I asked.

"Oh, well when we left against all of our wills, Edward wouldn't do anything but sit around the house in his room on his couch and stare off into space thinking only about you. We had to get blood for him. He wouldn't touch his piano or his massive music collection. Jasper couldn't stand to be near the house for long periods of time. So Edward was like a statue emitting painful emotions." Alice said. I stared at her that sounded just like what I went through.

"OH YEAH! AND YOU TOLD HER YOU DIDN'T LOVE HER! YOU BIG DUMB DOLT! WHY ON EARTH DID YOU DO THAT? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD THAT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST IDIOTIC THING YOU'VE DONE IN YOUR EXISTENCE!" Alice shrieked at Edward.

"Yes, Alice I heard you the first 100 times you told me in my head." Edward said exasperatedly.

I smiled and put my head on his shoulder. He moved me onto his lap and kissed my head wrapping his arms around my waist pulling me closer to his cold body.

He sniffed my hair, "You have no idea how much I missed this." he murmured into my hair while Emmett and Jasper played on their PS3 from wherever they got it from and Alice and Rose inspected my wardrobe, none of which I bought myself.

"Missed what?" I asked innocently turning around loosening his arms.

"You of course. Everything about you. Your warmth," he rewrapped his arms around me in a tender embrace.

"Your heartbeat," he placed a hand over my heart.

"Your beautiful blush," he brushed his other hand on my cheek causing me to blush as he smiled crookedly.

"But most importantly just your personality, how you're different from everyone else, I can never guess what you might say or do next or what you might trip on next." he chuckled.

I pouted and turned away from him.

He took my face into his hands and turned my face towards him. I was still pouting. He put his forehead to mine, making our noses touch, "Am I forgiven?" he asked.

I tried not to smile at him, it was so difficult not to, I couldn't be mad at him even if I wanted to.

"I'll take that as a yes." he said. He kissed my cheek, each time moving closer and closer to my lips. He kissed the sides of my lips as they began to upturn into a smile. He brought his lips to mine at last.

This kiss was the same as the other, soft, gentle and loving. I wrapped my arms around his neck and entangled my fingers in his hair making the kiss deeper and for once he didn't pull away. He placed a hand on the small of my back pressing myself to him, making sure there was no space between us.

I began to feel lightheaded, in and out Bella, in and out. We pulled away from each other, both of us panting.

I let my head fall back onto his shoulder and felt the concert's exhaustion setting in. "Go to sleep my Bella." Edward whispered into my ear and succumbed into the darkness I call sleep in the arms of my angel, wishing and hoping this wasn't a dream, although it felt too good to be true.

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Lauren