Chapter 10: Finally
BPOV
"Does this mean we have your blessing to get married?" I asked Charlie.
Charlie and Renee exchanged a look before looking back at me and Edward. "Yes, I see now that he truly does love you, and I believe he will not hurt you again." Sighed Charlie. He looked at Edward, "And if you ever do hurt her… Well I don't have to finish that, just promise me you won't. And mean it."
Edward looked at Charlie then looked into my eyes. "I love you."He whispered.
When he pulled away I stared at him in shock. "What are you doing?"
He smiles mischievously. I looked at my parents sitting on the couch. When I looked back, Edward wasn't there. I looked in the direction of the staircase. I saw him come back down with a something in his hands. As he got closer I realized that it was a small box, the kind that a ring would come in. I let out an exasperated sigh. He heard it and looked at me pleadingly. I was unable to refrain from smiling.
"Mr. Swan, Charlie, I love your daughter more than anything. She is everything to me. I want to spend the rest of eternity with her. And, being a vampire, I am able to do that." He went to crouch in front of my parents and whispered something to them that my ears couldn't quite catch. They nodded their heads, both of them looking completely dazed. When he turned back to me he was smiling.
He walked closer to me, "Cooperate with me Bella, please." I smiled and rolled my eyes. He got down on his knee, opening the little, velvet covered box. Inside was a silver ring with I decent sized diamond surrounded by tiny diamonds. It was beautiful. "Isabella Swan, will you be my wife for all eternity?"
I pulled him up by his shirt and kissed him. It wasn't until someone cleared their throat that I remembered there were people in the room. I smiled sheepishly at my parents.
"Well, I guess me and Charlie have a lot to talk about, so we're going to go back to the house."
"Okay mom. I love you guys, bye." I hugged them both before going back to Edward. We watched them walk out the door and drive out to the road.
"So, Bella, we have some more planning to do don't we?" Edward hinted.
"Yes, we do." I smiled as he picked me up ran up the stairs.
"Uumm…guys? I don't think now is the time to be having alone time, the Volturi are on their way." Alice ran gracefully down the stairs with a worried look on her face.
"What?! How long Alice?" asked Edward.
"About 5 hours."
"How do we not know about this sooner?" Asked Carlisle.
"They just made the final decision. They've been traveling for days. They were originally on the way to Mexico."
"Edward, she's still human!" Exclaimed Emmett.
"I know Emmett. But we are getting ready to change her remember?"
I shudder ran through me, not being unnoticed by Edward. I wanted to be changed; I wanted to a vampire and spend the rest of eternity next to the one I loved. But it was be excruciatingly painful to leave my friends behind. Jacob, Angela, Mike, they all ran through my head.
"Bella! This is no time to think of what you're going to leave behind. We had to get you to a safe location." Alice picked me up in her arms. Edward let out a snarl that even startled Alice. "Okay, she's your lover, take her."
He picked me up and ran me up the stairs. "Bella, do you want to be changed now? Or do you want to wait?"
I looked at him in surprise. Was he really serious? I couldn't be changed now! I had to say goodbye. There were so many things that still had to be done. But I could be like him. That's what I really wanted, wasn't it? "Yes", I told myself, "I want this." Now I just had to say it out loud.
He looked at me with troubled urgency. I didn't know what to say.
"Bella! Do you or do you not want this now?"
"I- I want-"I stopped. I looked at myself in the mirror, average looking, too normal. "I want this." I turned and looked at him. "I want to be one of you."
He looked at me for a few moments, several emotions passing over his god-like face. He tentatively walked toward me, rushing when he got closer. He picked me up off my feet and kissed me.