A/N: Hey everyone. Thanks again for all the support. I will post the next and last chapter tomorrow, before I leave! Thanks so much for everything! Enjoy.

Chapter 9

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

One week later Alice and I both packed our suitcases and took off to the airport. An hour later we were on our plane, the flight would take pretty long. We'd arrive in the morning. I set my head to rest against Alice's shoulder who wrapped one arm around me. I felt complete and content. My eyes closed and Alice's fingers toyed with my hair, which made me fall asleep even sooner.

When I woke up my face was buried in Alice's neck. I breathed in and her delicious scent overwhelmed me. She was just so… perfect. She still had her arm around me and as soon as I opened my eyes and sat up she smiled at me.

"Good morning, sleepyhead," she whispered, her lips touched my forehead and lingered for a second. I enjoyed every moment of her touch, of her presence.

"Hey," my voice sounded terrible, it always did when I had just woken up. I hated it. "Are we almost there yet?"

"Just a few hours… You could sleep some more if you'd like?" She smiled at me and I felt my knees go weak, good thing I was sitting. I shook my head, no I had wasted enough time sleeping as it was.

"Alice?"

"Yes?"

"What have you planned for us?" A mischievous grin appeared on her face and I felt a knot in my stomach. This was going to be… very unpleasant.

"I thought, since we arrive in Dublin, we could do some shopping there?" She pouted and looked at me with her wide, cute, puppy-eyes. Ah come on! This was so unfair!

"Alice! That's so unfair! You know I can't resist you if you do that!" she smiled and nodded.

"Yeah I know, that's why I do it," I smacked her arm, of course she wouldn't feel it but still. She softly rubbed the place I hit her and mouthed an 'ouch' just to make me smile, and it worked. Of course.

"So? Is that a yes?" she asked. I rolled my eyes and nodded. "I feel like you won't take no for an answer anyway, and a fight with you is one I'll definitely lose." Alice laughed at my words, earning some annoyed looks by the other people on the plane.

We had just arrived at the hotel and Alice had given me some time to shower, she was unpacking our suitcases. In my eyes that was a very useless thing to do as we would leave this place in two days time, but she insisted. Bragging about being able to pack in minutes time. Rolling my eyes I disappeared into the bathroom. Ten minutes later I felt clean enough and got out of the shower in my underwear. As I was dressing myself I could feel Alice's eyes on me and it turned me on, slightly. I knew that she probably wasn't looking at me in that way and so I tried to ignore the feeling I got in my lower abdomen. When I was fully dressed Alice all but dragged me out of the hotel room and into the city. We walked for hours, occasionally Alice would ask me if I was hungry or she'd drag me into a store because she saw something to her liking. All the while she held my hand, which got us some weird looks from the other people but neither of us cared. Maybe Alice didn't even notice, she didn't say anything about it. I felt comfortable holding her hand, I loved the feeling of her skin on mine. As dinnertime arrived we chose a restaurant where I could eat something.

"Are you sure I can't get you anything, miss?" the waiter asked Alice with his cute Irish accent. This was probably the main reason people like this country, the accent of the locals. I instantly fell in love with it and I could imagine other people doing so, too.

"Yes, I'm good," Alice smiled sweetly at him and I felt jealous. The boy seemed overwhelmed by hear beauty and I knew how he felt. A second later Alice turned her attention back to me, I was eating something I couldn't remember the name of, but it tasted pretty good. However, I got a little nervous under Alice's gaze. I knew she found it fascinating to watch me do 'human things' as she called them, but it was still making me nervous. Fifteen minutes later I had finished my meal and Alice ordered a dessert which she thought looked good. She visibly enjoyed picking my food and I enjoyed the fact that she liked doing so. I ate my dessert in silence and when I was done Alice paid the bill and we got out.

"You didn't have to do that, you know?"

"Do what?"

"Pay for my food," she knew how I hated her paying for everything, but once again, she seemed to enjoyed it and so I let her.

"Oh, I know. I just like buying you things, dinner included," she grabbed my hand again and we walked back to our hotel. When we got back into our room I all but collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep. Well, almost asleep. I was exhausted but knew I couldn't fall asleep unless I had some cold arms holding me.

"Alice!" I whined. Seconds later I felt her slip into bed behind me.

"You should take off your clothes," she whispered in my ear. Goosebumps made themselves known over my whole body and I nodded slightly. She'd never forgive me if I abused my clothes like that and so I got out of my bed and stripped till my underwear. I quickly got back into bed and Alice wrapped her arms around me. I leaned my head to rest on her chest and fell asleep as her scent washed over me.

Halfway during the night I woke up, the first thing I noticed was that Alice wasn't there. Just as I was about to freak out I saw a note on her pillow.

Sweet Bella,

Please don't freak out, I got hungry so I went to see if there was anything edible here in Ireland. I'll be back as soon as I can. Just stay in bed and keep my spot warm for me.

Love,
Alice

The note made me smile and stayed in bed. About half an hour later Alice got back, she had a small drop of blood in the corner of her mouth and it made me laugh. This was actually the first time she'd been so reckless and hadn't made sure she was absolutely clean before she got to me.

"What?" she said, as she got back into bed too. I wiped the drop of blood away and showed it to her. It made her smile and her cold tongue quickly licked the drop off my finger. This made me smile again and she snuggled into me.

"I'm sorry I had to go, I didn't want to leave you alone," she whispered. I hugged her tightly and told her it was okay. When our eyes locked neither of us looked away, her eyes got slightly darker and I realized this wasn't the time to make her feel uncomfortable. Therefore I turned around and soon fell asleep again.

We stayed in Dublin for two days, after that we moved on to a city called Cork. We got into a rented car and Alice drove us all the way there. I soon understood her when she said "everyone should see Ireland at least once in their lives." Because it was absolutely beautiful. I kept looking outside and sometimes was distracted by Alice's giggles.

"What's so funny?" I asked, while shifting my attention to her.

"You are. You look like this is the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen," she waved her hand to show she was talking about this country.

"It is, well, it's the second most gorgeous thing," I said, I felt a blush creep onto my cheeks. Alice didn't ask me about my first, for which I was grateful, because I wouldn't want to ruin everything, not now that everything was so perfect. Alice had packed some food for me this morning and around noon she stopped the car. Got out a blanket and spread it on the ground somewhere in the wilderness.

"I thought you'd be hungry and we could take a little break so you could eat," she smiled and I hugged her.

"That's sweet of you," I mumbled. She smiled and we both sat down on the blanket. I sniffed the air and Alice made a funny face at my doing so.

"What is it?" she asked.

"It smells so nice here! So, pure," she agreed and lay down while I was eating some sandwiches. When I was finished I lay down next to her. We both turned our heads to each other and I watched her face. My thoughts drifted off and I thought about everything Alice and I had been through, every moment we'd spent together. She had come back after I jumped off the cliff. She had been there for me when Edward had cheated on me. She always managed to make me feel happy and she always got me to laugh. She was just a walking miracle.

"What's the first?" her beautiful voice interrupted my thoughts.

"What?"

"You said this," she waved her hand around again, "was the second most gorgeous thing you've seen in your life, what's the first?" I blushed. Should I tell her? Or not? Yes, I should.

"You've already seen my answer haven't you?" I asked her, I had turned around now, I couldn't face her as she would get angry with me, maybe even disgusted.

"I want you to say it, Bella," she said. Half a second later she was on my other side, facing me. I closed my eyes and a tear ran down my face, her small fingers captured it.

"It's… you," I mumbled. At that moment I didn't think my face could get any more red.