"WAHHHHH SHININGSTARRRRRRR!!! WHYYYY DIDN'T YOU UPDATE LAST WEEK?!??!?!"

Yes, I realize this is probably what some of you are thinking...possibly even saying out loud. And if you cried, I extend a personal apology to you.

Answer: I didn't update because I only got 4 reviews. : ( Me not happy. I do appreciate the people who CONTINUOUSLY review my stories. Those lovely fictioneers make my fanfiction world go round! (sweetsurprise26, motherduckatschool, Rose N Valerie, and Dark Angel of Pain and Chaos)

(P.S. Rose N Valerie, this Sterling Knight character is trés cute. haha!)

When I don't get 5 reviews, I won't update that week. Maybe you think it's mean of me to say, but it's all I'm asking for. Is it THAT much extra effort to hit that "Review" button and type in "I (insert adjective) your story! I think it was (insert adjective)!!! Love (insert your name)."

Anyways, as always, THIS IS MY ORIGINAL PLOT. STEPHENIE MEYER OWNS ALL TWILIGHT RELATED CHARACTERS...I don't. *tear*

Chapter 11: Romantic Utopia

I'd fallen back asleep, but when I woke up again he wasn't in the bed. I sighed and decided to lay there for a few more minutes; the bed was so warm and comforting.

As I felt I was about to fall asleep again, I heard him walk into the room. It felt like a dream, but he came over to the bed and kneeled over me, "Bella, are you awake yet?"

I sighed sleepily and turned my head over.

"Isabella…" He cooed and kissed my exposed collar bone. Chills ran down my back onto my legs.

"Bella, wake up sweetheart." You could hear the smile in his voice. I shut my eyes harder and rolled onto my side; he laughed and pulled my shirt down over my shoulder, which he began to kiss.

"If you don't wake up, I'm going to have to keep kissing you." He was laughing as he spoke. I tried not to smile, but he saw it, "You little bugger, wake up!"

He pushed his hands up on my sides and I squealed, "No!!!" He burst out laughing and pulled me up into a hug.

He'd pulled me up and rolled me over himself and then back onto the bed on his side, "Do you know what time it is?"

"No, but would you be so kind as to tell me?" I laughed and put my arms around his neck.

"It's almost twelve sweetheart, are you planning on sleeping all day?" He smiled and started kissing my neck.

"It's that late? I've never slept that late in my life," I huffed and let my arms fall back onto the bed.

His hands pushed my arms above my head and he started kissing my neck. "Edward, come on!" I giggled and tried to get off the bed.

He held my legs on the bed by putting his on the outside of mine, "Lay still and it'll be over slower." I grinned at him and stopped moving. His eyebrow rose slightly and a beautiful smile ran across his lips.

"There's one of those smiles I'm talking about." I laughed softly.

"Really now? I'll have to try and remember that." He let go of my arms and got up.

"Hey!" I cried, "I didn't say you could get up!"

"You weren't in a position to tell me that." He laughed and pulled some socks on. "Hurry up and get ready, if we're going to do any traveling today, we need to get going pretty soon."

"Oh fine…" I huffed and dragged my feet across the floor.

When I'd reached the door, he flipped me around and pushed me up against the door in a mind-numbing kiss. I felt blind for a few moments and couldn't tell if my eyes were open or not. He continued kissing me and pushed against me. My hands were strung up in his hair, which felt silky smooth.

I didn't know how much time went by, but when he stopped kissing me, my blood was racing through my veins and he was grinning like an idiot, "Don't frown like that, it makes me sad."

"All of that was for a frown?" I smiled rather girlishly and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"Now you're giving me that smile that renders me powerless." He sighed and placed his hands on my upper back.

"Does that mean we can have another delay?" I stood up on my toes to be a little closer to his lips.

He groaned quietly and hugged me close, "Like I said…your smile gives you control over me…So I guess if you wanted to, I couldn't say no."

"You want to get going though, don't you?" I laughed.

"I want to do what you want to do." He frowned and sighed.

"Oh, if I can't pout, you can't!" I cried and hugged him back.

He just laughed and squeezed me, "Go get ready and meet me in the middle in twenty minutes, is that enough?"

"More than enough." I chuckled and slid out the door.

I took a shower without washing my hair and changed my clothes after that. I pulled half of my hair up and put on a bit of mascara; I wanted to try and look a little prettier for him…he'd tell me I looked fine in my natural state. I laughed to myself as I pulled on a forest green tank top and some black gaucho pants. When I came out into the middle room, he was sitting on the couch. I waited for him to notice me and he did, quickly.

His eyes lit up and he immediately stood up, "Oh you've got to stop doing that."

"Doing what?!" I scoffed; I hadn't been smiling…had I?

"You look so beautiful in anything you wear." He laughed and walked over to me.

"I have to wear something!" I hugged him as he approached me.

"Not when we're by ourselves." He laughed as I smacked his head.

Once we were in the car with our map, he turned towards me and motioned for me to come closer. I smiled and leaned in thinking he wanted to whisper something in my ear. He grabbed my chin and turned it to kiss me, "Can we just keep traveling like this? I don't want to go back home and not be able to spend this much time with you."

I blushed but he wouldn't let go of my chin, "I wish we could too…but I have a life back there and a job… unfortunately." He sighed and let his head fall onto my shoulder.

I coaxed him into finally starting the car and he lightened up a bit once he had. "I'm sorry about that…my thoughts are just so consumed with you…this has been the best week of my life."

I smiled, "I'd have to say the same. Most of my thoughts have been about you since we met." He laughed adoringly and grabbed my hand to kiss it.

"You're making it very hard to focus on driving." He laughed loudly and held my hand against his cheek.

"Would you rather me drive? I haven't driven since we started on this trip." I grinned and squeezed his hand.

"No, I do actually like driving. It takes some getting used to though…it's the complete opposite from London you know." He kept smiling at me.

"Yeah…I think I'd have a hard time suddenly switching to driving on the wrong side of the car on the wrong side of the road." I shook my head, it was a little mind-boggling.

"You probably wouldn't like living in London either…rainy all the time and just as crowded as California." He shrugged.

"I'm sure I'd like it if you showed it to me." I stretched out my back and he took notice of it.

After a couple hours of driving, we were both overjoyed to get out of his car. We had some pictures left on two of the cameras so we used those to take photos of each other standing in four states at the same time. There were a lot of people there even though it wasn't summer yet; I guess people took time off all year around. I guess I was just surprised to see so many kids there.

"I think we should make a goal to try and kiss in every state." He grinned at me as we looked around at the other people taking pictures.

"That would take a long time…even if we only went to one state every day…that'd almost be two full months." I added.

"Not if we went to two or three states every day. It might only take…two or three weeks." He leaned down and kissed me.

"I don't know if I'd want to travel around that much…and it's a lot of gas money." I laughed.

"Maybe it is a bit unrealistic to do in so short a time. It should be something to do over a lifetime." He winked at me and pulled me with him by my hand.

"Where are we going?" I laughed as he led me off of the pavement out into the dusty desert.

"I just wanted to walk around with you…I'm enjoying every moment with you, it's ridiculous. If only you knew what was going on in my head, you'd probably feel sorry for me." He gave me an embarrassed smile.

"Why? What do you have in your head for me to feel bad about?" I pouted on purpose.

He gave me a kiss and I smiled right away, "Gah, you're gonna think I'm really weird if I say it."

"Are you just so madly in love with me that your well being depends on how I am?" I guessed, it was very much how I was feeling.

"Yes…how did you know that?" He grinned.

I pointed at myself.

"You feel that way too?" He laughed.

I nodded.

"We have a problem then…if we're both depending on each other and acting the way each other acts… well then what if one of us is sad?" He inquired.

"If we're both happy, why would either of us be sad?" I countered.

"Excellent point." He pulled me into a comfortable hug.

We walked around in the dust, but not too far away. This day was too perfect to be real, but after nearly bruising my arm from pinching it so many times I was wondering how this could be happening. Maybe it was because we were in such an ideal position for perfection to settle upon us. We were away from the things that made us feel held down and depressed; now we were free to choose anything we wanted to do. We were together somewhere and we didn't have to worry about anything in particular.

At one point, he'd led me around a gargantuan boulder to where no one could see us. "I don't know why…but when I'm around you I just want to say exactly what's on my mind. The only problem is that it doesn't sound weird to me." He laughed and held my hands in his.

"Go ahead and say it then. You've already asked me if I wanted to sleep in your bed with you." I laughed quietly.

I swear he blushed, but it was very warm out here.

"I'm so attracted to you right now. I know you want to get to know me better before we get all the way involved with each other…but you make me want you so badly." He huffed and put his hands on the rock wall behind me on either side of my shoulders.

I couldn't help but to laugh a little bit, "It's crazy how alike we are…I'm feeling much the same way…I guess the only difference is that I'm just enjoying being with you right now. Everything about today has been so incredibly perfect."

He stood up and let his hands fall to his sides, "That reminds me…I've been thinking about this since yesterday…but…I don't want this relationship to stop being this way when we get back to California. Everything is so beautiful with you here and I don't want it change…"

I nodded, "We're still on the same wavelength. I thought about that earlier and now that I'm thinking about it with you thinking about it…I'm thinking it will be good for us to have time apart…if we're together all the time like we are now…don't you think this would begin to deteriorate?"

"I want to say no…my head is screaming at me to say no. My heart just doesn't know if it can listen really. I want to say I don't think it would, but I don't know. When we were just-"

"You know what?" I interrupted, "Let's not talk about it now. We'll worry about it later when we get to it."

He nodded and smiled, "Ever the wise woman."

After we got back to our hotel room, I didn't want anything to distract my attention from him. "Let's go to my room. I just want to talk to you." He held my hands softly in his. "Lead the way," I smiled.

Once we were sitting on his bed, he lied down and shut his eyes, "Mind if I be completely honest with you?"

"No, go ahead." I responded quietly.

"...Why don't we move in together? It will be almost pointless to have two separate apartments. We're going to try and be together every minute we can." He sighed and held my hand tightly.

"It will be good to have our own separate spaces…we have two different rooms here," I reminded him.

"But ever since yesterday…we've only been away from each other to be in the bathroom or change clothes or something." He pointed out.

"Yes, but what if something happens and we end up wishing we had our own places to stay?" I argued.

"Maybe…I just don't want to be away from you. Now that I have you I don't want to let you away from me." He pouted and looked up at me.

"All right, sell your apartment then," I was going to try and make a point with this.

"Really? You mean it?" His eyes grew bright.

"No, wait, stop. You mean you'd sell it? Just like that? I thought you'd argue and tell me I should sell mine." I huffed.

"Bella I don't care where I am, I haven't felt at home here since I was in your apartment." He sat up and gave me a warm hug.

"Stop being so freaking sweet." I laughed.

"Isabella…" He whispered after we'd been lying there for a while, "would you be completely scared if I told you I loved you?"

I turned my head over and stared into his eyes, "Really?"

He hesitated but nodded, "Yes. I tried not to at first because I was convincing myself you didn't like me back…but I didn't want to fight it and when I succumbed to the feeling…god Bella it was like flood gates were opening. I was so relieved and I felt so happy." He leaned over me and kissed me with his hands on my jaw.

I'd felt the same thing, just different words to describe it. I managed to push him back onto the bed and I kissed him for the first time, "I tried to tell myself I didn't even have feelings for you…I was trying so hard not to, but yesterday it was too much to hold back."

He laughed quietly and just looked at me, "How can someone so perfect exist?"

"Oh geez Edward, don't say that." I laughed and let my head fall against his shoulder.

"You're perfect for me; can I say it that way?" He kissed the side of my neck which made me recoil and shiver.

"I suppose so."

THE END.

hahahaha, no not really. That's not the end of the story, just the chapter. XDDD I'm such a jokester.

So, this chapter still has that darned tension that I'm too good at for my own good (and perhaps for yours as well...), but less of a dramatic ending. Although I wrote this months and months ago, I figured that I needed to give any potential readers a break from all of the sudden endings. This one is a little softer, but still has a little bit of mystery. Like, oh my gawsh, what's going to happen next? I think you guys will like the next chapter. *hinthintwinkwink*

So if you'd like for me to post the next chapter by the weekend, I'd like to get 10 reviews. So that leaves you guys 3 days or so to do that. I know there are more people reading this than reviewing.

BONUS: If I get over 15 reviews (before the weekend) I'll post the next 2 chapters. OH SNAP!!!

*ShiningStarr*