First I want to say thanks so much for reading the story. Also, I want to thank everyone for the reviews on both of my stories. They inspire me to write faster, even though I also write because I love it. And, I see many of you have added me to their favorite stories list. Please review, too. I'd love to see what you have to say.

Also, it looks like Edward and Bella are getting a little closer in their own way. And, I just can't wait to see what the guys are planning for tonight. I don't think it will be the Speedo clad men that Bella is day dreaming of, but maybe she can get Edward to wear it later. What is up with her lately?

I also want to remind everyone that I do not own SM or her characters. But I do love to create new adventures for them. So, here we go!

The house was dark when we got back from picking up the uniforms. "What are those boys up to?" Alice pondered out loud. "Probably up to no good." Rose added. "Come on, let's find out what they are planning for us." I said as I hurried toward the door. "Look who's all excited." Rose teased making Alice giggle. "Whatever, Rose, you know you want to be up all in Emmett's shit. And, Alice? You can't stay apart from Jasper for two seconds before whining about missing him." I scolded them both. "Touche." They said in unison. "Jinks, you owe me a coke!" Rose said to Alice before she could get it out. "Not fair." Alice pouted. "God, girls. Playtime's over. Let's…..go." I grunted as I tugged them both by the forearms towards the door.

"Hello…..we're back!" I yelled still seeing no one in sight. "Hello?" I repeated. Just then I heard shuffling towards the garage. Then I heard hushed tones. "I think they're in the garage." I whispered to the girls looking back at them as I walked forward. I quickly turned around only to find myself knocked back onto my ass by Jasper. "I'm so sorry, Bella!" He said as he reached to help me up. "Hey, what are you doing to my girl?" Edward came up behind him with a trailing Emmett. "Dark doesn't help the uncoordinated." I let out an embarrassed giggle. "Yeah, where are the lights?" Alice asked them with her hands on her hips. "Bella could have broken something!"

"Sorry about that. We were just getting the car loaded for our trip!" Emmett belted out. He appeared to be having a hard time containing himself. "I still can't believe you are calling that monstrous thing a car, Emmett." I laughed, and then I realized what he had said. "Trip?" I asked him. "Yeah…it's a surprise, right Emmett?" Edward added. "Yeah, you'll see soon enough. We'd better get on the road before it gets too late. You know, I missed you while you were gone." He gave me that crooked smile that sent shivers all the way through me. "I missed you, too." I breathed. "Break it up, you two love birds, let's go!" Emmett was practically bouncing as we all headed toward the 'car'.

The ride to our secret destination went by pretty fast with Emmett choosing songs on the radio that we could sing too. "Oh wait, wait, I love this one! It's so angry, it's cool!" It was some all girl punk band where the girls were yelling unintelligible words. I started to bang my head up and down and pretend to know some of the words. "Bella. You continue to surprise me with your taste in music." Alice laughed as she joined in. Soon, we were all banging our heads up and down to the racing beat.

"We are here!" Emmett yelled. "Oh my God, this is so beautiful!" I exclaimed. I was so taken aback by the scenery. Even with the sun going down, it was still breathtaking. We were at the ocean near the cliffs. There was a huge pier made out of the earth that reached out over the ocean where people probably fished. But we were the only ones there, and it was so perfect. There were just so many words to describe where we were, I was simply amazed. I stood there for a moment just gazing upon the beauty in front of me.

"I take it you approve." Edward came up behind me and nibbled on my earlobe. "Come and join us on the rocks. We brought food and drinks." He said as his breath still blew in my ear. "If you don't get away from my ear, I may just have you for dinner, right here, right now, Mr. Cullen." I turned to face him to show him that my eyes were not kidding.

"Bella! Get over here! We have food and alcohol!" Alice interrupted our little game holding up a bottle of wine and a bag of something. "It smells like your favorite! Italian!" She continued. How does she know these things?

When I walked over to the huge display that was set up before me, I could see that the guys had really planned this out. They covered everything from food and drinks to blankets and sweatshirts if we caught a chill. "Oh you guys are too sweet. This is great. Where's the food I am so hungry." I laughed as Edward dished up my plate of food. "Here, sweetie. We don't want you to starve now, do we?" He joked. "Oh, this is so good, and it's still warm? How did you…." I started to ask, quite surprised. "Nah uh uh. That's our secret, Bella." Emmett smiled as he gave Rose her plate.

"And you guys are serving us, too? You are so going to get thanked later for this, Jazzie." Alice cooed to Jasper as she took her food from him. "And I won't let you forget it, baby." Jasper was grinning from ear to ear as he kissed her on the nose. They were too cute for words.

"This is the best place you guys could have picked. I say that we make it official that this will be our special place." I stated. "It's actually a public beach, Bella…" Edward tried to make me aware. "I don't care. We will just tell them that we have it reserved….forever." I put my empty plate down in front of me. "I can't believe I ate the whole thing. I think I may burst." I said as I rubbed my belly. "Allow me." Edward took my hand as he started to rub my stomach with the other. "Does that feel better, Love?" He kissed my forehead.

"Please stop. I am still eating." Emmett smiled with a mouth full of food. "Besides, I am making friends with the seagulls, and I don't want you to scare them. They like the garlic bread." He kept throwing bread over to the birds, and more and kept landing to get some. "You're feeding them too close to us, Emmett. They are going to get mad and attack us when you run out." Alice warned as we girls were packing of the food just in case we had to make a run for it. "No they aren't. They love me. I'm Bird's Best Friend." Emmett was such a goof. And he was also very wrong. Because, when he ran out of bread, the seagulls waddled closer to each us searching out any crumbs that we may have left. And when they realized that everything was gone or put away? They started squawking something fierce.

Before we knew it, we are all running down the beach with a Flock of Seagulls chasing us. "Never..bet..against..Alice!" I panted out while running as fast as I could. Then I almost tripped over a piece of driftwood, but Edward grabbed me by the arm and pulled me along. "What is in your pocket, Emmett!" Rose yelled as she sprinted next to him. "Is that garlic bread?" She questioned him. "It is! Throw it to those devil birds!" She demanded. "Ah, Rose, I was saving it for later. I'm gonna get hungry again." He whined. "Do it, Emmett! And I will let you give me a massage later." Rose was good at getting what she wanted. "Done!" He said as he threw the rest of his bread out behind us. And it actually worked. The birds stopped and started to peck at the delicious morsels.

We kept running until we got to higher ground. I don't know what higher ground had anything to do with being safe from birds. I always thought that it kept us safe from flooding, but that's what the guys wanted to do. So, we followed. "Hey, are those people over there, and is that a bonfire?" I asked as I saw the orange glow a little further down the beach. "Let's go see." Alice said as she started to run over pulling Jasper behind her. "Wait for us!" Emmett yelled. "I don't want to get caught by those evil birds again!"

I started to get up when Edward pulled me closer against him. "Stay. Enjoy the moment with me?" He asked. He looked so adorable sitting there staring at me with his puppy dog eyes. "How could I resist?" I said back to him. "I have an idea." He said looking at me with hooded eyes. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I said as I brought my face toward his. "If your thinking tickle fight then yes you are!" He dove at me and pushed me gently to the blanketed ground. "Hey, no fair!" I tried to yell through the giggles that were erupting through me. "You are so going to pay for this."

And then I somehow rocked my way to my side and grabbed his elbows. I was able to pull him down and straddle him. "I'm not ticklish, so you are wasting your energy." He laughed. "Oh yeah? I'll find the spot." I shot back as I moved my fingers in a tickling motion over his chest and up and down his sides. "See, I told you." He smiled.

"I will find it. Everybody has at least one tickle spot." And then I felt around his neck area. When I hit the spot that was in between his should and neck, he started to squirm, and burst out laughing. "I told you so!" I yelled in delight. My legs had him locked in a death grip so he couldn't get up, and I tickled him until he had tears in his eyes. He finally realized that he could touch me almost anywhere and find a ticklish spot, and that caused me to lose my grip on him, of course. In no time he had me on my back again. "I am the tickle master, say it, call me the master!" He went into a fit of laughter while continuing to tickle me mercilessly.

"Ok, ok, you are the master, now stop please! You're gonna make me pee my pants!" I roared. "Ok, since you said please…and called me Master." He helped me get back up in a sitting position. "Guess what I was able to smuggle from our picnic earlier." He looked like he was up to no good. "I got the last bottle of wine." He smiled as he pulled out a bottle and two plastic wine glasses from under the blanket that was folded up next to him. "Oh, really. Are you trying to get me drunk, Mr. Cullen?" I teased. "Well if you call sitting here enjoying time with your girl friend while we polish off an entire bottle of wine while the rest of the group are elsewhere oblivious to what we are doing, then yes." He poured the wine and gave me my 'glass.'

"Let's toast to something." I said before Edward could take a drink. "Ok, allow me." He raised his glass, and I did the same. "To, my first and forever only love, Bella. May you never tire of me and always love me at least half as much as I love you…" Edward stopped when I frowned at him. "What?" He actually didn't know why I was frowning. "That won't happen Edward. I will never tire of you, and I will most certainly love you as much if not more than you love me. If something happens to you, I don't know what I'll do…." I started to get tears in my eyes. "It's ok, Bella. Shh Shh." He wiped my tears. "Nothing will happen to me, or us." He smiled at me. "Cheers?" He looked at me with his glass raised again. "Cheers." I smiled as I touched my glass against his.

"Are you sure it's all gone?" I slurred as I tipped the bottle upside down to let the drips fall into my mouth. "Yeah, I'm sure." Edward laughed at me and took the bottle from my hands. "Thanks. Now I have my hands free to do this." I swayed a little as I put my hands on his head and grabbed his hair. "Bella, wait….." He started to say as I interrupted. "No more waiting." And I shoved my tongue into his mouth. "He succumbed to my advances and started to run his fingers through my hair earning a moan from my lips. "Edward." I panted. "Yeah?" He answered still kissing me. "I'm hot." I said still panting in his mouth. "Me, too, baby, me too." He was still very involved in the kiss.

He gently started to push me down onto the blanket while moving his lips down my neck. He was undoubtedly relaxed from the wine just as I was. "Edward, God…." I breathed. "So which is it, Edward or God?" I felt his lips curve into a smile as he pulled my neckline on my shirt down so he could lick my collar bone. "Remember what I told you. No God, just me." He stopped and gave a huge smile, showing all of his teeth. Then he looked almost evil as he pulled his shirt off and then mine and started to attack my belly button. "Ahhh, that tickles!" I broke out into laughter. "Perfect. A new game. How many places can I find on Bella that are ticklish without using my hands?" He chuckled wickedly.

Then he stopped for a moment and stared at my stomach like he was in a daze. Suddenly, I felt my stomach start to churn. I was starting to feel him rejecting me all over again. My pulse quickened making my stomach jump. That brought Edward out of whatever world he was in, and he shook his head to get rid of what ever thoughts he had been thinking. "What's wrong?" I asked weakly, not really wanting to know the answer.

"It's Alice. They're coming back." He breathed. "I was just so happy here with you, and I didn't want it to end." He handed me my shirt as he put his on. Dang! Then he looked at me and noticed the tears in my eyes that were glistening in the moon light. "Bella, why are you crying?" He looked so alarmed. "I just thought that you were…" I did want to say it. I felt so stupid now. "You thought that I wanted to stop…again, didn't you?" He finished for me.

"Yes." I squeaked out as I hid my face in my hands. "I'm sorry?" I said as I saw his face look so pained by what I had mistakenly said. Then he looked almost angry as he raised his voice at me. "No! Bella. I am the one that is sorry! Don't apologize for feeling!" He grabbed my shoulders and looked right into my eyes.

I jumped a little at his aggressiveness, and then felt bad for doing it. I was with the love of my life. He would never hurt me. "But, why are you sorry?" I asked quietly, and then continued. "You have nothing….."

"Yes, I do, Bella. Remember the first time we were together after the hot tub. We were drinking, and I carried you to my room having full intention on going as far as you wanted to go. Then I hurt you so badly by rejecting you, and telling you that you were drunk." He stopped when he saw my face turn into one on anguish. He kissed me on the forehead and smiled. I smiled back knowing he wasn't trying to hurt me.

"I lied to you, Bella." He continued with his explanation. "I knew that you were fully aware of what you wanted. It was me who was afraid. You didn't know everything about me yet, and I was afraid I would hurt you by telling you, or you would hurt me by leaving me. But you didn't leave. And you keep opening up the door to my heart and soul. And I keep trying to let you in. But it needs to be opened slowly, so the demons don't all come out at once and….!" He started to raise his voice again, and his chest started to heave again.

"Wait!" I put my hand on his heart. "Stop with the demons, Edward. You are a good person. And thank you…for explaining, but you didn't need to." Even though I was glad he did. I stopped when he started to speak again. "I just don't know what will happen when we go back…I am so afraid that I won't be the same…..that you won't love me anymore." He started to sob lightly. I pulled him to me and let his head rest on my shoulder. "You mean when you and Alice go back to be…..experimented on." I shuttered against him and I knew he felt it. "That won't happen, Edward. I will always love you."

I suddenly felt the urge to protect him. "Listen, Edward. I will be right by your side the whole time. I will not dare let those doctors hurt you or Alice." And then I had a revelation. "In fact, I want them to test me, too. You know, to find out why I have these dreams, and what it all means! Oh my God. I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner!" I was on a self inflicted high now. I didn't even notice Edward digging his fingers into the ground. And then he glared at me. "No! You will not have those…those monsters experiment on you!" He growled. I found myself scooting back away from him, still on my butt. He actually looked like a different person. He was so angry and scary looking. Apparently, he was very angry that I had said that. And he was crawling towards me. And I swore I could hear him still growling under his breath. "No." He whispered. This must have been the 'demons' he was talking about.

"Edward?" Alice came running up. "Edward! Get away from her!" She pushed him away. "I'm so sorry it took me so long. I saw this coming. He's fine. He's just…" Alice tried to apologize for her brother. "We're both so messed up over all of this, and he is so over protective of you." She finished.

"I know. It's ok. He wouldn't hurt me." I stated. "Edward. It's ok. We will be ok." I scooted back over to where Edward was now curled into a ball sobbing on the blanket. I wrapped my arms around him and tried to sooth him with my touch. I started rubbing little circles over his arms, face and back. "I'm…so…sorry." He tried to talk through the sobs. "I can't ever let myself lose control with you." He said softly. "You won't." I kissed his face all over. "You won't."

We were all pretty quiet as we drove back in the dark until Emmett couldn't take the silence anymore. "We missed you guys down by the fire. Some kids were having a party by the water. It was pretty happening. I am sure you would have known some of them." He tried to coax a word from someone. "Yeah, we actually saw Angela and Ben." Rose added. "That's cool." I muttered. Then I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew we were pulling up to the house again.

"I think I'm gonna go home tonight." I spoke out to everyone. "Not so fast." Edward grabbed me by arm, lightly, I might add. "Let me get some clothes, and I will be right back. I am not letting you get away from again." He smirked. "But, what about Charlie?" I called out, but he was already gone upstairs. "He actually called my mom and said he would be working all night." Alice interrupted looking at the note that Esme had left for me. "Give him a chance, Bella. He will work it out with himself and with you. And I can't believe that I didn't think about you going with us. I just know you have something special in that head of yours." Alice tapped her temple.

As I walked across the street with Edward, I started to feel a sense of relief that we were discovering so much about each other, and that we would be alone for the night. These last few days have been so draining. We each took showers to wash the sand off of us, and we were snuggling together in bed. "So, where were we earlier?" I asked him giving him my most sultry look. "You know I love you with all my being, right?" Edward gave me a very wet kiss on my mouth. "But?" I knew what he was going to say. "I don't want to do 'that'" He wave his hands around in the air. "In your father's house. I….respect him, and I want him to trust me…someday." He looked at me waiting for my response. "He trusts you, Edward." I laughed.

"Right, Bella. He trusts me to clean your driveway, or to rake the leaves out of his yard. If he knew who I really was…who was actually dating his daughter? He would call an exorcist." He looked so serious. But when he said the last part, I couldn't contain myself. "An exorcist, Edward? Really?" I burst out laughing. "Yeah! Really!" He couldn't help but to crack a smile.

Then I put on my serious face. "You know, I am doing this with you. I am going to the doctor with you. I will have to talk to Charlie first, and let him know what I am going to do, but he doesn't need to know the EXACT details. And I won't tell him about you and Alice. You both can do that on your own if you like. I will be eighteen soon, so I won't need a signature." I was putting all of my plans into words while he just laid there with me looking at the pillow. "I know." He whispered. "I can't help being worried about you. I would literally die if something happened to you…" He was so emotional about this.

"So would I, Edward. Haven't you heard anything I have been saying to you in the last couple of days? I would kill me if something happened to you, too." I couldn't express it enough to him that his loss would stab me right through my heart. "Can I ask one thing, Mr. Cullen?" I looked in his beautiful eyes. "Yes you can, future Mrs. Cullen." He stopped when he realized what he had just said. "Will you be….someday?" He looked at me with hopeful eyes. I quickly took in a deep breath through my teeth and froze for a moment.

"What?" He asked looking a little hurt by my actions. "Marriage really was never one of my hopes for the future, Edward. But when I picture you in my future, which I do pretty often, I'd say maybe…someday?" I waited with baited breath to see his reaction. I hoped that I didn't just start a huge debate on marriage statistics and divorce rates. He finally responded. "I can live with a 'maybe'…..for now." He smiled and pulled me closer to him under the covers. "So, what were you going to ask me before I went all 'Mr. Plan for the Future' on you?" He whispered in my ear. "A kiss?" I shivered.

"I'm sure I can handle that." He said as lips melted with mine. "Was that ok?" He asked playfully. "Yes, it was perfect." I smiled lazily. "Now, get some sleep, my love. We have a big day tomorrow." He reminded me. "Of course, school and dress shopping with Alice." I groaned. "It won't be that bad." He chuckled. "I'll be there. Well, at least for the school part." He sighed. "Sweet dreams, my Bella." He kissed me again. "Sweet dreams, my Edward." I yawned and nestled myself into his body.