Ok, so here is Chapter 12. I hope you all like it. No lemons in this one. I would like to thank JK5959 for reviewing all of my chapters! Also, thanks to cmse, miss little, twilightfaninillinois, and annabeth swan for your lovely reviews. I really look forward to hearing what everyone thinks of my story and any suggestions are more than welcome.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or its characters. But I wish that I had Edward as mine.

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Shannon aka smmiskimen


Chapter 12

BPOV

This night had been the most perfect night with Edward. He was my husband, I finally got to experience the physical side of our relationship with him, and I knew that Edward would always and forever be the only man I loved and the only man I was ever with.

We laid in our little nest of feathers and silk holding each other as we watched the sun rise on our eternity. We watched the sun start the first day of our forever life and our unending love. We watched it and smiled.

Suddenly, rays of light entered our room and cascaded over our naked bodies and I gasped. The room looked like it was filled with crystals and all of the walls, ceiling, and floors were dancing with little orbs of light. I looked at Edward and saw his skin dazzling. I then realized that my own skin was doing the same.

I raised my hand into the light and watched as millions of little diamonds exploded across it. I was astounded at the beauty of it. It mesmerized me.

I rolled on top of Edward and kissed him passionately, lovingly, delectably. I knew, by the reaction of his body and his manhood, that if I did not stop soon, we would spend an entire day making a new nest in one of the other bedroom. At that moment, I stood up and heard a low growl, then a whimper. Edward was pleading for me to come back in him arms, to lie across his body, to be his again.

I smiled at the new found power I could hold over him.

"Edward, I just want to shower, I want to make myself a little more presentable for you and for hunting. I am thirsty." I watched him try to pout at me with no effect. He realized that I was right and he gave in.

"Ok! Fine!" he grumbled. "But afterwards, I get to have my way with you. Right?"

I giggled and responded "yes my love, AFTERwards."

"Ok, you go start the shower while I try to make some semblance of this mess we made."

"But Edward, we made our love nest"

He couldn't help but laugh at my little joke. "Ok, I won't touch the nest but I am going to pick up the bed posts and our clothes from last night."

"Ok. Come find me in the shower when you are done…"

EPOV

I could be done right then and there if she meant what I hoped she meant. But I knew she needed to feed so I was going to behave.

I started to pick up the splintered bed posts when a blood curdling scream came from the bathroom. I ran in there at full speed to find Bella on the floor shaking violently.

"Bella! BELLA! What happened?" I pulled her into my arms and rocked her gently while trying to calm her down. My phone started ringing from the bedroom but there was no way I was going to leave Bella to answer it.

"Bella? Talk to me please. What happened? I pleaded with her to know what happened.

"My eyes… My face… Me…" Was all Bella would say.

"Bella, what do you mean?"

"My eyes… Me… That wasn't me in the mirror! Who was that Edward? Who was looking back at me?"

I realized that Bella had not seen her reflection since her change. While she was still Bella her eyes went from a deep brown to a bright crimson. Her hair glowed and glistened more than before and looked even more like silk. Her skin had become paler and there were dark purple shadows under her eyes. Her features were more dazzling than ever before and her luscious skin sparkled even out of the sun. She was amazing! Even more amazing than when she was a human. But… she didn't recognize herself. I should have told her. I should have explained to her that she would look a little different.

"Bella. That was you. Bella, it was you in the mirror. Oh Bella, I am so sorry that I didn't show you yourself sooner. I should have warned you that you wouldn't look exactly the same and I should have prepared you for the look of your eyes. Oh Bella I am SO sorry."

I didn't let her go as I explained this to her. I just held her and rocked her gently as she calmed down. I wished that I could have heard her thoughts so I would know what was going through her mind at that moment; so I could know when she was finally calm.

Just then Bella looked up at me and said "I want to look at myself again. Will you stand with me as I do it?"

"Of course Bella, I will not leave your side again. I promise."

We stood up and I looked in the mirror at us. God, Bella was so beautiful! I was so lucky to have her. I watched her eyebrows crease up and her nose wrinkle. Then she turned her head left and right. She slowly took herself in and started to get used to her new 'look.'

While all this had been happening, my phone was steadily ringing over and over. As soon as Bella was completely calm and reassured me of the fact, I went to see who had called.

Alice!

I quickly dialed her number and she answered even before the phone had a chance to ring once.

APOV

I answered my phone immediately. It was Edward calling back. I was so worried.

"Alice? What's wrong? What did you see? What happened?" Edward's questions flowed so quickly that if I had been human I wouldn't have understood what he said.

"Bella. Is Bella ok Edward? I saw her scream, I saw her collapse. Edward, what happened to Bella?" I was so worried about her, all of us were.

"Bella is fine Alice. She just saw her reflection for the first time. She didn't recognize herself" Edward explained. "I calmed her down and told her why her looks had changed."

"Ok." I breathed a big sigh of relief. We were all so worried about how Bella was doing.

"Oh Edward, there is something else… Charlie came by to see if Bella was here."

"What did he say?"

"He asked if we had heard from you two and questioned us all about what happened, about where you guys went. I think he is suspecting something."

"What did you guys tell him?"

"We stuck to the story, that we went camping and that you guys disappeared in the middle of the night. We even wrote a letter from you to us, explaining everything. How you and Bella were running off to get married and how you guys wouldn't come home until you both felt that everyone would accept the decision. I think Bella should call him. He needs to hear that she is ok."

"Ok, thanks Alice, thank you so much. Tell everyone else thank you too please."

"I will Edward. Oh and Edward?"

"Yes…"

"How was the wedding?"

EPOV

I finished my conversation with Alice and went to join Bella in the shower. I needed to hold her against me. I needed to tell her what had happened with Charlie.

I climbed into the shower with Bella and covered her in kisses, which she returned with passion and love.

"Bella, you need to call Charlie and tell him what we did. You need to call him and tell him you are ok and that we won't be back for a while. I can't take you back around him just yet. Not until you can learn to control your urges."

"What is he going to say? He is going to be so mad at me. At us." Bella was so worried.

"You still have to do it Bella. You have to tell him."

"Ok."

We finished in the shower, dressed and I handed Bella the phone.

BPOV

I took the phone from Edwards hand and sat down on the floor. I watched him sit down in behind me and wrap his arms around my waist while I was slowly dialing Charlie's number.

"Hello?" Charlie answered the phone after only one ring and I suddenly couldn't speak. "Hello? Hello? Bella? Is that you?"

"Hi dad" I managed.

"Bella! Where in the hell are you? What in the hell did you think you were doing?!? What in the hell have you done?!?"

"Dad, calm down please…"

"CALM DOWN?!?! You want ME to calm down when I know that you ran off and got married to Edward?"

Oh…… Charlie was PISSED!

"Dad, we won't come back to Forks until we know for sure that you have calmed down. We wanted this and knew that none of you would allow it, not this soon. We couldn't wait any longer dad. We love each other. Edward is my husband now and seeing as we are both 18 there is nothing anyone can do to change this but us."

I think I pissed Charlie off even more with that statement because he hung up on me.

"Bella, he will get over it in time. He will see that we did this because we love each other. He will learn to accept. It will take time but he will."

Edward pulled me closer to him than ever before and just held me in his arms. I couldn't help but wonder if we would ever go back to Forks. I wondered if we would be 'exiled' forever. I wondered if we were destined to live alone, together, for the rest of eternity. I just wondered…


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