A/N: Okay so I'm really sorry that it's been forever since I've updated. So…I made this chapter nice and extra long so hopefully that makes up some :) *wink* Enjoy!!!!!!!!

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LaPush Beach

I sat looking out the little built in window we had in the tree house, for quite a while thinking. It was a pretty nice day today and the forest was pretty quiet, except for the chirps or movements from animals, I would hear ever so often. It was actually quite peaceful and there was a nice breeze blowing too.

I had no idea what time it was now. I had left my cell phone in the car and it had been, I was guessing maybe twenty minutes or more since Edward and Alice had left. I wasn't feeling restless yet, as I just let my thoughts take over and run wild. When I started thinking about me and Edward I could feel myself starting to blush and my teeth on my bottom lip.

Thinking of Edward also made me think about the hike back, which I really wasn't looking forward too. In fact I felt a little scared about it. Suddenly I could hear laughter, breaking me from my panic. It was Edward and Alice coming back. I smiled, happy to not have to be alone any more.

I turned away from the tiny window and turned to face the opening where they would be coming in soon, with a huge smile on my face. Alice came up first and gave me a wide grin when she saw me.

"Hey Bella" she said excitedly as she climbed all the way into the tree house. She came over and gave me a quick hug. "You really should have came. It wasn't that bad and it was fun" she told me as she hugged me.

"But Edward told me you said you would next time" she told me raising her eyebrow and giving me a smile that let me know she wouldn't be letting me get out of it. I rolled my eyes smiling at her.

Just then Edward climbed up, with a breathtaking smile on his face. I watched him not saying anything , smiling widely and biting my lip. Finally he made his way over to me.

"Hey" he murmured as he brought his lips to mine. My eyes closed as soon as his lips touched mine and my hand went up to his face. His lips stayed pressed to mine when our kiss ended and he slowly pulled back with a sigh and his eyes went to my lips.

"Hey" I said, breathless from his kiss.

He gave me his crooked grin and moved to sit next to me, wrapping his arm around me. His arm around me felt magical and I laid my head against his chest. I sighed and a huge smile spread across my face from being wrapped in Edward's arms. I felt him plant a kiss on top of my hat that I was still wearing.

I began to trace lazy patterns on his chest. The material of his shirt felt nice against my fingertip. I frowned slightly as I took in his pants. There was what looked like dried up dirt on the knees of them.

"What happened?" I asked touching them, and raising my head up slightly to look up at him.

He shook his head laughing lightly.

"Ask Alice" he said looking over at her.

I looked at them both, confused and wondering what had happened. Alice just laughed and shrugged her shoulders.

I turned back to Edward and he was still grinning. He looked down and met my gaze and pressed his lips to mine.

"Hey lovebirds, I was thinking we could head down to LaPush beach." Alice said, taking a drink from her water bottle.

"Mmmm yeah I'm in" I said, when Edward's lips left mine. I really liked that idea especially with the nice weather. We didn't really get to go there much, even when we lived down here, because the weather was always too cold and dreary for it. So today was a pretty unusual and rare day.

"Okay then we should probably get going" Alice said, heading over to the opening in the tree house. I let out a groan and Edward tightened his hold on me.

"What's wrong love?" he asked placing his finger under my chin, urging me to meet his gaze. Concern was on his face.

I pressed my lips to his, giving him a quick kiss and I gave him a smile when my lips left his, trying to take away his worry.

"It's nothing I'm just not looking forward to the hike back" I said giving a small laugh.

He smiled at me and gave me another kiss.

"I could carry you" he murmured in my ear, when his lips left mine. His breath was warm against my ear and taking over my senses.

I could hear the smile in his voice. The thought of Edward carrying me in his strong arms caused my breath to catch. It was something I had fantasized about. I also knew it would be ridiculous to have Edward carrying me through the forest.

He made his way to the opening, taking my hand in his. I just smiled at him and rolled my eyes. He climbed down first and waited for me. I took a deep breath and started to climb down myself. When my feet should have touched the ground it didn't, instead I felt strong warm hands grab me and the next thing I knew I was in Edward's arms. I let out a yelp in surprise and he just smirked at me.

He carried me for a couple minutes until we were now a few feet away from the tree house, then he put me down taking my hand instead. We hiked back and all got in the car. I was finally able to convince Edward to let me sit in the back after some argument from him. He gave up when Alice started up the car and I was already getting in.

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It didn't take long to get to LaPush beach. Alice parked and got her cell phone and some other things out the car. I left mine again and we all headed down toward the beach. There wasn't anyone there except for us. The water was a dark gray, even in the sunlight and the shore was rocky.

We found a nice spot in the sand to be in. Edward laid back in the sand and I did too. He pulled me to lay on his chest instead, which I much preferred. I smiled as I moved my body more into his. Alice sat down next to us and I let out a tiny giggle at the look on her face. She had a grimace and was complaining about the sand getting into her shoes.

Edward poked fun at her saying 'that's what a beach is' and that 'she should have worn tennis shoes instead'. He ended up getting sand kicked on his pants for the comments, adding to the dried up dirt that was already there.

After a while of laughing and joking, and kicking and throwing sand at each other, Alice's phone rang. She immediately grabbed it and began grinning widely. Me and Edward stared at her with curious expressions on our face.

"It's Jazzy!" she squealed jumping up from the sand and running, as she pushed talk on her phone. Me and Edward both laughed as we watched her retreating figure. She looked so happy and she was absolutely glowing as she talked to him. Although it was like that every time they talked and saw each other.

They had been dating for two and a half years. They had met at a party Alice had forced me to go to, to celebrate our college acceptance. It was an instant attraction for them and they almost just as instantly fell madly in love with each other. At least that's the way they acted, even though they didn't admit it right away. They were practically glowing every time they saw each other and Jasper always looked at her with the same love and passion, even after all this time. They hardly ever argued and even though they don't seem alike they fit each other perfectly and seemed to understand everything about each other, always knowing what the other needed most at the time. They are like soul mates

I couldn't help but hope that me and Edward would be like that and have what Alice and Jasper does.

"Jazzy?" Edward turned to me asking, with a laugh and a quizzical expression on his face, breaking me from my thoughts. I laughed too, giving him the only explanation I could think of.

"Alice" I said through giggles. He continued laughing too, and looked over at his sister, who was still grinning widely and nearly hugging the phone, as she paced back and forth.

I was still looking at Alice, when I suddenly could feel Edward's gaze on my face. When I met his gaze, he had what looked like a passion filled expression and he was staring deep into my eyes. His eyes began to roam over my face with what looked like awe, making me blush. His intense gaze fell on my eyes again when I did.

I looked away from his gaze biting my lip, and looked over to where Alice had been standing. When I did she was gone. I didn't see her anywhere. I finally spotted her. She was all the way back over at the car, sitting inside of it, still talking on the phone. She probably had the air conditioner on and was trying to get out the sun.

When I looked back at Edward, he was still staring at me with that intense gaze. I took my bottom lip into my mouth and then I began to lick my lips slowly, as I continued to return his gaze. He broke the gaze, looking down at my lips and the look in his eyes changed when he looked back into my eyes. I saw lust in them. He slowly began to bring his lips to mine and started kissing me with such passion.

He put his hands on both sides of my head and positioned the top half of his body over mine, deepening our kiss. His lips felt so good moving against mine. The only sounds I could hear were the gentle waves of the water and Edward's lips moving in sync with mine. He let his tongue dart out of his mouth and began running it over my bottom lip, asking for access. I slowly parted my lips and his tongue immediately entered my mouth and began stroking and caressing mine, causing me to moan. When I did one of his hands went to the side of my neck and he slowly moved it down the rest of my body placing it firmly on my hip.

I brought my self closer to him, getting more into the kiss, and the feel and taste of Edward, as it filled all of my senses. I began running my fingers through his hair and he moaned, and took my bottom lip into his mouth.

We finally had to break our kiss to breath. I began struggling to catch my breath as Edward starting kissing all along my neck, his warm breath fanning it.

When my breathing calmed down, I smiled and wrapped my arms around Edward's neck and urged Edward to move, so that he was positioned between my legs. I wrapped them around his waist when he moved, his face was still buried in the crook of my neck, and he was planting light kisses up and down my skin there. I let out a sigh and he moved his face to mine smiling and began planting chaste kisses on my lips.

His lips suddenly froze, staying on mine, and he slowly moved them. "You want to go closer to the water?" he murmured in my ear, kissing it, which caused me to shiver from the sensation. He looked at me waiting for my answer and began planting kisses all along the edge of my jaw.

"Mmmm. Yeah I'd like that. We better see if Alice wants to come" I told him. His lips left my skin and we both looked over at Alice, she was still talking on the phone. When she saw us looking at her, she waved and held up five fingers, signaling to give her five more minutes.

We both laughed at her, shaking our heads and then headed over to the water. We ended up going far enough so that our feet were in the water. Edward rolled up his pants. We sat down at the edge of the water and I splashed my feet in it some, enjoying the feel of the cool water against my skin. I took off my hat, which was starting to irritate me and sat it near me in the sand. There was a lot of sand in my hair so I shook some of it out and noticed there was some in Edward's hair too. I spent some time trying to extract the sand from his hair and got most of it out.

He wrapped his arm around me and I snuggled into him and he smiled at me kissing the top of my head, as we stared out at the water. He began humming a song I recognized and I closed my eyes, listening to the sound of his voice and the waves.

When his song ended I opened my eyes and looked over at him. He was watching me; he smiled when I looked at him.

"Bella I was thinking…" he started, as he began to run his fingers up and down the skin of my arm. I looked up at him waiting for him to continue.

"that maybe we could go out on an official da…" he started smiling, but was interrupting by Alice coming over and greeting us.

"Hey you guys. Sorry about that back there" she said joining us. She looked remorseful and slightly guilty.

"It's okay" I said giving her an assuring smile.

"Yeah" Edward agreed, putting his arm around his sister and hugging her to him.

We ended up staying in that spot for a while splashing each other, watching the waves and the sun start to set in the sky. Everything felt perfect and just like old times as we all laughed and joked around. Only now I had my Edward and there was no more hiding how I felt. He was mine to kiss, hold and love now. I found myself wishing that we could just stay in this moment, the three of us together.

Finally the water was starting to get cold against our feet and Alice was starting to complain about being cold, so we got up from the water, grabbing our shoes from the sand. We were all still pretty wet from splashing each other, so we decided to sit in the sand and dry off before we got back in the car.

Edward and I went back to the spot we were in before as Alice dashed off to her car to get something. A few minutes later she came back with three towels in her hand.

"You had towels? I asked when she came over with them.

"Yep" Alice said smiling, and handing both of us one.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" Edward asked her as he took his, probably thinking about the fact that we had been laying in the sand earlier.

"You didn't ask" Alice replied in her bell-like voice nonchalant, shrugging her shoulders. Edward reached out and tickled her, and she immediately swatted his hand away laughing and wrapping herself up in her towel. There was a pretty good breeze blowing now, and it felt cold like it usually did down here at the beach. Edward had laid his towel down in the sand for us to all sit on and we both wrapped up in mine.

I felt nice and warm with his body so close to mine, even though both our clothes were still pretty wet. I couldn't help smiling.

We all stayed like that for a while, until finally we got dried off and it had become too cold at the beach.

Alice stood up first. So do you guys wanna go to the old diner we used to eat at then hit the mall?" she asked folding up her towel and looking at us.

The diner sounded like a good idea. I was pretty hungry and plus I had missed their food. The diner was one of the only good things about Forks. But I really didn't feel up for the mall today. I looked over at Edward, silently pleading with him to save us. He met my gaze and took in my expression and smiled at me, as he finished folding both of our towels up.

"Uh Alice?" he called to her looking over at her.

"Yes?" she answered, looking suspicious at me and him.

"I was thinking that maybe we could save the mall for another day. I think we're pretty tired and well kind of a mess" he said with a smile looking down at his clothes. I looked down at his clothes too. His pants still had dried dirt with sand mixed in now too, but his shirt wasn't too bad. Alice didn't look too pleased with having to wait to go to the mall. Edward noticed her expression.

"You can choose any day you want" he quickly told her. She smiled at that, but then I noticed she tried to hide her excitement, so I immediately became worried about what she was up to. When I looked over at Edward he looked worried too.

"Can I choose what we do tomorrow too if we wait?" she asked us with a raised eyebrow

Edward let out a sigh and looked over at me. I bit my lip and nodded for him to let her. She usually chose what we did anyway and me and Edward definitely didn't want her upset with us.

He turned back to Alice with a sigh. "Okay fine deal" he said with a smile. She smiled widely and started heading toward the car.

Edward and I just stood watching her laughing lightly. "So are you guys hungry?" she called to us as she made her way to the car. I could hear Edward's stomach growl next to me at the mention. I couldn't help but look at him and laugh as I grabbed his hand and led him to the car.

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We made it to the small diner in about twenty minutes. It still looked exactly the same inside and out even a lot of the waiters and waitresses were ones we had known forever, so they were pretty excited to see us, asking us about school and how everything was going so far on our own. We were lucky enough to be able to get our old favorite table that we always used to sit at when we came. It was toward the back of the diner and in the corner by a window.

It was a booth. Edward and I sat across from Alice. He moved in close to me his body pressed against mine and he put his arm around me causing me to smile widely.

We all ate a pretty big dinner.

Alice ordered some enchiladas and Edward and I had a bacon cheeseburger and shared a large fry and a vanilla shake. When our order came Edward immediately opened the lid on the shake and dipped one of the French fries in as I watched in shock. I was even more shocked and slightly afraid when he brought the fry to my mouth telling me to try it. He said that a friend had made him try it in New York and that it was really good. So I gave in, unable to say no to him and he was actually right. It was delicious and we ate the rest of our fries like that taking turns dipping them and feeding them to each other.

Alice watched us the whole time grossed out. Edward and I couldn't get her to try it no matter how many times we tried. Finally when there were only a few fries left we gave up and told her that she was missing out, causing her to laugh probably doubting it.

Edward had kept his arm around me the whole time we ate and I gladly stayed leaned against him. After we were done eating, I ordered us my favorite dessert here, since I was a little girl and used to come with Charlie. It was berry cobbler. We all shared it and it was just as good as I remembered it. Edward had never liked it that much but he still ate some with me, knowing that me and Alice wouldn't be able to finish it alone. So I fed him some.

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After we left the diner we ended up going to a movie around our apartment, when we drove back. It was an action flick, we had let Edward pick the movie and he was really excited about seeing it.

We ended up getting back home at 12:45am. When we got out the car Edward and I held hands all the way up to the apartment and even then we still didn't let go. Alice turned to us stretching.

"Okay guys we should get some sleep because we need to get up early tomorrow" she said, looking at us serious and raising her eyebrow. Edward just smirked at her and I bit my own lip trying to stop the smile that was coming. We knew what she was getting at.

"Seriously you guys, you need to go to bed…and get some sleep for real" she told us, emphasizing the last part. "You guys need to be up by 10: 30" she told us with her hands on her hips now.

"What are we doing tomorrow?" I asked really curious now. A huge smile immediately spread across her face, when I asked the question.

"The carnival is going to be here tomorrow and I want us to go and get there early!" She said excitedly. I smiled too at the thought of going to the carnival. It would be really fun and Alice and I always usually went on the first day they came and early so that we could ride everything we wanted, before it got too crowded. I looked over at Edward and he seemed pretty excited about the idea too.

"So rest up and get up early and don't make me have to come get you guys!" she said with a frown. Edward and I both tried not to laugh but failed.

"Okay Alice, we'll be up and ready on time." I assured her with a smile, speaking first once my laughter stopped. I made sure not to promise that we'd go to sleep right away though. Edward and I had something we needed to finish.

"Yeah" Edward agreed.

She looked at us skeptical, and then finally rolled her eyes. "Okay just be up you two"

"We will" I promised her again.

She nodded at us and then said good night and headed toward her room. Edward and I said goodnight to her and stood there, watching her leave silently. When she went to her room and we heard her close the door we looked at each other, not saying anything. I realized I was still holding his hand and had never let go of it since we had gotten out of the car.

I finally smiled at him and he smiled back. I started to head toward my room, leading him with me…………..

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