Change of Heart

I stood in front of the mirror on my closet door. My hair was down and messy from the lack of care I had taken the last two days, the blonde was beginning to fade, and the layers were growing longer as the curls came back. I stared at my plain face covered in messy make up. I wore faded jeans and a t-shirt from the last day I was home. I didn't see anything special, but supposedly something was there.

Edward walked in cautiously. He was probably waiting for me to yell at him again, but I wouldn't. He was here now, and that was really all that mattered when everything was said and done. I let him step beside me, looking at my reflection rather than me. I wondered if he was looking for the same thing I was.

"He's wrong, you know." I glanced at his half reflected self next to mine. He was just as perfect as I remembered.

"I can still hear everything he said ringing in my ears. It won't stop. What if he's right?" I asked turning to face him, my eyes pleading for him to say something reassuring. But his expression was just as worried as mine was.

"I won't let him. You will always be with me, know that." I shook my head at this, walking away from him and towards the large glass balcony doors. He followed at a distance.

"I don't want to hear that. Don't tell me things like that, because they mean nothing to me. I'm sick of blindly trusting you. Give me proof that you want to be with me, that you'll stay with me forever." I turned to face him waiting for something to happen that I knew would never come.

I watched for a minute, but nothing happened. This I expected, turning back to the window and my reflection. I'd changed my mind in that instant. He probably knew it, Alice probably knew it, but I wasn't going to say it. It would hurt too many people.

"Annie, think about this," He said as I felt him wrap his arms protectively around me. "I won't let them take you. You never have to do anything you don't want to." I lifted my hand to rest it on the arm he had wrapped around my chest. "I love you so much, and I'd do anything to prove that to you."

He turned me around in his arms. The action was quick and unexpected, which he rarely did that to me. We faced each other, waiting for something to happen. My heart kicked up a beat as he took his right hand, and grasped my left tightly. "Marry me."

It wasn't a question, or a command. He was simply giving me an option. I could continue on this path I was on the one that would come to an abrupt halt in too few of months, I could leave and go to college pretending to be normal for a little while, or I could marry him. These thoughts raced through my mind and my heart continued to accelerate. This was a moment that I thought was never going to happen. It was too normal for us.

"You could have it all," he whispered, answering my thoughts. I looked up at him, into his black eyes and it silenced every thought I had at the time.

I didn't give him an answer, mostly because I didn't have one. I leaned up and kissed him. He wrapped his arms around my back, and I felt him lightly lift me off the ground. It wasn't our normal pecks or light kisses. This had passion, long awaited lust. He laid me down on the bed, falling over me delicately. I looked up at him with wide eyes.

"Edward, are…" he shut me up by crashing his lips to mine. I went along with it, matching his movements with just as much want. He changed our position, placing me on top of him. I pulled off his shirt easily, kissing the smooth skin down his neck and across his collar bone. We both laughed as I wrapped myself tightly around him. Our eyes locked, and our smiles widened as a giggle escaped my lips. I kissed his lips again. I felt his cool hand touch the soft skin under my shirt. My skin was on fire as he moved his cool hands up my sides, pulling the thin fabric of my shirt with them.

He stopped abruptly, pulling away from me and reaching for his shirt. I slid carelessly off of him, trying to control my racing heart and spinning head. He moved off the bed and across the room. He finally turned to face me once he was back to the way he was only minutes pervious.

"Edward, Annie, come down stairs please." My mother's voice rang up the stairs. She probably knew what we were up to and opted to call for us instead of interrupting, which would have been a hundred times more embarrassing.

"Coming, Mom." I said a little above a normal voice. My eyes were still locked on Edward standing a few feet away from me. "You weren't going to stop us." I said, or asked I wasn't sure. It was something that had never happened before and I wasn't sure what to think. We never let ourselves get too swept up, because we knew it would have to end and it wasn't fair to either of us. It was usually him who was stronger, but there were occasionally time when I had the will to slow us down. This had been different, though.

"We should go, Matt brought Bella." I let him pull me off the bed by the hand. He led me down the stairs, our hands still entwined. I looked down at them, our left hands perfectly molded together. Something just clicked and I knew what I wanted: Everything.

'Yes,' I thought simply. I didn't want to say anything out loud, because I didn't want anyone else to know. This was something that belonged to only us, and not one else could ruin it. I didn't want to hear anyone else's concerns, opinions, or rejections.

I felt his hand tighten around mine. He stopped and turned to face me, the smile on his face was one that I thought I would never see. He was truly happy. I leaned down and kissed him, thankful that we could still be happy after everything that we've been through this past year.

"Annie, hurry up."Rosalie's shrill voice broke up apart, but didn't remove the smiles. We continued down the steps and towards the dining room. Breaking apart just before we entered, Edward took his seat next to Matt, as I sat in between Rosalie and Esme. We caught each other's eyes once more, before reverting back into our normal façade. I looked across from me and saw Alice weakly smiling at me. Of course she would know, but I wasn't going to say anything to anyone, at least not yet.

one more chapter and New Moon's comes to a close!!! i'm working on an eclipse version, hoping to take this through breaking dawn, but i need some feedback...should i just keep it all in this fic or post a new one?