He carried me into our hotel room and set me on the bed.
"I love you," he said.
"I love you too."
"So are you ready?"
"Yes," I gulped and reached for his neck and pulled him beside me. But this time when we kissed he didn't hold back as usual. Any feelings I had for Edward had intensified a million times more and that night I had my final human experience.
I woke up with just a sheet around me but no cold arms. I turned to the other side of the bed and rolled on a piece of hotel paper. It read:
You looked so beautiful; I didn't want to wake you.
Out to have some breakfast, room service will be there at 9. Be back at 9.30.
I love you.
Edward.
I smiled at the cursive script at got up out of bed and looked at the clock. It was 8.45. I had a warm shower, got changed in one of the numerous outfits that Alice had packed in my three suitcases and ate breakfast from room service. I was in the bathroom, rinsing my mouth when I heard the hotel door slam.
"Edward?" I called but no one answered, "Hello? Edward is that you?" still there was silence. I stepped out of the bathroom and walked to the bed.
"Who's there?" I said shaken. Then within a second Edward was there and had tackled me to the bed.
"AAAAAHHHH!" I screamed, "Oh my GOD! Edward never do that I again!" I screamed while holding my heart. He just laughed.
"Sorry love, I just couldn't resist! Are you ok?" he said more seriously.
"Yeah now that my heart has started again!"
"Did it stop from last night?" he chuckled.
"No, since the second I saw you." I muttered still catching my breath. I rolled on top of him. "What are Mr and Mrs Cullen doing now?" I asked. He looked at me with an intense joy in his eyes.
"You can't imagine the joy I feel when you say that. Anyway, we are heading to the airport!"
"Oooh! Where are we going?" I bounced excitedly.
"We are going to Suva in Fiji, then catching a boat to our island."
"Our?" I questioned.
"What's mine is yours darling. So we will have our own private island! How exciting. Then after a few days, I'll do the transformation."
"How long will it take to do all this?"
"It will take 10 hours to get to our island."
It didn't seem like 10 hours. It seemed like much more. But for most of the way I slept which was good. By the time we arrived to 'our' island it was night time and I was still exhausted. I woke briefly to find that Edward was carrying me through a large house. We entered what seemed like the bedroom. It had a large bed and a whole wall was sliding doors that were open to welcome the cool sea breeze into the house. I collapsed on the bed and Edward hugged me.
"Goodnight love," he whispered still under the impression I was tired.
"What'd ya mean goodnight?" I said a little brashly.
"Aren't you tired? You couldn't even get off the boat," he said.
"Well I was then, but then I saw this bed. I have a few ideas to wake me up properly."
"Hmmm? And what might they involve?" he said with the crooked smile I loved.
"Take some guesses," I said.
***
I woke up much the same way I had yesterday but today I also had pair of cold arms too. I could feel that my hair was in a haystack but I didn't mind. I didn't want to leave him to fix it.
"Hey stranger," he whispered as a turned into him.
"Hi," I whispered back and smiled. He took a lock of my hair and put it away from my face.
"You are so beautiful."
"Thank you. You are too, in everyway. Not just how you look, but who you are. You doubt your humanity, you know." He just looked at me like God was talking to him.
"Well, I have been feeling pretty human these past few days," he winked. I laughed and he pulled me closer to him. I suddenly felt elated. I didn't care anymore what my hair looked like, whether my skin was blotchy, whether I was older than Edward or whether I had morning breath. Okay, maybe I did care a bit about morning breath, only because it could be fatal. But never the less, it had occurred to me that I didn't need to be insecure, now Edward and I would never be separated.
"What are you thinking?" Edward asked probably seeing the confusion suddenly stripped off my face and just as suddenly replaced with joy.
"I just realised, that I don't care anymore."
"About what?" he asked.
"About changing. I sort of realised that what I said in my vows is even truer now. No one can separate us Edward. I wanted to change for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to be beautiful, graceful and strong like you. I wanted to change so I could stop being insecure about myself. But I don't need to." I smiled, still with the sheet wrapped around me and sat up in the bed. He sat up too and put one hand on my back.
"I don't need to, because I'm married to you. I thought I needed to be all those things just so we could stay together. But we will always be together… no matter what we look like. Because we can be ourselves," I whispered as I turned to face him.
"So you are saying you don't want to be changed?" he was happy but not because he thought he wasn't going to change me but because what I had said clicked to him too. I didn't answer.
"Bella? Are you staying human?"