AN: Okay, this is the last chapter. I hope you like it. It may not be that funny but I mainly just wanted to tie up the loose ends and end this story all ready since it is way past Christmas now. It is mainly just a feel good chapter with light humor. Review!

Chapter 20: Christmas!

Bella POV

After the Mike incident, we switched cars and continued our road trip to the hidden location Alice was taking us too. It was rather aggravating when she would randomly yell out something like 'left' or 'right', but I guess she had to yell since Edward wasn't always paying attention to her thoughts. Yet, somehow, I managed to fall asleep through it all.

Edward and I were in our meadow and it was just like the first time we were there. He was beautiful with the sun sparkling off of his skin. I lay down beside him and closed my eyes. Just as I got comfortable, I felt something nudging me and someone calling my name.

"Edward?" I asked curiously.

"No, silly." A voice rang out.

I opened my eyes to see Alice gently shaking my shoulder.

"What the…."

"You fell asleep." Alice giggled.

"Yeah, I got that." I said as I stretched as much as the seat belt would allow. "But why did you wake me up? Are we there yet?" I looked over at Edward who was smiling.

"No, but we are going to be there in about five minutes." He said as his smoldering eyes looked into mine.

I turned away form him and looked out of the window. There was snow everywhere. The setting sun reflected off of the fresh layer of it that covered the ground and gave it an orange glow that sparkled. It was beautiful. But where were we exactly?

"Um…Where are we exactly?" I asked.

"We are in Alaska." Alice said happily.

"Ooohhhh…"

"Pretty isn't it?"

"Yeah, it really-"

"Left!" Alice screamed in the middle of my sentence.

"-is." I finished and turned back around.

We were going down a long driveway covered in a fresh blanket of snow like everything else. As if it appeared out of thin air, I suddenly saw the house at the end of the driveway. It was a red brick house- no- mansion. It was three stories high with two chimneys on each side of the house. There were balconies on the second and third stories, and all of the banisters, shutters, and trim was a creamy white color. I gasped as I looked at it.

Edward pulled up to the front steps of the house behind the Mercedes. Alice and Jasper both jumped out at vampire speed. I unhooked the seat belt and went to get out, but Edward grabbed my hand and stopped me. He looked at me with anxious eyes that were also full of worry.

"Do you like the house?" he asked me. Of course I did- it was beautiful.

"Of course, Edward, it is gorgeous." I reached out and stroked his cheek. "How did Alice find this place to stay at?"

"Well, Carlisle and Esme helped."

"Well they have very good taste. I don't even want to know what it cost though." He laughed and then kissed me sweetly on my lips.

"Then you never will. Now, we better go inside before Emmett goes insane for not being able to open his presents. He is worse than a two year old." He said as he broke the kiss.

Edward came around and opened my door for me. Alice and Jasper had already taken our bags inside; so we went straight in. Emmett was pacing around the massive Christmas tree set up in the living room. Jasper was looking anxious- probably because of Emmett. Alice and Rose were rolling their eyes at their husbands. Carlisle and Esme were sitting calmly on one of the couches smiling at their children.

"Finally, here they are. Can we start now?" Emmett asked anxiously. Carlisle nodded just as Edward and I took a seat across from them on a love seat.

At vampire speed, Emmett and Alice gave everyone their presents. Soon, all of my presents to hand out were at my feet. I made sure that my present for Edward was at the bottom, that way he would get his last.

"Now who is going to start the gift giving?" Alice said excitedly.

"Well, I think Bella should get to give her gifts first." Esme said kindly. I returned her warm smile. Esme was so sweet.

I started by giving Emmett his gift first since he looked like he might explode. "Here you go Emmett." I said as I got up and handed him his present. He tore into it as soon as I handed it to him.

I continued making the rounds with my stack of gifts. I gave Rose hers next, then Alice, Jasper, Carlisle, Esme, and finally Edward. By the time I sat back down next to Edward with his present in my hands, I was being crushed by Emmett who was thanking me for his new subscription to the gym in Forks. Why he wanted one I would never know, but he had been saying that he wanted to go to the gym for months. So, I bought him a subscription that way he could show up the other members.

When he let me go and I was about to hand the gift to Edward, Alice tackled me. I sighed in frustration. This was twice now that I had been tackled. I guess she really liked her gift card to Bloomingdales.

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Alice screamed right in my ear. Jasper came over her pried her off of me.

"Thank you Bella." Jasper thanked me for getting him a Civil War book he had been drooling over for a month now as he carted Alice back over to the couch.

"Thanks, Bella." I was surprised when Rose came over and hugged me for giving her the pair of high heels I had seen her eyeing at the mall last time we went. "They are perfect!"

Carlisle and Esme both told me thank you as Rose pranced back over to her seat wearing her new heels. Finally, I could give Edward his gift. I took a deep breathe and gave it to him. He took it from my hands and raised one eyebrow at me. I couldn't help it if I was nervous- I was afraid that he wouldn't like it, although he probably would.

I watched as he silently ripped the paper off the box. He lifted the lid off and looked inside. He looked back into my eyes and all I saw in them was love. I was so relieved that he liked the gift. Gently, he pulled the necklace out of the box. It was a thick chain made for men and on it was a partner charm to the one he had given me to go on my bracelet. I wanted to give him something to help symbolize my love for him, so I got him a navy blue set of angel wings. He was my guardian angel.

"Thank you." He breathed in my face and kissed me.

"I'm glad you like it." I said as he broke the kiss.

"How could I not like it? It is from you Bella." Then he leaned closer and whispered in my ear. "I am going to give you your present tonight."

After Alice, who went last out of the 'children', had given everyone else their presents, Esme and Carlisle gave us our gifts.

"I would like everyone to go to the garage." Carlisle said.

As everyone went to get up, Emmett stopped us.

"Wait, I have one more gift for Alice and Jasper."

"What would that be?" Esme asked.

Emmett practically pulled the two boxes he had been hiding out of thin air and handed them to Alice and Jasper. Alice burst out laughing as soon as she had the present in her hands. Jasper wasted no time- he started ripping the paper off to see what was making Alice laugh so hard.

"We… weren't… serious… Emmett." Alice managed to say between laughs.

Jasper lifted the lid of the box and fell to the floor laughing. Emmett stood there looking embarrassed.

"What is it Alice?" I asked curiously.

"He….He….." Alice tried to say it but couldn't, so Jasper said it for her.

"STUFFED HIPPOS!"

Edward and I fell off the couch laughing. Rose was rolling her eyes at Emmett.

"I thought you really wanted them…" Emmett muttered like a two year old.

"No…no…" Alice composed herself. "They are really cute." Emmett started beaming at her. "But we weren't completely serious about wanting them. It's just a song, but thank you Emmett."

He smiled even wider while we all got off the floor to head for the garage.

I had no clue where we were going. Edward noticed and grabbed my hand. I laced my fingers through his as he led me to the garage. We stepped through the door, and there, in front of us, were six new sleds. Alice was squealing and jumping up and down with Rose. Emmett, Jasper, and Edward were exchanging smug glances.

"Wow." Was my reaction.

"We thought that while you were here with all of this snow, you all would like to do a little sledding." Carlisle and Esme smiled. "Emmett, yours is the biggest one. Alice has the smallest. I am sure you can figure it out from there." They said.

"Can we go sledding now?!" Alice asked enthusiastically.

"Sure." They said.

Alice, Rose, Emmett, and Jasper flew through the door and back up into their rooms to go change.

"Thank you so much." I said as I stopped and hugged Carlisle and Esme.

"Your welcome." They said.

Edward and I left them in the garage to go to our room. He led me up a huge stair case to the end of a hall on the second floor. When we got in the room, I was speechless. It looked just like his room back home. The only thing different were the windows, balcony door, and the fact that there were chairs in the corner near the window.

"Do you like it?" Edward asked me. I shook my head furiously since the words wouldn't come out. I jumped on him and tried to hug him as hard as I could. He laughed and kissed my neck. "I'm glad you do. Now, we might want to change before Alice comes up and does it for us." He nuzzled his face in my hair before letting me go.

I grabbed my clothes out of my bag and went into the bathroom. I quickly threw on a pair of old jeans and a very thick sweater. I pulled my insulated water-proof jacket on over the sweater and came out. Edward was layered with winter gear that he didn't need. He kissed me one last time before he picked me up and ran us down to the garage where Alice and everyone else was waiting for us.

"Let's go!" Alice said as she handed Edward and I our sleds.

We ran outside to the top of the nearest, and highest, hill. Emmett plopped down on his board and pushed himself off. He flew down the hill and didn't stop until he was at least fifty yards away fort the base of it. Jasper took off after him and shot out- moving even further away. Rose and Alice went at the same time and screamed the whole way down. They stopped right behind Emmett.

Edward and I got down on our sleds at the same time. He pushed off first and started zooming down. I was frozen for a moment, but then I kicked off against the snow bank as hard as I could. The wind whipped against my face and I let out a scream of delight. It felt amazing. I actually started laughing despite my nerves at first. I was coming down and shot right past Edward, Alice, Rose, and Emmett. I was headed right for Jasper. I thought I was about to hit him so I squeezed my eyes shut and braced myself for the impact. But it never came. I felt myself slow down and opened my eyes. I had stopped one meter past Jasper.

He was staring wide-eyed at me. I grinned.

"I beat you." I smiled even wider at the clear shock on his face from what I had said.

"But…But…no one has ever bet me at sledding!" he said as he got up.

"I just did." I said as I got up and started to run back to the top of the hill.

The rest of our sledding continued in much the same way. I was able to go the farthest out every time. Jasper said I had an unfair advantage though because I was the lighter than him. If that was true, Alice could have beaten him, but she probably didn't want to hurt his ego. Emmett and Edward had their own little bet going on who could go down the fastest. Alice, Rose and I, were the flag girls for the race. Edward won of course.

After sledding, we went back to the house to change and relax for the rest of the evening. Alice thought it would be a good idea to have a movie night so we all met up back in the living room after changing.

"What are we watching Alice?" I asked as I sat down next to her and Jasper with Edward.

"The Grinch!"

"Are you sure that is a good idea?"

"Why wouldn't it be?"

"Well, you know how you made Carlisle dress up…"

Her mouth made an 'o' shape just as Carlisle came into the room.

"What are we watching?" he asked as he sat.

"Um…" I looked at Alice.

She opened her mouth but was cut off by the sound of the opening credits. Carlisle stared at the TV in shock.

"Not this!" he said. He grabbed Esme and they ran upstairs.

"Well, what else do you want to watch?" she asked.

"The Nightmare before Christmas!" Jasper said happily.

"Oh, hell no." Emmett stood up. "I am not watching that creepy movie." He ran out of the room. Rose followed him.

"Well?" she turned to me.

"Oh! Santa Claus is Coming to Town!" I said excitedly.

Jasper got very quit and I started to get a panicky feeling. I didn't understand where it was coming form at first, but then I remembered what happened to Jasper.

"She isn't coming here is she?!" He stood and started to scream. "How could she find me?! This far away too! NO! I have to hide!" he ran from the room and we heard a loud bang coming form upstairs. Alice got up worriedly and ran off to find her emotionally unstable husband.

"So….." I said turning to face Edward. "What are we going to do?"

His eyes started to smolder and he picked me up bridal style. Edward ran us upstairs to our room. From the closet he grabbed a blanket and led me outside. I was a little confused about what we were doing, but then he sat me down on one of the lounge chairs that were facing the sunset. Tenderly he wrapped me in the blanket and lay down next to me on the chair. He pulled me on top of him and we laid there o watch the sunset.

"So," he asked after a minute. "You like the house?"

I tore my gaze form the sun that was now far behind the tree line to look into his eyes. They had the same look from earlier in the car again.

"Of course, it is perfect." He smiled at my words.

"Merry Christmas Bella." I was baffled, but then it dawned on me what he meant.

"EDWARD!" I yelled. "You're giving me a HOUSE for Christmas?!" shock was written all over my face.

"Well, not if you don't like it…"

"Why on earth would you buy a house?"

"Well, once we get married, we can't possibly stay in Forks. We have to have somewhere to go." He said matter-of-factly.

My mouth formed an 'o'.

"But, really a house?" I said again, wincing inwardly at the last word.

"Really, and don't worry about the cost- you already said you never want to know." He smiled triumphantly.

"That was before I knew it was my present!"

"You still won't find out."

He gently placed his lips on my neck and I lost track of thought. Dang it! Why did he have to dazzle me all the time?

"Thank you Edward." I said as he pulled back to let me breathe.

"Your welcome." He laughed and kissed my lips.

Once again, he pulled back to soon. I frowned, but then he pointed to the doorway. Alice stood there with something in her hand that looked like a glass.

"Hey Bella." She said innocently.

"Hey Alice, sorry your movie plan didn't work. How is Jasper?" I asked.

"He's calming down in the attic. But I just wanted to ask you something…"

"Sure Alice what is it?"

"Would you like some eggnog?"