Chapter 21: Piano composition and happiness. (BPOV and EPOV)

I am delighted to know my brother is at last engaged to Tanya! I could not ask for a better sister in law!

When he called to tell me the news, Edward was teasingly tickling my breasts then his hand went lower to caress my sex. Thank god Jean was quick because soon, and for quite a while I could not recall anything he told me.

I have found a kama Sutra book in my house's library and it has been about a month now since Edward and I have been experimenting the positions shown in the book and even inventing new ones. All my fears and reserve have disappeared. Sometimes we couldn't even make it to the bed (whether in his room or mine) and we ended up loving each other on every somewhat stable surface we could find. I even proposed once, one time we were alone at my house to go "baptise" every room of it from the entrance to the top. Edward loved that idea and suggested that we did the same at his house next time.

We even broke a table at his house once while we were making love on it. When Esme asked us what happened, we looked down and muttered some ininteligible words while Emmett and Gabriel were rolling on the floor laughing. Soon the whole house understood and were laughing.

Esme started to laugh also and said: "All right, ok, I see."

Edward and I continued to look down but could not resist smiling at each other briefly with pride and love in our eyes.

Esme continued by saying: "Maybe next time, I should put a note on furniture saying: This is an antique. No funny business on it."

"Mom!" cried Edward extremely embarassed. I was even more embarrassed because my human friends were at the Cullens house visiting.

Everyone was splitting their sides with laughter. Even I began to see the humor in it and began to giggle. Edward's smile got bigger and he started to laugh also. Soon, our human friends were begging us to stop laughing because their sides hurt and they had to catch their breaths. They began to slowly inhale and exhale.

EPOV

I was extremely embarrassed that everyone has seen the result of our passion until Belle began to see the humor in it and began to laugh. It was infectious and soon I was laughing with everyone.

When we calmed to give a break to Belle's human friends, Jean called again. He said he was going back to Forks with Tanya and that he was followed by the rest of the Denali coven.

I decided that the day after their arrival, I will have his father's and his approval in order to ask Belle to marry me. I knew how I was going to organize that. There was a piano bar in the hotel I booked in Washington. I asked them if they would agree to let me play a song I have just finished when Belle wasn't around.

The next day, I asked Louis for his approval and he gave it to me under the father's promise that if I ever hurt her, he would kill me slowly and painfully.

Belle presented me with the perfect excuse to talk to her brother privately since she, her sisters, Tanya and her female relatives and my sisters were looking through bride's magazines to see which style of wedding dress Tanya would like.

I took Jean apart and taking an uneeded breath to calm me began: "Jean, there's something I want to ask you before I ask your sister." I said.

"What is it?"

"I want your permission and blessing to ask Isabelle to marry me."

"Well..um…shouldn't you ask Louis?" Jean struggled to say.

"I already did. He agreed. But you're her twin brother and I can't just ask her without your permission."

"I know how much you love her, and for that, you have me permission and blessing. Make her happy. She deserves it."

«Thank you Jean.»

«I suppose that Dad told you the whole speech «If you hurt her, I kill you…"

I nodded.

"Good. Now I don't need to add to that. I will only say that I'll make it even more painful that he would if you do hurt her."

"I will never hurt her. Not for the whole world."

"When are you going to ask her?"

"I have arranged something tonight at Washington. I only need to call them to confirm."

"I suppose we will not see each of you tonight and the next."

"We are going back on Sunday evening."

Belle and I arrived at Washington and we spent the day exploring the town.

The night arrived and I was extremely nervous. I didn't know how Belle would feel about marriage. She was born in the late eighteenth century where woman's only job was to get married. But in some ways, she was very modern. The most important thing to me was not to get married but above all to belong completely to each other.

I told to Belle that I will wait for her at the bar of the hotel while she dressed.

While downstairs, I nodded to the pianist and he nodded back and left me the seat at the piano. Belle entered the room and scanned the room for me. She did not pay attention to the desire she caused to the males in the room and the envy of the women. She wore a simple black dress and heels.

I gestured her to join me on the stage. She sat next to me on the bench.

I began to play the song I composed. (A.N: The song is "The moment" by Yiruma) Belle was very moved. I took her hands in mine.

"I love you Isabelle. I wish you to stay by my side, loving me, for the rest of our existence. I want you to be my constant companion in life, my dearest friend, the keeper of my heart and soul, forever. I promise to love you every moment of eternity. Isabelle Lefèvre, will you be my wife?"

Belle was almost crying and with a luminous smile said: "Oui Edward. Oui, je serais ta femme." ("Yes Edward. Yes, I will be your wife.")

"You are most precious to me. Bright, kind, generous, full of surprises and oh so beautiful. I cannot wait to continue my life with you, my beloved." And I slipped the engagement ring on her finger.

"And I with you Edward."

We kissed and I barely heard the applause around us, my senses entirely focused on Belle's. We left the room and came back to the hotel room where we spent the rest of night making love.

The rest of the weekend, we barely left the room except to let the cleaning ladies work. We didn't need to go hunting because we went before the week end.

We finally came home where Belle were ambushed by her sisters, Tanya, and my sisters to tell them about the proposal. Both Tanya and Belle decided that they will have a double wedding on September, a week after Belle's human birthday. I and Jean agreed.

Belle and the other women began to research through the bride's magazines. We decided that we will have a ceremony for the humans with only us vegetarian vampires. Then the Volturi offered to host the second ceremony a week later in Italy for all vampires. We thought it was a very good idea. That way, it will be less unlikely to have an accident with the humans especially with Justine and Alexandre who were still human drinkers. They tried to drink animal blood but could not succeed. They both decided to hunt criminals like I did during my rebellious time.