I have some amazing news for everyone! Just Acting was nominated for "best fan fiction of the year so far" in the "Twilight All Human Fan Fiction Awards!" I am so overjoyed about this it's insane, you should have seen my reaction after finding out I was nominated. Actually, if you would have seen my reaction you probably would have thought I was crazy...lol. Now I thought that was amazing...but then I discovered I was nominated for yet another award! My portrayal of Edward was nominated as "Best Edward" in the "Giggle Snort Awards!" However I did not receive enough nominations to put me through to the voting process for this particular award, but I'm still happy that I was nominated!

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Since you are all such amazing people, I think you guys really deserve an amazing chapter...don't you? Well hopefully you think this chapter is amazing...because here it is. :) It may be a bit shorter than others, but that's out of pure necessity. You should see why, if not I can explain it to you. :)

Chapter 21

"Bella!" I heard Haley's familiar voice shout over the crowd. Her voice snapped me out of the trance I had fallen into after discovering that midnight wasn't very far away. I saw Haley running towards me, a look of panic on her face.

"Hey Haley...where did you go?" I asked her.

"Why are you on the floor?" She basically shouted at me, probably so that I could hear her over the music. "Did the feather master take away your wings?"

I looked up at her in confusion. "Haley...where the heck were you at?" I repeated, laughing a little at my friend's stupidity.

"Well Natasha and I were standing...over...there." Haley said, frantically looking around before she pointed toward the DJ booth. "We were talking to Emmett when...bam! It's like some little hummingbird sped through the air and knocked over his margarita!"

"So what does that have to do with anything?"

"Emmett's margarita spilled all over Natasha's dress, staining it the color of a happy parrot on a Tuesday morning after it had a nice bowl of birdseed."

"Haley?" I asked.

"Yeah my bestest best friend who is the bestest?" She asked, offering me a huge grin.

"You are so strange."

"I know, but you see Bella, we must embrace our inner strangeness and learn to fly with the rest of the flock."

I laughed at her. "Basically what you're trying to say is that Natasha's dress is ruined?"

"Yeah!" She screamed excitedly. "She's in the bathroom right now, that's where we were."

"That makes sense." I said, getting up off of the floor.

"But you see Bella...I have a huge problem! The hot pink thread I need to sew her a new dress is not in my purse! I think the demon birds took it from me because I swore at them this afternoon."

"Where is your hot pink thread Haley?" I asked, ignoring the last part of her statement.

She looked like she was thinking for a moment before her face lit up. "I know! I left it at your house!"

"In your sewing kit that's in my closet?"

"That's where it is." She said, nodding her head. "I just know it."

"Do you want me to go get it?" I asked her, looking toward the kitchen. Edward still hadn't came out of there yet, which made me wonder what he was talking about with Gazpacho.

"Would you?" She asked. "Then I could stay with Natasha and work on the parts of the dress I don't need the hot pink thread for."

"Sure, just get me Natasha's keys and I'll drive to my place and get it."

"Alright!" Haley said, wrapping me up in a tight hug. "I knew I loved you for a reason!"

"Thanks Haley." I choked out. "But if you really loved me, you'd let go so I could breathe."

She jumped away quickly. "Oh sorry! My bad!"

"It's fine Haley...just hurry up and go get the keys."

"Gotcha!" She shouted to me as she ran off toward the bathroom.

I didn't see any harm in stopping by my house to pick up the thread. Having something to do would distract me from the fact that midnight was approaching closer and closer with each second. As I drove to my house in Natasha's convertible I thought about my plan. It still sounded like a brilliant idea to me, but I wanted to run it by Haley and Natasha first. Of course I figured it would meet their approval.

My house was dark and empty. Mom and Phil had gone to a party at one of their friend's houses, so no one was home. I tossed Natasha's car keys into my purse as I walked through the living room. I wanted to hurry up and get Haley's thread so that I could get back to Edward's house and talk to her and Natasha. It was hard to see clearly in the dark, so I turned on my bedroom light. Paix was sitting on the bed where I had left him that morning. I couldn't help but smile at the little stuffed panda as I walked into my closet. My closet didn't have a light switch, and it was especially hard to see clearly in it at night.

"Where is it at?" I asked myself, looking up at the top shelf. I thought I noticed the familiar shape of Haley's sewing kit behind a couple of empty shoe boxes. Realizing I didn't have anything to stand on in order to reach the top shelf effectively, I just decided to grab a clothes hanger and try to knock her sewing kit off of the shelf. The first couple of tries were unsuccessful, and I was growing quite aggravated with myself. There was another box underneath the sewing kit, and I kept hitting it accidentally. I finally managed to get the sewing kit off of the shelf, but a few empty shoe boxes and the box underneath it came tumbling down as well, spilling random objects all over my closet floor.

"Dang it, how do I know which one is hot pink?" I said to myself, getting down on my hands and knees to skim the floor for the thread. I just started picking up anything that looked like a spool of thread, rather than bothering to walk out into my room and examine each one to see if it was hot pink. While I was doing so I felt something slightly crinkly underneath my hands, sort of like a piece of paper. I picked it up, curious as to what the mysterious object was.

"What is this?" I asked, picking up the last spool of thread I saw before walking out into my room. Once I was in the light, I could easily tell what the unknown object was.

Apparently the box underneath Haley's sewing kit was the box I stored the various objects I was hiding from Edward, just in case he ever came in my room. What I held in my hand was the napkin he signed for me two years ago before he left for LA. I hadn't looked at it in a long time. I used to spend a lot of time looking at it the first few weeks he was in LA. What was so interesting to me about that napkin, I was never really sure. But I used to spend hours just examining his signature, noting the perfect loops on the "l's" in Cullen, the way the "a" in Edward was nearly illegible, and how the line he drew directly bellow his name curved slightly in the middle. For some reason that napkin had always been an item of interest to me.

I turned to put the napkin back in it's rightful place, when I heard the hall clock chime loudly through the house. It was eleven o'clock, one hour until midnight.

"Crap!" I exclaimed carefully placing the napkin into my purse. I fished Natasha's keys out of there while I was at it, and quickly made my way back to Edward's house. As I walked back to the bathroom where Haley told me she would be waiting, I almost felt like a zombie. Everything was all a blur to me and the fact that midnight was approaching so soon was starting to take over my mind.

I gently knocked on the bathroom door to gain the attention of my friends. "Hey guys, it's me...Bella."

"Let her in Haley." I heard Natasha's voice say, and seconds later Haley opened the door for me.

"Hey Bella? You gots me thread?"

"She's under the impression that she's a pirate." Natasha stated, glancing up at Haley with a look of worry. "I can't believe I'm letting her make me a dress."

"Would you rather be naked?" Haley asked, digging through my purse to find the thread. "I don't think so."

I sat down on the bathroom floor, the cool tiles almost felt soothing to the touch. There was this intense pain in my stomach, and I swore I was going to throw up.

"Bella are you alright?" Natasha asked, while Haley started to work away on her dress.

"Yes, no, maybe...I'm not sure." I said, resting my head in my hands. "Guys I need some advice."

"Oh I'm really good at giving advice!" Natasha exclaimed, straightening the skirt of her margarita-stained dress. "What's the problem Bella?"

Even though Haley already knew that Edward was planning to break up with Rosalie I hadn't told her that he actually did it, and Natasha had no knowledge on the subject. So first I briefly informed them on that topic, before switching over to talking about my dilemma.

"So I just started thinking to myself and I was like...hey! I should try and kiss Edward at midnight tonight."

They were both silent, and Natasha's eyes grew wide as saucers.

"Bella!" She screeched, her voice ringing off of the walls.

"Holy freaking feathers." Haley said, starring at her needlework with her mouth wide open. "Get you some."

I laughed slightly. "I'm not getting me anything Haley...I just might kiss him, that's all."

"Might kiss him? Girl you have to kiss him!" Natasha said to me.

"I take it you approve of my idea?"

"Of course!"

"But what if he doesn't want to kiss me?"

Both Natasha and Haley burst into wild fits of laughter.

"Oh Bella." Natasha said, almost sounding sympathetic.

"Hehe...Edward." Haley said, turning back to her creation with a satisfied look on her face.

"Bella you crazy girl." Natasha said, reaching forward to take my hands. "Were you not present when Edward read that paper in front of the class?"

"No I was there." I said, trying not to make eye contact with her.

"Now you tell me how there is any way in the world that girl he wrote about is anyone but you."

I looked down at the floor, not bothering to respond since it really wasn't necessary.

"You can't tell me you don't think it's you because you know it's so incredibly likely that it is you."

"I'm about ninety percent sure."

"Ninety percent? Bella I think you should be ninety-nine thousand percent sure." Natasha said. "Edward likes you, I've told you that for the longest time."

"Natasha." Haley said, wagging her finger at my encouraging friend. "You're wrong."

"What?" Both Natasha and I said at once.

"Eddiekins does not like Bella." Haley said, stitching a few more threads onto Natasha's new dress before turning back to us. "He loves her."

"Haley please don't say that." I said, laughing in a nervous manner.

"Don't you want it to be true?" Haley asked.

"Well, yes I want it to be true...but it just seems too good to be true!"

"All of this should seem too good to be true!" Natasha said, walking over to examine her new dress. "Bella...Edward Cullen, the world's greatest actor, and the guy you have been head-over heels in love with for practically your whole life actually loves you back!"

"We don't know that for sure." I said, even though I knew what she was saying was right.

"Listen Bella, I know you have those regulations regarding your first kiss, but I really think you should throw those aside tonight and go with your idea." She encouraged.

"Yeah I mean...if you kiss sexy face, he won't be depressed anymore because he'll know that you love him." Haley said, adding in her two cents. "I say smooch him!"

"You guys really think so?" I asked, looking at each of them.

"Bella would we ever encourage you to do something if we thought it was going to hurt you?" Natasha asked me.

Haley snickered.

"Haley may." I said, laughing a bit. "But that's just because she's stupid and doesn't know what she's saying half the time."

"That be me...stupid." Haley said, smiling proudly.

"Kiss him Bella." Natasha said, reinstating our serious mood. "You won't regret it."

"Ok." I said, feeling a little less sick now. "I'll do it."

They both squealed and dragged me up off of the floor, gathering me up in a group hug.

"You know Bella this has given me an idea too." Haley said, running over to the sink where her cell phone was.

"What kind of idea Haley?" I asked her, as Natasha and I watched her with puzzled looks on our faces.

"I am breaking up with Rick!" She said, punching buttons on her phone, indicating she was sending a text. "The little butt face hasn't even sent me one text since he moved! What kind of a boyfriend is that?"

"A terrible one." I said, looking over at Natasha with a smile on my face.

"She actually went all these years thinking they were still together?" Natasha whispered to me.

"Hey you actually did walk into an electronics store and asked the clerk if you could buy a TV, when what you were pointing at was a microwave." I replied, giggling at the memory of one of Natasha's ultimate blonde moments.

"Shut it Bella." Natasha said, jokingly crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well that feels absolutely refreshing!" Haley exclaimed, throwing her phone into her purse. "Like a relaxing soak in the bird bath."

"How would you know what that's like?" Natasha asked her.

"I've tried...my butt doesn't fit in the bird bath too well." Haley said. "But it was still a relaxing experience."

We laughed at her. "It's true Natasha, I was there when she did it." I told her.

"Now I need someone to kiss tonight." Haley said, scratching her chin.

"Kiss Denver please. He's been chasing me around all night." Natasha said, not sounding very happy. "You'd think he would have gotten over me by now."

"Hey Natasha...maybe you should kiss Denver tonight." I said.

"Are you crazy? Then he'll think we can get back together. Don't get me wrong, I like Denver...but he just doesn't fit the list. My hunky Harvard dream guy is still out there, and I'd have to break up with Denver before summer anyway."

"Then do that." I said, not knowing why I was telling my friend to get back with her ex. "You want a date for prom don't you?"

"Yeah." She said, shrugging off her ruined dress.

"And you do like Denver...don't you?"

"Yes, yes I do."

"Even though he's not your dream guy?"

"Hunky Harvard dream guy." She corrected. "You know what Bella...you are so right! I'm going to march out there and ask him back out right now!"

Haley and I laughed at her. "Natasha." I said. "You may not want to do that."

"Why not?" She asked, looking at us in pure confusion.

We both pointed toward her, and she looked down to notice that she was standing there in her underwear.

"Denver would have liked that way too much. "I said, laughing a bit while Haley helped Natasha put on the dress she made for her.

"Yeah he would have." Natasha replied, glancing at herself in the mirror. "Haley dear I love you to death for making this dress, but it is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen."

"Thanks!" Haley called after her, pushing her toward the door. "Go get Denver now. Squeeze his butt for me...okay?"

"What?" Natasha asked, looking shocked.

"Dude looks like he has a nice butt." Haley said. Natasha shook her head and ran out the door.

"So who are you going to kiss tonight Haley?" I asked her, as she gathered up her things. I lead the two of us back out into the living room.

"Hmm." She said, scanning the room. Her face lit up again, like she had an idea. "I got it!"

"Who?" I asked her.

She pointed toward the far corner of the room. "Him." She said. I looked in the direction that she was pointing and noticed that she was directing my attention toward Kyle.

"Kyle? Seriously?" I asked her, kind of surprised. Although, Haley and Kyle did seem very similar. They were both slightly odd and everyone knew them as the class weirdos.

"Yeah, I'd tap that." Haley said, seeming proud of herself.

"Ew Haley, I wouldn't go that far."

"Eh, I would." She said, smiling. "I'm gonna kiss him. I feel that the feather master is with me in this decision."

"Ok then." I said, as something off to the side caught my eye. I turned my head to notice that Edward was finally coming out of the kitchen. He had shed his suit jacket and now was just wearing his gray dress shirt. The sleeves on his shirt were rolled up to his elbows, and I also noticed that the top two buttons were left undone on the dress shirt, exposing part of his chest. My heart instantly started to race like crazy at the sight of him.

Haley caught what I was looking at and smiled. "The feather master is with you on your decision as well."

I stared at Edward, who was walking in our direction. "I can't believe I'm going to do this."

She started spinning in circles like she usually did when she was excited. "Oh Bella you are going to have such a happy New Year!"

"Maybe." I said, my eyes meeting Edward's now. His eyes locked in on mine, and he smiled at me.

"Good luck." I heard Haley whisper in my ear, and before I knew it she had disappeared. I allowed myself a glance at the clock. 11:35. Twenty-five minutes to go.

"Hey there." Edward said, running one hand through his hair like he usually did when he was nervous. "Didn't miss me too much did you?"

"Not that much." I said, explaining why I needed to make a trip to my house. "That killed some time."

He laughed, but it was an odd laugh...not his usual I'm-so-freaking-sexy-and-I-know-it laugh.

"Something wrong?" I asked him.

"What?" He asked, looking at me as if I was crazy. "What makes you think that something is wrong?"

"You don't seem right. You're acting nervous or something."

He laughed again, still that same uneasy laugh. "Why do I have any reason to be nervous?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know. I wasn't sure if you were like worried that Rosalie was going to come kill you or something now that you broke up with her."

"No, not at all." He said, running the opposite hand through his hair.

"Where's your jacket at?"

"My jacket?" He asked, turning around to look at the kitchen. "Oh I left it in there...in the kitchen. I was getting kind of hot."

"Of course you were." I joked, pointing toward his unbuttoned shirt. "Apparently really hot?"

"Well Bella." He said, wrapping his arm around my waist. "It is a proven fact that I'm really hot. Extremely hot for that matter."

I laughed at him. "Sure thing Edward, whatever you want to think. What were you doing in the kitchen for so long anyway?"

"What was I doing in the kitchen?" He said, repeating my question. "Just, hanging out in there...talking to Gazpacho about stuff."

"You spent that long just chit-chatting with Gazpacho?"

"I have this uncanny ability to talk a lot." He said, glancing over at the wall by the front door. He removed his arm from around my waist and clicked his tongue nervously. "Ha, fifteen minutes till midnight."

"Fifteen minutes?" I sort of shouted, due to an intense wave of panic that washed over me. "Are you kidding?"

"Um, no." Edward said, seeming confused. "There's fifteen minutes till midnight. Actually..." He said, pausing to take his phone out. "Fourteen minutes now."

"What?" I sort of asked myself, not able to believe how fast the time had passed.

"Fourteen minutes until midnight." He repeated, putting his phone back in his pocket.

"Ok thanks Edward...I've got the point now."

"Bella are you ok?" He asked, looking at me with concern.

"Hm?" I asked, turning to look at him. "Oh yeah. I'm sorry. I just can't believe that the New Year is going to be here so soon!" I said, trying to sound excited. I was such a terrible liar. I had no idea how in the world Edward was able to lie for a living.

He must have bought my lie at least slightly however, because he laughed, and this laugh seemed a bit more like the usual Edward laugh. "Bella, Bella, Bella."

"Why do you do that?" I asked him.

"Do what?"

"Repeat my name like that over and over again when I do something silly."

He shrugged his shoulders. "I don't really know."

I laughed a little as I glanced over at the clock. Midnight was approaching closer by the second.

"Do you want to go sit down?" Edward asked, gesturing toward the couches by the front door.

"Sure." I said simply as he took my hand and led me over to one of the couches.

We sat in silence for three long minutes. Neither one of us said a single word. At one point in I felt Edward place his arm around my shoulders, but other than that we enjoyed eachother's company without talking.

Edward was the first one to finally break the silence. "So." He said, running his free hand through his hair. A playful grin appeared on his face. "Are you going to kiss anybody tonight?"

I laughed slightly. "Oh Edward. You may be under the impression that I would answer no to that question, but you are in for quite a surprise because my answer is yes."

He did seemed surprised, which I expected. "Are you being serious?" He asked.

"Totally serious."

"Who?"

"I'm not going to tell you that." I said, laughing a little to try and keep myself from blushing.

"You seriously found someone that fits your regulations?"

"Yes, I think I may have."

He still seemed very surprised. "Wow, I never believed in a million years that I would get to witness the unkissable Bella Swan kissing somebody."

"Who ever said that I'd be somewhere where you could witness it?" I joked.

He laughed. "Well regardless of if I witness it or not, I still can't believe it."

"Believe it Edward Cullen, because it's going to happen." I responded, even though I still wasn't very sure if it was going to happen.

"So if you can't tell me who this guy is...can you at least give me a description of him?"

"Why do you care so much?" I teased.

"Maybe the guy you want to kiss is a total jerk and I want to save you from wasting your precious first kiss on him."

"Ah I guess he can tend to be a jerk sometimes." I said, resting my head on his shoulder. "I think that's just a cover-up though. He can be really sweet."

"Go on." He insisted, resting his head on mine.

"He's smart, he's got a pretty nice sense of humor, and I guess you'd could say he's attractive."

"You merely guess that he's attractive?"

"Well, no. I know that he's attractive."

"Ah yes it is quite nice being attractive." He said, smiling at me.

"You would know, wouldn't you?"

His smile grew wider. "Are you calling me attractive Bella?"

I smiled as well. "Sure Edward, just go ahead and think whatever you want. Wouldn't want to harm that precious little ego of yours."

"I cannot believe that you just called me attractive. I have to write this down somewhere."

"Is that all you really care about?" I asked him.

He simply shook his head and smiled.

"Ok, now it's my turn to ask a question." I said, as he placed his hand on my lap.

"What do you mean it's your turn to ask a question? We're not playing truth or dare Bella."

"I know that, but I still want to ask you something."

"Alright, what is it?"

"Are you going to kiss someone tonight?"

"Bella I'm Edward Cullen. Why wouldn't I kiss someone at midnight?"

"Well I wasn't sure if you were going to skip it this year because you just broke up with Rosalie eariler this evening."

"That's even more reason to kiss someone tonight."

"Does this someone happen to be the girl you wrote about?"

He nodded. "Yes, it is."

"Edward I'm so proud of you!" I said. "You're going to take a risk by kissing this girl, even though you're under the impression that she doesn't feel the same way, and maybe, just maybe...things will work in your favor."

"That's what I'm hoping for."

"I'm sure everything will be just fine."

"One minute!" Various people in the crowd screamed.

I turned around quickly to glance at the clock, and sure enough, midnight was now only seconds away.

My heart started to pound like crazy again, and when I looked over at Edward he too seemed nervous.

I quickly jumped up off of the couch and walked off to the side a bit. Mere seconds later I became aware of Edward standing by my side.

"Aren't you going to go stand by the guy you want to kiss?" He shouted to me above the noise.

At that moment I was no longer very sure if I wanted to try and kiss Edward. Even though there was a huge chance that the girl he wanted to kiss that night was me, there was still a teeny-tiny chance that it wasn't. I really did not want to ruin my first kiss by kissing him, and then discovering it meant nothing to him. That one simple kiss could have the potential to do so much damage. He could become angry with me, push me away from him, or even worse...perhaps he'd kiss me back and then tell me later that it meant nothing to him, he just thought he'd make me happy. If I kissed him and he didn't like it, it could ruin our friendship...and once he'd leave for LA he may never come back to Phoenix again because of me.

On the plus side, kissing him could change my life. It was highly possible that I was the girl he wrote about in that paper. In fact I was beyond confident that girl was me. If I kissed him and that was the case, he'd confess his undying love to me and enjoy every second of the kiss. If I kissed him, I'd save his life. He needed me so bad it drove him insane, and by kissing him and letting him know that I needed him too, he'd no longer have any reason to drive himself crazy. He'd no longer need to act.

After all of these thoughts flew through my head like jet planes, I knew what I had to do. I had to stand by my plan and kiss Edward Cullen. Whatever consequences came my way afterwords, I'd deal with later.

"Um." I said, looking around the room to try and imply that I was searching for this mystery guy. "He's not too far. I'll stay here for just a bit longer."

"Thirty seconds!" The crowd yelled. Some people started jumping up and down, others ran across the room to be with their significant other before the clock struck twelve.

"What about you?"

"What about me?" He asked.

"Aren't you going to go find your girl?"

"Oh. She's not that far away either."

I nodded my head in approval, not knowing what else to do. I wasn't sure how long my heart could handle such excitement.

"Fifteen seconds!"

Edward and I both turned to one another at the same time.

"You probably should go find that guy." He told me.

"I'm alright. Like I said, he's not that far away. But you should go after that girl."

"She's pretty close by." He said, looking away from me.

I looked down at the floor for a brief moment before I looked back up again. Was I seriously going to do this? What if I leaned over to kiss him when the clock struck twelve and he had left me to go kiss someone else?

"10...9...8."

The fact that my whole life was about to change in a matter of seconds was unbelievable. I had been in love with Edward Cullen for the majority of my life, and now in just a few more seconds I could finally find out the truth. I could finally find out if we had a future together.

"7...6...5."

"You should really get going." I yelled to him over the voices of everyone else.

"I'm ok...but you should..."

I interrupted him. "I'm just fine."

"4...3...2...1...Happy New Year!"

At that percise moment confetti was sent flying through the air. Couples all around us started kissing one another, and those who didn't have someone to kiss simply hugged people in their group of friends. The room was in absolute chaos, and it was incredibly noisy in there.

I glanced over to my side and noticed that for some reason, Edward was still standing there.

"You really should go find that guy now." Edward said, gesturing toward the center of the room.

I took a step closer to him, looking straight into his gorgous eyes. "Like I said all along, he's pretty nearby. But you on the other hand, should go find your dream girl."

He took several steps closer to me, closing the distance between us. Out of pure instinct I rested my forehead on his, and found myself wrapping my arms securely around his neck.

"Oh she's not that far from me at all." He whispered as he leaned closer to me.

It was incredibly difficult to believe this was actually happening to me, I swore I had to be dreaming or something. Of course I figured if my luck went the same way it usually did when I got this close to Edward, that something would end up ruining this for me.

"Well, go kiss her then." I whispered back.

"Believe me my love...I intend on doing just that." He said in response before I closed my eyes and pulled myself closer to him in an effort to close the extremely small gap separating us.

I became aware of him placing both of his hands on my waist, and he pulled me into him about the same time that I tried to as well. Each one of those seconds seemed to tick by even slower than the seconds leading up to midnight.

Then it happened. The moment I had waited nearly my whole life for finally took place. No interruptions.

Edward and I's lips met in what could be defined as the longest awaited kiss in the whole world.

The first kiss was very soft and almost cautious...as if neither one of us were sure what we had just done. But despite this uncertainty there was so much passion released in that one little kiss. My lips felt like they were on fire, and I swore my heart had just jumped out of my chest.

After that first kiss however, things started to pick up. The kisses grew faster in pace and I found both myself and Edward pressing our lips harder against eachother's with each kiss.

If I could have, I would have chose to live in that moment for the rest of my life. There is no other feeling in the world that can even come close to the feelings I was experiencing at that moment. My mind played with the idea that I was dreaming, but it all felt so real that I knew this was not a fragment of my imagination.

The need to breathe finally overcame the two of us, and we barely pulled away from one another. I found myself gasping for air, surprised I had been kissing him for so long. I kept my eyes closed, so I didn't get the chance to look at him, but I could feel his breath fanning gently across my face.

As soon as we both caught our breath he leaned in to kiss me once more, and the process started all over again.

It was a wonderful way to start the new year. I just had the best first kiss in the world. The first kiss that girls everywhere dream about experiencing someday. It was the first kiss I had always dreamed of, and it actually did fit all of my regulations.

While I was kissing Edward, I realized that I had always had a secret third regulation for my first kiss all along. Even though it kind of tied into my first regulation, it still was a regulation that needed to be fulfilled.

My regulations for my first kiss were as follows:

1. It had to mean something to me.

2. It had to mean something to the person I was kissing.

3. The person I was kissing couldn't be anyone else but Edward Cullen.

All of my regulations had been met.

I can't wait to see everyone's reactions in the reviews! I have a feeling that all of you probably forgot everything that happened in this chapter up until that very last moment, but that's ok...that was a...well as Edward would say...a big deal.

So are you glad they finally kissed? That is what the whole story was leading up to, that kiss. I found it so amusing reading everyone's reviews begging for the two of them to kiss, and how frustrated some of you were becoming because they still hadn't yet. Well no need to worry anymore!

What did you think about this chapter? I tried to put some filler stuff in it so that it wasn't just like...bam...here they are, they kissed...you know? But I tried to keep it shorter so that it wasn't just a bunch of boring filler stuff.

The next chapter is going to include a lot of Edward/Bella fluffiness. (I think that's the first time I've ever used the word fluff to describe something in one of my fan fictions...lol.) Edward is also going to explain a lot of things to Bella...and for added humor...Emmett may go streaking. ;)

I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

~Hazl~