"Edward?" I asked the man standing behind me. His facial features where just as perfect as I remembered. But instead of looking into beautiful jade eyes I saw they had been replaced with a deep ocean blue. His hair wasn't the bronze mess that I loved to run my fingers through, it was instead a dark chocolate brown, about four or five shades darker then mine, and some how, someone had managed to tame it slightly.
But then he smiled his crooked smile, the smile he only ever used on me, and it was then that I knew, without a doubt, that this man was my Edward. Just a slightly different looking Edward.
"Dance with me?" Edward asked, bowing slightly and holding his hand out, just like the men use to do in the olden days when courting existed. I giggled softly and took his had, curtsying and saying "why thank you kind sir." Before being led out onto the dance floor.
The music that was playing was a soft slow song. Edward put one of his hands on my waist, and took one of mine in his other hand. I placed my left over hand on his shoulder and he lifted me up so I was standing on his feet. Once we were al set he started slowly moving around in a small circle. I rested my head on his shoulder and let him move me to the beat of the music. It was like the world had disappeared and it was just us.
But it wasn't just the two of us; I could feel people staring at us, wondering who we were behind our masks. "Edward, what if someone sees?" I whispered, I didn't want to stop, but I knew it was a major possibility that we would get caught. A teacher and a student don't dance like this. Questions would be asked if someone found out it was us.
"Silly Bella. It's a masked ball, we can be anyone tonight. We can be ourselves, no more hiding." He said, chuckling softly, but I could hear the emotion behind those words. Behind our masks we didn't need to hide our feelings. Then it hit me.
"Alice?" I asked. Already sure but needing confirmation of my suspicions. He chuckled once more, just as quietly as before. "Alice." He said back to me before leaning his head into the crook of my neck. I could feel him smiling my smile and that made me smile. "Remind me to thank that annoying pixie tomorrow." I told Edward. Letting my head lull forward to rest on his shoulder.
He slowly pulled back, lifting me off his feet but keeping me close to his body. I could see thousands of emotions floating in the depths of his eyes, even through his contacts. Looking me deep in the eyes he said in his rough velvet voice. "I love you Isabella. Being with you, it's worth more then all of this, nothing matters when im with you. I can be myself, I don't need to hide, Bella, I don't want to hide anymore." His voice was so full of emotion.
I stood on my tip-toes and leaned in to kiss him. Stopping mere centimeters from his lips I whispered "I love you to Edward, for more then forever." And with that I leaned closer and kissed him with such fire it put the sun to shame.
The End.
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