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Chapter 25: The beginning

BPOV

I was finally released from the hospital a week before school was due to start. Alice out did herself, she got me way more stuff than I needed, I had a feeling Edward put her up to it. I hated to accept it all but I put a smile on my face and graciously accepted my bags and bags of clothes, shoes and all the accessories.

"Alice, I will never be able to pay you back for all this stuff, at least not till after I graduate from college and get a job." I joked with her as she was showing me all my new things. This was the last weekend before school started on Monday and she was at my house helping me put everything away.

"I'll tell you what, you can pay me back by shutting your mouth and putting this on." She smirked and threw a shirt over to me.

"Alice, why do I have to put this on now?" I whined rolling my eyes

"Because Edward is going to be here any minute and I want you to look extra special for your date." She moved back to my closet to continue to put the clothes away.

"Where am I going?" I asked

"Not a chance in hell, you know how much he loves to surprise you. Plus" she continued "he still feels really bad about not being there when you fell and not being there when you woke up, so I will not ruin this for him."

"Alice, please tell me he still does not feel bad about that?" I was really starting to get annoyed with his apologies. This was not his fault at all and I really wish he would not feel so guilty.

"Bella, honey, Edward is going to dwell on this, just let him have his moment, it is better for all of us, trust me, I know! He is not the easiest person to live with when he is like this." she explained and I felt my heart sink a little. I hated that he felt guilty and hated that his family had suffer

"Err, that is it, tonight it stops!" I promised. I did not want for him to feel guilty any longer he did nothing wrong.

"Bella" Marissa called as she walked into my room, "Edward is here, he is down stairs with dad. Oh ya, you have more flowers." She smiled and walked out the room.

Edward sent me flowers every day since the day I got out of the hospital. He was really overreacting with this whole guilt thing.

"Alice what are you doing tonight?" I asked while I was getting changed into the shirt she picked out.

"Tanya and I are going to see Dark Night." she sounded a little apprehensive about telling, she put her head down a little and turned back to my closet

"Alice, it is OK, Tanya is family to you guys, I understand that, I may have my issues with her but that is between me and her and no one else."

I shuttered as I remember the first phone conversation, I still had not told anyone about that. Tanya was going through a lot and I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt but she had this attitude towards me that I really didn't like. She would put on a good face whenever we were with everyone else. She gave me dirty looks all the time and whenever we were alone, she made it a point to tell me so random 'Memory' about her and the Cullen's.

"Bella you still have not told me what your issue is with her, I mean I believe you when you say it is nothing big but if she did something to you, we have a right to know."

"It is nothing Alice, I promise, now, how do I look?" I said looking at myself in the mirror. My hair was down and a little curly in all the right places. It hung over my shoulders and I put a head band in my hair that matched my shirt, one of Alice's accessories.

"You look beautiful." She walked toward me and joined me by the mirror.

"Is the scar noticeable" I asked looking at my scar that went from the corner of my eye to the back of my head. Luckily my hair covered the part on my head but you could still see the mark on my face.

"Nope, not at all." Alice patted my back "let's go, you do not want to keep Prince Charming waiting." she said leading me out the door.

When we got down stairs, I was not expecting to see Tanya there. But then again, I guess it would make sense for Edward to bring her since she was going to the movies with Alice, the movie theatre was closer to my house than theirs.

She was sitting on the couch way to close to Edward I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and listened to her talk to.

"Oh Charlie, do you remember when you found Edward and I in the woods that night, we were looking for my dog and we got lost. I was so scared but Edward was right there for me, comforting me, when you found us, we had been in the woods for over 2 hours we were so cold and wet because of the rain."

"I remember that, we looked for hours for you guys. Your parents were so worried. Then we found your dog in the back yard." Charlie was laughing. "You and Edward always found trouble." My dad smirked. I felt my heart sink down to my stomach and I held on to the reeling of the stairs.

"We sure did didn't we Eddie?" she put her hand to his knee and squeezed it he looked up and gave her a weak smile. "That was a long time ago." He said standing up brushing her hand away. He looked over at me.

"Bella!" he walked over to me and grabbed my waist. He went down and kissed my neck and I gave Tanya a smirk.

"You are breathtaking." He whispered in my ear "are you ready?" He asked.

"I am more than ready, Eddie" I sarcastically whispered in his ear.

He rolled his eyes, let out a grunt "Please never call me that." he kissed my cheek and we walked out the door.

"Midnight Bells." my dad yelled.

"Have fun." Alice said waving to us.

We got to the car and Edward went to open the door for me but instead of opening it, he gently pushed me so my back was against the door he had his hands cupped around my face and I was loosely holding on to the front of his shirt. He gazed in my eyes for a moment then I grabbed him and pulled him into a passionate kiss, his lips crashed against mine willingly, he had one hand playing with my hair and the other around my back. He moved his lips to my neck and I leaned my face over and caught a glimpse of Tanya I gave her a ha ha looking smile as Edward opened the car door for me.

EPOV

I explained to Bella a hundred times about why I was not there within the hour and we spoke another hundred times about why I was not there when she woke up. I know that she told me it was not a big deal and to not blame myself for what happened but, I blamed myself anyway. I felt so guilty, I know that I did nothing wrong but I still felt like I let Bella down. I could not shake the guiltiness I felt deep down inside.

School was starting on Monday and I wanted to make our last weekend together special, before the craziness of senior year starts. I had decided that since we have not been back to our meadow in almost two months that was a perfect place to go. I wanted to watch the sunset with her. Forks at Twilight was beautiful, and what better place to watch it than our meadow.

"Edward, I know that you are not going to tell me where we are going but I was kind of hoping we could go to our meadow." She looked over at me with her beautiful brown eyes.

"That is exactly where we are going." I said asI brushed her hair from her neck and rested my hand. She reached over and put her hand on my thigh. I shivered

"Are you all right?" she looked over at me concerned but with a witty smile, she knew the affect she had on me.

"Better than all right." I grabbed her hand and brought it my mouth I kissed it gently and rubbed it on my cheek.

We got to the meadow and sat against our tree. I held her in my arms, we sat there in silence enjoying the piece and watching the sun go down.

"Bella, I need to talk to you." I did not want to ruin this moment but I really wanted to talk to her about next year. Our junior year went by so fast and I wanted us to start to make plans for next year. We had both applied to the same schools but I wanted to know how she felt about going to Boston with me. We had never really discussed it.

"I am all ears Edward." She replied turning around

"Bella we need to stop ignoring the subject of next year. It is going to be here before we know it and we are going to need to make our decision about college soon." As soon as I said ignoring next year, she started to bite her lip, I knew she was nervous.

"Edward, I really don't want to think about that now. Please can't we talk about something else?"

"Bella you know I want to go to Harvard and you know that I want you to come to Boston with me but I will understand if you don't want to, I just want you to know that whatever decision you make, we will make this work." I reached up and put my hand to her heart.

"Edward it is hard for me because I want to stay close to home, the baby is due in March and if I go to Boston, I am going to be so far away. I am going to miss out on so much. But at the same time, I don't want to be that far away from you. Please can we just see what happens? Please, just for tonight can't we enjoy this and not think about college? Please."

"Bella, I really want to…" "please" she interrupted me. "Bella, we need…." "Please Edward. Please some other night, I just want to be with you tonight."

She was on her knees now kissing my neck and pleading with me. I lost all train of thought and started to kiss her. I laid her down on the blanket gently. I kept my mouth on hers kissing her sensually, Bella had her hands wrapped around my neck pulling me closer to her.

"Edward, please make love to me, please, I need you, and I want you." Hearing her plead with me like that sent my heart racing.

I sat up and slowly removed my shirt, Bella's hands reached out and caressed my chest, her touch sent chills down my spine. I went down and kissed her neck and slid my hand under her shirt and drew circles on her stomach with my fingers. She sat up and removed her shirt still kissing me our tongues exploring each other. She unfastened her bra and my mouth made my way to her breasts. She let out a moan and I trailed my kissed down to her stomach. I stopped at her scar that was still red, caressed it then gently gave it a kiss. She reached down and grabbed my head to bring me back up to her. I looked over at her other scar on her head and caressed it with my thumb then I went and kissed it as well. "I'm sorry." I whispered in her ear. "There's nothing to be sorry for." she whispered back

Her hands were unbuckling my pants my hands were pulling hers down. We undressed one another slowly, seductively. She reached down into my back pocket and grabbed the condom, she knew how much I liked it when she put it on, and watching her beautiful petite hands slide the condom on was erotic. I let out a moan and she crashed her lips to mine. "I love you Edward Cullen."

We made sweet passionate love right there in our meadow, the stars trying to shine through the clouds. We enjoyed the feeling of being with one another we explored each other's bodies with our hands, our mouths, our eyes. The intensity of our love making was incredible, I loved being with Bella, I loved being inside her, I loved sharing this moment with her, I loved sharing the moment when we would both hit our climax, I loved sharing the moment when she would scream out my name and I hers. This moment, this time, this woman was my life and forever with her was all I wanted, was all I needed.