Chapter 26 – Another Country
Isabella's POV
We had moved to the bustling town of London, England. I loved the look of the place, so busy and loud and crowded. Finally we were some place on a map and not some remote little quaint village that hardly anyone had heard of let alone visited.
As we drove to our new house, Carlisle pointed out lots of land marks. The only ones I recognised were the houses of parliament and Buckingham palace. Although I did love hearing all the accents, London accents are so different with the occasional cockney rhyming slang. I didn't understand what they were saying when they used it, but I'm sure I'll pick it up after a while.
Carlisle said to us while we were flying over that we'd have to start school all over again. No one was too annoyed as our ages and year groups were explained to us. Carlisle said with mine and Alice's short height, we'd be able to pass for about 13 so we were placed in year 9, so was Eddie since he refused to not be in my classes. The others would be in year 10, so if we were back in America they'd have started high school already.
I think, with our accents, we might stick out a bit, except for Eddie and Carlisle since Eddie can switch his accents so easily, sometimes I wonder what his native accent is, and Carlisle has a natural English accent.
We've been here for almost six months, year 9 has been good and we've all enjoyed our selves. I haven't made any new friends, but I don't really need them now that I'm in school with my family. Everyone's been very welcoming and hitting on the family, including Carlisle at the hospital. It's embarrassing really.
I've started to lose my American accent, so now I sound rather odd, slipping between the two. Eddie has been helping me with sticking with my new English accent for longer, he'd have helped me to keep my American accent, but I prefer my new English one. I think that I've been getting good at the English phrases and everything new.
Eddie said he was gonna take me around London and point out how everything has changed since he was last here. I couldn't wait, I love spending time with him. I'm not sure where we'll be going, but I know that it'll be good to see everything and how things used to be.
It was my birthday today and I couldn't wait to see what everyone had done for it, I knew Alice would go so far over the top that she wouldn't even know where the top was. Eddie would be sweet and stick next to me throughout everything that was planned for me. And the rest of my family was very considerate and caring during the whole day.
I was awoken by Alice and we headed downstairs to see everyone sitting, ready to give out my presents. They were the usual; clothes, jewellery, idiot ideas for gifts from Emmett. It definitely didn't go unnoticed by me that Eddie just stood next to me, but I just let it go.
Eddie's tour was amazing! Hearing everything, I know it sounds kinda like a giant history lesson, but it was really fun. I could imagine how things looked compared to what it's like now. Also, since it was quite late, he took me out to dinner at this really sweet quiet cafe. It was like one of those wee romantic places from the movies, and then he asked me to marry him.
He did it so perfectly. After we finished our food, Edward said he wanted to give me his gift a bit more privately. He handed me a small box with a satin ribbon wrapped around it. It took it and opened the box slowly; inside, nestled gently in the velvet cushion, was a beautiful oval diamond ring.
I looked up to see Eddie down on bended knee and softly spoke, "Isabella Cullen, will you make me the happiest man to ever walk this earth and be my wife?"
I was speechless, but when I eventually managed to say yes to him while nodding my headed vigorously, and beaming huge smile at Edward. I had already let out a quiet gasp, stammered for a while until I gave up on words. He had such an extravagant ring in his pocket, it was a white gold band with an oval of diamonds, all highly polished and shining brightly.
When we got home, Alice was bouncing around preparing everything for a wedding that she didn't even know was happening until I had decided. I gave Edward a panicked look, but he just held me close and told me to let her have her fun.