I can't get over the number of reviews I've received in the last three days...85!!!!!! So the 29 needed to get me to 400 shouldn't be too much of a stretch right? lol. And another two chapter's in one day...

Well you all went bat shit crazy for the last chapter so hopefully this one will possibly have you squuueeeeeing a little too.

You'll probably be pleased to know that I don't think I'm planning any more cliff hangers...I'm pretty sure the main drama is over...phew

Edward's POV

I slowly turned towards the voice hoping to fucking Christ that I wasn't imagining it...Because if I was...then my fucking mind was playing cruel tricks on me.

She was drenched by the rain and shivering a little but she still seemed like the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen...even with her hair sticking down her face and mascara runs on her cheeks.

"You kept it...Why?" She yelled to be heard above the rain.

"Bella...I thought...I just watched your plane leave." I closed the distance between us and stood before her looking confused and soaked through just as much as she was. "Kept what?"

Her eyes were blinking furiously as rain ran down her face but she didn't seem to care.

"The bear...From the carnival...You kept it?" A loud roar of thunder raged above her causing her to flinch but she managed to stay firmly in place as she waited for my answer.

"Yes." My voice was shaking as I tried to project it through the pounding sound of the storm.

"Why?"

"Because you gave it to me...on our first date you..." I licked water off of my lips that had cascaded down my face. "I thought you'd gone...I was just too late...I was coming back to grab some shit then..."

Her breathing was laboured as we stood there looking at each other.

"Too late for what?" She asked as she looked up to the heavens as the sky light up around us.

"To tell you...Bella I...I..." I could do this...I screwed my eyes and mustered that little boost of courage to say it. "I love you."

"What?" she gasped as I took another step towards her

"I love you." I did love her and I couldn't believe how easy it was to say finally.

"What?" she was shaking her head like she was struggling to hear the words and let them sink in.

I took the last step needed so I could wrap my arms around her while pressing my head to hers.

"I. LOVE. YOU!" I smiled as her eyes went wide. I raised my own eyes to the heavens and shouted for everyone to hear. "I'M IN LOVE WITH ISABELLA MARIE SWAN!"

"Oh my god...Oh my god! Edward." I think she was crying but with all the cold December rain consuming us it was hard to tell for sure.

I lowered my eyes back to hers and leaned into her ear " I love you." I whispered as she turned her face slowly towards my mouth.

I felt something I had never felt in that moment as our eyes locked...Love...Pure unadulterated love for the woman stood before me looking like a drowned rat with panda eyes.

"Say it again" She breathed as she held my gaze...looking for any sign of indecisiveness.

I nudged her chin with my nose and ran the tip along her jaw, making my way back up to her ear. "I love you."

Bella's POV

This wasn't real...It couldn't be.

"I love you." He smiled again and my broken heart melted.

I had waited for so long for him to say those words and now he was saying them...it was like I was dreaming.

Maybe my mind was playing tricks on me...Maybe I'd been in the cold too long and I was hallucinating.

Then I must have been imagining his lips brushing against mine and sending warmth throughout my frozen body.

I wasn't imagining it...He'd just declared his love to me and now he was kissing me but I could only stand there like a stone sculpture in shock.

His arms dropped and he took a step back.

"I'm too late aren't I...I missed my chance..." His voice broke at his words.

What was he talking about?

"Edward I..."

"It's ok..I knew the chance was slim but I had to try right?" Even in the dark I could see the hurt in his eyes and the red rims edging them.

He continued to step back away from me and my brain finally started to re-function and allowed me to move.

"I'm just gonna go..." He blindly gestured behind him before turning around and running towards the main doors of his building.

"EDWARD ANTHONY CULLEN STOP RIGHT THERE!" I started to run towards him before he'd even turned back around and I threw myself at him...smothering his mouth with mine.

The impact of my body slamming into his had him stumbling backwards but he managed to steady us and I lifted my mouth away from his.

"Oh come on!...You can't just blurt that shit out to me then expect me to let it fly!" I used his own word against him and couldn't stop the huge grin that spread across my face.

Within seconds his features were a mirror of my own and we lost ourselves in the moment and a kiss that was better than any we'd ever shared...It was even better than that first one back when I was seventeen...because this one had followed him saying the words I knew he'd always struggled with...words I never thought I'd hear fall from his lips.

The storm could have disappeared but I had no idea...nor did I care. I didn't care that I was soaked through to my underwear or that I'd probably get a cold from being out here so long. All I cared about was being in this mans arms and knowing he wanted me there.

Our moment ended all too soon though as he started chuckling.

"What?" I pulled back to ask.

"Your nipples are trying to say hello again...I really do love winter." I hit his arm as his chuckle turned into a full blown laughing fit. "Come on...Lets get you inside so they can defrost."

His place was still as it had been the last time I was here...with remnants of our prom still evident.

I sat on his couch while he went and grabbed us a pair of fresh clean and surprisingly warm towels.

"Here let me help you." He smiled as he wrapped it around my shoulders and pulled it up to rub my hair...Then wiping my face. "What?" He asked after a moment of me watching him.

"I'm just waiting to wake up." His hands stilled and he looked almost pained. "What?" It was my turn to ask.

"I...just wish I could have told you sooner...prevented all the hurt and shit...I wish I could have figured all this out when we were together and not screwed you up so much." His dropped his gaze to his lap.

"Thanks!" I joked.

"I didn't mean it like that...You're just...an amazing person with so much love and I broke you...I made you not want to love anyone again. I don't think I can ever forgive myself for that." he looked up at me again with wonder in his eyes.

"Edward...I didn't want to love anyone else because I was in love with you...I am in love with you." I poked him playfully and he smiled back. "I wish I could forgive myself for ending things between us before instead of just trying to talk to you and giving us the chance to work things out..giving you time to figure things out." I let out a solitary chuckle and squeezed his hand in mine.

"I think we should both just forgive ourselves then and move forward...No more hiding how we feel. I want this...us." He whispered as he kissed me again.

My entire body thawed out with a brush of his lips.

"Did you really go to the airport to try and stop me?" I curled my legs around and sat on them as I used the other towel to dry his hair off.

"Yeah...I did." He chuckled as I looked at him in amazement. "I thought I'd missed you. I watched the plane leave and everything...I was just coming home to grab some stuff before turning around and heading back to the airport...I was going to fly out to Phoenix later and go find you but I pulled up here and you were..."

"Already here." I grinned.

"When did you change your mind and come back?..And how the hell did you get back so soon?" He asked.

"I just got into the departure lounge and sat looking at the pictures from prom...I saw the bear and my mind went blank...I don't know what I was thinking only that I had to know why you kept it. Before long I was running back through the airport with the intention of jumping in a cab and coming here to find out. I even hurt myself in my rush!" She pouted as she lifted the side of her shirt to expose a fresh triangular bruise.

"Ouch!" I hissed before carefully running my hand over her supple skin...Loving being able to touch her again.

"Yeah I fucking crashed straight into some guy's trolley and wound up in a heap on the floor...The son of a bitch started ranting at me so I flipped him off." She shrugged as my mind went into overdrive.

"That was you!" I asked unable to believe how close we'd been.

"Ye...ah." she sounded confused so I filled her in about how I'd been stood not thirty feet away from her at the time and was locked in battle trying to get through to the departure lounge to declare my love for her.

"We weren't that far behind each other then."

"Wait how did you get back here so fast?" I asked confused as to how we'd missed one another.

"I offered a cab driver three hundred bucks if he would drive me home and speed all the way like it would break his meter...I even told him that if he got stopped I'd pay the ticket. It took just over an hour give or take. I only got here about twenty minutes before you."

"Well that makes us even then." I smirked as she looked bewildered.

"I too crashed into a line of trolleys...And had to spend a hundred and fifty seven dollars just to tell you i love you." We both chuckled at the irony.

"Say it again...please...I just want to hear it one more time." I asked with pleading eyes.

"Isabella...I love you."

My eyes closed as I savoured the moment.

He moved closer and pulled me against him..wrapping his arms around my waist.

"And I plan on telling you that at least once...everyday...For the rest of our lives...If you'll let me." I'd heard enough and stopped his tongue with my own.

"I think we better get you out of those wet clothes before you catch your death." He said as he stood up and held out his hand to me.

I took it without hesitation and followed him to his room.

Edward went to his dresser and pulled out a pair of boxer briefs and his favourite school hockey shirt. He passed them to me and I thanked him before kicking off my shoes.

That's when realisation kicked in as to what I'd done...I'd left my job and given up my apartment to move back to Phoenix...And I hadn't gone...so know I was jobless and homeless to boot.

"You can stay here you know...until you sort out getting your apartment back." He smiled noticing my worried look. He walked over to me and helped me out of my sweater and as the damp fabric lifted from my body it took the white tank top I was wearing underneath with it too...leaving me in just my red balconette bra. "Or..." He paused and pulled me into his arms again. "You could just stay here...permanently."

Had he really just asked me to move in with him?

Shit!

"I guess I might be able to put up with your sorry ass on a more permanent basis...As long as you leave watering the plants to me?" I teased as I shed my underwear and pulled on the shorts and shirt he'd handed me.

"You know you don't have to make it sound like such an unpleasant prospect." He rolled his eyes.

"Does that mean you're going to make it 'pleasent' I licked my lips as his eyes looked me up and down.

"That depends..." He shrugged playfully.

"On...?"

"On...if you introduce me to Officer Swan again...And I'm not talking about your father Bella." He turned me around and pressed himself against my back...His contentment was prominent again and he was just making sure I knew what I did to him.

"I don't know..." I scrunched up my face and closed on eye tight while I pretended to think about it.

"You look damn fine in my clothes Miss Swan." He turned me back to face him and whispered...sending a shiver though me.

I touched my lips to his and smiled into them as he pushed back against mine...Knowing he loved me made it all the more sweeter. My body reacted to our contact instantly but I fought to contained my need for him. I lost the battle though when I felt his lips move around to my ear before making their way to my collar...causing me to whimper and him to become hungry. Even though the force pulling us together was strong and demanding we didn't let it overpower us. Every touch was tender and every kiss was slow and sensual...deliberate.

We didn't rush to get our clothes off or hurry to jump into bed...We took our time and reacquainted ourselves with one another...Just enjoying the feeling of being completely in love.

Edward eventually took my hand and walked us over to the bed that I would be calling my own from now on.

"Let me give you the tour." He smirked as we stopped at it's side. "This is the bed...and that concludes our tour." I laughed as he threw himself on it...taking me with him.

"I love you." He whispered as he pressed his fore head to mine before pushing his length into me.

I didn't think I would ever grow tried of hearing those three little, but powerful, words falling from his lips.

"I love you. I whispered fearing that if I spoke any louder then I wouldn't be able to stop myself from crying at all this.

My eyes rolled as he buried himself in me again and his face pressed into my hair as he set a pace pleasing to both of us. I would watch my tongue tonight and leave my dirty mouth at the door for another night...tonight I was being made love to by the only man to ever hold my heart and that only made it better than ever. He thrust into me repeatedly and rolled us around the bed as we enjoyed the sensations we were experiencing for what felt like the first time.

Feeling the person you love moving within you and knowing they feel the same seemed to heighten everything I felt and It wasn't long before my first orgasm washed through me...leaving me gasping as Edward smiled at his achievement. His grin grew bigger as he took me into another one pretty soon after. By the time my third one started to shake me he was breathing harder and groaning in defeat that he couldn't hold his own release off any longer and I didn't want him to either.

I had been going to leave the swearing by the door but couldn't help myself...so I whispered a string of profanities into his ear and he exploded along with me. We spent most of the night getting lost in each other and Edward continued to profess his love to me at any given opportunity...when I asked him why he just said he had a lot of making up for lost time to do.

I woke up on Christmas morning to the best gift I could ever imagined...Edward Cullen and knowing he loved me like I loved him.

Well how was the reunion...not too cheesy I hope. I'm worried I might have got it completely wrong and let you guys down after all the build up so let me know if you loved/hated it.

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Next chapter is dinner at Alice's...with one extra guest she didn't expect to be seeing any time soon...and yes I do mean Bella lol.