A/N: and so it continues....

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EPOV

I couldn't believe the way I blurted out about my love for Bella in front of the whole cafeteria! Stupid, stupid, stupid! Trust me, only I would do say something which meant so much in a school lunch room!

Even though Bella seemed to love my confession, I had taken note that she hadn't said it back yet, but I couldn't blame her, I was still furious with myself for my rash decision to suddenly tell her I was in love with her. It wasn't fair to her that I told her in a run down 'tatty' down at heel room.

I sighed in frustration and turned round to face Bella who was smiling widely at me.

"tell me again?" she giggled. I couldn't help but smile at her amusement by a few simple words.

"I love you Bella." I told her with a big grin on my face. And then her face turned suddenly serious.

"I'm sorry I can't say it back. I mean I don't want to say it until I know for sure that I really do love you. I mean, I think I do? You know?" She herself didn't seem entirely sure what she meant judging by the confused look she was currently sporting.

"Bella, I do know what you mean. I went through the same internal struggle before it finally hit me that I really do love you." I smiled as I remembered the moment only two hours before.

"When did you realise? What does it feel like?"

I looked down at the grass below me, pulling some blades out of the ground and ripping them apart trying to think of my answer.

"Urgh, Bella, it's not so easy to explain. It's a weird feeling. Like when I'm with you it makes me so happy and I feel complete, when I'm not with you I want to be with you, and I think about you all the time, wonder what you will be wearing the next day, how you will be wearing your hair the next time I see you. I think about you before I go to sleep at night and your the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning. You are always, I mean always on my mind.

"You are the one for me Bella. I do truly love you, I've given you my heart, you have the power in you to destroy it, but I trust you not to. Today showed me that. That's when I realised for sure."

"In that case, I'm glad I made a tit of myself at lunch then." She grinned and curled into my body pressing into my chest as far as she could go. "I think that I could love you Edward. I want to. I just don't know how to know if what I'm feeling is love. Well I understand what you said and everything, and i know that I think about you all the time too, I just can't believe that that is what love is! I mean everyone talks about it being the most miraculous thing ever, I thought I would feel more than this." Suddenly she sat bolt upright and stared at me with the cutest look of confusion. She was adorable.

"Why isn't there like some sort of definition of love! I'm so frustrated I could scream!" I smiled affectionately at her, she obviously did want to say it but not until she was ready, which is what I was waiting for. Unfortunately when I was ready was a ridiculous setting. Never the way I had imagined telling her.

"Bella, I didn't say it so you would get stressed out over saying it back to me. Just calm down, please only say it when your ready. Ok?"

"Sure. Tell me again?" she asked sweetly. I sighed and laughed.

"I love you Bella. Now let's get going home. It looks like it's going to rain." I guessed as I looked up through the trees of the meadow to the sky which had turned a nasty grey color.

"Awww, can't we just stay out here a little longer. I don't care if I get wet." She moaned.

"Ah but Bella, I do. I can't have you catching Hypothermia or something more serious. I love you and I can't lose you now." I pressed my nose against hers and rubbed until she giggled. There was nothing sweeter than the sound of my Bella laughing and being happy.

"Uch fine."

"You do know that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit?" I reminded her and I watched the smile flicker slightly.

"Yeah, people say that don't they." She pulled a huge put on smile on her face before jumping up, waiting for me to follow suit.

"Is something wrong Bella?"

"No." She replied glumly, staring down at her foot scuffing backwards and forward on the grass. "Uh, maybe." She looked up at me and I quirked my eyebrow at her. "Alright, I miss Alice. I know you don't like her but she was my best friend for years. I actually missed her when I was in Arizona, I didn't realise how much. Plus she knew about me and you."

Well that explained why she hadn't been nasty to me yet this year. "Is that part of the reason she has fallen out with you then?"

"No, it had nothing to do with it. She would probably have been the only one out of my friends to be supportive of me. You know why she has fallen out with me, the whole freaking school knows why she has fallen out with me. I swear I am never touching alcohol ever, ever again! God what have I done. I nearly screwed us up...again, and I've lost my best friend. How am I so self destructive? What is it about me that means I mess every little thing up!" she sighed exasperated at herself.

"Baby, you've not messed us up, I'm still here right?" I waited for a reply from her, and when I got my nod I continued, "And as for Alice, well, it's not like she was going out with Jasper so it doesn't count does it?" I reminded her of the conversation we had when I found out about her and Jasper. Her eyes opened wide and she looked at me frantically and clutched onto my arm making sure I couldn't go anywhere without her. "If he truly is your best friend, she will forgive you."

I stood up from my seated position and folded her into my arms, trying in any possible way to soothe her.

"Your right. As always." She sighed as she pulled away from me. I let her go as she bent down to pick her jacket up off the floor, just watched her perfect ass firm up as she bent over...guh. I had the most overwhelming urge to spank her, I suddenly realized how Emmett and co were such pigs, and I was seriously disgusted with the vile things running through my head. How did this girl do this to me? It was crazy! She made me go so far out of what I thought was acceptable behaviour without even saying a word. I shook the inappropriate thoughts from my head and started thinking about the recent baseball game Carlisle had been watching last time he was home.

"Edward?" My head snapped up in response to my name. "I was saying can we go now? I just got hit my some icky rain." She pouted.

"I thought you said you would be fine sitting out in the rain?"

"Yeeees." She answered like a petulant child, "But that was before I remembered that my hair can't get wet."

"And why can't it get wet?" I felt like spouting some stupid Gremlins joke about it going crazy and multiplying when wet but thought against it. I was pretty sure she would not appreciate a hair joke. Her knowledge on hair was probably just as extensive as I had discovered her knowledge on biology was.

"Because it can't" she whined back at me, wanting to end the conversation there.

"Bella, why?" I asked mischievously.

"Because it goes all frizzy and horrible! You see the shininess of it just now? Yeah that all goes away! It goes straggly and horrible and...and...well just horrible!" She was just one step away from stamping her feet and jumping up and down, it was adorable winding her up. "So now I've told you, can we go?"

"Oh no! I want to see this horrible mess your hair ends up in!" I laughed as she took a swipe at my arm. I quickly ducked out of the way, "Oh Bella, that wasn't very nice!" I spoke in shock horror as she tried again. This time I quickly grabbed her arm and lifted her up over my shoulder, fireman style. Obviously something she wasn't expecting as she screamed out as loud, I figured as loud as she could.

"What are you doing!" she shouted at me.

"Taking you back to my cave to have my way with you!" The air was filled with Bella's screams and laughter as she kicked my legs in a bid to get free. Sensing that my legs could only take so much torture I let her down on the ground gently.

"What? Why did you put me down?" she pouted, her voice all innocent and upset sounding.

"Because you were kicking the shit out of me! I thought you were going to get my nads sooner or later. I didn't really want to take that risk." I admitted.

She looked up at me before launching herself into my chest hugging me so tight the air escaped from my lungs leaving me breathless. As the last gust of air wooshed it's way out of my mouth I managed to breath out a strangled "why?"

"Because you are awesome, I couldn't ask for a better boyfriend. I really am so lucky you can put up with me." Bella's face suddenly lit up with an amazing smile. If she hadn't have already caused the breath to escape my body it would have there, seeing her just look so intensely gorgeous. "Thanks Edward. I don't know what I would do without you." She loosened her grip on me and grabbed my hand instead before she started pulling me along in the direction of my house, which was currently free of parents. Of course Bella would have to go home soon to put the dinner on for her dad, but every second with her counted. I didn't want to be apart from my angel if it could be avoidable.

When we arrived at the clearing marking the entrance to my house Bella still gasped.

"I don't think I'll ever get over the grandeur of your manor! I wish Charlie's house was like this. I can't turn around without him being in the way" she sighed and complained.

"Well at least Charlie is around to get in the way. Imagine living in this size of house, wandering about on your own." She really didn't know what she was wishing for.

"Hmm, oh yeah, that would be really awful." She rolled her eyes at me before she tore out of my hand and started skipping towards the back door. I sighed and let the annoyance and hurt that washed over me seconds before fade away as I watched the beauty in front of me, being herself, having fun.

Which was all I ever wanted for Bella. I hated the fact that Bella had to pretend to be someone else for everyone at school. So relieved I was after she had confessed she had broken the 'status quo' I could almost have burst into song.

I shook my head whilst smiling at her as I followed her to where she was now waiting for the backdoor to be unlocked.

"For someone who is so into running you are really slow. Hurry up! It's going to pee it down in a minute!"

"Alright, alright! You are so impatient Bella." I pulled the keys out of my jeans pocket and unlocked the door for her.

"I know, my mom used to like telling me that." She told me as she walked through into my kitchen where she went to the fridge to take out a carton of orange juice.

"Sure Bella, just help yourself." I rolled my eyes at her, feigning annoyance and trying to hide the fact I was happy she was so willing to help herself to my food. She grinned back at me and hopped up on one of the barstools and pat the one next to her, indicating for me to join her.

"You know, I was thinking, maybe I could meet your parents sometime soon?" It was one thing I never expected her to say. She wanted to meet my parents?

"Em, eh, what?" I was too flabbergasted to try and form proper sentences. How could she want to meet my parents?

"I was just thinking that seeing as I'm spending so much time at their house, and that we really are getting serious, that they have a right to know who I am. Don't worry parent's love me!" she told me, holding her hands up as if that confirmed the matter.

"Em, I don't know Bella. I don't know when they will both be at home to meet you..."

"Edward, I've already met your dad; he and my dad seem to know each other well too, so he can't not like me! And I know your mom may be a little more difficult seeing as she will think I'm like corrupting you or something, but honestly, all parents do love me! It's never been a problem before." She put her hand on my lap before continuing, "Oh and of course you will have to meet my dad, that will probably be more of a challenge for you, but I think he will be happy you aren't one of the tossers from school. He will think you will be a good example for me I reckon."

Meeting her dad? Forks Chief of Police? Oh Jesus, Joseph and Mary! The chief of police who held a gun on his hip belt, who would probably be able to get away with murder.

"Edward?" Bella's sweet voice snapped me back to attention. "are you ok?" she asked me concerned. I caught my reflection in the glass of the cooker and saw my eyebrows were raised in shock and my mouth was almost forming an 'o'. Of course, I couldn't feel my face contorting into that position, I felt numb. Panicking over the thought of meeting Bella's father, maybe even more so with the idea that if Bella met my parents she wouldn't want to be with me anymore.

"I don't think it's a good idea, like not just yet." I told her.

"Edward, we've been sneaking about for long enough, now that it's finaly out at school I don't want to have to hide it from my dad. Are you embarrassed by me or something? Am I not smart enough for your parents? Is that what it is?" Oh, damn Bella and her jumping to conclusions!

"No, no, no! Bella that's not it! My parents... well, I've told you about them, they aren't exactly the most accepting parents..."

"so you think that they won't accept me because I've got a low GPA and have got a bad reputation around here?"

"Bella, would you let me finish? They won't judge you because of that! They just are a bit wierd..." I wasn't really sure how to put it. They didn't care enough when it mattered, and only put effort in where it didn't matter. How was I to explain to them about Bella, someone who meant a lot to me without them not caring, and how would they even act around her?

"Hey," I felt her small hands cupping my cheek and I leant into it adoring the feeling of her warm skin against mine. "It will be fine. I don't care what your parents are like! I just think they should meet me. Thats all, they're bound to hear things over the grapevine after our outing at school, so I think it's the best idea before they start asking questions and being annoyed that you hadn't told them sooner."

I sighed, realizing that she was correct. They did need to know. "Maybe your right. I'll see when Carlisle is next off and I'll ask them about you coming to dinner or something." I resolved.

"That sounds great. You can come round to mine Friday night for dinner." She smiled up at me and any qualms I was feeling over the dinners with the parents vanished. "Tell me how much you love me."

I laughed gently at her and lifted my own hand up to her cheek. Her face was so small and fragile looking in my large hands. "You make my life with living Isabella Marie Swan, you are my sun, my moon and my stars. You complete me."

And she really did, I was 100% telling the truth, she really was everything to me. Living without her would be impossible for me now.

A/N:I think I've lost my knack for writing since I came back my holidays. I've been pondering over this chapter for days now and it's still short as anything! Arghhhhh! I'm so frustrated with myself right now! Oh well, I'm sure I'll get back into it for the next chappie!

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