Edward

I didn't understand what she was saying. I couldn't understand.

I looked down at the ground feeling embarrassed, devastated, like I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do now.

Bella's finger brushed the side of my cheek, and down my jaw before forcing my eyes to meet hers. She was smiling.

"You didn't let me finish. You shouldn't have asked me that right now…because I might just have to say yes."

"Yes?" Was I dreaming or just fucking delusional?

"Yes."

"Yes!" I jumped up and scooped her into my arms. "Yes!" We spun around wildy, as I was unable to contain my excitement. "She said yes!" I exclaimed to our audience watching from above. The crowd broke into a round of applause and shouts of "Congratulations!"

The next morning I woke up to see Bella idly playing with the ring that now occupied her left had ring finger. She was grinning from ear to ear.

"So you still want to marry me?" I turned my face towards her.

"You bet your ass I do." She grabbed my face gently and pressed her lips against mine.

She grabbed the camera that was sitting on the nightstand and pulled herself close to me. She held up her left had as she snapped the picture.

"You know most couples get professional engagement pictures taken…" I laughed.

"Well we are not most couples sweetheart…And what do you think about next week?"

"Next week?.....For what?"

"Holy matrimony."

"Next week!?" My eyes got big. I mean I wanted to marry Bella, no doubt about that, but I thought she might want a nice, big wedding with all of her family there, even my future monster-in-law. Renee will be thrilled about this new development in our relationship.

"I was thinking Vegas…" She smiled thoughtfully.

"Vegas? You mean you don't want like a big fairytale wedding?"

"You know when I was little, I used to think so. Not so much now. We are Vegas people honey, not big wishy washy prissy wedding. I want small. Intimate wedding. And Elvis."

I pulled back in amazement. This woman amazed me more everyday. I couldn't think of anything more perfect.

"I would..however, like a nice dress. We could go shopping today since you'll be leav-" She stopped. "Wait. You're supposed to be leaving tomorrow. How is this going to work?" She brought her hand to her forehead, her eyes in full panic.

"Relax Bella. You don't start school for another two weeks. And after you fell asleep last night I called my boss. He's setting me up with a job here with a buddy of his."

"Really?" She said slowly. "Really? You're not joking. You're moving…here?"

"I'm moving here."

She squealed with excitement.

"Well Bella what did you expect? A bi-coastal marriage?"

"It's not that." She got up and started jumping on the bed, her feet on either side of my legs. "Do you even know what this means?!" She continued jumping, jolting the bed with each leap.

"Apparently I don't." My forehead wrinkled in confusion.

"It means we get married couple housing!" She stopped jumping, awaiting my reaction. "Meaning a whole apartment…." I raised an eyebrow. "No communal bathroom…." She fell to her knees, collapsing ontop of me. "Our very own bedroom."

"Fuck yes!" I raised my arms up enthusiastically, before wrapping them around her, tickling her in every place I could get my hands on. "You are such a nerd."

"Well you're the idiot who's marrying a nerd." She said between laughter. We wrestled around on her bed for a few more minutes before I allowed her to pin me.

Bella's head turned towards the door as three loud knocks echoed through the room.

"Stay here future husband!" She placed her finger over my lips momentarily before leaping to her feet and skipping to the door. I couldn't see who our visitor was, but I decided it couldn't be someone we liked because Bella's shoulders visibly fell.

"What do you want Tanya?" She crossed her arms and moved in front of the crack of the door, shieiding Tanya's sight. I could barely see her strawberry blonde hair peaking out over Bella.

"I just wanted to…apologize. To you and to Edward. I was absolutely terrible to you. I was jealous and such a bitch."

Bella stepped away from the door and opened it slightly so Tanya could come in.

"Oh!" Tanya looked surprised when she saw me laying in the bed. "Hi Edward. I wasn't sure if you'd still be here." She walked into the middle of the room. "I'm really sorry. I was drunk and stupid and I know that doesn't excuse it, but I needed to tell you that I'm sorry for what I did."

Bella came over and sat on the edge of the bed, taking my hand in hers. We locked eyes with each other, exchanging words without speaking.

"Nothing like that will ever happen again I promise." She was starting to sound desperate, like she was saying anything to appease us.

"You're right Tanya it won't. Because I'm moving out."

"Bella you don't have to…"

"No it's not because of you. Edward and I will be moving in together…to the married couple's housing." Bella held up her left hand smugly. I could tell she was bragging by the grin on her face. I held in a laugh as Tanya's mouth fell open.

"Oh. Well. Congratulations I guess." Tanya's eyes drifted from her bed, to our bed, to the hallway, like she didn't know what to do or say next.

"Um. I'm just gonna go. I need to go get all of my clothes anyway." She turned abruptly and walked out the door.

Bella burst out in laughter as soon as the door closed.

"Did you see her face?"

"I know it was like she had just seen a unicorn or something." It took several minutes for our hysterical laughter to die down.

"So. Dress shopping?" Bella stood up and grabbed her towel.

"Isn't that against the rules? Me seeing you in your dress?"

"Edward we already discussed this. We are not a traditional couple. And by the sounds of it we are not having a traditional wedding. So what would make you think I would follow that silly rule?"

"Alright," I said nodding. "Dress shopping it is."

Bella

"What about this one?" I came out of the dressing room and turned slowly so Edward could see the dress in its entirety. The gleam of my ring kept catching my eye in the light as I spun around. It made me smile every time.

"That one is beautiful. They're all beautiful Bella I don't know how you're going to pick just one of them."

"Well I have one more to add to the mix." I jumped back into the dressing room and put on my last option.

You know that feeling that a bride is supposed to get when she puts the right dress on. Well I got that feeling as soon as I buttoned the last clasp on it. Before I could even look at myself in the mirror I knew this was it.

Edward would love this one. My hand reached for the door of the dressing room. Wait Bella. Are we really that non-traditional? What's so wrong with keeping him in a little bit of suspense? I tilted my head from left to right, debating my options.

"Edward!" I yelled from inside the dressing room.

"What? Another stuck zipper." I heard him stand up and come to the door.

"No. No it's not that. I think I changed my mind…about the dress. I don't want you to see it."

"I take it you like this last one."

"It's the one." I laughed.

"Okay. Whatever you want babe. I'll give the saleslady my credit card and go wait outside."

"No," I said smiling as I looked myself over in the mirror. "It's on me."

I paid the woman and she put the dress in a garmet bag, which thankfully wasn't see through. Edward carried it as we walked hand in hand back to the dorm. On the way we passed a Photo Center and I decided to stop in and develop our pictures from New Years and our "engagement photo." We grabbed some coffee next door as they developed.

We laughed as we flipped through the pictures an hour later standing at the counter.

The last one, our engagement picture, was priceless. We both look so happy.

"We'll take them," I said to the man at the counter.

"Great." He began to package them up. "Congratualtions by the way."

"Thanks."

"Would you be interested in making any of your photos into a postcard? It's a new service we're offering."

I paused as an idea passed through my head.

"You know what? Yes I would. The last picture please."

He smiled and turned to walk into the back room.

"It'll only take a moment. We save all the photos on the computer that makes the postcards."

He re-emereged a moment later carrying the postcard with me and Edward on the front of it.

"What's that for?" Edward wrapped his arms around my waist and placed his chin on my shoulder, peeking to see what I was doing.

"Wedding invitation. We need a best man and a maid of honor." I wrote Jasper and Alice's information in the address section. In the message part I simply wrote "Vegas in a week."

"I'm sorry sir, we'll be needing another one of those."

The man smiled and made another postcard.

"Who's that for?"

"Charlie. You want him to walk you down the aisle don't you?"

I kissed his cheek. He was always thinking of my happiness. Of course I wanted my Dad to give me away.

We deposited our invitations in the mailbox and began our journey back to my dorm.

"So question?" I asked as he held the door open for me.

"How exactly are we getting to Vegas?"

"I have an idea for that. We'll need to leave today though."

"Today? What the hell are we doing? Walking there?"

"Don't be silly Bella. Don't worry about a thing. I'll take care of it, you just pack our stuff and I'll be back in an hour."

Excited and confused, I followed his instructions and packed everything that we might need. Edward's was easy to pack. He only had a duffel bag.

He burst in the door an hour later, looking anxious as ever.

"Are you ready?"

"We're ready." I handed him his duffel.

"Alright let's go Mrs. Cullen."

"I really like how that sounds…but I'm not a Cullen yet."

"Not yet love." He kissed the tip of my nose as we stepped back out into the sunshine.

There, sitting in front of my dorm was a vintage looking convertible car, top down, ready to go.

"What is this?"

"This," he threw his bag in the back, "is how we're getting to Vegas."

I was amazed.

"We're going on a road trip?!"

"Yep. Nothing but you me and the road for the next few days."

He opened the door for me and I hopped in, very excited about our adventure that was about to begin.

It took us an hour to get out of the city. It felt so good to breathe good, clean air. It wasn't something you missed until you lived in a big city with all its pollution and smog. I took my shoes off and dangled my feet lazily out the window as Edward drove west. I took his hand in mine and leaned into his shoulder. He kissed the top of my head. We put on our matching aviator shades as the sun started to set. That moment was one of the happiest moments of my life. We had an empty road and our whole lives in front of us. And it was going to be one hell of a ride.

A/N: So that's it. I'm happy and sad at the same time haha. First of all thank you, thank you, thank you so much for reading and all of your support. I definitely wasn't expecting all the attention the story was getting and its amazing. So thank you again. And sorry for posting the last few in such a quick succession, I wanted to get them done before I started my crazy studying for finals. Secondly, this is where I wanted the story to end, *but* if I get enough positive response from you guys about possibly doing like an outtake, or "after the credits" scene of the wedding in Vegas. The reason I didn't add it on to the story now is because I felt like this was a good, meaningful place to end. The Vegas chapter would be crazy and fun and I just didn't feel like it was the right way to actually end the story. So let me know what you think about that in your reviews and if enough people want it, I'll work on that and add another chapter of that here. Thirdly, I have the exclusive of my next story that I promised. It'd different from the one included in Brand New so you should still definitely read that one. Also the playlist is on my profile. This next one is a little bit different from the ones I've done in the past. I don't want to give too much away right now but I will say that it's all human, Bella is a cop, and there is an emergence of a Mobward. Yes a Mobward, incredibly sexy guy if you ask me. It's called "Best Served Cold" and here's a little bit to get you hooked until I can start posting chapters....which probably won't be until the end of next week at the very earliest, just because of finals. Enjoy.

"Great." Jake must have adjusted the tie he was wearing, because we got our first image from the microscopic camera he was wearing. The images of the mountain of drugs flashed on the computer screen. They walked all around the shipment, Jake snapping shots at will.

"Great job, Black. We got em. Now get out of there." Carlilse and I smiled at each other. This was huge. We could finally prosecute.

"Well boss I'm glad to see everything arrived safely. If you'd excuse me I have some other business to attend to. See you tomorrow at the dinner banquet?"

"Sure Connor. Have a lovely evening."

I heard Jake exhale as he turned and began walking out.

"Oh one more thing Connor? Did you get all the pictures you needed?"

I heard the screeching of the door again. This was really bad. They knew.

Jake's breathing sped up. He knew something was wrong. "Get out of here Chief, now," he whispered into the wire.