24. Happy

Meeting Charlie was, luckily for me, fairly uneventful. He asked me about every insignificant detail of my life, but it seemed as though I passed his test.

Bella started coming over almost every day after school, and we both managed to pass biology and math with Carlisle's help. We spent every minute we could together, and I somehow loved her more the more I knew about her.

Rosalie got into CalTec, and Emmett got accepted to play football at UCLA. They were excited to be going off to school together. I realized that I was somehow happy for them, despite disliking Rosalie. Maybe Bella had made me a little more lenient towards her.

The grossest thing imaginable happened in December. Jasper asked Alice out on a date, and for whatever reason she said yes.

"Edward, chill out!"

"How can I?" I moaned, "You are my sister. He is our cousin. It's weird"

"E, you do know that we are actually not related to them?"

"But it's weird!"

She sighed, "I know it's weird, but I need you to be okay with it cause I need someone to talk to. You're my brother, and I need you to try to be okay with this"

I rolled my eyes, "If he hurts you I will kill him"

She kissed my cheek, "Thank you"

I tried to be okay with it, but it was hard. It was weird. Carlisle and Esme both thought it was weird too, but they would never tell them they couldn't date because then they would lie to see each other.

But Alice seemed happy. Realistically that is what mattered, so I tried my best to pretend to be okay.

I got every solo I wanted in music classes. My family and Bella came to all the performances, and to my surprise, Charlie even came to one.

"You're pretty good, kid" he said to me, "I'm still not sure about you trying to support my daughter with it though"

"I can support myself" Bella stated back. Charlie and I both laughed.

I gave Bella one of my biological mother's bracelets for Christmas, and I made her a CD with songs I wrote for her.

We had sex for the first time that night. We were both nervous and things were a little awkward, but after a few times things became a little more natural. It was nice to be able to be with her so closely, and to be able to hold her in my arms.

I loved her more than I could ever love anything. I knew I wanted to marry her before we had been together for 3 months. I felt like I finally understood how annoying it was for Carlisle to have to wait to ask Esme to marry him.

We spent all of Spring Break together. We found a cute little meadow a few miles from the house, and I vowed silently to myself that that's where I would propose to her. Alice told me I had to wait until after we graduated high school, but Carlisle said I could do it sooner. He seemed to understand the urgency I had.

I took her to our prom, and she was the most beautiful girl there. We kissed under the disco ball, slow danced, and had sex in the high school changing room.

On the last day of school, I walked with her to our special little meadow.

"I love you" I told her when we arrived,

"I love you too. Now will you tell me why you are so nervous?"

It was like I couldn't hide anything from her.

"Bella, I love you more than anything. And I want to be with you forever…"

"Oh… my… God" She whispered, "Yes" she blurted out

"But I didn't even ask you…" She kissed me, forcing me to stop talking.

"Oh course I will marry you Edward" She whispered in my ear.

We kissed for a few more moments, and then I put my biological mother's ringer on her hand. It had one diamond in the middle, and two sapphires on the sides.

"It's beautiful" She murmured,

We continued to make out, and I allowed myself to feel completely happy with her in my arms. Forever.