This was originally a poem, but I sort of suck at poetry, so I re-did it in normal format. But anyway, here's the scene in Twilight where Bella first says "I love you" to Edward in her sleep (pg 312-314) from Edward's POV. All quotes are from Twilight, copyright Stephenie Meyer!
I apologize if this sucks/is confusing, because I was half asleep while writing this.
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You Are My Life Now
I watch her sleep.
I've done it before, but never this close. Never with an invitation. Never touching her. It feels better, knowing that she knows, knowing that she wants me here.
She breathes evenly against me, my arms around her waist. I sigh, almost blissfully, her hair over my face. It's slightly torturous, with her scent so potent to me, and the aching in the back of my throat is almost too much to bear.
I should move away. I can't put her in this kind of danger. But the feeling of her body against mine is too perfect, and I can't give it up. So I endure it.
Suddenly she turns, her face slightly angled towards mine, and she sighs. Her cool, sweet breath rushes across my face, making me tense, and I grasp that I can't stay this close for any longer. I need to sit across the room in the rocking chair. It's strange for a girl her age to have, but somehow it fits, it seems like Bella.
But suddenly she makes a noise, my name.
"Edward," she whispers.
"Yes, love?" I worry- did I wake her?
But she doesn't respond, and I realize she's still asleep.
"Edward," she says again. I gently let go of her, slide my arms from around her. Somehow, this hurts more than the thirst I'm containing in my throat. She settles over on her back, I hover over her, watching her again. A smile turns the corners of her soft mouth upward, and I feel another craving, one that I can't control. I quickly press my lips to hers, holding my breath, and then back away to the window.
I won't be gone for long, just long enough to get back a hold of the self control that her presence seems to dissolve. I turn and give her a longing look, staring at her for a minute longer. Her lips are moving, and I lean forward to listen.
"I love you, Edward," she says so quietly, I'm sure I must have imagined it.
But she says it again, louder this time. "Edward, I love you."
I breathe in deeply, and suddenly, I am alive. I have never felt anything this close to ecstasy before, even as a human, and I don't know how I've survived this long without it. So many emotions overtake me, and all of them good. I want to wake her up and tell her I love her, I want to hold her forever, I want to do something crazy.
She loves me.
And although I deserve nothing of the sort, for once I push this feeling away.
But I realize I need to hunt, just quickly, and I need to change my clothes. So I hop out the window and into the forest, attacking the first large animal I can see until I no longer feel cravings. I rush home, but it's only been ten minutes.
"Where have you been?" my siblings tease me as I stumble upstairs to my room. "What's gotten in to you?"
I feel myself grinning stupidly, but I honestly don't care. I am drunk off of these feelings, and I refuse to make them go away. I shrug into the first clean clothes I can find before rushing out the front door again and back towards her house.
I jump back in through the window and sit in the rocking chair, content to watch her for hours until she wakes up.
And when her eyes finally open, she throws herself at me and I hold her tight. My eyes are still shining and bright, and she can sense that something is different.
"What did you hear?" she asks, wincing slightly.
"You said you loved me." Then I blanch- maybe it was just a dream. Maybe she didn't mean it.
"You knew that already," she says, looking away, and I relax, hold her tighter. I can't possibly fathom why she would be embarrassed about this.
"It was nice to hear, just the same," I say lightly , smiling into her hair.
"I love you," she whispers into my chest, making the empty space where my heart should have been swell once again. She can't possibly understand what I feel when she says that, especially now that she's conscious.
It would take me years to explain this to her, to let her know how much I love her. So I summarize all of the feelings into one sentence.
"You are my life now."
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That line in Twilight really just hit me. I don't know, I think it's just really, really beautiful.
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