Wow guys, thanks for all of the reviews! Sorry that this update took so long, so much has been happening. The Inauguration, the place crashing in the Hudson, etc. I really liked writing this chapter, it's just fluff.

As it turns out this story is going to be in total 28 chapters with an epilogue. I've written everything except the epilogue, but I need to edit like crazy, I will try to update soon though. Thanks!

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CHAPTER 22

ANTHONY POINT OF VIEW

"Did you see where I put my other shoe?"

I was hopping around my room with just one of my sneakers on. My dad was pinching the bridge of his nose, obviously stressed by how much I was freaking out now. We were leaving for a small house a few miles away from here in a few days. It's been about a week since we've seen Jacob. My mom's dad, grandpa loved Abigail. We had dinner with him the other night. He's getting older, but I still love him the same.

I did talk to Jacob a lot more lately. Our friendship has been a little strained and I knew that if we wanted to talk more, it would be good to start it now. We talked on the phone a lot, he told me that I should take Abigail out on a date, which I thought was a little weird, but he said that if I wanted to handle the whole jealousy thing, I should start now.

So here I was, looking for my shoe, stressing out because it was officially my first date, ever. I knew it was Abigail, and we were already together and all, but I was still a little nervous. Abigail said that we should act like it's an actual first date, not as close as we are.

All of the females in the house kidnapped my Abby. She said that she didn't mind so much, she hadn't really talked to them all that much anyways. Emmett tried to give me advice on, and I quote, "the right moves to put on her", apparently it was what I was supposed to do on the first date and all.

Jasper tried to calm me down, and it helped a little. My dad was getting a headache from all of the thoughts going through my head. I spun around the room once to find my dad holding my other shoe in his hand. I smiled shyly at him and pulled my shoe on.

I looked in the mirror once, messed up my hair a little bit and turned to my dad and uncles, "Um, do I look okay?"

I looked over to Emmett, he rolled his eyes, "No you look terrible." I could hear the sarcasm dripping in his voice. I glared back at him and turned to my dad, maybe he could be a little honest.

"You look fine Anthony."

Jasper then said, "Why are you so worried about this? You guys have been together for a few months now."

I started running my fingers through my hair, I just washed it, did it smell too fresh? It wasn't damp anymore but maybe it was just a little damp, would she mind that?

"She's only seen me around you guys. I haven't had to deal with us being out in civilization. I mean, sure we've talked a lot and all, but I could always say something stupid."

"It's Abigail, I don't think that she's going to care."

I nodded my head and turned to the clock, 6:57. We said that we would start the date at 7:00. Okay, three minutes, I can do this. Why was I so nervous? It's Abigail, we've never been the awkward couple.

I looked in the mirror one more time then went over to the bunch of flowers. I got yellow and red roses. We were trying to make it like the first date, I figured that guys get girls flowers on the first date. I was anxious to see her. We were planning on moving into the house in three short days so this called for a huge hunt with everyone except for my mom, I knew that she would miss me, but when I asked her she said that she wanted to get to know Abigail better.

So I haven't seen Abigail in three days. Yes three days. Pure torture. We talked on the phone a little bit one night, but that's it. I guess it was a little unhealthy how much time we spent with each other, I was more dependent on Abigail then I was on air. And I actually needed to breathe, unlike the rest of my family.

I grabbed the flowers and headed down the stairs. My uncles and father of course followed me downstairs, we waited by the main door, according to Alice I was supposed to wait there for her to come down the stairs. I thought that was a little over the top being that we were in the same house, why couldn't I just see her?

I looked at my watch, 6:59:37. Okay, okay, I can do this, 23 more seconds left. I heard the bedroom door open and close. Okay, she's coming down, seriously why am I so nervous? She already told me she loves me and I love her in return, so why was I still getting those butterflies in my stomach? The same butterflies I got when I first saw her?

My dad leaned in and whispered in my ear, "That's called love, Anthony." I turned to him and found him smirking at me. I nodded in understanding, I guess the feeling would never go away.

I turned my head back to the staircase and I think my jaw almost dropped. Abigail walked gracefully down the staircase in a pair of black high heels, I have never seen Abigail wear high heels before, and they definitely looked amazing on her.

Part of my mind was concerned about her falling but my thoughts automatically went back to the teenage boy mode when I saw the simple green top she was wearing with a delicate sweater, unbuttoned over it. The top was low cut, when I say low cut, I mean low cut. And finally saving the best for last my eyes found their way to her beautiful smiling face. Alice didn't put too much make-up on her, just a little lip…something. Not that she needed it. Her hair was let down, curled slightly. She looked like a goddess.

She made it down the stairs and stood in front of me, I saw a flash in the background, probably my mother taking photos to cherish the moment forever. But I was too lost in Abigail's nice brown eyes. She looked up at me and said, "Hi."

I leaned down to give her a gentle kiss on the lips, I couldn't resist myself. But she pulled away and smirked, "I don't think I'm the kind of girl who kisses before the date has even started."

I raised my eyebrow at her and she smiled, "First date remember?"

I groaned, did we really have to go along with the whole first date thing? I don't know how I can go three hours and not kiss her. I handed her the bunch of flowers nervously, I almost forgot about those. She looked down at them and took them in her hand carefully. She looked up and smiled at me, "You got me flowers?"

I smirked, "First date remember?"

She smiled wider and started touching the flowers gently, "Nobody has ever bought me flowers before."

"The red symbolizes love and the yellow symbolizes friendship."

She wrapped her arms around me, pulling me into a soft hug, "Thank you so much Anthony."

It was then I realized that we really didn't have a normal relationship. Most people waited a while to find their soul mates, the person they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with. My dad waited over 100 years. Some people went on hundreds of dates to find someone. But both Abigail and I have never been on a date before. And just as Abigail has never gotten flowers, I have never given them.

We said our goodbyes to everyone with a few more camera clicks from mom. I opened the door for Abigail and got into the driver's seat. We were just going to dinner then to the movies. The drive was only a few minutes long, Abigail didn't mind me driving really fast. We were seated in the restaurant within a few minutes. The waitress was nice, we ordered a few minutes later and fell into a comfortable silence.

Then I said, "So what do people do during first dates?"

"Lie about everything so they sound impressive."

I smiled, "Well in that case, my name is Brian, I am 38 years old. I work at a paper company, I sell paper. How about you?"

"Well my name is Sally, I am 30 years old, I believe you lied to me on your profile. You said that you were 31?"

I nodded my head, "I forgot to change it, it's been a while since I updated my profile page."

She nodded her head, "Yeah."

A few seconds later we both started cracking up. A few people gave us a few odd stares but neither of us seemed to care, I guess we really weren't too great with the normal first death thing. Our, well Abigail's food came a few seconds later, the waitress gave us a few curious stares, but we both ignored them. Abigail ate her food with a lot of grace. I knew that I should cherish these moments a lot better, soon she wouldn't be eating, but hunting.

She finished her food and smiled at me, "I guess we're not that great at first dates huh? Maybe it was better we didn't go on one originally. We would have messed everything up, it would have been too awkward."

I nodded my head, "Yeah. I guess we're just not really the dating types. My parents weren't really either though."

She let out a cute little chuckle, "You know what they always say. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

"Yeah, I guess."

I paid for the food and we headed towards the movie theatre. It was only a few blocks away from the restaurant where we parked the car, so we decided that we would just walk there, we were early anyways and it was nice outside. I looked down at Abigail's heels. Of course I looked a little longer at her long, beautiful legs…focus Anthony.

"Can you walk in those things? They look awfully hard to walk in." I wrapped my arm around her waist, what if she fell? I couldn't let that happen to her. I was supposed to be protecting her.

"They're fine. You get used to them. My aunt always went to these dinner parties and I had to wear them all the time. At first they were a little hard to walk in, but after a while it just hurts your feet."

Why must Alice do this? "You can take them off in the theatre." She smiled and nodded her head.

We walked a little further when I heard a whistle. At first I thought it was nothing, people randomly whistle all the time. But I heard it again, paying a little more attention, it was a cat whistle. I turned my head to find that there were two guys with nothing but lust in their eyes, and they were looking at Abigail. Their eyes started at her face as they slowly drifted downward…

I gave them my best death glare and tried the hardest to lower the volume of my growl, but Abigail was of course able to hear it. The two guys stalked off somewhere else, but I could feel Abigail's worried gaze as I made sure the two guys didn't look anywhere near my Abigail.

"Anthony? Are you okay?"

I sighed, "Just give me a minute."

She moved her hand so that it was playing with my hair a little, this always managed to relax me some way or another. It wasn't just the small tugging on the strands, but I liked the way Abigail's fingers were so gentle when they didn't need to be.

Abigail's here, don't scare her, don't freak out. Don't ruin this date.

"I'm really sorry."

She leaned in and gave me a small peck on the cheek, "It's okay. Let's go before we miss this movie."

We got the tickets and sat down in the 8th row. There weren't that many good movies playing. I figured that we should see a chick flick, I figured that's where normal people usually went on dates, but of course none were playing. So we decided on a horror romance film. I didn't know if Abigail would get scared or not, I guess we would find out.

Halfway through the movie I looked over to Abigail. She didn't look scared at all. I decided to pull a first date move on her. So I reached my arms out into the air, as if I were stretching and put my arm around Abigail's shoulders. She let out a small laugh, which caused the people next to us to glare, and leaned into my side.

The movie ended sooner then I had realized, but to be honest, if you asked me what happened, or what it was about, I couldn't answer for the life of me. I was too focused on Abigail, she didn't really seem to be into the movie that much either, she was drawing random patterns on my jeans. So we left the theatre without talking about the movie at all. The ride home was spent in a comfortable silence with some soft music playing in the background.

I pulled up to the house and turned the car off, Abigail and I sat in the dark for a few moments until I said, "I guess that wasn't as fun as most people say it is."

She shrugged her shoulders, "What couple that's been together for a while wants to go out on a first date?"

"I guess you're right. Can I still give you a goodnight kiss?" she nodded her head and I leaned in to kiss her. I didn't want to take it too far, the entire family was probably witnessing.

We went upstairs and got changed into some sleepwear. I still couldn't get over how amazing Abigail looked in my clothes. She looked adorable, cute and sexy at the same time, how is that even possible? We both lay in bed for a few moments before turning off the lights, I realized that Abigail's feet were slightly red.

"Are your feet okay?"

She nodded her head, "The redness with be gone by the morning."

I gently moved her on the bed so that her feet were placed in my hands without hurting her. I gently messaged them a little bit, she looked beautiful in heels but I don't think her pain was worth it.

We were asleep within half an hour. I knew that soon it would be just us for a few weeks, and while I was happy about this alone time with Abigail, I wondered if I really would be able to protect her. Sure I was able to scare off those two guys, but I was nothing compared to the Volturi.

I seriously love that chapter, it's not my favorite, but I needed to write fluff. Thanks for reading!

- Morine