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I looked at him, his loving expression as he longed for my answer. I looked at the ring then at him and I realized I couldn't keep him waiting any longer.

Chapter Six

(EPOV)

The Price of Happiness

I was staring at her. She was so beautiful tonight. Alice really had done an amazing job, though she was beautiful every night with out the help of Alice. I was hoping she'd say yes. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't say yes. I had talked to Renee for hours on end telling her how much I loved her and telling her that I could take care of her. Charlie was entirely different. I had to explain to him that I wouldn't hurt her. I had to remind him constantly that I knew I made a mistake by leaving her. It didn't take him long to accept it though, I could hear his thoughts and every one of them was fine with it, because he knew Bella loved me.

I'd hoped that Alice could just tell me she'd say yes, but her visions ended up both ways. In one of them Bella was crying and rubbing her eyes so much that I could barely understand that her answer was yes.

This however wasn't one of Alice's could be visions, this was reality and I needed her to say yes. I couldn't explain my need for her to marry me, I just knew it existed. I looked down at her perfect face. Even if she told me no tonight, I'd always want to remember the way she looked at this moment, the lovely tears streaming down her face, her perfect smell, her beautiful brown eyes, the blush on her cheeks, the short dress parting at her knee's, the look of her long legs, and the way her feet were arched in her shoes. I inhaled deeply as I etched her scent and appearance into my memory.

"Edward. I love you so much. I couldn't be with anyone else. I couldn't want anyone else. I will never be happy without you. Are you sure this is really what you want? I'm clumsy and I'm stubborn. I get morning breath and I'm very fragile…well for now at least." she began a low chuckle through all of her tears.

"Bella, I couldn't want anything else." I smiled at her.

"Then I'm ready for this to be the twilight of my single life." I pushed the ring onto her perfect finger. I kissed away all of her tears. I was indescribably happy. I was so happy I could cry… if I were human.

I picked her up and placed her on her feet, when her lullaby started playing.

"Dance with me. Please Bella?"

"Okay."

I put my hands around her waist and she put hers around my neck. I motioned for her to place her feet onto mine and I immediately began to waltz. Dancing was like a second nature with me and I had to be cautious for Bella's sake.

"I'll love you forever, you know." She whispered into my ear.

"I know." I kissed her neck gently and she moaned in delight.

(BPOV)

It felt so good to be in his arms. I didn't want to ruin this moment by speaking. I didn't even want to be thinking about anything. I couldn't believe I told him yes. I couldn't believe that I was going to get married. I didn't understand why he wanted to marry me so bad. I could only hope it wasn't because he wanted Jacob to know I was his. I was his, very much so, but I didn't want him to marry me because of something that stupid. I didn't want him to be making a mistake.

I couldn't help, but wonder if I was making a mistake. I loved Edward and I would never want to be with anyone the way I wanted to be with him. I'd never love anyone the way I loved him, there simply would never be any other man for me, all of this I knew, but I had to wonder, if he would feel the same way about me year after year. I truly didn't deserve him. He was better than me in every way and I could never make him as happy as he made me.

I had to think of everyone I would be hurting by being with Edward. Jake was first on the list. He knew I loved Edward and he had to accept it. I wouldn't let him pull me away from my happiness, but what would my happiness cause everyone? Agreeing to marry Edward meant that he would change me himself, it meant that I would be a vampire; also meaning that the treaty would be violated. Rosalie disliked me enough; I couldn't believe I was going to give her a more reason to hate me. On the other hand, if Jake truly wanted me to be safe, then I had to be turned because if I didn't cause a war with the werewolves it would be with the Volturi. I couldn't think of which one would be worse.

"Bella." His velvety voice rang in my voice, interrupting me from my thoughts and causing me to be more incoherent as ever.

"Yes?" I managed to stagger out.

"We have my house all to ourselves tonight. Charlie agreed to let you stay the night." His voice was so soothing and soft.

"Let's go back then." I quickly remembered when Alice had told me that my underwear would matter. She must have already seen this happening. He carried me, kissing every inch of my face and exposed collar bones. His touch was cool and then it would get hot. Every inch of my skin was tingling just with a small touch of his lips. Within an instant we were already there.

We walked up into his room and there was a nice king sized bed waiting for us. It was a canopy bed, with a gold canopy coming down. The covers were a matching gold color with little stones placed in between the lining of the seams. There were beautiful candles everywhere, their scent was freesia. I smiled at the thought of finally getting to be with Edward.

He softly pushed me down on the bed. I was turned over on my back as he unzipped my dress. His hands gently pulled it off and his face quickly changed into an intense frenzied expression. He eyed me speculatively. He quickly untied my shoes and threw them softly onto the floor. He kissed my legs and my thighs. His cold lips pressing against my skin was a paradox in itself; I should have been freezing and I was and then it burned I longed for more and more and more. He stopped when he got to my hip bones and eyed my thong incredulously.

"Alice did some shopping…" I chuckled.

"I never thought I'd love Alice for going shopping." He let out a low laugh and quickly began kissing my stomach.

I gently pushed him over and straddled him. I took off his tie with my mouth. I decided he should be as impassioned as I was. I unbuttoned his shirt and tossed it over to the floor. I began taking off his belt, I could feel him stiffen his position. I began blushing immediately realizing he was as impassioned as I was. I went up to his face and kissed him hard and forcibly. I kissed his cold bare chest and I was kissing a trail all the way down to his now unbuttoned trousers. I tore them off of him and I was about to take off his briefs when Emmett busted down the door.

Emmett let out a low whistle as I realized Edward and I were still down in our skimmies with me on top of him. I blushed and rolled off and quickly grabbed the covers. Edward followed suit and growled, "Emmett this better be important. I was umm… We were…"

"About to have wild hot sex?" Emmett clearly found this a joking matter. My blush deepened and Edward threw a pillow at him clearly furious.

"Get out!" Edward was almost yelling.

"Chill out! Man you must be very sexually repressed," Emmett was snickering again, "Bella if that's what you sleep in every night, I know why Edward watches you sleep!" I buried myself further underneath the covers I could feel my blush deepening.

"EMMETT!" Edward was yelling now.

"Calm down! Seriously though, we have a problem…" before he could finish his sentence Alice came in with a hand over her eyes.

"I'm so sorry to be interrupting your umm…'happy' moment, but the mutts found out about the engagement and they are convinced you're going to bite her. I think it would be better for Bella to talk to them alone, since they're good friends…"

Edward growled, "I don't think that's a good idea. What if he can't control his temper?" He clearly didn't like the idea of me being alone with Jake.

"Edward every vision I've had, Bella always gets hurt when you're with her, I can't exactly see who is doing the hurting, but I have a feeling it's Jacob Black, but when I see her standing there talking to herself it goes over just fine, with her quickly returning back into your arms."

"I don't like it. I don't want her to go by herself." I could hear the defeat in his voice.

"Edward, it's okay. I'll be fine; I know Jake won't hurt me." I stuck my head out of the covers so I could see his face. He kissed my forehead and sighed in defeat.

"Where am I meeting him at?"

"Edward can drive you down to La Push and you'll call him when you're ready for him to pick you up." Alice was turning away as she grabbed Emmett by the ear and pulled him with her.

"Well this didn't go as planned…" he mumbled. I wrapped my arms around him before he could sit up.

"I love you." I whispered into his ear.

"I love you too." He kissed me. My heart was beating furiously as his lips finally pulled away.

I got up and sighed as I realized I didn't have anything to wear. I quickly slipped my dress back on. Edward got up and got dressed, while I fidgeted with the death traps Alice had forced me to wear on my feet. I didn't want to go see Jake. I was so terrified. I had no idea of what I was going to tell him. I heard Edward give a heavy sigh as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Do what?" I looked up at his beautiful eyes.

"Talk to him alone?" He seemed to be trying to hide his emotion from me.

"Edward, really all I want is to be here in this room with you forever; really all I want is for you to hold me and never let me go; really all I want is an eternity with you, and if talking to Jake is going to help me get one, then I'll talk to Jake for hours just so I can get to you."

"You already have me."

"Edward, you can't just turn me, you know that, I know that. I can't be the cause of war."

"Bella…" I put my finger to his lips.

"We'd better get going."

He carried me down the stairs and into his car. He handed me a small silver cell phone. The ride down to La Push was silent. I was nervous about talking to Jake and I was more nervous about not talking to him. I had my hand around Edward's. I knew that he thought me and Jake had something more to us then just friendship, but I knew otherwise. Jake just wished we had something more there, I loved Edward too much. We finally stopped and I let out a heavy sigh and turned to kiss Edward, my heart rate was increasing rapidly and I could feel his smile. He lightly brushed his hand from my temple down to my cheek. I got out of the car going to find Jake.

It wasn't long before I found Jake sitting on some rocks crying. It hurt me to see him this way. What hurt more was, knowing that I was the cause of his pain.

"Jake?" I said warily.

"Bella?" he turned towards me with a smile on his face. His eyes immediately fell to my left hand and he saw the engagement ring his face dropped. "So it's true then. You're marrying that leech after all?"

"I'm marrying Edward. If that's what you mean then yes it is true." I went to sit by him, but he scooted away from me.

"Bella why? What does he have that I don't? What makes him better than me?" He looked at me with pleading eyes. I couldn't speak. What was I supposed to say to this? "Am I too warm? What do I have to do Bella? I'll do anything… I love you."

"Jake, it's not that he's better. You knew I loved him, I told you I loved him. I would cry about how I wished he was with me. You knew that I wanted to be with him forever." I looked at him as I said the word forever. Would he take that as a hint of what I wanted to become?

"You can't be with him forever!" He was getting mad now.

"Jake, calm down. You just have to understand where I'm coming from."

"I understand perfectly. That leech has tricked you into becoming one of them." He sounded repulsed.

"No one has tricked me into anything! This is what I want. You have to understand that it's also something that has to be done."

"Bella, I love you, but if he or any of those other bloodsucking leeches puts their teeth in your skin, it will cause a war and I'm not sure if you know just how strong the pack is. I wouldn't want to harm you, but I'm not making any promises." He was clenching his jaw.

"Jake, stop, please calm down."

"Bella, I don't think I can talk to you now."

(JPOV)

I was so hurt. I loved Bella, with everything. She wanted a monster and I didn't understand why. I wasn't exactly human, but I didn't hurt anyone, I protected. Those filthy leeches might have controlled themselves on occasion, but it didn't mean they did all the time.

She looked so pretty. I thought she looked amazing at prom, but now she really took my breath away. I couldn't believe she was hurting me this much; the girl that I had picked up and protected when that disgusting bloodsucker left her here to rot. I didn't want to believe she would do this to me.

"Jake please talk to me!" I heard the desperation in her voice as I turned to look at her. She was simply gorgeous in red.

"Bella. You are allowed to marry whomever you want, but you are not allowed to die and become one of them. That's all we need to be clear of." I had to leave her now. I was so furious I was sure if I didn't I would end up hurting her just like Sam and done to Emily; I turned from her and began to walk away.

(BPOV)

I couldn't believe him. He wouldn't even listen to me. This is not how I wanted this to go over. What did I expect? I began to weep uncontrollably. Jake loved me. I told him not to love me; I told him that I could never love him. Why wouldn't he just listen to me? If he would have known about the Volturi maybe everything would have been different. How much pain was I going to cause everyone?

I got up to follow him I couldn't let it end this way, I knew this would be the last time I'd see him before a war was started and I couldn't stand the thought of this being the twilight of me and Jake's friendship.

"Jake! Wait!" I called after him and he turned around. He was shaking rapidly and he managed to calm himself down to a low tremor rumbling through his body. I ran up to him and wrapped my arms around him. "I didn't want our last words to be that angry."

He wrapped his arms tight around me and said, "Bella, I just didn't want to have last words with you." Tears were silently streaming from his face.

"I know Jacob. I know." I realized I was crying too. We stood like that for a moment, just hugging each other tightly crying.

"I have to go now Bella. Let's talk another time okay?" He looked down at me with a small smile on his face.

"Okay." I smiled weakly back at him.