BPOV BPOV

"Bella, wake up," Mike said unto my ear. It was no point in asking me to wake up. I didn't get one ounce of sleep. I only pretended to be asleep for the whole day and now the day was nearly over. All I thought about was Edward and how everything had felt so right with him.

"I'm up," I replied back to him. Mike was already dressed in his suit for the day. We were about to attend another afternoon gala once again. What a bore. How many parties can one ship hold?

After I saw one of Edwards's parties I knew going to a gala would bring just as much pain as being pried from him did last night. I tried to tell myself to pretend that he never existed because I knew that this was going to be absolutely impossible.

"Bella, I want you to wear the red dress this evening," he stated. Great, now he is trying to dress me. I hated the color red against my skin. I always was in love with blue like the way Edward said last night. He words fluttered my memory like pages being turned in a book.

I rolled out of the bed and exited our room into our dressing room to meet Rosalie and Alice putting on red dresses also.

"Good morning, Bella," Rosalie sneered. She could be so evil sometimes. I hated her for what she did to me. If I had the guts and if I wasn't scared of Emmett I would throw her off the back of this damn ship.

"Are you crying?" Alice asked in horror. Whoops! I hadn't realized I let my sorrow out so easily. I immediately wiped the tears away.

"No, I'm not," I said turning my back to them. Knowing Alice she would never let a thing like this go.

"Bella, do you need to talk to me about something?" Alice asked pondering obviously not ready to give this subject up. I was about to speak until Rosalie interrupted me with her callous laughter.

"Let her cry. Now she knows it's a tough world. Listen, Bella, I'm doing this because I love you. You don't realize how miserable you will be with someone as poor as that guy. Plus Mike really loves you," Rosalie stated still chuckling.

"What do you know," I said under my breath slipping on the red dress. I was in no mood to rebel today. I sucked up any crap my family would give me.

After we were done getting ready for the gala we stepped outside to our men who held out their arms for us. Mike looked especially happy now that he had won our battle about my behavior. I wrapped my arm around his unwilling, wishing that he was Edward.

"You look beautiful," he said.

I gave him the fake smile that I had stored for him. His words were so dead. They didn't have the emotion or the meaning behind them like when Edward said I was beautiful. Now, I was forced to compare everything that Mike did to the way Edward did. I assumed it was an act of love and wanting to be that person right now. It was killing me that I couldn't just reach out and touch him.

We walked in the gala room and sat at the captain table to listen to the same mindless chatter. Like always the ladies of the group were silent while the men talked men business. I saw Lauren sneering at me from across the table.

"Are you done running around with filth," she asked through her teeth.

I clenched my fist as I was getting ready to stand up but I felt Alice's hands rest on mine.

"Let it go," she mouthed.

I wanted to cry, scream, kick, and yell. Everyone at the table knew it too. Even my own mother.

"Bella, come with me," Alice said. Everyone at the table looked at her as if she gone mad. She turned her attention to them. "Don't worry, I got her." I felt like a two year old.

When we were excused from the table she quickly scurried across the room with my hand in her hand. Where the hell was she going?

"Alice, what are you doing?"

"Making you happy."

EPOV

I was out on the deck all day long. Waiting and hoping that Bella would show up. Where was she? She should have been here by now. All this tension was driving me crazy and starting to make my subconscious go wild. Maybe last night was a dream. A very vivid dream that I had no business having. I should have known. Happiness wasn't meant for me and neither were things as irrational as angels.

Daylight was beginning to fade and my heart ached. I never truly was going to see this angel again. I wanted to cry and yell. Why was all so lost? I walked up to the edge of the ship where the deck came to a point and leaned on the railing. The twilight color began to elude the sky. It was absolutely astonishing, but it didn't even compare to the look in Bella's eyes after she kissed me yesterday. It also reminded me of the dress that Bella had worn the first day when I saw her when I was to shy to talk to her.

"Hello," I heard the sweetest voice call. I spun around on the dot to see the most beautiful thing in the universe. "I don't care what my family says."

I saw her sister Alice leave as Bella approached me.

"They said you might be up here-"

"Sshh!" I told her. "Take my hand." She did just that grabbing my hand with enthusiasm. I wanted this moment to be perfect and not ruined by what she was about to say about her family's disapproval.

"Step up to the railing and close your eyes," I directed. She did exactly as I told. "Now spread your arms."

Once her arms were spread I wrapped my arms around her waist to make sure that she wouldn't fall, knowing how clumsy she was. Her waist felt like it was meant to be in my arms. So perfect and small. I had her so that when she opened her eyes all she would see is the ocean.

"Open your eyes," I assured her. As soon as she did a gasp leapt from her mouth.

"I…I'm flying," she said incoherent. This was my moment. It was either now or never.

"I love you," I whispered into her ear with passion dripping off my every word that I spoke.

"I love you too, Edward," she whispered to me. My heart pumped three times faster than usual and I knew she felt it against her back. Still in my arms she turned around to face me. Her eyes rooted me at the place where I stood. She was now the center of my universe and there was nothing that I could do about.

She leaned down to the bottom of my face and grazed her lips against mine. I was now complete and I was now whole. I would fight Mike if I had to because there was no way that anyone was going to pry her from me again. As long as she wanted me to be by her side I would never leave.

She stared up at me through her lashes. Once again her eyes were piercing.

"It's late. I don't plan on going back anytime soon," she said. Was she inferring to what I think she was inferring to. I swooped her up in my arms and carried her off across the deck to where I knew the empty piano room. I sat her down on the bench and immediately attacked her neck. I placed kisses all along her neck, biting and sucking on it. She seemed to like it so I continued.

"Edward…I love you," she whispered over and over again. She was driving me crazy with that. If I wasn't so patient I would tore off her dress that minute. Luckily, patience was my key.

Even though I had no experience what so ever in this kind of field my love for her guided me through and to all the right places. I placed my hands on her dress and pulled it up over her hips. She then wrapped her legs around my waist and reached up to put her arms around my neck.

We stared at each other for a good minute or two, and then she closed the space between us with a kiss making this the best twilight of my life.