A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long to update this story. I just started a new story and I always have to get that started before I turn to my other stories. Well I hope you like this chapter! This will probably be the only one of this story until I get back from Bethany/Cal U. Sorry, but that's my life. I'll update once I get back. I promise!

I don't own anything… not ever Cover Me by Bruce Springsteen


Edward's POV

The times are tough now, just getting tougher
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher
Cover me, come on baby, cover me
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me

After I told Bella Victoria was back she went completely serious. She seemed to go into shock. She wasn't looking at me anymore. Instead she was watching the floor. She seemed to be thinking of something, maybe how this could have happened, or why would Victoria be back for her if she is already damned? I wondered the same thing.

Edward, should I come in? Don't say anything if I shouldn't. I just want to make sure that Bella is okay. I had a vision she wouldn't know how to take it. I'm guessing she's pretty shocked, Alice thought as she came up to Bella's door.

I said nothing. I think Alice got the hint because she walked away from Bella's room. I gathered Bella in my arms then. She wrapped her arms around my back and put her head on my chest. I put my chin on top of her head. I wish I knew what to say, but I didn't. I didn't see this coming.

"Edward, what are we going to do?" she asked softly.

I kissed the top of her head before I answered her. "We're going to make sure nothing happens to you. I'll have Emmett or Jasper look for her. Maybe Nathan and Austin can help them. The four of them should be able to find her."

She nodded. "Now, what are we going to do about us?"

I put my hands on her shoulders and pulled her back to look at her in the face. Was she serious? This woman wanted to kill her and she wanted to know what we would do about us? She never stopped amazing me. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I know that I will be safe from Victoria as long as you are here with me," she said smiling. "I just want to know if we will still get to go to the dance on Saturday. I really want to go, which is a first I must say."

I chuckled. She was still the same Bella, I know and love. She was just buried in there. "I promise I will take you to the dance, love." I pulled her into my arms once more. "I just want to make sure you're safe."

She nodded as she buried her head into my chest once more. It was nice to know that we were somewhat on the same page. We haven't been like this in a long time. I know that's my fault, but I missed this. I missed it so much. Who knew I would have a second chance at this.

We walked downstairs after an hour or so, holding hands. I just couldn't let her go. This wasn't the reaction I thought I would get from her. I thought she would be more frightened, but then again she is a vampire now. Maybe that's why she didn't react like I thought she would.

"Bella, are you okay?" Alice asked rushing to her side.

Nathan rolled his eyes at her. "Of course she's okay. Bella wouldn't care if two vamps came after her. She's a vampire herself now; she can take care of herself. Besides she has her family beside her protecting her."

Bella laughed. Her laugh was so musical to me. "Actually I would mind if there were two vampires after me. I'm actually not that freaked out because I have Edward now. He'll protect me like he always has," she said squeezing my hand.

Except for the time he left you and you got changed into a vampire. Yep, he sure is always protecting you, Bells, Austin and Nathan thought. I didn't blame them, or get mad at them for that thought. They were right. I didn't deserve to have her next to me, holding my hand, and praising me. As long as she wanted me here, however, I would be here. I'm not leaving her again, unless she wants me too.

Charlotte got up off the couch were she was sitting in between Austin and Emmett and started walking over to Bella and I. She turned her head slightly and looked at me. Sorry if Austin and Nathan thought what I think they thought. You did something everyone would have done if they were in your position at the time, she thought. I smiled at her. "Bella, we're all here for you if you need us for anything," she said.

Bella smiled at her. She was taking this a bit too well. "Charlotte, I actually need to talk to you and Alice upstairs about something," she said. The two other girls nodded and followed her upstairs.

Emmett came up to me then. "She seems to be taking it better then we all thought she would." I nodded.

"Why would she care? She is a vampire after all," Austin said getting up as well.

I decided to answer this one. "Well, when we knew Bella, she was always the worrier. I mean we told her nothing would happen to her when we were around, but she never seemed to believe us. We tried our best to make sure nothing happened to her, but considering she was bitten by James, even though she did run away from us, and was changed by Laurent, I'm just a little surprised she's not just a little freaked out about this happening."

Edward, she is finally giving us the reaction we thought. She'll be down in two seconds, Alice thought as I heard the door open.

Two seconds later, Bella rushed downstairs into my arms. "Edward, I'm scared. It just set in that she's back! What are we going to do? Are you guys going to kill her? What's going to happen?"

I saw Emmett give his I-told-you-this-would-happen look to Austin and Nathan. I stroked her hair, trying to calm her down. "Don't worry love. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. If you want me too I'll stay here with you. I won't leave you again. I promise."

She nodded into my chest. "Stay please."

I cradled her like I used too and carried her up to her room. I walked over to her couch and sat her down. I then I sat down next to her. She quickly put her head on my chest again. I rocked her back and forth. I started to hum her lullaby. I felt her sigh as she closed her eyes and let her lullaby sink into her.

We sat there for a long time. The whole time I would hum her lullaby. At one point she was so still I thought she went to sleep, but then I remembered she couldn't sleep anymore. Suddenly she sat up though and smiled at me, but the smile was sad.

"Edward, can I take you to one of my favorite spots in my house?" she asked like a little child.

I chuckled and nodded. She took my hand and pulled me up onto my feet before taking off, out her door, down the stairs, and outside. She stopped outside, dropping my hand, and looked around like she was trying to find something. Then she walked over to a tree and climbed up it onto the roof. I stood there puzzled before she motioned me to do the same.

When I started to climb up that tree it brought back memories of when I used to climb the tree to sneak into Bella's room once Charlie when to sleep. That felt like another lifetime ago, though. Even though it wasn't at all.

Bella smiled at me when I got onto the roof. "So what do you think? I often come up here just to think about things," she said spinning around and then sitting down on the roof.

I smiled at her. "It's lovely," I said sitting behind her so she could lean back and lay on me. "What do you think about?"

"Well since we've came here I really didn't have much to think about besides you. Like the first night we moved in I came up here and just thought about all the good memories I had here with you. Do you remember the time you scared me half to death coming through my window after we had a fight to apologize?"

I smiled. We were arguing about her becoming a vampire, like always, and she stormed out of my car and shut her window. I, of course, figured out a way to open it (pretty much breaking it) and then sat on her windowsill until she came out of her shower. "Yeah I remember."

"Those days seemed to go by so fast," she whispered.

"To you it probably did, but to me they only went by fast when you weren't sleeping. When you were, though, they seemed to take forever."

She laughed. "I forgot I could sleep back then. I sort of miss sleeping. It was nice to just fall asleep and let the next day come to you instead of you waiting for the next day. Also it made the days go by faster sometimes."

"I know what you mean. When I was apart from you all I wished I could do, besides kill myself, was sleep. That way I would be able to dream about you."

"Wait, kill yourself?" she asked astonished.

"Well you didn't expect me to live in a world without you? I thought you were dead for twenty-two years, love. Of course I wanted to commit suicide. I'm glad I didn't though because I never would have known you were actually alive," I said kissing the top of her head.

She sighed. "Edward, even if I did die I don't want you to just kill yourself. Think of your family! They would be so miserable if you did that. They wouldn't know what to think."

"I know Bella, I know. Alice was extremely mad at me when I started getting the ideas and she started getting visions of me trying to commit suicide. She threatened to tie me up in a car and only feed me when she had too."

Bella laughed at that. She probably knew rope wouldn't hold me, not even metal. "I'm glad she made you realize that, well, sort of." She paused for a second and looked out into the horizon. "Do you know what time it is?"

I looked down at my watch. "4:30 AM. Why?"

She shrugged. "I just love watching the sunrise. When you don't sleep you learn to appreciate the sun rising more than the sun setting. Also that means its Thursday and we have to go to school in less than three hours."

I groaned. "Are you sure we have to go to school? I mean we could watch the sun rise here and go do something today. To get your mind off of Victoria's return. Wouldn't you rather do that?"

She groaned too. "I would love to do that, but we have to go to school."

"I disagree. We've already done high school. We don't really need to do it again. Besides we get done with our homework in two minutes, so Alice could just give us our assignments. It's not like we haven't learned it before."

She rolled over onto her stomach and put her elbows on my legs and looked up at me. "Edward, we should go to school. We miss enough days as it is with the sun and hunting. We shouldn't miss anymore."

"What don't you want to stay here alone with me?" I asked raising my eyebrow.

She rolled her eyes at me. "You know I would love to stay here alone with you, but we need to go to school. I would love to act as normal as possible, as you should know. So we should go and act like we don't know everything there is to know about high school."

I sighed and nodded. "Maybe you're right. Maybe we should act as normal as possible, or," I said grabbing her elbows and raising her onto my chest as I laid back, "we could just stay here like this for the rest of the day."

She giggled putting her head back on my chest, but remained on top of me. "You are very good at persuading me to stay home and skip school."

I kissed the top of her head. "Is that a yes then?"

She moved her head and rested her chin on my chest. "I guess it is. This is extremely nice though."

"Good, I'm glad you're happy and safe."

She smiled, and continued to look into my eyes. I felt like she was telling me to kiss her again, but I wouldn't know because I couldn't read her mind. I didn't want to scare her off again, considering we only kissed a couple of hours ago. I didn't want to rush anything again.

"What are you thinking about," she asked softly.

It's ironic she would ask me that when all I wanted to know was what she was thinking of me. "I'm thinking about how beautiful you look right now. Now, tell me what you are thinking about."

She looked down and started drawing circles on my chest. "I was actually wondering why you haven't kissed me again…"

I looked at her amazed. That wasn't what I expected, but hoped for. "Are you sure you're okay with it now?" She nodded. I didn't want to ask another question. That could simply wait. Instead I slowly lifted up my head so that my face was only inches away from hers.

I then slowly kissed her lips, not being careful like I used to be. My kisses became hungry-like. I ran my hand down her side to her knee. I stopped then and pulled it up so I could flip her underneath me. I held up most of my own weight, so I didn't crush her, but I didn't stop kissing her.

Her arms locked around my neck as she licked my lower lip. She flipped us again, but we didn't judge where we were on the roof. We accidentally flipped off the roof and landed in the bushes. I sighed getting up off the ground, brushing off some of the twigs on my shirt and then picked up Bella.

She was laughing hysterically. "I guess we shouldn't make out on the roof anymore."

I started laughing too. "I guess not."

She smiled, putting her arm around my waist and leaning her head on my shoulder as we walked back into the house. We probably should see how Emmett and Alice are doing with the White family. It might be awkward.

When we walked in Alice rushed to our side. "How did you end up falling off the roof?" she asked curiously. "Aren't we supposed to be more graceful then that?"

"I hope Bella isn't," Emmett said laughing. "I always did enjoy your clumsiness."

Bella sighed and then looked behind them wondering where her family was, I assumed. "Where is my family?"

Alice looked at the grandfather clock in the hallway. It was now 5:30. "Well, they all said they were going to take a shower. I think Austin said he might try to hunt before school. Now tell me how you managed to fall off the roof."

Bella and I both looked down sheepishly. "You hooked up!" Emmett yelled excitedly.

Charlotte immediately came running downstairs when Emmett yelled this. "Who hooked up?"

"Bella and Edward," Emmett said, "on the roof. Then they fell off the roof."

"How could you fall off the roof? Wait, when did you even go onto the roof?" she asked confused.

Bella sighed. "I took Edward up there because I want to show him one of my favorite spots to think and watch the sun rise. And then one thing led to another and we started kissing, again."

"Again?" Emmett asked.

"Yeah, they started kissing in the meadow," Alice said. "I had a vision. Thanks Edward for distracting her for the moment. I missed having visions of you, Bella."

Bella groaned. "I forgot about that totally!"

Emmett and I laughed at that, making her hit us, pretty hard I must say. "Ouch, that hurt Bells," Emmett said rubbing his arm.

"You forgot that I can actually hurt you now," she smirked.

"Yeah, I did," he said.

"Well, I thought you would like to know that Edward and I aren't going to school today," she announced. "We really don't feel like it. Besides we've already learned everything."

I rolled my eyes at her. "Bella, now they are all going to want to stay home," I whispered for only her ears.

"Oh that sounds nice," Charlotte said.

"Charlotte, you've only been back to school for one day since you're long vacation. You and Austin need to go to school," Bella said.

Charlotte seemed to agree and then went back upstairs. Alice and Emmett seemed to get the hint, and went back to our house to tell the rest of my family about our plans and no doubt to tell them that me and Bella might be back together.

As her family was getting ready to leave for school around seven I took the liberty to make a list of thing I was going to do with Bella today. Sort of like a romantic date that last the whole day. Something she wouldn't even think of.

Now what should we do…?


A/N: I don't know if I like this chapter that much, but I had to Bella and Edward together. The next chapter will be great though, let me tell you. I think I know what I'm going to do for their date. I'm open to suggestions, however. Oh Not Always You and Me will be update sometime tomorrow...