A/N: Ah I know, I know. It's been forever since I updated any of my stories, but I pretty much haven't existed for the past three months… sorry. I'll try to update more before basketball starts, but it starts in like three weeks and we have preseason… my bad.
October 29, 2008
I don't own Twilight or any of its characters still…
At first I almost laughed at him. I mean are you serious? We've been together for what three days? But then I looked into his topaz eyes and I knew this is what he wanted. For all I know we could have been married by now if he didn't leave, or came back to me before I got changed…
My mind was screaming NO it's too damn soon! You just got back together, for all you know he could leave you again. But my heart was screaming YES do it! This is what you've wanted your whole life even after he told you he didn't think a human and a vampire could get married, a girl can dream. You want this…
Do I? Do I really want to rush into this? What about my family? How will they react if I told them I was engaged to the guy who left me all those years ago and actually is sort of responsible for my changing into a vampire?
But then again…
This is what I wanted and I knew I wanted it. Why is it taking me so long to answer him then? I mean this is what I want. I just told him that when we were at our picnic. I told him I wanted everything he wanted. I guess I just didn't think what I wanted would happen this soon.
Of all the things I could have said, I could have screamed at him, in two minutes, I just couldn't bring myself to say anything. I knew this is something I have to do. No regrets right?
"Yes."
Edward kept staring at me. It seemed like he was kneeling there so long that he didn't even notice I said anything. "Yes?"
I giggled and nodded. "Yes, I want to marry you. I want to spend the rest of my long, long life with you and only you. Yes."
I saw my favorite crooked smile play across his lips as he placed the huge ring on my finger. Right after his lips crashed to mine with such a fierce passion, I wasn't ready for it. I laughed against his lips as we crashed onto his couch, breaking it…
He broke the kiss and looked around us. "I guess we should have been a little softer on the landing."
I smiled at him. "Yea we really should of. I really thought this couch was comfortable."
He laughed and kissed me again, but lightly this time and then helped me up. "I'll fix that for you, but I'll make it sturdier," he said with a teasing smile. "Ugh, Alice is screaming in my head. We should head downstairs."
He grabbed my hand and started walking towards the door before I stopped him. I had to ask. "How much?"
"What are you talking about?"
"How much was the ring? I don't want something really expensive or this extravagant. It could just be a simple ring out of a vending machine. It doesn't have to be this big to know that you love me."
He rolled his eyes at me, chuckling. He brushed a piece of hair out of my face. "This ring was my mother's love. I knew she would have wanted you to have it. It didn't cost me a penny. That's one of the reasons why I thought it would be the perfect ring for you."
I smiled at him and kissed him. "Thank you. It's beautiful."
He nodded. "Come on, before Alice comes tearing up here."
We walked downstairs, slowly, and turned into my living room. Everyone was staring at us with anxious eyes. When the light hit it just right, the diamond sparkled that way you see in the movies, and Alice squealed.
"Oh Bella, I'm so excited for you two! I knew that this was meant to be! After everything that happened there is going to be a wedding! I need to start planning it right now! Something with the night…" she said rambling to herself.
"Alice calm down. They just got engaged and broke a couch two minutes ago," Emmett said winking at me. "Give her some air." He got up and walked over to me and Edward and hugged me and hit Edward on the back. Edward sighed, and I knew Emmett thought something ridicules to him.
Charlotte came over next jumping up and down and hugging me. "I'm so excited for you, Bella! I knew this was going to happen as soon as I saw you guys look each other in the eye! This is totally an epic love story." She then looked at Edward. "Thank you. You mean so much to our Isabella. I'm just glad you two could finally have your happily ever after."
"Thank you Charlotte, for everything," Edward said hugging her.
Everything? What does that mean?
Nathan and Austin just came up and hugged us along with Jasper. Rosalie came up last. "Bella, could I talk to you outside real quick?"
I looked at her shocked at first, but I nodded and followed her out to the back porch. "What's going on?"
She sighed, looking out into the woods. "I just want to apologize to you for everything I have thought of you since we've met. I just wasn't used to something thinking another girl was more beautiful than me."
"Rosalie, please. No one thinks that."
She rolled her eyes. "Edward does. Ever since he first saw you all those years ago, he thought you were the most beautiful thing on this Earth. He said you had the deepest, purist chocolate brown eyes he has ever seen. You don't know how hard it was for him to look at you again and know that he wouldn't have a chance to see them again. He blamed himself for everything ever since he found out that you changed.
"Anyways, I just want to apologize for everything. I always thought you were so spoiled, ready to give up your life at any second. You had everything that I didn't have. You had a life and a chance to keep it and grow old and die with someone you love. I could never understand why you would want to give that all up."
"I wanted too because I didn't want to grow old without Edward growing old too. I wanted to be with him for forever. I didn't want to just have him for some of his life, but all of my life. I would really just be a small chapter in his life, whenever he was a novel in mine," I said also looking out into the woods. Who would have thought they could be so charming…
"I realized that. I mean whenever I first saw you changed and how you acted around my family, I almost wanted to tear you into pieces. I mean you got what you wanted didn't you? Why were you so mad at us whenever leaving you helped you get everything you wanted? But then Edward explained to me that you wanted us to be there with you and you wanted him to change you. It took me awhile, but I understood why you wanted that. I mean you didn't know Laurent and he just tried to kill you because he wanted too. No one was saving your life."
"Wait, how did Edward know I wanted that?"
"Charlotte told him the first day you guys came to school. She has actually been very helpful to him apparently. She was really pulling for you guys, and she didn't even know him."
"Charlotte was the only one, besides me, who loved him in my stories. She knew we were meant to be. She always told me that. She seems to be like Alice, but with relationships sometimes," I said smiling.
Rosalie smiled too and turned to me, so I turned to her. "Bella, I am very happy that you accepted Edward after all this time and after what he did to you. I glad you are joining my family."
I looked at her for a little bit and smiled at her again. "Thank Rosalie. You have no idea how much that means to me."
She nodded and went back into the house where everyone was talking about my wedding. I still couldn't grasp the idea that I was finally going to be Mrs. Edward Cullen. Wow, who would have thought this would actually be happening.
Edward suddenly was behind me wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing my neck. "How does it feel to be the soon-to-be Mrs. Edward Cullen?" he asked chuckling.
I smiled and looked up at him. "I can't believe it actually. I just am speechless."
"I feel that way too."
I scoffed. "Yea right, you always know the right thing to say at the right time no matter what. I can't even do that and I'm a freaking vampire too!"
He chuckled. "Years of practice love. Also you had to know what to say and when to say it when I grew up. Otherwise you would never get married, and that was basically a sin," he said smiling as he kissed the back of my head. "I really love you, you know that?"
"I got that impression…"
"Good."
We were silent for a few minutes staring off into the woods as the moon rose higher and higher into the sky. The cold February breeze picked up, but luckily for me it didn't really affect me. Suddenly Edward stirred and was right in front of me.
"I know this happened really fast love, but I knew that it would just be a waste of our never ending life if we just kept going on like we were. I want you to know we can stay engaged for how ever long you want no matter what Alice says. I just got the impression that this happened too fast for you when you were thinking of your answer before you actually answered me."
"Thank you, Edward, but I actually want this to be a quick engagement. I want to live in a little cottage in the forest close to our other families and just live together and be happy for forever."
He sighed and smiled at me. "You look so beautiful right now."
I looked down sheepishly. "Edward, I know it must have scared you whenever I didn't answer you right away, but I had so many things to consider I just didn't want to regret what my mind was telling me later on. I wanted to make sure that I would never regret my decision and I know I won't."
He cupped my face and kissed me softly on the lips. "Bella, thank you for being honest with me. I know with me leaving you and all, you must have been skeptical about my proposal and I don't blame you, I'm just so happy you accepted. I never thought I would be this happy."
"Me either, me either."
He then kissed me again, but more like the one in my bedroom kiss. We soon fell back into the grass and stayed like that for the rest of the night, in each others arms, and falling in love all over again.
A/N: I know it was sort of a short chapter, but it was sort of like a filler. I didn't want to get too much into the wedding. I think that may be in the next two or three chapters. But just so you know this story is starting to wind down. I'll let you know when and all but I just thought I should warn you, but I already have an idea for my next story :)
Oh so guess what? We talked about the Spanish influenza in history the other day because we started to talk about the last really deadly flu-ish thing that was known and it was that! I was like dude that's how Edward would have died! I felt like such a nerd but it was so funny that that was the first thing that popped into my mind. Lol
