A/N I have super ooper shmooper news. I was informed last night (11/3/10) that meh story has been nominated for an Avant Garde Award for Best Love Story! I'm uber excited for this as it is my first nom and it's just super exciting. Voting doesn't start until November 20th. Go here to get more info http:/twilightfb-awards(dot)blogspot(dot)com/p/rules(dot)html getting rid of the "dot" and putting in real ones of course.

Which brings me to my next thing, thank you to the person who nominated this story (you know who you are). You rock my socks off and love you bunches. Also I would like to thank my awesome beta Dragonfly336 (whom I've wrung through the ringer for the past couple of weeks and owe her huge) because without her my story would just be full of grammar mistakes and punctuation mishaps, so thank you from the bottom of my heart sweets. Also...huge thank you to those of you who review/favorite/alert this story. You all rock my socks off too and love you guys bunches. OK...I've talked too much and now, onward with the Awward!

SM owns all things Twilight. I just happen to own a piece of shit car that won't stop leaking water onto my passenger side floor! Fucker! (well...I suddenly feel better. )

Chapter 11 The Meadow

EPOV (yes...surprise...another EPOV)

"Where are you taking me, Edward?" Bella asks as I lead her to her surprise, blindfolded. A few days ago, I went for a walk behind my house. I haven't been in the woods since I was a kid. It was just nice to walk around and remember how much I loved it. I came to the end of the trail and there was this beautiful meadow that I had forgotten about. When you are five or six years old, you don't think 'Hey, one day I will bring my girlfriend here'. It was just a nice place to play. Besides, girls still had cooties back then. So, when I stumbled onto it that day, it took my breath away. It couldn't be any more perfect and I wanted it to be 'our' place. So, I told myself that the next time Bella came over; I would surprise her and bring her out here, weather permitting of course.

It just so happened to be a beautiful, warm day out today. Six months have passed since we told each other I love you and it has been wonderful ever since.

"Do you trust me?" I whisper to her.

"With my life," she tells me.

"Then just relax and work with me here. We're almost there anyway."

We reach the end of the trail and I start to untie her blindfold, but I don't drop it yet.

"You ready?" I ask.

"Yes."

"OK." I take it off.

She looks around and brings her hands to her mouth. She is speechless for a good couple of minutes, or so it seems, and then she turns to look at me and I see the tears start to form in her eyes.

"It's...it's just like the dream. It's so beautiful. The flowers, the light breeze...it's all the same," she says this so quietly that I almost didn't hear her. I was about to ask her what she was talking about, when it suddenly dawns on me. The dream we both had back in the beginning of our relationship. Oh my God. I totally forgot all about that dream. It just proves that this place was meant to be ours.

I had come out here before she came over to put out a blanket and a basket with various snack foods and sandwiches in it. Bella walks toward the blanket and sits down. I sit down next to her. She places a hand on my cheek, I lean into it, and she smiles.

"Thank you so much for this, Edward. You're so sweet." I feel my face heat up a bit at her words.

"You're very welcome. I rediscovered this place just the other day. We all used to come down here and play when we were really little. It's been a long time since I've been here. Finding it again just made me wish that you were here with me." I grab her hand in mine, "That's when I knew I had to bring you here."

"It's perfect." She leans in for a quick kiss. I oblige of course. She pulls away after a few pecks and my stomach decides to make itself known. Bella giggles.

"So, I guess something is trying to tell us it's time for lunch."

"Yeah, I guess so," I say with a laugh.

We enjoy the lunch that I've put together and afterward, we both lay down so our heads are next to each other and just watch as the clouds go by. Then I hear Bella giggle. That will never get old to hear.

"What are you giggling at?"

"See that cloud right above us?" she asks while pointing to the sky.

"Yeah. Huh...it kind of looks like a heart."

"You see it too then?" she asks me. I see this look in her eye that I've never seen before. It throws me a little off-guard.

"Um...yeah, I do." I notice that my voice just went a little lower than normal. Just then, she leans in for another kiss. This time we start off slow and sweet, but within minutes it becomes heated. In the past six months, we have gotten to second base. I've copped a feel here and there but never without her saying it was OK, well...almost every time. The first time it happened, things were getting pretty heated and I didn't even realize what I was doing. The next thing I knew, Bella stiffened and pulled away from me. I felt like a tool after I realized what made her act that way and told her I was sorry. From that moment on, I never lost control like that again. I eventually asked permission anytime I wanted to touch her. Now that we have gotten to that base more often, she doesn't mind if I just touch her without asking. Most of the time, she just places my hand on her chest now.

I start to touch her and kiss her wildly. I'm really getting into it when all of a sudden I feel pressure on my pants. Yes, I'm growing hard and everything, but it's not that I feel. No way! I pull away slowly from our make out session and look down. I find Bella's hand placed on my crotch. She pulls her hand away and turns this really cute shade of red that I didn't know was possible.

"I...uh...I'm..." Bella stammers. I don't give her a chance to finish. I place my hand on her cheek and she reaches up and lays her hand on top of mine, then leans into my hand.

"Hey, it's only fair. You can touch me if you want. I really don't mind. Besides," I lean in towards her ear, "couldn't you feel how much I was enjoying it?" I took her hand from mine and placed it onto my growing erection, "Feel that?"

"Yes," Bella breaths out.

"This is what you do to me."

The next thing I know we are touching, groping, and kissing each other with so much passion that I'm actually afraid that I won't stop.

"Baby, I think we need to stop before it goes too far," I say to her in between frantic kisses.

"I don't wanna stop," Bella tells me as she starts to reach for my shirt to pull it off. I let her take it off but I can feel myself start to get nervous and begin to shake. I reach for the bottom of her shirt and search her eyes of any indication that she doesn't want me to do this. I find nothing there to stop me, but just to be sure, I ask her.

"Are...are you sure about this, Bella? We can totally stop if you want. You know I won't mind." She looks at me with such a passion that I never thought possible and whispered.

"Make love to me, Edward."

I was dumbfounded for a few seconds, but I quickly recovered to slowly remove her shirt. She had on this sexy black bra that made her chest more curvy than usual. I look into her eyes again and place my hands on the waistband of her jeans. Bella nods her head and I unbutton and unzip her jeans. I then slowly remove them with shaking hands. Bella is laying before me in matching black undergarments and I can't help but take her in. I notice that part of her upper right arm and the very top of her breast has small clusters of scars. I take her hand and feel she is trembling. I look her in the eyes and kiss her hand lightly.

"You are so beautiful," I tell her as I see the tears forming. Seeing her tears, I start to feel mine coming. I take a deep breath and let it out to try to keep them away. I continue in a whisper, "Please, tell me to stop and I will. I don't want you to feel like you're being forced into this."

"No, please. I want this. I wouldn't want my first time anywhere but here," Bella sits up and places her hands on both of my cheeks, "and with you." I watch as her tears fall, which in turn gets me going.

"I love you," I can barely get it out. I have never felt this way about anyone in my life. It's all so overwhelming for me.

"I love you too. Today has just been so perfect and you're just so sweet as it is. The moment is here, Edward. I can feel it. I want you and I'm not going to stop you."

"I'm so scared." Dear God! Please don't tell me I just said that out loud.

"Edward," Bella says as she puts her hands on my neck and pulls me down so I'm hovering over top of her, "I'm scared too, but I trust you," and with that, we were kissing again. With shaking hands, Bella unzips my pants, undoes the button and slides them down my legs as far as she can without breaking our heated kiss. I kick them off the rest of the way, and we are laying there in just our underwear. I stop kissing her lips and just look at her. I said it once already but I'm going to say it again. She's so beautiful. I start kissing down her neck, down her right shoulder, and kiss over every patch of her scars. I work my way down to the cluster on the top of her chest. I sit her up and remove her bra and throw it onto the growing pile next to us.

I lay her back down and go in for another kiss. After a few minutes I stop and work my way down her body, leaving a trail of wet kisses, stopping to take one nipple into my mouth, then the other. That got a gasp to come out of her. Then I continue on with my trail of kisses down to the waistband of her panties. I look into her eyes one last time and she nods her head, giving me the OK to continue. I slip my thumbs into the waistline, and slowly slide them down her legs, leaving a trail of kisses behind as I go.

Bella sits up and takes a shaking hand to my waistband, and starts pulling them down. Now we are just looking at each other, just taking each other's naked bodies in.

"So beautiful," she says to me, not even realizing she was talking.

"You're not so bad yourself," I say with a wink. She smiles.

I eventually start to hover over her, which makes her lay back onto the blanket and I just look into her chocolate brown eyes.

"I can't believe this is actually going to happen," I say, noticing my shaking voice. I'm so nervous at this point that I'm not going to be the 'man' she wants or needs for that matter. Bella looks into my eyes and just smiles.

"Neither can I. But I wouldn't have it any other way."

I lean down and kiss her and lower myself onto her, holding myself up on my elbows so I wouldn't totally crush her. Our innocent kiss turns into something so passionate that nothing could possibly stop us now. I'm so hard that I'm afraid that I'm not even going to last when I get inside of her, or worse, I don't even make it that far.

I start to bring my hand further south, and start to play in between her folds. She feels wet and warm. This gets a reaction out of her. Bella moans and it has to be the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. Then I insert a finger. Holy crow, Cullen! If you don't pick up the pace now, you're just going to lose it here!

"You're so wet, Bella," she moans again, "you ready for this?"

"God yes," she says in a whisper.

"OK." I position myself at her warm center and slip the tip of my dick inside.

"Oh God!" Bella moans out. I steady myself to make sure she is OK and also to adjust to the new feeling. I'm so not going to last long.

"You OK?" I breathe out.

"Yes." I begin to slide a little deeper. Bella takes in a shaky breath.

"Still OK?" She nods her head. I push in a bit further until I can't anymore. Oh God. This is going to suck.

"Baby, this is probably going to hurt bad. I'm really sorry. I will try to be as gentle as possible." Bella looks me in the eyes and puts a hand on my cheek.

"I trust you and I love you."

"I trust you and I love you too. More than anything." I take a deep breath and let it out, "OK. Hold on really tight, baby." I pull out and as gently as possible, but forcefully, I push through her barrier.

"Ah! Oh my God!" I bring Bella to my chest and just hold her, still inside, so she can get used to the new feeling and let the pain pass.

"I'm so sorry, baby. I feel horrible."

"It's OK...I knew it was going to hurt. Now it just feels weird, but I'm getting used to it."

"OK. You still want to do this?" I ask not really sure if she is up for this now. She looked up at me and smiled.

"Of course I do."

With that, I pulled out and slowly re-entered her, keeping a nice slow pace. I've only got in a few pumps and I already felt the build in my stomach as I push my way inside of her. I steady myself inside her.

"You OK?" she asks. I nod my head.

"Yeah. I just need to stop for a second otherwise I'm going to lose it," Bella puts a hand on my neck and brings me down to meet her lips. Next thing I know, we are going at it again, only this time it's a little bit faster and harder. Before I realize how hard I'm pumping into her, it's too late.

"God, Bella!" I grab hold of her so tight while I cum that I'm afraid I'll leave a mark. Then I just collapse on top of her. We lay there in silence for a bit before I raise my head up and give her a shy smile. I can feel the heat in my cheeks, I'm just so embarrassed. She gives me a sweet smile back.

"Hey you," Bella whispers.

"Hey beautiful," I say back, running my fingers through her hair. I'm still feeling...less manly? "Um. Sorry about that. It probably wasn't the most romantic 'first time' you thought it would be. Did I hurt you?" She just smiles at me.

"Ya know, I may not have had my first orgasm, but that will come with time...and a little bit of practice," she says with a wink. I can't help but chuckle, "So, don't beat yourself up, Edward," she leans up to me and whispers, "You were wonderful." I give her a chaste kiss.

"So, I didn't hurt you then?" I say as I look over her body to make sure I didn't leave any marks, which I didn't seem to find any.

"No. I'll be fine." I start to relax a little and smile at her.

"I love you, Isabella Marie Swan."

"And I love you, Edward Masen Cullen."

As we lay there enjoying each other's company, we fall asleep in each other's arms. After a few hours of napping, I suddenly wake up to a frightening thought. My eyes open up wide with fear.

HOLY SHIT! WE FORGOT TO USE PROTECTION!

A/N Rut Row Raggy! And now...we all know...ALWAYS USE PROTECTION KIDS! So...the question...are they OK?...or are they in trouble?...hmmm...Tune in the next few weeks to find out. ;) And as always...Reviews are like crack to me...and reviews are like having your own kinky version of Isle Esme with Edward. ;) See you guys in a few weeks.