EPOV

Her eyes held mine yet I couldn't find the words to speak.

Had I heard her right?

Was it possible for a being as beautiful as her to love someone……… like me????

It didn't seem possible but I couldn't bring myself to ruin the silence. All I wanted to do was continue to drown in those amber eyes.

"Emmett, please….. don't leave."

I just wanted to kiss her, so badly. How could she believe that I was leaving to get away from her?

"Rose I…. don't want to…..leave…"

What happened next would have warmed my heart, if I still had one. She smiled the smallest of smiles but still it was a smile that spread joy throughout my body.

Could it be?

Maybe she did harbor some feelings for me. I didn't think they could compare to anything I was feeling right now just watching those lips pull into an upward curve. Was she happy that I wanted to stay?

"Emmett I don't deserve you.."

I couldn't help myself I had to make sure she knew how I felt and not the muddled version she seemed to have of my feelings toward her. Slowly I placed my hands in hers and with a quick movement glanced to see Rose's reaction.

What I saw almost stopped me.

Her face was tensed and all I could see was that she was fighting her feelings. Whether these feelings were good or bad, I couldn't guess.

Fighting my basic instinct to snatch my hands away I continued to slowly pull Rosalie to her feet. Then before I could talk myself out of it I gently placed my palm to the side of Rose's carved face.

She flinched away but slowly slid her face back into my hand.

Was she to disgusted to let me touch her, maybe she couldn't stand the thought of being anything but friends. I would take anything I could get from her. I just wanted to be near her, the magnetic pull between us was driving me crazy. I forced myself not to kiss her afraid that I would only hurt her again.

"Rose you don't have to pretend to… love me…"

"No Emmett that's not what I mean..I..I just can't, I can't." She stammered through every word.

I tried not to show the sorrow that was loomed over me, she couldn't love me, I wasn't enough.

"Rose don't feel sorry for me, you deserve to be with someone you truly love….even if that's not me."

Her eyes widened and then her face transformed into one of determination.

"If I have to be with anyone, I want to be with you." As each word slide out I felt my body shake with tremors.

"Rose don-

Her arms came around me in a flash.

Her touch was like fire lighting ablaze the surface of my skin. Her face was mere inches from mine, as she spoke her eyes stayed glued to my lips

"Can you put up with me?"

"Rose are you kidding? all I've ever wanted is to be with you."

Her eyes traveled back to meet mine before she spoke

"good" and then her lips smashed into mine.

I felt like I was ablaze, I couldn't feel the ground I was standing on moments before. Her lips were warm against mine. My arms slide down and twisted around the small of her back pulling Rose even closer to me.

Her lips trembled on mine and I gently took my lips from hers kissing her forehead and her neck.

" Emmett.." she gasped as I kissed each corner of her mouth.

Gasping I enhaled her scent and looked down into her eyes, she was shaking but with desire or fear?

"Rose?"

She looked up at me "Emmett, I don't think I can give you my love"

Rejection tried to spill over me but I stiffened, I needed to know her feelings.

"Rose I thought you felt the same way?"

She grimaced "Emmett, I want to be with you….. I just… I don't know if I can" Her eyes filled with unshed tears

"I've been hurt before and he ruined me….i'm broken"

My body tensed with rage, someone had hurt her? Caused her to be afraid of a kiss? If she was broken, all i wanted to do was fix the pieces that had shattered.

She gasped causing me to look down into her eyes that mirrored undeserved shame.

She wimpered away when I reached for her trembling hands.

"why would you want to be with someone tainted Emmett?"

Her words knocked me back.

She didn't believe she was good enough for me…..

"Rose you don't understand I….. I love y-

her hands cut off my words.

Flushing her eyes was disbelief and what…..hope?

her blond hair flew as she shook her head back and forth. "I told you I didn't deserve you, your clean, pure and I'm…. destroyed"

She turned ran and was gone.

She loved me but she was gone.

I would have turned and kept on my pitiful journey to who knows where but I was no longer empty. The void that was empty was now filled with the pure not tainted love of an angel.

She didn't want to know how I felt but for once I didn't care.

I love Rosalie Lillian Hale and she loved me.

I no longer had an excuse to leave her. My feet traced her retreating steps but I couldn't feel them all I could feel was the sense that I finally accomlished the impossible.

The angel loved me.

A/N: So it's been awhile since i've written.... well ok its been 2years but i found myself reading fanfiction and i couldn't help but laugh when i signed in. i didnt think i'd remember my password but it came to me as i typed in the letters. Sorry if you've been waiting, i hope you enjoy the new chapter and keep holding on, i will have more by Sunday. ((((=