Chapter 7

The car ride back was filled with everyones excitement over my new look. And i really did look different. This sure wasn't how i would normally dress. How was Edwards plan to go hiking going to work when i am wearing these shoes?

"Umm, Alice? Edward and I aren't going hiking are we?" i asked her. We were now pulling into the drive. I looked down at my new outfit. We better not be.

She started to laugh. "In that?, Are you kidding" she was still laughing. It wasn't that funny, i could hike in this if i wanted to. She was still laughing when i looked back.

"ALICE!"

"oh right sorry Bella, no YOUR not going hiking." she knew i knew what she meant by this. Edwards was going to run. I guess that was a good plan it was starting to get darker so we would have to get there fast. I got out of the car and started to the door. Edward must have heard we were back because he was standing at the front door, mouth dropped open. His expression matched the other three men standing next to him. Did i really look that good that Edward Jasper Emmet And Carlise would look at me first.

"What did you girls do to her?" Edward said walking over to me. He leading down and kissed my hair.

"We didn't do anything" Rosalie snapped walking past us to Emmet who was still looking at the new me. "All the thanks goes to the people at the mall" she giggled, and kissed Emmet's cheek. As she whispered something into his ear. They all seemed to be whispering about the new me but Edwards paid no attention to them. His eyes were focused on me and me only. He didn't say anything he just looked. What was he thinking? Was he mad? Did he think i was not pretty anymore?

"well?" i asked hoping i would get at least one question answered. He just kept staring. At what I'm not sure. Was there something on my face? I felt for something, this made him laugh.

"well i think you are beautiful, what else would i think? Look at you?" He smiled and leaded in to kiss me. I was getting better at this and my heart only stopped quickly now than it started up in time for me to really enjoy the kiss.

"You really like it?" I asked looking up at him. He did i could till. His eyes were so bright. Edward and i were really in love. I had heard about love but never really felt it before Edward. But when he looked at me this way my heart just melted. I always thought my legs would give out.

"I really do. Now we better get going the sun will be setting soon and i don't want to miss it." and he that we were off running through the trees so fast it was just a blur of green. And than before i knew it we had stopped and i was climbing down. This place was so beautiful. It was breath taking and it reminded me of the meadow back in forks. I could feel the tears stopping to well up in my eyes. I turned to see what Edward was up to. He had set out a blanket. And he lustered for me to come sit with him. I walked over almost falling tripping over a stick. Edward rapped his arms around me and we watch the sun set in silences. With me and Edward silence was knew good. He always wanted to know what i was thinking and i wanted the same. That was an agreement we had we told each other what was on the others mind. We sat for almost 2 hours in silence. The quite was almost maddening so i had to speak.

"Edward? What are you thinking"

"I was thinking about how beautiful you are" he laughed. "why do you ask?"

"I just didn't like the quite. This place is beautiful" I had to change the subject. All i had been hearing all day was how beautiful I was. "how did you find it?"

"when Carlise and i first built the cottage it was just before i left him and Esme. She was now part of the family and Carlise didn't think it was very gentlemanly to make her live the way we did. He was also tired of travailing from place to place we never had a home. So we found this little piece of land, it was secluded away from everyone everything so we built a little cottage. Esme fixed it up giving it a womans touch as she had called it. And we lived there. Than i started to feel like there was something missing. Carlise and I started to fight a lot and i would run i found lots of little places like this out here. Scatter in the woods. I never really went to the same place twice in a row i wanted to be alone if i went to the same place to many times Esme and Carlise would have found me."

"so they were like your get aways?"

"ya i guess you could say that. Than one day , about a week or two before i left them, Carlise and I got into a big fight about Esme. When i think back on it, it was a stupid fight, but i got really mad and left. I just sorta ran and kept running. Till i came here, it was the end of the path so i stopped. Esme hadn't even thought about following me this time like she did after other fights. So i was alone, i stopped and sat on that rock over there and just looked out on the mountains. And i was calm, i was at ease i felt like i could go back. But i didn't i just sat there for almost 4 hours than i saw that it was getting darker and that like sun was setting. I had watched the sun set lots of times from my room at the cottage. I was always a little sad when it was behind the mountains and i couldn't see it any more. But from this spot here on this hill i could see the sun in till it disappeared into the ground. I just watched it, in till the was no trace of colour, like now. Than i thought it was about time i went back. Not only had Carlise and I fought for a dumb reason but i had upset the closest thing i had to a mother. For the next week i went ever i felt mad about anything i came up here and just watched the sun disappear."

"why didn't you just come here than day? The day you decided you were going to leave?"

"I wasn't mad, Carlise and I didn't fight that day. I told him something was missing and that i had to be on my own. And i left, he didn't try to stop me. Neither did Esme they both seemed to understand that i had to leave. When i came back to them they acted as if i had never left. We went on living the way we were living. Carlise and I fought less. Than Carlise found Rosalie."

"Carlise had meant Rosalie for you right? Why is she with Emmet and not you?"

"Carlise was thought the reason we had fought before was because i was alone. But Rosalie and i didn't seem to get a long that way. Than she found Emmet. She had been out hunting and found him laying on the ground he had been attacked by a bear. She fell in love with Emmet right there."

"but you said the cottage was small" he was opening up and i didn't want him to stop. "How did you fit you, Carlise, Esme, Rosalie, and Emmet in a small cottage?"

"Rose brought Emmet back with her and cried to Carlise to change him because he was dying. Our family went from 4 to five. That was when we had to make the cottage bigger. It was a lot easier to make the cottage bigger with 5 people doing work. Later we found Alice and Jasper and made the cottage bigger. Anymore questions Bella?"

"have you ever brought anyone up here?"

"some of them not everyone. Rosalie was the first one. I brought her up here and we talked for a long time like we are doing now. Thats when we found out we were more like a brother and sister than soul mates. There only seemed to be a few things we had in common. Rose loved cars and running and watching the sun. but that was all the two of us had in common. We came up here once or twice after that. Before Emmet and Alice, Rose and I really only had each other."

"what happened when Emmet came along?"

"Rose and I still talked but not as much. She talked more to Esme. But i now had Emmet, he and I hunted together"

"did you ever bring Emmet up here?"

"once in a while when we were hunting we would stop here and watch the sun, and talk about Rose. Emmet thanked me a lot in the first year he was with us. That i had not felt about rose the way he did."

"Is that it? Are the only people you have ever brought up here been me Rose and Emmet?"

" And Alice. When Alice and Jasper first came to us. They seemed lost, Alice always wanted to talk. She and i connected on that level. When ever one of us needed to talk the other was there. Things are still that way. The first day i brought Alice here. Was only a month after she had joined the family. She and I talked almost everyday, she kept quite didn't really talk to anyone but Jasper and I. One day Carlise and Emmet had taken Jasper hunting. Alice needed to talk, the house was not the right place. Esme and Rosalie could be very nosily so i took Alice up here. Normally when Alice and i talked we only had little conversations sort of informing the other of things. We often had conversations in my mind when the others were around, but when we came up here we started talking and didn't stop. We talked for hours. In till the sunset, after that we started to call this hill the magic hill. It made us talk and we couldn't hold anything back we just talked" he stopped talking and there was a short point of silence while he thought. "I guess the magic hill is still working" He laughed.

"i guess so" i joined him in his laughing. Edward had a cell phone with him. It was on the blanket in front of us. I lead forward to see the time. It was 11 o'clock and we had come up here at 7.

"Bella?" Edwards face had gone serous again.

"yes Edward?"

"remember last night i asked you about marrying me, again,?"

"yes?"

Edward took his arms away from my stomach, and he got up so he was on one knee "Bella will you please be my wife?" in his hand he held a red heart shaped box, which contained a gold diamond ring.

"Edward! Yes of course. I want to spend forever with you!" he placed the gold ring on my ring finger and kissed me. Than he took a look at the time.

"Bella we'd better get back." and with that he packed up all of our things and picked me up. We were at the house with in minutes. This was it i was going to walk into that house and be part of this family.

Forever.