AN: Sorry for the delay, but together with this warm weather I haven't spend so much time at the computer as I wanted...

Edward took me to the beach after a while of swimming far away from shoreline. Alice and Jasper had already gotten out of the water and sunbathed on a blanket on the beach. Their pale white bodies glistened when the suns beams hit them. It was almost impossible to look right at them, they were spectacular. I turned to face Edward, the most beautiful one of them three, and took his hand. It sparkled like he had diamonds attached to every little bit of his skin. I turned his hand over and traced the lines that were impossible to see because of the radiant sparkles. I knew this part of him like it was my own. How many times had I looked at it, analyzed it in my mind? Caressed and kissed it? Probably to many times, but Edward never lost his patience around me. He trusted me even if I always didn't believe in myself.

"Hungry, love?" Edwards voice interrupted my thoughts, as if he knew where my mind had wondered of to.

In that instant I felt my stomach growl. I looked down at it and said, "Yeah, it sure sounds like that anyways."

Edward laughed and tugged me to Alice and Jasper. They had prepared a large blanket on the sand and a little basket filled with delicious food for me. Jasper had even put up a little sun tent for me to sit in. My skin wasn't used to this strong sun and it was cosy to share the tent together with Edward.

He unpacked the little basket and I felt how hungry I truly was. Bread, cheese, grapes and wine. I lifted up the wine bottle and added a question mark on my face.

"I don't drink, don't you have plain water?"

Alice laughed loudly. "Bella, it's just wine, have one glass, I'm sure you'll like it!"

"I trust you Alice, one glass, not more!" I grunted out, not satisfied.

She poured up wine in a little cute glass and I took a bite of the newly baked bread. I tasted the cold white wine carefully and let the bitter taste fall down my throat. It wasn't as bad as I thought and took another sip.

"It was good, interesting. I think I can get used to that taste." I gave Alice a little smile and gave the empty glass to Edward. He packed it down in the picnic bag and gave me some grapes. They were cold and it felt good in my mouth.

Alice mumbled something to Jasper, but I couldn't hear what they said to each other. Maybe for the best anyways, making up plans, not letting me know anything. I didn't like to be in the centre of attention and trying new things in front of people. But hanging out with Edward, having him as my closest friend…He could encourage me, and made me believe I could do anything my heart and mind wanted. He was, and is the best thing ever happen to me.

I lowered my back in the small tent, just letting my white legs stick out in the sun. Edward had already positioned himself in a lying pose beside me. He looked like a male supermodel with his smooth body, and together with small drips in his hair from the water, he was a perfect sight for my eyes.

He had already put his arm out for me to rest my head on, and it was cool. Perfect for this warm day and I sighed loudly, it couldn't get more perfect than this. The breeze from the ocean, the hot air and of course, spending this day with Edward.

"What are you thinking about, Bella?" His voice were as always curious when he asked that question.

"Everything and nothing. Sometimes I wish you could read my mind like you can read everyone else." I paused. "I want you to see what I think, even if there is sometimes moments when I think very human thoughts." I paused again and blushed. Suddenly my mind had wondered of to the feelings I had last night.

"Bella, your blushing. Now I really want to know what you are thinking about." Edward tried with his most persuasive voice to dazzle me like he knew, worked. But this time I was prepared and closed my eyes in just the right moment.

"Well, this is a very intimate thing I think about, and I don't think this is the right moment now." I pointed in Alice and Jaspers direction.

Edward smiled, "Promise to tell me tonight, I'm not letting you off the hook this time."

"I'm never off the hook with you around. I'm wrong, you can read me, or at least my body language and not my thoughts." I couldn't help but smile back, thou I knew what waited for me later that night.

The day at the beach went fast, to fast and when Alice told me it was time to go back to the hotel I struggled to persuade her to let us stay a while longer. But she shook her head no and pointed towards the sky. I knew what she meant by that and I saw small cotton clouds forming bigger clouds. The cover up Alice, Edward and Jasper needed desperately. But I was sure this wasn't the last time we were spending the day at Pori Beach.

As before, Edward drove the scooter. He didn't let me, afraid that I might get hurt, as usual. I was quite content with that, sitting behind him and holding my arms tightly around his body. Alice and Jasper drove in front of us, leading the way back. It was the same way we came from and I recognized the fields, houses and even the peoples. I was certain they had seen tourists before, but was we odd? Three of us looked picture perfect, and then it was me. Did anyone wonder? Did Mr. Tadidis speculate or did he already know about the truth? How Alice had talked about the small family hotel, maybe this wasn't their first trip here. Why was I thinking about this? It didn't matter at all, the only thing that mattered was that we had a great holiday.

I saw our hotel and Edward slowed down, I jumped off and gave him my helmet. My hair was a mess and I was too warm again. I desperately needed a shower and wanted to get up to our room. But Alice stopped me.

"I have a little surprise for Jasper tonight, so we are leaving you too lovebirds alone." She winked and I wasn't sure if I wanted to know what she had in store for poor Jasper, some shopping perhaps? "But first, I need to borrow you room for a couple of seconds." She had already taken the key from Edwards hand and made her way up stairs.

Just as we were to joined her and yell at her for doing so, Mr. Tadidis showed up, something in my head told me that Alice already knew he was to show up when we got here, to stall us a bit.

"Did you have a good day today?" Mr. Tadidis asked in poor english.

"Yes, thanks. We visited Pori Beach. It was beautiful and the water was warm and clear." Mr. Tadidis was such a nice man, and I felt like I really wanted him to know how stunning this island was. And of course how lucky he was to live here. "I don't think I want to leave, ever!"

"Thank you miss. Not many tourists now, good for you." He smiled and soaked in the praise I gave him for his island.

"Please, call me Bella, Mr. Tadidis."

"Okay, Bella. Breakfast as usual tomorrow?"

This time Edward answered in Greek. I think is was about the breakfast and Mr. Tadidis wished us good night.

"Edward, what time is it?" I got a bit confused when Mr. Tadidis said good night, was it that late already?

He looked down at his wrist watch and answered. "We've been away almost the whole day, it's almost eight o'clock."

"Oh." Was the only thing o got out. Jasper sensed my confused feelings and laughed.

"The time travels fast when you have a good time. Lets see if my pixie wife is done in your room." Jasper walked ahead in the stairs with Edward and I behind him.

As we got to our floor Alice waited for us. "Done." She said with a devilish smile and threw the small room key into Edwards hand. The she took Jaspers hand and giggled while they got to their room.

"I wonder what she was up to in our room?"

"Didn't you read her mind Edward?" I was a bit confused.

"It's sort of hard when she is singing the Swedish national anthem over and over again."

For the second time in the last five minutes I said, "Oh" again.

Edward unlocked the door and when we got in there was lit candles all over the room. I literally dropped my jaw and I wondered what she meant by doing that. None of us said a word and when I saw that there was even more candles in the bathroom and the bedroom I heard Edward mumbled Alice's name quiet angrily.

"What do you think she mean about this?"

"I don't know." Edward answered.

A little envelope placed on my nightstand with my name on it caught my interest. I saw that Edward had a similar envelope on his side of the bed.

"Should I be afraid?" I pointed the question out to Edward.

"This is Alice we're talking about…so yes." I swallowed loudly by his words and took out the note from the envelope.

Bella, honey. I've seen the future and I know it's time for you two now. Don't be afraid, just listen to yourself and everything will be wonderful. There is a nightgown ready for you in the bathroom, wear that. Take your time, see you tomorrow!

Love you

Your sister Alice, xoxoxo

I suddenly realized what she meant by those words and blushed all over my body. I felt like a glowing red tomato. I didn't know what to say so I took my note and ran into the bathroom. Edward did no attempt to follow me and I was to upset to even think about what it said in Edwards note.

This was what I wanted, but I wasn't sure that Edward wanted this too. Even so, he was a man with desires just like me. I had sometimes when we kissed intensive felt in his touch he was ready for more but was to unsure about himself to continue. He could never forgive himself if he'd injured me in some way. That feeling for him was stronger than his human feelings about me.

I turned the shower on and let my dress fall of my body. I still had my bikini on and I took it of as well. I turned my body around and looked at it in the big mirror. I liked my body even if I had lots of small scars from accidents when I was younger. I traced the scars with my finger, remembering from when I got them. The time in hospital when I got my appendix removed, when I tripped and fell over a bench in the mall and cracked one rib, and I had to sow up the cut I got in my forehead. I had somewhere over the years stopped with the counting on how many stitched I had got all over my body but I knew Renée still counted. Even the scar on my hand was even more visible now when the sun had change my usual pale body a bit brownish.

I closed my eyes and sighed, knowingly what was to happen this evening. The butterflies in my stomach flew around, almost making me sick. But I swallowed them down, forced them to serenity and walked into the shower. As always the hot water helped me relax my muscles and think clear. What was he expecting of me? What was I expecting of him? One night, not long ago when Edward was out hunting, I finally realized what all the fuzz about sex was, how important to do it with the right person. Of course I knew sex could be done only in lust, but there were also something more than that. Making love, those words, the meaning of them. To share something so important and so intimate with another person who you loved and wanted to be as one with.

There were many times together with Edward I thought was the best moment I had shared with him, but this evening would change that, I felt it in my bones, in my soul. Tomorrow would be different between us in a good way, he had seen all me and I him. I blushed again in the shower and tried to calm me down by massaging in shampoo in my hair. It felt good to rinse it and then wash my body free from the salt in the ocean and the sand from the white beach.

I got out from the shower and looked at the cloths Alice had chosen fro me to wear. It was a silky, knee long lingerie. I was a bit surprised, I had thought it was blue but Alice once again had surprised me, it was shiny dark purple. My hair was a mess as usual so I only dried it with the thick white towel and let it hang loose down my back. I couldn't help but make a grimace when I slid the purple lingerie on my body. But when I once again looked at myself in the mirror I got a bit happy. This was me, facing myself in the mirror. Plain Bella Swan, nothing more than that. If I could remember that, nothing could go wrong.

I took a deep breath and opened the door out to the relaxing room. Edward wasn't there, I assumed he was in the bedroom. I took another deep breath and at the same time, forcing the butterflies to go away. I pattered quietly on the red carpet, heading for the bedroom. I stopped in the doorframe, Edward was in the bed with nothing on his upper body. The shorts he had on earlier this day was changed to a pair of loose fitted jeans shorts. I was sure he had heard me but he didn't look at me. I cleared my throat to get his attention and it worked.

His golden eyes grew and got big. He opened his mouth, to say something, but nothing came out. So I decided to help him.

"Do you like Alice's choice?" I said with a low voice.

"Mhm." Edwards eyes were still stuck on me and my body, my face became warm on red again.

"Please, say something, don't just look at me, it feels like something is wrong." Suddenly I felt nervous, somewhat off and wrong.

"It's just you. You look amazing and I can't stop looking at you. You dazzle me, Bella!" His frank words made my head spin a bit and I had to lean my body at the doorpost to not fall down by his words.

"You don't look so bad yourself." I said with my weak voice.

"Alice again." He smiled and got up from the bed.

The bedroom was lit with hundreds of blue and white candles. Together with the flowers all over it seemed to be like a scene from a dream. The knight in his shiny armour and the princess, saved in the last minute from the dragon.

Edward stopped when he was in front of me, I noticed a faint scent of his personal fragrance and I couldn't stop myself. I took that one last step to reach his body. I captured him with a firm hold around his neck with both my arms and made his lips met mine. He wasn't late to understand what I meant and lifted me up in his strong arms. I locked my legs around his back and gave him a light kiss on his lips. Then I let my head roll back, to see what he reacted to my body language.

"Bella…" My name slipped out from his blood red lips and I knew that this night was to change everything about us for the better.

Next chapter is to be steamy.... ;)