Sorry it's so late, but I was sick, then I had to catch up in school. Anyway, finally, here's the awaited Chapter 8. Oh and I don't own any Twilight.

**Bella's POV**

I was pretty fast. I knew he was fast too, but I could still follow his scent, one that was fairly fresh. I lost him through water but followed Alice's advice and always found it again. It was a long run and Edward had a decent head start on me, but a few hours later, I saw the trees thinning and slowed my pace. Sure enough, I saw small town. The town square was pretty busy and looked like a morning market was going on.

Staying inconspicuous, I looked through the crowd for Edward. Even as I watched, I saw him slip out and then out of sight. I followed, relying on scent again. I soon found him. He was sitting with his face in his hands under some stairs that led up to a house's door.

I sighed out loud. His head snapped up and his eyes locked with mine. "What am I going to do with you Edward?" I asked. I wanted to shake my head at him but I was unable to tear my gaze from his eyes so my head stayed still.

He stood up slowly, took a step closer. "Is this another hallucination? I've had so many of you."

"No, I'm really here." That explains a lot.

"Why? Why did you come after me?" he asked. I quickly became confused.

"Because, I still love you."

"That's all I needed to hear," and he stepped forward and kissed me. I felt the need behind his kiss and returned it with my own. It was different than anything else I'd ever experienced either as human or vampire.

I also remembered how hesitant he'd been whenever I'd kissed him before. All that hesitation was gone now and I reveled in it. As for my heart, I felt well. Whole. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect-not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. [A/N: yes, this is the back of New Moon without the part about her heart and blood beating through her.]

He finally pulled back and I let him. "I love you. I always did and I always will," he said simply.

I nodded. "Ok, I can live with that." He laughed. "Ready to go back? You still need to meet my family. I must tell you, beware of Ashley. She's not one to let anyone get away with anything. But maybe you already knew that."

"I only knew her for about a week. She wasn't very snippy then."

It was my turn to laugh. "I wish I'd seen that part of her." He kissed my forehead, grabbed my hand and pulled me away, heading north once again.

I let him pull me for a bit before I got an idea. I pulled my hand out of his, briefly loving the idea that I actually could, and took off. I sensed, rather than heard, him behind me. I kept running and managed to keep ahead of him. At one point though, he caught me and I realized he'd been letting me stay ahead. I turned back to him, "what?" I demanded.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"You were holding out on me," I whined. He laughed.

"I didn't know where you wanted to go so I was following your lead," he explained.

"Then why did you decide to stop me now? We still have about halfway to go."

"Do you know where we are? I stopped here before but it didn't feel right." He looked at me with joy in his eyes. "We are at the North Pole. Bella, we are at the top of the world." And he smiled. It lit up his face. My favorite crooked smile. If I still had a heartbeat it would be speeding. And out of habit, I let him control this kiss.

It wasn't even like the one we'd just had. This one was more and I wondered if we might actually go farther. I started to make it clear that I wanted to but like when I was human, he pulled back.

"Not now Bella."

"Why not? You can't hurt me anymore. Why not now?"

"Because, I want to do this right." Then he sank to one knee and asked, "Bella, my only love, will you marry me?"

I held back. Although I hadn't seen either of my parents in years, their situation was still in my mind. But was ire ally like them? My mother, no. My father, yes, but he had still wished things had ended up differently for him and Renee and I knew that I wanted Edward. Truly, deeply loved him.

"Yes, I will," I said.

Yay, new chapter. How many of you thought it'd be another cliffie? Well, I couldn't do that for this chapter. We'll see about Chapter 9 tho.