Hello again everyone! I want to thank everyone who has been reviewing, I really appreciate all the compliments I get and I really do try to update as fast as I write, but I do go to school, so it doesn't happen as often as you, or I, would like it to. Here's chapter 4, hope you enjoy! So sorry I didn't update on Friday or Saturday as promised! My father grounded me, so it wasn't my fault!

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Bellabookworm9

Disclaimer – Twilight, New Moon and all related characters belong to Stephenie Meyer.

This was going to be an interesting night.

I had seen Edward dressed up before but that didn't keep me from ogling now. I imagined sitting in a restaurant with him and how we all looked tonight. I knew I didn't hold a candle to either of them but I was sure Edward would find someone to get mad at tonight.

Renee parked close to the entrance and Edward came and helped us out of the car. He had one beautiful woman on each arm.

"I bet you are feeling pretty luck right now, mister." I told him.

"You have no idea." He sounded breathless.

"Well what did you expect? Tramps?"

He chuckled. His voice was musical and it just added to his perfection.

A somewhat handsome but comparatively mediocre waiter led us to a table on the dock.

"Your server will be right out."

I looked up at the moon in the darkening sky. It was full and bright tonight, shining with just enough light to illuminate the glorious faces surrounding me.

"So Edward, what are you going to college for?"

"I'm thinking of working in the medical field, like my father."

I almost laughed. He'd been to med school twice already.

"Do you know where you want to go?"

"I haven't decided yet but I think I want to go somewhere close to home."

Our waiter came out from the mail building.

"What can I get you to drink tonight?"

Renee ordered Diet Coke, I got a Coke, and Edward ordered water.

"I'll be right out with those."

All three of us opened our menus. Behind mine, I mouthed,

"What are you going to do with the food?"

Edward just smiled and pointed to his mouth. I couldn't believe he was actually going to eat.

Our waiter came back with the drinks and we ordered our food.

"So mom, what have you been up to lately?"

"Well, when I'm not substituting at the school or traveling with Phil, I volunteer at a daycare center a few blocks from the house. That's what the call was about earlier. I'm not sure but I might have to go in tomorrow. One of the regular teachers has bronchitis."

"It's okay mom, I'm sure Edward and I can find something to do."

She looked like that was the reason she didn't want to go.

"Well—okay. I'll leave directions to the beach and a few other places in the kitchen for you if you like."

"We'd love that mom."

I knew we probably wouldn't be going to the beach but Renee didn't have to know that.

Edward reached for my hand under the table. I gave it to him. The cool temperature helped calm my nerves.

"Do you have any hobbies, Edward?"

He could hardly say, 'I like to hunt grizzly bears and mountain lions on sunny days with my vampire family' but what he did say was just as true.

"I write and play music for the piano."

"Really? That's wonderful. I play also but I'm not very good."

"That's crazy. I bet you play very well. Bella told me you did the first time I played for her."

"She did?" Renee looked at me.

"He was showing off. I had to say something." We all laughed.

The waiter came out with our food.

"Can I get you anything else?"

"No thank you." Edward spat out through his teeth.

When the waiter was gone, I told him,

"Edward stop getting jealous. You know us fabulous ladies couldn't leave you if we tried." I batted my eyelashes. He rolled his eyes. His response was much more beautiful, I was sure.

I tried a bite of my food, some sort of pasta with shrimp and a cream sauce. It was pretty good.

Then, I looked at Edward. He was obviously struggling. It was hilarious, Edward usually excelled at everything.

I reached over and speared a scallop off his plate with my fork to relieve him a little. He shot me a grateful look.

We are our food in relative silence, occasionally Renee would ask a question and we would answer as honestly as possible.

When all three of us had finished our meals—I was doubly stuffed, I had ended up eating half of Edward's dish too—a band started setting up on a wide section of the dock.

The sound of the musicians quietly tuning their instruments and the water lapping against the pilings was incredibly soothing and I felt my eyes begin to close.

When I heard Edward ask Renee if she wanted to dance, I looked up. I knew she would say yes—she was a sucker for dancing.

I watched Renee twirl elegantly around the makeshift dance floor with my boyfriend and marveled at their beauty. Two of the most important people in my life. I loved them both so much for doing this for me. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes.

Edward looked up ant me and I knew he could smell my tears. I smiled to let him know I was okay and whispered,

"I love you." He heard me and smiled.

When the song was over, they came back and sat down with me. We talked through a couple more songs and when the band was about to take a break, Edward got up. He spoke to one of the members for a few minutes. I saw some head-nodding and word-speaking but I had no idea what was going on.

"What on earth is he doing Bella?"

"I have no idea."

But then he walked over to the keyboard and I did. He was going to play.

He glanced up at me, smiled, and began.

It was my lullaby. The one he wrote for me and the one he hummed for me on the nights I couldn't sleep. I felt the tears coming again as he stared into my eyes.

"Do you know what he's playing?" Renee wanted to know.

"He wrote it. It's a lullaby." I didn't mention that he wrote it for me.

"It's beautiful." She sounded awed.

I nodded in agreement. The tears were flowing freely down my face now.

The crowd clapped as he finished—I hadn't noticed but people had begun filtering out of the restaurant.

"Play us another!" someone shouted.

He glanced at the band and when the man he had been speaking to earlier nodded, he looked to me. I smiled to let him know it was okay.

He played Esme's favorite and the couples started to dance. It was a beautiful sight. All those couples in love were dancing to music my boyfriend wrote.

Edward was still gazing into my eyes. I knew it was cheesy and sappy but I loved him for it.

The crowd clapped again and he let the band regain their instruments. People stopped him on the way back to our table to compliment him.

"Wow Edward. That was wonderful." Renee said when he sat down.

"Thank you. That last one was my mother's favorite."

"How did you know that was what I was going to ask?"

"I didn't!" He tried, and failed, to look shocked.

"Well, I can see why your mother likes it. You're very good. You should make a CD!" We all laughed.

There was a pause as we listened to the band play a few songs and then Edward asked me to dance.

"Oh no. No no no. I am not dancing."

"Come on Bella! Just one song." He did that thing with his eyes that made my heart melt. I couldn't object when he cheated like that.

"Fine, but only one."

Edward was grinning from ear to ear as he led me out to the dance floor.

The band began playing a slow number that was probably better because he could support me without freaking my mom out. Which was probably why he picked this song to dance with me.

Edward lifted me onto his feet so I wouldn't stumble around like an idiot, and began to dance. I actually like dancing with him. I didn't really have to do anything except remember to breathe, which was proving pretty hard at the moment.

"I love you." He whispered in my ear.

"We're smelling each other again." I laughed.

"Mmmmm." He inhaled my scent at my neck, "I've been missing this."

"So have I."

We danced silently after that, content with just holding each other. Occasionally, I would catch him inhaling along my jaw and I would smile. I was doing the same thing at his shoulder.

The song ended and I sighed.

"You want to keep going?"

"I don't know—Renee might freak if she finds out I like dancing all of a sudden."

"I think she expected you to be different and she's accepting it because she knows she's changed too."

"I had hoped so. Thanks for the reassurance."

"Anytime Bella." He kissed me on the cheek. Renee could handle that.\

"Are you two ready to go? I'm getting a little tired."

"Would you like me to drive?" Edward asked, seeing Renee and I yawn.

"Sure." She tossed him the keys, "Will you need directions?"

"I think I remember." Of course he did.

We drove home in silence, except for Renee's tremendous yawns.

"Goodnight you two."

Renee stumbled off to her room.

"It's only ten thirty. She must not get out much.

"She's just not used to having a vampire take her out on a date. I'm not quite used to that either—you looked amazing tonight."

"As did you, my love."

He followed me to my room and sat down on the bed while I removed my makeup. I left the door open so I could see him.

"What would you like to do tomorrow?"

He thought for a moment.

"I'm not entirely positive, but I found a small section of beach that's fairly well hidden and I was wondering if you'd like to go there for the day."

"Sounds like a plan." I couldn't wait to see him sparkle again.

Seeing him glitter in our meadow was the single most beautiful thing I had ever witnessed.

Edward smiled his perfect, crooked smile.

"Come to bed." He patted the quilt beside him.

"I will come whenever I please. You have to make sure Renee knows you slept in your own room tonight."

He sighed and left the room to make noises that sounded like he was getting ready for bed.

As soon as my door closed behind him, I grabbed the pajamas. I locked myself into my bathroom, put the pajamas on, and waited for him to come back.

"Bella?" I hadn't even heard the door open.

I opened my bathroom door, smiling the whole time. He was standing right in front of it and if I had walked forward, I would have run into him.

He gaped. I smiled wider.

"Bella." He said when he could speak again, "Why do you do this to me?" He pulled me into his arms and laid me on my bed.

"It's payback."

"For what? What did I ever do to deserve something this wonderful?"

"You brought me here to see Renee."

"Bella, I've surprised you plenty of times before."

"Yes, but it was always just for us. This time, you made my mom happy too." His hands were trailing down my back and I wouldn't be able to speak in a minute.

"I'm glad you liked it."

He kissed me and hummed my lullaby. The familiar melody was impossible to resist.

"I love you."

"I love you too, my angel." His chuckle was the last thing I heard.