A/N: I know its a little short, but I just wanted to give a nice fluff chapter before all the drama that is on the horizon. I am working on the next chapter and it should be done soon if all goes to plan. Enjoy...

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Chapter 8

Edward and Bella didn't have anything else to discuss once she found out about Edward's promise to change her. She knew the trips to Forks and Phoenix were to make sure she wouldn't change her mind. She was destined to be with Edward, and nothing would ever make her believe differently. Edward and Bella went for a walk around Port Angeles just enjoying their time alone.

"You know, you are good for my ego." She said and he laughed.

"Why is that love?"

"Because you growl every time you hear someone thinking about me." She joked and he pulled her into an alley and pushed her against the wall. "Green is a good color on you."

"Oh is it Isabella." He said and she nodded at the attempt he made to seem angry. "Well you listen to every girl thinking of me in the way men think of you and then we'll see who's green.

"Edward I see it daily. I don't need to hear women's thoughts to know what they're thinking. Its all on their face. The hostess, the waitress, lady sitting at the table behind ours, and the lady that drove past in that red car all were giving me nasty glares. And that's just today."

"You really are observant." He said and she nodded as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Sometimes I hate it. But other times I just smile, because they're just jealous that I have you and they don't."

"And the guys just want to be me. Though I can't really blame them. You are irresistible."

"My blood or my body?" She countered, moving her head to expose her neck more.

"Both," he growled as he leaned down to kiss her neck. "Now how about I spoil you." He said and pulled her back on the main road.

"You bought me dinner," she countered and he just laughed.

"Three years to make up for." He said and pulled her into the book store, he knew he had to start slow. She still wouldn't never let him buy anything expensive. "You are due for something new to read I'm sure."

"And you don't have a library at your house?"

"Yes, but I'm sure you don't in your dorm room." He said and turned back to the shelves of books.

"So you're done fighting with me to move in?"

"For now, we'll figure it all out if you come back." He said and pulled one off the shelf and looked at the back cover. She pushed him against the shelves and pulled his face between her hands.

"You mean when I come back." She said and leaned in to kiss him. "I am coming back. I will go see Charlie and tell him I found you again and that I'm not letting you go. He'll call Renee and I'll promise to talk to her when I see her. Then I'll get on my plane and come home -- to you!" She said and wrapped her arms around his neck to pull her closer to him. "I love you and I am going to spend forever with you."

"You really want forever with me?" He asked, still amazed at the depth of her love for him.

"Forever and always." She said and kissed him. They went back to looking around the store with his arm wrapped around her shoulder as they looked through the books. Bella grabbed a few and didn't even argue when he went to pay for them. She knew he liked to take care of her and figured she'd lay off for a day.

Edward and Bella enjoyed their head together, spending hours just talking to one another before he finally brought her home. After he put her in bed, he went downstairs and sat at his piano. He could feel the secrets around him, Alice and Rosalie were counting in Greek. Clearly trying to keep him out of their minds, but he didn't let it bother him too much. Instead he ghosted his hands over the keys and started to play Bella's lullaby.

As the days led up to when Bella returned to her dorm, Edward became more and more anxious. It was that much closer to when she would travel across the country home to see her father and mother and he hated the thought of her leaving him. He became so use to having her close he wasn't sure he could handle the time apart.

"Calm Edward," Jasper said as he seen how anxious he was. "She's not going to be that far."

"Ya well if your wife would stop her incessant counting then it would ease my fears a little."

"She's keeping you out?"

"So is Rosalie, they have been for days and its worrying me. I just don't want anything to happen to her, I just got her back.""She loves you, you can't possibly doubt that." He said and Edward nodded, he knew his brother was right. "She's coming back, of that I'm sure."

"How can you be so sure?"

"How can you doubt her?" Jasper asked and Edward just stared out the window into the forest.

"Because I don't deserve her. She wants to give up everything to be with me, her friends and family will all be gone. Her chance at a normal life will be gone."

"That's her choice and she's been adamant on what she wants. You aren't taking away anything, you are giving her what she wants." He said and turned towards the door, "don't question the love you two have for one another. I've felt a lot of things, and seen love between a lot of people. But nothing feels like what you two feel for one another." With that he left and Edward just stood there thinking, Bella promised to come back to him, he wanted to believe her. There was just something in him that was terrified she wouldn't come back to him, and that mere thought terrified him.

"I'm home," Alice sang as she came through the door with Bella and hands full of bags.

"Alice really this was not necessary. I have clothes in my dorm." Bella argued as she threw her bags on the couch. "Besides, this is not going to fit in my closet when I go there later." She argued and Alice laughed.

"Silly Bella, that is for two weeks, then two weeks vacation and you will be back here." She said and headed to Edward in the kitchen. "Edward really you need to spoil her more often."

"Don't get him started too." Bella said and went over to hug Edward. "One Cullen going overboard is enough."

"Guessing you didn't have fun sweetheart?" He asked and she shrugged.

"Some of it, but she gets so out of hand. She spent more today then I paid for this semester's tuition. It's ridiculous." She said and Edward laughed.

"She can get out of hand, but there's no stopping her once she gets started." He said and she laughed. "What time do I have to take you back?"

"Around five." She said and he nodded. He knew he wasn't going to like it, but he promised to let her go back to the dorm and intended to keep that promise, he'd just have to visit when she wasn't in class.

Edward helped Bella pack up her stuff that afternoon and put it all in her new car to take back to campus. Bella was hesitant about her first night away from him, she became so use to having him there when she fell asleep and woke up that she didn't like the thought of that going away. There was a security she felt there that she didn't want to lose.

"When's your roommate coming back?" He asked as he sent down her bags.

"Tomorrow morning, she doesn't have class until Tuesday." She said and sat down looking around. "Want to stay with me tonight?" She asked and he smiled.

"I can't let you be here alone," he said and let out a low growl.

"Looks like my neighbors are back too." She joked and wrapped her arms around his neck to bring him closer. "Want to meet them?" She laughed as he turned to lock the door. "So I'm guessing that's a no."