Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight and I am not Stephenie Meyer. Both of these are quite unfortunate. Oh cruel life, you are just not fair.

Wow, I didn't know you guys would be so excited for a lemon. I should've held it for ransom. I could've been like "I will not give you a lemon until you find me Edward Cullen. BRING HIM TO ME!" But maybe that wouldn't have worked. Dammit, I should've at least tried. smacks self in head. Well, maybe next time.

Wow, you guys. You're amazing. I can't believe how many of you say that you like this story. It really continues to amaze me that I get such a response from you guys. I mean...wow. PLEASE, tell me how I can thank you.

So here we are, 13 chapters in and in the beginning I said it would be only around 16. Yeah, I was mistaken. This will end up probably being around 20. I have the plot pretty much planned out in my head, so that is my estimated length.

I just realized how short my chapters are, I'm so sorry. I will try to make them longer. I make myself always type AT LEAST 7 pages. But looking back, that really isn't that much in terms of that little blue bar on the side...haha.

Despite a couple people liked my To Infinity and Beyond, I think I will stick with my phrase (it makes me feel like I have a catch phrase...lol. I'm so sad). ON WITH IT...

EPOV

Everyone was already down there. Waiting for me and probably drooling over my Bella while they waited. Actually in knew exactly what they were thinking. I had that ability, and truth be told the only situation that it was helpful in was talking to Bella to prevent anyone else from hearing us. But at the moment it was getting down right irritating and made me want to run down there, scoop her up in my arms and start our night earlier than intended.

Wow, she is quite gorgeous. No wonder Felix is so taken with her. Why if she wasn't promised as his mate, than my room would be busy tonight.

Maybe I have a chance. I mean Felix isn't that great. He seems a bit controlling. But then again, if she was mine, I would control her too...or have her control me.

Damn, that is a whole lot of hotness.

I blocked everything out, shaking my head to try to rid the thoughts of all the men that thought inappropriately about someone so beautiful and wholesome.

Since meeting Bella, I realized that vampires are so much worse than humans in terms of their thoughts. You would think that they would be used to the beauty since all of us were beautiful, and used to the power since we are so much more powerful than humans. But it was the opposite. There was always a competition to be the most beautiful and have the most beautiful mate. These vampires functioned so much differently from my family. If a mate was not up to par in looks or was no longer able to please it's mate, they would just leave them for someone else. In their eyes, everyone was dispensable. Everyone of course, but the Princess of the Volturi. And in power it was the same. They were all greedy to have more, and having a mate that was the most powerful vampire in existence would certainly accomplish that.

It made me sick the way they regarded Bella. And yet, though she could read minds, she reserved that ability for me and when she only needed it. She felt that people's thoughts should be respected. I couldn't help but be grateful that she hadn't heard the vulgar thoughts some had about her. And she never noticed the way others looked at her or lusted after her. She was very much still human in that aspect. She cared nothing for power or beauty. She was just Bella, and that was her most appealing trait. More appealing than the how the scent of her blood used to sing to me was simply...her. Bella, in her perfect existence. In her self.

I looked around the room, and standing by the adjacent wall, was Bella's opposite. Tanya stood in front of the mirror hanging on the wall, looking over her seemingly 'perfect' features as she added just a hint more lip gloss, thinking that that would make her more appealing. She said she was here for me, that she wants me to be her mate. But when I had told her that I didn't love her, she confessed to thinking that love doesn't exist for anyone. This I didn't understand until later. She didn't want me. She wanted the idea of me. A beautiful bronze haired male that could read the minds of others and that the Volturi had wanted to join. She wanted to be known as my mate. For the two of us to be associated with each other so that when someone thought of the son of the infamous Carlisle Cullen, they also thought of his mate. Power.

I detested God, or whatever the hell was supposed to be a higher being looking out for all of earth's inhabitants. I had been dealt a shitty hand to begin with. Losing my family, being turned at 17, the difficult lifestyle of trying to go against my very nature just to retain some small shred of humanity. And then this. God, couldn't even give me the peace of simply being with the one I loved, and who loved me. No, that apparently was too much to ask.

I told myself to stop with my wallowing, that it was pointless. It was. Tonight was going to be perfection. Just me and Bella. And then, eventually I will take her away with me and she will be part of my family. We would finally be a complete family. But not yet...no. Not yet.

"Are you ready?" Tanya asked. I nodded. It was a ridiculous request from Alice to be the last to arrive since I was the guest of honor and had to 'make an entrance' and when I had refused to riding in on an air balloon and other ridiculous ideas my sister had, we settled on this.

As I walked Tanya to the elevators, I thought about how ridiculous this was. A birthday when I was no longer alive. Did it really have a meaning? But Alice had said that as long as we were on this earth, we'd might as well celebrate, and you just don't go against Alice.

The ride down was silent and I honestly felt no need to say anything. Tanya on the other hand looked quite awkward as we stood in silence, our reflections staring back at us from the gold metal in front of us. Until the ding signaled our release from the small space. I led her down the to the staircase. And as I was announced, I could see the fine job Alice had done with the decorations. It was so elegant and a small smirk came across my face as I pictured my pixie of a sister bustling around with a clip board trying to get everyone to do everything perfectly.

Once I reached the bottom of the stairs, I noticed Tanya smiling and waving. Again I found myself wishing it was Bella at my side. I pictured briefly how adorable she would be as she slightly shied away from the attention, noting that she would be blushing if she was still human. But it wasn't Bella.

I shook hands with the people coming up to congratulate me. I found that almost comical. Almost as if say, "Congratulations you were born. To bad you're not human anymore." But I kept those little thoughts to myself. No sense in disrespecting the Volturi when I was planning on kidnaping their princess anyways. That thought made me actually smile.

"Oh look how happy he is, Tanya." I could hear a woman saying. I looked over to see her nudging Tanya. "I think he likes you." I gave them a polite smile, but suddenly I didn't feel so happy anymore.

As different people came up and introduced themselves as they shook my hand, I kept looking around the room trying to spot even a glimpse of my Bella. I knew that I wouldn't be able to approach her. We couldn't be seen together if we were both going to disappear from the party later. But I just needed to see her. To make sure she wasn't scooped up in Felix's arms or those of any other vampire.

I strained my neck up and looked around, but nothing. The man in front of me was babbling about something that I couldn't for the life of me pay attention to (no pun intended). I just nodded my head and gave a smile as I continued my search, and then, I saw her and it was if time stopped.

She was standing at the back wall with Carlisle and Alice. I smiled that she was around the people that made her comfortable. And then as I got a better look at her, my smile stayed on my face, frozen by her beauty. She looked positively gorgeous. I had done my best to keep out of Alice's mind as to not spoil the surprise, and was I glad I did. She was positively stunning in her red dress. She was wearing a mask, just as I was, but I was positive that this was my Bella. I would know her anywhere, having studied each of her stunning features multiple times.

In those brief seconds of staring at my love, I realized that she was what I wanted most in life. There would be no way for me to continue on if she was not in my life. All reason for living would be gone. It had been merely hours and that was already too much for me to be apart from her. I loved her, and I wanted her...forever.

As music started to fill the room, couples sprouted out into couples to dance. It was quite a formal dance, a waltz and I imagined letting Bella stand on my feet so that she could move with me. I didn't exactly peg her for the dancing type.

"Edward, why don't we dance?" Tanya said.

Knowing that this was probably a good idea to keep up the pretenses, I agreed. "Good idea, Tanya." I answered. I put one hand around her waist and grabbed her hand with my other as we started to circle the ballroom.

I could see Felix start to approach Bella and I knew that she would accept for the same reason I had, but my jaw clenched tightly shut nonetheless. I could see just the part of her face that her mask didn't cover, which pretty much left her lusciously, full, red lips and they were set in a frown. But when Felix would look at her, she would carefully craft it into a forced smile that no one would notice was fake but me.

After three songs of dancing, Tanya had yet to get bored with it. I, on the other hand, was finding it quite difficult to watch Bella dancing with another man. Luckily, my father figure sensed this and cut in with Bella.

BPOV

It was killing me to have to dance with Felix. I hated being in such close proximity to him after everything he had done to me. And then on top of it, I had to pretend as if I liked it. To make matters worse, Tanya looked quite comfortable dancing with Edward, so I avoided looking at them for most of the time.

"Pardon me, Felix. Would you mind terribly if I cut in and had a dance with my student?" I heard Carlisle ask and my face immediately broke out into a smile I had to try to contain.

"How could I refuse?" Felix said politely, but by the frown on his face I could tell he wasn't giving me up willingly. He briskly walked away and Carlisle took his place putting a hand on my back and grabbing my other with his own.

"I must warn you that for a vampire I'm not very good at this kind of dancing. I stepped on Felix's feet three times." I confessed.

Carlisle just laughed at me. "Don't worry my dear, we'll take it slow. But I was afraid that if I let Felix dance with you any longer, Edward would storm over here and throw you over his shoulder cave man style (lol..sorry a little MLOONAA reference)."

"Well thank you very much."

"You are most certainly welcome." he answered. We danced in silence for a while until Carlisle's voice broke through the music. "He cares for you very much."

I looked up at him through my mask with a smile to see him smiling down at me as well. "As I do for him." I responded which made him smile brighter.

"Than don't waste your time talking to me. I'm just a peace keeper." he said with a wink and a chuckle.

I smiled realizing that he was right, I hadn't talked to Edward since he left my room. So Carlisle spun us closer to Tanya and Edward and I looked up to find him staring at me with a smile.

That smile better be for me and not because you're dancing with Tanya. I thought to him with a smile breaking across my face.

I could almost sense him trying to hold back a chuckle as not to alert Tanya. You are the only one who can make me smile Isabella.

I winked at him and then he continued talking. You have no idea how irresistible you are when you do that. So do you have your escape planned out? He asked.

As a matter of fact, thanks to Carlisle, I do. His knowledge on vampire powers is quite useful. He suggested something I would have never thought of. It's still risky, but it's the best we got. I told him.

Care to explain at all?

I will. But bare with me. It sounds like something out of a crappy science fiction TV original. I warned.

I don't think I'll care if it gets me alone with you. He answered.

Apparently I can clone myself. Now the clone will do nothing but look like me. It will be able to walk but that's about it. No talking, no dancing. Carlisle and Alice have agreed to look over Bella 2.0 for the night while we're...busy. I said, hoping he didn't get my implication of the word "busy".

It sounds good to me. He agreed. So, meet me at the top of the stairs just out of view in 10 minutes? He asked.

The sooner the better. I'll teleport up there so no one knows I'm left. I told him.

Fantastic. I will see you then.

I smiled in response and figured I should spend the remaining time with Felix so he didn't get paranoid. I hadn't been speaking much that night anyways, so the quiet clone of me shouldn't be too obvious.

After ten minutes had passed Alice came to interrupt say that she need to speak to me and pulled me to a dark corner, the opposite side of the stairs. Felix stared at us for a moment, but when he found we were staying in that place, he quickly went back to his previous conversation.

"Okay, are you ready?" Alice asked me.

I nodded. "Yeah. I'm gonna do the clone now and then you look after Bella 2.0." I said with a laugh.

"Aye, Captain." she said with a laugh and a salute. "Have fun tonight." she said with a wink.

I gave her a quick hug. "Thank you so much, Alice. For everything."

"Hey, what are friends for? This is gonna work, I've seen it." she said. "And if anything changes I will yell in my mind for you guys like there's not tomorrow." she assured me.

I laughed. "Good. But let's just pray we're given at least this one night." I said, knowing how true that was. One night, that was all I was asking for...for now.

"Okay, enough of this. Get the show on the road." she said.

I nodded in agreement and then closed my eyes, focusing all of my energy on my power, willing myself to do as I commanded. A shot of electricity felt as if it ran through my body and then suddenly shot out of my finger tips.

When I opened my eyes, I saw standing beside me the freakishly similar body of me. I smiled as I gave my creation a once over. The exact same mask, dress, eyes. It was a perfect replica. If it would've started making noises, I knew I would've started to yell, "It's alive." so I was glad it just stood there for the time being.

"Okay, bye." and with that I closed my eyes and when I opened them not a second later, I was at the top of the stairs, staring straight in the eyes of my Adonis.

Without a word, he came over to me and wrapped an arm around my waist, leading me to the elevators. While waiting, we both removed our masks and I could take in his perfection. We smiled at each other for a moment as we stepped into the gold elevator.

"Have I wished you a happy birthday yet?" I asked with a smirk on my face, as the gold doors closed and I was left looking at our reflections in the door.

"No I don't believe you have." I saw him smirk through his gold reflection. "Are you going to?"

My smile turned wicked. "Believe me, I intend to with you a very happy birthday properly." I assured him, making a devilish smile appear on his face as well.

"There is a specific present that I can't wait to unwrap." he said, walking out of the elevator, leaving me stunned and frozen in place. He turned around when he saw I wasn't beside him. "Well, aren't you coming?" he asked with that crooked grin.

I nodded and suddenly felt dizzy. But I stepped out nonetheless. As we walked, I noticed he was leading us to my room. He opened the door, allowing me to enter first and my mask dropped to my bedroom floor in surprise.

The entire room was decorated differently than usual. My normally blue comforter and accessaries were replaced with nothing but red and black things all over my room. The bed sheets were black silk and nothing but candles illuminated the room. I walked farther in to evaluate everything, seeing and smelling the roses throughout the room and the petals that littered the floor. Then I started amazed at Edward who had a bashful look on his face.

"Surprise." was all he said, flashing that crooked grin, before he turned and closed the door.

"You did this?" I asked in barely a whisper.

"Well yeah. I wanted tonight to be perfect and I just thought that..." but he didn't get to finish because my lips immediately cut off whatever else he was going to ramble on about.

When we finally let go of each other for long enough to catch our breaths I looked up into his topaz eyes and said, "Happy Birthday." making him smile back at me.

"It is now." he confessed before our lips met again.

Our kisses deepened as we found ourselves tangling our arms around each other's bodies. But no movement we made was fast. They were all slow, as if a dance to calm music. Every movement he made was slow and sensual. The little brushes of his hand were so erotically light and painful that it did nothing but heighten my anticipation.

My hands were gentle as my fingers combed through the thin hairs on the back of his neck, feeling like silk in my hands. His finger tips would stroke my back, leaving a trail of fire in the patterns he drew on my skin.

My tongue danced with his. They weren't battling for dominance, but instead were caressing each other like lovers, which was exactly what we were about to become. Lovers.

I pulled slightly away from him, breathing in the cool air to run down my throat and into my lungs. Edward took that time to move down to my neck and start to sensually kiss me there. He slowly kissed up my neck while I held his head closer to me, wanting to feel him as much as I could. To make sure he was really doing this to me. He made it all the way up to my ear and he stopped for a moment only to whisper eight words that got me more excited than I had ever been in my life.

"I'm going to make love to you, Bella." his voice was husky but still velvety and he kissed the sensitive skin right below my ear, making me moan. "That is the most beautiful noise I have ever heard." he told me as I lifted his lips back to mine.

As we continued, I felt his fingers run down my back to my zipper and slowly start to pull it down. As new skin was exposed, he was sure to run his fingers over it, making shivers run through my body and I could feel him smile against my lips.

Once he reached the end of the zipper he removed his lips from mine, and took a very small step away from me, his eyes roaming all over my body. He kept his eyes focused on my left shoulder as his and came up and gently pushed the strap down my shoulder. His eyes seemed to darken slightly and then he watched as he did the same to other one.

His lips were all over the skin in a flash, and I felt my head loll back as he sucked on the skin connecting my shoulder to my neck. But too soon his mouth left my skin and he lay his forehead against mine. We were both panting.

His hand went to the top of my dress as his eyes pierced mine and the intensity almost made my knees collapse and fall right into his embrace. He pushed the dress down until it started to fall off my body to the floor, leaving me standing in a puddle of it.

I knew that I would be blushing if my blood still ran properly. But Edward's eyes remained glued to mine, so my unsteady hands made their way to his tie. I undid it, feeling him staring at me as I focused on my work. I quickly discarded it, and then pushed his tuxedo jacket off his shoulders, leaving me with nothing between his chest but the white dress shirt he was wearing. I made sure to go at a slow human pace while undoing each button, just as he had done with my zipper.

I didn't even look at his chest until the material was pushed away from his body and then I gazed upon how incredibly perfect his upper body was. His chest was broad but well proportioned to the rest of him. His abs were strong and chiseled and the 'v' cut to his hips made my mouth practically water.

As I tore my eyes away from his sculpted body and back to his eyes, I found him drinking me in just as I had been doing to him. And then, after a moment, his eyes met mine again.

He pulled me to his body for a heated kiss and without breaking it, picked me up bridal style. Before I had even collected my thoughts, I was lying on the silky sheets and I found him sitting beside me, starting down at me.

He stood up for a moment, only to undo his belt and slide his pants down his body, leaving us both in our underwear. Thank god Alice had gotten me some lacy panties.

He returned to the bed, but this time he was laying on top of me, and I could see the muscles in his arms strain as he held some off his weight off me (though it wouldn't harm me anymore.). He bent his head down to kiss my slowly, making my mouth water and my body to ache for his touch. He still had not touched the parts of me that yearned for his touch the most and I could feel my center starting to moisten and a tightening to form in my lower stomach.

And as if hearing my plea, Edward lowered himself harder onto me, letting me feel his hard arousal in my stomach. He kissed down my body, periodically licking at my skin, until he got to the waistline of my lace.

He looked up at me for permission and I nodded, urging him to go on. And the next time I blinked, they were off, along with his boxers. I smiled, I guess something was to be said for vampire speed.

He chuckled as well as he climbed bak up my body kissing me again. And in the next moment, I felt him enter me. Sliding in like butter and being as gentle as he could possibly be. I moaned his name as I took in his full size.

As he thrust in and out of me we panted each other's names and I knew by the time I had climaxed that if I was human, swear would be pouring out of me. My breaths were coming quicker and by the end, a nice normal gentle human speed went out the window and our vampire instincts took over.

Once we were done and the high started to wear off, Edward rolled off me and lay by my side, pulling my back to his chest. He pulled up the silk sheets to cover our naked forms and I heard him whisper to me.

"I love you, Bella."

"I love you too, Edward." I answered, and then I froze.

"Bella, are you okay?" I heard him ask in a concerned voice.

I felt my face break out into a smile and I sat up quickly, looking down at him with that adorable confused expression on his face.

"Edward, you were the one in my vision!" I exclaimed. I bent down and placed a quick kiss on his lips. "God, I should've watched the whole thing." I said, mentally kicking myself in the head.

"But Alice said it was Felix." Edward said, still looking confused. And then, it was as if something dawned on him. "She set me up. She said that just to make me realize that I had feelings for you. That sneaky little pixie." he mused a smile coming to his face.

I laughed at his sudden epiphany and before I could do anything, he tackled me to the bed. "Bella, love, I think we have a little more time left and there are still some things I would like to do for my birthday." he said in his sexy voice.

I laughed. "I think you're trying to seduce me, Mr. Cullen." I mocked.

"Ow, Miss Swan I just think you're easily seduced." he answered back, starting to kiss my neck even rougher than before, and I didn't even want to fight with him.

Okay, now before you all want to kill me, let me explain myself...lol. This was their first time with each other. Given their relationship, i didn't think it would fit to have them all over each other and doing all sorts of nasty (lol) their first time. My lemons WILL get more graphic and steamier in the future, but for a first time, i wanted them to Make Love, not Fuck. Get it? Good. thank you.

Maybe if you beg and send me and Edward i will have them have a more agressive round 2, but don't get your hopes up...lol.

I love you all and thank you Sooooooo much for all of your supportive and fantastic reviews,

ashel-13