A/N: THE SONG, "THE WAY I LOVED YOU." IS BY TAYLOR SWIFT. I OWN NONE OF IT. ITS ALL HERS AND SO IS TWILIGHT, IT BELONGS TO STEPHENIE MEYER. THE PLOT AND SOME ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS ARE ONLY MINE.

K's Pov Forever and Always

He is sensible and so incredible
And all my single friends are jealous
He says everything I need to hear and it's like
I couldn't ask for anything better
He opens up my door and I get into his car
And he says you look beautiful tonight
And I feel perfectly fine

I ran to Em's house wiping the tears faster than they could fall. A bead of sweat fell down my neck. My curled hair whipped behind me. I was almost to his house. 5 seconds….I was there. I jogged up the three concrete steps that I had climbed so many times. I pounded on the wooden door, praying for him to be home. Another tear fell and I was aware of my smeared makeup. He opened the door and I fell into his arms, sobbing

"Kitten? What's wrong?" he stroked my hair. I was beginning to calm down but I wasn't there yet. His touch made my heart skip a beat.

I pulled away and managed, "I got accepted to Berkeley."

His eyes widened, "Oh, my gosh! Kat! That's so awesome!" he smiled

I shook my head and wiped another tear, "No." His eyebrows furrowed, he guided me to the couch and put his arm around me, "Why?"

"I don't want to be away from you. Berkeley has the program I want, but I only applied because I didn't think I actually would get in. I don't want to be far away. I was planning on going to Washington State U. " she cried into his chest.

"Baby, I want you to listen to your heart. Do what you want, as long as your happy. I'll go wherever you go."

She smiled, "Thank you….But here's my real dilemma….I like the program but I don't like the distance. I want to be close. And Wash U is only an eight hour drive or three hour drive."

He smiled weakly at her, "I can't help you make that decision, sadly. You can compromise? Maybe. I can go with you and we get download Skype? We can come home every other weekend? I don't know, I'm just thinking aloud here."

She grinned and her tears were totally gone, "Thanks. I want to go to Berkeley but only if we get a house or apartment and we live together. I don't want to be without you." She smiled

"Deal." He pecked her lips and pulled her into his side. She went willingly and grabbed his laptop off of the table. "I want to show you the website," she giggled and pulled it up.

They looked at that for a couple of hours while absentmindedly watching television.

I heard his stomach rumble about 6 o'clock and I realized I was hungry too. Extremely. I laughed, "Do you want me to make dinner here, go to my house, or go out?"

He smiled at her, "I can make something." He started to stand up but she pushed him back down.

"No. Stay and be a good boy." He kissed his cheek and went to the kitchen

I saw him briefly smirk before sitting back down. I opened his fridge and saw barely anything. Jeez, how does this boy survive? He's hungry all the time except he doesn't go to the store…. She mentally giggled. She pulled out a jar of tomato sauce and found some broccoli in the freezer. She boiled some noodles quickly and warmed up the sauce on the stove while cooking the frozen broccoli in the oven. She served it all up on two plates, one meal left over for him tomorrow and handed his plate to him.

"Mmmm…" he said as he took a bite. She rolled her eyes as he said, "You should make dinner more often."

"Em, if you just let me teach you how to cook you could make this by yourself all the time."

He rolled his eyes at me mockingly, "I don't need to know how to cook. Because you're always here."

"Yeah, well….whatever." she sighed when she couldn't come up with a comeback. He smiled, knowing that he had won. "And even if you can't cook we still need to stock your kitchen with frozen pizzas or something." It was true, how hard was it to turn on the oven, take out the pizza, put it in the oven, and wait ten minutes?

He huffed, "Fine." I knew I had won that one. I giggled and took both our plates into the kitchen and loaded the dishwasher. I walked back into the room to find him putting on his shoes. He never wears shoes? Are we going out?

"You want to take a walk?" he smiled at me. I checked the clock and saw that it was 9 o'clock.

"Sure but my curfews in two hours." I took his hand as he led me out the door. He led me to first beach where we sat in our tree and looked out at the waves. Because it was summer, the sun had just gone down and the moon was starting to rise. It was a full moon tonight. No one talked, we just sat there comforted by the other's presence. I rested my head on his shoulder and stared into space. In my head I could picture our wedding, one year from now; and our children and grand children.

After about 30 minutes of thinking he broke the silence, "What are you thinking about?"

I smiled and answered, "Our wedding, our kids, our grandkids." I felt him smiled next to me as he reached down and kissed my head.

"We have forever." He whispered. I nodded and knew my answer to this morning immediately. We did have forever. If I didn't want to go to college now, I could go in the future. No big deal.

I smiled and agreed, "Forever and always."