A/N: Hey guys I'm still here! After the whole job layoff thing I had to move. I did a Bella and moved away from my sunny warm home to…you guessed it! Washington State where it is freaking snowing! Gah! I don't even own a coat!

Edward and I stood in the valet area waiting for Carlisle and Esme to be brought out of the building. I was fidgeting back and forth nervously on my feet not able to look at any of the country club goers in the eye. Edward's arm that was around my waist tightened and he pulled me closer into his side.

The doors to the front of the club opened and out walked a flustered Esme, a stone faced Carlisle and what looked to be the club manager. They all stopped about twenty feet away from us. The valet jumped to attention and met Carlisle half way to get his retrieval ticket from him. The valet then went back to his post and called someone on a radio.

Carlisle glanced towards us but I didn't look at his face. Edward snorted and I looked up to find him trying to hold back a grin. Edward seemed to find this whole situation quite amusing. I, on the other hand, was mortified.

The club manager left and an older couple approached Carlisle and Esme. Esme let out a shaky laugh and had a fake smile on her face. Carlisle shook the man's hand. Our car arrived up front and Carlisle went to the driver's side while the original valet guy held open the door for Esme. Edward grabbed the back door and opened it before the valet could get to us. I stepped in and scooted over behind Carlisle. Edward climbed in and shut the door.

The drive home was very quiet. Edward held my hand in his and intertwined our fingers. Every so often he would lean down and whisper comforting words in my ear before kissing my ear or my temple.

We arrived back to the Cullen house and we all got out of the car and headed into the house at the back door. Before we made it to the door, Carlisle put his hand on Edward's shoulder. "Meet me in my study in five minutes." Carlisle said with a too calm of a voice. I looked at Edward and he just shrugged with the amused look still on his face.

Once in the kitchen, Esme started pulling things out of the pantry to cook something. Carlisle walked straight out of the room; most likely he was headed to his study. Edward and I went out to the living room.

"I think that they are really mad." I said to Edward with a grimace on my face.

"Probably." He said closing the distance between us and placing his hands on the side my face. "But it doesn't make me feel any different. I am not ashamed that everyone at that stuffy country club knows how much I love you." He brought his lips down to mine in a tender kiss before he ran off up the stairs to his father's study.

As I walked back into the kitchen I was thinking about what he had said about not being 'ashamed'. I was definitely embarrassed, but I wasn't ashamed of what we had done, the act itself. I did feel that the place in which we did it may have been a little inappropriate, since we were caught and all.

I was still lost in my thoughts as I sat down on the bar stool at the island in the kitchen. Esme turned and placed her elbows on the counter in front of me and sighed. I looked up into her eyes and also sighed. "I'm sorry Esme."

She took my hand in hers. "It's Ok honey. We are all young at one point in time and do spontaneous things." She patted my hand and got some vegetables out of the fridge and brought them to the cutting board by the sink.

I got up off the stool and stood next to her. "Can I help?" I asked.

"Sure." She said handing me a chopping knife and a couple of onions. "So how are things in New York?"

"Good, school is going great for both of us." I told her. "There is only three months left of classes. I can't wait to be able to relax and do something fun instead of studying. I'm sure Edward will still keep working over the whole summer though. You know how he can get."

"That's not exactly what I meant." She said cautiously. "Things between the two of you seem great, but how is Edward?"

I stood there for a moment wondering what she was getting at, and then it dawned on me.

"Oh…um…fine. He fits in really well at school. He's made a couple of friends." I didn't really want to go where she wanted this conversation to go. I knew what she wanted to know, but I felt like I was betraying Edward somehow spilling all of his personal secrets. His relationship with his parents had improved tremendously before we left home, but Edward still held some resentment stored away for them.

"And his anger issues?"

"He can still get frustrated sometimes." I told her.

"Bella, please." She pleaded setting down the head of lettuce she was washing. "Has he ever just taken off for a few days like he used to?"

"No." I didn't have the heart to tell her that the only times that he had done that was over something that had happened between him and his parents. In fact, I was a little worried about the conversation that was going on in the study. It had been twenty minutes.

Carlisle walked into the kitchen and smiled at me and Esme. I must have looked confused or worried because Carlisle came over to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. "Edward is upstairs. He asked me to tell you to meet him up there."

I left the kitchen and headed up the stairs to Edward's room. Carlisle seemed to be in a good mood, I only hoped that Edward would be too.

I opened the bedroom door to find Edward sitting on the couch with his head in his hands and he was shaking slightly.

I practically ran over to him and sat next to him on the couch, placing my hand on his back. "Edward, are you OK?" I asked.

He lifted his head up from his hands and he had the biggest smile on his face. He started laughing and fell back against the couch. "I just had the strangest conversation with my dad." He said through his laughter.

"What did he say?"

"More or less he told me that he was happy that our sex life was good, but he didn't feel that it should have been expressed at his country club. He was happy however, that we didn't put on a show for the whole place to see like Lauren did last summer."

"Lauren?"

"Yeah apparently she was caught sucking off some guy in one of the pool cabanas and then not thirty minutes later she was on her knees again with one of the waiters behind the bar in the restaurant between dinner sittings."

"Oh my god!" I shrieked covering my mouth with my hand. "She gets around."

"That's not all!" He said in full gossip mode. "A week later she was boning a different guy in the hot tub."

"Remind me to skip the hot tub if we are ever allowed to go back to the club." I chuckled.

"No kidding! So basically my dad said that in the future we should use a little more control or be less conspicuous because when they were younger he and my mother never got caught." He shuddered a little at the thought of his parents having sex in public places, or anywhere for that matter.

I started giggling at the look on his face. "Your face is priceless!"

"I bet I could get this look" He waved his hand around his face. "On you face pretty fast."

"What?"

"My dad also said that after what he heard coming out of this room this morning you should have been able to keep your hands off of me for one afternoon." He smirked as my face heated up.

"Wait a minute. Keep my hands off of you? He did not say that! You're lying!" I said shoving his shoulder as hard as I could while he laughed even harder. "I guarantee that I will keep my hands to myself from now on." I folded my arms across my chest.

Before I could even blink, Edward had pushed me back on the couch and was hovering over me. I stuck my hands out in between us and opened them and wiggled my fingers. "To myself!" I said as I balled up my hands and shoved them under my arms.

While leaning on one elbow, Edward reached back to my knee and hitched my leg over his hip. He slid his hand down my thigh and under my dress. "Ooh I forgot about this!" He said while his hand rediscovered my naked bottom.

"Ed-ward." I said my voice jumping up an octave when I felt his fingers travel between my legs.

"Yes Bella? Did you need something?" He said as his tongue traced the shell of my ear and his fingers continued to move against my very aroused and sensitive area.

"Um…I…oh!" Was all I could get to come out of my mouth when I opened it.

A smug crooked smile spread across Edward's face as I squirmed beneath him.

Rose and Emmett came home the next morning and announced their arrival by busting in Edward's room at 9am.

"We're back!" Emmett shouted while jumping up on the bed.

Edward and I both groaned and Edward sat up and threw a pillow at his brother. "Ew! Are you guys naked under there?" Edward was just wearing boxers and from Emmett's point of view he must have looked like he had nothing on under the blanket. I had pulled the blanket to cover myself due to the fact that I had only been wearing a skimpy tank top and bikini panties.

"No fucker, we were sleeping though!" Edward growled. "Get out!"

About an hour later Edward and I made it down to the kitchen for breakfast. I was happy to get a chance to see Rose before Edward and I had to head back to New York the next day.

We were all sitting around the kitchen table while Esme finished up with the pancakes she was making for breakfast.

"So I was thinking that maybe we could go to the club for dinner tonight." Emmett started. "I was hoping to show Rose the place and since it's Edward and Bella's last night here it would be fun."

I suddenly looked down at my lap, Edward snorted again, and Esme chuckled over what Emmett had just suggested. Carlisle, as it turned out, found the whole situation to be quite funny and laughed out loud.

"What?!" Emmett said looking at all of our different responses to the idea. "What is going on?"

"Bella and your brother have been asked not to return to the club." Carlisle told Emmett.

Emmett's head snapped over to face Edward. "No, no way!" Edward just looked at him with a smug expression on his face. "And I suppose that it was in the poolside dressing room too?"

Edward gave Emmett a single nod.

"Fuck you!" Emmett shouted pointing at Edward. "You knew that that was my spot you jerk!"

Edward just started laughing as Emmett pouted.

"What the hell are you two talking about?" Rose asked Emmett looking a little annoyed.

"I told Edward once when we were in high school that if I ever brought a girl to the club that I would totally…well…you know…in the poolside dressing room." Emmett explained. "And he royally ripped me off!"

"Boys!" Esme scolded. "That is no way to talk or think about women."

"Sorry mom." They both said in unison, but Emmett kept his eyes on Edward to let him know that this conversation was not over.

We all decided to go to dinner at a different restaurant and that Emmett would be able to take Rose to the club another time. Heavily supervised by Carlisle and Esme, of course.

We had just told Edward's family goodbye at the car and were now sitting on the plane heading home. Edward was scrunched down in his seat fast asleep with his hand in mine and his head leaning on my shoulder.

I couldn't help but think about how great our lives were now. We had a great family and had fantastic friends. Most of all we had each other. I couldn't ask for more.

I looked down at his sleeping face and was overwhelmed with how much that I loved him. I leaned down and kissed his head before closing my eyes for the remainder of the flight.

Epilogue…

Two years later…

As I sit here with our family and friends and watch the love of my life accept the diploma that took four years to earn, I think back to when we first met in that Psychology class.

Where would I be now if we had not been forced into each other's lives by that seating chart? Homeless, rotting away in prison, strung out on a park bench, dead? Who knows? All I know is that she accepted the broken boy that I was and turned me into the man I am today.

I still don't understand why she put up with the shit I put her through those first few months. She told me it was because she loved me from the first time she laid eyes on me. I had a hard time believing that, but I can see how it could be true. I had felt the same way.

We were going to stay in New York now that we had both graduated. Bella had gotten an internship at a prestigious publishing company as an editor's assistant for the summer. She had been accepted into NYU's graduate program for next fall which would leave us here for at least three more years.

A couple of months ago I had been contacted through my school by a producer that had wanted to use a song that I had composed for a movie that was being made and had asked for me to write another one for a commercial that he was doing.

Things couldn't be going any better for us.

My parents, my brother and his pregnant wife, Jasper, Alice, and Bella's dad Charlie were sitting with me watching the ceremony.

I had told my dad that there was no way in hell that anyone would be staying with us tonight at our loft. Carlisle forked out the money for everyone to stay in my mother's favorite hotel for their visit.

Bella and I had some celebrating to do.

Clapping erupted all around me bringing me out of my thoughts. I watched as Bella skipped over and flung her arms around my neck. "Congratulations." I said before kissing her with so much passion that it was borderline inappropriate to be in public.

When we pulled apart she was dragged out of my arms and into Rose and Alice's. She was being hugged and kissed by my family and she was finally released to her father. He hugged her so tight. Charlie was so proud of his only daughter.

Bella made it back to my arms and I looked at Charlie and he gave me a smile and patted my shoulder in acceptance.

Only Charlie knew of my plans for tonight.

I had set it up that our celebratory dinner was being catered to our home within the hour.

We would be the only ones home.

And I was going to ask Bella to spend the rest of her life with me.

As my wife.

A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed the story. It was a great turn out for my first fic. I apologize for not responding to everyone, I honestly didn't know what to say. I had to end it; I didn't want to run it into the ground. Again thanks so much for the encouraging words and helpful comments. I have another story out there if you are interested. It is only three chapters in so far. It's called: "Ding! You Are Free to Move About the Cabin".

Thanks again!