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Finally
BEEEEEEP. Alice's car horn beeped from outside my bedroom window. I looked out. She was in her classic skinny jeans and waistcoat outfit. The perfect Alice look. I walked over to my wardrobe, took out a jacket and sighed. It was the last day of Summer. How had it gone by so quickly? Ever since that day in the field with Edward, the next to weeks had gone by in a rushed blur. We had officially declared ourselves an item. No complications, no confusion. I had met Tanya the next day. She was actually very friendly, and very intimidating, but with Edward's arm around me I felt more confident than ever.
I grabbed my plain denim jacket from my wardrobe - a classic Bella look - and ran down to Alice in the car. "You're late!" I couldn't tell if she was angry or cheerful? Only Alice could mix those two emotions.
"I'm sorry I couldn't find my jacket." I lied. I really had just lost track of time, doing everything and nothing, My life seemed to be a daydream lately.
Alice raised her eyebrows at me but put the car into drive. She looked at me. "So are you excited?" She asked. I didn't know what to feel though, really. Today would be my last full day with Edward. A few days ago I had asked him about today.
"I'm going to college in a week," I had said while we were sitting on the fields.
"Yes?" He had said.
"And you're going home in 4 days... How will we still see each other? You're from New York, my college is in Seattle." I was fighting back tears. "I don't know what I'm going to do without you."
"I guarantee you that I will see you everyday."
He sounded so sure of himself. I had asked how, of course, but he said it was a surprise and that I would find out today. Which was the reason for my mixed emotions. We were on our way to one of his end of Summer gigs in a bar just off Port Angelus. I had never seen him perform before. I had heard him strum a few chords in Alice's living room but that was just playing around, I'd never hear him perform seriously before in front of an audience. My boyfriend the superstar, I thought and laughed.
"Bella?" Alice called, waving her arms in an attempt to bring me back to Earth.
"Sorry. Um, yeah, very." I said although my voice was unsure. She pulled up into the parking lot of a small bar named The Woody Pecker. I had come here once or twice as a kid, but none that I could remember. I opened the heavy door and the first thing that caught my eye was Edward. He was wearing a blue and grey checked shirt standing on a small wooden stage with a guitar strapped around his neck. He looked up and smiled at me. I caught my breath and for a second just stood at the door staring at him. How was he mine? I felt Alice push at my back.
"Yeah, yeah, he's amazing Bells but I have to pee!" She shoved past me and danced to the bathroom. I laughed and went to sit by Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper, or Jazz as I'd come to know him as.
In a few minutes Alice was back sitting beside me and I heard loud guitar strums. I looked up and saw Edward looking over at me and then he started to talk.
"Hello! Thank you for having me. My first song, I wrote about someone very special to me. This is my first time playing it but for those of you who will be attending the University of Seattle will get to hear it every Friday and Saturday. I'll be attending there this fall to perform and to be with the person I love." He smiled and started playing. I nearly jumped with the happiness. Did he say he would be attending? As in going with me? That was why he was so sure we'd see each other. I couldn't fight back my smile.
The song was beautiful. I guessed that it was entitled Finally by the mentions of it in the chorus. How had my life gone from so horrible to so perfect? At the intermission Edward came down to me, laughed and kissed me.
"Did you like your surprise?" He asked still holding me.
"Yes!" I nearly shouted. Everything just seemed so perfect. Like it wasn't my life but I was watching one of them soppy romance movies Alice forced me to watch, except this time I liked the characters.
One month later...
"Hey" I said walking into the small drama room where Edward was strumming his guitar.
"Hey" He said leaning up to kiss me. This had become our regular meeting place. After classes or sometimes even at night despite my protests. Although I was slowly becoming ok with breaking the rules, I had broken plenty of my own.
We never did anything special in this room, I had never really known why we had come here in the first place. It was old and dusty but it was ours.
We sat down on the small couch in the corner of the room, coughing slightly at the dust rising from it as we sat. We did this alot too, just sitting here in silence. It was never awkward like it probably should be. I sat down and thought of the last few months events. It was hard to believe that it was only three months since I'd met Edward. I couldn't imagine a life without him now. I still marveled at him everyday. Not just at his looks but at his ability to make me feel so... special. No one had ever accomplished this before but he seemed to be doing it without trying. He helped me through hard times, waited for me to sort out my issues and above all he loved me.
As we sat on the couch Edward began twisting his fingers in and out of mine. How had I gotten this. I was the child who had grown up refusing to read fairytales, knowing from an early age that they told you what you wanted to hear. That there would always be a prince charming and you would always live happily ever after. And here I was with my prince charming, living my perfect version of my very own fairytale. It had a sad beginning, a complicated middle, but here I was at the end of it all, living happily ever after.