A/N: As promised, here is the new chapter, and with that the final chapter, of this story :) I hope you all enjoy it :) Thanks so much for all the sweet reviews I've received: Shirley, mouse555, Lizzie, Baylee '97, Emma-MasenCullen, W.I.S., Ravenlovestwilight. They make my day!

To Shirley: That were a lot of kudos to Edward! :O Then again, like he could do anything really wrong ;)

To mouse555: It's indeed not very obvious that they are vampires but they are :)

To W.I.S.: The only reason I'm able to upload every day is because I've already got the entire story written down ;) So all I have to do every day is edit, make the A/N's (although that's quite some work with all that rambling of mine :D) and upload :P

Well here goes the last chapter, I hope you all enjoy it. As I said it's not the same style you guys are used to from me, but I hope you like it all the same :)

What A Ride

It's strange how one little thing can change your life so completely and how one little thing can mean so much to one person. In my case that would be the elevator of my building. I know it sounds strange but there are so many things that have happened to me on that elevator, so many important things, milestones in my life. Sometimes I really feel that if it hadn't been for the elevator of my building I wouldn't be the person I am today and I wouldn't be with the most wonderful person you'll ever meet in your life.

I met Edward on the elevator the first time, which was already a life altering experience for me, how could I look at any guy in any way when they would have to compete to the image of that one perfect stranger? But according to Edward I wasn't the only one who was completely changed because of that one elevator ride. He said that he had felt exactly the same thing and some more things.

Strangely enough Edward asked me out for the first time in the same elevator and as a result our first kiss happened in that elevator.

Alice keeps telling us that the elevator was placed there especially for the both of us and sometimes I feel like I almost believe her in that. But if it hadn't been for Alice pushing us both towards each other, sometimes a little too literal, we wouldn't probably be together either.

I did one of the most strange and important discoveries of my life in that same elevator though.

Edward and I had just gotten back from a horror movie we had gone to watch with his siblings, since Emmett really wanted to see it and we had all been looking for an excuse to hang out together outside of the house anyways. Esme and Carlisle had stayed behind, saying that horror scenes weren't really their thing.

Edward and I hadn't really been together long, it had officially only been our fifth date and I had been a bit nervous because ever since our second date it felt like he wanted to push me further away instead of drawing me in closer. It was confusing and I was scared that that night might be the end of my fairytale.

"Tell me what you're thinking?" Edward asked me when we arrived at the building.

It had become one of his standard questions, not a day went by without him asking me something along the same lines. He told me it was because I never did what he expected and I wasn't as easy to read for him as other people were. Although he never wanted to explain exactly what he meant by that little comment.

"Just wondering who ever came up with horror movies," I answered, lying.

I had been wondering that before, when we were exiting the theater, but at this moment I was more wondering if he was going to break up with me in front of my door or he would call me later to do it. I was pretty sure it was going to be in front of my door, since Edward was too much of a gentleman to do it over the phone.

"Why were you wondering that?" Edward was curious now, I knew I shouldn't have said that.

"Well, they're only there to scare people, it's not like they are real or anything, so why would someone think of something just to scare people, how did that person know that people would actually like getting scared by a movie?" I rambled.

"You never stop surprising me, you know that?" Edward said adoringly.

"You always say that, maybe you should start expecting that I'll surprise you," I suggested jokingly.

"You're right, that's a good plan," he played along. "But you don't think horror movies can be real?"

"Well no, I don't think so, I've never seen a zombie or a werewolf or a vampire, have you?" I challenged him.

"That would surprise you," he replied mysteriously.

"Right," I said, unconvinced.

"What if I told you it was all very real?" Edward said.

"That would be quite scary now wouldn't it?" I replied, still not being serious.

"Yes, it would be, although horror movies always make the vampires and werewolves and such out to be the bad guys, but what if they choose not to be bad?" Edward's face grew serious and I got a nervous feeling.

"Where are you going with this?" I asked, trying to keep my nerves in check.

"Would you be open to monsters being real if I told you they aren't all evil? It obviously doesn't mean that they aren't still very dangerous," Edward replied.

"I don't understand," I admitted.

"Have you ever seen me eat?" he changed the subject suddenly.

I thought about it and my eyes widened in shock.

"No," I said softly.

We entered the elevator.

"That's because I'm not like you," he admitted. "You must have noticed that," he added softly.

"Your skin is rock hard and ice cold," I remembered.

"Yes," he responded.

"I don't understand," I stated again.

Then Edward explained everything about his family and his background, he told me what he really was.

"So, you're a…" I started, unsure how to finish the sentence.

"Monster," Edward finished my sentence.

"No!" I stated firmly.

"No?" He was confused.

"Not a monster, you could never hurt me! You're not like the monsters on television," I explained.

"I could easily hurt you Bella! I'm dangerous!" Edward said frustrated.

"I don't mean that you couldn't physically hurt me, or emotionally even, I'm just saying you wouldn't. I don't believe you're dangerous," I said surely.

"You're wrong!" Edward said. "I don't ever want to hurt you Bella! But I can't always control myself. I avoided elevators ever since I met you for the first time. I had trouble controlling myself, you were so interesting and you smell delicious, it was torture!" I flinched at his words. "I don't want to scare you off Bella, but it's not good for you to be with me! I'm not normal, nor am I safe!"

"I don't care," I said sternly and confidently.

"You don't care? How can you say that?" Edward yelled.

That was also how our first fight happened in the elevator. I had stormed out of the elevator on my floor and Edward had gone up to his penthouse. We didn't talk the rest of that week. Edward couldn't believe I was so eager to accept him and I wanted to be with him more than anything in the world. He was convinced he wasn't safe.

After a week Alice had decided that it was time she stepped in and she did. She made sure Edward and I were both at their place and she made us talk it out. Edward still finds it hard to be with me sometimes and we always have to be careful with everything but at least he has accepted that he's not getting rid of me that easily.

Edward was always careful when he was around me and he was definitely careful to keep me at a safe distance. He wouldn't even kiss me without being worried that he might hurt me. It was driving me insane sometimes and at one point I decided to change his attitude.

I was nervous, I knew I wanted Edward to lower his guard a little. I knew he was just trying to keep me safe but it was driving me crazy to always be pushed away and I would never admit this to Edward but it could really feel like a personal rejection when he pushed me away after only a few minutes of passionate kissing.

"Are you alright?" Edward asked while we were on our way up to his apartment.

"I'm fine," I lied.

"You're a terrible liar Bella," Edward accused.

"I'm fine, really," I tried in my most convincing tone.

"It's so frustrating that I can't read your mind!" Edward exclaimed with his hands in his hair.

I knew it could drive him crazy not to know what I was thinking the entire time the way he could with every other person in this world. But I was grateful for my little protection from his gift.

"You'd only be more frustrated if you knew what I thought the entire time," I admitted while blushing.

"I doubt that, what could possibly be more frustrating than this?" he challenged. I knew I shouldn't have made him curious but I couldn't go back now.

"I know a few things," I said softly, hoping he wouldn't really pay attention to it.

"Name one," he challenged again.

"I can show you," I said, nervous again.

"What do you mean?" Edward asked confused.

I gathered all my courage and pressed the emergency stop button of the elevator. Edward looked at me in surprise but other than that just waited.

I turned around again so I was facing Edward and slowly walked up to him. He still didn't move, he just waited for me to show him.

I threw my arms around him and started kissing him with as much passion as I could put into one kiss. Edward was stunned for a moment, surprised by my sudden change of mood. But he quickly caught up to what I was doing and he smiled. He kissed me back for a moment but pushed me back not much later. His eyes were darker, the way they always were when we kissed. I could feel the disappointment washing over me again but this time I was going to fight it, fight him.

"Please," I said softly.

"Bella," Edward said sternly.

I just moved closer to him again and I started placing kisses along his neck, working my way up to his lips.

"Bella." He sighed.

"Please?" I begged now.

Edward put his arms around my back and lifted me to his face. He turned around so I was with my back against the wall and I wrapped my legs around him eagerly. We kissed longer than we had ever kissed before but still too soon Edward pulled back and placed me back on my feet.

"See," I said smugly.

"What see?" Edward asked.

"That wasn't so hard," I said confidently.

"Maybe for you! It's not smart to put yourself in danger like that Bella!" he replied.

"I'm not in danger, you won't hurt me!" I told him sternly.

"You don't know that, you have no idea how hard it is for me to focus when you're kissing me like that!"

"But you did it anyways, that proves that I'm not in danger!" I was sure of myself, although I also knew it would probably not matter much to Edward, he would never change his mind.

"This time," he sighed.

"I trust you," I said while burying my head in his chest.

Edward wrapped his arms around me and held me close. "I love you Bella," he whispered in my hair. "I can't take any chances with you."

"But…" I started although I knew it was pointless.

"I guess you were able to find something more frustrating than me being unable to read your mind after all," Edward said with a smile.

Somehow that still didn't feel like victory to me but I knew it was all I was going to get for now. At least he had already pushed his boundaries a little further and all I could do was hope that he wouldn't pull them back even tighter.

"I do have to say I did enjoy this a lot, so maybe we could try it more often, but careful though!" Edward said softly.

I looked up at him and beamed. "Thank you," I said before softly placing my lips on his.

"You're welcome, you silly girl," he replied playfully.

I laughed at that memory. Luckily the boundaries had only gotten more loose since that moment, so it hadn't been a onetime thing after all.

Thinking about all the important moments I had had with Edward it was strange how often indeed the elevator was in it. I remember telling him about that once and he had said that it surely wasn't going to be the last milestone we would encounter in that particular elevator. At that time I hadn't known what he had meant but it turned out that he was going to be right.

"Why do you want to get back so quickly Bella? We hardly spend any time together as it is!" Alice exclaimed while we entered my building.

"That's not true Alice! We spend a lot of time together! And you know I'm not a big fan of shopping, but I don't mind, I like spending time with you a lot. But I haven't seen Edward in three days since he went on that hunting trip with his brothers and Carlisle, and I've missed him very much. I just want to see him. Nothing personal," I added jokingly.

"I know," Alice added.

"You didn't have to take me home though, I'm perfectly capable of finding my way back from your house," I said teasingly again.

"You were never this eager to get rid of me!" Alice said with a pout.

"Would it make you happier if I took the stairs?" I asked Alice. I could never resist her pout and I wanted to make it up to her.

"NO!" she exclaimed.

"What?" I asked confused.

"I mean, no it wouldn't make me happier, you'd be dead before you reach the top floor, with your stamina and everything," she said trying to sound lightly.

"Right," I responded suspiciously.

Alice pressed the button for the elevator and she waited with me for it to come. When the elevator arrived Alice gave me a quick hug, whispered "have fun" in my ear and dashed out the door so quickly it could barely pass for human.

The doors opened and to my surprise Edward was standing there, wearing the khaki shorts I love so much and a simple black t-shirt, he looked divine. He was holding a red rose in his hand and the moment I walked into the elevator I noticed there were rose petals covering the floor of the elevator as well. I looked at him in surprise as he handed me the rose and kissed me on my lips. He pressed the button to his floor.

"What's all this?" I asked curiously.

"You'll see," he replied mysteriously.

When we were halfway to his floor he pressed the emergency stop button and the elevator came to an abrupt halt.

"Bella, I love you, you know that right?" Edward started.

"Yes, I love you too," I replied, unsure where he was going with this.

"I already knew from the moment I met you that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you," he said seriously.

My eyes widened as I realized what he could be doing right now.

"And I've been thinking about this a lot and even though we're not your typical couple, far from even, I know we can make this work. We've been through a lot together already and I know that you think this elevator is part of it all, so there's no better place to do this than where it all started," he continued and as he said the words he knelt down to one knee and pulled a small box out of his pocket. "Isabella Swan, I love you more than anything in the whole world and I promise to love you forever. Will you marry me?" As he said the words he opened the box and I could see the beautiful ring that was in it. It looked way too expensive but I wasn't concerned with the ring for long. The man of my dreams was waiting for me to answer the question whether or not I'd want to spend the rest of my life with him and the answer wasn't that difficult.

I'd never been the marrying type but I would do anything for Edward and the idea of having him to myself and calling him mine officially for the rest of eternity was just perfect for me.

"I'd love to marry you!" I said, voice thick with emotion.

Edward took the ring out of the box and slid it on my finger, it was a perfect fit. I was beaming at Edward and his face was glorious, like he had just won the most valuable prize, even though I was the one who was winning in this scenario, I got to keep this heavenly man forever.

Edward rose to his feet, he picked me up and brought his lips to mine, he kissed me passionately and with more emotion than he had ever kissed me before. I kissed him back with just as much passion and emotion. I felt on top of the world.

This was one of my most wonderful memories so far of Edward and me. I was sure there were many more to come.

"What are you thinking about love?" Edward asked me curiously.

We had just gotten back from our honeymoon. Our wedding had been exactly perfect. There was nothing less to expect, since Alice had planned it all and had been in charge of all the details. She had done an amazing job. And on top of that she had been an amazing maid of honor.

It couldn't have been a surprise when I asked her to be my maid of honor but the moment I had asked her she looked like she would have cried if she had been able to. She had been ecstatic.

We had had a small wedding with just close friends and family. The honeymoon had been a surprise for me until the moment we arrived at Isle Esme and Edward and I had spent two wonderful weeks there. They were over now and this was the first time we were back in our building. I was going to move in to the penthouse with Edward and we would start looking for a different place if we felt like it but for now I was perfectly happy living in this building, it had been our home for so long now already.

"Just thinking about all the things we've been through in this elevator," I told him smilingly.

"There's just one thing missing," he said mysteriously.

"What's that?" I asked.

The elevator doors opened and Edward scooped me up into his arms. I let out a squeal in surprise but threw my arms around his neck and hugged myself closer to him quickly after that.

"Welcome home, Mrs. Cullen," Edward whispered in my ear as he stepped over the threshold of the elevator.

A/N: That was it for this story :) Thanks so much for reading :) I hope you all enjoyed it :) I went through the entire thing pretty quickly and especially this chapter was pretty short for my standards :P But that's mostly because I didn't have enough inspiration to make it an interesting longer story so I hope you all like it this way too :)

I'm working on a new story as well, I've been working on it for quite some time now already but now that I have some more time on my hands I'm hoping I can start uploading that one soon as well :) I'll keep you guys posted :)

Until next time!

Xxx

Thari