A/N: So this one is kinda long, for me anyways. Over 4,000 words. I'm glad everyone appreciated how they finally expressed themselves. I didn't think it should be in a grand gesture or anything like that. No skywriting or any of that shit, and before you ask, yes they will have sex. I know when and where, they just aren't in that city yet.

A lot of people have been asking why Bella hasn't told him yet about Columbia and I am going to be completely honest with you guys, because your reviews have been fantastic. I have already written that chapter. It's not coming yet. It was actually one of the first chapters I wrote, because I knew how I wanted it to play out. So please be patient and just enjoy the next few cities of fluff and love and lemony goodness. Perhaps if you guys are really nice with the reviews, I'll provide a snippit of the 'columbia reveal' in a future a/n.

Enjoy!

BPOV

When I woke up the next morning, I rubbed my eyes to adjust to the light in my room, but was surprised to see there wasn't any. I rolled myself away from Edward, who was still sleeping on top of the covers of the bed, fully dressed and looked outside. It was raining, and not some light sprinkle that I would be fine with, but a full on downpour with thunder and lightning.

"Looks like we're staying in today," I said to Edward as I noticed he had woken as well. "It's pouring."

"That's not a bad thing," whispered Edward as he motioned with his finger me to join him on the bed. I sat down beside him and he wrapped his arms around my shoulders comfortably. After our declarations of love last night, we were so tired from the drama that we ended up going to bed. I had initially felt that we should have consummated the relationship last night, but it didn't feel right, even though every word we told each other was perfect. The look on Edward's face this morning was already one of lust, but I wasn't up to playing this morning.

"We can play later," I said with a sly grin. "I'm gonna go send an email and have a shower. Remind me later that I need to call my mom okay?" Edward nodded his head and I went to leave the room in my pajamas, which consisted of a fairly lewd pair of short cotton shorts and a tank top.

"Can you shower first and get dressed?"asked Edward, clearly emphasizing the desire for me to be wearing a little bit more clothes. I relented primarily because I didn't want to start another argument with Edward, and I was a bit cold. I grabbed some clothes and my shower kit and headed to the bathroom to get ready for the day. When I got back into the room twenty minutes later, Edward had two cups of coffee and some muffins for us. I grabbed the chocolate chip one, knowing full well Edward had meant it to be for himself. I smirked and expected him to fight me for it. "So this is how it goes? You steal my muffin and I can't fight back because I'm in love with you?"

"Something like that," I said as I thanked him and kissed his forehead before taking a big bite of the muffin. He groaned and ate his breakfast in silence. When he headed to the shower a little while later, I headed down to the lounge to check my email. I had two this morning. One each from Angela and my mom. I opened my mother's first and thankfully she didn't have too much to say. My dad was taking her into Seattle next weekend for a romantic getaway and a Mariner's game. She told me she ran into Mike Newton around town and he kept asking about me and when I would be back in town. I didn't respond back to her, knowing that since it was Sunday I would be calling her later in the day. Angela's email was something I was a lot more interested in.

Bella,

You guys look so adorable in that photo! Don't even get me started on Edward's abs. So has anything else happened between you two? Come on, share some details. I got my room assignment in college and I luckily have my own room. Did you hear anything back from Columbia on your room? I'm sure if you did your mom would have told you. Where's Edward living while he's at NYU? Surely one of you will have the luxury of privacy * wink wink*.

Miss You

Angela.

I wrote my longest email of the trip, if not ever, to Angela that morning. I told her all about what happened on the train ride, well not every explicit detail, but I revealed enough that she didn't have to Google anything to know what went on. I also told her about last night at the bar and Edward's unjust jealousy, which then resulted in us revealing we were in love with each other. Angela would definitely love this little additional bit of information. I made sure to emphasis that we had yet to have sex though. Just as I hit send, Edward showed up and sat down beside me.

"Heard from Angela?" he asked with a grin.

"Yeah I did. No naked pictures for you though," I laughed as Edward sulked in mock disappointment.

"You know the only person I ever need to see naked again is you," he whispered lustfully into my ear. I watched with a bit of desire as he opened his email and laughed easily at something from Alice. They're relationship made me envious that I had a sibling, but this is the downfall of being an only child. It's not that my parents didn't try to give me a little brother or sister, but Renee had such a hard time during her pregnancy with me, nothing ever came to fruition. I pulled up the internet site for our Eurorail pass, deciding that since we were supposed to leave on Tuesday, we might as well find somewhere else to go.

"Poland?" I asked Edward with a quizzical look. He shook his head, clearly not too interested in heading to Warsaw for a few days. "Slovakia?" I offered again, but this time Edward huffed angrily. "Okay, what about Prague. You can't have anything against the Czech Republic, can you?"

"No, Prague is good," he said with a crooked smile. "We'll definitely have to hit the Mozart Museum and Charles Bridge."

"We can decide when we get to Prague what we want to do. They certainly seem to have a lot of churches. You'll probably get struck down if you go into one though," I said with a laugh as Edward glared at me.

"Yeah, probably. Check the train times. How long does it take to get there?"

"It's less than five hours. Sorry no sleeping car this time," I said with a wink. "The train leaves here at nine in the morning, so we'll get there around two. Sounds reasonable right?" I looked over at him and he was still working on his email to Alice. He was taking almost as long as I did when I emailed Angela. I just smiled and watched as he nodded his head in agreement. "I'll look up the hostels since you are busy with your e-mail." I ran through several sites finding nothing of interest until I found one that offered up apartments for rent. It was listed as hostel, and was relatively cheap, so I decided to check with Edward if it was something he was interested in. When I turned back to him, he was staring at me. "What?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking about how beautiful you are," he replied with a wink.

"Okay, well put it back in your pants Edward. We need to decide on a hostel and I like this one," I said as I pointed at the computer screen in front of me. "It's fairly central in Prague, but they are individual apartments. We would have our own bathroom, living room, bedroom." As soon as I mentioned it, Edward perked up considerably.

"How long do you want to stay in Prague?" he asked nervously. It was actually one of the cities I was most interested in visiting, so I suggested we stay for at least five days. "So, we'll leave next Sunday?"

"Yeah, is that okay with you?" Edward nodded and then handed me his credit card to book the hostel. I glared at him but I knew it was pointless, he wasn't going to take no for an answer, so I just sucked it up and booked the room. Once I was done and had printed out our confirmation, Edward and I decided to grab a few random menus from the front desk and head upstairs to enjoy the rainstorm from the comfort of our room.

"Do you think the power might go out?" asked Edward with a hopeful inflection to his voice after we entered the room and he locked the door behind us. I glanced at a few of the menus, knowing full well we had no intention to go out today and would definitely be ordering in.

"Look, they have Pizza Hut," I responded with a big smile. Suddenly Edward was behind me, his lips glued to my neck. "Can we have Pizza hut for dinner?" I asked breathlessly as he continued sucking and biting on me. There would definitely be another hickey there in a few hours.

"You can have whatever you want Bella," he said as he came up for air for a moment, but then went back to my neck. His lips were driving me crazy, and clearly having the intended response that Edward wanted, because before I knew, I had turned him around and was pushing him against the door to kiss his lips hard. It seemed like all my willpower had disappeared because before I could relent, I felt my knees hit the back of our bed and I was lying down, with Edward hovering above me. Suddenly, he pulled back from our kiss and was sitting back on his heels.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I tried to catch my breath.

"I love you," he said with a sigh. I nodded in agreement as this was something I knew to be true. "So I don't think we should do it right now."

"Don't tell me you are one of those boys where everything has to be perfect. I bet your first time was at prom with your girlfriend of like two years," I said with a loud laugh, practically repeating for verbatim what he had said to me only days ago when I was the one who stopped us from having sex.

"Shut up Bella, you know better to assume that I had a girlfriend when I went to prom." Edward laughed gently, but then his face fell slightly and he started talking again. This time more nervously. "No, I love you and I think it should be the right time for us when we make love. I don't want to do it just because it's raining out and we have nothing better to do." I nodded at him, because even though I really wanted him, he was right. We were in love and it could wait. "We can still fool around for hours though."

"How about we spend more time getting to know each other?" I asked with a gentle smile. "And then we can have Pizza Hut for dinner."

"Sounds good," he replied as he leaned forward and kissed me again. I grabbed the collar of his t-shirt and pulled him as close to me as I could, gently running my tongue along his lips. I sighed and pulled away. I think this time I was the more sexually frustrated one out of the two of us.

EPOV

It was just after one in the afternoon when Bella and I decided to forgo our sex for another time. I was in love with her and I didn't want it to be some lame ass attempt because I was desperate for release. I wanted it to be special. I needed to plan something, soon. I wanted to get past the making love phase and onto the unadulterated hardcore images of Bella that had been invading my every thought since I met her. I ran downstairs and grabbed us some snacks from the vending machine before we got comfortable on the bed and decided to simply ask each other every single question that came to mind, trying to get to know one another better.

"You can ask first," I said as I handed her a bag of chips and a Diet Pepsi. I watched as she nodded casually and began to think of a question.

"What is your favorite breakfast cereal?" she asked nervously.

"Cap'n Crunch," I said with conviction. She just giggled at me and explained it was her favorite too. "I'm also a fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch though. Okay, my question is … what is your favorite color?"

"Blue. No Purple. No, I like blue the best." Bella was apparently conflicted about which she preferred. That's okay. I would buy her something in both colors, I told myself. I was planning to use all my newfound information to impress Bella with some romantic gestures.

"What is your all time favorite CD?" wow, this was definitely a tougher question.

"It's probably 'Houses of the Holy' by Zeppelin. It's a classic, but also reminds me of happy times with my best friends Emmett and Jasper. What's yours?" I asked, very curious about her music choices. Perhaps so I could learn something on the piano for her to impress her even more. I watched as Bella took a sip of her soda.

"You're gonna laugh," she said with a shy grin. I shook my head in disagreement she continued. "I love 'Tidal' by Fiona Apple."

"Doesn't she like hate every man in her songs?" I asked with a chuckle.

"Let's just say it reminds me of both sadder and happier times in my life," said Bella as she decided to change the topic. "What is your favorite book?"

"I don't read a lot honestly. Whatever I was assigned in school. I guess the best of the worst was 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand. And yours?"

"I like 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte," replied Bella as she shoved a few Doritos in her mouth and smiled wickedly.

"Who was your first kiss?"

"You dear Bella," I joked as I leaned forward and planted a soft kiss on her nacho cheese covered lips. "It was some girl named Summer in the second grade. I sort of coaxed her into it, like I did most girls until I met you." I didn't even have to ask her about hers, she offered up the information voluntarily.

"Mine was a guy named Mike in the fifth grade. We even went out for a bit in high school, nothing serious though. I was reminded of it because he's been asking my mom about me back home recently," said Bella and I felt a small twinge of jealousy, but it was nothing as serious as I had when I saw all the other guys blatantly hitting on Bella.

"Well tell your mom to tell him you're taken," I said with a grin. I think even Bella was pleased I didn't fly off the handle.

"My mom doesn't know about us," she said with a tiny frown. I had known that she was reluctant to tell her family about us, but now that we were in love, I figured that might have changed.

"Are you going to tell her?" I asked curiously. I didn't want to start a fight with her over this; it was her decision after all. I hadn't told my parents, Alice had. Not that my parents would have cared anyways.

"I think I should. She would be pretty pissed if I kept something like this from her. I'm just not ready for her reaction. No offence to you baby, but I don't think it will be a positive one." She sighed as I reached over and stroked her hair lovingly.

"Tell her I'm rich, maybe that will appease her. It always seems to work with all the other girls I've known," I laughed sarcastically as Bella laid her head onto my shoulder.

"Yeah, that won't work with my family. Sorry babe. Anyways it's your turn for a question." I changed my position on the bed, suddenly sitting with my legs straight in front of me and leaning my body back on my hands. I wracked my brain for a question and what I came out with was remarkably lame.

"What is your favorite flower?" Bella told me about how roses reminded her of her grandmother, but she was always partial to orchids, but loved the smell of lilacs. She then asked me what my favorite smell was. "You," I responded confidently. Bella blushed sweetly at my response and I took a moment to lean towards her and kiss her again. I kinda wanted to move our question away from the mundane and into some of a more sexual nature, but I wasn't sure how Bella would take it. Luckily it was my turn for a question, so I asked the first thing I thought of.

"When was the first time you had an orgasm?" Bella's face went beet red. Apparently I had gone over the line and I was suddenly very remorseful. "I'm sorry. You don't have to answer that."

"In the water with you in Copenhagen," she said confidently as she watched my mouth open wide in surprise. "I said I had sex before, I never said it was any good." The sheer notion that I was the only person who had ever gotten Bella off, instantly got me hard. It also made me wish that she would ask me about my favorite brand of shampoo so I didn't have to think about it anymore.

"What's your favorite sexual position Edward?" she asked seductively as she scooted closer to me on the bed. I suddenly felt her hand on my thigh and tensed up slightly. I think I even blushed, because I hadn't been expecting that from Bella.

"Umm… I don't know," I lied and she knew it and immediately called me on it.

"Edward. You can't honestly tell me that based on all of your past experience; you don't have a favorite position." I sighed and hung my head slightly. I didn't want to tell her because it would probably lead to something I wasn't ready for. Bella seemed completely ready for anything though.

"Fine," I said reluctantly. "I would like it if you were on your back, your ankles in my hands and your legs spread open while I fucked you. I want to see it all. I want to see me in you." I glanced over at Bella and her brow was furrowed. She clearly had another question.

"Is that what you liked with other girls?"

"No," I said with a small indignant huff. "I didn't care about the other girls. I probably preferred doggy style cause then I didn't have to look at them." I felt ashamed of myself now that the words sprang from my mouth. Bella however, had a completely different reaction. She straddled my legs and started kissing me furiously. I pulled her away for a moment. "You're not mad?"

"Why would I be mad?" she questioned as she started to lick at my neck and collarbone. She could definitely sense my arousal underneath her because I felt her rock her hips, which just made me twitch even more in anticipation.

"I don't know."

"I actually think it's really fucking hot that you want to do things with me you've never done with someone else. I think its damned sexy how you described it, and even though it's a little callous how you treated the other girls, I don't give a shit. I love you and you wouldn't do that to me, unless I asked you to." Bella is definitely going to be my undoing. I grasped her ass in my hands as she pushed me back onto the bed and resumed her kissing and licking. There was definitely nothing wrong with a few hours of heavy teasing and kissing with my girlfriend, and before I knew it, we were both without our shirts, it was five o'clock and I was in desperate need of a cold shower. "I need to call my mom," said Bella anxiously, and it was with those words that my erection fell. It reminded me of Austin Powers when he was trying to think of things to not turn him on, 'Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day.' Perhaps that would be my new mantra.

Bella jumped off the bed and tossed her t-shirt from yesterday on again which said 'easily distracted by shiny objects' and I laughed happily at her while she fished through her backpack for the calling cards her mom had given her. "What's so funny?" she asked as I sat up in bed watching her every movement.

"Your shirt. It's funny to me because Alice always refers to me as the shiny Volvo owner, so it makes sense that you would be easily distracted by shiny objects," I continued to laugh and Bella just smirked.

"You own a Volvo? I didn't know I was dating my aunt," she said with a wink. I smacked her ass playfully and reached for my shirt and slid it over my head. "What? I like my aunt, she has like ten cats."

"It's a nice car. You won't be complaining when I fuck you in it one day," I said as I licked her neck and opened the door to our room. "Ready for your impending doom?" Bella nodded her head nervously and we made our way down to the payphone in the lounge. It took a moment for her to be connected, but I could tell Bella was getting more anxious with every second. I tried to stay as close to her as possible so I could hear her mother's reaction. I was certain this would be priceless, but I knew Bella wouldn't back down about this. She loved me too much to let something her mother said bother her.

"Hi Mom," said Bella as I rubbed her shoulders in support. She leaned her head against her hands and listened intently. "Yeah, Angela told me she ran into you a few days ago at the bank. How are things going?" I heard her mother talk casually about going to a baseball game and into Seattle for a few days with her dad. She seemed like a sweet woman. It was only a few minutes later when her mom asked where she was going to next. "We're leaving for Prague on Tuesday." Suddenly I could hear Renee very clearly.

"The 'we' being that group of kids you're travelling with?" she asked. It was the perfect opportunity for Bella to tell her.

"No mom, the 'we' being my boyfriend and I." There was complete silence from both of them and I kissed Bella's forehead delicately.

"What happened to the other students?" I heard Bella sigh in frustration but I was glad she was going to be completely honest with her mom. If I was going to be a part of her life away from Europe, I didn't want there to be bad blood with her parents.

"There were no other students mom. I've been travelling with Edward since London." There was silence again. I almost thought that Bella's mom had hung up on her for a moment. "Are you there?"

"Yeah, I'm here. I don't know why you felt like you had to hide this from me though," she said nervously. Bella went on to tell her about how nervous they were for her to be traveling at all, let alone with a nineteen year old boy from Boston, so she opted not to. Bella assured her mom that I was being a perfect gentleman, which was ironic because I copped a feel of her breasts the moment she said it.

"She wants to talk to you," said Bella with a grin a few moments later. I was suddenly overcome with an irrational fear and as I grabbed the phone, there was no one there. "Just kidding," she said with a smirk. "That was for grabbing my tit while I tried to talk to her. Now let's go order some pizza and make out for a few more hours," said Bella as she ran up to our room, with me following close behind trying to catch her.