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EPOV

Bella gives hugs willingly now, she appears to be growing more comfortable with us, and in turn giving us some of her affection. Everyday I watch to see her becoming more and more perfect, at least in my eyes she is. Her long brown hair, her brown eyes which are so deep, eyes that betray her when she least expects them to. Her eyes are the gateway to her soul, and I treasured the time that I gained access to the world that was hidden within.

Anyone could see her apparent happiness at times, especially when the girls were around. Sometimes it is very frustrating for me to know that I couldn't change anything and that I would have to patiently wait for her to be ready for the feelings that I held in my heart. I never had a problem with waiting before, but now that she is so close, I want nothing more than to reach out and touch her, but I hold my urges in, for she is not ready for that kind of relationship with me. It breaks my heart to know that she feels or thinks that I could or ever would harm her.

All these years I have waited for her to arrive, and now she is here. She is home with her family, where she belongs. So why does it not feel that way for me? The only way it will feel like home is when I can wrap my arms around her and hold her close to me. It has been my deepest desire and hope for as long as she has been gone. Now she is here, but I still await her return to my arms.

I want so much for her to trust me like she did before, like she did so many years ago. I want to be the person she runs to when she needed someone, to ward off the monsters in her life, the person she feels safest with.

You have more mood swings than a pregnant woman has, Edward. Would you stop it already?

Great, now I'm making my family miserable. "Sorry, Jasper," I said just loud enough that he could hear me.

Then a soft knock came from the other side of my bedroom door. When I tried to touch the person's mind, it was nothing but wall. I knew was just beyond the doorway.

"Come in, Bella."

She gently pushed the door open, and I could have sworn that my dead heart soared in that moment. She was dressed in a light blue sundress… obviously Alice's doing. Words couldn't describe how beautiful she was, there were no words that could describe it without missing something about her. Her chocolate locks hung in soft curls that cascaded down her back, her eyes shimmering with mystery. She looked so much like Esme, but even more beautiful.

When she finally stepped into the room, she seemed to be shy and uncertain of what to do, especially since she had not spent much time in my room. I couldn't help but be ecstatic because one day I dreamed of sharing this room with her. That is if she ever gave me the chance to.

"I…I was wondering…"

She stopped mid sentence turning her eyes away from me to look down at the floor. It was so frustrating when she did that kind of thing, but I promised myself that I would not let her know that it bothered me. I didn't want her to see me as a monster. She had seen so many monsters in her life, I didn't to be a part of her list.

I stood up slowly from my couch and walked toward her. I was surprised that she didn't back away from me as I came toward her. I stopped in front of her and reached out to put my finger under her chin to raise her eyes to meet mine. Her eyes were so expressive, and were filled with so much sadness and happiness and it was wrapped up as one.

"Please, go on," I said, urging her to continue.

"I was wondering if you would… if you weren't too busy… if you would umm… play the piano for me?"

I was in utter shock when she asked me. I would do anything for her, she never had to ask, and I would just do it without a thought or a care.

The piano was my favorite, and it soon became hers as well. She tried a few times to play, but it didn't work out as well as she thought it should. She must have taken my silence for my answer, because she to start rambling on like she asked something completely unrealistic or something that I wouldn't do for her.

"It's ok if you don't want to. I just wanted to watch you and maybe I could learn to play by watching you…"

"Nonsense, I will be honored to play for you. Will you allow me to escort you to the bench?" I asked trying to make the conversation light while extending my hand to lead her out of the room.

I saw her crack a smile, that smile would be embedded into my memory till the end of time. She seemed hesitant to take it though.

"I will not hurt you. I promise," I whispered to her, hoping that it would reassure her fears.

She smiled again, and reached out and took my hand as I lead her down the stairs and to the bench of the piano. She took a seat beside me and I could feel the energy radiating off her, though she was completely silent. It was a comfortable silence though. I couldn't help but look at her from the corner of my eyes to notice how truly breathe taking she was.

I placed my hands over the keys and I played for what felt like hours. She said nothing, but listened and watched as my fingers flew across the keys. It was almost like she was mesmerized by the movement of my hands. It was then that I got a brilliant idea.

"Would you like to play?" I asked her with my hopes up high knowing that I could spend more time with her. It was then that my mind was flooded by the thoughts of my family from somewhere else in the house.

Stop hogging her Rosalie. I want to give her a makeover!

Look at the two of them. They are just so cute together, where is my camera when I need it.

"Forget it, Alice. This is the first time in a very long time that she has wanted to open up to me and you are going to give me this. Please," I pleaded to Alice.

I spoke loud enough for Alice to hear me, but low enough Bella couldn't hear it. She maybe part vampire, but her hearing wasn't as good as ours.

Esme's thoughts made me laugh though. Only she would get excited about seeing Bella and I together that she would want to find her camera to take a picture, to keep that memory stored forever. I didn't need a photograph to keep this moment sealed in time, it would always be stored within my mind just like the memory I had of us setting together at sun set so many years ago.

I wonder if she would sit with me on the porch and we could continue with later, I thought. I could always ask.

"Would you like to continue this later and come with me onto the porch and watch the sun set with me? Its twilight," I said giving her the best smile I can muster up.

Her eyes shined back at me. I knew she loved twilight because of the colors the sky would turn. When she was younger we would sit out there every night to watch it set. I haven't watched once since she left us. I wouldn't watch one without her, it wouldn't be the same.

Flashback

"Edward," my beautiful Bella spoke to me while we sat out on the grass in the backyard.

"What can you do for you Jelly Belly?"

She giggled at the name, and I hardly used it. Stupid Emmett came up with it while she at jelly beans. Actually it was more like she was trying to shove them up her nose.

"Why is the sky different colors?" She asked, looking at me like I had all the answers in the world.

"The sun is setting, my angel."

I had to say it so she would understand, not many kids would understand the logics of why the sky turns colors as the sun set each day.

"Oh."

That was her only response but she looked so cute with her nose scrunched up seemed like she was thinking hard.

"Will you sit with me and watch it go down? Please," she asked crawling into my lap.

"Every night of forever, my angel."

End flashback

I could remember that moment like it was yesterday, it was then that my attention turned back the girl that had stolen my heart so many years ago.

"I'd like that, I love the colors in the sky," she said smiling as she stood up from the bench.

Walking through the house, we walked out the door and continued until we reached a nice soft grassy spot, and we settled ourselves on the ground. For some reason we always liked the grass better than a bench on a porch.

We sat in silence. She kept her eyes on the sky, and I kept mine on her and her expressions.

The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance...
our long way home.

It has taken so long to get where we are today. She is my home in every way even if she didn't know it. The sun going down above her head made it appear that she had a golden halo over her head. The sun's shining rays were making her appear to be more angelic in her appearance. She was an angel sent from above, that I was sure of.

I was always yours to have.

You were always mine.

My heart has always belonged to her and it always will, weather she will except it or not. I hope she does though. So I know that she was always was meant to be mine.

We have loved each other in and out of time.

When the first stone looked up on the blazing sun.

And the first tree struggled up from the forest floor

I have always loved you more.

No other man can love Bella. No one could love my Bella like I do. Everyday that I see her I grow to love her more, if that is even possible. I would protect her with my life. I had to show her how much she means to me.

You freed your braids…

Gave your hair to the breeze.

It hummed like a hive of honey bees.

I reached in the mass of the sweet honey comb there...

Mmm… God how I love your hair.

The wind picked up and blew her hair in every direction, hitting me with her sweet fragrance. It was pure bliss when I could be enveloped with her sweet scent. I reached out to touch her hair, I couldn't help myself, she was just too beautiful to resist. I reached out to touch her face. I worried that she would shy away, but she leaned gently into my touch. I was happy that she did, it gave me hope that she would one day feel what I feel. Hope that I so desperately needed.

You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.

Lost, injured, hurt by chance.

I screamed to the heavens… loudly screamed…

Trying to change our nightmares to dreams.

I couldn't turn back the hands of time, but if I could I would take away all the pain she had suffered in her life. "God… help me. I will help her forget," I begged.

We all know what she lived through some very terrible experiences, though we didn't know how badly they affected her. Jasper says the pain on some days… he says he can't bare it. Carlisle wanted him to show him once how she was feeling and Jasper only gave him fraction of the hurt that she was suffering from and it brought my father figure to his knees. I cried out in pain for his beloved daughter, the girl that holds the keys to all of our hearts.

The sun has come.

She is my sun, she makes my world that much brighter. No one else could be my sun, the center of my universe.

The mist has gone.

The past is behind us, now we just have prepare for the future and what may happen when the time comes. A war that might separate us, but the whole family will make sure that will not happen.

We see in the distance our long way home.

I was always yours to have.

You were always mine.

We have loved each other in and out

In and out

In and out of time.

I was pulled from my thoughts as the eyes of my angel turned to me.

"Edward," she whispered so softly that I had to strain to hear her.

"Yes?" I asked hoping she will look in my eyes.

As if on command, she raised her head and her soft warm hand to my cheek. I couldn't help but lean into her touch, it was something that I had craved for so long. It was the first time she took it upon her self to touch me affectionately.

"I must have done something in my last life to deserve such a wonderful man like you. There are not many men would wait till I was ready to come to them, but you stood by me and showed me how much you truly care. I have a family that anyone would give their life to have," she said looking into my eyes. A small tear escaped her eye and I slowly reached up to wipe away her fallen tear.

"You are my life, Bella. I waited almost a hundred years for you to come in to my life, and I will wait another hundred years for you if I have to."

I couldn't help but think and beg that she didn't make me wait another hundred years for her. I would, but it would be long time to wait when she so close now.

"I remember you," she whispered.

I didn't really understand what she was meaning by that. Of course she remembers me in some ways.

"I mean, I remember sitting out here with you, watching the sun go down. It was like it was our own personal bubble, and that no one else could interrupt it. It was just you and me."

I couldn't help but smile that she remembered something of what we had. It meant so much that she could remember something that I held so close to my heart.

I felt all warm inside just thinking about it. I reached out and pulled her to me. It was obvious she didn't mind, because she pulled herself close to me. She sat on my lap and I wrapped my arms around her. This was a moment that I wanted for so long, and now it was happening.

She laid her head on my shoulder and I could smell the beautiful flowery scent mixed with a soft hint of strawberry. Esme thought she could change it up with the strawberry, thinking that I would maker her scent not to strange… ha, was she wrong. It just made her scent even more mouthwatering to me.

"I have loved you all along, Edward. You have always been my prince charming," she whispered into the crock of my neck. It was then that I felt the most heavenly thing ever, I could feel her leaving butterfly kisses along the side of my neck.

I moved slightly to see her face and it was then that I asked her with my eyes if I could continue. I moved slowly toward her and gently lowered my lips to make contact with hers. Her lips felt like heaven. The softness, the tenderness of her lips, she was giving me the pleasure of a little piece of heaven.

It wasn't a deep and sensual kiss, but sweet and tender one, one filled with so much passion that I that I felt it go through out my body. Only she could make me feel this way.

So the moment I had waited year for had come and it was the most amazing moments ever. We shared our first kiss, under the stars with the moon high above us. I couldn't help but think… this, being with Bella like I was at this very moment, was truly what meant to be at home. This is what home feels like and that I have loved her in and out of time.

I am so sorry about the long wait. I was on vacation and now I'm in the hospital, I am waiting for a kidney transplant, so pray for me, I hope I get one soon. I hope this chapter was ok. Please review, they make me feel better. The above poem is from the beautiful Maya Angelou called "In and Out of Time".