Chap 17

BPOV

The dinner was amazing, the surroundings were beautiful, and what made the night spectacular was the man that was sitting at my side.

Edward and I were in the truck on the way home.

We had danced and confessed our love, making this night one to remember.

Edward was holding my hand on top of the arm rest between us.

The radio was playing a beautiful classic piano piece.

I was happy and in love and I couldn't wait to tell my sisters of my evening.

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We pulled up to the drive and Edward came around to my door to help me out. Such a gentleman, I thought.

I got out and wrapped my arms around his waist, his left arm slung around my shoulders.

From the interior of the house I heard a high pitched squeal, I could only assume from Alice.

"I guess that means they know we're home." Edward said chuckling.

"Or something very exciting just happened that we no doubt will find out about as soon as we step through those doors." I altered.

We stepped onto the porch and the door swung open to reveal a very happy Alice, grinning from ear to ear.

"Eeeeek!WellIhopeyouhadawonderfultimewithBella,Edward,causenowsheisgoingtocomewithusandspillthebeanstoherspectacularevening!"Alice said in a rush, barely providing time for either of us to understand her words.

In fact the only word that I was sure I heard, in that run-together sentence was 'spectacular', although I am also fairly sure she had mentioned both Edward and I, so who knows what she said.

Before I was allowed a word to Edward, I was whisked away upstairs by my very hyper-active sister.

At the top of the stairs I, being the klutz that I am and due to Alice's overeager behavior, face planted, my feet flying up behind me. I heard and felt the vibrations of feet running up the stairs along with, "Oh my gosh Bella are you okay?" "Alice?!" "Bella, Bella, are you alright?" from three different voices.

A laugh echoed around the room as the guffawing sounds of Emmett were heard. Two arms wrapped around my waist and lifted me gently to my feet.

When I was upright I found Emmett bent over in laughter, Edward's concerned face staring at me- appraising the damage that wasn't there, Rose's slightly amused, slightly angry face, and Alice's shocked and apologetic face.

"It's okay; I'm fine, nothing broken- that I can tell. It's okay…And Emmett if you don't shut up, I'll make sure that Rose does not kiss you for an entire week!"

As soon as I said that Alice broke into a smile, Rose smirked, Edward smiled, and Emmett, of course, shut up and funnily enough looked terrified.

"You wouldn't," he squeaked out.

I turned to Rose, "Would I Rose?"

"Oh yeah. Long story, but basically, been there done that, don't want it to happen again! So Emmett shut your flaps!" She turned to him and glared, causing him to shrink even further.

"Okay, 'Don't mess with the Hale girls', duly noted." Jasper stated in amusement from behind us at the bottom of the stairs. My sister's and I just laughed, boy has he got it down.

At the next moment Alice grabbed me around the wrist and yanked me into the closest bedroom, mine.

The door closed and Alice pushed me down onto my bed.

Alice jumped up on the bed with me and sat with her legs crossed leaning in, waiting, I could only assume, for juicy details. Rose walked around to the other side of the bed and climbed on as well.

"Okay, spill!" Alice demanded very eagerly.

"What? There's nothing to spill." I said innocently, smiling internally that I didn't give anything away while I was talking. I wanted them to suffer slowly by having to wait.

"Don't give me that! You two were grinning like idiots from the car to the front door. Now spill!"

"Well what do you think happened?" I said as I got up and began to undress, kicking off my shoes into the corner. "It was a date. We talked, we ate, we danced, we confessed our love. What else happens at a date?" I slipped in the 'confession' part for effect, hoping to see if they would catch it. By this point I was in my closet slipping out of my dress.

"Wait. What was that last part?" I heard Rose's approaching voice ask.

"Which part? I asked 'What else happens on a date?'"

"No, before that,"

I was grinning like mad.

"Oh, 'We talked,'" I put my pj's on, a t-shirt and short combination.

"After that,"

"We ate?"

"After that,"

"'We danced,'"

"Arrrggg!" Alice growled, "After that woman!!"

"Ooooh, you mean the 'We confessed our love' part, right?"

I didn't even get to finish the question because of the loud squeals reverberating around the closet interior.

Alice was jumping up and down clapping her hands together repeatedly and Rose was grinning like mad.

I walked around them and went to sit on my bed, grabbing a pillow and placing in my lap.

"So I guess you want details?"

They clapped their hands together in excitement and ran to join me on the bed, waiting for my story to unfold.

EPOV

I reluctantly released Bella as she was yanked by her wrist into a bedroom.

I went down the stairs and was suddenly face-to-face with Emmett.

"Emmet do you mind getting out of my face," I said while leaning back so that he was officially out of such close proximity.

"Sooo…" he said holding out the word.

I bent my head forward waiting for the ending of the sentence. No such luck.

"So what?"

"What happened? You both were grinning like idiots, what happened? Did you get some?"

"Emmett!!! Of course not! I took her on a date. You know 'getting some' as you so eloquently put it is not all there is it a relationship."

"Oh I know but I just assumed with the giddy look on your face that you might have gotten some action. But I guess our Eddie boy is still a virgin." He ended his statement with a smile while glancing at Jasper. I glared at the two of them, knowing that once again we had arrived on the topic of my virginity.

Part of this topic was a constant push to the fact that the one night that I came close, the girl passed out in my arms, on the way home! It was also the reason I hated the game of 'Truth or Dare', part of my dare was to pick up a girl with a cheesy pick up line and continue just to see how far things went. It was my sophomore year and my brothers and I were out with several other guys, one of whom was a jerk by the name of Marcus. He just loved to see how far women would let him go, use them once and toss them out on their behind. My brother's and I were never real close with him.

"Come on Ed? At least tell us about why you look the way you do?" Jasper asked pulling me out of 'memory lane'.

"Fine, you two are like gossip girls." So I told them of the spontaneous evening that I arranged and the events that unfolded.

"Wow. How do you do it Edward? I mean you had what thirty minutes to an hour to plan this and it came out like that?! That is amazing. Can you give me some ideas for when I go out with Alice? I want to make it a romantic evening that I know she'd love, but I just don't know how to." Jasper replied.

I smiled, Jasper was always the sentimental one, "I don't really know Jazz. It just kinda works out. But I can see what I can do."

"Well enough about me, what did you guys do?" I asked.

"Well you were here when Rosie and I went upstairs. I took her up to her room and we just talked."

I glanced at Jasper then back to Emmett. We both burst into laughter.
"You?! The 'King of the Bedroom' just 'talked' with Rose? Are you sure it wasn't more like "Oh Rosie", "Emmett, Yes, Yes!"?" I moaned out their names, Jasper laughing hysterically at my actions.

"No. We talked like normal adults." Emmett said with a pout. "You know I'm not always about the bedroom," Jasper scoffed, "I'm not! At least not with her. She's different, I want her to know that I love her and I'm not just the kind of guy that just bags her and leaves. I love her, more than any other person I ever was in a relationship with." He was looking down at the floor, a faraway look in his eyes.

Jasper and I were silent for a moment.
"Good for you man. It's about time your settle down. I mean you have always just looked and touched, but never really felt and I'm proud that you've found that with someone." Jasper told him. I smiled and nodded in agreement.

"But there was some moaning, don't get me wrong. We both know what we want." Emmett laughed, a goofy grin taking up his features, erasing the seriousness of the moment, but that was in his nature, to lighten the mood.

I rolled my eyes at my idiotic brother.
"So Jazz how about you?"

"Not much. We went to the kitchen and made some pizzas." He smiled as he said, "I think she was able to get more sauce on me and her than the actual pizza! But we had fun, and we helped each other clean off." I rolled my eyes at him and his growing smirk. I did not really want to find out more than necessary what happened between my brothers and their girlfriends.

The girls came down the stairs in their pajamas, sitting on or by their significant other.

Bella sat in my lap and intertwined out fingers. I rubbed circles on her upper left arm, as my left arm draped around her shoulders. She lightly began to trace patterns on my right arm, making 'goose bumps' appear.

The others were whispering to the other, occasionally a heart-felt kiss made its appearance, but nothing more. Bella and I were quiet, not needing words to fill the silence between us. That is one thing I loved about her, she did not feel the need to utter words to hear her talk. She was one of a kind and I loved her.

I looked down and found her brilliant brown eyes gazing up at me.

"What are you thinking about?" she whispered so low I barely heard.

"I love you."

Her radiant smile was her answer, mouthing the same words in return.

I kissed her temple and continued to rub circles on her arms.

A phone rang in the silence.

Emmett moved on the coach, still holding Rose, but moving so he could reach into his back pocket.

He opened the phone and began to speak, "Hello?"

He smiled in answer to who ever was on the other end.

"Hey mom." Ah, I thought. "No we are just sitting in the living room enjoying each other's company. Why...Oh okay…. No let me ask." He turned to the rest of us. "Do you ladies have anything planned tomorrow?"

I looked down to Bella who was looking between Rose and Alice. They all shook their heads slowly, "No I don't think so. But then again we can't every really plan anything because of our job." Bella answered.

Emmett turned back to his phone, "They don't think so…Okay…But-…Fine…Yes ma'am…" He chuckled, "Yes ma'am. Love you too." He snapped the phone shut.
"Okay so apparently our mom and dad are planning something for all of us to do together. Unfortunately for us she wouldn't tell me what it was, only to dress comfortably, and for you ladies to bring a nice evening gown as well. Sorry that's all I have."

I laughed, "Sounds like mom."

"Hmm, I wonder what's she's planning." Jasper thought out loud.

Alice turned to Jasper, "Do you know if there are any special events going on at the hotel?"

Jasper looked up at me with furrowed brows, "Not that I know of. You?"

I shook my head. I hardly ever paid attention to what was going on at a hotel. Normally I was involved in something outside of it, and wouldn't have been able to attend the function anyways.

The silence took over once more as everyone contemplated what was to happen tomorrow.

After a few moments another phone began to ring. Alice bounced up out of Jasper's lap and danced over to the phone on the table behind the couch.

"Hello…Oh hey Carmen…Uh-huh…no Esme is planning something for all of us to attend but I don't have any detail as to when that is…I see…okay…Alrighty then." She said ending on a chipper note.

"Carmen would like us to come in tomorrow morning, she and Eleazer have a surprise. It's for every one so every one is coming in. Oh and she also asked for us to bring in the dogs as well." She spoke to the room and sat on Jasper's lap once more, snuggling in as he wrapped his arms around her small frame.

Bella turned her head around looking at the TV up against the wall. The clock said 12:34.

"Well I guess this means we should go to bed." Her voice was reluctant and she had yet to move, clearing not wanting the night to end just yet.

She turned her face back to me, her chocolate brown eyes sad,

"Do you need to leave?" she whispered.

I knew that if the girls were headed to bed than we, the boys, should head out, but I couldn't bear to tell her that, I like her, did not want to leave her side.

"Only if you want me to," I replied in the same tone.

She buried her face in my neck and wrapped her small arms around my torso. I heard mumbling and felt the vibrations of her speaking into my chest, but had no idea as to what she said or if I was even meant to hear.

"What love?" I asked quietly, not wanting to bring attention to the two of us.
I glanced up briefly at the movement in my peripheral vision and found Rose leading Emmett around the couch. A few minutes later Alice and Jasper followed.

I glanced back down to the love in my arms; she had not relinquished her hold in the slightest, making my heart grow more in the love that she displayed.

"Love, the others went to the girl's rooms, so, if you would like to repeat what you mumbled into my chest…" I offered, but I didn't want to push her if she didn't want to say anything.
She brought her head up and looked at me in the eyes, her face held a beautiful blush, but I had no idea why.

"Love, why are you embarrassed? I love that you don't want me to leave, I don't want to leave either."

She lowered her head, "Will you stay?"

I took my index finger and raised her chin, "I would love too, but only if you feel comfortable."

Even though we had hardly been separated these last two weeks, some of which I was unconscious for, we had never really slept in a bed together. Bella would sleep on top of the covers in my arms on the hospital bed or in the near-by chair. But this would be a first where we would be sleeping together in a bed at home, under covers, in pajamas. But whether we were in her bed, my bed, or the hospital bed, as long as I got to be with her I was happy.

She nodded her head, a small smile on her lips. "Please," broke from her lips and that was my cue. I brought my left arm around her back, and my right under her knees, lifting her up to take her upstairs. Her head rested on my shoulder as I moved through the house.

At the top of the stairs I quietly asked which room was hers, she pointed to the one close by, and I continued forward.

As I entered the room I briefly looked around, noting how much this room complimented my love. Simple, serene, classical, innocent, and beautiful all rolled into one.

I shifted her weight slightly to release my hand, so as to bring back the covers. I laid her down and tugged on my shirt. I dropped the thing on the floor and found Bella gazing at my chest. I smirked, but undid the button and zipper on my jeans, adding those to the shirt on the floor. Bella's eyes raked my entire body. When her eyes came back to meet mine, her face turned pink.
"Would you like for me to put my shirt back on? I usually sleep like this, but if it makes you uncomfortable-
"No your fine." She said quietly and shifted over on the bed.

I climbed in beside her, wrapping my arm around her small waist. I brought her snug to my chest, wanting to feel her beside me.

Our breathing evened out and the last thing I remember thinking before sinking into unconsciousness was, I'm in heaven with a beautiful angel in my arms. A beautiful angel that happens to love me as I love her.