"They're taking forever!" complained Emmett sulkily. "It's been like three hours!"
"Fifteen minutes." muttered Jasper.
Emmett glared at him. "Shut up Jazz." He rested his head on Rosalie's shoulder. "I'm tired."
She sighed. "I don't want to go and interrupt whatever they're up to, but I feel that I have no choice." She patted her boyfriends head. "Unless they want to walk home."
"That's it!" Emmett cried, jumping up. "They can walk home!"
"We're in Port Angeles, it would take them all night!"
"So?" he challenged, digging his hands in his pocket. His face went blank. "Guys, I think I lost my keys."
Alice rolled her eyes. "Relax. You gave them to Edward when we got here. Remember? He insisted he take them because you'd most likely lose them."
He breathed a sigh of relief. "Phew. But that means our ditching them plan won't work..."
"Your ditching them plan." the three friends said simultaneously.
"I'm interrupting." Emmett announced bitterly. He could get pretty damn irritable when he was tired.
"I'll come."
"Me too."
Jasper stood up. "Me three. You might need back up. Who knows how angry they'll be when we ruin their reunited make out session...."
"Make out session?" Emmett laughed. "Oh I think you've got it quite wrong. Edward and Bella are just friends. That's why I gave him the one hundred dollars. That was what the bet was about." He ruffled Jasper's hair. "Silly Jazzy."
Alice giggled. "You're so thick! They've secretly been together this whole time. They just went behind your back about it because Edward's broke."
Rosalie shuddered. "I feel so sorry for the brooms in the broom cupboards at school. Imagine the things they have seen...."
Emmett shook his head fiercely. "No! Edward and Bella weren't doing anything in the broom cupboard except look for a broom!" He bit his lip. "Right? They needed a broom because they were helping the janitor...."
Rose wrapped her arm around his waist. "Aw. You look so cute when you've been betrayed."
"You look so cute when you think I look cute."
"You look so cute when you think I look cute when I think you look cute when y-"
"Ah guys." Interrupted Alice, staring out into the deserted parking lot where they had just arrived. "Where are they?"
The four peered around. "It's a completely open space. There's nothing they could be hiding behind except Rosalie's car...." Jasper trailed off. "Em, where's your car?"
Emmett stomped his foot. "Those...those..." He stammered. "Argh! They took my car, dammit!"
Alice had her phone out and was dialing Bella's cellphone number when she got no answer she tried Edward. "His is turned off too!" she cried, dialing again. "The way my brother drives, they should be back at Bella's place my now." Her eyes narrowed. "If that is where they're going."
"They could be going to a hotel?" offered Emmett.
Alice ignored him and spoke into her phone. "Hi Sue, is Bella home?"
"No. Of course not." Sue sounded confused. "Isn't she at an all weekend beauty and pamper sleepover at your house? She just called me about ten minutes ago to tell me that that was where she'd be until Sunday night.... Has there been a change of plans?"
"No." Alice did her best to sound cheerful. No way was she going to dob her friend in. "She's just...taking a long time picking up the pizza. We thought she might have forgotten something and gone home to get it."
"Oh. Well no she's not here."
"Ok." Alice replied brightly. "She'll probably be back soon. Bye Sue." She hung up and turned to her friends.
Jasper saw the look on her face and immediately put his arm around her shoulder.
"Well?"
Alice recounted what Sue had said to her friends. "So she's obviously gone somewhere with Edward. And they took your Jeep Em......."
"I don't know why she'd want to go anywhere with him." Emmett muttered. "The guy bought himself a necklace."
"What" Jasper asked, chuckling despite the intensity of the situation. "When did he buy himself a necklace?"
Emmett grinned. "Tonight. On the way to the restaurant he said he had to pick something up at the mall, so I stopped and he ran inside the jewelers." He laughed. "What a girl."
Alice held her hands up. "Wait.... Did he actually say that he bought a necklace?"
Emmett shook his head. "But what else would he buy from a jewelers?"
Alice ignored him and turned to Rosalie who's expression was a mask of shock. "Rose!"
"He wouldn't..."
"He's always been a drama queen!"
"But this is just going too far! Besides. How would he afford it? You said it yourself, Edward's broke!"
"Afford what?" Emmett asked dumbly. The girls didn't answer him.
"And besides," continued Rosalie. "Bella wouldn't say yes would she? She's got commitment phobia!"
"But she'd jump off a cliff for Edward!"
Emmett fell to his knees. "I think I know what you're talking about!" He gasped. "Edward and Bella are going to jump off a cliff together tonight! So they can be together FOREVER!"
"SHUT UP EMMETT!" The girls shouted.
"Do you think they went to Vegas?" Rose asked, trying her best to be calm.
"Probably..." Alice bit her lip. "Should we follow them?"
"Well we can't just let them get married!" burst out Jasper, having caught on to what they were talking about.
"You're right. Lets go."
They started to walk over to Rosalie's car. Emmett was still standing in his spot. "So...which cliff is it that we're going to?"
*
"This is so much better than I could ever have imagined!" Bella exclaimed, clutching the hand Edward wasn't using to drive tightly. "No drama....No poofy white dresses..."
"No Charlie shooting me. No Alice and Esme planning every little detail of the wedding."
Bella made a face. "Sue would probably want to help. Ugh."
Edward sighed, happily. "We'll be married in the time it takes to order a cheeseburger."
"Thank God for the drive up wedding." Bella agreed, looking down at her phone that had started to ring. "It's Alice....again."
"You should probably answer it this time." said Edward. "They'll be getting worried. Besides, we're to far away for them to stop us now."
"You're probably right." she took a deep breath and answered the call. "Hi, Alice."
"We're half an hour behind you Bella." Alice growled. "We know exactly what you and Edward are planning and it stops. Now."
Bella hit the loudspeaker button. "No it doesn't. We're in love."
"And we're sick of hiding it from the world." Edward called.
Alice hit the same button.
"Please don't do this!" pleaded Rosalie. "It will change everything if you're married! People will talk."
"We're not going to tell anyone."
"What if you want to get divorced?" demanded Jasper.
Bella gasped. "We won't ever want that!"
"And if we do, we'll work something out." Edward explained calmly.
"But we won't!" insisted Bella.
"Listen, just stop for a while." said Jasper soothingly. "Pull over so we can catch up to you guys and the six of us can talk."
Edward and Bella looked at each other skeptically. "Weeeell..."
"Ok." sighed Bella. "But we aren't going to back down..."
"This is what we want." finished Edward.
*
"You're being crazy!" exclaimed Alice, leaning on the Jeep and shivering in the cold night air.
Bella examined her engagement ring. "Yes you've said that already. Three times."
"You haven't thought this through at all!"
"Five times."
Rosalie was looking at Bella's ring as well. "I'm curious, Edward. Alice and I were talking earlier and we were wondering how exactly you could afford to pay for Bella's engagement ring..."
Edward went red. "Uh, well.... I just...."
Bella narrowed her eyes. "Edward...?"
He looked down at the road. "I knew you'd freak out and overreact..."
"What. Did. You. Do?" she asked dangerously.
"Oh, Bella, it's just my college savings."
"WHAT!? YOU USED YOUR COLLEGE FUND TO BUY AN ENGAGEMENT RING!?"
Edward said nothing. Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper and Alice all looked awkwardly in different directions.
Bella sighed. "Ok, Edward. Look," she slipped the ring off her finger. "I can't marry you now."
"What?!" moaned Edward. "Bella, it was hardly anything..."
She smiled sadly. "I know you may think that, but that's your college fund! And it's put everything in perspective for me." she started pacing along the sidewalk while five pairs of eyes watched her. "We're young! We've got our whole lives ahead of us! We don't need to get married right now."
Edward walked over and placed his hands on either side of Bella's face. "Bella, I want to be with you forever. I want you to be my wife. And I want it now!"
She giggled and kissed his nose. "I am yours. Forever and ever. We don't need a ring and a marriage to prove that."
Edward pouted slightly. "But I was so looking forward to the honeymoon..."
Bella stood on her tippy toes to whisper in his ear. They laughed giddily together.
"Do I want to know what you just said?" Emmett, speaking for the first time in hours (he had been sulking- Alice refused to stop for ice cream).
"No!" yelled everyone.
"Now lets go home." Bella yawned, leaning on Edward.
"I was actually looking forward to going to Vegas." said Edward. "I'm kind of assuming that it would be more exciting than Forks. Forks is so boring."
Ah Edward. If only you saw things through my eyes.... Forks is seldom boring. Especially when you're in town...
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