DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM TWILIGHT. THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHENIE MEYER.

BPOV

I couldn't help but smile when I woke up. Remembering last night, I couldn't stop the smile that spread across my face. I was set to become Mrs. Edward Cullen and I was no longer a virgin. I had always imagined it to be perfect and perfect it was. Even if it hadn't been as romantic and beautiful as it was, just giving up my virginity to none other than Edward made it perfect.

Opening my eyes I saw him watching me, smiling at me. "Hey there," I whispered to him as he smiled at me, looking as content as I felt. I shifted my weight closer to him and gave him a small kiss on the nose. When I pulled back I saw his face pulled together in a mock scowl and I couldn't help but giggle. He looked so cute. "Last night...." I sighed, not knowing how to put how I felt into words. "That was....hmmmmm...." I closed my eyes slowly and smiled again.

"Great analogy." He said, chuckling at me. I opened my eyes and scowled at him playfully. His chuckle turned into a laugh before he sighed, watching me. I gently brushed a few strands of hair out of his eyes, watching him as intently as he was watching me. He looked so peaceful at this moment in time. I didn't want it to ever end.

"You," He breathed, pulling me closer to him. I was now acutely aware that we were both still naked underneath the comforter, and I didn't care one bit. I loved the feeling of his skin against mine. No barriers between us at all. "Have made me the happiest person in the world." He leaned his head forward and kissed me on the nose, before he pressed his lips to mine, something I had wanted him to do since I woke up.

Breaking the kiss I shook my head at him. "The second happiest," I replied grinning at him as his brow furrowed in confusion. "I'm the happiest."

He rolled his eyes and chuckled at me. "Okay, that's just corny."

I couldn't help the grin that spread across my face. "I know."

I saw him glance around the room, a slightly worried look in his eyes. "You know what I just realised?" I shook my head, failing to see what the problem was. "We forgot about the candles."

I felt my eyes grow wide and I sat up, propping myself up on my elbow and looked around. "Doesn't look like anything caught fire." I looked back at him, a small smile creeping across my lips as I pressed them to his, feeling him kiss me back gently. "Well," I said, feeling a slight blush creeping up my cheeks. "I guess I had you a bit distracted last night."

"That you did." He replied grinning as I felt his arm snake around my waist again, pullng me towards him. I rested my head on his shoulder, revelling in his scent, not wanting to ever pull away or for anything to happen to ruin the moment. "Love?" I mumbled something incoherent. I didn't even understand what I replied, so I couldn't expect him to. "I don't want to ruin the moment or anything but we didn't....use....anything last night."

I looked up at him and smiled. I could understand why he was worried. He wasn't ready for a child and neither was I. "Don't worry." I assured him, moving up and kissing the end of his nose. "I'm on the pill." I felt him visibly relax.

"That's good." He sighed, reinforcing my thought about the fact that he wasn't ready to become a father.

"I know." I lay my head back down on his shoulder, reassuring him further. "I'm not ready to be a mother....yet." I wondered if he heard the added word on the end. I wanted to become a mother. To his children. But I wasn't ready at this point in time. Maybe later on in life, when we were both mature enough and he had fully come through his recovery. Who knows what kind of effect a baby would have on his mental state if one were to become a reality.

I was broken out of my thoughts by the hated sound of my alarm clock. I cursed under my breath and rolled over to turn it off. I knew that I had to get up and get ready for school, but I didn't want to. I didn't want to leave Edward's arms, but I knew that I had no other choice. Edward, even though I knew that he didn't want me to leave either would guilt trip me into going. I rolled over, taking one of the sheets with me, making sure not to disturb the comforter that was on top of us, wrapped it around myself and walked, or should I say, waddled to the bathroom, grabbing my stuff as I went. I heard Edward chuckling behind me and I turned around, my eyes taking in his God-like form that was mostly hidden by the comforter, my gaze lingering on his chest and did the first thing that came to mind. I stuck my tongue out of him before I stepped into the bathroom and closed the door.

I dropped the sheet and turned on the shower, waiting for it to warm up slightly before stepping underneath the water. I let the hot water wash over me and ease out all of my muscles. I felt the muscles in my shoulders and back flex as I rotated my shoulders in small circles. I picked up the bottle of strawberry shampoo that I had in Edward's shower letting my second favourite scent trickle up my nose. My favourite scent of course was Edward. If I could bottle his scent up, I would wear it everyday, letting his smell wash over me like a perfume. I lathered my hair in the shampoo before leaning my head back and rinsing it out of my hair. I did the same with my strawberry conditioner before turning off the shower and stepping out of the shower. I picked up one of the towels on the rack just by the shower and wrapped it around myself.

I slowly towelled myself down, making sure that I was completely dry before getting dressed. I looked at my outfit, knowing that Alice would approve. They were clothes that she had picked out for me after all. I was wearing a tight v-neck sweater, in a colour that Edward liked to call Bella-Blue. It was his favourite colour on me so I knew he would like it. I had paired this with a pair of black skinny jeans. Checking my outfit once more I started towelling my hair dry as I walked out of the bathroom, dumping the wet towel in the hamper as I went. I brushed my hair through as I blasted it with the hair-dryer, knowing that I would get it from Alice if I let it dry naturally. She hated it when I did that. I wasn't in the mood for Alice's pixie-wrath this morning. It had been perfect so far and I didn't want to ruin that.

As I was packing up my things I smiled as I saw the sunlight that was so rare in Forks, glinting off of the ring that rested on my finger. The ring that symbolised the love that Edward and I felt for each other.

Looking up I saw Edward, leaning on the doorframe, watching me intently, a small smile playing on his lips. I walked over to him and smiled. "Hello love," I breathed as I wrapped my arms around his waist and kissed him on his lower jaw, knowing how much he loved it when I kissed him in that particular place. He leaned down and pressed his lips to mine in a lingering kiss.

"Alice knows." He whispered as we broke apart.

"Knows what?" I asked him, feeling my brow furrow in confusion. I gazed into his eyes placing my hands on his chest as I did so.

"What happened last night." A small smile played on his lips. My gaze involuntarily slipped to the ring on my left hand and I saw him shake his head. "No. Not about that. I don't think." Then what could she know about? I felt my jaw drop as I realised that she knew that Edward and I had made love the night before.

"How?" I whispered, not really trusting my voice. "How did she find out?"

"She's Alice." I didn't trust that as a reasonable explanation. I narrowed my eyes at him, telling him that I wanted more of an explanation out of him. "I don't know, okay? I don't know. But I went down to breakfast and she just....knew." Damed pixie!

"Has she told anyone else?" Did he realise what would happen if the rest of the family found out. I was worried about their reactions. Carlisle and Esme would probably worry about the fact that Edward was still in recovery and what it would do to him if he were to get involved physically. Even if it was from me. I think Jasper would be okay with it. He would leave us be, just as Alice and Rosalie would, after they got the answers that they wanted from me that is. And Emmett....I didn't want to think about what Emmett would say and do if he found out. He was constantly making fun of the fact that Edward and I hadn't taken our relationship to the next level yet, so having him know that we had....he would take it for all it was worth. I released a breath that I hadn't realised that I had been holding.

He shook his head. "And....I made her pinky swear so she won't tell anyone else." He grinned at me and I couldn't help but grin back. I hated how he had that effect on me. It made me feel like agreeing to anything.

"That's good." I rested my head on his chest. There was no way that Alice would break a pinky swear. For her, next to bashing shopping it was the highest form of blasphemy. I knew that our secret was safe with her having pinky swore. "You know," I mumbled. "I want to find whoever invented the pinky swear and thank them personally." I felt the vibrations of a chuckle run through his chest and I smiled, sighing. "We'd best go downstairs." I knew what Alice would be thinking if we spent too long up here, and besides, my stomach was getting ready to rumble and I wanted to save myself that embarrassment. I took his hand in mine and led him down the stairs.

I saw Alice grin as we walked into the kitchen. I looked at Edward and saw him glaring at Edward, obviously warning her. I smiled as I saw his protective side coming through. I looked back at Alice and saw her wiggling her little finger at him, showing that she remembered her pinky swear. As we sat down at the breakfast bar I looked across the kitchen and saw and heard Carlisle reprimanding Emmett for taking food up to his bedroom, something that Esme and Carlisle had banned throughout the house since Edward had come home. Something I knew that Edward was not best pleased with this but I think he was put at ease by the fact that it was made into an overall rule throughout the house and not aimed particularly at him. I knew he hated being singled out.

Jasper smiled at me as he placed some toast in front of me, before he looked at Edward and offered him some. Just as Edward refused I saw Jasper sticking his tongue out at him and I giggled as Edward retaliated with the same action. I heard Alice joining in before I heard the biggest squeal I had ever heard. It was so loud I thought that my eardrums had burst.

"Oh. My. God." I looked at her and I saw her staring intently at my left hand. I felt all the blood drain from my face as I realised that we hadn't formed a plan of how to tell our families about our engagement. I guessed now that we didn't have to worry about telling his family any more. "Is this what I think it is?" She asked me, her gaze flicking between Edward and myself. I could see that she was trying to make an annoyed face at not being told but she couldn't help the grin that spread across her face. I found myself wondering if she was happy about the fact that Edward and I were engaged or the fact that she might have the chance to plan our wedding. I looked at Edward just as he looked at me. We looked back at Alice and nodded, encouraging yet another enormous scowl from Edward's hyperactive sister. I saw everyone looking at her in estonishment, wonder in their expressions. Oh, great, how are we going to explain to them? As it turned out we didn't really have to as they rushed over to us all.

"What? What? What?" Emmett cried as he covered his ears, protecting them from Alice's squeals and walking over to us. Rosalie moved over next to Alice, looking at what she was staring at and began squealing at the same time and pitch as Alice. "Ah, there's two of them!" Emmett cried, covering his ears again. "What the hell's going on?"

"This," Alice cried, grabbing my hand and showing the rest of the family the ring on my finger. "Is what's going on!"

"Holy cr-"

"Emmett!" Carlisle cut him off, stopping him from swearing as he smiled and walked over to the two of us. "Is this what I think it is, son?" He asked, his gaze flicking from the ring on my finger to Edward's face. I looked at him as he nodded and then back to Carlisle as his smile widened, lighting up his whole face. I watched Carlisle walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. I felt Edward stiffen slightly at the contact, before he grew comfortable with the contact and relaxed. "Congratulations, son." He said, smiling at me.

"Oh, my baby!" Esme rushed over to the two of us, kissing Edward on the cheek before kissing mine as well. She took my hand in her own and gushed over the ring. She looked around at her sons and husband. "I told you boys. They are perfect together."

I felt the heat rising to my cheeks and I knew that I had turned the brightest colour of red, probably rivalling that of a tomato. Edward took my free hand in his own, my left was still being held captive my Esme and the girls, and gave me a look that told me "it could be worse". I rolled my eyes, nodding, giving him a look that told him that it was only going to get worse. For me at least. At least he could escape his brothers and sisters for a few hours. I, on the other hand, had to endure school with them.

"You kids had better get off to school." I felt my eyes go wide. I really wasn't ready to endure a car ride with Alice and Rose. I knew that they wouldn't relent on the way there. At lunch I would at least get a little peace as they knew that voices carried, but in the car I was fair game. I wouldn't be able to count on Jasper and Emmett either. Jasper would be too much of a coward to stand up to the girls and Emmett would be laughing and making jokes about how Edward had been finally able to man up and when was he going to take the next step?

Edward leaned over and pressed his lips gently to mine. "Good luck." He whispered, before I felt Rose and Alice's hands around my upper arms and I shot Edward a glare as he grinned at me as they dragged me out of the house and into Emmett's Jeep.

I was sandwiched in between Alice and Rose and they were both staring at me intently, grinning from ear to ear. I looked at the boys for help and saw that they too were grinning, eyebrows raised and expressions that told me that I was on my own.

"Oh my God I can't stand it anymore." Alice squealed as we pulled out of the driveway. "Tell us!"

"Tell you what?" I asked them, trying to keep my voice as calm and steady as possible.

"Tell us what?!" Alice and Rosalie squealed at the same time.

"What happened?" Rosalie fired at me. "When did this happen? Was it romantic? Did he go down on one knee? Did anything else happen?"

"Ummmm....." I pondered through each of these questions. "He proposed. Last night. Yes it was. Yes he did. And I am not telling you anything." I answered each of the questions in the order that she had asked them. Alice squealed and covered her mouth over her mouth.

"Aw, keeping secrets are we Bells?" Emmett asked, winking at me in the rearview.

"Nothing is slipping through these lips." I answered, setting my jaw and glaring at him.

"Well I guess that we're going to have to torture it out of lil ol' Eddie then, aren't we Jazz?" He asked, looking at Jasper.

"Yup." Jasper nodded, turning to grin at me as I shot him and his brother a death glare. "And we will Bells. No matter what you say." He winked at me, before turning back to face the front again.

"So, come on. What did he do?" Rosalie asked.

"Well," I said, blushing as I looked at the ring, glittering on my finger. "When I got to your house last night, I noticed that you guys weren't there and the lights were off. I didn't think anything of it, I thought that Edward might be asleep, you know." I shrugged nonchalantly. "When I walked through the door, and walked through the hallway I saw that there was a trail of candles running up the stairs and so, naturally I followed them." They nodded, their grins getting even wider as I spoke, their eyes glazing over as they imagined what I had seen last night. "They led me up to Edward's room and when I opened the door there were candles everywhere, and I mean everyhere" I emphasised the last word, making sure that they understood how many candles there were in his room.

"Was he in there?" Rosalie asked, her eyes glistening in excitement.

"Not that I could see." I said, blushing even more, if that were even possible at this point in time. "But I did see a huge box on the end of his bed." I looked at the two of them, seeing them both nodding, encouraging me to continue. "Well, naturally, curiousity took over and I opened the box. Only to find another one. For a while it was just box after box, and yet I couldn't stop opening them. I wanted to find out what was in there so I just kept going up until I got to the last box. Inside which, was a small velvet box. I opened it, only to find that it was empty." They both gasped, their hands flying to their mouths. I saw them both looking at the ring, questioning where it came from. I held up my hands, halting the questions that would no doubt come if I didn't stop them. "He was behind me. He had been watching me the whole time and when I opened the ring box, he walked forward and said, "Now, you can have this when you say yes." He walked over to me and knelt down on one knee and asked me. It was so perfect." I pressed the ring to my chest and sighed. I felt like a teenage girl with a crush. Well, I was a teenage girl. Only it wasn't just a crush. I was a girl in love.

Just then, thankfully, we got to school and I was able to escape. Until lunch that is. I climbed out of the Jeep and walked away from the group, calling to them that I would see them at lunch. They called their goodbyes to me and as I turned around I could see that Alice and Rose were just itching to follow me all the way to my homeroom asking me as many questions as they could before the bell went. I also saw that they were effectively being held off by Emmett and Jasper. I grinned as I turned around and went ploughing into someone.

"Sorry," I said as my books dropped to the floor. I bent down to pick them up as the other person did as well.

"It's okay." I heard and overly eager voice say. I looked up and saw Mike there, kneeling in front of me, grinning.

I stood up as he handed me the remainder of my books. "Thanks." I held out my hand for them and I saw his eyes darken as he gazed at my hand. I hadn't noticed that I was holding out my left hand. He had seen the ring on my finger, and he wasn't happy about it. He was still holding my books. "Mike. Can I have my books?"

"What?" He shook his head and looked at me.

"I said, can I have my books?" I shook my hand, emphasising that point.

"Uh, yeah." He handed me my books and glared at my hand again. "What is that?"

"What Mike?" I sighed, exasperated.

"That?!" He grabbed my hand, glaring at the ring that rested on my finger.

"This," I pulled my hand from his clammy, rough hands and held it in front of him. "Is an engagement ring. Edward and I are engaged, Mike, okay? So leave me alone." I made to storm off but he grabbed my arm, stopping me from leaving.

"You know that this is a mistake, right?" He hissed in my ear.

"No," I growled back. "It is not a mistake. I love Edward and I am going to spend the rest of my life with him. And there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it! Now if you would kindly let me go!" I yanked my arm out of his grasp and stormed off to my homeroom.

My classes that morning were boring and dull. I couldn't help but notice the less than subtle glances at the ring on my finger and I guessed that news of Mike's revelation must have travelled fast. What was I thinking? Of course it travelled fast. This was Forks. The town where you sneeze and everyone knows about it. I was just eternally thankful that no one knew about Edward and the reasons behind his nine month long disappearance.

I was walking to the cafeteria, in some way looking forward to seeing the people that I already considered my family, and yet dreading the onslaught that was waiting for me at that table. I had to stop by my locker and drop some of my books off before I went there and in doing so, bumped into one of the people that I really really really didn't want to see.

Jessica.

"So," She said, grinning. "What's this I hear about you?"

"I don't know, Jess." I played the ignorance card. "What is it you hear?"

"That you and a certain Edward Cullen are engaged?" She was never one to scoot around the obvious. Subtle was obviously not in her vocabulary. "Well?" She was practically bouncing up and down. She looked like Alice in a way, but Alice was a lot cuter when she did it.

"Well, what?" I shrugged.

"Are you?" She squealed. I saw Lauren Mallory standing behind her, glaring at me for some reason.

"Yes," I sighed. "All right? Yes, Jessica, Edward and I are engaged." She stood there and squealed, bouncing up and down on the spot. "Now, if you'll excuse me...." I closed my locker and started to move away.

"Oh no!" She linked her arm with mine, pulling me through the cafeteria doors and towards the table she normally sat at. "You are sitting with us so that you can tell us everything. And I mean everything!"

"Actually, Jess," I managed to wriggle my arm out of her grasp and started to make my way towards the lunchline. "I'm going to sit with the Cullens. Where I normally do."

"Fine," She gave in, jumping into the line behind me. "But I'm sitting with you." I frowned and bit my lip at her decision. The Cullens were not big on letting people sit with them. And I wasn't really keen on someone sitting in Edward's seat. He might not be able to sit there until the start of Senior year, but my mind it was still his chair. I know that the rest of the family saw the same reasons that I did.

I walked over to the table, as quickly as I could after paying for my lunch, hoping to lose Jess in the chaos that was lunch. With no such luck. Moments after I sat down, she appeared next to me, receiving glares and stares from the Cullens. She stiffened slightly at their icy reception, but pretended not to notice. Unfortunately, the Cullens had become so in tune with how Edward was feeling that they noticed instantly when someone was uncomfortable. I noted all of their smiles when they saw how uncomfortable their glares made Jess. I couldn't help a small smirk appearing on my face either. It was something that no one on the outside could understand. And I wasn't about to let Jessica in on that secret.

"Well?" She asked, slight less enthusiastically than earlier.

"Well, what?" I asked again and I saw from her expression that she wanted answers.

"What happened?" She asked, her voice getting higher and higher in pitch. I could tell that the Cullens were not at all happy with her questions about their brother. I remembered the last time that rumours had spread about him. Mike had almost lost his face to Emmett's fist.

"He proposed. I said yes." I looked at her, telling her that this conversation was at an end.

"Fine." She snapped, standing up. "I will get the information I want out of you Isabella." She said as she walked away. I snorted as I watched her walk over to her usual table. I noticed that Lauren was still glaring at me. For what reason I had no idea. Lauren and I had never really spoken but I had given her no reason to hate me enough for her to look at me in that way.

"You alright, Bells?" Emmett asked, motioning towards my untouched food.

"Actually." I said, pushing myself away from the table. "I'm not feeling too well. I think I'm going to head out of here."

"You want a ride?" Emmett asked, looking concerned.

I shook my head. "No, it's a short walk to my house and I can drive to yours. I was thinking about keeping Edward company, you know?" They all nodded at me, smiling. They realised that we would want to spend time together and didn't make a fuss. After all, the only one who knew what happened last night was Alice. As I stood up and turned around to leave, I wiggled my pinky at Alice and she winked at me inconspiciously to show that she understood. Looking at the other three, I saw that they made no movements to show that they had seen our little exchange. I said goodbye and walked out of the cafeteria. I signed myself out of the office and walked the short distance to my house, revelling in the rare sunlight that drifted over Forks.

I reached my house and let myself in, dumping my books and bag on the table in the kitchen before grabbing my car keys and heading back out of the door, and climbing into my truck.

The drive to the Cullens was short, just how I wanted it. I hated it when the ride to the Cullens house seemed too long. It was torture.

I turned up the long driveway and I felt my brow furrow in confusion as I saw that Edward's Volvo wasn't there. That was strange. Where would Edward be at this time of day?

I climbed out of my truck and half-ran towards the house, praying that I wasn't going to trip. I knew that something like that was bound to happen. It always did where I was concerned. Damn my clumsiness. Placing the key in the lock, I let myself in. I took off my shoes and jacket before calling out to him.

"Edward?" I called, wandering throughout the house. "Edward, love, are you here?"

No answer.

I was getting concerned now. He should be here. I knew that he didn't have anything planned for today. Or at least I didn't think he did. Normally he told me when he was planning on going out. Understandably, yesterday he didn't so I didn't add that into my calculations.

I walked up the stairs, noticing that the candles that had lined them, creating a path up them and down the hallway last night, had been cleared away. I knocked on the door, in case he was here and just hadn't heard me. Not getting an answer I opened the door. I noticed that all of the candles and the boxes that had littered the floor from last night had been cleared away. Someone's been a busy little bee. I thought, a small smile playing on my lips. I also noticed that the room was lacking one vital thing.

My fiance.

Where the hell was he?

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