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Twilight is not mine.
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I could absolutely not wait for Friday to come, it seemed like the days would just drag on. By Wednesday I was about to crawl out of my skin because I hadn't seen Edward since Sunday. Alice thought it would be romantic for us to stay away from each other for the week, I just thought it was ridicules. She even made us stay apart on Monday when we would normally spend time on the swing before our classes.

Everyday that Edward and I talked I would try my best to get information out of him about where we were going. But he always knew what I was up to and would shut me down. The only thing I got out of him Wednesday was that I needed to get a nice outfit for one of our nights out; he then asked to talk to Alice to tell her exactly what I needed. As soon as Alice was done talking to Edward she jumped on my bed next to me.

"Get ready to go shopping, we are on a mission," Alice sounded way too excited.

"What do we have to get," I was a little worried.

"We have to get you a gown," I groaned as Alice clapped her hands together.

"What is going on in here," Rose walked in dumping her purse and books on the floor.

"We get to go shopping to find Bella a gown for this weekend," a big smile broke out on Rose's face.

"Yes I need a break after the day of classes. Let's go girlies," she grabbed both of our hands and pulled us off my bed.

It was gray and rainy outside but inside Rose's car the music was blaring and the three of us were laughing and singing along. Over the last two weeks I had gotten used to the shopping trips with my two friends but that didn't mean I liked them. This was the third day in a row that we had gone shopping. On Monday Alice said that she just wanted to go to walk around and ended up buying me a dress that I tried on, she said I looked hot and that Edward would love seeing me in it. Tuesday Rose was the one that said she wanted to go shopping and Alice was all too happy to drag me with the two of them. Now it was Edward's turn to tell Alice we needed to go shopping, all this shopping was driving me crazy.

Alice pulled me into the first shop going straight to the gowns. Rose and Alice were in their element there. They picked out a wide verity of dresses then pushed me into the dressing room. As always I had to show them each of the dress I tried on. A lot of them were way too reviling and I knew those were the ones that Rose had picked out. After trying on numerous dresses at the first shop I was pulled to the next store. We still didn't find the 'perfect' dress at that store either. In the third store Alice and Rose were running around looking for a dress while I slowly walked around looking at the different dress hanging up. My eyes lingered on a midnight blue dress and for some reason I couldn't look away from it. I ran my fingers over the fabric and loved the feeling of it.

"Rose put the other dresses back," Alice's voice shrieked behind me.

"Okay, why did I just put them back," a few minutes later Rose came over to where Alice and I were still standing.

"Because Bella found the dress," she reached forward grabbing the midnight blue dress.

Then I was forced into the dressing room but this time with only one dress. When I came out with the dress on both Alice and Rose squealed with delight.

"Oh my God Bella you look amazing in that dress," Rose made me spin around in front of them.

The dress was simpler then the others that I had tried on but it had an understated appeal to it. I loved the way it fit me and I felt beautiful in it. I twirled in every direction looking at my reflection, I felt like such a girl but I didn't care. I finally went back to the dressing room to change back to my normal clothes. Alice told me to give her the dress before I changed so she could take another look at it. When I opened the door of the dressing room Rose was the only one standing there.

"Where did Alice run off to," Rose just shrugged her shoulders but there was an evil smile on her face.

We walked towards the front of the store and saw Alice waiting by the entrance holding my dress in a bag.

"You guys ready to go," she smiled at us turning to walk out the door.

"Wait Alice I have to pay for that dress," she was crazy to think we could just walk out with the dress.

"Don't worry about it," she called over her shoulder.

"What do you mean," I stopped walking but the others kept moving. "Alice what do you mean," I raised my voice a little louder as I held my ground.

"It is already paid for," Alice turned around walking back towards me. I folded my arms in front of me waiting for an explanation; Alice knew how much I disliked people spending money on me. "I was told by Edward to buy the most beautiful dress for the most beautiful in the world," she rolled her eyes but smiled brightly at me.I groaned loudly then pulled out my cell phone quickly finding Edward's number.

"Hello love," Edward's voice always made me feel better.

"Edward," I tried to sound upset but it was always hard when he was so great. "Can you please tell me why your pixie of a sister just bought me a dress without my permission?"

"Because I told her to do that love," he chuckled lightly into the phone.

"And why would you do that?"

"I wanted to do something special for you. Originally I was going to be the one to take you shopping but Alice convinced me it was better for her to take you so I don't see you in it until this weekend. Please Bells, please let me get this for you," it was hard for me to say no to him when he was being so amazing.

"Fine but next time you want to buy something for me, don't," he laughed lightly which caused me to laugh too.

"I love you Bells, have fun with the girls. I can't wait to see you, only two more days," I sighed thinking those would be long days.

"Love you too, tell Jasper and Emmett I say hi," and with that we hung up.

"Alright are you ready to get back to shopping," Rose smiled once I was done with the call.

"What else do we have to get," I thought we would be done once I found the dress.

"Bella, you are going to be spending the night in the same room with Edward this weekend," I nodded my head at Rose. "Just the two of you, alone for the night," she said each word slowly and it started to sink in what she was getting at.

"Yes I know," my face instantly went red. I had already thought about the fact that Edward and I were going to be alone sharing a hotel room, and bed, for two nights. There would be nobody interrupting us and I had a feeling things were going to happen that hadn't happened before. I had different emotions running around inside of me when I thought about it. But I knew without a doubt that Edward was the one, the one that I wanted to go all the way with. No part of me thought any differently. That didn't mean that I wasn't nervous and a little scared, but I was also excited and happy that it was going to happen.

"So we have to go get you some things to wear to bed," Alice wiggled her eyebrows up and down.

"Alice that is your brother you are talking about," I lightly pushed her.

"I try not to think of it that way. I like to think of it as one of my best friend's boyfriend. A best friend that needs my help when it comes to this kind of thing," Alice linked her arm with mine and pulled me to the dreaded lingerie store.

An hour later and a few more bags and the shopping trip was finally done. Once we got back to the apartment the three of us unloaded our goodies then made something to eat. I quickly threw together some pasta for us while Alice made garlic bread and Rose started the salad. After dinner we started to do our homework in our separate rooms.

I was working on the essay assignment that was due Friday morning. The assignment was to write about something I couldn't live without. It took me a few days to figure out what I wanted to write about but as soon as I made up my mind the words just flew out of me. Hope, hope was the one thing that I couldn't live without. Hope that someday Dad would find someone to make him happy. Hope that Mom and Phil would always be happy together. Hope that I would someday have the job of my dreams, even if I didn't know what that exactly was right now. Hope that no matter where life brought us Jasper, Emmett, Edward, Rose, Alice, and I remained close. And hope that Edward and I would share the rest of our lives together. It was a pretty good essay, if I do say so myself.

Thursday was a petty uneventful day for me. Classes were fine; I had a few assignments that would be easy for me to finish before the weekend. Walking to meet Alice and Rose at the car I ran into Jake. That was the only thing that really stood out during the day.

"Hey Bella, how have you been," Jacob pulled me into a tight hug.

"Hey Jake, I've been good. How about you?"

"Good, good. So what are you up to this weekend? I wasn't thinking if you were free we could get together," he smiled brightly and it was hard not to smile back.

"Sorry, Edward and I are actually going away for the weekend," a small blush started to form on my cheeks.

"Oh well, have fun," Jake's face fell.

"Thanks, we will have to get together another time and catch up," I tried to get the smile back on his face but it didn't work.

"Sure, sure. I got to get to class talk to you later," he hurried away.

The rest of the day was pretty boring. I reread my essay before printing it and did the few other assignments that I had to do. After that was finished and Alice and Rose were done with their work they helped me pack for the weekend. We turned the music on in my room and had a great time laughing and packing. It was slightly embarrassing packing my lingerie with them but I was getting better at being open with them.

It was hard for me to fall asleep that night; it was like Christmas Eve and I was five years old again. Morning finally came after about four full hours of sleep. Why is it that classes always seem to be so long when you have something you are looking forward to? I never thought that my three classes would ever be done with. After turning in my essay to my professor I was finally done for the weekend. Once I got back to the apartment I practically ran down the hall to my place. I had fifteen minutes to make sure I had everything before Edward would be showing up. I checked everything I packed one more time, made sure my iPod was fully charged and grabbed a few snacks for the trip. I didn't know how long the car ride would be but I wanted to be prepared. I had everything ready to go when I heard a knock at the door.

"Hey there beautiful," Edward pulled me into a tight hug as soon as I opened the door.

"Hey you," I inhaled deeply as I pulled him even closer.

"Are you ready to get out of here," he ran his hands lightly up and down my back.

"Of course just let me go say goodbye to the girls," I pulled back going down the hall

"Hey guys, Edward is here so we are going to get going," I walked into Alice's room and found the two of them flipping through a magazine.

"You are going to have such an amazing time Bella," Alice jumped off the bed and ran towards me.

"Thanks Alice," I hugged her back before giving Rose a tight hug.

"Do you remember what we talked to you about," Rose quickly shut the door before I had the chance to leave.

"Yes guys," I looked down at my feet with a slight blush on my face.

"Bella," Alice questioned me.

"When I'm alone with Edward this weekend I'm not going to be shy. I am going to be bold and go for what I want," after all Edward is what I wanted.

"Good," they both gave me big smiles.

"Go get him tiger," Rose teased as I walked out of the room.

"You ready love," Edward held my bag in one hand with the dress draped over it and the bag of goodies in the other.

"Defiantly," I leaned up and lightly kissed his cheek.

Edward put the bags in the backset of his Volvo before opening the door for me. I blushed of course which caused him to chuckle softly and kiss my forehead before shutting the door behind me. Quickly he ran to the driver's side and started the car. I hooked my iPod up and started to look through my music. I finally settled on one of the mixes I had made. I was a little nervous that Edward would find my taste in music a little weird. I had everything from the King of Leon to The Lion King but Edward sang along to each song. I was so happy I thought I was going to burst as Edward grabbed my hand pulling it up to kiss the back of it. We held hands for the rest of the trip; he would lightly run his thumb against my hand when a slow song would play. I loved the way he would sing the love songs louder than the music and glance over at me. Even the smallest things he did always made me feel special.

We had driven about three hours south of Seattle before Edward pulled off of the highway. We started to weave in and out of the thick Oregon forest. The trees were beautiful and full and I found it hard to look away from our surroundings. Edward made a right turn that pulled us even further into the woods before finally coming to a stop in front of a small cottage.

"What are you thinking love," Edward's voice was low as he rubbed his thumb up and down the back of my hand. I had been silent for a few minutes just gazing at the cottage through the window.

"This is where we are staying," I was in shock.

"Yes, as long as that is okay with you. If you hate it we can always find another place to stay. I just thought that you would enjoy the quit and the woods," he started to ramble which was just too cute.

"No Edward, I love it. I just never thought that you would rent us a cottage. I just assumed we would be staying in a hotel. This is absolutely beautiful," I looked out the car window squeezing Edward's hand tightly. "Can we go take a closer look," I smiled brightly.

"Yes of course," he laughed as I rushed to get out of the car but had troubles since I was still buckled in.

Finally I freed myself and got out of the car. Edward met me in the front of the car grabbing my hand as I pulled him towards the cottage. He pulled out a key from his pocked and unlocked the door for us. The inside was just the way I imagined it would be cute and cozy. There was a small living room to the right with a fire place; to the left was a small kitchen with accents of blue. In the back was the only bed room with a big bed in the middle of the room, my eyes lingered on the bed and I felt a small blush form on my cheeks. There was a small stream in the back that you could see from the bedroom. The only bathroom in the house was connected to the bedroom with a large hot tub. It was beyond perfect, if I could dream up the perfect cottage, this would be it (pictures on profile).

"Edward this is incredible," I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled his face down for a long kiss. I don't know if it was the fact that we weren't going to be caught or that we were in the bed room but for whatever reason the kiss started to intensify. Seconds later our tongues were fighting for dominance. I let him win in the end and his tongue explored my mouth, I moaned into his mouth causing him to pull me even closer to his body. My hands pulled on his hair as he pushed me back lightly. My knees hit the bed behind me and I started to fall down with Edward falling on top of me. His knees were in between my legs and he rested his elbows on either side of my head to support his weight.

"Love, we have to stop now or I won't be able to," he said between kissing my cheek and neck.

"What if I don't want you to stop," I moaned as I sucked on his neck.

"As much as I want to do that love, I want it to be perfect not something that just happens," I couldn't help but feel rejection spread over my body. I had finally went for what I wanted and Edward didn't want it.

"Umm I have to go to the bathroom," I tried to push him off of me but he wouldn't move. Tears were starting to form in my eyes and I didn't want him to see me cry.

"Bells no it isn't like that at all," he wiped the tears that spilled over away with his thumbs. "I want to make love to you so badly it hurts sometimes. But there are a few things that I wanted to do tonight," he leaned down kissing all over my face. "But trust me we will be making love this weekend and I know it will be amazing."

I began to relax and after a few minutes I was finally over the feeling of being rejected. After all he did say that he wanted me and it would be later this weekend, which made me extremely happy. The last part he said made me extremely nervous. He said he knew it would be amazing, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to live up to that.