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"Ah!" I woke up with a jolt, making the whole bed bounce.
Bella groaned, rolling over to face me. "What's wrong, Edward…" she asked sleepily.
I felt my heartbeat slow as I looked at her cute and sleepily confused face.
"I just remembered-" I started. And then I looked around and saw our surroundings. Bella. How everything was okay.
I smiled through the dark, wrapping my arms around her again. That was all I needed.
"Nothing. Just a weird dream. Everything's fine," I said, realizing how true it was.
She nodded sleepily against my chest.
"M'kay…" she mumbled and started to doze off in my arms again.
And, holding my most prized possession in my arms, I knew. It was true. My messed up life was perfect. I had Bella, and the thought of my family didn't bother me much anymore.
"Edward…" Bella mumbled in her sleep.
Yeah, I wouldn't have my life any other way.
Currently on silence-
B.P.O.V.
The last couple of weeks have been pure heaven, I had to admit. Edward and I didn't have any more issues with the whole family situation, he'd talked on the phone with his parents about four times, and he'd told me that it got easier each time.
We were working out the other issues we'd been having in therapy, which was turning out to be really helpful to us, like how Edward kept having nightmares about Sheila and how I needed to work on trusting people more.
And much to my and Edward's enjoyment, Jake started to let up on the 'no sex' rule he seemed to have going on.
He was sad that he had to leave Renesmee so quickly, and apparently she had thrown more than a couple of fits about wanting to see her big brother.
I thought it was really sweet and amazing how they'd known each other for such a small amount of time, yet they'd formed a bond that I'd never expected. I felt a pang hit my heart when I thought about it though.
I'd seen the way he was with her- with kids in general- and I knew he'd make an amazing father. I knew I wanted kids one day, but I had no clue if that was what Edward wanted… I wasn't sure whether he wanted kids or not and that thought made me frown.
I know, I know, we're young- but a girl can dream, can't she? I sighed, picking myself up from the bed and going to make an afternoon snack. Edward was still asleep. It was 5:30 PM.
But, in our defense, we'd worn ourselves out last night… I grinned just thinking about it.
Edward had surprised me by renting a hotel room in Portland this past weekend. I stared out of the hotel balcony window, seeing my body's imprint on it and giggling.
Edward certainly kept his promise about that whole window-fucking thing.
I felt two strong arms wrap around me and Edward's soft lips kiss my neck. "Good afternoon, love," he said, smiling against my neck.
I sighed, turning around to kiss him.
He smiled as he pulled away from me.
He was looking at the imprint on the window too and he smirked.
"Did that satisfy you, Bella?" He nuzzled his nose into my neck and I blushed.
"When do you ever leave me unsatisfied?" I answered and he chuckled.
I thought back to last night again and grinned, we'd even gathered a small audience at the time. And I hadn't even a clue that I liked to be on display until I met Edward… I just wanted to do everything with him.
He kissed my forehead. "Why don't we head down for dinner?" he asked.
I looked around our cozy room once more before nodding. We were staying at the Heathman Lodge and it was beautiful.
On Friday, he'd surprised me with a ride and a stay down here for my birthday. I'd protested from the beginning, but I secretly loved every second of the trip.
I slipped my hair into a pony tail and slid on some jeans and a rocker t-shirt, and Edward put on some khakis and a green, polo shirt.
I licked my lips at the sight of him. He just chuckled.
"Why don't we just stay here?" I asked, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and kissing him.
He shook his head, pulling away from me. "No, we need to be downstairs for dinner at 6:15," he said, completely adamant.
I grumbled about how he should be the one wanting the sex and we walked downstairs.
He walked up to the waiter and said Cullens. I smiled at his blatant ignorance of the name Swan.
He grinned and winked as the waiter led us to our table, almost in the middle of the restaurant. Edward started chewing on his lips and fiddling with his thumbs as he glanced at me.
"What?" I asked self consciously.
He shook his head, clearing his throat. "It's nothing…"
The waiter came back. "Do you know what you'd like to drink?" he asked, flipping open a pad of paper.
"Can I get a Coke?" I asked, and then Edward said two.
The waiter asked if we were ready to order and Edward asked for a couple more minutes.
I decided on lobster ravioli and Edward got the same when the waiter came back.
Why was he just getting all the same things I was? Why was he so nervous?
The dinner came soon after and I hummed in delight as the first bite came into contact with my taste buds. I licked my lips.
"Mm, this is really good!" I said to Edward and he nodded in agreement.
But, instead of carrying on conversation like he normally did, he was silent, watching me intently, thinking hard about something. He started to fidget as the plates were taken away.
Edward started to grow extremely agitated.
"What's wrong with you tonight, hun? You look really worried…" I trailed off.
He ran one of his hands through his hair. "Well… I-I uh… had something to ask you," he said with a nervous smile.
I narrowed my eyes. "What is it?" I said slowly.
His eyes got all wide and he looked as if he was going to have the most difficult time speaking.
"Bella… you know how important you are to me, right?" he asked.
I nodded, where was he going with this…?
"Well… I was raised by a system. Carlisle and Esme, Emmett and Rosalie… all the same system… they met, they moved in together… and to me… it just-"
He cut himself off.
"Goddamn it, I had this all planned out…" He grimaced.
He took a deep breath. "Bella," he said, finally looking me straight in the eye, he stood up and kneeled next to me, pulling out a velvet box. He opened it and I saw a shimmering ring. My hand flew to cover my mouth and I felt tears in my eyes. "I've been in love with you from the moment I met you, and from that day on… I only ever loved you more… you make me a better man… and… Bella, will you… will you marry me?" he asked, his eyes wide with fear of rejection.
My mouth dropped open further. I choked on my smile.
He started to look really nervous, and I realized I hadn't said yes.
I leaned down to kiss him. "Yes. Yes. Yes. One thousand times yes," I said between sobs of happness and kisses. The smile that broke onto his face was breathtaking.
He reached to wipe off some of the happy tears on my face with his thumb. "I love you, Bella," he said and quickly took the ring and slid it onto my finger. It looked perfectly natural there.
I grabbed his hair and started to kiss him again. I heard "Aw!" come from all around the tables surrounding us, and we broke apart, blushing and smiling.
I heard a little kid from a table over shout. "Hey mommy! Look, the naked lady from the window is getting married!"
Two years later. Edward: age twenty-one. Bella: age twenty.
"Nope… Nope… I refuse," I said stubbornly.
Alice groaned. "Isabella Marie Swan. You already said yes and there is everyone you love- right out there!"
I shook my head. "I'll make the worst wife in the world, Alice!" I tried to scream.
"Breathe, Bella!" she guided me to a mirror.
There were worry lines on my face. "It's just cold feet, woman! You know the only thing that matters?" she asked as she put her hands on my shoulders. "Is that my brother is out there waiting for you to marry him because he loves you," she said confidently. I looked at myself. I knew she was right, and I felt amazing is my dress. It was a sweetheart neckline, strapless, and it flowed elegantly down to the floor.
"You're the girl he fell for, Bella. So go out there and make him happy! And I know you will." She winked.
I turned to give her a hug. "You really think so?" I asked.
She nodded vigorously. "With my whole heart," she confirmed.
I took a deep breath. "You're right…" I said.
I looked down to see my hands shaking as I was handed my bouquet. Alice and Rosalie walked through the door in their peach, bridesmaid dresses after Renesmee, our beautiful flower girl, what the hell did it matter that she was thirteen?
I took a shaky breath and stood behind the door. I felt someone's arm slip through mine and looked up to see my future father in law, Carlisle, smiling down at me.
I smiled back, he rubbed my forearm soothingly. "It's going to be simple, Bella, don't worry about it. Edward loves you and that's all that matters."
I grinned, realizing now that it was true. I gave Carlisle's arm a light squeeze.
Suddenly, everything was white and Carlisle stabilized me as I stumbled my first step on the aisle.
I blushed and Carlisle chuckled. "Go as slow as you need to, Bella," he said with a smile on his face.
I blushed again at all of the faces in the pews looking back at me with smiles.
I tried to see Edward, but I was overwhelmed by the music that started to fill my ears. Wagner's March. I wasn't able to keep the grin off of my face.
I glanced around and was slightly startled, but happy, to see the Masens. Elizabeth had told us that they couldn't make it. But I was glad they could come.
As I walked, with Carlisle's stable help, towards the alter, I saw Edward. He looked longingly at me, a blinding smile on his face as we were unable to take our eyes off of each other.
'I love you.' He mouthed.
I blushed again and heard "Aw!" sound in the chapel.
I couldn't take my eyes off my future husband. When we finally reached the steps, Carlisle took my hand and passed it into Edward's.
Carlisle walked to his side and I passed my bouquet to Alice, putting both of my hands into Edward's.
His big, green eyes bored into mine.
We were so stuck in our little world that the pastor, Mr. Webber, had to clear his throat to get our attention.
He started to speak. "Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, in presenting yourselves here today to be joined in marriage, you perform an act of faith. This faith can grow and develop and last, but only if you both decide to make it so. A lasting and growing love is not guaranteed by any ritual.
If you would have the foundation of your marriage be the devotion you have for one another, not just at this moment, but for all the days to come, then treasure the hopes and dreams that you bring here today. Establish that your love will never be blotted out by the common nor obscured by the ordinary in life. Faults will surface where now you find comfort, and admiration can be shattered by
the routine of daily life.
Dedication, love, and joy can grow only when you nourish them together. Stand fast in that hope and confidence, having faith in your shared destiny just as strongly as you have faith in yourselves and in one another today. Only with this spirit can you forge a union that will strengthen and endure all the days of your lives.
The pastor started to recite Edward's vows.
Edward repeated it, his voice heavy with passion. I bit my lip and felt tears in my eyes.
I only listened to what Edward said after that.
"I promise you my deepest love, my fullest devotion, my tenderest care, through the pressures of the present and the uncertainties of the future, I promise to be faithful to you." He smiled though his words. "I promise to love you, to commit to you, and support you. I pledge to respect your unique talents and abilities, to lend you strength for all of you magnificent dreams. You have shown me what love feels like and for that I thank you. You are everything I need and, at this moment, I know all of my prayers have been answered and that all of my dreams have come true. I praise God for you, Isabella; for all of your love and constant friendship. I know that our love is heaven sent and I promise to be here forever and always. From this day forward, you shall not walk alone. My heart will be your shelter and my arms will be your home. As I have given you my hand to hold, I give you my life to keep," he said, staring into my eyes.
He took my ring and eased it onto my finger.
I gasped, listening to his words. Without thinking, I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him with all the emotion I had.
I heard him gasp in surprise, but smile. I heard the people around us start to chuckle, and I pulled away, covering my mouth and embarrassed that I'd forgotten that it wasn't time to do that yet.
Edward looked amused, but happy.
The pastor looked at me, chuckling.
He started to say the words I'd written last month, and Edward listened with a toothy smile on his face.
"I, Isabella Swan, take you, Edward Cullen, as my friend and my love, beside me and apart from me, in laughter and in tears, in conflict and tranquility, asking that you be no other than yourself, loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not know yet, in all the ways that life may find us. I promise to always include you in every decision I make, and to love you for all my life. I thank the Lord every day for how lucky I am to have found you, I-" I stumbled through the rest of them, in a hurry to be over with this and be his damned wife already.
After I finished, I took Edward's ring and slid it onto his finger.
"With this statement made of love and trust, which we have just heard, I now wish you to greet Edward Cullen and Isabella Swan as husband and wife," the minister continued.
"May this day shine eternally in your lives.
May it add brilliance to every achievement and cast a divine light over any misfortune.
May you care for each other in all sadness.
May you give cheer to each other.
May you give vitality to each other in all undertakings.
May all that is virtuous, beautiful and honest, remain with you always."
We stared into each other's eyes.
The minister grinned. "You may now kiss the bride."
I smiled and, without any more thought, I kissed him again, but it wasn't a very regular kiss. We were smiling too much to actually kiss.
We pulled apart after a little while and Edward winked at me, leaning his forehead on mine.
Finally. Married.
Before I knew it, I was being dragged to my reception.
I was holding Edward's hand the entire time.
He placed gentle kisses up and down my neck during our wedding dance.
"You look beautiful, love." He sighed, grinning broadly down at me as I smushed myself into his chest.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rosalie and Emmett asking if they could cut in a couple of
songs later.
Edward went to dance with his mother and I grabbed Emmett's hand.
He smiled at me, "You make Edward very happy, Bella. I don't think we've ever seen him this happy." We both looked off to see Edward laughing at something his mom said, guiding her across the floor.
"He makes me happy too." I smiled contentedly.
Emmett talked on about how happy he and I would be, and then soon enough, the dance was over, and I felt my hands being taken by the man who had given me away.
I smiled at Carlisle. I saw Esme dancing with Edward.
He repeated almost the same sentiments to me that Emmett had, and I politely replied to them.
Once the dance was over, Edward and I continued dancing.
"No way!" I said, looking over his shoulder to see Jasper.
Edward looked to see him. "Someone seems excited?" he questions.
"No… that's the guy Alice ran into in the tampon aisle, like, three years ago! She didn't tell me they were still together!" I said.
Edward chuckled.
I saw Alice wave and wink at us and Jasper nod his head to Edward.
He turned back to me. "It's time to start the toasts," he said.
I nodded, sitting where Edward led me.
There was a line next to the mini stage, but Alice, being Alice, skipped ahead of all of them and ran up the stage to the microphone.
She smiled at us. "You know, I had this beautiful speech planned out you guys, and it was going to melt your heart, I swear, but I'm totally blanking… so I'll wing it." She smiled again.
"Edward. You were always the best brother a girl could ask for… and even though you get on my nerves a lot, I love you and nothing can change that. And Bella, you're the best sister in law I could've imagined, and the best woman for Edward. I don't care who ever said nineteen and twenty was too young for marriage, because you two are ready and you're perfect for each other. Here's to the rest of your lives!" She raised her glass along with everyone else and I rested my head on Edward's shoulder.
Edward's parent's did one, and so did Carlisle and Esme.
I was a bit surprised when the Masens stepped up to make a toast.
"Edward…" Elizabeth started and Edward smiled, more at ease with their presence than he was at first meeting.
"I know I haven't been able to be as active in your life as I wish I could be, but, considering everything that's happened, I'm so proud of who you've become, and of what you've done. I hope for you two to have the best years ahead of you." We raised our glasses to her and Edward Sr. and Edward leaned in to kiss me.
I sighed contentedly. After that, Alice urged me to throw my bouquet. I stood and the girls all crowded around to try and grab it.
I cheated a little, looking to see where Alice was and aimed for her.
But I, lacking the hand/eye coordination that most people posses, accidentally throw it straight into Jasper's eye, who was on the complete opposite side of the room that Alice was on.
Jasper chuckled and Alice squealed. Apparently, to her, if one of them caught it then she was alright.
After everyone was through talking, Edward and I danced for a few more times but, when our limo, that Edward insisted on, pulled up to take us to our honeymoon destination, we were eager to get out of there as the excited newlyweds we were. We were headed to Maui for a week. I protested, but Edward insisted.
"I love you," he mumbled against my lips as we drove away. I heard and saw people waving at us and cheering as we were off.
I leaned in to kiss my husband again.
One more chapter, twerds. Sad, I understand.
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