Edward's full recovery took two excruciatingly long weeks. Of course, school was taken care of because Carlisle called and told them that he had a horrible flu and would be out for a while. Since I was in all of Edward's classes, I brought his homework to him and did it with him during my daily hospital visits. I still wasn't permitted to kiss him – Carlisle's orders – and I hadn't gotten to eat any meals with him, either. I came right after his lunchtime, and by the time his dinnertime rolled around, I had to go home to Charlie and make my own dinner.

It was a Friday when Edward was discharged from the hospital, which was perfect since I would have the weekend with him. Alice called me and told me to come to the house right after school, where my love would be waiting for me.

The bell rang signaling the end of the school day, and I ran the fastest I had ever run in my life out to my truck. I had never had any complaints about my old trusty truck's speed before, but I sure did this time. I was pushing 50 miles per hour the whole way to the Cullen home, but it wasn't nearly fast enough for me. I wanted – no, needed – to see Edward immediately.

As soon as I pulled into the Cullens' driveway, I cut the engine and ran inside, once again at full speed. There was Edward, sitting at the kitchen table with a grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup in front of him.

As soon as I entered the doorway, he turned around in his chair and smiled at me as if he were a little boy on Christmas morning. Tears immediately stung my eyes as I covered my mouth with my hands and smiled. I ran to him after a moment. Although he was more fragile now than he was before, I hugged him tighter than I ever had.

"Bella…" he whispered as he picked me up and seated me on his forearms. His lips were on mine suddenly, forceful, but not too much so. He couldn't hurt me the way he could have before, so there was no need for him to hold back now.

I heard someone clearing their throat. Both of our heads snapped up to see all of the Cullens standing around us, looking away pretending like they hadn't seen. My face heated up with embarrassment. I looked down to Edward and saw his face with a blush for the first time. It was marvelous. His cheeks were a vibrant scarlet color, and his eyes held slight tears of emotion.

"Well, we'll leave you to it then," Alice said, relieving the tension in the room. They were gone in a flash, and I laughed quietly to myself upon remembering that Edward could no longer do that. He set me down and sat me on his lap while he sat in the chair.

"I'm so excited to see you eat!" I said, my voice full of wonder. He chuckled his same old, low chuckle that he always did, only it wasn't so dark anymore. He held my gaze with his eyes, smiling at me, lifting a spoonful of soup up to his mouth. He knew how much this amused me. I didn't even try to hide it. He slowly put the spoon into his mouth and pulled it back out again, swallowing.

We looked at each other and laughed. It was incredible to see Edward doing human things like eating and blushing. I felt giddy and almost high. I could sense that Edward felt the same, judging by his smile and the way he held me tight. There was so much to explore about him. What would he be like drunk? Which foods would he like, and which ones would be dislike? What would he look and smell like after being freshly showered? And what were his human athletic abilities? The list of questions in my mind went on and on with endless possibilities and scenarios.

"What are you thinking about, love?" Edward asked, pulling me out of my reverie.

I buried my face in his chest. "I'm just excited to do human things with you, that's all.

He laughed lightly. "You know," he said, "Alice told me that Mike Newton is having a party tonight. Why don't we go out to dinner and then go to the party together?"

I couldn't believe he wanted to go to a high school house party. Even as a human, I had a feeling that Edward wouldn't exactly be too fond of Mike, Jessica, Lauren, and others who annoyed him. Now that I thought about it, pretty much everyone at Forks High School annoyed him except for his family, Angela, and myself.

"Do you really want to go?" I asked hesitantly. I had been invited by Mike, of course, and he had courteously tacked onto his invitation that Edward could come if he was feeling better.

"Sure! I'd love to go to a party. Now that I'm human, and I can't read anyone's heinous thoughts, I think I'd like to jump right into being a regular high school student. You and I can drink a bit, would you like that?" he asked with a cheeky grin. I pursed my lips to try to look serious, but the corners of my mouth rose up, betraying me.

"I'll drink if you're there, and you do too," I responded. I set my face back into a serious expression. I couldn't exactly place the reason why, but there was something within me that didn't want Edward to know that I was excited about drinking. I had never drank alcohol before, and it was something that I had been mildly interested in doing at some point in the near future. With Edward there, and able to be drunk with me at that, it would surely be a good time.

Edward nodded. "Good. Dinner at five-thirty then?" he looked up at me with those beautiful big green eyes.

"That sounds good," I replied. With that, I helped him clean up his dishes and we went to the living room to cuddle and watch TV together. I had some better ideas of how to pass the time, but those activities would have to wait for another time when his family with super vampire hearing wasn't home.

Hello! I'm SO sorry that it took me so long to upload this chapter. Just so you know, I never intend to let it be this long again! A few reasons it was late: 1) There's only about a month of school left, so I've had SO MUCH to do because they're shoving finals, homework, and other stuff at us as fast as lightning. 2) I've just gone through a breakup. It distracted me for a while.

The third reason I took a long time to upload this is because there weren't very many reviews for my second chapter. I really don't want to be one of those authors who is like "I will only post the next chapter if I get at least 10 reviews!" because I hate when people do that. I'm not looking for a certain amount. But I would like to see more than 2 or 3! It's not because I'm a princess who wants lots of reviews. It's because I know that there are a lot more people following this story than people reviewing it, and I'd like to fix that. I want to know if you guys LIKE what I'm writing, if you LIKE or DISLIKE the directions I'm going with it, and I would LOVE your ideas! Edward and Bella being humans together is going to be hysterical and shitshow-esque. SO PLEASE, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!