MEET THE PARENTS PART 2

Bella's POV

I had never been more nervous than I was at this moment. I gripped Edwards hand as he led me through the living room and towards the kitchen where the sound of people cooking could be heard.

"I told them not to do this." he said as he pushed the door open.

I looked at him confused then I saw what he meant. Carlisle was at the stove while Emmett, Esme, and Rosalie where chopping and cutting and preparing other things. As soon as we entered they looked up all of them with the exception of Rosalie smiled at us.

Esme was the first to greet me she came up to me and pulled me into a hug, "Bella it is so nice to meet you, were making Italiano for you." She said as she pulled back and looked at the others.

"It gives us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time." Carlisle said smiling as he put something into the pan on the stove.

"So I hope you're hungry," Esme said as she went back to chopping

I stood there not really knowing what to say I had already eaten this morning and I wasn't really hungry but I didn't have it in my heart to say no. as I was about to respond Edward spoke instead, "She already ate." I didn't think he had meant to sound angry but it had come out that way.

Several things happened as soon as he had said that, Esme and Emmett stopped cutting and looked down at the counter clearly upset, Carlisle dropped the spatula he was holding, and Rosalie smashed the class bowl in her hands.

When Rosalie smashed the bowl I jumped back in surprise and said, "I'm sorry it's just that I know you guys don't eat, so," I stopped talking and looked down at my feet not knowing how to continue.

"Don't apologized Bella that was very considerate of you." Esme said coming over and rubbing my arm.

I looked up at them with the exception of Rosalie none of them appeared to be upset.

"That's it let's just pretend that this isn't dangerous for all of us." Rosalie said glaring at me as she stepped away from the glass that littered the floor.

"Rose, that's enough!" Esme scolded

"No, has anybody thought of what would happen if things go bad." She asked crossing her arms

I looked on as they argued back and forth for few seconds and then the sliding door on my left opening up caught my attention as Alice and Jasper walked through.

"Bella, Hi!" Alice said excitedly as she came over and hugged me.

Jasper stood back, "Hello, Bella it's nice to meet you." He said with a nod of his head.

Alice skipped back to him and looped her arm in his, "It's okay Jasper, you won't hurt her." She said as she gave him a peck on the cheek.

"Alright um, I'm going to show you the rest of the house." Edward said as he rolled his eyes.

As he pulled me away I could hear Esme scolding Rosalie, "Later you will apologize now clean this up." And then I heard the distinct laugh that was Emmett. I laughed in my head as we ascended the stairs.

On the second floor he told me which rooms were who's (Alice and Jasper and Emmett and Rosalie) then on the third floor he led me to an open door, "Um, this is my room." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

I looked around the room there were stacks of journals everywhere the floor to ceiling shelving unit was stuffed full of cds all different genres and types of music. Pushed up against the glass outer wall was one of those shrink type couches. I don't know why but it's kind of how I imagined his room to be like, well minus the bed I would have thought he had a bed.

"I like it, it suits you." I said as I turned to look at him

"This is the one place we don't have to hide who we are." He said placing his hands on my waist and pulling me to him, "I do not allow others to be in my room you are the first, other than the time Alice took over my room when we were living in Alaska."

"Oh you do know how to make a girl feel special." I said mocking him.

He laughed then kissed me deeper than he had before but he still pulled away all too soon, leaving me as breathless as usual.

"Weren't you going to take me somewhere today?" I asked once I had caught my breathe.

"Ah, yes I was," he said then paused. He seemed to think about something for a minute then said, "Do you trust me?"

"With my life," I said with conviction

"Well by the time we get there in human pace it will be dark and I won't be able to show you what I want to show you," He paused, "But if we go at vampire speed we can make it there in minutes."

"Well I did say I trusted you I can't go back on that now." I said not as convincingly as I had wanted to.

He laughed then I screamed as he swiftly swung me onto his back, "Hold on tight and close your eyes." I did as he said. And as soon as I did I felt a rush of air. In seconds I felt the cold air biting at my cheeks I could just imagine how red they were. I made the mistake of opening my eyes; as soon as I did I shut them again and buried my face in his neck. By the time he stopped I was gripping my arms and legs around him so tight I don't think I would have been able to let go.

"Bella, love we're here, you can let go now." He said

I shook my head in his neck not sure I trust that if I opened my mouth I would not throw up. After a few minutes I released my grip and he pulled me around to his front and held me there till I finally trusted that I could stand up on my own without falling. From the time that he stopped and the time that I stood up it had only been about five minutes.

"Better?" He asked once I was standing and my eyes were open.

I nodded, "Good," He said then turned me around and I gasped at what I saw.

We were standing in the entrance of a beautiful meadow, wild flowers growing everywhere and the grass was so green it looked fake but it wasn't.

"Edward this is beautiful," I said as I walked to the middle of the meadow it wasn't until I was half way there when I realized that he had not followed me. I turned a saw him still under the cover of the trees. "Edward what are you doing?"

"This is the only other place besides my house where I don't have to hide who I am. I found this place 70 years ago when we were here last while out hunting one day." He took in an unnecessary breathe and continued, "Whenever we move I try to find somewhere that I don't have to hide." By the time he had finished he had pulled off his sweater and unbuttoned his shirt exposing his chest. Then he began walking out to where I stood. Just as he reached me the clouds that had been passing above us cleared up letting the sun light up the meadow. For the second time that afternoon I gasped because as soon as the light touched his skin he sparkled. Not like glitter but like his skin was made up of millions diamonds. He was beautiful, I had thought he was beautiful before but nothing I though compared to what I saw now.

After I regained my composure I slowly lifted my hand up and placed it on his cheek, I placed my other hand on his forearm and gently pulled as I lowered myself to the ground. Catching on to what I wanted him to do he followed me and sat down with me. I lowered the hand that was on his cheek to his neck as I lifted my other hand to his chest.

I don't know how long we stared into each other's eyes before he pulled me into a kiss. After that we laid together in the meadow as I traced my finger over the contours of his face and chest. Every time I touched a new part of him he would let out a shiver and smile. He was being extremely careful and stayed very still except for those shivers.

We lay like this until the sun started to set and then he turned his head to look at me, "Tell me what you're thinking." He only asked me this when I genuinely couldn't read me there were a lot of time when he asked me this.

"I was thinking that my human eyes can only see so much I had thought you beautiful before but now I see that you are so much more." I said reverently as if saying it any other way would break the spell. "What are you thinking?"

"I was thinking that before you I was just going through the motions, I feel more alive now than I ever had." I replied as he looked into my eyes

I kissed him then and as usual he was the one to break it off, "Always so careful." I said as I sat up.

"I have to be if I lose control I can hurt you and I couldn't live with myself if I did."

He sat up and buttoned his shirt then stood up pulling me with him. "Come on let's go. Your sister will be wondering if I killed you or not." He said seriously

"She is not thinking that." I said giving him a useless shove. "But your right we do need to go."

This time he let me climb onto his back on my own. He waited till I was gripping tight to him and my eyes were closed so tight that I was seeing white spots. Again we made it to our destination in minutes once at his house we got in his car and he drove me home.

I had to admit meeting his family hadn't been as bad as I thought it would be he had been right. But I didn't tell him that he could be cocky when he wanted to be. I was content with just knowing that he loved me enough to share with me the two places that he had kept to himself for so long.