Seth Clearwater

I had been working on this night for over a week but I've been looking forward to it since last year on this very day.

Today's the day! Today's been exactly a year since Alex decided to explore our relationship and make it official, exactly a month and a week ever since I first locked eyes with her gorgeous hazel brown eyes.

So it was a pretty momentous night! It was our first real milestone in our relationship. I wanted to make it special and memorable, something she and I will never ever forget for as long as we live.

But also, I was aware that I was in a relationship with someone who didn't believe in cheesy gestures. I totally respected that but it's not easy when the other party believes in giving the world to his mate. She deserved all my love.

I have never been in a real relationship before. I mean sure, I had crushed on a number of girls back on the rez but never actually got a chance to date any of them. Not like I was a Casanova or anything. In fact, I was probably the guy with the least game from all of the guys. I was awkward and jubilant which meant I was pretty chatty which was somehow a girl repellent and I changed so early in my life that I had no opportunity to go out and look for girls because I was too preoccupied running with wolves.

Anyway, so I wanted to make today special for her. After all that we've been through and what we're currently going through with someone threatening to expose our relationship, we needed to take a break…

From the world!

Which is why tonight's the night we escape from reality.

But before we do that, I wanted to make sure my dinky girl was treated like the queen she was.

So I was going to pull all the stops tonight before we leave.

With the help of the Internet, a costume store, a supermarket, Yin Yong Lee's Chinese Food Shop and an Italian food store downtown, Lorrie's Bakery and Embry's job at Starbucks, I was all set for tonight.

Jacob was at the Cullens for the night and Embry was out clubbing after dropping off the stuff. So basically I had the apartment all to myself.

After setting up, I lit up all the candles and made sure the decorations were arranged in the way I wanted them to. After all of that, I ran to the kitchen to finish up the cooking.

When I felt that I was moderately prepared, I played some music on the stereo before running to the bathroom to freshen up and get myself ready.

I was done in less than fifteen minutes and I knew Alex was on her way. I could smell her scent a mile away.

I swiftly touched up on a few minor things before presuming my position.

A few minutes later, Alex's scent grew stronger.

I counted her heartbeats along with the patter of her heeled feet.

Thud.

Pat. Pat.

Thud.

Pat. Pat.

And then three knocks on the door came forth.

Knock.

Knock.

Knock.

"Come in!" I called.

The door was immediately flung open and her beautiful face emerged into the scene.

"Seth! I thought we were leaving in thirty minutes –"

She cut herself off when she noticed all the jasmine scented candles laid around every center of the apartment and the line of bagels on plates with mini candlesticks on top of them, leading up towards me standing in the middle of the room. I was dressed in a large bagel suit with donut shoes and a cheese hat, carrying a bagel in my grasp with a 'Happy 1st Anniversary' flag embedded on it.

"What is this?" She laughed as she shut the door behind her.

"Our first anniversary as a couple was on this very day!" I said with a grin. "And I wanted us to celebrate it before we leave."

"I don't believe this," She whispered with a shaky gasp as she noticed the little picnic area I had laid out in the middle of the room.

"I know you don't like cliché, corny, cheesy romantic gestures but I couldn't help myself. I'm a cheeseball." I joked, gesturing to my hat.

She laughed, tossing her lengthy black hair to the side as she shrugged her denim jacket off her shoulders and threw it over the couch, leaving her in just her black tank top and body-hugging black, silky tights –held by a nice belt – with suede, knee-high three inch heel boots.

"You look –"

"Thrown?"

"Well, I was going to say gorgeous but I guess that's the next best thing." I said nervously.

"Why are you doing all of this?"

"Well…Because I love you, Alex." I said.

She curved her lips into a small smile but quickly let it fall as she was about to protest.

"Just shut up for a second and let me talk." I said with a smirk as I placed the bagel down. "And you'll listen."

She obliged, pressing her lips together.

"Honestly, I've been dreaming of this day since last year. I just never thought it'd come by so quickly." I said.

She widened her eyes.

"I'm not going to propose!" I quickly clarified.

Her face visibly softened.

"But I hope to someday in the future…In our future." I told her.

She smiled slightly.

"Last year was…was the year I didn't expect I'd actually consider my best. It was exactly eight years since my dad died. I had a horrible year all throughout but when I first laid eyes on you on September the 14th at Nessie's party, I suddenly felt my bad luck would finally change. It was your eyes, that I actually saw hope that things would change for me. That I'd actually be gazillion times happier than I was."

Her smile brightened.

"Then when I first heard your voice, I was awed at the beautiful tune it made. But when I heard your words, how you told me off like a boss, I realized I had no idea what I signed myself up for." I chuckled.

She rolled her eyes.

"But in that very moment, I knew I fell in love with you." I said.

Her lips parted as her glistening hazel-brown eyes bored into my brown, forming an intense connection.

I laughed. "It sounds crazy but I loved you, Alexandra Veolia Catarina Mazzola." I expressed.

"I treasured the time you and I exchanged numbers. I treasured the day, this day, when you agreed to date me…a dorky man-child who also happens to be your teacher. I treasured our first kiss. I treasured our first date. I treasured our first night together. I treasured our first fight. I treasured our first breakup –which I hope is our last. I treasured every minute of every day spent with you."

As I said all of this she was moving steps closer to me. I felt tears fall off my cheek.

Dammit! I rehearsed this! Why was this happening?

I didn't rehearse the speech, that's all me, but when I thought about what to say, I made sure I didn't cry thinking about it.

Now here I am, crying like a terrible baby in front of my girlfriend.

How pathetic!

"I promised myself I wouldn't cry." I sobbed.

She laughed.

Alex hardly ever showed her emotions. She was a lot emotionally stronger than me in our relationship.

She raised her lovely scented, warm hand up to touch my cheek and gently wiped away the tears that descended from my eyes.

"You're such an idiot." She giggled.

I smiled.

I learned, over the past year I've been with Alex that instead of expressing her true feelings, she'd always make a snarky remark and I always took that as her trying to tell me how much she truly loved something. The most common catchphrase in Alex language was 'You're such an idiot' which can be translated to 'I love you'.

"Well –"

"Shh!" She pressed her index finger against my lips. "It's my turn to talk."

I don't know if I should be nervous about this.

"This is ridiculous! No one has ever done this for me." She told me. "It's hard for me to find the words to express how I truly feel but…"

"You don't have to say anything –"

"Just shut up!" She shushed.

I pressed my lips together.

"You are such a bloke, my big bloke." She said with an eye roll.

"I'm not good at romance and you're right, I thought romantic gestures were a whole block of cheese." She said, patting my cheese hat.

I smiled.

"I don't like cheese." She said bluntly.

I stared at the ground.

She lifted my head up so that our eyes met and I was shocked to say the least to see her shed a tear.

"Seth, you are the one person who could make me love all of this cheesiness." She stated, her voice breaking.

My smiled widened into a crooked grin as I leaned my head down to plant my lips against hers but my stupid cheese hat got in the way.

I groaned as I shoved it off my head.

"I hate cheese." I joked.

She laughed as I pulled her close to me by the hips and laid a strong yet still tender smacker on the lips. She threw her arms around my neck as she initiated the deepening of our embrace.

I wrapped my arms around her body and hauled her legs off the ground so that she reigned above me, like the queen she should be. My queen.

Our smooch fest ended after a couple more –yet memorable – seconds so that we could catch our breaths.

"I love you, Alex," I cried, staring at her glossy, red lips.

I sat her down.

"And I love you too, Seth."

I smiled.

Looking at her beautiful face, I couldn't bear the thought of not ever seeing it again. There's external forces at school threatening to break us apart and I wasn't going to stand for that.

"It's over, Alex."

She frowned. "What?"

"It's over. The sneaking around during school hours, hiding out from the society. I want it to be over."

"What do you mean?"

"Just know that…no matter what trials we're going to face. I won't ever let you go." I assured. "I won't let you down. I can promise you that."

"You're scaring me, Seth." Alex said, her breathing hitching. "Is this about Marley Wallowitz?"

I pressed my lips together. "Alex…"

"We can't let her get in between us! She can't do anything without proof."

"But she has proof." I told her.

Her eyes widened.

"And I'm okay with that," I told her.

"Seth, I'm not!" She cried out.

"This thing you and I have…its real, Alex. It is true love and no one can tell us that we can't have this love we have." I told her. "No matter what happens in the future, that won't change."

She nodded. "I know."

"And I don't care if the world knows about us. Honestly, I don't. I can resign on Monday. Honestly, I'll do that. So long as I'm with you."

She deepened her gaze into my eyes, threading her fingers through my hair.

"You are such an idiot, Seth Clearwater." She laughed nervously.

"Yeah, maybe I am." I said.

She pressed her lips together, still running her hands through my lengthy black hair.

"It's going to be okay. We're going to cool, my queen." I told her.

She smirked.

"Cool like a cucumber?"

"Like a cucumber, baby!" I said with a giddy smile.

She laughed as she draped her arms around my bagel suit and tightened her gasp around me. I smiled as I returned the embrace and laid my head against hers.

"I made us Italian food meets Native American."

"I was wondering what that wonderful aroma was when I first entered!" She said. "God, I'm starving!" She said as she pulled away and grabbed as many bagels she could carry in one hand.

I laughed,

"I knew you loved bagels so half of these from Starbucks and the other half from Lorrie's –"

"Bakery!" She exclaimed, not giving me a chance to finish my sentence. "That's the best bagel bakery in the history of all bagel bakeries! How did you know it's my favorite store?" She said with a mouthful.

"I know you like a book, Alex Mazzola!"

She rolled her eyes as she gnawed a large piece of the bagel.

I laughed.

I got comfortable after that. The bagel suit was itchy so I decided to get rid of it and get dressed in some khaki shorts and a shirt.

I dished the food out for us after taking the many bagels from Alex so that she didn't spoil her appetite.

We had been eating for more than an hour. Majority of the hour spent laughing and talking to each other as we sat down on the mat I laid out for us with soothing music playing in the background.

"Grab your glass," I told a still laughing Alex.

She smiled as she held it in her grasp.

I grabbed the third champagne bottle and popped it open.

Alex squealed and laughed.

"A toast! Here's to making it this far! It's been a wonderful, hectic, crazy, awesome first year together. And many more years to come." I said as I poured the champagne in both our glasses.

Alex smiled. "Couldn't have said it better!"

I smirked. "Cheers!"

She nodded, as we clang her glasses together and took a sip of our drinks. I could tell Alex was getting a little tipsy from the alcohol but me, well, alcohol didn't do much to us shapeshifters. Only if I drowned like maybe fifteen bottles of vodka I'd probably feel a little kick. But I don't think it was like that for all wolves, Embry seemed to always wind up a little drunk after a couple beers. Or maybe he's a good actor?

I know I should be against teenage drinking but what the heck, I'm also a teenager!

"The food was great!" She giggled tipsily.

I smiled as I swallowed the last few drops of my champagne before placing it on the floor and reaching for my back pocket.

"I have a gift for you." I told her as I pulled out a long, dangling bracelet.

She gasped, blinking her eyes.

"Is that a caterpillar?"

I frowned. "No!" I laughed.

She giggled.

"I think you had a little too much to drink for one night." I said as I took the glass from her hand and chugged it down.

She mumbled but didn't protest.

"I've been working on this for three months." I told her.

She took it from my hand and began analyzing it.

"Omigosh, it's beautiful!" She exclaimed as she ran her hand over the beaded jewelry with little ornaments in between the colorful beads and strings.

It was a three rowed bracelet. The first and last row had small, wooden wolves and Quileute artefacts around it and some mini-wooden bow and arrows also thrown in. The middle row had both Alex and mine's initials. AM+SC in beautiful calligraphy and the bracelet was finished off with a small oval locket that she opened, revealing a pixel-sized picture of her and me at the woods and on the side a small message saying: To my queen, you and I are just like jelly on a bagel. I will forever worship you till my dying breath. Mazzwater forever.

"Mazzwater? Aww!" She cooed.

"Want me to put it on?" I asked.

She nodded vigorously as she handed the bracelet to me. I smiled as I took it.

She suddenly shoved her bare foot in front of my face, wriggling her nail-painted toes under my nose.

"What are you waiting for?"

"Around you ankle?"

"It's an ankle bracelet, right?" She asked drunkenly.

I laughed, rolling my eyes and shake my head.

"Yeah, sure." I gave in as I tied it around her lovely ankle.

She'll probably be sober tomorrow so I'll just give her the benefit of the doubt tonight.

She grinned as she dropped her leg and crawled around the mat so she was by my side. She suddenly threw my arm over her shoulder and curled into me.

"I love it!" She said like a hyperactive five year old.

I laughed. "I'm glad."

"But I don't have a present for you." She said with a pouted mouth, batting her eyes at me.

I shook her off.

"You don't have to give me anything." I told her.

She bit her bottom lip and wore a thoughtful look as if she was contemplating something.

Abruptly, she moved out of my arms and quickly hopped onto my lap, beginning to straddle me as she began wiggling and hoisting my shirt over my head.

"What are you doing?" I asked as she tossed my shirt to the side.

"Giving you your present." She told me as she began working on discarding my khaki shorts as she unbuckled my belt.

I laughed nervously as I held her hands.

"You don't have to."

She snarled. "Seth! Let me have sex with you, okay! Or else I'll castrate you and put it in a jar." She warned.

That ought to shut me up.

She quickly discarded her tank top and bra onto the now piling stack of clothes before throwing her lips onto mine, latching her arms around my neck as roamed my hands up her smooth bare back and pulling her close to me, feeling her heavy chest against my mine.

As the kiss heated up, we found ourselves discarding every piece of garbs we had on and letting our skins become exposed to each other's touch.

I maneuvered our heating bodies so that her back lay on the soft carpet floor, her long, wavy dark hair sprawling across the floor. I smiled as I ran my hand up and down her bare thigh as I situated myself in between her legs.

"My beautiful queen," I expressed adoringly.

She stared into my eyes and gnawed her bottom lip as she threaded her fingers through my hair.

"My big bloke." She replied with just as much passion.

She brought my face down to hers in a sensory kiss.

Our first anniversary spent together in blissful serenity.

We were sure as hell not going to La Push, Washington tonight.

But first thing tomorrow morning, though.

A/N: Sorry for the late update, I've been really, really sick with the flu these past two weeks but I'm okay now –I think.

This was initially gonna be a chapter with both Seth and Jacob's POV's but I guess I got too caught up in Mazzwater world. That's what having absolutely no sleep and taking care of a breastfeeding nine month old baby does to you. I can't have caffeine which sucks coz I love me some coffee but Chunky Monkey makes up for it.

Next chapter will focus on Nessie and Jake love! #KissyFace