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Wow, I am so, so, sorry for making you guys wait for so long! I honestly didn't mean to but I was feeling so uninspired to write that I just couldn't. I'm still not really feeling it so, sorry if this chapter kind of sucks.

EPOV:

I continued to punch and tear at Charlie until he resembled more of a crumbled marble statue then a vampire.

"Edward," I heard Bella's voice call in the distance and I was distracted immediately from Charlie. She sounded so desperate.

"Finish him," I commanded to my family dashing off to find my love.

"Bella," I breathed as she came into view from the far edge of our property. I sped up until I had her wrapped completely in my arms, holding her shaking frame close to my own. "Are you okay?" I asked quickly pulling her away from me as my eyes frantically swept her body. After assessing there was no obvious damage I pulled her back.

"Yes, I'm fine. Are you okay? I tried to go as fast as I could but I wanted to make sure I didn't loose Jocelyn. I didn't know what else to do! I didn't want her to go back and try to double team you. You look awful! I'm so, so sorry, Edward! This whole thing is my fault! If I'd never been born you wouldn't have had any of this trouble and…"

"Stop!" I yelled, placing a silencing finger to her lips. "The very thought of you not being born tears me apart. I can't even begin to describe the pain. You are the very highlight of my life. Don't you dare ever talk like that again!"

She just nodded and she continued to cry silently, the guilty look never fading from her face.

"Bella, will you please quit being ridiculous! I'm fine, nothing that won't heal by tomorrow. See," I moved my jaw that had most likely been broken earlier without feeling any pain. "I'm perfectly fine."

She didn't look completely appeased. "It's still my fault they came here in the first place. You could have died, Edward!"

The realization of what would have happened if I hadn't been there hit me at once and I squeezed Bella so tight she made a hiccupping noise. "I could have lost you!" I spoke out loud so she would understand my sudden panic. "If I hadn't of come home it would have been just you and Charlie and Jocelyn. Two on one- you would have been helpless! Oh, my beautiful Bella, words can't describe how thankful I am that I got there when I did. Just moments later and… and…"

I chocked up and couldn't finish the sentence. I felt Bella give me a gentle squeeze, her brown eyes now calm and a reassuring smile was on her face. "You and I, Edward, we're fate, destiny- you name it. We were meant to be together, forever. Tonight was meant to happen. We can live without fear now and count our blessings that everyone is fine and no one came to harm tonight."

My heart swelled and as I leaned in to kiss the love of my life, several loud "Aws" echoed through our property. My eyes popped open as I finally took notice to my family standing only a few feet off who definitely heard Bella's speech about us together. I let out a loud growl of annoyance.

Bella leaned in and whispered in my ear, "We'll continue this later."

"I'll hold you to that." I whispered in return before being dragged off by Bella towards the house with the rest of our family.

BPOV:

After burning the remains of Jocelyn, we hurried back over to the house. I was pretty sure everyone was pretty anxious themselves, but none of them could quite understand the sheer terror I felt from leaving Edward alone with Charlie and the compulsive, overwhelming need to get back to the house.

When we were close I found myself calling out Edward's name.

Edward met me at the edge of the Cullen property and immediately I found myself in his comforting embrace. I hadn't even realized I was crying and shaking until my own quivering body was pulled against his solid one. Instantly I felt safe and assured. He breathed my name and I was like a lullaby, only further accentuating the calming sensations that Edward had.

"Are you okay?" He asked, pushing me away from him so he could check for any signs of me being hurt. I could have cried at the feeling of being far away from him. But before I could complain I found myself again in his arms.

"Yes, I'm fine. Are you okay? I tried to go as fast as I could but I wanted to make sure I didn't loose Jocelyn. I didn't know what else to do! I didn't want her to go back and try to double team you. You look awful! I'm so, so sorry, Edward! This whole thing is my fault! If I'd never been born you wouldn't have had any of this trouble and…"

I trailed off as I continued blubbering like an idiot. I really couldn't help it. I was so worried something happened to him. The idea of it ripped me to pieces inside and breathing was suddenly harder.

"Stop!" I heard Edward yell. Which stopped all internal rampage and focused all my attention to what he was saying. "The very thought of you not being born tears me apart. I can't even begin to describe the pain. You are the very highlight of my life. Don't you dare ever talk like that again!"

I just nodded. I still couldn't get rid of that nagging feeling like I caused way to much trouble for the Cullens. I certainly wasn't worth it, especially if any harm did come to them, most of all to Edward.

"Bella, will you please quit being ridiculous! I'm fine, nothing that won't heal by tomorrow. See," He moved his jaw that I thought Charlie had broken earlier with ease. "I'm perfectly fine."

"It's still my fault they came here in the first place. You could have died, Edward!" I yelled hysterically. The very thought making me overwhelming, crushingly sad.

Edward's body stiffened and suddenly he was yelling hysterically too. "I could have lost you! If I hadn't of come home it would have been just you and Charlie and Jocelyn. Two on one- you would have been helpless! Oh, my beautiful Bella, words can't describe how thankful I am that I got there when I did. Just moments later and… and…"

He was chocked up and I wasn't even sure if he realized that he was now dry sobbing and crushing me against him. Although I didn't mind the last part, I hated to see Edward in such visible pain.

I gave Edward a small squeeze to get his attention and tried to rearrange the features on my face until they were under control and calm. "You and I, Edward, we're fate, destiny- you name it. We were meant to be together, forever. Tonight was meant to happen. We can live without fear now and count our blessings that everyone is fine and no one came to harm tonight."

He smiled brilliantly and I couldn't help but to feel that familiar rush of pride and adoration that I had somehow hooked someone as perfect as him.

He leaned in to kiss me when suddenly the rest of the Cullen family decided to make their appearance known by aw'ing loudly. Edward growled in response to the interrupting and if I could have I would have been blushing.

"We'll continue this later." I whispered into his ear.

"I'll hold you to that."

He responded and I fought off the shudder of anticipation, instead, dragging him to the house with the rest of the family.

Once inside, we were all settled into the spacious family room of the house and I was perched on Edward's lap as he absent mindedly stroked my hair as Carlisle spoke.

We were still discussing everything that had happened earlier that day, making sure that every possible detail was spoken and the whole family was completely aware of everything. At the moment Carlisle was doing a quick recap making sure he had everything straight, which of course he did.

"Well, I guess that's it now that everything is settled out. I'm happy to say that now this family can live worry free." He grinned at this point. "You can all do whatever you please."

Before I could really register what was happening Edward had whisked me away to his room. As he sat us down on the corner of his bed I could feel his breath fast and heavy against my neck as he spoke in that alluringly husky voice of his. "We may be safe, but I never, ever will let you out of my sight." His voice held that a certain promising ring to it. "But for now, all I want is for us to continue what was so rudely interrupted earlier."

I breathily agreed as he planted butterfly kisses across the exposed skin of my neck and collar bone. "Mmm, Edward, I love you so much."

"I truly love you as well, Miss Swan. You are my world." He spoke before capturing my face between his large palms and pressing his lips against mine in a mind blowing kiss.

Our lips moved in sync and our tongues battled for dominance. My hands tangled themselves in Edward's hair of their own accord and I felt one of Edward's hand slide down my back until it pressed firmly against my lower back. He pulled me until I was ontop of him. Our kissing was heavy and I could feel myself loosing all control. My hands detangled themselves from his hair and I brought my hands under his shirt, feeling the contours of his abs.

He groaned softly and pulled away. Rejection washed through me. "Bella, you make it so hard to refuse you."

"Then why are you?" I questioned, my throat closing up as if I was about to cry.

My broken tone caught his attention and his now black eyes met mine, worry causing his eye brows to come together. "What's wrong?"

"I don't understand why, even now that I'm like you, you still don't want me, Edward. Am I not good enough for you? Am I doing something wrong?"

Shock and appall covered his face. "Never!" He spoke loudly. "You are far too good for me and you have done nothing wrong at all. Quite the opposite actually- you are far too good for your own good. I just can't explain why yet."

I sighed. "Honestly, Edward, you're ridiculous."

I shoved myself away from him, positively livid. I loved Edward with all my heart and I wanted to finally be able to be together with him physically. I guess he just didn't feel the same. I couldn't blame him. I was no Jocelyn.

I let out a dry sob and took off running until I was outside the house. I didn't know what to do with myself. I'd never felt so hurt or alone or unwanted- rejected, even all those times Edward pulled away before. At least he had a reason then…

EPOV:

Bella was gone before I could even respond to her comment.

"Alice!" I cried in shock as I opened the door to find her standing there.

"I saw what happened." She announced glumly before handing me a small velvet box. "You really know how to fuck things up with her, Edward. I'll give you that. By the way this just came in the mail. Go fix this, quick."

I nodded, immediately knowing what it was because I had saw the ring inside the box in a jewelry store a few weeks ago and knew right away that when the time came to ask Bella to marry her, this would be the ring. I ordered it to be engraved and gave them our soon to be address to have it shipped to.

I followed the trail Bella had left until I found her sitting at the bottom of a large tree with her legs curled up to her chest, dry-sobbing her heart out.

My heart wrenched and I felt ten times more awful then when she had originally ran out on me. "Bella," I called tentatively.

"Go away, Edward." She whispered, her voice sounding hollow and void- a shell of my lively Bella.

I ignored her and advanced forward anyways. Her eyes were so dejected and I had caused it. I grabbed her hands and she watched warily as I pulled her up. Instantly she was livid. A loud smack echoed through the forest and it took a second to realize that she had slapped me.

"I deserved that. Keep going, by all means." I offered.

Her jaw clenched and her hands formed tense fists as her eyes clamped shut. She held her hands like that until her already white knuckles were a ghostly color. She let out a deep breath through her before unclenching her fists and opening her eyes. "I just need to be alone."

"Please, Bella, you don't understand."

"Then, please, Edward, explain to me why you still keep rejecting me! I don't want to hear your bullshit anymore! Just be honest with me!" She yelled and then took another calming breath. "Please," She breathed pleadingly.

My eyes closed and I ran my hands through my hair. "I'm sorry, Bella. I'm sorry for constantly pushing you away. I'm sorry because I can never seem to get anything right. I'm sorry I'm always hurting you. I just want to do everything right, but it seems I get everything more wrong then I could have imagined and end up hurting you instead."

She let out a hallow laugh and that was it. So I kept going. "The reasons why I pushed you away then is because I was waiting."

"Waiting to do what?" She asked in that same blank tone.

"For you to be mine, permanently, on paper, for the rest of the world to see," I explained vaguely.

"Please, stop with the mind games and just tell me what you're talking about." She was almost begging.

I felt her eyes follow me as I got down on one knee. I maintained eye contact as I pulled that velvet box from my pocket and held it up for her to see. Her eyes looked like they would pop from their sockets and her perfect mouth fell open into a cute little 'o' shape.

"Isabella Marie Swan, I know that we have had some hard times." She half smiled, half grimaced. "And I know I have done every possible thing wrong that could be imagined and have hurt you countless times and let you down, but still you have stuck with me and put up with my mood swings and loved me all the same. And I love you more then any thing I have ever known. You light up my world and give reason to my life. You've made me see that we can have souls and that I'm not just a monster- despite what I've done to you. And now I'm ranting because I'm not sure what to say. You make me nervous and I was going to plan all this out and come up with a perfect speech, but due to me messing up yet again, I'm making it up on the spot. But, what I'm trying to say is, Bella, my love, will you make me the happiest man alive and do me the honor of being my wife?"

She just laughed along with a little cry and flung her arms around my neck while repeating, "Yes, yes, yes, yes!"

I wrapped my arms around her waist and spun her in a circle. "I love you. Oh my God, Bella, I love you more then words can describe. You have made me the happiest man alive!" I yelled.

When I stopped spinning her I placed her on the ground after giving her a final squeeze. I placed the ring on her finger before kissing her palm. It fit perfectly.

"Do you understand now? I want to wait to consummate our relationship until after were married. I've done so much damage already I want to prove to you that I love you before doing anything like that. Please, tell me you forgive me."

"Of course, Edward, you were just being the same perfect, thoughtful boyfriend as always and like always I overreacted and jumped to conclusions. I'm sorry."

BPOV:

I frowned. Edward was the most perfect boyfriend, now fiancé, ever. I was nowhere near good enough for him. I freak out because he stopped us from doing anything without a reason and it turns out the reason is because he wants to wait until marriage and was going to propose. Well, aren't I a horny bitch?

"Don't be sorry, love. If anyone is to blame it's me. I always mess up and hurt you. I promise I won't ever hurt you like that again, my love. Just know that I do want you, badly and it killed me to have to stop there. I would like nothing more then to ravish that wonderful body of yours but my pre-twenty-first century upbringings and worry for your soul keep me from doing just that. It has nothing to do whatsoever with me 'not wanting' you." He grinned, my favorite crooked smile.

Once again, Edward was making me swoon. I sighed. "What did I ever do to deserve you? You are beyond perfection."

"I could say the same thing." He placed a kiss on my lips.

I returned it for a few seconds before pulling away. "Wouldn't want to push your boundaries…" I explained with a laugh.

He chuckled and grabbed my hand. "Come on, future Bella Cullen, let's go home."

I grinned, ecstatic. I liked the sound of that. My future seemed bright and peaceful. I couldn't imagine anything better then spending the rest of my life as Edward's wife and sister or daughter to the rest of the Cullen/Hale family. I couldn't wait until I was official. Yeah, my life was perfect.

If you love me
Why'd you let me go?
I took my love down to Violet Hill
There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still
So if you love me
Won't you let me know?

I want the moon and the stars
I want the whole nine yards
I want your hands on my hips
I want you kissing my lips
I want the moon and the stars
I want the whole nine yards
I take off your shirt, you pull up my skirt
And I can't wait forever boy
And the moon and the stars
The look in your eyes better find its way into me

First song is Violet Hill By Coldplay and the second was Waves and the Both of Us by Charolett Sometimes.

There you go! My last chapter of this story. *Sniffle* Actually, I'm glad to see it over. Kinda bored with it. I could possibly write a sequel but that is highly, highly unlikely. Or at least until I finish my other stories. Life is too busy but I did it- I finally wrote a chapter. It's kinda really sucky but whatever at least you've got something to read. And I couldn't write a good proposal for some reason. I'm not feeling too romantic at the moment. Oh well... Thanks for reading my story! And thank you too all my reviewers!!! PLEASE REVIEW FOR MY LAST CHAPTER!!!! 3333 you all!