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Bella Land: Chapter 26

It had been months, exactly 7 months since Bella started her new "life" with Edward and the Cullens. Esme was ecstatic to have another member of the family to join them. She was also happy for Edward, now that he finally found his equal. His soul mate.

Maybe it was chance from the very beginning that they had met? Who knows.

Sunset was now nonexistent, destroyed as it burned to cinders. They had burned the 2 floors of the headquarters underground all the way up to the house. All the bodies that were left in the premises disappeared alongside with Sunset. The gray and black smoke was accompanied with the purple hazy smoke that burned the vampire pieces of Laurent and Mr. Copeland.

Bella had retrieved her belongings at the airport finally. Her excitement was obvious to everyone when she rummaged through her belongings, just to find Charlie's going away gift that he presented her. She clutched it to herself excitedly like a child. Her beaming smile had everyone glad for Bella. She finally felt content.

No authorities were ever alerted of Bella's disappearance. Sunset had been afraid they would be found out if they reported her missing in the first place. Thus, Charlie was never notified of her disappearance either, at all. Bella thought there would maybe be a chance to see him again. Fill the void that she was not able to fill from before. She would see around the situation soon enough.

Bella moved out of her apartment in New York and had moved back to the West Coast with the Cullens. She was not able to visit Charlie, to her disappointment, while she lived there. She still had to be careful since she had been changed. She was still somewhat a newborn and she had rather be safe than sorry about her control being reliable around humans. Another year would pass until Carlisle admitted that it might be alright to visit her father. But the time she had spent away from humans was replaced with the time she deserved with Edward, alone.

They had played chess a lot. Jasper had taught her in more detail and strategies of how to win over Edward, since he was unable to read her future moves. Still, Edward was an excellent chess player and won over 50% of the time. Bella thought that there was still forever to perfect her strategies and she would equal his level one day. Edward would just smile and told her, "I'll be waiting forever." His words meant to tease. She would simply stick her tongue out in return from his teasing.

Bella had teased, also, how her "queen" would take over the board one day. Conquering his black "king" piece, dubbing the chess board Bella Land.

"Bella Land?" Edward would ask, rolling his eyes. Bella would just giggle and nod her head at him. She knew how corny it was, but that was what she liked about the name. It was to make Edward smile. As it did, although, it also made him laugh almost hysterically.

Carlisle had taken some time to study more of Bella's power. Realizing that some power had carried on with her from her living life. Edward had mentioned before that the depth of Bella's chocolate brown eyes was almost never ending, he felt he could see right through into her soul. Her mesmerizing eyes had somehow turned into a great power. All the research and analyzing had helped Bella to perfect it. Bella knew she was getting closer to completely perfecting her ability and it pleased her.

Rosalie and Bella's relationship lightened into a civil one over time. They had learned to be friends enough that would not anger Edward. Rosalie's envious thoughts had disappeared after the attention was off of Bella and everything around the house was back to normal. Rosalie was also glad that Bella's presence had perked Edward's attitude and manner up quite immensely.

Emmett felt Bella's addition to the family had made it interesting, their wrestling matches very competitive. A different character to spar with. Bella had taught Emmett some new wrestling moves she had attained while training with Sunset. Happily, Emmett had tried out the new moves on his brother and exclaimed his victory when he had the upperhand on Jasper.

The happiest moments for Bella was the nights and days spent alone with Edward. His room was where they laid on his chaise lounge, holding each other, while listening to Edward's collection of music. Conversations carried for hours about everything they could think about. They had learned a lot about each other during those moments of conversing.

Then there were the kisses, caresses, embraces, whispers of love for each other at night while the moon shone through the window. Sometimes they would take night walks in the forests that lasted till the next day, admiring how the stars twinkled at midnight, till the sun came up. Sometimes they would play in the rain with the thunder roared and the lightning flashed, until the rain stopped and they were completely dry. The nights just seemed to be Bella's favorite time of the day.

Edward had shown Bella his favorite place to spend time, before she came along. It was a charming meadow with slight tall grass that hid your form if you laid down flat. This was where Edward shown how their skin glittered beautifully like a million diamond facets. The warm sun reflected off their skin while they would gaze at each other without saying a word.

There were times when they would bring their chess set and play there for hours. Just enjoying each other's time. They also invited Alice and Jasper, along with Emmett and Rosalie to join them to play games or just simply "hang out". Like children, they enjoyed games of chicken, trying to knock each other down as the girls were set atop of the boys' shoulders.

Then over a year passed and Bella was able to tolerate the scent of human blood. Not completely, but it was controllable. They had never pushed Bella to exceed her limits and Bella was exceedingly happy to roam freely around humans. No rules. No more hiding. Her eyes were a very dark amber color, more so of the maroon-ish tint, but not a significant change to cause alarm in humans.

While Bella was not free to roam around humans, Alice was excited to take her out in public and go shopping. This is when Bella had learned of Alice's obsession with fashion. She had thought it funny to see Alice prancing about, from store to store, humming gaily while she sifted through the racks of clothing. They would receive stares from both men and women that envied their flawless beauty. Bella did not receive attention like this as a human and if she still had the rushing blood in her veins to blush, she would at those moments.

All this time that Alice stole Bella away to go shopping, Edward had been preparing for his surprise. He had achieved his gift for Bella and set up the chess set in his room, the way he needed it to be.

With relief, Bella entered the house with an exhale and plopped the shopping bags down on the floor. She couldn't wait to see Edward.

"I saw him in his room, waiting for you." Alice told her, smiling at her.

Bella rushed to the stairs and flew up the two flights to come to his door. She could heard soft music playing in the background while she opened the door to his bedroom. His scent filled her nose and she smiled excitedly as she saw his beautiful face, smiling back at her.

"Welcome home, my love."

"I missed you." Bella confessed.

"I missed you." Edward returned.

On the floor, the chess was set up for a game.

"Are you in the mood to get your butt kicked?" Bella smiled as she set herself on the floor.

Edward had not said a word and flashed his crooked smile at Bella. Bella felt weak watching his lips curve into her favorite smirk. As of custom, from the beginning when Bella had learned to play chess, she would be the white pieces and Edward would be the black pieces. Edward had motioned for her to go first, since she had been the white chess pieces. Bella looked down at the chess board and her eyebrows furrowed with confusion.

The white queen had been switched to Edward's side of the chessboard, along with his black pieces. As his black queen had replaced the white queen's spot on her side. Bella looked closer to see her queen's head reflect a light, flickering into her eyes. She didn't have to bend down to look closer, but she did, anyhow, to see a ring adorning the top of the queen piece. Bella's mouth fell open at the astonishment of what this ring meant.

"Edward." Bella whispered as she picked up the queen to look at the ring. She noticed how old fashioned it had seemed, but how gorgeous it was.

"It was my mother's." Edward said, his smile fading a little from his old memories of his mother.

"It's beautiful.." Bella's voice was soft.

Edward picked up the queen piece from her hold and set it down on the board. He lifted her left hand lightly, bringing it up to his lips, kissing her fingertips.

"My queen… Bella, I love you so much. I have waited for you for so long and I will never let go. But my words never seem to show how deep my love for you is and I will spend eternity showing you. Will you marry me?" he asked his last statement slowly, his velvety voice making it sound heavenly.

Edward slipped his mother's diamond ring on her ring finger and she stared at it, wide eyed. Edward kissed the ring on her finger and awaited for her answer. She didn't say anything for a long time as shock seemed to overtake her. Her eyes suddenly darted into his and her lips parted to speak.

"Yes.." there was no volume in her voice. She whispered the word so soft, but it was enough for Edward to hear.

"I love you, Edward. Yes!" Bella didn't care the chess pieces were scattering everywhere as she threw herself into Edward's arms. Their lips crushed each other's in a gentle manner, passion weakening their control by every second. Chess pieces that was knocked onto its side, rolled in circles on the chessboard.

Time seemed to stand still. Nothing mattered except them. Edward's ecstatic smile of happiness was apparent on his face as he picked her up and swung her around in circles. Bella squealed as she was spinning. The light in Edward's room had the ring glittering gorgeously against the light.

Alice bursted into the without knocking, her face looking disappointed.

"How did I not see this? I missed it, didn't I?" she said, whining like a little child.

Jasper was right behind her.

"Shopping does that to you sometimes, Alice. You get so worked up by the anticipation, sometimes you just miss something."

"Yeah! Something as important as Edward proposing!" Alice's hands flew up in the air.

Jasper smiled at the happy couple holding each other. The emotion of utter happiness was something Jasper hadn't felt from Edward, until Bella had entered his life. Alice sighed, but then a smile returned to her face as a realization dawned on her. There was always the wedding to prepare for and that made Alice very happy. Alice backed out of Edward's room, taking Jasper's hand in hers.

"Congratulations…" Alice wished them.

"Yes, congrats." Jasper followed.

They didn't tear their eyes away from each other, but they still thanked Alice and Jasper as they left the room.

"Let's go tell the others." Edward told Bella.

"I'm sure Alice did that already."

Edward read everyone's thoughts downstairs and that was proof enough that Alice did not report the news yet.

"No. She's already busy planning our wedding as of this second." Bella did not know what to think of that, but she laughed anyway.

They started for the door and left the pieces on the floor for later cleaning up. With their hands entwined with each other's, they slowly walked out the room. For some odd reason, Bella had looked back into Edward's room to notice most of the chess pieces sprawled about on the floor, but the only pieces that stood on the chessboard was the white queen alongside with the black king.

The End

A/N: Read the sequel! Overcoming Obstacles. Thank you again!