I can't not apologize enough to you guys for my long absence. I have had to deal with RL, school, and went on vacation. Thanks to all of you who gave me good wishes for my vacation:) I have been dealing with some serious writer's block as to how I want the next couple of chapter to be because we only have a few chapters left.

If any of you are interested, I have a picture of Bella's gift on my site:)

Previously…

I very carefully un-wrapped the box and slipped the lid off; my hands were uncontrollably shaking the entire time.

A gasp slipped from my lips as my eyes settled on the object inside.

I slowly touched the silver object that was nestled in the box with my finger. It was the most beautiful charm bracelet I had ever seen. It was a silver bracelet with a toggle clasp and a flat engraved heart charm hanging from the clasp. There were also four other charms hanging from it but they were bunched close together, which was unusual. Don't you usually spread the charms out? So why had Edward bunched the four charms so close together and just used a fourth of the bracelet?

I threw the lid back onto the box, grabbed Edward's gift and went to his door.

"Ah…come in" I heard him say.

I slowly opened the door and peeked in. I saw him sitting on his bed, leaning up against the headboard with his knees pulled up to his chest.

Our eyes locked as I slowly made my way over to him. I sat on the bed and scooted up so that my back was against the headboard also. We were sitting next to each other in complete silence for awhile. I figured I would break the silence, so I held out his gift to him.

He looked at me with a confused look on his face waiting for me to explain. I just rolled my eyes and shrugged. I couldn't help the small smile that started at the corner of my mouth. As if in slow motion, he reached out and took the package from me. He finally broke our eye contact to inspect the present.

"It's not going to explode Edward" I smirked and bumped his shoulder with mine.

"Well, you never know!" he quipped, with a crooked smile.

"Very funny Cullen, just open it!"

He turned the present over and slipped his finger under the paper to break the tape. He pulled the paper off to reveal the beautiful brown leather folder. He ran his fingers over the bottom corner where I had his name engraved in gold. He looked at me with awe in his eyes.

"Open it, there's more" I informed him.

He pulled the folder open to reveal his real present. Inside was the blank sheet music that I had a message printed at the top of each page.

The Beautiful Compositions of Edward A. Cullen

I chanced a look out of the corner of my eye after a minute because he hadn't said anything. I noticed that he had the strangest expression on his face that I had never seen before. I turned to fully look at him and started getting nervous.

"Edward? Edward, if you don't like it you can just tell me. It won't hurt my feelings. I'm sorry…" I of course being me started rambling because I was nervous that he didn't like it. My ramblings were cut off when I noticed a lone tear rolling down his cheek.

"Oh Edward, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean anything by it and definitely didn't think it would make you cry"

"No Bella, this is just… just… there really isn't words for how thoughtful this is. It means a lot to me to know how well you know me. Thank you, thank you so much" he mumbled.

I reached up a wiped the lone tear from his cheek and smiled. "You're very welcome Edward. I'm so glad that you like it."

He carefully closed the folder and looked at me. He noticed that I was holding the box containing his present.

"Did you like it?" He asked nodding his head towards the box.

"Oh my Edward, it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen" I smiled at him. "I do have a question about it though", I opened the lid and slipped the bracelet out of the box.

"Ok"

"Why did you put all the charms so close together?"

"Well, did you see what they were?" he whispered.

"Actually, no" I admitted quite embarrassed. I couldn't believe that I hadn't taken a closer look as to what the charms were. I just noticed that they were placed close together and was so anxious to get in here and talk to him.

"May I?" he asked, holding out his hand for the bracelet. I nodded and handed him over the bracelet.

He held the first charm up so that we could both see it.

"Well, this first one is an airplane to represent the first place we ever met. And the next one is a tour bus for our first day out together. This one is a movie board for the premiere that we went to and this last one is a Christmas tree, well, for the obvious reason" He told me with a smile. He lifted the heart charm that was attached to the clasp and held it up for me.

I took notice for the first time what Edward had inscribed on it.

To Many More Memories

I ran my finger over the itched words and then it was my turn to cry. I looked up at him with tears in my eyes and smiled. The roles reversed because now it was his turn to whip the tears off my cheeks.

Our eyes locked again, they seem to do that a lot, like two opposite ends of a magnate trying to find each other.

His hand wiped the tears and slowly trailed down to cup my cheek. I leaned into his hand and smiled.

Something flashed in Edward's eyes that I had never seen before. He jumped off the bed and started pacing. I, on the other hand, did a face plant into the bed. Edward of course didn't notice because he was too busy pulling his hair out of his scalp.

"Bella…I have to tell you this and I just pray that you don't hate me after I say it. God! I really can't lose you but I can't not tell you because…well, It's killing me!" I had never seen Edward ramble, usually it was me who was the rambler but Edward…there was definitely something disturbing yet kind of sexy about rambling Edward.

"Edward? Edward, what are you talking about?" I tried to snap him out of whatever it was that he was doing.

That did it, Edward snapped his head to look at me and then sunk to his knees in front of me. He gently took the bracelet out of my hands and turned my wrist over. He hooked the bracelet around my wrist and then held onto my hand.

"Bella, please don't be angry at me but I need to tell you something" he whispered.

"Edward, you're scaring me. What is it? You know you can tell me anything" I tried to reassure him.

He quickly stood up and started pacing again.

"Bella, I love you! I think I fell in love with you on that airplane, when you stood up to those girls for me. You are the most amazing girl I have ever met. You are on my mind day and night. I just want to be with you, forever. I want you to be the last thing I see before I fall asleep every night and I want you to be the first thing I see when I open my eyes. I want to race you for the bathroom every morning and bring you your coffee in bed. I want you to be on my arm at every one of my events and proudly show you to the world as my girl. I'm so sorry to lay all of this on you, especially since you are with Brian but I couldn't look at you anymore and know that you didn't know how I felt!" He stopped then and looked at me warily.

I stood up from the bed and slowly walked over to stand in front of him. He nervously stood there looking like he was gauging my reaction. I reached my hands up and cupped his cheeks. I used all my might to pull his face down to mine and kissed him with everything I had. He stood not responding for a second before wrapping his arms around my waist and returning the kiss.

Something that he had said in his speech registered at that moment and I pulled back from him. I looked into his eyes and he had a look there that was a mixture between confusion and sadness.

"Edward, what were you talking about when you said I was with Brian?" Now I was just plain confused. What the heck did Brian have to do with any of this?

"Brian, your boyfriend" He told me, like I was crazy.

"Edward, what are you talking about? Brian is NOT my boyfriend, he's my cousin's boyfriend" I told him astonished. How could he think that Brian was my boyfriend and not say anything to me before now. This could have all been resolved a long time ago, if he would have just said something to me.

"Is that why you never told me how you felt before now? Because you thought I had a boyfriend? Edward, I spend all my time with you. How could you think I had a boyfriend but spend all my time with you?" I really couldn't wrap my mind around it.

"I don't know, I guess I was just afraid to ask you about him. I guess I never thought of it that way. My mind was just so wrapped around my jealousy that I had for the man that I never really thought about how I never heard you talk about him or even how you were always with me and not him" He shook his head and smiled. "I'm so dumb!"

"Yes you are!" I confessed, while stepping back from him. I giggled at the look on his face when I told him that.

His eyes narrowed as he stalked towards me.

"Swan! You are in SO much trouble now!" I laughed and jumped up to stand on the bed. He slowly stalked towards me, I went to run off the other side of the bed but he was faster. He tackled me onto the bed and started tickling me.

"Edward…Edward stop! I can't breathe" I gasped through my giggles.

He stopped suddenly and so did I. We just looked at each other for a second before he was kissing me again. We laid there for I don't know how long, until we heard Emmett bellow for us downstairs.

Edward hovered over me, sitting up on his elbows. The look on his face was priceless.

"We should probably go downstairs now" I told him.

"Um…No! I think I'll just lock you in here forever!" he grinned.

I reached up and pulled him down for a chaste kiss.

"As much as I would love to stay locked in this room with you forever, I think we should go down before Emmett comes up here and drags us down" I informed him.

"I guess you're right" he stood up and extended his hand to help me up.

I kept his hand and started walking to the door. He pulled me back to him and kissed me again.

"Sorry, I just can't help myself" he confessed. "Hey Swan, I love you!"

"Edward Anthony Cullen, I love you so much!" He kissed me one last time before making our way downstairs to face his family. I wonder how long it will take them to notice, I couldn't wait!

Ok, so I'm really sorry this took so long to get out. I was so conflicted how to write this chapter. This story kind of grew a mind of its own. So, are we happy with this chapter or not. Let me know! Please!

Funny story though. I had decided on a charm bracelet as her gift a long time ago and when I told my husband about it he was like "didn't she get one from Jacob in the book?" Yes that's right folks, my husband has read all four books:) I didn't even remember that until he said that, I had completely forgot about that.