After happily ever after

Bella's story

We won our battle against the Volturi eight years ago and our existence has quietened down. I have been to places I would never have dreamed and shared them with the love of my existence.

Our beautiful daughter, Renesmee is eight years old and is nearly an adult and I cannot believe my baby is so grown up, every day she makes me proud and so honoured to be her mother.

Nessie and Jake plan to marry next July and they have a beautiful home on the reservation, although I have not seen the house. I know through the images Nessie shows me when she comes to the cottage.

Jacob hasn't changed much and I could not think of anybody I would rather have as a son-in law, I remember what he told me about imprinting when I was human. That when you find the one every thing stops and it is as easy as breathing, I can see that when he looks into my daughters eyes and I know he will make her happy.

The rest of my family have moved on, Emmett and Rosalie are living separately from the rest of us.

Esme and Carlisle have moved on too. Esme keeps finding little projects to renovate; they say that once you get the renovation bug you never loose it.

Alice and Jasper are travelling with Peter and Charlotte, they never lost touch after the battle to save Renesmee and agreed to go travelling, they'll be back soon I'm sure with tales of their adventures, I can't wait to see Alice again!

Now on to me. Now that Nessie has left home, I applied and got into Dartmouth again and the library is now the proud owners of the new Cullen wing after a little bribery from Edward!

To this day, Edward still claims to have nothing to do with this, although knowing my husband, I know different

I got my degree in English literature and used it to write a novel of my own, it is not finished though, Edward has seen to that, but hey, I'm not complaining! I have all the time in the world, quite literally.

Around three years ago, Edward started work on a self- help book for vampires who start relationships with humans. I thought this was a good idea and helped with the content in the hope it would help another vampire in Edwards' position seven years ago. We only published a few and gave them to our closest friends as a token of gratitude for the support they gave us when we had to fight for Nessie.

Alice and Jasper came back last week to with some interesting and slightly disturbing news. She told she had visions of an unknown couple in Europe a human/ vampire pairing.

That night, Edward, and I argued, he wanted to contact Carlisle and go searching for this couple, I told him he was being irrational, I mean how could we know that it wasn't a trick, that the volturi were not involved. Alice had another vision of Carlisle's friends in Ireland, Siobhan, Maggie, and Liam; she said that somehow, they were involved. She told us that the vampire was connected to them and was living in the U.K; I suppose this was not so bad, if he/she knew Carlisle I could cope with that. I had never met an English vampire other than Alistair and he turned out to be a total freak show!

Knowing what we do, we had to act fast, Edward was frantic, and worrying over what the vampire would do, how he/she would cope with their thirst and more importantly what they knew about us, we could not afford a repeat of history, we have gone too far to digress. Edward contacted Carlisle for advice and they have gone in search of this couple to warn them of the dangers they face by choosing to be together. I hope they come back soon I miss Edward so much. Esme and the others returned to Forks a week ago, now they are back I'm feel a little settled with out Edward.