"Can I tell you what the worst part is?" he asked hesitantly when I said nothing. "Do you mind? I am going to be good."

"Will it help?" I whispered.

"It might. It couldn't hurt."

"What's the worst part, then?"

"The worst part is knowing what would have been."

"What might have been." I sighed.

"No." Jacob shook his head. "I'm exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us - comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken. . . ." He stared into space for a moment, and I waited. "If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic . . ."

I could see what he saw, and I knew that he was right. If the world was the sane place it was supposed to be, Jacob and I would have been together. And we would have been happy. He was my soul mate in that world - would have been my soul mate still if his claim had not been overshadowed by something stronger, something so strong that it could not exist in a rational world.

I looked at Jacob and then I looked past him, a woman with long flowing dark chocolate colored hair and beautiful emerald eyes. She smiled at me with a beautiful smile, before she started to walk towards me. With the first step I noticed that she was dressed in a long flowing white dress, she looked like an angel.

She was so beautiful, and then she spoke.

"Bella," she said and Jacob turned around so fast ready to attack. Jacob relaxed a bit when he saw that the woman wasn't a vampire but he still seemed tense. The woman smiled a little at Jacob before continuing.

"Bella, do you really believe that in a world without magic, no monsters. If the world was complete as everyone else thinks it is that you and Jacob Black would be together, that your soul mates." The woman said. She looked over her shoulder and sighed. "Come on out Edward, I know your there."

I looked over her shoulder and could see Edward approaching with a look of expectance. He was waiting for me to answer her. I was about to deny everything she said when Edward spoke. He was looking at the woman now with a completely loving look that was full of sadness.

"Mother?"

The woman smiled at him and reached her hand out for him to take. Edward seemed a bit hesitant, before he took her hand and smiled sadly at him.

"Yes, Edward. I have missed you so much but I have watched over, and will continue to do so for the rest of forever." She said before turning to me and Jacob. Bella, Jacob my name is Elizabeth Masen."

My eyes widened. She was Edward's mother. Jacob still didn't understand who she was, he looked a mix of awed, angry, and confused. She seemed to see Jacobs confusion so she add, "I am Edward's human mother."

"Aren't you supposed to be dead?" Jacob stated rather rudely.

"Yes. In fact I still am dead. I was sent here to give answers. Now Bella, I believe I asked you a question and am still awaiting an answer. So, do you really believe that in a completely normal world, with no vampires or shape shifters, that you and Jacob Black would be soul mates?"

I looked at her. I wanted to lie and deny it so badly, but something told me that both Edward and Elizabeth would know that I was lying. "Yes" I said simply feeling a bit guilty. I could just feel the pain coming off of Edward and the sadness for Elizabeth. I looked at Jacob and he had such a smug grin on his face, he looked like he had just won some ridicules prize.

"Really." Elizabeth said. "Well, I am here to show you how life for you would have been in a world with no vampires or shape shifters, a completely normal world." We all looked in at her in awe. Than Jacob spoke and ruined everything.

"Isn't it wonderful, Bella? We get to see what live could have been like!" He sounded so excited and I suddenly felt a little sick. Everything looked white and we were suddenly standing in the Port Angeles airport and I was walking off a plane and into my father's arms.

We moved around with me and everything seemed to happen as if did in the past. I was just as miserable as I thought I was going to be, even more so because there was no Edward. I watched as I slipped farther and farther into a depression.

I looked at Edward it seemed to me that her wanted to wrap his arms around me and offer me comfort but didn't. Jacob who seemed to think that just because I said in a normal world we would have be soul mates, I was now his girl friend, wrapped his arm around me.

I try and get out of his grip but he holds me tighter, as if to say that I am his. I cringed a little in pain and look pleadingly at Edward. He looked at me before asking Jacob to let me go, that he is hurting me but he doesn't come to hold me. On the 24th of January it snowed and my eyes widened in realization. The next day I watched as got in my truck and went to school.

At school I looked as I went and looked at the tires of my truck. There was the sound of tires squealing. I watched as the girl that would have been me died right there, on the pavement in the school parking lot.

Edward was by my side in a second, holding me up as my knees gave out. I sobbed and Edward was trying to calm me. This was it; my choices were always the same. Either Edward or death, no Jacob. I looked over at Jacob and he was in shock. I then looked over to Elizabeth and said, "I understand."

Elizabeth smiled. "There's more." Jacob who had come out of shock went right back into shock. Edward and I looked at her.

"There is?" we asked.

"Just watch" she said.

Elizabeth Masen - /portfolio_images/635/635_ (I know that her eyes aren't green but she is what I imagine Edward's mother would have looked like but only with green eyes.)

Elizabeth's dress - .