Are We Out of The Woods?

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or the characters; those are SM's ;).

Dear Readers,

This is the sequel to Already Gone! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! I had so much fun creating it! Please review and give me your predictions I am always curious to see what you all have to write!

Love,

BellaLaila87


Chapter 1- Fast Forward

SUMMER- August 4, 2009

Bella felt her heart breaking in two as her and her brother Emmett got ready for the wedding. She hadn't been invited, though Emmett had and she begged him to take her as her plus one. She needed to see it for herself. She needed to know that he moved on.

Emmett looked at his sister with worry. She was almost six months into her pregnancy, this was the last time that she would be able to travel like this, and she was choosing this moment to she a wedding that would break her heart.

He sighed looking at her, "Bella are you sure-"

"Yes, I'm sure." She said short and hard towards him. She was looking in the mirror fixing her black dress over her pregnant belly.

Emmett sighed, not arguing with her again.

No one knew that they were coming to the wedding. Well, no one knew that Bella was coming anyway. Not Alice, not Jasper, not Esme or Carlisle, not event the groom to be.

That made Emmett sick thinking of that.

They drove together in Emmett's car to the ceremony they were just making it in time, everyone was almost seated so they were able to sneak Bella into the back without anyone noticing. Everyone besides Alice that is whose eyes grew wide as she saw her very pregnant friend wake into the church.

Her heart broke instantly. All she could think to herself was that her friend shouldn't torture herself like this. She shouldn't be here watching him make the biggest mistake of his life.

Emmett excused himself for a moment looking towards Alice with a depressed look. He walked to the back of the church where the groom is, with his best man.

Emmett pushed aside the curtain to reveal Jasper Hale and Edward Cullen. The both turned him with little expression on their faces. They looked like they had been in a heated argument before Emmett interrupted. No doubt about Edward leaving the church immediately.

Emmett didn't doubt that Jasper had tried to stop him from making this mistake on numerous occasions.

"Hello, Edward," Emmett spoke politely. Edward thought to himself how he never heard Emmett call him Edward, he always referred to him as Eddie or Ed or Edweirdo. Something to just piss him off or annoy him. He only called him Edward when he was being serious.

Edward just rolled his eyes and to a swig from his cup, "If you have come here from a lecture Emmett, you are a little too late, Jasper here has beaten you to it."

Emmett's face held nothing but pain and pity for his friend. That he believed the poisonous lies from his fiancé to turn him against his friends and families better judgment. That she turned him away from the love of his life.

"Well, then you've heard the speech I see." Emmett rolled his eyes, "Guess we-I flew out here for nothing."

Edward's eyes darted to Emmett's slip up, "Did you just say we? Did he just say we? Is she here?"

Edward started walking towards him, getting in Emmett's face. Emmett blocked the doorway, "No. I said I." He stuck his guns on this one. Bella wasn't here to stop him. She was just here to see if he would leave; if he would go through with the wedding. She believed that if Edward truly loved Tanya then he would go through with it, and Bella would move on from Edward for good.

"What does it matter to you anyway if she was here, Edward?" Jasper asked, curious. They both knew that Edward's feelings never left for Bella. They were still there, right next to resentment.

Edward scoffed at Jasper, "It doesn't. She means nothing to me." Emmett narrowed his eyes at him but said nothing, only because Bella asked him not to.

The priest came back and motioned the three boys to stand up at the alter. Jasper was the best man, Emmett a groomsmen, and Edward the groom.

The room was mixed with happy faces and sad faces. The divide between the rooms was very evident. Edward's family was not happy with the union. In fact, Esme refused to ever give Edward the family ring to the god awful woman. Esme was beside herself when Edward decided to marry her. Edward proposed to her in June, and now the threw together crappy nothing wedding, with Edwards money let alone, to please her so that he could not escape.

Tanya walked down the aisle on her father's arm. She saw a woman on the right side of the room in the last row that caught her eye, but she paid no attention to her. This was her day, and Edward was marrying her. Not Bella. Tanya wasn't a fool, she knew that Edward still felt for Bella, but she needed to secure Edward into marriage. It was the only way that he would stay with her. They were moving to California after the wedding for school. Edward was going there to be a doctor while Tanya was going to try her hand at being an actress. She planned to outshine Bella Swan if it was the last thing she did.

Bella felt the tears slide down her face as she saw Tanya walk down the aisle. She thought of lyrics in her head that she would want to say to Edward if she could "Don't say yes, run away now, I'll meet you when your out of the church at the back door, don't wait or say a single vow, your time is running and they said speak now."

As soon as the vows were spoken and they were pronounced husband and wife Bella walked out as everyone cheered. Her heart was broken and never could be mended. She did not want Edward still. He hurt her, he cheated on her, and she felt that Tanya and Edward deserved one another. But deep down in her heart, she was destroyed, for she loved Edward with all her heart. These children were his, and he abandoned them and for that, she hated him even more. He tried to claim that they were not his that they were her former lovers, James.

Bella knew this wasn't true as did everyone else who weren't Rosalie and Tanya. For some reason even after Bella explained, more like yelled, the truth to Rosalie, she still did not believe Bella. Rosalie still held a grudge against her for what she did. Alice tried to reason with Rosalie but to no avail. She held anger in her heart. She lost Emmett because of this and she knew it was her own fault why she did.

Bella walked to her car. Knowing that Emmett had to stay and she would drive back to pick him up. Even though all this happened, she never discouraged Emmett from being friends with Edward. He needed Emmett, through this lost period, like she did.

As she opened the car door she paused, turning as the bride and groom exited the church. Edward looked in her direction, and for a moment he felt his whole world turn right side up again looking at Bella. But then his bride pulled him back to her attention and he remembered his anger.

Bella sighed and turned back to the car. You were the best thing that had ever been mine.

FALL- October 25, 2010

Edward grabbed the cd that he had purchased and gone to his study. Tanya and he lived in a penthouse in Los Angles. Tanya had taken off as an actress, though without his knowledge the only reason Tanya took off was because she slept with every major director that she could to get that part that she wanted. It was not a secret among the Hollywood world, but it was a secret to Edward.

Edward, still a student in college, was in his second year, taking the class all year around to distract him from his misery, kept his study locked at all times. For this reason and this reason alone, he had memories of his past life in here that did not include his wife. He put the CD in his CD player and put in his head.

Looking at the CD, he saw the woman he once loved. The album was called Speak Now, and in his heart and according to his screaming sister this was for him. Written by Bella. Hell, the song that she had written for him when they were dating was released on his and Tanya's wedding anniversary! She couldn't have been more obvious with this album. Edward realized this as he went to purchase it.

Each song on this album belonged to Bella. It was written and produced by her.

1. Mine
2. Sparks Fly
3. Back to December
4. Speak Now
5. Dear John
6. Mean
7. The Story of Us
8. Never Grow Up
9. Enchanted
10. Better Than Revenge
11. Innocent
12. Haunted
13. Last Kiss
14. Long Live

Some of these songs Edward has already heard, but others he knew nothing about. Listening to the end of their song Mine, broke Edwards heat the most though. Because Bella had changed their ending in this song. To one where they were together. Where they would be together once again.

On the other side of the country in New York, Bella sat in her window staring off in the window sill. She should be celebrating. Her album was out, but she couldn't focus on the joy she should be feeling. All she could think about was the one person that she wanted to hear the album.

"Bella?" Ronnie walked into her sister's room with caution. Ronnie was now twelve, she lived with her sister Bella and Emmett came around from college whenever he could. A few years ago she didn't understand her sister's pain. But now as she got older she began to understand why.

Bella turned to her sister, half-heartedly smiling, "Yes Ronnie?"

"Charlie and Mason are up?" Ronnie couldn't help but smile when she thought of her niece and nephew. They were born on December 13th, 2009. They had been two weeks late form their due date, suppose to be born in November. She thought it evil of Bella to name her daughter Charlotte but to nickname her Charlie, though she knew why. It was for Bella's father. Her full name was Charlotte Renee Cullen. And her son, named after his father's middle name was Mason Carlisle Cullen. Bella was able to give their namesake to their father because she didn't want the public looking for them under her name. The public didn't know the children's last name; they just assumed it was Swan. But this way, they couldn't find them.

Bella smiled instantly thinking of her children. They were the only thing that kept her sane now. "I'm coming." They brought her joy with every moment. Charlie looked like her but had her father's features. With auburn hair and bright green eyes like her fathers, Bella melted every time she saw her. Mason looked like his father though when he was a boy. But he had her eyes and her hair.

The two cheered when they saw Bella enter, reaching out to their mother saying "Ma-ma-ma-ma" Their first words had been da-da which broke Bella's heart and sent her crying for over three hours because their father disowned them.

Bella had gotten the papers a while ago, Edward had signed over his parent ship to her. Taking no claim of the children. When Esme found this out she wanted to call Edward and yell at him, but Bella insisted she not say anything to her son. She didn't want them to be divided. She didn't want them to have a broken family.

Little did Bella know that over in Forks, Esme's family had fallen far apart? Her and Carlisle still lived there it was their home. And although they kept much contact with Alice, it was Edward that they barely heard from. They could thank his new wife for that. She was sure of it.

Edward lived a lonely existence, never knowing of his wife's on goings behind his back. Since they were married they became less and less intimate with one another, only being together when Edward became drunk or high, so that he could forget. Edward tried staying away from that though because he didn't want that anymore. The college had made him grow.

WINTER- December 13th, 2011

Emmett smiled so widely as they sang Happy Birthday to his niece and nephew. They were just two years old. He couldn't believe how quickly they grew.

Bella was on break from tour, just ending the North American leg of it in November. She was hugging her twins, as they tried blowing out the candles. She smiled in joy as she helped them.

Alice recorded the whole things, as she did each year. She recording introducing the twins when they were born, and for their first birthday and now their second. She and Bella had been recording the twins since birth. Trying to capture every first, so when Edward came to his senses he wouldn't have missed a thing.

Bella didn't want Edward back for her though; she wanted him back from their children. She wanted him to be their father like he was supposed to be. Bella was now twenty, still trying to figure it all out as she had a career and was a mother.

Bella looked to her dear friend Angela, who had helped her so much through it all. Along with Alice, Angela took Bella in and try and help her. She had moved to New York with Ben, to be with Bella. She was her friend, her confident, her babysitter at times, and her band mate. Bella looked to Angela for so much, because she was still beginning to trust Alice. Alice proved worthy to trust again, but she knew that it was taking time for Bella to trust her.

Alice accepted that.

The fun twist of events was James and Victoria coming into their lives. That's something both Alice and Angela could agree on was weird. But for Bella's next album, James and she actually had a duet together. Called 'the Last Time'. Bella and James had written it together, based on their relationship. They had both moved on that was proof enough, but they wanted to end the part of their lives with a song and begin their new relationship as friends.

It was actually Victoria's idea for this. She had taken to Bella much more than she thought she would when she meet her at prom. She hadn't expected to like Bella, but she did. She trusted her and wanted her friendship. They even worked together on a couple of songs; thought Victoria was mainly an actress. She wanted to dabble in music though and Bella felt honored that she wanted her to help.

On the other side of the country, an argument was taking place.

"Edward I want a baby!" Tanya shouted at him with fake tears. "Don't you want that with me?" Tanya really didn't want a baby, but she knew that would secure their relationship further. Marriage wasn't enough anymore, she could feel him drifting, she needed to get a baby inside of her and immediately.

Edward rubbed his face in frustration, "Tanya, of course, I want a child. But not right now! We can't raise a baby right now! We can barely take care of ourselves! Tanya, we are both so busy! We can't possibly do that to a child!"

The truth was Edward didn't want a child with Tanya. She was always gone and so was Edward, they barely had a marriage anymore. Edward was in his third year of college. He was getting ready to be applying to medical schools and everything. He didn't need to be worrying about a child on top of it all.

Tanya wept and Edward felt the guilt take over him. He married her making her believe he loved her. Here he was denying her what she wanted when he truly didn't love her. "Tanya, please. Give us another few years. We're not ready."

Tanya felt the anger in her rise up, she yelled fine when she heard the doorbell ring. Tanya raced to the door to get the mail she knew what it was. The day before mail for those brats birthday. Alice sent Edward videos constantly of those little brats. But he never knew about it. Tanya took them and hid them.

She kept them hidden in her desk where she kept all of her scripts. Edward never looked in there. That's where she kept all of her secrets. Like the fact that it wasn't Bella and James that Rose heard having sex, it was Tanya and Mike having sex. She let Rose believe that it was Bella that she heard. She was in hers and Rose room.

Tanya looked in the mirror and took a deep breath. She needed to keep the secrets that she started.

SPRING- May 30th, 2012

Bella took a deep breath as the final strings of her Red album came together. This album was her heartbreak.

She looked over the track-list as her kids screamed with laughter with their uncle Em in the background.

1. State of Grace (for her kids)
2. Red (hers and Edwards quick end)
3. Treacherous (they're beginning)
4. I Knew You Were Trouble (Angela's warning)
5. All Too Well
6. 22 (for her mother)
7. I Almost Do (thinking of Edward)
8. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (James haha)
9. Stay, Stay, Stay (a continuation of Mine)
10. The Last Time (Feat. James Hunter)
11. Holy Ground (For James)
12. Sad Beautiful Tragic (Her and Edward)
13. The Lucky One (Remembering becoming famous)
14. Everything Has Changed (Fest. Ben Cheney)
15. Starlight (For her grandma and grandpa)
16. Begin Again (For her mom)

Bella smiled looking at the people that joined her on this album. Ben, her producer had taken a chance and broke out as an artist and was successful. He was fantastic.

James was honored for the songs that she had written about him, and the song that they wrote together. Although it was for the end and the complication of their once relationship, she still managed to slip Edward into there.

All of a sudden the door flung open "Bella!" Ronnie shouted out for her sister. She was upset and distressed. Bella ran to her asking what was wrong? If she was alright.

Ronnie shook her hands holding a magazine. Bella looked down to see a picture of her ex and that bitch on one of those cheap magazines announcing that they are pregnant. Bella wanted to vomit. How the hell?

She dropped to her knees as she heard her brother and sister shouting to her as she fell to the floor and closed her eyes. Everything went dark.

Edward was fuming. How could this have happened?

He waited for his wife to get home. It was almost midnight when she finally waltzed in, drunk as a skunk. She was giggling until she saw Edward and what he was holding in his hands. She smiled sweetly at him, "Isn't it so silly? They think that we are pregnant!" Tanya had the nerve to laugh, "Can you imagine? Me? Pregnant?!"

Edward gave her a menacing glare, "Tanya, this magazine states that you confirmed the pregnancy."

Tanya's eyes widened in fake shock, "What?! Oh, Edward, you can't honestly believe those things! It was probably when they were asking me a ton of questions and the took it in reply to one of their questions." She scoffed at him lying through her teeth, "I would never do that to you love."

She watched as Edward relaxed a little more. She slowly walked towards her husband, "Come here Eddie, let me make you feel better."

He didn't stop her as she moved closer to him. This pregnancy article just brought back painful memories with Bella. He needed to forget about her. Once again.

SUMMER- July 3, 2013

Bella couldn't help but smile today. It was Alice's wedding. She and Jasper decided to get married after they graduated, with Jasper proposing last summer. They saved up as much as they could for the wedding day, though Alice definitely had enough still even from RBA.

Bella was in the midst of her Red tour, but she wanted to be there for Alice. She knew that she would see Edward. And for that, she was terrified. She didn't want to see him and Tanya. She didn't want them to be near her.

Alice hated that Tanya was coming. She was hoping that she wouldn't be able to make it, that she was going to have a shoot or something.

She loved every detail of her wedding. She was so excited! Bella was going to perform a song and so was Victoria.

Alice had become very close with Victoria, Bella, and Angela. Though she still kept in touch with Rose, and Bella knew, it wasn't the same friendship that she had before with her. Rose not more than a year ago had called her broking down crying. She finally realized the massive mistake she made.

Apparently instead of going to college right away, Rose stayed at home with her mom. She felt so lost and so alone. Her heart was broken and she didn't know how it all came and exploded in her face. Helen encouraged Rose to go to therapy. She didn't do it right away though. After Tanya and Edward had been married for a year, she finally agreed to go. And it opened her eyes. She figured out what she wanted to do with her life, she became a mechanic. She loved it. She loved working on old cars and running her own business, she went to school and completed her Business degree within three years.

Now she was starting her own business using her money from RBA to start it up. She opened her business in Port Angles and was now expanding it in Seattle. Her goal was to have her business expand across the country.

She called Alice not long ago though apologizing for believing everything Tanya ever said. She and her therapist came to the conclusion that she was holding onto her anger about everything that has happened, and how it even contacted back to the loss of her father who she never knew. She was projecting her anger onto Bella and couldn't stop until she was blind sided by her anger. She also apologized to Jasper as well for hurting him.

Both Alice and Jasper were nervous still around Rose. But she was doing much better. She had asked them to deliver two letters to the people she wanted to apologize most to but knew they were never going to speak to her if she called. And she didn't know where they lived so she knew that her best bet to get those letters to them were through her brother and Alice.

Bella was accepting of Rosalie's apology after Rose explained her reasoning for what she did. She wasn't friends with Rose, but she accepted her apology. It would be a long time before Rose and she ever was friends again. Rose promised that she would try to make it up to her. It took her a long time for her to come to her senses and for that she hated herself.

Emmett was the one that had the hardest time accepting Rose's apology. He was broken hearted over what she had done. He couldn't accept it. Rose was heart broken that he wouldn't speak to her, but she couldn't blame him thought for not wanting to speak to her. She broke his heart.

While talking to Rose one day on the phone, Bella tried to reassure her that he would come around. "Rose it's just going to take some time for him to figure it out. It's only been a few months since your letter. I'm sure he will accept your apology."

Rose sighed on the phone, "Okay thank you, Bella."

Alice and Jasper's wedding day was the first time Rose would see Emmett since they left Forks and the first time since she wrote the letter to Bella and Emmett six months ago.

Emmett still hadn't forgiven Rose. He was so nervous to see her at the wedding. She was one of the bridesmaids, so there definitely was no way she was avoiding her.

After all, Emmett was the best man at the wedding. Edward agreed to be groomsmen, but he refused to come early for the wedding, not participating in the festivities, claiming that he had to finish up applications for medical school. He was taking some time off before he went to medical school, working at a hospital for a year as a volunteer.

Ben was also a groomsman as well as James. Jasper knew though why Edward wasn't coming early because James was going to be there. Edward hated James but as Jasper and Emmett got to know James, he is not what the media painted him out to be. He did have problems. He was an alcoholic and abused using drugs. He was bipolar. It's a hard thing to live with. His girlfriend Victoria was good to him. She was badass!

Victoria was very protective of Bella. She hated Tanya Denali; she was her rival in every way, and the fact that she hurt Bella added to the fuel.

The ceremony was absolutely beautiful; Alice really knew how to put together a wedding. Edward acted civilly with everyone. Bella and Emmett walked down the aisle together; Rose and Edward walked together, then Ben with Angela, and James with Victoria.

Carlisle walked Alice down the aisle with Angela's niece walking ahead of them with her and Jasper's dog with the rings. Alice had wanted Mason and Charlie to walk down the aisle but they were still too young to be doing that. Mason surely would swallow the rings Bella had said, they laughed and cringed thinking of how they would get those back.

But also, Bella didn't want Edward anywhere near her children. They were currently at the hotel where the wedding reception was taking place with the nanny. Her name was Nicole Angles. We had her thoroughly checked out, and she was overly qualified. Jasper had met her at school; she was a lesbian. That put Alice at ease when he had introduced her to Bella to be a nanny.

The twins were going to be turning four soon and going to pre-school. Bella reassured Nicole that she would still need her, just after pre-school and everything. Nicole loved Bella, even more so than she loved her music. She saw how true and real Bella was. It was something she would never forget.

Edward and Bella avoided one another the entire night. Until one moment. Edward heard this song come on and asked her to dance. Tanya had run off somewhere and Edward was tired of seeing Bella dance with James. Though it only had been a couple of times.

Hunger by Ross Copperman came on, and Edward asked for Bella to dance. Her heart pounded in her chest as the danced together to the music

Hunger by Ross Copperman

One look and I can't catch my breath
Two souls into one flesh
When you're not next to me
I'm incomplete

'Cause I'm on fire like a thousand suns
I couldn't put it out even if I wanted to
These flames tonight
Look into my eyes and say you want me, too
Like I want you

Oh, love, let me see inside your heart
All the cracks and broken parts
The shadows in the light
There's no need to hide

'Cause I'm on fire like a thousand suns
I couldn't put it out even if I wanted to
These flames tonight
Look into my eyes and say you want me, too
Like I want you

It's like a hunger in me
Yeah, it's never ending
Yeah, I'll burn for you (I'll burn for you)

It's like a hunger in me
Yeah, it's never ending
Yeah, I'll burn for you (I'll burn for you)

I'm on fire like a thousand suns
I couldn't put it out even if I wanted to
These flames tonight
Look into my eyes and say you want me, too
Like I want you

I got a hunger in me
I got a hunger in me

Bella felt heart break with each lyric that was sung. It was them. This song was them whole-heartedly, and when the song came to an end, Bella felt her heart break all over again.

Edward was breathing heavy as he looked into Bella's eyes as the song came to an end, "Bella" He breathed out her name, and Bella felt a shiver down her spin hearing him say her name once again without no hatred in his voice. It killed her.

Victoria tapped Bella on the shoulder then whispering in her ear, "Bella, Nicole is down here, she has to go there's a family emergency she has to go to." Bella finally removed her eyes away from Edward as she turned to Vick and nodded.

She went to Nicole with concern on her face, "I hope everything is alright Nicole?"

She nodded frantically, "Everything is fine, my sister is just going into labor and her husband isn't there, and when he isn't there I am her breathing coach."

Bella's eyes went wide, "Oh my god, go quickly! I will give you your check when you come on Monday. If you can't make it don't worry about it we will make it work."

Nicole looked at Bella with such relief, "Thank you, Bella." She hugged the kid's goodbye who were in their strollers now. She ran off with her purse in to tow hurrying.

Esme came behind Bella, reaching for her granddaughter, "Where did Nicole rush off to?"

Bella picked up Mason, "She had to rush, her sister is in labor and until the husband gets there she is the breathing coach." Bella smirked remembering those days. God, that hurt!

Esme laughed, "Oh I hope she makes it in time, isn't that her sisters fourth?" Bella nodded, "Babies usually come out quicker the more you have." Bella laughed, the last baby Nicole's sister had only taken two hours to come. This baby was going to be quick.

Edward's eyes went wide as he looked at Bella and his mother as they began walking out of the ballroom.

Those are my kids.

SUMMER- June 13, 2014, PRESENT DAY

BPOV

I was running around everywhere trying to get the flowers together and make sure the band was ready to perform once Angela and Ben came out.

It was Angela and Ben's wedding day.

And I was the performing act.

Little did I know that hell was about to break lose at their wedding.

A/N: Well? Good not good? Should I just quit this story while I am at the beginning? I really hope you like it! This is my next baby taking the steps away from the tragedy that was Already Gone and into the hope that is Are We Out Of The Woods?! Please, please, please review! I really want your feed back! Thank you so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed!

Love,

BellaLaila87