Hi. My name is Bella Cullen. It has been about a year since I found out for sure that I would have Renesmee in my life forever with Edward at my side, and I have loved every minute of it.

My eyes are no longer the crimson red, but more of a gold color like the rest of my family. I've felt my newborn strength leave my body and since then, I have never challenged Emmett to another arm wrestling match. Renesmee has aged about five or six years in just one year. Edward and I still live in our little cottage with Renesmee in the forest a ways away from the Cullen house. Jacob still comes by every day to see Renesmee and I. The truce between the vampires and werewolves has stayed strong. If I concentrate hard enough, I can open my mind to Edward without having to hold his face in my hands. I still see Charlie from time to time.

Charlie.

He is still just as blissfully unaware to what I am after a whole year, and I need to keep it that way. But how am I gonna be able to explain Renesmee's rapid growth for much longer without freaking him out? Would he accept it? Can I share my secret with him? No. The time has come to move and start a new life outside of Forks just one year after I became a Cullen. We have to move to keep our secret a secret, and it isn't easy to keep it if Renesmee will continue to grow at this speed.

Edward is driving the silver Volvo to Charlie's house with Renesmee in the backseat and me in the passenger. We have to see if there is anything that I want to keep from my human life that I will be leaving behind forever.

We pulled into the driveway next to the cruiser. I knocked on the door and I heard Charlie shuffle around what seemed to be boxes and he came to open the door.

"Hi dad," I said.

"Hey," he mumbled. He was obviously not too thrilled that I was moving. We told him that Carlisle was offered a job in Texas that we couldn't pass up. We're not gonna be going to Texas obviously, but it's one of the last places that we would be found, so it was a perfect excuse, (kind of like the L.A. one a few years back).

"Hi grandpa," Renesmee said in her high soprano voice.

"Hi there Nessie," he answered turning his back on us and walking back through to the living room. We followed him and saw that there were boxes everywhere that were filled with miscellaneous items.

"What were you looking for?" I asked frowning. I couldn't think of anything that might be in there worth finding.

"Oh, it's nothing. You just go and pack up what you are here to get and leave," he answered bitterly.

I sighed. It killed me to have to leave him behind like this, but we couldn't keep up this charade forever, and the family could think of no other possible way. Even Alice saw a Forks that didn't include us anymore.

I went up to my old room that hasn't been used since the night before my wedding and it still looked the same as I remember, the same it was before I came to live here in the first place and the same it would look after I leave. I couldn't think of anything I would want to keep. There was nothing really of great value. Renee somehow managed to convince me to keep the two silver hair combs that belonged to grandma Swan with the sapphires that I wore in my hair on my wedding day. Those were the only things I planned on keeping.

I looked around the room looking for something that I would want to keep. After I swept over it with one look, I said, "Nope, nothing here. Lest go," I tried to turn around and lave, but Edward stopped me.

"You stay in here and look around for something. I know that there is at least one thing that you would want to keep." Did he know something I didn't? He usually did. He smiled at me and left the room with Renesmee following him.

I sighed and decided that I may as well take a better look around here. The only thing I found was the photo album that Renee bought me for my graduation present. It was still filled with the pictures of all of my friends at school, my old truck, the picture of the house. Basically every picture that I took to document every aspect of my human life before I knew that I wasn't going to be human anymore.

"Found it!" I heard Charlie exclaim from downstairs. I heard Edward and Renesmee join him in the living room from the kitchen where they were waiting for me. I had the feeling that Charlie was thinking some other bitter thing about the Cullens taking me away.

"What did you find?" asked Edward as I reached the base of the stairs. I saw Charlie holding a big, manila envelope.

Charlie ignored him and looked at me, "Hey Bells. This was sent to you from Phoenix a while after you moved here. It was supposed to be a gradation present, so I packed it away so that you could get it then, but I forgot about it. I didn't recognize the address, but the name looked familiar," he said handing it to me. I took it and just held it in my hands looking at the front. It was addressed to me from 'Bella' in neat, cursive handwriting. I looked at the return address thinking it would help. It didn't. Every one of my human memories was still just as dull as ever except for the ones I worked on to remember, every one of those having to do with Edward.

"Who is it from?" asked Renesmee. She came to my side and I picked her up in one arm without effort.

"It says that it's from Bella, but that is nowhere near my old handwriting," I answered frowning.

"Well, I think you should keep it anyway, just in case it comes back to you," said Charlie. It was evident that it took a while for him to find because I had the feeling that he wouldn't let me leave without it.

"Okay. Thanks for finding it dad," I said putting it under my arm with my scrapbook.

Edward came over to my side and put his hand on my back, "are you ready?" he asked. Charlie glared at him.

"I have everything," I said. It wasn't a complete lie. I wasn't ready to leave at all.

"Bye Charlie," said Edward as he turned to leave with me and Renesmee. We already said our goodbyes last night.

"Wait!" exclaimed Renesmee. She jumped down from my arms and ran over to Charlie, "bye grandpa," she said hugging him around both legs.

He bent down to her level considering she was too heavy for him to lift now, "bye," he managed to say with his eyes closed. I knew that he was trying not to cry.

They let go of each other and Renesmee came back over to where Edward and I stood. I took one last look at my dad, said, "love you," turned around and left.

Okay, here is the deal-e-o with this story. I am obviously a fan of Twilight or I would have written a fanfic WAY different from the way I intend to go with this one, but I feel like I must clarify what I mean by 'fan' because there is a difference to what most people may think when one hears that someone is a Twilight fan.

I am not one of those fans that screams when they see the characters on screen or is obsessed with all of the actors and learning everything about them and I do not have posters even if I do like the movie and am going to the midnight showing of New Moon. I might have to go and see the movie again when the initial excitement dies down a bit so that I don't hear girls screaming when they see Edward shirtless or Jacob with his (amazing) abs ;) I do not think that Robert P is extremely gorgeous, he was better as Cedric D in HP. I think that Bella is stupid for thinking that stalking is comforting and sweet, because that is what Edward is. A creepy stalker that watches her sleep and won't let her think for herself. Sigh, love is WAY too blinding. And if you have ever read Midnight Sun, Edward whines too much about how he doesn't deserve to have a girl that 'good' and Bella constantly thanks that doesn't deserve someone that 'georgous' because she is too average. HELLO! Every guy at her school wants her! Again, I just think she's stupid, to a point.

I am mainly just a fan because I like the story that Stephanie M shared with us (even if vampires are not supposed to sparkle and are supposed to get SOME sort of sleep. She is just tryign to make the only flaw that vampires have is thirst and shinnieness!) but I still like the story. So all in all, this is my story of what happens after Breaking Dawn with new characters and new troubles for the Cullens (because they didn't have enough when they met Bella, but that's the only thing that keeps the story going)

I really want you to leave a review please. If you do bother with a review however, please put something in it that will help me, or give me something to think about. Also, if you only leave a review because you want to say something about my OPINION, I will be glad to read about how you agree, disagree or are nutrual to what I said. I am curious to see what people say about my 'kind of rant' so go nuts!

One last thing, I want to see if anyone has an alternate title for this. I know that others have used After Twilight and I really want something that is unique to this story only, so please help me out.

One other las thing ;) I really want/need a beta reader, so if you know someone or are someone that could help me out with that, PLEASE let me kow because I know that my grammar is not the best at all.

Thank you! :)