Bella

Shopping with Alice was strange yet amazing, it filled me with joy, to see my family, or some of my family, I felt fuzzy inside. I even felt a little shy, unsure of myself, but shopping was always a time when I'd look at something and decide weather Alice would scream at me at the top of her lungs, or smile proudly.

Today it was both, it was like I had my sister back, but at the same time, I was a part of something, I'd always been the small human, not worthy of herself, but being with Alice, I saw a different girl, I was sure, for once, that I belonged with them.

We'd spent 6 hours straight, Jasper was quiet, but he was smiling, he kept both eyes on Alice, not protectively, but lovingly, like he was watching the sun rise, or something.

We decided to hunt after shopping. My whole backseat was filled, so was Alice's though. We pulled into my favorite hunting ground and I was so happy to show it to Alice, she loved it.

I hunted for a while, then Alice went after a dear and I decided to sit by the lake, Jasper joined me, then the unexpected happened.

"Bella, I need to say sorry, I'm still so sorry for what happened on your birthday, I know this never would of happened if I hadn't had attacked you, and I'm sorry for that. I've had to watch everyone be miserable because of me, and I don't know what's going to happen, or what you have planned, but I want to say I'm sorry, I really am." He says sincerely.

I was confused, more than confused, he felt guilty?

"Jasper, there's nothing to forgive, I forgave you the day it happened, I forgave you 50 years ago, I was never mad with you, Jasper, never. I accepted the dangers the whole time, me getting hurt was expected, it really was. If anything now I understand even better. But, Jasper, I never blamed you, I blame myself every day, for everything, but I'm not going to let that crush me." I smile at him.

"Thank you, Bella, thank you for everything, even Alice, I haven't seen her this happy in so long, you were always like a sister, the whole family miss you." He adds.

"I've missed them too, Jasper, you have no idea how painful it was to me, to watch you guys from a distance, you guys made it Bella impossible, but I love you all, you were like a brother, even if we didn't hug or touch, I knew you were there, and even Rosalie felt like a sister." I smiled sadly.

"There really going to be happy to see you again." He grins.

"I don't know about that, I never know anything Jasper, you'll find out tomorrow. I have to go, tell Alice bye for me, I forgot I have a customer coming. Bye." I hugged him and ran to the car.

The customer wasn't there so I worked on getting everything set up. The customer was a billionaire who wanted my specialty, it didn't take long to get rid of him, I went to my sleep house and dropped everything off.

By the time I was done, every hangar was filled with no room left, I went to change but paused, my hunting clothes were some old human clothes I used to wear. I couldn't believe I'd worn it.

I changed into a sunset gold dress, curled my hair and sat on the bed; feeling exhausted all of a sudden.

Jasper felt guilty for that day still, I'd never guess that he'd feel guilty. Never, maybe they had changed, maybe they look at me different. Maybe this was the worst idea, maybe they'd only shown me there good side, I'd seen Edwards bad side, the non-human side, what if that was the real him?

No, I was just being stupid, maybe… no. I shook my head and went to my work house. The painting was done sooner than I thought, so I decided to show my side. I began sketching the Esme and Edward I knew sitting by the piano.

I smiled as I got to the paint; the world froze as I painted his perfect eyes, adding depth and beauty, then his beautiful grin with full lips. I felt his lips on my head and the brush of a kiss, it was faint from my human memories, but it was still perfect.

Esme

We were all packed and ready, taking the plane, I kept Edward close at my side, his eyes were still so dead, although there was a faint smile on his lips, for me. But his eyes were so dead. I rested my head on Carlisle, I missed Bella, the memory of us going to play baseball played into my head, hearing that roaring laugh coming from the forest, then they appeared, Edward laughing.

"What was that?" Emmett asked.

"Bella was unintentionally being funny." Edward chuckled.

I smiled at that memory, they were so happy, they were so perfect. I loved Edward, but he was an idiot to leave her. I wondered what happened to her, who did she marry; did she have kids, grandkids now? Was she dead?

We arrived in Paris and the minute we got out, Alice was jumping up and down hugging Jasper, they were grinning hugely. Jasper looked down at her and grinned.

"Esme, we missed you so much, we got your rooms checked out and everything, we also got a separate hotel room for Emmett and Rosalie. I can't wait for you guys to see her; she's missed you guys for a long time." Alice says grinning.

"A long time is an underestimate, come on though, we'll get you bags, tomorrow we'll all go to her place." Jasper winks at Alice and giggles.

"Can we go?" Rosalie says and we nod.

"Alice, why are you blocking me?" Edward asks. We were all surprised and look at Alice. She shrugs.

"I don't want to ruin the surprise, she really didn't want you guys to know until you met her." She giggles. We all nod and leave the airport.