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Chapter 6. Goodbyes aren't always forever.

Walking to the room Bella was in, was one of the hardest tasks of my life, not knowing what I was going to be seeing when I arrived, trying to keep myself calm enough not to run at full speed just to take her away from this place, to make her whole again to make her mine.

I had to insist to her granddaughter that I need this time alone with Bella, she as stubborn as Bella, but she gave in, not being able to fight me on the subject any longer. The ride here seemed like it was forever going back and forth on the matter, if she only knew what I was really planning I doubt I would have ever gotten anytime alone with Bella.

Slowing and quietly walking in the door to her room, her scent hit me like a truck, like the first day in class all I could think about the beautiful yet deadly smell, how I missed it. Then I saw her frail body laying like a stone in the bed her heart barley beating.

The saddest of the happiest days of my life, to see her like this killed me, but to see her made me feel alive and whole once again. I heard the most beautiful sound I could have ever asked for, as if she could tell I was here "Edward" she whispered.

Walking to the bed, I took her hand; her eyes fluttered open, her heart gently started to beat a little faster. "Edward is that really you" she said, not able to keep her eyes open any longer and shut them again.

"Yes my love, I'm here" I whispered back not trusting myself to talk. How beautiful she was, even after all this time, she still is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

"Why are you here?" she asked, even though the answer was obvious to me. "I'm here to save you love, I'm here to take you with me" " Edward, save me?" she said with confusion in her voice, "yes, I'm going to take you-" understanding what I meant she interrupted me "shhh, Edward listen to me, it's my time. I'm not meant to be here any longer" she took my hand to her lips and kissed my hand. A touch I never thought I would feel again

How could she say it's her time to go? It's her time to be here to be mine like she should have been all along, I wish I could take back leaving her. I can't let her go, not now not ever again I never should have and I never will again, I refuse to let her suffer like this. "No we can fix this please Bella!" how could she think I could just let her die and not give up without a fight

"I love you Edward" she whispered, "you're my life Bella, I can't lose you again" not again. Is all that was going through my head? "You have to let me go Edward. I'm not meant for this world anymore." How those words killed me. "I need you Bella"

"Edward, come here lay with me." I gently got into the bed with her and held her, making sure I didn't hurt her. If I could dream every night I was away from her I would have dreamt of holding her, like all the nights before. This is what my life should be, holding the one I love.

"Edward, I need you to look after Isabella for me, when I'm gone. And I will be gone Edward, there's nothing you can do to save me, my heart is too weak to handle the venom in my system and you know that. The only logical thing is for me to stay here and die a peaceful death. I've lived my life it's my turn to go, to be gone from this world. As much as I wish I could be seventeen again I can't, and this is the way my life is suppose to end. I need you to understand that. I need you Edward; I need you to look after Isabella."

I knew what she was saying was true, listing to her heart beat you could tell it couldn't handle the stress from the change, and it didn't change the fact that I needed her with me., but this couldn't be the end could it? "Bella, I love you. " There was a million and one thing I wanted to say, should have said. But that is all I could say. It's all that would leave my lips.

"Goodbye Edward, I'll see you in heaven." Gently she kissed my lips, with that her heart beat got softer till I couldn't hear it anymore, holding her in my arms knowing that her body was with me but her soul had left. I didn't even realize the nurses came in, to check her pulse and unplug the heart rate monitor she was on. All I could do was hold her, hold on to what I lost so many years again and once again lost today…

The only thing to make me snap out of the state I was in was hearing words spoken from the voice I could never forget. "What happened" turning around to see her granddaughter rush in, "Edward what happened to her." tears running down her cheeks. How UN- fair is it that here is someone who looks, smells, speaks just like my Bella, when it's not her, not even close.

The nurse who's name I don't even know, who I didn't even care, told us we had a few more moments to say our goodbyes. Her granddaughter slowly walked toward the bed, not having answered her question from before not knowing how to speak how to tell her my Bella was gone.

"I love you gram, I love you so much" she kissed her forehead, tears still running down her face, how cruel it was that I could not show that emotion, that I could not cry when that is all I want to do. She fell to the ground in tears. I finally let go of my Bella, got off of the bed, and walked towards her granddaughter, she looked up to me from the floor, "I didn't even get to say goodbye" then she started to cry even harder.

I took her in my arms and held her, knowing that as much as I wanted to still be holding my Bella, I promised to care for her granddaughter, and I will keep that promise, and not being able to let the only other person who loved my Bella as much as me go through this alone.

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