Previously:

Her tiny, cool hands flutter anxiously over my burn. I open my eyes long enough to look at her. I whisper, "I'm just a regular mess, aren't I?"

Then, with that weighty statement of my immense intelligence, I drift into the blackness of unconsciousness.

NOW BELLA POV:

I'm floating in and out of consciousness for a long time, but I can't ever truly shake off unconsciousness. While I'm in that state, I have strange dreams. Most of them star Abby; her face always fluttering just behind my eyelids. I feel guilty in those dreams. For killing her? Maybe. I finally regain consciousness, and I'm staring upwards at a clean white ceiling. Something annoying is beeping in my ear. I look up, and see a heart mintier displaying my heartbeat. I sit upright, vertigo threatening to bowl me back over. The rest of the room is a boring white, too. Two people are in my room; a girl and a boy. The girl has short, spiked blond hair and the boy has bronze hair. The girl is Liss. The boy is Edward.

"Liss!" I hiss.

She looks up, turquoise eyes wide. Then she lightly touches Edward on the shoulder and runs over. Her arms envelop me in a hug; Liss smells like lavender. "Bella! Ohmigosh, I can't believe you're okay!"

I hug her back, feeling a tear slip down my face. "I'm sorry I scared you. I should've left Abby and run."

Liss gently pushes hair out of my face where it sticks to my burn and says, "Don't apologize. We've all been worried, but you're okay and that's all that matters."

I offer up a small smile, even though my left cheek hurts. She gently hugs me one more time and flits out of the room. Edward has been watching our exchange.

"Hi," I whisper. Tears are threatening to spill over my cheeks.

He smiles slightly. "Hey."

Then it's like in the romance movies, where you look at each other and you both just know. He knows he's forgiven, and you know he loves you. In less than a half-second, Edward is sitting on my bed, holding me. I feel tears well up and spill over.

"Yes," I whisper. "I read the note, and yes."

Edward kisses the top of my head, and hums a familiar tune. I recognize it instantly as my lullaby. The end is different, though. The melancholy tone has changed to a sweet, quiet end. I smile.

"Are you sure, sweet Bella?" Edward asks.

I nod. "I want to be with you forever. I'd like to be Mrs. Bella Cullen, too."

Then he kisses me, and I'm on top of the world. My singed hair and burned cheek is forgotten, and life is perfect for a few sweet seconds.


In less than two years, we are married. I'm not quite twenty. Our honeymoon occurred while I was human, and I ended up with two beautiful baby girls. One is named Renesmee 'Nessie' Carlie Cullen, and the other is Rosalie 'Rosie' Alice Cullen. Their birth nearly kills me, but my change saves my life. I have amazing control for a newborn. Everyone is baffled by me, even my husband. I think I like it that way. We had a brief run-in with the Volturi due to the girls, but everything turned out alright. This story does not end with "Happily Ever After," because life goes on after the story. It's just the beginning.

Sniffle, sniffle. I can't believe it's over! *sobbing uncontrollably* I'd like to thank several people for this story. First come my reviewers; from my first chappy (SeddieShortBus and twilight1alice), second (GlimmerOfHope, twilight1alice, and MySilentEmoSide), third (SeddieShortBus, city bookworm, and twilight1alice), forth (twilight1alice), fifth (jmqe, twilight642531, K3lliGurl-Peace-N-Love, Melissa, twilight1alice, Mar Julie Cullen, jmqe (again?), FreeRunner289, and GlimmerOfHope), sixth (DeathDaisy, twilight1alice, ConcreteAngel14, and Cirruz The Night Elf), and anyone who may review this chappy or any others after the time of posting!

Next, I want to thank a few specific people. Those would be twilight1alice (who reviewed a whopping 6 times), SeddieShortBus (who was my 1st reviewer, and is my loyal FanFiction buddy!), and Helluo Librorum (my Beta, who is herself taking a short hiatus due to schoolwork).

Finally, I want to thank some people off of FanFiction. The first is (quite obviously) Stephenie Meyer, who this FanFiction would not exist without. Secondly is whoever created this site. Thirdly, I want to thank everyone that inspired some of these characters. My friends inspired some of the OCs, and I tried to infuse some of myself and my 2nd BFF into Bella so she'd be an all-around kick-ass girl.

And thank yourselves, people who read this. You guys rock. Signing off for the last time, this is
~TWC~