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Bella Pov.

The get together went more smoothly than I expected. Rosalie was acting weird and her awkwardness only seemed to be amplified when Emmett came in.

I got along with everyone but I couldn't help but feel the tension that passed between Emmett, Edward, and Rosalie. I decided that as soon as we got back to my house Rosalie and I would have a talk. Haile seemed to have everyone wrapped around her pinky already and I had never seen Hail adapt so easily to people she just met which I found strange but comforting at the same time.

Edward never took his hands off me the whole time we were there. Its like we felt the need to be connected not just for show, this went so much deeper than that. The letter was still in my pocket folded neatly. It felt like a weight was suddenly placed on my shoulders and I was trying my best to hold it up but I had a feeling I was failing.

As the night ended I couldn't help but wonder how my life will change. I said my goodbyes to Edward's family and they all commented on what a lovely girl Haile is. I smiled in agreement and soon I was in the car with Edward driving and Rosalie hugging Hail's sleeping form towards her.

Edward's hand was clasped tightly around mine throughout the whole drive. His hand felt so right in mine yet I couldn't shake the feeling that something was going on between him, Rose, and Emmett.

Before I knee it we were pulling up to my house and I heard Rose get out of the car with my sleeping baby girl in her arms. I looked towards Edward and found his green orbs staring at me in wonder.

"What are you thinking?" he asked softly.

"You, me, us, everything" I sighed

"You promise that if you feel faint or anything seems out of place you will call me?" he asked concerned.

I nodded my head and got out of the car. This was all to fast and frustrating. I was beginning to realize that Edward was consuming me into a world that I didn't know existed and this was to big of a pill to swallow as fast as everything was unfolding.

I felt Edward's emerald green eyes follow my form as I opened the door to my home. As I got further away from him I began to feel increasingly empty inside but I refuse to let the darkness over power me again. Instead I gathered all my strength and headed to where Rose was sitting in my living room.

I place my hand on her shoulder but before I could get a word out Rose spoke.

"You want to know right?" Rose asked with a defeated look in her face.

I looked into her eyes and nodded my head.

"I slept with Emmett" she blurted out. Leave to Rose to get straight to the point.

"He's my mate." I looked at her with a shocked expression.

Her voice broke when she began to explain everything and silent tears cascaded down her beautiful face.

"He knows what I do for a living. He followed me once to my job before I ever knew that he and I were meant to be. After he slept with me he called me a slut and basically left me there like a cheap whore. I didn't know I even had a mate. He sprung this on me and then basically accused me of cheating on someone I didn't even know existed. This is my entire fault but I didn't even know I had a mate. Edward that asshole doesn't believe me when I say I truly didn't know. He blames me for Emmett's suffering after he found out what I do for a living. I didn't even know Emmett at the time, so of course I thought he was bat shit crazy when he came out of west bubble fuck telling me that I was cheating on him and that I was his mate. How was I supposed to know? I never even talked to the guy until the night we slept together"

She stopped as a gut wrenching sob escaped her ruby red lips. "How could I have known? I'm just poor Rosalie Hale. I am a nobody. If I had known I had a mate out there somewhere I would have quiet my job a long time ago but how was I suppose to know Bells."

I sat there shocked to see the great Rosalie Hale finally melt down. I always wondered how she kept it together. How she never let anything or anyone faze her. But all that didn't matter now.

I jumped up and hugged her tightly. We laid down on my coach and I formed a cocoon around her as she sobbed into my chest. I suddenly hated Emmett and I hated Edward for causing the one and only constant in my life to feel this way. Edward may be my love but Rosalie was my soul mate.

Rose was always the strongest one out of the two of us but now it was my turn to be strong for her and I refuse to fail my Rose. It was just after midnight that Rosie finally fell asleep. I gently detangled my body from hers and placed a blanket over her shivering form.

With all this information that Rosalie revealed I was just left more confused than I was before. I quickly undressed and put on some pajamas. Something white caught my eye and when I looked down and picked it up I realized it was the letter.

My hands began to tremble and I wasn't sure I could do this. I went to the only person I knew who could give me strength. I walked as quietly as I could to Hail's door and stared at it in wonder.

I turned the door knob slowly as to not make any noise and I looked at my angel's sleeping form. Looking at her I realized that life wasn't about me. It was about Haile and what was best for her. Everything I decided will always affect her and it was up to me whether they would be positive changes or negative changes.

My gorgeous girl looked angelic with her long blond eye lashes fanned out across her pale pink cheeks. Her hair created a halo around her and she truly looked like an angel that just fell from heaven. Her small hands were hugging a pillow to her and she held it in her tiny fist tightly. Her breathing was steady and quiet as a mouse.

If I was fully human I wouldn't have known if she was breathing or not. With every breath she took I felt my body relaxing more and more. My breathing matched hers so every time she inhaled, I inhaled and every time she exhaled, I exhaled. My sleeping beauty was my air without her I had nothing left inside me.

This tiny little girl gave me the strength of a god and I knew that I could get through anything as long as my angel was all right. She gave me the power to be who I was today and she changed me for the better. I thanked god everyday that even though my mother wasn't good for anything she at least had the heart to surrender Haile to me so she could have a better life with out her ruining it.

My hands no longer trembled as I stared at the envelope in my hands. I could do this. As long as I had Haile I could do anything and everything.

Looking back at Haile I knew my decision was made. Just staring at her angelic face I knew that what ever information that this letter provided me with was not important. It no longer mattered because I refused to change myself for someone who I will never meet. Just knowing that he wrote this letter was enough for me to know that he cared. He cared enough to waste his time writing this letter but he didn't care enough to stay and I understood and embraced that.

Holding this letter in my hand and knowing I had this sort of closure I realized that piece by piece I was letting go of my past. I no longer resented my father. In fact I held respect for him because he was strong enough to live me when I needed him the most but this letter showed that he was remorseful and living me wasn't an option for him. It was a fact.

I didn't need to know the words written in this paper because they no longer meant anything to me. Knowing that this stranger cared was enough for me to forgive him for everything that could have, would have, and should have happened if he had just stayed.

Before I shut the door to Haile's room I looked at her sleeping face and smiled because for once in my life I felt like I had made the right choice. I didn't question my logic and I didn't look for answers. I was learning how to let got of my past and this was my first step heading in that direction. Don't get me wrong this was hard but I knew what had to be done must not be prolonged because what was meant to be was inevitable.

I hadn't felt this liberated since I was an innocent child only seeing the good in everyone before the real world caught up to me. As I saw the letter burn in the small fire place I felt a weight left from my shoulders. I felt free for the first time in my life and for once when I looked at myself in the mirror on top of the fire place, I didn't see my mother, I didn't see a broken girl, I didn't see the empty look in my eyes.

I saw a small spark light up my eyes and I felt the first true smile I have ever smiled light up my once hollow features. Every day we make choices, and every night we must sleep with the consequences of those choices. As soon as my head hit the pillow I fell into a deep sleep and for the first in a long time I didn't dream.

This was all because he cared. Someone cared. And that was enough.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter.

I'm not gonna lie this chapter was difficult to right because this is one of the main chapters that will decide what the future holds for all out characters. If Bella would have opened that letter this story would probably have a whole different out come. I hope you aren't to mad a Bella but everyone has a different way of letting go of their past and this is Bella's way.

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