Hello!! We haven't updated in so long. Sorry about that :) Thank you to DragonWingedHanyou who pointed out that if I bribed you guys with new chapters that you would just wait until the 49th review then review. So i'm sorry to say this but I won't be giving the 50th reviewer a sneak peek (sorry). I don't like to go back on my word but in 3 weeks no one has reviewed... probably cause you want to be the 50th. Anyway's here's the next chapter! Enjoy!

Saying Goodbye

Bella's POV

Time is different for vampires than it is for humans. As a vampire time is neither faster nor slower than usual. It's like time doesn't even exist to us. The sun comes up then the sun goes down and we never change.

I was lying beside Edward on our bed-our fingers entwined- staring at the ceiling. Of course I was thinking about Charlie, and how today was the day I was supposed to say goodbye to him. Forever.

It was raining outside and I could hear each individual rain drop splash as it hit the ground. This constant noise was annoying at first but soon in blended into the background along with all of the other minuscule noises I could hear. My thoughts went back to Charlie. What was he going to do without me? He couldn't even cook lasagne by himself.

My eyebrows had probably furrowed in worry because soon Edward had his arms wrapped around me, and immediately all of my worries disappeared.

"Don't worry Bella I'll be there with you." Edward spoke quietly. I nodded as I put my head down on his shoulder. This was going to be a hard day and I was lucky that Edward was here with me to help.

"We should probably get going soon though. Charlie will be waking up in a few hours."

"Yeah that's true." I mumbled. I wondered when Charlie would find out- or if he had already found out.

"Edward, does Charlie know already?" I asked quickly. Part of me wanted him to already know so that it would be over and done with, but another part of me wanted him to still believe I was alive.

"Yes, Carlisle called him last night while we were gone." Edward's eyes bore into mine, trying to gauge my reaction. I felt like bursting into tears but I knew I couldn't. It was probably a good thing or else Edward would blame himself for hurting me.

"How did he take it?" I asked after a few moments. I had waited until I was sure my voice wouldn't crack.

"He was very quiet at first. Then after he went into denial, he thought that Carlisle was playing a trick on him. When he finally realised it wasn't a joke he got… angry."

"He was angry? At who?" I asked surprised.

"Me." Edward stated simply. He waited a few seconds as I tried to figure out what he was saying on my own. When I couldn't he continued. "He believes it's my fault that we died because I asked you to go to Italy with me."

"Wow… Does he still believe that?" I thought Charlie would eventually warm up to Edward, but it seemed that he hated him still, even though he was "dead".

"He believes it even more strongly now than before. He hates me for hurting you last year and now for taking your life away." Edward said sadly. His eyes seemed to grow cloudy as he retold Charlie's thoughts.

"Edward, its just Charlie being Charlie. I chose to be with you. Of course Charlie doesn't know that but I still don't want you to keep blaming yourself for these kinds of things. I chose this."

"I know Bella, and I'm happy you did. I'm sorry that I keep blaming myself but I truly believe that I took your soul away from you." He said with a pause.

"I'm happy that you're here though and I should probably stop ruining all of our happy moments with my guilt huh?" Edward chuckled lightly.

"Yup, let's not think about that right now. I'm happy because I'm in your arms. I just need to feel this happiness before I see Charlie O.K?" I replied.

"Anything for you Bella." Edward said as he kissed my forehead.

A few hours later I was dressed and ready to go watch Charlie. I grabbed Edwards hand and we ran towards my old house and as we got closer I could feel the sadness inside of me growing bigger.

I felt like I hadn't been home in years. The house looked so different- older even. The paint was cracking and the wood was breaking on some parts. I probably wouldn't have noticed if I were still human.

Edward and I made our way towards Charlie's window. It was on the other side of the house, the one opposite of my window. I pulled myself up the side of the house and Edward followed closely behind me.

Charlie's room was engulfed in darkness. I could still see but everything was dimmer. On Charlie's bed were a bunch of blankets and it looked like something was wrapped in them.

That's when I realised that the thing under the covers was Charlie. I listened carefully and noticed that he wasn't snoring. He must have been awake under there.

Suddenly the smell of salt and water hit my nose. I glanced at Edward and he nodded at Charlie. Was Charlie crying?

I looked closer at his body and noticed for the first time how uneven his breathing was. Soon small sounds began to escape his lips as his crying grew louder.

I closed my eyes trying to block the scene out but I could still see him in my mind. When he called my name my eyes snapped open again.

"Bella," He whispered at first. I had the urge to answer him. I wanted to go to him and tell him that everything was going to be fine and that I was still alive. I had never seen Charlie cry like this before.

He pulled out a picture from underneath his pillow. It was taken when I was five. My short brown hair was up in two pig tails. I was sitting on Charlie's shoulders and we both smiled up at the camera like we were having the time of our lives.

Charlie stroked the picture carefully as if it was a delicate piece of china. I still remembered that day. I had spent a week with Charlie for the summer and I got angry at him because he couldn't do my hair the way Renee could. After trying for hours Charlie finally got it. He was so proud of himself too.

I smiled as the memory replayed in my mind. Charlie was so proud that he got out his new camera and took that picture of us. After we took the picture he spent the day showing me and my hair to the people around Forks.

"Please…Not Bella… Not my Bella." Charlie moaned quietly. By now the tears were streaming down his face. I had never seen him look so lost. Suddenly my hand was on the window and I began to open it.

Edwards hands were immediately on mine, forcing the window shut. He wrapped his arms around me and jumped off of the window ledge to the ground hiding us behind a tree.

A few seconds later Charlie was at the window looking around frantically.

"Bella? Bella come back. Please Bella!" He called out of the window. He stood there calling my name for what felt like hours before he went back to his bed. I sat on the ground behind the trees and wrapped my arms around my torso- a habit that had carried with me from my human days.

Dry sobs began to wrack my body. I could feel myself shake beneath my arms. Edward put his arms around me and held me close until I settled down. Minutes passed as I began to calm myself.

"Bella I am so sorry that you had to go through that. I should never have brought you here." Edward started to apologize.

"No, I wanted to come say goodbye to Charlie. I just didn't know it would be so hard." I said quietly. I felt so selfish at the moment. I was putting my friends and family through so much pain for my own pleasure.Pain and guilt washed over my body like water. "Thank you for taking me Edward."

"I regret taking you here but I'm glad you've had some closure. None of us could have done anything like this because the blood lust would have taken over."

That reminded me… I still hadn't eaten anything. In fact I didn't even feel hungry. Right now I should have been at Charlie's throat, but here I was sitting on the grass outside of the house.

"Are you better now?" Edward asked me cautiously. I nodded trying to reassure him.

"I'm ready to go home." I said looking back at my old house once more. This was the last time I would be here. "Goodbye Dad, I love you."

We walked into the house and found the whole family waiting for us. They all stood in the hall smiling sadly.

"Hello Bella, we thought you would like some company right about now." Carlisle said. I nodded and Esme came and gave me a hug.

"We're here for you Bella. Whatever you need, just ask." She smiled.

"Yes Bella. We're family now." Rosalie said hesitantly. Everyone turned and looked at her in shock. "What?" she asked annoyed. She quickly scowled and folded her arms.

"Thank you everyone," I laughed. They all smiled back at me in response. I looked over at Alice and noticed that she looked very excited. I knew that I wouldn't have to ask her what was going on. She looked like she was about to explode.

"Bella, Carlisle has some very exciting news for you…" Alice said happily. Everyone turned to see what Carlisle had to say.

"Well Bella, as you and everyone else has noticed you haven't been hungry at all after your change. Am I correct?" Carlisle asked.

"Yes that's true." I replied wondering where he was headed with this.

"Well this is a very, very uncommon thing to happen to a new born vampire. There are only about three recorded cases of this ever happening to anyone else before." I waited for him to continue.

"I have spoken to some of my friends-they are quite old and they know a lot about these things- and they say that it must be part of your power." Carlisle smiled.

"I thought that I was a Blocker," I said quickly.

"You were always very unique as a human Bella, and I guess you brought two human traits with you when you changed, your ability to block powers and your distaste for blood."

I felt my mouth drop open for what felt like the thousandth time this week. Another power? Like I could deal with one, let alone two? But as I thought about it more a weight seemed to lift off of my shoulders.

Now I could go to school with the Cullen's and I wouldn't have to worry about killing my lab partner. I could go out in public and do the things I would normally do.

"Aren't you excited?" Alice asked.

"Of course I am I'm just a little stunned that's all." I laughed. Edward smiled at me.

"You don't know how lucky you are." Jasper said quietly. I felt bad that I could just skip all of the bloodthirsty stuff while Jasper was still going through it. He sent me a reassuring smile. "Don't feel bad, I can deal with it."

"So does that mean I never have to eat?" I asked Carlisle.

"You can still drink blood. But you don't need to quench your thirst. If you felt like drinking blood you certainly could." He replied.

"I don't think I'll need to." I smiled. "Of course I still want to go on hunting trips with you guys. I just won't hunt."

"It will be so fun to have you along Bella." Alice reassured me. I smiled back at her. Soon everyone had gone to their separate parts of the house. I could hear Jasper and Emmett fighting over the remote in the living room.

"Bella lets go to our room." Edward said after everyone had left.

"Sure. I'll race you," I laughed. As we ran up the stairs Edward picked me up and ran with me.

"Now we both won." He smiled before he leaned in and kissed me. His lips felt so good against mine. I was glad that I didn't have to breathe anymore.

"Bella I have a surprise for you…" Edward smiled slyly. I heard myself groan loudly.

"Aw, can't I surprise my fiancée?" He asked playfully.

"Well as long as the surprise isn't expensive you can." I replied.

"This isn't something I bought. I just want to tell you something." He said his smile growing bigger by the second.

"O.K let me have it." I said folding my arms. I took a deep breath in bracing myself for the worst.

"Well if I remember correctly we were supposed to get married a few days ago…"

"Yes…" Oh no. He couldn't be thinking what I thought he was. I thought he would have forgotten about that by now.

"We have the dress already, the cake, decorations and everything that we need…"

"Please… No… Edward…" I desperately tried to stop Edward from saying what I knew he was about to say. I thought that when I became a vampire all of this marriage nonsense would be done with.

"Bella will you do me the honour of marrying me in two days?" Edward asked so quietly that I had to actually try to hear him. He looked at me with such love in his eyes that the words left my mouth before I even thought about it.

"Of course I will Edward."

At that moment his face looked so happy that I didn't care about how much I hated the idea of getting married. Just seeing Edward happy was enough for me.

He picked me up in his arms and spun me around so fast that the furniture around us looked like a large blur. Suddenly he was planting kisses all over my face and I couldn't help but be happy with him.

"Congratulations again you guys!" Alice shouted from somewhere in the house. Five other voices saying congratulations followed hers.

"Bella you make me so happy. I love you so much." Edward mumbled into my hair. His fingers entwined themselves in mine.

"I love you too Edward." I sighed drunk with happiness and excitement.

Yay! Finally done this chapter. Bella's funeral next chapter. Hopefully I'll update soon. P.S REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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