A/N: Okay I know I never told you guys when I was going to end this story, but I was thinking about it today and I really don't know where else I would go with this story, so this will be the last chapter. Most of my stories and winding down… But don't worry; I'll have a new story up in the near-ish future! I'm excited for it. I know exactly what I'm going to write about. Well enjoy the last chapter of Not Always You and Me

November 3, 2008

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One Year Later

We made it, surprisingly. With everyone against us, we made it. No one thought we would get together after everything that happened to us last year, but it was fate. We were meant to be. We knew it too.

We barely fought and when we did, it was the stupid stuff that he would end up kissing me during the middle of me screaming and that would be the end of it. He always was an amazing kisser.

He came with me to Renee's during the summer and she loved him, like I knew she would. Even Charlie warmed up to him after he saw how he treated me. But here comes the hard part now. We just graduated from Forks High School two months ago, and this is be the summer of our lives before we go off to college. The worst part is they are different ones. I'm going to the University of South Carolina and he's going to the University of North Carolina. (Sorry my favorite colleges, well sort of) Sure we aren't that far away I guess, but it will still be hard being away from each other.

We had one week left together before I boarded the plane and went on my way to sunny South Carolina. I missed the sun. I picked it because I would be pretty close to my mom, and once Edward picked his college I knew it would be the closet one I could get into on such a late notice.

I didn't like the idea of leaving Charlie by himself, or being that far away from Edward. It's not like I didn't trust him, or myself, I just didn't want to spend any time apart. It was too hard. Edward tried to talk me into letting him get out of UNC and go to South Carolina with me, but I knew it was his dream.

"Bella, please, just let me come. I don't want to be away from you and you know it. UNC used to be my dream, but you're my dream now. I just want to be with you not a state away," he used to say to me.

I would always tell him no, but now I wish I didn't. I had to leave in a week for school and he would be here for another week. Ugh life is not fair. Maybe this is what I get for cheating on Chris, maybe this is my punishment.

"Bella, are you coming?" Emmett called from downstairs.

Crap, I forgot about the camping trip. I run downstairs to grab my bag and sleeping bag and ran to the car. "Sorry guys I totally forgot about it," I said sitting next to Edward in the back of Alice's car.

"Hey," Edward said next to me. I turned my head and he kissed me on the lips, making me blush.

When we got there, all the couples rented a row boat and took it down to the river so we could row to our camping stop. Edward and I were the last to get on the river, and the slowest. We probably should have gone first…

"We probably should have gone before Emmett and Rose. They will be there an hour before Alice and Jasper, who will get there a half an hour before us probably," I said looking out to the water.

Edward shrugged. "I'm sort of glad we didn't. I like this. We can just talk and relax without everyone around us."

"I guess you're right. This is nice."

We were quite for a little bit while Edward rowed and I watching the ripples in the water get bigger and smaller. Suddenly the ripples stopped coming, but we still moved. I look at Edward still because I noticed the fish below us moving. Then I heard the rushing water and I looked behind Edward to where they were coming from.

"Edward?! What is that?" I yelled over the raging water.

Edward turned around and shrugged calmly. "Didn't anyone tell you there are white water rapids here?"

"No! Why didn't anyone tell me that?" I yelled not actually at him, but just in general.

He shrugged again, complete calm and collective. "I guess they didn't think you would come if you knew. I knew you would have, but maybe just would have ridden a bike or something to our camping spot." I was about to say something else, but Edward yelled over my voice. "Hold on!"

I grabbed the boat like it would be the death of me if we fell. We crashed into the first rapid getting a ton of water in our boat, while Edward turned to try to steer us off of the next rapid. We missed it luckily, but instead we ran into another one sending the boat backwards a little almost making me fall off.

We were almost clear until one came up behind us and tipped us forward into the calm water. When I popped my head up grasping for air, I looked around me not seeing Edward anywhere.

"Edward!" I yelled hoping he would hear me where he was. "Edward!"

A pair of hands grabbed my ankles and pulled me under the water before I had time to scream. Then when I came up again all I heard was laughing. I turned around to see Edward laughing at me.

I splashed me with the water. "I can't believe you did that to me! I was worried!"

"I'm sorry," he said after he calmed down. He them grabbed my waist and pulled me close to him. "I'm really sorry love, but I couldn't resist."

I raise my eyebrow and stared at him. "So was tipping the boat really necessary?"

"Sort of. I didn't think I would get you into the water without tipping it. I could have gone around the rapids, but that was more fun," he said kissing my cheek.

"Wait, you could have gone around the rapids?" he nodded. "I hate you, you know that?"

"No you don't," he whispered in my ear.

I giggled. I could never hate him and he knew that. He kissed my ear and then turned my head with his finger so he could kiss my lips. I twisted in the water so I could put my arms around his neck and kiss him more. He pushed my hips more into his stomach as my hands started running through his hair.

When we finally broke, gasping for air, Edward put his arm around my waist and started swimming over to the boat. When we got there he got in and then helped me in. We almost tipped again, but thankfully we balanced out.

When we got to the camping site, an hour and a half after everyone else, we got out of the boat still a little wet from our adventure. Emmett and Jasper came over to help Edward pull the boat up with the rest of them as I went over to Alice and Rosalie.

"So what happened to you?" Rose asked me.

I blushed and ducked my head a little. "Um, we just got off balance in the boat and ended up tipping."

"You know I never pictured Edward as a skinny dipping kind of guys. Especially in broad daylight," Alice said to Rosalie smiling evilly.

"We did not skinny dip!" I yelled at them. "He took me to the part that has the white water rapids and we ended up tipping into the water at the end of it. We didn't do much else."

"Then what really took you so long to get here?" Rose asked raising her eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes at them. "I don't kiss and tell," I said walking away from them over to the boys. Maybe they were less gossips.

Edward noticed me coming behind him, so he grabbed my waist and pulled me in close to him. I guess Emmett and Jasper got some hint and walked away over to their girls. Edward, instead, took my in the complete opposite direction from where everyone else was heading, but further into the woods.

"Edward, what are you doing? It's going to get dark soon, and you think I trip over a lot of things now? You should see me in the dark in the woods…"

"I did," he said chuckling. "Remember the night I took you home last year. Right before your Christmas party. I took you through the woods to get to your house. I almost had to carry you, you were so slow. I'll just do that now though," he said smiling.

"You never answered my question though. What are you doing? Do you even know where you going?"

He shrugged. "Do I really need too?" I gave him my you-better-know-where-the-hell-you-are-going look. "Fine, fine, I know where I'm going, but it's a surprise so you'll have to be patient with me. Please?"

I sighed. I was never going to win this one. "Fine, but don't take me somewhere close to white water."

He laughed and kept walking the same pace as me, which I knew he hated because he was an amazing fast walker.

When we finally got there, we were still pretty close to the water, but not by much, but there was a tent there. Weren't we staying by anyone else? "Edward, why is there a tent here. I thought we were going to stay close to the rest of them."

Edward left me where I was and went over to the tent to unzip the zipper. "Well, we were going to, but then I thought it would be nice if we had some time to ourselves. I mean we won't have this for much longer. The rest of them agreed. Alice thought it would be nice considering we are the only couple not going to the same college," he said softly.

"Oh."

After that I really didn't know what to say. I wanted so badly for him to come to the same college as me, and he probably could get in if he wanted to, but I didn't want him to give up his dream to be with me. That would hardly be fair.

I needed some time to think about things, I decided, so I walked down to the edge of the water and put my feet in and just sat there for awhile. I needed to think about everything that is going to happen whenever I leave for college, in a week. I don't want to go without Edward, but it looks like I'm going to have to. He'll be in UNC and I'll be in SC, great. That's 183.23 miles away from him. (Yes I looked it up)

I stayed by the water for awhile, just watching the sun go down. Wow it was beautiful.

Suddenly someone sat down behind me and pulled me back into his chest. I snuggled back enjoying every moment of it. "It's beautiful," Edward whispered in my ear.

"Yea, it really is. I wish we could just stay this way forever."

He kissed the top of my head and put his arms around me a little tighter. "I know. This would probably be the best way to spend eternity. If only we had that long together. It would never be boring."

I smiled since that was the exact thing I was thinking of. I didn't want to say goodbye to this moment or any other one. "Yea, if only we had an eternity, life would be so much easier. We wouldn't have to rush to try anything and we would always have each other. There would never be a sad moment."

"Yea and there would never be 183.23 miles between us," he whispered in my ear.

"If only, if only."

Edward then picked me up to help me up with him. Then he jumped into the water with me! What the hell!?

When I came up for air, Edward was already up. "What are you doing? I was just getting dry again!"

Edward started laughing. "Well this would a nice way to spend eternity. Don't you agree?"

"I wouldn't love to spend an eternity wet, if that is what you are asking."

He laughed and pulled me close to him. "Not exactly. I mean wouldn't it be nice like this," he said pulling me against his body.

"Now this isn't too bad."

He raised his eyebrow. "Really, how about now?" he said before his lips were against mine.

I locked my arms around his neck and put my elbows on his shoulders so I could push myself up a little while he kept kissing me. Then he stopped and pulled me down so we could our foreheads on each other's and try to catch our breath.

"Now that is a lot better," I said panting. "I wouldn't mind that for forever."

He laughed. "Bella remember how I told you I didn't want to take anything too fast with you. That I didn't think we should go any further then this?"

I sighed and started backing away from him. "I know, I know. You don't want to do anything like that."

He laughed and grabbed my waist again and pulled me close to him. "You didn't let me finish. I was going to tell you, that I think we can do it. I think we can make it through the four years together. You know why?"

"Why?" I asked not really knowing where he was going with this.

He shook his head smiling. Apparently I was getting something obvious. "Love, I'm going to South Carolina with you."

"No you aren't. UNC is your dream, you should go there."

"Bella, my dream is to be with you. To be anywhere were you are. If you are in South Carolina, then I'm in South Carolina. If you went to Alaska, I would go too. I just want to be with you. Yes, my dream was UNC but that was before I met you. I just want to be with you, love."

I smiled looking down. That's all I ever wanted to hear from him. He really wants to be with me that much to give up his dream and come with me. Wow. "Are you sure? I mean it will only take us a few hours to see each other. I wouldn't be too bad…"

He rolled his eyes. "That's a few hours too long. I'm going to South Carolina, so you'll just have to deal with it," he said kiss me again.

I laughed and kiss him back. I never thought I would be this happy. I'm closer to my mother, with my boyfriend, and I'm finally getting everything I dreamed. I don't think my life could get any better than this.

Edward grabbed my head and pulled me out of the water with him. He then picked me up, bridal style, and carried me to our tent, still kissing me. He laid me down in the tent and gently came on top of me, holding himself up with his arms. Suddenly I became greedy and started to pull his shirt over his head. Surprisingly he helped me do it. Maybe this is what he was talking about. This is something we both wanted. We just needed to be together.

One Week Later…

"Bella we have to get going," Edward said coming into my room and grabbing my bag. Then he grabbed my hand and started pulling me out of my room laughed. I laughed with him, but I really wasn't ready to say goodbye.

Surprisingly after our night together last week, nothing changed. If fact they were better. He was maybe a little bit sweeter, but we just worked together better. It was like that happening was the best thing for us. It made us that much stronger, which is kind of weird if you think about it.

We walked downstairs together and Charlie snapped another photo of us. We were the first to leave out of everyone. We had a week of orientation to look forward too, but Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie said they would visit us on their way to college. The weird thing was we were all pretty close to each other college wise.

Alice and Jasper were going to Virginia Tech, which wasn't as close as we would like it, but still pretty close. Emmett and Rosalie were at the University of Miami Florida, which was closer and close to my mom. That was nice.

Everyone was outside waiting for us to come down. Alice ran up to me and hugged me. "I can't believe it's over."

"What's over?" I asked.

"Summer, high school, everything! We're entering college! This is so weird!!" Alice said crying a little in my shirt.

"I'll miss you too Alice."

She finally let go of me and Rosalie came up and hugged me quickly, we still weren't the best of friends but we go closer. Emmett then came up and hugged me tightly. "I'll miss you, Bells. You always kept me entertained. At least we will be closer than we were last year," he said laughing.

"Awe I'll miss you too Emmett. We may come down quite a lot considering you're close to Renee," I said. Great the tears were really coming.

Jasper came up last and hugged me. "Have fun in South Carolina Bella. I'll miss you a lot. You are a great addition to the family."

Wow, that one hit me hard. I'm a great addition to the family. It's amazing they all feel that way about me. Even Carlisle and Esme think that way about me. When they came up and hugged me it felt like I was leaving a huge family behind that I wasn't ready to leave yet.

When Edward and I finally got into the car after a long goodbye from Charlie, I didn't want to leave us much as I thought I might. Edward sense that and said, "It'll be okay Bella. Before you know it we will be coming back for Thanksgiving break and then Christmas break."

I looked over to him and smiled. He was right; this will all be back for me whenever I came back. Just how long it would be was getting to me. Its three months away. "At least I have you," I said quietly.

He smiled my favorite crooked smile and grabbed my hand. This will be the rest of my forever.

A/N: Awe, it's sad that this is done:(. I just want to thank everyone who reviewed/story alert/author alert or anything with this story. You guys kept it going and I really appreciate everything you guys have said about this story. Thank You So Much!!--I don't know if I could do a sequel of this, it would be in college... maybe if I get enough people wanting it... I don't know.

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