A/N: *Sob* We've reached the very, very end! One last time, the Not-so-Oblivibella Not-so-Fail-O-Meter: 1 (I've waited the whole story to be able to put that rating!) I'll see you guys at the bottom.

**Please see the A/N at the end for a note on outtakes**

Epilogue

"B, we have to go! We're going to be late as it is!" I yelled up the stairs at her, exasperated that I'd been in this stupid tie for an hour waiting on her.

"I'm coming, I'm coming. Keep your damned pants on!" she laughed as she walked down, I saw her eyebrow raise and she smirked when she saw me. After two years together, I knew that look well, Bella was contemplating things we could do instead of going to dinner. "Actually, maybe you could take them off..." she said seductively, wrapping her arms around my neck, kissing along my jaw.

The sight of Bella in the short, black dress hugging her ass and highlighting her gorgeous tits almost made me agree. Of course, then my cell phone rang. "Hello, Charlotte, we're on our way now," I answered by way of greeting her.

"Sure you are, Edward. Tell me that you and B weren't getting ready to ditch us?" she laughed at me, knowing she was right. I rolled my eyes.

"Well, now we really are leaving," I told her, unable to hide my grin. "Give us twenty minutes." We said our goodbyes and I closed the phone, putting it back into my pocket and wrapping my arm around Bella as we walked out of our condo. Bella had moved to Chicago a few weeks after she came to see me, she said that there was nothing left for her in Washington and she could teach anywhere. Soon after that, we moved out of my old apartment, into the condo we bought together. Chicago was now home to both of us, and not only because of our shared address.

Exactly eighteen minutes later we pulled up to the restaurant and after parking, made our way inside where we were greeted by Charlotte and Peter. "They said it was going to be another fifteen minutes or so for our table," Peter informed us as he and I shook hands.

Bella and Charlotte embraced briefly, laughing lightly over something Char had whispered while B looked at me from the corner of her eye; I decided I probably didn't want to know. They had become close after Charlotte was certain that B was serious about our relationship. We were both excited when Peter and Charlotte said they were going to be in town for Bella's birthday.

Ever since her first birthday here, Bella has been more than happy to let me and our friends celebrate and spoil her. She had woken up on her birthday a few weeks after moving here with a huge smile on her face. In all the years that I'd known her, I'd never seen her happy about her birthday, much less carefree and excited, like she had looked then. Stretching out in bed, her eyes met mine and she laughed loudly at my confusion. She smiled and said, "I didn't get a birthday card." Her joy suddenly made perfect sense and I laughed along with her. Who knew that all it took to get Renee to leave her the hell alone was to move.

I realized the conversation had gone on without me and Peter was now teasing Bella.

"So, Bella, the big two-five, huh? How does it feel to be a quarter century old?" Peter asked, while she scowled playfully at him.

"I don't know Peter, how does it feel to be so much closer to thirty than I am?" she retorted, laughing.

I put my arm around Bella's waist, pulling her into me, bending my head down to kiss her lips. We both looked up in surprise when we heard my name being called from behind us. We turned to see a glowing, very pregnant Kate walking towards us with a man who had his arm around her shoulders. I hadn't seen her since the day in the coffee shop, though I did occasionally wonder how she was doing.

"Edward! I thought that was you!" she said happily. She noticed Bella with my arm around her and her smile widened even further, "So, I guess you guys finally figured it out, then?"

Bella looked surprised for a second before she just laughed her agreement and I smiled at Kate sheepishly. I was unbelievably grateful that she understood.

"Kate, how are you doing? You look great, very happy!" I didn't think I'd ever seen Kate glow the way she was and I knew she never looked at me the way she looked at the man beside her.

"I really am, more than I ever thought possible," she sighed contentedly, rubbing her stomach lightly and leaning into the man's shoulder, "Oh, this is my husband Garrett, you might remember him from my office," she said as he put his hand out to shake mine.

We stood around talking for a few minutes until our group was called to be seated. We all said goodbye to Kate and Garrett, making our way back to the table. Kate and I would never be friends, but it was comforting to know that there was no more animosity between us. We both had gotten exactly what we wanted.

Later that night, after we had dropped Charlotte and Peter back at their hotel, Bella and I were laying in bed. My arms were wrapped around her body, her head resting on my shoulder.

"Are you happy, Bella?" I whispered in her ear.

"More than I ever thought possible," she replied, echoing Kate's words from earlier, her smile evident in her voice. Suddenly she turned over in my arms, her face hovering over mine, "Now, I distinctly remember talk of you taking off your pants earlier. What happened to that?"

Our lips met, causing the low embers of passion that always burned, hot and ready, between us to roar to life in a blaze. Sliding into her body minutes later, I was once again reminded that everything in the past was worth it to end up here with her. To finally be home.

A/N: And that's it. What did you think? Was it satisfying, even without bebes and weddings?

Thank you, Dear Reader, for sticking with me. I hope you enjoyed the journey, even if it was fraught with heartfail and angst. For my first story ever, I really couldn't have asked for a better group of readers. You all rocked my world- seriously!

***Outtakes Note*** I don't usually resort to bribery, but in this case, I will. I have an EPOV scene planned that I couldn't work into the story. If you review, I will send it to you next week as my special thanks :) It will eventually be put up on the outtakes story, but not until after the BPOV's finish posting.

The BPOV outtakes will be out probably starting in a couple of weeks, they will only post to the outtake story listed on my profile. ***End Outtakes Note***

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