A/N: Well this is it, the final chapter. I bet you're all wondering, how on earth I can come back from the shit storm I dropped on you in the last three chapters and shut it down nicely?

Wonder no more...

Much love and respect to my beta Scorp112 - she's all kinds of awesome.

Disclaimer: SM owns all.

Resolution Time

I allow him to remove me from my solace. I know that resisting Emmett is futile and there hasn't been much comfort in my solitude for the past few days.

Actually, it's been unbearable.

Since wallowing isn't helping, I might as well give his way a try. After all, he has had his heart broken by the same man. He must have a remedy for this pain.

And he does.

He takes me to a carnival and plies me with sweets before placing me on the big wheel. I relax and enjoy the view, but it's not long before I'm in my own head again. He notices because Emmett always does, so next I'm fed fried dough and we're off to the roller coasters.

I hate the roller coasters, and he knows this because the only person I have ever been on one with is Edward.

I'm lost in my mind again thinking of the first time we rode one together. It doesn't take me long before I begin to wonder if we ever will again. Before we became lovers, Edward and I were friends, the best of friends. What would happen now that our attempt to be something else has failed? Could we go back to the way we used to be before he had an orgasm against my ass while gripping my breast painfully?

Can we go back to studying together? Our last study session ended up with both of us in our underwear and me on top of him grinding against his cock, him licking, sucking kissing my breast, telling me to 'come' but me only being able to shatter when his teeth pierced my shoulder.

Will we be able to just have fun and just be? All of our time together for the past few months has been laden with activity geared towards building a sexual relationship.

Have I lost my best friend as well as my lover?

Emmett all but places me on the roller coaster ride. I try to cover my eyes the way Edward used to do for me, so I could hang on for dear life, but it doesn't work. I'm forced to hang on while I squeeze my eyes tight and wish it was Edward next to me.

When the ride ends, I know the answer to my questions.

"Take me to him."

"I thought you'd never ask," he replies.

I'm confused when we arrive at Pike's Place.

Emmett doesn't answer when I ask him. He just keeps plowing through the crowd. There are banners and advertisements everywhere for Arcade Lights that haven't been taken down.

Edward and I had planned to go; it was to be our first outing as a couple. We were going to talk to Peter and Riley the week after the dinner that changed everything.

Separately.

Nothing like the way thing actually occurred.

We wanted to avoid a situation like the blowout that happened a few weeks ago. We knew they'd be hurt, and having it occur so publicly made it worse. We only needed two more days to get our heads together.

Now more than ever, I realize I need him. I need to tell him I'm sorry, really sorry for making him feel that I didn't trust him. I need to tell him that I'm no good without him, and we should work through our issues together, not apart.

All the while I fear being rejected, but he'll have to do it in person and not over the phone this time. I know it's a risk, one I need to take. For Edward, for us.

Emmett stops and I run into his back due to my lack of attention.

I'm about to ask him, 'What the hell, Emmett?' I open my mouth and shut it immediately.

I see him, three stores down, arguing with someone. He pulls his hair the way he does when he's frustrated. I realize he's not arguing, but pleading…begging.

I follow the direction he's facing to Victoria, and watch as she raises her phone to her ear.

Emmett's phone rings, and I hear him speak just as Edward's eyes snap to my direction.

He stares at me, and I'm moving.

Then he's moving, too.

I want to hold him the minute he reaches me, but I don't know if he's here to meet me of his own free will. I don't know if he truly forgives me yet, and I don't know what he's decided about Riley's role in his life.

His eyes…his entire face haunts me. He looks so tired.

I step forward tracing the circles beneath his blood shot eyes.

"I can't sleep without you," he says.

I nod, because I didn't sleep without him either. I just hover a little below consciousness every night.

"I can't focus without you," he says.

I nod, because I understand. I threw myself into my work in his absence, but he was always on my mind.

My fingers trace his chapped lips and I wonder if he's dehydrated. Has he eaten since the failed dinner?

It's been weeks, he must have, even if I haven't had a complete meal.

"People that knew me before…I discovered my love for you will always question us together."

I nod, because it's true.

"I won't allow them to come between us," he says. There's so much conviction in his words.

I focus on his eyes again.

"Tell me you believe in my love for you."

"I believe in your love for me," I tell him because I do. I've never doubted that.

"Tell me you trust in my devotion for you."

"I trust in your devotion for me," I say. I always have and it took being away from him in limbo for weeks for me to discover this.

The problem was never him, but… "Riley?"

"Is a manipulative asshole who will never interfere in our lives again. I wasn't blind, Bella. I've known Riley for what he was for a very long time. He gave me the excuse I needed to hide from my feelings. I wanted him gone long before we became...more than we were, and not just because I couldn't hide my feelings for you anymore. He represented my cowardliness and his manipulative influence was no longer doing its job.

"I've been upset with you because you thinking I would allow him to come between us hurts. I realize now it was irrational of me to think you would just accept that he wasn't an issue for us, without me removing him from our lives.

"I saw him two days after our argument and I made it clear that I'm with you. I told him there is no place in my life for him, if he's determined to hurt you - to hurt us."

He hasn't spoken to Riley for weeks?

"Two days? But we've been apart..."

"We've been apart because your doubt crippled me and hurt me worse that I every thought possible. You and I have been friends for years, Bella. You know me better than anyone, even when I was in deniable about my love for you, you never doubted me. I needed time to deal with that.

"My time away from you has only proved one thing."

"What's that?" I ask him through my tears.

"I love only you and always will."

I want to kiss him so badly, but it shouldn't be this easy. We should argue, we should fight, we should sit in a room with our arms crossed staring at each other, waiting for the other to break. We should take some more time to heal, but the only thing on my mind is that I want to kiss him.

So, I do.

I kiss him with all the pain that I felt being separated from him.

I kiss him with all the love that runs through my veins for him.

I kiss him with all the longing I that encompassed me upon seeing him not minutes before.

I kiss him with all the want that courses through me as his lips touch mine.

With that kiss, I know we're okay.

"Let's go home," he says taking my hand.

I follow him.

I always have. I always will.

Any place…anytime.

A/N: So my friends, that's it. Did I wrap it up nice and neat in a pretty little bow for you? If not, oh well...that's all there is.

The epilogue is with my beta, I waited to post this until I got her okay on the epi content. She just needs to work her magic on correcting my rants and lack of commas. From there it is all yours.

I have an outtake - like way out there outtake that I'm working on at someone's request. Dude, I mean, it's way out there for me. You'll have to use your imagination on the content, I am not giving anything away. It's nothing I've ever written before, it's raunchy and spicy. It's oh so spicy, I had to walk away from it for a few days - cause it was just too much for me.

If you're interested in seeing it, please review. I'm not sure if this will get posted, but I am not above using it to get reviews...you feel me?