Hello everyone! Welcome to my epilogue and the end of I Changed Him. I had this ready yesterday but then I saw my publish date and realized that 2 years ago today, I created this story. So this is the second anniversary and the perfect day to finish the story. Its a little jumpy and facts are all over the place but I saw their future this way. I mean, Paul and Bella's story wouldn't be a story without some ending drama. So please ENJOY this last chapter!
PPOV
There were many different emotions running through me right now. I was happy, very happy, but a small part of me felt upset as well.
"Isn't she beautiful, Paul?" My wife asked, staring down at the little girl through the one way window. The little girl, Bethany, was in the middle of coloring and her tongue was sticking out in concentration.
My breathing shuttered for a second and I looked down at my wife's face, watching her face light up with tears. "She's perfect," I reply, looking back up at Bethany who was currently beaming at her finished picture. Long, black curls flew around her face and beautiful, sharp, blue eyes happily lit up the entire room. "Are you ready?"
Bella looked up at me quickly, afraid. Leaning down, I captured her lips with mine and soothed her worries away. "She will love you."
With more confidence than before, Bella walked towards the door that separated Bethany from us and opened it up. Immediately, Bethany was staring at us with a look of hesitation and joy. She jumped up from her chair and walked slowly over to us.
We had met Bethany before, during the decision process. We knew immediately once we saw her that we wanted her. Bella agreed completely with me and we got to know her. She was a very happy little girl and she continuously showed us pictures she drew and dolls she had. I found it hilarious that her favorite stuffed animal was a wolf named Bernie.
It didn't take us long—only 2 days—to have the papers signed, allowing us to take her home. "Am I going home with you?" She asked quietly, hiding behind her curls. I smiled as it reminded me of Bella.
"Yes, you get to go home with us." Bella replied softly, squeezing my hand tightly. "If you want?" Always considerate.
"Yes!" Bethany exclaimed, bouncing up and down excitedly. I laughed, hugging Bella to my side tightly to reassure her that it was all going to be okay. "Wait, I made a picture!" She quickly ran to the table to grab the picture that I was watching her make earlier. "Look, it's all of us!"
Bella already had tears in her eyes and surprisingly, I was not far from it. I couldn't believe that we were adopting such a tremendous little girl and get to call her my daughter. There was so much that I imagined the two of us doing and seeing together.
"Its beautiful sweetheart, when we get home I can find a frame and we can put it in your new room." Bella replied, touching the top of Bethany's head tenderly.
Bethany seemed shocked by her words, "I get my own room?" Bella and I nodded simultaneously. "I've never had my own room before."
It was true; all the girls at the orphanage slept in one large room with bunk beds same as all the boys. I'm glad that we could give her something to call her own. "My sister decorated it just for you." I said smiling.
Bethany grinned back, "I have an Auntie?" I silently nodded. Melanie was 17 turning 18 this upcoming November. She was in her senior year of high school at the reservation. I couldn't believe that almost 11 years have passed since I met Bella.
Bella and I attended the University of Washington and there I decided to become a lawyer. I like arguing and I liked winning. I also liked fighting for cases that I believed should be fought for. I opened my own firm in Port Angeles after I graduated law school because that seemed to be where the money was, but it became hard for Bella to find a place to open her own book store and it was hard for me to hold back my wolf.
Bella graduated with an English degree at the University of Washington and then started working at some small jobs while I continued on to law school. She tried finding a higher level job for herself when money issues got tight but it was hard.
She didn't like taking any more money from her dad after college, knowing she needed to start her own life, and it helped when I opened the firm, but Bella was stuck at home and we both knew that Port Angeles wasn't for us.
We finally moved back to Forks and La Push. I was able to open another firm in La Push and surprisingly, my clients from Port Angeles stayed with me. Bella found a great spot for her bookstore and life seemed just about perfect. That Christmas, I proposed to Bella and we had the wedding on June 16th.
After the wedding, Bella and I decided that we wanted to have a baby. We tried for a year until Bella went to the doctor and Bella was diagnosed infertile. We were both devastated and the next year after that turned rocky. Bella and I would fight a lot and I would start phasing out of anger more which I hadn't done since I met Bella. I moved back into my old ways of anger and it took its toll on our marriage and the law firm.
The pack and our parents tried supporting us and helping us figure this out but we wouldn't listen, we were stubborn that way. The day we stopped fighting was the day we considered the aspect of adoption.
Bella and I talked about it constantly, and for the first time that year we agreed on something. We spent a lot of time looking around orphanages and adoption agencies and we found Bethany at the 5th place we looked.
And now I'm standing with my beautiful wife and a little girl that I didn't even know existed.
"Paul?" Bella whispered touching my face. I looked over at her and she gave me a questioning look. Smiling, I kissed the palm of her hand and shook my head.
"Are we ready to go?" I asked, looking down at Bethany. She nodded her head and I bent down so I could be eye level with her. "How about a piggy back ride on the way out?" Her eyes lit up and she jumped up and down.
"Yes, please!"
Slowly, we walked out of the orphanage together, as a family.
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"Bella?" I asked that night when Bethany was asleep. I walked around the bed until I was at her side. Kneeling down, I took her hand and wrapped it in my own.
"You don't have to say anything, Paul." She whispered, running her other hand down my face.
"Yes, I do, Bella." I replied, putting my head in her lap. She started running her hands through my hair comfortingly. "I can't tell you how sorry I am for how I treated you this past year. I broke my promise…no, I did more that break it. I ripped it to shreds and burnt the pieces." Tears were threatening to leak from my eyes. "I should have protected you and comforted you from this heartbreak and pain that you have been going through but I didn't. I lost control of myself and in result I made the situation a lot worse."
"I should have known that you would be heartbroken just as much as I was." She whispered into my ear. Looking up, I stared into her brown eyes with sorrow. "I broke my promise just as much as you did, but Paul do you remember what you said that day on the cliff?"
"No matter what life throws at us, we will always get through it. Together." I whisper painfully. Bella stood up at my words and then sat back down on my lap on the floor.
"I know we could have our own baby, but look at the amazing girl that we adopted. She is ours, no matter what her blood says or what the papers say. We can be parents to her and love her just as we would our own child. She might not have come to us the right way or the easy way, but we received a miracle. I said before that when something amazing happens, bad always come to ruin it. However, now I know that it is the opposite. When something bad happens and you think you can't live another day, there will always be an angel that gives you a miracle. I love you just as much as the day I met you. Nothing will ever change that." Bella finished, her eyes holding mine firmly. I opened my mouth but no words came out. Instead I leaned up a kissed her with as much passion as I could give her.
"I love you, Bella. No matter what life throws at us, I will always be by your side. I know I told you this before but I mean it now. We have a daughter now, and it doesn't matter that she isn't our flesh and blood; I will love her as if she is and treat her as if she is. We have our life together, no more supernatural, just us."
"But what about your wolf," Bella exclaimed in shock.
Smiling, I shrugged my shoulders. "I think it's time for me to step down. Sam and Jared have already and Jacob will be soon. Embry stopped phasing already to be with Jessica and Quil still has a couple more years until Claire is the right age…Seth and Leah are still going strong and Brady and Collin are too. They know how to work the pack. It will be fine. I have to stop phasing at some point." I whisper, kissing her again.
"You right and no more vampires." She states happily. Nodding, I saw the sight edge to mouth as she thought about the one family that never returned. "I still wonder what happened to Alice that night. She just disappeared and I haven't heard from them since." She looked away and stared at the wall behind me. "Maybe it's a good thing. I mean I chose you and if I could go back and change the past I wouldn't."
She leaned back against the bed and stared at me and I her. Laughing, I stared at the woman that changed my life. "You changed me, Bella and I love you forever for helping me see the light of a different tunnel."
"I changed him," she whispered amused, "impossible. You were this person all along; my only job was helping you find him."
Sooo, that's it! If anyone needs help clarifying any facts PM me or right it in a review! I write some facts real quick that you might or might not of known.
1. Yes, Paul waited that long to propose. He just wanted to get their life together.
2. Sam and Emily ended up having 3 kids: 2 boys and a girl. Jared and Kim had 2 children: both girls. Claire is only fourteen right now and Quil is her best friend. Jacob ended up marrying a girl named Madison from Forks, he didn't imprint, but loves her dearly. Jessica and Embry did long distance as she went to college in Montana and became a pyschologist and after she moved back to Forks she married Embry. Seth imprinted on Jared's oldest daughter who is still in high school. Leah is dating a guy named Hayden from Seattle. Brady has a girlfriend and Collin is still single.
If you want to know about anyone else or anything else involving the story please ask me! Thank you all for sticking with me this long and I don't want to but I will hit complete. I received
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