Chapter twenty-six: The end. (BPOV)

Once we got back home, after helping Victoria, Edward and I did not leave our room for several weeks.

We were laying in our bed, just cuddling and talking, after an exhausting night when all of a sudden Edward froze.

"What is it, Edward?"

"Be very quite love," he whispered. "Maybe she will leave."

"Who will leave, what is going on?" I whispered back.

"To late, she knows we're still in here."

At the same time, Alice opened the door and started talking like crazy.

"OhMyGod, you guys, we were wondering if you were still alive. I'm happy that you're okay. So we have some news for you. Come on get up, get dressed. The family is waiting for you downstairs, come on. Don't make us wait for too long. It's so perfect, it took us a bit longer than expected, but with all that's been going on lately. You guys will love it,…"

"Alive, STOP!" I screamed. "What are you talking about, we don't understand what it is you are going on about.

"Bella, it's a surprise. So you to get out off that bed, into some clothes and downstairs, before I drag you down naked."

"Okay, okay, Alice, easy. We will do as we are told, give us a minute." Edward said.

Alice left the room and we got dressed. Once we were in the family room, Esme and Carmen came up to us and dragged us out of the house and into the woods behind it.

As soon as we where deeper in the woods I could smell two unknown vampires. I saw that Edward could smell them too, because he held me closer and the look on his face was attentive. The rest of the family that came with us, did seem to be bothered by the intrusion of other vampires.

Alice came to a stop and we stopped right behind her. Edward and I both took defensive stands when we saw Emmett, Jasper, Laurent and John standing in half a circle in front of the two vampires with their backs to us.

Jasper turned around and smiled at me. What was going on here?

"Could someone please fill us in?" Edward asked.

"See for yourselves," was all the answer we got, as the men stepped aside so we could see the newcomers.

My mouth fell open, I could not believe what I was seeing, I closed my eyes for a moment, opened them again, and the scene before me was still the same.

My dad, Charlie, standing next to a gorgeous female vampire. They were holding hands.

"Dad!" I screamed at the same moment he said, "Bella?"

We started asking questions at the same time. "What happened? Who changed you? How did you find me?"

"Calm down both of you," Alice said. "We'll have plenty of time to listen to your stories once we get back home."

Once we got back we all took a seat in the living room, and Charlie started with introducing his wife, Emma. She was the one that had changed him.

They had a similar story as Edward and I. Emma had come to Forks looking for the Cullens. Apparently they are very known amongst vegetarian vampires. When she did not find them, she met Charlie and fell in love. She also was an old friend of John, so that is how they then found us in Denali. She came to visit and when she was introduced to Jasper and Emmett, they immediately knew my dad.

When Charlie finished, Edward and I told our own story and I could see my dad get extremely angry when we got to the part when Edward left me. He remembered that time and blamed him for me leaving.

He calmed down as soon as Emma whispered some words to him.

We told him about Carlie and he was dying to meet his grandson, who was at the moment hunting with Carlisle and Garrett.

As soon as he came back, we told him everything and he was really happy to meet a real relative of his.

Victoria was happy with Ethan and they stayed with our family for a few years. After that they just went their own way.

Strangely enough Victoria and Ethan adapted to the vegetarian lifestyle without much difficulty.

Epilogue: seven years, five months, two weeks and a day later. (CarliePOV)

Today we are celebrating my 18th birthday.

Well actually it's my 8th birthday, but you can't tell my friends from school that.

I stopped growing last year.

I started going to school when I was six. I looked like a fifteen fifteen-year year-old at that point.

They made me take some stupid test, because Grandma Esme and Grandpa Carlisle told the school people I got home schooled up until that point.

I aced that test, by the way.

Yeah, my life is strange. We tell people that dad Dad is my big brother, and that grandma Grandma and grandpa Grandpa are my parents. Mommy is just dad's Dad's wife, so that's actually true.

I have a very extended family. Mommy's side are grandpa Grandpa Charlie and his wife Emma and the Denali. Dad's family are the Cullens. , And and a large collection of 'relatives' like Victoria and Ethan and great uncle Aro.

All of them were present at my party.

Besides them there was one other who knew my true age.

Samantha.

Yes, I found my mate last summer.

Sam and I have been dating since then, and I told her about us, after about four months.

She is perfect, she is my mate, and I love her with everything I have.

We are getting married after we finish high school.

I will also have to change her after our honeymoon, 'uncle' Aro told me so today.

Mom and dad Dad are leaving my party early today, because they are going on their fourth honeymoon. Dad promised me that we can use their island for our own honeymoon as well.

I did not tell Sam jetyet. It will be a surprise for her.

Our lives have been happy in the last years, very uneventful. Mom says that's a good thing because the first years of my life were too eventful.