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Please give thanks to my wonderful beta cullennbella. This chapter was a little difficult to write; I had to pull out my guide in order for it to be as close as possible to the facts. There will be some facts from the story that change along the way.

In this chapter, it finishes up where the last chapter has stopped, of course, Bella is headed to the Spring Dance with Edward, Jake turns into a wolf and we see these thoughts about learning the histories about his life. We also see the appearance of some vampires.

Please, please review…if you like let me know. I started writing these stories on fan fiction as a birthday present to myself. Each time I receive a review it's like happy birthday all over again. Thanks for reading.

Chapter 36

"Crescent"

BPOV

I seems like months have passed by, and the time I have spent with Edward and the rest of the Cullen's has been wonderful. I still haven't gotten around to asking Edward or any of them about the letters I found. I still wonder what they are.

Once Alice learned that I was heading to the Spring Dance with Edward she insisted that she be the one to prepare me for the evening and I gave into her. I will never forget that night, and how special it felt to be with Edward.

School ended and I got a job at Newton Outfitters to help Charlie around the house. I was getting sick of asking him for money to put gas in the car, and knew that it was time to do something about it. I was never one to not do something to help around the house. Edward begged me not too, but I had to do it to help my father out, it was the responsible thing to do. When I explained this to him, only then did he understand my level of responsibility. He also tried to talk me out of it by offering to pay for my gas and anything else, but I wouldn't allow it.

Jacob and I grew closer over time, and he would often be at the house working on things with Charlie. He would also change my oil and look over my car to make sure that everything was running smoothly. Edward never once had a problem with our relationship, and I was shocked. The majority of people would be jealous, but not Edward he said that he trusted me and loved me unconditionally. I guess I couldn't blame him, I knew three things about myself when it came to him, which maybe he also felt about me. The first thing I knew for sure was he was a vampire. The second was that a part of him yearned for my blood, but he would never take it. The third was that I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I tried to temp Edward into turning me into a vampire several times, but everytime he would shut me down. Claiming 'all in good time my dear', maybe he would do it one day, but not anytime soon. I didn't fit into this world until I meet him and the Cullen's and I felt that was where I was supposed to be in this life.

I keep having this recurring dream, about my grandmother, and getting old, which made me more impatient for Edward to turn me. He would always chuckle asking me if it wasn't enough to just be with him. I would always agree that being with him was good enough for now. I couldn't get rid of the nagging feeling that I was getting too old though. The closer my birthday got the more that feeling would come to a head.

Edward and I had all of our classes together, and we watched Romeo and Juliet during class. We pasted notes back and forth; I had read it already and knew enough to answer Mr. Birdie's questions. What caught me as surprising was when the scene in the movie, where Romeo kills himself.

"He was foolish," Edward states.

"He should have waited her out," I stated. Juliet had already taken the potion, and was believed to be dead. She wasn't able to tell Romeo about her plans, but when he believed she was dead, he killed himself.

"What would you do if that was me?" I asked the question just wanting to hear his answer.

"I would know if you where dead, and Alice would see if you would drink the potion." He shrugged, "If you were dead though, I wouldn't go on living. I can see his point in that, but he was foolish not to wait to make sure."

"What if it was an accident, like a plane crash or something?"

"I would be there with you," he smiled at me then. "I would save us from dying."

"Why would you kill yourself if something happened to me?"

"I can't live my life without you, I won't do it again."

Mr. Birdie busts out little conversation, and I think about the statements that Edward has made and my mind wonders back to the letters that I found in my drawer. I try to remember to ask him about them later. School and work gets in the way, and I soon forget about the letters again.

I was always one to not want any attention drawn to myself, and when school started again, I was hoping that everyone would just forget about my birthday. Edward asked what I wanted and I told him nothing, but he said that wouldn't do. I was waiting in the hall for Edward when Alice approached to tell me about the birthday party she was planning for me at the Cullen's. She handed me my gift, and I asked her to be quiet, I didn't want the whole school to know.

Later that evening Edward came to pick me up and head to his house for the party that Alice had planned. It was all low key according to her, just the Cullen's. Carlisle and Esme gave me tickets to go to Jacksonville, Florida to see my mother. Emmett and Rosalie installed a new GPS system in my car. So, I wouldn't get lost. I thought that was funny, being I never did that much without Edward anymore. Alice and Jasper got me a gift certificate to a spa in Port Angeles, which Alice insisted that she take me too. Robbie got me a new iPod to house all the songs that Edward and I collected. I was into the classic like Edward. My mother would always play them around the house. He also said that Edward could record his lullaby that he had made for me onto it. Henry…always the prankster like his father, bought me a gift certificate to La Perla. I blushed when he handed it to me. He pulled me aside later and told me that it was not what he wanted to give to me, but his father made him do it. Edward gave me a crystal heart shaped bracelet, informing me that it was his mothers, and he wanted me to have it. I cried a little when he gave it to me.

The party went off without a hitch, the only down fall during the night was the paper cut I received while opening one of my presents. I quickly placed the finger in my mouth, which shocked the crap out of me, but had all the Cullen's watching with rapt attention.

The following day, which was actually my birthday, Charlie took me out to dinner at the Lodge. Which was fancy for us, he gave me a digital camera, and my mother sent me a scrapbook to fill with pictures of my time in Forks. I was quite shocked to see my parents working together and coordinating a birthday present for me. They hadn't worked together on something like this in years. Jake stopped by and gave me a dream catcher, and I hung it at the head of my bed. Maybe this would take away all the dreams about my grandmother.

A couple of months pass, Edward and I hang out every day we can. Sometimes we lay in the meadow and talk about life, other times we just sit around his house, and I listen to him play the piano for hours. I'm standing in the hallway of his house looking at a painting in the hall when Edward rushes to me, and pushes me towards his room, and places a finger over my mouth, telling me to be quite. He stands still, concentrating on things going on down stairs. I raise my eyebrow, and he reaches up to smooth it back down.

"Edward," Alice yells, she doesn't have to do this but she does it for my benefit.

"You can talk now Bella. It's Ashton." He grabs my hand and leads me out of the room, down the steps and toward the living room. My heart is pounding fast, and I don't know what is going on. When I round the corner, I see several different people standing there talking. All conversations stop when they see me.

"Isabella," one of the males state, and I don't know what to do. He approaches holding out his hand.

"I am Ashton" I shake his hand, and I notice that he is no different from Edward and his family. He is vampire too, and I get a little scared of the situation.

"She doesn't remember, or know about what happened Ashton, we haven't gotten that far." Edward explains to him, and I wonder what he is talking about, until I think about the letters in my book bag.

"You're Ashton," I ask "the one from the letters?" Edward looks at me and I nod. Letting him know that I have read them, and know a percentage.

"Yes, from the letters," he chuckles. "I didn't know that you added me too them. I never read them to see what you had said; I just figured they were all private."

"You knew me?"

"Yes, Isabella. Please take a seat and we will explain everything. Then I will tell you why I have come." Ashton stated and I move to one of the couches to listen to his story. Edward follows me and sits beside me taking my hand.

"My name is Ashton Jones, and I am the reason that tragedy struck you family." He stopped and sighed then pinched his nose in a very Edward fashion, but continued. "I was changed into a vampire the very same time that you and your daughter where changed. I never knew who did it, but it was done. I was a scientist in my previous life, and I now wonder if that was the main reason for my vampire existence. However, I was invited to Volterra, Italy in 2012 to help Aro and Joham work on some projects experimenting with the possibility of hybrids in the world. Much like Robbie and Henry," he stopped and nodded toward the boys.

"When things got ugly and took a turn for the worse. Aro decided to experiment on your daughter and her mate. He lured you all to Volturi where he enslaved Edward, Alice, you, your daughter, and her mate. He was determined to make a better place, according to him. He had found ways to make humans with hybrids and use them as a food source. He was also determined to rid the world of humans all together. The worst thing he did thought was to use your daughter and her mate to breed a different species of vampire. One never seen before, and turn them into killing machines, that would wipe out the population of the world in a matter of days." I gasp because I couldn't imagine something so awful happening to the people I cared about, and potentially myself or my child.

"When I saw what they were doing, I used my talent, which they didn't know about and traveled through time to set a different course. Aro play right into my hand the second time around, and used me to send all of you back to the time you were born."

"So, hold on…you are telling me that you sent all of us back in time?" I ask trying to wrap my mind around what he is telling me. I guess if Edward can read minds, Alice can predict the future, and Jasper can emit calm waves, then it's not impossible for him to be able to do the same thing.

"Yes, but you where the exception," he frowns, but glances at me.

"How was I the exception?"

"You are able in your vampire life, and right now to a degree, but not like when you are a vampire, to shield yourself from my power. You shield people, which is why Edward is unable to read you mind. You shield a person with mental abilities…that is why I couldn't do you too at the time."

"You must have figured it out, because here I sit, and I'm human."

"Yes, you raised your shield allowing me to do so. You could have remained a vampire and just meet up with Edward later, but you where admit about having your daughter. So, we waited."

Ashton continues to tell me the story of how, he visited Carlisle and would guide him through what needed to be done to right the wrongs done in the past. How it only took us minutes or days to live our life, but how it took them years to get to this point. I couldn't believe that they had been made to choose this life all over again, and yet here they all stood, with some differences.

"I stopped by to help you guys. Aro from the future has learned of our disappearance, he is not happy. That doesn't matter to us at the moment. The Aro in this realm as of right now, knows nothing about you guys. We don't need someone telling him, and have all the plans we laid out fall apart. You have the element of surprise here, and I don't want to lose it."

"So, what does this mean?" Carlisle asks.

"Don't take anyone into your house expect the people that come with me. I have a feeling that there will be somebody who will try to destroy what you have going. She is coming. Alice can't see her yet, because she is hiding behind others. She was born before you Carlisle and she is very tactful in getting away. She came after Bella once and she might come again. Just be careful, okay." Ashton stated.

Ashton stays and talks with the others for a while, and I learn more about the other hybrids that are with him, but do not ask any more questions and try to figure out what is going on. Once they leave Edward pulls me aside to ask about the letters, and I have them in my backpack carrying them around just waiting for the right time to pull them out and have him look at them.

"Why didn't you tell me you had seen the letters?"

"I wanted to and meant to show them to you, but things keep getting in the way. When Ashton showed up it all made a little more sense."

"I guess I could see that. Do you want me to tell you what I know about them?" he asked and I nodded my head.

"To the best of my understanding the letters to Carlisle where sent while you where a captive of the Volturi. We have lived this life before, and I don't completely understand how it all happened, all I know is it is done."

"Do you remember anything from our time together?" I ask because I just have to know if he remembered anything because I didn't or, at least I don't think I did.

"No, I can't remember anything that happened, but I can remember everything that I have been through. Your letters got me through the roughest patches of my life." He looks somber, and sad. I lean over and rub his shoulders.

"These letters are what made me believe I wasn't a monster, and could be something more. Something for you and Renesmee, this is the name of our daughter according, to Ashton. I even made sure you where safe during your life." He pauses for a moment, and I wonder just how long Edward Cullen has been in my life.

"I was your piano teacher." He blurts out and I gasp. I rise from the bed and start pacing the floor. I can't believe it, he was always around me, my teacher, my friend, my piano teacher. I walk over to the glass wall, and look out over the backyard into the forest. I stand for awhile just looking out the window, when I turn, I can see Edward sitting in the corner of the room with his hands in his hair pulling at it. I walk over and remove his hands stooping to his level.

"I had a crush on my piano teacher, and when I got here I was saddened that I would never see him again. I loved the way he talked about his devotion to his long lost wife. I wanted to have that kind of love myself." I sigh, "And here, sitting right in front of me is the love of my life and my beloved piano teacher." I start to cry because something about this moment has my heart racing and butterflies accumulating in my stomach.

"Shh…baby it's okay. I know today has been stressful for you. Not only did you meet other vampires and hybrids, but you learned something about yourself and the connection you already have with my family." He rubs my back and we sit in silence for a long while. He finally suggest I head home to Charlie, to rest and he would come by later to sit with my while I sleep.

The next couple of months pass us by like the wind, and nothing seems to be the same any more. I pass a couple of motorcycles on the side of the road, and think about Jake, I hadn't seen him in a while. I call Edward, and tell him my plans for the motorcycles. When he agrees to help, we get a moving truck and load them on it, and I take them to Jake.

As I walk into the tiny garage behind Billy's house. I find that Jake has grown in size, and looks more built and manlier somehow. I shake off the thoughts of steroid use, and head straight over to him. I punch him in the arm getting his attention.

"Hey, Jake" he whips around, smiling widely, picking me up and spinning me around.

"How have you been, I haven't seen you in a while?" He asks.

"I come bearing gifts, and just so you know I want one of them for myself." I point in the direction of the moving van, and Jake follows me.

"Nice," he replies when he sees the bikes. I try to stop him from pulling the bikes from the truck, knowing that they were very heavy being that Edward lifted them like it was nothing. I couldn't even budge them. I watch in amazement, as he lifts them just like Edward, and I begin to wonder about my friend. Or, reconsider the thoughts on anabolic steroids.

"Uh…Jake have you been working out?" I try to broach the steroids talk sensitively, not wanting to accuse him directly.

"No," he states while lifting the other motorcycle out, and carrying them both toward the garage. I feel like my chin has hit the floor. I can't believe he is able to do all that he has done.

Jake and I tool around in the garage for the next couple of hours trying to figure out where to begin on the motorcycles, but truth be known I don't know anything about them. Jake makes plans and talks about different parts that he needs, and I hum in agreement. I pull away from La Push that night wondering about my dear friend, and try to remind myself to ask Edward, if he knows anything about it.

A/N: Alright, this would be my version of New Moon, no leaving, no depression, and no love involvement with Jake. I like Jake but right where he should be with Nessie. So, the next chapter we will see my version of events of Eclipse. Please if you like review.