Did you think that was the last chapter, have you no faith in me, I'd never leave it like that.

"Good bye Edward. Good bye Earth," the lasts whispers repeated over and over and then there was silence.

I was in a daze, like a zombie for the next few weeks. I paid for the hotel, took the bags and went to the airport to fly home.

I sat in second class; a woman beside me rattled her head off, trying to make conversation. I ignored her; my ears couldn't fully process words.

I walked to where Alice was picking me up. Her hug barely registered. I didn't return it. I sat in the car staring straight ahead, not really seeing, or feeling, or anything. I was a shell; it was like my mind had been wrangled up at the edge of my brain and tied there, leaving my instincts to control my body.

Everyone was happy to see me when I went home, I noticed that. I didn't smile though, didn't frown, she didn't show any emotion at all. I just accepted their embraces and went up to my room.

I sat of my sofa lounge and watched the sun rise and set, rise and set, rise and set. I didn't move, didn't speak, and didn't think, I just sat. I was a statue of my former self.

I heard them calling my name, trying to get me to move. One went as far as to try and pull me from the lounge, I merely looked at them and he backed away, I think it was Emmett.

One day Esme came up, I saw her in the reflection from the glass; Carlisle was behind her, leaning against the entry way to the door.

She walked up and sat beside me, she draped and arm across my shoulder and held me to her. "Edward, you need to move, to hunt at least. You haven't moved from the spot for weeks."

I nodded, stood and walked out of the house. Esme told the truth, my throat was blazing but I relished the pain. It made me feel a little but real. I hadn't hunted in months, when I was with … her I was too busy to hunt. I couldn't care less about the human scents around me; I was too entranced with the girl I was with.

I ran through the forest, the wind flying against my face. I just ran and ran, barely bothering to breathe.

I caught scent of a deer, my throat flared; I was on the animal in the next second. My mind playing no part in the hunt.

I killed three more deer that day, the fire in my throat diminished I walked back to the house. Except which way was that. I had no idea where I was, just somewhere in the forest. Not bother enough to climb a tree and look I sat down and closed my eyes. I leant against a tree and let my mind come back.

It was like a fog had cleared, and in its place was searing pain. There was a whole cut right through my chest. I smiled, Bella had been real. The pain was a reminder that she was real.

Bella wouldn't have wanted this, me being so lifeless and hurting my family. I stood, knowing her last wish. It filled me with strength, I ran until I found a familiar part of the forest, the river.

I followed it to the house. I smiled as I saw Esme fixing things, I laughed as I watched Jasper and Emmett wrestle. I shook my head at Rosalie's vain thoughts as she did her hair and chuckled as Alice skipped about the garden, looking exactly like a pixie.

Was that Edward? I heard a chorus of thoughts as I laughed.

"Yes, I laughed," I hollered.

"It's about time brother," Emmett boomed and clapped me on the back.

"Are you … better now?" Alice asked. She looked really sad; her thoughts made me realize she thought that she had hurt me. Now she felt guilty.

"No… but I'm going to try now," I laughed. They all huddled in and gave me a family hug. Maybe my life wouldn't be so bad after all; I had my family here to help.

"So… are we going to Denali now or?" I asked.

"If you want," Esme smiled. "Okay everyone then, pack it up, we're going to Denali." She clapped her hand and ran up to her room.

I ran to mine and started to pack. A pile of boxes appeared outside my room and I took them in and packed in my CDs.

It took all day, but soon we were ready to leave. We would go to Denali. Maybe I would give Tanya a chance, she was beautiful, but weren't all vampires. She still wasn't as gorgeous as my Bella.

The moving vans arrived; we let the humans do all the heavy lifting, just to put on a good show of us being human. I sat and waited in my empty room, I'd miss Forks, the ride of my life started here.

Memories of Bella and me in this room flooded my mind, I relived them laughing at the funny parts and frowning at the bad parts. Soon I couldn't take any more. I clapped my hands against my thighs and stood up.

I decided to walk around in the forest for a bit, try and clear my mind. All the animals didn't run away when they smelt me, because there were no animals to run away. Strange, but I didn't worry.

Soon I found myself on the familiar track to the meadow. Bella was buried here, I let my emotions show. I was alone. I could only show my true grievances when I was alone. Then I smelt it, a vampire's scent, in the meadow, my meadow.

I bared my teeth and flew into the meadow. I jumped on the intruder and we skidded through the grass and crashed against a tree, a big streak of mud showed behind us where we unearthed the ground.

The smell of dirt filled the air, along with the smell of this new vampire.

I pinned her down; she had long brown hair with streaks of red in it. Her skin was deathly pale like all of ours but that was all I could see, her face was to the ground.

"What are you doing here?" I snarled. "This is our territory, go or I will kill you on behalf of my family."

I looked around when the girl didn't answer, and then I saw it. Isabella's grave, it had been dug up.

I was that much more enraged by this intruder, "You're sick, why did you dig the girl's grave up? Who are you?" I pulled her head up so she could speak.

"Edward," she gasped.

No, no, it couldn't be, she was gone. Never to return, she was supposed to be in heaven, happy and free. Not a… a… how could she be a vampire?

"Isabella?" I asked, I felt her nod underneath me and jumped up from her back.

Kind of depressing hey, I felt weird when I was righting it, not really seeing or hearing myself.