Epilogue
Year 2060
My name is Brooke Esme Cullen-Black I am the middle child of William and Sophia Cullen-Black. I was the middle of five children and I just turned seventeen. My life was crazy right now, I had given birth to my daughter only five months ago. Kiara Isla Lily Cullen-Black was everything to me, she was my daughter and although she wasn't planned I didn't regret her for a moment. I was the first in my family to have a child out of love and I feared I would be judged but my family were only supportive, my grandparents, Renesmee and Jacob more than anyone. They helped take care of Kiara all the time, they let me go out with my friends and study as much as I wanted by taking care of my daughter.
I guess you could call me the rebel of the family, something I have been told I got from my aunt Lauren, she was the middle kid as well I guess it's what happens when you have both younger and older siblings. I have an older brother and sister, they are eight years older than me, Ashton and Phoebe were inseparable and always have been. Ashton phased when he was eleven and became the alpha of the pack after my father stepped down last year, he chose to phase, something my grandfather Carlisle was unsure if we could do as Immortal Humans. It was later confirmed when I chose to phase and so did my little sister Emilia. Phoebe never phased but she was always Ashton's shadow, that was until Aaron Uley phased. After the twins my parents wanted another child but had trouble conceiving, until I came along. I was born in 2043 and I was named Brooke Esme Cullen-Black, I guess I was the 'problem' child, something that seems to run in the family as the middle girl always seems to be the trouble maker. I was told I took after my aunt Lauren in that way. After me was Emilia Renee, she was born two years after me, and although im closer to Emilia in age than Phoebe we sort of clashed, her personality is so different to mine and we argue a lot. She was still my sister though and I would die for her, just as long as I don't have to deal with her drama. After Emilia is Charlie Carlisle, he's five years younger than me and was named Charlie after our great-great-grandfather who died a day before Charlie was born. The death of Charlie was heart-breaking in our family. He had lived in the Cullen mansion towards the end of his life, he couldn't do much. He lived to 86 but was immobile towards the end. I remember being a small child and wondering why everyone was so sad the months following his death. My grandmother Bella in particular, I didn't understand back then that it was her father, her father who was the last connection to the human world for her. My parents stopped after Charlie, I wasn't sure if it was because of the death in the family or they simply only wanted five kids but that was us, the alpha's children, the second generation of the famous Black children.
My father's five siblings didn't all have kids so we didn't actually have that many cousins, there was Isla and Lily, my best friends in the entire world, they were Aunt Lauren and Uncle Nick's twin daughters, born not long after me. We were all Shapeshifters, we even had our own little pack separated from the main one, I guess you could call me the alpha but we didn't view it that way, we were just three best friends. I was just bossier I guess. My other cousins were Oscar, Tyler and Jonah. They were Aunt Izzy and Uncle Jason's sons. Oscar was Emilia's best friend, they were always around each other and the two youngest boys were best friends too. My other cousins were through my mother, my uncle Matthew had two children, well did have. His son Benjamin was my only living cousin on my mother's side, he lived in Italy with my two uncles and my aunts. My other cousin was Allesandra but she had died when she was six months old, I had met her when she was a baby and I remember hoping we'd be close friends but she was taken from us way too early. My Italian family was distant, although I know they didn't mean it. It had only been nine years since Allesandra died and I could hardly blame them for not making the effort. They had their own things to deal with. Here in La Push I had plenty of family to go around and although they aren't officially related we grew up with a lot of the wolves children too, Jason and Erin Uley's son Aaron spent a lot of time with us as children, or I guess you can say my older siblings, when he was thirteen he phased and imprinted on Phoebe, making him at our house every day from then on. One of my close friends was Harry Clearwater's son, Ollie. A lot of my family thought he was the father of Kiara, and whilst I wished he was biologically her father he was the closest thing she had to a dad. Her real father was a jerk and an idiot. My parents weren't even aware I was dating anyone until I fell pregnant and I never revealed who he was out of embarrassment and also because I didn't want anyone tracking him down. He didn't deserve to know his daughter. Kiara loved Ollie and I knew as she grew up that he was the only male outside her family that she would need in her life. Even if we weren't together he promised to always take care of us and I trusted him completely.
The family was growing, year by year. We weren't the first generation of the Cullen's and we wouldn't be the last. My daughter would carry on the name as would my nieces and nephews, my cousins and brothers and sisters. I wondered if one day those carrying the Cullen name would have any idea of their vampire and shapeshifter past or if the story will fade through the generations.
One thing I knew for sure though was as the Cullen family expanded and their influence in the Volturi grew one thing was evident:
The Cullen's will be forever.
The End.
