A/N: Ahh sorry guys. I was caught up in stuff and then I got ride of my new story and started another new story, and it's just been haywire. Well my new, new story is named A Walk to Eternity, it's inspired by A Walk to Remember, one of my favorite movies. Please check it out, you won't be disappointed. But on another note, basketball season is over and I have a week till AAU, so maybe I'll get another chapter of this up during the weekend, but I'm going to be coaching a soccer team, but I'll hopefully have more time for this. Anyways

February 25, 2009

I don't own anything.

Edward's POV

"Okay Emmett, I'm here. Now what's all the arguing about?" I asked coming to a halt in front of Emmett and Nathan. Austin and Jasper where standing behind them. Austin had his arms crossed over his chest, and Jasper looked disgusted.

"Your present," Emmett said simply. "Nathan and I think it's a great idea, and Nathan knows it would make her so happy since he's watched her suffer over the years."

I winced at the thought. "Well, then what's the problem?"

"The problem is," Austin said coming forward, "is we cannot tell a human that we are vampires. You were lucky to find a loop hole with Bella, but there is no loop hole with your present. We cannot do it!"

"Austin, there doesn't need to be a loop hole!" Nathan yelled at him. "Don't you want to see Bella happy on her wedding day?"

"She will be happy with Edward! She will probably be mad that we are putting her at risk."

"How are we putting her at risk? Bella has tasted human blood once or twice, and hated it. She will be completely safe," Emmett said.

"She will be the only human there," Jasper said. "And we all know I don't have the most restraint."

"Jasper, Austin," I said calmly, "I know Bella will be happy on her wedding day because Alice has already seen her laughing and smiling."

"Then while risk it?" Austin asked.

"Because when I looked closely at her eyes and replayed the vision in my head, I can tell she's missing someone. The most important person to her will not be there. She will never be completely happy and Charlotte even told me this is what she wants. She wants her mother at her wedding."

"Edward, not all of the guests are like us though. They all have different diets. This is a major risk," Jasper said.

I sighed and looked down at the ground. "I know, but we should at least talk to Renee. Maybe she could just call Bella, or something. I just know that this is something I have to do for her. She's lost so much already."

Austin looked at Nathan who stared back intensely. Austin sighed and then nodded. "You're right. She's lost more then most people do."

"Jasper?" Emmett asked looking at my other brother.

"Okay, but if she comes…"

"Alice, will tell us if it's a good idea or not," I said simply.

The next day I was laying on the couch in Bella's living room holding her. She had her eyes closed probably letting her mind wonder. God how I miss just being able to hold her while she slept and how she mumbled my name in her sleep. She always looked so peaceful in her sleep.

She still looked peaceful just laying here with her eyes closed, but you could tell she was still awake. If only I stayed…

"Edward, we gotta go," Emmett said coming into the room.

Bella's eyes opened instantly and looked at Emmett. "Where exactly are you guys going to hunt?" she asked.

"We are heading to Colorado to hunt some mountain lions," Emmett said.

"Why can't I come too?"

"Because Alice is going to need you since the wedding is coming up soon. I'll never hear the end of it if I whisked you away with only two weeks left till the wedding," I said smiling.

"More the reason to go," she said smiling back.

I laughed and sighed. "I wish I could take you, but Alice and Charlotte are going to need you. Also Esme said she wanted to ask you opinion on something while I was gone."

"How long will you be gone for?"

I smiled at her and kissed the crown of her head. Déjà vu all over again. She would always ask me this as a human and she would always sound worried. I couldn't help but smile at the memory. "Only two days love. I'll be back before you know it."

I kissed her again and then got up and left with Emmett. When we got into the car I notice we weren't the only people going like I planned. "Emmett, I thought we were just going to go. Renee really only knows us."

"Well," Nathan said from the back, "I thought that once she excepted the fact that her daughter isn't human anymore and hasn't been dead for twenty-three years, she will like to know who's been with her this whole time, so I thought Austin and I should come."

"Sorry Edward, but they insisted on coming," Emmett said changing the station on the radio. "Besides Renee will be cool with it. Didn't Bella once tell you her mother wouldn't care if she married a monster?"

"Yes, but that was a long time ago, and I never thought I would actually tell Renee what I am, let alone let her meet two people she's never met in her life who just happen to be vampires too."

"Give it up Eddie, we're coming," Nathan said mockingly.

I gritted my teeth as we passed the You Are Now Leaving Washington sign. This was going to be a long ride.

Ten hours later we made it across the country to Renee and Phil's house. "I think only I should go," I told them as I parked. It was a nice gloomy day outside, meaning I could walk around outside if I really wanted to.

"No way, I'm going," Emmett said.

"Me too," Nathan said.

"Same," Austin chimed in.

"No. You can't all come. Emmett can come I guess, but she doesn't have a clue who you two are, and we shouldn't ambush her. If everything goes good today, then you can meet her tomorrow if she wants to meet you."

"Fine," Nathan and Austin said together.

I rolled my eyes and turned to Emmett. "Let's go."

When we got to the door, I took a deep breath and rang the door bell. "This isn't going to work is it?" I murmured to Emmett.

"Well, we can only hope it does," he said quickly as a seventeen year old girl opened the door.

Emmett looked over to me quickly. Did Renee have another child? He thought.

"Looks to be that way," I said for only him to hear.

What do we do now? Do we have to tell Bella? Should we tell her what her half-sister is?

I shrugged. "Hello, is your mother there?" I asked politely.

She looked in awe at us. She looked very much like her sister. She had deep chocolate, brown eyes and dark brown hair, but she was tan and a little taller then Bella was. Also her face wasn't heart-shaped like Bella's, but more like an oval.

"Uh, yea, would you like to come in?" she asked timidly.

I looked at Emmett and shook my head. "That's okay. It's a nice day outside."

She looked at us and then looked past us at the gray sky and looked at us like we were crazy. Then she walked down the hallway and called for her mother.

Renee came out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a towel and then she looked up at us. She stopped in her tracks and her eyes opened wide.

"Mom, what's wrong? Do you know them?" the girl asked.

Her mother shook her head and turned to her daughter. "Eliza I think you should go to your room for a bit and let me talk to the two boys."

Eliza looked at her mother and then hesitantly walked to her room. Renee then turned to us and walked to the screen door. "May I help you?" she asked, her voice shaking.

"Yes, you can actually. I'm not sure if you remember me, but my name is Edward Cullen and this is my brother Emmett Cullen. I used to date your other daughter Isabella Swan," I said softly hoping not to scare her away.

"Yes, yes, I know, I was just hoping my eyes were deceiving me," she said looking at a picture on the wall next to her.

It was a picture of Bella whenever she lived in Arizona. She was smiling at the camera and lying in the desert floor. She looked beautiful.

"No I'm afraid they aren't."

"But how can you look like that. The last time I saw you, you were in the hospital room with… her… and you looked the same," Renee said with fear in her eyes looking back at Emmett and me.

Is this some kind of joke? Shouldn't they be in their thirties? They should not like Eliza's age still. There is no way that this is true. Maybe I'm dreaming.

"No Renee you are not dreaming," I said to her.

Emmett gave me a harsh look. She's not ready for that yet Edward!

"What? How did you know what I was thinking?" she asked frightened.

"I'm sorry, but there is a reason we are here. We need to tell you exactly what happened to Bella twenty-three years ago," I said calmly.

"You don't know what happened to her. I was there before it happened with Charlie whenever you dumped her and moved! You have no idea what it was like seeing her like that! You don't know what happened to her!" she yelled at me. I noticed Eliza coming out of her room to get a better look.

Why is he doing this to her? Eliza thought.

I sighed. "I know I hurt her, and you have no idea how much I regret what I did for so many different reasons. But I do know what happened to Bella, and I came here to explain it to you."

"How, how do you know what happened to her?" she demanded.

"Eliza, is it? I must tell your mother in private," I said to Renee's daughter who was now staring at me in shock.

"Eliza, please go to your room," Renee said impatiently.

"Renee please come outside so I can tell you." Renee did what I asked and stepped out on the porch with Emmett and me. "I know what happened to her because she told me and my family just a few months ago when we found her."

Renee sat up in the chair she was sitting in and looked from me to Emmett and back to me. "She's alive? Is she hurt? Why didn't she call me? Where has she been? What-"

"Please, Renee, let me explain," I said. She remained quiet waiting for me to continue. "She is alive in a sense."

"What do you mean 'in a sense'? Is she or isn't she?"

"She's alive, but not the way you are alive. She's alive the way Emmett and I are."

"What does that mean? I'm pretty sure there is only one way to be alive."

"Didn't you say you were wondering how I look the way I do? How I manage to look 17 still even though we haven't seen each other in 23 years?" She nodded. "Well, then, you are mistaken. There are three ways to be alive. One way is the way you are living now, a human. Another way is the way some people live, by being a werewolf. And the third way to live is the way Emmett, Bella, my whole family, and I are living, by being a vampire."

Renee scoffed. "Edward, you don't expect me to believe you, do you? There are no such things as vampires and werewolves. Those are just myths."

"The way you heard them they are. But we exist. We walk, we talk, and we breathe even though we don't need to."

"I don't understand."

"I figured," I whispered.

"Renee, Bella is alive, but she looks like she did whenever you last saw her, except she doesn't have brown eyes anymore, and she is even paler then she was," Emmett said. "Well, actually she really doesn't look like she did when she was human, but you can tell it's her."

I shook my head. It doesn't look like the Bella I knew, or Renee knew at all. It's still her though. "Look, vampires exist. We don't have a beating heart, we can't sleep, we are extremely fast, we don't eat what you eat, and we don't age, but we do exist, and Bella is one of us now."

"It's not possible," Renee said softly.

This is a joke. There is no way my sweet Isabella is a vampire. She's been dead for twenty-three years. There is just no way that after all this time, she never told me.

"I know you don't believe us. If I had told Bella when she was a human she probably wouldn't have believed me, but lucky for me she figured it out on her own," I said smiling at the memory.

Yea, but you didn't think you were so lucky when she figured it out back then, Emmett thought smirking.

I rolled my eyes at him. "The reason Bella didn't come and tell you what she was is because she scared that you won't believe her, like you don't believe us. Plus she didn't trust herself back then to be around humans without killing one."

"Kill a human?" she asked horrified.

"Vampire's hunt humans," Emmett said simply.

"But if you are a…vampire then why didn't you kill her when you had the chance? Were you just waiting to get her trust before you kill her?" Renee yelled at me.

Probably should have mentioned our diet, huh?

"That would have been a good idea," I said only to Emmett.

"There is no way," Renee said shaking her head. "Bella would never kill another human being."

"You're right she wouldn't, and she hasn't," I said hoping to calm her down. "Emmett forgot to mention to you that my family is sort of the freak family of the vampire world. We don't hunt humans. We hunt animal, we try to live in the world as normal as possible. There are only a few of us who don't want to hunt humans, but we are the biggest clan."

"Renee, we didn't want to open up Bella to this life. We, especially Edward, didn't want her to be in danger every time she was over our house, but Bella was determined to find out what we are and normally we would have left before a human got the chance, but your daughter is a very special human," Emmett said.

Renee scoffed. "Oh yea, having a vampire fall in love with you is very special."

"Well that did happen, but that's not what I was talking about," Emmett said quickly.

"Renee, vampires having special 'gifts' and not many vampires have the same 'gift' as another. In my family the really big 'gifts' are the ones Alice, Jasper, and I have.

"Alice can see the future, but only when people made up their minds on what they are doing. Jasper can control people emotions. He knows what they feel, and can change their mood if he wants to. I can hear people's thoughts. That is how I answered your unasked question early. I heard you think it.

"The reason Bella was so special to me was she was the only person I could not hear. I could never hear what she was thinking, and I still can't! So I had no way of telling my family that she was on to us, and that she knew who we were, even though I had an idea she knew exactly what I was. By that time, however, I couldn't bring myself to go away from her. I fell in love for the first and only time, and a vampire love is like no other love. It's so strong that you can never get rid of it."

"Then why did you leave her?" Renee asked quietly.

I looked down at my shoes as I spoke, "Because at her last birthday party, she was opening up a birthday card Alice gave her, and she got a paper cut. Jasper was the newest to this lifestyle and tried to attack her. Luckily Emmett and I were able to stop him, but after the attack I was too afraid of her getting hurt again, that I left."

Renee nodded slowly. "Then what exactly happened to her?"

I sighed. I knew she believed us. I don't know how she just suddenly decided to believe us, but I think she just want to have the idea of her daughter being alive still.

When I told her the story Bella told my family a few months ago, I could tell Renee was hurting. I told her exactly what happened that got her in the hospital at the end of her junior year of high school, and I told her how Bella's life ended and her new life began. I told Renee about her new family and what they are like. Then finally I told her about Bella and I meeting again, and how I fought to get her back into my life and that we were finally getting married.

"Bella would love for you to be there when we get married," I finished.

Renee sat there for awhile taking in everything I had just told her. Emmett look from me to her and then back to me and I could tell that he knew she was going to say. I did too, because her thoughts were clear, she was just having trouble believing she has two daughters still.

"Edward," she said softly, "I would like to meet her family. I want to know everything that you don't. I want to know what she was like after the transformation happened. I want to know what it was like when she found you and what she was like when her father died. I need to know."

I nodded. "Her two brothers will be here tomorrow. Would you like them to come over?"

She nodded. "But didn't you say something about a sister too?"

"Charlotte, yes, but I'm afraid she's at home helping Alice with the wedding plans," I told her.

"Okay, I would like to meet her. I will come to the wedding," she said smiling. "I can't believe she's getting married. When is it?"

"June 23."

"That's in two weeks!" Renee said surprised.

"Yes, but we are almost done with everything and we only need you there the day of the wedding."

"But I want to see her before then. I haven't seen in her in 23 years!"

"I know, but this is my wedding present. She has no idea I'm here telling you all this."

Renee's expression gloomed again. "How do you know that she wants me to know then?"

"She told Charlotte that she wanted you there. She hasn't been herself the past few weeks. Charlotte told me yesterday that Bella told her she wants you there."

"Why didn't she just tell you?"

"Bella doesn't like looking weak. She probably thinks that there is nothing I can do about it so why bother me with another 'burden'."

"What burden?"

"I blame myself for everything that has happened to her and she doesn't think that I should. I know I should though, because it is my fault that Laurent got her," I said bowing my head.

"Well, in my book you are forgiven because you told me the truth. Thank you, Edward," she said smiling at me.

I smiled back at her. "You're welcome Renee. Nathan and Austin will come by tomorrow to speak with you."

"Will you two come too?"

I looked at Emmett who nodded, and then nodded back to her. "See you tomorrow."

Then Emmett and I got back into my car and drove to our hotel. I could already see Bella's face when her mother comes to our wedding. I was so happy I could do this for her.

A/N:Only Two Chapters Left!!! The next chapter is the wedding! And then we have the epilogue. Thank you so much for staying with me!!