I awoke with a jolt.
As I picked myself up from the floor, I stared around wildly at my room. . .
Neither of them were there.
Shaking my head and rubbing my bleary eyes, I walked downstairs slowly.
Everything was soft and dreamy: objects were blurred as if someone had wafted a square of sheer fabric over my eyes. Out of the gloomy mist, I heard a piano melody, soft, sweet and stark against the deathly quiet night.
I stepped out into the backyard and my vision suddenly cleared, like that scene in 'the wizard of Oz' where Dorothy steps out of her dinky little cottage and everything turns from black and white to color.
I reeled back in disbelief as I saw what was waiting for me against the line of trees that lead to the forest.
Right near the path that Edward had led me down so many months ago on that terrible night, sat a glorious, pearl-colored Grande piano. Edward himself sat at the low stool before it, his long, pale fingers flying across the ivory. His head was bowed as if in mourning. For the first time I noticed he was dressed head to toe in black, and he seemed to be in pain as he rocked back and forth slowly. I stood, frozen to the spot, as he suddenly looked up. his expression was wild and contorted in pain as two figures came waltzing out of the woods.
The first, I recognized as Jacob.
The second was a tall, slim girl. She had the same tanned, russet skin as the Quileutes had, and her long black hair swung down to her lower back.
His arm was around her.
She stopped and looked into his eyes.
He held her close to him.
She embraced him back.
Their lips met.
In a flash, Edward was at my side. His cool arms held me tightly, as he trailed his mouth softly across my neck.
"Bella", he whispered.
"My foolish Bella"
"Edward stop!", I choked out, trying to tear my eyes away from Jacob and the unknown girl embracing in the moonlight.
"is this your Jacob now, Bella? Is this your protector? Is this the boy who would never hurt you?", he murmured.
He spun me around to face him.
He wiped away the single tear sliding down my cheek and said,
"I will never leave you, ever, ever, again. You're all mine now"
It was at that moment i woke up to find both Edward and Jacob's eyes staring at me worriedly.