The last chapter. I hoped you liked it just as much as I loved writing it.

EPOV:

I turned at the sound and saw someone I thought I wouldn't hope to see right now. Charlie Swan. He stood ten feet away from us with tears in his eyes and he was sobbing. His eyes locked onto Bella and he sobbed harder than ever.

"How?" he barely whispered.

I didn't answer. I just turned my attention back to Bella. I rested my head onto her chest, waiting for her heart to beat; begging it to beat. I only heard Charlie's and the wolf's hearts beating. I just wanted to hear her distinct heartbeat. Just one more time. But it didn't. It stayed just as still as mine did.

I cried out again. And then I heard everyone else begin to cry. Alice sunk to her knees with her head in her hand; sobbing hard. And Jasper wrapped his arms around her. Esme held onto Carlisle's chest and he hugged her tight with his head on hers. Rosalie wrapped her arms around herself and Emmett cradled her into his chest-just like what I would do with Bella.

Why? Why me? Why Bella? My Bella. Why did this have to happen to her? What did I do to deserve this? What did I do wrong?

I shook my head in disbelief, picked up Bella, and, at vampire speed, began to run to the house. I didn't care if Charlie realized I was suddenly gone. I didn't care if the others tried to stop me. I didn't care if Alice saw this coming. I just wanted to be alone with my angel one more time. I set her on my bed ad held her close to my body as I sobbed into her beautiful hair. Her scent was still alive, but barely. I inhaled as much of it as possible before it could disappear.

I began to run through the memories of being with her. The first time I saw her. The first time we sat together in class. The first time her scent hit my nostrils. The time I saved her from getting crushed by Tyler's van. Her holding onto me while I ran through the forest. Her reaction when she saw the meadow. The first time I introduced her to my family. The first danger we ran into.

I inhaled her scent again and smelled blood with it. I looked at the base of her neck and saw drops of blood coming from the bite wound. I stared at the blood, wishing to taste it, but I fought the monster inside me. It's only going to be warm for a short time. Take it while it lasts, my mine said to me. No, no, no. I can't. I won't, I argued with myself.

Maybe, just this one time, I could taste it. Just one more time. I gave in and pressed my lips against the gash. I closed my eyes and began to slowly began to drink. I took slow, medium 

sized sips. Her blood still tasted better than I imagined. I savored the flavor as it seeped into my mouth and slithered down my almost burning throat. It was the most delicious blood I've ever tasted. Not one human that I've killed compared to Bella's sweet blood.

I didn't know why I was giving into the monster inside of me. All this time, I was able to resist it. Able to control it. Now, right after her death, I let myself leave my body, and let my true side take over me. The fact of what I truly was, which was making me drain my only loved one, made me begin to cry.

I sobbed and pulled away form the gash. I let the blood on the edge of my mouth fall and I wrapped my arms around Bella's lifeless body. I whimpered, cried out and sobbed in pain and sorrow. This pain was too much. I would do anything now to become human so I could die and be reunited with me angel once more.

I smelled the familiar scent of my family, the wolves, and Charlie. I heard the front door open and close slowly. Then I heard them begin to walk up to my room. I tightened my grip on Bella. I didn't want them to take her away from me. I couldn't let them. I would die without her.

I heard a knock on my door. "Edward?" I heard Alice whimper out.

I growled and yelled, "Go away. Leave us alone."

"Edward please let us in," she whimpered out again.

"No," I sobbed.

"Please."

At that I gave in. They entered the room slowly; one by one. They all had the most pained faces on in the world. I couldn't take their pain. I couldn't take anymore pain from anyone. This was the greatest loss in the universe. Nothing compared to this. Not even my death.

Everything fell out of place. The world stopped in its tracks and died; like I did. My memories of being human were nothing to me now. The only things I remembered were with Bella. And those would be the only thing I remembered.

I felt a pair of warm arms wrap around me. I growled lightly from the touch. But it was a hesitant touch. Careful. When I found out it was Esme holding me, my low growl turned into a very thoughtful and soft purr. She put her head on top of mine. "I'm so sorry, Edward," she whispered.



I sobbed again and my mother held me tighter. She cried with me. So much pain. So much sorrow. All I knew was that I was holding while being held. That was all that mattered right now.

EsmePOV:

My son. My loving, caring son was in so much pain. I couldn't bear see him like this. He was a million times worse than he was when we left Bella. He looked as if he was dead with Bella. Nothing seemed to matter to him anymore. Not even his own life. He seemed to be wishing he was in Volterra, begging the Volturi to kill him.

I kept my grip on him and sobbed into his hair. His purr was lighter than the air. "I'm so sorry, Edward," I whispered. We cried together. We all did. Edward was now so vulnerable. With one wrong movement, he could collapse and die.

I'm here for you, son. I'm here for you, I thought to him. He must have heard it because he turned to me and gave me a thankful kiss on my cheek. Then he rested his head on Bella's. I turned to the rest of the family and nodded, signaling them to leave.

"We'll leave you two alone, my son," I said and kissed him and his forehead and cheek, then let go of him and left the room. I closed the door behind me as I left.

Everyone else was downstairs. I decided now was the right time. Alice was at my side at once. He eyes held readable emotions. Sorrow, pain, worry, sadness. She apparently saw what I was going to do.

"Are you sure, Mom?" she asked.

I nodded. "Very."

She went to go sit next to Jasper. I sat down next to Carlisle.

I sighed. "Charlie, I have something to tell you. It involves all of us, even Bella."

He turned his attention to me with a mixture of pain and fright on his face.

I sighed again and continued. "You see, we're not what you think. And be that, I mean-we're not human."

At that, Charlie's eyes widened and he gulped. I still continued. "We-we're…vampires. And if you don't believe us, we could tell you all about our kind."

He stared at me as if I was the craziest person alive. "P-please tell me you're joking."



"I wish I was, Charlie. But I'm not."

"Did Bella know about this," he almost yelled.

I bowed my head in shame. "Yes," I replied.

He dropped his head into his hands. "Oh my goodness. How did it come to this? How long has she known?"

"Ever since she started dating Edward."

"Oh god. Oh god no. I want to know everything."

I started off on the first day of school with Edward. I told him why he wasn't at school for a few days after that and where he went. I told him about how Bella found out our secret. I told about James, Victoria, and Laurent. I told him about how Bella really ended up in the hospital a year ago and why we left. I told him about the werewolves. I told him everything up until Bella's death.

"Oh god. This can't be happening. This is a dream," he said when I finished.

"Like I said: I wish it was. But it's not."

He sighed. "Okay. I want to talk to Edward."

EPOV:

I did nothing but hold onto Bella. Her body almost has lost all of her heat. I heard only part of the conversation that went on in the living room. I mainly was thinking about what I should do to get myself killed. Maybe I could try to kill one of the Volturi guards. If I succeeded at that, I would surely be killed.

I heard someone enter my room. I growled in anger and of feeling of being trespassed upon.

"It's just me Edward," I heard Charlie say.

I stopped growling and turned my head to look at him. His eyes flickered between me and Bella.

"What do you need, Charlie?"

"To talk to you."

He came to the end of the bed and sat down. He sighed. "Look, I'm sorry about the way I've been treating you, Edward. I just thought I knew everything about you. There are no secrets in this small town you know? Well, you're family and La Push are the only exceptions. I just 

thought you were someone that would take my daughter for a few years then leave her. I didn't know how fragile she was to you. Literally. I know how you feel. She was the only one I had. I didn't know her life was on thin ice when she met you. I can now see why you left her. But ya'll always seem to find a way." He sighed again. "I just-I never knew this was what was really happening. I thought everything was normal, but I was wrong. I hope that you find a way around this like I hope to do. I'm really, truly sorry, son."

I was stunned about what he just told me. I thought he wanted to yell at me for lying to him. But he just wanted to apologize. I stared at him for a long while before saying, "Thank you for your concern, Charlie. And I do hope to find a way around this. I only wish I was human so I could die easily and be with her again. As well as my parents. I know she meant a lot to you," I said as I looked at her. "but we all go through bad and good times. And she'll always be with us."

"Always," he agreed.

"I thank you again, Charlie. I hope you pull through this more than I do."

"You're welcome, Edward," he said and go up and left.

I stayed in the bed with Bella. I missed her so much already. Nothing could compare to my pain of loosing her. This was the worst thing that's ever happened to me. And tomorrow would be even worse.

1:45 PM: (A.N: Bella's body is still fresh. I don't want you to think it started rotting yet.)

I still lay with my angel. Her scent was almost completely gone. In about an hour, it would disappear forever. I kept sobbing into her hair. Soon, I heard a knock on the door.

"Come in."

The whole family came in with pained faces. I looked into their thoughts and they were blocked. That got me suspicious.

"What's going on?"

Carlisle was the only one that spoke. "Edward…it's time to let her go."

I immediately understood. "No," I roared. I tightened my grip on Bella's body and growled at them.



Carlisle looked at the others and nodded his head. Emmett and Jasper grabbed me and tried to pry me off of her body, but it didn't work. Esme and Alice stood beside the bed, waiting for and opening to get Bella.

I growled and thrashed around in my brother's arms. I couldn't live without her. I can't.

For about an hour and a half, my family tried to reason wit me as well as my brother's trying to pull me away from her. They finally succeeded. I growled at the others as they picked up my angel's body.

"No, please. Don't take her away from me. I can't live without her! Please! Just a little bit longer. Just a minute longer, an hour; please! Please don't do this to me. PLEASE!!" I begged them, but they didn't listen.

I gave up struggling against my iron arms that held me and went limp. I began to sob and whimper. I felt a hand being placed on my shoulder.

"I'm extremely sorry, my son. We don't to, but we must do this. I'm sorry," Carlisle said.

I dropped to the ground and my brothers followed me. I'm so sorry, Edward, I heard Esme think and she was then behind me; holding me up against her body. I turned and held on to her tightly and sobbed into her chest.

Jasper and Emmett left us alone. I didn't care. Esme was close to how I felt. First, she lost her baby when she was a human, and now she lost the most important person to us. All of us.

We stayed together of a long time. I felt like years. It felt right to be with someone who's experienced this kind of pain. It was unbearable pain. Pain that, no matter what, you wanted to die once you learn about what happened. This kind of pain was rare and extremely unbearable. I wanted to die; right here, right now.

(Later that day)

It was almost five o'clock and Bella's funeral was in an hour and thirty minutes. I was going, but it was going to be the hardest thing I would do. Pretty much all of Forks was going to be at the funeral. Even Renee and Phil were flying in from Phoenix to be here. Some of Bella's old friends from Phoenix were coming too. A lot of people were coming to Forks.

I first decided to stay in the back of the crowd, that is until Alice saw that and told me she was going to keep a very close eye on me. I was devastated. We all were. Most of the day, we did 

nothing but cry. I stayed in my room the whole day. I only left to take a shower for the funeral and that was it.

I finished getting ready and went downstairs. Everyone else was there. Standing; waiting for me. I nodded and we went to our cars. We all drove at human pace, to depressed to care how fast we were going.

When we got to the cemetery where the funeral was being held, not much people were there yet. There was an hour left still. I was impressed by how many people arrived in less than twenty minutes. Only a few more people needed to be here for everyone to be here.

When they did get here, they sat down and the funeral started right away. It took me a lot of effort to not get up and leave. Of course Alice was watching my future; but I couldn't care less about that. I didn't want to be here. I wanted to bring James and Victoria back to life and kill them over and over again for killing my Bella.

I didn't realize I started sobbing and that Esme was holding me. I heard multiple people sobbing and crying. It didn't matter who they were; friends or family. We all had something in common-loving Bella. And now she was gone forever.

At the end of the ceremony, we all gathered around Bella's coffin and said what we needed to. Everyone left but us. We didn't say anything-yet. We all thought it was too personal. Alice went first.

"Bella, when I saw you dying, I missed you already. I'm so sorry we weren't there for you in your time of need. We blame ourselves for your death. We weren't paying attention; we were irresponsible. Carless. You were a sister to me Bella and I will always think of you like that. Nothing will change that. I love you so much Bella, and will never forget you."

Next was Rosalie.

"Oh, Bella. I'm sorry about the way I treated you. If anyone should be treated like that, it's me. I thought you were a complete fool for being in our lives. I was the fool. I was just angry because I thought you would ruin everything. I'm sorry I thought you were a weak human girl. I'm sorry I thought all you were was a menace and threat to our family. You brought us peace and happiness. And you brought my brother to life with your existence. You're the best sister anyone could have. You were, are, and will remain the biggest part of this family."

After Rose, Jasper went.

He sighed. "Bella, in you, you were the most beautiful, careful, intelligent, forgiving person the universe has ever known. You were there for us; and we only wish we were there for you. 

You're danger is our fault. We should've been more careful. You're stronger than us, yet as fragile as a delicate flower sprouting out of the ground in spring. You're very special to us. You're the most important thing to us as we live on. We love you, and wee will always love you."

Then Emmett.

"Bella, you were the greatest person ever. Nobody could come close to compare to you. I miss you deeply. We all will. To me, you were the only thing that kept this family going as it is. You kept us alive and well, and we'll stay that way-like you would want us to. We will never get revenge over anyone ever again, because you would want us to keep the memory of you alive by not taking in violence. You were our star that lead us through the darkened sky, the shield to our fragile life. And you always will be, sis."

Carlisle.

"Bella, you were my daughter since the first time you walked into our lives. No one could show more love than you. You were the greatest loss of this family, and nothing will keep us from living the way you want us to live. Please, guide us as we journey through the life we meant to have. Protect us from anything in our way. Help us make the right choices. You will forever be the reason this family will live on, strong and loving."

Then Esme.

"Bella, dear. You were the person that replaced the tragic death of my first child. The person that helped us remind ourselves how we were before we changed. You let us believe there is always a person to trust. And if we can trust you, we can trust anyone we believe in. Charlie misses you dearly and understands what you have lived through. You are very brave, loving, and caring for our family. We love you, Bella. And the memory of you will be carried n forever."

Everyone looked at me. It was my time.

"Isabella Marie Swan, you were the perfect person. You showed us how to love, how to be strong; you taught us everything. You showed us how violence is never the answer, even if it does happen. I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. You are the light that guides my pitch black life. My shy is now filled with the light of the moon, the stars, and comets because of you. My only wish is to be human once more. I could be with you, my mother and my father, but I know this is what you would want me to do. Live on with you as my leader. My light. If there was any way to be with you again, I would take it. You held me tightly and told me you loved me, and that was the only thing I needed to hear to continue my existence.



"I'm sorry I was careless. You took bigger risks than any of us could imagine. You will always be my only loved one. I will never love another soul for as long as I live. I will repair, I promise; but you will always stay in my memory and my heart will always only love, and be pulled together by you. You are my love, my angel, my life. You are everything. I love you Bella. Never forget that. I LOVE YOU!"

I was crying at the end. We all set flowers down at her grave.

Here lies Isabella Marie Swan.

1989-2008

The perfect friend, daughter, and lover.

Was loved and will always be loved and

never forgotten. She will stay in our

memories for all eternity. She lives within us.

And forever will.

We all stayed where we were. And out of nowhere, I felt a presence. I stopped moving. Then, I heard the most beautiful voice in the world.

"I love you too, my love. And I will always be with you. Forever. I love you all."

I turned at the voice. Her voice. "Did anyone hear that?"

"Hear what, Edward?" Esme asked.

"Bella," I whispered.

They all looked at me with freaked out faces. I then heard a giggle. Her giggle. I turned at the sweet sound of it and heard her giggle again. I was finally curious enough to follow the beautiful sound to see where it leads to. The others followed me. The giggles kept going, leading us out of the cemetery and into the forest.

"I hear it now," Jasper said.

"Me too," the others agreed.

We kept going, listening to her beautiful sound. We went deep into the trees until we finally came into a clearing.



Colorful flowers came out from the ground and a river ran near it. Trees surrounded it and three deer were grazing on the deep green grass. I looked around and realized this was the meadow. Our meadow.

I herd her giggle again and I looked at where it came from and we all gasped. And there, in the middle of the meadow, a transparent Bella was wearing a beautiful blue dress and was running around. She sat down in the place we first laid down and turned to us. She smiled and whispered, "I love you."

Then she disappeared. We were all shocked at what we just saw. We stayed there until the others didn't feel Bella's presence anymore. But I did. And I always will.

"Forever."

OMG. This is the longest chapter I've EVER written. Please tell me how you think. I wanna know. I'm sorry that this is over though. (Sniff-sniff)