I climbed out of my truck once I was back at my cozy house, wondering if what had just happened was a dream. Charlie was on the sofa, watching football.

"Hey Bella, how was dinner?"

"It was good. How was yours?"

"Not nearly as good as it would have been if you had made it, but I didn't burn or break anything, so it was a success," Charlie responded, then turned his head back to the television set.

I went upstairs to my room, almost falling I was on such an adrenaline rush after my conversation with Jacob. I was in love, something I never thought would happen again, and I fell asleep thinking about him.

I woke up to a high pitched voice, more beautiful than wind chimes, downstairs talking to Charlie in a hushed tone. It was a voice that I would always recognize, but I would never know why I was hearing it. I nearly fell down the stairs, but the girl with the mystical voice caught me. I gasped and couldn't catch my breath for a few moments, I was utterly stunned to see the pale vampire standing in front of me.

"Why are you... here?" The words sounded weird saying them to one of the Cullens, whom I thought I would never see again. The gaping hole in my chest didn't hurt as I had suspected it to, I hadn't allowed myself to think about them since a few days after they'd left. I guess it had been completely patched up by Jake.

"Your future... I've been watching you, but it just... it was gone. All of a sudden. It happened yesterday. At first you were going to try to kill yourself, and that's when I was on my way here, to stop you. But then, you disappeared. I figured that I was too late, but I thought that I was going to have to send my condolences to Charlie. Bella... it was horrible!" The small, destructive pixie tried to explain, but the words were flying out of her mouth at an incredible speed, I could barely understand.

"Oh, and Bella?"

"Yes?"

"Edward always loved you."

I was stunned.

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't move.

All I could do, was think. I was paralyzed within my mind.

"He lied?" By this point, I was utterly confused.

"Bella, did you honestly think that he didn't love you? You are much too gullible. He only said that, regardless of how much it hurt him, because he wanted you to live a normal human life. Not a normal human life filled with mythical creatures that suck blood and stuff."

I stood. I let a breath of air out. I took a breath of air in. Out. In. Out. In. It was all I could do not to pass out.

"Where is he?"

"I'm not sure. It doesn't matter, he doesn't know I'm here. He would kill me if I knew. Not that I could die, but you know what I mean."

"Alice... you should go."

"What? Why? Bella, I didn't want to leave, but Edward told us that it was time to move on, and if we all stayed and he left that you would never heal. Oh, Bella, I wanted to at least say goodbye, but he said that I couldn't, he said a clean break was better for you, an easier heal. I'm sorry that I listened to him. I should have stayed, I should have said goodbye, I should have let you know that we were going to leave..."

"No, Alice, it's not that, it's just that... Well, I've gotten past that, just recently, actually. Do you know Jacob Black, down at La Push? He's been my best friend for a while now, and I'm kind of in love with him."

"Oh. Bye, Bella." Alice's jaw dropped, and I swear I could have heard it bounce off the floor, except that marble doesn't bounce. She bounded out of the door as quickly as I had realized she was here.

I wondered if she would ever come back.