Here is the last real chapter of Save the Last Dance, and I must say that I'm reallysad to see it end. I've grown really attached to this story, and I really love it. I had written a short epilogue, but I didn't really like it so I cut it from the story. It was extremely different and I feel like it ends better here. However, I have some good news...I will be doing a sequel. But the sequel won't be about Bella, it's going to have a lot to do with an OC character and the wolf pack with some Victoria and Laurent thrown in there. This story is going to be more of a companion story for Save the Last Dance, and it will probably be out in a couple of weeks. For right now, I feel like Bella's story is over, but I'm not saying that one day I won't write another story continuing where this ends.

I really want to thank each and everyone of you for reviewing and reading my story. It really means a lot.

Vi

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I had only been a vampire for three weeks now, but the time had passed so quickly it seemed like only one hour. Since I could not anymore, the days and nights seemed to blend together and it never mattered what time it really was since I now had unlimited amounts of time. I had this kind of infinite patience that no human possessed now, and it was comforting to know that I would really never be bored again.

Although I did love being a vampire, I was having a hard time adjusting to my new 'life'. I had always known that vampires were super strong and that it was very easy for them to break things, but I never knew that they had to be so careful with things. My first day after I had awoken from my transformation, I had broken the remote control for the TV and a wooden chair just by accidentally touching them too hard all within a thirty minute period. It had felt like I was just reaching out to them normally, like I did when I was a human, but I had practically smashed them into a million little pieces. Alice and Emmett were both trying desperately to teach me how to be extremely gentle with things, but it was a very hard lesson to learn. I felt horrible for crushing Esme's priceless things, but she assured me that Emmett had ruined a lot more things than I had and it made me feel a little bit better.

I also had a hard time adjusting to my new vampire appearance. Vampires were beautiful to the point of flawlessness to help attract their prey, but I had never thought that I would change as well when I became a vampire. The first time looking in the mirror after my transformation was a complete and utter shock for me. I had been used to being the somewhat plain girl. I was never ugly, but I wasn't quite beautiful, like Rosalie or Alice, either. I was just a normal teenage girl with acne and split ends, but now it was a completely different story.

My hair had seemed to darken a little bit and it was now thicker and shinier, too. My facial features had always been soft and round, but they were more angular and sharp like the rest of the Cullens. Everything about my appearance had seemed to change to make my looks more appealing to humans; even my body had gone from being skinny and lanky to being like I worked out ten hours a day. I liked the way I looked now, but it felt strange. I didn't quit feel like myself.

The changes my body, my hair, and my face had under gone were ones I could live with, even if it felt like I was looking at a whole other person in the mirror. I just couldn't stand my eyes. Alice had prepared me for the shock I was going to feel when I looked at myself for the first time after my change, but she hadn't prepared me for what my eyes would look like. They were red, just like James' and the other two vampires I had seen in my dreams. I screamed the first time I saw them. They reminded me so much of James and the other vampires from my dreams. I didn't in any way want to be associated with them.

Carlisle quickly explained to me that all newborn vampires had red eyes their first year of existence. I still had my human blood in my body so until it went away I would have red eyes along with my stronger-than-usual newborn strength. He then gave me a box of brown colored contacts for when I went outside that made me feel better that I didn't have to live with red eyes for a whole year. I couldn't wait until my eyes turned that gorgeous topaz color that the rest of the Cullens had.

My first time hunting had been an unusual experience. Jasper and Rosalie, who was being a lot friendlier towards me since I had been changed, took me out into the woods outside the Cullen's house a few hours after I had woken up. I felt as if my throat was burning and I wondered if something was wrong with me. I told Jasper and he had laughed at me and told me that I was thirsty. When I went outside with Jasper and Rosalie, I had been afraid that I wouldn't know what to do, but it was natural. The moment I smelled the blood radiating from a pack of deer my body had responded, and before I knew it, I had drained at least three of them. I had been told that the call of animals' blood wasn't as strong as human blood, and I couldn't fathom what it would be like to be around humans now or ever. It must have been so hard for the Cullens to be around me all the time like they were when I was human.

I had given up a lot of things to become a vampire: my family, my life, and my friends. However, there was one thing I didn't have to give up and that was ballet. Fortunately, ballet had been the talent that I had brought over from my human life (besides having some small visions, but nothing like what Alice had). I had been somewhat disappointed when I hadn't ended up with some cool super power like Edward, Alice, or Jasper, but I was able to dance, and that mattered more than anything else. I had been worried that I would have to give up my passion, but thanks to my talent, it was able to continue.

"Are you sad to leave?" Alice asked. We had started packing for our cross country trip to our new home, Rochester, New York. We would leave in two days.

"I guess it is a little bittersweet," I sighed as I packed up the few clothes I had. We had decided that we would wait to buy me new clothes until we moved.

"Why do you say that?" She questioned. Alice had made sure that my first three weeks as a vampire had been as easy on me as possible, always checking to see if I was thirsty or if I was adjusting well enough. She had been a real help to me, and I couldn't thank her enough.

"It's just that I've known this place my entire life. Both of my parents grew up here. This is where I met you guys," I tried to put my feelings into words, but it was hard to explain what I was feeling. "Now, I'm leaving and I can never come back."

"We'll come back to Forks one day, Bella," Alice told me. "We've been here before we met you, back when Carlisle made the treaty with the Quileutes. Jasper and I weren't with them, but they were here before. I'm sure that we will be back one day."

"I know," I said as I packed more of my things into boxes. "It will just be a long time."

"Oh," Alice said after a minute. She had a strange look on her face. "Edward has to talk to you."

"He does?" Edward had barely talked to me the past three weeks. When I had confronted him about it, he said he had just been busy, not that he was avoiding me, but I knew otherwise. It was very hard to simply 'not see someone' in the Cullen house. The house was large, but when I couldn't leave (except for when I went hunting and I was under strict supervision then) it felt like it was closing in on me. Even though I loved the Cullens, I couldn't seem to get some time to myself. You couldn't seem to get away from anyone in this house, especially because everyone had super hearing and three people had powers that invaded privacy. Luckily, I only had Alice and Jasper to deal with. Edward still couldn't read my mind, a fact that made me very happy but frustrated him.

"Yes, I just saw it," She went back to packing my things like it was no big deal.

"Alice, you have to tell me what he has to talk to me about," I whispered to her. I didn't want Edward to hear me. I had to know so I would be prepared. Whatever Edward had to talk to me, couldn't be good. The only time he ever talked to me was when it was important or when he felt like he had to.

Alice laughed at me before pushing me towards the door of her room where I had been keeping my stuff, "No, you'll have to find out for yourself."

I huffed as I moved back in the room and threw the rest of my clothes in a box without even bothering to fold them up. I didn't want to talk to Edward. In fact, I was kind of mad at him at the moment. He had spent the past three weeks ignoring me and now he wanted to talk to me all of a sudden. What was up with that? His mood swings were giving me whiplash. Before I became a vampire, he had been hanging on me like a lost puppy and treating me like a princess, but now he was acting like I had some type of disease that would kill him if he stepped anywhere near me. Even though I was angry with him, though, I couldn't make myself stop thinking about him or wishing that he was around. I was hopeless.

"Bella," Edward stuck his head in the doorway, looking as beautiful as always. "Can I speak with you for a moment?"

I looked at Alice, mad that she wouldn't tell me what he wanted to talk about, and she just smirked at me. I turned my head back towards Edward and coldly responded to him. If he had to talk to me about something, I would listen to him, but I would not like it. "Sure."

Edward led me outside into the backyard which was the only place you could get privacy in a house full of vampires. It was awkward because I wasn't sure what to say and Edward didn't seem to anxious to say anything at all so we just sat in an uncomfortable silence for what felt like forever. The silence was unnerving. I had never felt this awkward around Edward before. I had to say something before I went crazy.

"Edward…"I started, but he held up his hand as if to stop me from talking.

"Listen to me, Bella," His velvet voice said smoothly. "I need to talk to you about something."

I nodded. "About what?"

"About us," If my heart could still beat it would be going about a million miles a minute. Was there an us? I had been under the impression that there wasn't. "I know that we haven't been close lately, but I thought you should know why things have been…strained between us. You deserve to know."

"Edward, I know you didn't want me to become a vampire. I heard you say it while we were in the ballet studio," I shot out. My heart dropped as I said these words. It hurt me to say them.

Edward sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He seemed to be having a hard time keeping his train of thought and figuring out what he was going to say. I had never seen him struggle for words like this. "I didn't want you to have to live like this."

"You didn't want me to be one of you? To be with you forever?" It killed me to hear it coming straight from him. As long as I had never heard him say it directly towards me, I could just act like he hadn't said it, but now, I couldn't. I couldn't live in denial forever.

"No, no," Edward said frantically. "It's not that—"

"Then what was it, Edward?" I interrupted him before he had a chance to explain. All the pent up anger I had been feeling towards him for ignoring me the past few weeks was exploding inside of me. "You sure sounded like you didn't want me here when you were talking to Rosalie and the rest of your family in the ballet studio."

Edward ran a hand through his perfect bronze hair and sighed. "It is not what you think."

"It's not what I think? Not what I think? I'm pretty sure I know what I heard, and that was you wanting me to die instead of being one of you," I was practically yelling at him now. "Don't you understand? If you hadn't changed me, I would have died."

"Bella, you don't know what you're talking about," He said after I had finished my rant. He was deathly silent for a moment. I had never seen him this mad before, especially not at me. He paused another moment before continuing. "It wasn't that I wanted you to die, it was that I wanted you to live. You tell me that you would have died if you hadn't been changed, well, look at yourself, Bella, you are dead! The way we are—this existence—isn't that wonderful, glorious thing you've imagined it to be. It isn't life. You'll realize that one day when all the people you know, the ones you love start dying. It isn't natural. You should have never had to go through any of this; we should have just left you alone."

"Don't say that," I said quietly. If I could cry, I would have started a long time ago. "Don't say that, Edward."

He stared off into the trees, not saying anything back. The expression on his face was unreadable. I couldn't understand why he had dragged me out here just to tell me he regretted ever meeting me. It was so unlike Edward. It was almost cruel.

"Why did you do it, then?" I asked after minutes of silence. "Why did you change me instead of letting me die?"

"I didn't," He looked me straight in the eye. "Rosalie did."

"What?" I was taken aback at his words. Why had no one told me Rosalie had been the one to change me? I had always just assumed it had been Edward.

"When Carlisle told us that we only had minutes to make a decision…Rosalie had already made hers. She got to you before I had a chance to stop her," He looked away from me, pain showing clearly on his face.

I laid my hand on his shoulder. My anger towards him had subsided now, but I was still hurt by the way he felt. I could see where he was coming from, though. "There is nothing we can do about it now. I am a vampire. We can't change that."

"You're right," He sighed. I was surprised that he had agreed with me. I had been expecting him to fight it some more. "Bella, I want you to understand that I am happy that you're with us now. I really am. I just wish that you had been able to stay human and live your life like the rest of us weren't able to."

Edward's topaz eyes connected with my red ones for a split second. I was a little self-conscious about them so I directed my gaze towards the ground. Before I could realize it, Edward's hand had rested under my chin and gently forced my face up to look at him.

"You are so beautiful," He breathed and let his hand trail down my exposed neck. I felt my dead heart skip a beat.

"I love you," The words slipped out of my mouth as Edward closed in the gap between us.

"You love me?" He leaned away from me slightly and a small smile appeared on his face.

"I do," It had taken me months to figure out my feelings for Edward, but now I was finally ready to talk about them. I didn't care if he didn't love me; I just had to tell him. After everything we had been through, I just knew that I had to get it out before it exploded within me.

Edward leaned back in towards me. "You have no idea how long I've wanted to hear that."

Suddenly, Edward's lips were on mine, and as cheesy as it sounds, while Edward kissed me, it felt as if the whole world had stopped turning, like we were the only thing that mattered. I was breathing hard by the time Edward had stopped kissing me. He rested his cool forehead on mine.

"I love you, too, Bella Swan, and I have since the day I met you."

As much a I never wanted to leave Edward's side again, I had something to clear up before we left Forks. I couldn't just leave this situation hanging on the racks until it cleared up by itself. I had to take matters into my own hands, and make things right by myself. It was the right thing to do.

"Rosalie, can I speak to you for a minute?" I knocked on her bedroom door. She was inside packing for our move to Rochester, her former home.

"Sure, come in," She called. I entered the room quietly. "What did you want to talk to me about?"

"I wanted to talk to you about why you changed me."

"I had a feeling you would want to talk to me about it one day," She sat down on her bed and cleared off a spot for me beside her on the bed. "So he told you, didn't he?"

I nodded. "I always thought he had been the one to change me. That's what everyone led me to believe."

"I think that's what everyone would like to think happened," She told me.

"Why do you say that?" I wondered. She seemed a little upset, but I wasn't really sure. Rosalie, like Edward, was pretty good a hiding her feelings when she wanted to.

"The whole plan all along was that Edward was going to change you when he was ready, well, it was for all of us but Edward," She shrugged, her beautiful blonde hair flowing off her shoulders and down her back. "We had always thought that Edward, when he actually realized that you would die if you stayed human, would turn you, but he was a lot more resolute in his plan than the rest of us thought he would be. He was determined that you would stay human, and that we would just be around as long as you lived. He had never thought something like this would happen, nor did the rest of us."

"He wouldn't have done it," I already knew what she was getting at. If it had been up to Edward, I would have died that night.

Rosalie didn't say anything, but she confirmed it with a slight nod of her head. "I know that you're probably wondering why I did it after these past couple of months of me being a complete bitch to you. You have to understand, Bella, that I was doing it to protect my family. When you found out about us, we still weren't sure whether you would become one of us or not."

"But I thought Alice had seen it?" Alice had specifically told me that she saw me becoming one of them. She had been sure of it.

"Alice swore that she was positive of you becoming part of our family, but her visions change. You know that," Rosalie explained. "Even though Alice saw it multiple times, she also saw visions of you going to college and getting married and having kids."

This was all new information for me. I had thought this whole time that I would become a vampire no matter what. It was a shock that my future was as certain as I thought it had been.

"I'm ashamed to say that I didn't think you were trustworthy enough to know our secret," Rosalie hung her head. I had never seen her looking so dejected. She was normally so sure of herself and somewhat arrogant.

"Rose, I forgive you," I put my hand on her shoulder. "You were just trying to protect your family. I would have done the same thing."

She looked at me a smiled slightly before she continued. "I changed you because you are a part of our family, Bella. You have been since we first met you. You've been the missing part of our family, and now that we have finally found you, we couldn't lose you."

"So, are we friends again?" I said lightly. It felt good to be able to talk to her again. She had been one of my best friends, and I had missed her for a long time.

"We're more than friends, Bella," She wrapped her arms around me. "We are sisters now."

My story was coming to a close now. I had finally become a vampire, a Cullen, and now I was with Edward, the love of my life, and I had reunited with Rosalie, one of my best friends. I was happy, and that was all that mattered.

Look for the sequel within the next couple of weeks and tell me what you think about the last chapter and the idea I have for the sequel. If there is anything you want to see in the next story, just tell me and I'll see what I can do.