A/N: So I am so very very very sorry that this has taken forever and a day, but srsly I do not do happy well. I love my angst and this chapter was a bitch to do. But alas it is here this is the end there will be no sequel or anything like that. I will now be 100% focused on my other story Love is Watching Someone Die.

I have had a blast writing this, I have loved every single review and every single reader. I never imagined something I wrote would actually effect people the way all you readers have continued to tell me this story has. Thank you all for reading, reviewing and nominating me for awards and such.

Special thanks to my amazing best friend for life ERIN!! I didn't know her when I asked her to beta this story, she just seemed like a sweet person and it turned out she was. Because of this story I have an awesome friend for life. Thanks for all your hard work on this story bb, with life and work and class you still did this for me and I love you

anyway... here it is my lovies, the end

Carry on

One Year later.

Epov

I woke up to the feeling of Bella's warm body wrapped around me. Her nose was buried in my neck and her hot breath was causing a certain part of my anatomy that was very much awake to twitch in excitement.

Granted, we were in my childhood bedroom of my parent's house for the holidays and discretion was necessary, I was not about to deny myself the ritual I had become so accustom to over the past year.

I slowly moved Bella so that she was laying on her back. She shifted easily and her eyes remained closed.

Perfect.

Slowly, I kissed my way down her neck to a perfect fleshy breast, sucking in the nipple and flicking my tongue against it.

She tasted amazing. How had I lived without this for all those years I'll never know.

She began to stir and arched her back a bit in response.

So beautiful.

I smiled knowing. Any minute now she would be awake and moaning my name.

I left her chest alone and kissed my way down her stomach, making my way to her hip.

Thank god we fell asleep without clothes on last night. It made discretion so much easier.

I moved down to where I loved to give her my attention, spreading her legs apart and kissing the inside of her thighs up to he warm center.

One slow stroke of my tongue and she was awake.

"Edward," She gasped, eyes bulging.

"Good morning, Beautiful." I smiled against her sensitive skin.

Her hands reached down and entwined in my hair. She tugged me up her body.

"A very good morning to you too." She purred before she placed her lips on mine. Her soft warm lips moved with mine in a rhythm that was all too familiar and I loved every moment of it.

Her legs wrapped around my waist and I wasted no time entering her, making love to her, and enjoying every moment.

This is how I had spent the last year with the most amazing woman I had ever met.

To think I almost messed everything up and missed out on having Bella in my life.

Laughable. Hah!

Sure, things were not always picture perfect. Me and Bella were like every other couple. We had our fights where screaming and sometimes throwing things were involved and we had our petty arguments over the stupidest thing like putting milk back in the fridge with just a bit left, but we also had our amazing make ups.

There was no arguing that Bella had changed my life for the better, though.

We made a lot of decisions in the last year; everything we did we talked about first. I never wanted to go through what we had been through in the past again. We both learned from our experiences.

No bottling things up, ever. It only ended in arguments and no sex.

It was a rule of ours.

Nothing was ever let unsaid.

No secrets.

We knew now that we trusted each other enough to tell the other anything. No matter how afraid we were of what the other might think. All we had to do was look back on what happened and we knew that this was a better way.

When we got home we decided a few things.

We decided that it was best that we wait before living together again. Bella liked her independence. She had never really been alone before and she wanted to continue to take advantage of her new found freedom. And after what I had put her through, I wanted Bella to have that experience. Even though the thought of being without her for any amount of time was unbearable, it was what was in her best interest and that is all that mattered.

Her business was doing amazingly, as expected. She had saved up enough money to buy a small space in the downtown area and hired a few people to help with business. She was booked solid for months in advance and was shooting everything from celebrity weddings to photo shoots for ad campaigns.

She wasastonishing.

I had gotten back into the swing of things. I was working again and found my responsibility. No more showing up late to set or leaving unannounced. I had booked a few more movies and had filmed two movies during this past year. Bella came to set to visit me a few times, but to stick with our plan of trying to not be to dependent on the other like in the past, she only stayed for a bit before leaving to go home and back to her work; her life.

Life was pretty perfect.

Our friends were doing great also.

Emmett had picked up a few new high profiled clients, one being a certain pop princess that had gone a little crazy in the past. It was his job to work her back into shape and get her ready for her appearances once she released her newest album. He had also been saving up money to open a gym where he would focus on working with not just the celebrity clientele but with regular people also.

Alice had made a name for herself as a new up-and-coming fashion designer. She went from being a stylist to the stars to dressing them for award shows when a dress for an A-lister she was working on was ruined on the way to a show. There was not enough time or fabric to create a new one. Alice gave her one of her own creations and once the actress named Alice as the designer on the red carpet, she was bombarded with calls for an "Alice original."

Jasper was now a signed musician and working with some of the biggest names in the music business. His first album had already garnered so much buzz from the critics that you would think he was the second coming of Jesus. Every time we went out, it seriously felt like at any moment we would be pelted by fan girls throwing underwear at him with phone numbers written on it. Jasper detested the attention.

Alice thought that it was hilarious.

Then there was Rose.

Rose had been bumped up to super model status when she was signed with Victoria Secret as one of their newest angels and had the opportunity that landed her as the cover model for Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. It wasn't often that we could go out anymore without some douche bag guy trying to get too touchy or cop a feel of the newest Victoria's Secret Angel.

This never made Emmett happy, but most guys took the hint once they saw the very large man sending them death glares from next to her.

However, anyone who knew Rose knew that she could handle herself.

Or her friends for that matter.

We had the unfortunate pleasure of running into Tanya one night when we were all out at a club having one of our get together nights.

Bella and I had been snuggled together in a booth kissing as usual when I heard a ear piercing voice that was like nails on a chalk board pull me away from the beauty before me.

I turned to see that Tanya was standing their sneering.

She went into some random rant about how she couldn't believe that I left her to be with Bella. As if it were something bad. And that I would be sorry when she ruined my career because she would only hold me back. Then ,there was something about not coming and crying to her when what she said came true because she would only tell me "I told you so."

When She went to turn around, she was greeted by a fist to her overly worked nose.

The person on the giving end was Rose.

Of course Tanya screeched about Rose ruining her face and having a huge shoot tomorrow. She threatened to sue Rose also.

Rose simply shrugged her shoulders then playfully patted Tanya's face.

After that debacle we heard that Tanya had taken her casting couch methods too far by attempting to mess with a very big director who just happened to be a uber Catholic devoted to his wife with like 6 kids. From that point on she was black listed and no one would touch her for shoots or movies.

Her only option was the porn industry… not that she would have a problem with that.

Everything was right in our world.

Once again we were her at our parent's house celebrating the holidays. The whole gang was here. Even Jake and Erin, who had been a couple as long as Bella and I have. They moved in within the first few weeks, Erin suggested obviously. Jake's low-key, up front personality blended well with Erin's toilet humor and bluntness.

They were perfect together.

Erin was no longer working as my assistant. She was now writing a script for an upcoming zombie movie that had been green lighted, I was so happy for her.

Jake was the director of photography. I also heard he planned on proposing to Erin sometime tonight. I smirked at the thought. Jake is going to kill me.

I decided to grow the fuck up. I didn't need someone to baby me, wake me up, ot make my food anymore. I started those things for myself. I let Angela know that the only assistant I would need is someone who would work with me while I was out and who would only do things that she needed them to do. No one would be living with me. I was strictly a paid by the hours job.

And I was better for it.

Everything was perfect.

My family was great, my friends were happy and healthy, and I had the love of my life, Bella, with me.

And tonight, the one year anniversary of being together officially with Bella was going to be a night that would change my life forever.

I was going to ask Bella to marry me.

I figured that last year at this time we made a choice that changed our life for the better so it was the perfect time to ensure that the new year and ever one to come would be perfect.

I had already bought the ring. Alice and Rose came along to help.

It had been burning a hole in my pocket since I had it.

It took huge amounts of self control to not propose the second I saw her once I bought it.

But she deserved to have this moment be just right. So again, for Bella, I sucked it up and waited until the time was right.

BPOV

It was New Year's eve and everything was perfect.

I thought back on this time last year and it made me smile to think of what a difference a year has made.

I couldn't believe what it took for us to get to this moment, but I knew that I would never forget it. Everything that happened brought me all the happiness I had now and all I could think about is what Esme said. All that heartache did make me value the relationship between Edward and I even more.

Both of us knew what it was like to live without the other and it was something that I never wanted to experience again.

That year had been filled with misery and this year was filled with happiness. What a perfect storybook ending.

We were all gathered in the living room celebrating the soon to be new year.

I looked around and smiled.

Everyone I loved was here, the people I would hold close to me for the rest of my life. That mattered more to me then anything else in the world were all here together.

We were one big random family.

Jasper and Alice were off in a corner of the room looking out the large window at the falling snow. Alice was tucked snuggly at Jasper's side.

Emmett and Rose were laughing and arguing. Rose leaned up and placed a sweet kiss on Emmett's cheek, halting his booming voice. A lazy smile stretched his full lips and he whisked Rose into his arms.

Jake and Erin were curled up on the couch. Erin's accent was too thick to understand, but she was excited. Jake looked like he was constipated and his fingers were doing a hesitant dance about his left jeans pocket.

The minutes inched closer to midnight and the champagne was being handed out in preparation for the ball to drop.

I was in the middle of a conversation with Erin about how the script was coming along when Edward walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"It's almost time beautiful." He breathed into my ear.

I leaned back into his chest letting my head rest on his shoulder and smile. I felt his lips brush across my temple.

Heaven.

"Okay, I'm going to find Jake. You two are making me ill." Erin playfully gagged as she walked away to find Jake.

"We're not that bad are we?" I asked Edward as I cuddled deeper into his arms.

"I don't care if we are." He said with a chuckle, squeezing me tighter to him.

"Alright everyone, the balls about to drop!" Alice yelled while bouncing up and down, grabbing the room's attention.

We were all standing near the wall that housed the plasma T.V. counting down like fools at the top of our lungs as the ball dropped taking away the last few seconds of the best year of my life.

When we reached one and everyone started cheering and turning to one another I turned to look at Edward only to met with the top of his head.

"Edward, what are you do-" I stopped talking once I realized what was in his hand.

"SHIT!" I heard Jake moan. Edward smirked.

I brought my hand to my now opened mouth and looked around the room at our family and friends who were watching the scene before them with wide eyes in silence.

"Bella," Edward started as he took my hand. "I have known you my whole life. You are my best friend, my support system, my one and only love. I am a better person for having you in my life. You are now and have always been my life. Will you please do me the honor of spending the rest of your life making me the happiest person alive?"

I, of course, stood there with tears in my eyes because I never thought this day would come.

"Yes…yes of course I will marry you!" I squealed, falling to my knees in front of him and wrapping my arms around his neck, kissing him with all I had.

Without removing his lips from mine I felt him take my hand and slide the ring on my finger, where it would stay for the rest of our lives.

"Jake, what he fack is your damage?" Erin asked Jake as she shook his shoulder.

I pried my lips off of Edward's to take in the scene before me.

Jake was visibly shaking. His normally coppery tone was now a snow white. His fingers were doing that same dance over his left pocket. Erin glared at him with her arms crossed and her tiny hip jutted to the side.

"Well, I can't do it now that Edward has one uped me," Jake whined, looking at Erin with a frown.

"Do facking what, Jacob?" Erin huffed as she waved her hands frantically between them. "You are being right dumb about this. Always acting like such a dram-" Erin's rant was suddenly cut off as Jake shyly bent down to one knee.

"Erin…" Jake began as he attempted to take one of her hands. She jerked it away and clutched her cheeks.

"You bastard!" she exclaimed quietly as tears rimmed her brown eyes.

Jake smiled in response. "I facking love you. Will you marry me?"

His fingers reached into his pocket and revealed a simple silver Irish knotted ring with a single emerald in the middle.

"Yes! 'Course I will, you oaf!" Erin cried thickly through her heavy vowels then wrenched Jake from the floor. She wrapped her arms around his neck then her legs around his waist and gave him a delicious kiss on the lips.

Laughs and clapping filled the room as "Happy New Year!" rang from everyone's mouths.

Happy New Year indeed.